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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT FOURTEENTH YEAR J. H. S ::: will g MID SUMM at Masonic Hall Monday night, Refreshments Monday night, July 24th 1911 Refreshments - Full Orchestra Atlantic Negro Educator Dies At Dinner Table Rev. E. W. Lee, President Of Moris Brown Collage Drops Dead At Xenia Ohio. Xenia, Ohio.—While seated at the dinner table in Aruett hall at Wilberforce university, Kev. E W. Lee, president of the Morris Brown University, at Atlantic, Ga. dropped dead of heart failure. Rev. Mr. Lee was one of the leading negro educators of the south and was also formost in financial affairs of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was re-elected president of Morris Brown College on the first of June and had before that held the position three years. Prior to accepting the presidency he had been treasurer of the institution for sixteen years. He was, at the time of death a candidate for the bishopric and had been favorably reported upon by the board. Rev. Mr. Lee was born in Georgia 51 years ago and was, graduate of Clark University and of Gammon Theological seminary. He filled many large pastorates during his career as a minister, among these being Allen Temple and Big Bethel Church, at Atlantic, and Stewart A. M. E. Church of Macon. He was a presiding order and for eight years had been a member of the church extension board, which handled all funds advanced to colored churches in need of existance, three years a member of the financial board and at the time of his death was secretary of the auditing board. He had hundred of friends in Atlantic among the white people as well as the colored. --- Admission July 24th 1911 Full Orchestra - - - 25c Henry O. Tanner's Picture in the Corcoran Art Gallery Washington, D. C.—Henry O. Tanner, the famous artist, has two fine daintings on exhibition in the special exhibit department of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and they have been viewed with pleasure and critical interest by many of the art connoisseurs in this city. Both pictures are handsomely mounted and occupy conspicuous places on the walls of the Gallery. Both treat of religious theme. No 71 is cataloged as "The Three Marys," showing a joyful expectation as they learn of the birth of the Christ-child. This painting is valued $2,000. No. 23 is entitled "The Return of the Holy Women," giving a graphic detail of the misery experienced over the Crucifixion of the Savior. The second painting is marked in the catalogue at the selling price of $1,600. This, like No. 71 is traced in delicate lines with a prevailing tint of pale blue and each presents an individuality that sets it apart from all the rest. An art critic, speakiag of Mr. Tanner's work, said: "Mr. Tanner's art is essentially a religious art. That is, it is exercised primarily on the subjects of religious history, and is the expression of the religious mood This of course, constitutes no reason for treating it differently from other art, but it accounts for the touch of intense emotion in all of the figure work; the obvious efforts to embody an idea just beyond the power of the menium to render. Mr. Tanner has an extraordinary preception of what we may call emotional picturesqueness. His thought; as Continued on page Five. --- at the SATURDAY, JULY, 22 1911, Tabors Still Lead The twentieth annual session of the Grand Temple and Tabernacle Knights and Daughters of Tabor, of the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction, which convened in Coffeyville, Kansas, Tuesday, July 11th, 1911, was one of the best sessions ever held by this progressive Negro society. The session was held in the large and spacious Aupitorium and was called to order at 10 a.m. with Sir. Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor and Dtr. Emma Gaines Chief Grand Preceptress, presiding. The other Principal officers present ere: Sir. D. L. Taylor, Salina, v. G. M Dtr. Laura Lee Weir, V. G. P., Sir A. W. Hopkins, Leavenworth, C. G. S. Dtr Sarah W. Forbes, Lincoln, C. G. R., Sir Wm Core, Topeka, C. G. T., Sir Charles M. Johnson, Omaha, G. P. P. Dtr. Bessie Hall, Ft. Scott, G. Q. M., Rev. Sir M. Wooten, Hutchinson, C. G. O., Sir Andrew M. Harrold, Omaha G. D. M Dtr. Maggie Robinson, Kansas City, G. I. St., Sir John M. Burns, Weir, G. G. G. The roll of Temple Tabernacles Tents and Palatiums was called and there being a constititional number present the roll of the Grand Temple and Tabernacle adjourned until 2 p. m. At this hour the session re-assembled for the purpose of listening to the "Address of Welcome" which was ably delivered by Dtr. Alice Thompson, of CoffeAville. To this address a response was made on behalf of the Grand Temple and Tabernacle by Dtr. Mattie Johnson, of Omaha, Neb., Both the address of welcome and the response too were highly received by the grand session. Tuesday night the Knights and Daughters of Coffeyville tendered a reception to the delegates visitors which was fine in every way and casts great credit upon the members of the order in that city. A fine literary and musical program was rendered which was highly enjoyed by all who were present. Re-elected by Acclamation Wednesday morning Sir Rev. Frank Wilson, the matchless and unequaled Chief Grand Mentor of this jurisdiction made his 20, Twentieth Annual report which was filled with good things to cheer the heart of every true Knight and Daughter. As he complete every one was highly pleased and, as if by one-voice, Rev. Frank Wilson was re-elected Chief Grand Mentor by a unanimous vote of acclamation to serve for his twenty-first year as the presiding chief executive for Kansas and Nebraska. Following the report of the Chief was the report of Dtr. Emma Gaines who made her nineteenth annual report as Chief Grand Preeceptress was filled with words of cheer and gave evidence of a year of good work. At the conclusion of her report Dtr. Emma Gaines was unanimously re-elected to serve her twentieth year as the Chief Grand Preeceptress. This report waz followed by that of Sir A. W. Hopkins, C. G. S., Dtr. Sarah Forbes, C. G. R. and Sir. Wm. Core, C. G. T., Each these officers made a splendid report and each of them were unanimously re-elected to fill their respective offices. The Twentieth Annual Grand Session had the honor to have with them as their guest the Rev Seth Neal, Chief Grand Mentor, of Oklaaoma and its jurisdiction One feature of this session was the raising of the Endowment to be paid to Knights and Daughters to be Five $5.00 Dollarr more with out any increase in the amount paid by Knights and Daughters, which bespeaks a very healthy financial condition of the order of twelve. Wednesnay night the Annual Grand sermon was delivered by Rev. M. Wooten Chief Grand Orator. It is agreed by all that the sermon delivered by Rev. M. Wooten was a masterful one and one that carried spiritual weight with it. Rev. Wooteh recieved a many compliments. Memorial Services Thursday at 11 a.m. in keeping with the time honored custom of the order all the members not for the purpose of in a fitting manner pay their respects to the memory of the Knights and the Daughters, Maids add Pages of Special! Y. M. C. A. Band In a series of Concert at local churches starting Wednesday night July 26th at Cabbell M. E. Church, 15th and Wabash P : R : O : G : R : A : M 1— March "Our Dia 2— Selection (from) 3— Glee Club Song "Who I Am" 4— Dialect Reading cert Band" orig 5— American Medley 6— Comic Quartette 7— "Dat Johnson Tv 8— Selection (f Committee: — Ford C Thompson Admission 25c 1- March " Our Director " Biglow 2- Selection (from) " Faus " Gounod 3- Glee Club Song (Plantation Melody) " Who I Am " Arr. by Smith 4- Dialect Reading — " Dat Colored Concert Band " original by Matthew Bell 5- American Medley " Lost and Won" Carl 6- Comic Quartett 7- " Dat Johnson Two-step " Smith 8- Selection (from) Il Trovatore Committee: — Ford Clark, chairman; Homer Thompson and Ulric Washington Admission 25c : Children 15c who had passed to the great beyond. This, indeed, was a solemn hour and at the conclusion of this meeting there were no dry eyes in the house. Many came forward and asked for an interest in the prayers of the praying part of the congregation. In this session, which was under the direction of Rev. M. Wooten, C. G. O, he was assisted by Revs. P. D. Skinner, of Coffeyville Ks and Rev. H. W. White of Topeka. At the afternoon session all of the remaining Grand officers were elected and each and all of the old officers were unanimously re-elected as follows: Sir D. L. Taylor, Silina, V. G. M, Dtr. L. Lee, Weir Kansas V. G. P., Sir. Chas, Johnson, Omaha, Neb. G. P. P., Dtr. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. Ft. Scott, Kansas. Sir M. Woot en, Hutchinson, C. G. O., Dtr. Pauline Woodfork, Kansas City Kansas. C. G. Pr, Dtr. Maggie Robinson, C. G. I. St., Kansas, City. Grand Street Parade At 11 a.m. the Knights and Daughters, Maids and Pages assembled in front of the Auditorium and under the direction of Smith's PROF. N. CLARK SMITH vector " Biglow " Faus" Gounod (Plantation Melody) Arr. by Smith — "Dat Colored Con- ginal by Matthew Bell "Lost and Won" Carl two-step" Smith (om) Il Trovatore dark, chairman; Homer and Ulric Washington : Children 15c Sir Andrew M. Harrold, of Omaha, as Marshall of the day, assisted by Sir J. M Burns of Weir, Sir. S. R. Jackson of Omaha and Sir A. Garnerof Coffeyville they formed for the big gigantic parade. With Prof. Hayle's bund in the lead they paraded the principal streets in a procession that was seven blocks long and ended up at Beautiful Forest Park, where they all enjoyed the remainder of the day. Friday night the installation of the Grand Officers was conducted by Sir John W. Burdett, of Levenworth I Deputy C. G. M. At the conclusion of the installation of the officers for the year the young Knight Frank Wilson Jr. son of Rev. and Mrs. Frank Wilson was duly adopted as the child of the Order of Twelve of this jurisdiction. Many beautiful and valuable presents were presented. We did not get a full list later when we can give the names of all the donors. Watch for it. The twentieth annual grand session was then brought to a close to meet again in 1912 in Leavenworth, Kansas, on the second Tuesday in July. NO.16 HARVEST TIME ON THE FARM CONVEYING THE SACKED GRAIN TO THE CARS OR ELEVATOR become imperative on the large farms of the west, California and the Pacific northwest, owing to the immense force of men needed to garner the grain on these baronial estates of the "wheat empires." On one of these bi HARVEST SCENE IN THE WHEAT EMPIRE going to and from the farm house ing the light of the moon, if the latter b MODERN RANGE WAGON OR KITCHEN ON WHEELS MODERSTY RANGE WAGWOT OR KITCHEN OIL WHEELS HARVEST TIME ON A LARGE FARM FARM HARVEST TIME ON A LARGE FARM --- HE most vivid recollections of every man and woman brought up on a farm must be of the golden harvest time. Even the persons whose farm experience has been limited to protracted visits to the country are likely to retain mental pictures of the gathering of the grain as the most lasting impressions of such intervals—provided, of course, HE most vivid recollections of every man and woman brought up on a farm must be of the golden harvest time. Even the persons whose farm experience has been limited to protracted visits to the country are likely to retain mental pictures of the gathering of the grain as the most lasting impressions of such intervals—provided, of course, they remained in the rural domain long enough to witness all phases of the harvest-time activity and long enough to contrast the rush and bustle of this busy period with the more placid existence of more normal times "down on the farm." The average city dweller whose early years were spent on a farm harks back to nothing so fondly as the picturesque annual drama of the bringing in the sheaves. And the city dweller— country-bred or not—indicates the fascination of this phase of farm operations by his longing to "pitch hay" when he invades the agricultural region for his vacation. That is, he is enthusiastic about pitching hay until he tries it. Perhaps he would not deem it quite so much fun if he had to do it for a livelihood and if he could not quit his job whenever he happened to get tired. So, too, the farmer boy, transformed into a city dweller who looks back so longingly at the good old harvest times on the old homestead, is very probably, after the fashion of mankind, remembering the pleasant things only and forgetting the disadvantages of the harvest season. It has quite escaped his memory, most likely, how he was routed out of bed at daybreak or earlier when there was harvesting to be done and how he turned in with the chickens and slept like a log from sheer exhaustion. He has lost all recollection of the nerve-racking anxiety, shared by every member of the family, lest