Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT South Says The Negro Should be protected Temptations Of City Life too Great Good Schools Needed ELEVENTH YEAR South Says Should be Temptations Of C Good Schoo Nashville Tenn, — The Ryman Auditorium was packed and jammed with auxious spectators, of white and colored, waiting to get a glimpse of and hear great apostle of industrial eddication, Dr Booker T. Washington. After the usual formalities, he began his speech by saying: No Stranher J. ennesee. "This is not n first visit to Tennessee I had all of the progress of the co people were making in ind intellectual and moral directions. Since that time I have kept in pretty close touch with the progress that has been made. In accepting the invitation of J. C. Napier and other prominent citizens of Tennessee to spend a few days in the seate, I have but one object in view and that is to see for myself some of the progress of which I have herd so much. Let me say right here from what I have been able to see, the people of Tennessee, both races have reason to congratulate themselves upon the success which the Negroes of Tenn. are making. The Negro has done well in Tennessee I repeat, he has done well but he can make himself still more useful in the future than he has in the past, and my object in coming here is to say something and, as far as I am able, to suggest something to make the Negro more useful to himself, more useful to the state and to the nation than he has been in the past 'As I have said, I have sought to keep in close touch with the progress of your state, but one who lives outside of Tennessee is at a certain disadvantage in learning about what that actual progress has been, "Both races in the South suffer at the hands of public opinion in one request, and that is by reason of the fact that the outside world hears of our difficulties, hear of our crimes, heres of mobs and lynchings, but the outside world does not here of, neither does it know about the evidence of racial friendship and good will which exist in the majority of the communities in Tennessee and other Southern states where the whiteand black live togae her. I do not believe one can find another section on the globe of where two races who dissimilar in many respects dwell in so large numbers, where they get on better in all afairs of life, than they do in our Southern states. We are guarded as lazy and as shiftless. I told president Taft the other day that the Negro is well off in the South, and that the races are harmonious; that there was not a spot on earth where the outlook for the races was better. Fall Re-Union As we go to press this week Western Stas Consistory No 18, and the branches are holding their fall re-union in Wichita. They have several Candidates to give the higher degrees and will close Friday nlight with an elaborre banquet, Illnstrious J. W. Thompson Commander-in-chief deserves much credit for his labors in makidg the re-union a success. DO THEY REALIZE We sometimes wonder if our people—the colored people fully realize the self-socrifice, and great desire for race success, which is the potent factor and paramount incentive which fills the mind, is the main object with those Negro men and women who give their life's energy in espousing the causes and defending the Negro race through the medium of the Negro press? There is no business, profession or trade which has less real financial inducements than has the publication of a Negro newspaper—yet there is no other medium of race enterprises which is doing a greater work in aiding in DECEMBER 11th 1909. aleviating the condition, defending the interests and in moulning a more favorable opinioig of the Negro race as a whole—than is the medium of the Negro press. The Negro press of today is weilding an influence for good the race and moulding a beneficial public opinion in behalf of the Negro race, too great to be estimated in dollars and cents. What we ask is "Does the Negro race itself fully realize what this influence and beneficial public opinion means to toe race and does the Negro race give sufficient encouragement to those Negro men and women who, with a sacrifice, remain on the firing lines under odverse circumstance defending the Negro race against every ouslaught of the eminies of the race? It con of a truth be said, at the Negro men and women who, from year to year defends the Negro race through the Negro press—scantily paid poorly encouraged and little appreciated are, indeed, as much martyrs for the cause and uplift of the Negro race ae are those who have shed their life's blood in the defense of a race. Does the present day Nefiro fully realize this? It indeed, requires Negro men and women with more than average race affection and race interest to withstand the darts, bear the sacrifices necessary, financial and otherwise to stand in the public arena as defenders of their race. The results of these sacriices of the Negro press for good would be more than four fold—it the Negro race itself could and would fully realize them. What the white press is to the white man—is what the Negro press is to the Negro—wheateer this fact is realized or not. The Holy City was beautifully rendered by the chorus who was composed of Messers M. Perry, John D. Jones, R. Howard Stewart Waters, and Prof. Guy. The ladies of the Board desire to express their thanks to all those who so kindly assisted by their presence and the program & Miss Irma Clark who presided at the piano. Mrs. F. Baker pres. Miss. L. Covington Sec'y. "To live and Let Live is our" Moto What is yours? Answer by paying us what you owe. In Honor Of John Brown The National League at Boston Mass. has set aside Dec. 2nd as Memorial day to be celebrated by the Negroes throughout the U. S. in honor of John Brown The occasion was observed at the A. M. E. church on Tuesday evening of last week under the auspices of the Stewardes Board an excellent program was rendered, and the heoric deeds of the Pro-Martyr was told in story in recital & song, as follows; As a patriot by Hon. H. W. Marsh all, a Hero Hon. Thos. Glover, as a Martyr, Mrs. F. O. Miller, Address by Mr. C. A. Morris & Prof. Guy, all of which were eloquent in the protrayal of character of the hero, and was well received by the audience. A special feature which was highly entertaining was the music furnished by Dunson's Orchestra and the male chorut, who sany patriotic airs John Brown and was joined by the audience & created much enthusiasm. An Old Fashion Dinner Mr. and Mrs. Willis Bartlett, 21st. and Armstrong served a most delicious old fashion coon dinner at their cozy home. The coon meat with browned sweet potatoes was the principal dieh. The coon was cooked to a queen's taste and seasoned just right. Besides the coon and sweet potatoes, the table was laddened with many other good things to eat. The following is much of their wholesome menue as we can remember MENUE Wild Coon with Sweet Potatoes and Brown Grauy Fine Salad Mashed potatoes Pumpkin Corn Bread Roast Beef Fruits Celery Baked Boston Beans Pickles Fine Sauce Shreaded wheat bread Butter Pumpkin pine Cake Tea Coffee Butter Milk Kansas Ale Cigars Those who were invited were: Robert Davis and wife, W. N. Miller and wife Downs, George Smith. All had a very delightful time and voted Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett the blue ribbon for excellency as entertainers. The Dunsons Orchestra and sidgers came out in the evening and furnished sweet strains of music. Those who accompanied the orchestra were Wm Dunson, Robt. Garrett, Carl Skinner, Jas Maurice Hazel Garst. They had a most delight time. NORTH TOPEKA KAS. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 had two sick last month; Drt. Lena Thompson of Burlingame Kansas and Dtr. Ellen Porter of Topeka. But glad to say at this writing both of the Daughters are well. And now the Tabernacle is in a healtay condition. Sylvia Brown H, P. Beulah I. Campbell C. R. HUTCHINSON KAS. Mrs. Malinda Gothard, entertained at Sunda 7 dinner in honor of Miss. Myrtle Tandy of Newton kansas, invited guest were Misses Alice Pape Grace Gothard Cordelia Berry and Messers Walter Gothard Leon Wilson. Miss. Emma Kennedy entertained at Sunday dinner Mr. & Mrs. Broadus, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pape Mr. Harry Plumber Mr Charles Price and Miss. Agnes Riley. Myrtle Tandy of Newton Kas. is visiting Alice Pape. Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Morgan and Miss. Bessie Duvall of this city spent Thanksgiving at St. John Kansas. Hon, Nelson Crew of Missouri will speak at the G.A.R.Hall Thursday Dec.209 subject"The Life of John Brown." Rev. Ross of this city has gone to Kansas City to visit with his children. PRETTY PRAIRE KAS We are having some winter here at present. A Thanks-giving entertainment was given at the Riverton School house Thursday night. J C. Banks made his wife present of a bran new stove. Frank Fleming of Pratt a couple of days at the home of Mr & Mrs Joe Banks Bobby's Unfortunate Delay. He was five years old. On this particular day mother had dressed him with unusual care and was very much displeased to have him come in with clothing dirty and torn. She had so often told him he must take his own part in the boys' scraps—fight, should the occasion demand it. This he would not do. And now she intended to punish him. Bob became very indignant and said: "Well, mamma, I just told the boy I wasn't ready to fight, and when I got ready he was settin' on me."—Delineator. The Home Cooking Club met at the residence of Mrs. W. M. Bowers on N. Wichita Mrs. Will Jones vice president in the chair Roll was called and responded to with cooking receipes as that was the day fmbor emhsdjrwwo] new members were taken in Mrs A. L. Hicks and Mrs Abbie Williams corn on menu were Mrs. Bowers dinner Mrs. Thos Glover Salad & Mrs C. A. Glover desert the next hostess will be Mrs. N. Clark 421 N. Wichita St. on Dec 10th 1909. Menucom. Mrs Clark Mrs. Carter and Mrs. G. Ewing After business the guest were invited by Mrs. Bowers to the dining room where a three course luncheon was served. Roast turkey and dressing, cranberry sauce escoloped potatoes with pimentoes, cream peas asparagrass salad long branch crackers chocolate pudding carmel sauce. A pleasant afternoon was spent and all departed voting Mrs W, Bowers a charming hostess. MAKES KNOTTY POINT IN LAW. Owners of Property Have Right to Forbid Flight of Airships. A law framed thousands of years ago by the ancient Romans, and the only one bearing on the subject, may have to be amended or wholly nullified before airships go shooting about through space at their own sweet will. This important fact was brought out at a meeting of aeronauts in London. At present nobody has the right to fly across occupied land. The world is governed by the ancient Roman law, "Uque ad Coelum." It means that every landowner has a right to the air above his head as far up as he chooses to go, and can get an injunction to restrain anyone from flying through it. So far nobod; has attempted to put the law in force. It would be most uncomfortable, not to say disastrous, for a farmer suddenly to emerge from his barn or smokehouse and pepper one's airship with buillets. The fact that the aeronaut from his lofty perch could not be expected to see the "No Trespass" sign might not prove a mitigating circumstance with the rural magistrate. REMARKABLE IN THE DOG LINE. Proud Owners of Pets, Listen to This from Flatbush, N. Y. Zip, a son of Bluff, the big bull terrier, is the most respected dog in Flatbush, N. Y., says a correspondent. He requires every other dog within 40 blocks to walk a chalk line and bow to him as he passes by. He can lick everything on four feet up to twice his size, yet is as mild as Devery-at-the-Pump. His master attributes Zip's prowess to his fondness for the pipe. Like Old King Cole: He calls for his pipe, He calls for his glass, He calls for his fiddlers three. "That is the most remarkable dog in the world," says his master. "He takes my pipe out of my mouth and smokes it, standing on his hind feet. See! The stem is all chewed up! If the tobacco doesn't burn well, Zip will get down on his fours and chase all over the house to create a draught. When the fire is well started again he finishes his smoke and returns me the pipe. Strong? He ought to be named Samson. Why, we have a plano that weighs 600 pounds. Tie Zip to it with a rope and he will pull it all over the room." UNDER INVESTIGATION IRREGULARITIES IN PHENIX IN SURANCE CO. REPORTED. Charges Ase Mare That Piesident Overdrew Salary, and Unloaded Doubtful Securities on Company. New York, N. Y.—The Phoenix Insurance company of Brooklyn is under investigation for irregularities which it is believed have impaired its surplus at least $1,000,000 and to have resulted in conditions which Superintendent Hotchkiss of the state insurance department laid before the district attorney for possible criminal action. It is charged that the president has overdrawn his salary; that he has unloaded doubtful securities on the company and that he has used the company's assets as collateral to secure his own personal speculative accounts. Nor do the directors escape their share of censure. In a statement Mr. Hitchkiss says he does not believe the company's capital is impaired, and that thus far there is no evidence that its securities are not intact, but he admits that president investigation is still uncompleted. George P. Sheldon has been president of the Phoenix since 1887, and it is charged that under his administration the company's annual reports made to the insurance department during at least the last ten years and probably longer, are false. Sheldon is a member of many clubs, and as chairman of the national board of fire underwriters, is one of the best known insurance men in the country. Under the law the insurance department is required to examine into the condition of all life insurance companies at least once in every three years, but Mr. Hotchkiss says the Phoenix had not been examined for at least twenty-two years, or since Mr. Sheldon became president. RAILROAD TRAINMEN DENY REPORT OF STRIKE President Lee Sends Message to Taft Concerning Sensational Report. Chicago, Ill.—Wm. G. Lee president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, sent a telegram to President Taft assuring the chief executive that sensational reports concerning a general railroad strike were without foundation. The following is President Lee's message: "In order that yourself and public may know the truth I deem it necessary to state that the press reports indicating that a strike of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and other affiliated organizations, is threatened at this time as a result of the demands made for increased pay in the territory east of Chicago, are absolutely without foundation. Whatever action is taken by the organization I represent will depend entirely upon the individual expression of the members through the general committee for the railways in the territory, and will be handled in the usual manner. The demands of the train employees in the train and yard service east of Chicago cannot take proper form even for deliberate consideration between the railway officials and their employees before the early part of 1910. "All this talk about a strike of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and affiliated organizations is absurd, and the members of the organization fully realize it." INDIAN LAND CASE IS BEGUN IN ST. LOUIS St. Louis, Mo.—Three descendants of Indians of the five civilized tribes of Oklahoma appeared as attorneys in the U. S. court of appeals in the Oklahoma land cases against the government which is claiming guardianship in the disposition of Indian lands against the alleged encroachments of the whites. These attorneys were U. S. Senator Robert L. Owen of Muskogee, Mayor O. L. Rider of Vinita and J. S. Mullen of Ardmore. The case on appeal here is from the United States circuit court of the eastern district of Oklahoma, which ruled against the government on the question as to whether the members and heirs of the five civilized tribes had the right to sell the lands allotted to them under the treaty acts. The suits, which are being argued collectively, involve the title to farming lands valued at more than $70,000,000 and affect 100,000 property owners. Altogether sixteen lawyers are representing the Indian tribes and land owners. Cook's Report at Christiana. Copenhagen.