Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT These Melodies Composed and Arranged by Prof. N. Clark Smith. FOURTEENTH YEAR Western University, Quindaro, Ks The Leading Educational Institute For Negroes In The West. Published Every Week Only $1.00 PER YEAR Only SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912. Composed f. N. Clark A (Modera 8. If I had die If I had die If I had die I wouldn't h All a my o posed and Arrangement Clark Smith. Shady Grove Community Song ALL MY SINS, TAKEN (Arranged for Mixed voices.) (Moderato) Just about time, Mary wore. I thought I was lost, three links of chain. Just about time, Mary wore. thought three links of chain. thought was lost; Just about the time I thought I was lost, my three links of chain, Muru wore three links of chain on. sins are taken a- way; tak-en a- way; tak-on a- way; 9. If I had died, when I was young. If I had died, when I was young. If I had died, when I was young. I wouldn't had this ole race to run. All a- my sins are taken away, taken away. Copyright 1910 by M.C. Smith Shady Grove Community Songs. ALL MY SINS, TAKEN AWAY. (Arranged for Mixed Voices.) (Moderate) Just about time, Mary wore, I thought I was lost, three links of chain. By N. CLARK-SMITH. Just about time, Mary wore, thought I was lost, three links of chain. Just about time, Mary wore, thought I was lost, three links of chain. Just about time, Mary wore, thought I was lost, three links of chain. thought I was lost; Just about the time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook on my chain fall off; All - a - my three links of chain; Maru wore three links of chain on every link in my Jesus name; All - a - my sins are taken a - way, taken a - way, taken a - way. B.C. 3. If I had died, when I was young. If I had died, when I was young. If I had died, when I was young; I wouldn't had this ole race for run. All a - my sins are taken away, taken away. 4. If I sing, my lungs away. If I sing, my lungs away, If I sing my lungs away; God's going to pay me judgement day. All a - my sins are taken away, taken away. Copyright 1910 by M.C. Smith chicago He Gets Mad Because You Wan't YourMoney. Is it a fact that some of our so-called professional men of the Negro race, — will go to a colored print-shop and get their printing done, and then have you to wait for your money about (3) three months and{THEN} when you come to collect — he will say that you are running him down for your money, — again say that he will take his little Job-work to a white print-shop. Just suppose we should run to a white professional man for service to be rendered. The ladies of the mothers Aid club will have a call meeting at the residence of Mrs. W. N. Miller 23rd, and Grace St. All the ladies are requested to be present on Friday the 12th, 1912. Mrs. W. N. Miller Pres. Mrs. Pinkney assist. Sec. ```markdown ``` YouCan Afford To Live Well If You Are Economical And Take Advantage of Opportunities. Elecrric Light For All! Call Our Sales Department!! YouCan Afford To Live Well If You Are Economical And Take Advantage of Opportunities. Elecrric Light For All! Call Our Sales Department!! The contractor agrees to wire for and install the following. Dollard $ for which the Consumer agree to pay cast, on completion of work, or sign and acknowledge agreement in favor of Kansas Gas or full amount payable in twelve equal monthly installments, without interest, at their office, at 235 south Main Street. Drop lights complete with 5 drop cords, 3 ornamental glass shades; 5 incandescent lamps. This will supply lighting for parlor or living room, dining room, kitchen and two bed-rooms. Total cost, $13.50. PROPOSITION Phone Market 4650 Five opening, 2 having 2 hav- glass 2 lighfixtures, 6 ornomenal glass shades, it incandescent lamps. This installation will give two lights in the living room and din- ing room, and one in each of the others. Total cost, $16.50. And extra as above listed, for a total sum of NO.38 A Splendid Affair. One of the prettiest affairs of the hoiiday season was the four course dinner given by the DentCher club on New Year Evening at the residence of Mr. Joseph R. Whittied in honor of their friends Mrs. H. Bramlet of Chicago, Ill. Miss. Loss Wilson and Miss. Ora Carter of Lawrence, and Mrs. Goree of Newton. The spacious home of the