it rain before the harvesting was finished, and he passes lightly over the reminiscences of those weary hours under a scorching sun with no protection save a broad-brimmed straw hat, its lofty peak filled with leaves to help break the force of old Soil's shafts. Harvest time on the farm, past and present, marks the climax of the year in hard work and in worry—in short, in nerve and muscular strain generally. Of course, it will be understood that reference is made to the season of the grain harvest. To be sure, there are what might be termed harvest seasons at intervals all through the season, from the time the strawberries are ripe in the spring, only the farmer never thinks of dignifying the garnering of these crops by the name of harvest. In the eyes of the tiller of the soil harvest time means the crucial juncture for gathering the grain—particularly the wheat—and storing it away in barns and elevators, or mayhap loading it direct on the railroad cars that are to carry it to the flour mills or to the ship which will carry it overseas to supply the bread-eaters of Europe and the Orient. In the old days practically every farm in the land had its harvest time and it held the secret of the profits of the whole year's work on the farm. That this is true no longer is due simply to that tendency to specialization which has invaded the farmer's occupation as it has every other field. Nowadays we have chicken farms and truck farms and fruit farms and other kinds of farms, where attention is so concentrated upon the one product in hand that the proprietors do not raise enough grain for the needs of their own stock. On such special farms the once universal "harvest time" is unknown. But to make up for them we have vast farms in the west and on the Pacific slope, where wheat is the product specialized, and in consequence we see on these big farms harvesting operations which in magnitude and picturesque features so far overshadow the corresponding operations on the old-fashioned farm east of the Mississippi that there is literally no comparison One odd thing about harvesting is that almost all methods are yet in vogue in one section or another of the country. The explanation is found, of course, in the fact that the first cost and the operating expense of the great steam harvesting outfits designed for the bonanza farms of the west are such as to make them impracticable for the farmers controlling small areas. Consequently, these farmers are getting along, and getting along very well, with the old-time equipment, modernized by the introduction of some of the improvements devised originally for the big power machines. We are not any longer har- "BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES" vesting the grain with sickle and flail, as they do to this day in certain European countries, but the small farmer is, perforce, putting a great deal more manual labor into the gathering of his grain than is the owner of one of the west's 5,000-acre wheat fields, where combination harvesters, drawn by traction engines or 40 or 50 horses, perform automatically every function from cutting the stalks as they stand in the field to delivering to the waiting wagons the threshed, cleaned and sacked wheat, all ready for the market, without the touch of a human hand. Under the old conditions harvest time on the farm meant hard work for the women folks as well as for the men and this is still the case just in proportion as the old-time conditions yet prevail. The burden of responsibility that fell upon the farmer's wife and daughters was that of feeding the harvest hands. To be sure the wife had help, for her neighbors all pitched in and helped even as their husbands and brothers, on a similar cooperative basis, were assisting the farmer in getting in his grain—a service that would be repaid in kind as the turn of each came in the round of harvesting activities that embraced the whole countryside. Under this plan, when harvest time meant a continual succession of neighborhood gatherings, there were compensations of the farmers' wives in the opportunities for gossip gatherings that went the time-honored sewing circles one better, whereas the farmer girls might behold romances grow under their eyes as the lads, fresh from the harvest fields, had most convincing evidence as to the prowess in cookery of the local belles. As a development of this system, that was scarcely an improvement from the feminine standpoint, came the plan of harvesting by means of hired hands—possibly through the medium of a "crew" that accompanied a portable steam harvester that made its rounds from farm to farm. Under this plan, which is yet the approved one in most sections, the farmer's wife and daughters have to get up three meals a day for a dozen or a score of husky harvest hands and yet they are not so sure of assistance from the other women of the neighborhood as was the case when these latter had no similar duties at home through the presence of the men folk at the common harvesting rendezvous. Worse yet, the young ladies have scarcely the interest that was manifest when the volunteer harvesters to be served were the eligibles of the neighborhood instead of, as now, nomadic laborers or, at best, college boys working for funds to put them through school. Latterly there has been some relief from that phase of the harvesting system which has meant so much hard work for the fair sex. It has come through the introduction of cook wagons or kitchens on wheels which accompany the big threshing outfits from farm to farm and serve food to the harvest hands right at the scene of their work—thereby saving, by the way, the time that was formerly spent in CONVEYING THE SACKED GRAIN TO THE CARS OR ELEVATOR [Illustration of a snowy village with houses and trees in the background]. APPROVED TYPE OF STEAM HARVESTING OUTFIT WHEN THE SHAH TRAVELED HARVEST SCENE IN THE WHEAT EMPIRE going to the farm house This latter was a considerable item if the farm house was located several miles from the harvest field in which the men happened to be working at noon. These kitchen cars have been in use to some extent for several years past, but great improvements have been made in them of late. There are now provided for the use of the big traveling harvesting crews "range wagons," with several of the largest size kitchen ranges mounted on a truck, and more won- ing the available pel the crews of sheaves these fa constant as have in every precious curance one of the east or proved APPROVED TYPE OF STEAM HARVESTING derful yet is the "steam cooker," which looks very much like a fire engine, but which performs marvels in quick cooking. Why, in the early morning, for instance, coffee will be ready for all the members of the largest harvesting force within twelve minutes of the time the fires are lighted. This plan of cooking for the harvesting crews has virtually Each time the shah of Persia went to Europe, where he spent large sums, he procured the money needed for his journey not only by raising a loan, generally in Russia, but also by another method, which was both ingenious and businesslike. "Before leaving his possessions," writes M. Paell in McClure's, "he summoned his chief officers of state—ministers, provincial governors and the like—and proposed the following bargain to them: Those who wished to form part of his suite must first pay him a sum of money, which he fixed in accordance with the importance of their functions; it varied between 50,000 and 300,000 francs. In return, he authorized them to recoup themselves in any way they pleased. "Here we find the explanation of the large number of persons who accompanied the shah on his travels, and the quaint and unexpected titles they bore, such as that of 'minister of the dock yard' (though Persia has never owned a navy), and one still more extraordinary, that of 'attorney to the heir apparent.'" "Although they sometimes had romantic souls, they invariably had terribly practical minds. Eager to recover their outlay as quickly as possible, they practiced on a huge scale and without scruple or hesitation what I may describe as the bonus or commission system. This explained how on each of his trips to France the shah was able to spend from eight to twelve million francs in pocket money. "He always carried a loaded pistol in his trousers pocket, though he never used it. On one of his journeys in France he even took it into his head to make a high court official walk before him when he left the theater carrying a revolver pointed at the peaceable sightseers who had gathered to see him come out. As soon as I saw this I ran up to the threatening bodyguard. "Put that revolver away,' I said. It is not the custom here." ```markdown ``` become imperative on the large farms of the west, California and the Pacific northwest, owing to the immense force of men needed to gather the grain on these baronial estates of the "wheat empire." On one of these big farms in Oklahoma, which may be cited as representative, there are in use twenty-two harvesters and binders, each of which average a cut of 250 acres of wheat per season. Similarly, on some of the Dakota farms one may see in season anywhere from twenty to forty machines in one far-dung line, charging into the golden sea of undulating grain. Merely the drivers of these machines make a goodly force, to say nothing of the other members of the harvest crew, and when anywhere from fifty to one hundred horses are employed in harvesting operations, the care of these animals is in itself something of a chore. Perhaps the most picturesque feature of harvesting on the big farms beyond the Missouri river comes when the operation is carried on at night by means of the illumination of torches and locomotive headlights, supplement- EMPIRE ing the light of the moon, if the latter be available. Drought and other causes may impel the western farmer to work his harvest crews double time in order to hurry in the sheaves, but as a rule the grain grower in these favored sections of the country is not constantly menaced by thunder storms such as have, from time out of mind, caused anxiety in every eastern farming community until the precious grain is safely in the barn. The secuance of adequate help in harvest time is one of the big problems of almost every farmer east or west who raises much grain. The improved harvesting machines that cut down the STING OUTFIT number of men required for the task have helped some, of course, but it requires a certain number of men to operate the machines and in times of prosperity when labor is scarce the farmer often finds that heavy inroads have been made in his season's profits by the fancy prices he has had to pay for the hired hands to handle the crop. "But I had to insist pretty strongly before he consented to lay aside his weapon. "The shah, for that matter, was no less distrustful of his own subjects. I observed that when the Persians were in his presence they adopted a uniform attitude, which consisted in holding their hands crossed on their stomachs, no doubt as evidence of their harmless intentions. It was a guaranty—of a very casual sort, we must admit. "For the rest his 'alarms' displayed themselves under the most diverse aspects and in the most unexpected circumstances. For instance, there was no persuading him to ascend the Elfel tower. The disappointment of his guides was increased by the fact that he would come as far as the foot of the pillars; they always thought that he meant to go up. "But no, once below an immense iron frame work, he gazed up in the air, examined the lifts, flung a timid glance at the staircases, then suddenly turned on his heels and walked away. They told him in vain that his august father had gone up as far as the first floor; nothing could induce him to do as much. "The instinctive dread of darkness and solitude was so keen in the Persian monarch that he required his bedroom to be filled during the night with light and sound. Accordingly every evening, as soon as he had lain down and closed his eyes, the members of his suite gathered round his bed, lighted all the candelabra and exchanged their impressions aloud; while young nobles of the court, relieving one another in pairs, consciously patted his arms and legs with light, sharp little taps. "The king of kings imagined that he was in this way keeping death at a safe distance, if perchance it should take a fancy to visit him in his sleep; and the extraordinary thing is that he did sleep, notwithstanding all this message, light and noise." LESSON TEXT-II Chronicles 24:1-13. MEMORY VERSES-1, 2. GOLDEN TEXT-"Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth." -Eocul. 