Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. Colored Men As Bankers A Success ELEVENTH YEAR Colored Me As A Negroes A Success - As Bankers It might be interisting reading to some people to get an authentic insight into what the Negro is doing in the calling as Bankers. The Banking Record shows that there has been less failures in proposition to numbers among Negroes a Bankers—than among whites. What is the reason for this in favor of the Negro as a solid Banker we leave you to say. Banking among Negroes is of necessity, a new feature of care enterprises and their success has been most marvelous as well as phenomenal. We here re-print a report on Negro Banking as reported by the National Negro Business League which is in every way reliable. As reported by the natural Negro business league or banks. The Forsyth Saving and Trust Co. of Winston-Salem, N. C. began business May 11, 1907. To December 1, 1909, the cash and other kinds of business transacted amounted to over $400,000. The bank pays 4 per cent. interest on all deposits. J. S. Hill is president and F. M. Kennedy, cashier. The Mechanics and farmers Bank of Durham, N. C. was launched August 1, 1908. At the end of twelve months of business $230 000 had been placed on deposit. The amount of business done within the same peroid was $1,250,000. The officers of the bank are R. B. Fitzerald, president; John Merrick, vice-president, and George W. Adams, cashier. The Alabama Savings Bank of Selma, a young offspring of the Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham, made its initial bow before the public November 1st, 1909. It is domiciled in splendidly furnished quarters in the Hudson-Irbo Building. On the first day of business the deposits amounted the $2.012,45. At the close of business December 8 1909 the deposits were $28,95,63. The officers of the bank are: Henry Boyd, president, R. B. Hudson, cashier, R. H. Hunter, bookeeper, W. H. McAlpine paying and receiving teller. Four per cent interest is paid on all deposits. W. R. Pettiford, the founder and president of the Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham Alaba authorizes the following statement concerning the business done at the close of November 16 1909: This bank has an authorized capital stock of $100,009. Resources Cash in Vault..... $ 20,731.39 Cash in Other Banks...26,379.12 Loans and Discounts 134,320.69 Stocks and Bonds.....100.00 Real Estate..... 90,000.88 Furniture & Fistures.....3,386.01 Overdrafts..... 1,429.45 Total ..... $275,996.53 Liabilities Capital Stock ..... $ 42,018.50 Undivided Profits ..... 3,773.83 Due Deposit, Demand143,212.88 Due on Certificates..... 70,262.18 Rediscounted Uncalled for 435.18 Bills Payable ..... 5,330.98 Savings Account ..... 269.18 Total..... $ 275,996.53 "In 1907 this bank had 9,112 depositors, which number was reduced by the financial panic to 8,000 the present number of de- positors. "We have built 1,525 homes for our depositors and we have handled one million and ninty-nine dollars ($1,000,099) "On Monday last we received on deposit $11,000, on Tuesday 6, 0,00 on Wednesday $3,000. Of that amount $17,000 was check ed out leaving 13,000 in bank, which is about the average grow- th of our business. We do a regular banking business, issuring drafts on New York and certificates on foreign countries. Our bank sustains the most cordial relations with all the white banks of Birmingham "We teach our people to use two books — the Bible and the bank book." The number of the banks owned and controlled by members of the race are in the neighborhood of city at the present. They are being established almost at a rate of one every month in the year. A bank was opened in Anniston, Alabama, last month, and steps are being taken to start one in Mobile and one in Montgomery the beginning of the ensuring year. While it seems to be some what difficult for some reason or other to get a definite statement of the financial condition of all the banks now in existence from the resoective officers, nevertheless W. R. Pettiford, president of the National Negro Banking Association, has been successful in securing some data concerning the business of several of these banks upon which the following statement is based. Loans & Discounts $379,106.80 Capt. Stock Authorizd 275,000. " " paid in .....149,733.17 Deposits .....722,122.38 Value of Real Estate 156,522.77 Estimate of deposit in all the banks annually .....2,000,000.00 Octobera 22,1909. W.R, Pettiford President As reported by the national Negro business league — Negro bank a success — big business — Nashville Globe Bank directory will appear February 18. The following interesting information appeared recently in the DailyNews (white), Greensboro, N.C., from its staff correspondent In Durham, N. C. Durham, Jan.25. At a meeting of the stockholders and directors of the Mechanics and Farmers. Bank MARCH 12th 1910. here, the Negro banking organization, John Merrick, vice-president, was chosen to succeed R. P Fitzgerald, resigned on account of ill health. The institution, manned by Negro men without a practices of help from the whites has done a million dollars worth of business the past year, and its place in the colored colony has betome fixed. It has one of the younger men at its head now. Fitzgerald is the richest North Carolina Negro, but Merrick has risen from the barber shop to the livest business man of his race here, and is the second richest man in his race here. The Ngroes hove a magnificent block here and both insurance companies, financed in part by the bank are dealing deeply in real estate. In The Nashville Globe of February 18th there will appear the most complete Directory of Negro Banks ever attempted by any newspaper in the country. It will ever surpass the splendid researches of the several Bankers Registees. These statistics are being compiled by Mr. Henry A. Boyd manager of the Nashville Globe, who has made a thorough study of Negro banks. In this article he ventures the assertion of that there are sixty Negro banks and institutions doing banking business in the United States. He gives the name, state and city in which fifty-two of them are located: and also gives the names of these different institutions in their alphabetical order by states with the authorized capital of each bank. A summary shows that Virginia, the Old Dominion State leads all the other states in the Union having thirteen banks to her credit. Mississippi comes in for the second place with eleven Virginia leads a second time by having one city opsrating four banks, namely Richmond. She also leads in the capital stock. Mississippi having every, forges ahead in a autoriety and activity, having a State Negro Bankers Association Mr. Boyd says that four of these banks in different parts of the country have $100,000 of capital each: nine of them have $50,000 one, 35,000 twenty-one, $24,000 seventeen, $10,000. He further states that a careful estimate shows a total of $1,620,000 as the authorized capital up on which these fifty odd Negro banks are doing business, and that when the returns are all in, they will show a clearance, on money handled, of about $20,000,000 for 1909. WELLINGTON KANSAS The Revival of the Second Baptist Church which is being conducted by the pastor Rev. Green is well attended. There was three additions to the church Sunday night two under watch care and one for baptism. Mrs. Jessie Brower has returned home from Kansas City where she made an extended visit to her daughter Miss. Laura Brower. The Literary Society of the A. M. E. Church gave an interesting program Thursday night. Mrs. Mary Byrd is quite ill. Robert Taylor and family of Arkansas City are visiting his parents. The members of the Second Baptist Church and friends gave a surprise for their pastor Rev. Green at the home of Mrs. Sam Ross. Mr. John Oldham has moved into his new home on S. C. St. John Shaw has gone to his home at Anadonka. Mrs. George Harris of Caldwell Kansas spent the day here she was on her wap home from Medicine Lodge, where she visited the family of Rev. Hughes. THEY ARE NOT THE WORST Every once in awhile we hear some wide-mouth individual of lamb-blasting, criticizing and unmereifully running down the young Negro. Such a person who takes his criticisms out of all reason, soon loses our company. We do not claim that all of the young Negroes are angles- any more than are the yaung folks of any other race angele — but we do claim that there are good qualities in our young folks of which should be encouraged and not criticised so much. If these wise- aces, who have such keen insight into so many faults of the young Negro, would use this "super-human power" they possessess in an effort to raise some fallen Negro boy or Negro girl from the gutter — so to speak — and would work equally as earnest to show this boy or girl the error of their way— in this wise they would have less young folks to criticise. Every young Negro- boy or girl—have enough critics and denouncers outside of the race and should not have such to overcome within the race We admit—there are some bad Negro boys and bad Negro girls but did it ever occur to you that the average Negro boy or girl has not the incentive to be good thrown around them as is thrown other boys and girls? Race preju public ostracism, labor limitations, public ridicule, scoffing, in timidation, public and private rebuffs and insults, exclusion from public places of youthful amusements, and hundereds of other things which the young Negro is daily exposed are an incentive to stir the blood of the Negeo to be almost every thing else but good -yet wlth all these things as impediments and ever present evils to keep him from being good—the young Negro is not the worst class of young people in the world, Older men and women of the race should become better examples for the young folks of our race and then they would have less to criticise and less time for criticisms. "Kind words turneth away worth" and—"One ounce of preventative is worth many pounds of Cure" Let the older members of the race counsel with the young folks more and give them wholesome advice and not crisicise them and denounce them so harshly. They should remember that these young folks are docile human beings and not dumb hrutes. We hope that the time is now at hand that every young Negro can look to every older of member of the race as their Consellor Adviser, friend and brother and not as their condemers and false accusesr. They are not the worst young folks known. The editor wishes to compliment his people in Wichita and also his out-of-town subscribers for the business-like manner in which they are paying their subscription to the Searchlight. It makes the editor feel much better and prouder of his people every day to see them come to the office and pay their subscription or set a date for him to call and collect. It is so much nicer than having to chase them all over town. We also compliment our out-of town readers for sendinfius their money orders and in a few cases—their personal checks That shows that our people are getting to the front in business. It tickles him all over. We also thauk each for their words of allegiance and encouragement and hope that the same friendlp rslations may exist between the Searchlight and its thousands of patrons in the future as it has existed between them in the past dozen of years. We are your friends. A merchants "add" in a Negro newspaper is a sign that the merchant will appreciate the trade of the members of that race. Go there and trade. NO.49 IOLA KANSAS Golden Tabernacle No 2. met on Saturday Feb. 26 with good attendance. The Tabernacle is working in peace and harmony and getting along nicely. We have one very sick member Dtr. L. J. Gordon who has been sick for two weeks. Rev, Shelton pastor of the A. M. E. Church is conducting a revival. The meeting has been quite a success. --- LEAVENWORTH KANS Crystal Tabernacle No.29 met in regular monthly meeting Tuesday March 1st, with quite large attendance. There petition were received, Three daughters were reported on the sick list. Dtr. Burdett P. H. P. of Cresent Tabernacle of Atchison, was pleasant visitors and made a much appreciate address to the Tabernacle. A voice of thanks was turned her. Dtr. Laua Bright H. P. of Victoria Tabernacle No. 30 was also a welcome visitor. Both are invited to call again. Crysta Tabernacle under the leadership of Dtr. Lulu Woods is making a fine progress and all art working in peace and harmony: PARSON$ KS. District Deputy Grand Mentor Sir Lee. Holiday went to Oswego on the 19th of February and organized a Tabernacle of 19 members. He was assisted by Dtr. Flora Ballinger P. H. P. of Silver Leaf Tabernacle No. 16 and Dtr L. Willis Q. M. of 20th Century Tent No. 22. A splendid trip is reported by all. The Daughters of Modern Tabernacle No. 28 gave a Valantine Supper on Feb. 14th which was a grand success. The daughters of Silver Leaf Tabernacle No. 16 gave a supper on Feb. 22nd which was very successful. Queen City Palantium met in regular session on Feb. 8th with Sir Lee Holiday P. P. They are doing nicely. If you want a good, hearty laugh, just wait and attend the "Slab-Town" convention to be given at the New Hope Baptist Church soon. It is a sure cure for the blues and will remove that tired feeling. Hand-bills, programs and announcements soon. Watch for them. Part Owners BY W. B. HAYWARD (Copyrighted by Short Stories Co., Ltd.) "Toppin's bad again to-night," said Mac, slamming the foc'sle door and lighting his pipe. "He's looking over the rail and mumbling to himself, like