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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER A Great Race Leader Has Gone The Late Bishop Abram Grant Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Church, who died in Kan. City, Kan., Jan. 22nd 1911 TWELTH YEAR A Great R Leade The Late Bisho Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal Church, who died in Kan. Bishop Abraham Grant, exslave, educator and head of the African Methodist church in all states west of the mississippi river, died Sunday at his home at 532 Washington bouleaard, Kansas City Kansas after an illness of two months. He was 64 years old and had been bishop of this district for twenty-three years. At the time of his death he was also a director of the Booker T. Washington institute for negroes at Tuskegee, Ala. a director of the Western University for negroes at Quindaro, Kans. and was a trustees of the million dollar fund lett by Miss James of Philadelphia for the education of of negroes. President Taft, Booher, T. Washington, Andrew Carnegle and Dr. J. H. Dillard of New Orleans were other member of the board of trustrees. The bishop was an ex-slave and was born in an ox cart on the way from Jacksonville to Lake City. Fla., while his mother who had been sold was being taken home by her new master. He went by the name of his master which was rollins until the emancipation proclamation was issued by President Lincoln; Then he took the first name of his generals. Thus he became Abraham Grant. His master early noted his unusual intelligence and allowed him to receive instruction from the same tutors who were employed to educate the master's children. After the war Grant went to Jacksonville and became head waiter at the leading hotel in that city. The bishops and elders of the M. E. South who stopped there undertook to assist him to a position in life befitting his abilities and interested him in the study of theology. He was ordained thirty-nine years ago and six years later was made bishop. He lived many years in San Antonio, Texas before moving the headquarters of his district to Kansas City, Kans, and took an active part in the alleviation of strained relations between the two races in the former state In the course of his work he made two trips to Africa and traveled several times in Europe to study the solution of the race problem. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right His wife died just eight days before him. They leave no child ren. The body will be taken to the Allen chapel at Tenth and Charlotte streets Kansas City, Mo., where furnal services were held at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. His body and that of his wife was taken to their former home at San Antonio, Tex. for burial. Race Hatred Halts Inquiry Scientists Stop Investigation When Negroes Are Barred. Marked Tree. Ark.—Racial prejudices in the state of Arkansas have made it impossible for the field committee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to search the prehistoric mounds on Little river, north of Marked Tree. The report of the committee on its work during the year just closed has been made by Profes Clarence J. Moore who was in charge. The work consisted of opening the mounds on the St. Francis, Little White and Black rivers, where a vast number of skulls and relics were found. The work above Marked Tree was brought to a close on account of the hostility of the natives, who refused to permit the negro servants in the Philadelphia party to enter that section establishing a dead line. Negro Cause of Canceling Iowa-Missouri Game. Tigers Refuse to Play Against Alexander and Football Relation Are Served. Columbia, Mo.—It is now practically certain that Missouri will not meet Iowa next year in toot ball. The cause is said to be Iowa insistence upon playing Alexander, their star tackle who is a negro. For the past two years there have been rumors of trouble from this source, but the Hawkeyes have each time yeild to the Missouri ultimatum. They now insist upon playing the negro in all of next year's games As a result the Tigers and Hawkeyes will not meet on the gridiron. Rev. J. B. Edwards and wife were the guest of Mrs. Sally Hall and mother for dinner Sunday. Not Ashamed of His Color The most difficult and trying of the classes of persons with which I am brought in contract is the colored man or woman who is ashamed of his or her race, and because of this fact, is ways in bad temper. I have had opportunities such as few colored men have had of meeting and getting acquainted with many of the best white people, North and South. This has never led me to desire to get away from my own people. On the contrary, I have always returned to my own people and my own work with renewed interest. I have never at any time asked or expected that anyone in dealing with me, should overlook or forget that I am a Negro. On they contrary I have always recognized that when any special honor was conferred not in spite of my being a Negro, and, because I am a Negro. Looking back over the twenty five and more years that have passed since that time, I rehize as I did not at the time how the better part of my education the education that I got after leaving school—has been in the effort to work out those problems in a way that would gain the interested and the sympathy of all three of the classes directly concerned. In order to gain consideration from these three classes for what I was trying to do, I have had to enter sympathetically into the three different points of view entertained by those three classes; I have had to consider in detail how the work that I was trying to do was going to affect the interest of all three. To do this and at the same time continue to deal frankly and honestly with each class, has been indeed a difficult and at times a puzzling task,—From Booker T. Washington's "Chapters From My Experience" in World's Work. Negro Farmers Heed Session. Nearly 2,000 Negro farmers iron Georgia Alabama and Mississippi and education from many parts of the country, were presents at the opening of the Twentieth annual Negro farmers conference in Tuskegee, Ala. on Wednesday Jan. 18th 1911. Booker T. Washington principal of Tuskegee Institute made the opening address in which he urged the Negro farmer to strive for better methods to cultivate the land. He dwelt especially upon the evils of the mortgage system and declared that the Negro was unable to get a deguate instructions in scientific farming. The meeting was great success and much good was accomplish. Dr. Washington is still doing a most praise worthy work in the interest of our race. Negro Baseball League. Chicago.—(Special)—Under the tentative plans of the Negro National Baseball League, which was formed here, it will incorporate in Illinois with $2,500 capital, each club paying $300 for its franchise. Other resolutions that went through were to have at least half of the umpires colored men and pay them $5 a game to establish a blacklist of players who may jump a reserve list to be agreed upon by the clubs at the next meeting and to limit the league to one franchise in each city. Besides the eight cities represented at the meeting the executive committee expects to receive applications from a number of others for admission into the league The cities which had represent atives present were Chicago Louisville, New Orleans, Mobile, St. Louis Kansas City, Kans. and Columbus Ohio. Contract With Negro Stands. Olympia Wash-(Special) When a Negro makes a contract to buy a house in a first class residence district without concealing his his color, the seller cannot declare the contract invalid, merely because the purchaser is black. Thur the state supreme court ruled in the case of David Cole, a Negro, against the Hunter Contract Investment company of Seattle, which contended that selling a lot to Cole would depreciate the value of its property. Dr. Booker T. Washington is still doing a noble work tor his race and has long since won the leadership of it. NO.42 There is no visible reason for any condition-save that of the greatest harmony-and unity-to prevail among the colored people of this city. There are no intricate nor delicate interest among them that calls for a divisions. Whatever movements as a rule that will help one colored man, will in propotion help all—and vice versa. We can gain much in a harmonious united effort and we will lose much by a division amongst us. We should extend to each other race help—which at the greatest is small. The salvation of the race lies in our ability to learn that we owe it to ourselves to our families and to our posterity to give the members of our race, especially those in business and professional pursuits our moral and financial support even when we must go to some disadvantage at times to do so. There is absolutely no occasion or reason for bickering and dessention among us. We are not making history for ourselves but for unborn generations—so it behoves us to see that that history is in our favor. Let us not mar it with little petty foolish nousensities. We are a great people—all we now need is to impress our greatness on the whole world. Let unity prevail. Loyal To Race. The Searcdlight acknowledges ten (10) new Subscribers this week already from loyal men and women of our race who are going to keep us, get our one thousand new subcribers. That makes us feel good and speaks well for our people. Have you read our request? Do so and send in the name of some friend or acquaintance and help us get One Thousand(1000)new subscribers. We will appreciate all you do. We are keeping a correct account of those who send in names at the close we are going to announce and amply reward the one who sends in the most names. You can help us much-at the same time it will not be of any cost to you. We are endeavoring to give our people a clean, credible paper with our means and every help from any source is much appreciated. Otter 5 T HE day of romance—romance of the old sort, of pirate-infested seas of peril-ridden lands of gold, of strange and unknown countries filled with the lure that has drawn men from the beginning of time—has rapidly passed away. It is followed now by the romance of iron and steel, the romance of invention, of progress, of a civilization that is fast crushing out the last vestige of the primitive and adding each day new chapters to its own marvelous achievements. It seems like a fitting decree of fate that the oldest and most romantic of all the industries of man, with the exception of his earliest fight for food, should be the last to die. There is something of pathos in it, especially when it is pointed out to one as it was pointed out to me by Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, head of the great Hudson's Bay Company, who said, "The last chapter in the romance of fur is being written. It has been a glorious story—a glorious story." For three thousand years the pelts of wild beasts have played their part in the lives of men. For the last ten centuries fur has played an important part in history. It has held out the lure of romance—of adventure and gold. It has caused wars, and has led to the discovery of new lands. Fur hunters have done more exploring than any other one class of men. It was the beaver that lured men from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi, and thence to the Rockies, opening up a continent. It was the sable that drew the tribesmen of Asiatic Russia across to far Kamchatka, and the sea otter that led the Spanish and the English all around the world in crazy craft, and gave us our first knowledge of the Pacific coast from Alaska to California. When, away back in 1670, a wandering and adventurous Frenchman by the name of Groselier fired Prince Rupert's imagination with glowing tales of a land filled with priceless furs, and a little company was formed with a capital of $50,000, he did not dream that his wild project meant the opening up of a country almost as large as the whole of Europe and the beginning of an adventure which was to run through centuries. It was this little company of "gentleman adventurers" who formed what is today the Hudson's Bay company, the greatest landed corporation on earth—something which will remain for all time in history as a cenotaph to the tremendous part which the furred things of forest and mountain and sea have played in the fortunes of men. Last year the raw fur industry of the world amounted to forty million dollars. Next year it will be fifty million, and the year after that the figures will be larger still. Five years ago it was less than twenty millions. Yet in spite of these figures—in the face of the fact that the fur-treasure of the world is increasing in value each year, and will continue to increase for perhaps another decade, the furred things of the earth are fast becoming extinct. A year ago a big London fur buyer, whose business amounts to over a million dollars annually, said to me, "Within another five years only a very few people of moderate means will be buying furs. Only the wealthy will be able to afford those furs which are cheapest today, and even the muskrat, whose pelt sold for five and six cents a few years ago, will be prized as a luxury." Ten months did much to verify this fur dealer's