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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER THE NEGRO QUESTION. Since This Question is of a National Importance. Is the duty of every American Citizen to give an Earnest Consideration. FOURTEENTH YEAR THE NEG Since This Question Importance. Is th American Citi Earnest Co In order to discuss the Negro question from an unprejudiced standpoint, and at the same time gain public distinction it would require an extraodinary amount of tact But since underlaying the grave of the country where rabid and special class legislation is being made, this question is; let us face the facts as they exist asbertain whether or not the Negro is really to be blamed for those condition. It is true that the slave question was in a large measure the cause of the Cival War It is also true that this war cost the government billions of dollars, to say nothing of the lost in lives and property of many of its most valuable cieizens and leaving the country in a political situation that engendered strife such as has required the best skill of the country to control and which, after all, has led us up the present deplorable situation. But might not this condition it has been prevented? If instead of war, arbitrary measures had been used and financial settlement reached; if the freedom of the slaves had been purchased by the government through a bond issue, and a territory purchased and set aside for them; the thobsands of lives need not have been lost, the present political condition would not exist, the cost of the government would have been comparatively little, and the wisdom of such a course would have met the approval of all concerned and the sanction of the world at large. Notwithstanding these facts, however, and though he proved to be the disinterested party in this great rebellion, fighting as gallantly for the confederacy on the one side as he did on the others for the union, the Negro is suffering the penalty of the mistake, and it remains for him to offer a means of alleviating this condition so greviously to him and so unjust in the sight of God It is not too late to make amends and the same course as might have prevented these conditions in 1863 will in a measure eradicate them today. And since this question is of a national importance it is duty of every American citizen to give it an earnest consideration and to and to support a proposition that will dispose of it in a fair and satisfactory manner. Exchange. Newspaper Training Best For Business. So Says Dr. Egan. United States Minister To Copenhagen. "When I want a private secretary I get a newspaper man," said Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, United States minister to Copenhagen, during an interview in Chicago. "Always it has been no contest that newspaper work is the best training in the world for men who expect to go into business or the broader walks of life said Dr. Egan. "Fo other profession gives a man such a broad view of life. He is able to look at things from an angle unobtainable by any one else, and despite the wide range he has to cover I find him at the same time a master of detail. "There's a reason for it too. A good newspaper man knows his subject before he writes about it He has little time to spend in studying it; he must have the ability to get to the real situation without spending hours on it. Unconsciously he trails himself to grasp the details and remember them." --- We do all kinds of fancy JOB PRINTING, Satisfaction Guarenteed. Prices Always Right. Bring your Job work to us. SATURDAY, JULY, 15 1911, AT THE CHURCES Sunday July 16th. Rev. J. J. Cabbell Supt. of Top eka District will hold his second Quarterly Meeting at the Church on corner of 15th. and Wabash, Rev. Edwards, pastor of A. M. E. Church will preach for us in the afternoon at 3 o'clotk. You are cordially invited to attend the meeting. SERVICES AT A. M. E. Sunday July 16th. tomorrow is Rally Dyy Sunday School at 9:30 J. T. Chinneth Supt. 11:00 a. m. Sermon Prot H. T. Kealing A. M. L. L. D. 7:00 p. m. Allen League C E. Thomas Glover President, 8:00 p. m. Sermon Rev. T. J. Ross B. D. Great things to do by the Church. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Sunday and Monday July 16-17, Prof. H. T. Kealing A. M, L L. D. President of Western University, Quindaro Kansas, This distinguished educator and lecture, pulpit orator and writer will be in our city on the above dates and will be heard by the people of Wichita. At 11:00 a. m Sunday he will preach at the St, Paul, A. M. E. Church 523 N. Water St. This is the first time that Wichita has had the opportunity of seeing and hearing this great and good man and it is the earnest wish and prayer of the pastor officers and members of this Churehthat the whole community shall avail itself of this oppoatunity and hear the professor. Rev. Edwards says that he is willing to say that no right thinking person in Wichita can listen to the words of Prof. Kealing without saying "thank God for such a man" If you are not thinking aright, Come and hear and you shall think right. AT Y. M. C. A. SUNDAY At 4:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon Prof. Kealing will speak to the men and boys at the Y, M. C. A. at 615N. Main St. He will deliver his famous lecture from the subject "What Should Man weigh. This Play promises to be the best ever presented by a Company of Amateurs, and those failing to witness it will miss a rare treat. The Play, while of a sensational and thrilling nature, has proven one of the most successful Dramas ever written. It pictures the story of an old man whose life was made miserable by the sins of another, and after many years of suffering, proved his innocence. It also tells the unfortunate end of a young girl, whose life was blighted by a villian who sought her hand in marriage. Gerald Weston, {Known as Jerry the tramp} ..... Charlie Price. Col. Matthew Lee, {A Southern Banker} ..... Ed. Landrum. James Blackburn, {A Villain} ..... Ambrose Woodard. Jack Worthington, {Francis Lover} ..... Watt Morris. Mrs. Lee, {Wife of Col.} ..... Mrs. Sally Hall. France, {A Disputed possession} ..... Myrtle Hurst. Sadie. ..... Esther Hurst. Act I. Scene——Col. Lee's home, Sadies flirtation. France and Jack. Blackburn pays an early visit. Mrs. Lee discloses France's secret. Jerry the tramp arrives. Jack hears the secret of France's birth. Blackburn discovers the obstacle. Jerry scorns Blackburn's scheme. The outcast discovered. Act. III. Scene—Jerry's hut France unhappy and abandoned. Blackburn confesses his love to France and she scorns his offer. Blackburn vows vengeance. France finds a letter. Blackburn returns and demands France. The struggle. The arrest of Jerry Western. France faints. Act. IV. Scene—Col. Lee's home, Sadie and Blackburn. France declines to see Blackburn. The Colonel hears bad news. A prison stares the Colonel in the face. France offers to marry Blackburn on condition. Jack and Jerry arrive in time. Blackburn pleads for mercy. Jerry is avenged. BOUGHT FINE HOME. Lawyer McWilliams has purchased a beautiful home on the corner of Cleveland and Murdock Ave. A nice modern eight room house and 100 feet of ground. It is a very desirable neighborhood The Lawyer is to be congratulated on his wise efforts. For First Class Work Call at Wm. Majors barber shop Every thing up to date. I have two first class workmen, Rev. Perkins formally conducted the Coulter Barber Shop and C. W. Edwards of Coffeyville, Kansas. Our "motto" is kind, polite and Courteous treatment. We Guarrentee Satisfaction. 611 N. Main St A NOBLE OUTCAST DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS TO BE GIVEN AT MASONIC HALL ON THE EVENING OF July 20th 1911. UNDER THE AUSPICES OF CLUB NO. I. OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH -CAST OF CHARACTERS= Act II. Scene — Drawing room in Col. Lee's home. France hears the secret of her birth. Blackburn orders Jerry to take France away. Jack to the rescue. GOOD MUSIC WILL BE INTERSPERSED BETWEEN ACTS. DOORS OPEN AT 7:30. PLAY BEGINS AT 8:30. Mrs. F. O. Miller, Captain. 611 N, Main St -SYNOPSIS= its home, Sadies flirtation. France its France's secret. Jerry the tram return discovers the obstacle. Jerry's room in Col. Lee's home, France like France away. Jack to the rescue but France unhappy and abandon his offer. Blackburn vows vengeals France. The struggle. Its home, Sadie and Blackburn, France. A prison stares the Colonel in the eye and Jerry arrive in time. Blackburn WILL BE INTERSPERSED IN ADMISSION 25CT. OPEN AT 7:30. PLAY BEGINS M The National Negro Business League will hold its Twelfth Annual Meeting at Little Rock Arkansas, Wednesday Thursday and Friday, August 16th, 17th, and 18th. 1911. Those interested to be present should notify W. M. Alexander, Chairman Committee on Homes, $ 504 \frac{1}{2} $ W. 9th Street, as early as possible. Governor George W. Donaghey of Arkansas, is manifesting great interest in this coming meeting, and has assured the Local League of his entire willingness to do everything possible toward making the meeting a success. Governor Donaghey, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, and the most important white citizens of Little Rock joined with the Local League of Little Rock in inviting the National Organization NO.15 to Little Rock. The citizens have already begun to make extensive preparations for this meeting. ON ROOF GARDEN. The Colored Y. M, C. A. Band under the direction of Prof, N. Clark Smith of Tuskegee, supervisor of music at B, T. Washington School delightfully entertained a fair size crowd on the roof garden at the Central Y. M. C. A. The program was interesting and well rendered from start to finish The selections of the Glee Club were highly appreciated, Mr. Watt Morris entertained all with a Drum Mayor Solo, and Matthew Bell drew tremendous applause with his original poems entitled "Ma Wust Night Mar." The Quartette tee also furnished good numbers. NEW RAILROAD FOR KANSAS PLANNED AND SURVEYED FROM ANTHONY TO TRINIDAD. Three "Railroadless" Kansas Counties Will Have a Road Should Plans Go Through. Topeka, Kansas—The people, in three of the five "railroadless" counties in southwest Kansas see visions of their long cherished need about to be realized. The Southwestern Kansas & Colorado, supposed to be a feeder for the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad, has been planned and surveyed from Anthony to Trinidad, Col E. H. Hurd of Coldwater is the general attorney for the company, and in a letter to a friend here he announced that bonds already have been voted in some of the townships through which the road would pass. The road will run through the southern tier of counties to Morton and then turn northward. Bond elections have been in three Barber county townships in August, and in the southern tier of townships in Clark county the bond elections will be held July 22. 27 TRUST CASES NOW IN COURT Government Active in Trust Prosecution—Others Under Way. Washington, D. C.—An indication of Uncle Sam's activity in the prosecution of trusts is evidenced in a compilation of the suits now pending under the Sherman law. Twenty-seven cases are in the courts. They involve, lumber, ice, sugar, church seats, milk, paving bricks, incandescent lights, wholesale groceries, butter, eggs, boxboard, steel wire, magazines and various forms of transportation. The 27 cases do not cover all the anti-trust activities of the department of justice. It is known that a number of other alleged combines are now under investigation by agents of the department. COUNTIES TO LOAN SEED WHEAT Plan to Enable Drought Sufferers to Borrow Enough to Seed Their Fields. Salina, Kansas.—The failure of the wheat crop in Grove, Logan and Trego counties leaves many farmers without seed for this fall's planting. The commissioners of each county are considering a proposition to lend farmers who need it grain enough to seed their fields, with the privilege of rapaying the county after harvest, either in wheat or in money. Other counties where the crop was a failure, are considering the same proposition. MAN'S HAND BITTEN BY CATFISH Missouri Man Puts Hand in Fish's Mouth to Help Land Him. Rich Hill, Mo.—Norman Hughes, a young farmer living south of town, is in a dangerous condition as a result of being bitten by a catfish weighing 55 pounds. Hughes, with several other men, was catching fish with his hands in the Osage river. After landing a number young Hughes stuck his hands in the mouth of the big fish in order to get a better grip. The fish closed down on the hands of its captor and severely lacerated them. Preacher Had Two Wives. Preacher Had Two Wives. Springfield, Missouri—The Rev. H. O. Parrish, a Presbyterian minister, is in jail at West Plains on a charge of bigamy. He recently moved to Mountain View, where he has a wife. His arrest followed the receipt of a letter from Mrs. Mayme Parrish of North Platte, Neb., who says she is his wife. She has one child. Parish married his present wife less than a year ago in Oklahoma City. Arrested for Old Murder Kansas City, Kansas.—Oliver McClure, 28 years old, was arrested here by James Lowe, police sergeant, and Robert Darnell, detective, for the killing of Joseph Albert, 19 years old, on Kansas avenue in March, 1907. McClure shot Albert with a revolver while the two men were quarreling. He admits the shooting, but says he shot in self-defense. He disappeared immediately after the crime. At Work on Cotton Schedules. Washington, D. C.—Democratic members of the house committee on ways and means resumed work on the cotton schedule, and expect to have the bill ready next week. The duties are to be cut on all cotton goods from 30 to 50 per cent, and are to be levied on an advalorem basis. Newton Builds Concrete Bridges. Newton, Kansas.—The county commissioners have prepared plans and asked for bids for four new bridges to be built in Harvey county this year. All four are to be built of concrete and steel. East Horse Saved Negro McAlester, Oklahoma—C. E. Corsey, a white boy 18 years old, was stabbed and killed in a quarrel by Jamie Gibson, a negro 18 years old, at Savannah and a mob gathered but officers got the negro safely to jail. OUTDONE BAY TIDE WARNING WARNING WARNING INDIANAPOLIS NEWS FIVE WOULD TAKE HER PLAGE FIVE WOULD TAKE HER PLAGE MRS. NAPOLITANO'S CASE EXCITES SYMPATHY. Under Sentence to Hang Two Weeks After Expected Birth of Her Child. Sault Ste, Marie, Ontario.