a man out of his senses." "Toppin's a fool," said Snyder, decidedly. "What's that?" asked a sleepy voice from a bunk. "Toppin's a fool," repeated Snyder, "an idiot. I'd like to see myself growing thin over a girl." "Toppin said to-night," remarked Mac, putting the lamp back into its place, "that Miss Mary had refused him again. She said that as she's the owner of the Rocket and Toppin is only the sailing master, it wouldn't be right for her to marry him. Them was her words. I think she don't want to share the profits the Rocket makes with Toppin. It's cheaper to hire him at $25 a month—that's the real reason. They be twoools," observed Mac, sagely, "and they'll end by marrying. I think—" The opening of the foc'sle door cut short Mac's discourse. "Boys," said Toppin's voice from the deck, "Miss Mary says we must get under way by daybreak." Early next morning the two masted schooner Rocket, in ballast, crossed the bar with a fair wind on her voyage down the coast in search of a cargo. The crew, though busy on deck, had time enough to glance aft occasionally. Toppin was at the wheel, and Miss Mary sat near the companionway, silently watching the foaming wake of the little craft. For an hour she remained quite motionless, with a troubled look upon her features. Toppin's eyes moved slyly from the compass to the cross-trees, and thence to the girl. These stolen glances she appeared not to notice, although once or twice Toppin saw the color come to her cheeks and her hands clasp and unclasp. The sailing master wanted to speak, but all his thoughts seemed to have fled. At last he blurted out: "Miss Mary, the Rocket needs a coat of paint forward." "Does she?" she replied, without raising her eyes. "Then I'll tell Mac to have it done." "Why don't you tell me?" asked Toppin. "You," she responded, "I—I'm going to discharge you when your month is up." Her tones cut deep into Toppin. "Discharge me?" "Yes, I'm dissatisfied with you. Not with the way you run the ship, but the way you treat the owner. You've got no business to make love to me. Haven't I often told you that I would never marry any one? The Rocket is home and everything else to me. Isn't that enough?" It wasn't a question, as Mac thought, of sharing the profits made by the Rocket with another; that idea had never entered her head. Toppin was kind, considerate, straightforward, and not a fortune hunter, as she well knew, but Toppin was also masterful. In spite of her self-reliance, Mary's act caused her some misgivings, and as she again turned the matter over in her mind it was rather with a spirit of remorse. Had Toppin spoken then, her decision would have been revoked, and she almost wished he would speak. The silent, grave face at the wheel first provoked her sympathy, and then angered her, because the eyes seemed to notice everything on the schooner except the owner. A light rain which then began to fall added discomfort to her anger, and Mary went below. When she came on deck some hours later Mac was steering. The wind had fallen to a breath, and the sails flapped idly when the Rocket rolled and pitched with the gentle swell. Toppin went aft and took the wheel. "Mac," he said, "if we don't get a breeze we'll be in trouble. The tide's carrying us inshore fast." Toppin felt nervous and dispirited. The lead had given him no sign of bottom, yet he knew instinctively that the schooner was not far from shore. "She'll have a better excuse to fire me if I run the Rocket aground," he thought, watching the cloaked figure that sat on a water tank a few paces away. The stillness of the fog emphasized the constant drip of moisture from rope and spar, and gave a double significance to each sound aboard the schooner. Eight bells had barely struck when a cry of "Bottom" came from Snyder. "Mac, said Toppin, as the seaman came running aft, "I've done it, and I'll sure be fired now." Then he told the story of how Miss Mary said she could do without his services. Morning found the schooner in a serious, though not dangerous position. The tide had receded, leaving the stern sunk in the sand and but a few inches of water beneath the bows. A bright sun cleared the fog away, and there was little wind or swell. Mary went about the deck in silence, and beyond asking if the Rocket was leaking, appeared to take no interest in what had occurred. Toppin himself had little to say. He sounded the well continually, and looked anxiously for signs of the returning tide. "She's resting easy in the mud and she ain't leaked a drop," he remarked to Mac. "We'll float her when the tide rises, if we have luck." Time moved slowly, and more than once the sailing master went over the side to examine the position of the vessel. Forward the men were talking about Toppin's discharge. "I'd hate to see him go," said Tommy. "There ain't many like him." "He won't go," replied Mac, in confident tones. "You see that out there?" All hands looked over the rail at a plume of black smoke. "That's a tugboat," he continued, "coming to tow us off. You can bet there's a hard crowd aboard that boat, and if they get a line on this craft they'll put in a big claim for salvage, whether we're pulled off or not. Toppin, he knows that, and he won't allow no tugboat captain to get near the Rocket. Now we've got to say that we want the schooner towed off. Miss Mary, she'll kick and go to Toppin, and Toppin he'll come to us. You follow me, boys." Snyder and Tommy nodded their heads. They had faith in Mac, because he was Toppin's right-hand man. "When 'Toppin comes to us we'll go to Miss Mary,' pursued Mac, "and we'll say that unless she takes Toppin back we'll take a line from that boat. Ain't that right?" "That's a good bluff," chuckled Snyder. "I guess it ougher work." In the afternoon as the sun moved into the west, the tide began to lap against the sides of the Rocket, gaining a little more energy with each minute. Twice a dingey had come from the tugboat with offers of assistance, but the sailing master turned it back without comment. The third time the boat brought a hawser, which was paid out from the steamer. Toppin stood at the rail with something shining in his hand. "I'll shoot the first man that boards this schooner," he said, quietly, pointing the revolver at the boat. The dingey stood off for further parley. "Mr. Toppin," said Mac's voice, "you'd better take that line. If you don't we will." "Who's in charge of this ship?" asked Toppin, hotly. "There ain't no 'buts' about it. Call Miss Mary and call Snyder and Tommy. We'll settle this right now." It was the first time the crew had ever mae trouble, and the sailing master took the mutiny as a personal rebuke, because he knew his time of service was short. Mary came forward and stood beside Toppin. "We want that schooner to tow us off." began Mac, "and—" Toppin interrupted him. "Am I in charge still?" he asked Mary. "Yes, until the end of your month," she replied. "Then you men go forward and obey orders. Are you going?" Toppin raised his pistol hand. There was a rustle of skirts and Mary was standing with the muzzle pointed at her head. The revolver came down slowly and went into Toppin's pocket. The sailing master looked ashamed of himself. "Mac," he said, "I always thought I could trust you." "So you can," responded the seaman. "We don't want to make no trouble, and we'll float the Rocket without that tug if Miss Mary'll agree to take you back." Toppin's eyes shone with gratitude, then his voice grew hard. "Don't bring Miss Mary into this. I'm working for the Rocket, not for myself." Mary felt all her resolutions slipping away. The humiliation of the position hurt her, yet she knew that Toppin had spoken the truth. "I'll do it, Mac," she said, and ran directly to the cabin. In her stateroom Mary buried her face in the pillows of the little bunk. Overhead she could hear hurrying footsteps, and the quiet voice of Toppin giving orders to the men. There was a splash at the stern—the splash of a boat dropping into the water, which, as Mary's sea training told her, was to carry the light anchor and warp to be used in pulling the schooner out of the mud. Later the boat came back, and then she heard the song of the men as they walked the capstan-bars around. One by one the links in the chain wound over the windlass drum, and the anchor which had been dropped the night before came slowly out of its muddy bed. As the tide rose to the flood the Rocket began to move, and both warp and chain grew shorter. The hoisting of the jib aroused Mary, and, though it took much courage, she came on deck. Walking up to Toppin she put out her hand. "I hope you will forgive me," she said. A puff of wi- filled the jib and the Rocket at last sillipped off the sand bank into deep water. Toppin let* the wheel and drew the girl to him. Mary's resistance had ended. As she lifted her face the sailing master bent over and kissed her. "There's nothing to forgive." were his words. From the capstan head came the cheers of three lusty sailors. THE AMERICAN HOME W- A. RADFORD EDITOR THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is without doubt, the highest man in the field, the highest all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 - Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. In the building of a town situated in a rolling country the level tracts are the first to be occupied usually. Next come those which are easily and inexpensively graded, and finally the side hill lots, offering problems in building that many people are prone to avoid. The situation on a hillside or gentle slope is exceedingly attractive. It offers, first, a fine outlook. The houses overtop each other like the seats in a theater, and each commands not only a larger view, but more of the sunshine, more of the breeze, and a certain amount of added privacy which cannot be secured when all the houses are on the same level. In fact, the fundamental principle in selecting the site for a home is to find a rising piece of ground which will afford good drainage, and also add to the dignity of the house to be placed on it. The early treatises on the building of an English dwelling make the narrow terrace, banked against foundation, a vital part of the design; and the tendency of the ordinary present-day builders to set the house high above the ground is due not entirely to a desire to avoid deep excavation, but comes as the result of this old idea of a terrace and a little formal garden to connect the house with its surroundings. The high hill, therefore, or a part of it, in the form of a hillside lot, should offer no insurmountable THE HOME OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL difficulty to the builder. But following out the idea of the terrace he should strive for a design fitted to the larger elevation upon which the house is to be placed. In the country, where one usually has a larger area from which to pick a site, the problem is much simpler. Room must of course be allowed for the stable or garage. Ease of access must be considered, and also the relation of the dwelling to other parts of the prop- PORCH BATHHAM 14 4 1 6 8 MARTYP 10 4 1 6 8 GARDEN GOTTIFINE ROOM 18 4 1 6 8 DINING ROOM 18 4 1 6 8 MAILBOX 18 4 1 6 8 REC HALL 18 4 1 6 8 PORCH First Floor Plan. erty. But if it has been decided to place the house on the side of a knoll certain things must be studied in order to secure the best results. The shape of the knoll itself should determine the contour of the house. Placed on a hilltop where the ground falls away in all directions, the lines of the house should conform to those of the site. The slope of the roof should repeat that of the hillside. Hipped or hooded, pierced by low dormers and spreading out over the hilltop in long and pleasing lines, such a house will add to the beauty of the landscape and well repay the extra care given to the design. Since its site is high its windows and porches will afford a pleasing view, and unless the ground is heavily wooded no tower or lookout will be needed. When desirable that a portion of the house should be more elevated care should be taken to make the tower wide and low, and the pitch --- of its roof the same as that of the mass of the building. The design here shown is a type of house suitable for a hilltop or high rise of ground. It is not difficult to imagine the delights of a summer evening on this wide expanse of porch if this house were on an elevation high above the surrounding dwellings. The building is 36 feet wide and 51 Second Floor Plan. feet in length. It has a reception hall 15 feet square and the parlor is 15 feet 6 inches by 14 feet 6 inches in size. A delightful living room is provided that is 17 by 15 feet. The dining-room is the same size. The kitchen is 13 feet 6 inches by 16 feet 10 inches. Access is had to the second floor by a good size stairway leading from the reception hall. One of the features of the second floor is a sewing room, which every woman will appreciate. This room is 10 feet 6 inches THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM square. There is one bedroom 15 feet 6 inches by 15 feet; another 17 feet 6 inches by 13 feet, and a third bedroom 13 by 15 feet. The servant's room is 9 feet 6 inches by 8 feet. The bathroom is 9 feet 6 inches by 7 feet 6 inches. A noticeable feature about this house is the large amount of closet room offered. There are six closets, all of good size. This house can be built at a moderate cost and will afford much delight to the owner if placed on a rise of ground, on account of the abundance of light offered by the numerous windows. A feature of modern construction, which is based on sanitary principles, is an abundance of sunlight, which is deemed essential to happiness and good health. Home builders are coming more and more to appreciate these essentials in construction, and it certainly is vital to the welfare of the race. Fame. "Fame is a curious, intangible thing," said the athletic young man "You never know just what form it is going to take. Let me illustrate "I was one of a week-end party that went up to Greenwood lake for the skating over last Sunday. I had occasion to stroll over to the village Saturday night and seated around the stove in Minthorn's store I found the usual aggregation of loungers, suggesting the descendants of a prehistoric race. They were all very wise, but there was one, Peleg Ryerson by name, who seemed to be the great wiseacre. Peleg wasn't there in person—I discovered he was 89 years old, and was housed with rheumatism. "What did he ever do to give him such distinction?" I asked. "Well," drawd one of the loungers. '54 years ago old Peleg cut his name on a turtle, an' a couple of months ago the turtle was found!"