—Rector Torp, of the University of Copenhagen, Chancellor Salomonsen, and Professor Elis Stromgren have been delegated to receive the north polar records of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, on behalf of the university. These records are being brought here by Dr. Cook's secretary. A committee of examination will soon be appointed. The president of this committee will be Professor Stromgren and the other members will be made up of scientists and explorers. report to this effect in the supreme MY! I FEEL HAPPY AND BE MOVING! I'M GOING TO STAY 50, 70. MENRY, NOW, THAT THANKSGIVING DAY IS PAST WELL TAKEN UP OUR CHRISTMAS LIST. Thanksgiving Day. The Next Day. DETAILS OF SUGAR FRAUDS RICHARD PARR TOLD COURT HOW SCALES WERE MANIPULATED. After Making Discovery He Was Told He Could Name His Price if He Would Keep Still. New York, N. Y.-Richard Parr the deputy surveyor who is responsible for the present prosecutions for sugar frauds, took the stand to tell what he knew of the methods by which the government was defrauded of $2,000,000. It was Parr who led the raid on the sugar docks that resulted in the discovery of the trick scales by which the sugar trust cheated the government on every truck load of sugar that was weighed. Parr's story, familiar as it now is, lost nothing in the retelling. He described the manner in which the manipulators by means of a steel rod pushed through a concealed hole, were able to make the scales record less than the real weight. This was done while the sugar was being weighed to see on how much the company should pay duty. The less sugar the less duty. It was the discoveries made by Parr that led to the indictment of the six men who now are on trial. The trust has paid the government more than $2,000,000 to make up for these frauds. The trust officials say the minor officials acted on their own responsibility in thus defrauding the government in the interest of the sugar trust. The most dramatic moment thus far in the trial came when Parr detailed his discovery of the steel spring which manipulated the scale. He had observed Kehoe, one of the defendants, stooping over in a peculiar position, he said, and investigating, discovered the steel spring. "After I came out on the dock," continued Parr, "Spitzer met me, took me by the arm, and said: "This thing must be fixed up." This thing must be fixed up. "I said there was no fixing up to be done. Spitzer said we were all Masons and this would make trouble for every one around. I said I could not help that; they had made the trouble themselves. "He said I should report the scale out of order, and I could name my price. He said he had already fixed others the same way and would sooner cut his arm off than give anyone away. "I told him his masonry had nothing to do with this. CONSUMPTION CURE $100,000 That is the Sum a Yale Graduate Offers for a Permanent Cure for Tuberculosis. New Haven, Connecticut.—An international competition to find a permanent cure for consumption has been started at Yale with a prize of $100,000 at stake. The giver of the sum is a Yale graduate, who withholds his name. He has turned the amount over to the university, which has in turn made the medical school faculty its formal custodian. The competition however, is thrown ouen to the world with the only limitation that the cure must be permanent. To assure this Yale has decreed that it must be tested five years before the prize is awarded. Topeka, Kansas.—Joseph N. Gentry, concerned in the kidnapping case of Marian Bleakey, the incubator baby, has secured bond of $6,000 as bail on the two charges of kidnapping and assault with intent to kill. Kansas City, Kansas.—A list of Gov. Stubbs' appointments from Kansas to the Missouri River Navigation congress in Omaha, December 14 to 16, was received by W. R. Childs, postmaster. These are the state delegates: Scott Hopkins, Topea; Tipton Cox, Wichita: H. D. Lee, Salina; Myron A. Waterman, Kansas City, Kan.; Eugene L. Meyer, Hutchinson; O. M. Abernathy, Leavenworth; S. L. Ryan, Hlawatha; Andy White, Atchson; John E. Frazier, Newton; Oscar Fragerburg. ALAS FOR LIFE'S FLEETING PLEASURESI Gentry at Last Gives Bond. Kansans to River Congress. President Taft Will Recommend That Banks be Restrained From Dealing in Speculative Securities. Washington, D. C.—In President Taft's message as completed and submitted to the full cabinet there is a recommendation that national banks be restrained by law from dealing extensively in speculative securities. It can be said that the president is convinced that the national banks, especially those in New York which are under the control of stock manipulators, in recent years have engaged in stock speculation to an extent that has brought menace to the national banking system and to the business prosperity of the nation. The very stability of the banks themselves has in too many instances been dependent upon the maintenance of the prices of stock, and a decline of these securities has brought with it a corresponding decline in the available assets of the banks. The president understands that in the panic of 1907 the New York banks were loaded down with the speculative stocks, and their rapid decline in price which prevented the banks from disposing of them left the banks with no available assets which could be used to meet the legitimate demand of their depositors in and out of the city of New York. MURPHY WILL PUSH CHARGES The Missouri Congressman Goes to Washington to Continue Fight on Judges Phillips and McPherson. Rolla, Missouri.—A. P. Murphy of Rolla, congressman from the Sixteenth district has departed for Washington to be present at the opening of the Sixty-first congress. Congressman Murphy says he expects to push his bill for the incorporation of railroads and placing them under government control, which was introduced by him when he went to the Fifty-ninth congress in 1905, and along the lines that will be recommended by President Taft in his message. Congressman Murphy also says that he will push his resolution for the impeachment of Federal Judges Phillip and McPherson, which was introduced by him at the last session of congress. Mr. Murphy states that he goes to Washington with plenty of evidence against them in the cases recently decided, and that he will push the matter of investigation. Gov. Stubbs Wants Help. Topeka, Kansas.—An appeal to the governors of all prohibition and local option states to help Kansas in getting the internal revenue laws and regulations enforced was issued by Gov Stubbs. The appeal recites that the government, by the regulations of the department, is really aiding bootleggers and other lawbreakers in violating the prohibition law; and he charges that the regulations, even, are not enforced. Shot His Brother in Bed. Sallna, Kansas.—At Lindsborg Gilbert Lindshold, the eight-year-old son of John Lindshold, was shot and killed by his 13-year-old brother, Lawrence. Gilbert did not get up when called and the older brother threatened to shoot him if he didn't get out of bed immediately. He carried out his threat. Washington, D. C.—A cannon is being designed by ordnance experts in the army for the purpose of shoot ing dirigible balloons and aeroplanes Would Bar "Little Cigars Topeka, Kan.—J. J. Schenck, county attorney, announced that he will bring prosecution against a large number of tobacco dealers, charging them with violating the anti-cigarette law. The charges will be based upon the al leged sale of so-called "little cigars." Slain Woman's Husband Arrested. Pittsburg, Kansas.—Ed. Luke, whose wife was found murdered in a clump of bushes here last August, has been arrested for investigation in coneoation with the crime. OMAHA CORN EXPOSITION IT IS A GREAT SCHOOL FOR THE NATION'S FARMERS. Federal Government and 25 States Have Exhibits Showing What Science Can do for Soil. Omaha, Nebraska.—How brains are making millions on the American farms; meeting the seasons with common sense, as well as brute force, has resulted in giving the world more and better food, is graphically shown at the third National Corn exposition which opened in Omaha, and continues until December 16. The federal government and 25 states have exhibits installed showing how the simplest form of science has produced types of plants for new as well as old lands; for arid as well as watered regions; for altitudes as low as Louisiana, swamps and as high as Wyoming and Montana table lands, 6,000 feet above the sea. Iowa is famous as a state which has urged the idea that the man who intelligently tills the soil will ultimately own it. The conservative estimates say Iowa increased the value of the corn crop $12,000,000 annually by instructing the farmers how to test their seed. In its exhibit the state not only shows the five general soil types within the borders, but demonstrates how each must be handled to obtain either a profit or a loss. Arkansas has a field of growing rice in its exhibit, and it is irrigated daily just as it would be in the vast fields of the South; Oklahoma shows 200 varieties of cotton and has a cotton gin to run every day separating the seed from the lint; Tennessee has a miniature phosphate quarry, puverizer and the machinery, for applying this fertilizer to the fields. Alfalfa has solved the problem of soil fertility and maintenance, and Kansas shows the effect of rotating this wonderful leguminous plant with corn. The difference in production of corn is astonishing, while the alfalfa crop of Kansas gives the farmers a good profit, supplies the "hog's idea of heaven," and enables the Kansas hog to meet the world beater in the markets and beat them. By persistent effort Missouri has secured the long-looked-for hog cholera serum. By its use one crop of hogs in four is saved from the ravages of the disease, and the country is assured of more healthy meat. In its exhibits Missouri shows how this serum is applied and the result of its application. THE DINNER TO JUDGE JOHNSTON It Was Held at the Elks Club and Gov. Stubbs Was There—Those Who Spoke. Topeka, Kansas—Dell Valentine's famous dinner to Chief Justice W. A Johnston, in celebration of the Judge's 25 years' service on the supreme bench, took place at the Elks club. When Gov. Stubbs was informed that it was to be at the Elks he asked Valentine: "Will the Elks let me in?" Many Elks were on hand, as the party assembled to give the governor the glad hand. They made him feel at home. Frequent reference was made to the action of the Topeka club in closing its doors to the governor, during the dinner. The Elks chef outdid himself. The flowers for the table came from Clay Center, the home of Mr. Valentine. After the menu speeches were made by Justice R. A. Burch, Gov. Stubbs, Justice Smith, Gen. Frank B. Dawes, William A. White, Judge Winfield Freeman and Judge Johnston. Mr. Valentine, the host, acted as toastmaster. In his speech Justice Burch gave some history of the bench during the period that Justice Johnston has served. He showed that Justice Johnston had written over 1,300 opinions. ENGLAND A LAND OF TROUBLE How the Birth Rate Has Fallen Below Even That of France While Germany Grows. London, Eng.—England is having its full share of troubles this year. In addition to the uncertainty of the outcome of the approaching general election and the fate of the Liberal government the nation has been brought face to face with another, and, as some statesmen believe, a graver situation than is presented by any of the political issues. The decline in the relative birth rate of Great Britain is shown by the latest figures to be greater than in France. The decline in population is not so great here as in France, for the number of deaths is far smaller, in proportion to the population, in England than in France. But in Germany, the country whose statistics England studies with a more jealous interest than any other, the increase in population, both by birth and immigration, is constant. Oklahoma Road Delegates to Topeka. Guthrie, Oklahoma.—Gov. Haskell has appointed 152 delegates, two from each county in Oklahoma, to attend the meeting of the National Good Roads Association in Topeka, December 14 and 15. Heavy Colorado, Snow Storm. Denver, Colorado.—The snow storm which has been general throughout Colorado for 24 hours has become a severe blizzard in the Southern part of the state. It is feared range cattle and sheep will suffer. GREATEST YEAR FOR FARMER Corn Alone Worth $1.720,000,000 With Cotton Second in Value and Wheat Third. Washington, D. C.—Most prosperous of all years is the place to which 909 is entitled in agriculture, declares Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in his thirteenth annual report, made public. The value of farm products is so incomprehensible large that it has become merely a row of figures. For this year it is $8,760,000,000, a gain of $869,000,000 over 1908. The value of the products has nearly doubled in ten years. The report says: "Eleven years of agriculture, beginning with a production of $4,417,000,000 and ending with $8,760,000,000! A sum of $70,000,000-000 for the period! It has paid off mortgages, it has established banks, it has made better homes, it has helped to make the farmer a citizen of the world, and it has provided him with means for improving his soil and making it more productive." The most striking fact in the world's agriculture is the value of the corn crop of 1909, which is about $1,720,000,000. It nearly equals the value of the clothing and personal adornments of 76,000,000 people, according to the census of 1909. This crop exceeds in value the average of the crop of the five preceding years by 36 per cent. Cotton is now the second crop in value, and this year's cotton crop is easily the most valuable one to the farmer that has been produced. Third in value is wheat, worth about $727,000,000 at the farm, and this largely exceeds all previous values., The hay crop is valued at $665,000., 000; oats at $400,000,000; potatoes at $100,000,000. Beet and cane sugar and molasses and syrup, from farm and factory, will reach the total of about $95,000,000. The barley crop is worth $88,000,000, flaxseed $36,000,000, and 1,000,000,000 pounds of rice $25- 000,000. SWITCHMEN TIE UP 13 ROADS Thousands of Workmen are Idle Flour Mills and Smelters Close—No Prospect of Settlement. St. Paul, Minnesota.—The entire Northwest is threatened with famine as the result of the strike of switchmen on 13 big railroads. The mills of Minneapolis are at a standstill, 4,000 hands being thrown out of work. No flour is being made in the 23 mills; No flour can leave Minneapolis while the railroads are crippled. It was said that the entire country would feel the pinch before the trouble is settled. There is, besides this, a coal famine in the West; the grain situation is critical and a dozen other industries are hit hard by the strike. The entire network of steel from St. Paul to Seattle is tied up, and not a freight train is running, according to reports received. The carrying of perishable freight on passenger trains heretofore allowed by the switchmen, ceases. An attempt by the American Railroad association to replace the strikers with non-union men will bring about a strike that will affect all branches of railroads, and cripple the entire nation, according to President Frank T. Howley of the union. Of the switchmen 2,276 are out, Twelve thousand other workmen are idle as the result of the strike. Ten thousand more will be thrown out of employment when the ore docks at Duluth and Superior close down. Five thousand are idle at Great Falls, Mont. where the copper smelters are closed. There was no indication of a prospect of peace. Martin A. Knapp, interstate commerce commissioner, and United States Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neill, who hoped to bring about a settlement, were forced to give up in despair and return to Washington. Sued Railroads for $1,500,000. Sued Railroads for $1,500,000. Muskogee, Oklahoma—Alleging that during the last ten years defendants have been taking coal from lands in Coal and Pontotoc counties leased by him to the amount of 3,000,000 tons, valued at $1,500,000, Newton B. Childs of Kansas City has filed suit in the federal court here to recover the amount from the M. K. & T. Railway company and the Southern Development company. Snake Venom for Consumption Philadelphia, Pa.—Rattlesnake venom, scientifically termed "crotalin," is a new remedy that is arresting and curing cases of consumption. In the current number of the American Journal of Clinical Medicine the results of a preliminary investigation of rattlesnake venom as a curative agent are given in an article by Dr. Thomas J. Hays of this city. Dr. Hays is a well known authority on consumption. Giving Back Indian Lands. Ardmore, Oklahoma.