Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT ELEVENTH YEAR Masons W Lay Co SUNDAY, Grand Master Coll Marks A New Ep Colored Society Mayor Chas. L Deliver An AN IMPORT ALL ARE One of the most important events in the hostory of the colored people of Wichita will be the corner stone laying of the new hall of Arkansas Valley lodge No.21, A.F.A.M. which is being erected on their lot at 615 N.Main St. This corner stone laying marks the accomplishment of one of the aims of the J. W. Thompson Chairman Trustee Board members of this lodge for the past ten years. The corner stone will be laid with Masonic Rites at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon April 3rd with Grand Master C. H. Milton Collins, of Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kansas as Master of ceremonies. Mayor Chas. L. Davidson will deliver a short address, J. W. Thompson Chairman of the Trustee Board, will be Marshall of the day, Rev. Jas. T. Smith, pastor of the A. M. E. Church will be chaplin, and H. W. Marshall Grand Orator. The choir of the A M. E. Church and the choir of the 2nd Baptist church will join and furnish the music. A quartett from the Y. M. C. A. will render some select songs. The occassion promises to be one of much note and marks --- M. B. B. a new era in the work and history of Negro Societies of Wichita Every one is cordially invited to come out at 4 o'clock next Sunday, April 3rd and witness this greatest of all great events, the laying of the corner stone of the Masonic lodge hall at 615 North Main Street. HISTORY OF THE BUILDING About ten years ago when the Arkansas Vally lodge No. 21, A. F. A. M. had to give up their palatial meeting place at Elm and Main it for the first time seriously dawned upon the members of the need of owning a hall of their own. The lodge secured a temporary place of meeting in the Dr. Oldham building, 1st and Main and later moved to the hall at the rear of the Getto building. These frequent moves all tended to keep up a lively discussion among the members on the proposition of the hall. These discussions were frequent and finally culminated in this motion made by J. W. Thompson, which was seconed by W. N. Miller, who was at that time Secretary of the lodge, the motion was "It is hereby motioned and made the sense of this lodge that the lodge elect a Board of five Trustees who shall investigate the possibility of devising ways and mean to secure a lodge hall and report to this lodge for their action "this motion prevailed and the following Board of Trustees were duly elected:- G. H Young J. T. Chinneth, W. N. Miller, J. W. Thompson and Dudly Johnson. This board met from time to time and it was this Board who entered into the contract with Prof. Sanford the Bandman and purchased the present lot where the building is now being erected This board as composed above also presented to Arkansas Valley lodge worked to pay for the lot so easily. On account of sickness W. N. Miller retired from the Board and the death of brother G. H. Young made another vacancy and the present splendid Board was chosen. The Board as constituted now is composed of the following:- J. W. Thompson, chairman, J. T. Chinneth, Secretary, Dudly Johnson Treasurer, Joshia Walker, A. M. Morris, W. H. Jones, Dr. G. G. Brown. To this board is dur the credit for the plan of the building and its success up till now. It is unneccessary to say that it has been a hard and long struggle from the time the lodge moved from Elm and Main ten years ago to this time when they look forward to soon going into their own building. But it must be said in credit to the tait hful members of Arkansas Vally lodge No. 21, A. F. A. M. that during all these years, with the many things with which the lodge naturally came in contact with, the members, as a rule, have remained loyal and held up the cause of Masonry in a true-hearted manner. Durini these ten years the following Master Masons have served as Worshipful Master of Arkansas Valley lodge No, 21, A. F. A. M. Joseph Fne, Jeff S. Fauver, W. H. A. Clark, Glover L. Scott, Juluis G. Gaines and the present Master, Henry W. James. The corner-stone laying and the erection of this building is, indeed, a fact that brings new inspiration to the heart of every Master Mason who is a member of this lodge. It is hoped that every one will join hands with the Masons Sunday in helping to make this day a memorable one long to be remembered in the Annuals of the colored people of this city. APRIL 2 1910. About Some Wichitans. That a real man can and will succeed, in the very face of obstacles and draw-backs, is very forebly brought to light in pointing out the remarkable success of Benjamin J. Topp, of Wichita most substantial and worthy of citizens. A few years ago, Mr. Topp came to this city from the good cold state of Tennesse from near Memphis. Like thousands of colored men who came to Ks. about that time from the South Mr. Topp's capital consisted only in an ambition to work. Here he found ample opportunity to use his ambition to work to good advantage and this he did without the loss of any time. He worked, saved his money and purchased the valuable property corner of 9th and Wichita Street where he now resides. Some six or eight years ago Mr, Topp lost his wite and has had other misfortune which would have been the ruin of a less ambitious and determined man. But he has held his own and stands today as one of our leading men. Quiet, unassuming, industrious and progressing he is chisseling his name among the men of mark in our community. He has an interest-family of one son and two daughters. About two years ago he caught the progressive idea and built a neat, modern, five room cottage on his property there of which is a credit. This he rents out. We do not wish to be quoted when we say to the ladies that Mr. Topp is a most fancinating widower and some lady would do well to add his name to her own. He is a splendid mark for Mr. Cupid to practice with. If a man's worth is to be estimated by his usefulness to the community in which he lives; then all agree that the worth of Louis H. White is of the highest standing. Mr. White is one those men who have progress and property as his watchhood. He is energetic; thrifty; industrious and economizing. He knows the worth of a dollar as the modern, comfortable and palatial home which he owns at 1459 N Washington Ave. will affirm. He is an Odd Fellow of the highest rank and has held every office in a subordinate Odd Fellow Lodge. He has also been elected delegate several times to the Grand New Hope Baptist Church. He is one of those men of whom any race or community may well to feel proud. He is a hustler and may well be taken as an example of progressiveness. There is no man in Wichita who, in a quiet, telling and last-inp way is making himself more substantially felt for good than is Charles I. Burns. Mr. Burns has always been and is by his very nature a good, whole-soul man, but in more recent years he has spread himself, settled down and is daily proving the real of good metal of which he is made. By trade or profession, he is a cook, one of the best cooks that ever graced a kitchen. He makes friends easily and holds them as firmly. He has that get-up-and-go spirit which is the badge of the man who does things and succeeds. About two years ago he made one of Wichita's best young ladies and they bought a nice home and have setled down at 1218 So. Washington. He is also a member of the New Hope Baptist Church. SUMYTT-MORRIS MARRIAGE The many friends of E. Thaddens Summytt, one of our former Wichita young men, will be pleased to learn of his marriage to Miss. Arline Morris, of Omaha, Neb, which was solemnized in Wichita Monday evening March 28th. 1910. Mr. Summytt came to Wichita Saturday and met his bride who had preceded him to this city two weeks ago. A marriage license was procured Monday and the ceremony performed Mr. Summytt is a graduate in pharmacy of the Creighton College of Pharmacy of Omaha Neb and has accepted a place with Mr. Wm. McDonald in the new Drug Store which he will open in Ft. Worth Texas. The many acquaintances of young Mr. Summytt are much pleased with his continued rise in the scale of life and wish him much success in his married life and also in his new position in Texas. SPLENDID YEAR OF WORK Rev. G. T. Wooten, pastor of The M. E. Church Rounded Out A Marvelous success Is Returned To Wichita On Sunday, March 20th. Rev. G. T, Wooten, pastor of Methodist Episcopal Church, 15th and Wabash. held his closing services preparatory to attend the An- NO.52 nual Conference which met in Topeka, Kansas on March 22nd 23rd. and 24th. Rev. Wooten had accomplishments during that time are simply marvelous and wonderful and these closing services were one of great moment to pastor, members, - friends Rev. Jesse Uhler preached for them at 11 a. m He delivered a powerful, practical sermons. At 3 p. m. Rev. J. T. Smith pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. Church preached one of his masterly sermons which were filled with the good, wholesome thought. At 8 p. m the pastor filled the pulpit and at the close of his sermon read his report for the year. Collection for the day $37.00 The report of the pastor showed that the lot had been purchased and a modern, spacious and beautiful church edefice erected and dedicated to God during the year. A summary of the report follows:—Value church property $1600.00. Paid $800.00. Full members 43; Probationers - 18; Total members 61; Baptised — children 18. All conference claims paid. This is, indeed, a most encouraging report and places Rev Wooten in the front ranks of Gospel heroes. All are proud that Rev Wooten has been returned for another year to continue the good work already begun. Golden Tabernacle No.1 met on Saturday 26th. in peace and harmony. Every member present expressed themselves as highly pleaed. Sister Anna Oweds was given the third degree. Daughter of Tabor who visit in Iola and desire to visit us will find us located in the G. A. R. Hall. We meet the 2nd and 4th. Saturday afternoon of each month. The Easter program at the A. M. E. Church was a great success. The church will have grand rally on the 4th Sunday in April and will make an effort to raise $570.00. Everybody has a welcomed invitation to rally with us. LAWRENCE KANSAS St. Marie No.10 meet in peace and harmony. Our Tabernacle is growing rapidly as we have five new members. We have two very sick daughters at present. We are getting a long fine in our Tabernacle with exception of our sickness. Dt. Ida Wallace C. R. Dtr. Laura Adcox V. R. ARMOUR SAYS IT'S THE FARMER PACKERS NOT IN COMBINE BUT FARMERS ARE. Farmers' Trust Control Prices of Stock and Packers Are Helpless in Their Hands. Galveston, Texas.—"If the farmers would bring the price of cattle and hogs down to reason able figures there would be no cry of high cost of living" remarked J. Ogden Armour, the Chicago packer, who is sojourning in Texas. "Complaint is made of me and other packers of combinations by packers and others when as a matter of fact the farmers and stock raises absolutely control the market and are organized into unions and leagues and are starving the people. The packers would cut prices in half if the stock raises and farmers would sell cattle and hogs at reasonable profits. We are paying now more for these than ever in the history of the country and we are willing to admit that the cost of putting the finished product on the market is no more to the packers now than it was a decade ago. When we are compelled to pay double the price for sheep, cattle and hogs, we necessarily are compelled to advance our prices. "Nobody appears to realize that the farmers have organized and combined interests and are putting the prices of meat up to their own figures. The packing houses do not raise bees and sheep, hogs, but buy them and pay the prices the farmers' trust puts upon them. We go into the market and are at the mercy of these people but the consumers point to the packers and charge us with running prices higher and squeezing the life out of the eaters of meat. I am not worried over the indictment and have no fear of conviction for myself or associates We have violated no law and hence have no fear of being punished for operating a trust. Investigate the trust of men who sell cattle and hogs." ANNUAL EGG-ROLLING CONTEST Washington Children Swarmed Over the White House Lawn as Usual This Year. Washington, D. C. — The Easter Monday egg rolling on the lawns of the White House presented the usual picture of youthful joyousness. The day was warm and bright. Mrs. Taft had a number of callers during the day and spent the greater part of the time on the rear portico watching the children at play. Children of the rich and the poor were admitted and had the run of the place for their games and picnics. The White House fountain was playing for the first time this season. In the afternoon the United States Engineers' band gave a concert. EXPLODING GUN KILLS EIGHT Report of Accident on the Charleston Confirmed—A Breech Block Brew Out. Manila, P. I—The report that a fatal accident had taken place on the United States cruiser, Charleston, has been confirmed. Eight men were killed and several others slightly injured. At practice at sea off Clongapo, the breech block of a three-inch gun blow out and in its flight across the deck cut through a steel stanchion and mowed down the men. Seven of the victims were almost instantly killed while an eighth died as the Charleston was hurrying to Cavite. LIVE STOCK SHIPMENTS BEGUN The Santa Prepared to Handle 8,000 Cars From New Mexico and Texas to Kansas. Wellington, Kansas—The stock shipments have begun on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road through here from New Mexico and Texas, and the railroad officials have arranged for 8,000 cars, or 250 trains, of stock between now and May 1. The stock is being shipped to grazing lands in Greenwood, Chase and Butler counties Kansas. The stock is said to be in fine condition for this time of the year. DISAGREE WITH ROOSEVELT Egyptian Students Make a Demonstration in Front of His Hotel in Cairo. Cairo, Egypt.—Two hundred students from the University of Egypt made a demonstration in front of Sheheard's hotel, where Col. Roosevelt is stopping. The students carried an Egyptian flag and, as they paraded past the hostelry, shouted: "Long live the constitution and the liberty of Egypt." The shouting was interspersed with handclapping. Sails for Home June 10. Sails For Home June 10. London, England — Theodore Roosevelt will sail from Southampton for home on June 10. Passage has been angaged. A $100,000 Oil Field Fire. Tulsa, Oklahoma. — Property valued at $100,000 was destroyed by fire in the Glenn Pool oil field. Twenty-five oil rigs and twenty tanks were burned. The fire started on the prairie near the oil field. Prairie Fire Burned a Child Abilene, Kansas.—While playing in the yard of her home at Banner City the six-year-old daughter of Jacob Fiedley was caught by a prairie fire driven before a high wind and burned to death. OH, THE NOISE AND UPROAR OF THE CITY! IT'S HEAVENLY TO GET MONEY! POOR DEAR! NOW, METTER THE PORTTESSING! CHICAGO DAILY NEWS JUDGE D. J. BREWER IS DEAD WAS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Dropped Dead in Bath Room of His Home—Was Appointed From Kansas in 1889. Washington, D. C.