Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT TWELTH YEAR A Gain E A Gain Each Year Rev. Frank Wilson Who is Gallantly Leadin The good work being accomplished by the International Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, in solving the knotty race problem, is one of the marvels of the age. Too much cannot be said and this much cannot be said too often, for the reason, that this Order is purely of Negro origin and is entirely under Negro management, and thus they have an opportunity to demonstrate to the world the Negro's capacity as an organizer, and as a business manager. As a systematized organization—smooth and clear—the Order of Twelve challenges all. So completely is the whole fibre of this Order knitted together that each detail fits with complete harmony and accuracy, one in the other, without friction or molestation. From the business point of view none of the big business corporations of our time excels the business methods outlined and carried out from day to day and from year to year by this Order. So thorough is their business that each year every department tallies to the very cent after the passing, re-passing and handling of thousands of dollars annually. This is a record for business of which the Order of Twelve has a right to feel proud. In the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction the Order has made a most enviable record. The record made by the Order in this Jurisdiction flatly disproves one argument of the enemies of the race who say that the Negro will not follow one of their own race as a leader. For twenty years this splendid Order has unanimously retained at its head and as its leader their present unexcelled and matchless Chief Grand Mentor, Rev. Frank Wilson, and today the 3,500 --- Knights, Daughters, Maids and Pages of the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction love him and reverence him as their leader and their chief. The Order of Twelve has been wise in being able to recognize a man of ability and having once found him in the person of Rev. Frank Wilson, they follow where he leads. Rev. Wilson has on the other hand proved true to the trust and confidence reposed in him and has brought the Order of Twelve from the bottom of obscurity till today it holds itself in the rank of the wealthiest, most numerous and progressive Negro organization. When Rev. Frank Wilson was first called to lead these people they were bankrupt, not a cent in their treasury, and hundreds of dollars of debts standing unpaid, and with a membership in the whole Jurisdiction of less than one hundred. See them today. They have a membership of 3,500; they own property valued at $50,000, since April 30, 1891 to July 12, 1910 they paid $63,763.15 for sick dues, burial and endowment, divided as follows: Sick dues, $17,890.35; burial, $15,042.80; endowment, $30,830.00. And at the close of their last Grand Session held in Omaha, Nebr., they still had $3,488.71 on hand to begin the new year with. During all the time of this phenomenal growth the Order has been under the leadership of Rev. Frank Wilson. No wonder then that the Tabcs everywhere prize him so high—no wonder is it then that the Tabor follow where he leads—and no wonder is it that for twenty years Rev. Frank Wilson has in harmony, peace and unity been retained with a united voice as the matchless leader of this Order. Such in brief is an outline of a few of the things being done by the Order of Twelve through its splendid leader, Rev. Frank Wilson and the monument of good which Rev. Wilson is building will stand and unborn generations yet to come will call his name, his deeds and his works blessed. NOTICE TO PUBLIC. The public is hereby notified that one Nathan B. Copeland is not in anywise connected with The Wichita Searchlight and is not authorized to receive money or wrok for us. He has been this day discharged for cause. Anyone having money, work or news items intended for the Searchlight will please take notice. Respectfully, W. N. MILLER, Editor. Church Consecration St. Augustine Mission Episcopal church, 9th and Washington will hold the consecration of tneir church, Sunday Nov. 20th. Bishop Millspaugh will be present and conduct the services assisted by Dr. Fenn, Father Brown of Topeka and Rev. Flockart. Services will begin at 10:30 a.m. at which service the communion will be held. Confirmation class will be held during the day Closing with the regular service in the evening. Everyone is cordially invited to attend each of these services. FALL REUNION. The officers and members of Western Star Consistory No. 18, Scottish Rite Masons are making great preparations for their Fall Reunion which will be held December 7th, 8th and 9th, 1910. The Consistory is in better shape for this reunion than it has been since its organization two years ago and great interest is being manifested by all. It is expected that a large class of Master Masons in this and surrounding communities will avail themselves of the opportunity to receive the higher degrees in Masonry at this fall meeting. Ill. J. Walter Thompson, Commander-in-Chief, has already issued his proclamation and all Master Masons who contemplate taking these degrees should communicate at once with Ill. Dr. Arthur K. Lawrence, Secretary, 517 N. Main street, or with Ill. J. W. Thompson, Commander-in-Chief, 311 W. 9th St. Every Master Mason should have the Scottish Rite Degrees. The reunion will close with a big banquet on December 9th. RARE FORMS OF MARINE LIFE Seaked Whales and West Indian Echinoids Are Described in the Bulletins of the National Museum. The United States National museum has issued two bulletins in the quarto series. Of these the first, Bulletin 73 is "An account of the beaked whales of the family Ziphidae in the collection of the United States National museum, with remarks on some specimens in other American museums," by Dr. Frederick W. True, head curator of the department of biology in the United States National museum. The beaked whales are among the rarest cetaceans and of the three genera only specimens representing about 100 individuals are known. The three genera in the family Ziphidae are Mesoplodon, Ziphius and Beradius, and to the discussions of these with their individual species Doctor True has devoted his attention. The second of these bulletins, No. 74, is "On Some West Indian Echinoids," by the well known authority, Theodore Mortenson of the Zoological museum of Copenhagen. Denmark Of special interest in this bulletin is the list of North American and West Indian Echinoids, which he has carefully compiled from the specimens obtained by the Blake and the Albatross. The bulletin is beautifully illustrated by 16 full-page plates of these interesting forms of marine life. WAS NOT A BEAUTY LECTURE Timld Little Woman Found Herself Seeking Dress Hints at Federation of Club Women. "The conservation of the natural resources of this country is one of the paramount issues before the American people today and—" The speaker adjusted her nose glasses, raised her eyes confidently from her manuscript to meet the expressions of approval from the thirty or more clubwomen of Iowa, says the Des Moines Register and Leader. It was a stupendous statement and well worth readjustment of one's pose for the dramatic effect. The speaker, who stopped now and then to look up from the script, was neatly but severely tailored, her hear was brushed carefully and not unbecomingly from her high brow. There was not a curl nor a ripple of a marcel wave. Higher education was writ large. A little woman on the back seat in common clothes, seamed face and hard hands fidgeted and looked startled at such an intellectual outburst. "Excuse me, mum," she ventured timidly, as she nudged her neighbor, "is this Mme. Xo's beauty lecture?" "It is not," was the grim rejoinder. "It is the annual meeting of the official board and chairmen of standing committees of the Iowa Federation of Club Women." "Mercy!" ejaculated the woman out of place. Then she "scooted." SCOLDING FOR SUMMER GIRLS Irate Vicar in England Denounces Their Costumes as Mussed and Immodest, and Blames Motor Cars. "For some weeks past we have enjoyed the presence of summer visitors. But who devises their clothing?" Thus writes the vicar of Carlsbrooke, Isle of Wight, in his parish magazine, says a recent London dispatch to the New York Tribune. He continues: "We can remember a time when the English girl was a most attractive creature. Look at Leech's pictures in the old numbers of Punch—pretty, tasteful and bright, they were a pleasure to look at. "But the 1910 female seems either to be wrapped up in a bundle of rags, with the least clean one spread over her hat and tied under her chin, or else she discards as much of her clothing as she can—leaves her hat at home and gets her head full of dust; exposes her chest to every wind that blows, displays ankles that show the solidity of her understanding, runs about the island half-clad, crumpled and dust-laden. Is it to convey the impression that they have all traveled in motors? "But the motorist deserves a line to himself. He represents the last arrogance of wealth. He comes bootling, squeaking, bellowing, tinkling, roaring or whistling with a piercing scream, to tell everybody to get out of the way." HOW DAY ENDS IN DESERT When the Sun Sets the Colors in the Sky and Earth Are Almost Too Beautiful for Description. A fitting close to a day of songbirds and flowers is a desert sunset. The Calico mountains to the north first announce the day's decline. Late in the afternoon its rents and gashes become masses of purple shadow, strikingly outlined by the exposed sunlit stretches which are gradually absorbed until the whole mountain is dull and lifeless. When the sun is low, the rugged range to the southwest is tinged with a rosy glow varying from a dull pink to a deep rose, into which a purple hue gradually blends till it subdues all the brightness and the purple, in turn into blue. As the sun sinks out of sight the light clouds in the east become softly pink, the color spreading around to the north, and finally centering in the west, where the clouds are masses of burnished gold, which merge into a brilliant rose color. Sometimes between the bright clouds and the horizon is a stretch of delicate green, with a hint of yellow light shining through; and always, in living over a desert sunset, you will see the soft circular flight of the nighthawk skimming over the ground and hear the low call of the dove. When the brightness has faded and the blue has crept in and banished the red you draw a deep breath and feel yourself a part of the peace and quiet of the sky. You begin to understand the lure of the desert. You feel as if body and soul had always been crowded for room and had suddenly been set free in this immensity. When night falls and you lie down to sleep under the sky thickly studded with stars the clear wind-swept air caresses your cheek with a touch as soft as velvet and you fall asleep thanking God for this country of vast spaces and rugged mountains, the playground of mighty winds, and sleep under the stars is sweet and refreshing.-Mary Alberta Beal in the Outlook. The Worm. "I insist upon an allowance of $500 a month—not a penny less!" he cried. "Absurd! That's more than I pay my cook," she retorted with curling lip. "Then get your cook to dance attendance at all manner of boresome affairs; to give you the face to do what an unmarried woman never dares do; to be always at hand yet out of the way; never to mind no matter how you choose to conduct yourself—in short, to be a husband to you in the modern sense of the term!" he flared out defiantly. She perceived that the worm had turned. "Hush!" she implored, and reached for her checkbook—Puck. Strength In Advancing Age. To Hugo the years that bend and weaken and wrinkle the genius of the master seem but to bring fresh strength and energy and beauty. He ages like the lions. His brow, seamed with august furrows, rises under a mane larger, thicker, more bristling and more disheveled than ever before. His yellow eyes are like suns within caverns; when he roars the other animals are silent. Or, changing the comparison, one might liken him to an oak that dominates the forest; its enormous wrinkled trunk bursting into leaf, its branches might as trees. Its deep-reaching roots drink of the sap of the heart of the earth, its head almost touches heaven. In its vast foliage the stars shine at night, the birds sing at dawn. It braves the sun, the tempest, the wind, the thunder and the rain. The very scars of the thunderbolt have added to its beauty something formidable and superb.-Gautier's "Portrait of Victor Hugo." Roughing It. James J. Hill, at one of the Conservation congress banquets in St. Paul, told a railway story. "When sleeping cars first came in," he said, "the bedclothes in the berths were very scanty. On one of these early cars one night after everybody had turned in and the lights were low a loud voice called from an upper berth: "Porter, got a corkscrew? "The porter came hurrying down the alsle. "Boss,' he said, in a scandalized tone, 'we don't allow no drinkin' in the berths. It's against the rules." "Oh, it ain't that, porter,' the voice answered. 'I just want to dig out a pillow that's sort of worked its way into my ear.'" NO.32 HUTCHINSON NEGRO IS RICH. Man Who Come Without Money Buys Hutchinson, Kan.,—A few days ago John W. Thomas, a Negro, planked down something like $10,000 cash for a piece of farming land south of Hutchinson. Thomas also closed the deal about the same time for the sale of a farm southwest of town for $15.000. Thirty years ago Thomas came to Kansas without a dollar and took odd jobs such as he could get. But unlike the majority of his people, he did not stay in the city but sought the country and began farming. Today Thomas is worth not less than $50.000, owns a couple of farms and some city property, has a touring car, and enjoys other luxuries of life. He has wrung every dollar of it from Kansas soil by hard work. CLOTHING TO GIVE AWAY. The mothers' Aid club has some clothing which they will give to some parents for their children. Anyone desiring any of these clothes can secure them by telephoning to the president of this club, Mrs. W. N. Miller, market phone 1641 or by giving their name and address to any of the ladies who are members of this club. These clothing was collected by the members of the Mothers Aid club to further the charity department of their club work and is a very complimentary and commedatory effort on the part of the ladies of this club. NOTICE! NOTICE!! NOTICE!!! The next issue of the Searchlight (Nov. 26th) will go to press on Wednesday, Nov. 23rd (positively). Everyone who wish items in that issue must have them in our office by Tuesday noon. This is done because Thursday is Thanksgiving and on Friday the editor will meet with the Negro Press Association in Muskogee, Okla. Please take notice. W. N. MILLER, Editor GREAT COMING EVENT. One of the events of the coming holiday will be the Banquet and Banquet to be given by Mr. J. H. Sayles at Masonic Hall in honor of the Monday Night Dancing Academy. Tickets are only 65c each and are on sale at R. A. B. Crump's Tailor shop, 615 N. Main, Pete Coleman's Pool hall, 333 N. Main, and the Maxim Eye Drug store, 517 N. Main. Miss Goldie truch also has tickets for sale. There are only a limited number of tickets left and all who wish tickets are urged to buy them early as there will be no tickets sold at the door. Cranberries for Thanksgiving A SEPARATOR FOR SORTING CRANBERRIES HANDLING CRANBERRIES AS THEY COME