statements. Within that time raw pelts advanced from twenty to one hundred per cent. A Montreal dealer who purchased 80,000 muskrat skins at twenty cents per skin a year before sold them in London for seventy. A month later they had gone to eighty. Two months later they were bringing a dollar. In a single season the value of the world's annual production of fur leaped from $25,000,000 to over $40,000,000. I had just come down from my last trip to the Barren Lands, where I had spent eight weeks among the far northern fox hunters, when word was passed from post to post and from trapper to trapper throughout hundreds of thousands of square miles of Canadian wilderness that a fur famine had struck London and Paris, the fur centers of the world, and that from Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal both the "Independents" and the agents of the big companies were making fabulous offers for pelts. It will be interesting to note the conditions that this famine will bring about during the next two or three years. Millions of women are aa yet unaware of what the great fur dealer I have quoted above describes as "the mine that is about to explode under their feet." It cannot be said however, that they have not had some warning. The woman who bought a mink muff for twenty dollars five years ago pays sixty for the same grade of article today; she will pay from seventy to eighty for it this coming season—a hundred or more two years from now. These statements are not made at random, but only after the closest personal investiga- The Last Chapter in the ROMANCE of FUR BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD COPYRIGHT BY PEARSON PUB CO tion of the fur situation as it exists today, and after a long acquaintance with the great fur companies, buyers, and trappers. But a few facts are necessary to show at what ruthless pace the slaughter of fur animals has gone on during the past decade. It was not long ago that 150,000 skins of the sea otter were taken from the Aleutian Islands each year. Today there are less than 400 skins taken annually. Ten years ago sea otter was a popular fur; today it is worn only by the royal blood of Europe. Twenty years ago it was estimated that seal herds of the Prybiloffs numbered over five millions. Today, in spite of international treaties for their protection, there are not more than 150,000 seals on the island! About 10,000 skins were taken last year, and so relentless was the slaughter on account of the princely sums offered for the fur that 10,000 baby seals died during the season, chiefly of starvation because of the death of their mothers. The glossy little wood marten is dying out. Four years ago I met two Canadian trappers who were coming down from the upper New Ontario game regions with 300 marten, worth then from four to five dollars a skin. Today they are worth twenty-five dollars, and a half a dozen are a big "catch" for any one man in a single season. Five years ago 1,760,000 foxes were killed to supply the world's market. Three years ago the number had fallen to 1,200,000. Last year less than a million were caught. From two dollars a skin the red fox jumped to twelve; the "cross" fox from twenty-five to as high as a hundred, silver and black fox to prices that made their skins ten times the value of their weight in gold! The silver and black are now so rare that they are "bid" for only by dukes and duchesses, the rulers and the heirs of kingdoms and empires. Seldom does one sell in the London or Paris markets for less than from $700 to $1,000. A year ago one pelt sold for $4,000. In this same way are going the black sable and the little white ermine whose pelt has been worn in the robes of royalty for more than seven centuries. It was not long ago that 100,000 skins of the black sable found their way into the market each year. Last year this number had dwindled to fifteen thousand! The "signs of the change" are now at hand in another way, and as a consequence never in history will the women of the world be "up against" a greater assortment of subsri- tutes in the fur line than during the coming seasons. The world's prosperity and its rapid increase in population are, of course, the chief causes of the extinction of fur. As recently as ten years ago the people of the United States were not counted among the great buyers of fur. Now the majority of women among ninety million people are purchasers of fur of one kind or another. Five years ago London was the world's greatest fur center, with Paris a close second. Today, so enormous has the demand for fur become in this country as well as across the sea, that there are over 3,000 establishments for the treatment of fine furs and the making of fur garments in New York City alone. London and Paris have now taken second and third places in the actual making of fur garments, though London handles more raw fur than the other two combined. Last year the value of New York's "finished" output was nearly $20,000,000, and fully sixty per cent. of this was represented by the furs which a few years ago were considered almost worthless. "Three years will clean out the cheaper class of fur," said a Montreal buyer to me, "and then the real famine will be at hand." This passing of the old romance of fur is marked not only by the pathos of the furred things themselves, but by that of the wild and picturesque life of those thousands of wilderness people whose centuries-old vocation must go with the things which gave it birth. There is some comfort for the lover of the wild and what it holds in the thought that at least in a great part of the far Canadian wilderness the picturesque fur-hunter will never, like the courier du bois, quite die out. In a country one-third as large as the whole of Europe railroads and civilization will never go. This vast wilderness region, long described as a "waste," stretches from the coast of Labrador, through Ungava, skirts Hudson's Bay and swings north and west to Mackenzie Land and the polar seas. It is a land where for six months out of the year man's life is a bitter fight against deep snows and fierce blizzards—against hardships of all kinds, starvation, and a cold that reaches sixty degrees below zero and which is so "drv" that one may freeze almost to the point of death without being aware of especial discomfort or pain. It is, as Lord Strathcona says, "the last great trapping ground." Out of this trapping ground there has come ```markdown ``` a constant stream of treasure for nearly two and a half centuries. Last year, according to Canadian export figures, this treasure amounted to $2,719,822, but no credit was given for the enormous home consumption of raw pelts. The actual catch was worth at least $5,500-000. The coming season will see $7,000,000 worth of furs caught in Canada, in spite of the fact that the actual number of skins will be at least a quarter less than a year ago, when the lives of between thirty and forty million wild things were taken that Milady of civilization might have her furs. As recently as eight years ago, when the writer first began his journeys into the northland, one struck the great fur country as soon as he crossed Lake Superior. From there it ranged to the Arctic sea. Less than a decade has brought about a tremendous change, and now one travels a hundred miles farther north before he enters the "last great trapping ground." From this great trapping ground comes seventy per cent. of the better class of furs worn by the American woman and her Canadian sister. In a vast desolation one-third as large as the whole of Europe there is no railroad, no white man's village, and its population is less than that of the Sahara Desert. In its center is Hudson's Bay, the great "ice box" of the north—nine times as large as the state of Ohio. Over this vast territory at distances of from one to three hundred miles apart are scattered the Hudson's Bay Company's posts and those of its French competitors, the Revillon Brothers. In most instances a post consists of nothing more than a company "store," the factor's house, and two or three log cabins. Except during the months of the trapping season these are practically the only points of human life in a country that runs two thousand miles east and west and from two to eight hundred north and south. With the first breath of winter the fur-gatherers begin to bury themselves in the vast desolation about them, traveling one and sometimes two hundred miles away from the post to their old trapping grounds. From the moment he leaves his door to go over his line, three days' supply of food and a thick blanket in his pack-sack, a knife, a belt-ax and a rifle as weapons, every hour is filled with excitement for the hunter of fur. On his snowshoes he speeds swiftly from trap to trap, every mile of snowy forests and swamps revealing the mysteries of the wild things to him as plainly as a picture-book. In one trap he finds a great white owl, and cuts off the beautiful wings for the wife and children back in the cabin. In the next there is a huge snow-shoe rabbit, frozen stiff as it had died. And then, from through the thick and gloomy balsam ahead, he hears the faint clinking of a chain. His blood leaps now, for this royal sport of the wilderness never grows old to the fur-hunter. The chain clinks louder, and he draws in quick, excited breaths as he lifts the hammer of his rifle and stares ahead. He comes suddenly upon the next house, and there is a snarling, leaping, thing in the air before him, a great silver-gray furred thing, lithe and beautiful as it crouches at bay—a lynx. And a magnificent specimen, its six-inch fur, as fine as a woman's hair, crumpled and lying richly upon the blood-stained snow as it waits for the man to come within springing distance. But the hunter knows better. He alms carefully for a spot where he can sew up the bullet-hole, and fires. Only a short time from now some gently nurtured beauty of civilization will press the warmth and regal loveliness of that thing to her face, and—is it possible that a vision of this wilderness tragedy will come to her then? No more than the dark-faced hunter sees a vision of that woman's loveliness as he skims his catch and hurries on. To each is given but a part of the picture. The forest man knows only that he has caught a "Number One, Extra" lynx, and that the Company will pay him fifteen dollars for it. His mental visions go no farther than that. He makes no effort to follow it in the great ship that will carry it to Paris or London, where it will be sold at great profit; nor to the furrier's shop, nor to the dainty girl or the society matron in New York who will pay $150 for that same fifteen-dollar lynx—in an "imported" muff. He goes on, keyed to higher excitement, until the end of the day comes, and in the first gray gloom of early night he stops at one of the three or four small log shelters which he has built for himself along the trap-line, gets his supper, lights his pipe, and reviews the happenings of the day until slumber closes his eyes. It will take him three days to cover a forty-mile trap-line, and when he returns to his cabin at the close of the third he is welcomed by the glad cries of his children and the laughter and joy of his wife, who has a tender roast porcupine or a venison stew waiting for him. For two days after that he rests, smokes his pipe, and tells of his adventures, while his wife scrapes the fat from his pelts and stretches them on sticks. Then, once more, he shoulders his pack, and goes again upon his round of excitement, adventure and profit. DYSPEPTIC PHILISOPHY. What the theater really needs is a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Audiences. Why are we supposed to have more respect for gray hairs than for a bald head? A man can face the world with a good heart if he can also face it with a good liver. From a masculine point of view would it be heresy to question the sex of the devil? Some fat men are meaner than other men simply because there is more of them. Many a man who thinks he is in love lives to discover that second thoughts are best. Some men are born great, some acquire greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them, but it doesn't seem to take any of them long to get rid of it. The Modest Model. The late Julia Ward Howe, though a woman of very good appearance, was extremely modest. "She once posed for me," said a Boston painter the other day. "But she hesitated a long time before consenting. To urge her on I said: "Don't be afraid. I'll do you justice, madam." "Ah, she answered, 'it isn't justice I ask for at your hands; it's mercy.'" Not Just Off the Shelf Little Marget has the childist trait of curiosity, especially in regard to the age of her elders. "How old do you think I am, dear?" counter-questioned the spinner aunt to whom the child had put the impertinent query. The little girl considered earnestly before replying: "Well, I don't know, Auntie Alice, but you don't look new!" INSIDE HISTORY Some Self-Explanatory Letters. Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 7, '11. Dr. E. H. Pratt. My Dear Doctor: "Owing to some disagreement with ____ magazine several years ago they have become quite vituperative, and of late have publicly charged me with falsehoods in my statements that we have genuine testimonial letters. "It has been our rule to refrain from publishing the names either of laymen or physicians who have written to us in a complimentary way, and we have declined to accede to the demand of attorneys that we turn these letters over to them. "I am asking a few men whom I deem to be friends to permit me to reproduce some of their letters over their signatures in order to refute the falsehoods." "We have hundreds of letters from physicians, but I esteem the one that you wrote to me in 1906 among the very best, particularly in view of the fact that it recognizes the work I have been trying to do partly through the little book, 'The Road to Wellville.' "I do not sell or attempt to sell the higher thought which is more important than the kind of food, but I have taken considerable pains to extend to humanity such facts as may have come to me on this subject. "In order that your mind may be refreshed I am herewith enclosing a copy of your good letter, also a copy of the little book, and if you will give me the privilege of printing this over your signature I will accompany the printing with an explanation as to why you permitted its use in publication in order to refute falsehoods, and under that method of treatment I feel, so far as I know, there would be no breach of the code of ethics. "I trust this winter weather is finding you well, contented and enjoying the fruits that are yours by right." "With all best wishes, I am." Dr. Pratt, who is one of the most prominent and skillful surgeons in America, very kindly granted our request in the cause of truth and justice. Chicago, Aug. 31, 1908. Mr. C. W. Post, Battle Creek, Mich. My Dear Sir: "I write to express my personal appreciation of one of your business methods, that of accompanying each package of your Grape-Nuts production with that little booklet "The Road to Wellville," A more appropriate, clear headed and effective presentation of health-giving auto-suggestions could scarcely be penned. "Grape-Nuts is a good food in itself, but the food contained in this little article is still better stuff. I commend the practice because I know that the greed and strenuousness, the consequent graft and other types of thievery and malicious mischief generally can never be cured by legislative action. "The only hope for the betterment of the race rests in individual soul culture." "In taking a step in this direction, your process has been so original and unique that it must set a pace for other concerns until finally the whole country gets flavored with genuine, practical Christianity. 'I shall do all that lies in my power to aid in the appreciation of Grape Nuts, not so much for the sake of the food itself as for the accompanying suggestions. TACOMA SEIZEU THE HORNET THE ACT AMOUNTS TO ARMED IN- TERVENTION. The Boat Was De Jared to Be a. Fili- buster and Was Taking Part in Honduran Revolution. Washington —Yhe seizure of the \iomnet, the filibuster in active opera- gainst nonduras, by the cruiser ivoma, precisely as if the Horner . pirate, marks a new positive i on the part of the United which puts an end to the tra. onal opera bouffe plan of revelu onary partes in the central and Suit American republics. The dra- « act of seizing the Hornet is so ose 10 armed intervention in Hor- as that there is no other name for ct. The attorney general devid- | that the Hornet was a filibuster, ugh she cleared to all appear- s in good faith from New Orleans. © vessel took part in the eapture cf outan island by the revolutionists. Phe interest of this government in ne Hornet lay In the fact that she scxed in hostile acts against a coun- where there were large American inierests that-could not be adequately suarded by Honduras, which has no navy. The Hornet can be returned to New Orleans, beled and sold, or it cin be returned to the owners under bond. The seizure of the Hornet will put «n end to the revolution in Honduras, besides giving warning for the future (all the central and South American uations how this government will act ln the case of flibusters that attempt ) hoodwink the customs and other ollicials whose duty it 1s to see vessels » armed expeditions or hostile intent suinst a friendly country do not leave a part of the United States. FARMERS SHOULD MAKE ALCOHOL Dr. Wiley Told House Committee It Was the Coming Source of Heat and Light. Washington—The department ot agriculture is to renew its efforts to interest the farmers in the making and use of denatured alcohol. Two years ago the department invited the state azricultural stations to send represen tatives to take a course at Washington in the making of this cheap fuel and a small distillery was set up. Fourteen states responded, but last year the class was reduced to four. “Secretary Wilson has approved a plan for enlarging the model distillery and moving it to the farm at Arling- ton,” Dr, Wiley said at a hearing be fore the house committee on expendi: tures. “The time is coming when de- natured alcohol will take the place of coal and coal ofl in the United States. Doctor Wiley told the com. mittee that a denatured alcohol outfit that would serve a community for six square miles could be made for $2,500, and would be much cheaper if manu #actured in quantities. CHARGES OIL CONSPIRACY One Uncle Sam Oil Company Declares the Other Is Affiliated with the Standard. , Tulsa, Ok.—Alleging in its reply that the United States postal depart- ment agents have at times been con- trolled by the Standard Oil company and that because of this fact the Stan- dard has been able to have fraud or- ders issued against the Arizona and Kansas Uncle Sam Oi] company filed an answer to the suit against it for $700,000 damages brought by the Uncle Sam Oil company of Oklahoma. ‘The defendant company charges that its Oklahoma rival is an affiliated company of the Standard, organized and incorporated for the purpose of making it possible to secure the de- tendant company’s mail, LOEB BACK TO WHITE HOUSE The Man Who Has Made Smuggling Dangerous to the Rich May Be Recalled. Washington.—There is good reason Jor ‘he statement that William Loeb, son may be called from the col- lectorship of the port of New York to resume his old office at the White louse as secretary to the president. antere ities Bae St. Petersburg.—A special dispatch rom Harbin declares that hunters from Jerboa, in Mongolia, were the Crriers of the plague into Manchuria, The first ease occurred near Khailar, but the disease was not locaiized and ent to the southeast. Almos: every se has ended in death. The diseases ve of the pulmonary type and the vortality is estimated at 99 per cent Women Doctors Replace Men. Hempstead, N. ¥.—Women — in- nes have been substituted for yen at the Hempstead hospital, of ui Mrs. ©. H. P. Belmont is presi- & Western Heavy Weight Dead. San Francisco.—Herrmann Schmidt, loon keeper, said to be the heavi- «st man in the west, was found dead is home here. His weight was nore than 450 pounds. He was ¢5 rs old. West Virginia Senators Go Home. Charleston, W. Va—Assured that "y «tempt will be made to enforce “arrants of arrest for non-aitendance won the sessions of the state senate, ‘s republican members of that body Teturned here from Cincinnati. We tj Ri. pg. SN S - & v ei: XAG rts sma k dp Ss, SS win Hee AUDIENCE RS oan Ne Dy 4S REMARKABLE =p mm Be RG SSCP Discovery] Welw i, one Chimpanzee \ \ LL eA ae Ups |” PROGRESSIVES FORM A LEAGUE REPRESENT INSURGENT WING OF REPUBLICAN PARTY. The Declaration of Principles Says Promotion of Popular Government Is the Fundamental Question. Washington.—Carrying ‘a possibly greater significance than any political movement in years, the formation of ‘the National Progressive Republican League was announced here, Backed by nine United States senators six governors, thirteen members of the house of representatives and many ‘other prominent progressives, the new organization binds itself to make a ‘uation wide fight “for the establish- ment of poular government.” | Representing the progressive wing of the republican party, the league a looked upon here as the opening wedge for the fight of the progres ‘sives to gain control of the party be- ‘fore the next presidential election. ‘The declaration of principle, or plat: form of the new organization, is as follows: “We, the undersigned, associate ourselves together as the National Progressive Republican League. “The object of the league 1s the pro- motion of popular government and progressive legislation. “The progressive republican league believes that popular government 1s fundamental to all other questions. To this end it advocates: “1—The election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. _ “2.—Direct primaries for the nomi- nation of all elective officials, “3.—The direct election of delegates io national conventions with opportun- ity for the voter to express his choice for president and vice president. “4—Amendment to state constitu- tions providing for the initiative, ref- erendum and recall. “5,—Athorough going corrupt prac: tices act.” DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS SHOT Was Attacked on Street of New York and Seriously Wounded—As- sailant Shoots Himself. New York.—David Graham Phillips, author and writer upon sociolosica! problems, was shot down as he was on his way to the Princeton club, at No. 121 Bast 21st street, by Fitzhugh C. Goldsborough, a professor of the violin, who had lived at the Rank School of Social Science at No. 112 East i9th street. After firing six bullets into the help- jess author Goldsborough shot him self. Goldsborough fell dead to <he sidewalk, Phillips was hurried into the Princeton club and then to Belle- veu hospital, where the surgeons, said that he might recover. None of the six bullets, the surgeons thought, had touched a vital spot. Haskell Buys a Newspaper. McAlester, Ok.—Ex-Governor Has kell and his former private secretary, W. B. Anthony, now leader of the ma- jority in the house of representatives, bought the McAlester Herald-Demo- erat, a daily and weekly newspaper, from W. T. Dungan, Fire Wives Out Nearo Town. Muskogee, Okla—Wybark, a town occupied wholly by negroes, contain- ing several hundred inhabitants and located seven miles north of Musko- gee, virtually was wiped out by fire. A Mine Explosion Killed Five. Richmond, Va.—Five men were kill- ed, four probably fatally injured and seven slightly injured as a result of an explosion of dynamite or gas in the Cayton mine, about fifteen miles west of Richmond. Pacific Wants Protection. Sacramento, Cal—A permanent fleet of battleships as powerful as that of any other nation bordering on the Pacific ocean is asked in a reso- lution to congress presented to the assembly. COMMITTEE FOR TARIFF BOARD President Taft Orders Hayti and San Domingo to Disband Armies and Arbitrate Differences. Washington.—President Taft gave the nations an object lesson in shirt- sleeve diplomacy and how the peace of the world can be accomplished. He issued peremptory orders to the American minister at San Domingo that there must be no war between San Domingo and Hayti. ‘This is the first time that such an order has ever gone from the White House. The order is made possible by the fact that the United States, by guaranteeing San Domingo's debt to European nations, made of that re- public a protectorate of this govern- ment and consequently gave the Unit- ed States the power to tell Hayti that she cannot interfere with American political institutions in San Domingo. FOR NEW ORLEANS , $1,000,000 The House Committee Reported Fa- vorably for the Southern City— Not Liable for Debts. Washington.—An appropriation of $1,000,000 for a government exhibit at New Orleans in 1915 and provisvns which will make it impossible for the government to be held in any way for the Habilitiés of the exposi- tion are carried in the New Orleans exposition bill reported to the house from the committee on industrial arts and expositions. ‘A board of seven commissioners at salaries of $5,000 each is provided, the salaries to be paid by the local exposition management. REPUBLICS MUST BE GOOD The Democrats Join in Recommend- Ing It—An Advisory Body Only to Report When Asked. Washington.—Brought into line by President Taft after: weeks of argu- ments, the house ways and means committee favorably reported a Dill providing for a permanent tariff board. It is a compromise measure, satisfactory to the president and it will pass the house. Its fate is un- certain in ‘the senate. Much to the surprise of republican members of the committee the bill received the unan imous support of the democratic mem- bers led by Champ Clark. Morgan’s Financial Power. New York.—J. P, Morgan's dominat- ing power in the financial world of America was demonstrated by figures showing that through four national banks in this city, seven trust compa- nies and two life insurance compa- nies, he controls 20.5 per cent of the $9,730,518,635 assets of the national banks of the country. Provide Steel Mail Cars. Washington.—Steel cars to protect the lives of railway mail clerks will be provided for by the postoffice ap- propriation bill which is under consid- eration in the house, according to an agreement reached on the floor of the house. Parmalee Flew Almost Four Hours. ‘San Francisco—Eighty thousand persons saw Phil Parmalee, one of the Wright bird-men, create a new Ameri- can record for an endurance flight at Selfridge park. Flying a Wright bi- plane he was in the air 3 hours 39 min: utes and 49% seconds. Garhenie Guten tlodal. New York.