—David Josiah Brewer, associated justice of the supreme court of the United States dropped dead in the bath room of his home, No. 1923 Sixteenth street, a few minutes after 11 o'clock last night. Heart disease is believed to have been the cause of death. Justice Brewer was apparently in the best of health. He was 73 years old and had been a member of the supreme court since December, 1889. He was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, where his parents were residing as missionaries. He was a graduate of Yale college. He was appointed to the supreme bench from Kansas. He had gone into the bath room to prepare his bath after having devoted the night to study. A few minutes later Mrs. Brewer, second wife of the justice, heard him feebly calling for ald. When she reached him he had become unconscious. He died before the physician, Dr. H. A. Taylor, who was summoned, arrived. A VICTORY FOR UNION LABOR Principle in Famous Buck Stove case Applicable to Blacklisting Union Employes. New York, N. Y.—A victory of wide spread importance to labor all over the United States was won by Clarence J. Shearn, who secured from supreme court Justice Fitzgerald an opinion which in layman's language means that if it is unlawful for labor unions to blacklist employees as in the famous Buck Stove company case it is just as unlawful for employees to black list employees. The decision was rendered by Judge Fitzgerald in making permanent the injunction of the Enterprise Association of Steam Fitters of which Mr. Shearn is counsel against the Building Trades Employers' association. ANOTHER EXPRESS HEAD GONE Col. Levi C. Weir President of Adams Company is Dead—The Fourth in Six Months. New York, N. Y.—Col. Levi C. Weir, president of the Adams Express company died at his apartments in the Plaza hotel. His death forges another link in the chain of remarkable deaths of presidents of big express companies within the past six months. The others who died were M. J. O'Brien, president of the Southern Express company; Thomas C. Platt president of the United States Express company and Col. Dudley Evans president of Wells Fargo company. RAISED $1,000,000 FOR BOATS Kansas City has Successfully Financed the Plan to Put Missouri River on the Map. Kansas City, Missouri.—Kansas City has raised that million! Four days before the time set for the closing of the campaign the total amount subscribed amounted to $1,052,998—and there is more to come! When the various committee met in navigation headquarters in the Midland building at noon and began turning in their reports, it soon became apparent that the million mark had not only been reached, but passed. A Day for Crow Killing. Jefferson City, Missouri—D. R. Austin of Nevada, Mo., has asked Gov Hadley to issue a proclamation setting aside the first Wednesday in April as "crow day," upon which day the men and boys of the state are to arm themselves and kill all the crows they can. A. Telephone Merger in Wichita. Topeka, Kansas.—Gov. Stubbs and Fred S. Jackson, attorney general, are being urged to investigate the merger of the Independent and Bell Telephone companies at Wichita. A Cozy Evening in the Flat. FATHER AND CHILDREN KILLED They were Shot While in a Motor Boat on River Near Scandia, Kansas. Scandia, Kansas.—A motor boat bearing a ghastly freight drifted to the shore of the Republican river near here. The boat was one Alexander Lindhal, a wealthy farmer, had purchased for pleasure riding on the stream which flows past his farm. In the boat were the bodies of Lindhal's two children, a boy of eight and a girl of ten years. Both had been killed by charges of buckshot fired from a shotgun. Evidently they had been shot several times as they were badly mutilated. In addition to the bullet wounds the boy had been struck with a club or the butt of the gun. The battered bodies of the children were in the boat. A short distance away the body of the father was discovered amid some brush. He evidently had gone ashore to fight his assailant in an effort to save the children's lives. The three bodies had been clubbed repeatedly after the victims had been shot several times. The unknown assailant evidently had laid in wait for Lindhal and his children behind the pile of brush where the farmer's body was found and had shot at them as they were about to step ashore. SENATOR ALLDS FOUND GUILTY Charges Preferred by Conger Against New York Legislator Sustained—Allds Resigned Before Verdict. Albany, New York—State Senator Jotham P. Allds of Chenango county was found guilty by a vote of 40 to nine, in the senate of accepting a $1,000 bribe from the bridge interests in 1901. The verdict followed his resignation from the senate and marks the end of the hearing of the charge, preferred by Senator Benjamin Conger which has extended over seven weeks, revealing many slidelights of a startling character on the condition in the legislature nine years ago. TOTAL PROHIBITION IS COMING Gov. Stubbs Thinks That in Ten Years it Will Be Universally Adopted Topeka, Kansas.—Gov. Stubbs expects to see prohibition throughout the country within the next ten years. He returned from Chicago where he made three or four prohibition speeches Saturday and Monday. "Total prohibition is coming and it is coming rapidly," the governor said. "Two years ago prohibition in Chicago would not have been dreamed of. Chicago has no prohibition now, but it is my opinion that it will have within a year. HOUSE FAVORS POPULAR VOTE A Resolution by Lloyd of Missouri Favorably Reported by a Committee. Washington, D. C.—A resolution offered by Representative Lloyd of Missouri, providing for the election of senators by popular vote, was reported to the house favorably by the committee to which it had been referred. It proposes an amendment to the constitution. Ohio Potteries Shut Down. East Liverpool, Ohio.—Three thousand employees were thrown out of work when a dozen of the largest potteries in this city and across the river in West Virginia shut down. Kansas Gains an Educator Ann Arbor, Mich.-Charles Hughes Johnson, junior professor of education at the University of Michigan for three years past, will resign and accept the position of dean of the school of education in the University of Kansas. Alexander Agassiz Dead. Cambridge, Massachusetts—Alexander Agassiz, the eminent naturalist and president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining copied, died on the steamer Adriane southampton for New York. TELLS STORY OF BALLINGER Collier's Article Seriously Reflects on His Professional Conduct While an Attorney. New York, N. Y.—Collier's in the current issue continues its crusade against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger with an article entitled "Ballinger—Shyster," in which C. P. Connolly tells a tory that on the face of it reflects on Mr. Ballinger's professional conduct when he was practicing law in Port Townsend, Wash. The story concerns Ballinger's relations with the Scandinavian-American bank and the shipbuilding firm of Heckman & Hanson, and tends to show that Baainger, after acting as attorney for Heckman & Hanson and acquiring a knowledge of their business affairs, accepted antagonistic employment from the bank. The matter resulted in two attempts to have Ballinger and other lawyers disbarred, which failed. BLACKMARWOULDSTOPSTRIKES Professor of Sociology at Kansas University Wants the Public Protected by Law. Topeka, Kansas.—F. W. Blackmar, professor of sociology at Kansas university, has started an agitation for a law to prevent strikes. The threatened coal strike has caused him to get busy. In anticipation of the strike, the railroads are piling up coal along their tracks and industrial enterprises are laying in extra supplies. It is predicted by coal men that many factories will have to close down for lack of fuel. Prof. Blackmar cannot hope to influence the impending strike by his agitation, but he wants to get the matter started so that the Kansas legislature next winter will pass some kind of a law on the subject. Later he will carry his fight to congress. RIVER BILL WINS ONCE MORE Senate Committee Favorably Reported the $1,000,000 Appropriation for Missouri River. Washington, D. C.-The senate committee on commerce voted to report favorably that section of the river and harbors bill which provides for the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Missouri river. The money is to be used for improvements between Kansas City and the mouth of the river. The matter had been a cause of anxiety to the Missouri senators because of the opposition of Senator Burton of Ohio, but when the item was reached there was very little discussion. Senator Burton expressed his objections to the appropriation briefly, but the committee voted to let the section stand exactly as it came from the house. WIDOW OF GOV. MORRIL DEAD End Comes to Kansas Woman at Home of Her Daughter in Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri—Mrs. Caroline J. Morrill, widow of Edmond Needham Morrill, governor of Kansas in 1895-6, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cornelia Baker, 3820 Baltimore avenue. Mrs. Morrill had been making her home with her daughter since the death of Mr. Morrill last March. She was 76 years old and had been an invalid for the last two years, although it was not until two weeks ago she was confined to her bed. A NOVEL COURT FOR ALASKA It is Proposed to Patrol the Coast With Fully Equipped Court on Revenue Cutter. Washington, D. C.-Gov. Clark of Alaska has arranged a novel court of justice. Treasury officials have promised him to put a revenue cutter at the service of one of the judges of Alaska this summer. The judge with the cutter will visit 2,000 miles of Alaska shore, stopping at points where there are no judges to administer the law. The judge will have with him a deputy marshal, and assistant United States attorney and grand petit juries. THE LARGEST COW IN KANSAS Was Marketed at Salina and Weighed 1,860 Pounds — Brought $102.30. at Five and One Half Cents. Salina, Kansas.—What is believed to be the largest cow in the state was marketed at the packing plant here. The cow was raised on the farm of Henry Nelson in this county and weighed 1,860 pounds. At five and a half cents a pound the animal brought $102.30. The cow is five feet eight inches high and 14 feet long. She measures 12 feet six inches around the girth and her front legs are 22 inches long above the knees. JUDGE LANDIS GOES THE LIMIT Fined Man Who Evaded a Federal Law $15,000 and Six Years in Jail. Chicago, Ill. — That Federal Judge Landis proposes to "go the limit," in the punishment of men convicted of selling "moonshine" oleomargarine was indicated when he Samuel Dreisbach, convicted of evading the federal oleo law, to six years in the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, in addition he was fined $15,000. WOMEN MAKE CLEVER SPIES Are Regularly Employed by European Countries to Secure Each Other's Secrets. It may be remembered that a short time ago some valuable admiralty plans disappeared from Chatham, says London Tit-Bits. Mr. McKenna, the first lord of the admiralty, admitted that they had been stolen, but a mystery surrounded their disappearance. It is now suggested that a well-known international woman spy, who is ever ready to sell her services to the highest bidder, be it the Russian, German or French government, was responsible for the disappearance of those plans. It is known that she was in this country for some weeks prior to the incident and it is supposed that during that time she engineered the plot which resulted in the vanishing of the important papers. Whatever truth there may be in the story it is a very feasible one, for it is usually women who prove the most successful spies. "When it comes to trickery and cunning," said a well-known detective to the writer on one occasion, "there is no match for a clever woman. If she is pretty into the bargain, I would back her to beat the cleverest men at Scotland yard nine times out of ten." And, judging from the success of women in secret service work, it would seem that the tribute is in no way exaggerated. It is only a short time ago that a beautiful and fashionably dressed teacher of languages, Fraulein Peterson, about 25 years of age, was arrested at Kiel, in Germany, on suspicion of being a French spy. She was said to have entered into a love affair deliberately with a noncommissioned officer named Dietrich, of the explosives department, for the purpose of inducing him to divulge important German naval secrets. Dietrich, flattered by the attention of such a beautiful woman, could deny her nothing, and at the time of the arrest was said to have been supplying her with the formula for the manufacture of the German smokeless powder (one of the most effective yet invented) and the situation of the port mines. To disguise her true occupation she posed as a teacher of languages. Suspicion was directed against her on account of the ample funds with which she was always provided and of her fear of giving the police the customary notice of her frequent changes of address. A Comic Tragedy. The people on Broadway, New York, were startled one night recently by hearing the screams of a child coming apparently from a dress-suit case which a dark, smooth-shaven man was carrying uptown. So piercing were the cries that the man was watched with increasing suspicion, and in time a crowd surrounded him and insisted on his opening the bag. He kept his lips tight shut, and continued to walk up Broadway, clinging to his dress-suit case, from which the screams apparently continued to come. Eventually a constable put him under arrest, and hurriedly opened the bag. He expected to find a baby doubled up in it, but instead he found a grinning stone image called a mankin. The prisoner proved to be a ventilroquist engaged in a Broadway concert hall, who had adopted this unique method of cheap advertisement. Prank Had Tragic Ending. An extraordinary affair is reported from La Amora. Eighty fierce Spanish bulls were penned in the station awaiting to be conveyed to various parts of the country for bull-fighting purposes. A party of carnival revelers bent on mischievous fun threw some explosives among the animals, causing them to stampede. The infuriated beasts broke down the frail wooden fence and bottled out of the station, making for the town, about a mile distant. The townsfolk heard the trampling of the approaching herd, and as many as could made for shelter. The beasts rushed through the town like a whirlwind, knocking down and killing three persons, and more or less seriously injuring 18 others. A force of the civil guard was sent out to scour the country with orders to shoot the bulls on sight. Fogs Made to Order. Among the means of protecting fruit trees against frost practiced in California is the production of fog by a generator in the form of a wagon. The wagon carries a sheetiron tank, the upper part of which is filled with wet straw or similar material, kept moist by the automatic injection of water from a cask, while near the bottom is a grate upon which tar is burned, a blast, operated by a revolving fan, serving to maintain the combustion. All the heat is compelled to pass through the wet straw before reaching the air and in consequence the wagon is buried in a dense fog, and as it passes between the rows of low trees it envelopes them in a mist so thick that the driver is frequently compelled to lead the horses. May Demolish Heligoland. A strange proposal has been made in Germany with regard to the island of Heliogland, which, despite vast expenditure, still continues to crumble away. The proposal is—unless some scheme of preserving it can be found—to blow up the entire island. Apparently the idea is, in the event of war, Heliogland would need to be very strongly defended, lest it should be seized and used as an advance base of operations against Germany. The trouble does not lie with the risk of its being seized so much as with the strain of having to defend it. WELL KIDNEYS KEEP THE BODY WELL. When the kidneys do their duty, the blood is filtered clear of uric acid and other waste. Weak kidneys do not filter off all the bad matter. This is the cause of rheumatic pains, backache and urinary disorders. Doan's Kidney Pills cure weak kidneys Every Picture Tells a Story Rev. A bram Weaver, Georgetown, Tex., former editor Baptist Herald, says: "At a Baptist conference at Jackson, Tex. I fell from a platform and hurt my back. I was soon over the injury, but the kidneys were badly disordered, passages painful and often bloody. Doan's Kidney Pills cured this trouble completely." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. 50 cents a box. OLD BIRD. Mrs. Justwed—I want a chicken that I can fry, roast, stew or fix up any way I want. Dealer—Here's one, lady, you can do anything you like with and not hurt it. NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT My little son, a boy of five, broke out with an itching rash. Three doctors prescribed for him, but he kept getting worse until we could not dress him any more. They finally advised me to try a certain medical college, but its treatment did no good. At the time I was induced to try Cuticura he was so bad that I had to cut his hair off and put the Cuticura Ointment on him on bandages, as it was impossible to touch him with the bare hand. There was not one square inch of skin on his whole body that was not affected. He was one mass of sores. The bandages used to stick to his skin and in removing them it used to take the skin off with them, and the screams from the poor child were heartbreaking. I began to think that he would never get well, but after the second application of Cuticura Ointment I began to see signs of improvement, and with the third and fourth applications the sores commenced to dry up. His skin peeled off twenty times, but it finally yielded to the treatment. Now I can say that he is entirely cured, and a stronger and healthier boy you never saw than he is to-day, twelve years or more since the cure was effected. Robert Wattam, 1148 Forty-eighth St., Chicago, Ill., Oct. 9, 1909." Futile Dissension "So you and your husband are always quarreling?" said the family lawyer. "Yes," answered the young woman. "What do you quarrel about?" "I forget the subject of the first quarrel. But we have been quarrelling ever since over who was to blame for it." Bringing Up. "They're bringing the baby up to be a mollycoddle." "How so?" "They have the nurse take it out in a go-cart, instead of giving it an automobile." DONT NEGLECT THAT COUGH It certainly racks your system and may run into something serious. Allen's Lang Balam will check it quickly and permanently. For sale at all druggists. Vanity is due to a leak in one's wisdom tank. Stomach Ills May Seem Trifles At the start, but that is when you want to take the matter in hand. Neglect can only result the one way—sickness. The stemach is largely responsible for one's health and strength and as such it needs to be kept in a normal condition. If it becomes weak, the food remains undigested, ferments, and causes untold suffering. Thus you lose the strength-giving properties of your food and you become weak and run down. This is very noticeable at the beginning of Spring when the system is overloaded with Winter impurities, the bowels clogged and the blood thick. No wonder you have the "Spring Fever." Commence taking Hostetter's Stomach Bitters this very day and cleanse the entire system. Then your Stomach Ills will also vanish. It is for Sick Headache, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Spring Fever, General Debility and Malaria. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 14-1910. The American Home WILLIAM 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 will be able to verify on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 184 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The accompanying illustrations show a house design especially adapted to the needs of suburban or country building. The requirements for a dwelling house for such a location are different in a good many respects from those in a city. More attention should be paid to the matter of making the house as nearly fireproof as possible; for in the country, as well as in our smaller towns and suburbs, there is no fire protection. Accordingly, if a building once takes fire, nothing can be done except to watch it burn. Of course, the fire risk from adjoining buildings is much greater in thickly settled communities, but the fire-fighting apparatus which is quickly available more than makes up for this extra hazard. The only wise and logical thing for a man to do when he plans to invest a large amount of money in a suburban or country home is to build it fireproof. With the modern building materials now available it is very easy to do this and the cost, although considerably more than for frame, is certainly not excessive when the fire protection, enduring character of the house, etc., are taken into consideration. For the accompanying design a thoroughly fireproof construction is employed. The beauty and homelike atmosphere of this house makes an expenditure, however large, seem worth while that will make it absolutely safe and enduring, no matter where it is built. The walls of this house are formed THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM of 2x6 studding well braced, but they are covered both inside and out with expanded metal lath. The outside is plastered with cement plaster applied in three coats; thus there is fully one inch of nature's most fire-resisting material—cement—on the outside of this house, completely surrounding the steel reinforcing, thus protecting it against rust. The inside of the walls, as well as all the interior partitions, are composed of one coat of cement plaster on expended metal lath and then a finishing coat of hard wall plaster. The floors of this house are formed of hollow terra cotta tile made in narrow flat panels between reinforced PORCH KITCHEN 12 014 6 LODS 14 014 6 DINING ROOM MALL 8 014 6 PORCH PARLOR 12 014 6 MOOR First Floor Plan. concrete beams. The concrete beams are four inches square, reinforced with twisted steel rods. On top of this concrete and terra cotta floor a one-inch coat of cinder concrete is laid in which 2x2 nailing strips are imbedded; the wood flooring is laid on these, being nailed down securely. For the ceiling finish the wall plaster is applied directly to the underside of the concrete beams and the tiles. This makes a floor that is thoroughly fireproof, very warm and not excessively heavy. The roof of this house may be constructed in a number of ways, yet it should be made fireproof, since the root is really the most vulnerable part of the house. Green slate would be very appropriate and would make a beautiful contrast with the cement walls. The roof in this design is rath- This design is futuristic. er prominent, and all things considered, slate would probably be most satisfactory. One of the newer forms of roof construction, which might be used, consists of corrugated steel sheets which rest on a light steel frame work. The corrugations are deep enough to prevent any bending of the sheets between supports. Waterproofed cement plaster is spread on over the sheets in a coat about one inch thick, completely filling the corrugations. This method would certainly make a fireproof roof, and the cement plaster Second Floor Plan. could be easily colored to make an effective contrast with the side walls. Native squared stone is used to very good purpose in this design for the large chimney and for the porch piers and arch. This stone work gives the house an added appearance of stability. The arrangement of the house leaves little to be desired. The floor plans show a large parlor, or living room, dining-room, kitchen and reception hall on the first floor. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a bathroom. The cost of this house is estimated at $4,000, using a good grade of materials and most thorough construc terials and most thorough conserve tion. The size of this house, 34 feet six inches wide by 35 feet six inches, makes it very suitable for the ordinary suburban 50-foot lot. Beautifying Orphans "The hard luck of that little boy who couldn't get anybody to adopt him because he had freckles has called out a queer kind of correspondence," said the matron of an orphanage. "Beauty doctors write asking for the job of making over our homely children. They put the proposition partly on a philanthropic basis. For one-tenth the money they get for beautifying adults they offer to clear children's complexions, straighten noses, and make straight hair curly. They argue that it would pay in the long run to patronize them, because the orphans would be taken off our hands so much sooner. "They present their arguments so plausibly that I am more than half convinced. The very homely child who wants to be adopted is terribly handicapped, and I really believe that if I were a philanthropist with a pile of money to give away I would set aside a certain sum for the beautifying of ugly orphans." Youth Rules It is every woman's duty to keep young as long as possible, but, unfortunately, she does not always know the best way to live up to that duty. Avoid worry, hurry and getting flushed. Learn self-control. Anger is a rapid wrinkle-bringer. Be temperate. Moderation does not only refer to the stomach. Overdoing in any way makes for premature age. Love the open air. Fresh air is not a fad, it is a necessity if one would keep young. Get plenty of sleep. Nothing fines the face like nights of wakefulness. Keep mentally alert. An intellectual back number adds years to her seeming age. Nothing makes for youth like a young mind, save perhaps a young heart. Don't let yourself get sluggish and indifferent. Here is where the benefit of massage, physical and a vital interest in life comes in Bettina's Ambiguous Message By MABEL CLAIRE SMITH Bettina was a sociable little soul, with an impulsive heart that two years of married life had not tamed. Her girlhood had been spent among a host of friends and relatives, and until she married Frank Allerton, a struggling young architect, and came to live in a tiny cottage in a lonely suburb, she had not known what it was to be for hours at a time without anybody to speak to. The last month had been especially trying, for all the people whom she knew had gone away from their suburban homes for the summer. One evening, in the middle of July, Bettina sat up until after midnight, waiting to speak to her late-arriving husband. He had been doing extra work at the office all the past month, and rarely reached home before 12 at night. As he had to go to the city on an early train the next morning. Bettina's only glimpse of him had been from behind the coffee—not at the breakfast table. "I'm sorry I worry you, Frank," Bettina tearfully said, when her husband returned and had given her a severe lecture on the folly of her sitting up for him. "I truly think I might just as well not have married, for all that I see of you. I should not mind the days, if only you could get home early in the evenings. I don't want you to work so hard, Frank. I'd rather be poor than rich." "Tut, tut!" said Frank, with a smile. "Little girls shouldn't tell stories. Don't I know your eyes dance at sight of a pretty hat or frilly dress? Money is a good thing. Bettina. I mean to be rich one of these days, give you pretty clothes and folderols. Until then, little lady, I must work and you must wait. Don't tease me any more, now. I am dead tired tonight." And with a sleepy stretch of his long arms he turned out the light and went to bed. Just before he fell asleep, he bethought himself of what Bettina had said about her loneliness, and asked: "Hasn't Jack Carlton been here since I brought him to tea last Sunday. He's a good-hearted chap, and not half bad at entertaining. I rather hoped he'd keep you from being so lonely." "Oh, yes, he has been here every evening," said Bettina, slowly. "He has some new music which he wants me to learn to play. He is a nice boy. I like nim very well." Time passed, and Frank was still detained late at the office. Bettina, however, no longer ventured to earn his displeasure by sitting up until his return. Just how many seconds before his return she had been asleep was entirely ner own concern. One morning as he hurried through breakfast, he inquired whether she had been well entertained the night before. Bettina smiled enigmatically and replied that Mr. Carlton was a pleasant talker. That very evening Frank returned home at five o'clock for the first time in two years of his married life. He had received an offer for a better salaried position without the disadvantage of night work, and he was eager to tell the good news to Bettina. Springing up the steps two at a time, he entered the hall and joyously called Bettina. She did not respond, and, in some wonher, he went from room to room in search of her. On the threshold of their room he stopped and shivered with a vague premonition. The room was in disorder, evidences of hasty packing plainly apparent. As his startled gaze turned slowly about from one article to another, a scrap of paper pinned to the dresser scarf at his right drew his attention. Picking up the hastily scribbed note, he read it through. Twice he read it, and then with a pale and quivering face, tore the note into pieces and thrust the bits in his coat pocket. Going to the closet, he took down a small valise and hastily flung into it a few clothes. Pausing a few minutes at his desk in the adjoining room, he rapidly penned a few lines to the firm stating his inability to accept the position offered him that day as important private business demanded his immediate attention, and would necessitate his absence from the city for an indefinite time. Going from the house, he locked the door after him. On his way to the depot he dropped the letter in the slot of a corner box. Boarding a south-bound train, he started on a series of journeys, the object of which he told no one. One morning in early