Wichita Searchlight

YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. GOV. STUBBS AND NEGRO VOTERS ELEVENTH YEAR In politics, as in every other avenue of affairs among men, the Searchlight believes in fair play and a square deal. We do not now and never have claimed or asked for our race in politics more than they, as a race, are justly entitled. In the presentation of the just claims of our race we have not resorted to abuse or unreasonable requests. It is an evident fact, that the Negroes of Kansas were a potent and important factor in the election of Hon. Walter Roscoe Stubbs as Gov. of the state of Kansas at the last election. We have abided the time and have waited patiently to see what recognition the present state administration would show the Negroes of the state for the loyalty with which they supported the entire Republican ticket last fall. Almost a whole year has now passed and every position within the gift of the administration has been suplied with an occupant -yet there has not been a Negro- to our knowledge, appointed to fill any position, save that of janitor. Gov. Stnbbs and the state officers cannot say that no Negro could be found to fill any office which the Governor or his associate officers may have seen fit to designate, because it is a fact of general knowledge that their is Negro men and women in Kansas who upon a fair test of merit can prove themselves capable to fill any position within the gift of the governor or the state officers. Governor Stubbs and the state officers will not deny that the Negro voters of the state rendered substantial support in the last Republican victory. Neither will the governor or his associates say, sincerely, that the Negroes of Kansas has not a just reason ta expect some consideration by them more than that so far accorded the race. We have no words of abuse to offer against the governor or his associate state officers for their open failure to recognize the Negroes of the state for their loyal support. We recognize the fact Gov. Stubbs is the legally elected Governor of Kansas, as well as are his associates, the duly accredited state officers for two years, at least. Gov. Stubbs is a man o sound judgement and in the exercise of his executive prerogative of appointment is amply capable of knowing whom he would appoint to office. While on its very face it is shown that the Negrocs of Kansas have not been given a fair and square deal by the present administration yet we do not wish to appear in the role of an attempted dictator of the policy which Gov. Stubbs and the Republican party shall persue toward the Negro. All we ask is fair play. If the Negro is of sufficient importance to be a winning factor in helping elect a Republican governor and set of state officers during campaign—it should stand to reason that the race should be of sufficient importande to be given some substantial appointment at the hands of the govenor and state offices so elected. Right is as much an essential in politics as in religion. Fair and square dealings between men in politics is as much a cement of loyalty as it is in social or business affairs. We do not mean to wave the bloody flag, make any political threats or make any vain assertions in the name of our race but we do say, that the time is now at hand when the Negro — like other men— must be awarded his just dues in polits commensurate with his merit, loyalty and support. Other men, from our Governor on down, base their political preference on the benefit which one party offers them over the benefits to be obtained by anoeher. Tnese men shift their political positions according to the increase or decrease of the benefit and according to the inducements offered to accomplish some object or to secure better results to themselves and their plans and ideals. If it is no crime and is beneficial at times for the white man to seek better treatment - is there any harm for the Negro to at AUGUST 21 1909. least ask for and insist on having better treatment within the ranks of his own party? The Searchlight does not now and never have advocated for the Negro a shifting of political affairs as the white shirts but we do advocate the shifting of men within our party ranks to meet the best interests of our race and the people at large. Gov. Stubbs has always in the private life, from what we have learned advocated fair treatment to the Negro—but so far as his public career is known, by some reason, this position seems not to be maintained. In our opinion it is high time that the Negroes of our state should let themselvs be heard from and insist that the race be given its proper recognition. The Searohlight still holds its lofty ideas of the fitness and tair intentions of Gov. Stubbs to deal fairly with our race and although nearly half of Gov. Stubb's first term of office has expired we still have hopes that Gov. Stubs will give the race some appointment which will substantiate the claim made by the Searchlight during the recent campaign that if elected Gov. Stubb's will deal fairly and squarely with the race. It has come off at last. We notified your readers quite a while ago, that a lady here was busy peacing and quilting. The reason for this, was developed last evening Mr. B. F. Taylor of Emporia Kansas led Miss. Cornelia Blackwell to the marrage alter at the Second Baptist Church. Where a crowded house had geathered, white and colored to do them honor. The church was nicely decorated with various of flowers, Strong City at last has broke its silent along this line It is said that it has been eight or nine years since a colored marriage in this city. Miss Mable Harris played the wedding march. We have sustained a great lost in this event. Our lost, but Emporia's gain. For Mr Taylor takes her away this afternoon. Both groom and bride stands very high at their homes, and those that knew them. Rev. Wm E. Harrison, our pastor left Junction City, where he has attended the Smoky Hill River Baptist Association just in time to be STRONG CITY KANS: here, who officiated in a very dignified manner. Well, who is next? Miss. Mable Harris gave a Granit Shower Thursday evening on Miss. Cornelia Blackwell. Those who were present were Misses Jennie Cussie, Nettie McLean, Beatric Banks, Lulu Blackweil, Etta Blackwell, Ida McLean, Cornelia Blackwell Mable Harrison, Ronena Blackwell. The girls presented to Miss. Cornelia many nice pieces of Granit wishlng her a long and a happy life after which Miss. Harris served a two course luncheon Mrs. Ella Burks went to Colorado Springs for her health she is improving nicely. Mrs. Annie Blackwell, Lulu Blackwell and Cornelia Blackwell were visiting in Emporia Kansas Wednesday. NEWTON KANSAS The picnic given Aug. 11th by the Newton colored band at Peabody was a success in every particular. A large number of people were present from Mount, Florence and Eldorado besides those from Newton Peabody, and a thoughly enjoyable time was had by every body. In addition to this the band boys cleared a neat sum. The concert given by the band at the Sante Fe Depot prior to the departure of that organization for the Peabody picnic was a revoelation to all of our citizens who heard it. Many hove'nt known before that this organization existed although the boys haxe been studying diligently for the past six months. This however being the first public appearance of the band. Floyd Rickman is the leader and considering that most of the members could not read music when rehearsals began the progress up to this time is realy remarkable, showing that they have applied themselves deligently to practice and that they have been in the hands of a capable instructor. One of the important features of the day was the base-ball game in the afternoon between Newton boys and a picked team from Peabody, the result being a victory for Newton to the tune of 12 to 5. John Slanghter & Clarence Paige composed the Newton battery. Lulu Blackwell A SWELL CAFE The up-to-date, neat and inviting Cafe and Restaurant opened by Mr. and Mrs. Wm Coulter at 352 N. Main street fills a long telt and much needed place in Wichita. The place which they've opened at 352 N. Main is credit to the race and is a place where one can go into and feel that they are at home. Their Cafe is fitted up with electric lights electric fans, telephone and all the modern convenencies of an up-to date Cafe. They will carry a full line of all the best things to eat in their season. The reputation of Mr. and Mrs. Coulter to have everything strictly first class is a guarantee of the standing at which they will hold their Cafe. They invite you to call at 352 N. Main and take a meal or a lunch. A Sad Accidedt The accidental death of Willie Willis while at his work Monday Aug.16th. was sad and pathetic While performing his work at a concrete mixing machine falling on him. He leaves a wife one small baby and other relatives. The body was taken to Topeka his former home for burial. BIG MOTORCYCLE One of the most interesting events ever offered the general public is the big Motorcycle races to be presented under the auspices of the Hockaday Motorcycle Co. at the New Fair Grounds on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6th. There will be twelve mammouth races for prizes aggregating $500 00. Every race will be an individual novelty and will be a spectacular revelation of Motorcycle speed. Everyone is invited, come out to the grounds and witness one of the greatest event in the aunals of modern sport. CARDS OF THANKS Topeka Kansas Mrs. and Mr. Weddington Mrs Sarah Horton, Mrs. Ell Donnley Cerite Weddington, Miss. Viana Weddington, Parker Weddington Miss. Emily Weddington. Walter Weddington, Henry Weddingtun Sonora Weddington wishes to thank the many friends and the lodge members for their kindness in the long sickness and death of our beloved daughter and sister. NO.21 BIT AGA'N It is indeed, strange that so many of the good colored people of Wichita will permit themselves to be drawn in the deceptive clutches of the smooth tongue Negro grafter who travels from to places with deceit and a lie on his tongue ready to part the colored people from their coin. If one of their home people would present a boni fida proposition they would be given the strange Negro. It is the same proposition of which the Searchlight has so often spoken "yearning for something new." Some few weeks ago a glab-mouth Negro drifted into Wichita with an impractable improbable and also impossible "wild cat" scheme to open a big "co-operative store." All you had to do was to pay him $1.00 cash and he would do the rest. Well, some few paid the much needed $1.00 and this Negro "did the rest"—he "skiddooed" and took the money with him leaving his newly made Wichita confidants "holding the bag." Of course every man is the custodian of his own hard earned money and it is his prerogative to spend it with whom and in such manner as he may deem proper—but it does seem strange that so many "wild cats" schemers can find boosters in Wichita when the Negros of other towns would run the deceivers out with rotten eggs Surely it can not be that the colored people of our city would rather put their confidence and money in the keeping of strang, unknown gratters who make deceiving the people their practice than to confide in the men fixed in the town and to have confidence in each other for the lasting benefit of the whole race? Any kind of strange grafter, seemingly, can come to Wichita and without any investigation or questions being asked find a ready following and in nine cases out of ten the colored people who reside here and give impetus to these schemes are left to do the "explaining." We trust that the time is not far at away when the colored people of Wichita will at least learn something of the antecedents of these strangers before they so willingly would take them up, laud them over the citizens and help boost something of which they know nothing whatever. --- Baffle Cramps You Don't Have to Be Drowned By P. EVAN JONES INETY-NINE times in one hundred drowning is the result of fright and frenzy. There is a public horror of cramps. Not one case of cramps in 1,000 is dangerous if the victim knows what to do and does it. Every long-distance swimmer entering a race