—In accordance with a custom followed at each annual din- ner, the Pennsylvania society present- ed a gold medal to the Pennsylvanian who, within the year, is regarded as having been one of the greatest bene- fits to mankind. The recipient was Andrew Carnegie. President's Date in Kansas. Washington.—President Taft ac- cepted the Invitation to speak at the Kansas state fair at Hutchinson, Kas, either on September 25 or 26, LABOR WANTS ROADS BUILT The Federation Pushing the Plans for Construction of Railroads By Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla.—The proposal that Oklahoma engage in the build- ing and operating of railroads bas gained followers in the legislature. The state constitution permits that. ‘Two bills, differeing in some import~ ant particulars, are being drawn and will be discussed and consolidated at a meeting attended by members of the legislature and the executive officers of the state federation of labor. The federation approved the opera- tion and building section of the consti- tution that the state might be able © build lines that would make the people more independent of the pri- vately owned trunk lines. A resolu- tion was introduced in both honses for the repeal of Article 9, the section in question, without offering substitute provisions. ‘This will be opposed by the federation of labor. The resolu- tion asks that a special election be called by the governor. GOV. PATTERSON MADE A RECORD While Governor of Tennessee He Par- doned 1,000 Persons, of Whom 152 Were Murderers. Nashville, Tenn.—Historians of Tennessee now have a perfect right to call Malcom R. Patterson the pardon- ing governor. He granted pardons to 17 prisoners serving sentences in tho state penitentiary the day before he retired. Several of those invited to come outside by the retiring demo- cratic executive were in prison be- cause juries had found them guilty of murder, From the time he came Into office tn 1907 up to last July he treed 953 men from the penitentiary, an aver- age of six a week. Thirty-eight was his record for a single day. Of these ‘pardons, 152 were murderers ‘DENSE FOG CAUSED COLLISION Many Injured When Two Trains Met in Kansas City, Kan—One ( Dangerously Hurt. Kansas City, Kan—A dense fog caused a rear-end railway col- lision in which Raymond C. Swann, a railway mail clerk, was injured dan- gerously and nearly all the 100 pas- sengers of the outgoing “Seneca and Virginia Express” of the Kansas City- Northwestern railway were bruised or cut by glass. The locomotive of the “Des Moines Special” of the Chicago Great Western struck the express’s rear coach near the mouth of the Kaw. After emergency treatment all the passengers continued their jour- ney. ae THE PEOPLE SELECTED SENATOR | In Nevada a Choice Expressed at the Polls Was Ratified by the Legislature. Carson City, Nev.—Under a pledge to support the senatorial candidate who received the greatest number of votes at the last election the senate, democratic, and the assembly, rapub- lican, elected George B. Nixon, repub- lican, to succeed himself as United States senator for the next six years. Speeches were made in both houses of the legislature in favor of a popular vote of the people in the election of United States senators and the action 1s unanimously in line with this re- form. FIVE MILLIONS HAVE HOOKWORM That Is the Estimate of the Rockefell- er Institute of Victims in This Country. Washington—Five milion Amert- cans have hookworm. This is the fact of primary importance disclosed through the investigation of the ori- gin and progress of the diseaze by tho corps of experts of the Rochefelier commission. Hookworm is spreading. The com- mission has discovered evidences of the development of this parasite in Arizona, California and other western states, ia Strona for Statehood, Albuquerque, N. M.—One of the most decisive majorities ever polled in the history of New Mexico was that given to the new constitution at the ratification election. Returns indicat- ed that the constitution had carried by a plurality of at least 12,000, which is 5,000 more than its friends had anticipated. Trying to Make Peace. Washington—In response to the re- quest of Haiti, the American govern- ment has formally tendered its good offices to both Haiti and Santo Do- mingo in a friendly effort to bring about @ settlement of the territorial dispute which is seriously threatening the peace of the two countries. Few Against a Constitution. Santa Fe, N. M.—The official vote of New Mexico on the constitution, taken Saturday, will not be known for several days. Republican leaders say that the official majority will reach 20,000 out of a total vote of 42,000. tea: Mote: Filahta tor Cauctiaa: New York.—Glenn H. Curtiss, win ner of the international cup at Rheims in 1969, has just taken out a $10,000 life insurance policy, in which he grees to abandon aeroplane flights. D ; ; By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound The Change of Life is the most critical period of a woman’s existence, and neglect of health at this time invites disease. Women everywhere should remember that there is no other remedy known to medicine that will so ee carry, women through this trying period as Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs, Here is proof: Semin | Natick, Mass,—T cannot express what I es ie *";|went through during the Change of Life before ES ) |t tried Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- a Bf , |pound. I was in such a nervous condition E Peet a lcould not keep still. My limbs were cold. IE 4 J jhad creepy sensations and could not sleep ao ||| |nights. I was finally told by two physicians 4 | that I had a tumor. A if bare \ Ku) “I read one day of the wonderful cures made) NN Ny \\iby Zydia 2. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound } if ay i Jand decided to try it, and it has made mea well Nf woman. My neighbors and friends declare {6 has worked a miracie for Me, yee ee ae a ae ay ae, Compound ts worth its weight in gold for women during this period of life. If it will help others you may publish this letter.”—Mrs, Nathan B, Greaton, 51 No. Main St., Natick,Mass. ANOTHER SIMILAR CASE. | a Cornwallville, N. ¥.—“I have been taking) Jey | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for| G27 <a@t | some time for Change of Life, nervousness, and} |S 4 a a fibroid growth, ao 4 “Two doctors advised me to go to the) gg 4 hospital, but one day while I was away visiting, bags poraaee meta woman who told me to take Lydia Ea" Jar F] Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. I didso and Ich 7. | know it helped me wonderfully. I am veryPA\N) \ Mronkfu that K was told to try Lydia ECGws \ Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”—Mrs. Wm. Boughton, Cornwallville, N. ¥., Greene Co. The makers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Come pound have thousands of such letters as those above— they tell the truth, else they could not have been obtained for love or money. This medicine is no stranger — it has stood the test for years. For 30 years Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable ((>—fame Compound hag been the standard remedy for )) : (( female ills, No sick woman does justice to is herself who will not try this famous medicine. i Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women pela to write her for advice. She has M7 S lod thousands to health free of charge. US VI ‘Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. “iar mn FN EA IN can is Miamiane RR A ari Ree eae Rater sty ee Cornwallville, N. ¥.—“I have been taking}; 9&2 oa Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for| G27 <a@t | some time for Change of Life, nervousness, and} |S 4 a a fibroid growth, ao 4 “Two doctors advised me to go to the) gg 4 hospital, but one day while I was away visiting, bags poraaee meta woman who told me to take Lydia Ea" Jar F] Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. I didso and Ich 7. | know it helped me wonderfully, I am veryPg\) AY thankful that I was told to try Lydia E. raw \ Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”—Mrs. Wm. Boughton, Cornwallville, N. ¥., Greene Co. The makers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Come pound have thousands of such letters as those above— they tell the truth, else they could not have been obtained for love or money. This medicine is no stranger — it has stood the test for years. For 30 years Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable ((>—fame Compound hag been the standard remedy for )) : (( female ills, No sick woman does justice to is herself who will not try this famous medicine. i Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women “7 ee Write her for advice. Sho bas SK S lod thousands to health free of charge. US VI ‘Address Mrs, Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. “ivi Pinnins a 5 | i ‘mea E HRN IN ANN) WHERE GALLANTRY CEASES ‘Qne Thing That a Woman Has No Right to Expect From a Man. “I always believe,” he gallantly said, “in yielding to the ladies.” “I suppose you always give way to your wife when you and she happen to have an argument?” “Invariably.” “And you never fail to relinquish your seat in the car when {t happens that some woman would have to stand unless you did so?” “Certainly.” “Do you take off your hat when you get into an elevator where there are ladies?” “I never fail to do that.” “It you had secured the last lower berth in a sleeper would you give tt up to a lady who would otherwise have to occupy an upper?” “Of course. I have done it fre quently.” “In case you stood in line in front of a ticket window, would you be willing to go away back to the end so that some woman might have your place?” “Say, what do you think I am—a fool?” Snsata Nalaw: Gerald—You are always out when I call. Geraldine—It you didn't wear such loud clothes I couldn't hear you com: ing. CHEATED FOR YEARS. Prejudice Will Cheat Us Often If We a. hae. ‘You will be astonished to find how largely you are influenced in every way by unreasoning prejudice. In many cases you will also find that the prejudice has swindled you, or rather made you swindle yourself. A case in iNustration “7 have been a constant user o! Grape-Nuts for nearly three years,’ says a correspondent, “and I am hap py to say that I am well pleased with tho result of the experiment, for such st has been. “Seeing your advertisement in al most all of the periodicals, for a long t’me I looked upon it as a hoax. But after years of suffering with gaseous and bitter eructations from my stom ach, together with more or less los: of appetite and flesh, I concluded tc try Grape-Nuts food for a little time and note the result. “I found it delicious, and st was no! long till I began to expertence the beneficial effects. My stomach re sumed its normal state, the eructa tions and bitterness ceased and I have gained all my lost weight back. “I am so well satisfied with the result that so long aé I may live an¢ retain my reason Grape-Nuts shal constitute quite a portion of my daily food.” + Read “The Road to Wellville,” ir pkgs. “There's a Reason.” res send sie aheve "letter? A nev on ra She gehuine, rue, and ‘full of humas focetenae oe Vid. Bouchton,. The Wise Bishop. To the brilliant Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, Dr. Thomas F. Gailor, @ Memphis man of rather narrow views, complained about charity balls, “IT doubt if it be quite reverent, Bishop,” the man said, ‘‘to give a ball for the purposes of charity.” But Bishop Gailor, with a saving burst of common sense, laughed and replied: “Why, my dear fellow, I'm sure, if {t would do anybody any good, I'd dance the whole length of Memphis in full canonicals.” WEAK BACKS MADE STRONG, Backache in most cases is kidney ache, and usually accompanied by i regularities of the urine, To remove the pain and weakness, you must cure. the kidneys. Do sa D4 with Doan's Kidney Y~} Pills. J. E. Dunlap, , Kennet, Mo, says: “My condition was a terrible. I was im Smite | bed for six weeks and could not move owing to intense pain In my back. My feet b apie miscsnan euler taco: ) Bt with Doan’s Kidney Y~} Pills. J. EB. Dunlap, Y Kennet, Mo, says: “My condition was a terrible. I was im Smite | bed for six weeks and could not move owing to intense pain in my back. My feet and limbs were swollen and urine scant and distressing. After taking doctor's treatments without relief, I began with Doan’s Kidney Pills. They straightened me up in a hurry.” Remember the name—Doan’s. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents @ box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ¥, i Rennansote Miss Brush—I suppose you don't mind my being in your field, Mr. Gobel?” | Farmer Gobel (heart{ly)—The long er you stay, the better, miss. Fact {s, the birds ‘ave been very troublesome this season.