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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Secure Space at Once for Our Holiday Number, on DEC. 23. Secure S THE CENS --- Principal Booker T. Washington furnished to the Associated Press, for publication last week, the statement which follows of bearing upon the figures issued by Mr. Dana Durand, Director of the United States Census Bureau. The report as published in the Associated Press was necessarily somewhat abbreviated. The following review of the Census figures by the Principal Washington may be of interest. He said: The Director of the Census issued on November 9th. a preliminary statement of the white and Negro population in the United States as shown by the Thirteeth Census. According to the returns there were in 1910, 91,972,266 persons in the United States sub divided as to color as follows: white, 81,732,687 or 88.9 per cent; Negro, 9,828,294 or 10.7 per cent: all other persons, 411, 285 or 0.4 per cent. The increase of the Negro population for the ten years 1900- 1910 was less than for previous decades. From 1880 to 1890 the increase was 13.5 per cent; from 1890 to 1900, the increase was 18 per cent; and from 1900 to 1910 the increase was 11.3 per cent. We must not, however, infer that because there is a decreasing rate of increase of the Negro population that there is a danger of the Negroes dying out in the United States; for should the percent of increase fall until it was only 2 per cent: there it would still be for each decade a considerable increase in the number of Negroes. The census figures also show that exclusive of immigrants there is a decreasing rate of the increase of whites. This decrease, however, is apparently not as great as for the Negroes in the South. In 1880 the whites constituted 63.9 per cent of the population of the Negroes 36 per cent; in 1900 the whites constituted 67.4 per cent, and the Negroes 32.3 in 1910 whites constituted 69.9 and the Negroes 29.8. 8,749,390 or 89 per cent of the Negroes, live in the South and 1,078,904 or 10.9 per cent. outside of the South. The number of Negroes in the so-called Southern States are as follows: Delaware, 31,181 Mary land, 2,342,249; District of Columbia, 94,446; Virginia, 671, 096; West Virginia, 62,173: N. Carolina 697,843; South Carolina, 835, 843; Geosgia, 1,176, 987; Florida, 308,669; Kentucky 261,656: Tennessee, 43,088 Alabama, 908,275; Mississippi, 1, 009,487; Arkansas 442,891 and Louisiana, 713,874; Oklahoma, 137,612; Texas, 690,920. $20,000 Has Been Raised. Progress Being Made In Collecting Funds For Colored Training Schools At Nashville. Nashville, Tenn. - The raising funds for a $200,000 colored training school in this city, to be a part of the American Interchurch College for Religions and Social Workers, is meeting with success on the part of the Negro citizens of Nashville. The first gift of $4,000 was made several months ago by the Hon, J. C. Napier. Since that time the donations and subscriptions have reached the sum of $20,000. The establishment of the colored training school will fill a long felt need in the development of the Negro religiously and socially throughout the country the aim being to train colored young men and women as specialists in moral, social, and religious leadership among their people. At present the officers of the scool are located in the Marshall building, a large three-story brick structure facing the Tennessee state capital. The executive board of the Colored Training School, numbers among its members such men as Dr. George A Gates, president of Fisk University; Dr. Booker T Washington, principal of the SATURDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1911. Tuskegee Institutes; Dr. James H. Dillard, president and general agent of the James fund board; Hon, James C. Napier, Register of the United States Treasury, and Dr. R. H. Boyd, secretary of the National Baptist publishing board. White Father Protects Negro. Indianapolis News Compares Act To That Of Old Roman Father. A Kansas farmer whose daughter, it is charged, had been attacked by a negro, saved the accused man from being lynched. While the mob was dragging the negro the farmer pushed his way thro it with the words: "This man undoubtedly attempted a vicious crime on my daughter, but Judge Lynch poes not live in Kansas any more. To burn this fellow would be to scandalize the country. Let the law take its course." There is a patriot and a father of the old Roman kind! He honored HIM-SELF, his DAUGHTER, and his STATE and COUNTRY. It is a spirit of this kind which must arise if we are not to go from bad to worse. We have got to rescue our civilazation. But the spirit is only the beginning. It must be followed by action on the part of the law. There must be no conspiracy strong enough to hang juries and cause disagreements until it becomes a by-word that it is impossible to get justice in the neighborhood of the lynching. Entertained Friends Miss. Ida Wilson entertained a few of her friends Sunday afternoon to a two-course luncheon. Those who enjoyed Miss. Wilson hospitality were:- Mrs. Leota Banks; Misses. Ethel Woodard, Edith Thomas, Chaney Goss, Beatrice Banks, Ida Harvey Alta Lewis, Esther Hurst, Messrs. A. Woodard and W. Burks An enjoyable time was had. All declared Miss. Wilson an ideal entertained. If you have a bad case of piles, rheumatism or skin disease, acute or chronic, see Doctor Brown. Literary Society Wed. Dec. 15, the John Brown Literary Society offers a noval program in a Mock U. S. Senate All the members please get information in regard to the political stauding of their Senator whom they represent. Every body is cordially invited to attend, and spend a pleasant evening with the Society. Officers and Members Of U. S. Senate. Pres. ..... Rev, E. T. Fishback Vice Pres. ..... Wesley Rawles Clerk ..... Ambrose Woodard Sergent-at-arms H. W. Marshall Chaplain ..... Dr. H. T. Bolden' Pages, Milton Chinneth, Rogan Blakemore, Richard Williams. Sen, LaFollete ..... W. A. Bettis ,, Lodge ..... S. W. Jones ,, Curtis ..... R. B. McWilhams ,, Ben Tillman ..... J. G. Wiley ,, Jeff Davis .. E. P. Blakemore ,, Bradley ..... Dr. F. O. Miller ,, Loumier . ..... J. D. Jones ,, Penrose ..... Dr. F. L. Barnett ,, Cummins Rev. C. A. Williams ,, ElihuRoot Dr. A. K. Lawrenc ,, Hope Smith Dr. G. G. Brown ,, Brison ..... J. L. Harper ,, Borah ..... Leroy Huff ,, Burton ..... Robert Brown ,, Dick ..... Thomas Glover ,, John Sharp William L. Payne ,, Hepburn ..... Dr. N. D. Briley ,, Gore ..... George Brown ,, Smaot ..... J. W. Bennett ,, Teller ..... Winfield Burks. The Tuskegee Negro Conference. On Wednesday and Thursday, January 17, and 18, 1912, the twenty-first annual session of the Tuskegee Institute. Wednesday, the fiest day, will be devoted to a mass meeting of the Negro people. Thursday, the second day, the annual Workers' Conference will be held. In the call for the Conference the statement is made that its purpose is "less to teach than to inspire." The first day will be taken up for the most part with informal reports and personal experiences of representative men among the farmer and laboring classes from all over the South. Practice of saving among the Negroes?" This subject will be Senators GENERAL AGENTS in the STATE OF KANSAS. PHONE MARKET 3539 X. Have You Paid your Subscription To The Searchlight? devided into five sub-topics,affording opportunity for a full, free and helpful discussion. Have You Paid Your Subscription To The Wichita, Searchlight? Readers of the Wichita Searchlight who have delayed paying their subscription will favor us greatly by a promqt remittance. We are anxious to continue the names of all of our present readers on our mailing list. We do not want to drop a single name. But, under the Postal Laws, we will be compelled to drop some who are iu arrears unless remittances and promptly made. The subscription price to The Searchlight only one dollar $1. for a whole year. This does not amount to 2 cents per week. Surely not a high price to invest in a Race Enterprise. Every colored family should take at least one colored newspaper. Many colored families take three or four. The colored newspapers are weeklies and therefore the subscriptions rate is small. You will cultivate a gteat deal of race inspiration by having a few colored newspapers with uplifting race news in your homes each week. Try and see. Remit your subscription by check, money order or register letter to. The Wichita; Searchlight 630 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas. To The Subscribers of The Searchlight: Pleasc call at our Office and pay what you owe. Or be prepared to pay our collector. Office 630 N. Main St. Mrs. W. N. Miller. NO.34 Kansas, City Kansas. Obituary Kansas City Kans Dec. 5. Daughters of Rebecca Tabernacle we have gathered here today in the shadow of gloom and with heart laden with sorrow, to pay our tribute of affectionate respect to the memory of our deceased daughter Harriet Crouch, who departed this life Sunday morning Nov. 12th, she was a member of Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11, over 29 years she was one of its Charter members and whereas it has pleased almghty the supreme ruler of the universe to take from our midst daughter Crouch, we feel that our loss is heaven's gain. She was a faithful untiring daughter a devoted Christian worker for the masters cause, Now she is gone to a land where mortals never weep, and a land where sin and pain have never dared to come, where anger toil and strife have never found a home. Therefore be it Resolved that with deep sympathy with the bereaved family and relatives we express hope that ever great a loss to us all will be ov'er ruled for good by him who doeth all things well and may we say within our selves; Jesus while our hearts are bleeding, O'er the spoils that death has won; We would at this solemn meeting, Calmly say thy will be done. The cast down we are not forsaken, The afflicted not alone; Tho afflicted not alone; Thou has give and thou has taken, Blessed Lord thy will be done. Resolved: That a copy of these condolince be spread upon the face of our minutes, a copy to the Searchlight and a copy forwarded to the bereaved family. Signed. Louina Williams, Emma St. Clair Jennie Wyatt It is not the education you get, but the education that gets you,w which counts. PRISON MUTINY WAS PLANNED LEAVENWORTH GUARD DISCOVERS DYNAMITE AND GUNS. Change in Usual Holiday Plans Prevented Worst Outbreak in History of Institution. Leavenworth, Kansas.—A change in the usual holiday program at the federal penitentiary here probably prevented one of the boldest attempts yet planned for a mutiny at the prison. A guard on his rounds of inspection of the prison shortly before noon found a stovepipe filled with 12 revolvers and four sticks of dynamite, which evidently had been dropped over the wall into the prison sometime during the night. It has been the custom for several years to permit the prisoners to gather in the prison yard on holidays. But the usual order of things was changed this year. Instead of the athletic performance, a play was produced in the chapel in the afternoon and a religious ceremony given in the morning. The revolvers were of .38 calliber, small frames and short barrels, but every one of the 12 was loaded with six cartridges. They were packed in a joint of stovepipe about 18 inches long. The plan evidently was to drop the weapons and dynamite in a place where the largest number of the men congregate at an athletic performance in the hope that one of the number would find the package. The men with the weapons, the prison officials believe, were to cover the guards for a minute while one or two other prisoners blew open the east gate and then all the men who were in the prison yard would be able to make the dash for liberty. W. H. Mackey, deputy warden, and R. W. McClaughry, warden, believe it is the work of two former prisoners at the penitentiary, who have friends serving long terms there now. FARMERS WILL BUILD ELEVATOR Second Institution Near Hiawatha for Purpose of Handling Grain Through Co-Operation. Hiawatha, Kansas.