Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT VOTE FOR GEO. H. BRADFORD FOR MAYOR This is the Bradford who served as a member of the council in 1906, 1907 and 1908, representing the First Ward. This is the Bradford who when in the council voted on public matters to the best interests of Wichita. This is the Bradford who when in the council secured a bid for the construction of the Drainage Canal at 16.95 cents per cubic yard and thus broke the combination which asked 20 cents per cubic yard for the same work. This is the Bradford who when a member of the council forced a clause in the franchise of the gas company reducing the minimum charge on meters from $1.00 to 50 cents per month. This is the same Bradford who when in the council made a determined fight against the mayor having straw men on the payroll. He represents no special interests, nor is he controlled by or subservient to any newspaper. He believes the mayor and commissioners are merely employees of the city and should be governed in their official acts by the majority rule instead of by their own opinions. He believes in a square deal to all classes and lives his belief in his every day intercourse with his fellowman. This is the same Bradford who as councilman introduced an ordinance to raise the wages of the laboring men working for the city. This is the same Bradford who demanded that the colored men be given more work for the city. Such a man you need for Mayorto make a greater Wichita VOTE FOR RUFUS CONE For City Commissioner Mr. Cone is an earnest booster for Wichita; the way he has handled the finances of this city for the past two years entitles him to the praise of all who are interested in Wichita. He has paid all maintenance and running expenses in cash and in addition to that he has paid bonds, coupons and other indebtedness of the city to the amount of $789,000.00 without refunding a bond. THERE IS NO OTHER CITY OF ITS SIZE IN THE WORLD THAT CAN MAKE AS GOOD A SHOWING. Cone hsa worked hard and put forth every effort to secure a union depot and elevated tracks for our city; the railroads are now ready to sign contract to begin work at once and complete these improvements inside of two years at an expense of two million dollars. About 45 per cent of this amount will be paid for labor in Wichita. Mr. Cone should stay in office until this improvement that he has labored so hard for is completed. TWELTH YEAR VOTED GEOR BRADFORD FOR ME This is the Bradford who served in 1906, 1907 and 1908, represents matters to the best interests of W. This is the Bradford who won for the construction of the Draculic yard and thus broke the concrete yard for the same work. This is the Bradford who forced a clause in the franchise to minimum charge on meters from. This is the same Bradford determined fight against the mayor payroll. He represents no special interest or subservient to any newspaper. He believes the mayor and ployes of the city and should be by the majority rule instead of the mayor. He believes in a square deal in his every day intercourse. This is the same Bradford ordinance to raise the wages of the city. This is the same Bradford men be given more work for the Such a man you need greater Geo. H. Bradford For Mayor As the spring campaign nears its end the voters of Wichita are becoming more and more convinced that Geo. H. Bradford is the proper and safe man to nominate for the high office of Mayor of Wichita. His wide experience, splendid qualities as a business man and his honesty, faithfulness and integrity as a public official at once place him as one of Wichita's foremost citizens and possessing the right kind of material for the Mayoralty. Mr. Bradford believes in a square deal for every one—and if nominated and elected as Mayor he will give every citizen regardless to race, color or financial standing, a fair and impartial hearing. There is no red tape about Geo. H. Bradford and he will carry none with him into the office of Mayor. If Geo. H. Bradford is elected Mayor every citizen may feel free and at liberty to come to him at any time and on any subject and receive right treatment. He is a large property holder and has much business interest in this city and is, therefore, very peculiarly concerned and will use his best endeavors to reduce the high taxes of the present to such basis as is absolutely necessary to cover the city expenses. As Mayor he will also advocate such VOTE RUFUS For City Co Mr. Cone is an earnest boo other measures as will tend to help make Wichita grow and make it indeed the garedn spot of the West. One of the strongest and most consistent friends whom the laboring people and the colored people of Wichita have is Geo. H. Bradford. As a member of the City Council he caused several measures to be passed in the interest of these two classes of citizens. He is the poor man's friends and he is the colored man's friend. If he is the next Mayor of Wichita this class of citizen can depend on it that Mr. Bradford will treat them right. While there is no question that Mr. Bradford will be one of the two men nominated his friends desire everyone to come out and vote for him on primary day, March 27th, in order that his majority will be large and handsome—such as the superb qualities of the man deserve. Vote for Geo. H. Bradford on March 27th. WE ARE GOING TO TALK. After this spring campaign is over, so no one can charge up what we say to "politics," the Searchlight is going to say some things. Anyone who thinks we have not the nerve to expose some Wichita hypocrisy will be badly fooled. This old "better than thou" racket is too thin. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1911 - VOTE FOR - E. B. JEWET FOR MAYO For Good Government and Good Business Me E. B. JEWETT FOR MAYOR E. B. Jewett For Mayor The vital issues of this campaign are just two: Good government and good business. These two propositions apeal to all classes of people. To the man who works with his hands, to the man who works with both brain and hands—to be more pointed, to every man and woman in the city, of Wichita. To have good government, so far as the prevention of crime is concerned, so far as the enforcement of all laws are concerned, is pot a difficult problem, in my judgment, to solve. That can be accomplished through the executive officers of the law, the police department of the city, when it is properly organized and officered, both officers and men having integrity and that courage of action absolutely necessary on the part of a police force. The police force should be made up entirely of the citizens of our own city, and they should be men whose past lives, and whose present associations, recommend them to the better people of the city. We have just had a sort of a clearing of the moral atmosphere of the city of Wichita. We should not have conditions in the future as they have been—at least, for a year or so—in the past. Now, the matter in which we are vitally interested, is good business, and not only in public life, but in private life. Every man and woman, every wage-earner in the city of Wichita, is interested in the development of this city. On its growth, on its prosperity, depends the happiness of the lives of the great majority of us. We should not be governed in casting our votes on election day by either passion or prejudice. We should go about this election in the selection of city officers as if it were the most important affair in our lives. It is one on which depends much as to how our social relations, individually and as a city, will be maintained at a high standard, and as to whether or not this Peerless Princess—this Queen of Hearts—this City of Wichita, shall continue to grow and be, within the lifetime of many of us, a city of a hundred thousand people. L. M. BALLARD. Mr. L. M. Ballard, who aspires for one of the City Commissioners, is a most excellent gentleman, and has legion of friends in this city. He has been a residenter of Wichita for twenty-three years and is one of the few men who has made good. He has always taken a prominent part in city affairs although he has never held an elective office. He is capable and competent and would make an excellent City Commissioner. One thing which can be said to his credit is that he is absolutely impartial, honest and square in his dealings with men. Below we present his platform and say to you that he will appreciate your vote on primary day—March 27th. Read His Platform. Enforcement of all laws with equal rights to all and special privileges to none. Resident laborers should be given preference on all public work. I believe it our duty to protect home labor and shall insist and work to that end. FOR - NEWETT MAYOR imment business Methods I favor securing any enterprise for the best interests of Wichita at least expense to taxpayers. I believe cities of the first-class should own and control all public utili- ties and will use my best efforts there- for. I will use every honorable means to secure the best interests of Wichita and her citizens. E. T. BATTIN, For City Commissioner. One of the most capable of the men who are candidates for City Commissioner is Mr. E. T. Battin. No man has contributed more of his means, his time and his talent to build up Wichita and Wichita enterprises than has Mr. Battin. His business experiences are wide, varied, valuable, and in every instance has been highly successful. If nominated and elected as one of the City Commissioners he will assume his duties with a seasoned, capable, conservative and sane business experience that will at once prove valuable in meeting the many and varied business problems now confronting our city. He is abreast of all the needs of our city and is capable of solving them. With men like E. T. Battin composing our City Commission the affairs of this city will be in safe hands. When you go to vote on next Monday, March 27th, look for his name and vote for him. R. H. Holden For City Commissioner In announcing myself for city commissioner, will say that if elected I will devote my entire time to the interest of the city. I believe the city should own its own water works and paving plant. Employ none but home labor at reasonable wages. I also believe in the impartial enforcement of all laws. If elected will aim to leave the city building with the same clean record that I have held in business the last 18 years I have been a resident of Wichita. R. H. HOLDEN. W. H. Boston. W. II. Boston, assistant chief of police of Wichita and ex-deputy sheriff of Sedgwick county has filed his nomination papers as candidate for city commissioner. Mr. Boston is well and favorably known in this city and all over Sedgwick county. For Mayor J.H.MCPHERSON For a new deal at City Hall An honest, clean, competent police force An economical administration City affairs Municipal ownership of the water works For the enforcement of all laws Competent, Qualified and able to handle the job. Having been connected with public affairs since coming to Wichitr he is well equipped to serve the city as one of the commissioners. Mr. Boston states that his platform consists of boosting for a Greater Wichita, municipal ownership of water works and a co-operative belt line so that all railroads can be accommodated. He is not without experience in municipal affairs, as he was elected city clerk at Minier, Ill. in 1888 and was councilman there for two years; was council at Clearwater, Kan., six years and city clerk two years. Jas N. Miller is a candidate for School Director in the Fourth ward. He is the Commissioner of the poor, is a well Educated man, and qualified for the position. Being an old soldier, he is a friend of the colored people. WANTED DRESS MAKING All work guaranteed, Ladies Silk and Wool Suits a specialty. Mrs. M. W. Trimble 355 N. Market. If you want a decent next two years. Vol Stand If you want a decent Government, the next two years. Vote for the man who Stands For It If you want a decent Government, the next two years. Vote for the man who Stands For It I am no politician political " Bosses of behind me. I am a iy independent. H elected by your c est vote. In return give my entire there is in me to Better, Bigger Wichita, I be should have her plant. Give empl own people. Muni of public utilitie ership as rapidly the same can be b Thanking you f I remain, s FRI Fred A. DEES For Decent Government 939 S. Market St --- H. S. Spear For City Commission It elected I pledge my time to the interest of the City of Wichita in endeavoring to harmoniously transact the business of the City with economy bearing in mind that I am Commissioner of the whole city. With special privileges to none and equal rights to all and a sduare deal. H. S. Spear. FOR RENT—Three nice rooms au 1053 N Main street. Furnished or un- furnished; also rear of a hall. Inquire of W. M. Dent, 1053 N Main. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right PRACTICING MEDICINE—NOT POLITICS. The colored people of Wichita should feel especially proud of three of their race physicians, Dr. F. O'Hara Miller, Dr. Arthur K. Lawrence, and Dr. Jas. E. Farmer. These gentlemen are good physicians and masters of their profession. They know it—and the people know it—therefore they are kept too busy making calls and curing the sick to bush-whack in politics. To their credit it can be said that each of them have kept busy following their profession of medicine and have left the political end to others. So it seems that the race is gradually getting some professional doctors with brains enough to follow their calling. nt Government, the state for the man who is For It I am no politician, have no political "Bosses or Hangers-on" behind me. I am running strictly independent. Expecting to be elected by your clean and honest vote. In return I expect to give my entire time and all there is in me to help make a Better, Bigger and Cleaner Wichita. I believe Wichita should have her own paving plant. Give employment to her own people. Municipal control of public utilities, and the ownership as rapidly as the same the same can be brought about Thanking you for any favor. I remain, sincerely. FRED A. DEES. ```markdown ``` NO.50 A NATIVE KAYAK T WAS due to the initiative of and to the preparations made by Mr. G. F. Norton of New York and to his kindness in including me in the party, that I owe this opportunity to set forth here a brief account of the hunting trip taken by Fred Norton, Harry Whitney and myself during the summer of 1908 on the sailing steamer Erik, which sailed as tender to the Roosevelt as far as Etah, North Greenland, on the T WAS due to the initiative of and to the preparations made by Mr. G. F. Norton of New York and to his kindness in including me in the party, that I owe this opportunity to set forth here a brief account of the hunting trip taken by Fred Norton, Harry Whitney and myself during the summer of 1908 on the sailing steamer Erik, which sailed as tender to the Roosevelt as far as Etah, North Greenland, on the memorable expedition of that year, which resulted in the discovery of the pole by Commander Robert E. Peary. Whitney was a member of the party until we left Etah to return home. The ship being our headquarters for the whole of the trip, we were able to take along as large an outfit as we wished. In addition to the usual paraphernalla we took with us an 18-foot whaleboat propelled by a three-horsepower gasoline engine. Sydney, Cape Breton island, was the rendezvous for the two ships of this expedition, the Roosevelt and the Erik, to which place Norton and I proceeded by train from New York. The Erik had come from St. John's several days before and was taking on coal and provisions. The Roosevelt arrived on the fourteenth, with Whitney and other members of the expedition, with the exception of Commander Peary, who came by train on the same day. At Sydney we met Mr. Craft, from Carnegie institute, Washington, who was to become a welcome member of our party aboard the Erik. Of the ship's company was Capt. Sam Isle during the night of the eighteenth, having experienced both clear and foggy weather and a drop in the temperature to 40 degrees Of the ship's company was Capt. Sam Isle during the night of the eighteenth, having experienced both clear and foggy weather and a drop in the temperature to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, making Hawk Harbor, a whaling station and factory on the Labrador coast, Sunday evening at eight. The whale meat