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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER TWELTH YEAR Hannesburg Press Says Marriage Can't Be Prevented. Hannesburg.—South Africa is wit- ting a recrudescence of the color J. W. THOMPSON, 33° Worshipful Master. Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, Commander-in-Chief. Eastern Star Consistory No. 18, S. R. M. son. A Daugh member of the Parliament has proposed an amendment to the marriage bill forging the marriage of whites and whites. The heads of the Anglican Roman Catholic churches declare that the amendment is carried, they,theless, will solemnize such ages. Other churches, except such, probably will act in a similarly. government is trying to burke amendment but a large body of opinion demands the enactment is restricion. The press here emphasizes the futility of for- W. H. A. CLLARK, Secretary. Canais Valley Lodge No. 21, A. F. A. M. marriages between whites and s. The Dutch church is pro- s a private bill to amalgamate different sections of the church. ure of the measure is a clause ing that Negro members of the in Cape Colony lose their mem- bership if they migrate north of the Cape, while Negroes in the northern colonies will be ineligible for membership. A section of the press denounces this as an unprecedented and cynical travesty of Christianity. Americans Are Worsted in Preliminary Contests in Indiana Township Richmond, In.d, Dec. 24.—Lora Burden, a. Negro 12 years old, is "champion" speller of Wayne Township and is scheduled to compete in the county and district spelling matches that will be held this winter. At the township match Lora came out victorious when Ezra Turner, her only remaining opponent "fell down" on the word draught. Lora spelled it correctly and the match was over. DR. A. K. LAWRENCE, 32° Treasurer. Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, A. F. A. M. Western Consistory No. 18, D. R. M LYMAN ABBOTT. Lectures Before Yale—Touches the Race Question. New Haven.—In saying a good word for the Negro race in the Unittd States Rev, Lyman Abbott, of New York, in his Dodge lecture at Yale, made the following comment: "We have in America some eight or J. H. SCOTT, 32° Ponca City, Okla. Western Star Consistory No. 18, S R. M. J. H. SCOTT, 32° Ponca City, Okla. Western Star Consistory No. 18, S R. M. DECEMBER 31, 1910. Our Greetings TO YOU HAPPY NEW YEAR ace and prosperity abound piness for ALL be found, in 1911 REV. FRANK WILSON, Topeka, Kansas. CHIEF GRAND MENTOR. and Daughters of Tabor adn a Proud Father. Our Greetings TO YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR May peace and prosperity abound And pappiness for ALL be found, in 1911 [Picture of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a bow tie. The background is a plain, light color.] [The caption reads: "A man in a dark suit with a white shirt and a bow tie."] Topeka, Kansas. CHIEF GRAND MENTOR. Knights and Daughters of Tabor adn a Proud Father. THE WORLD'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN J. H. SAY LES 32° Assistant Babban Emith Temple No. Mystic Shrines "A Hustling Boy" Americans. The African not only be called a race It has had less than tion since its eman-ery, against over a education, since the the Great, which the people have enjoyed. It African race to say that, me centries, as race life must be by centuries, as race life measured, that race is still in hood. The experience of it has shown that inter-marri- advanced and a backward re serious disadvantages to the ten millions of Africans. The African race may not inaptly be called a race in its childhood. It has had less than 50 years of education since its emancipation from slavery, against over a thousand years of education, since the time of Alfred the Great, which the Anglo-Saxon people have enjoyed. It is no disrespect, therefore, to the African race to say that, measured by centries, as race life must be measured by centuries, as race life must be measured, that race is still in its childhood. The experience of the world has shown that inter-marriage of an advanced and a backward race works serious disadvantages to the one, and probably no advantage to the other. Our race problem then, may be stated in a sentence thus: "Democracy has learned how men of different religious faiths may live peaceably together, each remaining A. M. MORRIS, 32° Treasurer. Western Star Consistory No. 18, S. R. M. loyal to its faith, and retaining that faith unimpaired; it has yet to learn how two dissimilar races may live peacefully together and preserve the purity of the races unimpaired. "We cannot exterminate the African race as the Israelites are suppostd to have exterminated the Canaanites, nor can we expel them from the country, nor would we do so if we could. They are necessary to the industrial welfare of at ltast a quarter of the American territory. We cannot hold them in sevitude; we J. W. JACKSON, 33° Winfield, Kas. First Lieutenant Western Star Consistory No. 18, S. R. M. have tried the costly experiment and it has failed. We cannot intermarry with them and create a new and mongrel race. Their interests, no ltss than ours, require the maintaining of race purity, and happily the tendency is increasing in that direction. "To live in harmonious rtlations with them giving them every industrial and educational opportunity to do what they can and make for themselves all that they can without intermarriage, is our problem, and it is one which the best thinkers and the real leaders in the South are courageously and hopefully endeavoring to solve." NO.38 Judge Souder of the City Police Court will address the men's meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at their headquarters, 535 North Main Street, Sunday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. These meetings are very interesting and all men and boys are invited to be present. The Y. M. C. A. will hold open house Monday afternoon from 2:00 p. m., till 6:00. At 8:00 p. m., there will be the first basket ball game of the season between teams captained by Dr. Brown and Secretary Wiley. Both teams are practicing for this W. W. SHOBE, Sallna, Kansas. GRAND MASTER. Gr. and United Order of Odd Fellows. game and good work is expected from the men. All afternoon light refreshments will be served to all who come in. The admission to the basketball game wil be ten cents. January 11 is the new date set for the drama "The Heart of a Hero," to CAPT. SAM W. JONES 32° Recorder Emith Temple No. 30, Mystic Shrines be given by a company under the direction of Mrs. Carr, for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. Tickets are now on sale by various people. This is the strongest play ever produced in Wichita and everybody should help the young men b ypatronizing their efforts. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right HE custom of celebrating the New Year by leaving behind, in theory at least, one's pet pernicious habit or besetting sin, may be hackneyed, but it certainly is not entirely relegated to the limbo of things forgotten or outworn. Some time New Year's day, when a quiet moment in the day's swirl offers time for thought, there will be a hasty taking stock of the year that is gone, a recounting of errors and failures, a silent promo that will not occur again. use that this or that which And what does it all old custom of revamping or selecting new ones? "I say that it is all a waste pan, a half-hearted glossy wordy and none too sinful. The humorist will have l and witty quip and jest. sardonic glee of Robin G of mortals and find in ev for laughter. From the sound the admonition of moralist. They will take usly, and set upon the approval. And whether cynic, the mocking grin, approving smile of the mind of the resolutions and that even the most mong better things will not be there. Was a time when childhood, you set down promises to do better. O new day, a yearly Christ in your best Spencerian better in those days—song this year I resolve not to be saucy at home the things I dislike; to re Direct, sounding blows w mail of your besetting si wickedly sharp little tong childish irreligion. Behind one see him in so meek was scribbling earnestly; to be late for dinner, no neck and ears, not to go my allowance, and not to day." Of course you fail or that will not occur again. does it all amount to, after all, this of revamping threadbare resolutions new ones? The cynic will smile and all a waste of effort, a flash in the carted glossing over of mistakes by one too sincere promises of reform, will have his little fling in cartoon p and jest. He will gurgle with the of Robin Goodfellow over the folly and find in every resolve new subject. From the pulpit on Sunday will mention of the minister and the key will take good resolutions seriet upon them the stamp of divine and whether the wry sneer of the locking grin of the humorist, or the title of the moralist prophesy the fate dons and the maker, it will be true, most momentary impulses toward will not be entirely wasted. a time when, in the simple faith of a set down in black and white you better. On the first page of your weekly Christmas present, you wrote Spencerian hand—we knew none the days—something like this: "Dur I resolve not to lose my temper; my at home; not to put off doing it; to read my Bible every day." Blows were these on the chain besetting sins of a quick temper, a up little tongue, procrastination, and region. Behind closed doors, lest any in so meek a moment, Brother Dick earnestly: "I promise myself not a dinner, not to forget to wash my us, not to get in debt to father for, and not to play hockey a single verse you failed, both you and Dick, use that this or that will not occur again. And what does it all amount to, after all, this old custom of revamping threadbare resolutions or selecting new ones? The cynic will smile and say that it is all a waste of effort, a flash in the pan, a half-hearted glossing over of mistakes by wordy and none too sincere promises of reform. The humorist will have his little fling in cartoon and witty quip and jest. He will gurgle with the gardonic glee of Robin Goodfellow over the folly of mortals and find in every resolve new subject for laughter. From the pulpit on Sunday will sound the admonition of the minister and the moralist. They will take good resolutions seriously, and set upon them the stamp of divine approval. And whether the wry sneer of the cynic, the mocking grin of the humorist, or the approving smile of the moralist prophesy the fate of the resolutions and their maker, it will be true that even the most momentary impulses toward better things will not be entirely wasted. There was a time when, in the simple faith of childhood, you set down in black and white your promises to do better. On the first page of your new diary, a yearly Christmas present, you wrote in your best Spencerian hand—we knew none better in those days—something like this: "During this year I resolve not to lose my temper; not to be saucy at home; not to put off doing the things I dislike; to read my Bible every day." Direct, sounding blows were these on the chain mail of your besetting sins of a quick temper, a wickedly sharp little tongue, procrastination, and childish irreligion. Behind closed doors, lest any one see him in so meek a moment, Brother Dick was scribbling earnestly: "I promise myself not to be late for dinner, not to forget to wash my neck and ears, not to get in debt to father for my allowance, and not to play hookey a single day." Of course you failed, both you and Dick. before the little diary had its new gilt dimmed or the soft penciling of the latter had blurred itself into unreproachful illegibility. But the effort wasn't altogether wasted, and there were fewer fits of temper and cleaner neck and ears than would otherwise have been. We grown-ups miss, as we get older, some of the past and gone aids to New Year's resolves. The day was once upon a time more marked by pleasant social customs. Only in officialdom is New Year's now a stately day of ceremonial. But it is not hard to recall that a decade or two ago there still survived some of the dignity and good cheer that had attached itself to the day. Before the Christmas fruit cake had all been devoured, or the stone jars of small cakes suffered too severely from the inroads of rapacious children, preparations for New Year's day were well under way. Children were not included in this celebration. This was essential elders. Orders to keep rigidly enforced, and did fun no place remained landing, which gave som upon the hall below, wi the big partors, and non beyond. That it was the ing order was evidenced smell. It was always great f down the principal resid drew near, to find out home and who were not was essentially the festival of their rts to keep from under foot were ed, and did you wish to see the remained but the second-story hush gave somewhat inconspicuously below, with a strained view of urs, and none of the dining room it was there and in full work- s evidenced by a keen sense of ways great fun to wander up and principal residence streets as noon to find out who were to be at were not. A basket tied to the tion. This was essentially the festival of their elders. Orders to keep from under foot were rigidly enforced, and did you wish to see the fun no place remained but the second-story landing, which gave somewhat inconspicuously upon the hall below, with a strained view of the big parlors, and none of the dining room beyond. That it was there and in full working order was evidenced by a keen sense of smell. It was always great fun to wander up and down the principal residence streets as noon drew near, to find out who were to be at home and who were not. A basket tied to the door knob with gay red ribbons said, for all the world to hear: "We are not receiving today." If you were a boy and daring, later in the afternoon you stole up on the step to peep in and discover, by the number of cards within, the respective popularity of village malds and matrons. Wherever the door lacked the basket, you knew that behind the drawn shades there was the soft glow of candles or the yellow glare of gas, poor substitute for sunlight on snow, but presumably kinder to complexions and gowns just a trifle passe. And you knew that in each house, subject only to trifling variations of background, there would be enacted the same scenes. Into the front door that opened at the first touch of the bell passed a fluctuating stream of men in holiday attire. There were elderly beaux a-plenty in broadcloth that was brushed to the point of perfection, smart young dandies, sporting the newest fashion in ties; awkward beginners not quite used to the length of their frock coats—we called them Prince Alberts in the days when New Year's calls were in vogue—and a sprinkling of substantial-looking business men paying homage to the established custom of society. Everybody who was anybody in "our town" paid his devoirs to the incoming year by making the devours of his friends' homes. Once inside, there was the neat maid or solemn butler to receive the caller's card and help him with overcoat, hat and cane, and then a dash for his hostess and her daughters and friends under the chandellers with the prism ```markdown ``` T THE A FLUCTUATING STREAM OF MEN IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE at their drops. "Happy New Year" resounded on all sides. In the course of the afternoon the indefatigable had seen all their friends, had sampled the choicest types of Christmas baking, had toasted again and again the New Year in punch of varying strength and pungency, or substituted coffee in homes where temperance principles were popular. They had said pretty things to popular dames in the stimulating atmosphere of holly and green wreaths, and had matched wits with fascinating damsels in the dangerous vicinity of mistletoe that still boasted some berries. It was all very gay, very informal, and very homey. At no other time or on no other occasion did the holiday hilarity reach so high a pitch. "I'd like to do it all over again," is the testimony of one