—London Tattler. = C ti ti “For over nine years I suffered with chronte constipation and during this time I had to take an {injection of warm water once every 24 hours before I could have an action on my bowela, Happily I tried Cascarets, and today 1am a well man. During the mine years before 1 used Cascarets I suffered untold misery with fnternal piles, Thanks to you, I am free from all that this morning. You can use this in behalf of suffering humanity. BP. Fisher, Roanoke, 1 Pleasant, Palatabe, Potent, Paste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. We, 250, She. “Never sold In bulk. ‘The gen: huine tablet stamped GCC. Guaranteed to | Gare oF your money back. 0 Wil buy you @ five acre truck farm in the famous Pehnacola District of Florida, inves hear growing seaport and make money, Guaranteed market, free services of woll ex: pert and practical demonstration farm. We Want more farmers and will help them make food. "Write today for our descriptive itera: Eire telling what others have done. PENSACOLA REALTY COMPANY, Pensacola. Florida. PATENT iresiten2thities Bate ree E | DISO'’S ae for COUGHS & COLDS W. N. MILLER, Editor. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. Residence Phone, Marke. 1641. Office Phone, Market 243x "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. 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Address all matter for publication into The Wichita Searchlight, 630 N. Main street, Wichita, Kansas. Sixth. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. SEND YOUR NEWS IN EARLIER. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Mrs. Ida Ftazier left Wednesday day for Ft. Scott where she will attend the mission board. The I, R. A. club will meet at Mrs. W. M. Cole Friday afternoon. Every body was more than pleased with Ex-Congressman Murray lecture, it is best and most interesting that has ever been to Newton, he is to be praised. Enter your name at once by sending in the name of some friend or acquaintance as a subscriber to the Searchlight. Rev. John Metchem is reported to be able to be up and out of doors. W. M. Madison whose eyes were operated on at the hospital is said to be fast improving. Miss Rosetta Colema of Emporia has been the guests of Mrs. J. E. Lewis during the week she left Wednesday for Okla. The ladies of the C. M. E. chuch will meet on Wednesday afternoon 2:30 Jan. 25 to reoganize the sewing circle at the residence of Mrs J. M.Gross 702, E. 4th. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to CGI Rail Main Street. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right R.A.B.CRUMP Everything in the line of Tailoring. Work Guaranteed. Mrs. Millie Kelly is reported quite ill at her home. Mrs. Love Warfield is Down with a Bad Case of pneumonia. The Mother's Aid club will meet with Mrs A L Case 1104 N wichita Friday afternoon Feb 3rd all all are invited to attend Mrs Will H Jones is still ill at her home 522 N Water Street Mrs. J. W. Bennet is able to be up after quite an illness. Mrs Beatty Davis is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Henry Massey Jr. has been quite sick during the past week. Mrs Ethel Butler left for her home in Oklahoma Sunday after spending three weeks visiting with her two brothers Sam and Will Brazill Mrs Doc Kelley is very ill at her home 438 Kello Miss Ethel Barton is in the city visiting friends this week. L. White of Bayneville was in the city, Tuesday on business. Hathman-Hughes ,Tis said that Edward Hathman forman of the construction crew of the Wichita Street Railway Co. joiuneyed to Pueblo, Colo. and claimed for his bride Miss Clara Hnghes of that city on Wedneshay of last week. Miss Hester Banks who has been quite ill is fast on the mend Johnny the infant son of Mrs. J. V. Morris has been quite ill for the past week. Mrs. Sam Brazill entertained the W. T. Vernonclub last Thur, in honor of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Butler of Oklahoma. The table was artistically spred with a large American flag as a center-piece. A two course luncheon was served. Miss Daisy Brazill left Sunday for Oklahoma to visit with her grand parents. Roy, Ethel, and Ida White of Bayneville, Kans. were in the city last week visiting with Mrs J. V. Morris. The ladies of St Augustine Episcopal church gave a chickenpie supper at Makin Eye Drug store Thursday night. The Searchlight is still doing business at the same old stand, 630 N Main St. Come up. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right The Missionary Society of New Hope Baptist church met at the residence of Mrs. V. C. Griffith 335 West 15th St. Monday night. On Tuesday afternoon the members of her G. L. A. club held their meeting at the home of Mrs J. L.Harpes, they entertained as their guests ex Congressman G. W. Murray and wife and Miss Rosetta Coleman of Emporia, Mr. Murray made an excellent talk which was highly entertaining and instructive as was the remarks by the lady visitors. The beautiful exhibits of art work displayed was much admired by the guests. A dainty two course luncheon was served carrying out the club colors in blue, blue and yellow. A lovely boquet of carnations was presents to Mrs. Murray and Miss Coleman. The club will meet next week with Mrs. S. W. Fleming. Changes Location There will be no meeting of the Monday night Dancing School on Jan. 30th. The School will open on Monday night, Feb. 6th in new quarters on the 3rd floor at 517 N Main 6t., [ over the Makin Dye Drug Store ] Manager J. H. Sayles will fit the new quarters in fine style and arrange everything for the comfort of his many patrons. Taborian Temple No, 11 held a splendid meeting Thursday night and put the First Degree on in splendid style The Knights of Taborian Temple are hard at work and are showing great interest in the work. Their next regular meeting will be Feb. 2nd and Feb. 9th. they will initiate a class of candidates. The Mission Circle of New Hope Baptist church held a most delightfully successful meeting Monday evening at the residence of Mrs. V. C. Griffin, 335 w. 15th. Twenty-five members were present and encouraging remarks were made by H W James and Miss R. Coleman, of Emporia. An excellent two course lunch was an enjoyable feature of the occasion. Rev. J. E Edwards and Thos Glover went to Kan City to attend the funeral of the late Bishop A Grant that was held in that city Thursday. Miss S. L. Calhoun, District Superintendent A M E Sunday School will make her annual visit to Wichita next Sunday. The Mother's Aid Society met at the residence of Mrs Lizzie Madison last Friday afternoon and elected the following officers for the ensuing year; Mesdames Mattie Miller, president; Belle Wallace, vice president; R. Davis chapiin; W Bartlett, asst. chaplin; M E McKelley, treasurer; K Evans, cor. secretary; P. Johnson, rec. secretary; W Whittaker assistant secretary. Mrs. Lizzie Madison was taken very suddenly ill Thurspay. Do you trade with one of our advertisers? Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Phones 517 N. Main St. Bell4634 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY? Dr. F. O. Miller Physici'n & Surgeon Office Hours Bell Phone 9 to 11 2999 2 to 5 Wichita 7 to 8 Kansas. 513 N. Main St. All calls answered promptly Day or Night. Obstetrics and Diseases of women A Specialty Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST IS E-Z ON YOUR TEETH AND E-Z-ON YOUR POCKET BOOK Bridge Teeth $4.00 All Work Guaranteed Bell Phone 517 N. Main St. over 4634 Mahin Eye Drug Store. Send your news in earlier A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS 142 N. MARKET For Everything In Building Material SEE BOTH PHONES: 496-- J.H. TURNER J33 to 341 WEST DOUGLAS W. S. Henrion Druggist 501 North Main Street Wichita - - - - Kansas Subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1, for a whole year. Try it. METZ'S LUMBER IS IT? Largest yard under shed in the state. Best grade of lumber to select from. Choicest finishings, posts, shingles and everything in the lumber line. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Low and Easy to Meet. Let us figure next Lumber Bill. Yards and Office 3rd and Main Streets. Attend the Monday night dancing academy. The entertainment and program given by the ladies of Cabbellis M E church was quite a success They will meet next Wednesday with Mrs Ida Jennings. CULP'S MEAT MARKET 241 N.MAIN ST. Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tail, Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings, Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. F. ship Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beef. F. T. CULP, Prop. Main St. Both P trade with our Advertis Thebest Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tails, Chin Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings, Fresh Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh Sealship Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans F. T. CULP, Prop. 241 N. Main St. Both Phone Trade with our Advertisers Grocery Department WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL LARD WE SELL MEAT WE SELL POTATOES In fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. N. Main St. — Wichita, Kan — Bell Phone BODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOOR TRAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST MEAL With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. YOUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas PROCERIES, MEATS and General Merchandise We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy groceries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meats. Our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality in price. Free Deliver In fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class Grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main St. - Wichita, Kan - Bell Phone 239 IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR GRAHAM - CORN MEAL - BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years MILLING EXPE- RIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. ASK YOUR GROCER : See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas --- 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 55 - 257 North Main Phones 25 best for Bread and Biscui Best for Bread and Biscuits Wichita's Best Flour Kansas Milling Company Wichita, Kansas 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. MADE BY WATSON MILL CO. WICHITA KANSAS High Class Surgery Special Attention Given 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. ```markdown ``` "SECOND TO NONE" 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 Kansas State Law, Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 605 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments, Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty Courteous Attention Bell Phone 3055 IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors " MODERN " CLEANING and DYE WORKS Dry and Steam Cleaning Dyeing, Pressing, Repairing, and Alterations. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Ladies' fine work a Specialty. Suits Pressed 50 Cents C. G. Hanson, Prop. Independent Phone 1286 Red Bell Phone 2735 110 St. Francis' Ave., Wichita, Kansas Hygienic Restaurant 513 North Main Street C. C. Hickerson, Proprietor Open from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. Short Orders At All Hours. Dinnei 25c HOTEL ORIENTA Furnished Rooms and Board. Every Room Newly Furnished, Well Lighted and Heated Transient A Specialty. Phone, Douglas 1689 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 AND GLOSSY THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, 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. 132 CHICAGO, ILL. • AGENTS WANTED. 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. J. H. MURRAY & CO. Sold by Dealers Wichita — — Kansas STIRLING CLOTHES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED Co. :-: 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 Phones 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245 N. Market St Wichita, Kan --- They'll Treat You Right TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right ```markdown ``` 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. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Y. M. C. A. NOTES At the annual meeting of the Board of Directors for the election of officers Mr. Thos, Glover was chosen president, Dr. G. G. Brown vice pres., J. L. Harper Sec. and G' L. Scott Treas., with these officers and the whole board in hearty accord with the Gen Sec. good work is looked for this year. Sunday Jan. 29 will surely be a red letter day in the history of the Association. Judge Thos. C Wilson of the District Court will be the speaker, other numbers on the program will Solo by Ida Wilson, Reading by Mrs. Clayton and Solo by Mrs. G. Glover. Sunday Feb. 12 will be a union celebration of Lincoln-Douglass day by the Y. M. C. A. and the city federation of Women's clubs. Let everybody keep this day in mind and give a fitting memorial to the memory of the two great men, who did so much for our people. Some Wants Bradford. We understand that pressure is being brought to bear on Mr. Geo. H. Bradford to induce him to enter the race for mayor of Wichita at the spring election. So for Mr. Bradford has not given his consent. Mr Bradford would make a good Mayor and is a strong friend of the common people and would make a good race NEWTON KANSAS The L. R. A. and N. U. S. clubs met at the Carnegil library hall at 2:30 Thursday afternoon and effected the Organization of a city federation of the Afro-American Women's clubs, the following officers were elected Mrs. U. S. Rickman, pres. Mrs. F. Childs vice-pres, Mrs. A. L. Ford, Sec Mrs.J. Anderson, Treas. Ex-Congress Geo. W. Murray gave a very interesting lecture to the clubs. The clubs are preparing to entertain the State federation of the Afro-American women's clubs which will meet in Newton June 15-16. Rev. J. S. Faulkner is indisposed with the grip. There will be a musical program rendered at the C. M' E. church Sunday eve Jan. 29. Master Eanl Phenix led the Ephworth League Sunday ever, and the meeting was quite interesting. The I. R. A. and N. U. S. clubs will meei in the rest room at the court house Thursday afternoon in a joint meeting. Sensation in "Mystery Ship." Sensation in "Mystery Ship." Sydney, Australia, has had a novelty in the shape of a "mystery ship." 