—Widespread interest has been aroused in Canada and the United States over the case of Mrs. Angelina Napolitano, who is under sentence to be hanged here August 12, two weeks after the expected birth of her child. The woman, already the mother of four children, killed her husband, who tried to force her to receive the attentions of other men. No fewer than five persons have offered to die in her place, and from every section of Canada and the United States petitions have been sent to Earl Grey, governor general of Canada, and to Sir Allen Aylesworth, minister of justice. Some of these petitions ask for an absolute pardon; others merely a commutation of the death sentence. It is intimated that the petitions carry more than 500,000 signatures. Public attention in the United States first was called to Mrs. Napolitano's case when Dr. Alexander Aalto of Ashtabula, O., offered to take her place on the gallows. WARRANTS FOR 35 DAIRYMEN Samples Showed Use.of as Much as Two Gallons of Water to Five of Milk. Kansas City, Kansas.—The charges against 35 milk dealers of Kansas City, Kan., that they had watered their milk were made by Harry Bell, assistant state food inspector of Kansas and warrants were issued by Joseph Taggart, presecuting attorney of Wyandotte county, and placed in the hands of the sheriff. The milk was analyzed by C. A. A. Utt, a chemist at the Kansas state agricultural college, who made affidavit that the samples were below the standard set by the government and adopted by the state of Kansas Keep up Panama Record. Washington, D. C.—Although the difficulties of the work increase as the diggers on the Panama canal get deeper into the prism, they are more than keeping up their record. Last month they took out 2,646,442 cubic yards of earth and rock, which exceeded by just 75,850 yards the total excavation in May. This may be explained by the fact that the rainfall was twice as great in May as in June. Oklahoma Farmers Ask Aid. Oklahoma Farmers Ask Aid. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. — Appeals for aid have been received by the governor from farmers in southwestern counties who state they are actually on the verge of starvation as a result of the continued drought. They say that they have nothing to feed their stock and practically nothing to eat themselves. Comanche county is considering the proposition of issuing bonds for road work, so as to give employment to farmers who actually need assistance, and their teams. Marines Quit In a Body. New York, N. Y.—Forty marines, about one-tenth of those quartered at Brooklyn navy yard, have quit. If they do not return to barracks before July 16 they will be officially declared deserters. The men complained of poor food, and delay in paying them off. Drove Tramps to Jail. St. Joseph, Missouri—Tramps loafing on the Kansas side of the Grand Island railroad bridge have become so annoying that farmers over there organized a posse armed with shotguns, rounded them up and drove them to jail. Norwegian Miners on a Strike. Christiana, Norway—The dispute of the mine owners and miners over wages and conditions of employment has culminated in a lockout of 15,000 men. Going 60 Miles an Hour Five Cars Jumped Track and Drop 20 Feet. Bridgeport, Connecticut.—The Federal express, one of the New York New Haven & Hartford railroad's fastest trains, carrying passengers without change from Washington to Boston, plunged down a 20-foot embankment here while running 60 mile an hour. Of 100 passengers that went down with the first six cars, scarcely one escaped death or injury. Sixteen bodies had been taken out of the twisted wreckage by noon, including the engineer and fireman. Forty-four injured are in the hospitals, and nearly a score more received injuries not severe enough to prevent them from continuing their journey. The train was late and the engineer was driving to make up lost time. The wreck was almost complete The engine, twisted into junk, was 200 feet south of Fairfield avenue. KANSAN'S ESSAY WINS OVER 20 Charles J. Boddy, of Norton Receiver First Place and Prize of $50. Salina, Kansas.—Charles J. Boddy of Norton, Kansas, who has just completed the sophomore year at the Kansas Wesleyan university in this city, and who won the first place in the state intercollegiate prohibition oratorial contest in this city last March, has just received word that his revised copy of the oration has won first place in the national temperance contest at Chicago. Twenty states were represented in the national contest. Mr. Boddy revised his oration into an essay. His success is not only an honor, but gives him a reward of $50. The university has never suffered defeat in debates. Boddy is also active in college athletics. DEAD MAN HEAVILY INSURED Debts of Three-Quarters of a Million Raise Doubt as to Accidental Death. Chicago, Illinois.—Mystery in the death of James E. Pettit, whose financial difficulties have come to light, was probed further when interested insurance officials asked Deputy Coroner Conrad of Waukeegan for a reopening of the inquest and a post-mortem examination to determine whether death was from drowning, as was reported, or some other cause. Mr. Pettit's body was found in Lake Michigan near the Hotel Loraine last Saturday. Pettit's debts are variously estimated at from $750,000 to twice that amount. Russian Praises Coburn. Topeka, Kansas.—E. V. Emellanoff, assistant chief of the American agricultural bureau of the Russian government said recently: "Your Mr. Coburn is a popular man in Russia. We know him as well there as you do in Kansas." Pastures Are Getting Green. Salina, Kansas.—Cattle men from western counties report that their pastures have been benefited by the recent heavy rains and that the heavy shipments of cattle from that district will be temporarily checked. Dropped a Loaded Revolver. Sedan, Kansas.—Robert White, 21 years old, died from the effects of an accidental bullet wound. He was building a stone fence on a sheep ranch near here and dropped a .38 caliber revolver. It was discharged and the bullet entered his head. Veteran Kansas Editor Dead. Hayes City, Kansas.—Joseph Clark, a veteran Kansas editor and at one time proprietor of the Leavenworth Times, died here after a long illness. He served in the legislature DECIDES AGAINST McNAMARA Court Claims Jurisdiction in Case Will Not Inquire Into How a Prisoner Gets Before Him. Los Angeles, California.—A preliminary victory was won by the prosecution in the case of John J. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, accused of connection with the Los Angeles Times dynamiting. Judge Walter Bordwell sustained the objection to the plea of no jurisdiction introduced in behalf of the alleged dynamite conspirator by his attorneys. Judge Bordwell said the Los Angeles courts have jurisdiction over the pending trial of McNamara on 19 charges of murder. As to the allegations that extradition had been accomplished by irregularities, or what the defense termed "fraud," Judge Bordwell said it was not his province to enter into the question of how a prisoner was brought into the jurisdiction of his court, but to try him after he arrived there. It was agreed that the same ruling should apply to all of the pleas of no jurisdiction. ALEXANDER C. MITCHELL DEAD After Long Illness, Died at His Home in Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas.—Representative Alexander C. Mitchell of the Second Kansas district is dead at his home here. He had been dangerously ill almost since congress assembled. Upon the advice of physicians he decided to take a complete rest and came to Kansas City, where he was operated upon April 30 for a disease of the stomach. Physicians found there was no hope for the Kansan's recovery and two weeks later he was taken to Lawrence. There in the quiet of the little college town he spent the last two months of his life with his family around him. CUMMINS' AMENDMENT REFUSED Failure of This Amendment Makes Bill Almost Sure to Pass Without Change. Washington, D. C.-The defeat in the senate of the first of Senator Cummins' amendments to the Canadian reciprocity bill made it clear that the measure is scheduled to emerge from the senate without any change from its original form. The fate of the first of the Cummins amendments is expected to be that of all the others, which are to be voted upon along with amendments by Senator Simmons of North Carolina somewhat similar in scope. CASTRO HAS PASSED THE GUARDS Revolutionist Although Watched by Nations of the World, Reaches Native Land. Washington, D. C.—Capriano Castro, the exiled president of Venezuela, has eluded the vigilance of the nations of the world and landed in his native country in disguise at Castilletas-on-Gojira Peninsula, according to a report to the state department from Caracas confirming a rumor from that capital. New York, N. Y.—The 83 men who were wire manufacturers indicted June 29 under the antitrust law on charges of restraining trade in wire products, began their fight against the government by entering pleas of not guilty and securing a delay until September 1 to enable them to file demurrers. Each man's ball was fixed at $1,000. After St. Joseph's Ice Trust. St. Joseph, Missouri.—C. C. Ferrell, prosecuting attorney, announces that he will investigate the action of the local ice dealers in raising the price of ice. It is declared that, since the manufacturers raised prices at the same time and made the same advance, there has been a combination in restraint of trade, in violation of the state laws. Peace Pact Nearly Complete. Washington, D. C.—Within ten days the signature of Philander C. Knox, secretary of state, and the British ambassador, James Bryce, will be placed on the treaty between the United States and Great Britain to provide for the arbitration of all questions arising between the two countries. Southern to Buy 259 Miles. Fort Smith, Arkansas.—The Kansas City Southern railway probably will buy the Fort Smith & Western railway. The officials of both roads have been inspecting it here. The road runs from here to El Reno, Ok., and is 259 miles long. Three Lost in Lake Superior. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.—Three lives were lost when the steamer John Mitchell of Chicago, was sunk in collision with the steamer W. H. Mack, off Vermillion Point, Lake Superior. All the Passengers Saved. San Francisco, Cal.—Every passenger on the steamer Santa Rosa, wrecked near Point Arguelo, has been accounted for. C. H. Stark, Mrs. C. L. Paire and Mrs. S. Payne, the exported have been found. Fellow Laborers Work Horse Is Much Like Office Girl BY MAUD HEALY UT THERE in the street is a horse that looks just like I feel. Do not imagine that he is a carriage horse, champing the bit and pawing the ground, or a saddle horse ready for a trot, for he is neither. He is a meek, subdued beast of burden, attached to a wagon filled with broken limestone. A laborer is standing thereon hurling the rocks to the street. The horse meanwhile waits, unmoved, unmovable. When the wagon is unloaded the laborer will gather up the loose reins and drive slowly to the barns. A bag of oats, a manger full of hay, and a bed of straw in a narrow stall a manger full of the reward of the dray horse' will haul the stones, and wait system like myself. He dares pose. Of what use for him a gallop down the street. Even were it possible to feat were useless. He would ever a time when green fields and a hillside meadow his bee in, or a beech tree to shelter h across? Did he ever look up How subdued he has become civilization! Poor laborer, o blinded leading the blinded! If the laborer were to loo does not know that I, too, ha that I am breathlessly tired, t the reward of the dray horse's labor. The morrow will be like today. He will haul the stones, and wait to be driven home and rest. He is part of a system like myself. He dares not have an individuality or a personal purpose. Of what use for him to shake the heavy yoke from his neck and gallop down the street. Even were it possible to gallop hitched to a heavy stone wagon, the feat were useless. He would be whipped for a runaway brute. Was there ever a time when green fields were the pasture lands of this dray horse, and a hillside meadow his bed? Was there ever a brook for him to wade in, or a beech tree to shelter him? Was there ever a wide prairie to canter across? Did he ever look up to the sky or shake his mane or whim? How subdued he has become! Poor dray horse, lost in the progress of civilization! Poor laborer, driving the dray horse—beast driving beast, blinded leading the blinded! If the laborer were to look up to my window he would envy me. He does not know that I, too, have been driven all day, that my brain whirls, that I am breathlessly tired, that I am a link in the endless chain. I have watched the laborer for many days and I think he has watched me as I have passed out of my house. I have fancied that he has resented my little better dress and seemingly easier tasks. And at night I have dragged myself to this window to watch my fellow dray horse in the street. Would it be any comfort, Mr. Laborer and Mr. Dray Horse, to know that the person who looks down from the respectably curtained windows is as tired and subdued as you are; that this person wears a yoke and is hitched to responsibilities as heavy as the stone wagon? There is a rumble of wheels in the street. The dray horse is dragging himself home. Well, at least there is the bag of oats, and a stall full of straw, and the laborer and I have a dinner and a bed coming to us. "From Under the Flying Chaff" By A. W. MACY Author of "Shortcut Philosophy" To be a broker you first of your money. People will not wait to their minds about you. Young men with no bad good son-in-law material. We give our bad habits vide no terminal facilities. Now and then a man su except poor but dishonest p To be a broker you first speculate in stocks and then on what became of your money. People will not wait to see the best that is in you before making up their minds about you. Young men with no bad habits may not be spectacular, but they are good son-in-law material. We give our bad habits a clear track and the right of way, but provide no terminal facilities. Now and then a man succeeds in life who had nothing to start with except poor but dishonest parents. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Pupils Make Their Own Drinking Cups By E. F. HATCH Chicago And one of the guardia savings bank silenced critic common cup with an indign They get washed every morr And one of the guardians of the depositors at a Chicago trust and savings bank silenced criticism regarding the noxious condition of the common cup with an indignant, "No such thing. These cups are clean. They get washed every morning." Cubans Have Some Very Peculiar Ways By E. J. FOSDICK the time specified. Always failure, and so it is not poss It is the way of his race the time specified. Always he will have a smile and an excuse for failure, and so it is not possible for you to become angry with him. It's the way of his race and is to be accepted with Philosophy. 0 M. H. Those who pursue pleasure seldom overtake it. Sometimes Opportunity knocks at the back door. The political woods are full of presidential impossibilities. Ignorance is at a premium in heathen lands and jury boxes. Always put off till tomorrow that which should never be done at all. You can manifest your sympathy for the under dog by kicking the upper one. Lovers' quarrels are only preliminary skirmishes: the real battles come later. speculate in stocks and then on what became see the best that is in you before making up habits may not be spectacular, but they are a clear track and the right of way, but proceeds in life who had nothing to start with parents. We have it on good authority that four guinea pigs have succumbed as a result of inoculation with germs taken from a public drinking cup, that 100 schools are supplied with bubbling drinking fountains, that the same sanitary condition will soon prevail in all the schools in the city, that pupils in some of the schools are taught to make their own paper drinking cups, that at least one large retail store has one sanitary fountain, albeit on its thirteenth floor. Yet in the public library the one only fountain now used in the building still has its chain-attached cup. of the depositors at a Chicago trust and ism regarding the noxious condition of the ant, "No such thing. These cups are clean. ing." The Cubans are a people of kindly nature and yet they have some odd ways. One of their distinguished traits is never to keep an engagement. It is almost useless to make an appointment with one. A Cuban will solemnly promise to meet you at four o'clock, say, and in parting will reiterate his pledge to be prompt, but the chances are that you will not see him until a week later. He knows when he tells you that he will not do so, and, also, if you have lived long in the country, he will know that you have not the remotest idea of his being there at he will have a smile and an excuse for his able for you to become angry with him. and is to be accepted with Philosophy. Outguessing The Pitcher UMORS had been circulated by the "underground" routes of baseball during the season of 1909 that signals were being tipped off in New York and Detroit. About this time, I noticed Ira Thomas and "Eddie" Plank working together in a game against the substitutes one day in morning practice. Thomas's signals were so ridiculously plain that I yelled to him from my position at second base. "For heaven's sake, Ira," I called, "what are you trying to do? A blind man in center field could get those signals." "All right, Eddie," he answered. "That's what they're for. It's a stall. We open a series in New York Monday, and they may be tipping signals there." Instead of covering up his signs with his legs as any good catcher will, when he crouches behind the batter, Thomas was displaying his signals so that coaches at both first and third base could see them. I learned in due time that the pitchers were giving the real signs, and that Thomas had devised this scheme to throw any observers with glass glasses or other artificial aids off their guards. I might add that, as a result, in the following series four of the New York batters were hit with pitched balls and badly hurt. All this means that, every time a batter faces a pitcher in a game of baseball in the big leagues, there is a duel of wits. In fact, the batter is pitted against both the pitcher and the catcher, as the incident related above will show. The acuteness of the duel depends on the amount of wits allisted on each side. Some are not very keen. But, although in the vernacular of baseball, it is called "outguessing the pitcher," it is really outwitting the catcher, for the receivers almost universally decide what kind of a diet shall be served to the batter. Occasionally a pitcher disagrees and shakes his head. Successful men behind the bat in the big leagues have made a careful work of batters, their "grooves" and man-waerisms, and it is on this knowledge that a club pitcher depends. Therefore, in the majority of of cases, it is the batter outguessing the hit catcher. In only a few instances Cobb. eleventh, and it fell off and smashed. Krause pitched without confidence in his catcher's judgment to outguess the batters, and he lost. A of baseball to let the first one go by to get a look at the style. Kling would say: "He liked the looks of that. Let's try him on another." Then up would come a curve. A favorite trick of his is to get the batter Ford. and a remark dropped by him will give a batter the key to the situation which will enable him to outguess the pitcher. A thing of this sort happened to me in Chicago one day last season, with Walsh pitching and Payne catching. Payne dropped a remark, which set my mind R So much faith have some pitchers in certain catchers that they pitch altogether a different brand of baseball to other men. This is particularly true of Krause, the Philadelphia left hander, who pitched such sensational ball in the season of 1909, and of Ford, of the New York American league club, who was the thrill of the league last season with his double breaking spitball. Krause had no confidence in any catcher, except Ira Thomas, and Ford could not work harmoniously without "Ed" Sweeney. These catchers did all the thinking for the two great twirlers, and their work in the box was purely mechanical. Krause ranged ten straight victories in a row before he fell, in a tending game with the St. Louis team, then, as usual, in last place. The secret is this. Thomas was catching him for the ten he put on the shelf. Lapp was behind the bat for the The same thing was true of post-season series with the Gia early innings of the first game, Sweney had his hand split open with one of Ford's eccentric spitters. The Highlander was never the same again. He did not pitch the wonderful ball he is capable of in that series. He had no confidence in the lumbering Mitchell to handle his "spitters," to think fast; in short, to outguess the batters. Some catchers have a very busy habit of talking all the time to annoy a batter in an effort to distract his attention from his work. John Kiling, of the Chicago Cubs, known in baseball as a bad man with a batting, "chewed" incessantly during the world's series in which we won the championship from the Cubs. He seemed to want to distract attention from the pitcher. A favorite line of his was: "Now, let's try him on a fast one." It is sort of an unwritten law a valuable trick or his is into an argument, and have his pitcher shoot over a fast one. He tried this on me in the first world's series. "So they say that you are the best base runner in the American league," was his opening line. "Well, you are not up against American league catchers now, young fellow. Let's see you steal a base if you get down." I paid no attention to him, although he evidently hoped that I would turn around and reply, so that I would be caught off my guard. And not in conceit, but, as a historian, I relate the sequel. I did get down to first base, and by pretending I was going to steal, made him signal to Overall to waste two balls. Then, when he had to put a strike over, I went down. Sometimes a catcher will overplay his part in this re- working and which led me to forecast what was coming. This cue and the resultant conclusion I drew, based on the hasty hypothesis of Payne's remark, resulted in a timely base hit. The conditions and circumstances of the reticent man, and his remark surprised me. Walsh had refused to pitch until he had received a certain sign. This made me think that it was not going to be a "spitter" or a fast one, evidently the first two signals given. verse English on it. It was a case of him outguessing me. The veteran Cleveland pitcher is as different from Walsh, in his style, as white is from black. "Cy" relies on a curve and a fast ball, never using a "spitter." Young had that he could throw one. He simply outgrossed me and caught me in the arms of Morpheus. He had wet the ball, while walking away from the plate with his back to me, after getting it from Easterly, thus giving no hint that he was going to throw a "spitter." Young invented this trick and applies it go- Plank. hit are not likely to occur often in a game with Walsh pitching. He is a spit ball pitcher entirely. He uses his "spitter" and a fast ball with no curves. On this occasion, Payne signalled for either a spit ball or a fast one, I don't know which. Walsh shook his head in reply, and Payne gave him another signal to which he again shook his head. "You don't want this one?" Payne mumbled in his mask, but loudly enough for me to hear as he gave another signal. Walsh nodded assent. Now here is what passed through my mind, after listening to the hint carelessly dropped by Payne. Two were out at the time, a man was on third base, who, if he scored, would put us ahead, and the count on me was two strikes and no balls. My flash of thought must have been instantaneous. I try never to pay any attention to the monologue of a catcher, but Payne is naturally a by Payne. He can't intend to waste a ball, I reasoned, because the man is on third, and he doesn't think he is going to try to steal. Then it struck me. "Can it be a curve?" I asked myself surprised, "But he never throws one," I argued in my mind. Then I remembered the surprise betrayed in Payne's "You don't want this one." The remark, mumbled in his mask, had supplied the key. I took a chance. It was a curve, and I called the turn. It was the first and last one Walsh ever threw me, and probably he would have slipped it over, had it not been for Payne's poorly suppressed surprise. That cost Walsh the game. It must be remembered by the reader that all this giving of signals and reasoning took place in about a minute's time. A ball player must think fast. Old "Cy" Young, one of the Solons of baseball, crossed me once in almost the same way with re- two strikes and one ball on me in a game in Cleveland. He walked out of the box and part way to the catcher to receive the ball. Easterly, catching, signed for an offering that did not coincide with "Cys" idea of the exigencies of the situation. The old fellow shook his head twice, which immediately forced me to conclude that it would be neither a curve nor a fast one. Oldring was on first base at the time, and I guessed that "Cy" must want to waste one, thinking he was going to try to steal. When the ball came to me about chin high, I at once concluded that my diagnosis was the correct one, and I let it go. But, when about two feet in front of me, it broke across my letters, a beautiful strike, and I had not even taken my bat off my shoulder. "Cy" had dished up a spitter from somewhere in his assortment, and I didn't even know by EDDIE of the WORLD'S CHAMPIONS Copyright by LONDON RU GROUP by EDDIE COLLINS cannonally to great advantage, I have learned since, catching a batter off his guard. But he depends for the most part on a curve and a nigh, fast ball, relying on his wonderful control to put the ball where he wants it. That "Toss one up here and hurry up about it. I'm not particular." He seldom lets the first one go past him. He gets his pulse, takes a couple of short steps, wades into the ball, and bang! "You can't get one by me," his manner appears to challenge. He is simply bulging with confidence. He is the one hitter and the only successful one I ever saw who apparently doesn't try to guess what the pitcher is going to throw and really doesn't care. Pitchers have never been able to discover any "groove" that he is concealing. He simply wades in and hits at any kind of a ball. He is one batter in a thousand. Tyrus Cobb, the Detroit star, is the exactly opposite type of hitter. He is thinking all the time he is at the bat, figuring, planning, to outguess the pitcher and the fielders, in baseball parlance "to cross" his opponents, a legitimate procedure. If he thinks that the third baseman expects a bunt, he will hit it out. He never chases a bad ball, and he makes a pitcher work to the last notch. He worries many of the men in the box by his restlessness, and because he is constantly guessing right. He has almost clairvoyant ability to outguess a pitcher. In some games, I have been able to guess right almost every time that the pitcher has thrown the ball to me and yet have not been able to get a hit. object in Every actly ho take off pitcher s are reco big leag that I o from the with "T pitching ten feet club I w I can't a mean, b customed I know I In ba be de- physical adices would pitch- ly be throw- otion "spit- ential gn is layers does Working in combination to outgress the batters, a catcher will often help a pitcher out by talking incessantly, hoping in this way to distract a hitter's attention from his business. Street of the Washington club is one of the worst talkers in the business, and is called in some strata of baseball "Gabby." From the "whisker" trimmer