12 TIME-Josiah began to reign B. C. 638, in the 34th year of Judah as a separate kingdom. He reigned 31 years, till B. C. 608. PLACE-Judah and Jerusalem. But also part of the territory of the Northern Kingdom which had become extinct in 722-718, 80 years before Josiah came to the throne. Josiah was the grandson of Manasseh, whose career we studied in our last lesson. He was born at Jerusalem, B. C. 646. His father was Amon, who followed the example of his father's earlier years. He reigned but two years, when he was murdered by his courtiers in his own palace. The people rose against the conspirators and made his eight-year-old son king in his place. Josiah's mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adalah. They belonged in Boscath, a town near Lachish in southwestern Judah, in the plains toward the Mediterranean sea. While King Amon was an idolater, and his court was corrupt, it is possible that Josiah's mother kept the true faith. He began to reign when he was eight years old. Like his grandfather, Manasseh, he must for several years have been guided, and his kingdom controlled by his mother or by prime ministers. The worshipers of Jehovah must have been in control at the palace, the wise and religious teachers of the true God and the true religion. So that for the first sixteen years of his life the young Josiah must have been under good influences, while he also would know of his father's tragic death, and his grandfather's sins, sufferings, and repentance. And his ancestor, David, was ever before him as his ideal, his hero, his saint. About the time when Josiah was twenty years old, and in the twelfth year of his reign, when he had begun his reforms, there came an invading host from the far east like a cyclone, an overwhelming scourge. Jeremiah foretells them in vivid pictures. But Herodotus tells us who they were, the Scythians "from the regions over Caucasus, vast nameless hordes of men, who sweeping past Assyria, unchecked, poured upon Palestine. We can realize the event from our knowledge of the Mongol and Tartar invasions which in later centuries pursued the same path southwards. Living in the saddle, with no infantry nor chariots to delay them, these Centaur swept on with a speed of invasion hitherto unknown. In 630 they had crossed the Caucasus, by 626 they were on the borders of Egypt. The prophet, Jeremiah, describes in picturesque terms this invasion. "The lion is come up from his thicket;" "The destroyer of nations is on his way;" "Behold he cometh as clouds, and his charlot shall be as the whirl wind;" "Their quiver is an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men;" "They are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men of war against thee." It is easy to see how this terrible invader, coming so near, just as Josiah was beginning his reforms, must have interfered with his plans. Josiah began his reformation in his twelfth year, but the invasion of the Scythians soon after this beginning interfered with the work. The save age and cruel host came close to Judah's borders. Scattered bands may have entered the kingdom. Terror reigned. Defenses must be strengthened. Outsiders rushed to Jerusalem and the fortified cities. How far the reformations had progressed we do not know. But the chronicler having recorded the beginning simply goes on with the story, as is frequently done by historians. The restoration of the Temple was intrusted to a committee of three—Shapan, the secretary of state; and Maaselah, the governor of the city, the mayor of Jerusalem; and Joah the recorder, the keeper of the records, the historian. The temple built by Solomon, was completed 390 years before. It was repaired by Joash 240 years before Josiah began his restoration. The ravages of time, with neglect and abuse during the sway of idolatry must have rendered it sadly in need of repair. It was during these repairs that the Book of Law was found. The work interrupted by the Scythian hordes is now resumed with greatly increased intensity and enthusiasm, through the new consecration of king and people, due to the finding of the Book of the Law. The first condition of salvation for individuals or nations is the putting away of sin at any cost. The second is the building up of the good. He that confesseseth and forsaketh shall find mercy. Ye Are the Temple of the Living God. What Repairs Does This Temple Need? Cleanse away the remains of selflessness, and cast out all "the works of the flesh." Set up the family altar, repair your study of God's word. Renew the love whose decline is expressed in the neglect of courtesies and services to man. Repair your application of the fruits of the spirit to business dealings and all departments of life. Repair your habits. Repair your temper. Cleanse your bodies from habits that lead to ill health, and make your bodies perfect instruments for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. SEARCHLIGHT PAGE FOUR THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, ..... KANSAS. Established in 1898. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. Residence Phone, Marke 1641. Office Phone, Market 2434 Phone your news items to us. "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. One Year (by mail).....$1.00 Six Months (by mail)......75 Three Months (by mail)......50 Advertising Rates made known on application. Liberal commission paid to agents. Entered at the Postoffice at Wichita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at 630 N. Main Street. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed b ythe party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Thurs day noon to reach publication in the current issue. 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Price, A. Dixson, Misses. Bly, K. Jenkins, L. Coyington, Messers, Edie Hathman, J. T. Chinneth, Dr. H T. Bolden, and W. Wilson. Entertained Her Friends. Miss. Ethel Patton, entertained a few of her friends with a consumptuos three course luncheon on Sunday afternoon, July 16th. At her residence at 624 N. Water St. A very delightful time was had, the afternoon was spent with music and songs. Those who enjoyed the hospitality, were: Miss. Ethel Stephens, of Great Bend, Kansas Mrs. Anna Mae Sheppard, of Memphis Tennese, Alfred Mathews, Chas. B. Patton. and N. B. Copeland. They all departed late in the evening, declaring Miss. Patton an ideal hostess. LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happiness to 630 North Main Street. Mrs. M. C. McJenkins is on the sick list. Mrs. Mary Parks who has been quite ill is able to be out again. Miss. Virginia Davis of Okla. City, is visiting Mrs. M. Bly. Mrs. Peter Capers is ill at her home this week, at 926 Wichita. Mrs. A. L. Hackiey is on the sick list this week. H. W, Donwell, left for Kans. City on a business trip this week Clarence Anderson is making a visit to Omaha, and may decide to locate there. George Wallace and Thomas A. Glover left for Lawrence to attend the Odd Fellow Grand lodge R. Hyter left Friday for Texas having recieved the information of the serious illness of his wife. Mesdames A. A. Fuller & Lela Davis, were in Coffeyville last week enroute to Iola and Kans City. Mrs. Pearl Patton has return to her home in Colo. She was accompanied by her mother Mrs. W. H. A. Clark. Mrs. Lucy Anderson left Monday for Lawrence to attend the Grand Session of the Household of Ruth, which is held their this week. Mrs, Anna Jones, Queen Mother of Pearl Tent No.16 who has been ill at her home since returning home from the Grand Sesion is some what better. Special music will be rendered Sunday morning by the members of the Junior Choir of the A.M.E. Church, Prof. N. Clark Smith is director. S. Frame and grand chileren, left Wednesday night to attend the funeral of Mr. William Turner one of the old citizens of that city Newton, who died Wednesday morning. Mrs. Nanie Howard who has been in the city several weeks on the sick list at the home of her daughter, returned to her home in Hutchinson Tuesday. The Wichita delegation to the Odd Fellow Grand Lodge in Law reuce this week is compored of Mesdames J. L. Harper M Ander son H. F. Frazier and Messers George Wallace and Thos Glover. Royal Brown of Denver Colo. is in the city visiting for a month with his uncle Mr. Dave Woods, grandmother Mrs. Margaret Franklin and Mr. and Mrs. Edy Graham of 1010 Lafayette Ave. PUBLICATION NOTICE. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SEDGWICK COUNTY KANSAS THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the said defendant, Alfred Hawkins. You are hereby notified, that on the 19th day of June A. D. 1911, the said plaintiff filed her petition against you, in the above named Court, praying for a divorce, and all costs of this suit; and that you must answer said petition on or before the 5th day of August 1911, or the same will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you according y for a divorce and costs of this action. Cennie Hawkins. Plaintiff R. B. McWilliams, Atty for Plaintiff Chas. D. Fazel, Clerk ATTESTED Trade With our Adveatisers, they'll treat you right Miss, Maria Warrenberry of Memphis Tenn. arrived in the city Monday, and with her sister Miss. Anna Seaton will make their future home with their cousin M1s, Morris Mayo, Mathew Bell is busy this week on another one of his original poems. This one entitled "Dat Cullard Concurt Ban" Mr. Bell is near ready to publish his book of poems. The book when published will contain some of the best of Dialect readings since Dunbar's time. The Wichita delegation to the Tabor Grand Session in Coffeyville last week was Rev. S. S. Washington Deputy; Sir J. C. Coffey. P. C. M. Sir Wm Frazier P. C. M. Dtr. Sally Hall, Dtr. Anna Horton, Dtr. Anna Jones, Dtr. Bessie Brown and W. N. Miller. All reports having a fine trip. Send Your News in early This Week. USE Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salve Murray's Reliable Perfumes These Goods Have No Equal They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY & CO. Sold by Dealers Wichita — — Kansas METZ'S LUMBER IS IT? Largest yard under shed in the state. Best grade of lumber to select from. Choicest finishings, posts, shingles and everything in the lumber line. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Low and Easy to Meet. Let us figure next Lumber Bill. Yards and Office Srd and Main Streets. They'll Treat You Right TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right R. B. MCWILLIAMS Attorney at Law Practices in all Courts Phone Market 1537 Office 601 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas Dr. H. T. 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They Will treat you right. i Subscribe For the Searchlight Published Every Week "Y $1.00 PER YEAR oy eR well as the quality of his techni- que, 1s both interesting and indi- vidual. These and other example that I have seen make it easy for the observer to notice that Mr, Tanner is absorbed, not only in telling onee more the story of the Christian religion, but in the mysterious qualities of nature as she appears to the human vision. ‘These paintings must be seen to be appreciated.” A Hard Winter Predicted. Persons who claim 1t0 have some knowledge of weather in- dications predict that this sect- ion ofthe country will experience avery hard winter this yearand they warn every one to make preparations to meet it, other wise much suffering will prevail, Newton Kansas. Arthur Ridley and wife surpris ed his parents C. Ridley and wife by a pleasant visit July 4th. They have returned to their hoine im Rosedale, Kansas where Arthut is a porter on a private car on the Southern Pacify Ry. Mrs. Minor Underwood is vis- iting her husband’s parents, Mrs. H, L, Broils is improv- ing after a severe attact of the rheumatism, Mrs, Ed Johnson left Sunday for Coloradn, Miss. Bessie Miller is visiting Grand-mother in Colo. Springs, | Never feel that you are always ‘right, No man or woman has | ever approached so near the great white sepulcher of a risen Christ He was always right, azd He alone. Some day this writer will give a fair description of a colos sal intellectual ‘failure in these columns. For the present let ths suffice: One capable of committing to memory everything he reads; a real literary gluton, who swal- iows curriculume trom colleges lie a hog eats bunches of parsly starts Out in the game of lite with all the beauty of aesthetic grandeuras a chart to guide him unused to knocks and jars of the world, he becomes sour and cra. bid, Reared among artistocratic Negro butlers, barbers, cooks & janitors, he feels himself just a little better than any of his race He may have first discovered in some New England janitor’s flat some unsung barber’s. cottage, some butler’s quarters, or some good cook’s humble home. But no matter we have him, ‘oc good to work and to knowing ‘to see the beauty in it, he preact ‘es against it, and against thos. ‘that do work oradvocate it He |has nothing, wants nothing, he nt not know what to d« with it ifhehadit, won't acquir wouldn’t keep it if he could. ‘the government 1s going to Inv molagses road in Massachusetts. Tha ls, it will prepare a binder for me adam roads the basis