September, six weeks after Bettina's departure and the beginning of Frank's mysterious travels, two passenger trains collided at a curve near a small river. The engines were reduced to a heap of twisted steel and iron, half buried in the earth, the cars of both trains were derailed and more or less crushed. Though the only life lost was that of the engineer who had made the blunder, many persons were badly cut and bruised. As speedily as possible the able-bodied men helped their fellow passengers into safety through the windows of the overturned coaches. Frank Allerton worked with might and main, his sore heart finding solace in helping the groaning, terrified prisoners. Pinned down by a heavy beam in a car of the other train was the unconscious form of a girl. Her face was covered with blood, and her fair hair was streaked with it. Bits of broken glass from the sash above her head lay over and about her, explaining the injury. With ready hands Frank lifted the beam from the quiet figure and then carried the girl to a grassy spot nearby. His next act was to wet his handkerchief in the cool water of the river and seek to wipe the blood from the girl's face. Scarcely had he passed the dripping handkerchief over the impassive countenance when he gave a hoarse cry and fell weakly back against a nearby bowlder. One long minute he remained staring fixedly at the girl's face. Then, with shaking hands he took up the handkerchief and completed his task. Just as he wiped away the last stain from her soft hair, the girl's long lashes quivered and rose. A look of wondering, yet pleased, recognition came into her dark eyes and she softly exclaimed: "Why, Frank, dear! Were you coming to meet me? Oh, are you hurt?" With much concern she held her hands toward him. The man trembled, his face flushed darkly, and with blazing eyes he glared at her. "I have come to meet you—oh, yes!" he said, with a harsh laugh. "Am I hurt?" he queried, leaning suddenly forward and gripping her hands as with a vise. "You dare ask that of me? Hurt! Merciful heavens! You little know how you have wounded me, fair, false woman! An outward injury soon heals. An inward—where is the cure for that? Where is the villain who took you from me? The base knave—the false friend—the snake in the grass? Tell me! I will know!" The girl struggled to a sitting posture and looked with frightened, dilated eyes at the furious man before her. "I don't know what you mean, Frank," she said, tremulously. "Are you sure you are well, dear? Wouldn't you like me to bathe your head with some cold water? It must be a fever or something equally dreadful that's making you act so queerly. Do let me bathe your head, dear." "Answer me!" he panted, shaking her fiercely. "Don't attempt to shield him! I will not rest until I have shot Jack Carlton!" "Oh!" gasped the girl, horrified understanding in her eyes. "Oh, heavens! How—oh, how could you think me so vile! I—your wife! Oh, what an insult to your friend and to me! Frank, Frank! what has made you like this? I have been staying with father and mother at their cottage on the beach ever since I went away. They wrote me to join them at the depot as they passed through the city, and as you had told me shortly before that I might go to visit them, I saw no reason for declining their invitation. I intended to tell you over the telephone where I was going, but Mr. Carlton happened along just as I was starting for the drug store, and at his suggestion I just pinned a note to the dresser scarf, instead. Mr. Carlton took me to the train in his motor and boarded a northern-bound train just as father whisked me aboard the southern-bound one. I was coming back to you to-day. Oh, how could you think such horrible things of me, Frank? And when—I wrote—you—every day, too! Oh, de-ar!" And the tears rolled swiftly down her cheeks. Frank gave a sharp exclamation, struck his forehead with his hand, drew her suddenly to him and pressed his cheek to hers. Don't cry, darling —please don't!" he begged, humbly. "I've been a bat-blind, money-making, jealous brute, and I ought to be taken out and shot! I left home that night, Bettina, so I never got even one of your letters—all I know of your intentions was gleaned from that ambiguous message you left for me. How was I to know your destination was your father's house when you wrote that Jack was waiting and you were leaving me to peace and solitude? Dearest, I have hurt you horribly. I know, by my unjust suspicions. But I have suffered agonies in entertaining them. I love you dearly, dearly! Speak, Bettina, though it is only to tell me how you despise me!" "Oh, Frank, I do not despise you! Indeed, dear, I honor you all the more for the course you have taken! I should have worded my message with greater care. Poor boy, I am so, so sorry for the pain and worry I have caused you! Still, dear, I think you should have known your little wife too well to doubt her!" said Bettina, gently patting the worn face so near her own. "I'll never doubt you again, dear," he answered, gravely. "And you will not leave me alone so many evenings any more, wl! you, dear? You will not doubt me when I say that I love you better than wealth!" she questioned, wistfully. "Please God I've learned that there is something better worth having than money," he replied, with quiet earnestness. Then, helping her to her feet, he led her with tender care toward the waiting relief train. "My little Bettina! he added, a world of love shining in his eyes and vibrating in his deep tones. "My dear little wife!" Not Altogether. "So that jilted young fellow's life is all dark, is it?" "Not altogether. He's just got a job on a lightship." Not Altogether. The KITCHEN CABINET E WHO goes down into the battle of life giving a smile for every frown; a cheery word for every cross one, and lending a helping hand to the unfortunate, is after all, the best of missionaries." Keeping Down the Grocery Bills. penses and clothe herself and children on a small portion of the salary he receives, while he is lavish in his spending for high-class cigars and fine raiment for himself. Or it may be the generous man turns over the bulk of his earnings to the lap of a woman who is so seated centered and untrained that he suffers for the common necessities, while she wastes his substance in riotous clothing. This is a subject which is of vital interest to every head of the household and should be to the housekeeper. The buying of foods is one that needs careful planning. It is unwise to economize by using a poor grade of flour, but the cheaper meats are every bit as satisfactory, if prepared by long, slow cooking on days when the fire is used for other things. A fireless cooker is almost indispensable in the well planned home. One may be made of any box, candy pail or trunk that will hold tightly covered utensils of any desired size. Line the box or pail with asbestos paper, then a layer of hay, mineral wool or paper pounded in around the utensil so that a firm nest will be made. Make a cushion to place over the top, then with the lid in place one may have a good working cooker. In buying breakfast foods one of course likes variety, but do not buy more than will be used in a reasonable length of time as they become rancid and infested with insects unless tightly covered. Have a small garden where many of the staple vegetables may be grown. It will save the bills, give the children and grown-ups healthy exercise, and another interest in life. One might do as the woman did who believed in specialization, and taught each of her five children to recognize one kind of weed, then she sat on the porch and rocked while the boys and girls each pulled his own variety of weed in the garden. If we keep down our bills we must choose in our buying that food which spends well. Strawberries in February may be a great treat, but if we eat them often out of season our keen enjoyment is gone when they arrive in profusion. Of course as a nutritive food strawberries have little value; the flavor and salts which they contain with the water, make them most appetizing, and so, valuable In buying macaroni, the better brands are the cheapest as the poorer grades of flour are used in making the less expensive kind and the macaroni does not cook up nor combine as well with other foods N MEN whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness I find so much of goodness still; In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw the line Between the two where God has not " Between the two, where God has not." Serving of Chicken. A chicken that one pays 75 cents for in these days, when the family is small, must be made to pay for itself by appearing several times on the table. It is surprising what one can do with a chicken if real thought is put upon the subject. For one meal serve the wings, legs and second joints, cooked tender and browned. Serve with a brown sauce and vegetables, one or two as the purse allows. To eke out the amount of chicken so that the servings need not be large, serve a cream soup of some kind for the first course, and the amount of meat will seem sufficient. The breast meat of the chicken may be used in a white sauce, served on toast or with baked potatoes for another meal. The gliblets may be chopped, seasoned and used for sandwich filling, or as hash with potato, or in a brown sauce to accompany croquettes. The bones of course, are reserved to make chicken broth, so that the history of a 75-cent chicken may be spread out over several meals. The bits of meat left from the bones may be seasoned, molded and served with rice. Even the feet, if skinned after pouring boiling water on them, add their quota to the food value when put with the bones into the soup. Anybody may serve good things if the pocketbook is large, but real genius presides in the home where dainty, wholesome meals are provided on small means; the expense is the brain cells of the housekeeper. Waste The old couplet: "Waste not, not want, is a maxim I would teach. Let your motto be dispatch. And practice what you preach." is more needed today perhaps than ever in the history of man. If the high prices of food will bring the housekeeper and the householder as well, to realize the value of careful saving and to watch the little leaks in the household accounts, it will be a blessing of far reaching value. It is a good deal to expect of an inexperienced woman who has had little to do with bookkeeping and no training in domestic economy, to run a house and make ends meet. In many homes the husband expects his wife to meet the household ex- penses and clothe herself and children on a small portion of the salary he receives, while he is lavish in his spending for high-class cigars and fine raiment for himself. Or it may be the generous man turns over the bulk of his earnings into the lap of a woman who is so self-centered and untrained that he suffers for the common necessities, while she wastes his substance in riotous clothing. Either extreme is bad, for unless both are united in the one purpose of mutual helpfulness and unselfishness, there is constant friction. Dr. Harrison Smalley of the University of Michigan says that the untrained housekeeper wastes one-fifth of the income of her husband. He maintains that a woman should be as efficient a purchasing agent as if employed in a business house, and is it not reasonable? What more important business can a woman give her time in study to than the problem of home making? Yet we are supposed to know things by intuition, as the birds do the nest building. When women study these things as they do a business course for the commercial value it will mean to them, then can we hope to have something of efficiency. Until then we must blunder along, making mistakes and learning by sad experience what should be a part of every woman's education. ET the howlers howl, And the growlers growl, And the growlers prowl And the gee-gaws go it Behind the night And things are all right And I know it." Ventilation in the Home. Pure air is one of our most valuable possessions, yet we are prone to neglect getting all we need to purify these bodies of ours and keep them in fit condition to do good work. We are familiar with the quotation of Shakespeare, "How far that little candle throws its light," etc, but are we equally wise as to how far that little candle uses up the oxygen in the air of our rooms? A candle burning, say our scientists, uses a little less oxygen than a man needs in breathing. Remember this when leaving the lamp burning all night in the sleeping room. It is hard for us to realize that we need quantities of fresh air all the time to keep up the purification of the blood. The study of hygiene is almost a dead letter in many of our schools and it must be revived before we become as a people all we should be physically. The practice of opening the window and covering the head by the bedding, sleeping under the clothes and rebreathing the air there, is as bad or worse than sleeping in a closed room. The most approved methods now used in ventilation is the bringing of fresh air into the room near the top and letting out the foul air at the lower part of the room. When windows are the only means of ventilation, opening them a little at the top and bottom is the best one can do to keep the air fresh. When one has become accustomed to fresh air and lots of it, as people have who have slept outdoors for weeks, it seems stuffy to one such to sleep in a room, however well aired and open to fresh air it may be. The treatment given now to typhoid patients in some sanitariums is sleeping in the open air, getting all the oxygen into the lungs possible to renew the blood and repair the waste issues. For tuberculosis this is a well-tried and approved treatment. More pure air lovers will make healthier, stronger bodies. It is easier to prevent disease than to cure it. HE tender waffle hearts are set upon Is either crisp or soggy, and anon Like maple sirup made of corn and cobs Lasts but a scant five minutes, and in gone." -Olive Green. Nellie Maxwell. Worse Off Than In America. The life of a newspaper man in Russia continues to be far from pleasant, according to a Moscow editor. The old censorship has been abolished, but the change has not been beneficial to newspaper proprietors. Matter which, under the old system, might be expunged by the czar before the paper was sold and without loss to the proprietor, may now be the means of forcing him to pay heavy fines or damages, and possibly causing his imprisonment. The newspapers in Russia are not very profitable, owing to the enormous proportion of the people who are illiterate. The largest paper in Moscow—a city of about $1\frac{1}{2}$ million population—does not have a circulation of much more than twenty thousand in the city and about as much in the provinces. Entered at the Postoffice at Wichita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. published Every Saturday at 634 N. Water Street. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Thursday noon to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE: First. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. Second. Communications received after Thursday noon will not be published in the current issue. Third. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to another, give both the new and the old. Fourth. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompanies the name. Write plain. Fifth. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 634 N. Water street, Wichita, Kansas. Sixth. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. SEND YOUR NEWS IN EARLIER WILL ELECT OFFICERS The members of Mt. Hope Tabernacle No. 3 are hereby notified that the annual election ef officers will take place at the next regular meeting, Friday afternoon April 1st. 1910,eAll members will take due noticed and be governed accordingly. Dtr, Celia Tillman, H, P. The members of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 will hold the annual election of their officers on Thurs day afternoon, April 7th, 1910. All members take due notice. Dr. Sallie Hall, H. P. The Annual election of the officers of Mt. Nebo Temple No. 7 will be held, Tuesday night April 5th. 1910. All members take note S. S. Washington, C. M. Taborian Temple No. 11 will hold the annual election of their officers on Thursday night, April 7th. 1910. All members will take due notice. Sir. Wm. Frazier C. M. 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. MONDAY NIGHT—APRIL 4th. On next Monday night, April 4th, Moses Dickson-Tent No. 5 will give an entertainment at the A. M. E. chruch. The Tent is the children's department of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, and it is doing good work for the children of the race. A short program will be rendered. Plenty of refreshments for all. Every one is cordially invited to be present at the A. M. E. church Monday night and help the little children. THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 Beech Main Street. Pay up! — Pay up!! — Pay up!!! Miss. Grace Price; is improving Mrs. J. Howard is reported ill at her home 859 Eagle St. Mrs. Mary Clark has returned from a visit to Garden Plain. Mrs Doc Kelley and Mrs Mary Ivry are both on the mend. Mrs. Josie Grayson of Chicago is visiting with friends in the city Robt. Mallary of Enid, Okla. was a visitor in the city last week. Mrs. N. Howard came up from Hutchinson to sprnd Easter Sunday in the city. Chas. L. Kiner will open up a hotel and restaurant at 630 N. Main Street. The two year old baby of John Cash and wife 1037 N. Mead died Wednesday March 30th. Mrs. Nanie Howard, of Hutchinson and Mrs. Josie Grayson are the guests of Stewart Waters and wife, 231 So. Laura. Dr. A. K. Lawrence reports a fine daughter at the home of Mr. Alfred Yates 26th and Washington arrived Wednesday Dec, 22, E. Thaddens Summytt and wife left Wednesday afternoon for Ft. Worth Texas where he assumes charge of a Drug Store in that city. STIRLING CLOTHES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED :-: YOUR TRADE SOLICITED :-: we only tailored for a few dozen men, we would have to charge each an exorbitant price. We would have to take large profits from the few, instead of a very small one from each of our mang customers. This is why we can put into a suit for you at $15.00 to $35. what the other fellows charges you from $25.00 to $60.00 for. Stirling Woolen Mills Co TAILORS 215 N. Main St Wichita, Kas Look out for the A. M. E. Crusaders"!!! They are out for business. Every Captain is a wosker and the members of each Crusad band is determined to win, Keep clear of their track. Attend the Masonic cornerstone layina at 615 N. Main on next Sunday, April 3rd. Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Be Hable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SHOVER & BONS, Prep. Phone 232 245 N. Market W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 601 M. Main St. Wichita, Kansas Carefulness in filling Prescriptions and the use of only the best and purest Drugs and Chemicals in correct propotions, has made this department successful Bring us your prescription Oscar R. Bissantz Prescription Druggist 811 N. Main Wichita, Kan Subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1. for a whole year. Try it. The Cantata 'Lost and Saved' rendered by 2nd. Baptist Choir at Garfield Hall on Thursday March 17th, was a success In every way, the choir deserves great credit for the time and energy displayed in producing such a grand musical entertainment. Many have been the favorable comments from those who were fortunate enough to present at this production by home talent, which demonstrates again that the Negroes of Wichita have a plenty of talent, all they want is chance to show it. The production of such entertainments should be encouraged among our people since much of our talent and energy is wasted in jurolous ways which do not elevate us in any way, but cause us to lose interest in the creditable accomplishments which we already have. The lesson taught in this Cantata was timely and wholesome and deserves futthur thought by the members of both races. The entertainment netted the neat sum of $47.00 which has been applied on the debt of the Church DOCTOR G. G. BROWN, Pays particular attention to all sick people-day or night. Call him. Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Perrie entertained with a three course 6 o'clock dinner at their palatial home 1015 Cherry St last Sunday. The guests were: Blmer Johnson and wife, O. T. Taylor and wife and A. Paul. All report a splendid time. A. J, Brizill, of Muskogee Okla. father of Sam Brizell and Coleman Sunderson and wife of Salina, Kansas, are in the city the guests of Sam Brazill and wife, 24th and Fairview. Miss Marguerite Sanford has developed into a classical pianist. Her executions have that higher touch which is convincing of the born musician. Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty Bell Phone 2186 Office 703 N. Main St. Office Phones 517 Bell1537 N. Main St. Ind. 1557 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY F. O. Miller M.D. Physici'n & Surgeon Office Hours Bell Phone 9 to 11 2999 2 to 5 Wichita 7 to 8 Kansas. 513 N. Main St. All calls answered promptly Day or Night. Obstetrics and Diseases of women A Specialty Send your news in earlier Ketzler Hardwre DEALERS IN Hardware, Hot Air Furnaces, Tin Work, Roofing, Guttering, Copper and Galvanized Iron Work. Repairing and Painting Tin Roofs A Specialty. For Everything in Building Material SEE SEE BOTH PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER WICHTA, KANS. J33 TO J47 WEST DOUGLAS METZ'S LUMBER IS IT? Largest yard under shed in the state. Best grade of lumber to select from. Choicest finishings, posts, shingles and everything in the lumber line. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Low and Easy to Meet. Let us figure next Lumber Bill. Yards and Office 3rd and Main Streets. A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS. 142-144 N. MARKET Sample Copies If you happen not to be a subscriber to the Searchlight and a copy of the Searchlight is left at your house, take it and read it with our compliments. It is one of our sample copies and costs you nothing. Read it. Its the man who "sticks-to-it" who wins. Four Per Cent Interest On all Savings Deposits we pay Four Per Cent interest compounded January 1st and July 1st All Deposits Guaranteed Interest bearing Certificates issued payable on demand, bearing 3 per cent interest per annum for each full month from date. Open Saturday nights from 7 to 9 to receive deposits Gold State Savings Bank FIKST AND MARKET H. W. Lewis, President P. K. Lewis Cashier, Paid Up Capital $25,000.00 IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR GRAHAM - CORN MEAL - BREAKFAST FOOD CULP'S MEAT MARKET 241 N.MAIN ST. t Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Talls, Chin Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings, Bish Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh ship Oysters. Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans F. T. CULP, Prop. . Main St. Both Phone Thebest Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tails, Chin Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings. Fresh Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh Sealship Oysters. Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans F. T. CULP, Prop. 241 N. Main St. Both Phone ```markdown ``` Grocery Department WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL MEAT WE SELL POTATOES fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. N. Main St. — Wichita, Kan — Bell Phone 239 ECOND TO NONE" In fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class Grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main St. - Wichita, Kan - Bell Phone 239 PLEASE ALL IT IS AS WHITE AS SNOW — TRY IT THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kana- das State Law, Register No. 1. The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law,Serial No.13415 and under the Kansas State Law, Register No.1. First-Class Making of Men's Garments Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing A Specialty Prompt Service Courteous Attention Your Trade Solicited Bell* Phone, 3055 Wichita, Kansas. Excellence Counts THEN USE "U-KNEAD-IT" FLOUR It exctls in every respect, — color, flavor and pounds of bread per barrel. MADR BY WATSON MILL CO. WICHITA KANSAS High Class Surgery Special Attention Given to a Specialty Canine Practice All Calls Promptly Answered-Day or Night Dr. C. R. Wildes. The Finest Equipped Hospital In the City Both Phones Office and Hospital 1730 236 K. Market St., Wichita, Ks. Corner MAIN and CENTRAL FRESH AND CURED MEATS Full Line of Groceries — Bell Phone 4163 FRED C. LOVE, Proprietor HILL-ENGSTROM LUMBER COMPANY For good grades of Lumber at Low Prices. An assort ed stock of Bungalow Doors carried in stock. 318 West Douglas Ave., Both Phones COULTER'S CAFE 354 North Main St. NINEST AND BEST IN THE STATE OF — Meals — Fish and Game in Seas m much needed business in Wichita. Now what you have a place that isa credit to to let all join in and help push success —Ice Cre Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coulter. Proprietor OLDEN'S HOTEL N. Wichita St Wichita, Kan —Class in every respect. Newly Furnished and Lodging $3.75 and $4.00 per week Lodging 50c and $1.00 per night At a Specialty. Special Rates to Opera Troupes Only Regular Meals Served. Heated — Well Lighted — Well Ventilated Best Accommodations — Prompt Service James J. OLDEN, Prop. THE FINEST AND BEST IN THE STATE Short Orders — Meals — Fish and Game in Season A much needed business in Wichita. Now that you have a place that is a credit to us let all join in and help push success Soft Drinks— —Ice Cream Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coulter. Proprietor 527-9 N. Wichita St Wichita, Kan First-Class in every respect. Newly Furnished Board and Lodging $3.75 and $4.00 per week Lodging 50c and $1.00 per night Transient a Specialty. Special Rates to Opera Troupes Only Regular Meals Served. Well Heated — Well Lighted — Well Ventilated Best Accommodations — Prompt Service James J. OLDEN, Prop. It not merely sustains life, it strengthens it. PEERLESS PRINCESS FLOUR is guaranteed stains nothing but the kernels of selected wheat or conditions of perfect cleanliness. Try a sack. Howard Mills kind of nutrition. It not merely sustains life, it strengthens and energizes it. PEERLESS PRINCESS FLOUR is guaranteed pure. It contains nothing but the kernels of selected wheat ground under conditions of perfect cleanliness. Try a sack. Howard Mills Vertical Mills G. R. VOLLINTINE, Proprietor Binding and Corn Shelling cur Specialty - Prompt Delivery Main Wichita, Kansas G. R. VOLLINTINE, Proprietor custom Grinding and Corn Shelling cur Specialty — Prompt Delivery 814 North Main Wichita, Kansas THE FINES Short Orders — A much that you us let all Soft Drinks— Mr. and OLD 527-9 N. W. First-Class Board and Lodge Lodge Transient a Special On Well Heated Best Accor GOOD FLOUR PURE kind of nutrition. and energizes it. n pure. It contains n ground under con How Dealers in All Kinds of HAY, GRAIN, FEED POULTRY SUPPLIES V G. I. custom Grinding and 814 North Main THE STATION and Game in Se- tta. Now credit to success —Ice C oprietor HOTEL Wichita, Kan Furnished or week night Opera Troupes L. 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MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted MCCOY A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted DEPARTMENTS Biological, Classical, Normal, Sub-Normal, Public State Industrial, embracing courses in Art, Fine Arts, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Binding, Tailoring, Business Courses, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Fashion Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra for full particulars write to Prof. Shelton French. ACTING PRESIDI Of Western University QUINDARO, KS ence Phone No. 15 Office Phone Theological, Classical, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailoring, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDENT QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choicest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw Mrs. U. G. Brown of Denver, Colo., is in the city, having been summoned to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. S. E. Johnson. She will visit several days in the city with her mother before returning to Denver. Mrs. Lizzie Madison is reported quite ill at her home, 1621 Sherwood avenue. --- Ind. Phone 638 WILL KLEAN IT s's Work Automobile Delivery in Wichita C. C. Guyer Prop. r's Cafe Main Street SHORT ORDERS for week s of the Day and Night age Solicited TRACT Co. CORNER OF THE HOUSE abstractors UNIVERSITY roughly equipped teachers institutes in America. T BUILDINGS and Electric Lighted TMENTS—— Normal, Sub-Normal, Musi- racing courses in Archi- canical Drawing, Printing, Business Courses, Dress and Laundering and Farming. Christian influence and Orchestra ate to Bon French, ACTING PRESIDENT University ARO, KS Office Phone 1423 Use Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 808 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wiehita - - - Kansas The Searchlight is the "growingness" enterprise in town. It keeps place with progress. Subscribe for it - Read it - Pay for it. --- L S. Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown. Vice President, V. H. Branch, Cashier. 