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It is not enough to simply provide comfortable shelter for his family and have room enough for all; but the general style and appearance of the house has to be given due thought so that it will work in well with its surroundings and conform in size and style to what his friends and neighbors consider necessary for his home. Something of spaciousness, dignity and hospitality has to be embodied in such a structure. The exact order of architecture to be used may not be prescribed—some of those details are left to the home builder himself and to his architect—but nevertheless custom prescribes the quality and general character of the building. One of the features that public opinion is coming more and more to require is that suburban dwellings should be as nearly fireproof or fire-resisting as possible. Fire protection in small towns and suburban localities is very seldom all that it should be. Common business sense directs that in such locations extra precautions should be taken, especially for residences, to make them as nearly fireproof as possible. This carries with it the obligation to build substantially and well, at the same time using as artistic a design as may be. THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM so that the building which is to last for three or four generations will throughout all that time be a source of pride to the owner and an improvement to the neighborhood. The design illustrated on this page will be found to fulfill all these conditions and to recommend itself as being at once dignified and attractive in appearance, substantial in construction and, using permanent materials, is as near fireproof as a residence can be made with practical success. The general type of this house is of the popular brick veneer-cement plaster combination which has proved so satisfactory for suburban work during PORCH PANTRY KITCHEN DINING ROOM HALL CLOSET NATURAL DINING ROOM HALL PORCH First Floor Plan the past few years. Resting on a good foundation of squared stones cemented on the inside and made thoroughly water-proof, strong timber frame-work is erected in the ordinary way as for a well constructed frame house. However, instead of the ordinary beveled siding, face brick is substituted, laid up in a four-inch wall and securely tied to the studding with galvanized iron wall ties every fifth course of the brick work and to every stud. This veneering of brick reaches from the stone foundation course up to the line of the second-story window sills. From there up to the eaves the siding, face brick is substituted, laid metal lath. A slate roof completes the exterior fireproof armor. As the majority of fires originate from external hazards it will be seen that a building completely protected in this --- way on the outside may be considered practically fireproof. There is no combination of materials more pleasing to the eye than this high grade face brick and the cement plaster in a harmonizing color. As far as warmth and freedom from dampness are concerned this form of construction insures the best possible results, and the expense is BED ROOM 10' X 12' 6" BED ROOM 10' X 12' 6" CLOSE BALL 2 FLOOR CLOSE DAY ROOM CLOSE BED ROOM 10' X 12' BED ROOM 10' X 12' Second Floor Plan not very much greater than for an ordinary frame house covered with beveled siding. The fact that this house has been built a number of times for $4,000 and that, too, using good grade material and all equipment including plumbing, heating and lighting, THE HOME OF THE MAYOR shows this to be an extremely economical design to build. The hip roof, while being the most artistic and satisfactory type for this kind of a building, is also the most economical. The plan is very nearly square in general outline and so can be constructed and arranged to good advantage without waste of time and material. The floor plans show the desirable features of arrangement. Three fine rooms are provided on the first floor, besides the large porch and entrance hall. The living room is of the modern large-sized style with home-like fireplace. Attention is called to the convenient arrangement of dining room, pantry and kitchen. On the second floor there are four good-sized bedrooms, with large closet space attached. The bath room is conveniently located. Altogether this design is one of the most salsfactory for suburban and city use of any design executed this year. Home builders can get many good ideas from the study of these plans. Cave-Dwelling Snakes Until recent times no reptiles were known to have adapted themselves to existence in the darkness of caverns. Now, however, it is known that in the Malay Peninsula a species of coluber inhabits certain caverns, feeding upon the bats. These cave-dwelling snakes attain a length of between eight and nine feet, and their coloring remarkably resembles that of the walls of the caverns. The rock is a yellowish crystalline limestone traversed with blackish veins, and these markings and colors are curiously reproduced in the snakes, many of which lurk on the ledges, in the semi-darkness, near the entrances, watching for bats. Selling Eggs by Weight. The decision of the new head of the bureau of weights and measures not to issue an order compelling merchants to sell eggs by weight will be welcome news to tradespeople and not disappointing to housewives. While in some respects the weighing system is better than sales by the dozen, the additional trouble and the difficulty of making exact weight offset the advantages. When this reform was proposed some months ago it created considerable interest, but it was not welcomed as a remedy for any of the evils which the bureau of weights and measures is attempting to correct.—Brooklyn Standard-Union. --- The KITCHEN CABINET HE world is buttoned up wrong HE world is buttoned up wrong, just one hole wrong. I get what you want, and somebody else wants what you get." Winter Hints. In winter when a few warm, comforting gifts would be so useful for those who have little, it is a good time for the housewife to look over her wardrobe and storeroom and give to people who need and will appreciate, the clothing, bedding and furniture no longer in use. How much better to dispose of the accumulations of each year than to store them away for moth and rust to corrunt There is so much in the ordinary home that is worse than useless because it is doing nobody any good and making care and work to look over and keep. There are many homes that would be cheered by a gift that would really be a comfort to be rid of. The days of much bric-a-brac are passed. We are disposing of much each year; it is often a hard thing to do, yet how much more comfort can be taken in a home that is not filled with things. There are thousands of homes with attics overflowing with things that might be the means of keeping many poor children from suffering this cold weather. WInter Dishes. Try cooking salify after thoroughly washing the rocts without scraping, just as beets are cooked, then scrape the skin off, and it is removed easily without any discoloring of the hands. Cut the tender cooked salify in slices, dip in egg and crumbs, then in egg again and crumbs and saute in butter. These taste much like oysters. During the cold weather the fat meats and pork are better digested and keep up the body heat. When serving a roast of pork or chops or sausages, garnish them with nice fried apples. Core the apple and cut it in slices without peeling; put a little butter into a spider and fry the apples in this, adding a bit of sugar. Turn the apples carefully so that the shape is not spoiled, and serve overlapping each piece. Place around the platter surrounding the meat. This not only makes a pretty garnish, but one that is highly satisfactory to eat. H, WITH the Coffee all my years provide. Its chemicals may turn me green inside. But all my fears are scattered to the Winds. When o'er the fragrant Pot I can pre- - Olive Green. A Kitchen Drama. Act 1—Mrs. L. K.—I certainly must be slow, here it is three o'clock and the noon dishes just out of the way. Here you are, all dressed for the afternoon, walking a half mile to get here, and your family no smaller than mine. Mrs. S. K.—That is easy to explain. Mrs. L. K.—Why! What do you mean? Mrs. S. K.—You have walked a needless half mile in getting your meal, because of the size of your kitchen. Here is the range on one side ten feet from the table, the sink on the other side an equal distance; the pantry at another point of the compass, and if you do as I do, you probably have made several trips to the cellar. "Let me have a pencil: A dozen trips to the pantry and return makes 240 feet, two dozen trips from stove to table, 480; six times from stove to pantry, a distance of 15 feet and return 180. "Four trips to the cellar, a distance of 30 feet and return—240 feet. Extra steps to the sink, cupboard and dining table, 230 feet—all! together 1,380 feet, or a little over half a mile, and the same distance is traveled in clearing up after a meal. At least half the walking could be saved by a properly arranged kitchen and proper planning. Mrs. L. K.—Well, I do declare. I never realized that a large kitchen wasted so much energy. Mrs. S. K.—Oh, well, that isn't all; three meals a day in a year makes 548 miles walked. Act 2—Mrs. L. K. carried out in a dead faint. The Apple as a Food. With a barrel of apples in the cellar, one need never be at a loss for various dishes, as they combine well with other fruits and many vegetables. To prepare an apple for an invalid, wash, core and cook the apple in a little sugar and water until tender. Choose an apple that has a bright red peeling. Carefully remove it to a dish and take off the peeling. Scrape the red from the inside of the peeling and put it back on the cheek of the apple. Return the peeling to the sirup and cook to remove the rest of the color. Take out the peeling and place the apple in a pretty glass, dish, pour around it the rose-colored sirup and serve, either hot or cold. Apples With Almonds.—Wash, core and peel the apples, cook until tender in a sirup of sugar and water. Remove the apples as soon as they are easily pierced with a fork. Prepare some almonds by blanching and cutting into quarters lengthwise. Put the almonds point first into the apple, covering it with the almonds. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and pour the sirup around them and brown in the oven. Serve cold with whipped cream. Sweet Apples With Quinces.—Prepare the apples without peeling; core and fill the cavities with bits of quinces and sugar. Bake slowly, basting with melted butter and sirup. Apple Crusts.—This is a dish that makes an attractive and wholesome dessert for children: Cut stale bread in circles, lay half of a peeled, cored apple, cut crosswise, on each piece. Bake carefully to keep the shape of the apple, and baste with butter and a little lemon juice with sugar. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar, either hot or cold. Apples Baked With Prunes.—Select tart apples and peel or not, as preferred. Core and fill the centers with stewed prunes, stoned and drained. Bake slowly, basting with the prune juice, or with lemon juice, melted butter or a sirup with a little grated lemon peel. Two or three cloves may be stuck into the apple and removed before serving. Serve cold with cream. AKE also unto the wheat, and with the beans, and lentils, and millet -Bekel # 4. Winter Foods. During the winter months is the time to serve the hearty, heating foods, puddings rich in fat and dishes of rich combinations. The steamed suet puddings with egg sauce and the pastries of all kinds are better digested when the body is getting more exercise and needs heat. Indian Pudding.—Scald one quart of milk and stir in a cup of corn meal, stir until scalded and smooth, then add a cup of suet, another quart of milk and one and a fourth cupfuls of brown sugar, a cup of raisins and two beaten eggs; add a little salt, stir occasionally at first and bake three hours. Corn Bread.—Mix together the following ingredients: One cup of sour cream, one cup of brown sugar, one cup of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of soda, one cup of corn meal, a little salt and two well-beaten eggs. Jumbles.