expects to get cramps, yet he doesn't drown and he doesn't stop swimming, either. He keeps going until his legs are in knots; still he doesn't sink. He plugs along until there isn't another kick in him and even now he doesn't go down. Instead of that he rolls over on his back and waits for the heat to pick him up. It may be a minute or it may for the boat to be an hour, but until the boat like a ship. When you catch a cramp may yell, but keep yourself takes little or no effort to k Stretch out your arm or leg to the utmost. Then strain go down. The dangerous cramp in breath goes and you're not sound. I have known of just swimmers. When you get to prayers, but you won't get into the water. Professionaling a race and they never k If a bather in trouble w The belief is general that the son means crepe and flowers water for air. Hold your mo keep going down and coming gling. Relax every muscle you'll never sink lower than rise up again until your shoe indefinitely, but, of course, down you'll go. be an hour, but until the boat comes the expert will be floating around like a ship. When you catch a cramp in your arms or legs don't get excited. You may yell, but keep yourself under control. Don't exert yourself, for it takes little or no effort to keep afloat. Crush down the feeling of panic. Stretch out your arm or leg, as the case may be, until you are straining to the utmost. Then strain a bit harder and watch the lumped muscle go down. The dangerous cramp is in the stomach. When that takes you your breath goes and you're not able to shout for help or even to articulate a sound. I have known of just two cases among hundreds of thousands of swimmers. When you get that kind of cramp you may as well say your prayers, but you won't get it if you don't eat for two hours before going into the water. Professional swimmers go hungry half a day before entering a race and they never know such a thing as stomach cramp. If a bather in trouble would use common sense he would never drown. The belief is general that three times under water for the drowning person means crepe and flowers. It's true if you make the mistake of taking water for air. Hold your mouth shut when you are under water and you'll keep going down and coming up all day. Don't exhaust yourself struggling. Relax every muscle and don't move a hand. You'll find that you'll never sink lower than your ears and that in a few seconds you'll rise up again until your shoulders are dry. You can keep on doing this indefinitely, but, of course, if you drink water, you'll be weighted and down you'll go. Greatly Prefers Present Hours .. J. J. RUSKER go over the same monotonou of it give the usual sign. I "no" registered right now! And besides—must we cousins? Why not go a step to conform to the British w reads, this "flavour," "labour. Let our enthusiasts cent beaches, better street-car f asible, cheaper foodstuffs and monotonous routine again? Let the real sign. I for one am against it an right now! —must we under all circumstances not go a step farther and change our the British way of spelling? How swir," "labour," "favour," "colour" andusiasts center their superfluous energy street-car facilities, better streets andstuffs and leave the clock alone. go over the same monotonous routine again? Let those that are in favor of it give the usual sign. I for one am against it and want to have my "no" registered right now! And besides—must we under all circumstances copy our English cousins? Why not go a step farther and change our system of spelling to conform to the British way of spelling? How sweetly it sounds and reads, this "flavour," "labour," "favour," "colour" and the like. Let our enthusiasts center their superfluous energy on more bathing beaches, better street-car facilities, better streets and better and, if possible, cheaper foodstuffs and leave the clock alone. Benefits of the Nine-Foot Bedsheet By J. M. BRECK is to say, when a traveler go covering that at least hides show after weeks of service. they are not brought in inn How often has a man in close proximity to coveri This nine-foot law is a fine being enforced over the we tell me. traveler goes to bed he is encased in least hides the marks of usage that of service. If any malignant germs might in immediate contact with the ous has a man felt a sense of loathing by to covering that he is positive need is a fine thing, as I know from ever the west pretty generally, from is to say, when a traveler goes to bed he is encased in a fresh and spotless covering that at least hides the marks of usage that quilts and blankets show after weeks of service. If any malignant germs are lurking in them they are not brought in immediate contact with the occupant of the bed. How often has a man felt a sense of loathing when forced to lie in close proximity to covering that he is positive needs to be disinfected. This nine-foot law is a fine thing, as I know from experience, and it is being enforced over the west pretty generally, from what the drummers tell me. Telephone Habit Is a Disease By ELLIOT SAUNDERS, English Author the Americans, but the people The American social sys the result is that the social For example, take the the immense wheat corner of the erratic social system of fortune and settling down regardless of result—either selves to ruin. an social system is very erratic. It is the social system is first up and then, take the panic that turned the coat corner of Patten. They are only a system of the American. Instead, being down like the Englishman, theult—either crushing the independent The American social system is very erratic. It is money mad and the result is that the social system is first up and then down. For example, take the panic that turned the country topsy turvy; the immense wheat corner of Patten. They are only large examples of the erratic social system of the American. Instead of accumulating a fortune and settling down like the Englishman, they fight for more regardless of result—either crushing the independents or driving themselves to ruin. Special Master E. V. McKeever Filed N What will the average man or woman do with the one or two more hours of leisure time to be secured by the more-daylight plan? Sell newspapers or shovel snow in their back yard? Will people get up at five o'clock in the morning, ride two hours to their places of employment, and after working pretty hard and steady for eight, nine or ten hours, quit at such and such a time and ride again for two hours in crowded trains or street cars to get home all fagged out and simply fall to sleep so as to gather enough strength to be able to get up at five a. m. next day to routine again? Let those that are in favor for one am against it and want to have my under all circumstances copy our English farther and change our system of spelling of spelling? How sweetly it sounds and "favour," "colour" and the like. For their superfluous energy on more bathing lities, better streets and better and, if poseave the clock alone. Many easterners who read of the laws passed in the west requiring landlords to equip their beds with sheets nine feet long laughed at the statute as an instance of freak legislation. Here is where the eastern man is in error. The idea of having hotels provide nine-foot sheets is altogether sane and practical. It wasn't intended to contribute to the comfort of abnormally long men, but the motive was wholly sanitary. Extra long sheets (and they must be clean) are to fold back over the blankets and other heavy and permanent bed clothing. That is to bed he is encased in a fresh and spotless the marks of usage that quilts and blankets If any malignant germs are lurking in them mediate contact with the occupant of the bed. felt a sense of loathing when forced to lie that he is positive needs to be disinfected. thing, as I know from experience, and it is pretty generally, from what the drummers The American business world, I find, is afflicted with that disease, telephonitis. In nearly every instance where I have conversed with a business man in his office our conversation has been interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. It is very irritating and virtually a disease. The pace set by the Americans is nerveracking; nothing but bustle and excitement. When they leave an office at midday they rush to a restaurant, half eat their food and rush back to an office. England is slower and 30 years behind are more content and live longer. tem is very erratic. It is money mad and system is first up and then down. Organic that turned the country topsy turvy; F Patten. They are only large examples of the American. Instead of accumulating a like the Englishman, they fight for more crushing the independents or driving them- The KITCHEN CABINET SIDNEY SMITH'S SALAD DRESSING I The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs. Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl. And, half suspected, animate the whole. And lastly, on the favored compound toss, A mixture of aromatic bonds. A magic teaspoon of anchovy sauce. Then, though green turtle fail, though anchovy fail, though election is tough. Though ham and turkey are not boiled enough Serenely full the epicure shall say: "Fate cannot harm me—I have dined to-day." English News. The officials of one workhouse have recently substituted suet puddings for meat. This may cause such a change as to rob England of her old claim to being the loafer's paradise. At a recent congress of food chemists the "colloidal" was frequently used. This applies to the heady quality of the beer. As one English paper says, the consumer, too, becomes "colloidal" after drinking it. Manchester has a newly established School for Mothers, and their first rule is to make "the evenings as bright as possible for father." That looks as if the suffragettes had succeeded in turning the tables! Boil together a cup sugar and one third cup water. Pour this over the stiffly-beaten whites of two eggs, stirring all the while. Then to this add one scant cup of finely chopped marshmallows. It will melt gradually, when it may be poured over the cake. A Summer Salad.—For a party or six take six perfect bananas, peel, dip each banana in mayonnaise dressing, then roll each one in nuts which have been ground very fine. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves. H The grown-up folks will not refuse you; From room or table will excuse you. "Excuse me"—"thanks"—"beg pardon," too. All three, and "if you please." They unlock all the doors of hearts; They are the children's "keys." "Beg pardon," and "excuse me"—Of course it is a foregone conclusion that all right-minded parents teach their children, early, to say both. But do they teach them the distinction? Tell them that when they step on your toe, or pass between you and your guest, they must say "beg pardon," or "pardon me." On the other hand, when they want to leave the table or be allowed to leave the room, "excuse me" is the correct form of apology. In short, "beg pardon" is the phrase for any breach of manners, any slip of decorum. But they should say: "Excuse me," when wishing to leave your presence. This may seem straining a point of etiquette, but it is so easy to teach these distinctions to young minds; let us not wait until the incorrect expression is a fixed habit. In one of the recent sociological publications is the significant picture of a boy, with a sweet, smiling, but drawn and pinched face; an undersized head in a shabby cap; a ragged jacket covering thin, sloping shoulders—he *appeared to be about ten years old, even less; by no stretch of the cruelest imagination could he have been 12. But his parents have put him to work in a glass factory in Pennsylvania. They exempted themselves from prosecution under the "Child Labor Law," on the sworn affidavit that he was 14. "Fourteen by Affidavit"—so the picture reads: a picture of this victim to parental greed and economic injustice. Into a rich pastry roll mashed and sweetened prunes. Bake about 20 minutes. Serve hot with a sauce made of the juice of the prunes slightly thickened with flour, and flavored with lemon or vanilla. With whipped cream piled on top this is a fancy, and delicous dessert. A GREAT CORN CROP DAMAGED Hot Dry Winds and