of his, which is a high, fast one in the vicinity of the neck, is a villainous ball. A pitcher of Young's type would just as soon tell the batter where he is going to try to throw the ball, because it is generally known that he is pitching at a batter's weakness. So batting in the big leagues is largely a game of thought. The man who outguesses the pitchers accumulates the most hits and the largest batting average. Lajole is the only exception to this that I can recall. Of course, self-confidence is an absolute necessity to any successful hitter, but the Cleveland second baseman is more chock full of reliance in his own batting ability than any other player I know. It is not conceit, just faith in his eye. He shuffles out to the plate, almost carelessly, and bangs his bat down two or three times as if it to say to the pitcher. There is a great difference in pitchers. Some are easy to outguess, and others are as bad as a jig-saw puzzle, and I never worked out one of those in my life. I know some men who have mannefists in the box which betray defin- itely the sort of a ball to be delivered. These little physical eccentricities are true indices and often cost men, who would otherwise be successful pitchers, many games. It may be the twist of the wrist in throwing a curve ball, or some motion of the foot peculiar to a "spitter" that divulges the essential secret. This tell-tale sign is fatal to a pitcher, when players get on to it, and it usually does not take his opponents long to discover and associate it with a certain kind of ball. EDWARD TROWBRIDGE COLLINS time that a catcher throws the ball back to the pitcher until he delivers it again, a batter should never take his eyes off the pitcher. All of the "grooves" of batters are carefully catalogued. Every hitter in baseball, with the possible exception of Lajole and Wagner, is supposed to have what is known to the profession as a "groove," a certain real or imagined weakness. Some pitchers work to fool a batter, and others aim at his "groove." Young and Powell are of the second type, and it is this style of pitcher that I always try to make pitch to the limit, as they have to depend absolutely on their control. The catcher is obviously included in the guessing match which always results when a batter faces a pitcher. I recall a funny instance of "Hal" Chase making Ira Thomas look like six nickels in a game last summer. Thomas formerly played on the Yankees, and, at the time, Chase's sign for the squeeze play was given by putting his right hand to his nose. Ira had seen him give this many times when they were team mates. But on this occasion, Chase was playing on the New York club, and Thomas was catching on the Philadelphia team. It was in the eighth inning with the score tied, and a New York runner on third base, champing on his spikes to get home when Chase stepped to the bat. One was out. "Hal" went through the usual preliminaries of knocking the dirt out of his spikes, fixing his hat the firmer, as if he expected to take a long run and didn't want to be called back to get the cap, and spitting on his hands. Then he put the first digit of his right hand to the side of his nose. "What are you going to do, Hal," asked Ira, "frame up something here?" Thomas did not expect to find out anything by the question, but wanted to drag Chase into conversation to get his mind off his work. 'Sure I am,' replied Chase, and he repeated the old sign very deliberately. White. "What." exclaimed Ira, "you're not giving me that sign, thinking I'm not jerry to it?" "That's right, Ira," answered Chase carelessly. "I had forgot ten you knew, but it goes anyway." coming. Thus Chase double-crossed Ira. A ball player is trying to outguess the pitcher from the time he leaves the bench until he sits down again. He doesn't terminate his engagement at the plate. As soon as a bats- a sort of instinct which some players have and others never attain. A man seems to do it by intuition and often cannot tell just what concrete hypothesis leads him to reach a certain conclusion. But believe me, it is a great art for a ball player to have. great art, and one be cultivated. Chase. This conversation was carried on while Plank was pawing around in the box and preparing to pitch. As the tall southpaw wound up, Daniel started in from third base. Plank delivered a perfect strike, and Chase half bunted and half hit the ball, which allowed Daniels to score. "Hal" had beaten Thomas at his own game. He had given a sign that Thomas knew, and which the latter did not for a moment think had been passed out seriously. Therefore Ira did not signal for a pitchout as he would have done if he had guessed the play was man becomes a base runner, his object is advancement. Every ball player knows exactly how much of a lead he can take off first base on a certain pitcher and not get caught. There are recognized standards in the big leagues. For instance, I know that I can go fifteen feet away from the bag and get safely back with "Doc" White of Chicago pitching, but if I go a step over ten feet on Walsh of the same club I will probably get nipped. I can't exactly explain what I mean, but when I once get accustomed to a pitcher's delivery, I know how far to venture. e running, I believe that the secret of success is the start, absolutely. Speed is a great asset, but the start is every thing. Outguessing the pitcher and catcher is Chicken Pie Each year the Bowers relationship began talking in January about the annual family picnic and the bill of fare was made out early in May. Every feminine Bowers felt called upon to demonstrate that she could beat all the others to a frazzle as a cook and each masculine Bowers trained down to demonstrate by the amount he ate his fervid appreciation of the cookery. Feuds had been known to start over the refusal of a second helping of pie. Of course, there were always a few guests at the Bowers family picnic. The guests were not yet Bowerses, but they were in the blissful state of hoping to be. For a young person of an outside name to attend a Bowers picnic was just about the same as making a formal announcement of his or her matrimonial intentions. Naturally Mamie Bowers, who had counted on exhibiting Fred Bayes as her escort at the picnic late in May, was considerably upset when they quarreled in April. What made it worse was that the difference had been over a cousin, Harriet Bowers, who had been away at school and there had acquired a perfect manner of wearing her clothes, doing her hair and cutting out the other girls. She had kept Fred at her side one whole evening at a dance and so Mamie had told him that he might continue the process for all she cared. When he insisted that he couldn't help himself, Mamie had elevated her pretty nose and remarked, "Hm'ph!" This had ended the discussion, for no man on earth has learned how fittingly to reply to "Hm'ph!" when that argument is advanced by an angry young woman. As the time drew near for the annual picnic Mamie realized that the perfidious Harriet would not fall to crown her triumph by dragging Fred Bayes to it. Being a newcomer, he would not realize how his presence would be regarded. Sometimes Mamie felt that it served him right and then she felt sorry for his helplessness. Meanwhile she sewed on a dress that was to be no less than distracting and held her chin very high when she walked past Fred's place of business. She would have died on the spot rather than give him a chance to think she regretted her summary dismissal of him. For years Mamie's family had contributed chicken pie to the general menu, as had also Harriet's branch of the family. Both were renowned for the subtle flavor they managed to give that particular dish. This year Mamie resolved to outdo all former records, for, although Fred would not sample her chicken pie, there was a keen satisfaction in feeling that hers would be better than the one he would help to eat. She and her mother made half a dozen pies, giving special attention to the one for their own meal. It was a beautiful chicken pie, flaky and delicately brown, with crimped edges and curlycues on its surface. As she helped unpack the dinner at the picnic grounds, Mamie noticed that Harriet had on a dress dangerously near as pretty as her own and was throwing the full expression of her eyes upon Fred Bayes, who looked rather pale, Mamie thought. But when he had looked at her she had studiously refrained from seeing him. When dinner time came she found luck had placed her family close by Harriet's family. She helped set out their own provisions and tenderly placed the chicken pie in the place of honor. Just then she heard Harriet's mother scream. The tragedy was before her eyes when she turned. The chicken pie that had been intended to crown that little family feast was a wreck. Harriet's little brother had dragged it from the basket and tipped it bottom side up on the ground! "What shall I do?" murmured Harriet's mother. "And with company, too!" Mamie stood there, a pile of plates in her hand. She was undeniably glad that Harriet was balked in one direction. She did not feel like bursting into tears over that young person's chagrin. Then she recalled that Fred, too, would suffer. And he generally was fearfully hungry. And her own family had no guests. "Here!" she said to Harriet's mother, handing over her own chicken pie. "Take this." As Harriet's mother with incoherent thanks took the pie a hand grasped Mamie's shoulder and she found herself drawn behind a shelter of hazel bushel face to face with Fred Bayes, whom she had supposed somewhere else dancing attendance on Harriet. "Say, you're all right," said Fred to her. "Any girl who could do that after the way Harriet has treated you is—well, she's all right! I feel awful since you turned me down, Mamie, honest! Won't you call it off?" "I didn't do it because I felt sorry for her!" Mamie said with a gasp of determined honesty. "Well, it's a cinch you didn't do it for her mother!" said Fred Bayes, with dawning delight. "Come on and go for a row in the lake." That was why at the biggest and best picnic dinner two of the participants didn't have any dinner at all and were perfectly satisfied to do without. Do not take upon yourself a load of hatred; it is a heavier load than you think—Mme. de Sevigne. SEARCHLIGHT PAGE FOUR THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, ..... KANSAS. 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They will treat you right. Excellence Counts THEN USE "U-KNEAD-IT" FLOUR It exctls in every respect, — color, flavor and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY WATSON MILL CO. WICHITA KANSAS WAS NOT A BEAUTY LECTURE Timild Little Woman Found Herself Seeking Dress Hints at Federation of Club Women. "The conservation of the natural resources of this country is one of the paramount issues before the American people today and—" The speaker adjusted her nose glasses, raised her eyes confidently from her manuscript to meet the expressions of approval from the thirty or more clubwomen of Iowa, says the Des Moines Register and Leader. It was a stupendous statement and well worth readjustment of one's pose for the dramatic effect. The speaker, who stopped now and then to look up from the script, was neatly but severely tailored, her hear was brushed carefully and not unbecomingly from her high brow. There was not a curl nor a ripple of a marcel wave. Higher education was writ large. A little woman on the back seat in common clothes, seamed face and hard hands fitteded and looked startled at such an intellectual outburst. "Excuse me, mum," she ventured timidly, as she nudged her neighbor "is this Mme. Ko's beauty lecture?" "It is not," was the grim rejoinder. "It is the annual meeting of the official board and chairmen of standing committees of the Iowa Federation of Club Women." "Mercy!" ejaculated the woman out of place. Then she "scooted." Where She'd Wear It Somebody sent this to the society editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and made affidavit that it really happened. Here it is: They were out at an afternoon card party. A stout woman dropped a card to the floor. "Would you be so kind as to pick up that card for me?" she inquired of the little woman at her right. "Certainly," said the accommodating woman at the right, picking up the card. "You see," explained the stout woman. "I've got on a brand new $50 corse, and I'm afraid I'll strain it if I lean over." "Hum!" commented the other woman, enviously. "If I had a $50 corse'd wear it on the outside. I really wound." RARE FORMS OF MARINE LIFE Beaked Whales and West Indian Echinoids Are Described In the Bulletins of the National Museum. The United States National museum has issued two bulletins in the quarters. Of these the first, Bulletin 73 is "An account of the beaked whales of the family Ziphidae in the collection of the United States National museum, with remarks on some specimens in other American museums," by Dr. Frederick W. True, head curator of the department of biology in the United States National museum. The beaked whales are among the rarest cetaceans and of the three genera only specimens representing about 100 individuals are known. The three genera in the family Ziphidae are Mesoplodon, Ziphius and Beradius, and to the discussions of these with their individual species Doctor True has devoted his attention. The second of these bulletins, No. 74, is "On Some West Indian Echinoids," by the well known authority, Theodore Mortenson of the Zoological museum of Copenhagen, Denmark. Of special interest in this bulletin is the list of North American and West Indian Echinoids, which he has carefully compiled from the specimens obtained by the Blake and the Albatross. The bulletin is beautifully illustrated by 16 full-page plates of these interesting forms of marine life. Women's Sweet Laughter A worm? has no natural grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water; it leaps from her heart in a clear sparkling rill, and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the cool biliarating spring. How much we owe to that sweet laugh! It turns the prose of our life into poetry: it flings showers of sunshine over the dark some wood in which we are travelling; it touches with light our sleep which is no more the image of death, but gemmed with dreams that are the shadow of immortality—Exchange. When Tower Loomed. It was while Charlemagne Tower was ambassador to Russia that a New York city newspaper "spread itself upon a fete held at St. Petersburg, a green copy-reader produced this result: "As pleasing to the eye as was a this decoration there was additional pleasure in the sight, as one stood a the head of the Prospekt Nevska. Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated, looming grand and imposing against the winter sky."—Success Magazine. Whistling Sign of Contempt. Whistling sign of contempt. A Moroccan shows his contempt of anything by whistling. A conflict be tween tribesmen and a battalion of French troops was recently precipitated by the whistling of a locomotive on a railway being constructed near Casablanca. "The glauces are laughing at us." said a chieftain when the construction engine gave a toot to warn the natives at work on the line to look out. The Arabs went wild, mounted their horses, and rode on the whistling enemy. They had to be calmed with the whistling of rifle balls. State Federation Of The Colored Women's Clubs. THEIR MEETING IN NEWTON WAS A GRAND SUCCESS. MRS. T. W. BELL RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT. NEXT YEAR IN TOPEKA, KANSAS. Repeated by Request The Eleventh Annual Session of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs which met in the Auditorium in Newton, Kas. June 21-to 26-1911 was one of the best ever held by that organization. The Session compared very favorably with that at any public gathering and reflected a great credit on our women and ability as organizers. The booths and displays of needle and fancy work was fine in every way. The Session was called to order Wednesday morning June 21 by Mrs. T. W. Bell, the matchless president of the State Federation. The officers present were: Mrs T. W. Bell, Leavenworth, President, Mrs. J. L. Harper, of Wichita, First Vice President, Mrs. J. M. Goss Newton, Second Vice President, Mrs. M. Gorse, Newton, Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. P. Henderson, Leavenworth Corrospending Secretary, Mrs. J. L. Dyson, Kansas City, Kansas, Treasurer, Mrs. Will H. Jones Wichita, Captian. A splendid program was rendered each day in the forenoon, afternoon and evening, and some of the best talent of the state, took part. With songs, music and recitations the large audience was royally entertained, and all were loud in their praise of the StateFedergition. N. Miller, Editor of the Searchlight, both of Wichita, were introduced to the Session and made complimentory remarks. Elected Third Time The Federation went into the election of officers on Thursday afternoon and for the third time Mrs. T. W. Bell of Leavenworth was re-elected for the presidency The Federation adjourned on Thursday night to meet the next year in Topeka, Kansas. Send your job work to our Job Department. --- The Negro women of tomorrow must excel the one of yesterday in culture, domestic economy, and ability to do. Will she? Will she? Yes She must or the race must be forever dammed. The ice man and the hot weather man has got humanity at their mercy these days. For Everything In Building Material SEE J.H. TURNER J.S.J. to 34P WEST DOUGLAS WICHTA, MANS. STIRLING CLOTHES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED :--: YOUR TRADE SOLICITED :-: If we only tailored for a few dozen men, we would have to charge each an exorbitant price. We would have to take large profits from the few, instead of a very small one from each or our mang customers. This is why we can put into a suit for you at $15,00 to $35, what the other fellows charges you from $25,00 to $60,00 for. Stirling Woolen Mills Co. TAILORS 215 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. The government is going to lay molasses road in Massachusetts. That is, it will prepare a binder for muscadam roads the basis of which will be the residue of sugar-cane manufacture a by-product for which there is at present no known use. But isn't there some danger that the small boys and girls will carry off the road for all-day suckers or some other terrible things? NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League will be held at Little Rock Arkausas, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1611. The program for the meeting is now being formulated and will soon be published. The progress being made by the Negro people of Oklahoma, has induced the officers of the League to set aside the morning session, Thursday, August 17th, as Oklahoma Day. Opportunity will be afforded the live Negro business men of this new estate to put before the country, not only the opportunities that are open to enterprising people, but a statement as to how these opportunities are already being taken advantage of along all lines of business and in professional and educational directions as well. The Negro town of Boley, for instance, has just installed a $35,000.00 light and power plant and there are many other evidences of superior progress is being made by the Negroes of that state. Hon. Scipio A. Jones, President of the State Negro Business League of Arkansas, announces that the State Legue and Local Negro Business League of Little Rock, now have their plans fully matured for the coming meeting. The Chamber of Commerce, and the Board of trade, through their respective Secretaries, are in active co-operation with Messrs Jones, Bush, Booker and others. The Entertainment Committee of the Chamber of Commerce has appropriated $500.00 for the entertainment of the League, and in addition will provide for the place of meeting. The Local Negro Business League of Little Rock Arkansas will also make large appropriations to cover all features of entertainment for all those who are present at the coming meeting. Took The Degrees Mesdames H. Daniels, J. Marshall, Willis Carter, P. Johnson, taken the Eastern Star degrees Princess Chapter No. 12, O. E. S. And there is five more to take the degrees soon. All members are requested to be present the next meeting, as there will be the last meeting before the meeting of the Grand Chapter, in Parson Kansas, the Second Wednesday in August 1911. By order of Worthy Matron Mrs. W. N. Miller Mrs, O. T. Taylor, Sect. Her Criticism. The five-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn man has had such a large experience of dolls that she feels her self to be something of a connoisseur in children, relates Bippincott's. Recently there came a small alter into the house. When it was put into her arms the five-year-old surveyed it with critical eye. "Isn't it a nice baby?" asked the nurse. "Yes, it's nice," answered the youngster hesitatingly. "It's nice, but it's head's loose." The American Home WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience in building and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the author on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 173 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. In spite of speculation in modern house building and the shoddy materials and methods of construction too frequently seen, the fact remains that, on the whole, we build better today than they did in the "good old days" of our forefathers. And this, too, in spite of the fact that the problem of building today is infinitely more complicated than that which confronted the builder of colonial times, owing to the unexamined complexity of commercial and industrial conditions now marking a transitional period in the development of American city and suburban life. In the olden days all life savored more or less of the country, with its comparative simplicity of conditions. Now, however, the scene is transformed. The marvelous progress of mechanical invention, the creation of new materials and processes and of rapid and powerful衣-saving devices used in building construction, the wide development of natural resources, the rise of new and complex industrial conditions, the rapid growth of industrial centers, the extension of the facilities of commerce, the great lessons of the fire risk—all these have been reflected more or less in American contributions to the art of building as such. Moreover, the architect and the builder of today have advantages that were not at their command a century ago. The range of available and adaptable building materials has greatly broadened, thus giving a selection that did not exist in former days; and this advantage is emphasized by vastly improved transportation facilities which place at the disposal of the builder the varied materials, not only of this entire country, but of the entire world. It is only, however, within the past thirty years, with the revival of the long-lost art of concrete working, the advent of the steel structural frame, and later the combination of steel and concrete in what is known as the "reinforced concrete" type of construction, that anything of great importance really new has been developed in the art of building in this country. Even to this day, outside of the Spanish missions, there can hardly be said to be any distinctively American type of architecture, the results so far developed being merely an eclectic treat- based on well-tried old-world First Floor Plan. traditions, though infused in some rare instances, as in the buildings of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with a breadth of conception and an ineffable spirituality of treatment which have been seen only here. It is probable that in the "colonial" style of architecture—a modification of the type developed in England during the reign of the four Georges, and hence sometimes called the "Georgian"—with its quaint freedom of treatment of the Roman ordens and its traces of classic refinement, we approached as near as we have ever done to the development of a truly national type of American architecture; and in our modern work it is not safe utterly to disregard the rules upon which it was based. / A few features traceable to the "co- --- ionial" influence, with its central hall and symmetrical layout on either side, its classic columned and balustraded porch across the entire front, its curved light above the center window in the dormer, etc., have been embodied in the cottage illustrated in the perspective view and floor plans shown in the accompanying cuts. A house like this can be built complete, under favorable conditions as to location and labor, for $2,650 to $2,800. It is 37 feet wide by 31 feet 6 inches long, not including the length added by the front porch. It contains seven rooms, besides a spacious reception hall. This hall, in the very center, entered directly from the veranda, opens at the left into a commodious and well lighted living room running the full length of the house from front to rear. Half way along the outer side wall is an ample fireplace, Second Floor Plan. whose hearthstone is the magnet for many a genial and happy family gathering to enjoy the true comforts of home when the weather is too chilly outside to use the spacious outdoor retreat of the ample porch. Along the opposite wall may be ranged the bookshelves, piano, couches, or some of the other furnishings ordinarily found in the room where the family spend much of their time. The dining room is at the right of the hall, and is provided with a buffet. A door opens directly at the rear, on the right, into the pantry, which is also 1920 connected with the kitchen in the center of the house by a hallway that may be entered from the vestibule opening directly off the back porch. The stairs to second floor ascend from rear of reception hall, and those to basement open off a closed passageway connecting the reception hall in the front with the kitchen in the rear. The hall upstairs opens directly into three spacious bedrooms on the sides and front of the house, each well lighted and provided with ample closet accommodation, the large bedroom on the left having two of these conveniences so much appreciated by the housewife. The designer showed his further regard for the needs of the family by providing a good-sized sewing room directly over the kitchen. The bathroom is on the second floor, opening directly off the upstairs hall. A well-lighted basement extends under the entire house. Resenting the Lie Direct. "The statement that a man was a liar does not bear the weight it used to do. There were times when, if one man called another a liar, that man was called to account for it—it might even be in a duel." said Lord Justice Vaughan Williams, speaking at the Union Society of London with regard to lies told at recent election petitions. "I have come to the conclusion that the world in general is coming to think that it does not matter very much if one's neighbor calls you a liar or not. You can smile, meet him in society, go out and play golf with him, and shake hands with him. I wish people resented more this imputation of being liars." Uncle Hawhee's Philosophy. "Dey tells us dat de fiddle am an invention o' de devil, but yo'll nodice one thing, sah. Dis is it: Every time a fiddle is made dey has to kill a-nudder trifln', no'count scoun'rel of a tomcat to git de strings. Ain't dal so Brudder Lobstock?"