—As the result of the wholesale filing of suits of the federal government to cancel deeds made by Indians, many persons are deeding lands back to the Indians. Largest Postoffice Gain Kansas City, Missouri.—The largest business done in the Kansas City postoffice in one month was in November. The business for that month amounted to $200,123. For November a year ago it was $161,490. The increase is $38,633 and the per cent of increase 23.92. Argentine Republic to Celebrate. Buenos Aires.—Argentine Republic is to celebrate the centennial of its independence in this city, which is the largest and most important in South America, in 1909. THE ENID STOCK SHOW THE ENID STOCK SHOW On December 11-18 the greatest pure brood stock and poultry show ever held in America will take place rain or shine at Enid, Oklahoma. The citizens of Enid and breeders of Oklahoma, have constructed a Concrete Stock Pavilion150 feet wide and 700 feet long. This is 100 feet longer than any building of this kind in the world. The Champion Horses, Cattle, Hogs and Poultry of America will be on exhibition. Entries have been received from more than 20 states. In order that the reading public can comprehend the magnitude of the Enid Show, we will state that the records show that there was 33 Draft horses on exhibition at the Missouri state Fair; 47 head at the Kansas State Fair and 38 head at the Oklahoma State Fair; 27 head at Wichita; 33 at Topeka and 41 at the American Royal Stock Show, Kansas City, making a total of 219. There is 243 head entered at Enid, being 24 more than the total number exhibited at six of the largest Fairs held in the great Southwest. There will be a grand total of more than five thousand exhibits at the Enid Stock and Poultry Show. There will also be a large Fine Stock Sale; about 600 head of Registered Stock will be sold at Public Sale. Poland China Hogs will be sold on Monday, December 13; Durocs on Tuesday; Hereford, Galloway and Aberdeen Angus Cattle on Wednesday; Shorthorn Cattle on Thursday; Standard Bred saddle and Coach Horses on Friday; and more than 100 head of Imported and American Bred Percherons and Shire Stallions and Mares will be sold on Saturday. Let everybody boost for the Enid show. Premium List and Sale Catalog mailed free. Address F. S. KIRK, Enid, Okla. AFFINITY CLUB AT COLUMBIA Columbia, Mo.—Six university girl who live at a fashionable boarding house on the campus of the University of Missouri, have organized an affinity club. Each girl in the club has selected an affinity from the sterner sex at the university, and told his name to the other members of the club. Previous to his having been selected she must have had only a slight speaking acquaintance with him. After he has been chosen she must stick to her original affinity. Then each girl must strive for some marked recognition from her affinity. If she succeeds, all is well; if she falls, her penalty is "tubbing." The season for affinity hunting is Christmas. If at that time a member has failed to procure some form of recognition from her affinity, she must take a "tubbing" at the hands of the other members of the club. A "tubbing," it might be explained, means the victim must be subjected to a plunge in the bath tub, and the water is not to be warm. BRYAN TO VISIT PANAMA William J. Will Also Tour in Other South American Republics. El Paso, Tex.—William J. Pryan is preparing to tour South and Central America and visit the Panama canal. Mr. Bryan passed through this city and said after hunting ducks in the neighborhood of Galveston, he would visit his ranch at Mission, Tex. From there he will go east through Atlanta to Florida, and sail later for Panama. then make a tour of Central and South America. TAFT'S MESSAGE IS SENT TO CONGRESS Currency Reform, Waterways, Creation of Body to Deal With Interstate Commerce and Other Topics Handled. Government Expenditures and Revenues a Most Important Question Relations with Other Nations, Nicaragua Excepted Are Declared To Be Generally Satisfactory. Washington, Dec. 7.—The president to-day transmitted to congress a message substantially as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: The relations of the United States with all foreign governments have continued upon the normal basis of amity and good understanding, and are very generally factory. Europe. Pursuant to the provisions of the general treaty of arbitration concluded between the United States and Great Britain, April 4, 1908, a special agreement was entered into between the two countries on January 27, 1909, for the submission of questions relating to the fisheries on the North Atlantic coast to a tribunal be formed from members of the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. In accordance with the provisions of the special agreement the printed case of each government was, on October 4 last, submitted to the other and to the arbitral tribunal at The Hague, and the counter case of the United States is now in the hands of the American rights under the fisheries article of the treaty of 1818 have been a cause of difference between the United States and Great Britain for nearly 70 years. The interests involved are of great importance to the American fishing industry, and the final settlement of the controversy, will remove a source of constant irritation and complaint. This is among such great international questions which has been submitted to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. The president tells of the sending of a commission to investigate the interests of the United States and its citizens in Liberia, the commission's report now being under examination by the department of state. He also notes the invitation extended by the Norwegian government to take part in an international conference next year to devise means to remedy existing conditions in the Spitzbergen islands, and of its acceptance under certain reservations. Mention is made of several international conferences, and then the president urges that provision be made for American participation in the world's fair at Brussels next year. The questions arising out of the Belgian anexation of the Congo Free State, he says, are in a more hopeful stage. Latin America The message speaks with enthusiasm of the settlement of the boundary dispute between Bolivia and Peru, and of the fourth Pan-American conference, to be held in Buenos Aires next July. Mention is made of the Argentine republic's great international agricultural exhibition, which is to open in May, 1910, and the president continues: To-day, more than ever before, American capital is seeking investment in foreign countries and American products are more and more generally seeking foreign markets. As a consequence, in all countries there are American citizens and government officials protected on occasion, by their government. These movements of men, of capital, and of commodities bring peoples and governments closer together and so form bonds of peace and mutual dependency, as they must also naturally sometimes make passing points of friction. The resultant situation inevitably imposes upon this government vastly increased responsibility and the department of state and the foreign service, is lending all proper support to legitimate and beneficial American enterprises in foreign countries, the degree of such support being measured by the national advantages to be expected. A citizen of the United States must wisely divest himself of the right, nor can this government escape the obligation of his protection in his personal and property rights when these are unjustly infringed in a foreign country. To avoid ceaseless vexations it is proper that in considering whether American enterprises should be subject to the particular country, the government should give full weight not only to the national, as opposed to the individual benefits to accuse, but also to the fact whether or not the government of the country in question is in its administration and in its diplomacy faithful to the principles of moderation, equity and upon which alone deprived international credit, in diplomacy as well as in finance. The Pan-American policy of this government has long been fixed in its principles and remains unchanged. With the changed circumstances of the United States and of the republics to the south of us, most of which have great natural resources, stable government and progressive ideals, the apprehension which gave rise to the Monroe doctrine may be further appurposed and in the doctrine as it exists nor any other doctrine of American policy should be permitted to operate for the perpetuation of irresponsible government, the escape of just obligations or the insidious allegation of dominating ambitions on the part of the United States. Beside the fundamental doctrines of our Pan-American policy there have grown up a realization of political interests, community of institutions and ideals and a fourthly commerce. All these bonds will be greatly strengthened as time goes on and increased facilities, such as the Pan-American airways and Latin America, supply the means for building up the colossal intercontinental commerce of the future. My meeting with President Diaz and the greeting exchanged on both American and Mexican soil served, I hope, to signalize the close and cordial relations which so well bind together this republic and the great republic immediately to the south, between which there is so vast a network of material interests. I am happy to say that all but one of the cases which for so long vexed our relations with Venezuela have been settled within the past few months and that, under the enlightened regime now directing the government of Venezuela, provisional made for arbitration of the remaining case before The Hague tribunal. On July 30, 1909, the government of Panama agreed, after considerable negotiation, to indemnify the relatives of the American officers and sailors who were brutally treated, one of them having, in consequence, killed by the Panama police this year. The sincere desire of the government of Panama to do away with a situation where such an accident could occur is manifest in the recent request in compliance with which this government has agreed to the officer of the army to be employed by the government of Panama as instructor of police. This government was obliged to intervene diplomatically to bring about arbitration or settlement of the claim of the Emery Company against Nicaragua, which it had long before been agreed should be arbitrated. A settlement of this troublesome case was reached by the signature of a protocol on September 18, 1989. Many years ago diplomatic intervention became necessary to the protection of the interests in the American claim of Alsop & Co. against the government of Chile. The government of Chile had frequently admitted obligation in the case and had promised this government to settle it. There had been two abortive attempts to do so through arbitral commissions, which failed through lack of jurisdiction. Now, happily, as the result of the recent diplomatic negotiations, the governments of the United States and of Chile, acted upon the sincere desire to free from any strain the rights of such civilizations upon which both set such store, have agreed by a protocol to submit the controversy to definitive settlement by his Britannic majesty, Edward VII. Since the Washington conventions of 1907 were communicated to the government of the United States as a consulting and advisory party, this government has been almost continuously called upon by one or another, and in turn by all of the five Central American republics, to exert itself for the maintenance of the conventions. Nearly every complaint has been made against the government of Nicaragua, which has been turned America in constant tension and turmoil. The responses made to the representations of Central American republics, as due from the United States on account of its relation to the Washington conventions, have been at all times conservative and have avoided, so far as possible, any semblance of interference, although it is very apparent that the considerations of geographic proximity to the Canal Zone and of the very substantial American influence on Central America give to the United States a special position in the zone of these republics and the Caribbean sea. I need not rehearse here the patient efforts of this government to promote peace and welfare among these republics, efforts which are fully appreciated by the majority of them, who are loyal to their true interests. I would be no less interested in the military tale of unspeakable barbarities and oppression alleged to have been committed by the Zelaya government. Recently two Americans were put to death by order of President Zelaya himself. They were officers in the organized forces of a revolutionary army and was in control of about half of the republic, and as such, according to the modern enlightened practice of civilized nations, they were entitled to be dealt with as prisoners of war. At the date when this message is printed this government has terminated diplomatic relations with the Zelaya government, for reasons misunderstood bymunication to the former Nicaragua charge d'affaires, and is intending to take such future steps as may be found most consistent with its dignity, its duty to American interests and its moral obligations to Central America and to civilization. The Far East. In the far east this government preserves unchanged its policy of supporting the principle of equality of opportunity and scrupulous respect for the integrity of the Chinese empire, to which policy are pledged the interested powers of both men and women. Mention is made of the sending of students to America by the Chinese government, of China's progress toward the eradication of the opium evil, and of this government's continued cordial relations with the Japanese empire. The Department of State. Favorable action by congress on the estimates submitted by the department of state is urged, especially legislation for the development and reorganization of the department to make it efficient in furthering our foreign trade. Improvement in the consular service is noted. Mr. Taft then says: Under a provision of the act of August 5, 1909, I have appointed three officials to assist the officers of the government in collecting information necessary to a wise administration of the tariff act of August 5, 1909. As to questions of customs administration they are cooperating with the officials of the treasury department and as to matters of the needs and the exigencies of our manufacturers and exporters, with the department of commerce and in its relations to the domesse aspect of the subject of commerce. In the study of foreign tariff treatment they will assist the bureau of trade relations of the department of state. It is hoped thus to co-ordinate and bring to bear upon this most important subject all the agencies of the government which can contribute anything to its efficient handling. As a consequence of Section 2 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909, it becomes the duty of the secretary of the government to collect all the negotiations necessary to place him in a position to advise me as to whether or not a particular country unduly discriminates against the United States in the sense of the statute referred to. The great scope and complexity of this work, as well as the obligation to lend all proper aid to our expanding commerce, is met by the expansion of the bureau of trade relations as set forth in the estimates for the department of state. Government Expenditures and Revenues Perhaps the most important question presented to this administration is that of economy in expenditures and sufficiency of revenue. The deficit of the last fiscal year, and the certain deficit of the current year, prompted congress to throw a greater responsibility on the executive and the certain of the treasury than had he tolerated declared by statute. This declaration imposes upon the secretary of the treasury the duty of assembling all the estimates of the executive departments bureaus, and offices, of the expenditures necessary in the ensuing fiscal year, and of making an estimate of the revenues of the government for the same period and if a probable difference in the amount it is made the duty of the president to recommend the method by which such deficit can be met. The report of the secretary shows that the ordinary expenditures for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, will