—The farmers of the northern part of Brown county soon will market their grain through their own elevator. A company has been formed among them with a capital stock of $4,500 and an elevator is to be built at Padonia, five miles north of Hiawatha on the Missouri Pacific railroad. The farmers in that part of the county have been watching the operations of a farmers' elevator at Germantown, a small village ten miles south of Hiawatha, on the Rock Island. That elevator apparently is a big success, so the farmers in the northern part of the county decided they could succeed, too. C. A. McCoy, James Harding and James Brigham subscribed $500 each toward the stock and 30 others subscribed $100 each. DEAD MAN AT STEERING WHEEL Wichita - Real Estate Man's Lifeless Hands Guide Car Over Railway Tracks. Wichita, Kansas—Benjamin A. Marshall, a real estate dealer, 61 years old, died at the steering wheel of his motor car here while leaving for a trip to Mulvane, Kan. Marshall's lifeless hands gripped the steering wheel and the car passed over the network of tracks at the Santa Fe railroad's grade crossing on Douglas Avenue, the city's main street. H. E. Osburn, who rode in the rear seat of Marshall's car, observed that Marshall's body was leaning on the steering wheel and that the man was dead. Osburn stopped the car as it collided with a telephone pole. Los Angeles Socialists Lose. Los Angeles, California.—Socialism grappled in a final struggle with its opponents under the "good government" banner at the ballot box and was defeated. Evidently the sudden change in the McNamara case had its effect. Estimates based on a partial count of the vote place the majority for Mayor Alexander over Harriman at more than 50,000. Alexander carried Harriman's precinct, 1,537 to 192. Partial returns indicate that prohibition has been defeated. Baby Killed on a Train. St. Joseph, Missouri—The one-year-old son of Mrs. W. F. Daley of Tulsa, Ok., who was on her way home from Akron, Col., fell out of the berth in the Pullman sleeper of a Burlington eastbound train and died just before the train reached St. Joseph. Kansas City, Missouri.—Fire resulted in a total loss of the building occupied by Long brothers, wholesale grocers. The value of the stock and the building was over $300,000. Smuggled Glass Eyes. St. Paul, Minnesota.—George P. Locke, of the United States customs service made a seizure of 600 glass artificial eyes from an optician here. The eyes are valued at $4,200 and are said to be part of 15,000 smuggled into this country from Germany by a Hoboken, N. J., man. Lewis County Voted Dry. Lewistown, Missouri.—The "drys" carried Lewis county in the local election by 647 majority. The total vote was 1,763 to 1,116. CLEVELAND LEADER. KANSAS FLOUR MILLS MERGE KANSAS FLOUR MILLS MERGE ONE OF LARGEST CORPORATIONS IN THE STATE Purpose is Not to Stifle Competition, But to Produce Better Quality at Lower Price. Topeka, Kansas.—A merger of seven Kansas flour mills into the Kansas Flour mills company, with a capital of $3,000,000, one of the largest corporations in Kansas, has just been consummated and a charter granted by the state charter board. The head- quarters will be in Wichita. The purpose of the corporation according to the organizers, is to unite the Kansas flour mills in order to standardize their flour and create for it a larger and broader market; to economize in management and produce a better flour at lower prices than is possible under individual management; to create a stronger and better market for Kansas turkey hard wheat; to increase the home manufacture of the Kansas product. The firms in the merger are: The Moses Brothers Mill and elevator company, Great Bend; the Kingman Milling company, Kingman; the C. Hoffman & Son Milling company, Enterprise; the Hoffman Milling company, Enterprise; the Pratt Mill and Elevator company, Pratt; the New Era Milling company, Arkansas City; the Anthony Milling company, Anthony. "It is recognized by all students that in marketing any product advertising is one of the chief factors," L. E. Moses said. "The mills in the Northwest have been aggressive in that way and have created a demand for spring wheat products out of all proportion to their relative values. Analysis shows that the flour made from turkey red wheat, raised in our state and milled under scientific methods produces a better flour for the baker and housewife than any variety of wheat raised in the world." PROPOSES TO MAKE ALL BEHAVE According to Program of New County Attorney, Cherokee is to Have Thorough Cleaning. Columbus, Kansas.—Cherokee county, which long had a reputation as "bad land," will be the most severe law enforcement county in Kansas if County Attorney Stephens carries out the policy which he has started. Judge Sapp appointed Stephens county attorney to succeed A. L. Majors, who resigned under fire. Since taking office Stephens has announced that he will enforce not only the prohibitory law, but all other laws as well. As a starter he has notified the owners of motion picture theaters to comply with the state regulations intended to assure the safe exit of audiences in case of fire. He has served notice on all cigar stores and other business places operating slot machines of any type that they must remove them at once or be prosecuted. All merchants have been notified that they must quit putting on gift enterprises of any sort or they will be prosecuted under the state law which makes the use of such devices a felony. Stephens says that before he is done he will take up the enforcement of all laws and will show the people that the prohibitory law is not the only one on the statute books which means something. Convicted Kansan Out. Wichita, Kansas.—Dr. G. H. Buck of Pratt, who has been in jail ten months following his conviction on a charge of having poisoned his wife with cyandie, has been released on bond pending a decision of the state supreme court on his appeal. A "Raise" for Young T. R. Thompsonville, Conn.—Employees of the carpet factory where Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., began work two years ago at $4 a week say that he has been offered the superintendency of the entire plant. Express Stables Destroyed. Jersey City, N. J.—Fire destroyed the stables of the United States Express company here causing the death of 300 horses, injuring two firemen and doing damage estimated at $1,000,000. Convict Dies in Prison Leavenworth, Kan.—George Lenzy, sent to the federal prison here from Dallas, Tex., May 5, 1911, under a year's sentence for misuse of the mails, died in the prison hospital of a disease of the arteries. PRISON FOR BOTH DYNAMITERS Judge Comments on Plea That Destruction of Life Was Not Intended—The Confession. Los Angeles.—James B. McNamara, confessed murderer, was sentenced to life imprisonment here by Judge Walter Bordwell. His brother, John J. McNamara, secretary of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, who confessed to the dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron Works, was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. Imprisonment will be in San Quentin penitentiary. "The defendant will arise," said Judge Bordwell, who then commented upon McNamara's declaration that he did not intend to destroy life. "The circumstances are against that statement," he said. Los Angeles.—James B. McNamara's brief confession, penned by his own hand and bearing many evidences of a man little skilled in letters, has been made public. It is as follows: I, James B. McNamara, defendant in the case of the people, having heretofore pleaded guilty to the crime of murder, desire to make this statement of facts: And this is the truth: On the night of September 30, 1910, at 5:45 p. m., I placed in Ink Alley, a portion of the Times Building, a suitcase containing sixteen sticks of 80 per cent dynamite, set to explode at 1 o'clock the next morning. It was my intention to injure the building of the house we did not intend to take the life of anyone. I sincerely regret that these unfortunate men lost their lives. If the giving of my life would bring them back, I would gladly give it. In fact, in pleading guilty to murder in the first degree I have placed my life in hands of the state. (Signed.) JAMES B. McNAMARA REFUSED LOAN AND SHOT FRIEND Four Men Participated in General Fight Following Attempt to Borrow Money. Unionville, Missouri.—Jesse Thomas was shot, perhaps fatally, by Joseph Rolls here in a fight in which four persons participated. The trouble is said to have started when Thomas endeavored to borrow $10 from Rolls and was refused. Rolls says Thomas knocked him down and that a brother, Clarence Thomas, helped take $50 from his pockets. This fight started in Rolls' place of business and was continued in a blacksmith shop next door where horseshoes were thrown promiscuously. A brother of Rolls came to his assistance. All four men were injured. After he was shot, Thomas took the weapon away from Rolls and shot at him. Three shots were fired in all. Joseph and Thomas Rolls and Clarence Thomas are under arrest, awaiting the result of Jesse Thomas' wounds. MOB LYNCHED OKLAHOMA NEGRO Quick Punishment for Attack on White Child—Broke Jail to Get Guilty Brute. Idabel, Oklahoma.—A mob of white men, infuriated by the story of a brutal attack on a 12-year-old girl by an unknown young negro, took the prisoner from the Valliant jail and hanged him to a tree on the fair ground. The little girl, who is the daughter of Lee Saunders, met the negro on the railroad track in the afternoon and he attacked her. After a struggle, however, she escaped from him and ran to her home nearby. As soon as the story of the attack spread around the town a mob of white men gathered at the jail, overpowered the officer in charge and hanged the negro. Prisoner Won $10,000. Berlin, Germany.—Carl Kalessa, serving a sentence for stealing an overcoat when he was without funds, won a $10,000 lottery prize. He had spent his last mark for the ticket and stole the coat to protect himself from the weather. Child Fatally Shot Pittsburg, Kansas.—While Mrs. Gus Thomas of South Cherokee was preparing to put a clean dress on her little daughter it caught on a shotgun, pulling it over. The weapon was discharged killing the baby. Jointists in Contempt Muskgoose, Ok—Edward Brunsen and George White, proprietors of a drug store, each were sentenced to five months in jail and to pay a fine of $100 for contempt. An injunction had been issued against the men. LAST DISTILLERY DESTROYED Leaves Entire Southern Border of Missouri, for 200 Miles, Dry Territory. Myrtle, Missouri. — Five hundred Oregon county people attended the destruction of a distillery here. Women with axes and hatchets hacked the copper kettles and worm into bits. The pieces were carried away as souvenirs and not a vestige of the still was left. The distillery was at Ring, Ark, just across the state line, one mile from here. Although Oregon county has local option, it was an easy matter to get liquor across the state line. The temperance people, led by W. T. Taylor, merchant, postmaster and superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school, determined to rid the community of the distillery. A proposition was made to R. R. Roberts, the owner, to buy it. Roberts agreed to sell, the money was raised and the distillery bought. Miss Margaret Parrot, teacher of the Myrtle school, was selected to strike the first blow. Then other women with axes and hatchets attacked the evil monster, as they style the distillery. When the women tired of their work the men finished the job. That is the last distillery in this region and leaves a scope of dry territory along the southern border of the state 200 miles long. ROAD BOOSTERS STARTED RIOT Garage City, Ken. Meeting Marked Osage City, Kan., Meeting Marked by Noisy Rivalry—Adopted Packing House Rules. Osage City, Kansas.—The Ottawa-Olathe and Topeka-Lawrence delegations to the Santa Fe Trail Pan-American association meeting here, 1,500 in number, adopted packing house rules in an attempt to have favorite routes named officially as the connecting link between Osage City and Kansas City of the New York-San Francisco highway. In the end neither won, for the members of the association met after the opposing delegations had left for home and adopted an intermediate route which follows as nearly as practicable the old Santa Fe trail. The Topeka-Lawrence men put three bands into the hall. When anyone attempted to speak the opposition bands opened up with a roar. Later some of the delegates sent out for tin pans, which they beat with sticks; others had bazos. The disturbance continued for an hour. TRUNK FULL OF SECRETS LOST Belonged to David Jayne Hill—Publication of Documents Therein Would Cause Much Embarrassment. New York, Dec. 5.