of which will bv the residue of sugar-cane manufacture & by-product for which there ts a present no known use. But isn’t there some danger that the small boys an¢ girls will carry off the road for all-da} suckers or some other terrible things! Not A Dynamiting Race Dynamite as an element of the power has never been nsed by the negro ay a means to express his dissatisfaction with existing socal or industrial conditions. He knows nothing about its manufacture and cares less. He is content to work out his own salvation by pursuing peaceful pursuits that are not inimical to the security of life or property. His presence in this country is looksd upon as one of the nat- ion’s greatest problems, But when we take the negro place him along with other great pro. lems his lot is not so bad after all,— Indianopolis World. Appointed Deputy Ill. J. W. Thompson was great ly surprised iast week when he recieved a commission from Imp Potentate Eugene Phillips as Imp, Deputy Potentate for the Desert of Kansas, Oasis of Wich- ita. Ill, Phompson is one of the energetic and live Masons of this vicinity and his appointment as Deputy meets with the general approval of all. He is past mas- ter of Arkansa Valley lodge No. 21, and organizer of the Western Star Consistory No, 18, and the Emith Temple do. 30. The Shri- nees of this Desert may look for- ward to some interesting work during the incoming year. 0 h8 Vhs, 55SCESSSSEOETITES We doall kinds of fancy JOB PRINTING, Satisfac- tion Guarenteed. Prices Always Right. Bring your Job work to us. ERSI AVE MPRA ERO RRRRMET EVER WAS NOT A BEAUTY LECTURE Timid Little Woman Found Herself Seeking Dress Hints at Federa- then of Club Women. “The conservation of the natural re warces of this country is one of the paramount issues before the American people today and—” The speaker adjusted her nose lasses, raised her eyes confidently from her manuscript to meet the ex- pressions 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 careful- jy and not unbecomingly from her high brow. There was not a curl nor a rip- ple of a marcel wave. Higher educa tiqgn was writ large. A little woman on the back seat in vommon clothes, seamed face and har’ hands fldgeted and looked startled ai such an intellectual outburst. “Excuse me, mum,” she ventured timidly, as she nudged her neighbor Mis this Mme. Xo’s beauty lecture?” “Tt 1s not,” was the grim rejoinder. “It is the annual meeting of the official ‘doard and chairmen of standing com milttees of the Iowa Federation of Clut Women.” ° “Mercy!” ejacuiated the woman out ‘of place.. Then she “scooted.” Whistling Sign of Contempt. A Moroccan shows his contempt ot anything by whistling. A conflict be tween tribesmen and a battalion of French troops was recently precipt- tated by the whistling of a locomo- tive on @ railway being constructed near Casablanca. “The giaours are laughing at us,” said a chieftain, when the construction engine gave ® toot to warn the natives at work on. the line to look ont. The Arabs went wild, mounted, thetr horses, and rode on the whistling enemy. They had to be calmed with the whistling of rifle balls. MUCH JOB WORK. The Searchlight wishes to thank all their much apreciated orders for job printing. We are able to do all your those who favored us *his week with ob work in first class style. Prompt service and low ;rices is our motto. Sunday School Pic-Nic Cabbell Chapel M, E. Church Will give a Sunday School pic-mc Thursday afternoon July 27th. at McKinley Park anda grand time is expected, Every person is cordially invited to bring their family and their basket and take part with us, Come out and spend the day, z Good Quarterly Meeting Rev. J. J. Cabbell, Supt. of the Topeka Dist. of the M. E. Chureh ade eee quarterly meet ing at Cabbell’s Chapell, 15th, & Wabash July 15th,e16th, Every department of the church show. ed a splendid increase and that the work is getting along nicely Rev, @abbell preached two able sermons Sunday July U6th, both morning and evening. At 3p, m Rey. J. B Edwards, pastor of St Paul A, M, B, Church preached all who heard him were much pleased, The church raised the Supt, claim in full, The collection for the day $18.04 Amount rais- ed during the quarter $122.74. ‘The Lord is with us and heis blessing our work, G, T. Wooten, pastor. 990000080000 0( Send your job work to our Job Department. 1909000 SOOOOO The Negro women of tomorrow must excel the one of yesterday in culture, domestic economy, and ability tu do. Will she? Will she? Yes She must or the race must be forever dammed. The ice man and the hot weath er man has got humanity at their mercy thesedays. For Everythng In Building Material SEE Ai Resend ey WES Oe S LLING. HES MADE IN WICHITA Material Fit Style Workmanship GUARANTEED i-? 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 avery small one from each o1 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. Home Burned. The home of Miles. Parke: 922 N. Wichita St. was burned to the ground Monday morning. The fire department was unable to save much of value. The origin of the fire is unknown but 1s suppored to have been caused by rats having carried matches in their holes, Mr, Parker hasthe sympathy ofhis many friends on account of this unfortunate accident It Was Good _ The lecture of Prof. H. T. Keal- ing at the A. M, E. Church Mon- day night from the sudject “How Much Shoula A Man Weigh?” was one of the best lectures ever listened to in this city. ‘The speaker handled his subject with that clearness of thought. and expression thpt carried ev- ery word to his hearers, Prof. Kealing was interupted several times with applause of apprval and all regretedvery myeh when he had concluded. It is hoped that he can come to our city a- gain and deliver another addsess. Race Increase | Dr, F. O. Miller reports the following increase in our race this week. BORN:- To W. C. Jones and wite July 19th. a fine baby boy. BORN:- To Wadlington and wife July 13th. a fine baby girl. The ladies of the Mother’s Aid Club were royally entertained at the residence of Mrs, Lizmie Mad- ison. They only hold a business meeting the fourth Friday each month and will meet néxt, with Mrs, Bessie Brown. SHOW HATRED OF FOREIGNERS, Chinese Historical Plays That Keep Alive Race Prejudice, Historical plays are acted every- where in China. They are popular in the quiet villages, the homes of the rich, in the crowded cities, and in the busy market towns. These plays are written with the object of intensify tag the bitterness and contempt of the people against the foreigner. The story of plinde"'«s and massacres of their forefathe: vividly portrayed, with all the da: ~ ic power that the actors possess. foreigner {s rep resented as a mor in appearancs. His face is dragec: ut of shape an& bis mouth is made to appear pear hi ear. His beard on one side Is red ant on the other blue, His eyes are fierd and staring, and murder {s stampd upon his hideous features. The pd ple of the interior, who have never come Into actual contact with the for eigner, have this conception of the hated ' barbarian. To their mtnas americans, French, English, Germans are all alike, barbarians to bo de stroved, Women's Sweet Laughter. A women has no natural grace more! dewitching than a sweet laugh. It fs like the sovnd of flutes on the water; {t leaps from her heart in a clear sparkling rill, and the heart that hears tt feels as if bathed in the cool ex hilarating 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 traveling: It touches with i:ht our sleep which Is no more the ‘aze of death, but gemmed with «: ors that are the eadow of imme: “t Exchange. > Bend for the 8. PLC. C. A “Young Mother” asks our opinion ot “the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies.” ‘We must frankly say that we com sider it @ brutal practice, As the father of » great many bables, of all ages, we uever rocked on any af ‘hem intentiona'tr ind we would arobably be ares f we ovnressed our full opinion. y wouan whe coe ume to ud 40.—Lippipestt's THE AMERICAN HOME W·M·A.RADFORD EDITOR THE HOME OF THE HOME OF THE HOME Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he will be able to answer all inquiries on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill., and only unclose two-cent stamp for reply. Not only is more building done today than ever before, but the general problem of building construction is itself more complex and more difficult now than it ever was. The reasons for this are not far to seek. The rapid advance of the American people in general prosperity, the growth of individual fortunes, the evolution of new structural materials and of new mechanical and chemical processes of treatment, the invention of new and easy methods of construction, the rise of the factory system, the drift of population to the cities, the grouping of families in apartment buildings and tenements in crowded industrial centers, the increasing insistence on absolutely sanitary and fireproof construction—all these have not only brought about a prodigious amount of new building, but have enormously complicated the building problem. The specializing of occupations, too, has had its effect. In former days the mason built the foundation and chimney, and put up the walls of brick or THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM stone where these materials were used; and the carpenter did the rest. But nowadays every detail of a building, from the roof ridge to the cellar brain, is the function of some special class of tradesman, each dependent more or less on every other class of operative whose handwork enters into the completed structure. Notwithstanding all this progress, there has as yet been developed no type of building which can be recognized in its architectural style as truly and distinctively an American national type. To my mind, one of the most hopeful signs bearing promise of future results in this direction is found in the presented drift of population from our cities to suburban life. This is bound to prove a factor of immense influence in the education of public and private architectural taste, and as progressive citizens we ought to do all we can to foster it. What we designate as the "city life," as distinguished from the "country life" of the colonial period with its farms and plantations, is an evolution since the Civil war, and an accompaniment of the great industrial development that has marked our national progress since the close of that historic struggle. People made their money in the cities, and knowing no Floor Plan. better, lived in them. A great change, however, has taken place within the past few years. First the very rich man, then the ambitious and intelligent member of the artisan or mechanic class, and lastly the professional or salaried employee of moderate means, has been moving to the country, and going as far into the country as he could go and still get daily to his business. The suburbs of New York city, for example, a generation ago, were almost exclusively the residences of a new of the weathier men engaged in business in that city, but they are now increasing in population faster than the metropolis itself. The same tendency is seen around all cities in the east, many in the west, and some in the south. It is far less difficult to own your --- own home than most people imagine. From $100 to $500 saved up, depending of the cost of the house, is sufficient to secure from a building and loan association or a reliable real estate man, a contract for the building of your home and delivery of a deed to you after a certain portion of the price has been paid. The rest is like paying rent—no harder, but infinitely more satisfactory, as each payment nets the purchaser something. A cozy little five-room cottage, which can be built under favorable conditions of location and labor for from $1,500 to $1,750, is illustrated in the perspective view and floor-plan shown herewith. It is 30 feet wide by 40 feet long. The spacious front porch, with its cobblestone piers, is an important factor in the ornamental scheme, and will prove a great attraction when the household duties permit of the family gathering there to rest and enjoy the fresh air. Leaving the veranda, we enter the spacious living room with its fireplace and mantel flanked with bookcases. The dining room, on the right side of the house, is well lighted by windows on front and side, as well as by the light coming through the cased doorway connecting it with the living room. Back of the living room are two bedroom, each with its own good-sized closet and opening into a passageway which also gives access to the bath- THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM room, kitchen and dining room. A large pantry opens off the kitchen, and the door leading from the back porch gives ready access from the kitchen to the backyrd. USE OF THE FRONT PORCH As Long as There Are Daughters to Be Courted Parents Will Give A correspondent writes in to ask of what use is the front porch in summer to the parents of a marriageable daughter. About the same use as the front parlor is in winter time. Father and mother may be quietly sitting on the front veranda, enjoying the beauties of the sunset or the moonrise, when down the street they observe Percy's handsome figure approaching. Recognizing the cuffs on the bottom of his trousers and the red, white and blue band on his $5 Panama, they know at once that it is all up with their evening, and they might as well put out the milk bottle and go to bed. As Percy stops a few seconds to take a last inhale and throw his cigarette butt away, ma says: "Come, pa, we must go in now." Plicking up the newspapers, and father's tobacco box, she calls out: "Florence, your young man is coming!" and with that father is led unwillingly to the kitchen, where he is allowed to finish his pipeful before retiring. Dear reader, the front porch, the front parlor, the best chairs, the pork tenderloin and the choice cut of steak are things all parents are expected to pay for and then step aside while other people's sons enjoy them. So long as there are daughters they will be courted, and so long as they are bet courted, pa and ma will continue give up the front parlor and the front porch and retire early.