exceed the estimated receipts by $34,075,620. If to this deficit is added the sum to be disbursed for the Panama Canal, amounting to $38,000,000, and $1,000,000 to be paid on the public debt, the deficit of ordinary receipts and expenditures will be increased to a total deficit of $73,075,620. This deficit the secretary proposes to meet by the end of the year to pay the cost of constructing the Panama Canal. I approve this proposal. The policy of paying for the construction of the Panama Canal, not out of current revenue, but by bond issues, was adopted in the Spooner act of 1890, and there seems to be no good reason for departing from the principle by which a part at least of the burden of the cost of the canal shall fall upon our posterity who are to enjoy it; and there is all the more reason to date the cost to date of the canal, which is now half done and which will be completed annual 1, 1915, shows that the cost of engineering and construction will be $297,766,000, instead of $129,705,200, as originally estimated. In addition to engineering and construction, the other expenses, including sanitation and government, and the amount paid for the construction of the canal, constitute the lege of building the canal, increase the cost of $75,435,000, to a total of $275-201,000. The increase in the cost of engineering and construction is due to a substantial enlargement of the plan of construction by widening the canal 100 feet in the Culebra cut and by increasing the dimensions of the locks, to the underestimate of the quantity of the work to be done under the original plan, and to an underestimate of the cost of labor and materials, both of which are enhanced in price since the original cost is In order to avoid a deficit for the ensuing fiscal year, I directed the heads of departments in the preparation of their estimates to make them as low as possible consistent with imperative governmental necessity. The result has been, as I am advised by the secretary of the treasury, that the estimates for the expenses of the government have been cut to $25,831,000. June 30, 1911, are less than the appropriations for this current fiscal year by $42,818,000. So far as the secretary of the treasury is able to form a judgment as to future income and compare it with the expenditures for the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, and excluding payments on account of the Panama Canal, which will have been cut to $25,831,000, there will be a surplus of $25,831,000. In the present estimates the needs of the departments and of the government have been cut to the quick, so to speak, and any assumption on the part of congress, so often made in times past, that the estimates have been prepared with the expectation that they may be reduced, will result in seriously hampering proper administration. To reduce the cost of permanent administration, says the president, a thorough reorganization of bureaus, offices and departments would be necessary. An expert accountant has been making an investigation into this matter and the result of his work shows opportunity for both substantial reductions in cost and increase of efficiency. Frauds in the Collection of Customs I regret to refer to the fact of the discovery of extensive frauds in the collection of the customs revenue at New York city, in which a number of the subordinate employees in the weighing and other departments were directly concerned, and in which the beneficiaries were the American Sugar Refining Company and others. The frauds consisted in the payment of duty on underweights from the American Sugar Refining Company all that it is shown to have been defrauded of. The sum was received in full of the amount due, which might have been recovered by civil suit against the beneficiary of the fraud, but there was an express reservation in the contract of settlement by which the beneficiary should have received an urgent original prosecution of everyone who was found to be subject to the same. Criminal prosecutions are now proceeding against a number of the government officers. The treasury department and the department of justice are exerting every effort to discover all the wrongdoers, including the officers and employees of the companies who may have been privy to the fraud. It would seem to me that an investigation of the frauds by congress at present, pending the probing by the treasury department and the department of justice as a prosecution activity, would unify and oversee prove an embarrassment in securing conviction of the guilty parties. Maximum and Minimum Clause in Tariff Act Two features of the new tariff act call for special reference. By virtue of the clause known as the "maximum and minimum" clause, it is the duty of the executive to consider the laws and practices of other countries with reference to the importation into those countries of the products and merchandise of the countries of other nations ends such laws and practices not to be unduly discriminatory against the United States, the minimum duties provided in the bill are to go into force. Unless the president makes such a finding, then the maximum duties provided in the bill, that is, an increase of 25 per cent, ad valorem over the minimum duties, are to be in force. Fear has been expressed that this power conferred and duty imposed on the executive is not being beg to express the hope and belief that no such result need be anticipated. The discretion granted to the executive by the terms "unduly discriminatory" is wide. In order that the maximum duty shall be charged against the imports from a country, it is necessary that he shall find on the part of that country not only discriminations in its laws or the practices of the United States, but that the discriminations found shall be undue; that is, without good and fair reason. I conceive that this power was reposed in the president with the hope that the maximum duties might never be applied in any case, but that the power to apply them would enable the president to manage through friendly negotiation to secure the elimination from the laws and the practice under them of any foreign country of that which is unduly discriminatory. No one is seeking a tariff war and no one has a mind of retaliation shall be armed. The new tariff law enables me to appoint a tariff board to assist me in connection with the department of state in the administration of the minimum and maximum clause of the act and also to assist officers of the government in the administration of the entire law. An examination of the law and an understanding of the nature of the duties should be considered in discharging the functions imposed upon the executive show that I have the power to direct the tariff board to make a comprehensive glossary and encyclopedia of the terms used and articles embraced in the tariff law, and to secure information as to the cost of production of such goods in this country and to their production in foreign countries. I therefore pointed a tariff board consisting of three members and have directed them to perform all the duties above described. This work will perhaps take two or three years, and I ask from congress a continuing annual appropriation equal to that already made for its prosecution. I believe that the work of this board will be of prime utility and importance whenever appropriate and that we adjust the customs duties. If the facts secured by the tariff board are of such a character as to show generally that the rates of duties imposed by the present tariff law are excessive under the principles of protection as described in the platform of the successful party at the late election. I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated on the tariff law, which has business and interfere with the prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff, and until the facts are at hand, after careful and deliberate investigation, upon which such revision can unwake to attempt it. The amount of misinformation that creeps into arguments pro and con in respect to tariff rates is not difficult to understand, and that I have directed the tariff board to make, an investigation undertaken by it wholly without respect to the effect which the facts may have in calling for a readjustment of the rates of duty. War Department. In the interest of immediate economy and because of the prospect of a deficit, I have required a reduction in the estimates of the war department for the coming fiscal year, which brings the total estimates down to an amount forty-five millions less than the corresponding estimates for last year. This could only be accomplished by cutting off the proportion of expenditure suspending the prospect of one year all progress in military matters. For the same reason I have directed that the army shall not be recruited up to its present authorized strength. These measures can hardly be more than temporary—to last until our revenues are in better condition and until the whole question of the expediency of adopting a definite military policy can be submitted to congress, for I am sure that the interests of the military establishment are secure. In need of careful consideration by congress. The laws regulating the organization of our armed forces in the event of war need to be revised in order that the organization can be modified so as to produce a force which would be more consistently apportioned throughout its numerous branches. To explain the circumstances upon which this opinion is based we must necessitate a lengthy discussion of the potential benefits of a silent opportunity shall arise to send to congress a special message upon this subject. Of the changes recommended by the secretary of war, the president especially urges the passage of a bill that will permit the elimination of the less efficient officers. He concurs in the opinion of the military and naval joint board in favor of making an extensive naval base at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu, and not in the Philippines. The Navy. The return of the battleship fleet from its voyage around the world, in more efficient condition than when it started, was a noteworthy event of interest alike to our citizens and the naval authorities of the world. Besides the beneficial and far-reaching on our personal and diplomatic relations, which the fleet visited, the marked success of the ships in steaming around the world in all weathers on schedule time has increased respect for our navy and has added to our national prestige. Early in the coming session a comprehensive plan for the reorganization of the officers of all corps of the navy will be presented to congress, and I hope it will be rewarded. I am grateful to Owing to the necessity for economy in expenditures, I have directed the curtailment of recommendations for naval appropriations so that they are thirty-eight millions less than the corresponding estimates of last year, and the request for new naval construction is limited to two non-class battleships and one repair vessel. Mr. Taft urges upon congress that the naval observatory be dedicated to science under control of some eminent astronomer. Expedition in Legal Procedure. The deplorable delays in the administration of civil and criminal law have received the attention of committees of the American Bar association and of many state bar associations, as well as the considered thought of judges and jurists. In my judgment a change in judicial procedure, with a view to reducing its expense to private litigants in civil cases and facilitating the dispatch of business and final decision in both civil and criminal cases, will be the greatest need in our American institution to do doubt for one moment that much of the lawless violence and cruelty exhibited in lynchings is directly due to the uncertainties and injustice growing out of the delays in trials, judgments and the executions thereof by our courts. Of course these remarks apply quite as well to the administration of justice in state courts and to the criminal side of English courts under modern rules of procedure makes the delays in our courts seem archival and earnest. We should make the criminal courts should furnish an example for the state courts. I presume it is impossible, without an amendment to the constitution, to unite under one form of action the proceedings at common law and proceedings in equity in the federal courts, but it is certainly not impossible by a statute to simplify and make short and direct the procedure both at law and in equity in those courts. It is not impossible to cut down still more than it is cut down, the jurisdiction of the supreme court, the supreme court statutory and constitutional questions. Under the present statutes the equity and admiralty procedure in the federal courts is under the control of the su- preme court, but in the pressure of business to which that court is subjected it is impossible to hope that a radical and proper reform of the federal equity protections should be recommended legislation providing for the appointment by the president of a commission with authority to examine the law and equity procedure of the federal courts of first instance, the law of appeals and the law of appeals and to the supreme court, and the costs imposed in such procedure upon the private litigants and upon the public treasury and make recommendations with a view to simplifying and expediting the case as far as possible and making it as inexpensive as may be to the litigant of little means. Injunctions Without Notice The platform of the successful party in the last election contained the following: "The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, state and federal, and will ever insist that their powers to enforce the law be preserved and property shall be preserved inviolate. We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in the federal courts with respect to the issuance of the writ of injunction should be more accurately defined by statute and that no injunction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, except where r-13 is imposed in a firm delay in which should a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted." I recommend that in compliance with the promise thus made appropriate legislation be adopted. The ends of justice will best be met and the chief cause of complaint against ill-considered injunctions without notice will be removed by the enactment of a statute forbidding hereafter the issuing of any injunction or restraining order, whether temporary or permanent, federal court without previous notice and a reasonable opportunity to be heard on behalf of the parties to be enjoined; unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the delay necessary to give such notice and hearing would result in irreparable injury to the complainant and unless also the court shall from the evidence make a written finding, which shall be spread upon the court minutes, that immediate and irreparable injury is likely to ensue to the complainant, and shall define the nature of the injury. The court shall also indorse on the order issued the date and the hour of the issuance of the order. Moreover, every such injunction or restraining order issued without previous notice and opportunity by the defendant to be hard should by force of the statute expire and be of no effect after seven days from the issuance thereof or within any time less than that period, which the court may say within such seven days or such less period the injunction or order is extended or renewed after previous notice and opportunity to be heard. My judgment is that the passage of such an act which really embodies the best practice in equity and is very clear is that such courts will prevent the issuing of ill-advised orders of injunction without notice and will render such orders when issued much less objectionable than in time in which they may remain effective. New Laws Needed. The jurisdiction of the general government over interstate commerce has led to the passage of the so-called "Sherman anti-trust law" and the "interstate commerce law" and its amendments. The developments in the operation of those laws, as shown by indictments, trials, judicial decisions, and other sources of information, call for a discussion and some suggestions as to amendments. These I prefer to include a social message, instead of including them in the present communication, and I shall avail myself of the first convenient opportunity to bring these subjects to the attention of congress. Second-Class Mail Matter. The deficit every