—Puck. Carstair's Friend By LOUISE MERRIFIELD "It's such a bully little retreat," Carstairs explained on the way up the valley from the station. "I haven't been here for several years, but I can taste the fish now from that lake." "On your place?" "Yep, all of it. Deer too, in season, otter, 'coon, fox all sorts of game. And the house is a regular lodge. Six rooms, huge rock fire places, woods growing clear up to the doorstep. All I have to do is shut the door, and put on a padlock, and it's there when I care to come back to it, just as I left it." "Hire a caretaker?" Street asked, casually. "I suppose you have to." "Ten a year to the first neighbor down the road. French Canadian chap, very decent and awfully obliging, too." Carstairs beamed out at the landscape with the air of a homecoming baron. He was still young enough to take himself very seriously, even his vacations. Street did not answer. He was on the back seat of the rickety carry-all, they had picked up at the station below, and a good, solid sense of contentment flooded his whole being as the hill ranges unfolded in overlapping vistas, and the sunlight suffused the green forest about in golden glory. It was simply great, he decided, great of good Carstairs to think of him, and bring him up for the season. He was meditating lazily how he could make it up to Carstairs when the wagon turned a bend in the road, and a beautiful sweep of lake lay before them, with wooded shores rising steeply on every side. "Here is where we will rest and loaf and invite our souls, Rolly boy," Carstairs stood up to get a better view, and took off his hat in salute to the beauty of it all. In the distance, smoke curled up from a white rock chimney among the trees. But words died on the owner's lips. Not 15 paces away from them, standing perilously out on a log in the water was a girl, and she was fishing. Street never forgot the picture she made, in a linen skirt, ankle length, a faded, old rose silk kimono to her waist, open at the throat, and short sleeved, and on her head a peaked Mexican hat, somewhat atilt. That was all they saw, except the long braid of heavy black hair that hung down her back. "I thought you said the place—" Street stopped, for Carstairs was climbing out of the wagon, and deliberately making for the trespasser on his fish preserves. "Can you direct us to the Carstairs place?" he asked, quite diplomatically, Street thought, considering. She merely raised one tanned, rounded arm, and pointed towards the chimney. "They call that house something of the sort, I believe." "Fishing good?" Then she did look up at him, grudgingly, appraisingly, looked also at the waiting carry-all, and its ancient driver, and at Street—longest, at Street. "Sometimes," she said, gravely. "Mostly pickerel and perch. I get all I need, though." "Do you indeed?" remarked Carstairs, and he eyed her speculatively through his eye glasses. "Er—who owns the place yonder?" "I don't know. I have rented it from the caretaker for the season, three months." "You—you have rented it for the season from the caretaker?" Carstairs dropped his eye glasses, and recovered them helplessly. She bowed her head, and looked over at Street. "Rent paid in advance," she added firmly. "There are several of us summering there." "Are there? How delightful! I'm so glad you like it, you know, so awfully glad." Carstairs was floundering desperately. "Because, you see, I'm Carstairs myself, I—I bought the place a couple of years back." "Did you?" She turned with a quick smile. "Why, then you're our landlord, aren't you? I'm happy to meet you." "Don't mention it," murmured Carstairs. "Because, you know, we've been so inconvenienced. The roof leaks." "It shall be repaired. My-er—yes, by Jove, my friend repairs roofs." "Does he?" She smiled over at Street. "Does he repair wells also, and locks, and fireplaces that won't burn? We need help badly. I think it was so kind of you to come all the way up here to see if we were comfortable." That was the final shot. Carstairs capitulated. After promising all the improvements desired, he climbed back into the carry-all, and ordered the driver to go to the house of the caretaker. "You're not going to visit his sins on the girl in question, are you, Stacey?" Street asked. "She's a 'bully girl. I'll look after the roof and the well." "Now, we'll divide up fairly at the start," Carstairs answered. "You take the roof, and I'll take the well. I'm not going to row with anybody over this godsend. We'll put up at the French Canadian house, and say nothing. Did you see her eyes, Rolly, great Scott, did you see her eyes, boy?" That was the start. For two months through the long, lazy, lazy days of July and August they remained at the "On your place?" French Canadian shack half a mile from the lodge. They repaired every possible thing on the place that could be repaired. And above all, they rode, fished, walked and loafed with the three Kenyon girls. Two were sisters, Madeline and Lois, but it was their cousin both Carstairs and Street loved, the girl under the peaked hat, Dolly Kenyon. And comradely, each waited for the other. "You take first chance, Rolly," Carstairs would say, "You've got the right of way anyhow? Aren't you my guest? If circumstances were different, I could choke you and throw you to the fishes for bait, but, hang it all, I'm your host. Why don't you ask her, and get the agony over with?" "You don't do that to a friend, Stacey," smiled back Street. "Go ahead, and let the best man win, say I. I'm willing to take the chance. It's just fate's pure cussness anyhow. We always did have the same taste in life, old boy." "I'd die for her," groaned Carstairs, dropping his eye glass out of sheer helpless nerve tension. "I know. Street looked up at the clear night sky, and grinned. "I'd live for her." It was the next week it happened. From the porch of the lodge the girls could look over the lake, and they saw the whole affair. The two had been out all the morning fishing in a light rowboat. Street was seated, Carstairs standing easily at the stern, when he seemed to lose his balance. At Lois' cry Dolly was on her feet instantly. She saw Carstairs fall backwards into the lake, and well did she know the depth, and treacherous undergrowth beneath the calm dark waters. Madeline started on a run down towards the Frenchman's for help. Lois half slipped to the floor in a dead faint, and still the other girl stood motionless and shocked watching the boat, watching Street as he took the dive after his friend. Then she too ran, but not after Madeline. Down at the shore was her own boat, a stocky, well built one, and she sent it out towards the other that floated empty on the water. It seemed as though her heart were choking her, that length of time when she waited for them to rise again, wondering if they would ever rise, if they might not be entangled at some awful depth in that still, dark lake that told no secrets. And she leaned out over the side of the boat and called, called the name that was in her thoughts always these days. "Roland, Roland, I am here!" "Roland, Roland, I am here!" It was the first thing Carstairs heard when he came up, clutching Street's shoulder, but he had nerve, this slim, English chap, and he helped to put Roland Street into the boat with her help, and got back himself. "He's only a bit knocked out," he told her, when he could speak. "I went down all right, but a snag caught him on the head. Poor old boy, when he was trying to save me." "Will he live, are you sure he'll live?" Carstairs never forgot her tone or the look in her eyes, as she took Street's head on her lap and pushed back his wet curly hair. It was his answer. "Sure as that I am alive myself," he said, fervently. She smiled up at him, her eyes full of tears. "I guess you know how—how very much I care." she faltered. "I guess I do," answered Carstairs. "It's his winning. And he's a splendid old boy, Rolly is." He paused, and attended to his ears. Street had opened his eyes, and they looked straight up into the girl's. "Dolly," he began. "I tried to save him for you—" "And he saved you for me," she broke in, gently. "How big, and splendid your friendship is, Rolland." The two men looked at each other. To Street there came the knowledge of what had happened, how when death threatened both, each had willingly risked his life to save the other, and even with the wonder and sweetness of this other love breaking over him, he knew the bond that had held Carstairs true blue to him. "I think I'll run back to town to tomorrow, old boy," Carstairs remarked later, after they had changed clothing, and rested back at the shack. "When we both went under—er—she called you. You don't mind, do you?" Street put out his hand. "Passing the love of woman—" he said, slowly. "No, I don't mind. I'll wait up here here, until I can bring her back with me. You understand?" "I understand," said Carstairs. Kills Canal Project. The ameer of Afghanistan has been forced, apparently, to give up an ambitious canal project which he had in mind for the irrigation of the Jelalabad district. It was to be made by local labor, says the Pioneer, and, as the Afghans are experts in earthwork, the project, it was thought, would be easily completed. Irrigation by underground channels is mostly in vogue in the plains of eastern Afghanistan, so that a surface canal would be some what of a novelty. The headworks were badly damaged some time ago by heavy floods which came down the river, and the repairs seem to have been more than they could manage. Types of the Christian Life By Dr. Hugh T. Kerr, Chicago TEXT—Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.—John 11:5. Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Jesus loved them all. Yet he loved each of them, Martha and Mary and Lazarus. Each of them has a place in his heart. Yet they are so different. Jesus does not ask for monotony, but variety in his kingdom. The kingdom of grace is like the kingdom of nature. No two varieties are alike. In my Father's house are many mansions. One family, but many members. One home, but many hearts. That was the revelation of God's character in the Old Testament. He was the son of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob. How different they were. Abraham—the faithful, the consecrated, the pathfinder. Isaac—the lackadaisical, the indifferent, the father of an illustrious son, the son of an illustrious father. Jacob—the Jew—crafty and cunning, yet tender-hearted and visionary, and God was the father of each and yet loved them all. The fault with us is we want religion to level human nature at a dead uniformity, and we think Christians should all be conformed to our type, forgetting that Christ is the universal type—so universal that we may all be unlike each other and yet all be like him. It is the fault that belongs to our education. We grind all our children through the same mill. Black and white, delicate and robust, brilliant and dunhead, they must all submit to the same polishing process. It is the fault of our church system, also. We want to level down the whole congregation to our own miserable level. We think Christ has conceived in us the true conception of the saint. There is the Sunday school type and the Christian Endeavor type and the prayer meeting type. There is the elder type and the trustee type. The W, C, T. U. type and the Y, M, C. A. type. The temperance type and the missionary type. There is the Presbyterian and the Methodist and the Baptist type. The Mary and the Martha and the Lazarus type. But the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind, and all may be included in his all embracing love. Let us remember that Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Mary the passive, Martha the active, and Lazarus the patient. Mary—satisfied to be. Martha—to do. Lazarus—to do without. Mary—the waiter. Martha—the worker. Lazarus—the watcher. Mary content to sit. Martha content to serve. Lazarus content to suffer. And Jesus loved each and he loved all. Jesus loved Martha. That is what the record says. The active, busy serving Christian Martha. She is in the majority today and is greatly in demand. Sometimes she is apt to think she is the only one whom the Lord loves. She has much Scripture to quote in favor of her disposition and she has the authority of great men who favor the strenuous life. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy. Pure religion and undefined before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. "Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only." Martha is everywhere respected and honored today because she does things. She is the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the church services, the missionary society, the ladies' aid. She is cooking, praying, sewing, visiting, collecting for the kingdom of God, until when night comes she falls asleep too tired to say her prayers; And Jesus loved Martha. And we must love her too. A religion that finds its joy in service and in consecrated activity is apt to be a moral power. A religion that finds God nearer in moments of sentiment or musical ecstasy, instead of in moments of moral endeavor, is extremely dangerous. Jesus loved Martha. Jesus loved Mary. Mary—the quiet, retiring sister who sat at his feet. Mary's claim to recognition came from being willing to wait upon his words. She is like the beautiful picture through which you look into the great far beyond. She is like whispering music singing comfort into troubled hearts. In a world of sin and turmoil Mary sat in the confidence of a beautiful trust. She was like another beautiful girl upon whose tombstone her friends carved the words: "It was easier to be good when she was with us." That was Mary's tribute, "What interests the world in Mr. Gladstone," writes John Morley, "is even more what he was than what he did." What interests the world in Jesus is not so much his beautiful teaching as his more beautiful life. It was a hard lesson for Elijah to learn. He was the child of the storm and the tempest. He lived in reformations and revolutions. "Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah." My dear friends, let us not take away from the boundless power the love of God. He loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. All with their differences. And they all loved him Mary sits at his feet. Martha hurries to supply his wants. And Lazarus is content to glorify him with his radiant resurrection' glory. With all our differences and misunderstandings and selfishness we love him and such in turn is loved by him. SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY All Relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Sikeston, Mo. — "For seven years I suffered everything. I was in bed for four or five days at a time every month, and so weak I could hardly walk. I cramped and had backache and headache, and was so nervous and weak that I dreaded to see anyone or have anyone move in the room. The doctors gave me medicine to ease me at the ANOTHER OVERTIME times, and said that I ought to have an operation. I would not listen to that, and when a friend of my husband told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and what it had done for his wife, I was willing to take it. Now I look the picture of health and feel like it, too. 