—Express company employees and detectives are making a careful search for a trunk belonging to David Jayne Hill, ambassador, who sailed for Germany Saturday. It is said that the trunk contained valuable private and diplomatic correspondence, as well as data in connection with Doctor Hill's history of international diplomacy. Doctor Hill was about to begin writing the third volume. The trunk, it is understood, contained all the documentary records in Doctor Hill's possession relating to his unexplained retirement from the American diplomatic service last March. If ever published, the papers, it is asserted, would cause embarrassment in certain quarters. INHERITANCE TAX NOT A BURDEN Heir to a Missouri Estate Ignorant of His Rights until Payment Was Demanded. Topeka, Kansas.—Samuel Gamble of Arkansas City, Kan., is thankful that Missouri has an inheritance tax law. If it had not asked him for his inheritance tax Gamble would not have known that he was an heir to a $5,000 estate. W. L. Cunning of Arkansas City, former speaker pro tem of the Kansas house of representatives has just returned from Higginsville, Mo., where the estate was settled. A brother of Sam Gamble died three years ago leaving part of the estate to the Kansas brother. But Sam Gamble never knew he was entitled to any property until the Missouri inheritance tax was asked for. No Hospital Decision Yet Topeka, Kansas. -It will be several days, possibly two weeks, before the location of the new hospital for the insane definitely is settled. Fifteen towns tried to get the hospital, but Larned was selected by the medical board. Governor Stubbs held up the decision until he could investigate the claims of the other towns. Bank Notes in Field. Muskogee, Ok.-The remnant of the loot of yeggmen who robbed the bank of Taft, Ok., last summer has just been found hidden away in a field near the town of Haskell. In an old rusty tin can were found negotiable notes aggregating $19,000. An Invalid to Celebrate. Montgomery, Missouri—Thomas F. Lockhart of Wellington, Mo., through a friend here has issued an invitation to the people of Missouri to celebrate with him the twenty-fifth year of his lying on a mattress, a helpless invalid, unable to move or feed himself. Battle With Moros. Manila.—In a battle between a battalion of the Third infantry and Moro guerrillas one American soldier and 30 natives were killed. Since Bishop Hendrix Would Drive Him From the Church Whither Will He Flee? Bishop E. R. Hendrix, in a church council at Kansas City, asked why the church was not reaching more men. "Is it because we are adapting our work more to the women?" he demanded. Another prominent clergyman, Rev. S. M. Neel, M. D., opined that was somewhere near the reason. "We want no more sissy men in the pulpit," he declared. A "sissy" man, in this definition, is one who adapts his preaching and his teaching and his general conduct of parish affairs more to the women—bless them—than to the men. Dr. Neel is heartily applauded by a large number of his pulpit brethren and the spirit of the times in the church, as mentioned in such enterprises as the "Men and Religion Forward Movement," seems to emphasize what he says—the call and need for the strong, virile man in the pulpit who appeals to the man in the pew and in the street, for making the gospel a man's appeal, not, of course, depreciating the indispensable value of the women. That is all very well, but where, may we ask, is the typically "sisay" man wanted? What calling or business needs him? Business and other professions besides the ministry can use him no better than can the church.-Omaha Bee. 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The year Just passed marks an im- portant general movement on the part ‘of the powers for broader arbitration. In the recognition of the manifold benefits to makind in the extension of the poliey of the settlement of inter- national disputes by arbitration rather than by war, and in response to a widespread demand for an advance in that direction on the part of the peo- ple of the United States and of Great Britain and of France, new arbitration treaties Were negotiated last spring with Great Britain and France; the terms of which were designed, as ex- pressed in the preamble of these reatles, to extend the scope and obli- gations of the policy of arbitration adopted In our present treaties with those governments, To pave the way for tls treaty with the United States, Great Britain negotiated an important wod{ention in tts alllanee with Japan, an the Freneh government also ex- edited the negotiations with signal good will, The new treaties have been submitted to. the senate and are awaiting tts advice and consent to thelr ratification, All the essentials of these important treaties have long teen known, and ft is my earnest hope that they will recelve prompt and favorable action, Clakn of Alsop & Co. Settled. 1am glad to réport that on July 5 ast the American claim of Alsop & Co. against the government of Chile was finally disposed of by the decision of his Britannic majesty George V., to whom, as amfable compositeur, the matter had been referred for déter- > minetion. His majesty made an award of nearly $1,000,000 to the claimants, which was promptly paid by Chile. ‘The settlement of this con- troversy has happily eliminated from the relattons betwen the republic of Chile and the United States the only question which for two decades had siven the two foreign offices any seri- ous concern and makes gossible the unobstructed development of the rela- tlons of friendship which It has been the alm of this government in every possible way to further and cultivate. Arbitrations, : In further illustration of the practi- cal and beneficent application of the principle of arbitration and the under- ving broad spirit of conefliation, I am happy to advert to the part of the United States in facilitating amfcable settlement of disputes wh{ch menaced the peace between Panama and Costa Ric and between Haiti and the Do- an republic. hee the date of thelr tndepend- ene, Colombia and Costa, Rica had Seen seeking a solution of a boundary ‘spate, which came as a heritage Colombia to tite new republic of upon tts beginning life as an ndent nation, Although the dis- had submitted this question cision to the president of under the terms of an arbitra- ty, the exact interpretation provisions of the award ren- vad been a matter of serious ement -between the two coun- both contending for widely dif- ‘erent lines even under the terms ot decision, Suibsequeptly and since his boundary quedtion had bees © subject of fruitless diplomatic ne- eUations between the parties. In ‘ary, 1910, at the request of both \ernments the agents representing ten met fp conference at the depart went of state and subsequently con- da protocol submitting this long- jing controversy to the arbitral sment of the chief justice of the "ed States, who consented to act ‘ ‘his capactty, A boundary commis- “a, according to the international Ssreement, has now -been appointed, ‘nd tt 1s expected that the arguments wlll shortly proceed and that this long- ‘tsnding dispute will be - honorably end satisfactorily terminated. Again, a few months a0 tf speared of an acrimonious boundary dispute which the efforts of many years had failed to solve. The government of the United States, by a friendly inter- position of good offices, succeeded in prevailing uopn the partles to place their reliance upon some form of pact- fle “settlement. Accordingly, on’ the friendly suggestion of this govern- ment, the two governments empow- ered commissioners to meet at Wasb- ington in conference at the state de partment in order to arrange the terms of submission to arbitration of the boundary controversy. Chamizal Arbitration Not Satisfactory. Our arbitration of the Chamizal boundary question with Mexico was unfortunately abortive, but with the earnest efforts on the part of both governments which its tmportance commands, it 1s felt that an early practical adjustment should prove pos- sible. Mexico. The recent political events in Mext- co received attention from this gov- ernment because of the exceedingly delicate and difficult situation created along onr southern border and the ne cessity for taking measures properly to safeguard American interests. The government of the United States, in its desire to secure a proper observ- ance and enforcement of the so-called neutrality statutes of the federal gov- ernment, {ssued directions to the ap propriate officers to exercise a dill gent and vigilant regard for the re quirements of such rules and laws. Al. though a condition of actual armed conflict existed, there was no official recognition of belligerency involving the technical neutrality obligations ot international law. On the 6th of March last, in the ab- sence of the secretary of state, I had @ personal interview with Mr. Wilson, | the ambassador of the United States to Mexico, in which he reported to me that the conditions in Mexico were much more critical than the press dis. patches disclosed; that President Diaz was on a volcano of popular uprising; | that the small outbreaks which had occurred were only symptomatic of the whole condition; that a very large per cent. of the people were in sym: pathy with the insurrection; that general explosion was probable at any time, in which case he feared that the 440,000 or more American residents in Mexico might be assailed, and that the very large American investments might be injured or destroyed. After a conference with the secre- tary of war and the secretary of the navy, I thought it wise to assemble an army division of full strength at San Antonio, Tex. a brigade of three regt- ments at Galveston, a brigade of in- fantry in the Los Angeles district of Southern California, together with a squadron of battleships and cruisers and transports at Galveston, and a small squadron of ships at San Diego. At the same time, through our repre- sentative at the City of Mexico, I ex: pressed to President Diaz the hope that no apprehensions might result from unfounded conjectures as to these military maneuvers, and as- sured him that they had no signifi cance which should cause concern to his government. The mobilization was effected with great promptness, and on the 15th of March, through the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy, in a let: ter addressed to the chief of staff, I issued the following instructions: “It seems my duty as commander in chlef to place troops in sufficient number where, if Congress shall dl- rect that they enter Mexico to save American ves and property, an ef- fective movement may be promptly made. Meantime, the movement of the troops to Texas and elsewhere near the boundary, accompanied with sin- cere assurances of the utmost good- will toward the present Mexican gov- ernment and with larger and more frequent patrols along the border to prevent . insurrectionary expeditions from American soil, will hold ‘up the hands of the existing government and will have a healthy moral effect to pre- vent attacks upon Americans and their property in any subsequent gen- eral internecine strife. Again, the sudden mobilization of a division of troops has been a great test of our army and full of useful instruction, while the maneuvers that are thus made possible can occupy the troops and their officers to great advantage. “The assumption by the press that I contemplate intervention on Mexican soil to protect American lives or prop- erty 1s of course gratuitous, because I seriously doubt whether I have such authority under any circumstances, and if ¥ had 1 would not exercise it without express congressional _ap- proyal. My determined purpose, how- ever, is to be in a, position so that a eT es a ae Lag RMR ee ee me ete ager ee ret ce ee Re posts, “Second, Texas