stately lady, whose home twenty years ago was the scene of yearly New Year's receptions. "No other social function on my calendar was such fun for the guests and so little trouble for the hostess. The decorating had been done a week before, and a few fresh flowers were all that were needed. Given bright lights, a dozen pretty girls to help entertain, the simplest cakes, and plenty of mildly exhilarating punch made from a recipe that my Kentucky grandfather declared harmless, and success was assured. When six o'clock came you had seen all the nice men of your acquaintance undisturbed by the usual inflow of other women, and had sent them away at peace with the world in general and full of the spirit of neighborliness." Meanwhile, upstairs in the library window seats curled the family small fry, watching the procession as it passed, commenting with juvenile frankness on the toilets of the callers, counting the visitors as they came, listening to the hum of voices downstairs, the girls hugging close to the sash, the boys making daring detours to "peek" through the balustrade, returning to report what young ladies were sitting on the steps with what young men, and even, in some cases, what they were saying. Longer tiptoeing prowls, down the back stairs to the lair of a friendly cook, led to quick and jubilant returns with offerings of cake and claret cup, wherewith the hours might be be- GREAT FUN TO WANDER LIP AND DOWN THE PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE STREETS gulled until six, when twinkling street lights warned the callers to retreat. Not a serious way to start the New Year! No, but a friendly one, that left hostesses and callers with a glow of human friendliness to last as warmth for many a day. And if seriousness were lacking, the same decade that enjoyed New Year's calling found itself also at one with the custom of watch-night service. For, in "our town," as in yours, mayhap, it was the thing to spend the closing hours of the old year in the quiet seriousness of prayer and sacred song. Children had their share in this, for fathers and mothers had not in that simpler time learned to fear the giving of definite religious instruction to their sons and daughters. It was clear and plain that a child must be trained in the way he should go, and watch night was a part of that training. And, indeed, no youngster ever tried to beg off. There was first of all the joy of doing the unusual and the fun of sitting up past his bedtime. So you hied yourself to the nursery couch or the sitting-room lounge, after a hot supper, an old-fashioned winter supper of sausage and fried potatoes or scalloped oysters and muffins, and took a long, long nap. At half-past ten, father waked you, tucked you into cap and overcoat, and the family party started out under the cold stars, snow crunching under foot, to the nearby church. Not so very long ago the writer came across an old chromo, of the sort that looks, in a dim and favorable light, like a fairly decent oil painting. In its day it had doubtless been the chief ornament of a well-furnished, comfortable parlor. Now it cluttered the window of a second-hand shop, dingy and out of sorts with fate. But even in the unflattering light of a dusty show window, it had a certain charm for the one who found it. It was the picture of a watch-night service, such as she had once known so well. Bright moonlight flooded the scene, bringing out in sharpened detail the snow-laden boughs of drooping elms and the Gothic spire of a small stone church. From stained-glass windows and opened door came streaming the warm glow of shaded gas jets. From village streets flocked men and women and children, stopping to say a word of greeting as they passed into the vestibule. The spell of the picture took her, with the speed of the magic carpet or of the seven-leagued boots, back to the New Year's eves of her girlhood. So she had walked with father and mother and a sleepy small brother. Just so the tree had looked in the frosty moonlight. And just as warm and softly glowing had been the stone church, through whose open doors came the resonant strains of the great organ. She remembered with aching vividness the faces of those who had filled the pews, especially that of one man, the governor of the state, whose aquiline profile, flashing eyes and straight, glossy black hair formed a never-to-be-forgotten personality. Watch-night hymns have a personality of their own, as those of Christmas or Easter, if not so widely known. They are naturally serious and a bit foreboding, with a touch of the melancholy that is associated with the rapid flight of time. The year is gone, beyond recall With all its hopes and fears, With all its bright and gladdening Is an old Latin hymn to a common meter tune that illustrates the tendency of this branch of hymnology. Charles Wesley has been most prolific in voicing this thought. Wisdom ascribe, and might, and praise, To God who lenthens out our days; Who spares us yet another year, And makes us see his goodness here, Is an old favorite. Often just on the stroke of midnight another of his voiced the feelings of the congregation, that beginning: Join, all we ransomed sons of grace, The holy joy prolong. And shout to the Redeemer's praise, A golem midnight song. A bit more joyful is the splendid, quaintly gular, A bit more joyful is the splendid, quaintly irregular, Come, let us anew our journey pursue, Roll round with the year, And never stand still till the Master appear. It was easy after this to go home filled with loftiest aspirations, ready to begin the new diary with ambitious resolves that were bound to o'erleap themselves because of their very loftiness. There was one watch night when there drifted into the ken of the child the poem that has since meant to her, as it does to many, the very spirit of this day. From the choir gallery, just before the midnight hour, came the softened chorus of a strange melody. Then into the silence of the vaulted church rose a wonderful message in a voice that bore conviction to the listeners. It sang to the organ and the hushed accompaniment of the choir: It was easy after this to go home filled with laftiest aspirations, ready to begin the new diary with ambitious resolves that were bound to o'erleap themselves because of their very loftiness. There was one watch night when there drifted into the ken of the child the poem that has since meant to her, as it does to many, the very spirit of this day. From the choir gallery, just before the midnight hour, came the softened chorus of a strange melody. Then into the silence of the vaulted church rose a wonderful message in a voice that bore conviction to the listeners. It sang to the organ and the hushed accompaniment of the choir: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild skies, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying, in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Through the whole of the splendid poem it swept, on to the triumphant conclusion: "Ring in the Christ that is to be." To the child the most dramatic moment of evening came just on the stroke of the in-ing year. While outside whisties blew and it crackers exploded, bells clashed and aged, inside hands clasped hands while to-er they sang the good old standby, "Blest the te that blinds," before the hush of the sediction and the glad chorus of "Happy New ers" that concluded the service. There is another sort of quiet ushering in the baby year that is conducive to the good live that counts so easily under favorable ditions. There were those in the old days, there are in these, who felt that after the a afternoon the happiest way of all was to quietly about the fire, chatting with half a congenial spirits, singing a bit if the bit moved, reminiscing as old times came in the hush, and ending with the silent it and the dash of sentiment that makes Old Lang Syne" the fitting song for such a moment. That some such happy hour may begin little its first appearance is the best wish one offer to friends. To the child the most dramatic moment of the evening came just on the stroke of the incoming year. While outside whistles blew and giant crackers exploded, bells clashed and clanged, inside hands clasped hands while together they sang the good old standby, "Bleest be the tie that binds," before the hush of the benediction and the glad chorus of "Happy New Year's" that concluded the service. There is another sort of quiet ushering in of the baby year that is conducive to the good resolve that counts so easily under favorable conditions. There were those in the old days, as there are in these, who felt that after the gala afternoon the happiest way of all was to sit quietly about the fire, chatting with half a dozen congenial spirits, singing a bit if the spirit moved, reminiscing as old times came back in the hush, and ending with the silent toast and the dash of sentiment that makes "Auld Lang Syne" the fitting song for such a moment. That some such happy hour may begin little 1911's first appearance is the best wish one can offer to friends. Let the auspicious morning be expressed With a white stone distinguished from the rest. So the stately Dryden has put the same thought. May it be true of us all. So the stately Dryden has put the same thought. May it be true of us all Fantastic and Strange Object When Many Men Worship—Doctrine Is Absolute. The hat that a man wears is more characteristic of his religious lifether than the hat that a woman wears i will tell you why. The woman wears her clothes, not because they conform strictly to a religious dogma or trine, but because she thinks she pretty in them. Whereas a man wears his clothes because he thinks conform to an absolute doctrine of ligion. We talk about the natives of the South Sea islands. We talk about the natives of Alaska with their idols, and their idols, the strange ones that they worship, and we look upon them because they worship tootem. But how much more fantastic and strange object is that which men worship—the shape of their wears one form of hat feels different of himself if he has to go out on street with another form of hat he feels different, and the only one he has of arriving at salvation is the strange religion of hats is to commence to get used to the hat; he must in accordance to the hat he wears in fact, to follow the religion of the hat. Let us say we have a man who straw hat. Now a man that wears straw hat has a little lighter tint as he walks along the ground. Here a lighter way of examining things is a more fanciful man. Now, if put a man in a silk hat, you will have a man in a silk hat has a very nifified and solid way of conducting himself under the auspices of the silk hat. If we had a man with a straw hat and a man with a silk hat and a train and if the train were drawing out a station, and those two men are ed to catch it, do you know who would catch that train? You don't you? Because you know the ligion of that silk hat wouldn't that man to run. It would be rides to run in a silk hat. But a star hat allows little trivialities and one of those trivialities is running piding that man wishes to catch train, because no running other for a train is allowed by any whatever. Smuggling Extraordinary. One of the most ingenious man was that originated by a band of der Parisian rogues. A coffin, posed to contain the dead body of man who had died of diphtheria, dispatched from the gay city of burial in London. It was met at railway terminus in this country, conveyed at nightfall to a house far from the Mile End road, chapel. Everything would have pass off as desired and planned had a policeman on duty become suspicious on seeing a particularly coffin being taken out of a hearse in a house that was known to be habitation of men who had done per servitude. After the funeral party had their door, and the hearse had driven away, the policeman secured ance and knocked at the door. It found that the coffin, instead of taining a corpse, was filled with cakes of tobacco, dozens of oil of cigars and other excisable goods. The "mourners" were immediately rested and the goods confiscated. The Hoop Pole Man The Maine hoop pole man makes even better wages that his broth the gum picker. The hoop pole man follows along the wake of the lagers. He barbers the face of the side of stuff that no one else uses. He is after the second growth as young birch and ash are called when spring up around the rotting stems of great trees. The hoop pole man takes a hoop with him on his tours. He cuts poles and the horse hauls them camp by daylight. Evenings the man fashions the hoops with a shave, sitting beside a roaring and pulling at his black pipe. So times the poles are sold round, the harvester who trims his own and shaves the hoops receives or three cents each for the finish product, and that pays—Belfast public Journal. Japanese Influx to Korea. Japanese influx to Korea According to the Seoul correspondent of a Japanese paper, from hundred to nine hundred Japan reach Seoul daily, of whom about hundred remain in Seoul. Thus Japanese in Seoul alone are inciting at the rate of three thousand monthly. The Japanese are also creasing in other parts of Korea. annexation likewise appears to be encouraged the introduction of car from Japan proper, though it was viously rather timid. Ignorance. At an aviation meet a spectator proached a policeman and inquired excitedly, while he pointed at aeroplane far, far up in the air. "Say, this is the altitude p they're trying for now, isn't it?" The policeman looked at him so fully. "Altitude, hell!" he replied. "the height, price!" Slow But Sure. Knicker—What would you call etic justice? etic juices Bocker—If the boy who puts a pin on a chair grows up to get a pin in his eye. The Wrong House A New Year's Story By T. C. Harbaugh Written for This Paper HE well-to-do home of the Morleys was in a quiet street, and, as they were quiet people, they could not have been better suited. The house itself was not unlike its neighbors, and but for the number over the door, which was 333, one not acquainted with the street might have taken some other house for it if he were hunting the C Hurley. One winter day a tiny hand grow the heavy curtains aside and a face appeared at one of the front gates. Everybody knew Hester Morry, a prim little woman of pleasant eyes, the busy president of a charitable circle, and with a person to be married. She looked at the snow which lay in the street and over the pavement, and for a moment watched one of her neighbors who swept the white covering into the gutter. A boy who knew Hester's face hurled past and glanced at the window to receive a nod from her and to throw back as he pressed "A happy New Year, Miss Hester." The girl—she was scarcely a young man yet—smiled at the boy andatched him out of sight. In another moment the bell rang as she turned as the maid was heard better the hall. "A stranger, ma'am," said the maid, taking into the parlor. "I am sure I can't quite like his looks, and—" "What does he want, Ida?" "I can't tell. He insists on seeing the lady of the house and I've said she wasn't in; but it does no good." "Let him come in, then." Hester walked over to an arm-chair seating herself waited for her New York's visitor. She was not kept waiting, for Ida had admitted the call, and she heard his step in the hallway. She looked him over from head to head as he entered the parlor, a tall, newwhat uncouth man in the thirties, with strange, shuffling ways, and, to out of place in the cozy room. "Miss Wemysa, I believe?" he said, owing to Hester. "Miss Morley," was the correction. This is not the Wemysa residence,—" The man looked confused. it used to be, did it not?" he tried. Yes, slt. Father purchased it in Jacob Weymys, the sugar merchant, three years ago, and changed it deridely." and the family?" think they left the city soon aftard. The old gentleman died, he a widower at the time, you may member, and Miss Wemyss mar- married? That's not very queer. can do that, I know. Married, you I can't quite grasp it." ester looked pityingly at the man, seemed to have received a haven't seen her for