for which we came to Hawk Harbor having been stowed on deck forward we left in company with the Roosevelt on Tuesday afternoon and the following day entered the harbor at Turnivik, our last stop on the Labrador coast, in the midst of a thunderstorm. Turnivik is a fishing station, and here Capt. Bob Bartlett said good-by to his father, Capt. William Bartlett, who is owner of the station. The run through Davis strait, across Baffin and Melville bays, around Cape York and into North Star bay, where we waited for the Roosevelt, consumed nine days, during which time we overhauled our outfit, worked on a sail for the whaleboat and fished for gulls that wouldn't bite. We crossed the arctic circle on the twenty-eighth of July. At midnight on the thirtieth of July I took a snapshot photograph of the ship from the end of the bow-spirit. The Roosevelt came in on the third of August, having stopped at Cape York to pick up dogs and natives, and at the suggestion of Peary we lost no time in preparing for a walrus hunt. Commander Peary helped us in every way possible—as indeed he had done from the start and continued to do until the ships separated—procuring Eskimo guides for us and telling us where to go and what to do when we got there. We left the ship at three in the morning with three Eskimo guides, steering our power whaleboat west through Wolstenholm sound to where Saunders island lifts its steep, bare sides, washed on the west by the open water of Baffin bay. In the sound and about Saunders island congregate the old bull walrus, while further north in the Whale sound regions are found only the cows and young bulls. Off the eastern end of the island one of the Eskimo pointed to a black spot on a floating cake of ice, and as we pushed nearer the black turned to a dirty brownish yellow, soon easily recognized as two big walrus bulls lying asleep on the ice pan. The engine was stopped and the boat drifted up quietly. Two Eskimo stood in the bow with harpops ready, I stood next, and the others somewhere behind me. When within about 30 feet both walrus raised their heads, showing long white tusks and thick peaks criss-crossed with scars. As Whit- GAME. ARCTIC ICE by E.P. LARNED COPYRIGHT BY FIELD & STREAM CAMP FIRE IN THE ARCTIC ICE PAN WITH TWELVE WALRUS NATIVE-3 AND TYPICAL BOAT ney and I fired they started sliding off the pans into the water. The Eskimo in the bow, first to throw his harpoon, missed the nearest animal as he sank, but the second man threw true. and the line slipped out over the bow, tightening with a jerk as he snubbed on a cleat. So we had one walrus, at any rate, hard and fast on the business end of the line. When he came up to breathe—for he was far from dead—I fired at him again and missed, and he ducked under. The same thing happened several times, and though I did finally finish him with a bullet through his brain, I had no idea until then what a lot of practice it takes to shoot accurately out of a boat when rocked even by small waves, as was ours. The sixth of August was calm and warm, the sun shone brightly and the innumerable pans of floating ice glistened under the slanting rays, as the Erik shoved her nose into the mouth of Whale sound. "Just the day for walrus—no wind and they'll be out on the ice sleeping in the sun," said Mat Henson, who had come aboard from the Roosevelt to take charge of the hunt; and Mat kuew, for he had hunted walrus in Whale sound many a time. In half an hour several pans of walrus had been sighted—it was then four in the morning—and two boats were launched; Norton, Henson, two Eskimo and myself in a rowboat; Whitney, with a crew, in the launch. We were soon busy. When an animal was killed an oar was hoisted and the ship steamed up to the spot and hauled the dead monster aboard with the winch; the boat shoving off again to search for more game. Some of the "tricks of the trade" were soon learned, for instance: a walrus killed in the water would sink nine times out of ten, and unless there was a harpoon in him would be lost. The same was generally true of one shot on an ice pan, unless killed instantly—he would slide off into the water and sink. Our party finally returned aboard exhausted, to find that about 40 walrus had been taken When I awoke next morning we were dropping anchor off a little Eskimo village named Kangerderlooksoah, situated near the mouth of Inglefield gulf. Commander Peary had been with us aboard the Erik since leaving North Star bay and said that he would remain here long enough to give us a chance at the caribou. That afternoon we pushed off in the whaleboat, bound for the head of the gulf, our five Eskimo companions as pleased and as excited as children at the idea of a hunt. We worked along shore, zigzagging between low slabs of ice, where sea pigeons floated and little auks dove and flew away as the boat approached. Looking over the side one could see their little black-and-white bodies shooting the water, using their wings vigorously and leaving a trail of bubbles behind. Several seals were seen and as we rounded a point half an hour later, another village appeared, the pointed huts hardly distinguishable at first from the pointed rocks. A native came out in a kayak to accompany us ashore. At least half the population expressed a strong desire to go with us, by getting into the boat when we were making ready to leave, a compromise being finally effected by our taking along two fine-looking young bucks each dressed in a new bear and sealskin suit. At seven the next morning the sun burst through the mist and shone on the wet rocks, the white ice in the bay, and also on the glistening black head of a curious seal wallowing about just off shore. Things were moving in no time. The huskies crawled out from under the boat cover and beat their fur clothing with sticks to get out the dampness and the oil stoves were set going in preparation for breakfast. At eight we started inland, accompanied by the Eskimo hunters, carrying rifles and a few biscuits. The first ridge rose sharply from the shore, the trail beyond leading up a broad, rocky valley. Here we separated, my two guides turning up a dry creek bed. It was hard traveling over the broken rock in the valleys and the steep slants of the ridges, and my 405 Winchester got pretty heavy before we sighted the first game, in the shape of two blue-gray caribou bulls, feeding at the edge of a rock-rimmed pond. One of the huskies and I circled around the down-wind side and crawled on our bellies up to a big boulder near the head of the pond, bringing both animals within range. As we reached the boulder and peeked cautiously around it the nearer caribou began to get uneasy and started out of the water, but pulled up on the bank, at a range of about 100 yards, long enough to get himself properly shot. At that distance his coat was much the same shade of gray as the rocks on which he fell. Not long after leaving this pond we killed, between us, 15 patt marigan with the 22 rife. A few hours later, standing on the top of a high ridge looking across a big valley with a lake at the bottom, the inland ice cap could be plainly seen curving down, smooth and white, smothering all but this narrow strip of barren land along the coast; and at the foot of the ridge on the other side, standing ankle deep at the edge of another little pond, were two more caribou, a bull and a cow. We dropped back of the crest of the ridge and, following down a ravine further on, came out on a level with the pond, hidden from the sight of the game by a small hummock of rock. By crawling to the top of the hummock we were able to get a view of the pond. The caribou were still there, but lying down among the stones, and so like them in color that they were very hard to locate without the glasses—though only 300 yards distant as I afterward placed it. It was useless to try to get nearer, as there was no cover, and I fired at the bull and could see he was hit by the way he staggered as he jumped up and tried to run. The cow jumped up also and stood still, broadside on, and when I fired at her I could hear the bullet strike very plainly. Though it did not knock her down, she seemed unable to run, and another shot put her out of her misery. While still at this pond the two Eskimo hunters with whom Whitney started out chased a cow and calf on the run right past us. I hit the cow in the side at the third shot and the calf stopped and was killed by one of the Eskimo. We now had six caribon—a fair supply of meat—and two extra men to help carry it in, as the other party had had no luck. So I left them to bring in what they could and started for camp alone. On the way I killed the biggest bull of all. He was alone on a hillside and I got within range without much difficulty. Whitney was in camp and sald he had seen no caribou and Norton came in a couple of hours later, tired and disusted, having shot a calf. Our second attempt at walrus hunting in Whale sound was practically a failure, the weather being unfavorable. The Erik was headed for Etah, where we found the Roosevelt. At Etah the shore rises abruptly on both sides of the harbor and the sharp, rocky hills were dotted with Arctic hares. They are white with black-tipped ears all the year around and have extremely long and powerful hind legs, often running along almost upright for considerable distances. They were very shy when we arrived, having been hunted for some days by men from the Roosevelt. During the ten days spent at Etah the Roosevelt was making ready for her dash northward. The two ships lashed together, transferred supplies, coal and the vile-smelling whale meat, which we had carried for so long aboard the Erik. Coal and provisions were landed and the day before the Roosevelt sailed was spent in transferring some 250 dogs from an island, where they had been put ashore, to the Roosevelt's deck. Early in the afternoon of the eighteenth of August the Roosevelt showed by signal that she was ready to start north. At the time the Erik was tied to the rocks, landing coal, and the Roosevelt was anchored further up the bay. The captain, Norton, Whitney and I rowed over to her and Commander Peary invited us into his cabin, where we drank a glass of brandy to the health of all on board and to the success of the expedition, shook hands with everyone we could find amid the bustle and preparation of starting, and rowed back to the Erik. Whitney had decided to winter at Etah, and we left him there on the twenty-first, dropping him astern in his rowboat about an hour's run out. Here we were.homeward bound and not a sight had we had of the greatest and most desired arctic game, the white bear. It was nearly a month later before we did see one. We killed a few more walrus, arctic hares and birds on our way south, visited the Greenland Danish settlements at Upernavik, Disco and Holstenberg and crossed Davis strait, striking the coast on the west side near the mouth of Cumberland gulf. On the twenty-second of September, off the Labrador coast, we ran into an iceberg, the shock breaking open the old Erik pretty well back to the pavement. Fortunately the damage was about two feet above the water line; very fortunately, as none of the boats happened to be in a condition that would permit quick launching. The crash came about eight o'clock on a bright, starlight evening, with the northern lights shifting across the sky and probably blotting out the berg until it was too late to escape collision. This accident seemed to take the life right out of the old ship, though she had withstood so many dangers in the past, and it was a crippled old Erik with a badly smashed nose that finally dropped anchor in Brigus harbor. BAD CASE OF GRIP Caused Sore Throat and Tonsilitis. Restored by Peruna. Mr. W. H. Housley, Stony Point, Tennessee, writes: PETER H. "five years Iago I took a very severe cold which resulted in la gripe. I never was so bad off. I was in bed several weeks, and when I did get up I had tensilis and sore throat. and sore Mr. W. H. Housley, throat. "I tried to cure this for eighteen months, but it gradually got worse. A doctor advised me to have my tonsils cut out, but I did not like the idea. Another doctor examined me, and told me the same thing. I finally got a bottle of Peruna, and after I had taken one bottle my throat was better. I bought and used a dozen bottles, and saw I was going to get well, and I did." Even a little trial is a big one if you have no others. TO CURE A GOLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E.W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. Zc. The man who lets well enough alone never gets very far ahead. Constipation, indigestion, sick headache and bilious conditions are overcome by a course of Garfield Tea. Drink on retiring. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for time is the stuff life is made of—Franklin. EASTER POST CARDS FREE Send 2e stamp for five samples of our very best Gold Embossed, Easter, Flower Cards, beautiful colors and loveliest designs. Card Club, T31 Jackson St, Topelle, Kan. Reckless. "Pipps doesn't care what he buys on credit." "No. You would think that every day he lives is his last day on earth." A. Good Samaritan. "Once, when I was ill, he gave me a punch in the stomach." "I don't see why you should be grateful for that." "It was a milk punch. They strengthen, you know." Famous Eccentric Toasts. Pitt, at Kidderminster, gave a toast in compliment to the carpet manufacturers. "May the trade of Kidderminster," said Pitt, "be trampled under foot by all the world." A more audacious toast, freighted with double meaning, has been variously attributed to Smeaton, Erskine and to some others. This after-dinner trade sentiment was delivered in this form: "Dam the canals, sink the coal pits, blast the minerals, consume the manufactures, disperse the commerce of Great Britain and Ireland."—Cornhill Magazine. Encourage the Boys. When a boy presents an idea that is feasible, pat him on the back and encourage him, and he will develop a love for agriculture and become the pride of your heart in your declining years and will love the homes and the farms that you have worked so hard to pay for. If farming has not paid in your case by all means give the boy a chance to begin without your handicap. "What was good enough for me is good enough for the boy," is a maxim unworthy of a New England farmer. Give the boy a chance at an agricultural education and he will help you to stop the leaks and turn the past and present into a brighter future. A FOOD STORY Makes a Woman of 70 "One In 10,000." The widow of one of Ohio's most distinguished newspaper editors and a famous leader in politics in his day, says she is 70 years old and a "stronger woman than you will find in ten thousand," and she credits her fine physical condition to the use of Grape Nuts: "Many years ago I had a terrible fall which permanently injured my stomach. For years I lived on a preparation of corn starch and milk, but it grew so repugnant to me that I had to give it up. Then I tried, one after another, a dozen different kinds of cereals, but the process of digestion gave me great pain. "It was not until I began to use Grape-Nuts food three years ago that I found relief. It has proved, with the dear Lord's blessing, a great boon to me. It brought me health and vigor such as I never expected to again enjoy, and in gratitude I never fail to ground its praises." Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a Reason." Theres a little book. "The Road to Wellville," to be found in pikes. Ever read the above letter. A new one appears from time to time, and since true, and full of human interest. Too Much Peter By JEANNE O. LOIZEAUX ee eee ern erate tia eae eee ney © peep in at her baking bread. Then che gave the oven door a little slam and went to her potato paring. On a side table in the immaculate kitchen stood a chocolate ple, fresh salad dressing, peach preserves and ther evidences of approaching din- ner. Mary Sweet was perched on a corner of the cabinet. Kate,” she ventured, “why the rath- er becoming frown and the banging of oven doors? I thought you enjoy- ed full swing during cook’s vacation?” Kate only wiped her bands and be- gan to beat eggs for a cake. Mary's teasing drawl continued. Well, at least tell me what—and who s for dinner? I want to decide hether to have a pressing engage- “ment at home, or to fish for an invi- ion to stay here.” It will be commonplace,” snapped ule. “Porterhouse and potatoes, ad, sponge cake and peaches—use yur eyes—and—Peter! You'd think eter Ford was daily bread in this cuily! Mary, you have not seen nough of him to be wearied; he has | the virtues, health, good looks, money—couldm't you take him off the wmily hands?” Thanks,” sald Mary. “But 1 wouldn{t rob Elizabeth. He hung over her atthe play last night like the sword of Damocles, She wore a bunch of violets as big as a house—and in january! He's at least generous. 