Record Breaking Temperature Blighting Drig. Prospects. Topeka, Kansas — After another sweltering day, with a maximum temperature of 100 degrees two degrees lower than on the previous day relief came in the form of a cool breeze from the North. The temperature was the highest on a corresponding date for 23 years. The 500-million-bushel corn crop which seemed almost assured in Kansas and Nebraska on August 1 has been crimped and shrunken by the excessive heat of the past few days, and absence of adequate rain for two weeks past. Generally the corn in the eastern part of the state does not appear to be seriously hurt, and some parts even of Central Kansas are still hopeful of a full crop, but in Western Kansas and some of the big corn counties in Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska reports indicates that the extreme heat and drought has done great damage to the crop. The amount of damage done is impossible to estimate at the present time. THE BEST DEFENSE OF THE WEST B. F. Yoakum Told Oklahoma Farmers That Grain and Cotton Fields Were Better Than Warships. Shawnee, Oklahoma. — Deprecating the growing expense which the United States government is incurring in connection with the maintenance of the army and the navy, and declaring that the "grain and cotton fields of the Mississippi valley and the west are stronger military defenses than warships," B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the executive committee of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway company, delivered an address here before the Farmers' Union of Oklahoma. Mr. Yoakum's subject was "The Farmer and the Railroad." He strongly advocated good roads as a means of bringing the carriers and the producer closer to gether. THE SPOKANE LAND DRAWING Missourians and Kansans Were Fortunate in Lottery For Indian Lands. Spokane, Washington.—No. 11 in the drawing for the Spokane reservation lands brought the name of Louis Lock of St. Louis out of the pile of one hundred thousand applications. Edward W. Groves, who drew No. 226, was Kansas City's only representative. Other Missourians were William T. Berry, Carthage, No. 70; A. N. Baker, Adrian, 123; Judd Kazee, Pleasantville, 226. Two Kansans, both well up in the list, were successful. Clifford C. McCloskey of Piedmont, drawing No. 37, while Lyman A. Croey of Girard got No. 99. Only 250 names were drawn as there are less than one hundred claims in the reservation. Heat Causes Murder Wave. Chicago, Ill.—Chicago was swept by a murder wave, which is attributed to the peculiar weather conditions that have prevailed since last Friday. In one instance a man murdered his wife, wounded his son probably fatally, and killed himself. In another a woman was shot six times, and the man whom she accused is here assailant was rescued from mob violence by the police. Two men were shot in saloon brawls and several attempted suicides were also reported. Cheap Rates From Kansas. Kansas City, Missouri—Independent action by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad may result in cheap rates from Kansas for the fall festivities. The passenger agents meet in Chicago and turned down a proposal to grant reduced fares from Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska. But the Rock Island took independent action and has announced a rate of $1 \frac{1}{2}$ fare for the round trip from points in Kansas within 200 miles of Kansas City. The other lines probably will meet this rate. Revenue Receipts Increasing. Washington. D. C.—Evidences of returning business activities are apparent in the receipts from internal revenue for the first month and half of this fiscal year. The deficit thus far this fiscal year is less than it was for the corresponding period last year. To Market the Kansas Glass. Coffeyville, Kansas. — At a meeting of Kansas window glass manufacturers here preliminary arrangements have been made for the establishing of a brokerage house in Kansas City to handle the total output from the Kansas factories. Championship Meet Opens. Seattle, Wash.-Before an enthusiastic crowd the first day's events in the annual championship meet of the Amateur Athletic union were run off in the Alaska-ukan-Pacific stadium. Wheat 48 Bushels to the Acre. Sallina, Kas.-The best yield of wheat that has been reported for several years comes from the farm of Frank Nelson near Delphos. Mr. Nelson cut forty-five acres and threshed 2,171 bushels, or a fraction more than forty-eight bushels to the acre. A Kansas City Attorney Dead. New York.-Hugh C. Ward, a prominent Kansas City philanthropist, and a law partner of Governor Hadley of Missouri, died in a sanitarium here of Apoplexy. WO large potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve. Unwonted softness to the salad give. Of mordant mustard add a single spoon. (Distrust the condiment which blites too soon). But deem it not, though made of herbs, a fault. To add a double quantity of salt. Three times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown. And once with vinegar procured from town. True flavor needs it, and your poet begs. English News. Marshmallow Icing. Banana Croquette THE CHILDREN'S KEYS. Child Labor Laws Prune Roll a la Laura. CAR SHORTAGE IS PREDICTED RAILROADS WISE DO HEAVIEST YEAR'S BUSINESS EVER KNOWN. In Better Condition Than in 1907, But Not Likely They Can Carry All Freight Offered. Washington, D. C.-A heavier business than ever has been known in a single year is looked for by Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerce commission for American railroads during the present fiscal year. The serious situation anticipated not only by Judge Knapp, but by other officials of the commission, and by operating railroad men generally, is that there may be a shortage of cars. The crop prospects are considered so bright that the likelihood is the railroad and other transportation companies may be taxed beyond their capacities to handle the freight that will be offered to them. Already, according to figures submitted to the interstate commerce commission, the railroads, in considerable numbers, have recovered from the low business pressure of a year and a half ago, and now are handling almost as much traffic as they handled in the rush months of 1907, which was the banner year in American railroading. In the view of Chairman Knapp, the carriers are now in better position to carry the freight offered than they were in 1907, and he has said that it would not surprise him if that year's record were broken this year. A SCHEME THAT WILL NOT WORK Attorney General Jackson Heads Off Another Plan to Sell Liquor in Kansas. Topeka, Kas.-Fred S. Jackson, the attorney general, in an opinion, says that a druggist who hands out circulars and price lists of liquor houses and collects a commission, is guilty of soliciting liquor orders and can be prosecuted. A Kansas City liquor firm has been asking druggists to hand their former liquor customers or persons likely to buy liquors circulars and price lists of liquors. The druggist was to receive 20 per cent commission on all sales. The wholesale house told the druggist that they could not be prosecuted for these transactions. The attorney general, however, has notified the county attorneys to begin prosecutions of the first offense they hear about as this is an indirect method of soliciting orders. Because He Kicked the Cat. New York.—Ernest W. Smellie, New York manager for a glove manufacturer, has been sued for $100,000 by Emily Jones, his cook, because, it is charged he kicked the cat through a window screen. His small daughter had complained that the cat scratched her. The cook says her eyes were filled with a shower of particles of rusty iron wire as the cat forcibly disappeared and she estimates the damage to her sight and her lessened chances of matrimony at $100,000. Ten People Die in Hotel Fire. Vernon, B. C.—Ten lives were lost here in a fire that destroyed the Okairagan 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 scarecely had a stream of water been turned on the blaze before the entr building was a fire. Most of the 60 guests escaped but some were unable to get out of their rooms American Cities Are Congested. New York.-American cities are pronounced 25 years behind progressive Germany, in a bulletin issued by the committee on congestion of population in New York. The worst evils of unsanitary, immoral and crowded housing are to be found, according to the bulletin, in New York, with Chicago a close and gaining second, and Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cleveland following in the order named. Roosevelt May Visit China. Washington, D. C.—China expects a visit from Theodore Roosevelt some time next year. While Col. Roosevelt was president he discussed such a visit with Tang Shao Yi, the imperial ambassador who came to Washington last winter to thank this government for its generosity in remitting the $7,000,000 claim against China. Fined for Giving Short Weight. Topeka, Kan.—The Chester Ice Company of Phillipsburg is the first company in Kansas to suffer for giving short weights in ice. This company was fined $10 and costs in Phillipsburg. 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. A Baker Man to Indiana Baldwin, Kas.-Rev. Harry Andrews King has been elected president of Moore's Hill college, Moore's Hill, Ind. Rev. Mr. King, for several years, has been educational secretary for Baker university. A Cycle Dealer—Here is a cyclometer. I can recommend. It is positively accurate; not at all like some cyclometers, which register two miles, perhaps, where you have only ridden one. Miss de Byke—You haven't any of that kind, have you? LEWIS' "SINGLE BINDER." A hand-made cigar fresh from the table, wrapped in foil, thus keeping fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar made of good tobacco is the ideal smoke. The old, well cured tobacco used are so rich in quality that many who formerly smoked 10c cigars now smoke Lewis' Single Binder Straight 5c. Lewis' Single Binder costs the dealer some more than other 5c cigars, but the higher price enables this factory to use extra quality tobacco. There are many imitations; don't be fooled. There is no substitute! Tell the dealer you want a Lewis "Single Binder." Aid Fight Against Tuberculosis At the recent meeting of the National Association of Bill Posters, held in Atlanta, Ga., it was decided to donate to the campaign against tuberculosis $1,200,000 worth of publicity The bill posters in all parts of the United States and Canada will fill the vacant spaces on their 3,500 bill boards with large posters illustrating the ways to prevent and cure consumption. The Poster Printers' association has also granted $200,000 worth of printing and paper for this work. This entire campaign of bill board publicity will be conducted under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in co-operation with the National Bill Posters' association. Severe Samuel Gompers was talking in the smokeroom of the Baltic about a recent newspaper attack on a rich corporation. "It was a cruel attack," Mr. Gompers chuckled. "It was as cruel as the Jonesville Clarion's paragraph about old Deacon Hiram Ludlow. "This paragraph header the Clarion's cituary column. It said: "Deacon Hiram Ludlow of Frisle township, aged 82, passed peacefully away on Thursday last from single blessedness to matrimonial bliss after a short but severe attack by Maria Higgins, a blooming widow of 37 summers."—Detroit Journal. Could She? "When women get to voting," said the man, "they will have a great many more calls than they now have to put their hands in their pockets and give money to further important causes." The woman looked thoughtful. • "I'm always willing, of course," she said, "to give money for a good cause, but as for putting my hand in my pocket—" A Financial Enigram "H. H. 