five years," he. "I went away on New Year's and I came back on the same anniversary. So you're Miss Morley?" after bowed again and studied the before her. It was strong and some, despite the uncouthness. "I don't look like city people yet. It's use of my life in the mines," he with a smile. "It's not just the that tends to keep one up-to-date, see. My name is Sydney. You have heard the Wemysses men-me." "Begging your pardon, I did not wear them personally. You say you been living in the mines? I once a friend who went west, took to sing, too. I believe. But never mind, Sydney, I trust you will find your the once Miss Wemyss, and tell me to wish you a happy New year." after this, miss?" smiled the man. her coming back to the city after years' absence and on New Year's too, getting into the wrong house introducing myself to a strange lady? It seems like a dream." her was about to reply when the bell rang sharply and Ida's voice heard in the hall. another moment the servant was the pr尔or door, her pretty face white and her voice in gasps. the police, Miss Hester!" cried the and vanished. the stranger started from the chair and 'naken near the fire and threw of horror toward the door. in sorry, miss," he said. "This is ing an otherwise happy New day for you. They may be begging for me," and then he fastened eyes upon the door which opened mit an officer. seg pardon, Miss Morley, said glancing, glancing first at Hes- It's a queer New Year's call, but you see, you see. I am under the ney of taking charge of your caller, teademan yonder." he returned mined seemed to in- half an inch in stature as he glared at the policeman, his equal in physical strength, and for a moment Hester heard the beating of her heart. "Who's the warrant for, officer?" he asked. "Hiram Rowan." "But, Mr. Gentry, the gentleman's name is Sydney," put in Hester. "He has just assured me of that." "You ladies will ever believe man," was the policeman's answer. The miner stood rigid in the middle of the room. He had none of the criminal about him, and in a little while he had enlisted Hester Morley's sympathy. "You couldn't wait till he explains, Mr. Gentry?" she said, addressing the officer. "Why, no, Miss Hester. You see, he's but a common—" The man took a hasty step toward the policeman and his hand shut, but he checked himself. "You represent the law,however often it blunders," he said, stepping back. Hester stood like a statue of marble in the luxuriantly appointed parlor. her face was very white, and as the miner spoke their eyes met. Guilty? No. She turned to the officer. "Is the charge upon which you have arrested this gentleman a serious one?" she asked. "Quite so, miss." "Is it a crime that is ballable under the laws?" "Oh, yes." "Then send for Hester Morley when he needs bail. I am worth enough in my own right, I suppose." "My stars, yes," cried the policeman. "They'd take you for $50,000." Hester smiled. Without the wind was shaking the leafless trees along the gutter, and into the room came the sound of bells A man in a long coat and hat stands in front of a window, talking to a man in a uniform. "Who's the Warrant For, Officer?" in the nearest steeple. The clang of the heavy front door aroused Hester Morley and she started forward. "He didn't look like it, Miss Hester!" exclaimed Ida, whom she encountered in the corridor. "But, then, you can't always tell by one's looks. And today, too. Why, it's New Year's, and—" "There, Ida," broke in Hester. "It's a terrible mistake. I feel it. He got into the wrong house: he was looking for Miss Wemyss that used to be." "My old mistress?" "Yes, I believe you told me once that you lived for a year with the family." "Didn't I? She sent a young man off one time in a pet! I'll never forget it. It is New Year's night. She had a temper, Miss Wemyss had, but she was beautiful. I remember seeing him in this very hall under the chandelier and he told her that when he came back rich—as rich as she was—why, she'd be glad to see him." Hester's breath seemed to go in gasps. "You don't remember his name, Ida?" she cried. "It was Jeffrys Sydney—I'll never forget the name." Down over the great city came the flakes of alry white. Everywhere jingled bells and resonant laughter was on every breeze. It was an auspicious opening of the New Year. "That is Jeffreys Sydney," said Ida, with positiveness, as she looked at the prisoner at the police court bar. There were a few questions, a story of life in the western mines and the rotund gentleman in the high-backed chair said: "Discharged! I congratulate you, Mr. Sydney, and wish you happy New Year." A little color came to Hester Morley's cheeks and she left the room with Ida. "The wrong house proved his salvation, after all, Miss Hester," said the maid. There was no answer, but the little lady who heard pressed her cheek near the carriage window and looked half dreamily into the street. Perhaps she heard the bells, perhaps she heard the word "discharged," as it had just fallen from the lips of the police judge; at any rate at least she smiled. It was a happy New Year's day for two persons. Jeffreys Sydney saw one form vanish from his memory and another took its place, and Hester Morley just a year later heard bells that chimed many glad wishes on her wedding day. TRAIN HELD UP BY LONE BANDIT TRAIN HELD UP BY LONE BANDIT MISSOURI PACIFIC PASSENGERS ROBBED OF VALUABLES. Capt. Newbold of Fort Leavenworth Shot by Robber Who Escaped At Kansas City. Kansas City.—Train No. 112 of the Missouri Pacific from St. Joseph was robbed just before entering Kansas City, Kansas, by a lone masked robber, who boarded the train at Leavenworth Junction. The bandit began at the rear of the train and lined up the passengers with a revolver held in one hand while he searched them with the other, taking watches and money. Twenty persons were robbed, ending with the conductor, S. C. May of Kansas City. The robber jumped from the train at a dark spot inside the Kansas City, Kan., limits and escaped. Capt. H. L. Newbold, of the Fourth field artillery, U. S. A., stationed at Fort Leavenworth, was shot by the robber, sustaining a severe scalp wound in the back of the head. He was taken to Fort Leavenworth on an interurban car. The robber boarded the train at Leavenworth Junctiono and began operations almost immediately with the observation car. His face was covered with a blue bandanna handkerchief. In the observation car taxi passengers and conductor were lined up with their hands against the wall and searched by the robber, who threatened them with a revolver. Capt. Newbold turned his head and the shot followed. SEARCHED JAPANESE HOMES General Duvall on Secret Advice Was Looking for Explosives at Manila. Manila, P. I.—Much comment has been caused in military and government circles here by a recent order of Major General Duval for the searching of Japanese property for explosives. The Japanese are very indignant at the action of the Americans, and the possible protest of the Japanese government is awaited with interest. General Duvall is understood to have acted upon secret advice, the nature of which has not been divulged by him or his subordinates. He was given to understand that Japanese had been concealing explosives in the city for some purpose which the public has not been informed, and he caused the military agents to obtain the assistance of the police in making a search. PUT A DEAD BABY ON TRAIN The Body Was Taken From Lee's Summit to Pleasant Hill and Back Again. Lee's Summit, Missouri.—In the few minutes in which a Missouri Pacific passenger train stood at the depot here, the body of a dead baby was placed on the platform of one of the cars. The conductor of the train did not learn what the package he picked up contained until the train left. At Pleasant Hill the Cass county officials refused to take charge of the body. it was returned here and the body was taken to an undertaking establishment, on the advice of Dr. B. H. Zwart, coroner of Jackson county. The baby was a day old and was wrapped in a paper. GUTHRIE IS FIGHTING AGAIN Starts Another Suit to Retain the Capital Until 1913—To the High- est Courts. Guthrie, Oklahoma—Guthrie has invoked again the aid of the state supreme court in what probably will be the final effort to prevent the removal of the seat of government from Guthrie prior to 1913. The action will lead to the United States supreme court if Guthrie should lose in the state court. New York, N. Y—Rev. Rufus A. Macurda, of the First Spiritualist society of New York announced that a temple costing $500,000 will be erected shortly by that society. The edifice will be named "Temple of the Divine Inspiration" and will be erected in the central part of the city. Street Cars Crash On Viaduct Kansas City, Missouri--Two persons were killed and 56 injured when Minnesota avenue car No. 163 crashed into Minnesota avenue car No. 177 on the Inter-City Viaduct. Neither car left the tracks. Four men fell from the viaduct two of whom died. Mistletoe Berries Fatal Bakoshoe, Oklahoma.—Eating misdiete berries here caused the deaths of three children and the serious illness of two others. The Eggs Must Be Truly Bad. New York, N. Y.—Nine tons of liquid eggs were seized by federal officers in cold storage plant. The warrant of seizure issued by the United States commissioner describes the eggs as "filth, decomposed and putrid animal matter." Guard the Hatain Points. Kansas City, Mo.—An ordinance was passed by both houses of the council making it a misdemeanor, with a penalty of $1 to $500 to wear hats with the point unguarded. SAD EXCHANGE OF WREATHS IN MEMORY CHICAGO FIRE HEROES MERRY XMAS SIDNEY & MITH CHICAGO EXAMINER WE BUILD THE BIGGEST GUNS NO OTHER NATION IS ATTEMPT ING THE 14-INCH GUN. In Matter of Large Guns Built and Building Great Britain Leads With Germany Second. Washington, D. C.—Germany soon will stand second only to great Britain in the matter of big guns on her battleships and armored cruisers. Pittman Pulser, in connection with the preparation of the navy year book, has prepared a statement showing that in large guns built and projected Great Britain has 436, Germany 240, the United States 200, France 101, Russia 86, Japan 84 and Italy 79. In the matter of big guns actually completed Great Britain has 288, the United States 126, Germany, 100, Japan 60, France 57 and Russia only 22. Italy has 38 completed. Germany is behind the United States in the number of big guns built, but she has an enormous building program, one practically as large as that of Great Britain. Great Britain has 148 big guns building and projected, and Germany 140. On the other hand, the United States has only 64 building and projected. Russia has as big a program of guns building and projected as the United States. Japan has only 24 building and projected. Italy has a big program of 51 guns building and projected. France has 44. The 12-inch gun is the one that by lond odds predominates in the world's navies. Germany's building program is made up almost wholly of 12-inch guns. Great Britain is building less than 80 of the 13-inch and 68 of the 12-inch. The United States is the only country whose navy is going seriously into the business of making 14-inch guns. Twenty of these powerful pieces of ordinance are building or projected for the American navy. None are listed in the armament built, building or projected of any of the other navies of the world. To Muzzle Dogs for Year Boone, Iowa.—Mayor Wilder of this city has ordered that all dogs in the city be muzzled for a period of one year from this date. This unusual order is the result of the death from rabies of a four-year-old child and the injury of nearly a dozen citizens by being bitten by mad dogs within the past few months. Gives Out Two Cadetships Lawrence, Kansas.—A. C. Mitchell congressman-elect, recommended two Lawrence boys as candidates for Annapolis and West Point, Charles Milton, son of the Rev. C. L. Milton, is recommended for Annapolis, while Floyd Finch, son of C. S. Finch, will take the examinations for entrance to West Point. Troops Rescue Prisoner. Weston, W. Va.—State troops arrived here and rescued William Furby a negro, from an infuriated mob which had waited all night outside the local railway station seeking to prevent his removal to Clarksburg fail. For Wolf Scalps, $403,211. Bismark, North Dakota—North Dakota has paid $403,211 in an effort to get rid of wolves, according to figures given out by D. K. Brightbill, states auditor. The average payment for the last five years has been $36,000 a year, or $3,000 a month. Alcohol a Menace to France. Paris, France—The French premier M. Briand, has pledged the government to a determined fight to suppress alcoholism which is becoming a national menace. Oklahoma City Heads the List With an Increase of 538.7 Per Cent in Ten Years. Washington, D. C. — Twenty-two cities in the United States have more than doubled their population in the last ten years, according to figures recently given out by the census bureau. Of this number '15 are west of the Mississippi river. The municipality which has increased most is Oklahoma City, which has grown from 10,037 in 1900 to a present population of 64,205, an increase of 538.7 per cent. Muskogee stands second in the list with a growth of 494.2 per cent. Other Western cities that have more than doubled their population are: Pasadena, Cal.; Seattle, Wash.; Spokane, Wash.; Fort Worth, Tex.; El Paso, Tex.; Portland, Ore.; Oakland, Cal.; San Diego, Cal.; Tacoma, Wash.; Dallas, Tex.; Los Angeles, Cal.; Wichita, Kan., and Waterloo, Ia. One of the many cities of the South which has grown wonderfully in the last ten years is Birmingham, Ala. In 1900 Birmingham was an overgrown town of 38,415. Now it is a city of 132,685, an increase of 245.4 per cent. UP 11,477 FEET AT LOS ANGELS Arch Hoxsey in Wright Biplane Has Broken All Previous Records for Elevation. Los Angeles, Cal.-Arch Hoxsey, of Pasadena, Cal., flying a Wright biplane in the teeth of a gale of wind blowing at the rate of 30 miles an hour, established a new world's record for altitude by ascending 11,477 feet above the surface of the earth. Seventy-seven thousand enthusiastic spectators gathered at Dominguez field witnessed the record breaking flight of the southern California aviator and when Hoxsey landed safely almost in front of the grand stand at 3:15 o'clock, his barograph removed from the machine and examined and the announcement made that he had broken the altitude record of 10,499 feet established by M. Legageneaux at Pau, France, on December 10, pandemonium broke loose among the spectators and a mad rush was made for the field to congratulate him. SEVEN MILLIONS TO WORKERS Pittsburg Industrial Plants Distributed That Amount Before Christmas— Short Holiday for Men. Pittsburg, Pa.—Paymasters in the industrial plants in the Pittsburg district completed their work when the last of $7,000,000 was distributed to the men. It is one of the largest payments in the history of the district and includes men employed by the steel, coal and coke industries as well as the river interests. One corporation paid 7,000 men on Friday in order that their families might have the money for shopping early Saturday. Others have been distributing funds throughout the week. The holiday will be short. Mount Etna Belching Fire. Catania, Sicily.—Mount Etna is showing considerable activity. There have been no earth tremors, however, but red hot material has been erupted, making a striking contrast with the snow capped volcano. Green McCurtain Dead. McAlester, Oklahoma—Green McCurtain, governor of the Choctaw indian nation, and a prominent witness in the Gore-McMurray alleged bribery investigation, died at Kinta, Ok., according to a telegram received here. Taft Legislative Program to Have Party Support in Both Branches of Congress. Washington, D. C.