1 thought it was—" Settled? No telling! Suppose Plizabeth should refuse him? I'm next in age—also last. If something isn't done he'll come straight along the line to me—and be slain. It would be no compliment—simply @ habit of proposing to an Allen girl. I vish there was a man in this family to consult with!” Idiot—meaning Peter, of course!— “continued Kate. “He nearly lost his mind two years ago when John Hay- nes came along just in time to save Dolly from becoming Mrs. Peter. It was horrid of Dolly—but I don’t blame her. Peter suffered horribly until, juring, and for several minutes after, her wedding, Then mother and Cre- sida petted and consoled him and a few months later he and Cresida went or a walk—and came back engaged. he poor girl would choke with jeal- rage for months afterward every: e Dolly's name was spoken, It would seem that Dolly, wicked en- nivess, had snared, lured and {ll- treated dear Peter, dismissing him hrough wanton eoquetry! And all the time he had really, you know, loved Cresida.” Kate gave her ringing Ute laugh, her dark eyes bright. She pulled out the fragrant bread, then went on with _her tirade, Mary listening, Well, you and the world know that Cresida began her trousseau, and all faight have been well. But Peter wanted to be rid of Elizabeth, who was her adoring shadow, so he im- ported a friend, Henry Dawson. Hen- ry fell in love—but not with Eliza beth, Without any frills or warnings ang Cresida eloped and were mar- red. It was a shock to society and lp Peter, I have warned mother about siting Hlzabeth console him, but nother adores him and is blind as a at. T wish Jerry Grayson were not at college. Well, I must say Peter has made himself almost indispensable about the house—there seems no di- viding Ine, But it’s bound to stop somewhere,” Why doesn’t your mother keep him f pounds?” asked Mary, slipping to the floor and folding her work. Mother? She's hypnotized. He works her every hour of her life. I've jone complaining to her. Mary, which would you think was worse, to have people say that in time ‘One of those Allen girls’ will capture him, or that sooner or later he will capture one of the Allen girls? Small choice! 1 know one thing—I'm tired of seeing him under the family feet and it does me good to sputter about it!” Mary stood with a gleam of pain— and of malice—in her long, gray eyes. Sue was little and very, very pretty jairhaired. She twisted her doi- y into a tight ball as she prepared | think 1 won't stay—I hate your er Ford! But I must say I don't ‘lame him about Dolly and Cresida ~a stone {mage would fall in love with them and afterwards wonder why. ‘They had a case of Peter as yd have measles! I've watched and he has sound, solid sense— sud a sound heart, too. It is not your mother who 1a blind—tt is Peter nd you, Katherine Allen! We'll see ong it takes you to wake up— ss! IN go before a glance s met" _ Sie slipped out at the back door. Kate stood staring after her, her olive cheek aflame, her eyes bright and anory. | Wise one ee eee purely impersonal information. “Blizabeth deserted me. The Gray- sons in full pack were out on the ice. Jerry is home—fired from col- lege some fresh prank. She went to dinner with them—said I was to tell you and attend to my own welcome. I see food and a lady cook—but appar- ently no welcome! Wrath sits upon the cook’s brow.” Kate still ignored him, her face burning, and flew about at her work. ‘Tall, fair, serene, Peter Ford leaned in the doorway and regarded her with @ wistful look in his blue eyes. At this she whirled about, gave him a contemptuous look and spread out a thick, juicylooking steak ready to be broiled, “S wish it were the right kind to pound,” she said. “I'd love to pound something just now.! Do go away and amuse yourself. Mother will doubt- less be lovely to you—I won't.” “No, you never have been. It does no good to try to please you—here I am, lovable, sympathetic, ready to help—am not a kind word coming my way in three years! Katherine, hon- estly now, why is it you hate me so?” “I have to stem alone the sickening tide of adoration that sets toward you in this senseless family. Peter Ford! 1’'m only thankful tonight that 1 have not been cooking a dinner to celebrate another of your: Allen engagements. Now that Jerry has returned and Eliz- abeth has escaped suppose you vary the program? Break the Allen spell once for all and make love to Mary Sweet. 1 know you have to make love, just as you have to breathe. Mother will be inconsolable—but con- sider my relief. Am I never to be regarded? Can't you see I suffer from too much Peter? You are very nice— but there's too much of you, somehow. Mary—” “Mary?” Peter flung off his coat pushed back his cuffs and donned a big apron from the drawer, with his maddening manner of being at home. “Mary!” He ruminated. “Are you fair to Mary? She hates the sight of me, dotes on my very absence—and then I—” he paused to try the pota- toes again and lit the gas under the broiling oven. “I would ‘Dote on your absence’—it I ever had a chance,” began Kate politely, but her eye met his clear gaze and fell, in spite of her, ia sheer confusion. Mary's words, which he must have overheard, made her self-conscious, angry, ashamed, To relieve her em- barrassment she seized a towel and took from him the steaming kettle of potatoes, meaning to drain off the wa- ter. She reached the sink, glad her back was turned to this disturbing person, but just as she tipped the ket- tle its lid slipped in her nervous grasp. The boiling liquid splashed over her left hand. She gave a little cry and would have dropped the kettle save that Pe- ter with a step was beside her and had put it on the floor. He flung his arm about her, lifting her bodily to the shelves. He snatched a towel, held it beneath her hand and reck- lessly deluged the smarting fingers with salad oll. : “There! Poor ttle paw! ‘That will shut out the air and if it hurts after dinner we'll call the doctor to dress it. Does it smart, dear?” He talked soothingly on, his arm again about her. But this was the last straw to the girl's burden of irri- tation and trouble. And Mary Sweet had made her conscious of a new, dis- turbing thing within. Not trying to escape from his hold, Kate leaned against Peter Ford and began silent- ly to ery. ‘Thus it happened that Peter, for fur- ther consolation, turned the curly brown head to rest against his shoul- der and murmured love and comfort as to a child. Of course he had al- ways loved—Kate. Hadn't she seen it?) He had known it even before Mary Sweet's hints? Elizabeth knew it—he had told her. He was afraid of his little Kate, she had so avoided him, taunted an] haunted him. Didn't she love him? Couldn't she? Kate nodded her head and he un- derstood. She knew now what the sweet trouble had been. And he ex- plained how his feeling for the other girls was only a silly boy-fascination —not real love, of course. It was quite time for Mrs. Allen to grow hungry and come to see about dinner. Peter opened his mouth to explain—again. But that lady laugh- ed, a ringing laugh like Kate’s own. “Never mind,” she said. “Don't bother now. I always knew you would both come to your senses some time, you silly children! If I hadn't known more than you, Peter Ford, I should never have let you philander about in my family so long.” CATs Me ae O | ( ed iy PGB | <ltspoon of nutmeg, the grated rina San Ree yr] and juice of two lemons; add lastly CL Ete ey the whites of the eggs beaten to a Le £3 Oe. dss #4 stiff froth. Bake in patty tins lined , oa | with paste or in a deep pie plate lined 9 AND toll within life's Vine-| 1th a rich crust. When cooked the By not teat we ao oF Aare cheese should be firm, not mushy. Ifyou want a fleld of labor Rice Jack—This Is a confection that You can find It anywhere. 1s a great favorite with the Ifttle peo: He ee ee a 8 ple and is much better than too much The fact that housekeeping is being taught. in our rural schools in up-to- date communities, and 13 belng put Into the curriculum on par with other studies, leads us to hope that before enother generation we may have the servant problem near its solution. There is no danger that the office or store will be robbed, for there will be plenty of girls more adapied to such work than to housckeeping; but In that good time coming the business world will not be overrun with poor clerks, poor stenographers, poor teach- ers, who might have been excellent home keepers, for many of our house wives are not strong enough to bear the work of their own households. The business world is overftowing with mediocre workers who are earn- ing the barest kind of a living when they might be well clothed, wel! fed and earning a good wage doing some- thing ,they are fitted for. What we need more than any other quality In womanhood {s an increase of patriotism, more of the fighting blood of our ancestors. ‘The truest patriot Ives for his country and dies if necessary, for it, We need more of the kind that live for it, who will sacrifice for It, give time, thought, money and energy to making the world better; and we may each have a share in the great work. Some one has so well said “that the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial. which if rightly used may be a benefit to our race for- ever.” Let us find the thing we can do best, and use that power for the betterment of the world, and be done with the old prayer: “The Lord bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife Us four and no more.” For, after all, the most successful life 1s the unselfish one which leaves the world better than he found ft. Sa Pe eee Oe ae oe istener en Nh 66 rs OnE. NU BK Tiana pan ees ee ea PMA csr of virdson, a sparkle of ‘dow, : “oud anda rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and. bite of blue, An weal cae ik thednomne> Croquette Making. The two kinds of croquette mixtures need different cheat in frying. For those that are uncooked a slower heat. In testing the fat for them use a cube of bread. It should be brown in 60 seconds, a golden brown. The cro- quettes that are prepared of cooked mixtures a hotter fat is required, using the 40-second test. Veal Croquettes.—Mix two cups of chopped, cooked cold veal, a teaspoonful of salt,afew drops onion juice,a dash of cayenne, a yolk of egg and a cup of white sauce made by using the veal stock instead of the milk. Cool, shape and fry in fat of the 40-second test. A delicious little croquette that may be served with a sauce as a dessert 1s prepared of cooked rice. Make a small nest of the rice and add a tea- spoonful of any desired jelly or pre- serves, then roll into a ball and dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve any sauce which appeals to the taste, such as chocolate or a lemon sauce. Cheese Croquettes.—Melt three ta- blespoonfuls of butter, add a fourth of a cup of flour and when well mixed add two-thirds of a cup of milk and the yolks of two unbeaten eggs. Add a cup of grated cheese, and as soon as it 1s melted, remove from the heat, add salt, cayenne to taste and spread in a shallow buttered pan to cool. When cold turn on a board, cut in strips, dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs again and fry in deep fat. Drain on brown paper. Serve for the cheese course. Salmon, lobster, lamb, chick- en, and in fact any kind of meat may be used to prepare croquettes. Bits of leftover meats with differ- ent seasonings may thus be utilized in making attractive dishes, without waste. Vegetables also make accept- able material for croquettes. Li Ae AS eyo HERE should be, inethinks, 08 Geo sean in worse woes tor Mer beaitty of ts loving & wan tor bis Prosperity; both belng equally subject. to change. Pope. Favorite Recipes. Philadelphia Scrapple—Bofl two and a haf pounds of pork from the shoulder until tender. Put it through the meat grinder. With the meat and liquor add equal parts of corn meal and buckwheat, a dash of sage and salt. Boil until thick. When cold cut in slices one-half inch thick and fry. Pennsylvania Cheese Cake.—Press through a sieve one pound of cottage vheese; add the beaten yolks of four eggs and one cup of granulated sugar beaten togciher unti: light; two tea- sponofu's of four, one of cinnamon, & saltspoon of nutmeg, the grated rind and juice of two lemons; add lastly the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, Bake in patty tins lined with paste or in a deep pie plate lined with a rich crust. When cooked the cheese should be firm, not mushy. Rice Jack.—This {s a confection that is a great favorite with the little peo- ple and is much better than too much candy. Cook together until crisp in water a cupful each of molasses and sugar; and two tablespoonfuls of water. When done, add a tablespoonful of butter, a pinch of soda and stir in three cupfuls of puffed rice. Pour out into a buttered pan to cool. Fruit Cheese.—Put through a meat chopper a pound each of dates. raisins and figs, a half pound each of pecans and brazilian nuts, a quarter of @ pound of blanched almonds. When thoroughly blended, pack in Avaxed- paper lined wafer boxes, and keep in a cool place. Squares of this confec- tion may be dipped in chocolate, or thin slices of it used as a sandwich filling are delicious, It will keep for several weeks if kept in a cold place. Chopped dates or prunes are an ad dition to steamed brown bread. PR) | Yi) Paar eee iN, TT eat youll enter alapao el A/a asy, natural way, as If It was an erceaey occurrence, not the event of your life; but-do ie well. : —Ward McAllister. Gelatine Dishes. For quick and easily-prepared des- serts, those made of gelatine are most satisfactory. Apple Snow.—Dissolve two table spoonfuls of gelatine in half a cup of boiling water. Pare, core and steam six apples until soft, then rub through a sieve; add two tablespoonfuls ot ugar and a teaspoonful of lemon juice and the dissolved gelatine. Beat the whites of four eggs until stiff, add gradually four tablespoon- fuls of sugar; whip this meringue a tablespoonful at a time into the ap- ples, pile in a glass dish, decorate with candied cherries and serve with a simple polled custard well chilled, or with whipped, sweetened and tia- ‘vored cream. : Chester Pudding.—Cover haif a cup of chopped dates with the juice of two oranges. Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of gelatine in half a cup of polling water. Beat two cups of cream, add half a cup of sugar, the dates, four tablespoonfuls of boiled rice and the gelatine. Stir carefully until well mixed, adding a teaspoonful of van- tla; pour into a wet mold until set. Turn out and dust with ground al- monds and serve with whipped cream. Prune Mold.—Wash two cups of prunes, cover with water and soak over night. In the morning simmer until tender, and rub through a steve. Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of gela- tine in half a cup of boiling water, add to the prune mixture with a half cup of sugar and the juice of an or- ange. Mold, turn out when set and serve with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored. Gelatine 1s easy of dl- gestion, but not valuable as a food. It has been called the protein saver. It acts like of! on machinery, makes it run easier. Haiti's Tree of Liberty. In front of the presidential residence in Haiti {s a giant cocoanut tree, but {ts leaves are always in the same con- dition. In storm or sunshine their ser- enity is never disturbed. The tree is the republic's tree of liberty. When the republic was established ‘It was thought that a tree should be planted to signal so great an event, but Haiti, it seems, according to a French paper, has but one tree, and that the cocoa- nut tree. But the cocoanut tree is hardly the species to be chosen for a tree of liberty, for it grows to a good height and becomes bare as its age increases. How was the difficulty to be overcome? It was a very simple mat ter, One ofthe council suggested that an imitation cocoanut tree made of zine should be ordered from London, with the leaves, ete., painted to repre- sent nature. The idea was adopted, so the Haltians have always a cocoanut tree on tap. Distinquished Visitor. While a minister was preaching in a western village a stranger with a big ear trumpet entered the church, sat down on the pulpit steps and turned the big end of his trumpet upward. The minister's four-year-old daughter who was present kept her eyes on the stranger until the congregation was dismissed. On the way home she said: “Papa, do you think that was Gabriel?” Her Countenance. “Miss Wadsleigh seems to have such a mobile countenance,” said Mrs, Oldcastle. “Mobile!” her hostess replied, as she glanced at her box tickets for the opera. “I thougat it was at Biloxi where she got it.” . Nearly $60,000,000 of British capital has already been invested in the Mal- kop ofl fields in Russia. THE U.S. WILL NOT INTERFERE PRESIDENT TAFT HAS SAID SO Action Taken Solely to Protect Amen icans--Troops Will Approach No Nearer Border Even in Event of Outbreak Unless Con- gress Shall Consent. Washington, D, C.