year in the post-office department is largely caused by the low rate of postage of 1 cent a pound charged on second-class mail matter, which includes not only newspapers but magazines and miscellaneous periodicals. The actual loss growing out of the transmission of one mail matter at 1 cent a pound amounts to about $63,000,000 a year. The average cost of the transportation of this matter is more than 9 cents a pound. It appears that the average distance over which newspapers are delivered to their customers is 291 miles, while the average haul of magazines is 1,049 miles. Thus, the average distance to the newspapers is 3 miles. Thus, the average haul of the magazine is three and one-half times and that of the miscellaneous periodically nearly four times the haul of the daily newspaper, yet all of them pay the same postage rate of 1 cent a pound. The statistics of 1907 show that the cost of each magazine is 63.91 per cent of the weight of all the mail, and yielded only 5.19 per cent of the revenue. The figures given are startling, and show the payment by the government of an enormous subsidy to the newspapers, magazines and periodicals, and congress may well consider whether the government reduce the deficit in the post-office department caused by this discrepancy between the actual cost of transportation and the compensation exacted therefor. The rate saving might be made, amounting to much more than half of the loss, by imposing upon magazines and periodicals a higher rate of postage. They are much heavier than newspapers, and contain a much higher proportion of advertising to reading matter, and the average distance of advertising is three and a half times as great. The total deficit for the last fiscal year in the postoffice department amounted to $17,500,000. The branches of its business which it did at a loss were the second-class mail service, in which the loss, as already said, was $33,000,000, and the free rural delivery in which the loss was $28,000,000. These were in mail service by the profits of the letter postage and other sources of income. It would seem wise to reduce the loss upon second-class mail matter, at least to the extent of preventing a deficit in the total operations of the postoffice. I commend the whole, subject to congress, not unmindful of the spread of intelligence which a low charge for mailing newspapers and periodicals assists. I commend the wisdom of a policy which constitutes so large a subsidy and requires additional taxation to meet it. Postal Savings Banks. The second subject worthy of mention in the postoffice department is the real necessity and entire practicability of establishing postal savings banks. The successful party at the last election declared in favor of postal savings banks, and although the proposition finds opponents in many parts of the country, I am convinced that the people desire such banks, and am sure that when the banks are furnished they will be productive of the utmost good. The postal savings banks are not constituted for the purpose of creating compounding or deposit banks. The rate of interest upon deposit which they would be limited would be so small as to prevent their drawing deposits away from other banks. I believe them to be necessary in order to offer a proper inducement to thrift and saving to a great many people of small means who do not now have banking facilities, and to whom such a system would offer an additional capital. They will furnish a satisfactory substitute, based on sound principle and actual successful trial in nearly all the countries of the world, for the system of government guaranty of deposits now being adopted in western states, which with deference to the laws seems to me to have in it the seeds of demoralization to conservative banking and certain financial disaster. Ship Subsidy. Following the course of my distinguished predecessor, I earnestly recommend to congress the consideration and passage of a ship subsidy bill, looking to the establishment of lines between our Atlantic seaboard and the eastern coast of South America, as as lines from the west coast of the United States to South America, China, Japan and the Philippines. The profits on foreign mails are perhaps a sufficient measure of the expenditures which might first be tentatively applied to this method of inducing American capital to undertake the establishment of American lines of steamships in those directions in which we now feel it most important that we should have means of transportation and interest of the expansion of our trade. The president recommends the admission of New Mexico and Arizona as separate states, and strongly opposes legislation looking to the election of a territorial legislature for Alaska. Conservation of National Resources. Conservation of National Resources. In several departments there is presented the necessity for legislation looking to the further conservation of our national resources, and the subject is one of such importance as to require a more detailed and extended discussion than can be enunciated in this communication. For that reason she should opportunity to send a special message to congress on the subject of the improvement of our waterways, upon the reclamation and irrigation of arid, semi-arid, and swamp lands; upon the preservation of our forests and the reforestation of suitable areas; upon the reclassification of the public domain with a view of separating from agricultural settlement mineral, coal, and phosphate lands and sites belonging to the government bordering on beaches for the utilization of water power. The White Slave Trade. I greatly regret to have to say that the investigations made in the bureau of immigration and other sources of information lead to the view that there is urgent necessity for additional legislation and greater executive activity to suppress the streams of immigration from the streams of immigration into country—an evil which, for want of a better name, has been called "The White Slave Trade." I believe it to be constitutional to forbid, under penalty, the transportation of persons for purposes of prostitution across national and state lines; and by appropriating a fund of $50,000 to be by the secretary of commerce and labor for the secretary of special inspectors it will be possible to those responsible for this trade to indictment and conviction under a federal law. Bureau of Health. For a very considerable period a movement has been gathering strength, especially among the members of the medical profession, in favor of a concentration of the instruments of the national government which have to do with the health of the army, the medical department of the army and the medical department of the navy must be kept separate. But there seems to be no reason why all the other bureaus and offices in the general government which have to do with the public health or subjects akin thereto should not be united in a bureau to be called the bureau of public health. This would mean the order of the marine-hospital service to such a bureau aware that there is a wide field in respect to the public health committed to the states in which the federal government cannot exercise jurisdiction, but we have seen in the agricultural department the expansion into widest usefulness of a department giving attention to agriculture when the subject is plainly one over which the state opposes it. Direct jurisdiction. The opportunities offered for useful research and the spread of useful information in regard to the cultivation of the soil and the breeding of stock and the solution of many of the intricate problems in progressive agricultural practice. The wisdom of establishing that department is helpful reasons, of equal force, can be given for the establishment of a bureau of health that shall not only exercise the police jurisdiction of the federal government respecting quarantine, but which shall also afford an opportunity for investigation and research by competent experts into questions of health affecting the whole population, of questions which, in the absence of federal governmental work, are not likely to be promptly solved. Political Contribution I urgently recommend to congress that a law be passed requiring that candidates in elections of members of the house of representatives and committees in charge of their candidacy and campaign file in a proper office of the United States government a statement of the contributions received and of the expenses incurred in the campaign for such election, and that the law be enacted in respect to all other elections which are constitutionally within the control of congress. Conclusion. I have thus, in a message compressed as much as the subjects will permit, referred to many of the legislative needs of the country, with the exceptions already noted. Speaking generally, the country is in a high state of prosperity. There is every reason to believe that we on the eve of a substantial business expansion have harvest unexamined in the market value of our agricultural products. The high prices which such products bring mean great prosperity for the farming community, but on the other hand they mean a very considerably increased burden upon those classes in the community whose yearly compensation does not expand with the general prosperity and the general prosperity. Various reasons are given for the high prices. The proportionate increase in the output of gold, which to-day is the chief medium of exchange and is in some respects a measure of value, furnishes a substantial explanation of at least part of the ease in prices. The increase in population is the most expensive mode of living of the people, which have not been accompanied by a proportionate increase in acreage production, may furnish a further reason. It is well to note that the increase in the cost of living is not confined to this country, but prevails the world over and that those who would charge increases in prices to the existing protective tariff must meet the fact that the rise in prices has taken place almost every year, and farm in respect to which there has been either no increase in the tariff or in many instances a very considerable reduction. WM. H. TAFT. The White House, December 7, 1908. W. N. MILLER, LONDON Residence 1401 West 23d Street residence Phone, Bell 1641. Phone your news items to us. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. One Year (by mail) ..... $1.00 Six Months (by mail)..... 75 Three Months (by mail)..... 50 Advertising Rates made known on application. Liberal commission paid to agents. 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Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. "To Live and Let Live Is Our Motto." SEND YOUR NEWS IN EARLIER. FOOK UMBRAGE AT ASPERSION. Citizens Resented Being Voted for as Town's "Meanest Man." Old Scrooge might be a philanthropic Carnegie alongside certain tight-wads in Mount Vernon, but William Friedberg has no license to determine publicly who are the men who would squeeze a dollar until the eagle yelled: "Help! I'm melting!" For conducting a voting contest to determine the meanest man in Mount Vernon Friedberg, who keeps a cigar store there, was fined five dollars by Judge Platt here. A warning went with the fine. Friedberg lives in Astoria, but does business in Mount Vernon. He placed in his window a placard: "Come in and vote for the meanest man in Mount Vernon!" This was followed by a list of names. Consplcuous in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and stald citizens. After every name was a number signifying the votes the owner of the name had received so far. Great was the wrath of the so-called "meanest men." Friedberg was ordered to take the sign out of the window, but he refused to do so. His indictment for libel followed. In court he pleaded guilty, but asserted he did not know he was violating any law. White Plains Cor. New York Sun. LEAD-THE IDEAL SIMPLE LIFE. Finns Devote Summer Months to Enjoyment and Pursuit of Health. In Finland everybody lives the simple life in summer time. They camp out on islands, in the forests and always somewhere near the water, for everybody swims and bathes. Almost all classes sleep and eat al fresco at this time of year, and the town councils of the towns in this progressive and altogether delightful little country provide public fireplaces and public bathing sheds in all places where the working classes go in search of fresh air. But the simple life is by no means dull with the frisky Finns. They combine it with a surprising amount of gayety. They eat, drink and are merry in their picturesque little log cabins outside the cities. When they are tired of bathing and splashing they dance, they sing, they watch fireworks and practice gymnastics, they all become like children and are the happiest, merriest, most good matured, most easily pleased and most healthy holiday makers in the world. We might take many leaves from the Fanns' book.—Ladles' Pictorial. Special Master E. V. McKeever men tattle effect in the supreme LOCAI.S THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to CGI Borth Main Street. Mrs. J. H. Massey has return ed from a trip to Eldorado. Mrs. V. Covington has been quite ill for several days confined to her bed. Mrs. A. Griggs Mrs. B. McClelan entertained at dinner Sunday Nov. 8 Mrs. A. Waller, Mrs John son of K. C. Mrs. E. Smith Mrs. F. Baker Mrs. S. Griggs. Quarterly Meeting Dec. 12th Sunday, Dec. 12 will be quart erly meeting day at St. Paul A. A. E. church, Rev. M. Wooten The Wichita Tabernacle No 34 met in regular meeting with H. P. opening meeting there was eight new members present the Tab. recieved a letter from the P. H. P. Mrs H. Jones, hopeing much success. H, P. Sailie Hall V. R. Mrs. Lockwoods This sudden colk snap with so much snow—same what froze one news up this week. We hope to have it thawed out by our next issue. 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 caimed with the whistling of rifle balls. Her Criticism. The five-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn man has had such a large experience of dolls that she feels herself to be something of a connoisseur in children, relates Lippincott's. Recently there came a real baby into the nouse. When it was put into her arms the five-year-old surveyed it with critical eye. "Isn't it a nice baby?" asked the nurse. "Yes, it's nice," answered the youngster hesitatingly. "It's nice, bit it's head's loose." A captain on an ocean liner told the following story: Coming from the old country was a very nervous old lady who complained that she was sure there was a rat in her stateroom. "Keep it there, madam," said the captain. "But do you like rats?" asked she. "I've got a nest in my cabin," retorted the brusque seaman, "and I never disturb them. When they leave the ship I do." "Why, you must be superstitious," urged the dame. "No, ma'am," wound up the captain. "I'm not, but the rats are." The Power of Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is one magnet of power. You must fire every event with it, touch thoughts and acts with it; it will transmute dross into gold, drudgery into delight. What matters if the soul which lives beside you is cold and selfish. Set him a good example! Joy is sunshine and he will feel it. Every irksome task is a chance for power. For the qualities which they bring out are God's gifts which fit us to enjoy better things. Easy things will come, if you have spent your heart's blood on gaining strength, for the very goal of power is the ease which comes from strength. We laugh at things and people who used to cow or annoy us, we go gracefully and swiftly the tasks, once so hard. One by one, we have unrived our chains, we are free!—Nautilus. --- Ratsr Hygienic Restaurant 513 N. Main Street Meals-Short--Orders-Lunch. Everytaing Strictly First Class Cousar & Washington, Prop. F. O. Miller M. D Physici'n & Surgeon Office Hours Bell Phone- 9 to 11 2999 2 to 5 Wichita, 7 to 8 Kansas. 