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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT A Record Breaker The Banquet Of The Afro=American Commercial Club At Masonic Hall Monday Night, Jan. 30th. Eclipsed Anything Of The Past And Set A New Era In Afro=American Commercialism TWELTH YEAR A Record The Banquet Of T Commercial Club Monday Night Eclipsed An The Past A New Afro=American Ex. Con. Murray A Creditable Affair. The Banquet of the Afro-American Commercial club at the Masonic hall, Monday night, Jan. 30th, was one of the most elaborate functions ever witnessed by colored society in this city. Both floors of the spacious Masonic building were thrown open and upwards of 150 guests gathered on the third floor where they listened to an able address by Ex-Congressman Geo. W. Murray on "Afro-American Commercialism." This large audience gave the speaker the closest attention. After the address each member of the Club was introduced to the audience. Upon completion of exercises on the third floor all came to the second floor where a toothsome banquet table had been prepared and all sat down to the feast. Short speeches and music was mixed with the enjoyment of the banquet. It was something entirely new and added much credit to the men composing the club. (Synopsis of the Address of Ex Congressman Miller to the Afro-American Commercial Club.) THE AFRO-AMERICAN IN COMMERCE. The Afro-American is at once and the same time the strongest and weakest man in America, strongest, because of his physical and industrial development; weakest, because of his spiritual and economic development. For the same reason, the profits from his productions and consumptions, that the master found it necessary to highly develop the mechanical and industrial man of his slavish victim, he discovered that at the same time it was necessary to dwarf his spiritual and economic man; and by such means he secured the kind of tool desired. But what is unofrtunate for the descendants of the victimied race in a state of physical freedom, is the home, the environment was made the propagating ground for such a class of economic tools, as the slaves were finally made, and that such training was thereby made the tradition of the race, which in the absence of artificial aid, it has not yet been able to rid itself. As a result that training is causing the Afro-American and his de- --- Ex. Congmn Geo. W. Murray Who Delivered The Principle Address Monday Night scendants to voluntarily leave all the profits from their labor and patronage, since their emancipation, with the old master class and with the race to which it belongs, while that race is relieved of the responsibility of caring for them in sickness and old age, and burying them at death. As long as such tyranny remains the Afro-American cannot maintain the equality of his citizenship, whether he lives in the south or north. It is with a race within a nation, especially when ostracied and limited just as it is with a nation among nations, its strength and power depend much more upon its commercial and economic standing than its numbers. As illustration, England, with a population of only 30,000,000, is leading the world because of Its economic power. The foreign commerce of England, with only 30,000,000 people, is $4,573,678,000, while the United States with 90,000,000 people, has a foreign commerce of only $2,635,924,000. As the weakness of nations is mainly discovered in their economic condition, that of the Afro-American is in his commercial failure and economic weakness. The Afro-American, constituting about 12 per cent of the population of this country, should be given credit for 12 per cent of its commerce, 12 per cent of $2,635,924,000—$13,310,880, his share or proportion of its foreign commerce. Political economists claim that the domestic commerce of a people is ten ten times as great as its foreign; and therefore the Afro-American domestic commerce is $3,163,108,800, which added to his foreign equal—$3,479.419,680 annually. There is generally a gross profit of 25 per cent on commercial transactions and 25 per cent of $3,479,419.680 equals $869,854,920, the gross profits annually on Afro-American's com- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1911. Therefore, the gross profits on their business in a decade, equals $8,698,549,200, and in forty-five years, the period of their physical emancipation, equals $37,143,471,400, 25 per cent of which, the usual net profit, equals $9,288,367,850, the sum that the Afro-American race should be in possession of in wealth, exclusive o f what it should have amassed from wagas, and in the face of this great failure to secure its proportion of the wealth resulting from its productions and consumptions its leaders are lulling it to sleep by causing it to feel that in accumulating the $700,000,000 for which the census gives it credit, it has accomplished more than any other race ever did in the same period of time. It is seen by this calculation that the net profits annually from its commercial transactions alone more than equal its entire accumulations in forty-five years from all sources. The race has paid as the price of such economic failure, the loss of its civil and political rights, its representation in all local and national political affairs and a place above menials and scavengers in the economic world and has purchased segregation, disbarment, Jim Crowism, and disfranchisement, even in communities where its rightful proportion of commerce would have given its members honorable employment, respectability and citizenship, by reason of their overwhelming numbers. The causes of the economic failure and utter undoing of Afro-Americans as citizens, are two-fold—loss of business, or economic, traditions, and adverse training. Depriving his forefathers of the right to barter and trade in their productions and consumptions, took their Vote for Every voter should land Valley Railroad Special Election or To secure this Rail Greater Wichita w more money for ev forget this importa held Tuesday, Feb Vote for the Bonds Every voter should vote for the Midland Valley Railroad bonds at the Special Election on Tuesday, Feb. 14. To secure this Railroad will mean a Greater Wichita with more work and more money for everybody. Don't forget this important election will be held Tuesday, February 14th. 1911. --- minds and conversations out of the business world, and thereby deprived their descendants of business traditions, which in the absence of needed artificial aid, have not yet been regained, and years of training and development for such have naturally inclined them to use all their economic powers in favor of members of the white race, and against members of their own race, which causes them to voluntarily remain the same economic tools that their ancestors were forced to be fifty years ago. Instead of leading their offspring first into the business places of members of their own race, like Hamicar when he lead Hannibal to the altar, and cause them to swear eternal allegiance and support to them as the means of creating business, honorable employment, a marriage portion and respectability for themselves, they first lead them into the business places of members of the white race, who have been trained to regard them as inferior and to confine them to the menial and scavenger service of the community, and there and at home, by everlastingly praising white people and their business places, and denouncing black men and their busi- mercial transactions. ness places, they develop the same prejudices in them against the business men of their own race, that were transmitted to them. A proof of the last economical tradition of the race may be noted by the paucity of political economy in its literature. The woeful economic condition of the race, is seen in its commercial standing in this city. Numerically the Afro-American bears about the same relation or proportion to the other elements of the population of this city as he does in the nation; and therefore ought to have, and would have if he had not been trained against himself about one-eighth o fits business, or commerce, which would amount to over sixty of its thriving business places, and at least two of its banks. Such a possession would absolutely change their status, in less than ten years, as it would give a greater value and consideration to their citizenship, cause their color to cease to be a badge of meniality and degradation, and would at the same time educate members of their race occupying any place from messenger to business manager or president, in great business concerns, or banks, and would finally aid the white race in getting rid of its ancient training and customs of confining black men to the menial or scavenger service of life with hardly living wages. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were added to give the refeed man equal protection in his civil and political affairs as the means of maintaining his economic equality, on the maintenance of which depends his civil and political equality. But his spiritual and economic development has been such as cause the Bonds d vote for the Mid- oad bonds at the n Tuesday, Feb. 14. road will mean a with more work and everybody. Don't ant election will be february 14th. 1911. ninety-nine out of every hundred to unconscously violate the spirit of those amendments. Those amendments declare that black men are equal to white men, and provide the legal means by which to secure them in such equality, but the black man, by his discriminations with his labor and money in favor of white men not only nullifies the spirit of the constitution, but shows an appreciation for members of that race, and a depreciation for those bearing his hue, besides, by leaving the profit from his productions and consumptions on the white man's side of the ledger, actually creates a higher condition for him. By such action, even when it does not exist, he creates a public opinion that he is an inferior, and as all written law is merely an expression of public opinion, when public opinion grows contrary to written letter. The nullity of the federal constitution may be very largely accounted for in such conduct, and such conduct, in the Afro-American reversed, would change public opinion, breathe new life into the constitutional amendments, and cause --- Midland Valley Railroad Coming Another great enterprise is headed towards Wichita which will mean much to the commercial development of Wichita and which will open up many new places of employment and put thousands of dollars into the pockets of the laboring men of this community. This enterprise is the extension of the Midland Valley railroad from Arkansas City to Wichita. The Midland Valley railroad already has a road from Ft. Smith, Ark., to Arkansas City, Kansas, a distance of 300 miles of track. This road is to be extended to Wichita from Arkansas City first and then it is planned to connect with the Union Pacific railway for a Denver, Colo., connection and to extend south from Ft. Smith to New Orleans—thus opening up to Wichita an entirely new and almost inexhaustible territory of trade. This new territory will bring thousands of dollars to Wichita merchants, business and professional men who will distribute it among the laborers in wages, etc. This road itself will expend upwards of $150,000.00 in and adjacent to Wichita and it means much to every Wichitan. This is really one of the most important, if not the most important project that has been presented to the people of this community for several years. Every one should be interested in getting the Midland Valley railroad. To aid this road in securing terminals, depots and grounds a special election will be held Tuesday, February 14th, to vote $30,000.00 in bonds for that specific purpose. This will help you so go to the polls Tuesday, February 14, 1911, and vote for the bonds and greater Wichita, Sen. Stewart Lands Two. Senator James H. Stewart Sedgwick county's able representative in the state Senate, spent Saturday in the city. Senator Stewart is now filling his second term as state senator and has done a great among of valuable legislature work for Sedgwick county and the state at large. Senator Stewart is the only member of the four Sedgwick county legislators who has secured any recoquition of the colored people of this county in the way of legislative jobs, sofar during this session of the legislature. He secured a place for W. L. Herman and also for Wm Johnson, both as senator employees. The friends of our race are not always to be counted by the fellow who talks so much, but acts and actions, such as those of senater Stewart carries substantial friendship and good will with it We need more men in legistatures like Senator Stewart. Bishop Grant's Wealth. Kansnas City, Mo-By the terms of the will of Bishop Abraham Grant of the African Methodistchurch which was filed in the probate court of Wyandotte county, Kansas The greater part of his estate amounting to$250,000 was bequeathed to two negro educational institution, the Payne Theological seminary of Wilberforce Ohio, and the Paul Qulnn college of Waco Texes. The estate cousists principally of real estate in Indiana and Texas. To Ask Jeff Himself. Chicago-Jack Johnson says he put Sam Langford to fight. The champion is at home after a tuor through the East, and declares pugilism is on the decline in the East for some unaccountable reason. Jack is inclined to think the decrease in interest is due to the fact that the bouts are not inspired enough to at tract patronage. This Langford person don't want to fight me, nohow avers the champion, I went over to Philadelphia to Jack O'Brien's club, Jack offered $10,000 for me to fight the Langford man. I grabbed at it and the match was made all except getting Mr. Langford to sign the articles. "I am leaving for California Thursday to be gone until March 1. I expect to see Jegries out there, and talk over the fight, I have no feeling against him and think it would be interesting. I want to hear from his lips whet her he believe these bope stories I don't think he does. If anybody comes across with the money I've said right along he can have another fight if he wants it but I don't believe he wants one. PRATT KANSAS Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tuck of Pratt Kansas entertained at their home a few friends on the birthday of Bernice Fox of Colorado Springs. She received a number of lovely presents. Served a three course lunch. The Battleship Delaware and Her Great LIFTING THE CASKET ABOARD A WARSHIP HE battleship Delaware, our newest, largest and finest sea warrior, is now making preparations for a most notable cruise. According to present plans she will sail on this jaunt early this month, and the cruise will consume the best part of the spring. The itinerary— prepared of a sudden HE battleship Delaware our newest, largest and finest sea warrior, is now making preparations for a most notable cruise. According to present plans she will sail on this jaunt early this month, and the cruise will consume the best part of the spring. The itinerary—prepared all of a sudden, for this cruise was not even contemplated a few weeks ago—calls for a voyage around the continent of South America, or, at least around the major portion of that triangular continent and it bids fair to be the most notable undertaking assigned to any single battleship since the famous old battleship Oregon made the long trip around South America (over much this same route) at the time of the Spanish-American war. The cruise of the Delaware takes on importance from the fact that it is the first stunt of the kind attempted by one of our new battleships of the Dreadnought class—floating fortresses so much larger and heavier and more formidably armed than any of our old-time battleships that they might be referred to as the "big brothers" of these ships that were so awe inspiring a few years ago. Now, of course, these new "all-big-gun" ships are as yet something of an experiment in our navy in so far as actual service goes and consequently naval officials and shipbuilding experts will await with no little concern the outcome of this prolonged "shaking down" cruise. Another circumstance that makes this coming cruise stand out as a notable achievement is that the Delaware is to take her long "hike" absolutely unattended. As all readers of the newspapers must have noted, it has not been the practise of our naval authorities of late years to assign single battleships to long cruises. They usually go in fleets, or in divisions of four ships, or at least in pairs. Why, it will be remembered that when President Taft made his recent trip to Panama a second warship was sent along with the one that carried the presidential party, not because there was any real need for it, but simply to have a companion ship at hand to render assistance in the event that the first craft met with a mishap of any kind, great or small. And take that other naval cruise around South America, with which the LIFTING THE CASKET ABOARD Delaware's trip will naturally be compared—that world-astonishing "first leg" of the memorable round-the-world cruise when Rear Admiral "Bob" Evans led a fleet of 16 battleships around the lower half of our continent. In that event conspicuously was there exemplified the adage that in union there is strength, and aside from the self-confidence inspired by the co-ordinate action of a whole fleet of battleships there was the further insurance against the unexpected offered by the presence with the fleet of a repair ship, supply ships and naval colliers. The Delaware, on the other hand, must traverse the same sea track figuratively as well as literally "on her own bottom," as the seafaring men say. However, without underestimating the prestige that will come to the Delaware through all these unusual attributes of her present trip, it must be admitted that the greatest significance of all attaches to this 1911 cruise because of the mission of the Delaware. The fleet of battleships that visited South American ports a couple of years ago went solely on the initiative of President Roosevelt as a practise cruise and a sort of object lesson to other nations, but the Delaware goes on a specific mission of condolence, out of respect to the memory of an international statesman and in compliment to a friendly nation. She is to convey from our shores to his native land the body of Senor Don Anbal Cruz, the late minister of the republic of Chile to the United States. When a foreign diplomat dies at his post of duty in an allen capital it is customary for the officials of the government to which he had been accredited as envoy and for his fellow diplomats to accord him every possible honor in death. Elaborate ceremonials are prescribed, not merely as a tribute to the statesman whose work in behalf of international good feeling has thus been interrupted by death, but also as a compliment to the country and the government whose accredited agent he was. All the unwritten laws were carefully observed in the case of the late Chilean minister. His funeral at Washington was made the occasion of an elaborate mill- tary and naval display; the president of the United States and the members of his cabinet were in attendance; and the chief justice of the United States, foreign a m bass a dors, United States senators and other distinguished men acted as the honorary palibearers. But there was one other courtesy which international etiquette prescribes shall be offered under such sad circumstances. In accordance with the usage of friendly nations the president of the United States cabled to the president of Chile offering the use of a United States warship to convey on his last journey home the body of the deceased diplomatist. The offer was accepted and the Delaware has been assigned to act as a funeral barge on this voyage of thousands of miles to Valparaiso and return. In accordance, however, with the wishes of the Cruz family the battleship did not start on her journey immediately after the funeral, but the trip was deferred until this month, the flag-draped casket reposing in the meantime in a receiving vault in a cemetery at Washington. The United States government has been called upon twice before, within a comparatively few years, to convey home the bodies of eminent Pan-American statesmen who have died in this country. Some years ago the body of an ambassador of Mexico