—The so-called Mexican situation cleared considerably here today. The attitude of the United States government has been made plain aud there need no longer be any doubt, it was said, by admin. istration officials, regarding the presi- dent's policy Mr, Taft has announced that he will do everything possible to maintain the friendly relations existing between this country and Mexico. Any rupture must come as the result of some overt act on Mexican soil The United States has no desire to interfere in the internal affairs of Mexico, and president Taft will not recomend any such interference to congress unless circumstances permit of ne other possible course. ‘The American troops were sent to Texas and prepared for any emer: gency on the strength of reports which indicated that conditions in Mexico were approaching such chaos that at any time they might threaten Atuerican lives and property. These reports were of stitch a na- ture that President Taft felt that he could not fail to heed them. fe acted quickly and hoped that the threat of danger would be stayed. He believes that this has heen accomplished and that the presence of the army in Texas, within striking Gistance of the Mexican border, has had a sobering influence and tha: Americans and American property will he respected. ‘There will be no move toward the Mexicsn border unless outrages so Magrant as to call for the presence of a pretecting force, occur, Even in the event of stich an outbreak, President Taft would not think of acting with- out the consent of congress. ‘The limitations upon the power of We president to commit an act that might be interpreted as-an act of war are so well defiaed that Mr. Taft has been amused at many of the reports as to what he pronozed to do with the army after it moblized. The president fe't that ft was iis duty as commander-in-chief of the army and wavy to prepare for an emer- gency, so that if congress should be called upon te act its orders could be carried ont with the greatest possible speed. How long the treops will remain in ‘Texas wil! depend entireiy on develop- ments in Mexico. The United States government has determined to give President Diaz every chance to re- stcre omer. President Taft has de- ‘ermived that this government shall fulfill its international obligations in stopping smuggling of arms and am- munition across the border. The enforcement of the neutrality laws called for the presence of many additional troops and was one of the cause of the recent army movement. Mexico has made no protest against the presence of the troops in Texas. Such a protest would be regarded as undiplomatic inasmuch as the troops are on American soil and must remain on American soil until congress shall ctherwise direct, ‘There is every reason fo believe to- night that the troops will remain in Texas for at least four months. Meantime they will not be idle. The mobilization of the army will be tak- en adventaze cof to impart valuable training to the officers and men of the regular establishment and to many officers of the state militia, who will be sent to Texas from time tto time. Alleged Forger Commits Suicide, Oxford, Kan—John Martin, azed 26 years, a gardener, shot and killed him. self at his home here this afternoon, when asked by one of hisbondsmen to sive himself up to the authorities at Wellington, where he ‘s charged with passing a forged check drawn on the Farmers’ bank at Wellington. Mar- tin was arrested last week at Welling- ton, where he attempted to pass the check, which was drawn for $30.76, He wns released on $1,000 bond given by Dan Minsildine, his brother-in-law, and Al Owens, both of this city. JURORS HARD TO SECURE. Regular Panei Exhausted and Special Venire Drawn in Neeley Case. Independence, Kan.—A jury to try A. §. Truskett, the wealthy ofl man of Caney, Kan., on a charge of ‘ur- dering J. D. S. Neeley, an oil operator of Lima, Ohio, at Caney last January 7, has not been selected. ‘The regular panel from whch an attempt was being made to secure a jury was ex- havsted today and a special venire was called to report tomorrow morn- ing. COS & # Zs rs pai sees oan Remeny paler: thé yeh jungs almost immediztee i ‘checks Fevers, etapa Dlacharsen, of o node, taken away alt achet and. pelea extsed by. colds, ie cares Grip and obe Wate Prot Musyon) Berd and Jefferson Bts., Phila, Pa, for medical advice abe solitely’ tre, Ww. y_ Is not recommended foe 8 AMP. prereunte but if you we kidney, liver o# ROOT bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. At druge gists in fifty cent and dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonder ful new discovery by mail free, also Pamphlet telling all about it. Address, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. 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At ‘a town a few miles from her parent’s home she hired an automobile andl asked the chauffeur to drive her with as much speed as possible to her destination. ‘The roads were very bad, and the car, making good speed up hill and down dale, over rocks and ruts, seemed bound to shake overboard its ‘occupants. After a little of this folting the chauffeur turned to his fare and de manded: : “[ say, ma'am. Do you wear false teeth?” “What impudence!”™ exclaimed Thats X. “Oh, ma’am, {t fs not from impw dence,” returned the chauffeur, “that I asked you the question. It is be cause tho road ts bad, the rocks are hard, and {f you wear false teeth, you would do well to remove them until we strike the pike. I've had enough accidents of that description.” fi 2 Saves Breakfast Worry-— A package of Post Tt e oasties on the pantry shelf, Served in a minute. With cream or stewed fruit. DELICIOUS! SATISFYING! “The Memory Lingers” POSTUM CEREAL CO, Led : Dats Cree, Mich W. N. MILLER, Editor. 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We have been strictly fair and impartial and every man has had the chance to present his cause. We have expressed through these columns no personal choice and will not do so now. It is now up to the voters to choose such men as they believe will best serve the people at this time. Geo. E. Harris. Mr. George E. Harris, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Wichita is a candidate for City Commissioner. Mr. Harris has been a resident of Wichita for more than a quarter of a century, during all of which time he hts been actively engaged in every movement that has had for its aim the upbuilding of this city and no man has done more to help make Wichita a good place to live in than has George E. Harris. In the early days when it ment some thing, money and stability to boost for Wichita, no man was more willing and more earnest than was he. His wide experience in this city most admirably fit him for one of the City Commissioner. He is conservative, air positively impartial and --- will give every citizen, every measure and every interest of this city his attention and a square deal. He is one of the few men who have stuck by Wic hita and have helped to make it grow from a small trading post to a triving, prosperous and growing city. At the earnest solicitation of his many friends in this city he has entered the race for City Commissioner and will appreciate your vote on primary day. Next Monday, March 27th is primary day and he wishes to urge all his friends to come out early and vote for him. He will be unable to meet each one of them personally, but wishes to say to them that he will appreciate their vote on this occasion As the city's first merchant tailor, its first ice manufacturer its first soda pop manufactures and among its first mayors, one of its early city treasurers and as a member of its early school board, he has done many goods deeds and much work for the betterment of this city and to make it grow and prosper. You cannot cast you r vote in a better direction than to cast it tor George E. Harris for City Commissioner. LOCALS Send your news notes and local happenings to 681 North Main Street. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Miss Rena Carroll has been very ill at her home, 840 East 15th street. Mrs. J. C. Coffee was taken very suddenly ill while down town Thursday Mesdames S. S. Washington and Mollie Miller visited in Newton, Sunday. Mrs. Parker Dead Mrs. Caroline Parker, wife of Miles Parker, died at her late home, 922 N Wichita St. Wednesday night, Marh 22nd. She was 67 yrs. 12 days old at the time of her death. She was a faithful christian. Mr. Parker lett Thursday afternoon with her body for Guthrie where the funeral will be held. She leeves three sons four daughters, a husband and many grand and great-grand children. To Try Case In Topeka. W. N. Miller, editor of the Searchlight, left for Topeka Saturday night where he will try a very important law suit in the courts at Topeka. The editor is being kept very busy these days with his buisness matters, in law and also his newspaper. He has just reasons to feel proud of the very lucrative law practice which the people entrust in his hands. He makes no loud and blustering noise, but when it comes to business matters the people realize that he will give them fair returns and adequate service. Rev. Jas. T. Smith spent Monday and Tuesday at his home here visiting among friends and on business. TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right ROWLEE Hardware Store Stoves, Ranges, Garden Hose, Lawn Mowers, Refrigorators, and a full line of Hardware, Machanic Tools and Builder's Hard ware. Give our store a call. Phone, Market 546 823 N. Main St. Political Announcements The gentlemen whose name appear in this column between now and primary day are safe men to vote for. FOR MAYOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Mayor of Wichita, subject to the primary March 27th. 1911. Your support solicited. GEO. H. BRADFORD FOR CITY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself a candidate for City Commissioner, subject to the primary, March 27th 1911. I will appreciate your support. CHAS. W. SIMMONS I am a candidate for City Commissioner, subject to the primary, March 27th. 1911. I will appreciate your vote. GEO. E. HARRIS I hereby announce that I am a candidate for City Commissioner, subject to the primary, March 27th. 1911. Your vote will be appaciated. GEO. F. WHITLOCK I hereby announce myself as a candidate for City Commissioner, subject to the primary, March 27th 1911 O. D. RRAPER I am a candidate for the office of City Commissioner, subject to the primary, March 27th, 1911. I will appreciate your support. I am a candidate for re-election to the office of City Commissioner, subject to the primary March 27th 1911. RUFUS CONE I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of City Commissioner, subject to the primary March 27th, 1911. Your vote desired I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of City Commissioner, subject to the primary, March 27th, 1911. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for City Commissioner, subject to the primary March 27th, 1911. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for City Commissioner, subject to the primary March 27th, 1911. Charles Mosbocher. The many friends of Mr. Chas Mosbacher are very much jubiant over the hearty response which the people are giving to to the candidacy of Mr. Mossbacker as one of the candidates for City Commissioner. Mr. Mossbacker has been a resident of this city for a long number of years and for a number of years he was one its most popular jewelers and for years had a jewelry store at the corner of Main and Douglas where the present Sweitzer building now stands. He has a host of warn enthusiastic friends in this city Who are very confident that he will be one of the men to be nominated at the primary next Monday. He possessess all the qualifications that will fit him to make a most ideal City Commissioner. A vote for a clean, capable' honest, conservative and highly qualified man for the office of City Commissinger. The ladies of the Ways and Means committee of the A. M.E. church have arranged to give a splendid program and fine supper at the entertainment to be given by them at the church on nevt Wednesday evening March 29th. Do you trade with one of our advertisers? Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSIGIAN & SURGEON Office Phones 517 N. Main St. Bell4634 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY: Dr. F. O. Miller Physici'n & Surgeon Office Hours Bell Phone 9 to 11 2999 2 to 5 Wichita 7 to 8 Kansas. 513 N. Main St. All calls answered promptly Day or Night. Obstetrics and Diseases of women A Specialty Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST IS E-Z ON YOUR TEETH AND E-Z-ON YOUR POCKET BOOK Bridge Teeth $4,00 All Work Guaranteed Bell Phone 517 N. Main St. over 4634 Mahin Eye Drug Store. Send your news in earlier A.G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS 142 N. MARKET For Everything In Building Material SEE BOTH PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 TO 547 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? 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. Services at the Tabernacle Baptist Church for Sunday March 11:00 a. m. Preaching, 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 frs t You Right CULP'S MEAT MARKET 241 N.MAIN ST. Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tail Jones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings, Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Tip Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Bea P. T. CULP, Prop. Main St. Both P ade with our Advertis Thebest Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutson, Veal Pig Tails, Chin Bones, Fresh Pigs Feet and Chitterlings. Fresh Fish, Cat Fish, Halibut and Salmon. Fresh Sealship Oysters, Heinz Pickles, and Baked Beans F. T. CULP, Prop. 241 N. Main St. Both Phone Trade with our Advertisers Grocery Department VE 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. . Main St. — Wichita, Kan — Bell Phone GEN'S IMPERIAL FLO M — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST F With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. OUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas PROCERIES, MEATS 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 series 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 Deliver Tapp & Hanshaw 257 North Main Phones 25 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. Groceries and Meats Fresh Fish Every Friday and Saturday I have open my new store at the above number where I will carry a full line of New and 2nd Hand Furniture YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL E. D. SQUIRE 313 North Main Street "SECOND TO NONE" PLEASES ALL BODD BREAD MAKERS — AND WILL PLEASE YOU — IT IS AS WHITE AS SNOW — TRY IT OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kan- is State Law, Register No. 1. The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 505 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments, Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty Attention Bell Phone 305 Clean Beds and Good Meals, Call at The Bee Hotel 507 North Main St. Short Orders Filled At All House Good Service is Guaranteed Mrs. Mary Bates, Prop. ILL-ENGSTROM LUMBER COMPANY West Douglas Phone, Market 4980 Salers in the best grades of Lumber the lowest prices. Let us estimate your bills EDS "SECOND TO NONE" GOOD BREAD MAKERS — AND WILL PLEASE YOU — IT IS AS WHITE AS SNOW — TRY IT THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law, Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 605 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments, Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty Courteous Attention Bell Phone 3055 For Clean Beds and Good Meals, Call at The BEE Hotel 507 North Main St. Short Orders Filled At All House Good Service is Guaranteed Mrs. Mary Bates, Prop. HILL-ENGSTROM LUMBER COMPANY 318 West Douglas Phone, Market 4980 Dealers in the best grades of Lumber at the lowest prices. Let us estimate your bills Now is the time to get them. Ours are tested and the very best. We have a full line of the best kind. See them before buying. Seed Potatoes, Seed Corn, Seed Oats, Dry supplies. STOCK:— We have a line of Canaries, Guinea Pigs, Rabbits and Dog Ferrets. -- SEND FOR CATALOGUE — Also Seed Potatoes, Seed Corn, Seed Oats Poultry supplies. Central Seed Co. I. Main Wichita, Kane FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. • SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. • IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25* LARGE SIZED BOTTLE, 50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST., DEPT. 132 CHICAGO, ILL. • AGENTS WANTED. USE Murray's Reliable Nerve Balun Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salve Murray's Reliable Perfumes These Goods Have No Equal They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY & CO. Sold by Dealers Wichita — Kansas STIRLING CLOTHES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED :-: 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 TAILORS 215 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY IN THE CITY Satisfaction Guaranteed Laundry Work Called and Delivered Phones 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245 N. Market St. Wichita, Kan --- They'll Treat You Right TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right Among the many candidates tor city commissioner, the candidacy of George F. Whitlock deserves more than passing mention. A man of strong convictions, well informed and fully alive to all the public questions thatshould interest our citizens, Mr. Whitlock adds a couple of years service on the city council 1906 to 1908—to all his other qualifications. During that time mang of the great public improvements that have since been accomplished were originated and Mr. Whitlock was active in their inception. He was chairman of the committee on public improvements and also a member of the finance committee while council man. He is a firm believer in strict municipal control of the public service corporations and believe in a Square Deal for the people from such public servants as they have granted franchise to perform public services for the people of Wichita. Mr. Whitlock's pipe experience in public affairs, no less than his record of strict integrity as a public servant during a period when the opposite was the rule will commend him to the the citizens of Wichita. If nominated and ected, we believe Mr. Whit lock will prove to be a valuable public servant with an eye single to the people's interests. St. Paul A. M. E. Church. The service at this church was well attended last Sunday. At 11:00 a.m. the pastor, Rev J. E Edwards, D. D preached an interesting and helpful sermon from the text "Whom having not seen we love." At 3 p.m. the Sunday School under Supt. Jno. T. Chinneth and his corps of teachers held an instructive session and discussed the subject "Defeat through Drunkenness." The evening service was especially inspiring to the thoughtful of the congregation as the pastor delivered the first of a series of sermons on "Some great Bible characters." "Abraham; the greatness of Faith," was the character for the evening service, while five or six other characters with their distinguishing features will follow during the next few weeks. The members of the church met with the pastor Monday afternoon and evening and organized for some special work. The ladies organized by electing Miss L Covington president; Mrs. E. E Jones, secretary; Mrs M. Fleming treasurer. They will give a musical and banquet on the evening of March 29th at the church. The men organized by electing W. C. Neely, president; Geo. W. White, secretary and Ed. Landrum treasurer. By these two or organizations the church will be thoroughly renovated and put in first-class repairs for Easter. The ladies will show the men and the men will show the ladies how to do things on the first Sunday in April. The old ship of St. Paul has been laid up in winter quarters for five months—the ice and snow have melted—the waters are in good condition—and now she pushes out from the wharf and there shall be pleasant and profitable sailing until the meeting of the Annual Conference in September—at which time a full cargo will be reported. It is the purpose of these two organizations to put and keep St. Pau n the position which she should oc tpty in this community. The choir of St. Paul A. M. E. church turned special music for the the Epworth League of St. Paul M. E. church, 13th and Lawrence, at 6:30 last Sabbath. The Rey. Dr. Sommerviille, pastor, and his good people expressed special pleasure in having the representatives of the largest body of Negro Methodist in the world with them. The Epworth League under the inspiration of the occasion appropriated from their funds $25.00 to help a struggling Medical school among our people of the South, Pastor Edwards delivered a brief address and the choir sang the closing number. Extracts of Speech of A. G. Forney Out for Commissioner The following is an extract from a recent speech delivered by Mr: A. G. Forney, candidate for City Commissioner, at one of his meetings. In speaking of the City's duty towards its citizens, Mr. Forney said: "The colored man has rights which should be remembered; and one right is—he should have a chance to earn his living by his labor. In a city like Wichita, the commissioners should do all the city work—such as paving the streets laying sidewalks, digging sewers and by employing our own laboring men who are citizens. The greatest menace to the laboring men of our city—wheth er colored or white—is the imported cheap Mexican labor who takes the works from our laborers and add nothing to our city or its industries in return. I am in favor of prohibiting the importation and employment of the cheap Mexican. The colored men are citizens, many of whom own their own homes, tax-payers, and are entitled to fair consideration and just treatment. The Mexican is neither'a citizen or a tax payer. In case of war or the invasion of our country—the colored man could be depended on to shoulder his gun in defense of our nation, our state, our country or our city—while the Mexican would go in hidding. The colored man is e part of us and a part of our civilization—just the same as any other of our citizens—let us treat him right, give him a fair chance—it is our duty to do so. It is the duty of our city to give him a fair chance to do its works—instead of allowing it to be given to these non-resident Mexicans give the coloree man a fair chance and he will not ask alms's" This is a fair and open statement and every citizens can heartly endorse the same. A man of Mr. Forney's views would make a splendid City Commissioner. His name will be on the primary ballot—Mar. 27th. He will appreciate your vote. Our Big Cash Prize Contest The big Tabor Prize contest of the Searchlight will Saturday April 1st. This is the first time in the history of the Order o Twelve in this jurisdiction that so elaborate a Cash prize has been offered. It is to be hoped that each member will take an interest and make this contest worth the while. Every Temple, Tent or Tabernacle in Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction is eligible to enter this contest. This contest will close Tuesday, July 4th at 6 p.m and the prize will be awarded at the next Grand Session to be held in Coffyville Kan. in July. Get the subscription of your friends, neighbors and your acquaintances and win this contest. You can do it—will you? Read our announcement and rules under which this contest will be conducted. PETER H. HARRIS I will serve you to the best of my ability and will arrange my business to give my entire time to the duties of the office. This is simply a business proposition. Is it to the best interest of Wichita that I be elected? The following named men have given me their personal endorsement and signed my petition, which is now on file: A. C. DICKSON, Pres. Real Estatate Association. A. A. HYDE, Mentholatum Co. L. W. CLAPP, Farm Loans J. ELMER REESE, Insurance COL R. T. BEAN, Real Estate W. R. TUCKER, Investments RICHARD E. BIRD, Attorney V. HARRIS, Harris & Harris JAS. ALLISON, Real Estate J. E. HOWARD, Howard Mil H. D. COTTMAN, West Side Grocer TOM BLODGETT, Cox Blodgett Dry Goods A. E. JAQUES, Truant Officer P. V. HEALY, Investments L. H. KENAGY, North End Racket C. M JACKMAN, Kansas Mill MORTIMER PRESTON, Auditor Jacob Dold Packing Co. H. I. ELLIS, Ellis Const, Co. J. F. YUNGMEYER, Hardwre G. A. MILLAR, Blacksmith and Horse Shoer W. M. G. HOWSE, Salesman Johnson-Larimer Dry Goods JOHN L. POWEL, Johnson- Larimer Dry Goods Co HENRY WALLESTEIN, Boston Store J. E. ALEXANDER, Attorney J, F. KIRKER, Kirker & Marsh Undertakers F. C. BORDEN, Contractor and Builder J. H. REYNOLDS, The Imboden Mill T. M. POWELL, Harness EDMUND STANLEY, President Friend's University J. L. BOWDISH Announcement of E. D. Squire. To my friends and patrons I wish to announce that I have sold out my new and second-hand furniture store at 245-247 North Main street, and have opened up with a new furniture stock up-to-date furniture at 313 North Main street, within a few days, and I would be very glad to see all of my old friends including yourself, at above number. I always figure that it is best, once in a while to sell off the old stock and get in a new and up-to-date line, so as to give my customers the benefits of all the new ideas which are all of the time developing in the furniture business, and I cordially invite you to call on me at my new stand where you will always find the latch-strig hanging out. Thanking you for your past patronage, and soliciting a continuance of the same, I am very truly yours, From now on I will be found at 313 North Main Street. E. D. SQUIRE TARIFF 80ARD MUST DESIDE PRESIDENT TAFT WILL BE GOV. ERNED BY ITS ACTION. The Message Ses Special Session Is Being Prepared—Urge Re- ciprocity First. Washington.—It became known that the president in his message to the extra session of congress would urge ‘action on reciprocity first and a per. manent tariff commission next. He will not, however, recommend a re- vision of the textiles schedules in the Payne-Aldrich act until the temporary board completes its report, Furthermore, the president indicat- ed that he would regard congress with & non-partisan attitude and would ex- pect congress to consider all questions submitted to it by the administration. While he expects the house to reflect democratic policies in a certain meas- ure he does not look for that body to divide on partisan lines in consid- ering either the reciprocity agreement with Canada, or the proposed estab- lishment of the tarift board. The impression has gone forth from Washington that Mr. Taft would not urge the extra session to consider any legislation other than reciprocity with Canada. It was made plain, however, that he wanted action on the tariff board idea and that he might, after conferring with party leaders recom- mend still other measures. The president had previously an. nounced while in Georgia that he would ask the senate to ratify the ar- bitration between this country and Great Britain and now pending before the English parliament. This he will do, if he does not change his mind in a special message to the senate and not recommend it in his intitial mes sage to be prepared as soon as he Teaches the white house. AN ERA OF PROSPERITY COMING By 1913 There Will Be the Greatest Business Activity the World Has Ever Seen. New York—Leading captains o! industry, reading the signs of the times, say the year 1913 will be an ra of prosperity, the like of which the world has never seen; it will be even beyond the scope of the imagination. Upon the forecast made by govern- ment experts that the apparent inter- national trade balance in favor of the United States by the end of the pres. ent fiscal year, June 20, will not be far from $50,000,000, a figure rarely equaled, are’based reasons for predict. ing the long expected business boom will be under way. EXPECT PEACE IN MEXICO Senor Limantour Is Expected to Bring About the Formation of a New Cabinet. Washington.—Peace is assured in Mexico within the present week, if cer- tain influences now at ‘work toward that end prove effective. With the arrival in the City of Mexico of Senor Jose Yves Limantour, minister of fi- nance, President Diaz will begin con- ferences which it is expected will re- sult in the announcement within three or‘four days of a reorganized cabinet. Makes Her Maiden Speech. Christiania—Mrs. Rogstad, the first woman to represent a constituency in the storthing, made her maiden speech before that body. She is a School teacher and represents a Chris. tiania seat made vacant by the resig- nation of Gen. Brailie, president of the storthing. Revenue Receipts Are Larger. Washington, D. C—The govern- ment’s receipts from internal revenue are at their high mark, In the first eight months of the present fiscal year $19,837,080 was collected, an inevease of more than $22,000,000, Re- ceipts for February alone were $1, 692,000 greater. che mst ©-acel ei cee So New York, N. Y.--The American fund given to relieve the famine in China was augmented by $25,00¢. A check for that amount was sent by the Christian Herald to the United States department of state to be trausmitted to China by cable, No Trust Decisions. Washington, D. ©.—Neither the Standard Oil nor tobacco trust case was decided by the supreme court of the United States although many had expected one or both. ‘The court will take a recess for two weeks until April 3. Cotton, 12,000,000 Bales. Washington, D. C—The cotton crop of 1910 in the United States was 11,- 967,757 bales (500 pounds) compared with 10,315,382 bales in 1909, accord- ing to the census bureau's final report of ginning just issued. A New Russian Premier. St. Petersburg.—V. N. Kokovsoff, formerly Russian minister of finance thas accepted the post of premier to succeed M. Stolypin. Other changes in the cabinet will be announced later. : Women Voting in Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wisconsin—The contest between the Socialists and the non- partisianists for control of the school board centered in the first primary election in which women have ever participated in this state. CM WAY YU Ui Wi THE. Uf, /9 Yip 1.47 Coy eM foal 7 NNT Little drops of water, little chunks of soil, Make a prosperous country when admixed with toil. Mranvapet Cowen. WAR TALK IS SUBSIDING PRESIDENT TAFT HAS PUT ON THE SOFT PEDAL. No Action Toward an Invasion Will Occyr Without Authority From Congress. Washington, D. C.—The soft pedal | was put on the Mexican situation and the war alarms which’ have been current during President Taft's ab- ‘sence were stilled. The situation on the border, however is still receiving hee main attention of the administra: tion and President Taft's attitude in the future depends in a great measure upon the secret report which he hes ‘recelyed from government agents on ‘the insurrection, | These reports were prepared for presentation to the president's cabinet advisers. | While conditions in Mexico continue turbulent and are fraught with un- certainty, there is no ambiguity con- cerning the precise attitude of the United States government with re- spect to the situation in-the southern republic. | With the return to Washington of the president several stories designed ‘to create thrills were put in circula: don. Most pretentious of these was the rumor that the administration was preparing to send the American army across the border into Mexico, either for the purpose of upholding a stable form of government, or to protect American and foreign interests ot soth. The troops now near the Mexican sorder will not leave United States soil without specific authority from congress. The president has no in- cention of usurping the power pertain: “ng to the dispatching to a foreign country of the military forces of this government, nor is he presumptious enough to place an elastic construc: "sion on his authority as commander- “chief of the army, and navy. In -ehe event of anarchy in Mexico, con- gress will be in session to coufer whatever authority upon the president whiclf the exigencies, as affecting the welfare of Americans and American interests and the pdlicing of an im- portant section of this continent may demand. SUBJECT TO COMMERCE ACT Telegraph and Telephone Companies Doing an Interstate Business Must Stand Regulation. Washington, D. C.