—President Taft was assured by Representative Dwight house whip, that the Republican house will do all in its power to give the president the legislation he desires. This assurance presupposes harmony among existing Republican tactions in the house. Similar assurances have been given the president by other house leaders and by the senate leaders. If Mr. Dwight is to make good his assurances the session will be one of the busiest and most fruitful of all short sessions which have been given over generally to appropriation bills. Whip Dwight said President Taft will insist on this order of special legislation: Money for fortifications for the Panama canal. A permanent tariff board, either through legislation or by appropriation sufficiently large to insure continuance for several years of work by the present board. Conservation legislation to protect the coal and oil public land in Alaska and in the United States. South American mail subsidy to encourage the American merchant marine. Legislation fixing the toils for the use of the Panama canal. A PROSPEROUS YEAR AHEAD New York State Superintendent of Banks Declares Conditions to be Very Favorable. New York, N. Y.-Orien Howard Cheney, state superintendent of banks, predicted a year of unusual prosperity ahead for the business interests of this city and state. The opinion is based upon an intimate knowledge of the exact status of the great financial institutions, upon which the success or failure of business of all kinds is dependent. "My annual report upon which I am working day and night in order that it may be ready to submit to the legislature not later than January 5" said Mr. Cheney, "will show a marked improvement in the condition of the banks over that of a year ago. This appeals also to the classes of financial institutions over which the supreme court of the state has jurisdiction. With our system of currency, business of all kinds is absolutely dependent upon the ability of the banks to lend money and the situation that presents itself is indeed an encouraging one. PLANS FOR A RIVER PAGEANT New Orleans Would Have Cities Celebrate First Navigation of Ohio and Mississippi. New Orleans, La.—Mayor Martin Behman of this city has referred to the Louisiana, Historitcal society a suggestion that a celebration be held to mark the centennial anniversary of the first steamboat trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by Capt. Roosevelt in 1811. The plan proposed calls for a river pageant starting from Pittsburg, after a local celebration in that city, the pageant to make stops at every city on the way, each of these intermediate cities to have a local celebration and add its pageant, the whole to end in New Orleans. THE EDDY TOMB STILL GUARDED Trustees of Church Take Extra Care of Body of Leader—Armed Guards Watch. Boston, Mass.—The trustees of the mother church of Christian Scientists have redoubled their care of the body of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, and their elaborate precautions suggest that they fear an attempt may be made to take away the body. The guards four in number, have been instructed to telephone to the trustees should any strangers approach and seek admittance to the tomb or should any other exigency arise. The guards are armed with rifles. THREE KILLED IN ALTON WRECK Just How Accident Happened Will Probably Never Be Known—No Passengers Injured. Vandalia, Missouri.-The Chicago & Alton's Red Hummer from Chicago for Kansas City ran into the rear end of a freight train at Farber, four miles east of here. The engineer and fireman of the passenger train and the flagman of the freight train, upon whom rests the responsibility for the wreck, were killed. Levies on Paved Streets. Topeka, Kansas.—A local brick company has levied on several paved streets in Topeka in a suit to collect for brick used. This is the first time an action of this kind ever has been filed in Kansas. The contractors who laid the pavement failed to pay for the brick, it is charged. Three States Get Rain. Kansas City, Mo.—The worst drouth in more than a dozen years in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma has been broken by a general rainfall. --- Established in 1898. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. Residence Phone, Market 1641. Office Phone, Market 2438. Phone your news items to us. "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. 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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. A PROSPEROUS YEAR. With this issue the Searchlight brings to close another prosperous calendar year. The year 1910 has been a most successful year for us—and while there, no doubt, is room for improvements, yet we feel we have little room to complain. We have never been given to loud and needless boasts—but it is now, as it has always been, our motto to let our work talk for us. We are not so selfish or unmindful as to even attempt to give the credit of our success to our own eforts or to ourselves. But we first pay homage to that great leader of human destinies—Our Creator—then we bow our-heartfelt thanks to our many friends and patrons who favored us with their support during the closing year. To each of them, white and black alike, we feel deeply indebted. We close the leaves of the year 1910 feeling that we have endeavored to play our part during the year. We close this year as we begun it-with no hatred, no ill-will, no malice toward any man—living or dead. We have only the kindest feeling toward all humanity. Thanking one and all for the many favors extended us during 1910 we wish one and all A HAPPY NEW YEAR. Revival services are still in progress at the M. E. church, 15th and Wabash, Rev. G. T. Wooten, pastor. Send your news notes and local happenings to CBI North Main Street. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 30 1910 I will not be responsible for any bills made or contracted by Uberia Thompson. J. W. Thompson Chas. Frazier of Hutchinson spent several days in Wichita as the guest of his son, W. M. Frazier, 1245 Blaine. Mr. Frazier is one of the substantial colored citi eens of Hutchinson. W. M. Frazier after quite a siege of illness is able to be out. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right R. A. B. CRUMP TAILOR Everything in the line of Tailoring. Work Guaranteed. Masouic Building 615 N. Main Wichita, Kan Mrs. Sally Hall sent a present to Rev. and Mrs. Frank Wilson for young Mr. Wilson, Jr. Rev. John Metchem is very seriously ill at his residence, 1617 Sherwood avenue. He has been confined to hit bed for the past two weeks under the care of a doctor. His friends should call to see him. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Mrs. W. M. Dent and Miss Emma Holden left Tuesday for Guthrie, Ok., where they will conduct a ten days' series of meetings. Mrs. Will H. Jones left Sunday night for Topeka and Kansas City, to pay a visit to her daughter, Miss Lillie Jones, who is a student at the Western University, Quindaro, Kansas. At Kansas City and also at Topeka, Mrs. Jones will spend several days visiting among friends. Mrs. L. Olden went to Topeka Saturday night to spend Christmas with her two daughters who are students in the Topeka Industrial School. She reports having had a fine trip. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Jones gave a Christmas dinner Sunday, December 25th, in honor of Mrs. Jones's mother, Mrs. Maria Lockridge, of Kansas City, Mo., who is here paying her daughter and son-in-law a pleasant visit. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bennett, Rev. W. H. Parks, Mrs. L. Devereaux, Joseph Richardson, Rev. J. D. Daniels and Wm. Motley. Mr. and Mrs. J. Miller of Newton, Kan., were in the city this week as the guests of Mr. Edward Laudrum, 119 West Pine Street. Miss Grace Taylor spest the holidays in Kansas City the guest of her sister. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McKelley were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coffee for Christmas dinner. Mrs. A. A. Fuller left Wednesday spend the holidays in Coffeyville and Kansas City among friends. She will return about January 1. Watt Morris, one of our popular young men, went up to Topeka Wednesday visiting and also as one of the guests at the swell banquet given b ythe "Jolly Twenty Club" of the capital city. During his sojourn in Topeka, Mr. Morris was the guest of Mr. Preston Smith of that city. He returned loudly praising the Topekans for the royal time extended to him. DeWitt Fuller left Monday for Coffeyville and Independence where he will be the guest of relatives and Mrs. Stella Turner is spending a few days in Topeka visiting. Rev. J. H. Van Leu, State Missionary, is spending his holidays with his fainly. Attend the Song Services on Sunday evening 7:30 p. m. at the A. M. E. Church. THE CITY FEDERATION. The officers and members of the Women's Clubs will please meet with the City Federation on the afternoon of the 2nd Wednesday in January 1911, at the 2nd Baptist church. By order MRS. J. L. HARPER, Pres. MRS. WM. BOWERS, Sec. Sunflower Stand SANDWICHES and COLD DRINKS 509 N. 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Miss Mary Jones left Thursday for Newton en route to her home in Topeka. Miss Ella Roach entertained Miss Bettie Giles and Miss Mary Jones of Topeka, Kan., at dinner Chrsitmas day. A splendid sacred program was the feature of the Christmas service rendered at the A. M. E. church on last Sunday evening. The music rendered was especially fine and appropriate for the occasion. Mrs. A. Fox and children of Pratt is visiting in the city during the holidays. Mr. Henry Baker has returned from a trip to Kansas City. Mrs. M. Parks is visiting with relatives in Klingfisher, Okla. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Mrs. Cora Williams left for Tuskegee, Ala., on a visit to her niece, Miss Myrtle Hearse, who is attending Tuskegee Institute. Miss Fern Phelps, who is attending Western University, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Phelps. Mr. John D. 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Wichita, Kansas --- GROCERIES, MEATS 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 Phones 257 Best for Bread and Biscuits Wichita's Best Flour Kansas Milling Company Wichita, Kansas CENTRAL CASH MARKET 458 N. Main St. Phone 4163 Groceries and Meats Fresh Fish Every Friday and Saturday Excellence Counts THEN USE "U-KNEAD-IT" FLOUR It exctls in every respect, — color, flavor and pounds of bread per barrel. MADR BY WATSON MILL CO. WICHITA KANSAS High Class Surgery Special Attention Given to a Specialty Canine Practice All Calls Promptly Answered—Day or Night The Finest Equipped Hospital In the City Both Phones Office and Hospital 1730 236 K. Market St., Wichita, Ks. B. F. McLean, President W. R. Tucker, Vice President J. M. Moore, Vice Pres. C. W. Brown, Vice Pres. V. H. Branch, Cashier Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $125,000 00 Directors: W R Tucker, W E Jett, R L Holmes, S B Amidon, J M Moore, B. F. McLean, A. C. Houston, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin Henry Lassen, V. H. Branch. A General Banking Business Transacted HOLIDAY SPECIALS We have a full line of Toys, Stationary, Cand and Druggist Sundries plete line of Pure Drugs fully and accurately fi Oscar R. Prescription 811 N. Main St. We have a full line of Holiday Specials in Toys, Stationary, Candies, Holiday Novelties and Druggist Sundries. We also have a complete line of Pure Drugs. Prescriptions carefully and accurately filled. Give us a call. STIRLING CLOTHES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit' Style 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 a very small one from each or our mang customers. This is why we can put into a suit for you at $15,00 to $35. what the other fellows charges you from $25,00 to $60,00 for. Stirling Woolen Mills Co. TAILORS 215 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY IN THE CITY Satisfaction Guaranteed Laundry Work Called and Delivered Phones 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245 N. Market St Wichita, Kan FOR RENT—Nice three room cottage on West 23rd St. Only $6.00 per month. Apply to W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main St. Phone Market 1641. of Holiday Specials in lies, Holiday Novelties s. We also have a com gs. Prescriptions care- lled. Give us a call. Bissantz n Druggist Phone Douglas 620 USE Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salve Murray's Reliable Perfumes These Goods Have No Equal They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. Wichita — — Kansas FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAYY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DUMRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. • SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. • IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25* LARGE SIZED BOTTLE, 50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. • AGENTS WANTED. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? We have always maintained and we still maintain, that teh Negro must take a bold stand and make it evident that the race will not condone, make excuses for or shield a negro who commits a wrong. A rascal is a rascal and it matters no his color—he ought to be uncovered and exposed. Because a man may by accident or otherwise, get in the wrong pew in a profession, in business, as a minister or what not—doesn't make him im- une when he has "gone wrong." If there is any place where the Negro ought to insist that exemplary men and women should fill it is the places in the sacred church of God, and in our leaders. No Christian people can rise higher than their ministry and no people can rise higher than their leaders. Then it is very important that our ministry and our leaders should be of the best there is. The Searchlight has at all times taken the plane of right for higher morals and higher ideals and we have said nothing of which we are now ashamed. A HOWLING SUCCESS. The Christmas Ball and Banquet given in honor of the Monday Night Dancing School at Masonic hall, Monday night, Dec. 26th, was a great, great success. One hundred (100) tickets were bought for the banquet and sixty-seven (67) sat down to the banquet table. Capt. Sam W. Jones made a few remarks praising the high standard in which the Dancing School is conducted. Among those who sat down to the banquet table were mothers and fathers who took this occasion to come out and see how this splendid school where their sons and daughters attend is conducted and all were highly pleased. The decorations were superb and was a beauty to see. Manager J. H. Eayles was all full of smiles and is loud in his thanks to all who attended and helped to make the affair a success. On Monday night, Jan. 2d, the grand New Year Ball will be given at Masonic hall. All are cordially invited. Admission 25c. PRINTER WANTED. I want a good, all-round colored printed. Single man. Steady work to right man. Write, W. N. MLLER, Editor The Searchlight 630 N. Main Wichita, Kan. The Miliken club of this city gave a splendid reception Thursday night, December 29th, at the Masonic Hall in honor of the students in out-of-the city schools who are home spending heir holiday vacation. The guests of honor were: Misses Laura Rawls, Lois Wilson, Alice Wilson, Catherine Hunter, Fern Phelps, S. Giles; Messrs. George Braxton, Harry Ingus and Jas. Cowell. Every one had a delightful time. The members of the G. L. A. club will meet on next Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. L. Harper. The members of Mt. Olivet Court No. 9, H. of J. will meet Tuesday afternoon, January 3, 1911, to confer degrees and exchange presents with each other. 