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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Abraham Lincoln Splendid Sermon Delivered Last Sunday Evening. Worth Reading [Picture of a man in a suit with a white shirt and a bow tie]. Rev. J.E. Edwards, Pastor A. M. E. Church TWELTH YEAR Abraham Splendid Sermon day Evening. Rev. J. E. Edwards, P We here produce the able ser- mon delivered by Rev. Edwards at the A M E church last Sunday night Read it ABRAHAM LINCOLN. "There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and the yof the City shall flourish like grass of the earth. The beautiful figures of rhetoric are the more appartment in proportion as we see them verified in life. The writers of literature, sacred and profane, have searched both the animate and inanimate kingdom, earth, sea and sky and brought from them in charming from figures of speech which they are intended to represent. Foremost among all symbolic speech or writings is the language of the Bible. This library of sixty-six books stands without a rival in beautiful metaphor. In pastures green, by running brooks, in deserts wild or mountains bleak, where 'ere you look, when'ere you think the sacred writer has gone before and prepared for you the type thae you need for any subject that is to be discussed. The prophet sees not only the object of his vision, but touches in his prophesy all objects that shall appear upon the horizon with similar character and purpose. A long list of worthies has been given in sacred history as types of our Lord Jesus Christ. The characters and purposes as shown by their works easily reveal them as shadows of Him who was to come. The name of Moses was as a harp of a thousand strings to every son of Abraham. They saw in it salvation. They saw in him a savior. Salvation and a savior from the biteearest experiences that could possibly come to an unfortunate people. They saw in him the following fountains, the milk and honey, the Canan land with national glory and themsels lifted up above the meaner things and lesser people into things divine. Indeed much that had been expected in the coming Messiah they saw in Moses; and they were willing to attribute their glory to the great emancipator, Moses the Seer of Sinai. To them Moses was indeed the handful --- of corn in the eop of the mountain. Their joyful condition following their exit from Egypt was the shaking fruit upon Lebanon. The beauty of their homes and the laughter of their children in the streets were as the dew kissed grass o f the earth. All that can be claimed by Isreal of old for Moses can be cliamed by this modern Israel for Abraham Lincoln. We look in Vain among the great men of our country for the likeness of the immortal Lincoln. He stands singly and alone in the galley of America's great men. Like snow caped Shasta in his awful gandeur, in the far west, up to whom the valley and the prairies, the hills and the mountains look, Abraham Lincoln, the peer of all Americans, stands with crown of glory so resplendent that the American people hesitate not to crown him the first and noblest son of the new world. America needed this matchless citizen. When she began to exist as a nation this necessity began to grow with her and 250 years she was working away at this Creation in order that she might be placed aright among the civilized nations of the earth. In the making of a great man only the everlasting God knows what has been accomplished. Man measures man by man, but when the exceptional product makes his advent among his fellows they are ready to say as the people of Lystra and Derb. "The Gods have come down to dwell amnog us." By the making of this great citizen America has put the world under everlasting obligations to her. Without Abraham Lincoln America would always have been a stench and a hiss in the nostrils and teeth of the civilized world. Lincoln the immortal. The holy scriptures in speaking of one saith, He being dead yet speaketh." In the silent chamber of death; at the dark and yawning mouth of the grave, the cry of the mourner is often heard; "O speak to me mother just one word, only one word more." And I say verilly the soul of that weeping one would give all just to see those cold silent lips move again in speech. If I were allowed to approach the sacred presence of the sorrowing atuch a time, for the purpose of consol- ing, I would whisper in the ear, "Friend look around you, what do you see? Listen at the music of life, what do you hear?" I would point to the foot prints on the sands, to the hand writings on the walls; I would strike the great key board of life's greatest instrument of music and awaken a thousand voices whose music would charm all hearers with the delightful response—Not dead but sleepeth. The ashes of the immortal Lincoln lie preserved in the vault at Springfield, Ill. Thither men make their pilgrimages and with uncovered heads breath in silence and imagine themselves in the presence of the martyred one. If they would but hearken they could hear the voice of angles as at the grave of Jesus. "He is not here, go forth and find." "Behold he goeth before you into the homes of the lowly, among the despised and unfortunate," whenever human hearts are heavy and woes are against and clouds darkest he will meet you there." communed with the goin art, in literature and Our sons and daughter ed the learned professi lecture platform. In the forensic arena the jurist shines me through lamps of Sable. As far back as the si ties there came upon such legal lights as to Elliot of South Carol Augustus Straker of K Wright of the Supreme Carolina; T. McCents of the most brilliant ever appeared before City of New York. T M. Langston, Dean of University Law School D. C. and later on the full of the best type of fession that the scribe drop his pen and lo heard to exclaim "W wrought?" In the legal professi found today, in almost munity of any consider Abraham Lincoln liveth. Is there a freeman in all this land? He breathes the breath of Lincoln. His works do follow him. Today thousands of school houses, colleges and universities are because he is. The purer thought and higher life that are found in the institutions of our land, making a new day and a higher life and awakening in the veins of the young life of the nation deviner, thought and purpose are but the spirit of him who, like the immortal John Brown, is marching on. The race that as been under God an inestimable blessing to this nation and is destined to be the salt hereof would like to testify to the fact that there is in the life of this nation an Abraham Lincoln. What is your testimony ye sons of Ham who marched under the stars and stripes two hundred thousand strong? Ye boys in bloe who sang "We are coming father Abraham", what have voh to say? An the boys in bloe with their brothers and sons, their fathers and mothers, their sisters and their daughters a great company of more than ten millions of natures best plead for a moment of time of time to answer so great a question. And thus they make reply-Sir, there was a time when the sweetest words in our mother tongue had no meaning to us. The terms mother and home were blanks. We stood dazed and bewildered at the sounds when heard, not even knowing in what language they were. But since the spirit of Lincoln has marched through these United States and took up his abode in so many hearts, we have learned the meaning of these terms. Now we have devoted mothers and happy homes where the family live unolested by salvish chains, in Maternal and parental and filial love; And here the altar of God is reared and songs of praises are sung and the holy Bible is read and from it we get spiritual food and strength each day and joy and comfort every night. We had no conception of social life. The meanest possible condition of existence where the lowest forms of life were found was our limit; a kind of lower animal associations was all that we know. The banjo and the fiddle, the patting and the old Virginia reel followed by any kind of a carousel that might suggest itself were the climax of our social life. But now we live in a new world; we have the highest social ideals and find ourselves surrounded by true refinement and genteel associations. The banjo and the fiddle have given place to the piano and the violin; the corn song and the old Virginia Reel have yielded to the classic song and the productions of the Masters; and many of the race have graced with their presence some of the highest social functions of the land. Since Lincoln has come we have mastered the three Rs, have gone out into the world of knowledge and have communed with the gods in science, in art, in literature and phylosophy. Our sons and daughters have mastered the learned professions and the lecture platform. In the forensic arena the light of the jurist shines most brilliantly through lamps of Sable hue. As far back as the sixties and seventies there came upon the horizon such legal lights as the Hon. R. B. B. Elliot of South Carolina, Judge D. Augustus Straker of Kyo Judge J. J. Wright of the Supreme Court of South Carolina; T. McCents Stewart, one of the most brilliant barristers that ever appeared before a jury in the City of New York. The Hon. John M. Langston, Dean of the Howard University Law School, Washington D. C. and later on the skies were so full of the best type of the legal profession that the scribe was forced to drop his pen and looking up was heard to exclaim "What has God wrought?" In the legal profession is to be found today, in almost every community of any consideration men and soe women too who are capable in every way, to handle the most difficult cases that may appear before the courts. Before the days of Lincoln the race had no conception of what constituted a physician. The hoodoo an dthe voodoo doctor with his roots and frog legs and snake heads and lizzard tails an conjure bags was the istinguished healer for all physical ills. But now the spirit of Lincoln has pushed to death this foolish hoard and has brought from medical schools sons and daughters of the race whose knowledge of the healing are challenges the wisdom and skill of the scientific healers of the universe. This army of consecrated healers has gone into the ills of life; where malaria and contageons and all other diseases abound and has arrested the ravages of death and are playing no mean part in bringing about a new day for human life. the dreaded White Plague, the fearful Yellow Fever, the deadly Small-pox, in short there is no class nor kind of physical ills that is kniwn to the medical world but that the Negro physician is master. If you want a specialist to treat nerve or mental trouble you can find him in the man of color, and he will enter sacredly the inner domain of the man and catch up the threads of reason as the flounder about in dazed conditions and binding them together give the subject a new lease upon life. This advanced position, this startling state of affairs is but another expression of the ruh ha men liveee expression of the truth that men live on in the lives of these whom they have touched and influenced. I believe that you with every other thinking individual of this nation are willing to say that not only are these the voice and products of the life and character of the immortal Lincoln but that whienever ther is a new field of action, wherever the door of hope is opened today to the black man, it matters not from whom it aye seem to eminate, it is the deed of the matchless character that has wrought such wonders in the land. Must I speak of fettered brains now free and their achievements in the world of letters? If so I have but to turn to the book shelves of your libraries and there read; works of history, mental and moral science, biography, text books, treats on the dead languages, books of sermons and Biblical exegies, address, works of music and theology, novels, romance, poetry secular and religious, papers and magazines etc etc. All the result of the brain of hundreds of accredited authors of the race. Our answer to the question that you have given must be imcomplete at but, for it is impossible in the time alloted e that I should give an adequate answer to so great a question. Concluded on page 8. and Festival Auspices of Emith Temple No. 30 Garfield Hall Wednesday Night, M a r c h 1st. 1911 The Daughters of Isis, to be, will put on an exhibition drill. Something entirely new. The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will drill against the Daughters of Isis. Grand Musical Program Under Direction of Ill. Geo. W. White The young people will be allowed to remain until 1 a.m. and enjoy themselves to their heart's content. Everybody is welcome. Daughters of Isis — J. H. Sayles, Captain Mesdames — Sam Jones, N. D. Briley, J. T. Chinneth, H T Bolden, G Ewing, O T Taylor, G White, J H Sayles, Misses—B Whitted, — Wade, L. Fauver L Covington and H Hurst. Lived To Be 107 Years Old Mrs Jane Bryant, the oldest colored woman in Sedgwick county if not in Kansas, died at her late home in the eleventh block on N Mead ave. at 9 o'clock Thursday morning, principally from old age. She came to Wichita many years ago and those who knew her best claim that she was between 107 and 110 years old. For several years she was a domestic in the home of Mrs Chas L Davidson, wife of the mayor of our city, for whom she worked until age forced her to quit. When old age forced her to give up her work at the Davidson home, Mrs Davidson told her not to worry as she would see to it that Mrs Bryant would not suffer and that should Mrs Bryant died first Mrs Davidson said that she would see that she received proper burial. True to this promise — during all the long illness of the deceased, Mrs Davidson contributed regularly to her comfort and when informed by Mr Morris Mayo of the death of Mrs Bryant, Mrs Davidson at once arrangements with Mueller's for the funeral and ordered the bill sent to her. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at New Hope Baptist church, Rev, E. T. Fishback, pas officiating. Farmers War on Ku Klux Five white men are in jail at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a large force of special officers are patrolling the country, the officers of Osage county believe they soon NO.45 will have stamped out n Ku-Klux organization which has been terrorizing Negroes and has done much damage to the county in the past few weeks. The men in jail are charged with having danymited Negro cabins in the town of Prue and driving all Negroes out of the settlement. Negroes were also driven out of the town of Hominy and Wyona, presumably by the same gang. Negro labor is badly needed by cotton farmers who are up in arms and will deal out summary justice to any of the Ku-Klux band that fall into their hands. Pitchfork Tillman Forced From Office The South Carolina legislative committee robbed United States Senator Benjamin Tillman of an honor which he has held for 20 years, as trustee of W in throp college, the state normal and industrial school for girls The committee reported that in as much as the trusteeship was a place of "honor and trust," if not of profit, Tillman cannot hold it and continue as senator. This construction of the law forces Tillman ont although he has served without pay. Thus this one-eye freak of humanity is again severely rebuked by the people of his own race and state Restoring George Washington's Will HE last will and testament of George Washington — perhaps the most precious and the most interesting of all the relics of the Father of His Country—has recently been saved to the nation. Moreover this rescue of the most significant document penned by our first president took place just in the nick of time. A few years more and the country might have had to mourn the loss of this priceless souvenir just as it has been mourning these many years past the disappearance of the original penned drafts of some of the famous speeches delivered by some of our most famous men on historic occasions. It was not, in the present case, that fire or theft threatened the Washington relic—although it must be admitted that there is a possibility of loss by either of these means so long as it remains in its present depository. However, the destructive agent that recently aroused some of the nation's most prominent officials to the peril of the Washington will is nothing less than the ravages of time. Until THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN'S WASHINGTON SIGNATURE ON WILL FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE VIRGINIA, WHERE WASHINGTONS WILL WAS PROBATED INTERIOR OF FATHER COURT HOUSE WHICH APPEARS NOW JUST AS IT DID 100 YEARS AGO within the past few months the public at large did not know of the whereabouts of the Washington will, if indeed it even knew of the existen- ce of the paper. However, the officials of the state department and the library of con- gress knew its resting place in an obscure county courthouse in Virginia, and whereas they realized the futility of their ambition to ever get permission to transfer it to Washington, where it ought to repose as a great national relic, they still had sufficient interest in it to keep a watchful eye on it, so to speak. Some months ago it suddenly came to the ears of these interested parties that the will—long known to be in a poor state of preservation—was in imminent danger of going utterly to ruin. Obviously quick action and heroic measures were necessary and thereupon there was inaugurated that project which has lately witnessed the complete restoration of the will by means of a miracle of manuscript surgery and document restoration carried on by the greatest experts in the country in this highly specialized line of work. Persons who are at all conversant with the care with which Uncle Sam fosters and safeguards all the important state and private papers of historical value that are in his keeping—for instance, the Declaration of Independence which is never even exposed to light—may naturally marvel that so priceless a trophy as the will of Washington should have been allowed to fall into decay. The explanation is found in the fact, above noted, that the will is not and never has been in the possession of the federal government. It was filed for probate in the year 1800 at the county seat of the county in Virginia where Washington resided and in that state it has remained ever since. A century of wear and tear might be expected to play havoc with almost any document and at times during this cycle the Washington relic saw some rather rough handling for so fragile an object. During the However, the worst experience of all came only a few years ago and resulted from an error of judgment on the part of the custodians of the will, who supposed that they were acting for the best. It had come about that as a result of the handling of the will the pinning together of the 23 pages and the wear along the lines of the creases in which it had been folded almost every one of the sheets was completely severed through the middle. The persons in charge of the will realized in a vague sort of way that something ought to be done and they finally hit upon the plan of sewing together the severed sections of each sheet. When the government officials and other prominent men interested in all existing meme-mentoes of George Washington heard what had been done they were all but ready to weep. As though it were not had enough to Temples of Babylon The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft gives an interesting account of the past year's excavation work in three different parts of Babylon. In the town quarter known as Kasr were laid bare several hundred meters of a wall about 35 feet thick, broken by numerous door openings which were originally flanked by towers. The most interesting find here was a coffin of burned clay, on the lid of which was a relief of a bearded head. Near the north wall of the quarter known as Sachn was discovered a system of drains, built of brick, laid in asphalt. Here were also found several fragments of tablets with uniform inscriptions from the time of Nebuchadnezzar. This discovery enabled the excavators to complete fragmentary tablets discovered some time before. The legend proved to refer to the building of the Zigurrat, the temple tower of Babylon. The beginning reads as follows: "Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, reverer of the great --- I In Writings of all persons each of the things herein contained, Man a taking hard and leal, this a lot day of July, in the years one thousand seven hundred died and ninety and one the Independence of the United States the twenty fourth. G. Washington THE MUSEUM NEW OFFICE OF THE CLEAR OF THE COURT AT TAIREPAX WHERE THE WILL IS NOW PRESERVED Civil war, for example, it was carried to Richmond for safe keeping and came near being lost entirely in the confusion that attended the fall of the Confederacy. However, the worst experience of all came only a few years ago and resulted from an error of judgment on the part of the custodians of the will, who supposed that they were acting for the best. It had come about that as a result of the handling of the will the pinning together of the 23 pages and the wear along the lines of the creases in which it had been folded almost every one of the sheets was completely severed through the middle. The persons in charge of the will realized in a vague sort of way that something ought to be done and they finally hit upon the plan of sewing together the severed sections of each sheet their services save the wreck placed in the has made a life papers and made to the work an short of a mi observer can a the same cond hands of its d when a page realizes that, to a ghost of its all sorts of connection with was at first pl work undertake the manuscript When the government officials and other prominent men interested in all existing mementoes of George Washington heard what had been done they were all but ready to weep. As though it were not bad enough to gods, establisher of Esagila and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, of the king of Babylon, am L When Marduk, the great lord, elevated my head I abased myself severently before Marduk, the god who created me." After this Nebuchadnezzar goes on to boast that he made the temple "brilliant as the day with bitumen and blue glittering bricks" and that for the same end he has had mighty cedars prepared. The inscription ends with Nebuchadnezzar's prayer that Marduk will reward his pious deeds by granting him "eternal days." Work was also carried on at the town wall built by Nabonid, the last king of Babylon, who reigned 555-538 B. C. About 400 meters of this wall were uncovered. The wall is about 25 feet thick and has a tower every 60 feet. The main gate lies in the line of the great Babylonian procession street. The pavement of the processional street at this point is attempt to sew delicate sheets of paper, it transpired that subsequent handlings of the sewed sheets had caused the threads to wear and cut their way through the paper and ultimately the pages were literally in shreds. All the while the rille was on display in an ordinary wooden box with a glass cover which permitted the will to be constantly exposed to the light while on exhibition at the county seat of Fairfax county and which would probably have faded out the handwriting entirely had not the document been penned with an exceptional quality of ink. PRESERVED It was at this juncture that the government officials who volunteered their services were allowed to take a hand to save the wreck. The work of restoration was placed in the hands of a federal expert who has made a life work of the saving of damaged papers and manuscripts. He devoted weeks to the work and what he has wrought is little short of a miracle. In so far as the casual observer can detect the will is in practically the same condition as it was when it left the hands of its distinguished author. It is only when a page is held to the light that one realizes that, technically, the document is but a ghost of its former self. All sorts of obstacles were encountered in connection with the restoration of the will. It was at first planned to have the odd salvage work undertaken by the department of state, the mauscript surgeons of which branch of the government had already worked wonders with the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and other documents. However, in order to get the benefit of the skill of the state department's ex- perfectly preserved. It is constructed of two or three layers of bricks set in asphalt and covered with a thick coating of asphalt. King Nabonid, it is proved, built his fortifications out of the ruins of works constructed by his predecessors, as the excavators found brick with a four lined inscription of Herlglissar, in which this ruler, whose inscriptions have hitherto been missing, describes himself as "the accomplisher of good deeds." The excavations made in Assur by Dr. W. Andrae in the season April to October yielded still more important results. The complete ground plan of the Temple of Assur was laid bare, and the history of the great building pushed back to the third millennium, B. C. This makes it the oldest Mesopotamian temple so far discovered. The temple was renewed by the King Samsi-Adad about 1800 B. C., and it was burned down 500 years later under Salmamassar I., who, however, reconstructed it on exactly the old Many important finds were made by Dr. Andrae. Near the door in the southeast front were found remains of a relief of a bull three THE WORLD'S FINEST BOOKS PAGE OF WASHINGTON'S WILL AND BOX IN WHICH IT WAS KEPT perts it would be necessary to remove the will to Washington for the interim while the work of restoration was in progress, and the county officials at Fairfax who had the say in the matter refused flat-footed to allow the document to leave Virginia. It looked for a time as though this might block the whole plan, but finally the officials of the library of congress, who have on their staff a manuscript surgeon almost as skillful as the one at the state department, offered to send this wizard to Fairfax Courthouse and have him carry on the work there. This was done and the outcome has been as satisfactory as though the work of rejuvenation had been conducted in the well-equipped plant at the national capital. However, there were many handicaps and not the least of these was found in the necessity for transporting to Fairfax a heavy press and other paraphernalia needed for the intricate plecing of the torn and ragged pages and mounting them on the cardboard mounts, one of which has been provided for each page of the will. Unquestionably the gratifying success which has attended this attempt to restore the Washington will to the appearance it bore one hundred years ago has been due in no small measure to the aid afforded by a number of blank sheets of paper made especially for George Washington and watermarked with his name. When the government officials first inspected the torn and tattered will, with a view to applying their ingenious "first aid" treatment they at once realized that an inordinate amount of piecing and patching would be necessary and they were in a quandary where to obtain material that would match the original, for, of course, the will was written on very distinctive paper, and