Mr. Whittied was beautifully decorated with palms and ever-green and Christmas bells. The gowns wore by the ladies were especially attractive. The dinner was served at three round tables and a color scheme of green and white which are the club colors was carried through out the dinner progressive whist was played. The prize, a cut glass nappy was won by Mrs, B. Miller. MASONIC BUILDING ARKANSAS VALLEY NO. 817 Colored Masonic Building Are Economical es. les Department!! wing. PROPOSITION C. Five openings, brass tubing or oxidized fixtures; instead of drop cord Two fixtures having two lights each, the others one. Shapes are richly ornamented. This gives a really artistic installation of seven lights, the lamps being included in the price. Total cost $23.00 for which the Consumer agree, reement in favor of Kansas Gas without interest, at their office, at C COMPANY 235 So Main St. --- MOTHER PERISHED IN SNOW DIED ON PRAIRIE WITH BABY CLINGING TO HER. Woman's Effort to Shield Little One Probably Saved His Life—Wandered All Nnight. Hutchinson, Kansas.—After an all night search in a blinding snow storm, amounting almost to a blizzard, W. D. Nifton found the body of his wife buried in the snow near Fowler. Clinging to her breast was her five year-old son. The boy was partly protected from the cold by his mother's body and was still alive. He may recover. Mrs. Nifton taught school at St. Jacob's Well, 16 miles from Minneola. The mother evidently decided to try to reach home by walking across fields, and, taking her son with her, deserted the horse and buggy. When the wife did not return home at the usual time the husband became worried and later set out to search for her. He visited the school first and found she had left there. He then started searching along the road leading from the little country school to their home. The hunt continued throughout the night, the husband and his friends tramping miles through the drifts and across fields. But their efforts met with no success until daylight came, when the body was found far from the road and almost covered with snow. After being carried to his home and partially revived, the little boy was able to tell of the wanderings of the mother in the storm, which ended when she could drag herself no farther. Part of the time she carried her son and part of the time he stumbled along after her, his hand clasped tightly in hers. Finally the boy was unable to travel longer in the snow, which reached his armpits in places. ARRESTED FORBERNHARDT CRIME After Chase of Year Former Employee of Butchered Family Found in Indiana. Indianapolis, Indiana.—A man suspected of being the slayer of four persons on the Bernhardt farm near Kansas City, Kan., last December has just been arrested near here. He is Charles K. Bowman a farmhand. The arrest was made by Henry T. Zimmer, chief of police of Kansas City, Kan., and Sheriff Cave of Olathe, Kan. It ended a relentless search over many states that has been pursued continuously for a year. Bowman was working as a farmhand at Nora, a small town near here. Two detectives from Indianapolis guarded the rear of the farmhouse while Chief Zimmer and Sheriff Cave entered the front door. Bowman, the police say, started to run upstairs. He was seized by the officers and handcuffed. Bowman was held in the city prison here until train time. The officers would permit no one to speak to him. [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. Dr. Alvah H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, whose resignation has been asked for by Governor Dlx, has held his present position since 1895. Banker Morse Tried Bribe. Atlanta, Georgia—Warden W. W. Moyer of the federal penitentiary stated that Charles W. Morse, the convicted New York, banker, had offered him what he construed to be a bribe shortly after Morse became a prisoner at the institution. He said he refused it and so notified Attorney General Wickersham. Alfred Tennyson Dickens Dead. New York—Alfred Tennyson Dickens, eldest surviving son of Charles Dickens, the novelist, died suddenly of acute indigestion at the Hotel Astor here. Mr. Dickens was in this country on a lecture tour. Mr. Dickens was a godson of the poet, Tennyson. He was in his 67th year. Raise the Price of Oil. Independence. Kan.