513 N. Main St. All calls answered promptly Day or Night. Obstetrics and Diseases of women A Specialty HOUCK hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price U16 East Douglas Avenue Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & MONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market DATE NOW SET. J. W. Thompson, Thirty-third Illustrious Commander-in-Chief of Western Star Consistory No. 18, Scottish Rite Masons, has prepared his proclamation setting the dates as December 9 and 10, 1909, for the fall reunion of that branch of Masonry. Great preparations will be made for the reception of those who will attend this grand function. Programmes, etc., etc., will be given later. Fall Conclave Much predarations are being made in higher masonic circle for the big Fall Conclave of Western Star Cansistory No. 18 & branches which will be held Dec. 9-10-1909. Ill. J. W. Thompsou and officers are wide awake and are making an heroic effort to make this the best of auy of the past. A Knowing Dog. "Now," said the narrator, "I've got a dog here I would not take $100 for. You can believe me or not, but what I am going to tell you is the gospel truth. In the early part of last spring I lost about a score of very valuable sheep, until one day as I was looking across from my house to the edge of the range opposite, about two miles away, I noticed some sheep. I got my telescope, and assured myself that they were mine. I placed the telescope in a suitable position, and made Bob, our best collie, look through it. After about a minute the dog wagged his tail and made off. In less than two hours he brought the sheep home safe and sound." Getting Ahead of One's Self. "If I have anything to do that I particularly dislike, I start to work on it the first thing after breakfast, subordinating all routine work to that task," said a successful housekeeper recently. "One can expend enough nervous energy thinking about and worrying over an unpleasant duty to accomplish it. When it is finished and off one's mind early in the day, one gets ahead of one's self, so to speak." A Monster Loaf. Bakers in Germany are fond of making odd experiments, the following being reported from Duisburg, in West phalia. At a children's party recently held in that town there was exhibited, and afterwards cut up and distributed among the youngsters present, a bread twist which for size at least has surely rarely been equaled. Weighing no less than 180 pounds, it had a breadth of six feet and a length of ten feet, and was thus found sufficient to supply a satisfactory afternoon collation to as many as 600 boys and girls. Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. Main St. Send your news in earlier Ketzler Hardwre Hardware, Hot Air Furnaces, Tin Work, Roofing, Guttering, Copper and Galvanized Iron Work. Repairing and Painting Tin Roofs A Specialty. For Everything in Building Material SFE NOTE PHONE 406 J.H. TURNER WICHTA, NANS 533 TO 547 WEST DOUGLAS METZ'S LUMBER IS IT? Largest yard under shed in the state. 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Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown. Vice President, V. H. Branch, Cashier. W. N. Miller Attorney -at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Courts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone · Bell 1641 Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Directors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Ett, R. L. Hewlett, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Houston, E. C. Sheldon, C. V' Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Henry Lassen, V. H. Branach A General Banking Business Transacted Send your news in earlier Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. 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It is only $1, for a whole year Try it. Took Precautions. "You ran into this man at 30 mile an hour and knocked him 40 feet," said the court. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. "Mere precaution, your honor. Once I shut off speed and hit a man so gentl y that he was able to climb into the machine and give me a living." Its the man who "sticks-to-it" who wins. DEAM ABSTRACT Co. NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors FT SCOTT KAESAS western Queen Fabronae No17 is progressing nicely They have one on the sick list. They are glad that the Lord has been so good to them, they meet the first and third Saturday of each month. The daughters are always glad when the time comes for their monthly meeting. Dtr. A. Masir their chief Preceptress is deeply interested in the work and always has a smile to greet the daughters. Our Precepress is always alert to keep money in the treasurer and we serve lunch at each monthly meeting and also have a 25c rally among the members every three months She carries the interest of the daughters of Western Queen Tabernacle with her and we are doing fine. So we say "Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love" Peculiar African Race. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and filth, and is sometimes as much as 18 inches long. For the most part these Kaffirs live on the great open flats to be found on both sides of the Kafue river. They build their huts on the great an heaps which appear like hills scattered over the flats. When the Kafue is in flood and the flats are changed into great lakes these people are safe in their huts on the ant heaps. Their cattle also take refuge on the ant heaps on which corn and meailles are likewise grown. Fools. What do you suppose fools were made for? That you might tread upon them, and starve them, and get the better of them in every possible way? By no means. They were made that wise people might take care of them. That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and wise man to the world about him. He has his strength given him, not that he may crush the weak, but that he may support and guide them. In his own household he is to be the guide and support of his children; out of his household he is still to be the father, that is, the guide and support of the weak and the poor; not merely of the meritoriously weak and the innocently poor, but of the guilty and punishably poor; of the men who ought to have known better; of the poor who ought to be ashamed of themselves.—John Ruskin. The Qualint Belluga Caviare can be made of the roe of any fish; but the principal supply comes from the sturgeon and the belluga. The latter is about the most curious fish in the world. It weighs up to 1,000 pounds and innab'ts the waters of the swift-flowing Volga. It is so abundant that the natives of Astracan throw away the flesh—which is whiter than veal and vernality—and preserve only the spawr, of which they sometimes take as much as 200 pounds out of one fish. This belluga lies on the bottom of the river at certain seasons and swallows many large pebbles of great weight to ballast itself against the force of the stream; that is, the pebbles act as an anchor. When the flood subsides and the waters are less violent the belluga disgorges itself; that is, it unballasts, hauls in its anchor and swims about for provender. WHY NOT PAY who you owe to the Searchlight? is only a small sum. Call at office 634 N Water and save from bothering you with a collector Somebody sent this to the society editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and made aidavit that it really happened. Here it is: They were out at an afternoon card party. A stout woman tropped a card to the floor. "Would be so kind as to pick up that card for me?" she inquired of the lit woman at her right. "Certainly," said the accommodating woman at the right, picking up the card. "You see," explained the stout woman. "I've got on a brand new $50 corse, and I'm afraid I'll strain it if I lean over." "Hitum!" commented the other woman. "oniously. "If I had a $50 corse I'd wear it on the outside. I really would." THE NIGHT CARNIVAL PARADE Big Pageant is Concluding Event of Children's Day in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. New York, Oct. 3.—A night carnival parade of many novel features was the concluding event of Children's day in the Hudson-Fulton celebration. This pageant was of a generally allegorical and legendary nature. Its bearing upon the events of the week was the representation it gave of arts and ideals that contributed to America's present civilization and culture. In the planning and construction of these 50 floats the German, Austrian and Swiss societies of the city cooperated with the carnival committee and the Teutonic mythology which the early colonists brought to this part of the country was strongly in evidence. But the classic legends of Greece and Rome were not lacking and a large number of the floats represented abstract subjects such as Poetry, Music, Art, War, Humor, Good Luck, Freedom and Peace. Timely interest went with the shivery scene entitled "The Frost King." "Uncle Sam receiving the Crowned Heads" concluded the procession and provoked great applause. BURLEY SOCIETY IN CONTROL Claim 75 Per Cent of Kentucky's To bacco Acreage Has Been Pooled by Farmers. Winchester, Ky., Oct. 3.—The district board of the Burley Tobacco society registered its unanimous vote in favor of pooling in 1909 crop of burley tobacco. The result of the vote of members representing the growers of the various burley counties showed that of the acres in the 1909 pool 84,605 acres were voted in favor the pool, 16,254 in opposition and 1,000 not voting. A motion to make the decision favoring the pool unanimous was carried with cheers. It was shown that of the 94,000 acres as yet unplugged, 36,000 are out of the burley belt, 6,000 being on border territory and 30,000 in the states of Missouri, West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio. This fact coupled with the report before the society that the yield in weight was far below what the acreage indicated, was construed by the board as evidence of its ability to dominate the market with 75 per cent of the crop. AN ARMED MAN NEAR PRESIDENT Police of Portland, Ore., Arrest a Stranger With a Revolver in His Pocket. Portland, Ore., Oct. 3.—Captain Bailey and two local detectives arrested an armed man in front of the Portland hotel just as the president was entering his motor car to participate in the military parade. Captain Bailey was attracted by the peculiar actions of the man. He had a camera in his hand and was trying hard to reach a point of vantage close to the president. Summoning two detectives, Captain Bailey placed the man under arrest. When he was arrested a revolver was found, together with a quantity of extra ammunition. The man refused to give his name, but said that he was from Boston. Washington, Oct. 3. — The public debt of the United States is $2,648,602,846, which includes $1,353,059,869 of certificates and treasury notes by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. The available cash balance in the treasury is $94,206,114. The aggregate debt is an increase of $2,058,235. Tried to Burn Oklahoma Town. Oklahoma City, Ok., Oct. 3.—Charles Booth and Fred Bryant were arrested at Henryetta, Ok., charged with being implicated in an attempt to burn the town. The men were caught following the fire which consumed the Carson Lumber company and residence of G. B. Reynolds. More Bank Notes Outstanding Washington, Oct. 3.—The total national bank notes outstanding secured by United States bonds and lawful money is $702,807,459 against $875,612,327 a year currency, as shown by the monthly statement of the comptroller of the currency. A Fatal Fire in St. Louis. St. Louis, Oct. 3.—Fire which started at 3 o'clock in the basement of the Nat L. McGuire Oil and Supply company, cost the night watchman, McNeal, his life and entailed a loss of $10,000. A New York Stock Failure. New York, Oct. 3.—The failure of William H. Brouwer, a member of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, was announced to-day. His outstanding accounts are small. HOW THE VARIOUS TEAMS STAND W.L.Pct.! W.L.Pct. 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The More Glorious Alternative Maud Muller knew what she wanted, "I'd rather be written up in a poem that the funny men will be parodying a hundred years from now than marry the judge to-morrow!" she exclaimed, and suited the action to the word, she raked the meadow sweet with hay in such a manner that the judge riding slowly down the lane, smoothed his horse's chestnut mane, and let it go at that. Naturally the girl's folks were considerably disgusted at having her left on their hands that way, but who ever purchased a worthy immortality cheaply?—Puck. Not Even Sandy. Wilford was sitting on his father's knee watching his mother arranging her hair. "Papa hasn't any Marcel waves like that," said her father, laughingly. Wilford, looking up at his father's bald pate, replied: "Nope, no waves; it's all beach."—Columbia Jester. Daily Thought. There's nothing like settling with ourselves, as there's a deal we must do without in this life.—George Eliot. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. 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Within a few days, he said, he believed the railroads, and the unions would reach an agreement. No sooner was the governor's statement given out than President Hill of the Great Northern and President Hawley of the Switchmen's Union got busy giving out denials that any such conditions existed. President Hill declared the railroads had decided to stand firmly together and combat the strike to the end. No trouble was being experienced, he avered, in getting non-union men from the east to fill the strikers' places. It was the plan, however, he stated, to not fill the vacant positions with new men until the old twitchmen had been given an opportunity to reconsider their action and return to work. Hawley Denies Settlement. President Hawley denied any definite plan for a strike settlement had been reached at a conference. The prospects for the men to return to work were no better than they have been, he said. Mr. Hawley reiterated his statement that there was no possibility of arbitration under the Erdman act. Union officials displayed little concern over the reports from the west that members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen are going back to work. They declared everything is still tied up at Seattle. Ninety-seven per cent of the switchmen in the northwest are members of the Switchmen's Union, they said. About 1,500 men were imported into the Twin Cities to take strikers' places. President Hawley said he had received a message from Duluth stating that only three of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen had returned to work and it was believed they would go out again. To Remove Coal Embargo. Butte, Mont.—Local Great Northern railway officials received instructions from the superintendent of car service at St. Paul to remove at once the embargo on the acceptance of freight. Hejela's coal supply will not last a week. The situation there is unchanged. A few trains were moving on the Butte division of the Great Northern but none on the Burlington extension. Coal mines at Belt, Stockett and Sand Coulee closed, throwing 1,300 men out of employment. Specials to the Great Falls Tribune say that switchmen are working at Glasgow and Cut Bank on the Great Northern and that seven switchmen at Harve will go to work. No more men have joined the strikers at Billings and no strikers have returned to work. PARR TELLS HIS STORY. Concerning Discoveries and Exposing Short Weights in Sugar Frauds. New York, N. Y.—The storm center of the sugar trial was upon Richard Parr, the special agent of the treasury department, who was foremost in discovering and exposing short weight frauds on the Williamsburg docks of the American Sugar Refining company. Parr rehearsed once more his story of how he caught Kehoe, a tally clerk, manipulating the crooked scales; how Oliver Spitzer, one of the six company employees now charged with conspiracy, offered to let him name his own price for hushing the thing up; and how Brozinski, Spitzer's partner, hooked him by the elbow and asked anxiously: "Dick, this fellow says you're all right." Does that go?" "Nothing goes with me," Parr testified he said. Told with heat and gush great circumstances, the narrative made a visible effect, and counsel for the defense was quick to retort with an attack on Parr's creditability. 30 Believed Perished. London, Eng.—In a terrific gale that raged over the British Isles, the steamer Thistlemor went to her doom off Appledore in Barnstable Bay. It is believed her entire crew of 30 men perished. Four bodies from the steamer already have been washed ashore. The Thistlemor was in command of Captain Yeo and was bound from Liverpool for an American port. 