is a state ordinarily Peaceful, but you can not put 20,000 troops into it without running some risk of a collision between the peo- ple of the state, and especially the Mexicans who live in Texas near the border and who sympathize with the insurrectos, and the federal soldiers. For that reason 1 beg you to be as fareful as you can to prevent friction of any kind, “Third. One of the great troubles in the concentration of troops is the danger of disease, and 1 suppose that you have adopted the most modern methods for the preventing and, if necessary, for stamping out epidemics. That is so much a part of a cam- paign that it hardly seems necessary for me to call attention to it. “Finally, 1 wish you to examine the question of the patrol of the border and put as many troops on that work as is practicable, and more than are now engaged in it, in order to prevent the use of our borderland for the carrying on of the insurrection. I have given assurances to the Mexican am- bassador on this point “I sincerely hope that this experi- ence will always be remembered by ‘the army and navy as a useful means of education, and 1 should be greatly disappointed if it resulted in any in- jury or disaster to our forces from any cause. [| have taken a good ceal of responsibility in ordering this mobil- ization, but 1 am ready to answer for it if only you and those under you use the utmost care to avoid the dif- ficulties whieh I have pointed out.” I am more than happy to here re- cord the fact that all apprehensions a8 tg the effect of the presence of so large a military force in Texas proved groundless; no disturbances occurred. From time to time communications were received from Ambassador Wil- son, who had returned to Mexico, con- firming the view that the massing of American troops in the neighborhood had had good effect. The insurrection continued and re- sulted in engagements between the regular Mexican troops and the insur- gents, and this along the border, so that in several instances bullets from the contending forces struck American citizens engaged in their lawful oceu- pations on American soil. Proper protests were made against these invasions of American rights to the Mexican authorities. The presence of a large military and naval force available for prompt action, near the Mexican border, proved to be most fortunate under the somewhat trying conditions presented by this invasion of American rights. Had no movement theretofore taken place, and because of these events it had been necessary then to bring about the mobilization, it must have had sinister significance. On the ‘other hand, the presence of the troops peter and at the time of the unfor- tunate killing and wounding of Amer- ‘ean citizens at Douglas, made clear that the restraint exercised by our government in regard to this occur. rence was not due to a lack of force or power to deal with {t promptly and aggressively, but was due to a real desire to use every means possible to avoid direct intervention In the af- fairs of our neighbor, whoso friend- ship we valued and were most anxious to retain. ‘The policy and action of this gov- ernment were based upon an earnest friendliness for the Mexican people as a whole, and it is a matter of gratification to note that this attitude of strict impartiality as to all fac- tions in Mexico and of sincere friend- ship for the neighboring nation, with- out regard for party allegiance, has been generally recognized and has resulted in an even closer and more sympathetic understanding between the two republics and a warmer re- gard one for the other. Action to suppress violence and restore tran- quility throughout the Mexican repub- Me was of peculiar interest to this government, in that {t concerned the safeguarding of American life and property in that country. On May 25, 1911, President Diaz resigned, Senor de la Barra was chosen provisional president. Elections for president and vice-president were thereafter held throughout the republic, and Senor Francisco I. Madero was for- mally declared elected on October 15 to the chief magistracy. On Novem- ber 6 President Madero entered upon the duties of his office. Honduras and Nicaragua Treaties Proposed. As to the situation in Central America, I have taken occasion in the past to emphasize most strongly the importance that should be attributed to the consummation of the conven- tions between the Republics of Nica- ania ant of ‘Hondums ant "thie As to the situation tn Central ‘America, I have taken occasion in the past to emphasize most strongly the importance that should be attributed to the consummation of the conven- tions between the Republics of Nica- ragua and of Honduras and this country, and I again earnestly recom- mend that the necessary advice and consent of the senate be accorded to these treaties, which will make it pos- sible for these Central American re- publics to enter upon an era of genu- ine economic national development. Our relations with the Republic of Panama, peculiarly Important, due to mutual obligations and the vast in- terests created by the canal, have continued in the usual friendly man- ner, and we have been glad to make appropriate expression of our attl- tude of sympathetic interest in the endeavors of our neighbor in undertak- ing the development of the rich re- sources of the country. The Chinese Loans. The past year bas been marked in our relations with China by the con- clusion of two !mportant parce al loans, one. for the truction of the Hukuang railways, the other for the carrying out of the currency re Cee eee, aren aR neta 7 ores Beebe tion was made in my last annual mes- sage. Knowing the interest of the United States in the reform of Chinese cur- rency, the Chinese government, in the autumn of 1910, sought the assist- ance of the American government to procure funds with which to accom- plish that all-important reform. In the course of the subsequent negotia- tions there was combined with the proposed currency loan one for cer- tain industrial developments in Man- churia, the two loans aggregating the sum of $50,000,000. While this was originally to be solely an American entcrprise, the American government, consistently with its desire to secure a sympathetic and practical co-opera- tion of the great powers toward main- taining the principle of equality of opportunity and the administrative in- tegrity of China, urged the Chinese government to admit to participation in the currency loan the associates of the American group in the Hu- kuang loan, While of immense {m- Portance in itself, the reform con- templated in making this loan ts but preliminary to other and more com- prehensive fiscal reforms which will be of incalculable benefit to China and foreign interests alike, since they will Strengthen the Chinese empire and promote the rapid development of in- ternational trade When these negotiations were be- gun. it was understood that a financial adviser was to be employed by China in connection with the reform, and in order that absolute equality in all Tespects among the lending nations might be scrupulously observed, the American government proposed the nomination of a neutral adviser, which Was agreed to by China and the other governments concerned. On Septem- ber 28, 1911, Doctor Vissering, prest- dent of the Dutch Java bank and a financler of wide experience in the Orient, was recommended to the Chi- hese government for the post of mone- tary adviser. Especially {mportant at the present, when the ancient Chinese empire 1s shaken by civil war incidental to {ts awakening to the many influences and activity of modernization, are the co- operative polley of good understanding which has been fostered by the inter- national projects referred to above and the general sympathy of view among all the powers interested in the far east. New Japanese Treaty. The treaty of commerce and naviga- tion between the United States and Japan, signed in 1894, would by a strict interpretation of its provisions have terminated on July 17, 1912. Jap- an’s general treaties with the other powers, however, terminated in 1911, and the Japanese government ex- pressed an earnest desire to conduct the negotiations for a new treaty with the United States simultaneously with its negotlations with the other pow- ers. There were a number of ‘mpor- tant questions involved in the treaty, including the immigration of laborers, revision of the customs tar- iff and the right of Americans to hold real estate in Japan. The United States consented to walve all techni- calities and to enter at once upon ne- gotiations for a new treaty on the un- derstanding that there should be @ continuance throughout the life of the treaty of the same effective measures for the restriction of immigration of laborers to American territory which had been in operation with entire sat- Isfaction to both governments since 1908. The Japanese government ac- cepted this basis of negotiation, and a new treaty was quickly concluded, resulting in a highly satisfactory set- tlement of the other questions re- ferred to. A satisfactory adjustment has also ben effected of the question growing out of the annexation of Korea by Japan. Europe and the Near East. In Europe and the near east, during the past twelve-month, theré has: been at times considerable political unrest. The Moroccan question, which for some months was the cause: of great anxiety, happily appears to have reached a stage at which {t need no longer be regarded with concern. The Ottoman empire was occupied for a period by strife in Albania and is now at war with Italy. In Greece and the Balkan countries the disquieting po- tentialities of this situation have been more or less felt. Persia has been the scene of a long internal struggle. These conditions have been the cause of uneasiness in Ruropean diplomacy, but thus far without direct politieal concern to the United States, In the war which unhappily exists between Italy and Turkey this soy- ernment has no direct political inter- Sei: gut Sabie cbeadls at ihe -ouite- RS ES RS G2 hes NTA RSE BP i Sa embodying stipulations providing for an alternative procedure which would remove the constitutional objection to that part of The Hague convention which provides that there may be an appeal to the proposed court from the decisions of national courts, has re- ceived the signature of the govern- ments parties to the original conven- tion and has been ratified by the gov- ernment of the United States, together with the prize court convention. ‘The depostt of the ratifications with the government of the Netherlands awalts action by the powers on the declaration, signed at London on Feb- ruary 26, 1909, of the rules of interna- tional law to be recognized within the meaning of article seven of The Hague convention for the establishment of an international prize court. Fur-Seal Treaty. The fur-seal controversy, which for nearly twenty-five years has been the source of serious friction between the United States and the powers border- ing upon the north Pacifle ocean, whose subjects have been permitted to engage in pelagic sealing against the fur-seal herds having their breeding grounds within the jurisdiction of the United States, has at last been satis- factorily adjusted by the conclusion of the North Pacific sealing convention entered into between the United States, Great Britain, Japan and Rus- sia on the seventh of July last.' This convention is a conservation measure of very great importance, and if tt Is carried out in the spirit of reciprocal concession and advantage upon which it Is based, there is every reason to be Meve that not only will it resuit in pre serving the fur-seal herds of the north Pacific ocean and restoring them to their former value for the purposes of commerce, but also that it will afford a permanently satisfactory settlement of a question the only other solution of which seemed to be the total de- struction of the fur seals. In another aspect, also, this convention is of im- portance in that it furnishes an {lus- tration of the feasibility of securing a general international game law for the protection of other mammals of the sea, the preservation of which is of importance to all the nations of the world. ‘The attention of congress 