—Edward A Guest, in Detroit Free Press. Clergy and Longevity Dr. Casper, a German physician, has been studying the death rates in various occupations, and his researches show that the clergy appear to have the best chance of life, for of those who attain the age allotted to man—many, three score years and ten, clergymen show 42 per cent. The other occupations Dr. Casper gives is the following order: Agriculturists, 42 per cent; the trading class and workmen, 35 per cent; soldiers, 32 per cent; lawyers, 23 per cent; actors and other professionals, 24 per cent; teachers, 27 per cent; and doctors, 24 per cent. A Paris contemporary, impressed with the high rate of mortality among medical men, observes: "Those who know, or are supposed to know, the art of healing do not, apparently, understand how to take care of then selves as well as they do of 'others'." --- ANNIE'S ELOPEMENT B. EFFIE STEVENS (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) Anne Blair alighted at the Bilthedale terminal, and waited impatiently until the trolley car, on which she had come, had gone clanking back towards the city. Then she looked uncertainly up and down the lonely stretch of bush-bordered country road, which ran at right angles to the car track, following the winding course of the Podunk river. "Now, which direction did Walter tell me to take, I wonder?" she asked herself, puckering her brows in a brown of perplexity. "I shall just have to look at his letter again. It was lucky that I thought to bring it with me." Anne seated herself upon a large og which was lying conveniently by the roadside, and, drawing a bulky epistle from her leather hand-bag, ran hurriedly through its pages. "Oh, here it is on the sixth page!" he exclaimed at last. Then her frown deepened. "Why, he doesn't say," she gasped. "Isn't that just like his thoughtlessness? He only says to follow the road until I come to a path leading to the river; he will be there with a boat, or if he cannot come himself, he will send a friend in his place. Now, the question is, did he mean to go up the road or down the road? Well, as the choice seems to be left to me, I'll try going down the road. I don't dare remain here much longer, for if father should have found out, there's no telling at what moment he may come whizzing along in that new, high speed car of his. It's a pity the roads between here and town are so good." Thereupon, Anne jumped to her feet and proceeded to walk briskly down the dusty road, her eyes searching aggerly for the path, which would lead A woman in a dress and hat stands under a tree, holding an umbrella. She is walking along a stream with rocks and trees in the background. "I'm Almost Sure I've Taken the Wrong Direction." her to the riverside, where she imagined Walter must be impatiently awaiting her, and her ears keenly alert for the dreaded whir of an approaching motor car. On and on she went for a distance that seemed interminable to her overwrought nerves; but nothing occurred to break the peaceful montony of her surroundings. "I'm almost sure I've taken the wrong direction after all." Anne complained to the solitude. "Why couldn't Walter have been more explicit? If I don't come to that path soon, I shall have to turn about and go back, and like as not walk straight into the arms of father—that is if he doesn't run over me before he recognizes me." A few steps farther on, however, Anne came to a path leading towards the river, which she unhesitatingly took, though it proved decidedly unpleasant walking. "I think Walter might have chosen a nicer place for me to meet him," she thought ruefully, as she stumbled over a treacherous stump, and barely saved herself from a fall. A moment later Anne came out upon the river bank, but no Walter was in sight. Immediately, Anne's anxiety increased tenfold. She could not help imagining all sorts of unpleasant possibilities as to why Walter was not there. What if her father had had him arrested for contemplated kidnapping? She didn't even know if one could have a person arrested for proposing to do anything—her ignorance of law was profound—but the uncertainty intensified her fears. Anne was on the point of sobbing aloud, when she caught sight of a small motor boat approaching from across the river, and the world grew bright again, for, though the boat was so far away she could not actually tell, she never doubted but that its occupant was Walter It took her but a short time to discover that the boat was headed for a point much farther up stream than her present position. "I came the wrong way after all," she wailed, as she waved her pocket handkerchief frantically in the almost hopeless effort to attract the attention of the occupant of the boat. "Though how was I to know there was more than one path?" Anne was seen, nevertheless, and the little boat soon changed its course and came directly towards her. course, and came directly towards her. At the same instant, to complicate matters, Anne heard the unmistakable, though distant sound of a motor car approaching along the road. Ordinarily Anne would have realized that a large number of people are the possessors of motor cars at the present time, but now she immediately jumped to the conclusion that it must be her father. A dreadful fear assailed her lest Walter and her father should meet, in this lonely spot. Her father was a vigorous, hot tempered man. He had never liked Walter. What might he not do now in his anger? Walter would certainly stand no chance against his possible onslaught. Anne suddealy wished that Walter was not quite so, oh, well, lady-like and namby-pamby—there were no other terms for it—though these were the qualities which had especially attracted her to him in the first place. If he were only more like Herbert Sargeant. He could have fought his own battles and hers, too. And then the hot color flooded her cheeks as she remembered that it was Herbert Sargeant whom her father had desired her to marry, and that it was on his account that Walter and herself had been forced into hasty action. Oh, if she had only let the boat go on its course unhindered. But that wish was vain, for while Anne had been giving way to her fears, the motor boat, all unheeded by her, had come close to the shore, and a cheerful, familiar voice now called out, "I wasn't expecting to find you away down here, Anne." With dismay, she saw that the occupant of the boat was not Walter James, but, of all persons in the world, Herbert Sargeant. "Were—were you looking for me?" she managed to stammer out incredulously. "Who else?" Herbert laughed. A feeling of intense relief swept over Anne. She had not known before that Walter and Herbert were friends—she did not quite understand yet how they could be—still, since Herbert was here, everything must be all right. She had known Herbert all her life, and she could trust him implicitly. She knew he would take care of her. The automobile passed on along the country road unheeded and forgotten. countly, loud unsteered and tormented. "Let me help you into the boat," Herbert commanded kindly, almost tenderly, springing lightly to her side, and Anne obeyed him without question. Taking his place at the wheel, he sent the boat speeding across the river. Anne watched him silently. Now that she had time to review the situation calmly she began to have serious regrets as to the step she had taken. It was too late, however, to back out. She must go on to the end. "Why could Walter not come himself?" she asked faintly. Herbert looked at her pityingly. Then he burst out: "Anne, how could you care for that contemptible little cur?" Anne stared at him indignantly. Anne stared at him magnificently. "Oh, I suppose you'll hate me for telling you," Herbert continued bitterly, "but I couldn't bear to have anyone else know. Jim Grierson told me Walter James had been asking all manner of questions about how much money you had. I hunted the fellow up, double quick, and after I'd told him you hadn't a cent but what your father felt like giving you, and he wasn't likely to give you anything if you married him, he showed that he considered he'd put his foot in it, all right, and he was so anxious to get out, he blabbed this whole elopement plan. That's all, except that I couldn't leave you to bear the shock of his not meeting you alone, so I simply had to come." "You didn't hurt him?" Anne whispered, with white lips. "No," Herbert said grimly. "Oh, I'm so glad," Anne breathed. "I wouldn't like to think you had demeaned yourself by touching anything so vile." Then Anne blushed violently, as she realized the full import of her impulsive words. A vell seemed suddenly lifted from before her amazed eyes, and she realized that it was Herbert, and not Walter, whom she cared for all along. She had merely allowed a lifetime's friendship for Herbert to blind her as to the real state of her feelings. "Anne," Herbert cried, eagerly, "do you really mean it? You know I have always cared for you. My mistake lay in telling your father before I told you. Suppose we go on with this elopement? We can go straight to the minister's." "We haven't any marriage license," Anne objected demurely, as they stepped from the boat onto dry land. "We'd have to have one in this state, I know, because I looked it up." "I did too," confessed Herbert, as he sheepishly drew a paper from his pocket and held it out to her. "Won't father be surprised when we tell him," was Anne's only reply. There is a sort of hatred which never is extinguished; it is the hatred that superiority inspires in mediocrity—Paul Bougret. THE KITCHEN CABINET THE legs of the stork are long, the legs of the duck are short, you cannot make the legs of the stork short, neither can you make the legs of the duck long. Don't worry. DISHES FOR HOT DAYS. For a meat dish that will use the left-over veal and at the same time make a palatable dish, escalloped veal is good. Mince the cold cooked veal very fine, butter a dish and put a thin layer of veal in the bottom with a sprinkling of onion on top. Then add a layer of fine bread crumbs, dot with butter and chopped parsley, another layer of veal and crumbs, having the buttered crumbs on top. Pour milk into the pan until the mixture seems moist, and bake slowly until well cooked. An inverted pan over the dish will keep in the steam. Remove the pan ten minutes before serving, and let the top brown. Sprinkle with parsley or grated cheese, and serve. Deviled Chicken.—Make a sauce of salt, pepper, dry mustard, paprika, grated lemon peel, lemon juice, Worcestershire and a few drops of tobacco sauce. Add a large lump of butter, and when the sauce is very hot some cubes of cold cooked chicken. Liver With Onion Souce.—Dredge thin slices of liver with seasoned flour and fry brown in butter or pork fat. Put the liver on a warm platter. Fry a cupful of onions in the fat remaining in the pan until a light brown. Add a tablespoonful of vinegar and pour the sauce over the liver. Orange Custard.—Beat the yolks of five eggs with the whites of two, then add four tablespoons of sugar. Add a quart of boiling milk and the grated rind of an orange. Pour into a buttered pudding dish set into hot water and bake until the custard is set. Make a meringue of the white of the eggs, powdered sugar and orange juice for flavor. Sprinkle with grated orange rind and brown in the oven. Peach Kisses.—Peel and cut in halves nice ripe peaches. Remove the stones and put a marshmallow in each half. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and pour over them whipped cream. Serve cold. OR life is a mirror of king and slave: 'Tis just what we are and do. Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.' SUMMER DAINTIES. Delicate Pudding—To a cup of sugar add a cup of water and the juice of two lemons. Stir three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch into enough cold water to allow it to pour into the first mixture, heated to the boiling point. Stir until smooth, then cool fifteen minutes. Fold in the whites of three eggs, beaten dry, and turn into a mold. Serve cold with a custard made of the yolks of eggs, half a cup of sugar, two cups of milk and a pinch of salt. Flavor with vanilla. This pudding may be varied as to appearance and flavor by using cocoa or chocolate, a tablespoonful or two. Prune Charlotte Russe.—Soften half a package of gelatine in half a cup of cold water; add a fourth of a cup of boiling water and stir until the gelatine is well dissolved. Cut enough cooked prunes to fill a cup; add a cup of prune juice, the juice of a lemon and three-fourths of a cup of sugar; add to the gelatine and set into a dish of ice water until it begins to thicken, then fold in a cup of whipped cream. Orange or grape marmailde may be substituted for the prunes. Ginger Ice Cream.—A delicious ice cream is one in which the flavor is canton ginger. Make a vanilla ice cream, add a half cup of chopped preserved ginger and four tablespoonfuls of the stirup, then freeze. For a fancy dish sometime when a little out of the ordinary is desired, try a. Baked Alaska.—Cover a brick of ice cream placed on a board with an icing of white of egg and powdered sugar. Put on quickly and set at once into a hot oven to cook the egg and brown it. Then serve in slices as usual. Nellie Maxwell. See No Danger in Hair. As is well known, Austria-Hungary has almost a monopoly in the preparation of false hair for the fashionable ladies of Europe. There is much alarm just now, inasmuch as in various warehouses, docks and railways there are something like 40,000 kilograms of human hair awaiting delivery. This quantity of hair would be equal to over three tons in our system of weights. All this hair has a Chinese origin, and it is urged that it should not be allowed to leave the warehouses on account of the infection which it might carry. The dealers, however, complain that these precautions are unnecessary, for the whole stock was shipped before the outbreak. Overworked. "I hear that you were the only man at a luncheon the other day, where there were about fifty women." "Yes." "How did you enjoy yourself?" "Well, I got rather tired passing the pickles." ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAK? Thousands suffer from sick or weak med kidneys without knowing the cause. If your child every picture cause. If you have backache, headache, urinary disorders, look to your kidneys —give the help the kidneys need. Mrs. R. E. Scott, 302 Front St., Baker City, Ore. says: "For twelve years I was a sufferer from kidney trouble. My back ached turtle." have backache, headache, urinary disorders, look to your kidneys — give the help the kidneys need. Mrs. R. F. Scott, 302 Front St., Baker City, Ore. says: "For twelve years I was a sufferer from kidney trouble. My back ached terribly, the kidney secretions were in awful condition and my bladder badly inflamed. I grew so bad I was bed-fast and was so thin I looked like a skeleton. Doctors failed to help me and I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They cured me permanently and I am now as well and strong as anyone." Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by druggists and general storekeepers everywhere. Price 500. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The Summer Toast In all her business life the bit of work she is now completing has been most pleasant, says the free lance stenographer. "I have been typewriting toasts on paper napkins," she said. "A society of club women who have planned to do a lot of outdoor entertaining this summer expect to use thousands of paper napkins, and I have had the job of typewriting a toast on each napkin. It is a pretty idea, and I tried to meet the charming sentiment of the ladies halfway by using a good non-copying ink, but in spite of that precaution I am afraid that many a guest will leave the lunch table with a purple ink smudge on her face." Wichita, Kan., July 7, 1911.—“Wichita and Kansas may well be proud of the FARMERS AND BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, the successful new financial institution of this city. The Company's success is attracting attention and interest, and is marked upon by every leading Life Insurance Magazine in the United States. Its record for its first month, of $323,500 of business is a remarkable one, and is a testament to the quality of which has built up so many great institutions in this state. The success of the Company continues, and its total business is now over three-quarters of a million.” Harold Knows the Signs. Five-year-old Harold's older sister was in the habit of making a good many demands on him. Generally her requests for favors, usually the running of errands around the house, were prefaced by what she considered subtle flattery. "Now, Harold," she began one day, "you're a dear, sweet little boy, and you know I love you—" but Harold cut her short. "Well, Ethel," he said, earnestly, "if it's upstairs, I won't go."—Lippincott's Magazine. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Work is not a man's punishment; it is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.—George Sand. The man who thinks he knows it all never gets much of a chance to tell it. THE KEYSTONE TO HEALTH IS HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS You will find the Bitters a beneficial remedy in every way in cases of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Costiveness and Cramps. Try it today and see. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely vegetable — act surely but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner distress-cure indigestion. improve the complexion, brighten the eyes SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE Genuine must bear Signature Aren Wood STACK and MACHINE COVERS and TENTS Write us PONCA TENGE & AWNING COMPANY 800 West Douglas Wichita, Kansas If collected with (with) Thompson's Eye Water eyes, use. Libby's Sliced Dried Beef Old Hickory Smoked Highest Quality Finest Flavor In sealed glass jars at your grocers Ask for Libby's Libby's Sliced Dried Beer PERFORMING POLICE DUTY. Officer Muldoon—That fellow's firt- ing with every servant girl on my beat. I'd run him in if I could charge him with some offense. Chalker (the milkman)—That's easy. Charge him with impersonating an officer! Lagging Behind. "Why are you loitering around here?" demanded the policeman. "You seem to have no object in view." "I'm out walking with my wife, officer. She's about 20 yards behind in a hobble skirt." Knicker—How can you identify your umbrella? Bocker—By the man I took it from. It's the United effort of little things that make big troubles. FREE MUNYON'S PAW-PAW PILLS TRADE MARK A trial package of Munyon's Paw Paw Pills will be sent free to anyone on request. Address Professor Munyon, 53d & Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. If you are in need of medical advice, dc not fail to write Professor Munyon. Your communication will be treated in strict confidence, and your case will be diagnosed as carefully as though you had a personal interview. Munyon's Paw Paw Pills are unlike all other laxatives or cathartics. They coax the liver into activity by gentle methods. They do not scour, they do not gripe, they do not weaken, but they start all the secretions of the liver and stomach in a way that soon puts these organs in a healthy condition and corrects constipation. In my opinion constipation is responsible for most allergies. There are 26 feet of human bowels, which is really a sewer pipe. When this pipe becomes clogged the whole system becomes poisoned, causing billiousness, indigestion and impure blood, which often produce rheumatism and kidney ailments. No woman who nurses with constipation or any liver aliment can expect to have a clear complexion or enjoy good health. If I has my way I would prohibit the sale of nine-tenths of the cathartics that are now being sold for the reason that they destroy the lining of the stomach, setting up serious forms of indigestion, and so paralyze the bowels that they refuse to act unless forced by strong purgatives. Munyon's Paw Paw Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and nerves. They impregnate instead of weaken; they enrich the blood instead of impoverish it; they enable the stomach to get all the nourishment from food that is put into it. These pills contain no calomel, ne dope; they are soothing, healing and stimulating. They school the bowels to act without physic. Regular size bottle, containing 45 pills, 25 cents. Munyon's Laboratory, 53d & Jefferson Sts. Philadelphia. 50,000 NEEDED TO HARVEST WESTERN CANADA'S CROP Will Take 160,000 Altogether to Take Care of Yield of Prairie Provinces. One hundred and sixty-two thousand farm hands will be required this year to harvest the grain crops of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Of this number the local help will provide about 112,000, which will leave about 50,000 extra farm hands. There is, therefore, a great demand for this class of laborers in all parts of Western Canada. In order to meet the requirements it has been arranged to grant very low railway rates from all boundary points reached by Canadian railways. In order to secure these rates it will be necessary for you to call on one of the following authorized agents of the Canadian government: M. V. McInnes, 176 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan; C. A. Laurier, Marquette, Michigan; J. S. Crawford, Syracuse, N. Y.; Thos. Hetherington, Room 202, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.; H. M. Williams, 413 Gardner Bldg., Toledo, Ohio; Geo. A. Dilr, 216 Traction-Terminal Blg., Indianapolis, Indiana; C. J. Broughton, Room 412 Merchants' Loan & Trust Bldg., Chicago, Ill.; Geo. A. Hall, 2nd Floor, 125 Second Street, Milwaukee, Wis.; E. T. Holmes, 315 Jackson Street, St Paul, Minn.; Chas. Pilling, Clifford Block, Grand Forks, N. D.; J. M. Mac Lachlan, Box 197, Watertown, S. D.; W. V. Bennett, Room 4, Eee Bldg, Omaha, Neb.; W. H. Rogers, 125 West 9th Street, Kansas City, Mo.; Benj Davies, Room 6, Dunn Block, Great Falls, Montana; J. B. Carbonneau, Jr., 217 Main Street, Blddferd, Me.; J. N. Grieve, Auditorium Building, Spokane Wash. This will give to intending harvest laborers a splendid opportunity to look over the magnificent wheat fields of Western Canada and will give them the best evidence that can be secured of the splendid character of that country from the farmer's standpoint. There will be at least 200,000,000 bushels of wheat harvested within the area of the three provinces above named this year and it is expected that the yield will run from 15 to 25 bushels per acre. Many farmers, this year, will net, as a result of their labors, as much as $8 to $10 per acre and many of them will deposit as profits as much as $8,000 to $19,000. The wide publicity that has been given to the excellent crop that is being raised in central Alberta and southern Alberta, central Saskatchewan and southern Saskatchewan, and also in Manitoba, will increase the price of lands in these three provinces from $3 to $5 per acre and the man who was fortunate enough to secure lands at from $12 to $20 per acre will have reason for gratification that he exercised sufficient forethought to invest, while the man who was fortunate enough to secure a homestead of 160 acres free will also have a greater reason to feel pleased. Notwithstanding the great addition to the acreage this year over last and the large crop that will be ready for harvest there is no reason to become alarmed that the harvest will not be reaped successfully. There will be a great demand for these low rates during the next couple of months; be sure to make your application to any of the agents above mentioned that may be in your territory at as early a date as possible. Harvesting will commence about the 25th of July and continue for five or six weeks, when threshing will begin and there will be plenty of work until November. An Elight Years' Walk Hiram Davis of Newburg went for a walk with his father eight years ago. The father stopped to talk with a friend, and Hiram, then about ten years old, walked on. He was never seen after that until he walked in to his parents' home recently. The police all over the east were on the lookout for him, the Hudson river was searched and finally he was given up for dead. When he greeted his mother it was some hours before she could be calmed. Davis had been out west.