to patch it with ordinary paper of present-day manufacture would have resulted in only partially concealing the wounds made by time and careless hands. There was a long search for paper that could be used with confidence that no person examining the restored document without the aid of a magnifying glass could tell where the original left off and a patch began. Finally the officials discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Washington a number of sheets of the writing paper which General Washington had manufactured especially for his personal use and this paper was used wherever new tissue had to be grafted on the original document, with the result that the appearance of the original has been simulated so as to defy detection. Each sheet of the will has been so backed or mounted upon "creepeline" that it will stand any reasonable amount of handling and the ink of the will has been "set" so that there is little danger of further fading. However, for all that the precious document has been put in condition to stand another century of strenuous existence if need be, it is not likely that it will ever aga be called upon to suffer such neglect or abuse as in the past. The county officials who are the custodians of the will appear to be aroused to the necessity of giving it more intelligent care than it enjoyed in years gone by. To that end the pages of the will have been bound in the form of a book with handsome red levant cover and a special fireproof, burglar-proof steel safe, made specially for the purpose under the supervision of the government officials will henceforth be the repository of this relic. The attention which this restoration of the will is receiving is expected to result in the visits in future of considerable numbers of tourists and sightseers to Fairfax Courthouse, the Virginia hamlet where the will has its home—the more so since this historic spot can now be reached by trolley from the national capital. The county seat of the county where Washington lived and died has many picturesque landmarks not the least interesting of which is the old courthouse in which Washington's will was probated and which presents today the same appearance that it did on that historic day more than a century ago. The will is not kept in the courthouse but in the office of the clerk of the court, which occupies a separate building. The work of restoring the Washington will, had it been entrusted to any manuscript surgeon outside the government service—and there are only a few such in the country—would have cost $200 to $300 at least and it is probable that several times the latter sum might have been demanded for the service for which the government made no charge. ```markdown ``` times larger than life size. Another find was an inscription of Sennacherib to the effect that he had "builted a house to the God Ninib." This presumably refers to an extension of the temple at the east corner, of which little now remains, but the temple well built by Sennacherib is intact. The Temple of Assur is shown to have been of vast extent. The excavations reveal a court yard surrounded by rooms and two immense halls. The excavators found here fragments of enameled brick dating from modern Assyrian times and showing markedly the influence of Egypt. These bricks depict battles, prisoners and soldiers on march and the destruction of fortresses. CANADA GETS $1,500 TROPHY. CANADA GETS $1,500 TROPHY. NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AWARDS TROPHY FOR PECK OF OATS GROWN IN SASKATCHEWAN. Again Canada is to the fore, and has secured at the National Corn Exposition just closed at Columbus, Ohio, the magnificent Colorado silver trophy valued at $1,500, for the best peck of oats. These oats were grown by Messrs. Hill & Son, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, and, as may readily be understood, were of splendid quality to have been so successful in a contest open to the world, and in which competition was keen. At the same Exposition there were exhibits of wheat and barley, and in all these competitions, the grain shown by Canada secured a wonderful amount of attention, and also a number of awards. During recent exhibitions at which grain from Western Canada was given permission for entry, it always took first place. At the Spokane Interstate Fair, last fall, where the entries were very large, and the competition keen, the Province of Alberta carried off the silver cup, given by Governor Hay, for the best state or province display, and a score of prizes was awarded Canadian exhibitors for different exhibits of wheat, oats and barley threshed and in the sheaf. Vegetables also received high awards. A pleasing feature of these exhibits was they were mostly made by farmers who had at one time been American Citizens and were now farming in Canada. The Department of the Interior is just in receipt of a magnificent diploma given by the Tri-State Board of Examiners at the Fair held in Cincinnati last fall for agricultural display by Canada. The Surveyor-General of Canada has just completed a map showing that a large area of land was surveyed last year in the northern portion of Saskatchewan and Alberta in order to be ready for the rush of homesteaders to that district during the coming spring and summer. It is understood surveys covering several hundreds of thousands of acres will be made in addition to these during the coming summer. A return just issued by the Dominion Lands Branch shows that 48,257 homestead entries were made last year as compared with 37,061 in 1909; of this 48,257, 14,704 were made by Americans. North Dakota coming first on the list with 4,810, Minnesota gives 2,528, South Dakota 1,133, Wisconsin 745, Washington 730, Michigan 706, Iowa 645, while other states show less, but with the exception of Delaware, District of Columbia and the Indian Territory, every state and territory contributed. The prospects for an abundant crop in all parts of Western Canada for 1911 are said to be excellent. In the districts that required it there was an ample rainfall last autumn, and the snowfall during the present winter is greater than in many previous years. Both are essential factors to the farmers, who look upon the moisture that these will produce as being highly beneficial. A large immigration from the United States is expected, and the demand for literature and information from the various Government Agencies located at different points in the States is the greatest it has ever been. Since the above was written word has been received that in addition to honors won at Columbus, Ohio, Canada won first and second on wheat and first and second on oats, as well as diplomas. Ncrman Cherry of Davis, Saskatchewan, who was in the reserve for first on wheat, secured the award, with G. H. Hutton of Lacombe, Alberta, second. J. C. Hill & Sons got first on oats besides the silver trophy. G. H. Hutton took second in oats. Always Worrying The late John H. 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Then, hearing his name spoken in Queenie Dawson's clear young voice he looked up quickly, showing a pair of dark eyes, alert and keen. "Why Stanley Pierce?" she a...ed. and Ruthie Carter replied. "Let's ask him anyhow. He belongs to the force as much as we—" "More," snapped Queenie; "he's a thousand years old—" Green young vines hair cottage. "Oh, what a dream of Queenie. "Thank you to us! Do fairies live No; I suppose it's only lady with a dog who we so much as smelled. Queenie laughed and a key, as he opened t and the others. "Do I look like a c he asked. "Come in. I was a farmer? I'm g men back for the bas girls go in and make a range." Now, the man indeed. The little ar house was a delight, a that his sister had got for a sick aunt, but he enough to be chaperon on the little green la flowers, and were very Ruth interrupted her. "And it's the first free Saturday afternoon of the summer tomorrow, and we need another man for the picnic anyway. He may not go, but let's ask him. He's nice, and he'd enjoy it. He lives 'way out somewhere with an old maid sister. It's no wonder he's drying up!" "I'm not a missionary!" retorted Queenie. "He'll think it his duty to go and will be a wet blanket on the fun. imagine him trying to flirt! Do leave him in peace, girls, and ask a real, live man—he's a back number, a mere column of figures!" "No," declared Ruth, and Cassie seconded her. "He's saved us from the chief's fire many's the time—always doing somebody else's work. "Oh, if you're so smitten on him, Ruth, very well! Only you'll have the dullest day of your life, for you'll have to annex him—I won't!" Then, some one seemed suddenly to be aware that the door was ajar; a frightened little silence followed. Pierce heard a suppressed giggle, and then he remembered it was shameful to listen, and stepped softly through the open door back into the private office, now deserted. He was safely inside when one of the girls looked into the middle room, and marked with relief that probably he had been out of hearing distance. Five minutes later, seemingly quite unconscious of the others, he came out and prepared to leave. The girls gathered penitently about him—save Queenie, who held her head high and watched him from a corner as she adjudged her hat. "Come to a park picnic with us tomorrow, Mr. Pierce, do!" begged Ruthie, in her sweet fashion. "Let your garden go to weeds, and have a little fun! We're a man short—and you need a change anyhow." He considered the girl with amused eyes, then looked up to encounter the gaze of Queenie. Her fair, saucy face flamed, and her clear, blue eyes fell in confusion. It was a disturbing gaze for them both, but the man was cool enough. "I shall be glad to come," he said conventionally. "I had almost forgotten there were such things as picnics! Do we start from here?" After discussing details for a moment, they separated. And Stanley Pierce went home to think. Had the girl been right? Was he a white blanket to innocent fun? Queenie's petulant, young voice, her bright face, haunted his memory. The next afternoon, at Pierce's suggestion, the little basket-laden party in the interurban car passed the park and he got off at a strip of open wildwood. All June blossomed and sang about them, and there was much merry finding of flowers, wandering about the grassy hillsides, much story telling and laughter. Clark Miller stayed near Ruth, and each of the other girls had her satellite. But, with determined but unostentatious steadiness, Stanley Pierce fastened himself to Queenie Dawson, pretending not to mark the malicious joy of the rest. Annoyed at first, the girl was soon interested, finally pleased. The "back number" was so entertaining that at length the whole group came under his spell. Why had they not seen before that he was an out-of-doors man? Why had he hidden his knowledge of flowers and plants, of wildwood creatures, his quick, humorous observations on life in general? Toward evening they began to think of a place to spread the supper, but he said he knew the loveliest spot imaginable, and not so far away, if they would come with him. Immediately the band was on the march. Pierce, still with Queenie beside him, led the way, plucking a flower for her here, helping her under a fence there, once cutting a willow twig and making her a whistle that would have delighted the heart of a small boy. And he lifted her like a child over a little brook. Looking up at him she caught the firm, clean line of his jaw, the width of his shoulder. His soft hat was rakishly on one side. Out here he seemed no longer to stoop; the heavy look left his face—he was ten years younger than in the office. And soon, making a sudden turn in a winding path, they came to a quaint veranda-surrounded cottage set in the side of a green hill. An old-fashioned picket fence shut in a garden fairly bursting with old-fashioned bloom. Green young vines half covered the cottage. "Oh, what a dream of a place!" said Queenie. "Thank you for showing it to us! Do fairies live here, I wonder? No! I suppose it's only some cross old lady with a dog who would bite us if we so much as smelled a rose." Pierce laughed and handed the girl a key, as he opened the gate for her and the others. "Do I look like a cross old lady?" he asked. "Come in. Didn't you know I was a farmer? I'm going to send you men back for in and make coffee on my gas range." Now, the man was captain, indeed. The little artistic gem of a house was a delight, and he explained that his sister had gone east to care for a sick aunt, but he was quite old enough to be chaperon. And they ate on the little green lawn among the flowers, and were very happy and content. This was the beginning of things. Every few Saturdays, sometimes on a Sunday and with somebody's mother along, the little group, with slight changes in the personnel, but always including Queenie and Ruth, came to make merry in the flower-filled garden. Stanley Pierce changed wonderfully, taking on new life. His shoulders straightened; his eyes brightened. He was prompt at work, but ceased staying overtime, and stopped bearing the office sins of others. He was freer, more independent, and showed a force which the firm noted. They had a fear that they might lose him, that he had awakened to his own value. So they promoted him, with an increase of salary—and responsibility. But Queenie sobered as summer advanced. Her two weeks' vacation brought her back pale and listless. She seemed quiet, older by years. In that two weeks she had not seen Pierce, and she had dismissed John Harter. The girls thought she might be regretting her latter move, and Pierce overheard them discussing it. Suddenly his undertanding opened