1s espectl- ly called to the necessity for legisla- tion on the part of the United States for the purpose of fulfilling the obliga- tions assumed under this convention. to which the senate gave Its advice and consent on the twenty-fourth day of July last, International Opium Commission, In a special message transmitted to the congress on the seventh of Janu- ary, 1911, in which T concurred in the recommendations made by the secre- tary of state in regard to certain need- ful tegisiation for the control of our interstate and foreign traffic in opium and other menacing drugs, 1 quoted from my annual message of Decem- ber 7, 1909, In which T announced that the results of the International Opium commission held at Shanghai in Feb- ruary, 1909, at the invitation of the United States, had been laid before this government; that the report of that commission showed that China was making remarkable progress and admirable efforts toward the eradica- tion of the opium evil; that the inter- ested governments had not permitted their commercial interests to prevent their co-operation in this reform; and, as a result of collateral investigations of the opium question in this country, I recommended that the manufacture, sale and use of oplum in the United States should be more rigorously con- trolled by legislation. Prior to that time and In continua- tion of the policy of this government to secure the co-operation of the inter- ested nations, the United States pro- posed an international opium confer- ence with full powers for the purpose of clothing with the force of interna- tional law the resolutions adopted by the above-mentioned commission, to- gether with their essential corollaries. ‘The other powers concerned cordially responded to the proposal of this gov- ernment, and, I am glad to be able to ‘announce, representatives of all the powers assembled in conference at ‘The Hague on the first of thts month. Since the passage of the oplum-ex- clusion act, more than twenty states have been animated to modify their pharmacy laws and bring them in ac- cord with the spirit of that act, thus stamping out, to a measure, the in- trastate traffic in opium and other habit-forming drugs. But, although I have urged on the congress the pass- age of certain measures for federal control of the interstate and foreign traffic in these drugs, no action has yet been taken. In view of the fact that there is now sitting at The Hague so important a conference, which has under review the municipal laws of Be ea ea cit RE ae en Ie Gane ent Pee of discriminatory treatment have been removed, but I regret to say that there remain a few cases of differential ‘treatment adverse to the commerce of ‘the United States. While uone of these instances now appears to amount to undue discrimination in the sense of section 2 of the tariff law of August 5, 1909, they are all exceptions to that complete degree of equality of tarift treatment that the department of state has consistently sought to obtain for American commerce abroad. While the double tari ‘eature of the tariff law of 1909 has been amply Justified by the results achieved in re- moving former and preventing new, undue discriminations against Amert- can commerce, it is believed that the time has come for the amendment of this feature of the law in such way as to provide a graduated means of meet- ing varying degrees of discriminatory treatment of American commerce iu foreign countries as well as to pro- tect the financial interests abroad of American citizens against arbitrary and injurious*treatment on the part of foreign governments through either legislative or administrative measures. It would also seem desirable that the maximum tariff of the United States should embrace within its pur- view the free list, which is not the case at the present time, in order that it might have reasonable significance to the governments of those countries from which the importations into the United States are cdnfined virtually to articles on the free list. The fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, shows great progress in the develop- ment of American trade. It was note worthy as marking the highest record of exports of American products to foreign countries, the valuation being in excess of $2,000,000,000. These ex- ports showed a gain over the preced- ing year of more than $300,000,000. There is widespread appreciation ex- pressed by the business interests of the country as regards the practical value of the facilities now offered by the department of state and the de partment of commerce and labor for the furtherance of American com- merce. Crying Need for American Merchant Marine. I need hardly reiterate the convie- tlon that there should speedily be built up an American merchant ma- rine, This is necessary to assure fa- vorable transportation facilities to our great ocean-borne commerce as well as to supplement the navy with an | adequate reserve of sbipa and men, It would have the economic advantage of keeping at home part of the vast sums now paid foreign shipping for carrying American goods. All the great commercial nations pay heavy subsidies to their merchant marine, 0 that ft fs obvious that without some | wise aid from the Congress the United States must lag behind in the matter of merchant marine in its present anomalous position, Legislation to facilitate the exten. sion of American banks to foreign countries is another matter in which our foreign trade needs assistance. Improvement of the Foreign Service, The entire foreign-service organiza: tion 1s being {mproved and deveioped with especial regard to the require ments of the commercial interests of the country. The rapid growth of our foreign trade makes it of the utmost importance that governmental agen- cies through which that trade 1s to be aided and protected should possess & high degree of efficiency. Not only should the foreign representatives be maintained upon a generous scale im so far as salaries and establishments are concerned, but the selection and advancement of officers should be def nitely and permanently regulated by law, so that the service shall not fail to attract men of high character and ability. The experience of the past few years with a partial application of civil service rules to the diplomatic and consular service leaves no doubt In my mind of the wisdom of a wider and more permanent extension of those principles to both branches of the foreign service. The men selected for appointment by means of the ex- isting executive regulations have been of a far higher average of intelligence and ability than the men appointed before the regulations were promuk gated I therefore again commend to the favorable action of the congress the enactment of a law applying to the | diplomatic and consular service the principles embodied in section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the civil service act ot Jan- uary 16, 1883, and the executive orders of June 27, 1906, and of November, 26, 1909. In its consideration of this im- portant subject I desire to recall to --- SEARCHLIGHT. PAGE FOUR THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, ..... KANSAS. Founded in 1898 by W. N. Miller, MRS. W. N. MILLER, Proprietor, N. B. COFELAND, Manager. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. Residence Phone, Market 4090 X Phone your news items to us. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. 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A conflict between tribesmen and a battalion of French troops was recently precipitated by the whistling of a locomotive on a railway being constructed near Casablanca. "The giauors are laughing at us," said a cheftain, when the construction engine gave a toot to warn the natives at work on the line to look out. The Arabs went wild, mounted their horses, and rode on the whistling enemy. They had to be caimed with the whistling of rifle balls. A "Young Mother" asks our opinion of "the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies." We must frankly say that we can consider it a brutal practice. As the father of a great many babies, of all ages, we never rocked on any of them intentionally, and we would probably be arrested if we expressed our full opinion of any woman who would come to do so.—Lippincott the —THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— Send your news notes and local happiness to 630 N. Main Street Miss. Irma Clark is slowly improving. J. H. Chandler of N. Y. was in the city during the week. Mrs. F. Childs spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Newton. Mrs. S. Frame is visiting in Newton. The John Brown Literary Society met Wednesday evening atth: A. M. E. Church. They have prepared a splendld program for the next meeting and invited to come out. Born to.Mr.andTurner.1738.N Mead ave Wednesday Morning a fine Son.Nov.29.Mother and Son doing-well Fo.Miller Attending. The members of the G. L. A. Club held their meeting on Tues. day evening with the Miss. Lulu Covington. They meet next week with Mrs. S W. Flemings. Mr. M. E. Price has been ill during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Fuller recieved a telegram from Independence Kansas, stating the death of his father. They will leave at one oclock on the Frisco. Mrs. Maggie Coffee is still very ill. Princes Chaptor No.12.O.E.S Will Elect officers Tuesday the 12 mimbers or requested to be present. Mrs.W.N.Miller W.M. Gracy Taylor Sec. NOTICE NOTICE I wish to announce to my friends that I can be found at 601 N. Main street Phone, Market 4059. MISS STELLA TURNER. Miss. Lulu Covington made a pleasant trip over the Interuban on Thanksgiving doy to Newton where she attended a reception given by the N. U. G. Club. Mrs. M. Anderson will return home Thursday from Oklahoma City, where she has been visiting during the past week. Mrs. Ella R. Ewing has been appointed Deputy for the Oasis of Wichita Desert of Kansas with the full power and authority to act as State Deputy, Grand Commandress to create Daughters, Institute and organize Courts. The Searchlight is still doing business at 630 North Main Street. Houses For Rent FOR RENT:- Nice 3 room house at 23rd. and Grace for $6.00 pr. mouth. Mrs. W. N. Miller, 630N. Main St. FOR RENT:- Nice new 4 room house at 926 N. Wichita St. will rent cheap. SEE N. B. Copeland, 630 N. Main St. Phone Market 2458. We wish to thank all of those who brought their Job work to us this week. of which we highly appreciate. CALL AGAIN, Trade With Our Advertiserf, they'll treat you right. Some people's greatest enemy is their tongue. Ventriloquism Taught By Mail. Five Lessons for three dollars, $3. Write for particulars JOSEPH WRIGHT. Makin Eye Drug Store 517 N. Main St A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS 142 N MARKET. It was while Charlemagne Tower was ambassador to Russia that a New York city newspaper "spread itself" upon a fete held at St. Petersburg. A green copy-reader produced this result: "As pleasing to the eye as was all this decoration there was additional pleasure in the sight, as one stood at the head of the Prospekt Newska, of Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated, looming grand and imposing against the winter sky."—Success Magazine. BOY ROSE TO THE SITUATION. Quick Wit and Intelligence Displayed by Youngster. His parents are convinced that Clarence will be a great man; the only doubt is whether it will be as a statesman or scientist. He is only four years old, and their confidence is based largely on one incident. The boy never told of it, and it would have been lost to history if a neighbor had not been a chance. Clarence lives in suburbs, and has a cat and kittens. One day he went into the yard next door with one of the little ones to play. There was a big pile of brushwood here, and he shoved his pet into a hole in this. She crawled so far back that all his efforts to get her out were vain. Had he been a man he would have pulled the pile of brush apart, but lacking strength for this he resorted to cunning. Running home, he soon returned with the mother cat. He shoved her into the hole after her offspring, and she soon came out with the little one between her teeth. Clarence bore them both home in triumph. 