FROM THE PICKERS PICKING CRANBERRIES BY MEANS OF THE NEW MACHINES EXT to a goodly supply of turkeys the most important requisite for a successful Thanksgiving is a from the fact that the Cape Cod district in Massachusetts, the greatest cranberry region on the od, much as raspberries or strawberries are picked, and most of the cranberry picking was their stems and remain in the scoop, whence they are transferred to the tray which each picker has close at hand. An expert picker with a machine will do the work of from half a dozen --- Origin of Thanksgiving Festivities BY SAMUEL WILLIAMS N EXT to a goodly supply of turkeys the most important requisite for a successful Thanksgiving is a plentiful measure of cranberries of just the proper tart flavor. As well have a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey as without the appetizing cranberry sauce. However the people of the United States have scant cause to worry because of this feature of their holiday menu. It has been years since a failure of the cranberry crop was reported and cranberry growers have been so increasing their productive areas that despite the increase in demand, due to the country's increase in population and other influences, there continues to be year by year a pretty lavish supply of the crimson berries, and most seasons find them available at very reasonable prices. Cranberries, like so many of the other good things of life, are distinctively American delicacies. To be sure, cranberries grow wild in some other quarters of the globe—for instance in Europe, but it is only in the United States that they have been cultivated as an article of food. Even here the growing of cranberries is confined largely to three states—Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin. How important an industry it is may be surmised, however, HE autumn of 1621 waned on a prosperous community. Plymouth, Mass., was both healthy and wealthy. Sickness, though it had destroyed one-half the company of pilgrims, had ceased, and the HE autumn of 1621 waned on a prosperous community. Plymouth, Mass., was both healthy and wealthy. Sickness, though it had destroyed one-half the company of pilgrims, had ceased, and the crops, as a whole, had been good, the peas alone falling. All the houses in the settlement had been put into condition and a goodly stock of furs and prepared lumber had been made ready for export to England by the next ship. The waters swarmed with fish and sea fowl were abundant. The call of the wild turkey was heard in the woods and the patter of the fleeing deer was nothing strange. The summer was past; the harvest ended. The pilgrims decided upon a period of recreation. The governor sent out four huntsmen, who in one day secured game to last the colony a week. Hospitality was extended to Massaolt, of the neighboring settlement, who brought 90 people with him. The guests remained 30 days. The company engaged in rounds of amusements, in which military drills and religious services formed a part. Thus, heartily and loyally, was inaugurated the great New England festival of Thanksgiving. For two centuries it has continued to be observed, at first mostly in the eastern states, but it has now become national, its annual return finding a welcome from boundary to boundary, both at top and bottom and either extremity of the nation. Thanksgiving day is peculiarly an American custom, though there are some writers who claim that it is not possible to determine the date of the first observance. John A. Goodwin, in his historical review, "The Pilgrim Republic," is positive, however, that the first celebration occurred in the fall of 1621, this being followed in 1623 by the first Thanksgiving proclamation, by the governor of Massachusetts. In 1630 there arrived at Plymouth 14 vessels, bringing with them 830 colonists, making the number nearly 1,200 instead of a mere 800. On July 8, 1630, another Thanksgiving was held in acknowledgment for this accession to the ranks of the colonists. The Dutch governors of the New THE TRAINING LOADING BARRELS OF CRANBERRIES IN A REFRIGERATOR CAR of these tracts are lakes or ponds, in the late au- until spring. The rich nestles close angle, and save for battling with therous, the cranber- och cultivation or approaches in the grower must look by, a careful, ser- her. He must either, for if a frost ested it will work or has been fore- er built great bonure. Resting of cranber- and picking meth- years, however, he Now almost all cran- ald of machines, work manipulating about that most of have been forced to task is largely in a skillful of whom re- The picking man has the appearance the bottom of whi metal bars, tipped close together. I shoved with some tangle of cranberry ward and backwav vines which have b metal bars but lea large to pass thro vines, and in con- Kgiving BY JUEL WILLIAMS THE GUESTS REMAINED THIRTY DAYS mised from the name, most of these tracts are located adjacent to rivers or lakes or ponds, so that they can be flooded in the late autumn and kept under water until spring. The berries grow on a vine which nesties close to the ground in a perfect tangle, and save for keeping out the weeds and battling with the insect pests, which are numerous, the cranberries do not require very much cultivation or attention until harvest time approaches in the autumn. Then the cranberry grower must look forward to a period of anxiety, a careful, serious scrutiny of the weather. He must keep close watch on the weather, for if a frost comes are the crop is harvested it will work sad bad unless the grower has been forewarned and flooded his bog or built great bonfires to keep up the temperature. In years gone by the harvesting of cranberries was done solely by the hand picking meth- THE GUESTS REMAINED THIRTY DAYS general observances of days of thanksgiving in this country. The congress of 1777, the one which prepared the articles of confederation for adoption by the colonies, adopted a resolution setting apart the eighteenth day of December, 1777, to be observed as a day of solemn thanksgiving and praise throughout the United States. Washington, during his administration, issued two thanksgiving proclamations, one in 1789 and the other in 1795, just after the suppression of the "Whisky rebellion," which had threatened the peace of the country, and President Madison issued one upon the declaration of peace in 1815. However, in the early years of the nation the rule was for the colonial custom to be followed and the proclamation made emanated from the governors. The western states, largely people from New England or New York, early followed the lead of these portions of the country. As we have seen, the annual recommenda- from the fact that the Cape Cod district in Massachusetts, the greatest cranberry region on the globe, sends to market as many as one-third of a million barrels of cranberries in a single season. The average person is wont to term all berry areas "patches," but cranberries do not grow in patches but in bogs and, as may be sur- failure crop was been so despite country's sequences, pretty and most reason- er good man deli- wild in instance States article of berries is assachu- import- however, mised from the name, most of located adjacent to rivers or so that they can be flooded tumn and kept under water berries grow on a vine wh to the ground in a perfect ta- keeping out the weeds and insect pests, which are num- ries do not require very much attention until harvest time in autumn. Then the cranberry forward to a period of anxio- ous scrutiny of the wee- keep close watch on the wea- comes ere the crop is harve- sad havoc unless the grower warned and flooded his bog or fires to keep up the tempera- In years gone by the harv- ries was done solely by the h of Thank- ties SAM CR. Netherlands also appointed different dates for public thanksgiving, from time to time, and in some historical works there is record of a dispute as to which of these colonies deserved the credit for having first inaugurated the day. Most of the best founded historians, however, give the credit to the New England states. The Dutch governors of New Netherlands appointed occasional days of thanksgiving in 1644, 1645, 1655 and 1664, and the English governors followed their example in 1755 and 1760, and the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States in its prayer book, ratified in 1789, recommends for Thanksgiving day the first Thursday in November, unless some other day be appointed by the civil authorities. There were also occasional recommendations by other religious bodies, but no regular annual recommendation by the governor of New York before 1817. The struggle of the colonies for independence marks the beginning of years, however, has witnessed a revolution. Now almost all cranberries are picked by the aid of machines, and because it is tiresome work manipulating these machines it has come about that most of the women and children have been forced out of the industry and the task is largely in the hands of men, the more skillful of whom receive from $3 to $5 per day. The picking machine most extensively used has the appearance of a huge wooden scoop, the bottom of which is made up of a row of metal bars, tipped with sharp prongs and set close together. In operation this scoop is shoved with some considerable force into the tangle of cranberry vines and then is drawn upward and backward with the result that the vines which have been caught slip between the metal bars but leave the berries, which are too large to pass through the openings, as do the vines, and in consequence are stripped from Decorative Conceits and Favors For the Thanksgiving Festivities od, much as raspberries or strawberries are picked, and most of the cranberry picking was done by women and children. The "Cranberry King" used to hire as many as 1,100 pickers on his great bogs on Cape Cod and the pickers, many of whom journeyed long distances, "camped out" on the bogs during the picking season. The past few as witnessed a revolution. The berries are picked by the hand because it is tiresome these machines it has come of the women and children out of the industry and the hands of men, the more receive from $3 to $5 per day. Machine most extensively used of a huge wooden scoop, which is made up of a row of with sharp prongs and set in operation this scoop is considerable force into the vines and then is drawn up with the result that the been caught slip between the are the berries, which are too high the openings, as do the sequence are stripped from cars to the oak sively. We been solution in the for which orated p of cranch Bearing able kind in a money b year the grow their in fact that brought the rel is aced been year the price tion by the governors of New York began in 1817. From that time the observance gradually crept southward and westward, and in 1885 Governor Johnson of Virginia adopted it, and though in 1857 Governor Wise or Virginia declined to make the proclamation on the ground that he was unauthorized to interfere in religious matters, in 1858 a Thanksgiving day was proclaimed in eight of the southern states. Decorative Conc For the Thanks The plous, hard-driven, worn-out, but thankful Puritans who sat down at their tables one November, a few centuries ago, and made the first Thanksgiving Day, never knew to what lengths they were to drive the ingenuity of their poor descendants. But it wasn't their fault after all, that the preparer of the Thanksgiving feast today has to attend just as much to the turkey's surroundings as to the turkey itself. It was good enough for them to have a well-stocked larder from which could come the turkey, the celery, the pumpkin pie, the cranberries and all the other goodies which history puts down to their credit. Even the comparatively recent New Englanders were content with all these as long as they looked tempting and tasted good. But today, even the important fowl itself is hardly more important than the ribbons, the candies, the favors, the adornments of all kinds, which must appear on the Thanksgiving table. "Don't bother about having too much to eat," an up-to-date daughter was heard to say to her New England mother the other day. "I want plenty of room for the ribbons and the candy boxes." It's the same way with other daughters of an esthetic turn of mind, rather than a practical one, and it looks as if their ambitions to "make things look pretty" may be realized this year, for there is a goodly array of Thanksgiving favors and table decorations of all kinds. Of course the turkey reigns supreme, even if it is in paper, and is seen in all sizes, all kinds, roasted to a beautiful dark brown as the cookbook says, or standing important and majestic with its big fan-shaped feather tail high in the air. In most cases the favor turkey is meant for candy, but certain new china turkeys are mustard cups. The pumpkin is next in importance and is seen in many of the novelties. There are large paper pumpkins for centerpieces and all sorts of small The cranberries as picked on the bogs are placed in huge wooden boxes and transferred to a nearby frame building, where they are passed through a machine known as a "separator," which takes out all the leaves, twigs and other foreign matter. Then they are sorted for the elimination of any bad or worm-eaten berries and finally are placed in barrels, which are hauled away to railroad yards to be loaded into cars to the tune of from 220 to 240 barrels to the car, refrigerator cars being used exclusively. Up to the present time cranberries have been sold in bulk, but this year sees an innovation in the appearance of evaporated cranberries, for which are claimed all the advantages of evaporated peaches or apples, and in the introduction of cranberries up in pasteboard cartons. Bearing cranberry bogs of the most desirable kind cost from $600 to $1,200 per acre, but in a bumper year a grower may get his money back the first year, and during the worst year the industry has known in a decade most of the growers made from 10 to 15 per cent. on their investment, and that, too, in spite of the fact that cranberries were so plentiful that they brought only $2 a barrel, whereas $5 to $7 a barrel is accounted an average price, and there have been years when a famine of cranberries sent the price up to $10 per barrel. The day had thus naturally grown to be a national institution of almost universal observance, when the Civil war brought to sudden ripeness this along with many other tendencies, and President Lincoln put upon it the seal of his official proclamation. President Lincoln's first proclamation was in 1862, on account of the first important victory of the national arms. He issued a similar recommendation in 1863. ones in papier mache or tissue paper which are candy boxes. Fruits and vegetables of all kinds seem to be suggestive of the season of feasting, and many good imitations are found among the candy box collections. Goblinesque little men are made of paper fruits and fixed up to have a very grotesque appearance, and funny little figures are made of peanuts, and mounted on cards. Nuts are tied up in ribbons and are found to be prizepackages for the receiver, for in them are neatly packed little stick-pins, whistles, etc., all carefully concealed within the paper shells. The place cards allow of a great many new designs, and an especially new feature among these is some small mirrors. The chrysanthemum is the leading flower among the paper bowers, and those in yellow or orange seem to be the most desired shades. Other imitations which are especially "life-like" are the painted piece of the pumpkin pie, the tin of Boston baked beans, the plum pudding and the ear of corn. LENT INSPIRATION. "I am gratified," said the first prominent citizen, "to observe the undercurrent of joy in the Thanksgiving proclamation of the governor. Hitherto the proclamations have been along the old cut and dried, stilted forms, but in this instance there is a certain tone of joyousness, of thankfulness, of pure gratefulness that is really inspiring." "Yes," agrees the second prominent citizen, "but it's no wonder the governor felt good when he wrote that proclamation." "No. He has started on what seems destined to be a good administration, already there is talk of promoting him to some higher office in the gift of the peo——" "And besides," interrupts the second man, "the governor owns one of the largest turkey farms in the state." Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Kidney Trouble in the Civil War. John T. Jones, Paula Valley, Okla. says: "The hardships and exposure I endured in the Civil War and when serving as a scout under Bill Cody, brought on my kidney trouble. I was confined to bed for days and the pain through my back and limbs was the worst I ever experi- enced. The kidney secretions were profuse." brought on my kidney trouble. I was confined to bed for days and the pain through my back and limbs was the worst I ever experienced. The kidney secretions were profuse, all ed with blood and burned terribly. I became weak and debilitated. Soon after I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. I improved and it was not long before I was a well man.' Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Easy Marks. "Talk erobut yore easy marks," said Uncle Silas Gechew, who had been passing a week in the city, "us rubes ain't in it with them air town chaps." "Did yew sell 'em enny gold bricks, Silas?" queried old Daddy Squash-neck. "Naw, I didn't," answered Uncle Silas, "but I seed a feller peddin' artificial ice—hed th' sign right on his wagon—an' blamed of th' chumps didn't buy it for the real thing, by grass!" TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Murine Doesn't Smart—Soothes Eye Pain. Druggists Sell Murine Eye Remedy, Liquid, 50c, $1.00. Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes, 25c, $1.00. Eye Books and Eye Advice Free by Mall. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. Looking After the Eggs. Lady Betty, who is four years old and never misses a trick, was taken the other evening to a restaurant for her supper, and with all the importance and sprightly dignity of her years calmly ordered poached eggs on toast. While the little family group was awaiting its service the "kiddie" amused herself by looking out of the window, pressing against a screen to get a closer view of something below. She was warned by her mother that the screen might give way and let her fall to the sidewalk, perhaps injuring her terribly. She drew away, thought a minute, and then said naively: "Would I fall if the screen went out?" "You certainly would." was her mother's reply. "And would I get awful hurted?" "Very likely." "Then what would the man do with the eggs?" A Touch of Family Life. When the country youth proposed to the city girl, he received the conventional assurance that she would be his sister. It happened that this youth had sisters at home and knew exactly his privileges. So he kissed her. At this juncture she availed herself of the sisterly right to call out to father that brother was teasing her. Father responded in good, muscular earnest. Then the new brother-and-sister relation was dissolved by mutual consent. —Judge. Little Myra Explains Little Myra Lee had been in school but a few days when her mother had occasion to write a note to the teacher, and signed herself Mrs. Kent. Thinking she might have misunderstood the child's name, the teacher asked an explanation. "Oh," said Myra, with a charmingly confidential air, "you see, my mama got married again but I didn't-" Lupinncott's. Mass Play Modified City Editor—Any radical change for the better in football this season Sporting Writer—Verily. I understand that not more than one ticket speculator will be all wed to tackle a single patron at the same time—Puck. There are times when the still small voice of conscience seems tongue-tied. MORE THAN EVER Increased Capacity for Mental Labor Since Leaving Off Coffee. Many former coffee drinkers who have mental work to perform day after day, have found a better capacity and greater endurance by using Postum instead of ordinary coffee. An Illinois woman writes: "I had drank coffee for about twenty years, and finally had what the doctor called 'coffee heart.' I was nervous and extremely despondent; had little mental or physical strength left, had kidney trouble and constipation. "The first noticeable benefit derived from the change from coffee to Postum was the natural action of the kidneys and bowels. In two weeks my heart action was greatly improved and my nerves steady. "Then I became less despondent, and the desire to be active again showed proof of renewed physical and mental strength. "I am steadily gaining in physical strength and brain power. I formerly did mental work and had to give it up on account of coffee, but since using Postum I am doing hard mental labor with less fatigue than ever before." Welcome in pages. The letter. Ever read the above letter! A new genuine, true, and full of human interest. BIG CROP MAY REDUCE PRICES SECRETARY WILSON LOOKS FOR SUCH RESULT. Meat Prices, Certain to Be Lower Unless Combine is Formed Among Dealers. Washington, D. C.—Lower prices for meats and other foods should be the result of the bumper crops the United States has produced this year, in the opinion of Secretary Wilson. "We have had bumper crops," he said, "and meat prices should come down, that is, if no combine is formed among the dealers. My views apply to all kinds of meat. The crops have been such that a falling in price is the inevitable result. "The only thing that can defeat this will be if too great a toll is taken after the products leave the hands of the farmers and before they reach the consumers." Kansas City, Mo.—Lower prices are expected for live stock this winter than in the last year, although stock yards men say values probably will be above the level of the winter season of 1907-8. The big crop of corn raised this year will be the chief cause of sagging prices. Rather than sell their corn 10 to 15 cents a bushel lower than last year, farmers are expected to feed more extensively, and to produce increased supplies of beef and mutton. Receipts of hogs probably will continue below normal, but the demand for pork will be less marked, owing to the increased supplies of other meats. A COMMITTEE TO PANAMA They Are Asked For $56,000,000 to Keep the Work Going Another Year. Washington, D. C.—Chairman Tawney of the house appropriation committee and members of the appropriation committee have left for the canal zone and later will endeavor to secure an appropriation of $2,000,000 for a naval station near the canal. He estimates that it will require about $5,000,000 in the next session to meet the demands for fortification and other expenses on the zone. Mr. Tawney spent a few hours here while on his way to New York whence he sailed on the Yankton for Panama Accompanying him on the Panama trip were the members of the committees of appropriations and interstate and foreign commerce. "We have appropriated up to this time for the canal $248,000,000" said he, "and both houses of congress, as well as the president have approved the recommendations of the appropriations committee without change. "As a result of our visit to the canal zone a year ago we appropriated $11,000,000 less than the canal commission wanted. Notwithstanding this big reduction in the estimate, the amount appropriated has proved sufficient to carry on the work as rapidly as possible as is shown by the report of the commission. "The amount estimated for the next fiscal year is $147,000,000 exclusive of $70,000,000 to begin the construction of the canal fortification system and $2,000,000 toward the construction of a naval base in the canal zone." FIVE WOULD SUCGEED DOLLIVER Feely, Byers, Clarke, Franke and Young Will Contest for Iowa Seat in Senate. Des Moines, Iowa.-Guy Feely of Waterloo, speaker of the house in the last legislature has made formal announcement of his candidacy for Senator Dollier's seat in the United States senate. Announcement of the candidacy of Attorney General Byers is expected. Lieut. Gov. Clarke of Adel and C. F. Franke, chairman of the Republican state central committee, have formally announced, and Lafayette Young, who will serve until the election of a senator, will be a candidate. PINCHOT WOULD SUBMIT BRIEF He Thinks it Impossible to Look With Confidence to Interior Department to Protect Public. Washington, D. C.—Expressing the fear that the interior department will recommend the patenting of the Cunningham Alaskan coal land claims, which he believes to be fraudulent, Griffin Pinchot, former forester of the United States, has appealed to the president to allow him to submit a brief before any such action is given executive approval. Oklahoma's Third Birthday. Guthrie, Oklahoma—Oklahoma has celebrated the third anniversary of her birth into the Union of states. The progress of the young state during these three years has been remarkable when guaged by the milestones of her commercial and political progress. Consulting on a Peace Commission. Washington, D. C.—Andrew Carrie was the guest of President Taft at the White house. It is said he went to consult with the president on the appointment of the five members of the commission to promote permanent peace. A Football Game at Midnight. Los Angeles, California—A midnight football game to be played the night before Thanksgiving der 1,000 are rights will be the introductory feature in this year's Santa Monica Road race. ALL EIGHT. JOHN, IF YOU WILL LET ME GIVE A DINNER DANCE ILL GET ALONG WITH MY LAST YEAR'S FOOT COAT THIS WINTER. LIVES THERE A PAIN WITH SOUL SO DEAD THAT HE'D HOLD ME DOWN TO WHAT I SAID. RELEASE ST PRIN PIONER PRESS AFTER THE DINNER DANCE. GUTHRIE STILL THE CAPITAL OKLAHOMA SUPREME COURT DE CIDES ELECTION ILLEGAL. The Clause Locating Capital Until 1913 Declared Void—Gov. Haskell Will Call Special Session. Guthrie, Oklahoma.—The supreme court has decided that Guthrie is still the capital of Oklahoma. The court decided that the capital location election in which Oklahoma City won was void because of defect in the title of the ballot. The provision of the congressional enabling act locating the state capital temporarily at Guthrie, until 1913 was held to have only the force of law that could be repealed by the people. The decision compels state officers that have moved to Oklahoma City, to return to Guthrie and upsets the plans of the state capital commission now engaged in laying out a state capital site at Oklahoma City. Immediately after the decision had been communicated to Governor Haskell at Oklahoma City, he announced that he would call a special session of the legislature for December 2 to locate the permanent state capital. There was no public demonstration at Guthrie when the decision against Oklahoma City became known. GOV. HADLEY FAVORS CRITICISM He Told Labor Convention That Theodore Roosevelt Was Right in Denouncing Courts. St. Louis, Mo.—Theodore Roosevelt's denunciation of the courts was upheld by Gov. Hadley of Missouri in the most sensational talk that ever occurred before an American Federation of Labor convention. He said that Roosevelt was right. "I believe and every honest man believes" said he, "that there should be just criticism of any public official whether a judge or any other official." This sentiment aroused the greatest enthusiasm in the convention. Every body applauded "Roosevelt was right when he denounced the courts, because they are governed by their environment," said Gov. Hadley. The governor's speech seemed to catch every member of the federation because they kept applauding him at every denunciation of the courts. "The great trouble with the judges is that they live within their own environment and their decisions are made accordingly" said Gov. Hadley. "It might be a narrow environment; it might be a large environment and us lawyers know why they make a decision." OBJECT TO WORK ON SUNDAY Iola Ministers in Statewide Crusade Against Sunday Baseball—Would Also Close Postoffices. Iola, Kansas.—In addition to its part in the statewide crusade against Sunday baseball, the Iola Ministerial association decided to start a movement to bring about Sunday closing at the postoffice. At present, the Iola office is open one hour Sundays and the ministers assert that this is unnecessary. Petitions will be circulated asking for an official order closing the postoffice all day Sunday. American Charger is First. New York, N. Y.—John Harper, a brown gelding, ridden by Lieut. Gordon Johnston of the Seventh cavalry, U. S. A., took the Plaza cup at the horse show bringing a conquest to the United States army in its first horse show competition in a quarter of a century. The Women as Legislators. Denver, Colorado—That women are destined to play a greater part in Colorado's political affairs that ever before is shown by the returns from Tuesday's election. For the first time in the state's history four women will assist in framing the state's laws. Drove Bank Robbers Away. El Paso, Texas.—Robbers blew open the vault of the bank at Texline, Tex., but the explosion aroused the town and residents drove the robbers away before they opened the safe. Suffrage, Thanksgiving and Love justly celebrated affair of Paris and Helen seem like a business transaction in comparison, then their names would be Hector Montmorency de Beauville and Imogene Tereversham, or something to that effect. But this is simply a little story caught in real life—just such an affair as is going on right under your nose and in your own town at this moment. So if you prefer the rhetorical wooing of Hector Montmorency de Beauville and the no less rhapsodical counterwooling of Imogene Tereversham, dear reader, read no further. There were Hiram Tuttle, Lucy Finch, a turkey and a suffrage question. Three of these were tangible in the beginning, although Hector and Lucy were a great deal older than the turkey at the start. The suffrage question, I know, is as old as the hills and bids fair to become as everlasting. In due time the woman's suffrage propaganda reached Millville. Several prominent suffragists descended upon the town in an automobile, and made speeches from that vehicle right in the middle of the public square of a Saturday afternoon. Ten years ago all the women in Millville would have said that those speakers were manish, now they said they were exactly right. Ten years ago all the men in Millville, bulwarked behind their chews of plug tobacco, would have denounced those invaders as unwomanly and have classed them with Dr. Mary Walker and Belva Lockwood. Now the men just chuckled to themselves and said the women ought to have the ballot—if they could get it. While these women were speaking, Hiram Tuttle, having came down town to lay in his Sunday supply of bacon, eggs, coffee, flour and other bachelor provender, found himself listening to them—and right beside him stood Lucy Finch. Now, do not gather the notion that Hiram was a crabbed old bachelor nor that Lucy was a wizened old maid. Lucy was more than 80—but nowadays a woman who has passed 30 is just beginning to be good looking. Hiram wasn't crabbed at all; he was pleasant enough—but the way he dressed himself was enough to make any woman wish she had a chance to take hold of him and spruce him up. It is all nonsense to say that woman is impressed and influenced by a man's appearance. What attracts her nine times out of ten is the possibility of improving his appearance. So it happened that Hiram and Lucy walked away from the speaking together, and Hiram found himself, for the first time in five years, talking with a woman. I mean carrying on a conversation. He had spoken with plenty of them, but there's a difference. And all the way up the hill toward Lucy's home the argument on suffrage grew warmer and warmer, until by the time they parted they were dear enemies on the subject. Hiram was absolutely against woman's suffrage, and as a crushing argument he cited some words of the apostle Paul about woman's place in the scheme of things. "Humph!" sniffed Lucy. "And what was Paul, anyway? A crusty old bachelor that had to be struck by lightning before he would go to church!" "Well, he knew a thing or two about women," Hiram argued, stoutly. "He didn't know anything about them!" Lucy replied, briskly. "If he had known anything about them he would have known that it would be women who kept the churches going, and did all the work, and that they were a great deal better than the men ever dared to be. And besides, THE ELECTION AND WALL STREET In Their Rejoicing Over Defeat of Roosevelt They Had Overlooked Another Element of Unrest. New York, N. Y.