—The Interstate Commerce commission decided that telephone and telegraph companies doing an interstate business are sub- Ject to the interstate commerce act, but those doing business wholly with- in a state are not unless there is an arrangement between it and its con- nections for continuous transmission through interstates. ‘The companies are subject to the same provisions as govern other commercial companies. Coal Mining Cost 1,125 Lives. Harrisburg, Pa—One thousand one aundred and twenty-five coal miners were killed during 1910, according to the statistical report issued by the chief of the state department of mines. This toll of life was caused in securing an output of 241,960,070 tons of coal. This is one life for every 215,081 tons of coal mined, ipiaisecta Sitnai ans MAFIA Cie ine: Topeka, Kansas.—Mrs. C. B. Huft- man of Enterprise, president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage association, has caled a special meeting of the society for May 18 in Topeka to fill out the roster of officers and make plans for the suffrage campaiga. A Carnegie Trust Indictment. New York, N. ¥.—"The grand jury which has been probing the carnegie ‘Trust company cases handed down three indictments against Wm. J. Cummins of the institution. VIGNAUD ATTACKS COLUMBUS After Studying the Explorer for 50 Years He Declares Him a Fraud and Humbug. Paris, France—Simultaneously with the erection of a colessal statue in honor of Christopher Columbus at Buenos Ayres will be published here on Saturday two volumes of a work by Henry Vignaud, first secretary of the American embassy, in which the discoverer of America is branded an imposter and a humbug and placed in ‘a class with explorers like Dr. Cook Mr, Vignaud retired from the Ameri- can embassy two years ago and has since devoted his entire time to the completion of a study of Columbus which has consumed in all 50 years. ONE MILLION WILL DIE IN CHINA A Presbyterian Missionary Says Out. side Help Only Can Save Chi- nese in His Locality, | New York.—Pathetic details of ttf sufferings from famine in Anwhei and other provinces of China reach the mission boards here in every mail. A letter came to the board of foreign mis sions of the Presbyterian church from Rev. Thomas Carter, a missionary sta tioned at Hwai Yuen, in Anwhei prov: ince. A million persons in the region north of his station, Mr. Carter says, are to die of starvation before summer unless help comes from outside. made by Harroun of 1:16;21. De Palma was six and a half miles behind when ‘Tetzlaff finished, eI TO BE CONVENTION IN MEXICO It is Rumored That Limantour is to Call One to Discuss Needed Reforms. El Paso, Texas.—A national conven- tion in which all Mexico will be rep- resented for the discussion of needed reform in the government of the re- ‘public will be called within a few days by Jose Limantour, the Mexi- jean minister of finance, according to ‘statements made in Juarez official circles. This is believed to be the | chief reason for the hurried return of Limantour to Mexico. New 100-Mile Motor Record. Los Angeles, Cal.—Teddy Tetzlaff, in a Lozier, established four new world’s motor car records at the Playa del Rey motordrome, when he defeat- ed Ralph de Palma, driving a Fiat in a 100-mile race. The race was fin- ished in 1 hour 14 minutes 29 1-5 sec- onds, lowering the previous record Postal Banks Successful. Washington.—-“The postal savings bank system has been more successful than reasonably could have been ex- pected.” ‘This was the comment made by Postmaster General Hitchcock on the analysis of the returns from the forty-eight postal savings banks which haye been in operation since January 3 Indicted 1,775 for Vote Selling. West Union, 0.—The Adams coun- ty election probe, which began De- cember 13, ended for this term of court with the general report of the special grand jury. The report dis- closed that 2,148 indictments have been returned against 1,775 persons for vote selling. Russian Premier: Resians. St. Petersburg. Russia—P. A. Stoly- pin, premier and minister of the in- terior, resigned and his resignation was promptly accepted by Emperor Nicholas. V. N. Kokovsoff, minister of finance in the Stolypin cabinet, will be the new premier, Fumes Overcome Firemen. Chicago—Thirty firemen were over: come by the fumes of ammonia while fighting a fire which destroyed a ware. house of the Monarch Refrigerator company and caused an $800,000 loss. TROOPS TO STAY ON BORDER The Mexican Authorities Are Well Pleased With the Present Arrangement, Washington, D, C.—The senzational story that the United States troops are to be withdraw from the Mexican border at the request of the Mexican ambassador is absolutely and officially denied. It is stated on authority that the Mexican ambassdor who called gn the president did not make any re- quest that the troops be withdrawn and it is also stated by the officials in charge of the situation that the troops: are to remain as long as there is need for ther: and at jeast until the end of the “maneuvers.” There is work enough ahead for the army in the “maneuvers” line alone to keep it until the middie of the summer. BUILDING LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE In the Topeka Shops the Santa Fe is Constructing One That is 121 Feet Long. Topeka, Kansas.—The Atchison, To- beka & Santa Fe Railway company is Just completing, in its Topeka suops what is said to be the largest railway locomotive in the world. It is an ar- ticulated mallet compound engine and it is for use in hauling freight trains over the Avizona grades, Numerous Mailet type engines have been built in the locomotive shops in the East, but this is the first of the kind and also the largest engine built in the Topeka shops and also the larg- est one in the world, This locomotive is 121 feet long. It will be operated tender foremost as the great length of the boiler ob- strusts the view of the engineer. THE TARIFF LEAGUE ACTIVE Its Managers Passed Resolutions De- claring Unaiterable Opposition to Canadian Reciprocity. New York, N. ¥.—The board of managers, members of the executive board and officers of the American Protection Tariff league, at a meet- ing, passed resolutions declaring its unalterable opposition to the adoption of the Canadian tariff agreement. The league further pledged itself to employ all legitimate meaus to pre vent the ratification of the reciprocity arrangement by congress. The league, as its name implies, is for a tariff law that will shut out any and all competition from abroad. It is regarded favorably by the so-called coneervative element at Washington. NIGHT RIDERS IN KENTUCKY They Burn a Barn Containing 25,000 Pounds of Tobacco as Their Opening Performance. Paris, Kentucky.—The first ont. brake of the tobacco war that has been threatened over the proposition to cut out the 1911 crop came when a band of night riders burned J. C. Keller's big tobacco ban with 25,000 pounds of tobacco. Keller had opposed cutting the crop. The band saturated the barn with coal oll,, then set fire to it, rode a short distance away and watched the flames do their work, Two Japanese Firms Fail. Seattle, Wash.—Heavy failures in the woolen and cloth trade in Japan, the most serious being those of the Wada and Matsui firms, are reported in Japanese mail advices brought by the steamship Sado Maru, which at- rived from Yokohama, Each of the two failures mentioned involved $500,- 000. Blanco Takes to Mountains. Douglas, Ariz.—Gen. Blanco and his rebel command have fied far into the mountains in the interior of Mexico, whither the federal troops dare not pursue them. The retreating rebels camped at Cajon Bonita, 49 miles east of Agua Prieta, in the rough country of the Sierra Madre range. ante Gunrahite Pina Grows. Topeka, Kansas.—There are now nearly 900 state banks in Kansas and 409 of these are participating in the bank deposit guaranty law and 16 ap- plications are pending. The guar- anty fund amounts to $727,500, depos ited in the state treasury. Will Mine San Francisco Harbor. San Francisco, Cal—Mine planting. operations will begin at the entrance of San Francisco harbor on April 1. The work will be done by the mine planting corps stationed at the pre sidio. Legislators Forgot the Farm. Topeka, Kansas—The agricuitural experiment station at Ogallah prob- ably will be continued in operation as a branch experiment station and dem. onstration farm for the agricultural college. : He'll Try Agzin for Lahm Cup. St. Louis, Missouri.—H. B, Honey- well, who attempted three weeks ago to win the Lahm cup in a balloon starting from San Antonio, Tex., left for the Texas city to try the feat again. Br, Mary Weald Be a. Menetor: Albany, New York—Dr. Mary Walker has started an active cam- paign to be the United States sena- torial nominee. 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She was scarcely able to look in the light. At last she decided to go to a doctor, because she could hardly work any more. The doctor said it was a very severe disease, and if she did not follow his orders close- ly she might lose her eyesight. He made her eyes burn and applied elec- tricity to them, and gave her various ointments. In the two and a halt or three months that she went to the doctor, we could see very little im- provement. “Then we had read so much how people had been helped by Cuticura that we thought we would try it, and ‘we cannot be thankful enough that we used {t. My sister used the Cuticura Pills for purifying the blood, bathed only with Cuticura Soap, and at night after washing, she anointed her eyes very gently on the outside with the Cuticura Ointment. In one week, the swelling was entirely gone from the eyes, and after a month there was no longer any mucus or watering of the eyes. Sho could already seo better, and in six weeks she was cured.” (Signed) Mrs. Julia Csepicska, 2005 Utah St., St. Louis, Mo, Aug. 25, 1910. Greatest Little Invention. The greatest little invention that has been given to the world is the lucifer match. It was invented in 1827. It fs small, but like Portia’s candle, it has shed a great light into the world. It gave man mastery of fire. Before this fire bad been a con- trary hired man, but now it became an obedient servant, : All Snakes Are Killers. But all snakes, great and small, are killers. All of them eat creatures which they slay. None eat vegetable food of any kind, nor will they eat animals which they find dead. That 4s one reason, no doubt, why they have always been shunned and dreaded by human beings. * Read. not to contradict and confuie, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourage, but to welgh and consider—Bacon. Taking Garfield Tea keeps the system clean, the blood pure and” the general health good. 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Prices, 250.,500, & $1.00 Sloan's book on horses cattle, sheep oer had poultry out 1 free.” Address ae Dr. Earl SPSloan, jf Slain. Mf Boston, Mass., U.3. 3. Sees REMOVE YOUR CORNS with Means Bros. guaranteed Cora Remover. Mailed anywhere for 15c Means Brothers, Wichita, Kans. Go to your druggist and get "Two ounces of Glycerine and half an ounce of Concentrated Pine compound. Mix these with half a pint of good whisky, shake well, take one and two teaspoonfuls, take one and two teaspoonful doses to children according to age." Any one can prepare this at home. This is said to be the quickest cough medicine profession. Be sure to get only the genuine (Globe) Concentrated Pine. Each half ounce bottle comes in a tin screw-top bottle, can be dripped into stock he will quickly get from his wholesale house. Don't fool with uncertain mixtures. It is risky. Cause and Effect. "Bill is sick in bed." "What's the matter with him?" "Well, you know that girl of his thinks he doesn't use tobacco. Yesterday he was hurrying around the corner and he ran right into the girl. He had a chew in his mouth. "Yes, yes; go on." "There were two things to do—hurry by or swallow." "Well?" "Bill talked to her for five minutes." Where Surgery Falls Short. "Surgery," said Simeon Ford at a dinner in New York, "accomplishes wonders nowadays. Hearts are sewed up; the appendix is removed; the large intestine is done away with But—" The noted humorist smiled. "But will the time ever come when surgery will be able to remove the cheek of a young man or the jaw of an old woman?"—New York Sun. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Words of Comfort: "My doctor says I must sleep out-of-doors," said the man who is not "Well," replied the friend who makes painful efforts to cheer up; it's all right so long as your landlord doesn't say it." AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM Take the GARDEN CLEANER. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showering it is simply vinegar and iron in a tasteful scent. It is used to clean the malaria and the iron builds up the system. Sold by all calorers for 50 years. Price $ 50 cents Unfortunate Allusion She—Too many men expect their wives to run their homes on practically nothing. They forget that no one can make bricks without straw. He—My wife does—out of flour. ASK FOR ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. the powder to shake into your shoes. Res- erves the powder in a small bowl and sweating foot. Blisters and Callous spots. Sold in Concept Tactile substitute. Smp- free. Address: 1234 Main Street, New York, NY 10001. Exercise. "I'm afraid you don't get enough exercise," said the physician. "That," replied Senator Sorghum, "is because you never saw me at home with my fellow citizens lined up to shake hands with me." Thousands of Consumptives die every year. Consumption results from a neglected cold on the lungs. Handles Wizard Oil will cure these colds. Just rub it into the chest and draw out the inflammation. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation—Theophrasus. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up 40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate, stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated tiny granules. Rotten Cigarette Paper. Much cigarette paper is made from waste untreated armpel rope. TO AVOID SICKNESS You must keep the stomach and liver in an active condition, the bowels free from constipation and the blood pure. For this work HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS has been used successfully for 58 years. Try a bottle today for POOR APPETITE INDIGESTION COLDS & GRIPPE MALARIA FEVER & AGRIPPE DYSPEPSIA ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS Tuff's Pills stimulate the torpid liver, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, cure sick headache, binaqued as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. Elegantly sugar coated. Small dose. Price, 25c. TAKE A DOSE OF PISO'S THE BEST MEDICINE FOR COUCHS & COLDS Sunday School Lesson for Mar. 26, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper GOLDEN TEXT-"Happy is that people whose God is the Lord."