—New York Times. What Caused It. "Were you ever treated for the drink habit, my poor man?" "Oh, yes, ma'am. I couldn't afford to be buying 'em." To Manufacture Radium. The first company in the world to undertake the production of radium in a commercial way is building a laboratory at London HE WAS TOO KIND The girl with the coronation braid took three stitches on her embroidery centerpiece and then inspected them carefully. By the way, Celeste," she remarked, "I saw you at the Beehoven club concert last night with Fred Allison!" She raised her eyebrows smilingly and her tone was full of meaning. "You did, no doubt," affirmed the girl with the black velvet bow in her hair. "What then?" Her manner was aggressively calm and unmoved. "Why, nothing, I suppose," replied the girl with the coronation braid hastily. "Of course it's none of my business, dear, but every one knows that Fred Allison is simple wild about you and I was only joking, anyway. You surely know what people have been saving—" "I do know it," broke in the girl with the black velvet bow, her icy displeasure giving way to open wrath. "I also know that it makes me too utterly weary! For of all the thick-headed, blundering imbeciles on earth, that same Fred Allison is the worst!" "Why, Celeste!" cried the girl with coral dropping her sewing in amazement. "It was only a few weeks ago, at the country club, that you said Fred Allison was the handsomest man there. And that night you danced with him five times and an extra or two." "Did you count?" demanded the girl with the black velvet bow, frowning. "Certainly I did!" said the girl with the coral beads. "So did all the other girls. And Harvey Emerson—" "I had not met Mr. Emerson at that time," stiffly remarked the girl with the black velvet bow. "But how did you happen to go to the Beethoven club concert with Fred if you dislike him so?" demanded everybody at once. "Happen!" said the center of interest, sarcastically. "Happen! It was because Fred happened to have an engagement to call last night, that's all! Fanny Thomas called me up on the telephone in the morning to ask if I couldn't use two tickets for the concert, as she and her brother were suddenly compelled to go out of town. I said 'Yes' gladly, because I love music anyway, and since I've known Mr. Emerson, who plays the plano so beautifully, my musical taste has really developed. "It occurred to me at once that if Fred Allison hadn't been coming I should have had a chance to ask Mr. Emerson to go with me. He could have explained all the movements and everything. But Fred was coming, so, of course, I had to ask him. Still, he has had the grip and the weather was fearfully cold and I thought that maybe he would excuse himself. Anyway, I telephoned him, because if we went to the concert he'd have to come earlier than just to make a call. "The minute he heard my voice he said, "Why, I was just going to call you up." "Yes?" said I. "I feel like a wreck to day," he croaked, 'and if you could let me come to-morrow night instead of to-night—" "Certainly," I said, before he had the words out of his mouth. Then it occurred to me that I mustn't be impolite, so I added sweetly, 'I'm so sorry, though, because Fanny has just asked me to use two tickets to the Beethoven club concert and—" "And you want to go?" he asked. "Oh yes, of course," I stammered; 'but—" "Then I'll be there!" said Fred, promptly. 'I'm certainly not going to disappoint you in a thing like that!" She, paused. "Idiot!" she concluded, snipping off a silk thread viciously. The girl with the coral beads giggled. "Did you enjoy the concert?" she asked. "No," said the other grimly. "I saw everybody there that I ever knew and they all smiled blandly at me and then looked knowingly at Fred. It's getting so bad that a lot of my friends won't ask me to go out any more. Some men feel that way about it, you know, when they think some other man is a girl's favorite." "Does Mr. Emerson feel that way?" inquired the girl with the coral beads, innocently. "He does." responded the injured one, with gloom. "And we sat directly in front of his sister and that Mr. Door who goes with her. I hate to have any one I know sitting behind me, anyway. Don't you? You always have a feeling that the ends of your false hair are sticking out." "Don't you care," said the girl with the coronation braid, soothingly. "Her's is all false." "Really?" said the other, more cheerfully. "Well, it's no use crying over spilled milk. And Fred is rather nice, you know, if he isn't musical." Where Bacon Lived. Fulwood's Rents, the little Holborn court leading into Gray's Inn Gardens, which will be largely rebuilt, formerly possessed the privilege of "sanctuary," and hence became a notorious resort for fraudulent debtors and still more unpleasant characters. Yet this dingy "dive" can boast of many glorious memories. Francis Bacon lived here in "Fulwood's House" and valued his furniture at £60, a high price for that period. Here the Whig club and Melbourne and Oates' club met in the reign of Charles II., and here stood Squire's coffee house, from which several numbers of the Spectator were dated—Westminster Gazette. TRIED REMEDY FOR THE GRIP. PE·RU·NA FOR COUGHS AND COLDS GUOD IDEA. Teddy—Say, what makes yer have a gun wid such a long barrel? Jeddy—'Cause yer kin get closer to de rabbit. A TRAIN LOAD OF TOBACCO. Twenty-four Carloads Purchased for Lewis' Single Binder Cigar What is probably the biggest lot of all fancy grade tobacco held by any factory in the United States has just been purchased by Frank P. Lewis, of Peoria, for the manufacture of Lewis' Single Binder Cigars. The lot will make twenty-four carloads, and is selected from what is considered by experts to be the finest crop raised in many years. The purchase of tobacco is sufficient to last the factory more than two years. An extra price was paid for the selection. Smokers of Lewis' Single Binder Cigars will appreciate this tobacco. Peoria Star, January 16. 1909. Traveling Man Got Even. A traveling man called on the manager of a large New York concern the other day and sent his card in by the boy at the outside gate. The boy sauntered back lazily and told the traveling man that the manager wouldn't see him. "Well, you go and ask him for the card I sent in," said the caller. In a few minutes the boy returned from his second trip. "Say," remarked the boy, "the boss told me to tell you that he tore up that card, but he sent a nickel to you to pay for it." The traveling man was deeply insulted, but he decided to get back as best he could. He opened his card case and drew out another card, handling it to the boy. "Give this to your boss," he said, "and tell him that I'll keep the money. My cards are two for five. Much obliged." The manager rushed out of the gate to find the traveling man, but he was too late. The man had left. Not Willing to Commit Himself The teacher had called upon Freddie Brown to give an illustration of the proper manner in which to compare the adjective "clean." "Mother is clean," said he, falteringly, "father is—cleaner—" Here he paused. "And," prompted the teacher. "Freddie was still silent and very thoughtful." "Haven't you some other relative?" asked the teacher, smiling. "Oh, yes," replied Freddie, "there's auntie—but I ain't sure about her!" An Appreciated Distraction "So you think the automobile has made life much pleasanter?" "It has for me," answered the comfortable citizen. "I drive a fast horse and my son rides a bicycle. The automobile has taken the minds of the police off both of us." Bear your own burdens first, after that help to carry those of other people.—George Washington. CHANGE THE VIBRATION It Makes for Health. A man tried leaving off meat, potatoes, coffee, and etc., and adopted a breakfast of fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, some crisp toast and a cup of Postum. His health began to improve at once for the reason that a meat eater will reach a place once in a while where his system seems to become clogged and the machinery doesn't work smoothly. A change of this kind puts aside food of low nutritive value and takes up food and drink of the highest value, already partly digested and capable of being quickly changed into good, rich blood and strong tissue. A most valuable feature of Grape-Nuts is the natural phosphate of potash grown in the grains from which it is made. This is the element which transforms albumen in the body into the soft gray substance which fills brain and nerve centers. A few days' use of Grape-Nuts will give one a degree of nervous strength well worth the trial. Look in pkgs for the little book, "The Road to Wellville." "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter: A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. SCENE IN THE FORE RIVER SHIPYARDS LAUNCHING THE UTAH- LARGEST BATTLESHIP IN THE WORLD 94 tons in 1861 to 940,068 tons in THE SHIP The Shame of Our A S THE 22,000-ton battleship Utah slid down the ways a few weeks ago a smiling girl swung a bottle of champagne at the end of a gay ribbon and s the bow of the gre in existence. a gay ribbon and smashed it against the bow of the greatest fighting ship in existence. A roar of 10,000 voices greeted the mighty steel hull as it struck the salt water and by sheer force of its weight swept a mile and a half into the gray fog against the combined power of four tugboats sent to stop it. Magnificent!, glorious! Yet the same week that saw the largest and costliest battleship in the world launched under the American flag from an American shipyard witnessed the humiliating spectacle of two American merchant steamships, Finland and Kroonland, transferred to the Belgian flag because they could not be operated without loss under the American flag, thus leaving only six American steamships in the whole transatlantic trade, where once America was supreme. The American navy has become the second naval power, while the American flag is being rapidly driven from the foreign trade of the world at a time when international commerce has assumed imperial proportions. Does it thrill the national pride to read of the American merchant ships and seamen that once made the stars and stripes emblems of courage, enterprise and success on all the seas and oceans? Then consider these plain facts: In the past year not one keel of an American ship for the foreign trade was laid. In the same period not a merchant ship carrying the American flag passed through the Suez canal. The American tramp steamship has practically disappeared from foreign trade. Our ship tonnage in the foreign trade has shrunk from 2,496,894 tons in 1861 to 940,068 tons in 1908, a shrinkage of 1,556,826 tons of American foreign shipping in 43 years. No American steamship line connects us with South America, beyond Venezuela and Panama. Not a single American steamship goes to Brazil, Argentina, Chili or Peru. The most convenient means of traveling from any of the great Atlantic ports of the United States to South America is by way of Europe, involving two voyages across the Atlantic ocean. That, too, is the most regular and sometimes the quickest route for mail between the United States and South America—our greatest natural market, which we defend from foreign spoilation according to the Monroe doctrine. There is absolutely no American mail service south of the Caribbean sea. Two years ago the Oceanic Steamship Company of San Francisco withdrew its steamers carrying the American mail to Australasia. Even with the mail subsidy of $16,659 a voyage paid by the United States it could not compete with German subsidies of $41,604 a voyage, French subsidies of $47,814 a voyage, Japanese subsidies of $21,917 a voyage and British subsidies of $23,077 a voyage. In three years the number of American steamships regularly crossing the Pacific has shrunk from fifteen to six. Alas for our renown as a maritime nation and for the past prestige of our flag in the commerce of even the most distant countries! Where now is the American merchant fleet that once mastered every sea—the nursery and background of our naval power. It is almost gone. No more American vessels are being built for the foreign trade and, as ships wear out and die, a few years under present conditions will see the American flag disappear from international commerce. Our hearts beat high when we think of our noble array of battleships. We cheer as the mighty Utah is launched. We watch with a growing thrill of pride the digging of the Panama canal. We are a great nation now. We sit in the world council of the great powers. We are the protector of the American republics. We saved the Chinese empire from destruction. We brought peace to Japan and Russia. Our foreign trade has expanded to three and a third billions of dollars annually. But in 1825, 85 years ago, 92 per cent. of our commerce with other countries was carried on by American ships, and to-day only 10 per cent. of our imports and exports is borne under the American flag. More than 83 per cent. of British foreign trade is carried in British ships. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a great navy. We have added an empire to our national territory and hoisted our flag in the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Panama canal zone. Yet nine-tenths of all our foreign commerce is under foreign flags, and it is estimated that American shippers pay $200,000,000 annually in ocean freight rates and fares to our rivals in American trade. Not a new American ship being built for that trade, the remaining few are rapidly wearing out and our flag being hauled down on some of these. But beyond the dwindling of the American ship building trades; beyond the surrender of $200,000,000 in freight charges to our foreign rivals; beyond even an honest and wholesome pride in our flag at sea; beyond the mortifying lack of an ocean mall service possessed by other nations—there are even graver consequences to the disappearance of the American ship from international trade. We send forth a great fleet to show both the civilized and uncivilized world the immensity of our armed power. That fleet is powerless without coal. Yet all but 13 percent, of the coal sent to keep our battleships alive is carried in foreign merchant ships. It is a matter of record that the small army provided by the United States for the last intervention in Cuba was taken there in foreign ships, under foreign flags. Even American war material sent recently to the Philippines was carried in Japanese ships under the Japanese flag; and that, too, while there was widespread newspaper talk of a possible war between the United States and Japan. It was Washington who declared that "to an active, external commerce the protection of a naval force is THE TRAVELER indispensable." We have set our government 7,000 miles from the American continent; we have developed an international commerce amounting to three and a half billion dollars, and we insist on being recognized as one of the great world powers; yet so swiftly are American ships vanishing from the common highway of nations that we have to trust our mails to alien ships and our armed fleet must depend on foreign flags for coal. Meanwhile our British and German rivals are launching greater and swifter merchant ships and the people of the United States are face to face with the plain fact that already nine-tenths of their foreign trade is in foreign ships, dependent upon foreign governments for protection. A war between England and a foreign nation, Germany, for example, would almost paralyze the ocean transportation facilities of the United States and the results would be felt throughout LAUNCHING THE UTAH LARGEST BATTLESHIP IN THE WORL THE YALE (S.S. PARIS) CAPTURING THE SPANISH S.S. RITA enormously increased freight charges There is a brave, prosperous and glorious past that makes the present seem all the more weak and shameful. Nothing in the history of the American people has more of the thrill of romantic adventure, steady courage, keen enterprise and shrewd, substantial accomplishment than the story of the once matchless ships and seamen of the American merchant marine. It makes of blood run faster to-day to know that no foreign yacht can wrest the queen's cup from American seamanship; but what is that to the once continuous victories of our merchantmen throughout the world, to the pride of American ships that could outsail all rivals, lead in all sea trade and, when turned into means of war, make the American flag a terror in all waters? It was armed American merchant ships that paralyzed British sea commerce in the struggle for independence. It was armed American merchant ships that humbled the pride of England in the war of 1812. In the beginning it was only natural that civilized Americans should become ship builders and sailors. The colonists set on the shores of the Atlantic, with a savage, trackless continent behind them and before them the great ocean, beyond which lay the civilization and markets of Europe, were, out of the very nature of things, drawn to the sea. They had forests of the finest timber growing down to the edge of the salt water and they were an energetic and practical people. A year after the Puritan colonists settled at Salem and Boston the armed trading ship Blessing of the Bay, the first deep sea vessel of Massachusetts, was built at Medford. In 1740 New England had at least a thousand sail in the fishing trade. Commerce with Europe grew. In 1769 the colonists built 389 vessels, with a total tonnage aggregating 20,000 tons. And there were shipyards in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The British shipyards could not compete with America. The British forests were largely depleted, while the Americans had a glorious supply of white oak, live oak, white pine, yellow pine and all the materials, save metal fastenings, necessary for the construction of ships, growing right at the margin of the ocean. English shipwrights swarmed across to the colonies. In 1724 the shipbuilders of the Thames uttered a public outcry against the departure of their most skilled workmen to America. The mother country steadily worked to break the American shipbuilding industry. But all in vain. At the time of the revolution the tonnage of American ships was 398,000 tons, almost a third of the entire British tonnage and American trade with the British West Indies reached the impressive sum of about $18,000,000 a year. Who can think of the American war for independence and the part which American merchant ships played in that struggle without a feeling of deep humilia KROONLAND=LOST TO AMERICAN FLAG tion that we have sunk to such an insignificant rank on salt water to-day? The colonies let loose their seamen upon the commerce of their haughty enemy. Their merchant ships had long carried cannon and gunners. Fighting was a part of commercial seamanship in those piratical days. In 1781 the thirty cruisers of the continental navy had dwindled down to nine, while the American privateers amounted to 449, with 6,735 guns, all manned by merchant sailors and directed by private owners. These armed merchant ships not only scoured the seas in all directions, sweeping British commerce away, but they even hung on the British coast and captured the very linen vessels. The linen fleet passing between Ireland and England had to be, for the first time, convoys by men-of-war. So gallantly did the American privateers outwit or outrun the king's cruisers and prey on the king's commerce that the end of the war they had captured or destroyed something like $12,000,000 worth of British property, to say nothing of the terrific loss occasioned by the general interruption of British commerce. And it is not difficult to understand, aside from all other things, that the merchant ships built of American trees, in American shipyards and manned by American sailors, made the purse-sensitive British all the more eager to abandon the struggle with America. What could the United States do to-day, under similar circumstances, with practically no deep sea merchant marine and with a steam navy that has to depend for any unusual effort upon foreign ships and foreign crews to secure an adequate coal supply? It is not a fact that the American members of The Hague international conference continue to plead with other great nations to respect goods carried in neutral ships during war? And why? because only 10 per cent. of American international commerce goes under the American flag and we must depend upon the flags of other nations to protect the other 90 per cent. In 1794 the tariff weapon was used to protect American ships, when congress abandoned the 10 per cent, reduction in duties on cargoes carried in American ships and, instead, added 10 per cent. to the duties on merchandise imported in foreign ships. American shipbuilding and ocean commerce grew by shipping in the foreign trade rose from 123,893 tons to 576,733 tons. Before the discriminating tariff for the protection of ships was adopted only 17 per cent. of American imports were carried under the American flag. Within five years foreign ships had been almost expelled from American international commerce. Everywhere, everywhere the fame of the American ship and the American merchant was spread. The American flag was carried to the remotest parts of the earth. In those days American statesmen knew the national value of a merchant marine. Alas, the armed struggle between France and Great Britain which opened the nineteenth century brought temporary ruin to American shipping, just as American men-of-war under Predecat, Decatur and Rogers smashed sorts of pretexts. They were stopped and searched by British naval commanders even in American waters. Great Britain in 1806 declared a blockade of the European coast between Brest and the river Elbe. Napoleon answered by a decree blockading the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Later on he ordered the confiscation of all neutral ships accepting British protection or paying British duties. These were paralyzing blows to American shipping. President Jefferson answered the wholesale seizure of our ships and sailors by persuading congress to forbid American vessels to engage in foreign trade. In 1812, when the United States at last responded to British outrages on our shipping by declaring war, the policy of Jefferson had allowed the American navy to shrink to 23 vessels carrying 556 guns. This small force captured 254 British ships valued with their cargoes at $6,600,000. But the debt which America owes to her merchant marine in that second war for independence can be partly estimated by the fact that the armed American privateers numbered 517, with 2,893 guns, and captured 1,300 of the enemy's ships and cargoes, valued at $39,000,000. In spite of the vexatious efforts of Great Britain to injure our maritime interests, American shipping continued to increase. It was not only the magnificent packet ships of the North Atlantic and the wonderful clipper ships of a later day that gave renown to the American shipyard aid sailor, but the swiftness of American ships and the courage and initiative of their merchant owners in every sea—even in the rich Asiatic trade—gave such an impetus to American sea enterprise that in 1861 our shipping tonnage almost exactly equaled the whole tonnage of Great Britain. To-day our entire tonnage, including our coastwise trade, from which all foreign ships are excluded, is only one-third of the British tonnage, although our foreign trade has increased from $508,864,375 in 1861 to $3,315,-272,503 in 1907. Our foreign trade has increased to more than six times its size in 1861, while our ships in foreign trade have shrunk from 2,496,594 tons to 940,086 tons. American shipowners to-day frankly acknowledge that it is the high price of American labor, both in construction and operation of ships that has driven and is still driving our flag from foreign trade. the barbarous corsair power of the emperor of Morocco and the bey of Tunis, leaving the waters of the Mediterranean safe for American ships. At first the conflict between Napoleon and Great Britain compelled the transfer of European ships to the American flag. The carrying trade of Europe was in American hands. Then the American sugar trade was killed by a British blockade of the French and Dutch West Indies. The British also searched our ships at sea and impressed our sailors into their navy under the claim that a naturalized citizen of British birth was still a Briton. In 1806 and 1807 there were 6,000 Americans serving unwillingly in the British navy. American merchant ships were confiscated on all sorts of pretexts. 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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. State of Kansas a8. Sedgwick County. In the Probate Court, in and for said County: In the matter of the estate A. Coving: ton, Deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that Let- ters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the es- tate of A. Covington, late of said County, deceased, by the Probate Court of the County and State afore- said, dated the 8th day of February, A. D. 1910. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that hey must present the same to the undersigned for al- lowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be pre- cluded from any benefit of such es- tate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after date of such letters, they shall be forever barred. THOMAS GLOVER, Administor of the Estate of A. Coving- ton, deceased. ee POLITICAL CARD. I desire to announce that I am a can didate for tae office of clerk of the District Court of Sedgwick county Kansas, subject to the decision of the Republican voters at the primary in August. CHAS. D. FA@HL. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO, NOWIS THE TIME TO BUILD CHEAP D. J. GREEN Ar 419 421-423 N. Water St. hus put ina fine Saw Mill and opened up a neat -little Lumber Yar. He sells Lumber Right, Too $18.00 - 20.00 - and $22.00 per. ‘M’ Be well to buy of him before the entire stock is exiausted he has now on hand about 50,000 ft. of godd quality. SEE Him before buying else-- where. ead SALINA, KANSAS The revival at the A. M. E, Ghurch is still in progress. Revs. W. P. Banks and R. Cox are lend ing much help to the pastor Rev. Morgan. Rev R. P. Holmes, of Woodmill, Miss. filled the pulpit. Rev. Mrs. Etta Scott of K. C. Ks is looked for soon. Allhope to cee much good accomplished both spiritually and financially. Wade adams is on the sick list The trustees of the Odd Fel~ lows and Masons had a business meeting on the 26th. Jerry Finch is in St. Louis. Theo Shively of Bunker Hill stopped over on his way to Lucas Kansas. Household Ruth No. £02 put a new piano in their new hall, When in Salina sto; and see J. F. Giles. Miss. Harrtet Butler is rccov- ering from the fall which she sus tained some weeks ago, Rev. R. Cox is filling his Abe~ line charge with much success. Rev. Cox is anable preacher and is well liked by all. The Odd Feilows ana Masons will have their grand opening on Thursday March 10th of their new hall. Harry Anderson of Salina Kas is spending his vacation in our city. There will be an organization of a Missionary Baptist Church, in the North part of Wichita, on Sunday March 13th.1910. By kev W. H. Parks of Eldoreno, Okla. And Rev. Fulson of Wichita, Ks. The organ zation will taee place at Covington Hall at 517 N. Main ‘Street at 2:30 p. m. All Ministers of the city are asked to come out Come One! Come All!! Anderson Daniels,Deacon, E B Bluett Deacon, The B. T. W. Club met Thurs- day afternoon with Mrs. Hack ley, Each member responded to roll call with a currect event, Mrs. C, A. Glover rean an artic- le on “Consistent Living” which was afterward discussed, A dain ty three course luscheon was served. The Club meets next week with Mrs, Jones. As we sit, retrospectively re- viewing our past strenuous care- filled and anxious days in our efforts to establish a creditable Negro journal in these parts — we wonder to ourselves — if we have done any good deeds or performed any good wosk that will win for us‘*Any stars in our Crown” as our days goeth down? We simply wonder and think, HOBO HAS BALANCE OF POWER THE UNEMPLOYED NOW HAVE AN ORGANIZATION. James Eads How Asked to Go to Philadelphia to Prevent Their Being Used as Strike-Breakers. . . St. Louis, Mo.-James Eads How, the wealthiest hobo in the country, who has organized the unemployed into the National Unemployed Association, has been requested to go to Philadelphia to take charge of the unemployed there, and prevent their being used to break the general strike of labor unions now on in that city. How says the unemployed are affiliated with the labor unions, and that the two bodies are working together. He says there were about 75,000 unemployed in Philadelphia before the strike was declared. A majority of these, he says, belong to the Philadelphia branch of the organization of unemployed. He will gather these together and work to prevent them yielding to the temptation to take the jobs vacated by the strikers. The heads of the unemployed organization founded by How in all the large cities of this country, will be instructed to prevent any of their men going to Philadelphia for work. "It is the workingmen against the capitalist," How has said. "We believe the workingman is right, and we are sliding with him. I will probably go myself to Philadelphia, although we will have to take a vote on it at a business meeting. "I believe it is the only solution of the present day sociological problem, and the appeal to our organization from the strikers and the equally urgent appeals from the capitalists who would like to use it to break the strike indicate that, as I have claimed, it is the chaff of the world—the unemployed man, the hobo—who holds the balance of power, and by using him properly the producing classes will be able to obtain their rights." MILLER'S AMENDMENT FAILED The House Voted Down the Attempt to Increase Pay of Rural Carriers. Washington, D. C.—Representative Miller of Kansas kept the house in action for something more than an hour with an amendment to the postal appropriation bill to add $7,000,000 to the appropriation for rural free delivery. The amendment would have increased the pay of the carriers to $90 a month, but Miller said this amount also would permit needed extensions to free delivery. Madison of Kansas, Shackelford of Missouri and others took part in a system of rapid fire questions shot at Miller. His amendment failed 132 to 121 after an extended debate. This will leave the pay of rural free delivery carriers unchanged. TO MAKE GRAFTERS DISGORGE Actions Have Been Filed in Pennsylvania Courts to Recover Capitol Overcharges. Harrisburg, Pa. — Actions in equity for the recovery by the state of at least $5,000,000 alleged to have been illegally paid to contractors for the furnishing of the new state capitol were entered in the Dauphin county court by the attorney general's department. The actions are against the contractors, the late John H. Sanderson and the Pennsylvania Construction company, the state officials having to do with the awards of the contracts and the approval of bills in payment of Architect Joseph H. Hutton, and the sureties of the contractors and state officials. BACK TO THE THREE CENT RATE The Santa Fe Will No Longer Carry Passengers for Two Cents in Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla. — The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company has filed with the state corporation commission a schedule giving notice that the company will resume is charge of three cents a mile for passenger fare in this state. The change from two cents, which has been the rate since statehood in 1907, is based upon an injunction against the state corporation commission granted in the United States circuit court by Judge W. C. Hook. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas is the only other large trunk line in Oklahoma that has returned to the 3-cent fare. Postoffice BUI is Passed Washington, D. C.—The house has passed the postoffice appropriation bill, after amendments, increasing to $1,215,000 the letter carrier and rural free delivery appropriation had been adopted by a vote of 153 to 90. Would Declare Amendments Void. Washington, D. C.—That the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were null and void was declared by a resolution introduced by Representative Sisson of Mississippi. Pleasant Hill Likes Saloons. Pleasant Hill, Mo.—Pleasant Hill, which for three weeks has been a battle ground for the wets and drys, voted on local iption, the result being a wetbth majority of 99 out of a total of 493 votes cast. Kansas Banker Indicted. Salina, Kan.—Byron Church, former president of the Holyrood bank, was arraigned at Ellsworth. The previous charges were dismissed, but he was immediately indicted on ten counts. COAL ORE COAL MINERAL DEPOSITS ALASKA The Great American Trust Seems to Have Discovered Alaska. HYDE INDICTED IN SWOPE CASE HYDE INDICTED IN SWOPE CASE THE GRAND JURY FOUND ELEVEN BILLS AGAINST DOCTOR He Is Charged With Murder in Two Cases, Manslaughter in One, Attempted Poisoning in Eight. Kansas City, Mo. — In eleven indictments returned by the special grand jury, which has been in session for the last three weeks, Dr. B. Clark Hyde was charged with causing the death by poison of Colonel Thomas H. Swope and Chrisman Swope, of having caused the death by bleeding of J. Moss Hunton, and with having poisoned by the administration of typhoid germs, eight persons, members of the Swope household, and visitors. Judge Latshaw delivered a speech commending them for their labors, and told them that they were entitled to the thanks of the people of the community for the interest they had taken in the case. Charges Again Dr. Hyde. First degree murder—Col. Thomas H. Swope, October 3; Chrisman Swope, December 6. Manslaughter—J. Moss Hunton, October 1. Poisoning—Markaret Swope, three counts; by typhoid fever, November 25; by hypodermic injections strychnine, December 12; by administration and strychnine and other poisons, December 18. By administration of typhoid germs to members of the Swope family and visitors on or about November 25, the following Lucy Lee Swope, Mildred Fox, Nora Bell Dickson, Georgia F. Compton and Leonora Copridge. The action of the twelve grand jurors was unanimous in their vote on the eleven indictments. Some of the indictments came as a surprise to the general public, especially that of Col. Moss Hunton, one of the executors named in the will of Colonel Swope. He died before Colonel Swope. The death of Colonel Hunton Begun the chain of mysteries in the Swope home. EX-SENATOR PLATT IS DEAD For a Quarter of a Century He Had Been a Political Power in New York—End Came Quickly. New York.—Thomas Collier Platt, for a quarter of a century the most powerful factor in New York politics and the founder of the modern political machine, died in his seventy-seventh year. His long life ended as a slender cord might snap in twain. Mr. Platt had continued to attend to his duties as president of the United States Express company up to last Thursday morning. His three sons and other relatives were with him when he suddenly expired without warning. GOV. HASKELL FAILED TO APPEAR The Federal Court Assessed a Fine of $75 Against Him As A Result. Oklahoma City, Okla. — Governor Haskell's failure to appear in the United States district court caused the court to assess a cost of $75 against him. This represents the expense of Charles N. Loder in coming from New York City to Oklahoma City to be present at the calling of the case in which Loder sues Haskell for a judgment of $10,000 obtained in New York several years ago. The case may be tried during this term of court. Philadelphia, Pa. — Six persons, including a little girl were wounded by bullets fired by a party of alleged strike breakers who rode wildly up and down Frankford avenue in a trolley car and shot into the crowds that lined the sidewalks. Chicago Cars Kill Many. Chicago, Ill.—Eight people are injured every day and one person is killed every three days by the street cars in Chicago, according to an official report to the corporation counsel. STANDARD OIL BRIEF FILED The Document Defends the Company in Supreme Court Declaring its Business to Be Legal. Washington, D. C.—The "Standard Oil" has filed in the supreme court of the United States its brief in opposition to the attempt of the government to dissolve it as violating the Sherman Anti-Trust law. This comes as a prelude to the oral argument of the case Monday by attorneys for the defense and for the government. The brief is the work of D. T. Watson, John M. Freeman and Ernest C. Irwin. The brief of the government has not yet been filed. The keynote of the defense is the so-called preservation of the "rights of individual citizens of the United States." This decree is complained of as being unjust to the men who, according to the brief, "were a lawful group, lawfully doing business," and who, after what is described as a mere conveyance and solely by reason thereof became a "group of lawless conspirators," it is charged. BOSTON'S BILL FOR AMUSEMENT In Ten Weeks of the Winter Season Theatres and Picture Shows Got $2,750,000. Boston, Mass.—In investigating the high cost of living the Twentieth Century Club has discovered that $2,750,000 was spent by patrons of theatrical and moving picture shows in ten weeks of the winter season in this city. It was found that moving picture and vaudeville performances made up about 85 per cent of the amusement enterprises of the city and cost the general fun-loving public the grand total of $120,691.10 weekly through the height of the season. Turning to the legitimate theatres and grand opera, the total expenditure weekly was found to be slightly more, or $152,646.45. THE CUBANS ARE UNGRATEFUL Congressman Miller. of. Kansas Says Their Attitude Toward Us Is Hardly Believable. Washington, D. C.—Cuban ingratitude toward the United States was the subject of an address by Representative Miller of Kansas, before the Pennsylvania society. Referring to the ingratitude of the people "of the Pearl of the Antilles to their liberators" Mr. Miller said that it was hardly believable that "this civilization would bring forth a people who would be so thoughtless of the idea of gratitude as the Cubans have proved themselves within the last few years. Their hate is shown on every side." KANSAS EDITORS AT WICHITA The State Association Ended its eMeting by Selecting H. C. Stecher As President. Wichita, Kan.—The Kansas Editorial association concluded its work by the election of the following officers for the coming year. President, H. C. Sticher of the Belleville Telescape; vice president, W. Y. Morgan of the Hutchinson News; corresponding secretary, J. E. Jenkins of the Sterling Bulletin; recording secretary, W. E. Blackburn of the Anthong Republican; treasurer, J. Byron Cain of the Belleville Plain News. Pistol Duel Over a Ham. Lexington, Ky., — Following a quarrel over a ham, Allen Ellis and Alvy Ellis, cousins, each 21 years old, fought with pistols here, both being wounded. Allen was shot twice and probably fatally hurt, while Alvy was slightly wounded. First Aeroplane Collision. Paris, France.—The first collision be tween aeroplanes in flight took place at Mourmelon. Both machines were badly smashed and fell, but neither aviator was injured. KANSAS CITY BANKER SLASHED Jack Cudahy Seriously Wounds Jere S. Lillis, Whom He Found With Mrs. Cudahy. Kansas City, Mar. 8.