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It entirely took the place of coffee, and to my very great satisfaction, I began to sleep peacefully and sweetly. My nerves improved, and I wish I could wean every man, woman and child from the unwholesome drug—ordinary coffee. "People really do not appreciate or realize what a powerful drug it is and what terrible effect it has on the human system. If they did, hardly a pound of it would be sold. I would never think of going back to coffee again. I would almost as soon think of putting my hand in a fire after I had once been burned. "A young lady friend of ours had stomach trouble for a long time, and could not get well as long as she used coffee. She finally quit coffee and began the use of Postum and is now perfectly well. Yours for health." Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are true, true, and full of human interest. IN THE T if you dare!—and p You look about a lethal chamber. The hoistman, one trippe the eleventh, the umpire; he wears the officer, and he is ju IN THE TWELVE-INCH TURRI year-old boy, and the powder-bags look very much the same as a hundred-pound sack of flour, cylindrical in shape and studded with lumps where the sticks of nitro protrude.) The tripper pulls the lower lever from his car, the first powder-bag falls; another lever, and the second is in. The brass rammer forces them behind the shell. The plugman gives a huge wrench to the breech, and its mushroom head slides up on the powder-bags. The loader slips a primer in the touch-hole, then folds down a tiny piece of steel that forms the electrical connection. All is ready. These are the hard moments. You clasp your cap tightly in your hand. You become rattled. Though you are locked in the coffin there might be a heavy breeze blowing, the way your trousers flap against your legs. The car has ground its way back; the shutters have closed; the crew it at attention. The place is as clean and neat and silent as at an inspection. It is now up to the pointer. He grasps his unwieldy mechanism; he closes and wrestles with the vast and complicated steel. The ship moves on her stately and predetermined way, while the seconds fly, and every second counts against the prize-money this pointer may earn, against the trophy this ship may win. The barnbig bull's-eye dances, fantastic, across his magnified field of vision. He twists the wheel a hair and the muzzle of the gun responds by an inch; he reverses, and up, up she surges slowly, imperceptibly. The shin is waiting THE MISSING BOAT THE FUL EFFECT OF A TWELVE-INCH EFFECT OF A TWELVE-JNCH SHELL UPON THE ARMOR-PLATE OF A RUSSIAN CRUISER time he knows not—has passed, and still that flimsy canvas throws forth its minister challenge to be hit. But, the shister challenge to be hit. But the crossing black lines of his telescope must place bull's eye before he presses the trigger. They must! THEY MUST! He pulls—as easily as a child cracks a toy revolv—Look! the gun is discharged. Yes: it went off just now. I swear it did. Sure enough! The great breech sinks through the floor, the sleek, shiny haunch slips beneath your grasp, welches away there in the glazed light of the lethal chamber, drops till its crest is as low as its beilly lay, then recovers, poised, slips to its first position, lies patiently, modestly, for the next charge, as graceful a spring as a tigress ever made on moonlit road, feline with stealthy swiftness, decisive as oiled piston strokes! And your hand has been 12 inches from the launching of that thunderbolt! Oh, well, this is easy. Who need be afraid here? This is a place for a grand stand; here may gather all lovers of royal sport. Great sport indeed it is, for now we can watch the precision and swiftness of that silent crew working against time. The plugman unlocks the breech and pulls it open. The loader leaps across the chasm, flips up the tiny guard that breaks the electric connection, and so extracts the used primer. Automatically the air-blast works, and you hear the swift escape, as of steam, as it cleans out the rifle, blowing away gas and stray powder grains. The egg smell of the nitro comes, and the sweetness of the ether. Then the grind from the hoist, the shutter opens, and up springs again the car. Looking down, you see there the menace that lies in all our ships—the direct location of the gun-breech over the powder magazines. A burnt grain falling down there, with an inefficient shutter the only protection, is a constant danger. Over the building AMILIARITY, 'tis said, breeds contempt; but I have an extreme respect for a 12-inch gun on a battle-ship. The very last thing I care for in that connection is either familiarity or contempt. The men who work it, who some day will fight with it—let those men explain how innocent such a gun is, how facile its management, how bland its temper, how exquisite its adjustment. Not I. Listen to those men a while and AMILIARITY, 'tis said, breeds contempt; but I have an extreme respect for a 12-inch gun on a battle-ship. The very last thing I care for in that connection is either familiarity or contempt. The men who work it, who some day will fight with it—let those men explain how innocent such a gun is, how facile its management, how bland its temper, how exquisite its adjustment. Not I. Listen to those men a while and you will believe that it is less dangerous to be locked inside the turret while a big gun is being fired than it is to cross Broadway at Twenty-third street. Perhaps it is, but I prefer Broadway. And yet, the fascination! A great gun has for the imagination the potency of evil itself. Emblem of force, symbol of destruction, it stands serene, majestic, while round its muzzle gather all the forces of the race's struggles, and through its breech march hate, pain, grief, ambition, power and death. "The torpedo," said the captain of a battle-ship to me one night at a dinner, "is more or less of an experiment, a toy. It would be practically impossible for one to shink a big ship. The only thing I am really afraid of is a 12-inch gun." The next day I went into the after-turret when the ship was on the range and in full and sympathetic accord with the captain stood beside the breech of one of those guns while it dropped four shots into a target a mile away; stood there with my cap in my hand, ready to clap it over my face in case of accident, cursing the curiosity that led me to that lethal chamber. Then the wonder of it came over me—the silence of the gun-crew; the stealthy leap of the rifle barrel, like the spring of a grasshopper; the quiet, dull report which scarcely trembled that stately moving fortress; the sour-egg smell of the nitrocellulose stimulating the nerves; the sweet, sick subtlety of ether hilling the overwrought brain. When they shut the steel door that caged us in I slipped into a funk and until the first shot was fired my nerve was gone. The sides of my courage account footed up; Debit: (1) Imprisonment in an oval case the shape of a coffin, the sides formed of solid steel nine inches thick and the top of steel just as solid and five inches thick; (2) filling a quarter of that case the back third of a 12-inch rifle barrel, ready for action; (3) below, an open chute, with a steel car bringing the shells and powder from the magazines still farther below; (4) the stern, silent faces of the gun-crew, which exactly resemble those faces seen at places of execution; (5 to 100) memory—the knowledge which you cannot fight away that in just such a situation as this the turret-crew of the Georgia went to death, and that no one has ever found out how it happened; that in precisely the same way the Missouri burned to death 29 men, and that not one in that steel cage escaped. Credit: (1) The face of the umpire. Stop-watch in hand, he stands behind the breech, looking down into the powder-magazines. You know he is there to prevent recklessness. Though these men are firing against time he will let them do nothing foolhardy; if he cers 'twill be on the side of caution. (2) The knowledge that thousands of times guns like this have been fired from turrets like this—and all came out alive. You do not enter railway trains timidly because a dozen people were killed on one a year before five thousand miles away. Yet, when you enter the turret of a 12-inch gun— They lock you up. There is no escape. You stand there nervously by the trunion and somehow it is not like a factory or a railway coach or a street car or any other modernly approved limb-mangling device. These things were built to kill and presently these fellows are going to touch an electric spark which will loose enough anxious and determined gas to drive an 850-pound shell 10 miles and put it completely through a steel plate as thick as the one that is supposed to protect you. Yet, there you are, the Thing before you, and you can reach out and pat it on the shiny, cold haunch. If it wobbles or a spring breaks or a trunion has mistakenly got itself rusted or the rifle barrel refuses to accommodate the shell, you will be fit brother for a detected cockroach. If there is a flare-back you have the slightest possible chance of escape: hold your cap over your face, don't breathe, hurl yourself under the barrel and fall into the handling-room. You may break a few bones, but if the burning gas gets to no more than 30 per cent of your skin you will live; that is how the single midshipman who escaped from the Georgia saved himself. Yet no one can tell how that gas gets in its work. Sometimes it burns away the flesh and never touches the clothing; again, it singes off all the hair and never touches the flesh; again, it burns the clothing off clean and leaves you naked, but safe. So! They have locked you up in this steel cage. The others have some reason here. With them it is work, duty, contest. If killed they die nobly, get brass tablets in the wall with their names inscribed, pens sions so to their families, the newspapers call them. If you die they will cut on your obscure tomb. "The Fool Who Looked on Forbidden Things." We are on the range. Some one calls, "Starting-buoy," and you know that in another minute this doubletwisted, original imitation of billy-blue hell will commence. You reflect that a blast pressure of 12 pounds to the square inch will kill a man. You know that the pressure on the air near the muzzle of this gun whose breech you are beside, when it is fired, is several tons to the square inch. You remember that only a few years ago a green sailorman stood offside 16 feet, that some one called to him to lie down just as the gun was fired, that he was in the act of lying down when it was fired, but that the suction of the air going with the shell drew his head from his body and broke his neck. This does not add to the pleasure of your situation, for you can easily reach out there— You look about and observe your companions in the she sur lethal chamber. They are eleven: two trainers, two pointers, one hoistman, one tripper, two loaders, a rammer and a plugman. And the eleventh, the unnecessary one, the other outsider—he is the umpire; he wears the single stripe of the ensign, a commissioned officer, and he is just about as keen as you are to keep things straight, to omit flare-backs, side-step the bursting of powder-bags and lasso over-speed. You pin your faith there; let this umpire be the sky-pilot of the turret! The tripper is a slight lad, a boy of perhaps 18 years. Neither has he ever seen a big gun fired and yet he is to stand there and pull the lever that thrusts the shell and its following powder-bags into the carrying-case before the breech. In an undershirt, a pair of trousers and a thin smile he waits the word. He was caught only a year ago on the streets of Minneapolis, whither he had come fresh from the farm. Far up on the left of the barrel, encased in a leather head-dress, is the turret-trainer, his right eye locked to the telescope that projects from the hood above him. He might be a diver, with that curious jumble of intricate wires and the green speaking-tube trailing aft. He grasps a big wheel, as a chauffeur his steering-gear, and moves easily on its barbette the 130-ton turret. Below him, between his legs, his assistant sets his sights. They might be riding pickaback, these two, up there along the slope of that sleek steel haunch. On the other side the pointer, with his assistant, also rides pickaback. Here is the eye for which this whole ship was built: here the nerve and quickness for which the 16,000 tons, the seven millions of dollars, the five years of making, have spread their august being. His accuracy may