—New York Sun. AVOID LIQUID BLUING. The reason so many housewives prefer RED CROSS BALL BLUE is because it is all blue. Liquid blue contains a large percentage of water. Why buy water when you have it by the tub full? Buying solid RED CROSS BALL BLUE is real economy. Dissolve it as you need it. A large two-oz. package, all blue, price 5 cents, or four-oz. for 10c. Used in thousands of homes. FOR SALE AT ALL GROCERS. Might Helo. Mrs. Willis (at the Ladies' Aid soley)—Now, what can you do for the poor boys at the front? Mrs. Gillis—I was reading today where the soldiers are always making sorties. Now, why can't we get the recipes for those things and make them ourselves and send them to the boys?—Puck. Lewis' Single Binder, extra quality tobacco, costs more than other 50 cigars. A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak it requires only our silence, which costs us nothing—Curtis Yorke. Death Lurks In A Weak Heart If You're is fluttering or weak, use "RENOVINE." Made by Van Vieot-Mansfield Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn. Price $1.00 Hood's Sarsaparilla Acts directly and peculiarly on the blood; purifies, enriches and revitalizes it, and in this way builds up the whole system. Take it. Get it today. In usual liquid form or in chocolate coated tablets called Sareatabe. THE MARTYR. Polly—So Mrs. Highmere's husband has developed bad habits. How did you hear about it? Dolly—Oh, Mrs. Highmere invited us all to an afternoon tea so she could tell us how she suffered in silence! IN AGONY WITH ITCHING "About four years ago I broke out with sores on my arms like boils. After two months they were all over my body, some coming, and some going away. In about six months the boils quit, but my arms, neck and body broke out with an itching, burning rash. It would burn and itch, and come out in pimples like grains of wheat. I was in a terrible condition; I could not sleep or rest. Parts of my flesh were raw, and I could scarcely bear my clothes on. I could not lie in bed in any position and rest. In about a year the sores extended down to my feet. Then I suffered agony with the burning, itching sores. I could hardly walk and for a long time I could not put on socks. "All this time I was trying everything I could hear of, and had the skill of three doctors. They said it was eczema. I got no benefit from all this. I was nearly worn out, and had given up in despair of ever being cured when I was advised by a friend to try Cuticura Remedies. I purchased Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent, and used exactly as directed. I used the Cuticura Remedies constantly for four months, and nothing else, and was perfectly cured. It is now a year, and I have not had the least bit since. I am ready to praise the Cuticura Remedies at any time. (Signed) E. L, Cate, Exile, Ky., Nov. 10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32 page book, will be mailed free on application to "Cuticura." Dept. 21, K, Boston. Titles in England. Forty or fifty years ago few people in England had titles. There were only a few decorations which entitled their owners to put the prefix "Slr" before their names. We all of us looked down with lofty contempt upon the counts and barons that were so plentiful in continental countries. Now we can do so no longer, for probably there is no other country in the world where the traffic in titles is so open and so indecent as in England. What the number of decorations is I do not know, and I imagine that few do. Every few years some new one is created and an Englishman with a taste that way can easily manage to exhibit himself covered with metal disks and bits of ribbon like some successful cow at an agricultural show. These embellishments may flatter the vanity of their wearers, but they do not increase the respect that is felt for Englishmen.—London Truth. Father Loses an Excuse. "Don't you regret seeing your children growing up to face the responsibilities of the world?" "Yes," Mr. Bliggins said; "it's a little disappointing to find my boy so big that he is no longer an excuse for my going to the circus." Liked It Dull. "How do you find things, my man?" "Very dull, I'm glad to say." "Glad? Why?" "I'm a knife grinder." TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA Take the Old Standard GROVES THE SYSTEM CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking, giving it simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless juice. The Quinine drives out the malaria the run builds up the system. Sold by all dealers for 50 years. Price 50 cents. If a man would work at some employment half as hard as he will trying to get a public office at a low salary he could make a fair living. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. A woman has about as much use for a man who doesn't admire her as a fatted calf has for a prodigal son. CO. Can be b same tidy by the long all form One bottle 100 doses Booklet horse run SPOHN MEDICAL CO. Their Native Heath. Dr. Eugene Fuller, president of the American Urological association, eaid at a dinner in New York, appropos of Independence day: "We must all try to be as faithful as George Washington was. I am afraid we have not, of late years, upheld the reputation for truthfulness that George Washington gave us. I am afraid that we have published to the world, through our yellow press and by other means, a good many tall stories. "Thus an English teacher once said to a pupil: 'Please, sir,' the little pupil answered, 'it's something that happens in America.' A good name being better than riches, it behooves us to take better care of our reputations. FAMILIES are of FIGS and MILLIONS of FAM using SYRUP of ELIXIR of SENNA FOR COLD AND HEADACHES, INDIGESTION AND SOUR STOMACH, GAS AND FERMENTATION, CONSTIPATION AND BILIOUSNESS, WITH MOST SATISFACTORY RESULTS. NOTE THE NAME CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. IN THE CIRCLE ON EVERY PACKAGE OF THE GENUINE MILLIONS of FAMILIES are using SYRUP of FIGS and THE WONDERFUL POPULARITY OF THE GENIINE SYRUP OF FIGS AND ELXIR OF SENNA has LED UNSCRUPULOUS MANUFACTURERS TO OFFER IMITATIONS, IN ORDER TO MAKE A LARGER PROFIT AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR CUSTOMERS. IF A DEALER ASKS WHICH SIZE YOU WISH, OR WHAT MAKE YOU WISH, WHEN YOU ASK FOR SYRUP OF FIGS AND ELXIR OF SENNA, HE IS PREPARING TO DECIVE YOU TELL HIM that YOU WISH THE GENIINE, MANUFACTURED BY THE CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. ALL RELIABLE DRUGGISTS KNOW THAT THERE IS BUT ONE GENIINE AND THAT IT IS MANUFACTURED BY THE CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO ONLY PRINTED STRAIGHT ACROSS, NEAR THE BOTTOM, AND IN THE CIRCLE, NEAR THE TOP OF EVERY PACKAGE, OF THE GENUINE ONE SIZE ONLY, FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS REGULAR PRICE 50c PER BOTTLE. SYRUP OF FIGS AND ELINUR OF SENNA IS ESPECIALLY LADIES AND CHILDREN, AS IT IS MILD AND PLEASANT ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM OBJECTIONABLE INGREDIENTS FOR WOMEN AND FOR MEN. YOUNG AND OLD FOR SALE ALWAYS BUY THE GENUINE CALIFORNIA FIG S An Artist. ES ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS OF AND PLEASANT GENTLE AND EFFECTIVE, AND INGREDIENTS. IT IS EQUALLY BENEFICIAL LAD FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. THE GENUINE. FIG SYRUP CO. PICKLIN is the article that g SYRUP OF FICS AND ELIXIR OF SENNA IS ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS OF LADIES AND CHILDREN, AS IT IS MILD AND PLEASANT GENTLE AND EFFECTIVE, AND ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM OBJECTIONABLE INGREDIENTS. IT IS EQUALLY BENEFICIAL FOR WOMEN AND FOR MEN. BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. ALWAYS BUY THE GENUINE. Lurks In A weak, use "RENOVINE," Made by Van Vloet RUDE AWAKENING FOR ELIZA Too Late She Discovered That Visi tor Was Not the Object of Her Adoration. The gentle Eliza was sitting drearly in the darkened room, waiting miserably for a visitor, whom she feared would never come. To tell the truth, Eliza and William had quarreled bitterly the night before. But what is that? A ring, a step, a masculine voice. She waited not, but threw herself into the visitor's arms. "Oh, my darling!" she sobbed, with her head upon his bosom. "I am so glad you have called. I did so long to make up and do my best to pay you for bringing light into my life. Let us settle peacefully once more with each other." "Well, miss," said a strange voice, "I'm willin', I'm sure. But my instructions is that if you don't I'm to cut off the gas!" And it was only then that Eliza found out she had mistaken a common gas person for her William.—London Tit-Bits. ```markdown ``` In Colorado there is a standard guage railroad, "The Cripple Creek Short Line," between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, which, for mountain scenery and engineering feats, is unequalled anywhere on the globe. This wonderful ride, from mountain top to mountain top,—over yawning chasms,—around the rims of great gorges,—around loops,—and through grand canyons to the still more wonderful Gold Camp of Cripple Creek, is acknowledged by all travelers to be the grandest in the world. No one going to or through Colorado should lose the opportunity of making it. Mamma's Angel Gets Busy. Fond Mother—And has mamma's angel been a peacemaker today? Mamma's Angel—Yes, ma. Tommy Tuff was a-lickin' William Whimpers, an' when I told 'im to stop he wouldn't, an' I jumped in an' licked the stuffin' out o' both of 'em. The aluminum of this country from a production of 83 pounds in 1863, its consumption in 1900 amounted to 34, 20,000 pounds. "You had to refuse the request of these men?" "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "Were they angry?" "Not at all. I showed so much grief at not being able to oblige them that they went away sympathizing with me." Lewis' Single Binder, straight 5c—many smokers prefer them to 10c cigars. Every time a child shows you its toy bank it's your ante. Everywhere For Your Enjoyment Here's an individual among drinks—a beverage that fairly snaps with delicious goodness and refreshing wholesomeness. Coca-Cola has more to it than mere wetness or sweetness—it's vigorous, full of life. You'll enjoy it from the first sip to the last drop and afterwards. DELICIOUS — REFRESHING THIRST-QUENCHING THE COCA-COLA CO., Atlanta, Ga. 51 Whenever you see an Arrow think of Coca-Cola "Oh, you can never fool my Ma, I know just what she'll say, That that's as much like Faultless Starch, As night-time is like day." 50,000 Men Wanted in Western Canada 200 Million Bushele Wheat to be Harvested DAISY FLY KILLER placed anywhere, at treats and kills all New Zealand omnipotent, conven- ient, cheap. Lets all suspect. Can't tell to tip over, will not woll or injure anything. Guaranteed, effective. Of all dealers or sent perpals or effec- tors HAIGH MOREE 150 De Kalb Ave. Brooklyn, N. K. HAY PRAIRIE OR ALFALFA ING SPICE cycle that gives your pickles their fine flavor. That your pickles taste better than your neighbors. Pickling Spice must be properly blended. Use EVEST HOME BRAND Pickling Spices in roc. cartons. They contain seeds, spices and leaves from nearly every country client and they are blended scientifically. That is get the RIGHT flavor. 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Harvest Help in Great Demand Reports from the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta (Western Canada) indicate one of the best crops ever raised on the continent. To harvest this crop will require at least 50,000 harvesters. Excursions are run daily and full particulars will be given on application to the following authorized Canadian Government Agent. The rates are made to apply to all who wish to take advantage of them for the purpose of inspecting the grain fields of Western Canada, and the wonderful opportunities there offered for those who wish to invest, and also those who wish to take up actual farm life. Apply at once to W. H. ROGERS 125 W. 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. EUREKA SPRINGS ARKANSAS EUREKA SPRINGS ARKANSAS Yours for health or pleasure. Round trip tickets on sale daily. A beautifully illustrated booklet free, also rates and information. Write, C. D. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager, M. & N. A. R. R. Eureka Springs Arkansas If you want to buy or sell, write us. We are always in the market. The Ackimo Fuel & Supply Co., Wichita, Kansas PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleaners and beautifies the hair. Protects from sunburn. Never Falls to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures hair disease and balsam. Occe and $1.00 at Drugs W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 29-1911. Knights & Daughters SEARCHLIGHT PAGE EIGHT 833 Official Knights & OF THE KANSAS—NEBRASKA KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. 1911—GRAND OFFICERS—1912 NEXT PLACE MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will meet in Leavenworth, Kansas, the second Tuesday in July, 1912. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, Route 8, Topeka, Kan SIR D. L. TAYLOR, V. G. M. 329 E. Center, Salina, Kan MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. LAURA LEE, V. G. P. Box 294, Weir, Kansas. SIR A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kan. WRS. SARAH W FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St. Lincoln, Neb. SIR WILLIAM CORE, C. G. T. 1420 Lane, Copeka, Kan. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M. 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. SIR C. M. JOHNSON, G. P. 3330 Maple, Omaha, Neb. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 222 Ave. E. W. Hutchinson, Kans. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORK, C.G.P. 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kan. SIR W. N. MILLER, General Attorney, 430 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas. TEMPLEA Rev. Fank Wilson, C. G. M. 1—A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sir L. W. Stewart, Box 481; 1-3 Fri. 3—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 Co.; 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. 4. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington; 1-3 Fri. 8—St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., Sir Robt. Allison; 1-3 Tues. 9—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan., Geo. Walker 417 Kiowa. 10—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main; 1-3 Thurs. 11—Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan., Sir W. N. Williams, 2201 Corning; 1-3 Thurs. 12—Silver Leaf, Sallna, Kan., Sir J. C. Hudson, care Hudson Grocery Co. 13—Golden Gate, Corteyville, Kan. Sir N. N. Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe; 1-3 Wed. 14—Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., Sir W. H. Jones, care Santa Fe Depot; 2-4 Thurs. 15—Barak, Oswego, Kan., Sir L. R. Wilson, Oswego College. 16—Jas. H. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan., Sir Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 17—Washington, Kansas City, Kan., Sir J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell; every Friday. 18—Sunnyside, Topeka, Kan., Sir Peter Davis, 1008 Washburn; 1-3 Thurs. 19—Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., Sir U. S. Grant, 120 Kansas; 1-3 Mon. 20—Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Sir J. L. Wright, 1st Nat'l Bank. TABERNACLES Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. 1—Queen of the West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Malinda George, 603 State Ave.; 1-3 Wed. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Ella Weston, 709 Buckeye; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Mary Goss, 2423 Jewett 1-3 Fri. 4—Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. Ella Jones, 630 W. 4th; 1-3 Thurs. 5—Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Hattie Montgomery, 1115 N. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 6—Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Miss Katherine Glaspie, 128 Mulberry; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lillian 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. Marla, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Carrie Davis, 446 Main; 1-3 Wed. 11—Rebecca Saba Mereo, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. J. A. Smith, 847 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. 12—Gollen Kule, Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stewart; 1-3 Thurs. --- 777 16—America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. Maggie Stewart, Box 14; 2-4 Mon 16—Silver Leaf, Persons, Kan., Mrs. K. Shakespear, 112 Main; 1-3 Wed. 17—Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan. Mrs. A. Masir, 317 E. Wall; 1-3 Sat. 18—St. Marie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. E Patterson, 2115 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; 1:2 Fri. 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, 716 E. 15th; 1:3 Thurs. 29—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. H. La Tand, 407 Kickapoo; 1:3 Tue. 30—Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman; 1:3 Fri. 34—Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Salle 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. Mamie Sloss, 1121 Oak; 1-3 Fri. 38—Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. Washington; 2-4 Wed. 39 Deborah, Abeline, Kansas, Mrs. Mable Baskerville. 2-4 Thurs. 52—Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Cora Yeager 26 Main; 2-4 Thurs. 63—Fair West, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Rosa Saunders, 716 N. J; 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Rose, Topea, Kan., Mrs. Jennie B. Taylor, General Deliv. 85—Magdalene, Topea, Kan., Mrs. M. Richardson, 1425 Van Buren. 89—Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. N. L. Hibbs, 2805 Cummings. 91—Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th; 1-3 Thurs. 92—St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L. D. Davis, 383 P; 2-4 Fri. 93—Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. A. Brown, 15th and Washing ton; 1-3 Thurs. TENTS. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. 1—Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Eliza Scott, S. 3rd; 4 Sat. 2—Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan. Mrs. Emma Maxey, 411 Ransom. 3—Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan. Mrs. B. Davis, 1135 N. Washing- 4—White Rose, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Lulu Ross, 433 Nebraska; 2-4 Sat. 5—New Hope, Coffeyville, Mrs. Ada Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe., 2-4 Wed. ton, 1-3 Sat. 8—Golden Eagle, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Mayes, 20 Campbell. 11—Golden, Atcison, Kan., Mrs. Carrie Brown, 920 N. 10th; 2-4 Sat. 10—Washington, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Effie Porter, 1036 Grandview Blvd.; 1-3 Sat. 11—Alice Tucker, So. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. I, M. Faukner, 169 N. 31st; 1-3 Sat. 11—Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Mary Brown, 325 Miss.; 4 Sat. 14—Busy Bee, Atchison Kan., Mrs. Aria Stone, 823 Main; 1-3 Sat. 15—Louisa Mae, Cherryvale, Kap., 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., A. O. Murrell, 633 S. 4th; 1-3 Sat. 20—John Wilson, K. C., Kan. M. C. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett; 2-4 Sat 21—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan.; Mrs. Priscilla Lee, 419 Kiowa; 3 Sat. 2-4 Sat. 22—Clinging Rose, Lawrence, Kan. Mrs. Ada King, 722 N. Y., 3 sat. 26—Emina Gaines, Weir, Kan. Mary Stewart; 1-3 Sat. 28—20th Century, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. L. Willis, 2215 Morgan; 1 Sat. 36—Pride of Topeka, N. Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Sarah McElroy, 817 Lincoln; 1-3 Sat. 37—Pansy Blossom, Topeka, aKn. Mrs. Sally Lanear, 1209 Buchanan; 1-3 Sat. 44—Rising Sun, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mary Delley, 120 Kansas. 46—Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Herrold, 2521 N. 17th; 1-3 Sat. DEAM ABSTRACT CO IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors — FOR BREAD AND BISCUITS — "Wichita's Best " Flour Kansas Milling Company WICHITA, KANSAS Everything Neat GOTTAGE 603 North A 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 PALATIUMS. PALATIUMS. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Sir C. M. Johnson, G. P. P. 1—Light of the West, Omaha, Neh, Mrs. Sarah Severe, 829 S. 26th. 2—Evening Star, Topeka, Kan., Ransom Taylor, 4th Thrus. 3—Moses Dickson, Auchison, Kan, W. H. Barnes, 4th Mon. 4—Queen City, Parsons, Kan., L. Bridgwater, 430 Appleton. 5—Jewell Wilson, Lawrence, aK. Chas. H. Kuntze, 932 E. Adams; 1-3 Mon. 6—Queen of Kansas, K. C., Kan. 6—Pride of Kansas, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Anna Madison, 1309 Ann; 1-3 Fri. OFFICIAL ORGAN. The Wichita Searchlight, 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kan. Only $1.00 per year. 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 s 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 woe you divide the remaining 1 per cent of wealth among them? Rev. Ben Wyland, congregation Brook lyn LEAD THE IDEAL SIMPLE LIFE Finns Devote Summer Months to Enjoyment and Pursuit of Health. In Finland everybody lives the simple life in summer time. They camp out on islands, in the forests and always somewhere near the water, for everybody swims and bathes. Almost all classes sleep and eat al fresco at this time of year, and the town councils of the towns in this progressive and altogether delightful little country provide public fireplaces and public bathing sheds in all places where the working classes go in search of fresh air. But the simple life is by no means dull with the frisky climbs, combine it with a surprising amount of gayety. They eat, drink and amerry in their picturesque little log cabins outside the cities. When they are tired of bathing and splashing they dance, they sing, they catch fireworks and practice gymnastics, they all become like children and are the happiest, merriest, most good natured, most easily pleased and most healthy holiday makers in the world. We might take many leaves from the Flans' book—Ladies' Pictorial. High Class Surgery A Specialty , Fresh and Clean — GE CAFE Main Street Short Order All Hours mes — All Home Cooking Todd, Prop Wichita, Kan Special Attention Given To Canine Practice answered — Day or Night Wildes Neon & 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 ia, st. on easy payments. See W. N. MILLER, 630 N. Main St. IF IT EVER HAPARNED YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT JUMPED AT NATURE'S BIDDING Would-Be Suicide 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, therefore, 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. Where 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. "I insist upon an allowance of $500 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 tendance at all manner of borsesome 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 flared out defiantly. She perceived that the worm had turned. "Hush!" she implored, and reached for her checkbook—Punk. --- The Worm. ART CRITICISM IN KANSAS Marvey 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 milkmald'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 stool. The girl and the cow were wandering through a field of daisies. 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 pall?" 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. Ellot'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 Intoxicated 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, Jonesle," said I. 'Til take you to the hotel and put you to bed.' "Jonesle looked at me for a moment and then he spoke. 'How far'sh hotel from here?" he asked. "About five minutes' walk." "Huh,' said Jonesle, 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."— Cinchnaini 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 super-Gantier "Portrait of Victor Hugo." Citizens Resented Being Voted for as Town's "Meanest Man." Old Scrooge might be a philanthropic Carnegie alongside certain tightwads in Mount Vernon, but William Friedberg has no license to determine publicly who are the men who would squeeze a dollar until the eagle yelled: "Help! I'm melting!" For conducting a voting contest to determine the meanest man in Mount Vernon Friedberg, who keeps a cigar store there, was fined five dollars by Judge Platt here. A warning went with the fine. Friedberg lives in Astoria, but does business in Mount Vernon. He placed in his window a placard: "Come in and vote for the meanest man in Mount Vernon." This was followed by a list of names. Conspicuous in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and stalic citizens. After every name was a number signifying the votes the owner of the name had received so far. Great was the wrath of the so-called "meanest men." Friedberg was ordered to take the sign out of the window, but he refused to do so. His indictment for libel followed. In court he pleaded guilty, but asserted he did not know he was violating any law. White Plains Co. New York Sun. 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 Reform 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 codetract 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." Send Your news and Job To Us. IGH IN CIVILIZATION'S SCALLE Unknown Peoples of America Who Have Perished Utterly. Between the region occupied of old by the Aztecs 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 Norlens' 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 extinction. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more musical 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 dexterity richness of color and fineness of texture no fabric of to-day surpasses it.