-Psa. 144:15. The object of the first century of the divided kingdom and its lessons was to develop and train a people of God, through whom to make the whole world a people of God. Salvation for the individual and for the human race. The united kingdom did a great work in this direction. But the time came when there was danger of its failure. Hence came the divided kingdom, through which there was a double experiment in the development of the kingdom of God. The period covered was about 90 years B. C., 982 to 893. The country was Palestine, within its usual boundaries. The course of development runs in two lines: The royal, the course as represented by the kings, the civil history, and the religious development, represented largely by the prophets. The kingdom of Judah was about half as large as israel. Its capital was Jerusalem, and the temple was the religious center. Large numbers of the more religious people came to Judah from Israel. Judah was sheltered from attack on the north by Israel's being between them and the nearest and most dangerous enemies, while a desert was a great defense on the south. This position also saved them from close contact with heathenism and its degradations. The leading kings were Rehaboam, 17 years; Asa, 40 years; Jehoshaphat, 25 years. Under Asa and Jehoshaphat there were great religious revivals and religious reforms, alternating with declines. Here was a great struggle between good and evil, and the good seems to have gained. In a few cases there were revelations from God. He did everything he could to keep the people obedient to his laws, and train them in the religious life, that they might be the kingdom of God to bless the world. There were a few prophets of whom little is known save their names. The conflict of religion with evil in Judah, though not ending in complete victory, made a decided gain for the right. Why do we celebrate and praise our forefathers? Not simply because they were stout hearted. Many a freebooter and many a soldier of fortune has been that. It is because they were stout hearted for an ideal, their ideal and ours, civil and religious liberty; and whenever and wherever men and women thus devoted themselves to ideal and not material things, there the world's heroes are born, and born to be free. Some blessings come to us, not in spite of, but just because of, our hostile environment. The stimulus of hostile climate produces the robust race. Where nature always smiles and everything is friendly there is no such thing as beneficent discipline, and a soft, languid race is perpetuated. The man of the temperate zone owes his superior physical vigor, his keener mental capacity, his alertness, his inventiveness, very much to the climatic conditions under which he lives. He is forced to activity, and so he quickly outstrips his languid neighbor of the tropics. The kingdom of Israel contained 9,400 square miles. It was a much more fertile country than Judah. Its territory lay between Judah and Syria, so that it was in close contact on three sides with heathen nations, who had the activity and physical qualities of tribes which loved excursions into other countries for booty. Of the nine kings parallel with the four kings of Judah, it is worth while to remember Jeroboam. 22 years; Omrl, 12; Ahab, 22. Jezeebel, Ahab's heathen queen, was the most influential factor in the religious decline. The kingdom was subject to revolutions, and the nine kings of this period belong to five dynasties. The stories of these hero-prophets should become familiar in their main incidents to all the children, who can see what brave, heroic men can do, when they are in earnest for the right. Elijah preached God Almighty, his truth, his laws, his power to help, and the absolute necessity of being loyal to him, if the individual or the nation would prosper by a life worth the living. For all the children the teacher can make a most profitable review by a plan used by a successful friend. He took a large sheet of heavy paper, say 12 by 15 inches, and drawing a line down the center, on the left hand side wrote a series of questions in letters so large as to be easily seen by all the class. On the right side of the line he wrote the answers. These questions were given to the class, and they read the answers two three times. Then the paper was folded in the middle, so that the answers were out of sight, while the questions were still before the class, and they were to show how well they had learned the lesson. Such a review can be made very effective. From the first there was religious deterioration, from the worship of Jehovah by golden calves to the worship of Baal with all its licentious rites. So that true religion was almost obliterated. The Moabite Stone with its records of this time is still preserved in the Louvre, Paris. Here the true religion in its conflict with heathenism suffered an almost entire and desperate defeat for a time. But there was a rally and reformation under Elijah and Elisha; which was continued and advanced by Jehu, through his annihilation of Jezebel and her children. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, $1.00, retail. WOMAN ESCAPES OPERATION WasCured byLydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Elwood, Ind.—"Your remedies have cured me and I have only taken six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I was sick three months and could not walk. I suffered all the time. The doctors said I could not get well without an operation, for I could hardly stand the pains in my sides, especially my right one, and down my 5 right leg. I began to feel better when I had taken only one bottle of Compound, but kept on as I was afraid to stop too soon."—Mrs. SADIE MULLEN, 2728 N. B. St., Elwood, Ind. Why will women take chances with an operation or drag out a sickly, half-hearted existence, missing three-fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? For thirty years it has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with such aiments as displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, indigestion, and nervous prostration. If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will help you, write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will be absolutely confidential, and the advice free. Railroading and Dancing. Stuart C. Leake, who has a lot to do with managing a big railroad in Richmond, Va., is noted as one of the best dancers in the south. One night something went wrong with the branch of the road over which Leake has supervision. "Where in thunder was Leake?" asked the president of the road next morning. "Leading a german," said the general manager. "Which," commented the president, "was a dirty Irish trick."—Popular Magazine. CURE THAT SORE THROAT Sore throat is inflammation of the mucous membrane of the throat, and if this membrane happens to be at all sensitive a predisposition to sore throat will exist. Paxline Toilet Antiseptic is both a preventative and a cure for sore throat because it possesses extraordinary cleansing, healing and germicidal qualities. Just a little in a glass of water, used as a gargle, will quickly relieve all soreness and strengthen the mucous membrane of the throat, and thus overcome all tendency to sore throat. Paxline is far superior to liquid antiseptics or Peroxide for all toilet and hygienic uses. Paxline may be obtained at any drug store, 25 and 50c a box, or sent postpaid upon receipt of price by The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston. Mass. Send for a free sample. Barmaids In South Australia. South Australia is suffering from a barmaid famine. Two years ago barmaids were abolished in that state by act of parliament. No more could be legally engaged, but those already employed could remain on condition that they register themselves. There are now only 400 of them left, and the competition for their services is such that their wages have jumped from 25 shillings to £3 a week. The hotels that have had to employ barmen report a considerable change for the worse in their receipts. Patriotic Determination. "Your wife insists on being allowed to vote." "Yes," replied Mr. Meekin. "She's not content with having the last word in political argument. She wants to go to the polls and put in a postscript." Prolific. A census-taker while on her rounds called at a house occupied by an Irish family. One of the questions she asked was: "How many males have you in this family?" The answer came without hesitation: "Three a day, mum!" Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, $2c a bottle. Some men, like some roosters, are always crowing—but what's the use? If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. A one sided argument never gets very strenuous. Hood's Sarsaparilla Possesses medicinal merit Peculiar to Itself and has an unequaled record of cures. Take it this spring, in usual liquid form or tablets known as Sarsatabs. Spring Humors are due to the impure, impoverished, devitalized condition of the blood brought about by the unhealthful modes of living during the winter, too close confinement, too little outdoor air and exercise, too heavy diet. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures them and builds up the whole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla has no equal for cleansing the blood and expelling the humors that accumulate during the winter. It effects its wonderful cures because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than twenty different ingredients. Insist on having Hood's. It has no substitute. W. L. 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Me pardner dat was watchin' on de outside made me cough up de difference between what I got and what you said I got. Now, you got to make good. You can't beat me dat way."—Judge's Library. "Ho, hum!" ejaculated honest Farmer Hornbeak, who had encountered in the village newspaper an example of the perversity which the linotype sometimes displays. The editor of the Plaindealer ain't afraid to speak his mind. He comes right out and says: 'In our opinion the Hon. Thomas Rott has lydaonkzcoounstttppt pn mn wwwtrahaha hawzw zenskibby'. And, by jolly! he says it as if he meant it, too!"—Puck. "Twobble started to read Dr. Eliot's Harvard Classics." "How far did he get before stopping?" "As far as the bookcase." PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Your drugstreet will refund money 11 PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Iching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 50c. Useful in Its Way. Maud—What a long hatpin! Surely you don't ever use it! Ethel—Only when I go bargain rushing. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED! Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Slight exaggerations do more harm than reckless violations of it—Chesterfield. Do you feel weak, tired, despondent, have frequent heat aches, coated tongue, bitter or bad taste in mornin' "heart-burn," belching of gas, acid risings in throat af eating, stomach gnaw or burn, foul breath, dizzy spell poor or variable appetite, nausea at times and kinds symptoms? Do you feel weak, tired, despondent, have frequent headaches, coated tongue, bitter or bad taste in morning, "heart-burn," belching of gas, acid risings in throat after eating, stomach gnaw or burn, foul breath, dizzy spells, poor or variable appetite, nausea at times and kindred symptoms? If you have any considerable number of the above symptoms you are suffering from biliousness, torpid liver with indigestion, or dyspepsia. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is made up of the most valuable medicinal principles known to medical science for the permanent cure of such abnormal conditions. It is a most efficient liver invigorator, stomach tonic, bowel regulator and nerve strengthener. The "Golden Medical Discovery" is not a patent medicin a full list of its ingredients being printed on its bottle-w under oath. A glance at these will show that it contains ful habit-forming drugs. It is a fluid extract made with glycerine, of proper strength, from the roots of native forest plants. World's Dispensary Medical Association, not a patent medicine or secret nostrum, tated on its bottle-wrapper and attested w that it contains no alcohol, or harm- extract made with pure, triple-refined the roots of native American medical, Medical Assosiation, Props., Buffalo, N. Y. W. N. The "Golden Medical Discovery" is not a patent medicine or secret nostrum, a full list of its ingredients being printed on its bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. A glance at these will show that it contains no alcohol, or harmful habit-forming drugs. It is a fluid extract made with pure, triple-refined glycerine, of proper strength, from the roots of native American medical, forest plants. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Life is a stage play; it matters not ow long we act, so long as we act ell—Bacon. Nature's laxative, Garfield Tea, is made clean, sweet, health-giving Herbs. Cleanliness is next to godliness. maturely CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, $1.00. ook Prema use ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HA 0 Mabel—Papa says I mustn't encourage you. Henry—That's all right—I don't need any encouragement. Private Leahy Questions Sergeant Donahue Regarding a Point in Military Law. Private Donahue and Private Leahy were the best of friends, but when Private Donahue became Sergeant Donahue, Private Leahy saw the fallings of his former companion with amazing clearness. "Sergeant," he said one day, after long, fixed gyrif at his superior in rank, "if a private stepped up to a sergeant and called him a consated little monkey, phwat wud happen?" "He'd b' put in the gyard-house," said the sergeant. "He wud?" "He wud." "But if the private only knew the sergeant was a consated little monkey, and said niver a wurrd, wud he be put in the gyard-house for that?" "Av coarse he wud not," said the sergeant loftily "Well, thin, for the prisent we'll Iave it go at that," said Private Leahy. Hustlers "A good turkey dinner and mince pie," said Simeon Ford, "always puts us in a leathery mood—makes us feel, in fact, like the natives of Nola Chunky. "In Nola Chunky one day I said to a man: "What is the principal occupation of this town? "Wall, boss,' the man answered, yawning, 'in winter they mostly sets on the east side of the house and follers the sun around to the west, and in summer they sets on the west side and follers the shade around to the east." Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. No Doctor In Forty Years. Forty years' residence in the country near Etna with never a doctor summoned on a professional visit at his home is record of E. R. Hamilton, who has never theles raised a large family. "There were times during the last two score years when we were hungry, but we were never sick," said Mr. Hamilton—Portland Oregonian. Executive ability consists in finding a man who can do the work—and in letting him do it. Lots of men who can do the first, can't do the second. There never was a good war or a bad peace—Franklin. What Ails You? Life is a stage play; it matters not how long we act, so long as we act well.—Bacon. Nature's laxative, Garfield Tea, is made of clean, sweet, health-giving Herbs. Cleanliness is next to godliness.—John Wesley. BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES. COLT DISTEMPER COLT DISTEMPER Can be handled very easily. The stick are cured, and all others in the mixture are also cured. The cures can be disposed of by using SPOHN LIQUID DISTURBER CURE. Gases are the tongues of in feed. Acts on the blood and expels gums of the teeth. One bottle guaranteed to cure one case. See 'and' in bottle; and 80 dozens of drugs it and harness dealers, or sent express paid by the company. 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Free homestead and pre- emption areas, as well as land held by railway and land com- munity, provide homes for millions. Adaptable soil, healthful climate, splendid schools and beautiful parks. For settlers' descriptive literature "Last Best West," how to build a farm, with a writable, write to Supt. of Immig- ration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the Canadian Government Agent. CANADIAN GOVENMENT AGENT No. 125 W. Ninth Street Kansas City, Mo. (Use address nearest you.) W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 12-1911. TABOR CASH PRIZES $15. To Be Given Away $15 ABSOLUTELY FREE To Temples, Tabernacles, or Tents. Kans.