was thus conveyed home in state and only a year ago similar honors were paid to the remains of the late Senor Nabuco, who was for years the ambassador of Brazil at our seat of government. On neither occasion, however, was there employed for the service so imposing a vessel as the Delaware. That the officials and the public of Chile will appreciate the significance of Uncle Sam's sending his largest and finest warship is the expectation of the American authorities and there is plain intent to thus create an especially favorable impression—possibly the more so because Chile is one of those South American countries with which the United States has at times in the past been on the verge of ill feeling, and it is the desire of our statesmen to allay any lingering suspicions and cement friendship in this quarter. The Delaware was not, of course, a member of the round-the-world squadron that visited Chilean ports several years ago so that not only will she be a novelty to eyes beyond the Andes but she will afford the people of Chile their first opportunity to inspect an example of the world's latest ideas in heavy battleship building. THREE ORDERS OF SOCIETY IN NAPLES Incidentally, Uncle Sam's impressive method of paying tribute to a worker for Pan-American unity will be brought to the attention of the people of other South American republics and this will not be a bad idea either, for the Latin-American are very jealous of receiving their due meed of respect and recognition from their big brother of the north. This focusing of the attention of people on the east coast of South America will come about through the circumstance that the Delaware, being unattended by coal or supply ships, will find it necessary en route to and from Chile to put in at ports in Brazil, Argentina and other places for fuel, supplies, etc. Of course the natives at each port cannot fall to be impressed by the vessel and the importance which Uncle Sam attaches to her mission. The placing of the metal casket containing the body of the deceased diplomat aboard the battleship will be made the occasion of another impressive ceremonial. The heavy-draught --- There are three distinct classes in Neapolitan society—it would be better to call them castes—the nobility and aristocracy, the "galantuomini" or middle classes, and the "lazaroni" or the "submerged multitude." The first class it is unnecessary to describe, the other classes live side by side, and are yet distinct and hostile. They differ in religious and political convictions, in morals, in social customs, in food and clothing. The galantuomini include the shopkeepers, the small manufacturers, tradesmen, bookkeepers, persons engaged in clerical occupations, and practically all who are compelled to earn their living, but who are not engaged in manual labor. They are generally liberal and often radical in politics. The men express an open indifference and often contempt for the church, but require their wives and daughters to observe all the conventional religious duties, and they themselves never fall to reach for a crucifix or call for a priest whenever they imagine their own lives to be in danger. They are fond of dress and display and indulge their taste as far as their means will permit, but their wives and daughters are kept in seclusion and are never allowed to leave the house without duennas to protect them. The lazzaroni regard with contempt as well as aversion the families of the galantuomini, who are not wealthy and have to struggle to keep up appearances. The lazzaroni are strongly attached to the nobility, have often given practical evidences of loyalty and on several occasions have been of supreme service to the crown. battleship cannot ascend the comparatively shallow Potomac river to Washington to receive the body, and so the president's yacht Mayflower will be used to convey the casket from the capital to Hampton roads, Va., where the transfer will be made to the big vessel. When the casket is conveyed from the receiving vault to the Mayflower there will be another military and naval pageant and guns will boom in salute and high officials of the government will stand with uncovered heads while the casket is swung by means of the long arm of a crane from the caisson used as a hearse to the deck of the vessel. A high official of the state department will accompany the body to Hampton Roads as a representative of our government and, in all probability, one or more Chilean diplomats will go with the body on the battleship all the way to Chile. Captain Gove, who will command the Delaware on this important cruise, is one of the most capable officers in the United States navy. He was for years the commandant of midshipmen at the United States naval academy and is thus known personally to almost every one of the younger officers of our sea service. The Delaware, of which he is in command, is 510 feet in length, 85 feet breadth and displaces 20,000 tons of water, which PLACING WON THE CAISSON THE FLAG DRAFTED CASKET means that she is fully one-fourth larger or heavier than any other vessel now in commission in our navy except her sister ship, the North Dakota. She is also the speediest of all our battleships built or building, being capable of a gait of 24 or 25 miles per hour, which is dictinctly "going some" for so ponderous a craft, and which will enable her to make good time on her round trip beyond Cape Horn if necessity should arise. The Delaware is the heaviest armed of all our "peacemakers," excepting of course her twin sister, the North Dakota. She carries ten of the big 12-inch guns, four of which were a few years ago considered ample for any battleship, and in addition she has ranged on her sides 14 of the tremendously effective 5-inch guns, to say nothing of a whole array of smaller naval "shooting irons." Some of these latter—the three-pounders, for instance, will be the only ones used on the present cruise and then merely for firing salutes. The Delaware has a ship's company of record-breaking size—55 officers and nearly 900 men. SOCIETY IN NAPLES They live cheaply in the open air, with a room in the basement or the attic of some old tenement, to which they can retreat for shelter in case of storm, and when the hour comes for sleep. They delight in garlic, shell fish, raw vegetables and fruit. The women pay little attention to their dress and always go bare-headed. There are probably not a dozen hats or bonnets to the thousand of the women population of the lazzaroni. The lazzaroni are so accustomed to feud odors, the misery, the loathsome filth of the "Fondacl," as the slums are called, that it is difficult for them to be happy under any other circumstances. They are born in it, they live in it and they die in it, and yet there are grades of misery, just as there are grades of prosperity. There are lazzaroni who are rich and comfortable, compared with others who may occupy the adjoining attic, but it is said by those who have studied this class that they are never reduced to a condition which is beyond their philosophy to endure; that they will always jest about their hunger and laugh about their pains. Sentimentallists who have made a study of them insist that the poorer and more loathsome the family the stronger the love and attachment. As misfortune comes upon them they seem to cling more closely together, parents to children, children to parents and brothers to sisters, and not one is so low or so destitute as to be unable now and then to do an act of charity or express compassion to neighbors who are even more badly off than themselves. SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY All Relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "For seven years I beg. I was in bed for four or five days at a time every month, and so weak I could hardly walk. I cramped and had backache and headache, and was so nervous and weak that I dreaded to see anyone or have anyone move in the room. The doctors gave me medicine to Sikeston, M.C. suffered everythin times, and said that I ought to have an operation. I would not listen to that, and when a friend of my husband told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and what it had done for his wife, I was willing to take it. Now I look the picture of health and feel like it, too. I can do my own housework, hoe my garden, and milk a cow. I can entertain company and enjoy them. I can visit when I choose, and walk as far as any ordinary woman, any day in the month. I wish I could talk to every suffering woman and girl." —MRS. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo. The most successful remedy in this country for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is more widely and successfully used than any other remedy. It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had failed. Why don't you try? ENLIST AID OF CHURCHES Powerful Weapon Brought to Bear in the Fight Against Tuberculosis. Just how serious a problem tuberculosis is to the average church, and in just what ways pastors are called upon to minister to those suffering from this disease, is the subject of an investigation which the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis is conducting in connection with its plans for tuberculosis day on April 30. Statistics are being gathered from thousands of ministers regarding this subject, and among other figures the number of deaths last year from tuberculosis in the church congregation will be given. It is planned to place these statistics together with other educational material, in the hands of every minister in the country for his use in connection with Tuberculosis day. Millions of circulars and pamphlets on the prevention of tuberculosis will also be issued, both from the national office and from the headquarters of the 450 anti-tuberculosis associations who will co-operate in the movement. Was Taking No Chances. An amusing incident occurred a few days ago outside Maranz, Austria. A cow strayed from the pasturage and came within reach of the fort. The officer in command suspected the presence of an automatic photographic apparatus, and had the beast seized and closely examined and when he found nothing to justify his suspicions he turned the animal lose again, under the observation of two of his men, charged with the duty of following the suspected home to ascertain whether her owner was an Italian spy. In the Blood. Willis—Are those Kentucky horses you bought scared of autos? Gillis—No, indeed. They never notice a train, either, but I can't get them used to a sprinkling-cart to save my life!