1COOK UMBRAGE AT ASPERSION Citizens Resented Being Voted for as Town's "Meanest Man." Old Scrooge might be a philanthropic Carnegie alongside certain tight-wads in Mount Vernon, but William Friedberg has no license to determine publicly who are the men who would squeeze a dollar until the eagle yelled: "Help! I'm melting!" For conducting a voting contest to determine the meanest man in Mount Vernon Friedberg, who keeps a cigar store there, was fined five dollars by Judge Platt here. A warning went with the fine. Friedberg lives in Astoria, but does business in Mount Vernon. He placed in his window a placard: "Come in and vote for the meanest man in Mount Vernon!" This was followed by a list of names. Consplucous in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and stald citizens. After every name was a number signifying the votes the owner of the name had received so far. Great was the wrath of the so-called "meanest men." Friedberg was ordered to take the sign out of the window, but he refused to do so. His indictment for libel followed. In court he pleaded guilty, but asserted he did not know he was violating any law. White Plains Cor, New York Sun. Took Precautions. "You ran into this man at 30 miles an hour and knocked him 40 feet," said the court. "That, or a little better, I suppose, answered the chauffeur. "Why, didn't you slow down?" "Mere precaution, your honor. Once I shut off speed and hit a man so gently that he was able to climb into the machine and give me a blessing." TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Now that a grocer in Belfast who has been doing business for more than 50 years has decided to close out his stock and retire, it will be interesting to know whether he still has on his store any goods that he bough when he first went into business. The Argentine ant, newly arrived at Oakland, Cal., and well settled in Louisiana, near New Orleans, is said to be the least in size but the most pugnacious and destructive of the family. It is small business for a future great country like Argentina to send out such emigrants. It is no organ of monopolists but an agricultural paper which declares that the high price of meat is due, not to any trust, but to the demands of young married women, who, dreading the hackneyed jokes about the culinary attempts of novices, have taken to serving their husbands with steaks, "which anybody can cook." from the Grosi (Cal.) Offer we learn the interesting fact that "Ed Morell, who broke into the county jail in 1894, has gone to Millwood to recuperate, having been pardoned after serving 14 years in prison. Morell received a patent on a life saving suit, invented while in prison, on which he hopes to make a sum of money." Mr Morell appears to be a peonilier and original sort of person. His future career will be watched with interest BAD NOTES EASILY DETECTED Almost Impossible to Impose Upon Handlers of Money. Incidentally it is interesting to note that the skill which enables one to detect a counterfeit comes not from a study of counterfeits, but from a thorough and unconscious familiarity with the genuine. If a man were pointed out to you and you were told that some day another who much resembled him would try to impose upon you, you would be pretty apt to fix his features in your mind; you would not spend any time looking at other people who looked something like him, would you? And the moment the impostor appeared you would note that in this, that or the other particular he failed to meet the details of the other man's face and figure. Just so it is in the detection of counterfeits. A skillful teller in a bank, counting money rapidly, will involuntarily throw out a note which in the slightest degree departs from the well-known pattern which is so strongly impressed on his mental vision. That involuntary act will nearly always prove to have been justified, for the bill in 19 cases out of 20 will prove to be a counterfeit. It is because of this fact that when a request is received from some one to loan him a collection of counterfeits for the instruction of his cashiers, he is advised to have the young men study the genuine carefully, and there will be no trouble in detecting the bad notes.-National Magazine. LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH. Night Lights of New York Are a Vision of Magnificence. The sky line of New York is always changing. So, too, the night lights shift and grow in wonderful magnificence, creeping continually further upward toward the stars, until the lower city, grouped around the Singer tower, has become a veritable Chimborazo of glitter and glow. The little lamps this mark the dark wharves barely show. Above them the scant candles of the older city twinkle here and there, but not enough to mar the dark foreground beyond which come the palaces more goregous than any ever coaxed from genil land by slaves of Aladdin's lamp. From the platform towers of the great bridge the picture sets to the best advantage. It begins with the sinking sun. The murky view beyond the bay betrooms dull and dark. The torch in Liberty's hand suddenly gleams starlike in the night and then, like the twinkling in a kaleidoscope, the palaces begin to glitter in the gloom. There is no vision like it elsewhere in the world, yet only now and then does a bridge pedestrian pause in his hurried walk to spectacle a moment usual New Yorker splendor of his When one has just begun to acquire superfluous flesh complete abstinence from sweets and starchs, a moderate amount of food at all times, and daily exercise either indoors or out will effect a cure. The effort, however, must be persistent, and the watchfulness must continue even after the desired weight has been reached. Spasmodic efforts either at diet or exercise will be absolutely without lasting results. When one's weight has crept far beyond the normal amount the restrain in diet must be more strenuous and the exercise more violent.—Harpow Her Criticism. The five-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn man has had such a large experience of dolls that she feels her self to be something of a connoisseur in children, relates Lippincott's. Recently there came a real baby into the house. When it was put into her arms the five-year-old surveyed it with critical eye. tear eye. "Isn't it a nice baby?" asked the nurse. "Yes, it's nice," answered the young star hesitatingly. "It's nice, but it's head's loose." BEFORE BUYING Rockers, Chairs, Rugs, Beds, Library Desk, Library Tables, Davenports, Lamps, Carpets, Stoves, China Cabinets, Heating Stoves, Ranges, Etc., Etc., Etc. Doll Tables, Doll Desks, Doll Beds, and a neat line of Doll Goods In fact we have a full and complete line of House Furnishing Goods. Every article sold has our personal guarantee. Cash or Easy Payments. we have a full and complete line of House Goods. Every article sold has our p授予e. Cash or Easy Paymen In fact we have a full and complete line of House Furnishing Goods. Every article sold has our personal guarantee. Cash or Easy Payments. Liberal Discount For Cash E. D. SQUIRE 247 N. Main St. --- THERE IS NO NEED Of your clothes being expense you can have Repaired at the Peoples Clea Largest and Best Market 175 211 South Lawren 15 North Main St. CO The most de The JO Tea a Of your clothes being soiled or torn when at a small expense you can have them Dry Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired at the Peoples Cleaning & Dye Works Largest and Best Equipped Plant In Kansas Market 175 Phones Douglas 178 211 South Lawrence Ave Wichita, Kansas Chas. Merci '605 No 605 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments. Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty Courteous Attention Bell Phone 3055 ChristmasCandies When making your Candy purchases for Christmas, remember us Fine Home Made Candies, Chocolates and Bon Bons. Pure Mixed Candies All Our Own Make MESSERVE'S "SECOND TO NONE" PLEASES ALL GOOD BREAD MAKERS — AND WILL PLEASE YOU — IT IS AS WHITE AS SNOW — TRY IT THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kans- sas State Law, Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market 115 N.|Main - OF Wichita, Kan at a small Pressed and e Works in Kansas Douglas 178 Chita, Kansas Phones 708 E The American Home WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor THE HOME OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSEUM --- Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest priority on all these subjects. Address all interested Radford, No. 184 Fifth Ave., Chicago, IL, and only close two-cent stamp for reply. In building a house of concrete, no matter what the form of the material may be, the concrete should be strong and sound. It should be wet, far too wet to be delivered from its mold for considerable periods of time. The best artificial stone made in this country is that made by the wet process, simply because plenty of water is necessary in the setting of the cement. The coming year will witness a great boom in cement-house building and the principles that underlie the use of this material are easy for the public to understand. But there are certain limitations in which the purse of the intending builder is involved. Solid wall construction is very limited in its application to dwelling house construction. While we have solved the problem of the factory and mill building in reinforced concrete the same may not be said for dwelling houses of all classes. In the mill and factory structure we have a relatively large amount of concrete as compared with the lumber and labor involved in the making of the forms, whereas, in the dwelling house, with the cut-up surfaces and irregular openings, the ratio of the cost of forms to the concrete is out of all proportion, and places concrete practically out of the THE HOUSE running in comparison with other material. Moreover, the internal stresses, particularly the shrinkage of concrete in the mass, are such that the walls are apt to crack. They must be furred, or an air space formed, otherwise they will be damp and extremely unsatisfactory. In the fall and spring there is likelihood of condensation on the inside of an uninsulated concrete wall, and, last of all, it is a difficult matter to give a solid concrete wall an architectural treatment that can be called satisfactory, except at a very considerable expense. The wooden house is, of course, highly inflammable and should only be built as a last resort. Such a house, covered with metal lath and furred, has some excellent architecte- POTTER 12'10" X 12'10" KITCHEN 11'6" X 10'0" BED ROOM 18'0" X 11'0" DINING ROOM 17'6" X 14'6" HALL 8'0" X 17'6" LIVING ROOM 17'6" X 16'6" PORCH 11'0" X 7'0" First Floor Plan. tural possibilities, but when well built will not be found to be cheaper than a rough brick wall, for the frame must be sheathed, papered, metal furred and lathed and covered with scratch coat of mortar before it is condition to receive the stucco. This will be found to approximate closely the cost of brick work. But then it should be considered that the stucco house, although the cost may be the same as that of a rough brick wall, is much more desirable because of its modern appearance and attractiveness. Much has been said about the faults of stucco work, but like many another failure in the use of concrete, they are traceable to the ignorance of the user rather than to the fault of the material. Stucco has been much abused but it will give the best of satisfaction if it is properly made and applied. There are plenty of examples of this style of house the country over which have withstood the test of years and their appearance and durability have been proved to the satisfaction of the owners. We are prone to judge things in a class by the failures and not by the suc- --- cesses. It is so with stucco houses. We present here the perspective view and the plans of a stucco house of pleasing design. One feature of this house is the economy of the design of the roof. The space is all utilized within a few feet of the top. Care should be used in selecting the site for this house. It should stand on a large lot and be provided with plenty of shrubbery. It will be noted that the upper sashes of the windows are ornamental. The stucco for this residence should be very light in color and in contrast the roof should BED RM. 10'6"x16'0" CLOS HALL BATH BED RM. 12'0"x16'0" CLOS Second Floor Plan. be painted dark. The house is entered through a-wide door that opens into a hall of generous dimensions. As one stands in the hall, at the end of which is the stairway, one may look through at each side and get the impression of the size of the residence. The width is 46 feet and the length is 29 feet. At the left is a large dining room which is provided with an open gate, while on the right is the large living room. In both the THE GARDEN HOUSE dining and the living rooms are large circular windows. Back of the living room is a bedroom and at the rear of the dining room is the kitchen. On the second floor are two large bedrooms. NOVEL MUSEUM IN ENGLAND The Adult as Well as the Child Is Amused at the Wonderful Ingenuity Displayed. Beneath the shadow of the ruined castle at Bramber, England, there is a novel and interesting museum. The exhibits are principally examples of the art of the taxidermist, says the Strand; but the subjects are treated in such a humorous manner as to render the museum unique in England. From a child's point of view it is a veritable Wonderland, reminiscent of the strange sights seen by Alice when she made her journey into that desirable country. The adult is no less amused and agreeably surprised at the wonderful ingenuity there displayed. The idea of thus combining the art of the taxidermist with that of the humorist was generated in the brain of W. Potter. In 1861 Mr. Potter set to work to construct his first set piece, illustrating the "Death and Burial of Cock Robin." This work was done in Mr. Potter's spare time and was not completed until seven years had elapsed. The whole of the incidents in the story are graphically portrayed, and as evidencing the patience and perseverance exercised by Mr. Potter it may be stated that no fewer than 100 specimens of British birds are included in the setting. In addition to the birds which figure in the story, there are the cuckoo, nightingale, goldfinch, hawkfinch, bramble finch, wryneck, etc. Much ingenuity is displayed in the arrangement of the "fish with his dish," the "fly with his little eye," the owl, the bull, rendered in miniature, the rook, and the mourning birds all a-sighing and a-sobbing. "Were you sick on the way over from Europe?" "No; I didn't get sick until I met the customs inspectors at New York." Canned. "What became of that peach of a hired girl you had?" "Wife canned her." Acted Like the Genuline. "The landlady says that new boarder is a foreign nobleman." "Bogus, I'll bet." "Oh, I don't know. He may be the real thing. He hasn't paid her a cent as yet." Grouchly-By denying myself three ten-cent cigars daily for the past 20 years I figure that I have saved $2,190. Moxley-Is that so?" Grouchly-Yes. Say, let me have a chew of your tobacco, will you? "Gosh! But the colored race is a comin' to the front fast!" whispered innocent Uncle Hiram, at the vaudeville show, as the black-face comedian was boisterously applauded. "Yes, indeed," smiled the city man; "anyone can see that that fellow is a self-made negro." The per capita wealth of the Indian is approximately $2,130, that for other Americans is only a little more than $1,300. The lands owned by the Indians are rich in oil, timber and other natural resources of all kinds. Some of the best timber land in the United States is owned by Indians. The value of their agricultural lands runs up in the millions. The ranges which they possess support about 500,000 sheep and cattle, owned by leseses, bringing in a revenue of more than $272,000 to the various tribes besides providing feed for more than 1,500,000 head of horses, cattle, sheep and goats belonging to the Indians themselves. Practically the only asphalt deposits in the United States are on Indian lands—Red Man. "Slip me a brace of cackles!" ordered the chesty-looking man with a bored air, as he perched on the first stool in the lunchroom. "A what?" asked the waitress, as she placed a glass of water before him. "Adam and Eve flat on their backs!" A pair of sunnysiders!" said the young man in an exasperated tone. "You got me, kid," returned the waitress. "Watcha want?" "Eggs up," said the young man. "E-g-g-s,' the kind that come before the hen or after, I never knew which." "Why didn't you say so in the first place?" asked the waitress. "You'd a had 'em by this time." "Well, of all things——" said the young man. "I knew what he was drivin' at all the time," began the waitress