—Well, the election has gone into history and the speculators appear to be about as much at sea as to consequences as they were before the balloting began. At first blush it looked as though the market might go right up through the seiling in a grand jubilee celebration over the downfall of Rooseveltism. That was the view of the situation that was taken in London which opens up for business two or three hours ahead of us. Later on there came the sobering second thought that while Rooseveltism might have been checked, even checkmated, there was the offsetting circumstances of a new congress overwhelmingly committed to tariff revision and to a general unvelling of the inquiries of the party in power for the past eight or ten years. GOV. CARROLL NAMES A SENATOR Lafayette Young Was Appointed to Represent Iowa Until Legislature Meets in January. Des Moines, Iowa.—Gov. B. F. Carroll has announced the appointment of Lafayette Young, editor and publisher of the Des Moines Capital, to be United States senator, succeeding the late Senator Dolliver. Senator Young will serve until the next legislature meets, January 8. It will be the duty of that body to elect a senator to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Dolliver, which ends in 1913. EMPORIA IS NOW AMBITIOUS City Officials Investigate New Edison Cars and May Install Municipal System. Emporia, Kansas. Mayor Frank McCain and William Corbett, city commissioner, have left Emporia for New York city, where they will investigate the claims of Thomas Edison and his new storage battery street cars. This visit may result in making Emporia the first American city to own its street car system. Mr. Corbett has been in correspondence with the company manufacturing these cars and with Edison's representatives. The company offered to pay the expenses of two officials who are to investigate one of the new car lines. PRESIDENT WILL HEAR PINCHOT He May File a Brief Regarding the Cunningham Alaska Coal Claims Mr. Taft Said. Washington, D. C. — President Taft responding to the request of Gifford Pinchot, ex-chief forester of the United States, and his brother, Amos Pinchot, for permission to submit a brief on the question of issuing patients in the Cunningham Alaskan coal claims, has informed Mr. Pinchot that he may submit such a brief and advised him to forward it to the executive office before December 1. Spokane Apple Show Opens Spokane, Washington.—The shrieking of ferry and railway wistles announced the opening of the third national apple show at the Spokane armory. Close to 30 carloads estimated to contain 2,000,000 apples, have been arranged for exhibition and competition for nearly $20,000 in prizes. Exit the Tariff Board Washington, D. C.—The days of the tariff board apparently are numbered. It looks as if this body would wind up its existence when the appropriation made for it runs out at the coming short session of congress. Auditor of Porto Rico Resigns. Washington, D. C.—Alphonse P. Sawyer, auditor of Porto Rico, has submitted his resignation to the secretary of war. Sawyer was appointed August 25, 1909, from Washington state. T WAS no spasmodic love affair, this of Hiram Tuttle and Lucy Finch. That it was no highly romantic affair you may infer from the names of the principals. If I were drawing upon my imagination and writing a real love story, one that would make the I THE WEDDING "Humph!" Sniffed Lucy, "And What Was Paul, Anyway? A Crusty Old Bachelor That Had to Be Struck by Lightning Before He Would Go to Church!" even the men couldn't vote then, so what authority is he on suffrage?" Naturally, this dispute could not be ended then and there. Hiram Tuttle found it necessary to stop at Lucy Finch's gate several mornings and bring up some new argument that had occurred to him, only to be effectually squelched by Lucy's wit and wisdom. And from that it became necessary for him to drop in of evenings once or twice a week—to continue the discussion. And, propinquity and acquaintance each having their effect, it was not long until he, with a man's foresight, saw that this debate could not be ended for years, so he proposed to Lucy. Now, when a man proposes to a woman he has his ears set for just one word—and that is "Yes." Therefore imagine Hiram Tuttle's THE MASTER Therefore imagine Hiram Tuttle's surprise and astonishment when Lucy Told Him "No." surprise and astonishment when Lucy told him "No." And naturally, he asked her why she wouldn't marry him. Men always do that. As if a woman could have a reason! By the time a man learns that a woman's "No" is merely a preliminary of her "Yes," he is too old to be interested in the matter. Also, when a man gets the proposal habit he cannot shake it or break it. So Hiram grew to going around Lucy's and asking her to marry him, every Wednesday and Sunday evening. Lucy enjoyed this. "I've got a 14-pound turkey for my Thanksgiving dinner." Hiram told Lucy on the Sunday evening before the day set apart by the governor to be thankful if you could think of anything to justify such a state of mind. "Fourteen pounds!" Lucy exclaimed. "Why, whatever in the world will you do with all that turkey?" "I thought I'd fry it and eat it," Hiram answered. "Fry it! Fry a turkey? Well, of all things!" "Yes, I laid out to fry it and have it with some fried potatoes and a pumpkin pie and some baked cranberries for my Thanksgiving dinner." "Baked cranberries! If that isn't just like a man! Who cooked your Thanksgiving dinner last year?" "I did. I had pork chops and boiled turnips." "You poor man!" Artful Hiram! He knew what pity is akin to. Having failed of all other avenues to her heart, he was taking the pity route. The 14-pound turkey was a fiction; so were the pork chops. Had Lucy exercised her memory she would have recalled that Hiram always went to visit his Aunt Sarah over Thanksgiving. But she could think of only the one thing. So she said: "Hiram, I'll come up to your house Thursday morning and bake that turkey for you." Lucy couldn't have done a thing like that where you and I live. That would have been scandalous. But in Millville they are not so fashionable as to confound neighborliness with suspicious conduct. So on Thanksgiving morning Lucy proceeded to concoct for Hiram one of those Thanksgiving dinners you read poems about. And when the turkey was done brown and oozing and filling the air with a glorious perfume, she called Hiram to the kitchen and asked him if it didn't look good. "It does that," he answered. "Um-m-m!" "Well," she said, firmly shutting the oven door and planting herself before it, "in four minutes that turkey will be burned to a crisp. Unless you agree right now that women should have the vote I leave the turkey there and ruin it." Hiram pondered for just 30 seconds. "I'll agree that woman shall have the right to vote," he offered, "if you'll agree to marry me." "Weil-l-1," she sighed, "of course it is for the great cause." But it was the heat of the oven that made her face so red. It must have been ten minutes later that Hiram released her from his arms and anxiously said that the turkey would be burned after all. "The fire was out before I called you in," she confessed. "It won't burn." "Well," Hiram laughed, "I don't have to make all the rest of the man agree that women shall vote, do it." 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DRINK WATER TO CURE KIDNEYS AND RHEUMATISM The People Do Not Drink Enough Water to Keep Healthy, Says Well-Known Authority. "The numerous cases of kidney and bladder diseases and rheumatism are mainly due to the fact that the drinking of water, nature's greatest medicine, has been neglected." Stop loading your system with medicines and cures-alls; but get on the water wagon. If you are really sick, why, of course, take the proper medicines—plain, common vegetable treatment, which will not shatter the nerves or ruin the stomach." To cure Rheumatism you must make the kidneys do their work; they are the filters of the blood. They must be made to strain out of the blood the waste matter and acids that cause rheumatism; the urine must be neutralized so it will no longer be a source of irritation to the bladder, and, most of all, you must keep these acids from forming in the stomach. This is the cause of stomach trouble and poor digestion. 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Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. SEND YOUR NEWS IN EARLIER "ABOVE THE CLOUDS." A two act drama will be presented by Home of the West lodge No. 2906 and Household Ruth No. 12, G. U. O. O. F. at Garfield hall on Thanksgiving night. This promises to be one of the season's best. Keep it in mind. DRESS-MAKING and PLAIN SEWING Mrs. Jas. Talbort, 704 N. Market St. SKATING RINK Messrs. Wm. Howard and A. T. Brown have opened a skating rink in Covington Hall, 517 N. Main. The rink will be open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Attend the Monday night dancing academy. THEY HAVE A CHANCE. It might be noted by the way that on January 9th, 1911, the Board of County Commissioners will be changed from a Democratic to a Republican majority and then it can be seen what the colored people will receive. We believe, however, that Messrs. Kernan and Bear will be inclined to treat our people fairly. We hope so, at least. The Sewing Circle ladies met with Mrs. John Jone at 811 N. Wichita and was served with a delightful lunch. The menu consisted of salmon salad, Nabisco wafers, apple pie and chocolate. They adjourned to meet with Mrs. Will H. Jones, 522 N. Water St. Mrs. R. E. Smith returned Monday from a very pleasant two months visit in Kansas City with her daughter Mrs. Mrs. Beattrice Waller and her brother John Johnson. LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your nice notes and local happings to CST North Main Street. R.A.B.CRUMP Everything in the line of Tailoring. Work Guaranteed. Masouic Building 615 N. Main Wichita, Kan Buy your ticket for the big Christmas banquet and ball which will be given at Masonic hall Monday night, December 16, 1910. The Home Cooking Club met at the residence of Mrs. Frank Wilkins after business the club was invited by the hostess to the dining-room where a three-course luncheon was served: Corn Pudding Hot Biscuit Long Branch Crackers Banana Salad Coffee Guests present: Mrs. Dr. G. G. Brown, Mrs. W. M. Whitted, Mrs. Will H. Jones, Mrs. C. A. Glover, Mrs. Frank Wilkins, Mrs. E. C. Hicks, Miss Jennie Wheeler, Mrs. Grant Ewing. Invitations are out announcing the forthcoming marriage of Miss Lizzie Underwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood, to Mr. J. D Reed. The wedding will be solmnized at New Hope Baptist Church. Thursday night, Nov., 24th, Rev. E. T. Fishback, pastor officiating. A large number of the friends of Miss Alice Thompson, (formerly), are very agreeably suprised to learn of her happy marriage to Mr. A. L. Davis of Arkansas City. Mrs. Davis-nee Thompson has many warm friends in Wichita who wish for her a happy married life. Mr. and Mrs. T. Bailey of Kansas City spent Saturday and Sunday in Wichita the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. G. Baker of E. 9th St. Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller engaged the fine automobile of Mr. Thos. Glover which carried Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Thos. Bowers to the Miller country home where all were the guests of Mrs. Miller at a toothsome dinner. Mrs. and Mrs. Bailey left via Santa Fe Sunday eve for their home in Arkansas City saying they had a fine time. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. continues to have fine men's meetings each Sunday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. This Sunday at Masonic Hall, Rev. H. B. Brown, rector of "The Church of St. Simon, the Cyrenian," of Topeka, will speak. As Rev. Brown is a very live man and interested in the upbuilding of the race, everybody should make a special effort to be present. The meeting last Sunday was one of the best held by the Association. Mr. W. C. Coleman, manager of the Hydro Carbon Light Company gave an interesting account of the Toronto convention, which was attended by nearly 2,500 men, many of whom were colored. The Colored International Secretaries Hunton, Moorland and Watson were present and did much good work for the Colored Department. Great lessons are to be learned where so many men with one object in view get together. The football team is practicing for the game with Langston University on Thanksgiving Day. Two weeks ago Langston conquered the Y. M. C. A. team and then played a tie game. The teams seem to be evenly matched and this game should be a great exhibition of skill and endurance. The home boys will bend every effort to wipe out the defeat they received in Oklahoma and close the season with an even record. Tickets, 25 cents. The gymnasium is being fitted up for the winter's work. Classes will be organized as soon as apparatus is secured. Basketball will be the principal game for inside work, yet much time will be spent in hand-ball, and apparatus work. The Y. M. C. A. Bible Class has been organized and hopes for a prosperous season. Attend the Song Services on Sunday evening 7:30 p. m. at the A. M. E. Church. Title. Blessings to Everyone. JESUS CHRIST Title. Blessings to Everyone. JESUS CHRIST HIS APOSTLES AND THE MEN OF OLDEN TIME How They Received Spiritual Messages. How They Healed the Sick. How They Performed the Seemingly Wonders. All persons interested in the philos- ophy and Phenomena of Spiritual Man- cultures, Spiritual Writings, Clarity, Clarity, Independent Spirit Voices, Spirit Writings, Thought Transference, Curing Diseases by Lay- ing on of Hands, Casting out Evil Influences, Suggestions, Concerns and Problems. Spiritual Healing also White and Black Magic should send for this wonderful book. It is ab- sorbed FREE, a KEEN BOOK HISTORY OF THE WONDERS RECOR- DED THEREIN. How one may protect himself from worrles, sickness and evil influences. Every soul on earth should have one. Written by a Mister for You. Of need. Need. Add the ADD FUND SCHOOL OF OCCULT AND DIVINE