—Puck. EASY CHANGE When Coffee Is Doing Harm. A lady writes from the land of cotton of the results of a four years' use of the food beverage—hot Postum. "Ever since I can remember we had used coffee three times a day. It had a more or less injurious effect upon us all, and I myself suffered almost death from indigestion and nervousness caused by it. "I know it was that, because when I would leave it off for a few days I would feel better. But it was hard to give it up, even though I realized how harmful it was to me. "At last I found a perfectly easy way to make the change. Four years ago I abandoned the coffee habit and began to drink Postum, and I also influenced the rest of the family to do the same. Even the children are allowed to drink it freely as they do water. And it has done us all great good. "I no longer suffer from indigestion, and my nerves are in admirable tone since I began to use Postum. We never use the old coffee any more. "We appreciate Postum as a delightful and healthful beverage, which not only invigorates but supplies the best of nourishment as well." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They one minute, true, and full of human interest: THE AMERICAN HOME W. A. RADFORD EDITOR a Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is the author of the highest number of all these subjects all balletries to William A. Radford, No. 184 11th Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The word bungalow is an Anglo-Indian term, meaning in India a species of rural villa, a house of light construction, usually of unbaked brick with a thatched roof. The bungalows which are the residences of Europeans in India are of all styles and sizes according to the taste and wealth of the owner. In its earlier use by white men the word bungalow was taken to denote a lightly constructed habitation, not exceeding one story in height, and presumably designed for temporary occupation. But during the past few years the bungalows have been built in both the United States and Canada as all-year residences and are constructed with every regard for permanency. They are built with heavier studing and bracing than the bungalows in California, and are sheathed solid outside and covered with heavy building paper and sliding or shingles. Many of them are provided with open fire places, although the old-time significance of the word contemplated an unplastered building with no facilities for heating, since it was designed, presumably, for summer occupancy or tropical habitation. The bungalow idea first took root in America in southern California where the mild and even climate is particularly well adapted to the bungalow in its elementary forms. Here it has undergone its most extensive development, although other sections of the United States are now crowding the favorite regions of the Pacific coast in this respect. It may be said, in all frankness, that any prospective home builder will do well to study carefully the advantages of the bungalow for his home which he is to build this spring. For those desiring a small and inexpensive house, particularly, the bungalow offers great advantages. The original ideas of arrangement as well as the unique ornamental schemes that are characteristic of bungalow work make it possible to design and build a home-like, cozy house of individual appearance for the same cost as the plain, every day cottage. An example in point is the artistic four-room bungalow illustrated herewith. This has been built many LAST BANK Darren Miller KITCHEN 14'0"X9'0" PORCH CL BATH 12'0"X5'0" DINING RM. 12'0"X14'0" BED RM. 12'0"X8'0" HALL 6'0"X17'6" LIVING RM. 12'0"X19'0" CL PORCH 16'6"X6'9" SEAT times for $1,500, a surprisingly low cost, no more in fact than one would have to pay for a plain ordinary cottage of the same size which would not meet so ready a sale nor at so good a figure when the time comes to sell. Remember this; it is always possible to sell a bungalow when a plain house of the same cost would find no sale. This is the most important factor financially, concerning the subject of home building. Too often home builders construct houses that lack style and when a rainy day comes and they want to sell the house there is no buyer because the house is "like thousands of others." The reason why a house will not roll in nine cases out of ten is because it has no individuality. The --- bungalow has individuality; it has that something that makes passersby by turn after they have passed the house and say, "How cozy." A glance at the floor plan and perspective shown herewith will show the desirable and attractive features of this plan. From the broad entrance porch one enters a good size hall, connecting by means of wide cased opening with attractive column grille work into the large sized living room, 12 by 19 feet, bright and cheerful, having broad window spaces, a built-in seat and practical fire place. A cased opening connects the living room and dining room, making practically one room and giving an exceptional amount of room and spaciousness in a cottage of this size. The arrangement between the kitchen and dining room is very good for convenient housekeeping and few steps. There is also direct connection between kitchen and front hall, a very good feature. Too many houses are so arranged that the living room has to be chased through every time one has occasion to answer the front door bell, which not only disturbs those sitting there, but also dirties this room unnecessarily and makes too many steps. The bedroom is of good size, opens off from the front hall and is supplied with a large sized clothes closet, ventilated and lighted by means of a good sized window. There is also a lighted clothes closet for hanging coats and hats just beside the front door. The bathroom has an inconspicuous location and is at the same time convenient. It too has a large closet for linen, etc. Although the second floor of this 1910 house is not important, still it furnishes a space for storage purposes, is well lighted and ventilated, and serves to keep the first floor cool. Some people have objected to the bungalow on the ground that it is too hot, but with an attic space of this size, well ventilated, no trouble of this kind will be experienced. The exterior treatment of this house is in a very appropriate bungalow style. Rough boards are used, stained with cresosote oil. The foundation courses from grade to window sills are covered with wide boards with horizontal batten strips. Above this the boards are lapped like the beveled siding, but with a wider lap. A wide extending open rafter cornice completes the design. Brown stained walls with green roof and sash painted white makes a very typical and artistic color arrangement for this cozy little bungalow. Speech That Was Never Delivered When the Hepburn rate bill was under consideration in the senate four years ago, Senator Crane learned that Piles of Washington, a new member, was about to make a speech for it and he didn't wish him to. He took Piles aside and whispered: "You know Senator Flint pretty well, don't you?" "I do," replied Piles. "Well, I hear he is about to make a speech. He is a new man and he mustn't do it. We new senators must stand together. We are not expected to talk, and if we do, what we say is ignored and we are looked upon as jokes. By all means, see that Flint saves his face." Piles turned scarlet. He promised to see Flint—and he kept that speech to himself—Success Magazine. Planning the House. "Well," said Grifford Berrington, cheerfully, "I've got the plans for my new house on the lake shore all finished." "Finished to suit you?" "N-no. But the architect is satisfied, and that's the best I can expect." "Ha, ha! How about Mrs. Berrington?" "It's all right with her, too. In fact she got that fixed before we started. You see, she laid out the cupboards and wardrobes, and all the architects had to do was to build a house around them."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. --- GOOD CAKE RECIPES FORMULAS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND PROVEN. Devil's Food Cake Easily Made and Success Always Insured—Soft Molasses Cookies—Banana Short-cake—Popcorn Crisp. Devil's Food Cake—Grate into a dish one-quarter cake of unsweetened chocolate, add one-half cup of boiling water and one teaspoon soda; let stand until other part of cake is mixed. Cake part—Two cups of brown sugar, half cup each butter and sour milk, 2½ cups flour; pour in the chocolate mixture and bake in layers. Filling for same—Two cups brown sugar, half cup of sweet milk, butter size of an egg; boll a little, stirring all the while. Do not let it boil too long as it will sugar. Soft Molasses Cookies.—One cup molasses, half cup water, half cup lard, half teaspoon each of cinnamon and ginger, one heaping teaspoon soda. Boll water and lard together, put in soda, stir well, add to molasses, mix as soft as you can without having too sticky. Bake in moderate oven. These should be thick, soft and delicous. Recipe is over 100 years old. White Cookies.—Two cups granulated sugar creamed with one cup butter, one cup of thick sour milk or cream, one teaspoon soda dissolved in one teaspoon of hot water, nutmeg to taste, just enough flour to handle the dough easily; roll out and cut, sprinkle with sugar and press a raisin in center of each; bake in a rather quick oven to a delicate brown. Popcorn Crisp.