as the young departed. "But he's one of them fellers that thinks they can get by with anything. He don't know that they're using plain English now in restaurants." The League of Politeness has been formed in Berlin. It aims at inculcating better manners among the people of Berlin. It was founded upon the initiative of Fraulein Cecelle Meyer, who was inspired by an existing organization in Rome. In deference to the parent organization the Berlin league has chosen the Italian motto, "Pro gentilezza." This will be emblazoned upon an attractive little medal worn where Germans are accustomed to wear the insignia of orders. The idea is that a glance at the "talisman" will annihilate any inclination to indulge in bad temper or discourteous language. "Any polite person" is eligible for membership. Those who recall Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" will remember that the pea-ful spot where "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep" is identified with St. Giles', Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. In the prosaic pages of a recent issue of the Gazette there appears an order in council providing that ordinary interments are henceforth forbidden in the churchyard. What Al This Ques What About Brain Food? This Question Came Up in the Recent Trial for Libel. A "Weekly" printed some criticisms of the claims made for our foods. It evidently did not fancy our reply printed in various newspapers, and brought suit for libel. At the trial some interesting facts came out. Some of the chemical and medical experts differed widely. The following facts, however, were quite clearly established: Analysis of brain by an unquestionable authority, Geoghegan, shows of Mineral Salts, Phosphoric Acid and Potash combined (Phosphate of Potash), 2.91 per cent of the total, 5.33 of all Mineral Salts. This is over one-half. Beaunis, another authority, shows "Phosphoric Acid combined" and Potash 73.44 per cent from a total of 101.07. Considerable more than one-half of Phosphate of Potash. Analysis of Grape-Nuts shows: Potassium and Phosphorus, (which join and make Phosphate of Potash), is considerable more than one-half of all the mineral salts in the food. Dr. Geo. W. Carey, an authority on the constituent elements of the body, says: "The gray matter of the brain is controlled entirely by the inorganic cell-salt, Potassium Phosphate (Phosphate of Potash). This salt unites with albumen and by the addition of oxygen creates nerve fluid or the gray matter of the brain. Of course, there is a trace of other salts and other organic matter in nerve fluid, but Potassium Phosphate is the chief factor, and has the power within itself to attract, by its own One From the Cashler. The harmless customer leaned across the cigar counter and smiled engagingly at the new cashier. As he handed across the amount his dinner check called for he ventured a bit of almless converse, for he was of that sort. "Funny," said he, "how easy it is to spend money." "Well," snapped the cashier as she fed his fare to the register, "if money was intended for you to hold on to the mint would be turning out coins with handles on 'em." Had Money In Lumps Charles H. Rosenberg of Bavaria had lumps on his shoulders, elbows, and hips when he arrived here from Hamburg on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. In fact, there was a series of smaller lumps along his spine, much like a mountain range, as it is presented on a bas-relief map. The lumps were about the size of good Oregon apples, and as Rosenberg passed before the immigration doctor for observation, the doctor said softly to himself, "See that lump." Then he asked Mr. Rosenberg to step aside. "You seem like a healthy man," said the doctor, "but I cannot pass you until I know the origin of those lumps on your body." "Ah, it is not a sickness," laughed the man from Bavaria. "Those swellings is money." Taking off his coat he broke open a sample lump and showed that it contained $500 in American bank notes. He informed the doctor that he had $11,000 in all, with which he was going to purchase an apple orchard in Oregon. He was admitted to the country—New York Tribune. Why He Laughed. Miss Mattie belonged to the old south, and she was entertaining a guest of distinction. On the morning following his arrival she told Tillie, the little colored maid, to take a pitcher of fresh water to Mr. Firman's room, and to say that Miss Mattie sent him her compliments, and that if he wanted a bath, the bathroom was at his service. When Tillie returned she said: "I tol' him, Miss Mattie, en' he laughed fit to bus' hisself." "Why did he laugh, Tillie?" "I dunno." "What did you tell him?" "Jus' what you tol' me to." "Tillie, tell me exactly what you said." "I banged de doah, and I said, 'Mr. Firman, Miss Mattie sends you her lub, and she says, 'Now you can get up and wash yo'self'—Lippincott's Magazine." Where He Was Queen The negro, on occasions, displays a fine discrimination in the choice of words. "Who's the best white-washer in town?" inquired the new resident. "Ale Hall am a bo'd a'tist with a whitewash brush, sah," answered the colored patriarch eloquently. "Well, tell him to come and whitewash my chicken house tomorrow." Uncle Jacob shook his head dubiously. "Ah don' believe, sah, ah'd engage Ale Hall to whitewash a chicken house, sah." "Why, didn't you say he was a good whitewasher?" "Yes, sah, a pow'eful good whitewasher, sah; but mighty queer about a chicken house, sah, mighty queer!"—Mack's National Monthly. MAKE UP YOUR MIND. If you'll make up your mind to be Contented with your lot And with the optimists agree That trouble's soon forgot, You'll be surprised to find, I guess, Despite misfortune's darts, What constant springs of happiness Lie hid in human hearts; What sunny gleams and golden dreams The passing years unfold, How soft and warm the lovelight beams When you are growing old. This is over one-half. More Human Nature Thanks to Burnt Cork Lo. the Rich Indian. No Slang for Her The League of Politeness The "Country Churchyard." law of affinity, all things needed to manufacture the elixir of life." Further on he says: "The beginning and end of the matter is to supply the lacking principle, and in molecular form, exactly as nature furnishes it in vegetables, fruits and grain. To supply deficiencies—this is the only law of cure." The natural conclusion is that if Phosphate of Potash is the needed mineral element in brain and you use food which does not contain it, you have brain fag because its daily loss is not supplied. On the contrary, if you eat food known to be rich in this element, you place before the life forces that which nature demands for brain-building. In the trial a sneer was uttered because Mr. Post announced that he had made years of research in this country and some clinics of Europe, regarding the effect of the mind on digestion of food. But we must be patient with those who sneer at facts they know nothing about. A peaceful and evenly poised mind is necessary to good digestion. Worry, anxiety, fear, hate, &c., &c., directly interfere with or stop the flow of Ptyalin, the digestive juice of the mouth, and also interfere with the flow of the digestive juices of stomach and pancreas. Therefore, the mental state of the individual has much to do (more than suspected) with digestion. The mother of a family of three small children was discussing their comparative precocity with a friend. "John was very slow at everything," she said, referring to her oldest. "Tom was a little better, and Edith, the baby, is the smartest of all. She picks up everything quick as can be." Master John, who had been listening, now contributed his share of the conversation. "Humph!" he exclaimed. "I know why her learns so quick. It's 'cause her has us and we didn't have us." The late former Governor Allen D. Candler of Georgia was famous in the south for his quaint humor. "Governor Candler," said a Gainesville man, "once abandoned cigars for a pipe at the beginning of the year. He stuck to his resolve till the year's end. Then he was heard to say: "By actual calculation, I have saved by smoking a pipe instead of cigars this year $208. But where is it?" Ramadan is the month exalted by Moslems above all others. In that month the Koran—according to Moslem tradition—was brought down by Gabriel from heaven and delivered to men in small sections. In that month, Mohammed was accustomed to retire from Mecca to the cave of Hira, for prayer and meditation. In that month Abraham, Moses and other prophets received their divine revelations. In that month the "doors of heaven are always open, the passages to hell are shut, and the devils are chained." So run the traditions.—The Christian Herald. "You had two doctors in consultation last night, didn't you?" "Well, one recommended one thing and the other recommended something else." "A deadlock, eh?" "No, they finally told me to mix 'em!" Twice, as the bus slowly wended its way up the steep Cumberland Gap, the door at the rear opened and slammed. At first those inside paid little heed; but the third time demanded to know why they should be disturbed in this fashion. "Whist," cautioned the driver, don't spake so loud; she'll overhear us. "Who?" "The mare. Spake low! Shure, Ol'm desavin th' crayture. Everry tome she 'ears th' door close, she thinks won o' yez is gettin' down ter walk up th' hill, an' that sort o' raises her sperrits." - Success Magazine. On her arrival in New York Mme, Sara Bernhardt, replying to a compliment on her youthful appearance, said: "The secret of my youth? It is the good God—and then, you know, I work all the time. But I am a great-grandmother," she continued, thoughtfully, "so how can these many compliments be true? I am afraid my friends are exaggerating." Mme. Bernhardt's laugh, spontaneous as a girl's, prompted a chorus of "No, no!" "Yes," said the actress, "unconscience exaggeration, like the French nurse on the boulevard. Our boulevards are much more crowded than your streets, you know, and, although we have numerous accidents, things aren't quite as bad as the nurse suggested. "Her little charge, a boy of six, begged her to stop a while in a crowd, surrounding an automobile accident. 'Please wait,' the little boy said, 'Want to see the man who was run over.' 'No; hurry,' his nurse answered. 'There will be plenty more to see further on.' Food? the Recent That Brain is made of Phosphate of Potash as the principal Mineral Salt, added to albumen and water. That Grape-Nuts contains that element as more than one-half of all its mineral salts. A healthy brain is important, if one would "do things" in this world. A man who sneers at "Mind" sneers at the best and least understood part of himself. That part which some folks believe links us to the Infinite. Mind asks for a healthy brain upon which to act, and Nature has defined a way to make a healthy brain and renew it day by day as it is used up from work of the previous day. Nature's way to rebuild is by the use of food which supplies the things required. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. How She Learned Economy. Moslem Traditions. A Medical Compromise. "What did they say?" "A deadlock eb?" Hard on the Marse: "Who?" Exaggeration. A Retraction. "You shouldn't have called that man a pig," said the conciliatory man. "That's right," replied the vindictive person. "There is no sense in implying that he's worth 40 cents a pound to anybody." Blissful Ignorance "Were you nervous when you proposed to your wife?" asked the sentimental person. "No," replied Mr. Meekton; "but if I could have foreseen the next ten years I would have been." Economy in Art "Of course," said Mr. Sirius Barker, "I want my daughter to have some sort of an artistic education. I think I'll have her study singing." "Why not art or literature?" "Art spoils canvas and paint and literature wastes reams of paper. Singing merely produces a temporary disturbance of the atmosphere. Home Thought. "It must have been frightful," said Mrs. Bossim to her husband, who was in the earthquake. "Tell me what was your first thought when you awakened in your room at the hotel and heard the alarm." "My first thought was of you," answered Mr. Bossim. "How noble!" "Yes. First thing I knew, a vase off the mantel caught me on the ear; then a chair whirled in my direction, and when I jumped to the middle of the room four or five books and a framed picture struck me all at once." Even after saying that, he affected to wonder what made her so angry for the remainder of the evening.—Mack's National Monthly. New Process of Staining Glass The art of coloring glass has been lost and refound, jealously guarded and maliciously stolen so many times in the history of civilization that it seems almost impossible to say anything new on glass staining. Yet a process has been discovered for making the stained glass used in windows which is a departure from anything known at the present time. What the Venetians and the Phoenicians knew of it we cannot tell. The glass first receives its design in mineral colors and the whole is then fired in a heat so intense that the coloring matter and the glass are indisolably fused. The most attractive feature of this method is that the surface acquires a peculiar pebbled character in the heat, so that when the glass is in place the lights are delightfully soft and mellow. In making a large window in many shades each panel is separately moulded and bent and the sections are assembled in a metal frame. Our Voices. I think our conversational soprano as sometimes overheard in the car, arising from a group of young persons who have taken the train at one of our great industrial centers, for instance, young persons of the female sex, we will say, who have busted in full dressed, engaged in loud, strident speech, and who, after free discussion, have fixed on two or more double seats, which having secured, they proceed to eat apples and hand round daguerreotypes—I say, I think the conversational soprano, heard under these circumstances, would not be among the allurements the old enemy would put in requisition were he getting up a new temptation of St. Anthony. There are sweet voices among us, we all know, and voices not musical, it may be, to those who hear them for the first time, yet sweeter to us than any we shall hear until we listen to some warbling angel in the overture to that eternity of blissful harmonies we hope to enjoy. But why should I tell lies? If my friends love me, it is because I try to tell the truth. I never heard but two voices in my life that frightened me by their sweetness.—Holmes. This trial has demonstrated "There's a Reason" "Since Boozen inherited a million I suppose he's a worse drunkard than ever." "Oh! no. He's a dipsomaniac." A Dodger. "Fine weather we've been having." "Yes, but we'll pay for this fine weather later on." "I won't. I'm going to Florida for the winter." Quite Different. "Do you always do a little more than is expected of you?" "No, my boss always expects a little more than you can do." COLDS Cured in One Day THERE IS HOPE if regard my cold cure as being better than a Life Insurance MUNXN. "I regard my cold cure as being better than a Life Insurance Policy."