SCIENCE. Toppeks, Kansas. Dept. 7 P CITY FEDERATION FORMED. The ladies comprising the various colored women's clubs of our city met at the Second Baptist church Tuesday afternoon and organized a City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. The object of the City Federation is to obtain a closer and more beneficial understanding among the colored women of our city, the better of promote the uplift of our people in this city and in a more united manner aid members of our race in every way possible. The club organized with the following officers: Mrs. Jas. L. Harper, President; Mrs. W. N. Miller, Vice-President; Mrs. W. M. Bowers, Secretary; Mrs. F. O. Miller, Assistant Secretary, and Mrs. Ludie Brown, Treasurer. Quite a representative number of ladies from the various clubs were present and the initiative meeting can well be said to have been a success. Mrs. L. H. White is reported on the sick list this week. The Mothers' Ald Club will with Mrs. M. W. Madison, 1621 Sherwood, next Friday afternoon. Every Master Mason who has not received them should secure the Scottish Rite degrees at this fall's reunion. Write or ask Dr. A. K. Lawrence, Secretary, 517 N. Main, about the terms. The main topic of conversation these days is the great drama "Above the Clouds" to be presented at Garfield Hall Thanksgiving night by the Odd Fellows. Better buy your tickets early Sunflower Stand 509 N. Main St. WOODWARD & BUTLER, PROPS. — SEE THEM — THOMPSON-WRIGHT WEDDING. One of the quiet social events for the month was the pretty home wedding of Mr. J. Walter Thompson and Miss Ubepa Wright at the home of the bride's brother, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wright, 807 North Wichita street, at 7 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, November 15th, 1910. Only the family of the contracting parties and a few very inmate friends were present. Mr. Louis Wright acted as best man and Mrs. H. T' Bolden as bride's malt. Rev. J. E. Edwards, pastor of the A. M. E. church, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are at home to their friends at 311 West Ninth street. HOTEL ONEITA. Mrs. L. Olden has rented the property at 529 North Wichita street and has opened the Oneita hotel. Every room has been neatly papered and furnished up to a queens ta s eT.eth nished up to a queen's taste. The beds are nice and clean and the rooms well ventilated. If you want a nice, clean, sanitary place to room and board, give Mrs. Olden a call at 529 North Wichita Street. The Searchlight is still doing business at the same old stand, 630 N Main St. Come up. The Mother Aid Club will meet at Mrs. Lizzie Madison's Friday, Nov. 25th, 1910, at 1 o'clock. Would like for all members and visitors to be present.-Mrs. W. N. Miller, Pres.; Mrs. P. Johnson, Sec. Rev. M. Wooten, presiding elder, during his visit in the city last week was the guest of the Mothers' Aid Club and delivered an address to the ladies which was very highly enjoyed by them all. Office over 517 N. Main St. Room 4 Do you trade with one of our advertisers? Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Phone 517 N. Main St. Bell4634 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY Dr. F. O. Miller 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 Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST IS E-Z ON YOUR TEETH AND E-Z-ON YOUR POCKET BOOK Bridge Teeth $4.00 Bell Phone 517 N. Main St. over 4634 Mahin Eye Drug Store. Send your news in earlier A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS 142 N. MARKET For Everything In Building Material SEE BOTH PHONES: 496 J.H. TURNER NICHTA, KANS. J33 vo 347 WEST DOUGLAS W. S. Henrion Druggist 501 North Main Street Wichita - - - - Kansas Subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1. for a whole year. Try it. FOR RENT:—A nice, front room to the right parties. W. M. DENT. 1053 N. Main St. 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. CULP'S MEAT MARKET 241 N.MAIN ST. Thebest Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitter Fresh Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salm Sealship Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Ba P. T. CULP, Prop. Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tails, Chicken, Fresh Pige Feet and Chitterlings, Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh Lip Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans F. T. CULP, Prop. Mein St. Both Phone Made with our Advertiser 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. Mein St. Both Phone Trade with our Advertisers Trade with our Advertisers Grocery Department WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL LAR WE SELL M WE SE In fact, we sell everything Grocery. WHY CAN'T W Makin Eye 517 N. Main St. — Wichita, IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL GRAHAM — CORN MEAL With thirty-five years RIENCE in Wichita, our the best that can be p Made from the be only, put up in Special ASK YOUR GROCER : See THE IMBODEN M Wichita, Ka GROCERIES and General M We carry a full, fresh line of Groceries and the choicest I Our stock of Dry Goods, Children's Shoes cannot be or in price. WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL LARD 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. Y. Main St. — Wichita, Kan — Bell Phone 239 BEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR M — CORN MBAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. OUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas PROCERIES, MEATS and General Merchandise carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancyeries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meat our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality a price. Free Delivery In fact, we so 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 IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL GRAHAM - CORN MBAL - BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. ASK YOUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas --- GROCERIES. MEATS and General Merchandise We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meat Our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery Tapp & Hanshaw 255 - 257 North Main 'ABOVE THE - 257 North Main Phones 257 LOVE THE CLOUDS --- ABOVETHE CLOUDS' Is a strong Drama Present A PLAY TAKEN FROM A young woman having two one of her choice and her life there was a child born and t the influence of friends, believ the child and goes away — p care of a friend — he becomes believed them both dead — seperation Mother, Father a pily united and all is well. Presented in Two=Ac PLAY TAKEN FROM REAL LIFE woman having two lovers, but marries the other choice and her life was all sunshine until was a child born and the husband, throughquence of friends, believe her faithless — steals child and goes away — places the child in the a friend — he becomes A HERMIT. The wife and them both dead — After twelve years ofotion Mother, Father and Child are again hapited and all is well. A PLAY TAKEN FROM REAL LIFE A young woman having two lovers, but marries the one of her choice and her life was all sunshine until there was a child born and the husband, through the influence of friends, believe her faithless — steals the child and goes away — places the child in the care of a friend — he becomes A HERMIT. The wife believed them both dead — After twelve years of seperation Mother, Father and Child are again hap pily united and all is well. Thanksgiving Eve., Nov. 24th. By the Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth Admission 25c DEAM ABSTRACT 241 N. Mein St. Both Phone Excellence Counts tb — THEN USE — U-KNEAD-IT® FLOUR It exctls in every respect, — color, flavor and | pounds of bread per barrel. mape ny WATSON MILL CO. WICHTEA ae ne = KANBAS 3 BAAAABS SAAPAABABABARAABDA BSASBIAS - High Class Surgery Gpecial Attention Given to® i a Specialty Canine Practice t All Calls Promptly Answered—Day or Night Dr. C. R. Wildes, Veterinary Physician & Surgeon = "Tho Finest Bquipped Hospital In the Oity Both Phones Office and Hospital $ 1730 2836 K. Market St., Wichita, xs, gy veververrrrerrreraverrrrrr cacnsveen “fF, MoLean, President W. R. Tucker, Vice President JM, Moore, Vice Pres. C. W. Brown, Vice Pres. V.H. Branch, Cashier (he Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $123,000.00 Directors: W R ‘Tucker, W E Jett, RL Holmes, 8 B Amidon, J M Moore B. F. McLean, A. G. Houston, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. 'I. Battit Henry Lassen, V. H, Branch. A General Banking Business Transacted Sete 4 nn Phones me ¥4Y, GRAIN, FEED INDEPENDENT 690 POULTRY SUPPLIES BELL 2135 Vertical Mills ertical Mulls M. O. RUTHRAUFF, Proprietor stom Grinding and Corn Shelling cur Specialty -- Prompt Delivery 8l4 Nortk Main Wichita, Kansas MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Stvle Workmanship GUARANTEED YOUR TRADE SOLICITED =: {If 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 avery small one from each or our mang customers, ‘This is why we can put into asuit 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. Main St. Wichita, Kas. CHITTERLINGS, Catfish, Hamburg ® and am Sandwiches for sale at Yarry Walker's Cafe, 957 N. Meac “ery Saturday. Anyone desiring thes tables are requested to call. Vow x Peerless ae Steam Laundry Wichita’s Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY IN THE GITY Satisfaction Guaranteed Gundry Work Called and Deliverec Phones 232 _ \PLOVER & SONS, Props, '6N. Market St Wichita, Kan =. TOR RENT_Nice three room eottage West 23rd St. Only $6.00 per Roth. Apply to W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main St. Phone Market 1641. WIFE WANTED—Wanted a goo¢ wife; don’t want a divorced woman must be a Christian woman not unde: 38 yrs. nor more ‘than 50 yrs. old Don't want her for the wash tub o some one else’s cook kitchen; but want her to keep house for herself. 1 have my own home and ame able to care for a good wife. RUEBEN WALLER, Box 292, Elderado, Kansas. ——— USE ‘Murray’s Reliable Nerve Balm ‘Murray’s Reliable Antisepic Salve Murray,s Retiable Perfunes These Goods Have No Equal They are pleasing hundreds of pecple and will please you. J. H. MURRAY & CO. Sold by Dealers Wichita — — Kansas Bye Gy. 1 NI 7 ai : a ) il Reet) wy HA RPO MAD E KINKY OR CURLY HAIS.IV'S USE MARES ‘STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PoTUpin ane STs THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MARES SHORT, KINKY HAIR GROW LONG AND | FOR DAADRUFE NING OF THE SCALP BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE ‘GENUINE PUTUP IM 25¢AND 80¢ BOTTLES wim CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON. EVERY PACKAGE. © SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY een BOTTLE, 25¢ LARGE SIZED BOTTLESO+ THE OZONIZED xX MARROW (0, | a ain aot | Thanksgiving Linen Sale This Week’s Central Attraction | Every day the interest increases in these beautiful Lin ens and these special Linen Prices. Whether you want a few Towels, a dozen Napkins, a Damask Table Cloth or a handsome set of Marovian Linens, you will find the qualities and the patterns the best and the prettiest ever offered at such low prices. 72-inch Grass Bleached Da- | 72-inch Silver Bleached Ger mask, twenty patterns; | man Damask, an unusual worth $1.00 yard. i: $1. value. Sule Price, yd 85¢ | Sale Price ...... 85¢ | 70-inch Grass Bleached Da. | 72-inch Half Bleached Ger- mask, twenty patterns; | man Damask, worth 95c a worth $1.00 yard, yard; Sale Price ..........79¢ Sale Price ...... 85¢ | 70-inch Bleached Satin Da- 70-inch All Linen Cream Da mask, anextra value; worth | mask, choice patterns; | 89c yard; Sale Price... 75¢ | worth 75c. Sale Price...63¢ | /IN THE BASEMEMENT STORE | 12-4 Cotton Blanketn == Grey, white andtan, meas ures 72x84 inches, weight 2 7-8 ls. Heavy fleeced, worth $1.75 a pair, Today in the Basement, pair...... .......$1.39 | il-4 Cotton Blankets -- White, tan, bro wnand | mottled grey, assorted color borders, weight 214 Ibs., meas ures 66x80 inches, worth $1.50 a pair. Today... $1.00 | Silkoline Comforts -- Good large size Comforts, | 72x88 inches, filled with good, clean cotton, weigh 6% Ibs | A good $2.50 value. Today atic cose $1.98 French Satine Comforts - Beautiful patterns, plain | and fancy borders, filled with soft, flufly cotton; a usu al | $3.00 value. DPoday ato sescicieccsnc ieS225 Fleeced Flannelettes = 2,000 yards in 2 to 20-yard | lengths, 30 to 34 inches wide, worth 1244: to 15¢ a-yard | Today in the Basem nt Store, yard ........ Tec White Outings = For Gowns, etc., good thick qual— ity, 26 inches wide, worth 12%. Basement today ... 9c | Boys’ Shoes = Three cases Boys’ Kid Blucher Shoes, | stocd tip, low heel, solid leather. Sizes 9 to 13, Regular | $1.50 shoe value. Today [ basement ] «sss. $1.19 | | aa B OhLON QGIOCEE | [IE LER TAT ERR ae | WAL YSTEIN& cont Sea pes ee cama elec a core SARlegcarie Great. Exhibition Of Modern FOOT BALL | Langston University vs Wichita Y. [l. C. A. Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 24th. At Fair Grounds Admission 25c __ Tickets on sale at 535 N. Main Mrs, Jonah Roberts and sister-in-law who have visited Mrs. W. M. Coleman and family for three weeks, left for their home in Oklahoma Sunday. The A. M. E. Sewing Circle will meet with Mrs. Lyons Wednesday af- ternoon, East Twelfth street. The I. R. A. Club met at the home last Fri- day of Mrs, Masie Johnson. She served a dainty lunch, They ad- journed to meet with the president, Mrs, U. S. Rickman, Friday, Novem- ber 18th. Rey. Byron is the new A. M. E. pas- tor at Newton and Rev. M. T. Warfield, P. E., again. Mrs, Ann Garrett has ‘returned to her home in Leavenworth. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Turner has re- turned to Newton to live. 1OLA, KANSAS. Golden Tabernacle No. 2 met on Nov: 12. Quite a number of members were present and the Tabernacle is getting along in peace and harmony. Golden Eagle Tent is doing nicely. ‘The rally at the A. M. E. church Sunday was quite a success. Mrs. Sarah Mayes has returned home from Ft. Scott where she went to attend the wedding of her brother. W. P. Greene has returned from To- peka where he visited with his family. Se GSS. SB = Prize Offers from Leading Manufacturers ‘Book on patents. *‘Hints to inventors.” “Inventions needed.” “Why some inventors fail.” Send rough sketch or model for: search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly. Acting Commissioner of Patents,:and as such had full charge of the U. S. Patent Office. t ic C GREELEY & MSINTIRE eS) PATENT ATTORNEYS ib WASHINGTON, D. C. as _ Hygienic Restaurant : 513 North Main Street 7 C. C. Hickerson, Proprietor fie F'Open from 6 a. m. tol2 p. m. (& Short Orders At All Hours. Dinner 25c FPOSOSOSOSOSSSSSSSSSSSSOSSSOSSOSSOSOSS: Merchant Tailor 605 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men’s Garments. Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty Courteous Attention Bell Phone 3055 “6 ” MODERN CLEANING and DYE WORKS 20. Dry and Stcam Cleaning Dyeing, Pressing, Repairing, aud Alterations. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Ladies’ tine work a Specialty. Suits Pressed 5O Cents C..G, Hanson, Prop. Independent Ptone 1286 Red Bell Phone 2735 110 St. FrancisjAve., Wichita, Kansas CENTRAL. CASH MARICET 458 N. Main St. Phone 4163 Full line of = .Grocerieszand Meats Fresh{Fish EveryiFriday and Saturday Fred!C. Love, Prop. 1@ 00000 0000000025900 0000008 : ‘ : . PALMERS Care : ° : @ “te 507-North Main Street § - Regular Meals - Short Order ¢ 3 {Furnished Rooms in Connection @ =~ — Your Patronage Solicited — 6 : Mrs. Anna Palmer, Proprietor, ‘ @ . OS OOS OOS 9 OG 090HH9NONHHHHOOS THE CITY FEDERATION, ‘The colored ladies of Wichita are to be highly commended in the organiza- tion of a City Federation for the united betterment of our people here in every way. Like every other good move on the part of our people, we wish to assure the ladies of the City Federation that in their work for a higher standard for all they will find no more staunch supporter than the Searchlight. We wish for the msuc- cess and will lend, our assistance in every way possible to help them to succeed, Best for Bread and Biscuits Wichita’s Best Flour Kansas Milling Company € Wichita, Kansas GROWING BIGGER. ‘The attendance at the Monday night Dancing Academy is growing larger and more interesting each week. Last Monday night Prof. Hartman paid the school a visit and introduced three new dances. He paid the school quite @ compliment. Prof. Hartman is at the head of the Hartman Dancing school in the Cone-Cornell building. Send for the 8. P. C. C. 4 “Young Mother” asks our opinion et “the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies.” We must frankly say that we con- sider it brutal practice, As the father of a great many babes, of ali ages, we never rocked on any of them intentionaNy, and we would probably be arrested if wa expressed our full opinion of any woman who would presume to do so.—Lippincott’s Maga JOB PRINTING DONE At 630 North Main Street Her Born Right It was not a moment of especial depression, or when anything had gone wrong, but one morning when she was dressing for her office work of the day, that Betty Wayne discovered that she had no reason for being—nothing to live for. As she brushed back to its usual neat order her still heavy brown hair, she looked closely into the mirror and realized that she looked every minute of her thirty-two years. There were little selfish lines about the good dark eyes, a set look about the once soft mouth. And when she buttoned on her collar, she suddenly realized that she had worn that kind of a collar with that kind of a waist longer than she cared to remember. Suddenly, she felt herself an old mald. an' the girl she does goes to school, and every day—when Their father's bound educated. They had down on their luck clothes that some can see that—a woon to death." Betty nodded. Then and she rose with her check. They tilt. But again she d even to herself. "Tve nothing on a pose you take me we see the children? for them? Will the Does he—ill-treat the They gave her a As she ate breakfast in the moderaterepriced boarding house her new awareness told her she had become a fixture here. No one asked what she wanted—they all knew. It would be the same at the office. Mr. Jones would know what she could do and how she would do it. She had fallen into a rut. She was becoming, even to herself, a habit. She mentally shook herself awake. As she took the car that morning, she wondered what could have happened to make her so suddenly dissatisfied with herself. She was sure she was physically well, health was another habit of hers, just as it was a habit to write letters Sundays instead of going to church. This was Friday, she resolved to make some changes in her routine. She would go to the nearest place of worship on the next Sunday. She took her place in the office at the usual hour and worked all day. But at noon she changed her place of lunching. And still the queer feeling that she was somehow being cheated came to her. She felt as if the wave of life had receded, leaving her high and dry on a desert island of self. She was growing selfish. Since her few relatives had died and since she had lost Henry, what had she thought of others? She looked about her keenly, almost forgetting to eat. What she saw was a sweet-faced girl, blushing and dimpling shyly at the whispered words of the broad-shouldered, adoring-eyed young fellow opposite. And at a large table in the center of the little cafe—a family. A strong man, gray at the temples, a woman, also a little gray, and three sturdy children. They were all turning continually to the mother, the wife. Her face was very content. She had a right to grow gray, to be less straight than at twenty—she had something to show for her passing youth. She had a woman's born right. Then Betty Wayne knew. She went back to the office with a loneliness that gnawed at her heart. It hurt, but it was good—it was an awakening to life after years of a sort of dead numbness. What though Henry had proved untrustworthy? All men were not deceitful! In shutting him from her life, she need not have shut the whole of life away from her. There must be those, somewhere who needed her. That night was a hot, tossing, sleepless one. Had she been hard to the one lover of her young womanhood? Had it been wrong, as he had said, for her to insist on a long engagement, both working, though in different cities, for a common end, their home? He had protested that he needed her then—that seven years was too long for a man to wait. Perhaps it was. She herself had been rigidly true to him, sternly so. Then she had heard of and verified his discreditable "afair" with a little girl who lived near him. Betty had written him scathingly. A week later he sent her an announcement of his marriage to the other girl. That was all, and it was nearly ten years ago, and since that—she had worked, slept, eaten, put a little money in the bank. What was it worth? Saturday was a hot, trying day. The office closed at noon, Betty, now hating her room where she usually mended and did odd things on the half-holiday, walked out upon the street, determined not to do anything that she commonly did. Instead of banking her check, she indorsed it, had it cashed and started to find a new place for lunch. At a hot corner she ran into two weary, white-faced girls she knew by sight from buying goods from them. On the instant she stopped and smiled, acting on a new and human impulse. She asked them to lunch with her. They stared, but went gladly. She took the girls to a good place, ordered a substantial dinner, with something cool for a salad and ice cream for dessert. She told them she was, and her sympathy presently had them talking freely—but she noticed that they said little about themselves. "We've the afternoon, and lucky we have. We have to wash up our things for next week, and look after some kids next door. Say, Miss Wayne, you ought to see them little rats—cute an' pretty in these two little rooms, and afraid to death to move till their father gets home. Their mother's dead." Gladys, the girl with the immense blond collure, took up the tale. "The girl's nine and the boy six." an' the girl she does the cookin' and goes to school, and goes after the boy every day—when there is school. Their father's bound they shall be educated. They haven't always been down on their luck; they have some clothes that some woman made, you can see that—a woman who loved 'em to death." Betty nodded. The lunch was over, and she rose with her guests and paid the check. They thanked her heartily. But again she did the unexpected, even to herself. "I've nothing on earth to do. Suppose you take me with you and let me see the children? What do you do for them? Will their father like it? Does he—ill-treat them?" They gave her a glance of scorn—but how could she know? "Not on your life!—he adores them children! His wife was in a hospital two years, and it took even their little home to pay the doctors and all. We've got it out of him little by little. Then he had typhoid himself—he's been out of bed only eight weeks. He ain't strong enough yet to hold down the good job that's waiting for him, so he does what he can pick up to keep things going till he's right well." They were walking along the burning street, three abreast. Betty saw that no car would take them in their present direction, so she accompanied them silently. They passed through a few tawdry but respectable streets, and then turned a corner. "Beln' Saturday, everything will be torn up." they admonished her. "Since they come here six weeks ago me 'n Gladys has been helping Betty clean up the rooms and wash and mend things." The older woman stared. "Betty?" "Oh, that's the kid's name—Betty. Here's their door." They knocked. A shy, dark-eyed little girl opened it. They went in and saw, perched on the table, a little fair boy eating bread and milk from a blue bowl. He smiled at the girls—even at Betty. Something in the look of his blue eyes tugged at her heart. The room was very neat, with traces of refinement about. There were a few books, a little china on the dish shelves, and some silver spoons. The girl-child, quaintly polite, offered them chairs. She clung to the hand of Gladys, and gazed shyly at the stranger. There was something proud about her, too. The shop girls were her neighbors, her equals. It suddenly became a delicate matter for Betty to mention helping her. She broke the queer embarrassment by telling news. "We're going away Monday. Papa's luck's turned—he's got the money a man owed him. And he's going to take us to the country a month till he gets all well. And then we're going to have a lovely house—and just everything!" The girls began to exclaim joyfully glad in the child's good fortune. They begged her to tell them the rest. "And now dad's gone downtown to get us some things and we're goin' out to the park and feed peanuts to the lephalunt—I mean elaphunt," said the boy breathlessly. "We're goin' to have just everythin there is." The little sister's face sobered, and she spoke very quietly. "Ccept a mother," she said. "Everythin'cent a mother!" She was standing near the older, sadder Betty, who reached a hand and drew the motherless mite close, hugging her hungriily in her old maid's arms. How good the child felt to her, how right and natural it was to hold a child!" The woman's heart opened like a flower, and its spontaneous gladness made a new attractiveness unfold within her. The boy felt it, and came shyly to her knee. Then the shop girls rose to go. "We'll get our things off an' come back," they promised. The boy climbed to Betty Wayne's knee, the while she sat in a half-fear lest he might not stay with her—it was as if a wild bird had come to her hand. The girl still leaned against her shoulder, playing with the small watch pinned to her waist. The woman's head was bent low over the boy. Then it was that a man, tall and of strong build, but rather pale and weak, came to the open door and stood looking. He grew paler, then red, and leaned for support against the wall. He could not believe his eyes; he could not believe his heart; and he longed above all things to believe them both. "Betty!" he said. "Betty, Betty!" But though the girl ran to him, it was the woman he spoke to. She, still clasped the boy, went to him also, and Henry Thorne took hi sold sweet-heart into his arms. "We're goin' to have everything," the boy said, "and a mother, too. Dad, was she a surprise?" Betty Wayne's born right was her's. Mr. Recentmarrie (throwing down his newspaper with a gesture of disgust)—Here's another spoke in the wheel of the wagon that will take us to the porchouse; apples have gone up a dollar a barrel! Mrs. Recentmarrie (soothingly)—A barrel? Why, that won't affect us John; don't you know we always buy our apples by the half peek? Not Affected. The KITCHEN CABINET ET us be content to work. To do the things we want and Ways of Serving Tribe: Tripe is the digestive stomach of beef or veal. It is, when well prepared, so easily digested that many physicians order it for persons suffering from digestive troubles. To prepare it on the farm, take the stomach from a freshly-killed animal and wash it thoroughly; then let it soak over night, changing the water several times. Make a kettle of strong lye water, cut the tripe in pieces and drop a few at a time in the boiling lye and cook six minutes. Take out and lay on a board and scrape well with a knife until the brown lining is removed and the meat is clean and white. Wash thoroughly, and let stand in a weak salt brine for two days, then boil in salted water until tender. This will take several hours. Now it is ready to be served in any number of ways. The Spanish people serve tripe in the following appetizing way: Spanish Trine. Place several pounds of tripe in a baking pan. Pour over it a quart of chopped tomatoes, a cupful of chopped onion, two tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, one chopped sweet red pepper and half a cupful of melted butter. Bake an hour in a moderate oven. Pickled Trine. Make a spiced vinegar, using a pint of vinegar, three cloves, a dozen pepper corns, half a bay leaf, one sliced onion and a teaspoonful of salt. Pour hot over the tripe and keep in a cool place. Dip in corn meal and fry with bacon fat. This makes a good breakfast dish. Tripe Fried. Roll pieces of tripe in flour and fry in hot lard. When brown, remove and serve with the sauce made from a chopped onion browned in butter, a cupful of tomato juice and a table-spoonful of peppersauce. Boil up and pour around the tripe. Tripe Fritters. Make a fritter batter of one egg, a cupful of milk, a pinch of salt, a dash of pepper, a teaspoonful of baking powder and flour to make a drop batter. Into this dip pieces of tripe and fry brown in deep fat. Another way to serve this dish is in milk. Cut up the tripe and simmer in milk for two hours. Thicken slightly and season to taste. A good dish for invalids. H, SUNS and skies and clouds of June. And days of June together; Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. - Helen Hunt Jackson. Hallowe'en Luncheon. A hallowe'en luncheon may be made most novel and attractive by excluding the day light from the room and covering the lights with yellow tissue paper. For the center piece a large pumpkin with a face cut in each side and a lighted candle in the center, makes a pretty center. Arrange around the pumpkin yellow ears of corn pointing outward like rays and between them place mounds of fruit and nuts. Small paper jack o' lanterns may be used as favors. A pumpkin basket filled with fruits and autumn leaves makes a centerpiece a little unusual. Autumn leaves might be the decoration for the place cards. Brass candle sticks with red and yellow shades will make a soft and ghostly light effect. White jack o' lanterns made of gourds with candles inside make an attractive feature at a party where white cosmos formed the floral centerpiece. For the luncheon one may have cream of chestnut soup, a main dish of wild duck, salad of orange and french dressing and a dessert of vanilla ice cream with a sauce of preserved chestnuts in a lemon sauce, or nesselrode pudding. When one wants something entertaining an illuminated bouquet is very interesting. Take the centers from calla lilies and insert small yellow candles in the center; when lighted they are beautiful for a little while. Another pretty centerpiece is a yellow straw basket decorated with corn colored ribbons and filled with autumn leaves and fruits. Candle shades decorated with pressed wild rose leaves are a suitable accompaniment to such a table. S PEAK not of doleful things in time of mirth nor at the table: PEAK not of doleful things in time of mirth or at the table; speak not of melancholy things as death and wounds; and if others mention them, change, if you can, the discourse. Tell not your dreams but to your intimate friends." -George Washington. "There's Poetry in Pie." Pastry is difficult of digestion, as the starch grains are surrounded by the fat and impenetrable by the gastric juices, which do not act upon fat. Pastry that is light, dry and fakty is more easily separated by the gastric fluids and if well masticated and insalivated may be eaten sparingly with impunity. The custard pie is one of the most popular and as it has but one crust, if that is well baked, which makes it less harmful. For the pastry an old-fashioned rule is one part fat to three parts flour and enough cold water to roll out. Custard Filling.