to the hope that had been all summer lying warm at his heart. The next Saturday he asked them all to his house, and while the others were eager, Queenie seemed indifferent. But the rest rallied her and she finally went. This time Miss Nancy was at home, and met them in her pleasant, incisive way, explaining that she had just come back for her things—she was needed indefinitely back east. "Stan" was a good housekeeper, she averred, and when he grew tired of his own company he could fool some girl into marrying him—men worse than he did it every day! She was very entertaining and, to Queenie, embarrassing, though the girl could not have said why. She was self-conscious. After supper, they wandered out in the twilight, first one couple and then another ingeniously losing itself about the grounds. Pierce and Queenie sat for a while on the veranda, then he led her down the winding path to the rustic seat beneath the big oak, and in silence they watched the fireflies blaze out in the dewy grass, and the stars prick out from the background of dark velvet sky. Then the moon rose. Pierce made some careless remark to the girl, but she did not answer, so he stooped to look closely at her. Tears shone in her eyes, and then she covered her face with both hands. He put his arm about her and drew the little head to his shoulder. She turned her face against his coat and began to cry softly. "Queenie, Queenie!" he said, "do you—care? Will you marry me? Surely you have long known that I love you, dear!" She drew nervously away from him and sat up, laughing a little. "What is the trouble, Queenie? You've not been yourself this long time. Don't you care? Tell me!" "Well," she flattered, "you will think me an—awful little—goose, but I couldn't help it." She paused. "Help what?" he said, drawing her back, quite willing, to his arms. "I thought you might not—really care. I thought you heard me call you a—back number, and horrid things, once in the office, and were simply—getting even! I was worried to death!" It was his time to laugh. "Do you suppose my man's ears are pricked up to hear all the girl chatter in that office? And would it make any difference if a girl did call me a back number, so long as she atoned for it by marrying me?" Then they heard the others coming and realized that even for lover's the interurban car system has a heartless, fixed, time schedule. Misinterpreted Question. "That was an intentional misunderstanding," said Senator Bankhead, in a political argument in Fayette. "It was as intentional as the young Canadian's. "A young Canadian, you know, came to Washington last month to spend the holidays with a pretty cousin and her family. "As he was motoring with his pretty cousin one afternoon, she said to him: "Do you have reindeer in Canada? 'No, darling,' he answered quickly 'at this season it always snows.'" The American Home WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor THE HOME OF THE HERITAGE CENTER Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority in all the subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, X9 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, IL., and only close two-cent stamp for repri- The history of the human race presents no parallel to that of the marvelous development during the present generation in home architecture by the use of concrete hollow blocks and cement plaster. Signs are everywhere seen that this form of construction will continue to be in popular favor during the coming season. Home builders in all parts of the country are hungry for information about this material; what designs are best suited to its use, what forms of construction bring the most lasting and satisfactory results. The demand for such information is unprecedented in the annals of building. "Tell us how to build a house of cement" is a popular cry heard throughout the land. The beginning of the twentieth century has witnessed rapid strides in the use of cement and concrete in a thousand and one branches of construction work; nor is it difficult to find the cause. The scarcity of timber and lumber is the principal cause outside of all considerations of concrete as to its own intrinsic value as a building material. The shortage of lumber and its high price has simply brought the building world to a realization of its value sooner than would have been the case otherwise. Of all the manifold forms in which cement is being used in the various branches of construction work hollow concrete building blocks stand out most prominently. This without question is the most popular form in which cement is brought before the public, because it appeals to the home builder and to the contractor. "I believe that concrete blocks represent the form in which concrete will be used to the very largest extent in the future," an authority on this subject and a close observer of modern building tendencies has recently stated. "This is because the blocks are in a unit form, readily and easily adaptable to architectural arrangement. Moreover, every unit can be inspected before it is placed in the building, giving to the builder a protection necessary to secure the very best results in his construction work." Concrete block construction offers many advantages. The hollow blocks make a saving of about one-third in the material without reducing the strength so as to impair safety in any manner. Attractive facings can be used which will give rich effects without the use of an expensive mixture in the body of the blocks. In addition to the well-known fire resisting qualities of concrete, a concrete wall has the advantage of the interior air chambers which allow it to conduct heat or cold but slowly. During a recent fire, while the flames from an adjoining structure were beating against a concrete block wall the inside surface of this wall remained so cool that the hand could be placed against it without harm. The fire protection afforded by these qualities of hollow concrete block walls is an enormous advantage to the home builder, especially one locating in rural communities, for there it is very seldom that any fire fighting equipment is available, and an ordinary house if once it catches fire must certainly burn completely. There is but little hope of saving it. The ability of the hollow block wall to stop the passage of heat or cold makes houses of this material warm in winter and cool in summer. It tends to prevent sweating and in mild climates often makes it possible to put plaster directly onto the inside of the block wall without the use of laths. This should not be done, however, where the winters are at all severe. The concrete block appears at once as a substitute for both brick and stone, having all the good qualities possessed by both and, in addition, several advantages possessed by neither. The design illustrated herewith will serve as a good example of a concrete block house, or cottage, at its best. Hollow concrete blocks are used, both for the foundation and for the walls up to the eaves, a smooth finished block of uniform size laid up in coursed ashlar style being used. The gable ends are filled in with cement plaster on metal lath, the surface being divided off into panels by wooden strips after the English half-timber style. the interior of this dwelling shows an exceptionally attractive arrangement. It is just what we would expect from the substantial, homelike appearance of the exterior. The living room and dining room form what is practically one large room, 24 feet by 17 feet 9 inches in size. This space is divided through the middle by a very attractive columned opening. A beamed ceiling is used in both of these rooms, and they are made attractive and homelike in other ways by means of built-in bookcases, open fireplace and mantel, large square bay window with window seat, etc. The kitchen is located in an ell projection at the rear, and so is separated from the rest of the house, at the same time being convenient to the dining room. The large built-in kitchen cabinet takes the place of the ordinary pantry. A cross ventilation is provided in this room which is a very desirable feature. The two good-sized bedrooms are at the left from the living room. The bathroom is situated between them, a small hall or passageway connecting all three. The total cost of this five-room fireproof dwelling is estimated at $2,000, using the very best grade of material and most thorough construction. SAMPLE OF FRENCH RED TAPE SAMPLE OF FRENCH RED TAPE Mayor and Citizens of Small French Village Stand and Watch Murderer at Ghastly Work. An extraordinary story of rural police methods comes from Pontcarre, a little summer resort situated on the edge of the Forest of Armainvilliers, France, where a tramp murdered an old woman, the proprietor of a small inn. Her neighbor, hearing the old woman's screams, instead of giving the alarm, went off to fetch her husband in a village nearly a mile away, leaving the woman to her fate. The husband thought he had better tell the local watchman, and went off to the latter's house. The watchman in his turn decided he must inform the mayor, who was working at M. Edouard de Rothschild's chateau, which is in the neighborhood. The mayor immediately set out for the scene, accompanied by the watchman, a commercial traveler from Paris who happened to be in the village and a local wineries keeper. Through the windows of the murdered woman's inn they could see the murderer rifling the upstair rooms, but the mayor refused to act until the gendarmes arrived. When the tramp came downstairs the party saw him stepping over his victim, who lay dead in a pool of blood. Only after the guardians of public order had watched the violation of the law for 20 minutes did the watchman decide to take action, crying: "Open in the name of the law!" and beating on the door. But the murderer opened a back window and escaped into the black depths of the forest. He has not been captured. Diydroe in High Life "Your wife says she will not contest your suit for divorce providing you will sign this document." "Hm! How much of an allowance does she demand?" "It is not for an allowance. It gives her the custody of the poodle." Women Who Suffer from woman's ailments are invited to write to the names and addresses here given, for positive proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does cure female ills. These women are only a few of thousands of living witnesses of the power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to cure female diseases. Not one of these women ever received compensation in any form for the use of their names in this advertisement—but are willing that we should refer to them because of the good they may do other suffering women to prove that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a reliable and honest medicine, and that the statements made in our advertisements regarding its merit are the truth and nothing but the truth. 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It may be of comparative interest to know that New England's output is about $9,000,000 worth of stone annually. Great Home Eye Remedy for all diseases of the eye, quick relief from using PETTIS'S EYE SALVE. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. A Sad Face. He—What a sweet, sad face she has. She (in a huff)—Enough to make any one sad to have such a face as that. Garfield Tea has brought good health to thousands. Unequaled for constipation. Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.— Phillips Brooks. Farms for Rent or Sale on Crop pay- ments. J. MULHALL, Sioux City, Ia. It sometimes happens that the black sheep of a family is a blonde. ARE YOU BILIOUS? 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Work Guaranteed. Masonic Building 615 N. Main Wichita, Kan Mrs. A. A. Fuller has returned from a very pleasant trip to Oklahoma where she visited among friends and relatives. Rev. J. E. Edwards, pastor of the A. M. E. church is at his post of duty again. The Mother's Aid club will meet with Mrs. Robert Davis Feb. 24th. All members are urged to be present. All members of Mount Olive court are requested to meet at Masonic Hall, Tuesday 21, 1911 Ella Ewing, M. D, M. The series of meetings in progress at New Hope Baptist chur ch will come to a close Sunday with a rally on that day. Every one is cordially invited to attend these services. Sunday, Feb. 19th is Rally Day at the A.M.E. church to raise money for their building fund. It has been some time since a Rally was had at this church and it is hoped that every one will attend and make the occassion a success. Attend the Martha Washington tea party Wednesday eve. at Masonic hall. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Cole of Newton was visitors in the city Wednesday to attend the W. A.C. club. The members of the W. A. C. club gave a swell reception at Masonic hall on Wepnesday eve. The decorations for the occasion were beautiful and elaborate. An elegan-menu was served to the 80 or more guesns who enjoyed their hospitality. This was their imital affair. The officers of this club are Messers J. C. Cowan pres. Dr. Barnett vice-pres. Jno. D. .ones sec. F. Bynum asst-sec. R. Letcher Treas C. Dooley Sarg't oi arms. The G. L, A, met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. S. W. Jones. They will meet next week with Mrs. Thos. Fine: The swellest event of the season was the dinner party given by Mr. J R. Whitted at his residence on N. Water St. Wednesday eve Feb. 15th. An elaborate four course dinner was served. The menu consisted of Peach and Pineapple Triple Bread Tenderloin Sweet Potatoes poens French Peas Mash Potatoes After dinner whist was played those who partook of Mr. Whitted hospitality were Mrs. Geo. W. Murray wife of ex-congressman Murray of South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Glover O. T. Taylor P. R. Perrie Dr. F. O. Miller Miss Rebecca Green 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 A Big Quarterly Meeting. The Stewardess and Stewardess of the A. M. E. church are making great preparations to make Sunday, March 12th, the best and biggest quarterly meeting day in the his of their church. Presiding Elder M. Wooten, will be in the city and aside from special features during the day the services will close at night with an excellent seared program Every member and friend will be asked to assist this department in making the collection of the day a record breaker. Sunday School Lesson. In order to give its readers the best the editor of the Searchlight has arranged to give his readers the full Sunday School lesson each week. Those interested in this line of work will find much help in this addition to the Searchlight. It is for you—read it with our compliments. The reception given at the Tabernacle Baptist church Monday evening Feb. 5 in honor of the Hon. Ex-Congressman Geo. W. Murray and wife was a splendid affair. Mesdames: B. Topp S. W. Lee B. Givens H. Gardner V. Derner and M. Parker are to be congratulated for their successful effort in arranging the reception. The reception was hurriedly gotten up by the congregation and it was creditable in every way. An impromptu program was rendered by the young people, shortly after the arrival of the honored guests, Mrs. M. L. Copland arose and in a pleasing manner made them welcome Mr Murray gave a fitting response in words which expressed his high appreciation of the honor Dr. Copland made a few remark as an introductory which were replete. Miss Ethel Topp rendered a recitation "Help the Negro girl to rise." which was well received. Mr. Matthew Bell gave a splendid vocal solo. The program was interspersed with National airs by the choir. The table was beautifully decorated with the national colors and lad ened with the choicest viands of the seson, at the close of the program, the guest repaired to the table, Misses M·Givens, Edna Topp, H·Givens and E. Topp displayed splendid ability as waitresses, in their beautiful costumes. Mesdames: K. Coleman, A. Poe A. Mills, S. Roan and Mr. S Macon contributed much to the success of the reception. Noticeable among the guests were Editor Miller of the Searchlight. Messrs Payne, Martin, Cox, Gardner(of Omaha) and their wives. Messrs Earnest Ford and J. Johnson. Misses Pausy Cox, Benlah Morris and Hattie Patton. Mesdames Payne, E. Lea, E. Dunston, E. Vernon and E. Taylor of Colorado. The Lincoln-Douglas exercises at the 2nd Baptist church Sunday afternoon were excellent and were well attended. L. C. Carr is in the city from Augusta to visit his family. Do you trade with one of our advertisers? Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Phones 517 N. Main St. Bell4€34 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY² Dr. F. O. Miller Physici'n & Surgeon Office Hours Bell Phone 9 to 11 2999 2 to 5 Wichita 7 to 8 Kansas. 513 N. Main St. All calls answered promptly Day or Night. Obstetrics and Diseases of women A Specialty Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST IS E-Z ON YOUR TEETH AND E-Z-ON YOUR POCKET BOOK Bridge Teeth $4.00 All Work Guaranteed Bell Phone 517 N. Main St. over 4634 Mahin Eye Drug Store. Send your news in earlier A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS 142 N. MARKET For Everything In Building Material SEE BOTH PHONES 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 TO 549 WEST DOUGLAS W. S. Henrion Druggist 501 North Main Street Wichita - - - Kansas Subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1, for a whole year. Try it. METZ'S LUMBER IS IT? Largest yard under shed in the state. Best grade of lumber to select from. Choicest finishings, posts, shingles and everything in the lumber line. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Low and Easy to Meet. Let us figure next Lumber Bill. Yards and Office 3rd and Main Streets. Attend the Monday night dancing academy. Services at the Tabernacle Baptist Church for Sunday' Feb' 12 11:00 a. m. Peeaching, Subject: 1:00 p. m. Sunday school 6:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 8:00 p. m. Preaching by pastor, Subject:- TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll treat You Right CULP'S MEAT MARKET 241 N.MAIN ST. Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tails, Chin bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings. Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh Lip Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans F. T. CULP, Prop. Main St. Both Phone ade 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 F. T. CULP, Prop. 241 N. Main St. Both Phone Trade with our Advertisers ```markdown ``` Grocery Department WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL LARD WE SELL MEAT WE SELL POTATOES fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. N. Main St. — Wichita, Kan — Bell Phone 239 GEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR FARM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. I Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. OUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas PROCERIES, MEATS In fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class Grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main St. - Wichita, Kan - Bell Phone 239 IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR GRAHAM - CORN MEAL - BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. ASK YOUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas --- GROCERIES, MEATS and General Merchandise carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy jecories 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 257 North Main Phones 257 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. "SECOND TO NONE" GOOD BREAD MAKERS — AND WILL PLEASE YOU — IT IS AS WHITE AS SNOW — TRY IT THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law, Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market First-Class Making of Men's Garments. Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty Courteous Attention Bell Phone 3055 The BEE Hotel 507 North Main St. Short Orders Filled At All House Mrs. Mary Bates, Prop. Jean, President Moore, Vice Pres. W. R. Tucker, Vice Pres. C. W. Brown, Vice V. H. Branch, Cashier The Fourth National Bank United States Depository $200,000.00 Surplus $125 W R Tucker, W E Jett, R L Holmes, S B Amidon, McLean, A. C. Houston, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, Lassen, V. H. Branch. B. F. McLean, President W. R. Tucker, Vice President J. M. Moore, Vice Pres. C. W. Brown, Vice Pres. V. H. Branch, Cashier Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $125,000.00 Directors: W R Tucker, W E Jett, R L Holmes, S B Amidon, J M Moore B. F. McLean, A. C. Houston, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin Henry Lassen, V. H. Branch. A General Banking Business Transacted Published Every Week FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. 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Sold by Dealers Wichita — — Kansas STIRLING CLOTHES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED :-: YOUR TRADE SOLICITED :-: If we only tailored for a few dozen men, we would have to charge each an exorbitant price. We would have to take large profits from the few, instead of a very small one from each or our mang customers. This is why we can put into a suit for you at $15,00 to $35, what the other fellows charges you from $25,00 to $60,00 for. Stirling Woolen 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 --- 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 NOTICES: On account of the rain the meeting of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 was posoned until next Thursu- day afternoon, Feb. 23rd. All members are urged to be present. On account of the heavy down pour of rain the meeting of Taberna Temple No. 11 has beed post-until Thursday Feb. 20rd at 8 p. m. prompt. Important business. All members please be present on time 8 p. mr Notice Commercial Club The Afro-American Commercial cub will hold their *regular meeting Edaynight* Feb.20th at 517 N. Main St. at 8 o'clock. We have much business of importance to cohesion and all members are urged to be present. Come on time gentleman W. N. Miller Pres. R. B. McWilliams Sec. Thos. Glover president and J G. Wiley, general secretary of the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. left Thursday night, in the special Y. M. C. A car for Pittsburg, Kansas, where they will represent the colored branch here at the Y. M. C. A. state convention which is in session n city this week. Still We Grow. There was 209 more Searchlights sent out to Subscribers last Saturday Feb. 11th, than we have ever sent out any one week in our long number of years—which is evidence that the Searchlight is not losing any grounds. We are proud that people who think appreciate our efforts and are showing that they are willing to lend a hand. Rev. S. R Butler, pastor 2nd Baptist church has gone to his former home in Palmyra, Mo, and on his return will be accompanied by his fawlly. Th rain came as a welcome visitor. Mrs. Geo. Brown who has been ill is improving. The members of the W. T. Ver non club held their meeting Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. L. H. White. They will meet next week with Mrs. Hester Brown. Endowment Received. Mrs. Anna Jones, Queen Mother of Pearl Tent No.16 received $30.00 endowment Thursday from the Grand Temple and Tabernacle Knights and Daughters of Tabor, with which to pay the endowment of little Maid Arline Jones, who died from burns a few weeks ago. Queen Mother Dtl. Anna Jones paid the endowment to Mr. and Mrs. Jones on North Wichita Street. The prompt payment of this claim as all claims is a living evidence of the great benifit which the Tent endowment is paving to be the children of the Order of Twelve. Queen Mother Jones is meeting with much success with her Tent work. Curtis Takes Stand. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansar spoke in the United State Senate Monday in opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment in elected United Senators by direct vote of the people without federal control. Senator Curtis made the good point that such an amendment wouln be only paving the way for a wholesale dispointment of Negro voters. 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DEAM ABSTE IN NORTH-WEST CORN COURT HOUSE Bonded Abst M ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors DEAM ABSTRACT NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors 0 s To The IGHT On Get Them? o of the Searchlight, sial for Four Weeks one who will fill out d it to our office. 1,000 New Subscribers Will You Help Us Get Them ???? Every one Can Help Some! it has been pub- than 12 years. one weekly visitor it will please you 0 Per Year $1.00 everywhere RACT C ER OF THE USE ractors MONOPOLY GETS THE TIMBER IS REPORT OF CORPORATION COMMISSIONER SMITH. Also Finds Present Supply Will Last But 55 Years at Present Rate of Cutting. Washington, D. C.—Concentration of the control of standing timber in a very few hands, vast speculative holdings "far in advance of any use therof," and an enormous increase in the value "of this diminishing natural resource, with great profits to its owners," and incidentally "an equally sinister land monopoly" and a "closely connected railroad domination"—these are the findings reported to the president by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, in the first installment of his long awaited report on the lumber industry in the United States. The report has been sent to congress. It says: There are many great combinations in other industries whose formation is complete. In the lumber industry, on the other hand, the bureau finds now in the making a combination caused fundamentally, by a long standing public policy. The concentration already existing is sufficiently impressive. Only forty years ago at least three-fourths of the timber now standing was (it is estimated) publicly owned. Now about four-fifths of it is privately owned. The 1,802 largest holders of timber now own 88,579,000 acres of land, as compared with a vastly wider distribution of public lands in non-timbered agricultural sections. There is now left in continental United States about 2,200,000,000,000 board feet of privately owned standing timber, 1,747,000,000,000 in the investigation covered in great detail by the bureau. This area includes the Pacific Northwest, the southern pine region and the lake states and contains 80 per cent of all the private timber in the country. In addition there are about 539,000,000,000 feet in the national forests and about 90,000,000,000 feet on other non-private lands. Thus, the total amount of standing timber in continental United States is about 2,800,000,000,000 board feet. The present annual drain upon the supply of saw timber is about 50,000,000,000 feet. At this rate the timber now standing, without allowance for growth, would last only about 55 years. PENSION INCREASE $50,000,000 The Sulloway Bill Was Favorably Reported by the Senate Pension Committee. Washington.—The senate committee on pensions voted to report favorably the Sulloway general pension bill, which already has passed the house. It increases the general pension roll about $50,000,000 a year. The vote was 8 to 3, the minority being McCumber, Gore and Tallaferro. The Sulloway bill grants pensions ranging from $15 to $36 a month to all soldiers who served ninety days or more in the United States army in the civil war, or sixty days in the Mexican war, and are 62 years old. The United States paid $159,974, $55.08 to the old soldiers in 1910. STANDARD OIL AFTER GOULD Attorney Made Formal Demand for Books of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. St. Louis, Mo.