—His head swathed in bandages, his teeth broken and his body mutilated, J. S. Lillis, bachelor, and president of the Western Exchange bank, is at St. Mary's hospital. "Jack" Cudahy, packer, society lion, polo player and man about town, is on bond, charged with assaulting Lillis. Lillis was found unconscious in the library of the home of Mr. Cudahy, 100 East Thirty-sixth street, by a police-man who had been summoned by a woman's telephone message to No. 5 police station. Lillis' shoulders and arms and neck were bound with a rope, the police say. Cudahy returning home unexpectedly had found Lillis with Mrs. Cudahy. A chauffeur who aided Cudahy in the assault on Banker Lillis has not been arrested. Mrs. Cudahy, before her marriage, was Edna Cowin of Omaha. The case against the packer in the police court was continued until March 15. DR. HYDE RELEASED ON A BOND By Agreement of All Parties Concerned the Trial Will Be Commenced on April 11 Next. Kansas City, Mo. — Liberty has been restored to Dr. B. Clark Hyde. Five men agree to pay the state $100,000 if the accused man does not appear April 11 to be tried on the 11 Dmurder and poisoning indictments. "I desire above everything else an early trial of this case," Virgil Conkling, the prosecutor, said to Judge Latshaw. "In order to expediate that I take the position that there is no objection to admitting Doctor Hyde to bail." "Under the law and by the decisions of the supreme court your position is correct," Judge Latshaw replied. "We also agreed," Mr. Coukling declared, "that the trial should be held April 11, without fail. The attorneys for the defendant understand that if the trial is not held at that time I shall take the necessary steps to revoke the bail. I want it understood that on no condition shall the trial be delayed." A NEW PAPER FOR MR. BRYAN Will Start a Weekly at Lincoln Making It the Official Organ of Anti-Saloon Movement. Lincoln, Neb.—From the county option forces in Nebraska came the announcement that William J. Bryan, on his return from South America in May, would start a new weekly newspaper in Lincoln, making it the official organ of the anti-saloon forces in the coming campaign. Simultaneously Mr. Bryan, it is said, will take the stump on a tour of the state in an effort to win Democrats over to a platform declaration for county option. MAE E, WOOD IS UNDAUNTED Still Claims She Was Wife of Senator Platt and Will Claim His Estate. Julesburg, Colo.—When Mae E. Wood was told that Senator Platt was dead she received the news without a sign of emotion. "Well, it is better so," she said. "He could serve no purpose by living longer and it would have been better for me if he had died year ago. I still claim I was legally married to him and that we were never divorced, and I shall claim his estate, as well as push the suits I started against him." A NEW OKLAHOMA OIL FIELD A Well Flowing 500 Barrels a Day Brought in Near Henryetta. Henryetta, Okla. — The gas well which has been flowing 20 million feet for a week on the Eliza Reynolds allotment was drilled into the oil sand to a depth of three feet and resulted in a gusher. Harry Guinn, representative of the Gulf Pipe Line company, gauged the tank and estimates the well at from 500 to 1000 barrels a day. Many men have gone into the new field to get leases. ARMED MEN GUARD SILK TRAIN Seven Carloads of the Valuable Material Are Being Rushed to New York. Wellington, Kansas.—A special train of eleven express cars loaded with silk from Japan, three tourist sleepers containing armed guards, and one dining car passed through here from San Francisco to New York. The shipment is said to be worth about $500,000, and the train stops only to change engines and crews. Elk Herds Are Starving. Cheyenne, Wyo. — With the range covered with snow, 50,000 elk are said to be starving in Jackson's Hole. Residents there are organizing to devise means of feeding the elk and preventing them from pillaging the ranches. A School Boy a Suicide. Maple Hill, Kansas.—Gay Moses, a schoolboy, 14 years old, shot and killed himself because he was scolded by his teacher. His body was found in the kitchen of the house. WORTH KNOWING Simpls But Powerful Prescription for Pneumatism and Lame Back. Hindmutham and Lane Back. This was previously published here and cured hundreds, "Get one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparilla compound and one ounce Toris Compound. Then get half a pint of good whiskey and put the other two ingredients into it. Use a tablespoonful of this mixture before each meal and at bed time. Shake the bottle each time." Good effects are felt the first day. Any druggist has these ingredients on hand or will quickly get them from his wholesale house. A SPECIAL ORDER. A SPECIAL ORDER. Divorced Woman—I like that doll very much, only I wish you could arrange it so that instead of saying Papa and Mamma, it would only say, Mamma—Lustige Woche. Analyzed by Chemists. Apropos of President Taft and his recent decision about whisky, Richard Le Gallienne said, at a dinner at the St. Regis: "While I was living in Liverpool there arose a hot whisky discussion. Was pot still whisky the only wholesome one, or was patent still whisky the one non-poisonous drink? Chemical analyses were applied to every whisky going. "A Liverpudlian entered a public house near the Albert docks one night and said: "Is ver whisky pure?" "Well, I should think so,' the publican answered. 'It's been paralyzed by three anarchists.'" If She Had Her Choice. A gentleman who finds great amusement in telling his wife which lady of their acquaintance he will select as her successor when she dies, and who, one day, had been teasing her with numberless mock-serious allusions to the subject, suddenly called their little daughter to him and asked her, shaking with laughter at his own wit: "Madeline, how would you like to have a stepmother?" The child considered for a moment and then, with great earnestness replied: "I think I'd much rather have a stepfather." Little Helen, during the three years of her life, had never been separated from her elder sister night or day for more than a few minutes at a time, but at last the time came when the sister went away for a whole day. The child tried every game and occupation that she knew of, and a new one or two suggested by her mother, but they all paled. Finally she gave up and stood and looked sadly out of the window. 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"Moral—Virtue is its own reward." —N. Y. Times. A Jolt to Romance. "How about the young doctor? Has he proposed?" "Not yet. Papa ruined everything last night." "How was that?" "Just as the doctor was pleading for a peep at my eyes, papa came in and asked him to take a look at my throat." The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.—Samuel Johnson. Dr. Porter's Pleasant Pellets first put up 40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated tiny granules. Every night watchman is entitled to his day dreams. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHTS DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE SIGER 375 "Guaranteed" For Pain in Chest For sore throat, sharp pain in lungs, tightness across the chest, hoarseness or cough, lave the parts with Sloan's Liniment. You don't need to rub, just lay it on lightly. 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PISO'S is the word to remember when you need a remedy for COUGHS & COLDS BE PROSECUTED WIFE'S FATHER CONDEMNS AS- SAILANT PACKER. WILL NOT ASK FOR DIVORCE 'Cowardly' and "Untrue" Are Among the Adjectives Used by General Cowin in Discussing the Affair. Kansas City, Mo.—Jerre S. Lillis, president of the Western Exchange bank, who was assaulted by John 4. Cudahy, the millionaire packer, when the latter found the banker in his home Sunday morning, will not prosecute his assailant. Charges of disturbing the peace, preferred against Cudahy by Bryan Underwood, a policeman, who interrupted the punishment of the nocturnal visitor, will probably be dismissed with a nominal fine in police court, when the case comes to trial, March 15. Thus will end the affair in so far as any punishment for Cudahy is concerned. Judge W. T. Johnson, legal representative of Lillis, made known that there would be no prosecution of Cudary. "We have no desire to take any legal steps against Cudahy," he said. "There will be no prosecution." Lillis' condition is improving rapidly. Nurses at St. Mary's hospital said he would be able to be removed to his home tomorrow morning. His wounds will be slow in healing, it is believed, but they will not prove serious. Mr. Cudahy has taken apartments at the Coates house, a down town hotel. He refuses to say whether he will return to his home. Efforts to locate John Moss, the chauffeur who is believed by Mrs. Cudahy to have disclosed the presence of Mr. Lillis at the home, have proven useless. Into the arms of her father, Gen. John C. Cowin of Omaha, an attorney of national reputation, Mrs. Cudahy rushed at her home. The general arrived here on an evening train and went at once to the Cudahy home, where his daughter had been waiting him to come to her at once. Not realizing what had happened, General Cowin delayed his departure. Another message from his daughter caused him to hurry here. Briefly, Mrs. Cudahy told her story to her father. It was practically the same she gave out in a statement. She and Lillis had been automobile riding, returned home and were seated in the library resting, when Cudahy entered, she said. General Cowin was much affected by his daughter's story. With the bearing of a veteran such as he's, he did not give way to his emotions, however. "I regret exceedingly that Cudahy was so cowardly as to say 'He has ruined my home.' He did this for his own protection. Why did he not think of these dear children who must suffer from this untrue statement?' The general was unable to say whether a divorce would result from the trouble in the Cudahy household. After a lengthy talk with her father, Mrs. Cudahy announced she would not institute divorce proceedings against her husband. "I will stay here and take care of my children," she said "They are the loveliest children in the world. For their sake I will not bring suit for divorce. But never, never will I live again with their father. The idea would be absurd." Dozen Killed in Explosion Chicago, Ill.—From eight to ten persons were reported killed and seventeen were injured, many of them probably fatally, in a terrific explosion at the works of the American Maize Products company at Roby, Ind., just across the Illinois boundary line. The explosion occurred in a detached building of the plant and was preceded by a fire which soon enveloped a large three-story warehouse. Starch in an overheated kiln is supposed to have been the cause. At midnight the fire was so intense it was impossible to enter the place to determine the number of dead. Of the twelve unaccounted for, some may have escaped unhurt. The fire broke out suddenly after a force of men had prepared a kiln which was filled with starch. The starch, in large quantities, it was said, a moment later blew up like gunpowder. So great was the force that some of the injured were hurled through windows and doors and in that way escaped death in the flames. Philadelphia Is Quiet. Philadelphia, Pa.—If the computation of the Philadelphia police department is correct, and the officials declare it to be based on a careful and complete canvass of the city, less than 20,000 workers have responded to the call for a general tie-up of the city's industries. The day was the quietest since the calling of the general strike. There was absolute quietude, according to police reports, n all parts of the city up to a late four. You Look Prematurely Old STOMACH CENTER OF HUMAN LIFE- ALL ELSE SECONDARY --- The immense success which has followed L. T. Cooper during the past year with his new preparation has exceeded anything of the kind ever before witnessed in most of the leading cities where the young man has introduced the medicine. Cooper has a novel theory. He believes that the human stomach is directly responsible for most disease. To quote his own words from an interview upon his arrival in an eastern city: "The average man or woman cannot be sick if the stomach is working properly. To be sure, there are diseases of a virulent nature, such as cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, etc., which are organic, and are not traceable to the stomach, but even fevers can, in nine cases out of ten, be traced to something taken into the stomach. All of this half-sick, nervous exhaustion that is now so common, is caused by stomachic conditions, and it is because my remedy will and does regulate the stomach that I am meeting with such success. "To sum the matter up—a sound digestive apparatus that is doing its full duty, getting every particle of vitality out of the food by transferring it to the bowels in a perfectly digested state—this above all else brings health." Mr. A. C. Brock, chef of the Brock Restaurant, Market District, Boston, Mass., who is a staunch believer in Mr. Cooper's theory and medicine, has this to say: "I had chronic indigestion for over three years. I suffered terribly, and lost about thirty pounds. I was a physical wreck when I started this Cooper medicine, a month or so ago. To-day I am as well as I ever was in my life. I am no longer nervous, my food does not distress me in the least, and I have a splendid appetite. I am gaining flesh very rapidly—in fact, at the rate of a pound a day. I would not believe any medicine on earth could have done for me what this has done. It is a remarkable preparation, and Mr. Cooper deserves all his success." Cooper's New Discovery is sold by all druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you, we will forward you the name of a druggist in your city who will. Don't accept "something just as good."