—Boll one cup molasses and one cup sugar together till it is the right consistency for candy. Have five quarts of popped corn, free from hard kernels, in a large pan, over which pour the mixture, stirring in at the same time so the molasses will be evenly distributed. When cold it will be crisp and delicous. Banana Shortcake—Use any good Washington pie recipe, slice bananas thin, spread over lower half. Whip a half pint of cream sweetened and add a little vanilla, spread over bananas, put on top layer, cover with bananas and then cover top with the rest of the cream. This is very rich. GOOD HINT ABOUT IRONING How One Housekeeper Keeps Clothes Clean While Putting on Finishing Touches. A housekeeper who is noted for her labor saving devices attached a big pocket to the ironing board when ironing skirts and dresses which will drag upon the floor. The pocket is made of unbleached muslin with a wide hem at each end, and is so long that when it is attached to the sides of the board it will nearly touch the floor. A double piece of muslin is put on the corners of the hem to re-enforce it, and these corners are pinned at the sides after the garment has been put on. As it is ironed, the garment falls within this loose pocket, and is kept from contact with the floor. Laundering Frills. Before putting in the laundry the one-side plaited frills and frilled collars, which are so pretty and popular and yet so hard to "do up," run a row of basting stitches about an inch from the outer edge. That will hold the plaits in position while washing and will save time and trouble later in ironing. This is especially true if you are not the proud possessor of a patent plaiting iron. These frills, by the way, should, when possible, be made separate from the blouse and buttoned, hooked or plinned on, so that they do not have to go so often to the tub. They really do not get dirty so quickly as the more exposed parts of the blouse, and they are a great nuisance usually to wash and iron, even with the precaution mentioned. If you buy a ready-made blouse with frills stitched on, it is an easy matter to rip them off and supply buttons and button-holes. Wine Sauce. Put over the fire a cupful of boiling water. Wet a tablespoonful of cornstarch with enough cold water to make a paste and stir into the boiling water. Cook ten minutes, stirring to prevent its lumping. Rub to a cream a quarter cupful butter and one cupful of powdered sugar. Add one egg, well beaten, and a good grating of nutmeg. When this has cooked ten minutes add a half cupful of wine and pour into the sugar and egg mixture, stirring until well mixed. Keep hot in a pan of hot water until ready to serve. Delmonico Potatoes. Layer cold potatoes, layer grated cheese; pour over drawn butter. Sauce—Put in double boiler or over the tea kettle one cup milk; when the milk is hot add one tablespoonful flour and butter creamed, boil together until thick; keep up the process until the dish is full. Cream Sauce. Two rounded tablespoons butter, two spoonfuls flour; when butter bubbles str in flour; add salt and pepper to taste; add enough cold milk to make consistency of good gravy. Let boil good. The KITCHEN GABINET HE THAT knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep—Arouse him. He that knows and knows that he knows, is wise—Follow him. —Arabian Proverb. plish wonders in a few weeks' time with no apparent effort. Here where the systematizing of one's wo will show. There is so much that must of ncessity be thrown away, but it seen a pity that good magazines and pers which would be a pleasure many, should be burned. Dainties for Saint Valentine's Day. In preparing sandwiches for a Valentine party, the appropriate shape is of course, a heart. It is a good plan when serving sandwiches to have several kinds. The following are a few suggestions which may be new to some: Sardines shredded and seasoned with chill sauce between slices of white bread. Yellow tomato preserved with ginger or lemon between white bread sandwiches. Gingerbread spread with cream cheese and thin slices of preserved ginger. Neufchatel cheese seasoned with salt, cream, paprika, Worcestershire sauce and a half cup of chopped nuts, put between slices of graham or rye bread. A delicious sweet sandwich may be made by baking a plain sponge cake in sheets, then cut with the heart cutter and put together with flavored, sweetened whipped cream. Peaches and Oranges. Drain the juice from a can of peaches, peel three oranges to a pint of peaches. Arrange the sections of orange alternately with the peaches, sprinkle with sugar and pour over the sweetened juice of the peaches. Serve very cold. Delicious Salad. Cut squares of cream cheese, lay in the bleached cup of head lettuce. Roll the cheese in chopped nuts, garnish with half a walnut meat and a few seeded white grapes. Just before serving add mayonnaise dressing. Another nice way of serving cheese is to 'season' cream cheese, add chopped nuts and use this mixture to stuff dates. Nut Cookies. Beat the yolks of two eggs until thick, add a cup of brown sugar, one cup of chopped nut meats and the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs; add six tablespoonfuls of flour and a pinch of salt. Spread on a buttered sheet and bake in a moderate oven. Cut in squares when removing from the baking sheet. WETHER the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. Things Worth Remembering. A heavy rocking chair that is hard to move may, by waxing the rockers, be made to slide easily. Never throw away popcorn that refuses to pop, because it is too dry. Sprinkle it with water about five minutes before using and usually every kernel will pop. When the clock refuses to run, try putting a small dish of coal oil in the clock. The oil will evaporate and loosen up the works. Powdered alum mixed with a third as much talcum and applied with a flannel will polish gold braid. A cup of sweet milk added to the water in which oatmeal is cooking makes it richer and better flavor. To remove the grease quickly from soup, lay on squares of tissue paper on the surface of the soup and remove lightly when well saturated. Household Hints. During the cold months, when hanging out clothes on wash day, it may be well to remember that there are ways of making that task pleasanter. For one way, hang the small things like handkerchiefs and napkins on the clothes horse and set them out on the back porch out of the wind, to freeze and dry. Anotherk help is to warm the clothes pins in the oven until quite hot. It is surprising how long they will keep warm and how much it helps in quickly placing the clothes, to have warm fingers. A custard pie may pose as several varieties: by adding a few tablespoonfuls of coconut, it is a cocoanut pie. A little chocolate makes it another, while caramelizing the sugar before adding it to the custard gives another flavor decidedly pleasant. Dried peas are much cheaper than the canned variety, and can be used just as many ways. Try them with a stew of mutton, putting the peas in with the meat and cook slowly for several hours. The peas season the meat and the meat adds to the flavor of the peas. T IS more difficult and calls for higher energy. The soul to live in must die on. House-Cleaning Time. The up-to-date housekeeper does not make house cleaning a burden to her family or a torture to herself. She begins early enough to do things that may be done early, and when time is not so pressing. An hour or so a day to go over drawers, desks and boxes will accom- plish wonders in a few weeks' time, with no apparent effort. Here is where the systematizing of one's work will show. There is so much that must of necessity be thrown away, but it seems a pity that good magazines and papers which would be a pleasure to many, should be burned. Many good women are getting the addresses of women who live out on our prairies of touch with so much that makes life worth living, and are sending them old magazines to read; this is true missionary work which costs so little, yet means much to poor people who love the things that are denied them. Where there is an accumulation of papers and magazines, they may be sold or given where they will be sent to those who will use them. By starting early with this work of looking over the household treasures, one has leisure to sort and arrange things in good order. When the cleaning time comes things are not then in a hurly-burly. Have a large drawer in which are kept nice pieces of paper, both tissue and wrapping paper, string, ribbon and boxes of all sizes. Such a drawer will be a source of comfort, as it will always be in demand. Keep in this drawer nice little gifts that have been enjoyed and are ready to be passed on. One thrifty woman has a few little gifts all ready to give on occasions that are constantly arising. One who has suci, a well-furnished drawer is always ready when called on for donations for the children's ward or the charity bazar. Have a tray for the soap fastened with rivets to the side of the scrub pail; it will pay for itself in soap in a short time. AND homeless near a thousand homes I stood. And near a thousand tables plined and wanted food. Wm. Wordsworth. And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. Wm. Wordsworth. For Valentine Parties. A very dainty way of serving cranberry with chicken for any function is to prepare the cranberry jelly and mold it by pouring the jelly into a cup and setting a smaller one inside; when cool fill the cup with chicken or any meat desired. An appropriate cake to serve for a Valentine party is one frosted with white frosting and decorated with pink candy hearts around the edge and a rose laid on the center of the cake. A Lady Baltimore cake is a good one to serve on such an occasion. Kisses are another dainty cake which are great favorites for children's parties. To the whites of nine eggs add a pound of granulated sugar with as little stirring as possible. Flavor with any desired flavor, drop on buttered sheets and bake a golden brown. Put together in pairs with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored. Maple Biscuit. Cut baking powder biscuit with a small-sized cutter, have the dough a quarter of an inch in thickness, lay two together with a bit of butter between and as much grated maple sugar as will stay on the halves. Bake in a hot oven. Chopped nuts added to the maple sugar makes a richer and nicer biscuit. It is so easy nowadays to find appropriate favors, boxes or molds for serving bon bons, ices or creams for this festive day. Ginger Nuggets Boll together one-half cup of water and a cupful each of brown and white sugar. Cook to the soft ball stage, add a quarter of a teaspoon of soda, half a teaspoonful of vanilla and pour over the well-beaten white of an egg, beat well and add a half cup of chopped Canton ginger. Drp by teaspoonfuls on buttered sheets. One may serve ice cream, the brick variety, in slices, then use a heart cutter to cut a heart-shaped serving. The bits that are left may be re-frozen or used as a dessert the next day. Nellie Maxwell. Fragrance of St. Sophia. Visitors to the mosque of St. Sophia in Constantinople notice immediately they enter a beautiful fragrance pervades the entire building. The solution lies in the fact that when it was built 1,000 years ago the stones and bricks were laid in mortar mixed with a solution of musk. Those who laid these stones have been long forgotten, but the influence and fragrance of their work remains.