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S. people to Canada, in its issue of October 5, 1909. The picture was accompanied by the following article: "Losing American Citizens. The exodus of American farmers to Canada continues to be a phenomenon of the first importance. More of them are crossing the border this fall than ever before, and they are flocking from all parts of the country. Formerly it was the Middle West alone which thus lost the heart of its citizenship. Now all sections of the Union suffer alike. The regret which we cannot help feeling over the migration of many thousands of excellent citizens has an economic side which causes some concern. The 70,000 farmers who will go to Canada to live this fall will take with them some $70,000,000 in cash and effects. This is by no means a negligible sum, and makes a very appreciable drain on our resources. But, of course, the most serious loss is the men themselves and their families, who have forsaken the land of the free and the home of the brave to dwell under the rule of a monarch. Why do they go? Naturally the cheap and fertile land of Western Canada attracts them. Each emigrant goes with a reasonable expectation of bettering his fortune. Indeed, in a few years he may grow rich through the abundant crops he can raise and the increase of land values. But perhaps that is not the sole reason for the astonishing migration. There is a common notion abroad that in Canada life and property are appreciably safer than they are here. Murders are not so frequent, and are more speedily and surely punished. Mobs and the so-called 'unwritten law' are virtually unknown in Canada. Again the law is a vastly more ascertainable entity there. Canada does not permit its judges to veto acts of the legislative body. When a statute has been enacted it is known to be the law of the land until it is repealed, this naturally imparts to Canadian civilization a security and stability which we have not yet attained. "We must remember, in the same connection, that the Canadian protective tariff is far less exorbitant than ours, and much less boldly arranged for the benefit of special favorites. Hence there is an impression, very widely diffused, that the Canadians are not so wickedly robbed by the trusts as we are in this country. Reasons like these sufficiently account for the exodus of a body of citizens, whom we can ill afford to lose, but they do not much assuage our regret that they cannot be retained in the United States." Speaking of this, a Canadian Government representative says that the Americans who cross the border are most welcome. The splendid areas of virgin soil, a large quantity of which is given away as free homesteads, lie close to existing railways and to those under construction. The railway lines that are assisting in this development are the Canadian Pacific, the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific. The latter is built entirely on Canadian soil, and has opened up a wonderful stretch of land. Along this line during the year about closed thousands of American settlers have made their homes. They have built the towns, and immediately began as factors in the building up of the great Canadian West. Agents of the Government are located in various cities throughout the United States who will be pleased to give any information that may be desired to further the interest of the settler. JUST SUIT HER. Employer—What we want is a night watchman that watches—somebody who can sleep with one eye open and both ears, and who is not afraid to tackle anything. See? Applicant—I see, boss; I'll send me wife round. FOR OLD PEOPLE After reaching the age of forty the human system gradually declines. The accumulated poisons in the blood cause rheumatic pains in the joints, muscles and back. These warnings should be promptly relieved and serious illness avoided by using the following prescription which shows wonderful results even after the first few doses and it will eventually restore physical strength. "One ounce compound syrup of Sarsaparilla; one ounce Toris compound; half pint of high grade whiskey. This to be mixed and used in tablespoonful doses before each meal and at bedtime. The bottle to be well shaken each time." Any druggist has these ingredients or can get them from his wholesale house. Many an heiress buys a gold brick in the form of a husband. STATE CAPITAL ITEMS Insurance Rate Reduced. Charles Barnes, state superintendent of insurance, issued an order, effective December 15, to fire insurance companies to reduce the rate on country school houses and churches 15 percent, to eliminate the charge for a builders' risk and to eliminate the additional charge for tenant occupancy of farm and city property. Heretofore the renters have been charged a higher rate than owners. Gov. Stubba Asks Aid Governor W. R. Stubbs sent out letters to governors of all prohibition and local option states initiating a movement for stricter enforcement of the federal revenue laws applying to liquor. Stubbs' plan is for the governors to unite in a protest to congress. He asks that investigations be made in the various states. The states included are Maine, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee and Georgia. Mr. Wellhouse says: "The yields of fruit this season has been good in some orchards, while many have failed to give the reward expected. Let us meet and discuss the factors of success and failure. "One of the best informed horticulturists of our country, especially of rape culture, will meet with us to give freely of his knowledge and experience. "Late spring frosts caused much damage to our fruit crops in the last few years. Fruit growers of other states have succeeded, to some extent, in preventing loss from this cause. This subject will be discussed at our meeting. Many other interesting topics will be presented." Good Roads Meeting. Four governors, several prominent railroad men and heads of several good roads associations, have promised to take part in the national good roads convention which will be held at Topeka December 14-15. Governors Haddley of Missouri, Shellenberger of Nebraska, Carroll of Iowa and Stubbs of Kansas have agreed to make addresses. Others who will speak are: James J. Hill, Senator J. H. Bankhead, Vice-President Nicholson of the Santa Fe, Mantlin Dodge, B. F. Yokum, H. J. Bachelor, John Craft, president of the Alabama good roads association, Sam Park, president of the Texas good roads association, President Walters of Manhattan and Chancellor Strong of Kansas University. Kansans Planting Orchards. Nothwithstanding the fruit crop failure in Kansas for the last two or three years, Secretary Wellhouse, of the State Horticultural society, says that more farmers are planting orchards than ever before. "Kansas can produce fruit profitably," he said. "It can raise enough not only for home consumption, but can supply considerable to outside markets. Not many years ago we got our apples from Michigan. Now we hardly ever see a Michigan apple "As the fruit industry is developed along comes the pests. Much talk is heard in Colorado, Washington and Oregon about their great apple orchards. Those orchards are young and free from pests. In a few years the pests will reach those states and then they will not be any better fruit countries than Kansas." Speaking in regard to the coming meeting of the Kansas fruit growers, Inheritance Tax $25,000. The state treasury will receive $25,000 cash, as an inheritance tax, from the estate of James Tax, a farmer in Marshall county. Wettest in History. This is the wettest year in the history of Kansas, if it does not rain or snow between now and January 1st, 1910. Already the precipitation amounts to 45.31 inches. The average rainfall for this section is 33.75 inches. The former wettest year was 1903, the year of the big flood, when the rainfall amounted to 44.14 inches for the entire year. The rainfall for September, October and November for this year amounts to more than half the average rainfall for the entire year, according to the weather bureau record. For three months the total fall is 18.81 inches. The average temperature tied the previous record for the maximum, which was made in 1899, the average wind velocity was greater than in any November on record. "Col." Zimmerman Resigns. Col. Samuel Zimmerman is no longer paymaster general of the Kansas National Guard. He resigned and Jerry Springstead was appointed by Governor Sturbs to his place. Col. Zimmerman liked army life all right, but there wasn't much in it in the way of salary, and he thought he was too busy to handle the affairs of the department. Springstead has been his deputy since his appointment last spring. The place pays only $200 a year, together with an outing of ten days at Fort Riley every August. Outwit the Horse Sharper Did you ever find a lemon in a horse's nose? How and why did it get there? Did the last horse you bought go incurably lame the next day? Do you know why? Why were his ears tied together with a fine silken thread? Perhaps you are about to buy a horse because you like his "ginger"? Are you sure it is health and high spirits, or IS it ginger—commercial ginger? Are you sure you could tell the age of a horse by its teeth? Or would your experience be like that other man's, who paid $3500 for a 17-year-old horse, thinking he was buying a 7-year-old? The horse had been "Bishoped." 1 Doped and Doctored horses are sold every day; be on your guard. A Partial List of Secrets SECRETS OF HORSE TRADING AND SELLING: The loose shoe trick. The turpentine and gasoline swindles. The horse-hair trick. The fresh butter and flaxseed tricks. Making a horse appear vicious or unsound. "Shutting" a "heaver." "Plugging" a "roarer." Hiding spavins or lameness. The ginger trick. Tricks of crooked auctioneers. The widow trick. The "burelar" dodge—and many others. SECRETS OF HORSE FEEDING AND RAISING: Successful silage feeding to horses. Secret of hand raising a foal. Secret method of fattening draughters. Secret of molasses feeding for horses. SECRETS OF HORSE TRAINING AND HANDLING: Secret of stopping halter pulling. Secret of keeping a mule from kicking. Secret of handling and curing balky horses. Secret of curing stall kicking. Etc., etc. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. An Ever Ready Opening. The editor suddenly became conscious that some one was standing behind him. Looking back, his glance fell upon a seedy looking individual with the eyes of a crank. "I beg your pardon," said the newcomer, "but is there an opening here for a first-class intellectual writer?" "Yes," grimly responded the editor. "An ingenious carpenter, foreseeing your visit, has provided an excellent opening. Turn the knob to the right, and do not slam the door as you go out."—The Sunday Magazine. Sentiments for Husbands: "When a man really loves his wife he ought to combine all his nicest sentiments toward other women into one big sentiment for her. "He should show her the respect he feels toward his mother; the politeness he shows other women, and the responsibility he feels toward his sister. "To all of that he should add the great love he should feel for a wife." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney of Hall's Catarrh for many years and have in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Wholesale Drugs, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonial sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Drugs. Sufficient Evidence "Father was evidently drinking again last night." "What makes you think that?" "He sassed the janitor when he came in."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Lewis' Single Binder, the famous straight 5c cigar—annual sale 9,000,000. It takes a woman to tell a secret and magnify its importance. Horse buying and trading offer hundreds of opportunities and temptations to use trickery and sharp practice. There is only one way to meet it: read "HORSE SECRETS" EXPOSED How to Secure "Horse Secrets" Horse Secrets and subscription to $1.00 FARM JOURNAL for 5 years, both for FARM JOURNAL is the paper taken by most farmers, and by at least 150,000 people in towns and villages all over the United States. 650,000 cash-in-advance subscribers read every issue with delight and profit. It is a farm paper for farmers, but it is far more than that. Splendid departments on Vegetables, Flowers, Poultry, Household Hits and Recipes, Fashions, High Grade Patterns, the Family Doctor, Legal Questions, Boys' and Girls' pages, etc., as well as on Horses, Cows, Sheep, Swine, Orchard, and Field Crops. In short, it is for everybody, town as well as country, and at the same time practical, instructive, exciting and shortfall. amusing, and cheerful. FARM JOURNAL is clean and pure. It never has to be carried out of the house with the tongs. The advertising columns receive the most careful scrutiny and the bars are up all the time against medical, deceptive, suggestive or nasty advertising of any kind. The editors are grown to be by far the largest in the world. Its score of editors are men and women who write "with their sleeves rolled up." They know what they are, talking about, and can quit when they are through. By itself, FARM JOURNAL is worth many dollars a year to every American who lives in or near the country. Yet the price, WITH "Horse Secrets" is only $1.00 for FIVE YEARS. If you send your dollar within 10 days, we will include free "Poor Richard Revived," our splendid 1910 Farn Almanac. 48 pages of useful and amusing reading, calendar for the year 1910, etc. FARM JOURNAL, 1087 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Gentlemen: — Enclosed find $1.00 for a copy of Horse Secrets and subscription to Farm Journal for five years. Name P. O. Street or R. F. D. State As I send this within 10 days, send me "Poor Richard Revived," as promised. 0 The Utmost in Stencils How To Secure Them Free Write for booklet of Classic Wall Decorations conti- nues with a variety of colors in colors—full of information and ideas for users of Alabastra, the Stylish Wall Conting. In color tells why Alabastra is best for wall decoration and how to secure the wall—enclose 2-event N.S. stamp, please. Alabastra Company, be- cause it is the largest in the world. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES An absolutely harmless remedy for Sore Throat, An absolutely harmless remedy for Sore Throat, Bronchial and Lung Actions. Fifty years' reputation. Pale cream, 50 cents and $1.00 per box. Sample size: 100. JOHN I. BROWN & SON, BONN, Mass. A Risky Thing. "I think I'll go home." "But it's only 11 o'clock, old man." "Well, there's nothing doing at the club." "I know; but consider. Once I went home at 11 o'clock and came near establishing a dangerous precedent." One Thing That Will Live Forever, PETTIT'S EYE SALVE, first box sold in 1807, 100 years ago, sales increase yearly. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N.Y. No, Alonzo, we wouldn't advise a man with an impediment in his speech to go to a speakeasy for treatment. EXPOSURE TO COLD and wet is the first step to Pneumonia. Take Perry Davis' Painkiller and the danger is averted. Unqualified for colds, save throat, quinny, 22c, 26c and 26c. A giggling girl is apt to become a cackling woman. Dr. Pierce's P'asant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take as candy. It is usually costly to follow cheap advice. It will protect you—will make you horse-wise and crook-proof, and save you from being cheated by dopes or tricks when buying, selling, or trading. It exposes and makes you acquainted with the tricks and handling methods of gyps and a certain class of unscrupulous dealers. Many of the secrets of this book are now made public for the first time. No such collection of Horse Trading, Horse Buying, Horse Training, and Horse Feeding information has ever before been published. It is impossible even in this large space to give a complete list of the secrets in this sensational book. "Horse Secrets" has been prepared by Dr. A. S. Alexander, the famous veterinarian, who has had upwards of 25 years' experience in Horse-Buying and Breeding. Horse Secrets has all the interest of an exciting story. The reader goes along from page to page with increasing wonderment at the clever dishonesty of tricky horse traders. It is a book that will sharpen your wits, and already the demand has far exceeded our expectations. We could sell this book and make large sales, too, at almost any price we wanted to ask. But we believe that WE CAN DO MORE GOOD in another way; therefore we offer it only in connection with the following offer: Farm Journal, 1087 Race St., Philadelphia W·L·DOUGLAS $3,00 $3,50 & $4,00 SHOES THE LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF MEN'S FINE SHOES IN THE WORLD Wear W. L. Douglas comfortable, easy-walking shoes. They are made upon honor, of the best leather, by the most skilled workmen, in all the latest fashions. Shoes in every style and shape to suit men in all walks of life. If I could talk you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W. L. 