sink a warship; his weakness ruin a nation. To find him and his like half a million TARGET FOR TWELVE-INCH GUN PRACTICE dollars has been spent in a single month. In three minutes now he can qualify and have $10 a month added to his pay for a year. For we have penetrated to the very viscera of war's nature. Here is the man behind the gun. He does the trick. His eye searches the telescopic sight, his left hand turns the wheel that raises and depresses the muzzle of his gun. The whistle! Time begins. The umpire snaps his stop-watch and grasps firmly in his hand the little red book which defines to the farthest nicety the rules that govern this expensive foolery. In the following three minutes this crew will try to put five shots through that flimsy canvas target a mile across the quiet water. And the mill-pond is worthy of its name—the bay of the Magdalene—a haven of refuge. The ship glides along like steel through flesh. "Silence!" The gun-captain, one of the loaders, speaks! What a word it is—"silence!" It precedes and closes every vital action in the navy. In it lies such potency of command, such suggestions of obedience, as is needed in the anteroom of death. Once a recruit saw fit to chaff his mate after that command "Silence!" had been given. The gun-captain stepped to him, without anger, and struck him a heavy blow across the face, with a gnarled, wet hand; the recruit carried the welt for a week; by no one was a word said. Now, until you hear again that command "Silence!" you will hear only two words: crossing Rumbling from below. With a grating crash the automatic shutter drops in the ammunition-hoist and the shell-car climbs its grinding, steady way to the top. Suddenly you realize that the machine is working of its own accord. You saw no movement on the part of anyone to set it going. Except for that umpire, who, like the man that the fool-killer will doubtless some time get, has really no business there, the turret contains but one officer, a midshipman, and he is with the other gun; all here are enlisted men. The officers are aloft spotting the shells as they strike, or below setting the ranges, with intricate instruments and delicate adjustments. About the gun itself the men and the machinery move automatically, drilled to a precision. Their last instructions were "to take it easy;" consequently they work like buttons in a shirt. The plugman pulls open the breech; the holistman locks the car; the loader completes the passage from car to open breech with a ring of pounded brass; the boy tripper jerks down his lever, and the huge shell, nearly half a ton in weight, drops to its all but final resting-place. The rammer holds down on his long release, as a cable gripman throws back his lever, and the smooth brass head forces the shell up till its soft copper rim "takes" on the rifling of the gun. (When a shell is not properly "placed," in this way—if its collar does not "take" it will surely be a miss. And if the powder-bags are placed wrong end to there is grave danger of a hung-fire, and a hang-fire is worse than a miss-fire—almost as bad as a flareback—and a flareback, as everyone knows, is what, probably did up the Georgia's turret. One of these shells is about the size of a three- 3 of the ammunition hoist directly above the magazines the navy has fought one of its sternest internal wars and the war is still far from finished; nor will it be over until a tuted. nor will it be over until a sealed tube has been substituted. The umpire is only too well aware of this danger as he critically watches every move of the crew. The utter silence still prevails. The gun has been once fired and is being loaded for the second time; the first minute has not passed, and still not a word. The second shot is fired. Again the easy, unbelievable recoil. Less than anywhere in the ship do you feel it here at the trunion of the gun. 'Tis always so. In storm-centers is the calm; in the core of the acorn dwells the germ. As Disraeli said, the only joy in being prime minister lies in the certainty of your knowledge that nothing is happening on the inside. Here, in the lethal chamber, at the nerve center of destruction, prevail only silence and quiet. A third and fourth time the smooth recoil. The crew works with the serene delight of a Geneva clock, vastly complicated, but of a single purpose and a single thought. You are locked up with a single gun. Separated by a skin of steel is its mate. When that speaks the turret is jerked on the barbette and the unfired gun is pulled from it equilibrium. This is the back- lash. After every shot the trainer, with a quick twist of his wheel, subtly absorbs the backlash. For the fifth time the shutter opens, the grind ascends, the tripper pauses to flip his lever, when Silence!" The tone is raised. It has anger, c o nealed but glow- THERE IS SOMETHING UNSPEAKABLY SUBLIME IN THE FULL-GROWN CRY OF A GREAT GUN on the voice of his index finger, and he grows anxious; his whole being pours itself along the wheel to a resolution of that terrible problem. An hour, a minute, five seconds, a week—how much ing, like the quick flush of a nervor snap of the "Silence!" cuts like a As though paralyzed, the action The loader pauses in the act of in necting-tray, the hand of the stripper the sight-setter slips from his head crowds up in front of the umpire the gun exudes the thinest cirrue wreath of smoke from a choice I The umpire points sternly be called. The hoistman and the low hoise and pick up some light-bro like broken sticks of horehound ing, like the quick flush of a nervous woman's face. The snap of the "Silence!" cuts like a whip. As though paralyzed, the action of the turret dies. The loader pauses in the act of inserting the brass connecting-tray, the hand of the tripper falls from its lever, the sight-setter slips from his head-dress, the hoistman crowds up in front of the umpire; the open breech of the gun exudes the thinest cirrus froth, like the first wreath of smoke from a choice Pinar del Rio. The umpire points sternly below. It is he who has called. The hoistman and the loaders climb down the hoise and pick up some light-brown chunks that look like broken sticks of horehound candy, pierced with JUST OUT OF THE TURRET AFTER PRACTICE the umpire. "You've broken a powder-bag." Indignant, protesting, the three men quickly pick up the scattered grains, each as big as a man's middle finger. They look carefully all about, then rush back quickly to their stations, eager to continue. They look to the umpire with the expectancy of dogs asking for crumbs. Every second is eating into their record. This rotten powder-bag will cost them a penalty. They may not qualify; they may fall below the second rate. Horrors! The ship may even descend from trophy class. The umpire is inexorable. "No!" says he. "That's all this run. Climb down there and go into the corners of that shutter; brush out every crack. I take no chance." Grumbling, the men go about the prevention that the umpire thinks is worthy any ton of post-mortems and boards of inquiry. But the men, with the Anglo-Saxon light of contest in their eyes, remember only the ordnance officer's dictum—better 40 men killed than to lose the trophy. "He wants to keep our score down," they mutter. "He's from the ——, and we're their only rivals." The gun captain goes out to protest to the turret officer. The well-trained crew resolves itself, with expert suddenness, into a mob of balked Americans clamoring for fair play. An unpire's job is no more popular on a battleship than it is on a baseball diamond. At last they count the powder-grains—37. "That bag was half in," growths the loader. "I could have rammed 'er home an' one no'd ever known if that —— hadn't been here. Now we get 146 per minute, au' we might 'a' had 2.10. Rats!" THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, 1 3 3 t KANG ee W. N. MILLEK...............-Bditor Residence Phone Bell 1641 <twed at the Post Office ut Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class ‘Mail Matter. Publischet very Saturday at 601 orth Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION atrictly in Advance. 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The Tabernacle is doing nicely altho we have two on the sick list. Dtr Bessie Hall, G QM was a visitor to Golden Eagle Tent No 8, She also paid the Taber- nacle a much appreciated visit | a ———————— ———— teh pa ce rs hah 2 a ee OFFICIAL Motorcycle Races Labor Day Monday, Sept. 6th.—2 p. m. New Fair Gronnds 1 to 25 miles = e A Ale) There ts No Need oy 48 GA Of letting your clothes ino! y, Wy f= ragged or soiled, when you Ie l/ ( can have them dry cleane:), yf || | ( preessed andrepaired to loo), 1 ! 4 V), SAN like new at reasanable price a i aH at RO Be ips) ==” — GS Ihe Peoples Cleaning and Dye Works 131 North Lawrence Avenue ! Ind. Phone 178 Bell Phone 175 The Biggest and Best in the Southwest Ketzler tlardware Co., 354. North Main Street —peaLEns 1s— Hardware, Hot Air Furnaces, Tin Work, Roofing, Guttering, Copper and Galvanized Iron Work. 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It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. 3 SLOSS SSSLLSSSOSSS LOLS SELES HSS POEPECOEESTESOLOTESESEEe Send your news in earlier \. Miller i W.N. Miller Attorney-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Gourts Of Kansas and Missouri Reridence Phone ~ Bell 1641 Dr. E: Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Ofitee Hours 9tolla.m Residence 2teop m. 513 N. Main St Tu 8y.m. OFFICE 513 N, MAIN ST Phone 860 green MEAT MARKET F. T, CULP, PROPRIETOR For the best Meats, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veal, Chick. ens and Sealship, Oysters, also Fresh Home Grown Caitish, and Halibut for your Lunch, Heinz Pickles, Sweet, Sour, Sweet Mixed or Dill, Baked Beans, and Cooked Meats. 241 N. Main Street, Wichita, Kansas LUMBER Gas: aT METZ’S gm 3rd & Main HILL - ENGSTROM Lumber Dealers Successors to B. F. McLean 318 west Douglas Ave HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price. 116 East Douglas Avenue z oe © @ IMBODEN’S IMPE RIAL FLOUR GRAHAM — CORN MEAL— BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made froffi best selected grainonly and putup in Special Packages, Ask Your Groce See that youget IMPERIAL Bea _ THE TMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA, KANSAB tee Bee et Ae is —_— Dr.J. E. Farmer, Physiciun and Surgeen —Diseases of — Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. Main St. ee TD Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE Wecurry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Chil- dren’s Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & flanshav’ 255-257 N. Main St Phone 257 - ee 354 North Main St. THE FINEST AND BESTIN THESTATE Short Orders — — Meals — Fish and Game in Season A much needed business in Wichita. Now that you have a place that is a credit to us let all join in and help push to success Soft Drinks— —Ice Cream— Melons on Ice Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coulter, Proprietors J. Ed Allen HARNESS MAKER 426 North Main St. ‘New and 2nd Haud Harness Harness bought, sold, repaired and exchanged JOB PRINTING = Is Our Specialty - Try Us The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west M. COY A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted DEPARTMENTS- Theological, Classical, Normal, Snb-Normal, cal, State Industrial, embracing courses in tecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Pr Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and I Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestral 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 Pho Excellence Counts..... THEN USE "U - KNEAD - IT FLOUR It excels in every respect, — color, flavor, and bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS 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 por barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. 