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Ford's Hair Pomade removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp and keeps it from getting harsh and it prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off life and vigor. Absolutely harmless. Used with splendid results even on children and infants. Delicately perfumed, its use is a constant pleasure. A most satisfactory toil-eration for ladies, gentlemen and children. GOLME Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 329 East Center SALINA, BANSAO SPECIAL NOTICE If you need anything in New or Second Hand Household Goods we have the best goods and lowest prices in the city. Cash paid for Second Hand Goods. LAFE CARTER, — Bell Phone 4088 — 537 N. Main St Wichita, Ks James Balance was called to Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday night, March 22nd, on account of the death of his elder brother, Frank Balance. The deceased was 55 years old and formerly made his home in Sedalia, Mo. Funeral was held in Kansas City, Sunday, March 27th. The deceased left a wife and four boys. James returned to Wichita Monday. The many friends of Rev, and Mrs. E. T. Fishback regret very much to learn of the continued serious illness of Mrs. Fishback at their home 827 Wabash. All join in hoping for her early recovery. REFRIGORATORS A The above is the cut out of twenty-five different patterns of refrigerators carried in my stock. I bought a car load of them at right prices and will sell them cheap. Before you buy a Refrigerator come and see my stock and get my low prices. Alo have a complete line of New and Second Hand Furniture, Rugs, Carpets Mattings, Stoves, etc, and carry a general line Household Goods. CASH : OR : EASY PAYMENTS E. D. SQUIRE Bell Phone 1837 Ind. 1837 Green 245-247 N. Main Wichita, Ks POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Attorney, subject to the Republican primary, August 2nd 1910. I will appreciate your aid. AUSTIN J. ADAMS I desire to announce that I am a can candidate for the 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. FAZEL. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Register of Deeds of, Sedgwick County subject to the approval of the Republican primaries. JOSEPH BOWMAN. Satisfaction IN EVERY POUND OF "wichita's Best "Four POENISCH BROS., Agents. 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Coal. 530 - Both Phones - 530 CENTRAL SEED CO. WRITE, PHONE OR CALL for our new 1910 Garden, Flower, Field and Seed Catalogue. We handle seeds GROWN ONLY BY RELIABLE GROWERS. We are manufacturers' agents for Mandy Lee, Petaluma, Old Trusty and Clyde Hatch Incubators. We pay freight to your station and sell at factory prices. See us for Poultry Remedies. Both Phones. 243 North Main St., Wichita, Kansas. KANSAS PIONEER DEAD. KANSAS PIONEER DEAD. Mr. Wm. M. Thomas, who came to Kansas in the early 60s and was one of the colored men who helped to settle the West, died at the home of his son, Edward F. Thomas, 425 N. Santa Fe street, on Thursday, March 24th, 1910, of a lingering illness. Nine weeks ago Mr. Thomas was brought to Wichita from his home at Anadarko, Okla., and placed in St. Francis hospital for treatment. For a time it seemed as though he would recover, when a sudden change for the worse came on and he was moved to the home of his son, Ed, where he died. Mr. Thomas was born in Louisville, Ky., October 25, 1850, and came to Kansas in the 60s, moving to Wichita in 1893, where he lived till 1904, when he moved on a farm. He was a Master Mason and a member of the Second Baptist church. Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 30th, at the Second Baptist church under the auspices of the Masons. He leaves a wife and seven children. Fred Madison, one of our former Wichitans, now residing in Topeka, made a flying trip to Wichita Thursday and spent the day visiting among relatives and friends. HE early history of Texas was ) J written in blood and fire. Her counties preserve the names of her martyrs. Parker, Coleman, Crockett, Fannin, Travis, Bowie and a hundred others have the map for their monument; their names are given daily utterance == by those for whom their deeds os femmes by those for whom their deeds have little meaning. In the beginning, after the Indian tribes— friendly at first—became hostile, the warfare was almost solely with the savages. For a full half-century every seitler who built his campfire on the frontier did so at the risk of his property and his scalp. Those who estab- Ushed homes and settlements must have been @ daring race indeed, for raids upon horses and herds were always imminent and massa- eres Were as regular as the seasons. The mother of Chief Quanah Parker (still living) for whom the town of Quanah,Tex., was named, was Cynthia Ann Parker, a little white girl ‘captured by the Tehaucano Indians, during @ raid on what was known as the Austin col- ‘ony, in 1836. A brief story of that raid will serve as an example of a thousand others of a similar sort. The Austin colony settled in what is now Grimes couuty and consisted of something more than a score of persons, in- cluding women and children. The Indians who dwelt in the neighborhood seemed friend- ly enough until a small party of unknown set- tlers came along and attempted’ to steal their horses. Immediate trouble was the result and the loss of Tehaucano friendship for the entire settlement. When the reader considers what follows, I believe I shall be forgiven for hoping that those newcomers who stirred up the first trouble received the sort of a reward which only an Indian would know how to confer. As the Austin colony consisted chiefly of the Parker family, a rude fortification which they erected was called Fort Parker, a name that to-day still euggests something of shud- dering horror to those who have heard its his- tory. |, It was a fair May morning when that his- tory was made. ‘he early risers noticed that @ body of restless Indians had collected within about 400 yards of the fort. A white flag was hoisted by the savages to signify their peace- able intentions and a warrior approached as 4f for conference. Benjamin Parker, com- mander of the fort, went out to meet him. He came back presently with the word that he Delieved the Indians intended to fight. He re- turned, however, to the hostile camp, where he was at once set upon and literally chopped to pieces by the savages, who then with wild yells and blood-curdiing warwhoops charged ‘on the fort. Some of the inmates had already Jeft the stockade. Others were trying to escape. John Parker and wife and a Mrs. Kellogg were overtaken a mile away. Parker was killed and scalped; his wife was spared and Mrs. Kellogg was made captive. Other members of the colony were butchered right and left and mutilated in the barbarous fash- fon which seems to give an Indian joy. Silas Parker was brutally killed and his two chil- dren, one of whom was the little girl, Cynthia Ann, were carried away. A Mrs. Plummer— daughter of Rev. James W. Parker—attempted ‘to escape, carrying her little son in her arms, ‘A huge painted savage, begrimed with dust and blood, overtook her, felled her with a hoe, ‘and seizing her by the hair dragged her, still -clinging to her child, back amid the butchery tand torture of her friends, She and the others who were living were beaten with clubs and Mashed with rawhide thongs. That night such of the captives as remained alive, and theso jincluded three children, were flung face down in the dust, their hands bound behind their backs, while the Indians, waving bloody scalps and shrieking, danced about them and beat them with thelr bows until the prisoners were etrangling with their own blood. Later they took the infant child of Mrs. Plummer and slowly choked it before her eyes. When it was ‘mot quite dead they flung ft again and again “into the air and let it fall on the stones and earth. Then they tied a rope around its neck and threw its naked body into the hedges of prickly pear, from which they would jerk it flercely with demoniacal yells. Finally they fastened the rope attached to its neck to the pommel of a saddle and rode round and round in a circle until the body of the child was lit- erally in shreds. The poor fragments were then thrown Into the mother’s lap. For some reason the little girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, re- ceived better treatment, and lived. She grew ‘up an Indian, forgot her own race and tongue, married a chief and became the mother of an- other chief, Quanah, surnamed Parker, to-day fa friend of the white race. It was the massacre of Fort Parker and events of a similar nature that resulted in the organization of the Texas Rangers. The ‘Rangers were at first a semi-official body, Jocally enlisted and commanded, with regula- tions and duties not very clearly defined. ‘Their purpose, however, was not in doubt. It was to defend life and property, and their chief qualifications were to be able to ride and shoot and stand up against the warfare of Dloodthirsty savages. ’ «pxterminate the Indians” became a watch- word in those days and the warfare that en- gued and continued for 40 years can be com- pared with nothing in history unless it be with the fierce feuds of the ancient Scottish clans Barly in 1836 Texas fought for and gained her independence, the only state in the Union to achieve such a triumph. In the following year the Texas congress recognized the Ran- ger movement and authorized several persons to raise Ranger companies to scour the coun- try and annihilate marauding bands. Indians ‘and low class Mexicans (“greasers”) often -eongorted and the work, desperate and bloody, ‘continued along the ever widening and wester- Fog MIZakt a me, a iE Lal SE Heo sg A ty si j ¥ ad Lae AL Vg a Oe ER he £2 S 4 ni AES eo f fe . ites om ee j Ne 1G iy is eS Setar x J Sets Neh ons ee BL / x SP eee: Sis: « : pei WA ee WBE. Ans ce pet Ak . So) ae Sd a > Lane Yap os Bs A G55 sek Be! Ee > = 4 he iB | eo ee Ss WEES : Ss Wa? Pe 2 2 Be a yk hh 12 wv Se oP ON feat iy RS: is oe Gy, IA ae, CE NALD, OF NO 4 » eres Guy. eo 2; aa 4 » L CAG 8 y Ase THe ALD. O| Gs —% re Fy. a NMA: YANILID) ees 2 5 } Li. A . eee PAINE NE PAPO Lm sacl IL BIGELO et tnt gy ‘S SATA BERT I ree ee Cat AGN : uf 7) EAR se r BT] BP) ; 7 BY PL un to within eet oe CZ, { ‘ HH) YN o'r aN h| \ ~ eee te sat sere ip eed Mi GK. 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This made the work hard and discouraging, as work al- Ways is hard and discouraging when it is done amid enemies who wear the guise of friends. For this kind of service Capt. Bill McDon- ald was eminently qualified. Already he had been appointed a special Ranger in Company B, commanded by Capt. S. A. McMurray, but his duties as U. S. deputy marshal in No-Man’s Land and in the Cherokee strip had been his chief work. Nevertheless he had, on occasion, engaged in bandit hunting in his own state, during this period, either alone or in company with other officials, usually with good results. Events of this sort kept Bill McDonald's name fresh in the Texans’ minds and made him seem peculiarly eligible for regular ser- vice. The resignation of Capt. S. A. McMur- ray, who had long and bravely commanded Company B, became his opportunity and he burried to Austin to try for that command. His old friend, James Hogg, was now gov- ernor of the state. Since the ‘settlement of their differences so long before there had been no discord of any kind and each had admired the other’s career, proud to remember the friendship. Arriving at the capital now, Me- Donald was shown in to the governor's room. Greeting him, he said: “Well, I hardly know what to call you, since you got to be governor. I don’t know whether to call you ‘Jim’ or ‘Mister.’ I'll have to call you ‘Governor,’ I gueys, as I want to get a place.” They shook hands cordially. Gov. Hogg said: “What Is it, Bill? What can I do for you?” “Why.” said McDonald, “I came down to get to be Ranger captain—to take McMurray’s place in Company B.” Hogg looked at him reprovingly. “Why didn't you let me know sooner?” he said. “There are two other applications for the place, both from good men, with long pe- titions and fine indorsements.” ‘The applicant for position forgot his old friend’s title. i “Why, Jam, I never thought of it until a day or two ago. I didn’t have time to get indorse- ments, but I can get ‘em, if you want them. I have been working mostly in No-Man’s Land and the Territory lately, but have done work in Texas too, and I can get about any kind of indorsement you want.” Hogg laughed. He bad a robust sense of humor. “That's all right, Bill,” he said; “you have already got the best indorsement I ever saw.” McDonald looked puzzled. “I don’t understand,” he said, “I didn’t know anybody knew I wanted the place.” “All the same you have got the indorse ments,” insisted Hogg. He turned to his desk and got out a bundle of letters. “Look over these,” he said. “You probably know some of the writers.” McDonald took the letters and read them one after another. They were from well-mown criminals, their lawyers, their friends and their associétes. They had been received by Hogg while he was attorney general and each was a official, whose chief recreation was hounding good citizens for the sake of revenge or glory, and adding that it was not unusual for him to put the said citizens in jail or in box cars, declaring further that he sometimes hitched them to posts with chains and that he was a menace to legitimate settlement and society in general. McDonald looked over some of these docv- ments and grinned. “That's so, Jim,” he said, “I do put ‘em 4n box cars when there ain't a jail; the way I used to do back in Mincola—you recollect, when the jail was full—and I lariat ‘em out with a chain and a post when there ain't a box car handy; but I don't reckon they're in- nocent none.” Hogg nodded. “Those indorsements are good enough for me,” he said. “They carry the flavor of con- vietion, [ appoint you Ranger captain on the strength of them.” McDonald returned to Quanah with his ap- pointment as captain of “Company B, Frontier battalion.” ‘The headquarters of the company were then at Amarillo, in the southern part of Potter county, near the Randall county line. ‘This was almost the exact center of the Pan- handle and in a locality sparsely settled, un- tamed and lawless. Since the early days of “Ranging” there had not been much change in Ranger regula- tions and equipment. The character of the work, however, had changed and the force had been reduced in numbers. Company B now consisted of only eight members all told. ‘These were supposed to range over all that vast section known as the Panhandle and were subject to orders that might take them to any other portion of the state where their assist- ance was needed. It was in January, 1891, that Bill McDonald received his appointment as Ranger captain and his first official service was not long de- layed. He arrived at Amarillo about midnight and was received with congratulations, for the news had traveled ahead of him. He was tired, however, and the hour was late, so he pres- ently slipped away to bed. He had hardly fallen asleep when he was rudely awakened and handed a telegram which stated that the Indians had made a raid across the border and were killing and robbing in Hall county, near Salisbury. Capt. McDonald read the telegram and laughed. There had been no Indian troubles in Texas for a number of years. White rene- gades there were in plenty, but Indian out- breaks had long since ceased. “I guess the boys are trying to have some fun with me on my first night,” be said, and turned in once more to sleep. But a few min- utes later another telegram came; and an- other; this time from the superintendent of the railroad company—a Mr. Good, whom Mc- Donald knew as a man not given to practical joking. ‘The Ranger captain dressed himself, hur- ried over to the telegraph office and got the operator there to talk over the wire to the operator where the scare had originated. He learned that it