—Attorneys representing the Standard Oil and Kuhn-Loeb interests, which are seeking control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad company have made a formal demand for the stock books of the corporation. The attorneys stated they desired to get the names and addresses of all stockholders. This was with the view to obtaining their proxies for use in the election to be held March 14, at which the Eastern allies, it is said, hope to oust the Goulds from control of the system. Edwin G. Merriam, assistant counsel of the road, refused to discuss the purpose of the attorneys' visit and would not reply when he was asked if the road intended to give up the books. Can Pierce the Armor Plates Washington.-Carrying out directions of congress, the navy has demonstrated that projectiles fired from a high-powered service gun will penetrate the heavy turret and belt armor of a warship at a battle range of 8,000 yards. Recruits for Mexico. San Francisco.—The Mexican revolutionists have established two recruiting offices in San Francisco. More than 300 men have volunteered to go to Mexico and fight against the Diaz government and many other volunteers are daily offering their services. Used Aeroplane in Actual War. El Paso, Tex.—In spite of the warning that he might be fired on by federal troops, Charles K. Hamilton flew across the border into Mexico and made the first aeroplane reconnaissance ever attempted in time of war. Went to Gold Fields In '49. Danberry, Ia.—James B. Hart, a veteran of the Mexican war and one of the '49ers who made a stake in the gold fields of California, died here at the age of 89 years. A RELENTLESS MONSTER THORNDICK BALTIMORE AMERICAN Running Rampant Over China's Teeming Millions. A "SQUARE DEAL" FOR ALL ROOSEVELT SPOKE FOR COMMON PEOPLE AT BANQUET. He Would Vote Direct for President and Elect Senators by Popular Vote. Grand Rapids, Mich.—Popular election of United States senators the unseating of every senator whose office may have been tainted with bribery, the "square deal" for the common people as well as for the big business combinations and closer business relations between the United and Canada, were the chief topics discussed by Col. Roosevelt addressing 1,500 banqueters of the Grand Rapids Lincoln club. The election of president by direct vote of the people was the new policy brought forward. The ex-president would do away with the electoral college that now chooses the nation's executive, and give the office of president to the man who receives the actual plurality of all the votes cast. The ex-president did not mention the new progressive republican league and as a political speech it was regarded by the banqueters as a "middle of the road" effort. In part, Col. Roosevelt said: "I most heartily believe in the election of United States senators by popular vote. Of the recently proposed reciprocity treaty with Canada, for which President Taft is waging such a hard fight, Col. Roosevelt said: "Regarding reciprocity, I wish to say that it is my earnest desire to see the two peoples of the United States and Canada drawn together on the same equality, and I hope to see the closest relations of friendship established between these two great nations." Oklahoma Banks Show Gain Guthrie, Ok.—Oklahoma bank deposits, national and state, are shown in a consolidated report of the state bank examiner to be $102,408,019, an increase of $1,825,897 since November 10 Two Flew 62 Miles an Hour Rheims.—The aviator, Busson, made a new record for speed in a monoplane with a passenger. He flew 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles, in one hour and one minute. Three States Get Fish Stations Washington, D. C.—Bills making appropriations for the establishment of fish culture stations in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma were reported to the house with a favorable recommendation by the committee on merchant marine and fisheries. Kansas Land Values Rise Nortonville, Kas. — The Webb farm, a mile south of here, has been sold to C. E. Uphoelse for $19.000. That is the highest price ever paid for a quarter section in Jefferson county. No Mixed-Bace Marriages Carson, Nev.—The intermarriage of whites with Japanese or any other race is prohibited in a bill passed by the Nevada legislature. May Send Troops to Mexico. Washington, D. C.—The question of sending American troops into Mexico to protect the American dike being constructed on Mexican soil to control the waters of the Colorado river was considered by the state department and the Mexican government. Uncle Sam to Watch Children. Washington, D. C.—A children's bureau in the department of commerce and labor is provided for in a bill passed by the senate. FIGHT FROM ARMORED TRAINS The Mexican Government Will Keep Such Trains Moving in the Affected District. El Paso, Tex.—The Mexican government's struggle to crush the revolutionists may be transformed into a war on wheels. An armored train, consisting of freight cars protected by strips of steel nailed over the outside and interior of the cars, is being brought northward, somewhere south of the city of Chihuahua. It is the plan of the government to keep fortified trains filled with soldiers, moving all over the railroad lines in northern Chihuahua. As the most of the fighting is done along the railroad tracks on account of the scarcity of water on the deserts, officers believe armored trains will end the uprising quicker than by putting an army into the field. The whereabouts of the armies under General Orozoo and General Navarro are unknown. THEY FEAR LOSS OF CANADA An Alarmist in An English Newspaper Thinks We Are About to Get the Province. London, Eng.—The Morning Post, bases an alarmist editorial on a Washington dispatch saying that American public men openly predict that reciprocity will lead to the eventual annexation of Canada by the United States. The editorial appeals to Unionists and "to those Liberals not yet blinded by partisan prejudice," to close their ranks and fight to save the empire which is threatened with danger. The Chamberlain wing of the Unionist party is making a strong effort to rally its followers. A series of meetings has been arranged, to be held in London, and the provinces to stir vigorous campaign of imperial preference. Russian Students Rebellious. St. Petersburg, Russia.—Rioting at the University of St. Petersburg was renewed with the possible result that every student in Russia will go upon strike. The students of the University of Tomsk at Tomsk, Siberia, sent word to the leader of the students here that they, too, would pursue a policy of violence unless demands were granted. Man Killed in County Seat War. Indiana, Ok.—First blood was shed in the contest which has been in progress for months between the rival towns which have been candidates for the county seat of the new county of Swanson. One man was killed and a county judge was kidnaped and carried away. Prohibition Lost in Alabama Montgomery, Alabama.—State-wide prohibition received its death-blow in Alabama when the lower house passed the Parks local option law 58 to 44 after hours of bitter debate. Rain in Nebraska Also Beatrice. Neb.-The first rain in several months visited this section and has continued unabated all afternoon. The moisture comes just in time to save much of the winter wheat. No Place for a Peace Officer El Paso, Tex.-Antonio Ponce de Leon, twelve years chief of police in Juarez, Mexico, who resigned last week when the city was besieged by the insurrectos, has filed an application in El Paso for United States citizenship papers. For District Government $12,278,926. Washington.-The District of Columbia appropriation bill passed, carrying $12,278,926.50 for the improvement of the national capitol and the running of the District government. THE AGREEMENT PASSED 'HOUSE President Taft Won His Fight There by a Vote of 221 to 92—Republicans Against it. Washington, D. C.—The Canadian reciprocity tariff agreement passed the house by a vote of 221 to 92. President Taft scoring a more decisive victory than even he had anticipated. In the final vote on the passage of the bill 79 Republicans and 142 Democrats voted for it and 87 Republicans and 5 Democrats voted against it. The Republicans were nearly evenly divided while the Democrats represented almost an unbroken front. The Democrats got out 147 of their total members to vote on the bill while the Republicans had only 166 of their membership present. The five Democrats voting against the bill were Brossard, Estapinal, and Pujo, Louisiana; Bebb, North Carolina and Hammond, Minnesota. BAILEY SPOKE FOR LORIMER The Texan Holds That Enough Unbought Men Voted for Lorimer to Elect Him. Washington.—Senator Bailey of Texas, a member of the committee on privileges and elections, who signed the report declaring that nothing invalidating Senator Lorimer's title to his seat had been developed by the committee's investigations, spoke in favor of the adoption of the report. The Texas senator's remarks were devoted largely to the substantiation of his contention that a sufficient number of votes must be shown to have been bought to affect the result unless it is proven that the official whose election is challenged personally participated in the offense. POVERTY WILL DISAPPEAR Professor of Economics at John Hopkins Believes It Will Become Obsolete as Slavery. Baltimore.—Dr. Jacob Hollander, professor of economics of the John Hopkins university, predicted in an address at the annual meeting of the Hebrew Benevolent Society that a day would come when poverty will be as obsolete as slavery. This opinion, he said, he based upon his historical studies and his personal investigation of charitable methods in vogue. He insisted that the modern world is wrong in believing that poverty is inevitable, just as the ancient world has been proven wrong in assuming that slavery was inevitable. CURES SPINAL MENINGITIS The Rockefeller Institute Announces That the Serum Has Proven an Efficient Remedy. New York.—The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research made known through an official statement the fact —long hoped for—that its often promised serum cure for cerebro-spinal meningitis was at last so positively a success that the serum should become a regular commercial article. This announcement of the conquer- ing of one of the worst disease which has afflicted humanity, is corroborated by the declaration that the municipal board of health has begun to manufacture the serum and will give it away free for a time. Woman Smuggler to Tombs New York, N. Y.—As an example to women who have no quolms against smuggling, Judge Martin, in the criminal branch of the United States district court sentenced Mrs. Robert G. Hill to the Tombs from Friday night until 8 o'clock Monday morning and fined her $2,000. Will Manage Persian Finances. Washington, D. C.—Upon the recommendation of the state department W. Morgan Shuster, an attorney of this city, has been appointed by the Persian government as treasurer general for the purpose of reorganizing the finances of Persia. Two More Aviators Killed Douai, France—Two more names were added to the death roll of the aeroplane. Aviators Noel and Delatorre were killed while conducting a trial of a military aeroplane before experts from the war department. Olympia. Washington.—The senate passed a bill providing that aliens who carry firearms must be licensed. The bill is designed to prevent Japanese having guns or rifles. Prisoners Escaped With Button Hook, Sacramento. Cal.-By means of a button hook two prisoners in the city jail tore a hole through a 20-inch brick wall large enough for them to crawl through and made their escape. Three Trains in One Wreck. Courville, France.—A collision occurred near here on the western section of the State railroad, when the expresses for Paris and Brest dashed simultaneously into a freight train being sidetracked. Rains Destroy Court House Wichita, Kansas.—The McCurtain county court house at Isabell, Ok. collapsed, fatally injuring W. T. Hunky and Perry Weatherstone, negroes and causing a loss of several thousands dollars. CALUMET BAKING POWDER The wonder of baking powders—Calumet. Wonderful in its raising powers—its uniformity, its never failing results, its purity. Wonderful in its economy. It costs less than the high-price trust brands, but it is worth as much. It costs a trifle more than the cheap and big can kinds—it is worth more. But proves its real economy in the baking. Use CALUMET—the Modern Baking Powder. At all Grocers. 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A pale, intellectual-looking chap wearing eyeglasses and unshorn hair visited Tom Volk, the athletic instructor, not long ago and asked questions until the diplomatic athlete finally became weary. "If I take boxing and wrestling lee sons from you, will it require any particular application?" "What's the bearded lady so mad about?" inquired the armless wonder. "Somebody sent her a catalogue of a safety razor factory," said the living skeleton.