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 bathea. Almost all classes sleep and eat a fresco at this time of year, a town councils of the town in its 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 Finns combine it with a surprise, a lot of gayety. They eat, drink and enjoy in their picturesque little log cabins outside the cities. When they are tired of bathing and plashing they dance, they sing, they catch fireworks and practice gymnastics, they all become like children and are the happiest, merriest, most good fatured, most easily pleased and most healthy holiday makers in the world. We might take many leaves from the Plans' book—Ladies' Pictorial R B. MCWILLIAMS Attorney at Law Practices in all Courts Phone Market 1537 Office 601 N. Main St. Wichita. Kansas W. S. Henrion Druggist 501 North Main Street Wichita - - - - Kansas Subscribe and pay for the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1. for a whole year. Try it. Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office 517 N. Main St. Phone Bell4€34 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY Dr. F. O. Miller Physician & Surgeon Office Hours Bell Phone 9 to 11 a m 2 999 2 to 5 p m Wichita 7 to 8 p m Kansas 513 N Main St All calls answered promptly Day or Night. Obstetrics and Diseases of Women a Specialty. ROWLEE'S Hardware Store Stoves, Ranges, Garden Hose, Lawn Mowers, Refrigorators, and a full line of Hardware, Mechanic Tools and Builder's Hard ware. Give our store a call. Phone, Market, 546 823 N. Main St. Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry Phones 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245 N. Market St Wichita, Kan SEND YOUR WORK IN EARLEY. Somebody sent this to the society editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and made afdavit that it really happened. Here it is: They were out at an afternoon card party. A stout woman dropped a card to the floor. "Would you be so kind as to pick up that card for me?" she inquired of the little woman at her right. "Certainly," said the accommodating woman at the right, picking up the card. "You see," explained the stout woman, "I've got on a brand new $50 corset, and I'm afraid I'll strain it if I lean over." "Hum!" commented the other woman, enviously. "If I had a $50 corset I'd wear it on the outside. I really would." Antiquity of the Sausage. The sausage dates back to the year 897. It has been asserted that the Greeks in the days of Homer manufactured sausages, but this prehistoric mixture had nothing in common with our modern product. The ancient so-called sausage was composed of the same materials which enter into the make-up of the boudin of the French market and the blood pudding of the French-Canadian. The ancient sausage was enveloped in the stomachs of goats. Not until the tenth century did the sausage made of hashed pork become known. It was in or near the year 1500 that, thanks to the introduction into Germany of cinnamon and saffron, the sausages of Frankfort and Strassburg acquired a universal reputation. SATURDAY SPECIALS Fresh Dressed Spring Chickens Per Pound 20c Fat Hens, 15c lb Beef Roast 10c lb Beef Steak 10c lb Plenty of Fresh Fish, Home Rendered Lard, Hot Cooked Meats and Boston Baked Beans every day at noon. Culp's Market 241 N. Main St. Phone, Market 1551 Trade with our Advertisers Grocery Department WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL LARD WE SELL MEAT WE SELL POTATOES fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. N. Main St. - Wichita, Kan - Bell Phone GREN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FLOUR With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. OUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL IMPODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas PROCERIES, MEATS and General Merchandise carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancyeries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meats. Our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality at price. Free Deliver Tapp & Hanshaw - 257 North Main Phones 25 NEWMAN, Prop. to Cooper-Wyle NEWMAN HARDWARE STORE 256 N. Main St. All line of shelf and heavy hardware. Good Garden Hose at 8c per ft. One of fishing tackles at less than to close out. PATENTS Offers from Leading Manufacturer on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions made by inventors fail." Send rough sketch or my Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was commissioner of Patents, and as such had full ch Patent Office. GREELEY & McINTIRE In fact, we sell everything kept in a First-Class Grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main St. - Wichita, Kan - Bell Phone 239 GRAHAM - CORN MBAL - BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years MILLING EXPERIENCE in Wichita, our products are the best that can be produced. Made from the best selected grain only, put up in Special Packages. ASK YOUR GROCER: See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING CO. Wichita, Kansas --- GROCERIES, MEATS and General Merchandise We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and the choicest Fresh and Salt Meat Our stock of Dry Goods, Men, Women and Children's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 North Main Phones 257 R. J. NEWMAN, Prop. PHONE MARKET 2307 Successor to Cooper-Wyle Full line of shelf and heavy hardware Good Garden Hose at 8c per ft. Full line of fishing tackles at less than cost price to close out. PATENTS Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly. Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of the U. S. Patent Office. PATENT ATTORNEYS WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCHLIGHT, PAGE FIVE "SECOND TO NONE" GOOD BREAD MAKERS — AND WILL PLEASE YOU — IT IS AS WHICE AS SNOW — TRY IT THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK and POULTRY FOOD are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law, Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and Best Food on the Market Little Wonder Restaurant and Hotel Meals 20c - Short Order at all Hours 507 North Main St. Short Orders Filled At All House Good Service is Guaranteed Barber Shop 513 North Main Street A. J. Cousar, Prop. Chas. B. PATTON Merchant Tailor 605 North Main Street First-Class Making of Men's Garments. Cleaning, Pressing, and Reparing A Specialty urteous Attention Phone Market 2083 HILLENGSTROM LUMBER COMPANY 318 West Douglas Phone, Market 4980 Dealers in the best grades of Lumber at the lowest prices. Let us estimate your bills We are exclusive bottlers of Jersey Cream Dr. Pepper, Allen's Red Tame Cherry, Fan Taz, Grape Ball, Hire's Red Rock and Elk Ginger Ale. Excellence Counts THEN USB "U-KNEAD-IT" FLOUR It exctls in every respect, — color, flavor and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY WATSON MILL CO. WICHITA KANSAS --- Published Every Week Building Material SEE J. H. TURNER 535 W. Douglas Phone 496 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 3rd and Main Streets. A man to make a good leader must be a good follower. They'll Treat You Right TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS They'll Treat You Right FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, NARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAYY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DUMPDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. * SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25* LARGE SIZED BOTTLE, 50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. CHCAGO, ILL. AGENTS WANTED. ```markdown ``` FRANKFORT, KAN. (To the Wichita Searchlight.) A Family Reunion. A family reunion was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Montgomery, November 5, 1911, when all of the children came home, it being twenty-five years since they were all together. What a grand time was had when all gathered around the family board. All were enjoying excellent health except their father who has been very ill the past month. Their home coming seemed to change his condition, and in a few days he began to improve, which made the children happier. The sons were: Arthur, of St. Paul, Minnesota, who is employed by the Northern Pacific Railway company; Alfred, who is employed at the Commercial House at Atchison, Kansas. Lawrence receives a good salary at the Elks Club, Winfield, is employed as one of the head dining waiters at the Savoy Hotel—both of Kansas City, Mo. The daughters were: Mrs. John Johnson, of Washington; Mrs. Scott Clay, of this city, and La Medna, who is in her last year of high school, and expects to come out in the class of 1912. Dinner was served at 2:30, the table was laden with all the good things that a heart could wish for. They were all glad to meet their many friends. They will leave for their respective homes this week. Mr. Walter Rice, was dangerously hurt last Saturday in a runaway. Mr. John Johnson of Washington, spent a few days with friends last week. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Clay entertained for a few of their friends Monday evening. Mrs. Tab Howe of Chicago, is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Green Clay. Mrs. Bettie Harris, has been quite ill or the past week. Mrs. Jones Rice is visiting her daughter, Mrs. James Garner, of Kansas City, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Sisemore were in Biglow this week, with the expectation of buying property. Mr. I. Walker of Blue Rapids, filled the pulpit Sunday morning at the C. M. E. church. Mr. Charlie Taylor of Blue Rapids was visiting between trains, Sunday. MEET EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT. The. Dunbar Lyceum meets every Friday evening at New Hope Baptist church. Everyone is cordially invited to come over and take part with us. One of the interesting features on program last Friday evening Dec. 1st. was a talk on the constitution of Karsas by Attorney E. P. Blakemore. The Quaint Bolluga. Caviare can be made of the roe of any fish; but the principal supply comes from the sturgeon and the belluga. The latter is about the most curious fish in the world. It weighs up to 1,000 pounds and innabits the waters of the swift-flowing Volga. It is so abundant that the natives of Astracan throw away the flesh—which is whiter than veal and vernainty—and preserve only the spawns of which they sometimes take as much as 200 pounds out of one fish. This belluga lies on the bottom of the river at certain seasons and swallows many large pebbles of great weight to ballast itself against the force of the stream; that is, the pebbles act as an anchor. When the flood subsides and the waters are less violent the belluga disgorges itself; that is, it unballasts, hauls in its anchor and swims about for provender Officers and Members Of Rebecca Tabernacle No. II To Our Dear Daughter Mrs. W. N. Miller. Kansas City Kans. Dec. 4, We have learned with unexpressible regret and sadness of your measureless bereavement, by which a cruel fate has robbed you of one of the best of husbands, and the community of one of its noblest citizens. FIGH IN CIVILIZATION'S SCALE Jnknown 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 Nardon's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica. In one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who attained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in antiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantifles, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the altes where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly man velous weave; in beauty of design, richness of color and finesse of texture no fabric of to-day summons it. FOOK UMBRAGE AT ASPERSION Citizene 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. Conspluous in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and stald 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 Cor. New York Sun. Administrators Notice FIRST PUBLICATION IN THE WICHITA' SEERCHLIGHT, OCT. 21, 1911. STATE OF KANSAS. In the ProbateCourt, in and for said County, Sedgwick. Ie the matter of the estate of W. N. Miller, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of W. N. Miller, late of said County deceased, by the Probate Court of the County and State aforeseid, dated the 14th, day of Oct. A. D. 1911. Now all persons having claim against the said Estate, are heebey notified that they must present the sank to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date the said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within two years after date of such letters they shall be forever barred. Mattie Miller, Administrix Of the Estate of W. N. Miller, Deceased. Oct. 14 ..... 