-Take the yolks of two eggs, one pint of milk, a little salt and half a cupful of sugar, flavor with a little orange rind or nutmeg and put into a hot oven at first to bake the crust quickly, then slowly finish the baking. Cream Ple. Take one cupful of rich milk or cream, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoon of cornstarch and the yolks of two eggs. Cook the milk sugar and cornstarch together, then add the eggs and put into a baked crust. Cover with a meringue made from the whites of the eggs and brown in the oven. A custard pie may be a cocanut pie by adding a half cup of coconut to the pie just before it is baked. Here is a pie that is truly good and may take the place of mince meat: One cupful each of sour cream, sugar and ralsins, one egg well beaten, one-half teaspoonful each of salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of cloves and one tablespoonful of vinegar. Bake with two crusts. Take one pint of milk, one egg or yolks of two, two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, six tablespoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of cocoa, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the eggs and the hot milk, which has been cooked with the cornstarch, sugar and cocoa. Fill a baked crust and when cold spread with whipped cream or a meringue browned in the oven. OD never wastes anything. God never forgets anything. God never loses anything. Though he holds the world in the hollow of his hand, he will yet remember each of us, and the part we are fitted to play in the eternal drama. The Onion. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. Onions will make even heirs or widows weep. Are we a little more appreciative of the much-abused bulb when we remember that it belongs to the lily family. Those who tolerate the onion are horrified at the mere mention of garlic. Onions, leeks, shallot, garlic and chive all belong to the same family. They are all wholesome and may be served in many appetizing ways. The objectionable odor which they impart to the breath is due to the volatile substances absorbed by the blood and carried by the blood to the lungs, where they are set free. The shallot, garlic and chive are used principally to give added flavor to food. The leek is often used, as is the onion, as a vegetable. Onions are rich in flesh-forming elements, are soothing to the mucous membranes and are otherwise medicinal. To prepare onions for cooking, if they are peeled under water they will not cause one to weep. If one has never eaten an onion unpeeled, thrown on coals and roasted until tender, served with a generous portion of butter, well seasoned with salt and pepper, there is yet something to live for. Fried onions are considered a great delicacy, though they are most difficult of digestion. Onions friend' with sour apples is another very appetizing dish which is usually liked. 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But nobody could make out more than was obvious to all from the start, that the woman was frantically excited and had lost something on the line. Into both tunnels she pointed. She was about thirty years old and good looking. People thought the poor creature must have mislaid her baby somewhere along the track. Several wanted to go to search. But she pointed mostly into the tunnel through which she had not traveled. None could solve the mystery. For nearly an hour she went through all the regular signs of intense distress, and caused a block among the passengers at the station. The crowd extended into the street and gave rise to rumors that there had been a terrible accident. Still no one could understand her, and she would not understand any sort of persuasion to take her departure. Policemen Hughes got off the seventeenth train and took her to the East Thirty-fifth street police station. There the twelfth person sent for tried Polish and learned that the woman was Katherine Gorud, recently arrived, and still more recently married, and lived somewhere on a hill in Spuyten Duyvil, but she did not know where. She had been shopping with her husband in Fourteenth street, and in the rush at six o'clock the crowd on the subway had carried her into a local train and her husband into an express. The police gave her coffee and cakes and sent out to find her husband—New York World. THIS IS THE PAPER HANGER Never Comes When He Promises, Criticizes Your Taste and Does Just Exactly as He Pleases. A paper hanger is a man who promises by all that he holds sacred to be at your house on Monday morning at 8 o'clock, and sends word on Wednesday afternoon that he cannot come until Friday. He brings a bucket of paste and some shears with him, and as soon as he sees the paper you have bought he says it will not do. He criticizes your taste and judgment and shows you why the pattern is utterly unsuited to the room, until he convinces you that you must send the paper back and purchase the proper supply from him, although you know very well that he gets a commission. Then he goes away to order the paper and you continue to sleep on the davenport until the following Tuesday. You discover ere long that the laws of paper hanging are as immutable as the laws of the Medes and Persians, and that no matter how you want the room papered you are absolutely mistaken. If he weren't a paper hanger he would be a plumber. But after this you will welcome the snail-like plumber gladly. Gabriel will have to blow several encores before he gets the paper-hanging brigade to resurrect. Penslons for Cats and Horses Old age pensions are spreading. But who would have thought of St. Francis of Assisi as contributing to so modern a movement? Nevertheless, the kindly saint who preached to fishes and birds is still a factor to be reckoned with. As witness the case of the maiden lady who died in London recently and made provision in her will for pensions for her cats and horses. Her orders to her trustees were to the effect that they are to pay $200 a year for the care of each of her cats. They are also to see that each animal is properly looked after and treated with kindness. Her horses are also to be provided for, not allowed to do harder work than they have been accustomed to, or are to be mercifully destroyed. All these unusual bequests are explained by the further orders of the will to the effect that the kindly provider is to be buried in the full habit of the Order of St. Francis of Assisi, to which she belonged. According to Schedule Eugene Higgins, in the smoking room of the Kronprinzessin Cecile, condemned the too hurried tours of Europe that some Americans make. "Europe, to give its best, 'said Mr. Higgins, 'must be taken slowly. Once, in an Italian picture gallery, I heard one broad-shouldered woman ask another: "Is this Florence or Venice?" "What day's today?' the other asked in turn. "Wednesday.' "Then it,'s Florence.'" The Last Resort. Victorious woman had unthinkingly left prostrate man a last weapon, and he, the graceless, treacherous wretch, scrupled not to use it. That is to say, it was still permitted to get up the latest fashion in feminine apparel, and with flendish ingenuity he lost no time in devising the hobble skirt. "Ha, ha!" he chuckled, his idea being, of course, that if the hated sex hereupon took any more long steps forward, it would fall on its individual and collective faces—Puck. Plight of Two Alaska Prospectors Who Had Plenty of Gold Dust and Offered it for a Meal. Mining the glittering gold successfully on a claim and then transporting it to some bank or assay office seems to be a task fraught with many difficulties for the Alaska miner. Word has just been received from Katalla, Alaska, of the exciting experience of H. Parsons and A. Hill, two prospectors, who nearly starved to death with $15,000 in gold dust in their possession. Parsons and Hill had made a nice clean-up on their claims at Yakatage and decided to take their gold to the bank at Katalla. Leaving Yakatage in a dory, they proceeded as far as Seal river, where they encountered a dense fog. Fearing they might be blown to sea, they landed at the mouth of the river. As the fog cleared a storm came, causing a heavy surf which smashed their dory and destroyed the greater part of the provisions. The gold dust had been carefully packed ashore, but the men were miles from any camp, and their only hope of reaching civilization was a march of miles over rough country and the swimming of glacier rivers, or perchance a passing fisherman might pick they up. After waiting several days for some chance relief, their scant food supply gave out and they were compelled to make the mush to Kennuck island, which was accomplished by swimming several glacier rivers and depending on wild strawberries for food. An Indian canoe was obtained at Kennuck, in which the men made the remainder of the trip to Katalla. Throughout the trip the men clung to the gold dust, but declared they would have given it all for a boat and a square meal many times during the trip to Kennuck island. HE PRACTISES LAW BY EAR Pierce Butler's Retort to the Super-ollicious Question of a College-Man in a Chicago Club. Pierce Butler, special counsel for the government in the bleached flour cases, according to his own description of himself, is but a plain, rough-nocked Irishman who grabbed his knowledge of law between times while making a living by other kinds of work. When he went into the prosecution of the flour cases he met up with a large number of university lawyers and chemists. While they were all dining at the Chicago club one evening the university men began telling stories about their boys at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and other places where Butler had never been. "Ah, by the way, Mr. Butler," asked one of the high brows with appropriate university accent, "of what school are you a graduate?" "Not any," said Butler; "I just practise law by ear." Butler thinks the time of the black letter lose pretense in the professions and science is past. In cross-examining one of the high brow chemists he wanted to know something more about a proposition in chemistry the witness had laid down. "Well, really, Mr. Butler," said the chemist in a superior sort of way, "you see this is a matter of involved inorganic chemistry and I doubt whether I can explain it so that you can understand it." "Um—well, suppose you give me the benefit of the doubt," said Butler. Now the Crewless Warship. A new type of warship, invented by Messr's Wirth, Beck & Knauss of Nuremberg, is causing a great sensation in naval stations. All the movements of the new vessel can be controlled from a land station many miles distant. During recent experiments at Dutzendiech a 30-foot boat was made to go forward, backward, turn in a circle and fire mines and torpedoes, all its operations being directed from the shore. Nobody was on board the boat. Representatives of foreign naval powers are negotiating with the inventors. Experts predict a great future for the new craft.—New York Sun. His Conclusion Claude Grahame White, the English aviator, praised, at a dinner in New York, the American stage. "Your plays are livelier than ours," he said. "Our plays are very dull and stupid. A novelist said to me one night at the Automobile club in London: "I have written several plays and they have all been rejected. So I devoted last month to a study of the London theater. I took in every play in town. I was resolved to get a lot of points on the English stage." "And did you learn much?" said I. "Well,' said the novelist, moodily, I came to the conclusion that I'm the only man alive who can't get a poor play put on." Barcelona. Barcelona is divided, for administrative purposes, into the old Barcelona of the Middle Ages and the new Barcelona, with its wide streets and beautiful residences. The public works of the old and new parts are intrusted to separate Spanish officials and paid for out of separate funds, and the problems are entirely distinct. In the new town the sum of $6,500,000 is being expended on a sewerage system, while the old town is mediaeval in this as in other respects, and even has a bit of sewer built in Roman times. Popular Author's Spouse "improved" His Book to the Extent of a Loss of $7,000. It isn't fair to tell the name of the author. But one of the writers of best sellers turned out a fine piece of work a year or so ago. He took the rough draft of it to a publisher, and the man of ledgers fell for it in a minute. "I'll take it back to my wife and let her go through it to catch any errors of English," said the author, and the publisher agreed. When the corrected draft was returned, it seemed that the lady had caught errors that were not of English. She didn't agree, for example, with the hero's liking for brunette ladies, being of the opinion that blondes are the highest type of beauty. It is just a coincidence that she is herself a blonde. And there were one or two尔翰肄n episodes that the lady expurgated. And she changed the plot a bit, because, as she justly said, things like that never happened in real life—and if they did, they were never referred to by nice people. The sale of the book was confined to the free copies sent to the reviewers. Last week the author brought the draft of another story to the same publisher. "Fine, great, magnificent!" said the ardent gentleman when he read it. "My readers are crazy about it. I cried like a child in chapter 10 and, although my eyes are getting weak, I sat up until two o'clock in the morning to finish it. Just sign the contract on the dotted lines." The author signed, and then asked for the draft. "I want to take the draft home and let my wife go over it and catch the errors." said he. "You know my grammar gets a little cross-eyed sometimes." "Never again," said the publisher. "I have that manuscript locked in a safe, and if your wife tries to interfere with it I'll have her pinched. She's an estimable lady and a good housekeeper—but the last time she tried to improve one of your stories she cost me $7,000." SLENDER BALTIMORE WOMEN They Take Off Flesh by Rolling on the Floor and Running Up Stairs. "How slender the Baltimore women are," remarked an admiring critic the other day. And so they are. There is hardly an ounce of superfluous flesh in the entire city. Elderly women who once appeared after a summer trip rolling in flesh now come home tanned and weather-beaten, but with firm muscles and slender waists. It is marvelous how they do it. In learning in a classroom, however, one learns something of the secrets. "I must not eat oysters; they make flesh, you know," the woman next you remarks, while her neighbor murmurs that it is hard to have to give up the things you most care for simply to keep below 140 pounds. "I love chocolate in any form," she says. The last sentence is not germane, but every one seems to understand what she means. "Try rolling on the floor," darkly whispers the woman at the suffrage meeting to one near her. "I have," she replies sibilantly; "it took off ten pounds in a month. But it was ruined to my bones." "Your bones must get used to it. With gowns that are tight around the knees you cannot afford to have hips, and they must be got rid of some way." "You cannot roll in an apartment," groans a listener. "But then you cannot live in an apartment at all if you are fat." "True," she sighs, and subsides. "Run up and down stairs," suggested a lecturer not long ago, her subject being "The Good, the True and the Beautiful," with particular attention to the last. But it turned out that her entire audience lived in apartments, and they had fewer stairs than anything else in their lives.