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 & KITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 N. Main St. Deam Abstract CELEBRATED REAM AND RETAIL Socials and Churches any part of the city KANDY KITCHEN ERVE, Prop. Phone 152 ABSTRACT CO FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY ITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors Johnston's House CHITA 507 N. Main St. K Everything first-class, Electric Lighti, Electr Transient Trade — Restaurant in Connect R. Johnston, Proprietor n's Hotel Main St. KANSAS Electric Lighti, Electric Fans restaurant in Connection Proprietor Johnston's Hotel CHITA 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade - Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor Its the man who "sticks-to-it' who wins. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 201 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Sometime More. "I see that a New York professor reforms bad boys with piano music." "I hope he bears in mind that some pianos need reforming quite as much as bad boys do." For full particulars write to L. S. Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown. Vice President, V. H. Branch, Gashier. Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Directors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Ett, R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nattsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Honston, E. C. Sheldon, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Henry Lassen, V. H. Franck. ```markdown ``` Straighten Your Hair DRARE STARS:—I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for it makes my hair straight and easy to comb and also that a new gift for me. MRS. W. F. WALKER. Sts. 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 shiny. It also makes it look nice 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 a new life and vigor. Applies to all hair types and splendid results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. Ford Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't buy anything it does just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name If your druggist will not supply you with the genuine send us, express or postal money order costs for regular sale or 25 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepaid to any point in U. S. A. by return mail on receipts of price. Address. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 153 East Kennie St. Chicago, Ill. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. For Everything in Building Material SEE SEE BOTH PHONE 496 PLEASE CALL J.H. TURNER S33 TO S47 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-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 Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 303 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita - - Kansas Real Estate 5 room house and 50 x 500 ft on Sher- wood $600.00 2 vacant lots on Sherwood $300.00 6 vacant lots on Ohio Ave $1500.00 8 lots on Burns Ave $680.00 8 room two story house 2 lots $1500.00 5 vacant lots ($100.00) each $500.00 9 lots on Wabash ($125.00) each $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 FRFE a beautiful Post Card entitled "Auld Lang Syne." Satisfaction IN EVERY POUND OF "Wichita's Best"Four POENISCH BROS., Agents 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. 530 -- Both Phones -- 530 TRY U8 For a Good Job of Lead and Oil SUTTON PAINT CO. H. O. Harrison JEWELER & OPTICIAN 437 N. Main St. Watches, Clocks and Jewelery Repairing Work Guaranteed Pecullar African Race. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and flth, 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 an heaps. Their cattle also take refuge on the an heaps on which corn and mealles are likewise grown. Bank commissioner J. N. Dolly is proving himself a man of through business ability by the excellent manner in which he is conducting the affairs of Bank Commissioner's office. Gov. Stubs made no mistake when he appointed J. N. Dolly as Bank Commissioner. 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 it concerned Dunn Merc. Co. 19 lbs Granulated Sugar $1.00 Corn Meal, sack, 20c 2 lbs Whole Rice 15c 4 lbs for 25c Flour, small sack, 75c; Large sack $1.50. 2 lbs good soda crack ers 15c Good Rio Coffee, per pound 15c Dry Goods and Shoe Department; Calico, Mill Remnants 3c yd. White Table Linen, worth 5c yd —we have them in 24 yd lengths at 35c yd. Men's Fancy colored hose, worth 15c—all you want at 10c per pair Hardware Department: See us for a complete line of shelf hardware. Fish ing goods, Builder's hardware, and everything which could be found in a First Class Hardware store. First-Class Making of Men's Garments Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty Prompt Service Coueteous Attention Your Trade Solicited Guaranteed Deposits All deposits in this bank are full be opened in any amount from o 4% Interest paid upon Saving January 1st and July 1st Certificates of Deposits issued P ing 4 per cent interest per annum issue. Commercial check Open Saturday nights from Gold State S FIRST AND H. W. Lewis, President Paid Up Cap H. W. Lewis, President P. K. Lewis, Cashier Paid Up Capital $25,000.00 PEOPLES FLEMING William Peoples and Miss Mac E. Thompson were married at the home of the bride's parents Aug. 11th 1909. The bride wore a gown of white poude sioue silk beautifully trimmed with valenciennes lace carrying a bunch of bride's rose and ferns. The groom wore a full dress suit. Rev. Wm' Turner, pastor 2, Baptist church officiated. The happy couple recieved the congratulations of all their many friends. After which a five course wedding lunch wns served. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Chas. Shoots Mrs. Emma Gaines, of Topeka, Mrs. Maggie Robinson of Kans. City Kansas were the guests of Mrs. M. E. Price Monday eve. Quite a successful and pleasant affair, was the lawn social given on Wednesday evening at the home of S. W. Jones, corner of Water and Central Ave. During these hot, dry summer days call at the Makin Eye Drug Store, 517 N. Main and try some of their refreshing drinks. Also you can get anything in the drug line desired. Dr. E. Harrison, one of our prominent physicians was moved to St. Francis hospital Sunday quite seviously ill. Dr. Harrison's illness was brought on by overwork and lack of rest in the practice of his profession. During his illness the skillful Dr. J. E. Farmer 703 N. Main will attend his patients. The many friends of Dr. Harrison hope for a speedy recovery. We have not heard of Mayor Davidson chasing jointist yet he seems to be leaving that to Chief Burt—who is making a pretty good job of it. ply guaranteed. An account may one dollar up. Accounts, compounded every PAYABLE ON DEMAND, bear for each full month from date of ing accounts do not draw interest on 7 to 9 to receive deposits Savings Bank D MARKET P. K. Lewis, Cashier digital $25,000.00 The Annual Basket Meeting and Pentecostal Services will be held at St. Paul A. M. E. church on the fifth Sunday, Aug. 29th. The pastors of the city and all their congregations are invited. The ministers will come prepared to take some part on the programe in the afternoon. Mrs. Ed Miller at her home on S. Mosley Ave. Tuesday entertained at dinner, Mrs. A. Dickson, Mrs. V. Covington, Mrs. M. Durfee Mrs. M. E. Price, Miss. M. Jackson, of Kansas City Rev. G. Wooten, Rev. J. T. Smith. Asumptious and elaborated repast was served and highly enjoyed by all those who were present. Preston Smith of Topeka who has been visiting John D. Jones for several days returned to his home Monday evening. While in she city he was the recipient of several pleasant social affairs given in his honor. Remember the big Motorcycle races at the New Fair Grounds. Labor Day, Monday Aug. 6th. The grand event of the season. The following ladies spent Friday evening very pleasantly with Miss. M. E. Jackson of Kansas City Kansas who is visiting her aunt Mrs. M. E. Price, were Mrs dames Dr' Bolden, Georgia Glover, Misses Laura Rawles, Lois Wilson, Georgia Penny of Moberly Mo. Sallie Rawles Mrs. T. Fines and Mrs. Porter Perry. No man can make a success in business who never finds any of good qualities in other men in business. Dig a ditch for your neighbor and you will fall in it yourself. J. T. Smith pastor W. C. Neely Secy. BROUNESS AT LAST, GOES COME ON AND PROPOSE! BROUNESS BRAUDLEY in CHICAGO. DAILY NEWS THE TIMID SUITOR MAY PROCE ED SAFELY WITH HIS WOOING. KEEP POLITICS OUT OF CENSUS 19 THE ORDER ISSUED BY PRESIDENT TAFT. Any Person Engaged in the Work Who Takes Any Part in Politics Will Be Discharged. Beverly, Mass.—In a letter addressed to Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor, President Taft served notice that any man engaged in the taking of the thirteenth census of the United States who engages in politics in any way will immediately be dismissed from the service. Outside of casting their votes the president believes that census supervisors and enumerators should keep clear of anything that savors of politics, national, state or local. The president orders that the secretary of commerce and labor and the director of the census embody in the regulations governing the taking of the census the rule so forcibly laid down in his letter. Mr. Taft says that in appointing census supervisors it has been found necessary to select men recommended by senators and congressmen in their districts. He says he realizes that this method of selection might easily be perverted to political purposes and it is to take the census out of politics, so far as the actual work is concerned, and he has explicitly expressed his desires as to the regulations. Washington, D. C.—Believing that deaf and dumb mutes would make good operators for the puncturing and tabulating machines to be used in making up the returns of the next census Secretary Nagel, of the department of commerce and labor, is inclined to appoint them to such positions if capable ones apply for the places. This work requires great care in its performance, for the reason that there is no way to obtain a check on the result, and he sees no reason why the deaf and dumb should not be especially efficient. Banker Sucs City of Seattle. Seattle, Washington.—Samuel A. Bonnifield, owner of a bank in Beloit, Kan., president of the First National Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska, and reputed to be millionaire, sued the city of Seattle for 150,000 damages for false imprisonment last March when he was found helpless on the street, taken to the police station, booked as being drunk, and then taken to a hospital where he was under treatment for three weeks. Washington, D. C. — The extraordinary session of congress which completed its revision of the tariff law cost the American people, it has been estimated by some of the statisticians around the capital, about $500,000. Many different items entered into this grand total, the chief of which is mileage. The house expense on this account aggregates $154,000 and that of the senate $47,000. Mexico City, Mex.-The first official admission that President Diaz will meet President Taft next October was made to-day by Minister of Foreign Affairs Marascal, who stated that all details had been arranged granting permission to President Diaz to leave Mexican soil. Gov. Stubbs to Accompany Taft. Topeka, Kan.—Governor Stubbs has accepted the invitation of the officers of the deep waterways convention to make the trip down the Mississippi with President Taft to the deep waterways convention at New Orleans. Registered 111 Degrees. Muskogee, Ok.—The government thermometer at Bacone university here registered 111 degrees. This is the highest mark ever recorded here. Michael Muster F. V. McKeever Tiled ! Places for Deaf Mutes. Cost of the Extra Eession. Diaz Will Cross the Line. Registered 111 Degrees. THE HASKELL CHARGES FILED They Allege Misconduct by Officers and Members of Recent Grand Jury. Muskogee, Ok.