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I got worse and worse until I became so low I could scarcely retain any food at all, although I tried about every kind. "I had become completely discouraged, and given up all hope, and thought I was doomed to starve to death, until one day my husband, trying to find something I could retain, brought home some Grape-Nuts. "To my surprise the food agreed with me, digested perfectly and without distress. I began to gain strength at once. My flesh (which had been flabby), grew firmer, my health improved in every way and every day, and in a very few weeks I gained 20 pounds in weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for four months I ate no other food, and always felt as well satisfied after eating as if I had sat down to a fine banquet. I had no return of the miserable sick stomach nor of the headaches, that I used to have when I ate other food. I am now a well woman, doing all my own work again, and feel that Ko is worth living. "Grape-Nuts food has been a Godsend to my family; it surely saved my life; and my two little boys have thriven on it wonderfully." Name given by Postam Co., Battle Creek, Mitch. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in plugs. "There's a reason." Ever read the above letter? A new appearance from time to time. They are sunny, true, and full of human letters. LESSON TEXT-II Chronicles 33:1-20, MEMORY VERSES-12, 13, GOLDEN TEXT-"Cease to do evil; learn to do well."-Isa, 1:16-17. TIME- Manasseh reigned 15 years, from B. C. 694-640. He began in the 289th year of the kingdom of Judah. PLACE-Judah and Jerusalem its capital. Manasseh was carried captive to Babylon for a time. The Kingdom of Israel had been destroyed a quarter of a century before Manasseh began to reign. The teacher of boys or girls may begin by asking what a lighthouse is for, or a foghorn, or bell buoy in the harbor. Is it to tell the sailors where to go? No, it is to tell them where not to go. Why are stories of bad men told in the Bible, such as the one in this lesson? They are a warning. They are pictures of a character that repels us, that urges us not to enter any path that leads to that end. During the long reign of Manasseh Jerusalem was at peace while the neighboring lands were harried by Assyrian armies, so that Jerusalem had a large share of the trade of Palestine The king and his subjects benefited in many ways from the immense increase of traffic caused by the inclusion of Egypt and western Asia under one empire. The political rank of Jerusalem secured to her the chief markets of the internal commerce of Judah, as well as the gifts which it was customary for foreign traders to leave with the lords of the territories they visited; and thus in spite of the disadvantages of its site, the city must have become a considerable emporium. Manasseh was the son and heir of Hezekiah, a great, and, on the whole, good king. His mother's name was Hepizabal, the delight of her husband. He was only twelve years old when he began to reign in form. But in Judah a king was not supposed to be of age until he was eighteen. For six years Manasseh must have been to a great extent under the influence of his regents and counselors. He was the sixteenth king of Judah. He reigned fifty and five years. The longest reign in the history of Judah and Israel. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Manasseh was king of the Lord's people, and his business was to carry out God's plan of a peculiar people who should teach the nations righteousness, and the true way of living. He was a mere boy, unable at first to assert himself as a ruler. He doubtless was waited on, petted, flattered, courted, treated as a superior being whose will should never be checked, nor fancy thwarted; with no regular business, no hard tasks. What Manasseh did was popular and fashionable; following the ways of the greatest, most cultured, most influential nation in the world, then the master of Judah. The people were doing business with the Assyrians. Trade demanded conformity. Society was dominated by Assyrian influences. Moreover, many doubtless used the same argument Rabshakeh used to Hezekiah that the prosperity under heathen gods, and their conquering power proved that these gods were mightier than Jehoah the God of the little Province of Judah. Mannasseh degraded true religion that was meant for the comfort and elevation of man, by leading his people away from the one true God, the only source of help, into all manner of useless, irrational, degrading enchantments by which the people sought for guidance and help. Thus these practices were treason and disloyalty. The Lord spake to Manasseh, by means of the prophets, of whom Nahum may have been one; by means of his conscience, by the example of his father, by means of his conscience, by the written word, by providence. It is not known just when Manasseh was made to pay the penalty of his sins, but it must have been after many years of idolatry. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria and Manasseh was made captive. The records of Assurbanipal record a review of the 22 kings of whom Manasseh was one apparently at Nineveh. Which took Manasseh among the thorns, "in chains," margin, "with hooks." "Assyrian kings sometimes thrust a hook into the nostrils of their captives, and so led them about. He had been sailing down the Niagara rapids carelessly, and now he feels the tossing of the waves, the current swiftly flowing by the rocks, he sees spray over the cataract, and hears its roar. Why? In order that he may stop ere it is too late. The bitter fruits of his wrong doing wrought the desired effect. The prodigal came to himself. He besought the Lord, Jehovah, not the heathen gods he had not worshiping, who failed him in his trouble. God showed Manasseh clearly that he forgave him, by the fact that he brought him again to Jerusalem. And next summer we shall probably hear the same old story about an ice famine. "Prune now," says the almanac. The boarding house keeper prunes always. Aged ball players must either come back or else go away back. It would not seem natural without a daily war scare. Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, $1.00, retail. Doctors Said He Would Die A Friend's Advice Saves Life I wish to speak of the wonderful cure that I have received from your noted Swamp-Root, the great kidney and bladder cure. Last summer I was taken with severe pains in my back and sides. I could not breathe without difficulty and was nearly wild with the desire to urinate. 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NEBRASKA JURIS IGHTERS OF 18—St. Mar- W. G. Thurs. NIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF 18—St. Marie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. E TABOR. W. Graham, 2112 Nicholas; 2-4 Topeka, Kan V. G. M. A, Kan C. G. P. Kansas. V. G. P. Kansas. G. G. S. 20—Maria, Johns 21 Queen S Nance 24—Charity Mrs. Wed. Kan. G. Q. M. ttt, Kan. G. P. P. l, Neb. C. G. O. on, Kans. OOK, O.K. 30-Victoria R. Rive 34-Wichita l l H 35-Golden Mrs. 1-3 T 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kan. SIR W. N. MILLER, General Attorney, 430 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas. TEMPLE5. Rev. F. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. 1—A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sir W. M. Watkins; 1-3 Fri. 2—R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Sir Jno. N. Davis, 521 "L,"; 1-3 Fri. Rev. F.ank Wilson, C. G. M. 1—A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sir W. M. Watkins; 1-3 Fri. 2—R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Sir Jno. N. Davis, 521 "L,"; 1-3 Fri. 4—Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., Sir S. R. Jackson, care Frye Shoe Store; 1-3 Mon. 5—St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., Sir Joe Walker, 1220 West (north); 1-3 Thurs. 6—Humphrey, Omaha, Neb., Sir W. H. Jackson, 2515 N. 17th. 7—Mt. Nebo, Wichita, Kan., Sir Rev. S. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington; 1-3 Fri. 39 Deborah Mable 52—Mt. Ma Josie 63—Fair W Mrs. 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Susie 1-3 W 85—Magdale Hardt Wed. 91—Golden Lula 92—St. Ann D. D. (north); 1-3 85—Magdala Hardi Neb., Sir W. N. 17th. am, Sir Rev. am, 1524 N. rI. 91—Golden Lula 92—St. Ann D. D. 1—St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., Sir A. J. Bean, 309 Lowman; 1-3 Tues. 10—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan, Sir Gae. Walker, 417 Kickapoo. 11—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main; 1-3 Thurs. 10—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., Sir Gso. Walker, 417 Kickapoo. 11—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main; 1-3 Thurs. 12—Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan., Sir W. N. Williams, 220 Corning; 1-3 Thurs. Rev. F. Mrs. 1 1—Golden Mrs. 4ths. 15—Silver Leaf, Salina, Kan., Sir J. C. Brown, 246 S. Phillips; 13 Thurs. 17—Golden Gate, Coffeyville, Kan. Sir G. W. Roberts. 19—Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., Sir J. E. Hughes, 1313 N. J. 22—Barak, Oswego, Kan., Sir L. R. Wilson; 2-4 Mon. 24—Jas. H. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan. Sir Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 26—Washington, Kansas City, Kan. Sir J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell; every Friday. 59—Sunnyside, Topeka, Kan., Sir Peter Davis, 1008 Washburn; 1-3 Thurs. 60—Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., Sir U. S. Grant, 120 Kansas; 1-3 Mon. 72—Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Sir E. D. Weaver, 1125 Saratoga. Kan., Sir J. Phillips; 1-3 Yville, Kan. Le, Kan., Sir N. J. , Sir L. R. Ryvale, Kan. Warren, 218 E. City, Kan. 422 Haskell; Kan., Sir Washburn; Kan., Sir U. 1-3 Haskell; 2—Frank Miss En- 3—Moses Mrs. ton, I 7—Lone S Lewis 11—Golden, rie Brown 11—Alice T Mrs. 31st; 11—Viola, I Brown 14—Busy B Aria 15—Louisa Mrs. Main. TABERNACLES. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. 1—Queen of the West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Marit Wilson, 945 Everett, 1-2 Wed. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 S. Chestnut; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Mary Goss, 2423 Jewett 1-3 Fri. 4—Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan. Mrs. Sadie Campbell, 616 W. 1st; 1-3 Thurs. 5—Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Hattle Mqntgomery, 115 N. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 6—Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Mrs. Catherine Glaspie, 128 N. Wabash; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lilian Shobe, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Fri. 8—Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan. Mrs. Laura Donnell, 410 E. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 9—Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Lulu Delley, 120 Kansas Ave; 1-3 Fri. 10—St. Marta, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. P. Henderson, 820 N. Y.; 1-3 Wed. 11—Saba Meroe, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. P. Woodjork, 823 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. 12—Goluen Rule, Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewar; 1-3 Thurs. 15—America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. Maggie Stewart, Box 14; 2-4 Mon. 16—Silver Leaf, Persons, Kan., Mrs. Lizzle Morton, 1308 Washington; 1-3 Wed. 17—Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan. Mrs. A. Masler, 817 E. Wail --- --- 833 TEMPLES. TABERNACLES. SKA JURISDICTION 18—St. Marie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. E W. Graham, 2112 Nicholas; 2-4 Thurs. 19—Amelia Levels, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th. 20—Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P Johnson, 501 Hyman; 1.9 Frl. 21 Queen Sheba, Oswego, Kan., Mrs. Nancy Landis, Box 144 2-4 Thu. 24—Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan.; Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th; 1-3 Wed. 28—Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. D. Dorsey. 29—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. H. La Tand, 407 Kickapoo; 1-3 Tue. 30—Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. R. Rivers, 607 Second; 1-3 Fri. 34—Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Sal lie Hall, 1024 Ohio; 1-3 Thurs 35—Golden Rule, So. Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Sadie Jones, 819 N. 27th; 1-3 Thurs. 37—Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mary Grosby, 119 Commercial; 1-3 Fri. 38—Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. F Taylor, Box 394; 2-4 Wed. 39 Deborah, Abeline, Kansas, Mrs. Mable Baskerville. 2-4 Thurs 52—Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Josie Wear, 807 N. Y., 2-4 Thurs. 63—Fair West, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Rosa Saunders, 610 N. J: 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Susie O'Brien, 1180 Buchanau; 1-3 Wed. 85—Magdalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. F. Hardiman, 1801 Kansas; 2-4 Wed. 91—Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Lula Rountree; 112 N. 19th. 92—St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L. D. Davis, 1029 Rose. 93—Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. A. Brown, 715_E. 11th; 1-3 Thurs. TENTS. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. 1—Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Jennie Nichols, 418 Third; 4th Sat. 2—Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan. Miss Emma Maxie, 411 Ransom. 3—Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan. Mrs. B. Davis, 1135 N. Washington, 1-3 Sat. 7—Lone Star, Yale, Kan., Mrs. Calle Lewis. 