1911. Had A Splendid Meeting. The Mother's Aid Club met at the residence of Mrs. A. L. Case The meeting was very interesting. They held their election of officers for the eusuring year, the following officers were elected:- Pres. ..... Mrs. W. N. Miller Vice Pres. Mrs. Manuel Hex Secretary ..... Mrs. Lillie Hext Treas, ..... Mrs. Mc. Kelly Chaplain ..... Mrs. Mattie Jones A beautiful recitation was rendered by Mrs. Bennett accompany with a song "Nearer My God To Thee," By Mrs. W. N Miller. The afternoon was spent very pleasantly, after which repaired into the beautiful dining room where a delicious 3 three course luncheon was served, and enjoyed by all. -MENUE- Salmon Dreams Boiled Ham Potatoes AuGratin Potatoes AuGratin Banana Salad Chocolate Tapioca Coffee Cake. Members present, Mesdames, W. N. Miller, Bessie Brown, Mattie Jones, Mc. Kelly, Bettie Davis Lillie Hext, M. Howard, L. Madison, Pinkney, M. Hex, Bennett, Amanda Morgan, A. L. Case. Mrs. Julia Johnson of Cleryville, Kansas was the guest of honor. After the luncheon Mrs. Lillie Hext rendered a very pretty piano selection. The Value of Negro Business Enterprises. After a man's moral rating is made his value to the is judged by what he has accomplish. And in a final analysis what he has accomplished usually reduces itself to dollars and cents. With this fact in mind it is well to remind ourselves of what our business enterprise stand for to ourselves and the world at large. By business we speak directly of commercial interchange Its value is almost inestimable. No man can rise or fall alone, every individual is much too closely interwoven with the general woof. Thus so the development of our business enterprises spells success or failure for us individually and collectively. teal eye "I can't it a nice baby?" asked the nurse. "Yes, it's nice." answered the youngster besettingly. "It's nice, but it." The five-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn man has bad such a large experience of dolls that she feels herself to be something of a cominoisse in children. relates Lippincott's. Recently there came a real jelly into the house. When it was put into her zyms the five-year-old surveyed it with orchid FEVER DESTROYED HER HAIR Two years ago I had fever which took out all my hair, I used your Pomade and now have a nice head of hair, long and thick. I owe it to your Pomade, writes Mrs. L. Garrett, 3619 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Ford's Hair Pomade is the old time tried remedy for harsh and unruly hair, that has been giving satisfaction for over fifty years. Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion is a highly antiseptic, nonirritant skin remedy. It makes the skin whiter immediately upon application. Ask your druggist about these remedies. Be sure and get Ford's, manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. CHINA HAS SHAKEN OFF SHACKLES ```markdown ``` K WAKENED by the world's unrest, the last empire of old, old things, of unchanging ideas, of reverence for the past, has shaken off the shackles of autocratic, tyrannical government, and western notions of liberty, of industrial activity and modern progress have taken possession of the celestial empire. Victory after victory has placed the constitutional party in almost complete control of the country. In a frantic effort to save some remnant of its totering power the throne issued edict after edict abjectly acceding to the various demands of the revolutionists. But Manchu rule in China is ended forever. Wu Ting Fang, twice ambassador of his country to Washington, and one of the most famous and distinguished statesmen in China, has declared himself in favor of a republican form of government and has taken a leading place in the counsels of the constitutional party. A republic, founded upon lines similar to the government of the United States is to be the future of China. What influence this awakened giant of Asia may exert in world politics is a question that is causing no end of anxiety in the capitals of the various powers and is one which only the future can answer. Twice during the three century history of the Manchu domination of the Chinese race has the cry been heard: "Down with the Manchus." The first attempt made by patriotic Chinese to rid themselves of the tyrannical and oppressive yoke of their Tartar conquer- CHINAS MODERN SOLDIERS ors was in 1861, and for seven years there waged a civil war in the Middle Kingdom that far exceeded in bloodshed the conflict between the North and the South in the United States. And it is an interesting coincidence, that these two national upheavals were in progress at the same time and both inspired by the same sentiment, love of country; while in a still more striking manner did this mighty Chinese protest become a counterpart of the American revolution in its avowed purpose to claim its country for itself and banish forever beyond the confines of the empire the hated Manchu usurper. That the victory of Washington and his loyal hosts was not duplicated by the Chinese revolutionists at that time was due to the fact that their efforts were impeded, interfered with and finally successfully resisted by that same power whose unjust domination of these American States eventually resulted in the immortal Declaration of Independence. And yet how much is known of the history of the "Tai Ping Kwok," the Tai Ping Rebellion, or "The Great Kingdom of Peace?" The cable and the wireless have so brought the ends of the earth together that today, we read in the morning paper what has transpired in the evening on the other side of the earth. But in those days, China was a land burled in mystery, practically unknown and unexplored and whose political and economic conditions attracted but little attention from the outside world, and so far as we are concerned we were too deeply engrossed in our own gigantic struggle to maintain the unity of our own states, to give a thought to what was transpiring across the Pacific. The history of the Tai Ping rebellion is one of intense interest and full of tragedy, pathos, and romance, but is merely referred to here as being the first cohesive effort made by the Chinese to regain the government of their own land and free themselves from the thraldom of a foreign rule. Their efforts were unsuccessful. The movement was born in the spirit of enthusiastic patriotism but it ended in total riot and demoralization. Its leader, Hung Hsieu Chuen, first raised the cry. "Down with the Manchus" and his enthusiasm was infectious. The Chinese turned to him as a divinely appointed saviour of their land, and he, being more or less of a visionary type, believed himself to be inspired and commissioned by Heaven to accomplish this herculean task. He had received a certain amount of Christian training and it is an ennobling fact that the whole movement was primarily based on Christian principles. But that his religious real exceeded his good judgment and sound reason is indicated by the fact that while he referred to Christ as the Elder Brother, he impiously termed himself the "Younger Brother" thus placing himself on an equality with Divinity. Notwithstanding this and other faults of judgment his cause appealed to the great mass of the people, thousands flocked to his victorious banners and his war against the Manchu government was a series of uninterrupted trilumphant achievements. City after city fell before his patriotic assault and Wuchang, Hankow and Han Yang THE FISHING BOAT met the fate which was theirs in this last conflict, they fell into the hands of the conquering hosts of rebels. Success was almost within their grasp when the Peking government became alarmed and frantically appealed to the British government to send a soldier who could train an imperial army to meet and quell the Tai Ping rebels. Gen. Charles Gordon was commissioned for this purpose, and in co-operation with Li Hung Chang he succeeded in putting into the field an efficient and well disciplined army which was afterwards known as the "ever victorious army" for they never lost an engagement with the enemy, and in six months he had completely exterminated the Insurrectionists. Defeated and discouraged, the rebel leader, Hung Hsieu Chuen, retreated to Nanking and there committed suicide. The Manchu government was saved to continue its dominating oppressive sway and the distinguished Englishman who came to the rescue has ever since been known as "Chinese Gordon." Note the difference between the attitude of the powers towards the Peking government in the recent rebellion and that of England towards the Manchu despot nearly fifty years ago. The powers refused to aid or respond to the Peking government's appeal for assistance, financially or physically, apparently recognizing that the Chinese have a just grievance and a perfect right to adjust it in the only way possible. During the past few weeks Tai Ping history has been duplicated, but with a higher purpose and more intelligent direction. The battle cry was the same and "Down with the Manchu" found an echo throughout the length of the Yang Tse valley, in hamlet, town and city, aboard ungainly junks and northward along the shimmering lines of the new railroad until it was heard within the crenelated walls of the Forbidden City and the son of heaven abjectly apologized for past neglect and mistakes of the throne and granted every demand of the revolutionists. There was nothing vague or visionary in the Dr. SUN JAT SEN REVOLUTIONARY LEADER HANKOW HARBOR © UNDERWOOD & COMPANY minds or plans of the leaders of this new movement, during the past decade young China has been at school. Bright and intelligent oblique-eyed youths from the Dragon land have traveled beyond the seas and in this and other lands have learned that the preparation for future accomplishment is more to be desired than the slavish devotion of the worship of ancestors and a complacent contemplation of hoary ages past. Chinese graduates of American and European universities have imbibed with the various features of their scholastic curriculum a spirit of independence, and hence the new nationalism in China which has succeeded in breaking the bonds of ancient tradition and humillating servitude. The startling successive incidents which focused the eye of the world on central China were not the result of any local anti-foreign prejudice but the culmination of a carefully prepared plan which occupied the earnest and serious thought of the Young China party for a number of years. A movement of such stupendous proportions demanded leaders of exceptional ability, and that these were found and proved their fitness has been demonstrated to the world by their deliberate thoroughly organized methods and their avowed determination to not permit their zeal or success to betray them into any act which might be offensive to any foreign power. Pre-eminent among the leaders of the revolutionary party, or the "Constitutional party," as they prefer to be termed, is Dr. Sun Yat Sen, whose whole life has practically been devoted to the task of bringing about the present crisis. His career has been both thrilling and picturesque. The lot of the reformer in China is not a happy one, and the persistent agitation of Dr. Sen soon evoked the wrath of the authorities with the result that it was officially decided that his head would be worth fifty thousand dollars. The fearless young reformer, however, believed it was worth a good deal more to him and so for its preservation he became an exile from his native land. The organization which he and his colleagues succeeded in creating waxed mighty in numbers and influence. In constant and close touch with developments in China and the progress of the reform party, he was able to direct, at long distance, its various movements until the psychological moment arrived when confident of their