—At the eleventh hour a petition to quash indictments against Governor C. N. Haskell, charged with having obtained titles to Indian lands through fraud, was filed in the federal court here by .orman Haskell, son of the governor. This was the last day for the filing of the petition, and it was only a few minutes before the office of the federal clerk closed that young Haskell hurried to the federal building, and entered the petition. Charges of misconduct in their relation to the grand jury lodged against Attorney Gregg, Assistant prosecutor Rush, Marshall Grant Victor and several members of the grand jury have created considerable sensation. Lawyers crowded the court house in an effort to read the petition stipulating the charges against these men. All of the men against whom charges are made are out of the state at present. Talk here is to the effect that not only will charges be used in attempt to quash indictments, but that Harkell and other defendants will use all the influence possible to see that those accused be brought to trial. EARTHQUAKE IN CENTRAL JAPAN A Mountain Collapsed and 362 Buildings Were Destroyed and 1,000 Were Badly Damaged. Tokio, Japan.—Reports received concerning the earthquake in Central Japan show that there was a number of fatalities and that great damage was done to property. The dead at present is said to be thirty, though it is feared that the fatalities will be greatly increased when the outlying districts are heard from. The number of persons injured is 82. Thus far 362 buildings, including many temples are reported to have been destroyed and more than 1,000 others badly damaged. The mountain, Ibuki, a short distance west of Gifu, emitted smoke in the early stages of the earthquake and then collapsed with a thunderous roar. The formation of the mountain was completely changed. Slight damage was done at Nagoya, to the southward of Gifu, and neighboring villages. Three Perished in Burning Home La Crosse, Kansas. — Word was received here of the death of Etta Bullock, aged 19 and two small children, age one and six years, and the destruction of the farm house in which they lived, a few miles from here. The older girl was filling a gasoline stove when it exploded. She and the two other children perished in the burning house. The parents were away. Train Crew Responsible for Wreck Colorado Springs, Colorado. — The coroner's jury which investigated the head-on collision on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at Husted, Col., Saturday morning when 10 people were killed and three score injured returned its verdict. The verdict finds that the wreck was due to criminal negligence on the part of the train crew. New Kansas Bond Record Topeka, Kansas—A record was broken for all the time since Kansas has been organized when Kansas City, Kan., registered bonds for water works extension in the state auditor's office aggregating $1,097,850.63. Takahira May Not Return. Seattle, Wash.—That Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassador to the United States, will return no more to this country, but will be made minister of foreign affairs by his government, was stated here by well informed Japanese. An American Consul III. Washington, D. C.—Oscar Malmros, American consul at Rouen, France, is dangerously ill., according to a dispatch received at the state department. DAMAGED BY RAINS DAMAGED BY RAINS HEAVY CLOUD BURSTS IN COLO- RADO CAUSE LOSS WATER VERY HIGH AT PUEBLO Forty-Five Miles of Track Washed Out on Denver & Rio Grande Between Salida and Denver. Denver, Colo.—Another cloudburst at Four-Mile Creek, near Canon City, made more disasterous the flood in the Arkansas Valley which threatened ajoinning towns, washed out railroads tracks and tied up many trains containing eastern tourists. The cloudburst was one of the heaviest in that section and soon the river, swollen by mountain torrents near Canon City, had risen eight feet six inches. The trains of the Denver and Rio Grande and Colorado Midland railroads were blocked at many points, and scores of tourists were reported delayed, although railroad officials declared they were making every effort to detour the trains. The picturesque royal gorge, where the Arkansas river rushes through a canon 1,000 feet deep, was a scene of wild fury. The water had reached the level of the famous "hanging bridge," although the bridge itself was said to be intact. Many of the near-by canyons were washed clear of tracks. Danger at Pueblo. At Pucblo the water was splashing over the levee at the State asylum grounds, and an additional rise of six inches will flood the grounds of the asylum, as well as a large portion of the residence section nearby. Furniture and goods stored near the river bottoms are being moved to places of safety. Officials of the Denver & Rio Grande road here state that forty-five miles of their track between here and Salida, a distance of 100 miles, is washed out, and that it will be at least a week before traffic can be resumed. What trains are being run over the Denver and Rio Grande are being detoured by way of Alamosa. More rain all over this section of the state is predicted. AVIATORS AND AERONAUTS GATHERING AT RHEIMS Rheims.—A vast and strange looking aerodome city has risen on Belhengy plain, near this city, in anticipation of aviation week, which will begin next Saturday and run through the following Saturday, and during which feats of skill and daring by aviators in heavier-than-air machines and aeronauts in spherical and crigible balloons will be witnessed. The aerodrome proper is 2,000 meters wide, and extends 3,750 meters on one side and 1,500 on the other, making a circuit of about 10,000 meters. The four angles of the course are marked by large derricks, and two grandstands tower over the field, while forty aeroplane sheds and other large homes for the dirigibles dot the enclosure. The first tribune, in which the lodges rented from $50 to $200 for the week, was hastily reserved throughout, necessitating the construction of a second popular enclosure, accommodating 40,000 persons, the fee of admission to which will be one franc. Glenn Curtiss was examined by a surgeon, who declared that he would be entirely well of his sprained ankle within a few days. The American was a prominent figure at the aerodrome this afternoon. He tried out his motor, which ran perfectly, but the high wind made it impossible for him or any of the others to think of attempting a flight. Increase in American Farms. Washington.—During the last 12 years, the period covering the administration of Secretary of Agriculture James M. Wilson, the agricultural balance of trade in the United States increased from a yearly average of $234,000,000 to $411,000,000, or 75.7 per cent, according to the department's year book just made public. This wonderful development is in keeping with the progress that has been made along all lines of agricultural activity. At the same time, it is stated, many conditions affecting the lives of the farmers of the country have advanced in even greater ratio until many of the undesirable features of farm life have been eliminated. "So increasingly disposed has the public been to ask and receive the aid of the department, and so large have been the new fields of work assigned to it by congress," says Mr. Wilson in a resume of his work, "that the number of employees has increased enormously. On July 1, 1897, 2,444 persons were employed, and eleven years later, in 1908, the number was 10,420, or over four times as many." Nineteen Workmen Injured. Philadelphia, Pa.—Nineteen workmen were injured by an explosion in the oil and gas storage house of the Philadelphia and Reading company. None will die. The monetary loss was not large. Killed by Lightning. Trinidad, Colo.—Charles Taft, a second cousin of President Taft, was killed at Prior, Colo., thirty miles north of here, when a bolt of lightning struck his house. $1000.00 SOLID GOLD & SILVER AWARD For the Best Ear of Corn To be Known as the W. K. Kellogg National Corn Trophy To be Awarded at the National Corn Exposition, Omaha, December 6 to 18, 1909. Over one hundred thousand million (100,000,000,000) ears of corn were grown in the United States last year. Over a billion dollars were paid for them. More than a million and a quarter extra dollars went into the pockets of the farmers for corn this year than they received for the previous year's crop. The reason for this may be found in the fact that the people of the United States are beginning to learn how delicious corn is and to realize its full food value. Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes has placed corn among the indispensable items of daily fare. The makers, therefore, are interested in the development of the King of Cereals, and have decided to award a beautiful trophy for the man, woman or child who can produce the best ear of corn in two different seasons. Professor Halka of the Iowa State College, the greatest authority on corn in the world, will award the prize at the National Corn Exposition, to be held at Omaha, Neb., December 6th to 18th, 1909. Two single rules will govern the plan, and they are—that you send your best ear of corn to the National Corn Exposition, Omaha, Neb., before November 27, 1909; and that you are a member of the National Corn Association. Full particulars regarding which can be had by writing to National Corn Exposition, Omaha, Neb. Tie a tag securely to your specimen and word it. For the Kellogg Trophy Contest, and write your name and address plainly. If yours is induded the best, you will get the trophy for 1910. If you succeed again next year or the year following, the trophy will become your property for all time. In other words, you must produce the best ear of corn two different years. There will be no restrictions. Any man, woman or child belonging to the Association can enter. It will be open to every state in the Union. Professor Holden will judge the corn particularly on the basis of quality. The growing of more corn per acre is one object of the award, but the main purpose of the founder of the trophy is for Increasing the Quality of Corn Used in Making Kellogg's TOASTED CORN FLAKES Many people think we have reached the point of perfection in Toasted Corn Flakes as it now is. Perhaps we have. If you haven't tried it, begin your education in "good things to eat" today. All grocers have it. KELLOGG TOASTED CORN FLAKE CO., Battle Creek, Mich. W. K. Kellogg GOT HIM! Gertrude—The man I marry must be a genius. Bertie—Thank heaven we have met! DISCOURAGED WOMEN. A Word of Hope for Despairing Ones Kidney trouble makes weak, weary, worn women. Backache, hip pains, dizziness, headaches, nervousness, languor urinary troubles make women suffer untold misery. Alling kidneys are the cause. Cure them. Mrs. S. D. Ellison, N. Broadway, Lamar, Mo., says: "Kidney trouble wore me down till I had to take to bed. I had terrible pains in my body and limbs and the urine was annoying and full of sediment. I got worse and are the cause. Cure them. Mrs. S. D. Eilison, N. Broadway, Lamar, Mo., says: "Kidney trouble wore me down till I had to take to bed. I had terrible pains in my body and limbs and the urine was annoying and full of sediment. I got worse and looters failed to help. I was discouraged. Doan's Kidney Pills brought quick relief and a final cure and now I am in the best of health." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Millen Co. Buffalo, N. Y. 1.ey Were Good Mothers Elizabeth Cady Stanton is quoted as saying that a woman's first duty is to develop all her powers and possibilities, that she may better guide and serve the next generation. Mrs. Stanton raised seven uncommonly healthy and handsome children, says an admirer of hers, and the children of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe testify to the virtues of the noted woman as a mother. The eagle may be as good a mother as the hen or the goose. Prepafed for the Worst "How long had your wife's first husband been dead when you married her?" "About eight months." "Only eight months? Don't you think she was in a good deal of a hurry?" "Oh, I don't know. We had been engaged for nearly two years." Self-Made. "I might say to you, young men, that I am a self-made man." "In what respect?" asked an impertinent youth. "In this respect, if you must know," replied the orator. "I made myself popular with men who had a pull and thus obtained my present lofty position." Her Intuctions. "Do you think your sister will marry me?" "If you keep comin'." "Have you heard her say anything about it?" "I heard her tell me that if you didn't stop comin' here so often she'd make things unpleasant for you." An Argive Cowherd. engine was boasting of his 100 eyes. "Think of putting on 50 pairs of goggles when you want to motor!" we ried. The greatest evils are from within us, and from ourselves also we must look for our greatest good.