—These old-fashioned cakes will appeal to the children. Beat into a cup of molasses four teaspoonfuls of soda, add three eggs well beaten, one cup of brown sugar and add a cup of shortening, either lard or butter or a mixture of both, salt, a half tablespoonful of ginger, the same of cinnamon, four cups of flour; drop in pans like drop cookies. Bake in a moderate oven. Steamed Brown Bread.—Take a cupful each of sweet and sour milk, two cupfuls of corn meal, one and a half cupfuls of flour, a half teaspoonful of salt and two of soda sifted with the flour, two-thirds of a cup of molasses. Steam two and a half hours. Pork Cake.—Cook together one cup of molasses, two cups of dried apples three hours, with a teaspoonful of cinnamon, a half teaspoonful of cloves, a grating of nutmeg and a pinch of ginger. To a cup of chopped salt pork add a cup of boiling water, three eggs, half a cup of raisins and a teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar sifted with flour enough to make a sufficiently stiff dough. "ERTAIN Chinese sage, known as Yuan Mel, has observed that cookery is like matrimony—two things served together should match." Nellie Maxwell. A Day's Walk for Laundry. The Portuguese country people as a usual thing have great physical endurance, doubtless as a result of the "survival of the fittest" for many generations. The laundry workers are an example of this. People come in from long distances to get solled clothes of city customers. The clothes will be placed in big panniers on the family donkey, and the peasants will start back late in the afternoon. Some of them will travel all night and it will be sunup before they reach their homes, many miles from Lisbon or Oporto. A day of two later they are trudging back to deliver the clothes, now spotlessly clean, and to get another lot from the same patron. Many a countryman and his wife take a jaunt to 15 miles or more, which makes one think that there might be many who could rival the feats of Weston and O'Leary as walkers if they tried. Curious Toy. A curious toy which is common in Europe and less known in this country is very popular in China, Korea and Japan. It represents a round figure with a head but without arms and legs. 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This wonderful record is the result of great merit successfully made known through persistent advertising and the mouth-to-mouth recommendation given Cascarets by its friends and users. Like all great successes, trade pirates prey on the unsuspecting public, by marketing fake tablets similar in appearance to Cascarets. Care should always be exercised in purchasing well advertised goods, especially an article that has a national sale like Cascarets. Do not allow a substitute to be palmed off on you. Easy. "Does it cost much to cloth a family?" asked the economical man. "Not mine," replied Mr. Sirius Barker. "My only daughter is a bare-foot dancer and my only son is a marathon runner." TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA IN THE SYSTEM Take the OU Standard GROVEN TAFELESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking, showing it is simply Quinine and iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out the malaria in the system. Sold by all dealers for 90 years. Price 60 cents. Alike to Aching Heart. A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian is alike to an aching heart, and we laugh no merrier on velvet cushions than we did on wooden chairs. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Modern life pushes a man into the mud and then chides him for materialism. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Julineine Tablets. Drugstore refund money if it falls to cure. E.W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 22c. Many think they are fighting sin when they are having a good time stabbing sinners. Habit Grows. "I hate to see a little country buying its first battleship." "Why?" "Reminds me of a boy taking his first smoke." The main difference between a professional man and a tradesman is that a great many times the tradesman can buy and sell the professor. You Want a Proven Remedy to correct a bad stomach to restore the appetite to relieve constipation and keep you strong and healthy. Then, by all means, get a bottle of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It has a proven record, extending over a period of 57 years, in cases of Poor Appetite, Headache, Belching, Indigestion, Costiveness, Colds, Grippe and Malaira and you will find it just the medicine you need. Its results are quick and certain. Try it today. A New Independent make tires and tubes. Clincher Q. D. Clincher and Dunlop tires average 30% less than 28x3" - 10.70" - 20x3" - 11.70" - 30x3" - 15.15" - 22x3" - 16.05" - 34x3" - 16.46" - 30x4" - 21.20" - 31x4" - 22.70" - 34x4" - 25.80" - 36x4" - 28.30" - 34x4" - 31.70" - 36x4" - 33.20" - 36x5" - 36.40" Shipments C. D. allowing examination. 5% discount. cash accompanies order. Fine quality goods. 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I had confidence in it before I took it and I found it was just the medicine I needed, for in a short time my cough ceased and my strength returned. "I have enjoyed better health since taking it than I had for several years previous. When I see any one weak and run down, especially with a cough, I advise them to take Peruna." ask Your Druggist for a Free Peruna Aimanac for 1911. Lewis Single Binder 5¢ Cigar GUARANTEED FRANK WIER STRAIGHT FIRE SMOKER THE DAY IS THE DAY LEWIS SINGLE BINDER EXTRA QUALITY FACTORY: PERUNA, NS T. W. Capt. Jack—I understand that you're engaged to one of the Bullion twins. How do you distinguish one from the other? Lady Kitty—I don't try. "So you have a new idea for a dri- rigible balloon" "Yes. Make the equilibrator larger, put a motor into it, and let it pull the balloon." Without a Cook? Never mind—you can have a good breakfast if there's a package of Post Toasties in the house. 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The Quincy resolution for a committee to investigate all state departments was referred to the committee on state affairs. The special committee to investigate the impeachment proceedings brought against Judge C. A. Braine of McPherson county by John F. Hanson, an attorney of Lindsborg, reported that the charges were without merit. The house judiciary committee reported favorably on the resolution instructing Kansas congressmen to vote for a rule providing for a house committee on committees. C. L. Beachy, representative from Sedgwick county, introduced the senatorial apportionment bill in the house. It gives Wyandotte, Shawnee and Sedgwick counties each two senators and gives to each county the actual senatorial representation according to the census of 1910. The house spent most of the morning session discussing the inheritance tax law and killed, by a margin of three votes, the democratic platform bill to repeal it. Topeka. — The festive "broiler," the fantastic pink ballet; and the statuesque Junos who furnishes the choruses for the stage can now draw a big breath of relief, for the bill of George Cones of Meade, to absolutely and forever abolish "tights" from Kansas, and to make all stage dresses fall four inches below the patella or knee cap, was killed by the committee on state affairs in the house. Protection of an ample nature for the man out of work, who seeks a job through the employment agencies, is afforded in a measure introduced in the house by Kerr of Montgomery. The judiciary committee of the house will report back the initiative and referendum bill introduced by McCormick of Crawford, with the recommendation that it be adopted. McCormick's measure calls for signature of 5 per cent of the legal voters or the state to propose a law or resolution, and 15 per cent to propose a constitutional amendment. The committee on education of the house is not in favor of separate schools for whites and negroes, and recommended Herr's bill, calling for separate schools, back to the house to be not passed. The house committee on ways and means reported back its recommendations concerning the appropriations asked for the nine charitable institutions of the state for the next two years, and lopped off $88,540 from the request of the board of control. The committee raised the saariies of the teachers practically up and down the entire line in all institutions where teachers are employed. The raise varies from 5 to 10 per cent. Topeka.—Senator Huffman introduced a bill that will chance the entire administrative powers of all the educational institutions in the state if it becomes a law. The bill does away with the boards of regents of the state university, the agricultural college and the normal school. In their stead is to be appointed by the governor a "board of administration" of three members to have absolute control over all these institutions. The terms of the members are to be three years. The Sunday baseball and theater bills introduced by Representative Cones of Meade county have been made a special order in the house for Thursday afternoon. These bills were introduced: Requiring railroads to pay employees twice a month. Declaring a person twice convicted an habitual criminal and subject to not less than twenty-five years' imprisonment on third conviction. Providing a county tax of $1 and $2 for dogs, money so collected to be a fund to pay claims for damages done by dogs. To Pay the Interest Appropriations of $17,800 and $14,800 are provided in a bill introduced by the senate ways and means committee for the payment of interest on state bonds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, and June 30, 1913. May Leave Tax Rebates. 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Love's little deeds loom largest on the recording angel's books. TEN MILLION PEOPLE IN THE CANADIAN WEST BY 1920 "Toronto Star," Dec. 16th, 1910. The prediction is made that before 1920 Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia will have ten million people. It is made not by a sanguine Western journal but by that very sober business newspaper, the New York Commercial. It is based upon actual observation, upon the wheat-growing capacity of the Canadian West, and upon the prospects of development following the building of railways. The writer shows how the position of leading wheat market of the world passed from Milwaukee to Minneapolis and thence to Winnipeg. Canada's wheat-growing belt is four times greater than that of the United States, and only five per cent of Canada's western agricultural area is under cultivation. There are 170,000,000 acres of wheat lands which will make these Western Provinces richer, more populous, more dependable for food supplies than the Western States can ever become. The center of food supremacy will change to Canada, and 25 years more will give this country 40,000,000 population west of Ontario. got two bottles and they cured me. I can have in the house. I shall always can get it."—Mrs. E. R. WALLACE, M Another MRS. JAMES McGRAW, of 1216 Man "I take pleasure in writing to you that and I used SLOAN LINING for one week and was completely cured, highly." Sloan's Liniment instantiated stiffness of the Joints, Hoarseness, Sprains, Sciatica and Lumbag and cheaper than por All these estimates of population are in the nature of guesses, and must not be read too literally. But the enormous area of wheat-growing land, the rapid construction of railways, and the large volume of immigration are facts which must be recognized. 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The crops grown on these lars warrant the crop by cattleraising, dairying,mixed farming and grain growing in the hills of Huntington Saskatchewan and Alberta. Free homestead and pre- emption areas, as well as land held by railway and land com- panies, will provide homes for millions. Adoptable soil, healthful climate, splendid schools and churches, do railways. For settlers' rates, descriptive literature "Last Best West," how to reach the countryside and other tourists, write to Supt' of im- migration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the Canadian Government Agent. CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AGENT No. 125 W. Nith Street Kansas City, Mo. (Use address nearest you.) 88 MONEY IN TRAPPING We sell you hays and pay best market prices. Write for references and weekly刊登. M. SABEL & SONS. LOSVILLE, KY. Dealers in Paris, Hides, Wool. Established 1856. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 4-1811. Pink Eye, Eptozoite Shipping Fever MPER DIRECTORY OF COLORED WOM AN'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. Knights & Daughters CHITTERLINGS, Catfish, Hamburger 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 .2.5 Northern Potatoes, bu .9.0 2 lbs. 3-Crown Raisins .1.5 3 Cans Good Corn .2.5 3 Cans Scotch Pumpkin .2.5 Spanish Onions lb .0.5 Sweet Potatoes peck .2.5 Cabbage, a head .02/2 3 3-lb. Cns Tomatoes .2.5 7 bars Russian Soap .2.5 7 Bars Lenox Soap .2.5 Large pkg. Gold Dust .2.0 Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Fresh and Cured Meats. All kinds of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes. CHETOPA KANSAS. Concert at 2nd M. E. church Jan. 30th. P H. Bassetts new home is near completion. Mrs. Goins and Miss Heath is up from Bartlesville Okla. TENTS. Geo, Everett of Bartlesville is expected in Chetopa soon. Valentine Ball at Chetopa opera house, Feb. 14th. Frank J. Porter, promoter; U. R. Smith, manager. Mrs Eva Jones of Coffeyville will furnish music. For News read " The Searchlight " $1. per year. Mrs. H L Edmonds went to Oswego Sunday. Mesdames Jones and Nelson of Muskogee is expected in the city as the guest of Mrs U R Smith on Feb. 14th. 