—The Cooper Medicine Co., Dayton, Ohio. TOO HIGH. The giraffe had a wonderful plan— He would dress in the garments of man! But as each of his collars Would have cost him ten dollars. Would have cost him ten dollars. He decided: "I don't think I can!" HOW A DOCTOR CURED SCALP DISEASE "When I was ten or twelve years old I had a scalp disease, something like scald head, though it wasn't that. I suffered for several months, and most of my hair came out. Finally they had a doctor to see me and he recommended the Cuticura Remedies. They cured me in a few weeks. I have used the Cuticura remedies, also, for a breaking out on my hands and was benefited a great deal. I haven't had any more trouble with the scalp disease. Miss Jessie F. Buchanan, R. F. D. 3, Hamilton, Ga., Jan. 7, 1909." Kept with Barnum's Circus P. T. Barnum, the famous circus man, once wrote: "I have had the Cuticura Remedies among the contents of my medicine chest with my shows for the last three seasons, and I can cheerfully certify that they were very effective in every case which called for their use." Entitled to It. "How are things lookin' over to Dingledell?" "They've been lookin' purty squeamish for a spell. Th' creek got so blame high it overflowed Peasley's dam, an' there's two foot o' water in Widder Brown's cellar." "Well, well, I s'pose you folks over there will be so stuck up pretty soon the you'll be callin' yourselves th' Parisians of Ameriky." Exposed. "She is hometier than her sister, don't you think so?" "No; you just think so because she wears a low neck gown and you see more of her than you do of her sister." **DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW?** If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. There are any number of women violinists, but did you ever meet a woman who could play the fiddle? **BREAK UP THAT COUGH** with Allen's Lung Balsam, the popular family remedy. It cures where other remedies fail. All dealers. $20, $50, $10.80 bottles. It isn't every prodigal son who gets a whack at the obese veal. The Tenderfoot Farmer It was one of these experimental farmers, who put green spectacles on his cow and fed her shavings. His theory was that it didn't matter what the cow ate so long as she was fed. The questions of digestion and nourishment had not entered into his calculations. It's only a "tenderfoot" farmer that would try such an experiment with a cow. But many a farmer feeds him- self regardless of digestion and nutrition. He might almost as well eat shavings for all the good he gets out of his food. The result is that the stomach grows "weak" the action of the organs of digestion and nutrition are impaired and the man suffers the miseries of dyspepsia and the agonies of nervousness. To strengthen the stomach, restore the activity of the organs of digestion and nutrition and brace up the nerves, use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is an unfalling remedy, and has the confidence of physicians as well as the praise of thousands healed by its use. In the strictest sense "Golden Medical Discovery" is a temperance medicine. It contains neither intoxicants nor narcotics, and is as free from alcohol as from opium, cocaine and other dangerous drugs. All ingredients printed on its outside wrapper. Don't let a dealer deliver you for his own profit. There is no medicine for stomach, liver and blood "just as good" as "Golden Medical Discovery." WANTED TO BE ON SAFE SIDE Woman, Twice Deserted, Didn't Mean to Take Any Chances on Her Third Hubby. The officers of the thumb print bureau were just wishing for something interesting to turn up when a telephone message offered timely diversion. A woman was speaking. "Do you make prints of anybody's thumbs except criminals?" she asked. The bureau did. "Well," said the woman, "if I will come down there right away with a man will you make a print of his thumbs?" The bureau would. The man and the woman came. "We want his thumb prints for identification," said the woman. "We are going to be married to-morrow. He is my third husband. The other two ran away and I had the hardest kind of a time to find them because there was no sure way of identifying them. They say thumb prints can never change and that a man can be tracked by them to the ends of the earth. I hope I shall never have to use them, but it is just as well to be on the safe side. Will you make them?" Avoid the Cheap and "Big Can" Baking Powders The cheap baking powders have but one recommendation: they certainly give the purchaser plenty of powder for his money but it's not all baking powder; the bulk is made up of cheap materials that have no leavening power. These powders are so small that they will not make light, wholesome food. Further, these cheap baking powders have a very small percentage of leavening gas; therefore it takes from two to three times as much of such powder to raise the cake or biscuit as it does of Calumet Baking Powder. Therefore, in the long run, the actual cost to the consumer would be. Cheap baking powders leave the bread sometimes bleached and acid, sometimes yellow and alkaline, and always unpalatable. They are never of uniform strength and quality. Why not buy a perfectly wholesome baking powder like Calumet, that is at the same temperature as the dough which can be relied upon? Calumet is always the same, keeps indefinitely and gives the cook the least trouble. What He Was After. George Washington Henry Clay Lincoln Carter, one of Georgia's younger darkey citizenis, was suddenly called upon not long ago to explain his presence at 1 a. m. in the henhouse of a white neighbor. "Stealing my chickens, are you, you black rascal?" the owner demanded. George W. H. C. L. C. rolled his eyes until they were all whites. "Now, now, lookyhe, Mars George," he protested, "dat ain't no way ter ac'—an' please don' pint dat gun at me dat er way, cunnel, sah," he hastily added, holding up his battered hat as a shield. "Ah 'clar Ah warnt' gwine steal no chickens; no sah! Ah's writin' er dialec' story—an Ah des' come moseyen rom' haw't ter git local color—yas, sah, dat's all Ah was after. Ah 'clar to de Lord hit was!" No. Deposits. "Do you think there's money in hens?" "Well, if there is they keep it well secured."—Exchange. "Pink Eye" is Epidemic. Attacks the Eyes in the Springtime. Is Contagious and Calls for Immediate Action. Murine Eye Remedy Affords Reliable Relief. It Soothes. Apply Murine Freely and Frequently. Doesn't Smart. There is nothing that makes men rich and strong, but that which they carry with them. Wealth is of the heart, not of the hand—Milton. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Files in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50. Always hold in mind that even failure can be the alphabet of success.—Wilson. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Love is blind, but self love is the only kind that is positively incurable. PERRY DAVIS' PAINKILLER has an enviable reputation of over seventy years as a reliable remedy for lumbago, sciatica, pleurisy sitches, etc., 2c, 3c, 5c and 5c. At all drummers. The man who worships a woman will never develop into a free thinker. The T It was one of these spectacles on his that it didn't was fed. The que not entered into h it's only a "te" self regardless of digestion and nutrition ings for all the good he gets out of his grows "weak" the action of the organs and the man suffers the miseries of dys To strengthen the stomach, i gans of digestion and nutrit use Dr. Pierce's Golden Med falling remedy, and has the well as the praise of thousand In the strictest sense "Golden Medi cine. It contains neither intoxicants nor as from opium, cocaine and other dange its outside wrapper. Don't let a dealer delude you for his stomach, liver and blood "just as good" Some men go to their graves with out discovering that they were not as important as they thought they were. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in mammation, allays pain, cure wind colds. It's a bottle. A crab-eating monkey in Siam swims like a fish. Look Pre se ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CONVINCING PROOF What is the use of procrastinating in the face of such evidence as the following letters represent? If you are a sick woman or know one who is, what sensible reason have you for not giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial? For 30 years we have been publishing such testimonial letters as these—thousands of them—they are genuine and honest, too, every one of them. Mrs. S. J. Barber says: "I think Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the best medicine in the world for women—and I feel it my duty to let others know the good it has done for me. Three years ago I had a tumor which the doctor said would have Mrs. George May says: "No one knows what I have suffered from female troubles, neuralgia pains, and backache. My doctor said he could not give me anything to cure it. Through the advice of a friend I began to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable." table Compound, and the pain soon disappeared. I continued its use and am now in perfect health. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been a God-send to me as I believe I should have been in my grave if it had not been for Mrs. Pinkham's advice and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." —Mrs. GEORGE MAY, 86 4th Ave., Paterson, N.J. Mrs. W. K. Housh says: "I have been completely cured of a severe female trouble by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and want to recommend it to all suffering women." Mrs. W. K. Housh, 7 Eastview Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. Because your case is a difficult one, doctors having done you no good, do not continue to suffer without giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. It surely has cured many cases of female ills, such as inflammation, ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, etc. For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health free of charge. Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. THE TRADE MARK A Woman's For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health free of charge. Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. ALABASTINE STINE should be her pride. Your home should reflect your own individuality. You cannot have special wall papers designed by you for each room—you can carry out a special Alabastine decorative scheme for those rooms—you can be a leader in your community and have your home the talk of your friends. Alabastine The Stylish Wall Tint is the material that will accomplish this result. We can show innumerable color effects, classic stencil designs, and our Art Department is at your service. Send for the Alabastine book explaining what we do for you, and how we furnish free stencils where Alabastine is used. Alabastine is a powder made from Alabaster, ready for use by mixing with cool water, and is applied with an ordinary wall brush. Full directions on each package. Alabastine Company New York City, N.Y. Grand Rapids, Mich. THE PACKAGE WESTERN CANADA What Governor Deneen, of Illinois, Says About It: Senderfoot Farmer experimental farmers, who put green cow and fed her shavings. His theory matter what the cow ate so long as she actions of digestion and nourishment had calculations. Senderfoot" farmer that would try such a cow. But many a farmer feeds him. He might almost as well eat shav-food. The result is that the stomach of digestion and nutrition are impaired pepsia and the agonies of nervousness. Restore the activity of the orion and brace up the nerves, medical Discovery. It is an unconfidence of physicians as is healed by its use. Medical Discovery" is a temperance medicinarcotics, and is as free from alcoholous drugs. All ingredients printed on own profit. There is no medicine for as "Golden Medical Discovery." W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 11-1910. Cures the sick and acts as a preventive for others. Liquid given on the tongue. Safe for brood mares and all others. Best kidney remedy; $0 cents and $1.00 a bottle; $6.00 and $10.00 the dozen. Sold by all druggists and horse goods houses, or sent express paid, by the manufacturers. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Chemists, GOSHEN, INDIANA maturely Old CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. Mrs. S. J. Barber says: "I think Lydia Pinkham's V table Compo is the best mine in the w for women— I feel it my to let oth know the god has done for Three years I had a turn which the do said would "Ithink Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the best medicine in the world for women—and I feel it my duty to let others know the good it has done for me. to be removed by an operation or I could not live more than a year, or two, at most. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., for advice, and took 14 bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and today the tumor is gone and I am a perfectly well woman. I hope my testimonial will be of benefit to others." — Mrs. S. J. BARBER, Scott, N. Y. Mrs. E. F. Hayes says: P "I was under the doctor's treatment for a fibroid tumor. I suffered with pain, soreness, bloating, and could not walk or stand on my feet any length of time. I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice, followed her directions and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. To-day I am a well woman, the tumor was expelled and my whole system strengthened. I advise all women who are afflicted with tumors or female troubles to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." — Mrs. E. F. HAYES, 1890 Washington St., Boston, Mass. "Well, it's practical, at any rate. He uses the motor to run a wood-sawing machine." **TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY** Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Drugsist refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVES signature is on each box. 25c. We shirk our plain duty because being plain, it is naturally unattractive. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE "No one knows what I have suffered from female troubles, neuralgia pains, and backache. My doctor said he could not give me anything to cure it. Through the advice of a friend I began to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Kappa. "I have been completely cured of a severe female trouble by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and want to recommend it to all suffering women." — Mrs. W, K. 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Suits Pressed 50 Cents For Final Announcement and Program of the "Slab-Town Convention To be Given at the New Hope Baptist Church Soon Knights & Daughter 7 Sunbeam, Salina, Kan., Mrs. R Parker, 502 N. 6th. 9 Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Luly Delley, 120 Kansas 10 St. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. I Wallace, R. R. No. 5. 11 Saba Meroe, K. C., Kan., P. Wood- ford, 823 Freeman. 2 Golden Rule, K. C., Kan., Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewart. 4 Candace, Pittsburg, Kan., Mrs. M. Beasley, 109 W. Washington 5 America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs H. Lee, Box 25. 16 Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mr. L. Morton, 1208 Washington. 17 Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan. Mrs. A. Masir, 1817 Wan. 18 St. Maria, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. C. Wade, 22 N. 1638. 20 Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P Johnson, 501 Wyan. 34 Charity Rose, Coffeville, Kan. 35ars. A, Garner, 704 E. 12th. 29 Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Woods, 985 Cherokee. 30 Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. 14 Fifth. 32 Emma Gaines, B. te. Mont., Mrs. Salize Easter, 334 Dakota St. 4 Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Salis Mall, 1024 Ohio. --- Bell Phone 543; Ind. 1048 ```markdown ``` KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C, G. G. Taborian Home - Route 8, Topeka, K. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kes. 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, Kan. J. M. JONHSON, G. P. P. 1632 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 210 E West, Hutchison, Kan TABERNACLES. 2 Golden, Iola, Kan, Mrs. S. Crisp, 615 Sio. Walnut. 3 Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. C. Tillman, 802 E. 18th. 5 Cresent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. C. Brown, 920 N. 10th. 6 Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs Eva Clayborne, 716 Cypress. 243 N, Main 17 Golden Rule, S. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Jones, 819 N. 27th. 18 Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. M. Gosby, 108 N. 3rd. 19 Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. N. Taylor, Box 1174. 20 Deborah, Abelline, Kan., Mrs. A. Tobson, 411 S. 1st. 21 Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. J. Ware, 807 N. Y. 22 Fair West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. S. Saunders, 724 N. J. 23 Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. E. Brien, 1180 Buchanan. 24 Magadalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas. 25 Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Rountree, 1125 N. 19th. 26 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific. 27 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Lucy Davis, 1029 Rose. 28 Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Sylvia Brown, 803 E. 11th St. TEMPLES. 1 A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kar M. Burns, Box 31. 2 R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Wm Cook, 215 E. Kearny. 3 Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., S. R. Jackson, care Frye Shoe Store. 5 St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., J Walker, 1220 W. Norris. 7 Mt. Nebo, Wichita, Kan., Rev. S. B. Washington, 1524 N. Wash- ington. 8 St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., A. J. Rea- 307 Lowman 0 Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., J H. Minnits, 21 Sherman. 11 Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Wm. Fr- zier, 708 N. Water. 12 Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan, Wm Shakespeare, 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. 29 Sunny Side, Topeka, Kan., U. A Graham, 1160 West. 60 Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., J. S. Grant, 1813 W. 6th. 72 Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., J. G Wright, First National Bank OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 63+ N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. TENTS. Queen Mothers. 1 Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan, Mrs. L. Hardin, 900 Fifth 2 Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. F. Goodall, 610 Barbee. 3 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. 11 Alice Tucker, So. Omaha, Neb. Mrs. I. M. Faulkner, 169 So. 31st E. Brown, 325 Miss. 14 Busy Bee, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. A Stone, 823 Main. 15 Louisa Mky, Cherryvale, Kan. Mrs. M. E. Holt, 517 W. Wain 17 Star of West, Salina, Kan., Mrs. A. G. Murrell, 451 So. 4th. 17 Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. H. Adams. 20 John wilson, K. C., Kan., Mrs. C. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett. 21 Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. D. McKinnis, 217 Sherman. 25 Silver Star, Parsons, Kan., Mr. Porter, 2017 Morton. 28 20th Century, Parsons, Kan., Mr. B. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan. 36—Pride of Topeka, Nanie Marsha, 900 N. Topeka avenue. 37 Pansy Blossom, Atchison, Kansas, Jennie McAdoo, 1501 Logan 38 Orange Rose, K. C., Kan., Mrs. Henderson, 312 Washington. 39 Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Herroid, Sherman Flaze. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Ten- s not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, Editor. NEXT PLACE OF METTING—The grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansa Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold me next Session (the 19th annual Omaha, Neb., on the 2nd Tuesday WHY NOT PAY what you owe to the Searchlight? It is only a small sum. Call at our office 634 N Water and save us from bothering you with a collector. DRY CLEANED, PRE Largest and best equip $50,000.00 investment dev W. N. Miller After May 1st local SEED PO It is the time to arrange Red River of Minnesota, ea Potatoes, direct from grow you are familiar with the ea country grown in this co purchase their seed potato sell contains the same exce If you are looking for c and inspect Ross Brother LOOK at the Economy buying especially for this basement made have arrived for selling. We here are hundreds of others. Special Bought at Merchandise We have done a lot of buying especial banner purchases recently made have art your profitable trading - there are hun We have done a lot of buying especially for this basement store and a number of our banner purchases recently made have arrived for selling. We mention three features for your profitable trading — there are hundreds of others. House Dresses $1 100 dozen—had to buy them all to get the price down and no more can be had at the same figure. Made of cambric in light dark brown; side fastenings; Dutch neck; sleeve; roll cuff; full skirts; $1.35 value. Best Time to Buy A recent deal with one of the country which we were awarded several cases of a variety of leathers on sale in the basement House and Dress Slippers; usual value $2. House and Dress Slippers; usual value. House and Dress Slippers; usual value. Tan Calf, Vici Kid and Patent Kid values ... Tan Calf, Vici Kid and Patent values ... Tan Calf, Vici Kid and Patent values ... Tan Calf, Vici Kid and values ... Tan Calf, Vici Kid 100 dozen—had to buy them all to get the price down and no more can be had at the same figure. Made of cambric in light and dark brown; side fastenings; Dutch neck; 3-4 sleeve; roll cuff; full skirts; $1.35 value. Made of soft cambric finished muslin, 58 inches long, 90 inches wide, tucked yokes, finished with four rows embroidery inserting. A 75-cent garment with more than ordinary points of value. You will surely want more than one. "Be early." Best Time to Buy Oxfords ... Today A recent deal with one of the country's most reliable makers of stylish footwear in which we were awarded several cases of low shoes at an extra discount. Spring styles in a variety of leathers on sale in the basement today. House and Dress Slippers; usual value $2.50; today ..... $1.75 Geo. Innes E.Co. Subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1. for a whole year Try it. Mrs T. L. Hackley was quite painfully burned last Friday by gas explosion. She is improving. gas explosion --- Mrs, W. W. Miller met with quite an accident last Sundao morning which came near causing her the loss of her left eye. She went oat to feed her pet calf and after getting the was in the act of placing it in the feed box when the pet calf came toward her end while she was stooping the calf gored her. The horns of the calf penetrated the fleshy part of the nose on the left side and luckily missed the eye by only a short space. Dr. F. G'Hara Millrr was called immediately and dressed the wound and at this writing she is doing nicely. Owing to the inclement weather the church conference of the A M, E. Church has been posponed tili Wednesday Light March 16. All members are urged to be present Business of much importance Patronize the Merchants and Business Houses that solicit your trade through "ads" in the columns of your race paper. Why trade with any other? Attorny-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Courts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone · Bell 1641 If you are going to Build or Remodel = WHY NOT let me develope your plans? . Now Is The Time to have your Electric and Gas fixtures put in See BYNUM He is the man 811 N. Wichita St. Wichita. Ks J. Ed Allen HARNESS MAKER 426 North Main St. New and 2nd Haud Harness Harness bought, sold, repaired and exchanged YOU TAKE NO CHANCES By sending your Clothes, Hats. Plumes and Gloves To Be RY CLEANED, PRESSED and REPAIRED at the People's Cleaning and Dye Works Largest and best equipped plant in Kansas. A 550,000.00 investment devoted to this one specialty. l. Phone 178 Bell Phone 175 Largest and best equipped plant in Kansas. A $50,000.00 investment devoted to this one specialty. Ind. Phone 178 Present Location 131 N. Lawrence After May 1st located at 211 S. Lawrence SEED POTATOES It is the time to arrange for your supply. We sell Seed River of Minnesota, early Ohio and Bliss Triumph potatoes, direct from grower to us. A great many of you are familiar with the excellent cryps grown in this country grown in this country by those people who purchase their seed potatoes from us. Everything we will contains the same excellent quality. If you are looking for quality come to our store and inspect our stock. Ross Brothers Seed House After May 1st located at 211 S. Lawrence SEED POTATOES It is the time to arrange for your supply. We sell Red River of Minnesota, early Ohio and Bliss Triumph Potatoes, direct from growers to us. A great many of you are familiar with the excellent cryps grown in this country grown in this country by those people who purchase their seed potatoes from us. Everything we sell contains the same excellent quality. If you are looking for quality come to our store and inspect our stock. Economy Basement especially for this basement store and a number of our we arrived for selling. We mention three features for hundreds of others. Gowns, 50 Cents get the at the right and neck; 3-4 e. Made of soft cambric finished muslin, 58 inch- es long, 90 inches wide, tucked yokes, finis- hed with four rows embroidery inserting. A 75-cent garment with more than ordinary points of value. You will surely want more than one. "Be early." Buy Oxfords ... Today Country's most reliable makers of stylish footwear in s of low shoes at an extra discount. Spring styles in assessment today. e $2.50; today ... $1.75 value $2.00; today ... $1.50 value $1.50; today ... $1.00 Kid Oxfords; usual $3.50 and $4.00 ... $2.50 Kid Oxfords; usual $3.00 and $3.50 ... $2.00 Patent Kid Oxfords; usual $3.00 and $2.50 ... $1.75 and Patent Kid Oxfords; usual $2.50 and $2.00 ... $1.50 Kid and Patent Kid Oxfords; usual $1.50 value $1.00 Innes & Co. THE HEART OF WICHITA" --- at the Bell Phone 175 Mr. and Mrs. W C Neeley' 1241 Blaine, are rejoicing over the arrival of a bouncing baby girl on Thursday, March 10th Dr A. K Lawrence attending Mother and daughter doing nicely.