—Chicago Tribune. Not for Mortal Understanding. What fond mother has not, at some time, said: "My child, you are much too young to ever understand; you will find out when you get older—all you wish to know will be explained." And how many of us are still waiting for the reason, for some one to explain—are we still too young? Perhaps we are, and again, perhaps we are not—perhaps it never shall be explained to us; there are things wrapped in voiceless mystery. A He—Her head troubles her a good deal. She—Neuralgia? He—No; she wants a new hat. HEREDITY Can Be Overcome in Cases. The influence of heredity cannot, of course, be successfully disputed, but it can be minimized or entirely overcome in some cases by correct food and drink. A Conn. lady says: "For years while I was a coffee drinker I suffered from billious attacks of great severity, from which I used to emerge as white as a ghost and very weak. Our family physician gave me various prescriptions for improving the digestion and stimulating the liver, which I tried faithfully but without perceptible result. "He was acquainted with my family history for several generations back, and once when I visited him he said: 'If you have inherited one of those torpid livers you may always suffer more or less from its inaction. We can't dodge our inheritance, you know.' "I was not so strong a believer in heredity as he was, however, and, beginning to think for myself, I concluded to stop drinking coffee, and see what effect that would have. I feared it would be a severe trial to give it up, but when I took Postum and had it well made, it completely filled my need for a hot beverage and I grew very fond of it. "I have used Postum for three years, using no medicine. During all that time I have had absolutely none of the billious attacks that I used to suffer from, and I have been entirely free from the pain and debilitating effects that used to result from them. "The change is surely very great, and I am compelled to give Postum the exclusive credit for it." 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 are genuine, true, and full of human interest. SPOHN'S DISTEMPERCURE Cause Enough. HER TROUBLE. Pink Eye, Eptzootid Shipping Fever & Catarrigh Fever The Chief Need. 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It first came when she was between three and four weeks old, appearing on her head. I used everything imaginable and had one doctor's bill after another, but nothing cured it. Then the eczema broke out so badly behind her ear that I really thought her ear would come off. For months I doctored it but to no avail. Then it began at her nose and her eyes were nothing but sores. I had to keep her in a dark room for two weeks. The doctor did no good, so I stopped him coming. "For about two weeks I had used Cuticura Soap for her every day, then I got a box of Cuticura Ointment and began to use that. In a week there was a marked improvement. In all I used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment and my baby was cured of the sores. This was last November; now her hair is growing out nicely and she has not a scar on her. I can not praise Cuticura enough. I can take my child anywhere and people are amazed to see her without a sore. From the time she was four weeks old until she was three years she was never without the terrible eruption, but now, thanks to Cuticura, I have a well child." (Signed) Mrs. H. E. Householder, 2004 Wilhelm St., Baltimore, Md., May 10, 1910. All the world's a stage, and life is the greatest on earth. The very best advice: take Garfield Tea whenever a laxative is needed. The man in the church with the roving eyes looking over the bulbous nose is pretty sure to be strong on the doctrines. As a Reminder: His Wife—John, do you remember what took place just three years ago today? Her Husband—What! Is this our wedding anniversary? His Wife—N-no. Three years ago today you bought me a new hat.—Harper's Bazar. Some Do. In Brooklyn a few weeks ago a Sunday school teacher asked his class of hopefuls this rather debatable question: "Who will tell me what is the chief end of man?" From the most attentive pupil came for with this answer: "To glorify God and annoy him forever." Plain as Day. A man recently visited the art museum in Chicago and wandered about, looking at the paintings with more or less interest. He finally stopped in front of a portrait which showed a man sitting in a high-backed chair. There was a small white card on the picture, reading: "A portrait of E. H. Smith, by himself." The man read the card and then chuckled to himself. "What fools these city folks are!" he said. "Anybody who looks at that picture would know Smith's by himself. There ain't any one else in the picture."—Chicago Tribune. GRIP Munyon's Cold Remedy Relieves the head, throat and lungs almost immediately. Checks Fever, stops Discharges of the nose takes aim at all causes and puts causal by colds. It cure's Grip and obtains coughs and prevents Pneumonia. Write Prof. Munyon, Bird and Jefferson Sec., Putha, La, for medical advice absolutely free. Sunday School Lesson for Feb. 19, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT—11 Kings 18:41-19:21 Memory Verses 11-13. GOLDEN TEXT—"They that wait up on the Lord shall renew their strength."— Isa. 40:31. TIME—The day after the scene on Mount Carmel B. C. 900 in the wilderness and 49 yards later on Horeb PLACE-I Jezreel, one of the royal residences, 20 miles northeast of Samaria. 2 The wilderness beyond Beersheba, 46 miles southwest of Jerusalem, 100 miles from Jezreel. 3 Horeb, one of the mountains of Sinai. In our last lesson we left Elijah running before Ahab's chariot from Carmel to Jezreel, one of the royal residences, while the blessed rain was refreshing the whole country, an emblem of what God would do spiritually for the nation. Elijah was too wise to enter the lair of the tigress. But Ahab told Jezebel. We can imagine the bitter objurgations which she poured upon her cowering husband for having stood quietly by while her prophets and Baal's prophets were being massacred by a rebellious people. Then Jezebel, scornfully ignoring her husband, and undefeated, whatever may have happened to her prophets, in the intensity of her rage, bound herself by an oath like that of the forty Jews who bound themselves that they would not eat or drink till they had slain Paul and sent a messenger unto Elijah. She felt that Elijah was in her power. He fled and his servant went with him. Elijah was a brave man if ever there was one, but he was not a braggadocio. He was brave enough to let the ignorant think he was a coward. His going was not a sign of cowardice, bu. of wisdom and common sense. Christ himself bade his disciples, "When ye are persecuted in one city flee ye to another;" kindle the divine fires elsewhere, and there shall be two flames instead of one. "Elijah flies only when he has done the mighty work of God, and only when the life is in deadly peril which he would fain save for future emergencies of service." He went a day's journey into the wilderness. He would be alone, without even his servant, in this Gethsemane, as Christ when he went in his agony to pray alone. He requested for himself that he might die. He had hoped to accomplish the deliverance of the people, but he was terribly disappointed. Jezebel still had power. Heathenism would still flourish. All his efforts had been but trying to dam Niagara with bulrushes. "All thy bishows have gone over me." He lay down and slept, utterly worn out, and exhausted. God gave his beloved sleen, and who knows what dreams and visions shone in the darkness. Best for mind and body. God sent him a friend. Behold, then an angel touched him. God's messenger, human or angelle. More probably the latter, one of the "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation." Eliah's loneliness was broken. He was not forgotten. The outward, visible manifestations of power, whether in the natural or spiritual world, while necessary in their time and place, are but the smaller results of the power that produced them. For instance, in the natural world, the storms however great, express but the slightest effects of the air, which gives life to all living beings, men, beasts, trees. This world without air would be as dead as the moon. How feeble the lightning compared with the silent invisible work of electricity lighting our cities and homes, driving our machinery, carrying our messages over the wires. It used to be thought that the upheaval of the continents and the rearing of the great mountains was due to cataclysms and conflagrations and vast explosions of volcanic force. It has long been known that they are due only in part to these, but chiefly to the inconceivably slow modifications produced by water, and air and heat So long as all real progress in religion, in reform, in the coming of the kingdom of God, lies always in a change of will, of character, so long the change must be made by motives, and moral influences, not by force. "The lion shall lie down with the lamb," but only when the lion's nature is so changed that it loves to eat grass like the ox, and does not want to eat the lamb. Elijah was to return, not yet to Israel, but around it to the wilderness of Damascus. Damascus was on the borders of the desert. Here he would be beyond the dominions of Ahab. He was not for the present to enter into the scene of danger, but to do his work from without. Gradually better times came; and we find him in the kingdom, and the schools of the prophets flourishing. Anoint. It was customary to set apart, by anointing kings and prophets. It often means merely to set apart for some special service of God. Hazael was known as the confidential officer of Benhadad, king of Syria at that time. He was set apart to be the instrument of punishing Israel for their sins. He was the storm and the fire that went before the voice of the Lord. It is for us to be cheered by God's method of cheering, and then to pass on the encouragement, and cheer others by the cheer whereby God has cheered us. The coach of the Harvard football team in an address to the students, said, "Cheering is the most important factor in the success of the team." You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, $1.00, retail. 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The dog knew his old mistress and was quickly surrendered. "You might have had him sooner, had you advertised," said one woman. "And you could have found the owner sooner had you advertised," said the other—and the newspaper man who heard the story added the moral. How Pat Proved It. An Irishman was once serving in a regiment in India. Not liking the climate, Pat tried to evolve a trick by which he could get home. Accordingly he went to the doctor and told him his eyesight was bad. The doctor looked at him for a while and then said: "How can you prove to me that your eyesight is bad?" Pat looked about the room and at last said: "Well, doctor, do ye see that nail on the wall?" "Yes," replied the doctor. "Well, then," replied Pat, "I can't." —Chicago Tribune. Revealed. Nickler—Why do you think the burglar was a married man? Bocker—Because when I asked him the time of night he said 12 instead of 3. 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The Poster Girl comes to Kansas City on excellent recommendation. having greeted the advertised in not only the Manufacturer's show in New York City. She was kindly loaned to Kansas City by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. There are to be 58 distinct makes of Pleasure Cars on display at the Fifth Annual Kansas City Automobile Manufacturers' exhibit of Motor Cycles, and about a $10,000 display of accessories. By coming to this site, each person interested in this great exhibition can expect change to all of the new and old cars on the American marshal's show. The new cars will be unable to exhibit at this show on account of trade differences. They will keep open home, with special warroom displays the week of JAMES C. SMITH HIDE 001 904 E. Douglas Ave., Wichita, Kans WE WANT Direct all shipments to us. Same will receive per- sonal attention. Satisfaction guaranteed. We make proper returns. Shipping tags free to shippern Write now. BROOM CORN Have you any or know who has? If interested, write—right away. COYNE BROTHERS 160 South Water Street, CHICAGO Selling Agents Here American Society of Equity The very fines made. Ask your hardware dealer. RICHARDS-CONOVER HARDWARE CO. Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma City, Okla. 5 Fine POST CARDS FREE Sand only 20 stamp and receive 5 very fine Gold Embossed Cards FREE, to introduce post card offer. Capital Card Co., Dept. 79, Topeka, Kan. W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 7-1911. SS DYES be in cold water better than any other dye. You can DE DRUG GO., Quincy, Illinois. DISTEMPER antee Frazier's Distemper Cure to Cure and me disease or return your money. Safe for installation. Epizotic, Catarrhal Fever, Pink- gins and Colds cured with one bottle. Send ret. $1.00 bottle holds three 50 cent bottles or prepaid from L COMPANY, Dep't A, NAPPANEE, IND. Knights & Daughters OF TABOR NEBRASKA JURISDICTION HETTERS OF 18—St. Marie, Omaha, W. Graham, 211th. Thurs. 19—Amelia Levels, Omaha Ella Golden, 230s. 20—Maria, Ft. Scott, Johnson, 501th. 24—Charity Rose, Co- Mrs. A. Garner, Wed. 28—Modern, Parsons, Dorsey. 29—Crystal, Leavenwo- H. La Tand, 407th. Tue. 30—Victoria, Leavenwo- R. Rivers, 607 Sec. 34—Wichita, Wichita, Ile Hall, 1024 O. 35—Golden Rule, So. Mrs. Sadie Jones, 1-3 Thurs. 37—Eutevator, Atchise, Mary Grosby, 11 1-3 Fri. 38—Covenant, Weir, K Taylor, Box 394; 52—Mt. Maria, Lawrere Josie Wear, 807th. 63—Fair West, Kansas Mrs. Rosa Saund 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Rose, Tope- Susie O'Brien, 1 1-3 Wed. 85—Magdalene, Topeka Hardiman, 1801th. Wed. 91—Golden Sheaf, Omaha Lula Rountree; 92—St. Annis, Lincoln, D. Davis, 1029 H. 93—Macedonia, N. Top- S. A. Brown, 71th. Thurs. TENTS. Rev. Frank Wilson Mrs. Bessie Hall, 1—Golden Leaf, Leaven Mrs. Jennie Nich 4th Sat. 2—Frank Wilson, Ft. Miss Emma Maxie, 3—Moses Dickson, W Mrs. B. Braw, 111 ton, 1-3 Sat. 7—Lone Star, Yale, K. Lewis. 