-Neb. Jurisdiction Begins Saturday, April 1st. Ends Tuesday, July 4th. 6 pm. Read Our Prize Contest Offer WE WANT 1000 New Subscribers To The SEARCHLIGHT Will You Help Us Get Them? Beginning Saturday, April 1st, 1911, and positively ending Tuesday, July 4th., 1911, at 6 p. m., we will offer three [3] CASH PRIZES to the Temple, Tabernacle or Tent that sends us the greatest number of paid subscribers to The Wichita Searchlight. THREE CASH PRIZES $10.00 — First Prize — To the Temple, Tabernacle or Tent that sends us the greatest number of paid subscriptions for one year each, [ not less than ten ] we will pay Ten Dollars in GOLD $3.00 — Second Prize — To the Temple, Tabernacle or Tent that sends us the next greatest number of paid subscribers for one year each, [ not less than five ] we pay Three Dollars in SILVER $2.00 — Third Prize — To the Temple, Tabernacle or Tent that sends us the third greatest number of paid subscribers for one year each [ not less than three ] we will pay a Two Dollar Bill. All Subscriptions Are Strictly $1. = Per Year in Advance = $1. WHO WILL BE THE WINNERS? Read Carefully Our Conditions This Contest will be conducted under the following Rules and Conditions. Read!!! First — This Contest is open to any Temple, Tabernacle or Tent in the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction Second — Any member of any Temple, Tabernacle or Tent can send in subscriptions with the name, number of your Temple, Tabernacle or Tent and it will be duly credited. Third — Solicitations of subscribers is not to be confined to members of the order alone, but may accept the subscription of any person, whether they are members of the Order or not and your Temple, Tabernacle or Tent will receive due credit itor said name. Fourth - In sending in subscription please write a plain, legible hand and give the name, address and town or city of the new subscriber; together with with your name and the address and the name and number of your Temple, Tabernacle or Tent, Fifth - In this contest absolutely no name will be credited unless the money accompanies the name. Sixth - A true and accurate account will be kept of each subscription and upon receipt of the same we will forward you a receipt bearing the name of subscriber, amount paid and the Temple, Tabernacle or Tent to be credited. Keep this receipt Seventh - This list will be submitted to a disinterested committee of three persons to be chosen later. Every Temple, Tabernacle and Tent should get interested in this contest. The prizes of this contest will be awarded to the winners at the next session of the Grand Temple and Tabernacle to be held in Coffeyville, Kansas in July. Address all communications to W. N. MILLER, Editor 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kan. Agents wanted everywhere DIRECTORY OF COLORED WOMAN'S CLUBS OF WICHITA, KAS. The Mother's Aid Club. Meets every Friday at 1 p.m. Ladies invited to meet with us. Mrs. W. N. Miller, Pres. Mrs. P. Johnson, Sec. HON. H. J. ROETZEL. Hon. H. J. Roetzel, Who Has Served the City Two Years, Announces His Candidacy for the Same Office. In Hon. H. J. Roetzel's announcement, which follows, he bases his claims for reelection on his record as commissioner. His policies are well known. His works speaks for itself. He now asks the people, if they are satisfied with his work and policies, to reelect him. He would not be a candidate at all, we understand, except for the urgent requests of hundreds of citizens who have been importuning him to make the race again. During his period of office his department, as shown by his report, has accomplished more public improvements than during the preceding 25 years. This includes the planning of a vast sewer system, miles of city pavements and vast river improvements. During the past two years more miles of streets have been graded and improved than in any other period of the city's history. Mr. Roetzel's greatest popularity, however, has been won along the lines of securing a "square deal" for the people from the public service corporations that the people have set up in business here and which are sustained by the people's patronage. These public service corporations whose duties and powers are defined by laws and ordinances, exact maximum rates from consumers, but in most cases give in return only minimum and most ianeqd-f 55TLOTAOtum and most inadequate service. Mr. Roetzel has been conspicuous on the commission for his endeavors to change all this in the interest of the people. Public service corporations have virtually the power of taxation on all the people of this city and usually that power is exercised to the limit whether they furnish the service or not. Mr. Roetzel's position that no matter how potent and important a public service corporation may be, the people are still greater and more important, will be endorsed by a majority of the citizens. His position on the water question, he telephone question, the street car question and the gas question is essentially right and the people approve of it in each case. His announcement follows: "To the Public: My name was suggested as a candidate for city commissioner by a good many of my staunch friends, unsolicited, two years ago, to run in the primary election. From the many requests from both men and women asking me to again become their candidate for city commissioner, have decided to do so. "In my candidacy two years ago, I made numerous promises to the people of this city that if elected I would do all in my power to carry out. I have now served nearly two years and it is for the voters or citizens to decide whether I have deserved their approval as their representative on the city commission, and on my record as your servant, having given my full time and whatever talents I may have to the city's affairs, and if I have earned your support I ask for the same and promise in return, if I should be elected, every effort and all my time will be given to further the interests of the taxpayers to the end that the growth and commercial interests of the city will continue at even a greater gain than we have made during the past two years. "The public improvements of the past two years have been wonderful in the city, exceeding in volume more than has been accomplished in the past twenty-five years. "In conclusion I stand as firm as ever for the strict control and regulation of all public utility corporations and the public ownership of same at the earliest possible date, and for the enforcement of all laws, as they allook alike to me. H. J. ROETZEL. About 250 colored people called a mass meeting which meet at the Masonic hall, Tuesday night, March 21. It was a solendin and highly representative meeting of our race. The meeting was called to order by W. L. Herman An invocation was offered by Rev. W. H. Parks After the object of the meeting You have tried the rest Now try the best THE PEOPLE'S CLEA AND DYE W Dry Cleaners, Dyers and H Largest and Best Equipped Plant Market 175 Phones Dough THE PEOPLE'S CLEANING AND DYE WORKS Dry Cleaners, Dyers and Hatters Largest and Best Equipped Plant in Kansas Market 175 Phones Douglas 178 2ll South Lawrence Wichita, Kansas DEAM ABS IN NORTH-WEST COURT Bonded A was stated the meeting elected Mr Ambrose A. Morris chairman and Dr. F. L. Barnett secretary—which organization was later made permanent. Short talks were made by several. The committee on resolutions reported the following. Resolutions submitted by the committee were practically unanimously adopted by the club. The resolutions follow: "Resolved, that it is the sense of this organization, in order to bring about a closer union of the colored people in this city, we do hereby adopt the following resolutions, to-wit: "First, we pledge ourselves for good government and a clean economical administration of affairs of this city. "Second, we pledge ourselves to use our influence with the city government to employ home labor as far as it is practicable in all public improvements. "Third, we realize in order to bring about these conditions it is necessary that we elect competent, honest and fair minded men to the various offices at the coming election. "Fourth, we also recommend that the members of this organization use their influence with the members of our race to respect all laws as they are enacted by the city, state and naotin. "Fifth, we deplore the discord that has existed in the city government during the last four years on account of the quarrels and factions that have to a certain extent blocked the progress of the city. "Sixth, we pledge ourselves to assist in bringing about a better condition of municipal affairs by electing the kind of men stated in the above resolutions. "Seventh, we also pledge ourselves to stand for the candidates who will see that all classes of people of this city have absolute fair treatment from the various offices to be filled in the coming election." (Signed by members of committee and club officers.) R. N. DORR FOR COMMISSIONER AND HIS PLATFORM. One of the favorite candidates for City Commissioner, is R. N. Dorr. Those who know him recognize him as a most capable man for that office. His experience gained during his four years a City Clerk gives him a knowledge and acquaintance with city affairs that fits him for a splendid member of the city commission. He is fair, impartial, honest and capable, and every citizen will receive from him a square deal. In order that the people may know his attitude on the important issues of this campaign, Mr. Dorr submits the following as his platform: In announcing my candidacy for the office of city commissioner, I will not burden you with a lengthy platform, but believe I owe it to you, when asking for your suffrage, to briefly give you some idea of what you may expect of me in event you should choose me as one of your commissioners. In the first place, I know of no reason why the mayor and commissioners should not be able to take up propositions as they meet them and thresh out the differences before their regular meetings, and not spend the time quarreling and calling each other naughty names. I believe laws were made to be enforced, and it will be my pleasure to assist the mayor and commissioners --- RESOLUTIONS Wichita, Kansas whoever they may be, to enforce all laws to the letter, so that Wichita will be a better place to live in, and that it will continue to grow better with each succeeding day. Public service corporations of this city owe their existence to the people of the city, and there is no reason why they should not treat them fairly. I am not fighting these corporations, and, should you elect me, I will be fair to all parties concerned, remembering always that I am your servant. I am in favor of establishing a municipal paving plant at the earliest possible moment, if it can be arranged under our laws, to the end that Wichita laboring men may be employed at all times; and where contracts are awarded on public works, that contractors should give preference to Wichita laboring men. While the law specifically provides that a city officer shall devote his whole time to the interests of the city, I am in position to promise faithfully to comply with these requirements. Reassuring you that I will use my best efforts for the upbuilding of Greater Wichita, I ask your support at the primary and election. Very respectfully, R. N. DORR. No voter who casts his or her vote for R. N. Dorr will ever have any reason to regret it. His name will tp pear on the ballot primary day. IMPORTANT NOTICE! To the Pastor and Members of the A. M. E. Church throughout the Kansas Conference: In some way I mislaid the resolution which had fixed the time and place of holding the Electoral College which in turn shall elect its lay delegates and alternates to the General Conference which will meet in Kansas City, Mo., during the month of May, 1912. Rev. J. R. Ransom, who offered the Resolution fixing the time and place, retained a copy of the same and I herewith as Secretary of the Kansas Conference do notify all concerned that the Electoral College will convene in St. James A. M. E. church, North Lawrence, the first Wednesday in May, which is May 3rd, 1911. Each pastor will therefore per Discipline elect and send on the above date to this place one delegate or alternate representing each Quarterly Conference to this said Electoral College. Please notify me by April 28th who your delegate be that I may arrange for his accommodation. Your humble servant, (Rev.) J. LOGAN CRAW, March 18th, 1911. R.B Campbell Of Riverside For Commissioner From the many endorsements and words of encouragement given to the candidacy of Robert B. Campbell for City Commissioner, by prominent business and professional men and from the high esteem in which Mr. Campbell is held by the people generally—there seems no question that he will undoubtedly be chosen as one of the City Commissioners on Monday, March 27th, at the primary. While the host of friends of Mr. Campbell are satisfied of his success they desire to give him a large vote which will be in keeping with the excellent qualities and superb fitness of Mr. Campbell to fill the office to which he aspires. Out of the sixty odd thousand people of Wichita the first man yet has to be found who does not highly endorse the candidacy of Mr. Campbell—in fact the people seem anxious to show their approval and every day some citizen by telephone, by card or in person are assuring Mr. Campbell of their friendship and loyalty to him for City Commissioner. This is a compliment of which any man may justly feel proud—as it shows that the people are interested in securing the best and most capable officers to conduct the affairs of this city and all recognize in Robert B. Campbell a gentleman with all the qualities to make a most acceptable public official. Although Mr. Campbell is a man of means, yet he has always been keenly interested in the welfare of the laboring people and the poor people and as a member of the Board of Associated Charities, he has done much to relieve the unfortunates in our city. As a member of the Wichita School Board, he has given splendid service in giving this city one of the best school systems in the West. He is a large property holder and is intensely interested in building up our city and as one of the promoters of the Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway he has demonstrated his faith in our city. Mr. Campbell will appreciate your support at the polls primary day Monday, March 27th, and if nominated and elected every citizen can feel safe to trust the affairs of this city in his keeping. One of the grandest affairs of the season proved to be the surprise party at the home of Miss Hazel Hurst Tuesday, March 21, 1911, given by the "Vasti Girls", honoring Miss Betty Giles, one of the diligent members, who leaves soon for her home, and Mr. Henry Dillord of Topeka, an excellent program was rendered, which was as follows: Remarks, Mr. D. Dillford of Topeka, Kan.; solo, Miss Hazel Hurst; reading, Miss C. Bettie; solo, Miss Mae Tripplet; remarks, Mr. Wiley; solo, Mrs. L. Davis; remarks, Mr. J. Jones; instrumental solo, Miss B. Morris; reading, Miss Cabell of California; solo, Miss F. Oliver; remarks, Miss Giles. A dainty lunch was served at a late hour. The guests departed congratulating Mrs. Bennett, the chaperone, for her brilliant success in building such a beneficial club. Those present were. Messrs. Dillard, Wiley, Carter, H. Perry, Price, Davis, Brooks, Jones, Woodard, Matthews, Bynum, Oliver and Bennett; Misses Giles, Knox, Bettis, Cabell, M. Crouch, Hammond, Oliver, E. Hurst, Roach, Cox, Tripplet, H. Hurd, Ray Morris and Brooks; Mesdames Bennett, Davis, Price, Dixon and Hurst. D. L. ROBINSON DEAD. D. L. Robinson, a colored man who has been in and around Wichita for several years, died at 423 N. Wichita street. Thursday morning of acute pneumonia. He is said to have been 46 years of age and was born in Missouri. His friends circulated a petition by which to raise money enough to pay for his funeral that his body might not be buried in the potter's field. This meeting reflects great credit on the whole race and was an exclusive colored peoples meeting. At 10 p.m. the meeting adjourned to Thursday night when the Club heard remarks from all the candidates for Mayor or our city. J. S. Solomon, one of the prominent colored business men of Winfield spent Tuesday in our city on business, he contemplate moving his family to our city. Mrs. William Martin entertain en her mother Mrs. Georgia Watkins and her sister Mrs. Francis Bailey and little daughter Marie Bailey at dinner Sunday at her home 945 N Mead. LINCOLN NEBRASKA. At Rest. Daughter Leanna Alexander, the beloved wife of Prof. W. R. B. Alexander departed this life Friday March 17th, at 7:15 p.m. after an illness of about thirty two hours, of a stroke of paralysis. Dtr. Alexander was a faithful member of Saint Anice Tabernacle No. 92 and also the A. M. E. church from which her funeral was observed March 20, under the auspice of the International Order of Twelve. Her pastor, Rev. Mr J. F. C. Taylor preached an appropriate sermon from Revelation 14: 13.