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 town 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 plashing they dance, they sing, they watch 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 A. Knowing Dog. "Now," said the narrator, "I've got a dog here I would not take $100 for. You can believe me or not, but what I am going to tell you is the gospel truth. In the early part of last spring I lost about a score of very valuable sheep, until one day as I was looking across from my house to the edge of the range opposite, about two miles away, I noticed some sheep. I got my telescope, and assured myself that they were mine. I placed the telescope in a suitable position, and made Bob, our best collie, look through it. After about a minute the dog wagged his tail and made off. In less than two hours he brought the sheep home safe and sound." --- REMARKABLE IN THE DOG LINE. Proud Owners of Pets, Listen to This from Flatbush, N. Y. Zip, a son of Bluff, the big bull terrier, is the most respected dog in Flatbush. N. Y., says a correspondent. He requires every other dog within 40 blocks to walk a chalk line and bow to him as he passes by. He can lick everything on four feet up to twice his size, yet is as mild as Devery-at-the Pump. His master attributes Zip's prowess to his fondness for the pipe. Like Old King Cole: He calls for his fiddlers three. "That is the most remarkable dog in the world," says his master. "He takes my pipe out of my mouth and smokes it, standing on his hind feet. See! The stem is all chewed up! If the tobacco doesn't burn well, Zip will get down on his fours and chase all over the house to create a draught. When the fire is well started again he finishes his smoke and returns me the pipe. Strong? He ought to be named Samson. Why, we have a plano that weighs 600 pounds. The Zip to it with a rope and he will pull it all over the room." The Quaint 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 vernality—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 ballast itself against the force of the stream; that is, the pebbles act as an anchor. When the flood subsides and the waters are less violent the belluga disgorges itself; that is, it unballasts, hauls in its anchor and swims about for provender. Pecullar African Rac. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and filth, and is sometimes much as 18 inches long. For the first time these Kaffirs live on the grees to be found on both sides of the river. They build their huts on great ant heaps which appear like hills scattered over the flats. When the Krufe is in flood and the flats are changed into great lakes these people are safe in their huts on the ant heaps. Their cattle also take refuge on the ant heaps on which corn and mecales 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 A Monster Loaf Bakers in Germany are fond of making odd experiments, the following being reported from Duisburg, 'in West phalia. At a children's party recently held in that town there was exhibited, and afterwards there and distributed among the young, a 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. Clarence lives in 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. HOW TO MEET A LION BRITISH SURGEON EXPLAINS ETI QUETTE FOR OCCASION. If King of Beasts Fails to Realize He is de Trop Tourist Should Walk Away With Becoming The etiquette to be observed when a peacefully inclined tourist or explorer meets a lion in the jungle is described by Sir Frederick Treves, the distinguished British surgeon, in his book, "Uganda for a Holiday," just published in England. "The tourist coming to British East Africa," he says, "is sure to inquire as to the line of conduct that should be observed when a lion is encountered by the way. In answer to such inquiry I was told that the etiquette suitable for the occasion was the following: If the lion when met with is walking in the opposite direction to the tourist the animal should be allowed to continue his walk without comment. If, however, the lion stops and stares at the tourist it is proper that the tourist should 'Shish' the animal away, as he would an obtrusive goose on a village green. Should the lion be unmoved by this expression of annoyance the tourist is advised to throw lumps of earth at the obtuse creature. If, after this, the lion still falls to realize that he is de trop, the tourist is recommended to walk away from the spot with such dignity as the strained position demands." Sir Frederick Treves has several other things to say about the animals of the wild. "The rhinoceros is the embodiment of blind conservatism," he writes. "Its hide is impenotrable, its vision is weak, while its intellect is weaker. It has, however, two marked qualities—combativeness and a sense of smell. It is aroused to its maximum energy by the presence of anything that is new. This object need not be a thing that is aggressive or inconvenient. Its offensiveness depends upon the fact that it is unfamiliar, and the more unfamiliar the object is the worse the rhinoceros acts. "When a rhinoceros smells a man he will charge him with maniacal violence, although the man may be merely sitting on a stool reading Milton. The massive beast will dash at him like a torpedo or a runaway locomotive simply because the smell of him is novel. Actuated by this insane hate of whatever saviors of an innovation, the rhinoceros has charged an iron water tank on the outskirts of a camp and has crumpled it up as a blacksmith would an empty meat tin. "A conservative rhinoceros with a senile dislike of anything new once charged a train on the Uganda railway, but with no more serious results than the tearing away of the footboard of a carriage. As regards the rhinoceros in this case, it appeared surprised that a thing composed, as it had imagined, of flesh and blood, could be so hard. It went off with an additional grievance and an increased swelling of the head." Tournament on Sea Horses. Rumor has often told us of sea horses, but with amused incredulity we have always waved the tales aside. Faith is, however, no longer called upon, for in the water of Huntington bay, on the north shore of Long island, actual sea horses are daily capering in highly spectacular water sports, even in a quiet revival of the ancient tournament. The strange beasts have been brought to us from France and are ingeniously composed of a barrel, weighted on one side which is under water, and decorated with an expressive head and an aggressive tail. As soon as one mounts upon the rotund back of one of these beasts it shows its temper, for, although tame and mild enough when grazing among the waves by themselves, they are fiends incarnate as soon as one attempts to throw a leg over them. They kick and buck in a manner which would appall a Buffalo Bill himself. One of the daily features of the beach at Huntington is a tournament in which armed knights, each astride of a prancing sea horse, face each other for battle royal. The riders are equipped with long lances, well wadded at the end with "stuffing." With there the knights paddle their course to each other, and then with lances poised the battle begins. Qualification for Office The little trial I have had of public employment has been so much disgust to me; I feel at times temptations toward ambition rising in my soul; but I obstinately oppose them. "But thou, Catullus, be thou firm to the last." I am seldom called to it, and as seldom offer myself uncalled; liberty and laziness, the qualities most predominant in me, are qualities diametrically contrary to that trade. We cannot well distinguish the faculties of men; to conclude from the discreet conduct of a private life, a capacity for the management of public affairs, is to conclude ill; a man may govern himself well, who cannot govern others so; and compose essays, who could not work effects; men there may be who can order a siege well, or would ill marshal a battle; who can speak well in private, who would ill harangue a people or a prince; nay, 'tis perdurement rather a testimony in him, who can do the one, that he cannot do the other, than otherwise.—From Montagne. Not so Many Years Ago He Was Crazy Over Dress Himself. No, brother, men have not always been so indifferent to dress as they are today. Their raliment, as compared with the darnfoolishness of woman, hasn't always been above reproach. Consider, if you will, the days when our respected forefathers would draw on their lavender-colored pants with a shoe horn, using a little slippery powder, maybe, to help things along, until people looked at their feet and wondered if the pants hadn't been sewed up after the feet got through Consider their tight boots—made so tight that they caused the most excruciating agony. And remember that the dandies of that day would carefully polish these burning, blazing, pinching, agonizing boots and then step carefully with the toes in a mud puddle so that the mud drying on the lower part would make the feet seem small. O, yes, they did it. And of course you know that a bootjack wasn't used merely because the boots might soil the hands, but because nobody had invented a stump-puller in those days and applied it to the removal of tight boots. And remember the bell-crowned hats, and the dingbats and jimcracks they hung on their watch fobs. And the fancy waistcoats and the frilled shirts. And going even further back, consider what historical drawings give us of information as to ancient dress—the knee breeches with gorgeous rosettes—the brilliant buckles on the shoes—the cream-colored cloaks with mauve satin linings. And the white silk stockings that the excelsior would show through. Think of the bepowdered and becurled wigs when you rave at rats on women's heads and repent of your scoffing words. Face powder? Perfumes and scents? Sure they had 'em. Patches on their complexion—yes, and rouge. They sure were pretty men those days. And going back to the Indian—think of his war paint, of his gaudy blanket, his stained arrows, his painted pony, his bear-oiled hair and his colored feathers. But what's the use? He's not so pretty now. Only he really hadn't ougher scoff so much at hobble skirts and peach-basket hats and Chinese hair switches and things. He really hadn't ougher. As a Buncher. We is one of the most bothersome words in the language. It is responsible for more misunderstandings than any other ten words put together. An editor will start out conscientiously to give his opinions. He will begin by saying "We think," meaning himself. A latter later he will say "we," meaning his advertisers. A few lines farther down he will use the word again, meaning the class of people who read his paper. Then his heart will soften and expand. He will become eloquent with the use of "we," meaning the whole community or the entire human race. Then suddenly he will bethink himself and reflect that his is a party organ and "we," the party, is paramount after all. Whereupon he will divest himself of opinions in which the people at large have no interest, or at least no profit. All this is very confusing. The unsuspecting reader struggles along trying in vain to separate the we-goats from the we-sheep. Sometimes that's exactly what the editor is striving for, and sometimes he is the most confused of all. We was invented to conceal thought. —Life. Kaiser's Insult to a Courtler: An incident very reminiscent of such pettiness was told to Tip the other day by an American just returned from Berlin. It seems one of the Kaiser's suite, a noble of high rank, had incurred the imperial displeasure. The Kaiser did not wish to lose this gentleman's services, but apparently desired to humiliate him for the real or fancied offense. At one of the state dinners shortly afterward, the noble was seated half a dozen places from his ruler. Beside him sat a woman of title, whom he had known from the time both could walk. The two conversed animatedly. Suddenly his imperial majesty leaned forward and exclaimed in a harsh voice: "Prince, it is not etiquette to flirt at my table." The man thus addressed rose to his feet and bowed low. The next day he resigned and retired to his country estate, although it is well known he received a personal letter of apology from Wilhelm II. Not to Be Fooled. Proudly young Tomkins displayed the sights of London to his uncle, fresh from the verdant country. They visited St. Paul and the Embankment and the National Gallery and all the places they could get in free, and, as an especial treat, they visited a music hall, where a trombone solo was in progress when they entered. With rapt attention the old man watched the instrumentalist's facial contortions. At the close the audience applauded thunderously, but the old man sat mute. "Well," said young Tomkins, "didn't you like it?" "Verra good, verra good, no doubt," nodded the old man, "but we country folk canna be taken in so easy as all that; I knew all the time he wasn't a-swallowin' of it!"—Answers.