11—Golden, Atchison, I rie Brown, 920 N. 1. 11—Alice Tucker, So. Mrs. I. M. Fau- 31st; 1-3 Sat. 11—Viola, Lawrence, K Brown, 325 Miss; 14—Busy Bee, Atchis- Aria Stone, 823 M. 15—Louisa Mae, Chee Mrs. M. E. Ho- Main. 16—Pearl, Wichita, Ka Jones, 625 N. W. 17—Castle Rock, Weir, H. Askins, Box 18—Star of West, Salin Murrell. 20—John Wilson, K. C. D. Dalton, 1228 B 21—Crystal, Leavenwo Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. 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. Mary Goss, 2423 Jewett 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 Glaspie, 128 N. Wabash; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lilian 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. Woodlork, 823 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. 12—Golben Rule, Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewar; 1-3 Thurs. 15—America Davis, Weir, 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, 317 E. Wall; second Tuesday in July, 1911. --- --- TABERNACLES TENTS. The Mother's Aid Club. Meets every Friday at 1 p. m. Ladies invited to meet with us. Mrs. W. N. Miller, Pres. Mrs. P. Johnson, Sec. CHITTERLINGS, Catfish, Hamburger and am Sandwiches for sale at Harry Walker's Cafe, 957 N. Mead every Saturday. Anyone desiring these atables are requested to call. Tapp & Hanshaw CASH STORE. 255-257 North Main Street. Phone Bell 53. 19 lbs. Granulated Sugar (cane or beet) ..... $1.00 All Best Grades Flour ..... 1.20 Northern Potatoes, peck ..... 25 Northern Potatoes, bu ..... 90 2 lbs. 3-Crown Raisins ..... 1.15 3 Cans Good Corn ..... 25 3 Cans Scotch Pumpkin ..... 25 Spanish Onions lb ..... 0.05 Sweet Potatoes peck ..... 25 Cabbage, a head ..... 25 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. Continued from page 1 And yet I feel it my duty to give you the opportunity of hearing a witness from the field of sacred thought and action. If the Afro American Clergy were to give their opinion of this immortal subject, ten thousand pulpits would write a common verdict like this. Darkness was over the land, the priests lips knew not wisdom, strange fire was on the altar, sound not sense prevailed everywhere. It was midnight on the waters, the ghost and the hobgoblin were the being of our superstitions, and the Bible was a sealed book. But now a light has dawned. Men have been led out into truth. The history of the church, the philosophy of religion, moral and mental science are understood and relished as the joy of christian service. The laws of scriptural interpretation; the reading of the book of God in modern and ancient languages; the study of comparative religions and a knowledge of all subjects that are necessary to the interpretation of the book. These all of these and more are the property of thousands today who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. The men of the pulpit would point to their life of self denial and sacrifice and show that under God led on by the spirit of the immortal Lincoln they have led a race into possessions large and grand; where the people praise and worship and co-operate with the King himself in the building up of the kingdom that shall not fail. I hear them saying, Sir we have been led hither to by a new Savior who by his blood has made it possible for the blood of the Redemer to lift up and cleanse a lost race. Sirs; In-recognition of the presence of his spirit and influence among us, we place upon his brow the crown immortal. Lincoln is the man immortal because of the wisdom displayed in dealing with a question that was profoundly complex. The nation had at once decided that slavery was both right and wrong. Morally wrong, legally right. The nation had placed itself where it could neither attack slavery nor let it alone. Where is the Solomon for so grave a situation? A man of prayer is found at the white house in Washington, a man who was not ashamed to seek divine guidance in all the perplexing questions that trouble his soul. This man had many years before these awful times, consecrated himself to the principles of liberty and freedom. In his young manhood he chanced o witness the crimes and distress of the slave pen and the human action block while in New Orleans, La. Here his righteous spirit was so vexed at such wickedness that he declared before the tribunal of heaven, "If the time ever comes when I can hit that thing, I will hit it hard." Providence had placed this man where he must act for the nation. He is equal to the emergency. The nation is at war. One party is claiming that slavery is absolutely right and we will call the roll of our slaves at the foot of Bunker hill. The other party is condoning that our hero comes forward and declares that no nation can exist part free and part slaves. The latter it must not be, and with pen in hand he writes at the bottom of the document upon which was written the emancipation procolmation the immortal name, Abraham Lincoln. This wonderful character, this type of the greatest Americans came as one horn out of dew time. A crisis in American history was at hand. The ruler of nations threw out the handful of corn upon the top of the mountain and led it through devious ways and into strange experiences and on and on the life and character of men and things. The school of poverty and hardship had to be conquered. The problems of life and bring were entered and mastered by the life that was in the grain. His school house, the shade of a tree, his library, a borrowed book, his teacher an imate will. These led him out and into a vision of the past, present and future of the American nation. He was a stranger to selfishness. If the world has ever produced an example of perfect unselfishness it is found in this the highest type of man. Mr. Lincoln seemed to forget simself whenever there were questions of import or problems of state craft to be disposed of he took no thought of himself. The all absorbing question with him was, what is my duty to my neighbor? What is my duty to nation? What does God expect of me at this time? No Savior of man has ever made good without this supreme attribute, unselfishness Our martyred hero towers upwards and looks to me like the man of Galilee in the midst of such self forgetfulness. He might have said with the master, "I lay dow nmy life that I may take it again." He was deeply solicitous for the welfare of the nation both North and South. His second inaugural address is the essence of unselfishness and through it his unsullied character shines as the brightest sum in the constellation. And now Mr. President I am glad to stand in this presence tonight and congratulate the human family upon the production of so divine a type of man, because all people and kindred and tongues may catch inspiration from this exalted character. I am more than glad to have the exalted honor of saying to the American people here stands the creation of your hands, the matchless product of the ages. I am exceedingly happy in the provilege of saying to the people of my own race whose glory is in the stars and stripes, it was in answer to your prayers for a Moses to lead you out of Egypt that God raised up and gave to the world the Immortal, Abraham Lincoln. COFFEYVILLE. KANSAS. "As timeand tide waites for no man" and as Coffeyville has been selected as the next place of meeting of the next Grand Session of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, Maids and Pages of Honor we have thought to best ourselves and oegin making preparations for this Grand Event. With this in view, on Feb. 8th the Knights and Daughters held a joint session and made a start and there will not be a stone left unturned to make the coming session of the Tabors in Coffeyville the grandest in the history. We expect to entertain the delegates in royal style. We shall have the Chief Grand Mentor with us sometime in May to assist us in making final preparations. Our order here is in fine shape with little sicknes. We wish to impress upon all who contemplate attending this session to write to Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th. Coffeyville, Kansas. about places to stoy. Write him freely Yours for Tabor Rev. Allen Garner 704 E. 12th. NEWTON KANSAS The C. M. E. sewing circle met at the residence of Rev. Byron last week. The I. R. A. club met with Mrs. Ed. Johnson Feb. 10th. They will ment with Mrs. Geo johnsoz Feb. 17. Mrs. Wells Dickerson is able to be out. A program will be rendered at the A M E church, Sunday, Feb. 19th. A fine time expected. C R Ramey is building up a fine business, building. Big Event Coming. The top-notch event of the season will be the Grand Arabian Drill by members of Emith Temple No. 30 Mystic Shriners and the Daughters of Isis at Garfield hall Wednesday night, March 1. This will by all means eclipse anything ever witness in Wichita. The Shriners have gone to a great expense in searching the lands and hidden places of the Orient for costumes, drills and fashion and have been able to secure twelve ladies of the Arab tribe and will have them in Wichita on Wednesday night, Mar. 1st to enter into a competetive drill with twelve men of Egypt who have been secured for this occasion at Garfield hall. Besides this ancient drill there will also be a most interesting program of music and letters and all who attend Garfield Wednesday night, March 1st, will feel amply repaid. Tickets are now on sale; buy your tickets early to avoid the rush at the door. Remember the place is Garfield hall, Wednes day night, March 1st. Helped Carry The Bonds The colored voters of Wichita deserve high compliments for the splendid manner in which they responded to their duty as citizens and rallied to the polls last Tuesday and helped carry the Midland Valley bonds. Every colored voter realized the importance of this bond being carried and went to the polls and voted for them. This is another evidence of the fact that when propositions are properly presentrd to the colored voters of this city they will prove as loyal to the every interests of Wichita as will any other citizens. Thus the colored voters may feel satis fied with the part they took in making the Midland Vally bond election a success. Mrs. A. Paul who has been seriously ill at her home, 538 N. Water, is reported much on the mend. Her many friends hope for her speedy recovery. Sunday, March 9th, is quarterly meeting day at the A. M. E. church. Big time expected. Mrs. Ellen Thompson is report ed on the mend. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McKelly gave an afternoon dinner at their suburban home, " Glennray " last Monday in honor of Mrs. G. W. Murray. Those present were: Mesdames G W Murray, Jeff Sanford, Thos H Cox, Dr. F O Miller, R Davis and M Miller. A fine time was had. REMARKABLE IN THE DOG LINE. Proud Owners of Pets, Listen to This from Flatbush, N. Y. Zip, a son of Bluff, the big bull terrier, is the most respected dog in Flatbush, N. Y., says a correspondent. He requires every other dog within 40 blocks to walk a chalk line and bow to him as he passes by. He can lick everything on four feet up to twice his size, yet is as mild as Devery-at-the-Pump. His master attributes Zip's prowess to his fondness for the pipe. Like Old King Cole: He calls for hisidders three. "That is the most remarkable dog in the world," says his master. "He takes my pipe out of my mouth and smokes it, standing on his hind feet. See! The stem is all chewed up! If the tobacco doesn't burn well, Zip will get down on his fours and chase all over the house to create a draught. When the fire is well started again he finishes his smoke and returns me the pipe. Strong? He ought to be named Samson. Why. we have a piano that weighs 600 pounds. Tie Zip to it with a rope and he will pull it all over the room." 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 rament, as compared with the darntooolishness 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 didn'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 Courtler An incident very reminiscent of such pettiness was told to Tip the other day by an American just returned from Berlin. It seems one of the Kaiser's suite, a noble of high rank, had incurred the imperial displeasure. The Kaiser did not wish to lose this gentleman's services, but apparently desired to humiliate him for the real or fancied offense. At one of the state dinners shortly afterward, the noble was seated half a dozen places from his ruler. Beside him sat a woman of title, whom he had known from the time both could walk. The two conversed animatedly. Suddenly his imperial majesty leaned forward and exclaimed in a harsh voice: "Prince, it is not etiquette to flirt at my table." The man thus addressed rose to his feet and bowed low. The next day he resigned and retired to his country estate, although it is well known he received a personal letter of apology from Wilhelm II. Not to Be Fooled. Proudly young Tomkins displayed the sights of London to his uncle, fresh from the verdant country. They visited St. Paul and the Embankment and the National Gallery and all the places they could get in free, and, as an especial treat, they visited a music hall, where a trombone solo was in progress when they entered. With rapt attention the old man watched the instrumentalist's facial contortions. At the close the audience applauded thunderously, but the old man sat mute. "Well," said young Tomkins, "didn't you like it?" "Verra good, verra good, no doubt," nodded the old man, "but we country folk canna be taken in so easy as all that; I knew all the time he wasn't a-sawallow'in of it!"—Answera