—MUNYON. As a rule a few doses of Munyon's Cold Cure will break up any cold and prevent pneumonia. It relieves the head, throat and lungs almost instantly. These little sugar pellets can be conveniently carried in the vest pocket for use at any time or anywhere. Price 25 cents at any druggists. If you need Medical Advice write to Munyon's Doctors. They will carefully disguise your case and give you advice by mail absolutely free. Address Prof. Munyon, 53d and Jefferson Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Why Rent a Farm and be compelled to pay to your landlord most of your hard-earned profits? Own your own farm. Secure a Free Homestead in Manitoba. Buy a farm. Alberts, or purchase land in one of these districts and bank a mortgage at $10.00 or $12.00 on acre every year. Land purchased $ 3 years ago at $10.00 an acre. The changed hands at $25.00 an acre. The crops land on these lands warrant the by catteralising, dairying,mixed farming and grain growing in this prairie, and farnsways, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Free homestead and pre-emption areas, as well as land held by railway and land company, will provide homes for millions. Adaptable soil, healthful climate, schools and churches good relaivery. For settlers' rates descriptive information to reach the country and other particulars, write to Supt of Immigration, Will, Canada, to the Canadian Government Agent. CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AGENT No. 725 W. Nuthall Street Kansas City, Mo. (Use address nearest you.) 88 LAZY LIVER "I find Cascarets so good that I would not be without them. I was troubled a great deal with totorid liver and headache, Nowsince with takpid Cascarets Candy Catholic I feel very much better. I shall certainly recommend them to my friends as the best medicine I have ever seen." Anna Bazinet. Osborn Mill No. 2, Fall River, Mass. Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. Do. 20c. 50c. Never sold in bulk. The genius of statism is guaranteed to cure your money back. 923 LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5 CIGAR You Pay 10c. for Cigars Not so Good. F.P. LEWIS Peoria, Ill MONEY IN TRAPPING FURS We tell you how; and pay your market prices. Write for references and weekly price list. M. SABEL & SONS, LOUISVILLE, KY. Deserters in Pure, Hides, Wool. Established 1858. PATENT your invention. Free preliminary search. Booklet free. MILIO B. ST. EVENS & CO., Estab. 1864 14th St., Washington, 100 Dearborn St., Chicago. PISO'S THE BEST MEDICINE for Coughs & Colds Home Town Helps In Small Space a Natural Garden Is Better Than Any Formal Arrangement. The development of the beautiful is the aim of landscape gardening, differing from gardening in its common sense, in embracing the whole scene about t hehouse, which it softens and refines. In it we seek to embody our ideal of a home by collecting and combining beautiful forms in vegetation, surfaces of ground, buildings and walks in the landscape surrounding us. Every place should be a picture by itself, having an individuality all its own, completely harmonizing with the home which it surrounds, attractive to the general public and enjoyable to the owner. We should as far as possible conform in a general way to the prevailing custom on the street as regards the use of fences between the buildings and the street lines. The working part of the grounds, such as the kitchen garden, clothes yard, etc., should be brought together directly connecting with the kitchen and cellar. They can thus be admirably separated from the ornamental part of the grounds by lines of shrubs or a vine-covered lattice or wire fence. In arranging our pleasure grounds we should provide a place conveniently accessible to the living rooms where the family can sit out of doors without being exposed to the gaze of the public. Walks are useful but not beautiful, and should only be used where they are actually required. We should keep the centers of the lawn spaces open, making the plantations on the edges and not dot them nursery fashion all over the entire lawn. We thus secure the full value of the lawn area and make maintenance easier. We can then provide spaces for flowers, preferably of a perennial nature in the foreground of our shrub masses and not in separate or scattered beds. As a general thing the naturalistic gardening should be adopted on the small place in preference to the formal. We are thus able to avoid straight lines, creating a picture using the green grass as our canvas, framing the whole in with a well selected collection of trees and shrubs; confining the tender and annual plants to the flower garden, as they are costly, temporary and often in bad taste when scattered promiscuously over the entire place. The house is the main feature, and all plantings must be done under the influence of its character and situation, the views from the windows suggesting the arrangement and where the plantings should have their origin. In the very nature of things no two gardens can be just alike; a charming feature in one garden may not be allowable in another, either through lack of space, difference in exposure or natural incongruity. CHOICE OF STYLES IS LARGE In "Structural Decoration" There Is Hardly a Limit to the Many in Vogue. "Structural decoration" may best be explained by considering one well-known example of it—the Elizabethan, most picturesque and elaborate of the styles now popularly imitated. In the real Elizabethan the wooden framework was made of great trees, solid oak, squared off and mortised together solidly. If the tree had been curved, the beam was cured. And the beam was as thick as the wall itself, and appeared on the inside, as well as the outside of the house. The cement was filled in between these great beams, and the dark wood, in contrast with the stucco filling, made the decoration of the house—a truly honest and structural kind of ornament, which we imitate by fastening thin planks over and across our "Elizabethan" dwellings. Our own "Colonial" dwellings had their charm, too—the charm of perfect simplicity and excellent proportion. Like the gentlemen who built them they are dignified, reliable, honest. The bungalow is both simple in line and structural in decoration, but too often squaty in proportion, and, if unmodified, apt to be a most uncomfortable dwelling for this climate of extremes, having been developed to its present form where there was no heat in summer, and no cold in winter. A new type of house has arisen of late, calling itself "craftsmans' houses." It is an attempt to adapt to modern conditions all the good points in all the styles named; and very often the attempt is successful, and the result, belonging to no "style," is quite happy. Quick-Growing Trees Planted. Trees which will grow large enough in five or ten years to afford the pedestrian shelter from the hot rays of the sun during the summer months have been planted around the department of the interior building and also along the south side of F street northwest between Seventh and Ninth streets. They are fast-growing shade trees such as are planted in all parts of the residential sections. They will, it is believed, do much to keep the sidewalk in their vicinity cooler than has been the case during the hot days. You Look Prematurely Old VORKE The Professor—You are better fed than taught. The Stout Student—I reckon you're right. You teach me, but I feed myself. HIRAM CARPENTER'S WONDERFUL CURE OF PSORIASIS. "I have been afflicted for twenty years with an obstinate skin disease, called by some M. D.'s psoriasis, and others leprosy, commencing on my scalp; and in spite of all I could do, with the help of the most skilful doctors, it slowly but surely extended until a year ago this winter it covered my entire person in the form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any labor, and suffering intensely all the time. Every morning there would be nearly a dust-panful of scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half as large as the envelope containing this letter. In the latter part of winter my skin commenced cracking open. I tried everything, almost, that could be thought of, without any relief. The 12th of June I started West, in hopes I could reach the Hot Springs. I reached Detroit and was so low I thought I should have to go to the hospital, but finally got as far as Lansing, Mich., where I had a sister living. One Dr. — treated me about two weeks, but did me no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all over my back, across my ribs, arms, hands, limbs; feet badly swollen; toe-nails came off; ginger-nails dead and hard as a bone; hair dead, dry and lifeless as old straw. O my God! how I did suffer. "My sister wouldn't give up; said, 'We will try Cuticura.' Some was applied to one hand and arm. Eureka! there was relief; stopped the terrible burning sensation from the word go. They immediately got Cuticura Resolvent, Ointment and Soap. I commenced by taking Cuticura Resolvent three time a day after meals; had a bath once a day, water about blood heat; used Cuticura Soap freely; applied Cuticura Ointment morning and evening. Result: returned to my home in just six weeks from the time I left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet of paper. Hiram E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y." The above remarkable testimonial was written January 19, 1880, and is republished because of the permanency of the cure. Under date of April 22, 1910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his present home, 610 Walnut St. So., Lansing, Mich.: "I have never suffered a return of the psoriasis and although many years have passed I have not forgotten the terrible suffering I endured before using the Cuticura Remedies." Mean of Her. Mrs. Galey (back from the mountains)—Well, my dear, did you keep open house during my absence? Galey (earnestly)—I should say I didn't, Louise; why, there wasn't a night that I didn't lock the doors at nine o'clock. Mrs. Galey—Yes? And where did you go then? A Shiver Figure. "Now, Arthur," said his father, "you've been going to school long enough to write decently. Don't you know how to make a figure three?" "Sure," said the boy. "You put your pencil on the paper and then you shiver." Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The Kind You Have Always Bought. Incredible Brutality. Willis—Under this year's football rules you can't assist the man with the ball. Gillis—Great Scott! What do they do—stand around and let him die?—Puck. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gripe. Household Hints By taking one hobble skirt and sewing up one end of it a very pretty ragbag may be made in which to put the others. You do not lift the world by rolling up your eyes. PRAYER IS WITHOUT RESULT Boy's Patience Is Exhausted After Frequent Petitions to Throne of Grace. A young man who is prominent in church work in Philadelphia tells this about his newhew. Harold is the youngster's name, and next door lives another boy by the name of Dewey. They are each seven years old, and like most children of their age are disposed to get into mischief as often as possible. Several days ago they found a man's coat lying on the front pavement while the owner was fixing a gas main. From the pockets of the coat the two boys abstracted several tickets, and when Harold's mother found it out she made him return the tickets and explained the sin which he had committed, warning him to pray that he be forgiven that night. He obeyed, and while on his knees added a prayer for Dewey as well. The next night Harold's mother was in the next room when he said his prayers, and she heard him ask God to forgive Dewey for stealing a piece of cake. On the following evening he again was moved to ask forgiveness for his friend, this time for stealing three pieces of candy. Apparently his patience was exhausted, for the next evening his mother was in the adjoining room when he offered his evening prayer, and this is what she heard: "Gosh darn it, God, I have done the best I could for Dewey. I guess you will have to watch him yourself."—Philadelphia Record. Vokes Philosopher—And now, after having reviewed all philosophy with you, there is only one law that I can lay down for your guidance. Student—What is that? Philosopher—When you are sure you are right, you should suspect that you are wrong. He Won. Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor of Tennessee was once entertaining a northern guest, who was rather skeptical about the prevailing dialect in stories of southern negroes. He thought it overdrawn. To disprove the contention, Mr. Taylor laughingly made a wager with his guest that the northerner would be unable to interpret the language of the first negro they met. Accordingly, they set out and presently came upon a black man basking indolently in the sun. Telling his friend to pay close heed, Mr. Taylor stepped up to the negro and demanded, suddenly: "Wh he?" The negro blinked his eyes stolldly, and then answered in a guttural voice: Wah who?"—Everybody's. The Significant Wink. "I think," said the weary stranger, "that I'll go somewhere and take 40 winks." The hack driver looked puzzled. "What's the trouble?" "I was wondering whether you wanted me to drive you to a hotel or a drug store." TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND HURLEY THE SYSTEM Take the Old Standard GROVES TASSELESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking. The fact is that it is simply Quinine and iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out the malaria that binds up the system, sold by all dealers for 30 years. Price 50 cents. Reverse Art. "An actress in her makeup reverses the usual rules of art." "How so?" "She paints first so she can draw afterward." Stop guessing! Try the best and most certain remedy for all painful ailments—Hammels Wizard Oil. The way it relieves all soreness from sprains, cuts, wounds, burns, scalds, etc., is wonderful. When the virtues are only on the surface they easily find vociferous evaporation. A collapsible conscience may be more comfortable than an ingrowing one, but it works as much harm. **IF YOU USE BALL BLUE,** Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. You cannot love truth and fight freedom in thinking. Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in- fammation, allays pain, cures wind coicic. Soa's bottle. The trouble hunter always bags game. The family were fabulously wealthy, yet here was their baby being born with a plated spoon in its mouth. How came that about? The young parents, observing our perplexity, led us aside. "The silver spoon is kept in the safety vault and a cheap substitute is used in its stead. One is never sure of one's servants these days," they explained in a confidential whisper—Puck. No More Indigestion for those who know the value of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters when the stomach is weak, the liver inactive and the bowels clogged. Why? It is compounded from ingredients best adapted for keeping the organs strong and healthy, and its wonderful record in the past has proven it to be a great success. Try a bottle for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Colds and Grippe. Get HOSTETTER' CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTER Tutt's Pills enable the dyspeptic to eat whatever he wishes. They cause the food to assimilate and nourish the body, give appetite, and DEVELOP FLESH. Dr. Tutt Manufacturing Co. New York. LIGHT FOR YOUR HOME The Coleman Hollow Wire System is a wonder. Good positions for salesman, every locality. Mfg. by HYDRO-CARBON CO., Wichita, Kansas W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 53-1910. No Man is Stronger A strong man is strong all over. No man can be strong who is suffering from weak stomach with its consequent indigestion, or from some other disease of the stomach and its associated organs, which impairs digestion and nutrition. For when the stomach is weak or diseased there is a loss of the nutrition contained in food, which is the source of all physical strength. When a man "doesn't feel just right," when he doesn't sleep well, has an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach after eating, is languid, nervous, irritable and despondent, he is losing the nutrition needed to make strength. feeling in the stomach after eating, is languid, nervous, ent, he is losing the nutrition needed to make strength Such a man should use Dr. Pierce's Discovery. It cures diseases of the stale organs of digestion and nutrition. It ennervates the liver, strengthens the kine the nerves, and so GIVES HEALTH AND THE WHOLE BODY. You can't afford to accept a secret nostrum as an alcoholic medicine or KNOWN COMPOSITION, not even may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients THE Famous Rayo Once a Rayo user, always The Rayo Lamp is a high grade. There are lamps that cost more, but the price of would be much more ornament to any room in any house. Of lamp-making that can add the vienna device. Every do