strength, they were able to strike their first effective blow. The introduction of foreign educational methods, the sweeping abolition of their ancient and useless "halls of learning," the establishment of foreign schools, modern factories and the construction of extensive railroads have all combined to awaken the younger generation of Chinese to the fact that they were not as they supposed, the superior of all other races, but a century behind the least progressive nation. And, that there might be no doubt about it, Japan administered an effective lesson, and with eyes wide open, the supercilious Celestial realized that his national existence was in peril. Aroused from his long lethargy the owerous Chinese giant turned about and clamored for the education of the west, and no scholar on 10 earth is more keen and intellectually alert to learn and acquire than the yellow man of the Orient. To the western world this revelation of the spirit of revolt and change in China seems very sudden. Most of us believed that the empire, with world-old superstititions, was still refusing to admit the blessings of modern progress. We believed that it was untouched by the revolutionary fire which in twenty-five years has changed the Japanese nation, miraculously, so that it has shuffled off its old faith, and its old moralities, adopted the shoddy clothes of Europe, darkened its cities by the black smoke of busy factories, made slums of its flower-gardens, established a great army and a great navy to fight a war which has brought it to the verge of bankruptcy, adopted the philosophy of greed and grab, and generally learnt the beauties and joys of western civilization. China still seemed to be sleeping in the sun, or dreaming away its life in the old faith of smiling contempt for the rush and roar of western progress. All travelers from China bear witness to the temperate, contented, cheerful, laughing character of the Chinese peasant, and to the intelligence, the courtesy, the equanimity, the kindness, the calm philosophy of the Chinese gentleman. 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She has hired six former Scotland Yard detectives to camp at Sunderland house, Mayfair, three by day and three by night, and guard her gems. The outlay for this is something more than $6,000 annually. She has spent many thousands in equiping her mansion with all the latest wrinkles in burglar alarm and safety devices, but she considers the money that buys her peace of mind is an investment well made. HIs Suspicion. "Why did you leave the place in which you were previously employed?" asked the head of the firm. "I think," said the applicant for the position of office boy, "de boss was afraid if I stayed I might git his place." Indefinite. "I want a puff," suddenly announced the petted, spoiled star. "Yes, my dear Miss Starilite," meekly answered the long suffering manager. "Shall I call on the confectioner or the press agent?" Bush Leaguers. Professor—You know that the lowest type of human beings is found in Australia. What are those natives called, Mr. Fanning? Student (captain of the ball team)—Bush leaders—Puck. WORKS WITHOUT FAITH faith Came After the Works Had Lald the Foundation. A Bay State belle talks thus about coffee: "While a coffee drinker I was a sufferer from indigestion and intensely painful nervous headaches, from childhood. "Seven years ago my health gave out entirely. I grew so weak that the exertion of walking, if only a few feet, made it necessary for me to lie down. My friends, thought I was marked for consumption—weak, thin and pale. "I realized the danger I was in and tried faithfully to get relief from medlems, till, at last, after having employed all kinds of drugs, the doctor acknowledged that he did not believe it was in his power to cure me." "While is this condition a friend induced me to quit coffee and try Postum, and I did so without the least hope that it would do me any good. I did not like it at first, but when it was properly made I found it was a most delicious and refreshing beverage. I am especially fond of it served at dinner ice-cold, with cream. "In a month's time I began to improve, and in a few weeks my indigestion ceased to trouble me, and my headache stopped entirely. I am so perfectly well now that I do not look like the same person, and I have so gained in flesh that I am 15 pounds heavier than ever before. "This is what Postum has done for me. I still use it and shall always do so." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason," and it is explained in the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. you read the above letter? A new letter read, time to write it. hierarchies, true, and full of humans There were enemies within the Jewish church. Some of the nobles and richer men had been oppressing their poorer brethren who were working at great sacrifice in rebuilding the walls. No wages were paid for this work, so that many were thus reduced to the direct straits to support themselves and their families, and pay the taxes exacted by the Persian government. Their misfortunes were brought to a climax by the condition of hostilities, which put an end to trade, and threatened town and country with ruin. It was impossible to obtain regular employment, and prices had gone up. Those who had a little property mortgaged their homes; and in this way a considerable portion of the property of the poorer classes, their grainfields vineyards, and dwellings, passed into the hands of wealthy moneylenders, who demanded high usury. Some, having no means to pay their creditors, sold their children as slaves. The hungry children were threatening, if the grain was not given to keep them fro mstarvation, they would take it by violence, or surrender the city to its enemies. The taxes for the Persian government were very heavy and exacting. The chief officers farmed out the collection of the taxes, both in money and in the fruits of the land. These under officers were the same as those called publicans in the New Testament. They were required to pay over to their superiors the exorbitant sum fixed by law, and depended for their profit on what they could make by fraud and extortion. They overcharged, brought false charges of amnugglting to extort hush-money, selzed upon property in case of dispute and held it until their levy was paid, forbade the farmer to reap his standing crops until they had wring from him all that his penury could produce. They were universally feared, hated, and despised. No money known to have come from them was received for religious uses. Now these, who professed religion and lived heathenism, were the greatest injury to the Cause for which Nehemiah had come. It was against such as these that Jesus launched the sharpest lightning of his "Woeunto you, hypocrites." They are traitors to their country, their church and their God. The church stands for the highest expression of man's life. A church represents the permanent spiritual ideals. It embodies the loftiest human aspirations; a nation's best expression of its religious sentiment represents that nation at its best. Now whosoever in the name of the church, as a member of it, does actions contrary to its whole spirit, is the greatest enemy of the kingdom of God. Nehiemiah overcame these enemies. He changed them from enemies to friends. He rebuked them with burning indignation. He told them to their face the wrong they were doing. He persuaded them to repent and undo the wrongs they had done: "I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them." Then said they, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest." He set them a good example. He refused to take the usual salary of the governor. He bore all the expenses of his retinue. His noble conduct made the names of these oppressors show black as the smoke of the pit. One of the greatest powers for reforming abuses is publicity. Let every man's name be on his deed, on the work he does, on everything he says, on all that he owns. There is a continual temptation today for Christian workers to give up their time and strength to discussing the many theories and unsettled questions which are continually confronting them. All sorts of men say all sorts of things till it seems as if these clouds were obscuring the whole continent of Truth. This is true of many other things besides religion. Now the way to escape from these snarles is to attend to our duties, to go to work for the Cause of Christ with all our hearts, to give ourselves to helping save our fellow men, both body and soul. For then we will use the essential things by which our work is accomplished. We thus test the working theories by using them. Those principles that bring results are the ones we want. We find out what they are worth through testing them by what they will do. Working for Christ and for his children is our safeguard. Nehemiah was asked to leave his work for personal safety. This was too base an appeal. Nehemiah indignantly exclaimed, "Should such a man as I flee?" The very baseness of the appeal opened Nehemiah's eyes to the fact that Shemiah was not a prophet, but a mere tool of Sanballat bribed to ensnare him. That any one could imagine that he could be influenced by fear, touched Nehemiah's heart to the quick. It was an insult that the governor could only put into the hands of God to wipe out. But in the end the wall was built. Death Lurks In A Weak Heart W. L DOUGLAS' TRUST PLAN Manufacturer Thinks Government Should Obtain Publicity by a License System. Large business organizations have come to stay. We cannot go back to old conditions. We must meet world competition. Large concerns can produce goods at lower cost than small ones. Germany favors large corporations. The method of the present national administration is to dissolve the great organizations and make them smaller, which is a backward step. There should be no limit to a corporation doing a large and legitimate business, such as would be possible under the licensing plan which I favor, writes W. L. Douglas, former governor of Massachusetts, in the Boston Herald. Prejudices against corporations merely because they are big, perhaps, must be done away with. They give labor better returns. They cheapen product and thus benefit the consumer. They give opportunities to small investors who get returns otherwise unattainable. They employ able young men who have no capital at all, but who receive handsome salaries for their ability and service. In place of the Sherman law it is my opinion there should be a department at Washington to grant licenses to all manufacturers and corporations in this country who do an interstate commerce business. The law should be made so clear, plain and definite that it could not be misunderstood. It should require all capital to be paid in full. Semi-yearly statements should be given to the public and certified by a public accountant. There should be a board of examiners in each state to look after these corporations just as our national banks are watched by the national government. They should have the right to enter the offices and examine the records of all the directorates of these companies. WISE PLAN. 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"Ah, I took it for granted that nothing less than sickness or distressing news from home could have kept you from your duty." In the same vein was his remark to a student who had been late for prayers. "Mr. Page, will you kindly give my compliments to Miss—and ask her if she will please have breakfast a little earlier for you?" To a negligent student he said: "How is your mother? I am sure you must be devoted to her; you are so careful of the health of her son." Summoned to Lee's office, a lad was told that only patience and industry would save him from failure in college and in life. "But, general, you failed," the student replied, with sophomore inaptitude. "I hope that you may be more fortunate than I," was the quiet answer. It Sounded Well. Horace Taylor, the Artist, whose newspaper illustrations used to be admired here, came from Nokomis, Ill., in the Egypt district. In "Hod's" early days they organized a band in which he blew an inconsequential horn. 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