—Baltimore Evening Sun. Hunters Caught in Traps. A peculiar double accident marked the opening in northern New Jersey of the season for shooting quail, partridge, grouse, English pheasant, squirrel, wild turkey and woodcock. Among the hunters who left Bloomfield were Max Wiemer and Isaac K. McGirr. They reached a patch of woods on the second mountain, fronting on Little Falls road, by daylight, and started out in opposite directions, so that they would not shoot each other. Soon Wiemer heard his companion scream for help. He ran toward McGirr, fell into a bear trap and was held fast, the sudden shock almost dislocating his thigh. McGirr shouted to Wiemer that he also was caught in a bear trap. Timothy Spear, a farmer, went to their assistance and released them. The Foolish Virgin: "We should always be prepared," said H. K. Adair, the San Francisco detective, in an interview in New York, "and then we will miss nothing. "You've heard, perhaps, of the young lady who said, as she sipped her tea: "I've just had such a dreadful experience." "A dreadful experience?" asked another young lady. "Yes,' was the reply. 'I saw a splendid bargain in shoes downtown and I've got a hole in my stockings." Official Knights & Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION RIGHTS AND DAGHTERS OF TABOR. 1910—GRAND OFFICERS—1911 REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, Route 8, Topeka, Kan. SIR D. L. TAYLOR, V. G. M. 329 E. Center, Salina, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. LAURA LEE, V. G. P. Box 394, Weir, Kansas. SIR A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kan. MRS. SARAH W. FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. SIR WILLIAM CORE, C. G. T. 1120 Lane, Topeka, Kan. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M. 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. SIR C. M. JOHNSON, G. P. P. 3330 Maple, Omaha, Neb. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 210 E. West, Hutchinson, Kan. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORK, C.G.Pr. A GAINES, C. G. P. re, Topeka, Kansas. URA LEE, V. G. P. 4, Weir, Kansas. HOPKINS, C. G. S. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M. 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kane SIR C. M. JOHNSON, G. P. P. 3330 Maple, Omaha, Neb. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 210 E. West, Hutchinson, Kan. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORK, C.G.Pr. 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kan. SIR W. N. MILLER, General Attorney, 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas. 30—Victoria, Leavenwort, R. Rivers, 607 Secon 31—Wichita, Wichita, K Kille Hall, 1024 Oh 32—Golden Rule, So. C Mrs. Sadie Jones, 1-3 Thurs. 37—Eutevator, Atchison Mary Grosby, 119 1-3 Fr. TEMPLES. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. 1—A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sir W. M. Watkins; 1-3 Fri. 3—R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Sir Jno. N. Davis, 521 “L,”; 1-3 Fri. 4—Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., Sir S. R. Jackson, care Frye Shr Store; 1-3 Mon. 5—St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., Sir Joe Walker, 1220 West (north); 1-3 Thurs. 6—Humphrey, Omaha, Neb., Sir W. H. Jackson, 2515 N. 17th. 8—St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., Sir A. J. Bean, 309 Lowman; 1-3 Tues. 10—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan, Sir Geo. Walker, 417 Kickapoo. 11—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir W. N. Miller, 630 N. Maln; 1-3 Thurs. 10—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., Sir Geo. Walker, 417 Kickapoo. 11—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main; 1-3 Thurs. 12—Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan., Sir W. N. Williams, 220 Corning; 1-3 Thurs. 15—Silver Leaf, Salina, Kan., Sir J. C. Brown, 246 S. Phillips; 1-3 Thurs. TENTS. Rev. Frank Wilson, Mrs. Bessie Hall, G 1—Golden Leaf, Leaver Mrs. Jennie Nichol 4th Sat. 2—Frank Wilson, Ft. Miss Eunna Maxie, 4 19—Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., Sir J. E. Hughes, 1313 N. J. 22—Barak, Oswego, Kan., Sir L. R. Wiffson; 2-4 Mon. 24—Jas. H. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan., Sir Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 25—Washington, Kansas City, Kan., Sir J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell; every Friday. 59—Sunnyside, Topeka, Kan., Sir Peter Davis, 1008 Washburn; 1-3 Thurs. 2-4 Mon. Mord, Cherryvale, Kan. J. W. Warren, 218 E. n, Kansas City, Kan. Dale, 1923. 60—Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., Sir U. S. Grant, 120 Kansas; 1-3 Mon. 72—Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Sir E. TABERNACLES. 1—Queen of the West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Marit Wilson, 945 Everett, 1-2 Wed. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 S. Chestnut; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Wm. Horton, 1825 N. Mead; 1-3 Fri. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 S. Chestnut; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Wm. Horton, 1825 N. Mead; 1-3 Fri. 4—Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. Sadie Campbell, 616 W. 1st; 1-3 Thurs. 5—Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Hattie Mqntgomery, 115 N. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 2-4 Sat. 23—Clinging Rose, Law Mrs. Ada King, 722 36—Pride of Topeka, N. T Mrs. Nannia Shaw lor. 37—Pansy Blossom, To Mrs. Jennie McAdoo gan; 1-3 Sat. 45—Orange Rose, Kansa Mrs. P. Henderson 6—Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs. Catherine Glaspie, 128 N. Wabash; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lillian Shobe, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Fri. 8—Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan. Mrs. Laura Donnell, 410 E. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 9—Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Lulu Delley, 120 Kansas Ave; 1-3 Fri. 10—St. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. P. Henderson, 820 N. Y.; 1-3 Wed. Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs. Le Glaspie, 128 N. Wa. 3 Thurs. Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lil. Dee, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Frl. May, Coffeyville, Kan. Ington, 1-3 Sat. 46-Mayflower, Omaha, N. Herrold, 2205 N. 2 44-Rising Sun, Atchison Mary Delley, 120 I 8-Golden Eagle, Iola, Sarah Delley, 90 J 9—Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Lulu Delley, 120 Kansas Ave; 1-3 Fri. 10—St. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. P. Henderson, 820 N. Y.; 1-3 Wed. 11—Saba Meroe, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. P. Woodfork, 823 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. PALATIUMS Rev. Frank Wilson, Sir C. M. Johnson, 1—Light of the West, Fred D. Early; 2—Evening Star, Topek 15—America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. Maggie Stewart, Box 14; 2-4 Mon. 16—Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. Lizzle Morton, 1308 Washington; 1.3 Wed af, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. Morton, 1308 Washing- Wed Chas. H. Kuntz. 6—Queen of Kansas, Milton Washington; 333 18—St. Marie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. E. W. Graham, 2112 Nicholas; 2-4 Thurs. 19—Amelia Levels, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th. 20—Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P. Johnson, 501 Hyman; 1-3 Fri 24—Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan.; Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th; 1-3 Wed. 28—Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. D. Dorsey. 29—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. H. La Tand, 407 Kickapoo; 1-3 Tue. 30—Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. R. Rivers, 607 Second; 1-3 Fri. 34—Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Salilie Hall, 1024 Ohio; 1-3 Thurs. 35—Golden Rule, So. Omaha, Neb, Mrs. Sadie Jones, 819 N. 27th; 1-3 Thurs. 37—Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mary Grosby, 119 Commercial; 1-3 Fri. 38—Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. F. Taylor, Box 394; 2-4 Wed. 52—Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Josie Wear, 807 N. Y., 2-4 Thurs. 63—Fair West, Kansas City, Kan, Mrs. Rosa Saunders, 610 N. J; 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Susie O'Brien, 1180 Buchanan; 1-3 Wed. 85—Magdalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas; 2-4 Wed. 91—Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Lula Rountree; 112 N. 19th. 92—St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L. D. Davis, 1029 Rose. 93—Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. A. Brown, 715 E. 11th; 1-3 Thurs. TENTS. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. 1—Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Jennie Nichols, 418 Third; 4th Sat. 2—Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan., Miss Emma Maxle, 411 Ransom. 3—Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. B. Davis, 1135 N. Washington, 1-3 Sat. 7—Lone Star, Yale, Kan., Mrs. Calle Lewis. 11—Golden, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Carrie Brown, 920 N. 10th; 2-4 Sat. 11—Alice Tucker, So. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. I. M. Faulkner, 169 N. 31st; 1-3 Sat. 11—Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Mary Brown, 325 Miss; 2-4 Sat. 14—Busy Bee, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Arla Stone, 823 Main; 1-3 Sat. 15—Louisa Mae, Cherryvale, Kan. Mrs. M. E. Holt, 517 West Main. 16—Pearl, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Anna Jones, 625 N. Wichita; 2-4 Sat. 17—Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. H. H. Askins, Box 25. 18—Star of West, Salina, Kan., O. A. Murrell. 20—John Wilson, K. C., Kan., Mr. C. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett; 2-4 Sat. 21—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan.; Mrs. Ella McKennis, 217 Sherman, 2-4 Sat. 23—Clinging Rose, Lawrence, Kan, Mrs. Ada King, 722 N. Y., 3 sat. 36—Pride of Topeka, N. Topeka, Kan, Mrs. Nannia Shaw, 905 N. Taylor. 37—Pansy Blossom, Topeka, aKn, Mrs. Jennie McAdoo, 1501 N. Logan; 1-3 Sat. 45—Orange Rose, Kansas City, Kan, Mrs. P. Henderson, 312 Washington; 1-3 Sat. 46—Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Herrold, 2205 N. 25th ;1-3 Sat. 44—Rising Sun, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mary Delley, 120 Kansas. 8—Golden Eagle, Iola, Kan, Mrs. Sarah Garrett, 20 Campbell. 5-New Hope, Coffeyville, Mrs. Ada Gilbert, 405, Saints, F4, 24, Wed. PALATIUMS. Fred D. Early; 2-4 Ft. 2—Evening Star, Topeka, Kan., Ran 4-Queen City, Parsons, Kan., Lee Haliday. 5-Jewell Wilson, Lawrence, aKn., Chas. H. Kuntz. 6-Queen of Kansas, K. C., Kan., Milton Washington; 1-4 Thurs. 777 TENTS. The Wichita Searchlight, 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kan. Only $1.00 per year. NEXT PLACE MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle ansas-Nebraska jurisdiction, will meet next in Coffeyville, Kansas on the second Tuesday in July, 1911. THE OFFICIAL CALL OF THE WESTERN NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. Des Molnes, Iowa, Sept. 4, 1910. Pursuant to a general custom, and by virtue of the official power rested in me, after conference with the Executive Committee and other officers we have called the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Western Negro Press Association, to convene in regular session in Muskogee, Oklahoma Friday and Saturday, Nov. 25, 26, 1910, for the purpose of discussing all things pertaining to the growth, development and advancement of the African race, realizin gthe pen is the most potent power, when rightly used, for the betterment of civilization, and the ultimate solution of all social, industrial, economic and political problems in this country; therefore, we urge up on the editors, magazine writers, and men and women engaged in the industrial arts allied to the Newspaper work, to meet us here in regular session with papers, essays, etc., to be read and discussed at this meeting, pertaining to the real needs of our down-trodden, struggling race. All no longer than ten minutes, except papers are asked to be prepared to be those that are especially invited; the discussion will be only eight minutes unless by common consent. All publications west of the Mississippi are eligible to membership, annual dues one dollar. This meeting will bring together some of the leading orators and thinkers of the country, and the program when published will bear out this statement. Urgging the press to publish this call, and hoping to meet the members of the fraternity in our meeting, Witness my hand this 14th day of September, 1910. HARRY R. GRAHAM, Chairman Executive Com., Quindaro, Kans. JOHN L. TOMPSON, President, Editor or Iowa State Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. The Fourteenth Annual session of A. J. SMITHERMAN, First Vive President, Muskogee, Okla. J. DALLAS BOWSER, Corresponding Seev, Kansas City, Mo. DIRECTORY OF COLORED WOM AN'S CLUBS OF WICHTIA, KAS. Office of Chairman Executive Committee, Western Negro Press Association. Quindaro, Kans., Sept. 26, 1910 To the Newspaper Fraternity, Greetings:— the W. N. P. A., will convene at Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 25-26, 1910. We are desirous of having, if possible, every Negro Journal published within the bounds of the western half of the country, send a representative to participate in the deliberations of the session, and make it the most enthusiastic and profitable meeting ever held. There are now before the American people, and particularly the Negros, many momentous questions which vitally concern the civil, moral and political, present and future of our race, and our press being the mouthpiece and moulder of public thought and sentiment, should be in unison and accord on all such questions. The Western Negro Press Association is a medium thru which a happy solution and analysis of the race advancement, civil and legal rights may be agreed upon, and serve a field of usefulness that no other organization can possibly serve. It has, in its history of fourteen years, in several instances of great public and national problems, demonstrated its power and influence. It is composed of men and women who have made a record for race loyalty, progress and attainment; who are alive and wide awake in the needs of the race. to the needs of the students. Our meeting at Muskogee will be an epoch-making one, and will be attended by many noted men and women of our race from every section of the country. The citizens at Muskogee are making special efforts to welcome and entertain the Association with a genuine hospitality, and each and every frater is cordially requested to be present and share in the generosity of the citizens of Muskogee. Take your Thanksgiving vacation at this time and to this place and on this occasion. this occasion. Write A. J. Smitherman, Vice President, Muskogee, Okla., for program or desired information. Yours for the race. HARRY R. GRAHAM, Chairman Executive Committee, Quindaro, Kansas