seemed to be genuine and that everybody was leaving the neighborhood. ~~ Still Capt. Bill could not believe it a gem uine Indian incursion. Hall county was in the second tier from the Territory line and the Indians would have had to cross Childress county to get to it. He did not believe that they would undertake to do this or that they could have undertaken it without previous alarms. Still it was his duty to investigate. He got a special train, loaded in men, horses and pack mules, and set out on a hunt for In- dians. It was about a hundred miles to Salis bury and they reached there early in the day. Not a soul was in sight anywhere, The in- habitants were hidden, some in dugouts, some in haystacks, some in the tall grass. Here and there, as the train pulled in, McDonald saw a head stick out from a sod house far out on the prairie, then suddenly disappear, like a prairie dog dropping into his hole. He set out to interview some of these wary settlers and learned that the Indian alarm bad been given by a man—a new settler just arrived in the country—who had ridden his horse to death and lost one of his children—having left him far behind somewhere—in his wild eagerness to escape the savages who, he declared, were burning and scalping not far away. Capt. Bill found this man and after a little talk with him was convinced that what he had seen was nothing more nor less than some cowboys on a round-up, disporting themselves around their campfire at night, as cowboys will—dancing and capering in the mad manner of young plainsmen whose ideas of amusement are ele- mental and whose opportunities for social di- versions are few. The man and the neighbor. hood remained unconvinced, so it was decided to visit the scene of the disturbance. Horses, men and pack mules unloaded themselves from the freight car and went re cing over the prairie, the pack mules, as usual, plunging and braying with tail in air, their tinware clattering in a manner calculated to put a whole tribe of Indians into a panic and send them capering across the eastern hori- zon into their own domain. But there were no Indians. It was as Capt. Bill had thought; a gang of cowboys, the night before, had round- ed up some cattle, killed a beef, carried it to their camp nearby, where they had built a great fire and roasted it, doing a wild war dance of celebration and shooting off their six- shooters in their prodigal expression of joy. Viewed from a little distance, through a sort of mirage condition which had exaggerated the whole effect, the scene to the newcomers was a horrifying picture of savages about a burning home, with the inhabitants fleeing for their lives. ‘The man who had just moved in had stam- peded for his own safety and started a gen- eral alarm, which did not subside even when the cowboys themselves came in and testified to the truth. The panic spread throughout that section of the country and other reports of Indian outbreaks were circulated, becoming magnified until it was believed that the In- dians had broken out and were making a gen- eral raid on the Panhandle. The inhabitants of one town, south of Amarillo, threw up breastworks, got behind them, and put out pickets in preparation for the arrival of the Indians. Every man seen loping across the prairie was reported as an Indian, and all this happened as late as 1891, when there had been no Indian outbreaks for years and when there was scarcely a possibility of anything of the sort. It was a big joke, of course, after ward, but it seemed no joke at the time and it was Bill McDonald’s initiation as captain. HAS BEEN DEFINITELY LOCATED ON JEBEL JUDI. Discovery Moves Washington Writer to Dissertation on the Life and Works of the Famous Old-Timer. A tremendous weight of sorrow wit! be lifted from the hearts of a lonz suffering world, we fancy, when it b« comes generally known that the grays of Noah has been definitely located by a certain scientific gentleman given strenuously to knocking round and about the earth and sticking his nose {nto the haunts of the quaint and curi. ous of the long ago. Noah sleeps the last sleep, it seems, in the summit of Jebel Judi, near by and overlooking the plains of Mesopotamia, Noah was a most picturesque indi vidual. He was an exceedingly wise man in his generation, for he had sense enough to get in out of the rain when, according to the record, getting fn out of the rain was all but uni. versally considered extremely foolish and ill-advised. Nevertheless, had he not shown his surpassing wisdom by acting faithfully upon it, he would not have come to be known subsequently as the real, genuinely authenticated world’s champion oldest inhabitant and the final appeal in all matters of ancient history. Noah—who surely must have been in the original edition the Hon. Noah or Col. Noah—probably may safely be set down as Exhibit A among prohibi- tionists. If congress had been invent ed during or before Noah’s day doubt- less he would have been a member and a shrewd and result-getting mem- ber at that. He knew how to play both ends against the middle most suc- cessfully—a sure sign of the intuitive and practical politician. He built and personally c®nducted the greatest water-wagon expedition of all time, and yet it was known to Noah’s closer friends and associates that he did not hesitate to laugh it to scorn on occa: stons and refuse to ride upon it quite frequently. Astute old Noah! Amid a world of wetness, he alone was able to find a place to get off! Of course some of the spicter tales told concerning Noah may have had no real foundation in fact. They may have been circulated by the oppositiof, afterward duly and truly swamped at the psychological moment, righteously enough, it is to be hoped. It must be remembered that Noah held an undis. puted monopoly of the earth’s trans- portation business for a time, and probably was, in consequence, a par- ticularly engaging target for the muckrakers and malcontents of the day. Anyway, whatever may have been Noah's shortcomings or virtues, and waiving the possible preponderance either way for the moment, his was a compelling personality, and inspires solemn contemplation and speculation even at this late hour. Rest his bones over there on Jebel Judi! He played a stirring part in an exciting dma of considerably more than tank dimen- sions.—Washington Herald. Had to Pay the Interest. Because he was shy $10 he couldn't possibly account for the convivial young man pawned his new spring sult. The ticket had been filled out, the money paid over and the suit folded ready to put away when the young man was inspired to go through the pockets. In a coat pocket he found the $10 that had so mysteriously disappeared, “I guess we'll just call this deal off,” he said. He refolded the suit and returned the ticket and the $10. “Thirty cents more, if you please,” sald the broker. “Interest on $10 for a month or a fraction thereof.” “Interest!” exclamled the young man, “Great Scott! I haven't beea in here five minutes.” “That's a fraction of a month,” said the imperturbable pawnbroker. “You have put me to just as much trouble as if your suit had been here a month.” ee ea There came to a Birmingham (Eng.) hospital the other day a man named Morgan Field, who is afficted by a disease which gives him the appear: ance of a living corpse. His skin has become marble white, devoid of ex pression, the natural line having been obliterated, feeling stony cold to the touch, and looking like the skin of a dead man. The skin has become so tight’ around the joints that he is un. able to bend them, and he can only partially open his mouth with diffi culty. So far the case has defied the resources of medical science, and specialists can only guess that the man’s conditions is due to an obstruc tion in the arteries, veins, or lymph vessels, caused by some disturbance in the nervous center governing the blood supply. A Mean Advantage. Crabbe—He is the meanest fellow T ever met. Goodley—At any rate he’s succes ful. He has taken advantage of bis opportunities. Grabbe—Yes, and I guess his oppor- tumities were small, which is another sign-of his meaness. ‘es tie Blawwrielite’. Club. Member (to friend whom he has not seen in some time)—And wheo was the ‘last appearance of your piece?” “On the first might"—Fiiegends Blatter. HE KNEW. Bings—This is a hard, hard, old world. Bangs—So you've been thrown out at an automobile too, eh? Undesirable Acquisition. A scientist who lost his pet dog put a little notice in the paper headed, "Warning," which charitably described the animal as having "strayed," and added: "It is of no value, not even to the owner; but, having been experimented upon for scientific purposes with many virulent poisons, a lick from its tongue—and it is very affectionate—would probably prove fatal." The dog came back next day. Worn Through. "Mummy, look! The Smiths have got a new chaufeur." "Yes, dear, the last one could not be repaired any more." Pettit's Eye Salve First Sold in 1807 100 years ago, sales increase yearly, wonderful remedy; cured millions weak eyes. All druggists or Wured Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. Light to Banish Sorrow. Sorrow dwells longest where the sun is shut out.—Florida Times-Union. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS. Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers 5 cents. Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.—Leigh Hunt. 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She shreds the celery rather fine and arranges the minced nuts into a little mound on each portion, finishing with a spoonful of thick mayonnaise. Women who are on the alert for novelties now vary the croutons served with soup by making them of rye bread instead of from the wheaten loaf. The crusts are trimmed away from a thick slice of the bread, the surface of which is then rubbed ever so lightly with a clove of garlic cut in half. After being cut into the conventional squares or triangles they are transferred to a baking dish and browned delicately in a quick oven. Others vary the grape fruit salad now and then by the addition of stuffed Malaga or hothouse grapes. To prepare it this way seed the grapes and in each, replacing the seeds, put a blanched hazel nut. Mix with the grape fruit and serve on white lettuce hearts with French dressing. The juice of the shaddock, by the way, should be used instead of vinegar in the French dressing. This makes a salad attractive to the eye as well as delicious. When other ideas for sandwiches fail, try the unusual and tasty ones made of baked beans. The tinned beans can be used, although the home product is preferable. Mash the beans through a wire sieve and work into a soft paste, using a few drops of warm water if necessary. Spread on tiny oblongs of buttered white bread and press together. Or press through the sieve in the same way and moisten a little with any favorite condiment, spread on small, thin slices of rye bread and form into sandwiches as before. The latter recipe makes a "hot" and substantial sandwich for buffets, stag functions, etc. One woman who, her friends think, has inspirations for cookery, never makes stuffing for poultry without including in it a little chopped sausage. Usually the sausage is cooked, but of late she has discovered that the raw porcine product is even better. This makes a rich and very "filling" stuffing for either turkey or chicken, one which will meet with favor among folk of hearty appetite—and strong digestion. For an old-fashioned treat which is so old that it will be new to many of the present generation, make five cornmeal griddle cakes the size of a breakfast plate and put one upon the other with shaved maple sugar and plenty of butter between. Cut in triangular shape like pie and serve thus. When something out of the usual run is desired for a home luncheonry creamed hazelnuts. Shell the nuts, blanch and boil until soft, then cover with cream sauce flavored delicately with sherry. This dainty can be served in individual ramekins or in paper cases. The flavor is new and appetizing. Serve pineapple ice cream or water or water ice in "surprise style" for the next guest luncheon, for which novel touches are in order. This is done by cutting the top carefully away, including the green spray itself, and scooping out the pulp with a spoon. Fill with water ice or frozen pineapple made from the pulp, replace the top and bring to table flaunting its green top as before. Or, instead of the water ice for the filling, use a delicate cream made by this formula: Stew the pulp of the pineapple, sweeten well, strain through a press, add juice of one lemon and freeze. When partly frozen stir in a cup of whipped cream and freeze again until stiff. Squash Biscuit. One cup of sifted squash, one small half-cup of sugar, two tablespoons melted butter, one level teaspoon of salt, half cake compressed yeast, dissolved in one eight cup warm water; knead in as much flour as the mixture will hold. No water required other than what the yeast cake is dissolved in; let rise till very light, then mound into small biscuits; let rise again, and bake in a rather slow oven. Keeping Bread Board Clean. 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The days of our prominence country are gone. Canada the great wheat country. This great railroad magistrate, a major advantage of the situation, tenative railway building of Western Canada. Upwards of 125 Million Bushels of Wheat were harvested in 1609. Average acres of bushels planted in Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be upwards of 23 bushels per acre, and adjoining pre-emptions of 160 acres (at $3 per acre), are to be applied. Schools convenient, climate excellent, soil the very best, lumber cheap, fuel easy to transport, water easily procured; mixed farming a success. Write as to the low railway rates, descriptive illustrated, east Best West (sent free to Canada), to Supt of Immigration, to Supt of Immigration, the Canadian Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. (Use address nearest you). SEEDS Write or call for our new 1910 bulk. garden, flower seed catalogue. New stock just in. We handle seed reliable growers only: that has been tested and show good tion. Choice selection of all leading varieties of Seed ing good germation. Onion Sets, white, red, yellow, go Just Received a Car of 010 bulk. garden, flower and field. We handle seed grown by reen tested and show good germaing varieties of Seed corn show- white. red, yellow, good stock. Car of Write or call for our new 1910 bulk. garden, flower and field seed catalogue. New stock just in. We handle seed grown by reliable growers only: that has been tested and show good germation. Choice selection of all leading varieties of Seed corn showing good germation. Onion Sets, white, red, yellow, good stock. Just Received a Car of Red River Early Minnesota SEED POTATOES Best quality shipped in car lots by us direct SEED CORN — All leading varieties which show mation. White, Red and Yellow Onion Sets. — A complete small seeds, just received a complete new stock of Butter and Field Seed grown by reliable growers. Choice Eat toes 80c per bushel. Our Mixed Chicken Feed and egg producer. If you us a trial you will be our customer. Our Balanced Food chicks is made from the best ingredients and will give isfaction: charcoal, oyster shells, crystal grit, beef sc meal and ground bone. Drinking Fountains for little and big chicks. Leaf zone and Egg Maker should be used. We Are Manufacturers Agents For Paterson, Mandy Lee, Old Trusty, Cyclic INCUBATORS AND BROODERS. Mr. D. A. Stoner who has been a judge in state poultry for years, is handling our Incubators and will be glad a demonstration. We will ship these Incubaters to our customers freight free and at factory prices. Do not forget to write for our catalog. We handle first-class goods and at reasonable price as they can. CENTRAL SEED Bell Phone 543; Ind. 1048 243 N “MODERN CLEANING and DYE WORKS Dry and Steam Cleaning. Dyeing, Pressing, Repair and Alterations. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Ladies work a Specialty. Suits Pressed 50 C C. G. Hanson, Pro Independent Phone 1286 Red Bell Phone 2 110 St. Francis Ave., Wichita, ing varieties which shows the ger ion Sets. — A complete stock of plete new stock of Bulk Flower growers. Choice Eating Pota- and egg producer. If you will give er. Our Balanced Food for little ingredients and will give entire sat crystal grit, beef scrap, blood tle and big chicks. Lee's Germa- ased. Featured Agents For Old Trusty, Cycle Hatch AND BROODERS When a judge in state poultry shows factors and will be glad to give you these Incubaters to out-of-town factory prices. Catalog. We handle nothing but table price as they can be sold for SEED CO 243 N. Main DERN" DYE WORKS Dyeing, Pressing, Repairing, sized and Blocked. Ladies' fine Pressed 50 Cents son, Prop. Bell Phone 2735 Wichita, Kansas THIS SPACE Announcement Program of the Convention" even at the - PE BAPTIST SOON 777 Directory Daughters ABOR SKA JURISDICTION SEED CORN — All leading varieties which shows the germation. White. Red and Yellow Onion Sets. — A complete stock of small seeds, just received a complete new stock of Bulk Flower and Field Seed grown by reliable growers. Choice Eating Potatoes 80c per bushel. Our Mixed Chicken Feed and egg producer. If you will give us a trial you will be our customer. Our Balanced Food for little chicks is made from the best ingredients and will give entire sat isfaction: charcoal, oyster shells, crystal grit, beef scrap, blood meal and ground bone. Drinking Fountains for little and big chicks. Lee's Germazone and Egg Maker should be used. We Are Manufacturers Agents For Pataluma, Mandy Lee, Old Trusty, Cycle Hatch INCUBATORS AND BROODERS Mr. D. A. Stoner who has been a judge in state poultry shows for years, is handling our Incubators and will be glad to give you a demonstration. We will ship these Incubaters to out-of-town customers freight free and at factory prices. Do not forget to write for our catalog. We handle nothing but first-class goods and at reasonable price as they can be sold for CENTRAL SEED CO CLEANING and DYE WORKS Dry and Steam Cleaning. Dyeing, Pressing, Repairing, and Alterations. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Ladies' fine work a Specialty. Suits Pressed 50 Cents C. G. Hanson, Prop. Independent Phone 1286 Red Bell Phone 2735 110 St. Francis Ave., Wichita, Kansas For Final Announcement and Program of the "Slab-Town Convention To be Given at the New Hope Baptist Church Soon Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTI Knights & Daughter 7 Sunbeam, Salina, Kan., Mrs. R. Parker, 502 N. 6th. 8 Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan., Mrs. L. Smith, 308 E. 11th. 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. Woodford, 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. E. Lee, Box 25. 6 Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. L. Morton, 1208 Washington. 7 Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. A. Masir, 1817 Wan. 8 St. Maria, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. C. Wade, 22 N. 16th. 9 Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P. Johnson, 501 Hyman. 24 Charity Rose, Coffeville, Kan., Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th. 28 Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. A. Ray, 1412 E. Clark. 29 Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Woods, 935 Cherokee. 30 Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. 74 Fifth. 32 Emma Gaines, B. Lee, Mont., Mrs. Saline Easter, 334 Dakota St. 34 Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Saly St. 1024 Ohio. --- --- 333 Official ```markdown ``` REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home—Route 8, Topeka, Ks MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kes A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 521 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. 1832 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. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. 1 Queen of the West, K. C., Kan. Mrs. M. Wilson, 945 Everett. 2 Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. S. Crisp, 615 So. Walnut. 3 Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. C Tillman, 802 E. 18th. 4 Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan. Mrs. S. Campbell, 616 W. 1st. 5 Cresent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. C Brown, 920 N. 10th. 6 Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs Eva Clayborne, 716 Cypress. 15 Golden Rule, S. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Jones, 819 N. 27th. 17 Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. M. Gosby, 108 N. 3rd. 18 Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. K. Taylor, Box 1174. 19 Deborah, Abelline, Kan., Mrs. A. Tibson, 411 S. 1st. 20 Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. S. Ware, 807 N. Y. 23 Fair West, K. C., Kan., Mrs. K. Saunders, 734 N. J. 27 Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. E. Brien, 1180 Buchanan. 28 Magadalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas. 91 Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Rountrec, 1125 N. 19th. 92 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. B. E. Alton, 2215 Pacific. 92 St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb, Mrs. Lucy Davis, 1029 Ross 93 Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Sylvia Brown, 803 E. 11th St. TEMPLES. Chief Mentors 1 A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kar M. Burns, Box 31. 2 R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Wm Cook, 215 E. Kearney. 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. Washington. 8 St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., A. J. Bean, 307 Lowman 0 Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., J H. McKinnis, 21 Sherman. 1 Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Wm. Frz zier, 708 N. Water. 12 Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan, Wm Shakespeare, 1112 Main 15 Sliver 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, 704 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, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. TENTS. 1 Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. L. Hardin, 900 Fifth 2 Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. F. Goodall, 610 Barbee. 5 Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. B. Davis, 1135 Washington. 7 Lone Star, Yale, 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 May, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. M. E. Holt, 517 W. Main. 16 Pearl, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. A. Jones, 631 N. Wicnita. 17 Star of West, Salina, Kan., Mrs. A. G. Murrell, 451 So. 4th. 17 Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. H. Adams. 20 John Wilson, K. C., Kan., Mrs. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett. 21 Crysai, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. E. McKinnis, 217 Sherman. 23 Clinging Rose, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. A. King, 722 N. Y. 25 Silver Star, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. A. Porter, 2017 Morton. 28 20th Century, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. M. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan. —Pride of Topeka, Nanie Marshan, 200 N. Topeka avenue. 3 Pansy Blossom, Atchison, Kansas, Jennie McAdoo, 1501 Logan 4 Orange Rose, K. C., Kan., Mrs. Henderson, 312 Washington. 5 Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. H. Herroid, Sherman Flats. NOTICE TABORS If your Tabernacle, Temple or Tent is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, Editor. NEXT PLACE OF METTING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 19th annual in Omaha, Neb., on the 2nd Tuesday 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. If you want a good, heartyaugh, 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. A nice front room, furnished, for rent. The ladies of the W. T. Vernon Club celebrated their Fourth Anniversary Monday evening, at the home of Mrs. A. Bluett. Their was fifty present to enjoy this delightful occasion. A short program was rendered by the ladies Remarks was made by pres Mrs L. H. White, Rev. S. S. Washing ton amp Prof. Higgins, Dr. A. K. Lawrence rendered a clarinet solo which was highly enjoyed as was the piono and other musical selections. A guessing contest was one of the pleasant features Those receiving the prizes were: Mrs. G. W. Smith and Dr. G. G. Brown. A delightful luncheon was served. Each guest was presented with a tiny gold spoon tied with the Club coiors. The guests departed declaring the ladies of the W. T. Vernon Club royal entertainers. The Billiken Club composed of a number of the young men gave their initial reception at Young's hall Tues Eve. The decorations were beautiful with palms, and flowers. There was psent fifty or more guests who enjoyed this delightful affair. Patronize the Merchants and Business Houses that solicit your trade through "ads" in the columns of your race paper. Why trade with any other? W. N. Miller NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 634 North Water Street Practices in all the Courts Of Kansas and Missouri Residence Phone · Bell 1641 LOOK If you are going to Build or Remodel = WHY not let me develop 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 Hand Harness Harness bought, sold, repaired and exchanged CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends for their kindness shown us during the illness and at the recent death of our beloved father, Wm. M. Thomas. We especially wish to thank the Masons for their brotherly acts. MRS. SARAH THOMAS, ED F. THOMAS, ARTHUR THOMAS, BERT THOMAS, MARTHA THOMAS, WILL THOMAS, FLORA THOMAS, MRS. LAURA WILLIAMS. YOU TAKE NO CHANCES By sending your Clotbes, Hats. Plumes and Gloves To Be DRY CLEANED, PRESSED and REP at the DRY CLEANED, PRESSED and REPAIR at the People's Cleaning and Dye Works Largest and best equipped plant in Kansas. A $50,000.00 investment devoted to this one specialt Largest and best equipped plant in Kansas. A 50,000.00 investment devoted to this one specialt . Phone 178 Bell Phone Largest and best equipped plant in Kansas. A $50,000.00 investment devoted to this one specialty. Ind. Phone 178 Bell Phone Present Location 131 N. Lawrence After May 1st located at 211 S. Lawrence 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 cou purchase their seed potato sell contains the same exce If you are looking for e and inspect Ross Brother SEED POTATOES It is the time to arrange for your supply. We feed River of Minnesota, early Ohio and Bliss Trium potatoes, direct from grower to us. A great man you are familiar with the excellent cryps grown in country grown in this country by those people purchase their seed potatoes from us. Everything it contains the same excellent quality. If you are looking for quality come to our store and inspect our stock. Ross Brothers Seed House 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 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 sell contains the same excellent quality. If you are looking for quality come to our store and inspect our stock. 309 East Douglas Avenue COURT HOU COURT HOUSE GROCERY J. C. LUDES, PROP. 539 North Main Street The following are a few 3 Bars of Lenox Soap 3 Bars of White Rusc 6 Bars Crystal White Eggs — — 6 Bars Flake White 2 Cans Standard To Corn Meal — — 3 Cans Apples 1 Can Pie Peaches The following are a few of our regular prices 3 Bars of Lenox Soap — — 10c 3 Bars of White Russian Soap — — 10c 6 Bars Crystal White Soap — — 25c Eggs — — per dozen 18c 6 Bars Flake White Soap — — 25c 2 Cans Standard Tomatoes — — 15c Corn Meal — — per sack — 20c 3 Cans Apples — — 25c 1 Can Pie Peaches — — 10c The following are a few of our regular prices 3 Bars of Lenox Soap — — 10c 3 Bars of White Russian Soap — 10c 6 Bars Crystal White Soap — 25c Eggs — — per dozen 18c 6 Bars Flake White Soap — 25c 2 Cans Standard Tomatoes — 15c Corn Meal — — per sack — 20c 3 Cans Apples — — 25c 1 Can Pie Peaches — — 10c --- John H. Jones and Wm L. Herman were lay delegates to the M. E. conference which met in Topeka last week. Each of them report a splendid session of the conference. Wichita was chosen as the next place of meeting in 1911. The Mother's Aid Club gave their initial reception at the cozy residence of Mrs. Robt. Davis, 23rd and Lucy Ave. Tuesday at night March 29th--1910. Many guests were present and a royal good time was had. The house was daintily decorated in delicat club colors and cut flowers and potted plants had their place. A short program was rendered in which songs, recitations and short addresses were made. After the program a deliciobs, toothsome luncheon was served. All were highly pleased and pronounced the Mothers Aid Club delightful entertainers. --- SSED and REPAIRED the ed plant in Kansas. A noted to this one specialty. Bell Phone 175 OTATOES age for your supply. We sell early Ohio and Bliss Triumph over to us. A great many of excellent cryps grown in this country by those people who comes from us. Everything we enlent quality. quality come to our store our stock. Seed House SE GROCERY v of our regular prices up — — 10c Asian Soap — 10c ve Soap — 25c per dozen 18c Soap — 25c tomatoes — 15c per sack — 20c — — 25c — — 10c WELL PRESENTED. The play, "Under the Laurels," which was presented at Garfield hall. Thursday night, was well played to a fair sized house. Each of the participants did good work. The work of Mrs. Mary E. Carr as "Mrs. Milford," Mrs. Ida Clark as "Rose Milford," and Mr. Ora T. Taylor as "Kyle Brantford," the villain, each deserve special mention. However, for an amateur company, each and every one of those who took part made a very favorable and creditable showing. Mrs. Alice Prichard who has been spending several days in the city returned to her home in Medicine Lodge Tuesday. Mrs. Matt. Lowe, died Wednesday night, March 30th at her late home 1036 N. Washington. Her body was taken to Mueller's Undertaking parlors to be prepared for burial. Funeral is not yet announced. Easter exercises in all the colored churches of our city were very timely and appropriate. It showed a most encourage ing progres of our people along these lines. ```markdown ```