—Sunday at Home. Green Foods for Pussy. A woman who raises pedigree cats for market declares that green foods in the winter are necessary to the health of the animals. For this she provides the so-called umbrella plant, belonging to the grass family, and easily grown, to which she allows the cats free access. This, of course, ruins the plant for decorative purposes, but to many of us Miss Angora's health is more to be desired than many umbrella plants—Designer. Doctors Said He Would Die A Friend's Advice Saves Life I wish to speak of the wonderful cure that I have received from your noted Swamp-Root, the great kidney and bladder cure. Last summer I was taken with severe pains in my back and sides. I could not breathe without difficulty and was nearly wild with the desire — uninate. Was compelled to do so every ten minutes with the passage of pure blood with the urine. I tried all the different doctors from far and near, but they said it was no use to doctor as I would die anyway. I was at the end of my rope and was so miserable with pain and the thought that I must die that words cannot tell how I felt. One day a friend told me of the wonderful help she had received from Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. She gave me one of your pamphlets which I read and determined to try Swamp-Root. After taking half a bottle I felt better. Have now taken ten bottles and am well as I ever was, thanks to Swamp-Root. I wish to tell all suffering people that have kidney, liver or bladder trouble, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is the best medicine on the market. All persons doubting this statement can write to me and I will answer them directly, Yours very truly, CLYD F. CAMERER, Rosalie, Wash. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of July, 1909. VERNE TOWNE, Notary Public. Letter to Dr. Kilmer & Co. Blinghamton, N. Y. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, telling all about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention this paper. For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty-cents and one-dollar. Crutches or Biers. Richard Croker, at a dinner in New York, expressed a distrust for aeroplanes. "There's nothing underneath them," he said. "If the least thing goes wrong, down they drop." "I said to a Londoner the other day: "How is your son getting on since he bought a flying machine? "On crutches, like the rest of them," the Londoner replied." ECZEMA GONE. BOILS CURED "My son was about three weeks old when I noticed a breaking-out on his cheeks, from which a watery substance oozed. A short time after, his arms, shoulders and breast broke out also, and in a few days became a solid scab. I became alarmed, and called our family physician, who at once pronounced the disease eczema. The little fellow was under his treatment for about three months. By the end of that time, he seemed no better. I became discouraged, and as I had read the advertisements of Cuticura Remedies and testimonials of a great many people who had used them with wonderful success, I dropped the doctor's treatment, and commenced the use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and in a few days noticed a marked change. The eruption on his cheeks was almost healed, and his shoulders, arms and breast were decidedly better. When he was about seven months old all trace of the eczema was gone. "During his teething period, his head and face were broken out in boils which I cured with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Surely he must have been a great sufferer. During the time of teething and from the time I dropped the doctor's treatment, I used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, nothing else, and when two years old he was the picture of health. His complexion was soft and beautiful, and his head a mass of silky curls. I had been afraid that he would never be well, and I feel that I owe a great deal to the Cuticura Remedies." (Signed) Mrs. Mary W. Ramsey, 224 E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 24, 1910. Where Every Ear is Stretched. Knicker—They say listening is a lost art. Bocker—Ever live in a flat with a dumb waiter? TO DRIVE AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking showing it is simply Quinine and iron in a taste- less form. The Quinine drives out the malaria and the iron builds up the system. Sold by dealers for 80 years. Price 60 cents There are many kinds of pleasures, and some of them aren't so pleasant. A Mother's Love wisely directed, will cause her to give to her little ones only the most wholesome and beneficial remedies and only when actually needed, and the well-informed mother uses only the pleasant and gentle laxative remedy—Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna—when a laxative is required, as it is wholly free from all objectionable substances. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Established in 1898. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. Residence Phone, Market: 1641. Office Phone, Market 243 Phone your news items to us. "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. One Year (by mail) ..... $1.00 Six Months (by mail) ..... .75 Three Months (by mail) ..... .50 Advertising Rates made known on application. Liberal commission paid to agents. Entered at the Postoffice at Wichita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. 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SEND YOUR NEWS IN EARLIER. On Jan. 28 1911, a surprise party was given by Miss Ludie Gooch in honor of Misses Jessie and Deborah Mickleberry who has just returned from an extended visit among relatives and friends in New Orleans, La. The friends assembled at the residence of Mrs. Gooch 1061 N. Mead and marched together to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D.K. Mickleberry 1102 N. Santa Fe, where all kinds of amusem't and refreshments aided all. Mesdames Jeff Sanford, Stella Turner and I. J. Porter made an Interurban car trip to Clenuray and paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs M. B. McKelley at the McKelley country home. Mr. McKelley served them with a farmers lunch and Mrs. Turner was a splen did toastmaster, with her corn plauter and other farm impliments. Wm. Farzier was extended quite a distinction last week when he was called to Kansas City to take charge of the Stillwell special which was carrying President Stillwell over the great Stillwell railroads from New York City to the City of Mexico. Mr. Frazier as porter in charge accompanied the special to Texas and then returned to Wic hita. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Vote for the Midland Valley bonds on Tuesday, February 14th. Send your news notes and local happenings to C61 North Main Street. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right R.A.B.CRUMP TAILOR Everything in the line of Tailoring. Work Guaranteed. Masonic Building 615 N. Main Wichita, Kan D. K. Mickleberry and wife and Misses Jeeie and Doborah Mickleberry have returned from a trip to their former home in New Orleans, La. Have you sent in a name to help us get 1000 new subscribers? If not do so today. Mrs. Miles Parker and grandson have returned from a four weeks visit with relatives in Oklahoma. Miss S. L. Calhoun, district superintendent after spending several days in Wichita returned to her home in Winfield Kansas. Frank Kinbeiling and wife has accepted a splendid position with J. C, Robinson at Towanda Kansas and left Wednesday for that place. Their many friends here wish them success. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Has Called New Pastor. The 2nd Baptist church has called Rev, S. B. Butler one of the ablest Baptist ministers of Missouri to fill their pulpit as pastor and Rev. Butler began his pastorate last Sunday. Rev S. B. Butler comes to Whichita well recommended from Park Chapel Baptist church of Palmyra, Mo. where he successfully pastored for nearly six years. He is a well educated, pleasant and refined gentleman and is well fitted for the work here. The Searchlight with the citizens at large welcomes Rev. Butler to our city and wish for him his work and his church unbounded prosperity and success. We wish to thank the many friends who so kindly assisted and helped in caring for my wife who has been very sick for the last past two weeks. Some of our friends who lived very far out cooked suitable little things for the sick and brought it to our little humble home. All these little sweet flavors are very highly appreciated especially by a man when he has to stop his work and come home to take care of his family in the time of illness. At this writing I am very glad to say my wife is on the mend and I shall repor at 10 o'clock Thursday morning on duty at the fire station. William H. Jones 522 N. Water St. Sunflower Stand SANDWICHES and COLD DRINKS 509 N. Main St. WOODWARD & BUTLER, PROPS. — SEE THEM — 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 Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Hon. Geo. W. Murray will address the the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at their rooms 535 N Main Sunday Feb. [5, 1911] at 4:30 P.M. Mr. Murray needs no introduction to the people of Wichita as he has been before them several times this week with his lectures on Race Ideals. Mr Murray is an excellent speaker and has an interesting message, every man and boy should be present. All are welcome. Sunday Feb. 12 there will be an open meeting for the celebration of the birthdays of Lincoln and Douglas by Y. M. C. A. and the Women's clubs of the city. An excellent program of music and papers will be offered. One lady from each of the clubs will be on the program together with representatives from the YM C A Attorney R. B. McWilliams will make the principal address Rev. Jas T. Smith made a run to the city from Topeka Monday to attend the Banquet of the Afro-American Commercial Club held at the Masonic hall Monday night. Lived To A Ripe Age. In the death of Stephen Watson, who died in Wathena Kans. Sunday Jan. 29 1911. Wichita loses an honored citizen and Kansas a loyal pioneer. The deceased was well and favorably known in this city where he had lived for a number years and where he- with his beloved wife, who preceded him by two years to the land of bliss, had regrec a family of noble and honored sons and daughters. Stephen Watson was born in Wilson county, Tenn. Dec. 25th 1826. died Jan. 29th 1911. and was therefore 84 yrs. 1 mo. and 4 days old at the time of his death. His death was hastened by a fall which he sustained while visiting with his son in Wathena Kansas. He came to this city in 1884 where he has since made his home. He confessed religion 16 years ago and was baptised and admitted to membership in the 2nd Baptist church of this city by Rev. S. M. Hall. He survived by 8 children, 36 grandchildren and g6 great-grand children and a large number of warm friends. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Pinkey M. Vick 231 West Bight St. a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garrett, 2246 Jackson avenue, a son. Vote for the Midland Valley bonds on Tuesday, February 14th. 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: 498 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 333 to 349 WEST DOUGLAS W. S. Henrion Druggist 501 North Main Street Wichita - - - - Kansas Subseribe 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. Services at the Tabernacle Baptist Church for Sunday Feb' 5, 11:00 a. m. Peeaching, Subject- "Kings in Zion." 1:00 p. m. Sunday school 6:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 8:00 p. m. Preaching by pastor, Subject:- Location of the Ark and the Attire of its attendante. CULP'S MEAT MARKET 241 N.MAIN ST. But Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tails, Chin Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings, Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh Ship Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans P. T. CULP, Prop. N. Main St. Both Phone trade with our Advertisers 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 P. T. 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ASK YOUR GROCER : See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas --- GROCERIES, MEATS and General Merchandise we carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy ooceries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meat Our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality in price. Free Delivery Tapp & Hanshaw We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meat Our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery Tapp & Hanshaw 255 - 257 North Main Phones 257 New and Second-Hand Furniture, All kinds of Gas and Coal stoves both for cooking and Heating. Also Tables, Cabinets and a full line of Furniture. High Class Surgery Special Attention Given to a Specialty Canine Practice All Calls Promptly Answered-Day or Night The Finest Equipped Hospital In the City Both Phones Office and Hospital 1730 236 K. Market St., Wichita, Ks. 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Sold by Dealers Wichita — — Kansas STIRLING CLOTHES Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED If we only tailored for a few dozen men, we would have to charge each an exorbitant price. We would have to take large profits from the few, instead of a very small one from each or our mang customers. This is why we can put into a suit for you at $15,00 to $35, what the other fellows charges you from $25,00 to $60,00 for. Stirling Woolen Mills Co. TAILORS 215 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY IN THE CITY Satisfaction Guaranteed Laundry Work Called and Delivered Phones 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245 N. Market St Wichita, Kan ```markdown ``` They'll Treat You Right TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Vote for the Midland Valley bonds on Tuesday, February 14th. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right all discriminatory and disfranchising laws to become dead letters, whether repealed or not. The Afro-American, after discriminating against members of his own race, and thereby creating a higher condition for members of the white race, like the man in the quicksand, sinks deeper in every effort that he makes to imitate or appear like white men. The profits from every suit of clothes, or dinner bought, or every house rented, or buggy or automobile hired, to appear like white people, left on the side of the ledger of that race widen the chasm between the economic condition of the two races, and make it more and more impossible for the black man to maintain any kind of inequality with the white man in this country. Therefore the Afro-American must either get rid of that training and spirit, which cause him to discriminate against himself, or cease his demands for any kind of equality with the white race. In order to get rid of such training and spirit, he is in crying need of a leadership that is rid of them, and therefore like the children of Israel, after their journey through the wilderness we must have a new leadership for the spiritual and economic rehabilitation of the race. We see the crescent stars of such leadership in the constituency of this commercial club, and with the co- 'əʊəuipn pɪpuəds sɪŋ ʊoʊəuədo new day will dawn on Afro-Americans in Wichita. Vote for the Midland Valley bonds on Tuesday, February 14th. NEWTON KANSAS. C. W. Dickinson has moved his stock of goods from 1200 N. Main to 326 E. 11th. Mrs. C. W. Dickinson is much improved and is able to be out again. FT. SCOTT KANSAS. Western Queen Tabernacle No. 17 held their first meeting of the new year the first Saturday in 1911. A large number were present and had a splendid meeting there was a free donation for daughter Hayer. There are several on the sick list. Several members made interesting talk. SALINA KANSAS Silver Leaf Temple No. 5 is doing nicely. We have one sick, Sir. Wm. Hunter who is on the mead. Mrs. J. C. Brown who has been on the sice list is better. The daughters of Sunbeam Ta bernacle No. 7 are arranging for a three days "Fair" at the O and M Hall, Feb 23-24-25. Rev. W. P. Banks is suffering with the grip. Little Willie Jordan was run over by a bicyclist last week. Miss Josephine Hayes is on the sick list. W. W. Shobe, District Grand Master of the Odd Fellows met with the Odd Fellows lodge and delivered quite an appreciative address in which among other things he said that the Odd Fellows were in a very prosperous condition. All over the state and he felt highly encouraged for the future of the order. 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An idealization—that is, in showing on paper what the ideal city should be—the drawings of a few American architects which are, on display at the Royal Academy are concededly in advance of any similar exhibit by any of the European architects or city planners. These American plans, however, which have been drawn with reference to certain American cities are dreams merely—dreams that may never come true, because in the realization they would entail a tearing down and building over on a scale of magnitude that is apparently impracticable. While the United States makes the most impressive showing in the history of city building, it is Germany that shows the best materialization of artistic and scientific ideals. While we are talking on this side of the Atlantic about a glorified Baltimore or a paradisical Chicago, the Germans are doing some real glorifying in shaping not only suburban growth of their important cities, but in rearranging the central business areas and the older residential sections. The German exhibit at the Royal Academy illustrative of modern city building occupies seven galleries, and what has been accomplished in scores of German towns and cities is set forth by maps, drawings and ingenious models. During the past forty years German cities that had been previously for two or three centuries at a standstill stage of population growth have doubled, and in some instances increased threefold in population. In such cities there are new town and old town section, but in many instances the older sections have been so vastly reformed that the early layouts, or, rather, lack of layouts, have been lost in the modifications. SPEND MONEY IN BOOSTING Towns and States Carry Extensive Campaign of Advertising Their Resources. Spokane, Wash., laid out more than $100,000 last year holding herself up to the public gaze; Memphis expects to spend $25,000 this year for the same purpose; St. Paul, $18,000; Chicago, with a "Booster club" of 3,000 hustlers, pays an advertising manager a salary of $10,000 a year and does not consider that she really needs much boosting either. The advertising bills of the city of New York during the last six years aggregated a trifle under five millions of dollars, says Business. Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis, Toledo, Minneapolis, Montgomery, Ala.; Buffalo, Oklahoma City, Topeka and Wichita, Kan.; Indianapolis, New Orleans, Rochester, Cleveland—one might fill a page with a list of the cities that are boosting and booming themselves systematically and resolutely, and laying out their good, hard coin to do it. The Greater Georgia association, with a membership of nearly 20,000, is at work raising $200,000 to be used in exploiting the state and expects to establish permanent advertising headquarters in many cities throughout the country. Mississippi is getting busy with a somewhat similar plan; 80 Nebraska newspapers have pledged themselves to methodically exploit their commonwealth and to raise $25,000 within the coming year with which to do the work; the Northern Pacific Railway company has just put a force of 30 writers and publicity men to work on a campaign of advertising for Oregon. Money in Back Yards. The importance of the back yard as a source of this kind of food supply has not been sufficiently emphasized. Here alone could be produced enough food to feed the family for several months of the year. And then if fruit and berry trees were planted along the country lanes, and on the vast amount of land outside of the cities, being held by their owners for higher prices, there would be such an abundance of the most healthful and life-sustaining food in America, that no inhabitant of this country would want. The high "cost of living problem" would vanish as a pestilence after a sanitary crusade, and in truth this would be "the land of health and plenty." "Every Picture Tells a Story" DOANS KIDNEY PILLS A FLEMISH PERSONALITY FOR KIDNEY COMPLIANTS FAC-SIMILE OF THE GENUINE PACKAGE SUGHTLY REDUCED BURDENS LIFTED FROM BAD BACKS Weary is the back that bears the burden of kidney ills. There's no rest or peace for the man or woman who has a bad back. The distress begins in early morning. You feel lame and not refreshed. It's hard to get out of bed. It hurts to stoop to tie your shoes. All day the ache keeps up. Any sudden movement sends sharp twinges through the back. 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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, alays pain, cures wind colic, $25 a bottle. I had rather be kissed by an enemy than wounded by a friend who enjoyed the job. Lewis' Single Binder, extra quality tobacco, costs more than other 5c cigars. It is better to lose in loving than to gain by self seeking. Look Pre see ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "I ONEY PILLS R-MILBURN Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Proprietors. FADELESS other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water bet list—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG C That Essential Struggle. There are men who go through life without ever getting what one would call a throw-down or set-back—they never get to know what it means to face rough or tough weather. Their way is slicked and paved. They seem to miss the one great essential thing in every success—the struggle; days when everything looks as though one is about done for and ready to cave in. 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While in general no woman rebels against what s-gards as a natural necessity there is no woman who not gladly be free from this recurring period of pain, Of the pain which many women experience with every month it makes the gentleness and kindness always associated with womanhood seem to be almost a miracle. While in general no woman rebels against what she regards as a natural necessity there is no woman who would not gladly be free from this recurring period of pain. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well, and gives them freedom from pain. It establishes regularity, subdues inflammation, heals ulceration and cures female weakness. Sick women are invited to consult us by letter. All correspondence strictly private and sacredly fidential. Write without fear and without fee to theical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, B. 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M. Mrs. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. 1—Queen of the West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Marit Wilson, 945 Everett, 1-2 Wed. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 S. Chestnut; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Wm. Horton, 1825 N. Mead; 1-3 Fri. 4—Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. Sadie Campbell, 616 W. 1st; 1-3 Thurs. 5—Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Hattie Mqntgomery, 115 N. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 6—Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs. Catherine Glaspe, 128 N. Wabash; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lili lian Shobe, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Fri. 8—Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan., Mrs. Laura Donnell, 410 E. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 9—Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Lulu Deliey, 120 Kansas Ave; 1-3 Fri. 10—St. Marla, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. P. Henderson, 820 N. Y.; 1-3 Wed. 11—Saba Meroe, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. P. Woodfork, 823 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. 12—Golden Rule, Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewar; 1-3 Thurs. 15—America Davis, Welr, Kan., Mrs. Maggie Stewart, Box 14; 2-4 Mon. 16—Silver Leaf, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. Lizzie Morton, 1308 Washington; 1-3 Wed. 17—Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. A. Masler, 817 E. Wall; second Tuesday in July, 1911. CHITTELLINGS, 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 ..... .25 Northern Potatoes, bu ..... .90 2 lbs. 3-Crown Raisins ..... .15 3 Cans Good Corn ..... .25 3 Cans Scotch Pumpkin ..... .25 Spanish Onions lb ..... .05 Sweet Potatoes peck ..... .25 Cabbage, a head ..... $2\frac{1}{2}$ 3 3-lb. Cns Tomatoes ..... .25 7 bars White Russian Soap ..... .25 7 Bars Lenox Soap ..... .25 Large pkg. Gold Dust ..... .20 Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Fresh and Cured Meats. All kinds of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes. CHETOPA KANSAS Prof. G. W. Wood Jr. who has been substituting in the schoolrooms at Ft. Scott, during Prof. B. Hawkins absence is in the city thk guest of Mr. Morrison and family, he is enjoying out of town life and pleasures, the Profesor will give some of his fine lectures while in this section, his delivery is "Superk his manifestation with grace and ease." Mesdames Binkley and Reede are somewhat indisposed. Miss Gibson is in the city' the guest of her sister Mrs.J. Johnson. Messrs. Beoard and Hayes are convalesing. Prof. J. E. Finley of Yale Kan spent a few days in the city last week. We are always glad to see Prof. (?) The Mother of our preceptress of Chetopa High School, died Jan. 28 1911. we extend our symypathy and respects to the family. Good program at Literary and Lecttre by Prof. Wood Friday. A great number of people from Oswego were in attendance at the grand concert given by Ulysses R. Smith at Second M. E. Church Monday night. As Prof G. W. Wood Jr. came to our city for the second time, chanced to be found a place at the top. His address was grand, he held the audience spell bound. The participant recited "Dunbar" for the occasion, Prof. also expounded "Drizzling" this young genuis is a rising star. The entire program was rendered well, Prof. W. Easter was called out of the city Monday evening James Hudson is numbered among the sick. J. Nero of Oswego was a Chetopa visitor Sunday. Messrs. Porter and Maylen were in Oswego one day last week. Mrs. Eva Jones of Coffeyville pianist, Ulysses R Smith Mgr. wears a tag on get tagged. Rev. Lee is slowly improving. The chip off of the block was well pleased with his faithful tolowers last nigt. Mr. and Mrs. Nathat Armstrong were in the city visiting relatives and friends, theyreturned to Pittsburg Kans. where the former assumes his position. LAWRENCE KANSAS St. Marie No. 10 met in peace and harmony. We have a quite few sick members but they are attending nicely. We are going to have an entertainment the first Saturday night in February Dt. P. T. Henderson C. P. Dt. Laura Childs V. R. "Colored people will make a great mistake if they do not cultivate a friendly relationship and make friends with the better class of white people. The Negro-haters are not to be considered, for little or nothing can be done with them any way—but the open-hearted, well-meaning white man can always be counted upon to help us." Pecullar African Race. There is a peculiar sort of people living in northwest Rhodesia. These natives are small of stature, with large horns on their heads. The horn springs from the scalp, consists of the native's hair mixed with fat and flth, and is sometimes much as 18 inches long. For the first these Kaffirs live on the gre e to be found on both sides of the river. They build their huts on great ant heaps which appear like him, scattered over the flats. When the Kifue 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 meailles are likewise grown Send for the S. P. C. C. A "Young Mother" asks our opinion of "the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies." We must frankly say that we consider it a brutal practice. As the father of a great many babies, of all ages, we never rocked on any of them intentionally, and we would probably be arrested if we expressed our full opinion of any woman who would presume to do so.—Lippincott's Magazine. 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 in and distributed among the young, is 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. 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. Took Precautions. "You ran into this man at 30 miles an hour and knocked him 40 feet," said the court. "That, or a little better, I suppose," answered the chauffeur. "Why didn't you slow down?" "Mere precaution, your honor. Once I shut off speed and hit a man so gently that he was able to climb into the machine and give me a listening." BRITISH SURGEON EXPLAINS ETI- QUETTE FOR OCCASION. 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 fails 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 impenetrable, 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 locohotive 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 quaint 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 lcg 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 peradventure rather a testimony in him, who can do the one, that he cannot do the other, than otherwise.—From Montaligne. 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 raiment, 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 behink 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 Courtier. 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. Besides 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!"—Answera.