—Jeremy Taylor. Come to the breakfast table right, and exactly right from the package—no bother; no delay. They have body too; these Post Toasties are firm enough to give you a delicious substantial mouthful before they melt away. "The Taste Lingers." Made by POSTUM CEREAL CO., LIMITED. BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. Unselfishness in Life Is the One Thing That Will Transform All Things to Gold. The moment we set about the task of making every human being we come in contact with better for knowing us—more cheerful, more courageous and with greater faith in the kindness of God and man—that moment we begin to attain the third purpose of life—personal happiness. Would you possess the magic secret of the alchemist which transforms all things to gold? It is unselfishness—or, to use a better word, selflessness. He who goes forth bent upon being always kind, always helpful, in the little daily events of life, will find all skies tinted with gold, all his nights set with stars and unexpected flowers of pleasure springing up in his pathway. And all his tears shall turn into smiles.—Brooklyn Eagle. Your Salary. The universe pays every man in his own coin; if you smile, it smiles upon you in return; if you frown, you will be frowned at; if you sing, you will be invited into gay company; if you think, you will be entertained by thinkers; and if you love the world and earnestly seek for the good that is therein, you will be surrounded by loving friends, and nature will pour into your lap the treasures of the earth. Censure, criticise and hate, and you will be censured, criticised and hated by your fellow men.—N. W. Zimmerman. It Might Have Been Knicker—Hudson discovered the Hudson in the Half Moon. Bocker—Probably he would have discovered the Mississippi with a full moon. When a spinster marries a man who is already bald she doesn't get all that she is entitled to. Ready Cooke The crisp, brown flakes of Post Toa The boy bowed politely to the grocer. "I understand," he said, "that you want a boy, sir. Will you kindly look me over." "I only pay $3," said the grocer, abruptly. "I understood," said the boy, "that you paid four." The grocer nodded. "I did pay four," he said, "until I saw in the paper the other day that Millionaire Rogers began his business career on $3 a week." The boy smiled. "But I don't expect to be a millionaire," he said. "I don't care to be rich—I'd much rather be good." The grocer was so much pleased with this artless reply that he compromised with the boy for three and a half. A Realist. "I am a great believer in realism," remarked the poet. "Yes," we queried with a rising inflection, thereby giving him the desired opening. "I sometimes carry my ideas of realism to a ridiculous extreme," continued the poet. "Indeed!" we exclaimed inanely, somewhat impatient to reach the point of his witticism. "Yes," continued the poet, "the other day I wrote a sonnet to the gas company and purposely made the meter defective." At this point we fainted. And Ma Fainted "Why did she refuse you?" she asked her son, with fine scorn. "Well," the boy replied between his sobs, "she objects to our family. She says pa's a loafer, that you're too fat and that everybody laughs at Dayse Mayne because she's a fool and talks about nothing but the greatness of her family." (Chamcey threw water in his mother's face, but at three o'clock this afternoon she was still in a swoon, with four doctors working on her.)-Atchison (Kan.) Globe. VISITS WITH UNCLE BY O. She came to work for us one day, To wash and cook and things like this She could not speak our tongue at all, But she could iron linen flat. By spring she knew the way to well Upon a table fairly well, And she could do a dozen things That daily to her lot betell. Twice 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. A telephone girl will accept a ring from any old man. Being honest pays a man's mother more than 100 per cent. Thirst drives some men to drink. But hunger will drive a poet to ink. It is not a sign of good luck to find the horseshoe on your own dead horse. When two swelled heads get together, each is sure that the other belongs to a fool. 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' mothers." Willie's Primer. "Is the man dead?" "No, the man is not dead!" "What is it? Did the man hit an au- camo-bubble-bubble-bubble?" --- "No, the man did not hit an auto- bubble-bubble-bubble; he is a edi- tor and he has his eye out for men he awes, ain't it?" "Did a prizefighter find the editor?" "No, a man came in and paid his subscription for ten years in advance and the editor withered!" "Then he is not dead?" "No!" "Nor sleeping?" "No!" "Whas ist?" "Only paralyzed!" "Poor man! Why do people always do things to editors?" "Curly Locks, I cannot say, only it must be nice for an editor to be para- yzed!" Early one morning a terribly seasick passenger, pale and hollow eyed, came out of his stateroom and ran into a lady, who was coming along the passageway, clad in the scantiest rament she screamed and started to ruz "Don't be alarmed, madam; I shi'r never live to tell it."-Girard (III.) Arbor. Special Master E. V. 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No Job Too Small—No Job Too Large. Good Work Guaranteed—First-Class Workmen THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLEER, Editor 4 N. Water St., Wichita, K W. N. MILLEER,Editor 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kansas JUMPED AT NATURE'S BIDDING. Would-Be Suicide Not Completely Nerved for Final Parting. With a groan of despair he made up his mind to die. Ruined financially, and with not a particle of hope for getting on his feet again, he realized that the only chance for his family escaping pauperism and its attendant miseries was to obtain immediate use of his heavy life insurance. Furthermore, if he lingered on he would be unable to pay the premiums on his policies, which unfortunately were not old enough to carry themselves, so that they would forthwith lapse. Death, therefore, was the only solution to the problem. It was a decision the bitterness of which can only be understood by those forced by circumstances to confront it. He put on his hat and overcoat and went out of the house, lest the expression on his telltale countenance should betray to his loved ones his fell intention. While he was traversing the crowded streets he would consider the best and least suspicious modes of consummating his purpose. If he could encompass it so that the thing looked to the world like an accident, so much the better. There would then be no scandal. As he stepped from the curb to cross the street an automobile, driven by a reckless joy-riding chauffeur, came tearing around the corner at terrifying speed. And the energetic leap which the would-be suicide made back to the sidewalk out of harm's way was a caution. IGH 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 Norsten's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica. in one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who attained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in antiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weave; in beauty of design, 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 ar act making it a criminal offense for strangers to brawl within the chamber, and they also recommended that strangers should be made responsible for their own good behavior and should sign a paper accepting that responsibility. That being done the committee saw no reason why women, as well as men, should not be admitted to the strangers' gallery. It is in preparation for the change that the new bureau is being made. As heretofore, tickets for the gallery will be balloted for by members in advance. Whistling Sign of Contempt A Moroccan shows his contempt of anything by whistling. A conflict between tribesmen and a battalion of French troops was recently precipitated by the whistling of a locomotive on a railway being constructed near Casablanca. "The giaours are laughing at us," said a chieftain, when the construction engine gave a toot to warn the natives at work on the line to look out. The Arabs went wild, mounted their horses, and rode on the whistling enemy. They had to be calmed with the whistling of rifle balls. Getting Ahead of One's Self, "If I have anything to do that I particularly dislike, I start to work on it the first thing after breakfast, subordinating all routine work to that task," said a successful housekeeper. "One can expend enough nervous energy thinking about and worrying over an unpleasant duty to accomplish it. When it is finished and off one's mind early in the day, one gets ahead of one's self, so to speak." KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON. C. G. M. 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 T伯庵acle, Temple or Tent s 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. 5 Cresent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. C. Brown, 920 N. 10th. 7 Sunbeam, Salina, Kan., 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. Woodford, 823 Freeman. 2 Golden Rule, K. C., Kan., Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewart. 3 Candace, Pittsburg, Kan., Mrs. M. Beasley, 109 W. Washington. 5 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, 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, 147 Fifth. 32 Emma Gaines, Butte, Mont., Mrs. Saline 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. 40 Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. J. Ware, 807 N. Y. 41 Fair West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. R. Saunders, 734 N. J. 42 Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. O'Brien, 1180 Buchanan. 43 Magadalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. 44 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas. 45 Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific. 46 Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Rountree, 1125 N. 19th. 47 Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. I. M. Jordan, 903 Western. TEMPLES. Chief Mentors 1 A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., J. M. Burns, Box 31. 2 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. T. 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. 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, Cherryville, 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. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 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. 25 Silver Star, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. I. Porter, 2017 Morton. 28 20th Century, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan. 45 Orange Rose, K. C., Kan., Mrs. C. Henderson, 312 Washington. 45 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 counterfeits, but from a thorough and unconscious familiarity with the genuine. If a man were pointed out to you and you were told that some day another who much resembled him would try to impose upon you, you would be pretty apt to fix his features in your mind; you would not spend any time looking at other people who looked something like him, would you? And the moment the impostor appeared you would note that in this, that or the other particular he failed to meet the details of the other man's face and figure. Just so it is in the detection of counterfeits. A skillful teller in a bank, counting money rapidly, will involuntarily throw out a note which in the slightest degree departs from the well-known pattern which is so strongly impressed on his mental vision. That involuntary act will nearly always prove to have been justified, for the bill in 19 cases out of 20 will prove to be a counterfeit. It is because of this fact that when a request is received from some one to loan him a collection of counterfeits for the instruction of his cashiers, he is advised to have the young man study the genuine carefully, and there will be no trouble in detecting the bad notes.-National Magazine. A Monster 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 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. 777