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No Job Too Small—No Job Too La Good Work Guaranteed—First-Class Workmen W. N. MILLEER, Editor 634 N. Water St., Wichita, ATTACKS BALLINGER BIG PARADES ENDED AGAINST ROOSEVELT POLICIES A PILGRIMAGE TO NEWBURGH SENATOR LA FOLLETTE'S MAGA ZINE DEMANDS REMOVAL OF SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. Charge Made That Department Head Makes War on Reclamation Projects While President is Making Promises to Support Them. Madison, Wis., Oct. 3.—"Secretary Ballinger must go" That is the burden of Senator La Follett's leading article in this week's issue of La Follette's Magazine. He says: The reclamation of the arid lands of the west was surely one of the greatest of the Roosevelt policies. Not reclamation by "big business," but reclamation by the people and for the people. In seven years the reclamation service of the national government has reclaimed and opened up to homestead settlement more than 1,000,000 acres of heretofore arid lands. These lands have been sold to settlers in small tracts, together with water rights, at practically the cost to the government of their reclamation. There was no graft, no "rakeoff" for "big business." Just the people redeeming the deserts for themselves, with their own capital. In August came the Irrigation Congress at Spokane. The secretary of the interior was there. The burden of his message was that the Roosevelt policy of government irrigation was practically at an end. Meanwhile the president proclaims loyalty to the Roosevelt policies. To the Irrigation Congress he sent a telegram pledging loyalty to irrigation. We do not question the sincerity of the president's repeated pledges. But we condemn most heartily those whose official conduct places the president under the constant necessity of reassuring the people of his loyalty to these policies. Chief of these official malefactors is Secretary Ballinger. While the president is pledging loyalty to the Roosevelt policies Ballinger is overturning those policies wherever he has power. While the president is making promises Ballinger is making war. Let the conflict cease. Let us have a secretary of the interior whose administration will comport with the public declarations of the president. If Ballinger will serve the "interests" let him do it in private employment. SHOT AND THEN TIED TO A TREE Storkeeper at Bean Lake, Mo., Has Rough Experience With Three Robbers. St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 3.—Michael Baker, a storekeeper at Bean Lake, about 20 miles south of here on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, was held up in his store by three men, two white and one negro, who robbed him of $40. Baker was then forced to walk with the men to a point near Armour Station, at Sugar Lake, where the robbers began to strip the clothes from him. He believed they intended to murder him and throw his body into the lake and in resisting he was shot in the forehead by the negro. The robbers then tore his shirt into strips and tied him to a tree near the railroad track, warning him that he would be killed if he attempted to free himself. The robbers walked up the track toward Armour and half an hour later Baker managed to free himself. He walked back to Bean Lake, arriving about 3 o'clock this morning. His wound 'a' said to be dangerous. Travelers Paid More Duties Travelers Paid More Duties. New York, Oct. 3.—Duties paid by trans-Atlantic travelers at the port of New York, reached a new high water mark during the month of September according to a statement issued by Collector Loeb. The total for the month is almost double the monthly average and is $100,000 greater than ever before collected in a single month. The duties collected in September last amounted to $265,106, while the previous high record for September 1901 was $163,547. Washington, Oct. 3.—As a result of charges filed against him, Daniel Davies, commissioner of immigration at Chicago has been suspended from duty. The immigration authorities here refuse to disclose the nature of the charges. Mr. Davies has been furnished with a copy of them and it is expected he will make a reply. Teachers at Topeka in November. Topeka, Oct. 3.—The annual meeting of the Kansas Teachers' association will be held November 4 and 5 this year, instead of during the Christmas holidays. A larger crowd than usual is expected and the committee in charge has prepared an elaborate program. The Week's Business Failures. New York, Oct. 3.—Business failures in the United States for the week ended September 30 were 195 as against 171 last week and 225 in the like week of 1908. A Nebraskan Killed in Emporia. Emporia, Kan., Oct. 3.—Arthur Barrons, a stockman of Jensen, Neb., was bit by a freight engine and killed in the Santa Fe yards here. HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION AT NEW YORK CLOSES WITH SECOND NAVAL PARADE. Peary's Arctic Vessel, the Roosevelt, Was a Feature of the Display—Clermont and Half Moon Led the Ships Up the Hudson. Newburgh, N. Y., Oct. 3.—With the Half Moon and Clermont swinging at anchor off shore against a back ground of illuminated warships and fire works, Newburgh rounded out one of the greatest days in her history. The vessels which have played so prominent a part in Hudson-Fulton week were formally turned over to the keeping of the celebration's "Upper Hudson Commission," by General Stewart L. Woodford, president of the Lower Hudson Commission. Mayor Benjamin McClung welcomed the distinguished guests to Newburgh, and Gov. Hughes paid his tribute in a brief address. Lleut. Lam, impersonator of Henry Hudson; Charles S. Bullock, the Robert Fulton of the present Clermont; and Representatives from The Netherlands were also introduced during the brief ceremony at the pier. Beside the Clermont, when she came to anchor, in Newburgh Bay, lay the Norwich of Rondout, N. Y., the "oldest steamer in the world," which for 76 years has been in active service. With her low hull no higher above the water than a shingle and her "sawpit" engine, she presented a figure but little less curious than her prototype. It was not until after the second division of the parade had passed the reviewing stand that the Roosevelt, Commander Peary's Arctic exploration ship, put in an appearance far down the river with a tug alongside. She had been delayed by a mishap but finally reached an anchorage unostentatiously not far from where the Clermont and Half Moon were lying. Commander Peary came ashore and returned quietly to New York by train. Thousands later thronged the shore to look at her famous ship. New York, Oct. 3.—Henry Hudson has salled north again, and the waters of Manhattan Harbor, crowded with the navies of eight nations, to do him honor, will mirror no more the crescent stern, the spreading spars and broad orange ensign of his caravel, the Half Moon. With her and her companion, the Clermont, have departed the symbolism and the life of the Hudson-Fulton celebration. They left New York as types and impersonations; they will return after a space, as museum curiosities. Promptly at 9 o'clock the vessels of the escort squadron carrying 500,000 passengers, fell into line in the North river, noses up-stream. The Dutch cruiser Utrecht, the United States scout cruisers Salem and Birmingham, the submarines and their parent ship, the Castine together, with the gunboats and naval auxiliaries, had preceded them, and the only ships of war in the line were the destroyer Worden and the six torpedo boats which followed her at 100 yards intervals. Behind them came a 15 mile string of Hudson river and Long Sound liners, among the largest inland water passenger ships in the world, converted for the day into excursion steamers. They were as crowded as on the day of the first naval parade and all the way up the river they passed between long files of sight seers ashore. LIPTON WOULD RACE AGAIN Willing to Make Another Attempt For America's Cup Under Universal Rules. London, Oct. 3.—Sir Thomas Lipton, who will sail this month for New York said in an interview that his position in regard to a further attempt to lift the American cup had not changed. The exact date of his departure for New York has not been fixed. "I am always ready," said Sir Thomas. "to challenge with any size boat they like and under the so-called universal rules now existing in the New York Yacht club and all the other clubs in America; but I am unwilling to challenge under the rule of 56 years ago which now is not used in any races in America. "I am most anxious to arrange a contest and hope that the New York Yacht club will realize that the Universal rules if good enough for all other races, ought to be good enough for this." German Americans in Convention. Cincinnati, Oct. 3.—The biennial convention of the National German-American alliance opened here to-day, with Dr. C. J. Hexamer of Philadelphia, the president, in the chair. The alliance has a membership of 2,500,000 in 34 states, and the delegates to the convention number more than 300. To-morrow the National German day will be celebrated in Music hall and Gov. Harmon will formally welcome the delegates to the city. Grand Jury Investigates Graft. Oklahoma City, Ok., Oct. 3.—The grand jury has convened for the purpose of investigating alleged graft cases in which mayor. Scales has charged Chlef of Police Hubatka and others with incompetency and graft in bootlegging liquors. OF TABOR 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, Kan. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, C. G. 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 Tauernacle, Temple or Tent s not in this Directory, or if there is ny error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER. Editor. Chief Preseptresses. Number. 1 Queen of the West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. M. Wilson, 945 Everett. 2 Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. S. Crisp, 615 So. Walnut. 3 Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. C. Tillman, 802 E. 18th. 4 Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. S. Campbell, 616 W. 1st. 5 Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. C. Brown, 920 N. 10th. 7 Sunbeam, Salina, Kan., Mrs. R. 6 Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 716 Cypress. 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. 12 Golden Rule, K. C., Kan., Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewart. 14 Candace, Pittsburg, Kan., Mrs. M. Beasley, 109 W. Washington. 15 America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. E. Lee, Box 25. 16 Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. L. Morton, 1208 Washington. 17 Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. A. Masir, 1817 Wall. 18 St. Maria, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. C. Wade, 22 N. 16th. 20 Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P. Johnson, 501 Hyman. 24 Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan., Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th. 28 Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. A. Ray, 1412 E. Clark. 29 Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Woods, 935 Cherokee. 30 Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Fifth. 32 Emma Gaines, B. te, Mont., Mrs. Saline Easter, 334 Dakota St. (rear). 34 Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Sally Hall, 1024 Ohio. 35 Golden Rule, S. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. S. Jones, 819 N. 27th. 37 Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. M. Gosby, 108 N. 3rd. 38 Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. F. Taylor, Box 1174. 39 Deborah, Abeline, Kan., Mrs. A. Gibson, 411 S. 1st. 52 Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. J. Ware, 807 N. Y. 63 Fair West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. R. Saunders, 734 N. J. 64 Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. O'Brien, 1180 Buchanan. 85 Magadalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. 87 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas. 89 Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific. 91 Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Rountree, 1125 N. 19th. 93 Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Sylvia Brown, 803 E. 11th St. 1 A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kar M. Burns, Box 31. 2 R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Wm Cook, 215 E. Kearney. <u>ἐποδοξη</u> H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman. 1 Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., J. 2 St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., A. J. NOTICE TABORS. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses TEMPLES. Number. 11 Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Wm Frazier, 708 N. Water. 12 Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan Wm. Shakespear, 1112 Main. 15 Silver Leaf, Salina, Kan., J. C. Brown, 246 S. Phillips. 17 Golden Gate, Coffeyville, Kan. Rev. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th. 19 Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., J. E. Hughes, 1220 N. J. 22 Barak, Oswego, Kan., L. R. Wilson. 24 Jas. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan. Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 25 Washington, K. C. Kan., J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell. 59 Sunny Side, Topeka, Kan., U. A. Graham, 1160 West. 60 Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., U. S. Grant, 1813 W. 6th. Number. 1 Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Hardin, 900 Fifth 2 Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. F. Goodall, 610 Barbee. 3 Mary E. Dickson, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L. Weaver, 1125 Saratoga. 5 Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. B. Davis, 1135 Washington. 7 Lone Star, Yale, Kan., Mrs. C. Lewis. 9 J. Bruce, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. M. Scott, 1516 Jones. 11 Golden, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. E. Penn, 718 Q. 11 Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. M. E. Brown, 325 Miss. 14 Bee Bisy, 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. H. Adkins. 17 Star of West, Salina, Kan., Mrs. A. G. 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. L. Porter, 2017 Morton. 28 20th Century, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan. 36—Pride of Topeka, Naule Marshall, 900 N. Topeka avenue. 45 Orange Rose, K. C., Kan., Mrs. C. Henderson, 312 Washington. 45 Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Herrrold, 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. LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH. Night Lights of New York Are a Vision of Magnificence. The sky line of New York is always changing. So, too, the night lights shift and grow in wonderful magnificence, creeping continually further upward toward the stars, until the lower city, grouped around the Singer tower, has become a veritable Chimborazo of glitter and glow. The little lamps that mark the dark wharves barely show. Above them the scant candles of the older city twinkle here and there, but not enough to mar the dark foreground beyond which come the palaces more goregous than any ever coaxed from genil land by slaves of Aladdin's lamp. From the platform towers of the great bridge the picture sets to the best advantage. It begins with the sinking sun. The murky view beyond the bay betetoms dull and dark. The torch in Liberty's hand suddenly gleams star-like in the night and then, like the twinkling in a kaleidoscope, the palaces begin to glitter in the gloom. There is no vision like it elsewhere in the world, yet only now and then does a bridge pedestrian pause in his hurried walk to spectacle a momentus visual New Yorker splendor of his consider the amount of ear to which a bank note is issued, we ought to be able to realize its physical strength. In a recent experiment sheets were drawn at random from piles of paper weighing 14 pounds to the ream. Each sheet was halved and weighed, and each half was folded double when tested. One, offering 61 square inches, stood a strain of 100 pounds. The same-sized sheet, 16 pounds to the ream, stood a strain of over 300 pounds. The average results of Crane paper, 14 pounds to the ream, with sizing, were a perpendicular strain of 3 1.3 pounds to the square inch, and a transverse strain of 4% pounds. Pretty nearly as toughas shoe leather. TENTS. Queen Mothers. length of Money.