11—Golden, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Carrie Brown, 920 N. 10th; 2-4 Sat. 11—Alice Tucker, So. Omaha, Neb. Mrs. I. M. Faulkner, 169 N. 31st; 1-3 Sat. 11—Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Mary Brown, 325 Miss. 4 Sat. 14—Busy Bee, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Arla Stone, 823 Main; 1-3 Sat. 15—Louisa Mae, Cherryvale, Kan. Mrs. M. E. Holt, 517 West Main. 16—Pearl, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Anna Jones, 625 N. Wichita; 2-4 Sat. 17—Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. H. H. Askins, Box 25. 18—Star of West, Salina, Kan., O. A. Murrell. 20—John Wilson, K. C., Kan., Mr. C. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett; 2-4 Sat 21—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan.; Mrs. Ella McKennis, 217 Sherman, 2-4 Sat. 23—Clinging Rose, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Ada King, 722 N. Y., 3 sat. 26—Pride of Topeka, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Nannia Shaw, 905 N. Tay lor. 27—Pansy Blossom, Topeka, aKn., Mrs. Jennie McAdoc, 1501 N. Logan; 1-3 Sat. 45—Orange Rose, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. P. Henderson, 312 Washington; 1-3 Sat. 46—Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Herrold, 2205 N. 25th ;1-3 Sat. 44—Rising Sun, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mary Delley, 120 Kansas. 8—Golden Eagle, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Mayes, 20 Campbell. 5—New Hope, Coffeyville, Mrs. Ada Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe., 2-4 Wed. Fred D. Early; 24 Fri. 2—Evening Star, Topeka, Kan., Ransom Taylor, 4th Thrus. 3—Moses Dickson, Auchison, Kan., W. H. Barnes, 4th Mon. 4—Queen Wilson, Parsons, Kan., Lee Haliday. 5—Jewell Wilson, Lawrence, aR., Chas. H. Kuntz. 6—Queen of Kansas, K. C., Kan., Milton Washington; 1-4 Thurs. OFFICIAL ORGAN. The Wichita Searchlight, 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kan. Only $1.00 per year. ```markdown ``` Directory TENTS. PALATIUMS. DEAM ABSTRACT NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstracts — FOR BREAD AND BISCUITS — "Wichita's Best" Flour Kansas Milling Company WICHITA, KANSAS Everything Neat COTTAG 603 North Regular Meals 20c Fresh Pies, Cakes, Pastries Mrs. R. H. 603 N. Main St All Calls Promptly An Dr. C. R. Veterinary Surge The Finest Equipped Phone Market 1730 NEXT PLACE MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle, ansas-Nebraska jurisdiction, will meet next in Coffeyville, Kansas on the second Tuesday in July, 1911. If a man would eat he must work. A life of elegant leisure is the life of an unworthycitizen. The republic does not owe him a living. It is he who owes the republic a life of usefulness. Such is the republican idea. Would you be refused, made new? Open your heart to your friend. Causes of Poverty Poverty is an economic condition, the product of a selfish industrial policy. It is true that there are some poor who are so by choice, but there are not 10, 000,000 who choose to go to work half fed, half clothed and live half housed. When 10 per ct. of the people of the United States hold 99 per cent of our wealth, how will the remaining 90 per cent of the people fare woen you divide the remaining 1 per cent of wealth among them? Rev. Ben Wyland, Congregation Brooklyn Pews Should Back Pulpit The reason our churches have not the strong preachers that they once had is because our pew are filled with the men and women backing up their pastors as they once did. Mark this: The pew has more to do with the pulpit than the pulpit has to do with the pew.—Frank De Witt, Tlimage. Presbyterian, Pa. "I insist upon an allowance of $500 a month—not a penny less!" he cried. "Absurd! That's more than I pay my cook," she retorted with curling lip. "Then get your cook to dance at attendance at all manner of boredome affairs; to give you the face to do what an unmarried woman never dares do; to be always at hand yet out of the way; never to mind no matter how you choose to conduct yourself—in short, to be a husband to you in the modern sense of the term!" he shared out defiantly. She perceived that the worm had turned. "Huhh!" she implored, and reached for her checkbook. --- High Class Surgery A Specialty The Worm. , Fresh and Clean — GE CAFE Main Street Short Order All Hours es — All Home Cooking Todd, Prop Wichita, Kan Special Attention Given To Canine Practice answered -- Day or Night Wildes Reon & Dentist Hospital In the City Office and Hospital 230 N. Market St., Wichita North End Shoe Shop Shoe Repairing Haff-Soles, Heel Building A Specialty All : Work : Neatly : Finished Isaac Starnes, Prop 1611 Wabash Wichita, Ks House For Sale FOR SALE: Nice four 4room Cottage on Wich ita, St. on easy payments. See W. N. MILLER, 630 N. Main St. FOR SALE:- 50 Feet on Wabash, near 15th. for $325 on payments. Call or address George T Bailey 1470 E. Fifteenth St. Send Your News in early This Week. IF IT EVER HAPAENED YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT JUMPED AT NATURE'S BIDDING. Would-Be Sulicide Not Completely Nerved for Final Parting. With a groan of despair he made up his mind to die. Ruined financially, and with not a particle of hope for getting on his feet again, he realized that the only chance for his family escaping pauperism and its attendant miseries was to obtain immediate use of his heavy life insurance. Furthermore, if he lingered on he would be unable to pay the premiums on his policies, which unfortunately were not old enough to carry themselves, so that they would forthwith lapse. Death, therefere, was the only solution to the problem. It was a decision the bitterness of which can only be understood by those forced by circumstances to confront it. He put on his hat and overcoat and went out of the house, lest the expression on his telltale, countenance should betray to his loved ones his fell intention. While he was traversing the crowded streets he would consider the best and least suspicious modes of consummating his purpose. If he could encompass it so that the thing looked to the world like an accident, so much the better. There would then be no scandal. As he stepped from the curb to cross the street an automobile, driven by a reckless joy-riding chauffeur, came tearing around the corner at terrifying speed. And the energetic leap which the would-be suicide made back to the sidewalk out of harm's way was a caution. Took Precautions. "You ran into this man at 30 miles an hour and knocked him 40 feet,' said the court. "That, or a little better, I suppose,' answered the chauffeur. "Why didn't you slow down?" "Mere precaution, your honor. Once I shut off speed and hit a man so gently that he was able to climb into the machine and give me a leaing." ART CRITICISM IN KANSAS Harvey Parsons Found Much Fault With His Friend's Picture of the Girl and the Cow. Albert T. Reid and Harvey Parsons, two well known Kansas artists, are very good friends. Reid was one of Parsons' teachers. Recently Reid drew a handsome water-color picture depicting a very pretty girl dressed in a milkmaid's costume. She had one arm thrown lovingly about the neck of a big, fine Holstein cow—the kind they raise in Kansas. In the other hand she carried a milking cow. The girl and the cow were wandering through a field of dalsies. It is a good piece of work and was accepted readily and gladly by the publishers who ordered it. Just about the time Reid had it finished Parsons wandered into his studio. "What are you working on?" asked Parsons. Reid pointed to an easel on which stood the picture of the girl and the cow. Parsons looked it over for some time and, blowing out a big wreath of pipe smoke, asked: "What is the girl going to do?" "Going to do?" ejaculated Reid. "Why, milk the cow, of course." "What is she doing with her arm around the cow's neck?" asked Parsons. "Leading the animal to the lot," replied Reid, mixing some paint. "Well, where is the milk pail?" demanded Parsons. "She hasn't any milk pall," replied Reid. "H'm," replied Parsons. "Then may be she isn't going to milk the cow?" "Well, maybe she isn't," asserted Reid. "Well, if she isn't," persisted Parsons, blowing another puff of smoke. "what is the girl going to do with that milking stool?" "Oh," snorted Reid, "she is going to hit the darned cow over the head with it!"—Kansas City Journal. Novels by Weight. Bernard Shaw's latest contribution to the world's fund of wisdom is the suggestion that fiction be sold, or bought by weight. This certainly is Mr. Shaw's profoundest utterance. It marks the acme of his greatness as a sage. By all means buy it by weight, then there can be very little ground for complaint at the high price of novels. Moreover, it will be in direct line with this popular movement to buy groceries by weight, as a means of solving the high-cost-of-living problem and getting one's money's worth. Perhaps, also, this Shaw system will have the desired effect of limiting the output, of bringing the supply somewhere near the demand. The present method of buying it by the yard seems utterly to have failed in this achievement. That means of measurement has not even proved wholly successful with reference to Dr. Elliot's five-foot book shelf, which, of course, no one but Shaw ever would have thought of buying by the pound. BELIEVING THE WORST OF IT Sam Bernard's Story of His Intolucated Friend Illustrates a Common Failing of Humanity. If Sam Bernard is to be believed, one of the most common sins to which a frail humanity is prone is that of believing the worst in any given case. "There's my friend Jones," said Bernard. "I met Jones wobbling up Broadway the other night. Just before I got to him Jones sought the comparative shelter of a lamppost. He giggled at me weakly when I touched him on the shoulder. "Come on, Jonesie," said I. "I'll take you to the hotel and put you to bed." "Jonesie looked at me for a moment and then he spoke. 'How far'sh hotel from here?' he asked. "'About five minutes' walk.' "Huh,' said Jonesie, nodding his head; 'Fi' minutes' walk, huh? Fr you or fr me? "Now, I know what your conclusion is. You think that Jones was drunk, but how do you know he didn't have a wooden leg? One should always practise the virtue of charity. You remember the time that Admiral Bob Evans, walking down Broadway, came to one of his quartermasters. The sailor straightened up and saluted. Admiral Evans looked down and there lay another quartermaster, asleep in the gutter. "Drunk, eh?' said Evans. "Oh, no, shir," said the erect quar- termaster, deprecatingly. "Ow, I wouldn't call him drunk, sir. I just seen him move his fingers a little."— Cincinnati Times-Star. Strength In Advancing Age. Strength in Advancing Age. To Hugo the years that bend and weaken and wrinkle the genius of the master seem but to bring fresh strength and energy and beauty. He ages like the lions. His brow, seamed with august furrows, rises under a mane larger, thicker, more bristling and more disheveled than ever before. His yellow eyes are like suns within caverns; when he roars the other animals are silent. Or, changing the comparison, one might liken him to an oak that dominates the forest; its enormous wrinkled trunk bursting into leaf, its branches might as trees. Its deep-reaching roots drink of the sap of the heart of the earth, its head almost touches heaven. In its vast foliage the stars shine at night, the birds sing at dawn. It braves the sun, the tempest, the wind, the thunder and the rain. The very scars of the thunderbolt have added to its beauty something formidable and superb. Gesner's "Portrait of Victor Huge." Prof. Kealing Coming The people of Wichita, are going to be given the rare treat of hearing Prof. H. T. Kealing, the gifted President of Western University, Quindaro, Kansas. Prof. Kealing will be in Wichita July 16th, and 17th. He will fill the pulpit of the A. M. E. Church Sunday July 16th and will deliver a lecture Monday at night July 17th. He is worth hearing both as a minister and asa lecturer and is considered one of America's formost educators. Awakening of Race The awakened interest in the women of the colored race is as general as it is gratifying. Every where strong men are giving a happy support to the efforts of the women themselves are putting forward in the work of progress. The Durham Reformer makes the following interesting comment: "A race is no better than its women. The progress that colored women are making in morality and feminine attractiveness is truely remarkable. When the history of the race is considered along with the unrestricted assaults, which the law permitted and public opinion sanctioned upon the chasity of our women, one cannot but be struck by the wonderful efforts which are being put forth to codetact the ingrained traditions of centuries At present there are more colored women than men and in the highest walks of life this is markedly noticeable. This difference is: the number and social equality of the sexes is another hindrance to the disfavor of colored women. There is an added difficulty in that those men who are schoolmen find that it is late in life before the marriage contract can be entered. This is also to the disadvantage of the colored women. "Every needed step ought to be taken to protect the virtue of our girls and boys and it is possible that early marriages would go far toward eradicating many of the evils which at present burden the moral progress of the women and men alike." IGN IN CIVILIZATION'S SCALE Jnknewn Peoples of America Who Have Perished Utterly. Between the region occupied of old by the Astecs and the realm far to the south over which the Incas ruled lies an immense stretch of territory, a thousand miles long and 800 wide, where the remains of unknown and wonderful civilizations are being discovered, says a writer in Van Norien's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica in one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who attained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in antiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weave; in beauty of richness of color and fineness of texture no fabric of to-day surpasses it. Send Your news and Job To Us.