not everyday descriptive circular to the nearest agent THE STEADY WHITE ing, is languid, nervous, irritable and despond- needed to make strength. House Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical diseases of the stomach and other and nutrition. It enriches the blood, strengthens the kidneys, nourishes HEALTH AND STRENGTH TO a secret nostrum as a substitute for this non- POSITION, not even though the urgent dealer or profit. Ingredients printed on wrapper. ous Rayo Lamp Like a Rayo user, always one Lamp is a high grade lamp, sold at a low price. But that cost more, but there is no better lamp made at any price of solid brass, nickel plated, easily cleaned and any room in any house. There is nothing known to be art- thing that can add to the value of the RAYO Lamp as a light- Every dealer everywhere. If not at yours, write for- ticular to the nearest agency of the Such a man should use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It enriches the blood, invigorates the liver, strengthens the kidneys, nourishes the nerves, and so GIVES HEALTH AND STRENGTH TO THE WHOLE BODY. You can't afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this non-alcoholic medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION, not even though the urgent dealer may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients printed on wrapper. THE Famous Rayo Lamp Once a Rayo user, always one The Rayo Lamp is a high grade lamp, sold at a low price. There are lamps that cost more, but there is a no better lamp made at any price. Constructed of solid brass; nickel plated—easily kept clean; an aluminum base; and a glass cover. The lamp of lamination that can add to the value of the RAYO Lamp is a light-giving device. Every dealer everywhere. If not at yours, write for descriptive circular to the nearest agency of the STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporated) If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mans, and show you how carefully I made them, the superior workmanship and the high grade leather used, you would then understand why Dollar for Dollar Guarantee my Shoes to hold their shape, and that they are longer than any other $3.00, $3.50 or $4.00 shoes you can buy. Do you realize that my shoes have been the standard or over years; that I make and sell more $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 shoes that any other manufacturer in the United States? Quality count it has made W. L. Douglas shoes a household word everywhere CAUTION! None genuine without W. L. Douglas TAKE name and price stamped on the bottom. If your dealer cannot supply you with W. L. Douglas shoes, write to W. L. DOUGAS, 145 Spa EUREKA HARNESS Will K Hat soft a tough black President W. L. Douglas Douglas Shoe Co. years; that I make and sell more $30.00, $30.00 and $40.00 shoes than any other manufacturer in the United States? Quiz! It has made W. L. Douglas shoes a household word everywhere. CAUTION! None genuine without W. L. Douglas. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE name and price stamped on the bottom. If your dealer cannot supply a name, write for Mail Order Catalog. W. L. DOUGLAS, 146 Spark Point Reckoning Mass. $3.50 and $4.00 shoes than 1 States? Quality counts. household shoes everywhere W. I. Douglas Douglas Shoe Co. ed on the bottom Douglas Shoes, writer for Mall Grue Catalog. Douglas LAS, 145 Spark St., Brockton, Mass. President W. L. Douglas Household Shoe Co. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE Will Keep Your Harness soft as a glove tough as a wire black as a coal EUREKA HARNESS OIL Will Keep Your Harness soft as a glove tough as a wire black as a coal Sold by Dealers Everywhere STANDARD OIL COMPANY (INCORPORATED) MICA AXLE GREASE Keeps the spindle bright and free from grit. Try a box. Sold by dealers everywhere. STANDARD OIL CO. (Incorporated) ONE REDEEMING FEATURE When Papa Hears It He Urges Only Son to Grab Girl Quick. The only son had just announced to the family his engagement. "What, that girl!" remarked his mother. "Why, she squints." mother. Why, she squints. "She has absolutely no style," commented his sister. "Red-headed, isn't she?" asked auntie. "I'm afraid she's flighty," was grandma's opinion. "She hasn't any money," said uncle. "And she doesn't look strong," chimed in the first cousin. "She's stuck up, in my opinion," asseverated the second cousin. "She's extravagant," was the opinion given by the third cousin. "Well, she's got one redeeming feature, at any rate," remarked the only son, thoughtfully. "What's that?" chorused the charitable band. "She hasn't a relative on earth." Papa had not yet spoken, but now he did. "Grab her, my boy, grab her," he said. Mrs. Roosevelt an Economist Mrs. Roosevelt is said to have kept her gowns from one year to the next and even the third year, and yet was always beautifully dressed. The best-dressed woman in London is said to be Mrs. Keppell, who wears her gowns more than one season, having them made over for the second year, as her income does not allow of a great variety of gowns. at the Door. "Yes, my mind is made up. Tonight I shall ask her to be my wife. B-b-y Jove, I h-hope she's out!"—Woman's Home Companion. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Truly Spoken. What a narrow, circumscribed life the woman must lead to whom a wrinkle is a tragedy! BOY'S SHOES. $2.00. $2.50 AND The benefits of free hides, which apply principally to soleather, and thoreduce heat, are that they enable me to give the wearer more value for his money, better and longer wearing $3, $3.50 and $4 shoes than I could give previous to the tariff revision Precaution. Dr. Tutt Manufacturing Co. New York. A M. B. DEAM ABSTRACT NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors MODERN CLEANING and DYE WORKS and Steam Cleaning Dyeing; Pressing, Repair alterations. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Ladies a Specialty. Suits Pressed 50 C. R. G. Hanson, Proprietor Dependent Phone 1286 Red a. Francis Ave., Bell Phone 21 Wichita, K ergienic Restaurant 513 North Main Street C. C. Hickerson, Proprietor Open from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. Short Orders At All Hours. Dinner Hotel Oriental 529 North Wichita Street Bed Rooms and Board. Every Room Furnished, Well Lighted and Heated Agent A Specialty. Phone, Marke DYE WORKS Dyeing,' Pressing, Repairing, Cured and Blocked. Ladies' fine Pressed 50 Cents Jenson, Prop. Bell Phone 2735 Wichita, Kansas Restaurant On Main Street Jenson, Proprietor a. m. to l2 p. m. All Hours. Dinner 250 Orienta Wichita Street Board. Every Room New Lighted and Heated Phone, Market 16 8 CLEANING and DYE WORKS Dry and Stream Cleaning Dyeing; Pressing, Repairing, and Alterations. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Ladies' fine work a Specialty. Suits Pressed 50 Cents C. G. Hanson, Prop. Independent Phone 1286 Red Bell Phone 2735 110 St. Francis Ave., Wichita, Kansas Hygienic Restaurant 513 North Main Street C. C. Hickerson, Proprietor Open from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. Short Orders At All Hours. Dinner 25c MRS. L. OLDEN, Prop. Wichita, Kan. Ichner's Market 115 - 117 South Topeka Ave. On Phones 2 9 4. Office Phone 4 5 1 9 Bell r's Market with Topeka Ave. Office Phone 4 5 1 9 Bell Kelchner'sMarket Both Phones 2 9 4. Office Phone 4 5 1 9 Bell VISIT THIS MARKET FINEST IN THE UNITED STATES --- PAULIN'S Candy Per Pound 100 mas Trees, Smilax, Mistletoe, reen Rope. All kinds of p * Pound 10c **************** Nilax, Mistletoe, Hol All kinds of poult Candy Per Pound 10c Christmas Trees, Smilax, Mistletoe, Holly, Evergreen Rope. All kinds of poultry. 313 E. Douglas Avenue Whitlock Bros. The Great Clean Meat Market Free Delivery of Reasonable Sales to all Parts of the City 216 E. Douglas Avenue DIRECTORY OF COLORED WOMAN'S CLUBS OF WICHITA, KAS. The Mother's Aid Club. Meets every Friday at 1 p. m. Ladies invited to meet with us. Mrs. W. N. Miller, Pres. Mrs. P. Johnson, Sec. CHITTTERLINGS, Catfish, Hamburg er and am Sandwiches for sale at Harry Walker's Cafe, 957 N. Mead every Saturday. Anyone desiring these atables are requested to call. Tapp & Hanshaw CASH STORE. 255-257 North Main Street. Phone Bell 53. 19 lbs. Granulated Sugar (cane or beet) . $1.00 All Best Grades Flour . 1.20 Northern Potatoes, peck . . 25 Northern Potatoes, bu . . 90 2 lbs. 3-Crown Raisins . . 15 3 Cans Good Corn . . 25 3 Cans Scotch Pumpkin . . 25 Spanish Onlons lb . . 05 Sweet Potatoes peck . . 25 Cabbage, a head . . $2/2 3 3lb. Cns Tomatoes . . 25 7 bars White Russian Soap . . 25 7 Bars Lenox Soap . . 25 Large pkg. Gold Dust . . 20 Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Fresh and Cured Meats. All kinds of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes. IF YOU NEED In NEW or 2nd. Hand Goods It will pay you to figure with Us before buying We give Furniture and Stove Repairing our special attention. All work called for and delivered 537 N. Main St. Phone, Market 4088 C. M. E. CHURCH. Holds Their Services at Masonic Hall Every Sunday. Rev. R. P. Tyler has organized a branch of the C. M. E. Church in Wichita and the church is holding services on the 2nd flour of the Masonic Building, 615 N. Main street. The order of their services is as follows: Sunday School at 9.30 A. M., Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Every one is cordially invited. Rev. R. P. Tyler, pastor. Sensation in "Mystery Shlp." Sydney, Australia, has had a novelty in the shape of a "mystery ship." An American steamer, the Coronet, arrived by night in the harbor unsuled and unannounced. It was peopleled by a strange-looking crowd of men, women and children. The officers were dressed in clerical attire—long coats and white ties. Nobody was allowed on board save the government medical officer and the harbor master. The Sydney reporters ascertained that the ship is connected with the newest American sect, the "Holy Ghost and Us." whose head, a man named Stanford, claiming to be the reincarnated Elijah, is on board. The Coronet has been cruising for some months among the Pacific islands. LEAD THE IDEAL SIMPLE LIFE. Finns Devote Summer Months to Enjoyment and Pursuit of Health. In Finland everybody lives the simple life in summer time. They camp out on islands, in the forests and always somewhere near the water, for everybody swims and bathes. Almost all classes sleep and eat al fresco at this time of year, and the town councils of the towns in this progressive and altogether delightful little country provide public fireplaces and public bathing sheds in all places where the working classes go in search of fresh air. But the simple life is by no means dull with the frisky Finns. They combine it with a surprising amount of gayety. They eat, drink and are merry in their picturesque little log cabins outside the cities. When they are tired of bathing and splashing they dance, they sing, they ratch fireworks and practice gymnastics, they all become like children and are the happiest, merriest, most good hatured, most easily pleased and most healthy holiday makers in the world. We might take many leaves from the Flans' book.—Ladies' Pictorial. Proud Owners of Pets, Listen to This from Flatbush, N. Y. Zip, a son of Bluff, the big bull terrier, is the most respected dog in Flatbush, N. Y., says a correspondent. He requires every other dog within 40 blocks to walk a chalk line and bow to him as he passes by. He can lick everything on four feet up to twice his size, yet is as mild as Devery-at-the Pump. His master attributes Zip's prowess to his fondness for the pipe. Like Old King Cole: "That is the most remarkable dog in the world," says his master. "He takes my pipe out of my mouth and smokes it, standing on his hind feet. See! The stem is all chewed up! If the tobacco doesn't burn well, Zip will get down on his fours and chase all over the house to create a draught. When the fire is well started again he finishes his smoke and returns me the pipe. Strong? He ought to be named Samson. Why, we have a piano that weighs 600 pounds. Tie Zip to it with a rope and he will pull it all over the room." The Qualint Belluga Caviare can be made of the roe of any fish; but the principal supply comes from the sturgeon and the belluga. The latter is about the most curious fish in the world. It weighs up to 1,000 pounds and innabits the waters of the swift-flowing Volga. It is so abundant that the natives of Astracan throw away the flesh—which is whiter than veal and very salty—and preserve only the spawn, of which they sometimes take as much as 200 pounds out of one fish. This belluga lies on the bottom of the river at certain seasons and swallows many large pebbles of great weight to bailast itself against the force of the stream; that is, the pebbles act as an anchor. When the flood subsides and the waters are less violent the belluga disgorges itself; that is, it unballasts, hauls in its anchor and swims about for provender. Peculiar African Race. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and flath, and is sometimes as much as 18 inches long. For the most part these Kaffirs live on the great open flats to be found on both sides of the Kafue river. They build their huts on the great an heaps which appear like hills scattered over the flats. When the Kafue is in flood and the flats are changed into great lakes these people are safe in their huts on the an heaps. Their cattle also take refuge on the an heaps on which corn and meailles are likewise grown. Send for the S. P. C. C. A "Young Mother" asks our opinion of "the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies." We must frankly say that we consider it a brutal practice. As the father of a great many babies, of all ages, we never rocked on any of them intentionally, and we would probably be arrested if we expressed our full opinion of any woman who would presume to do so.—Lippincott's Magazine. Bakers in Germany are fond of making odd experiments, the following being reported from Duisburg, 'in Westphalia. At a children's party recently held in that town there was exhibited, and afterwards cut up and distributed among the youngsters present, a bread twist which for size at least has surely rarely been equaled. Weighing no less than 180 pounds, it had a breadth of six feet and a length of ten feet, and was thus found sufficient to supply a satisfactory afternoon collation to many as 500 boys and girls. BOY ROSE TO THE SITUATION. Quick Wit and Intelligence Displayed by Youngster. His parents are convinced that Clarence will be a great man; the only doubt is whether it will be as a statesman or scientist. He is only four years old, and their confidence is based largely on one incident. The boy never told of it, and it would have been lost to history if a neighbor had not been a chance witness. Clarence lives in the suburbs, and has a cat and kittens. One day he went into the yard next door with one of the little ones to play. There was a big pile of brushwood here, and he shoved his pet into a hole in this. She crawled so far back that all his efforts to get her out were vain. Had he been a man he would have pulled the pile of brush apart, but lacking strength for this he resorted to cunning. Running home, he soon returned with the mother cat. He shoved her into the hole after her offspring, and she soon came out with the little one between her teeth. Clarence bore them both home in triumph. WIFIE WON'T HELP AGAIN 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 elinorglyn 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. Watching in a tearoom, 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 ruinous 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 The Foolish: VIrotn "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.'" 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 Supercilious 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-necked 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 Messrs. 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 Dutzendteich 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 L. "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.