-The Prairie Oil and Gas company marked up the price of crude oil to 53 cents; the Petroleum Products company went them one better and marked oil up to 55 cents. Cruelty in Convict Camps. Little Rock, Arkansas.—Scores of men in convict camps in Arkansas will be liberated if Gov. Donaghey carries out the threat to free them if contractors do not use methods more humane in handling them. NOW THE BOTTOM HAD BETTER DROP OUT OF THAT THING!! OLATHE BANKER ARRESTED OLATHE BANKER ARRESTED ASSISTANT TREASURER OF DEFUNCT ARKANSAS BANK. Warrants for Every Officer of Institution May Follow—Martin Jailed in Default of Bond. Fort Smith, Arkansas—Prosecuting Attorney Paul Little issued a warrant for the arrest of J. H. Herschey of Olathe, Kan., former assistant treasurer and secretary of the Central Bank and Trust company, which failed and was closed charging him with receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent. The prosecutor declares he will issue warrants for all persons interested in the bank if necessary. E. R. Martin, secretary and treasurer, who was arrested on his arrival from his home at Kansas City, was remanded to jail after he had spent 12 hours in the custody of a deputy constable in an effort to furnish bond in the sum of $1,500. A. S. Dowd, receiver for the bank, announced that the books of the company only showed $500 capital stock was ever paid in, although $53,500 of the $100,000 authorized capital had been subscribed. Dowd says the records show $50,000 of the issued capital stock is held by the Ozark Trust company of Sloam Springs, Ark., and C. A. Bonds, an officer of the latter institution. The bank's deposits are $6,052, and the assets are estimated by the receiver to be $5,500, from which $1,500 or $2,000 can be realized. The assets do not include 780 shares of stock, par value $100, held by the Central bank, of the Ozark Trust company. This stock, however, had been put on the books of the Central bank at $55,000, according to the receiver. It also developed, according to the receiver, that all officers of the bank had resigned just before the failure was known. KANSANS WANT TRAIN SERVICE People of Healy Wire Utility Commission for Help—Need Food and Coal. Topeka, Kansas.—The people of Healy, in Lane county, have not seen a train for over a week, and they are in need of food and coal. The Missouri Pacific's Colorado main line is blockaded by the snow. A messenger from Healy rode to Dighton, county seat of Lane county, and the Dighton Commercial club sent a telegram to the public utilities commission asking for help for the little town. The telegram said that no trains had reached Healy since December 26, over a week ago, and that food and coal were needed at once. All the railroads through western Kansas were blocked by the snow last week, but no report had been received here that the Missouri Pacific had been tied up. Iowa Theater Dynamited Bedford, Iowa.—Bloodhounds have failed to find trace of the dynamiters who partly destroyed the new Clark opera house here. The building had just been completed but was still in the hands of the contractor. Several workmen were in the building, but none was injured. The owner is J. J. Clark, who believes personal enemies responsible for the explosion. A Great Western Wreck. Marshalltown, Iowa.—Nine persons were injured, two dangerously, when a Chicago Great Western northbound passenger train Train No. 54, was wrecked near Luray, Iowa, nine miles south of here. Shopmen Return to Work. Sedalia, Missouri.—A number of Missouri, Kansas & Texas carmen who have been on a strike since September 23 returned to work and others have notified the company they will be back. LIQUOR MEN FOOLED DOLLEY Resubmission Letters Went Out Apparently Endorsed by Bank Commissioner. Topeka, Kansas.—Recently a young man named Campbell, at Coffeyville, asked J. N. Dolley for the list of Republican committeemen of the state. Campbell posed as a financier who was going to send out a pamphlet on the currency question. He submitted a draft of his pamphlet and Dolley thought it was good. The pamphlet went out all right, but said: "Through the courtesy of Mr. J. N. Dolley, and the Republican state central committee, I have been furnished with your name. Will you please send me the names of three Republicans and three Democrats in your precinct who favor resubmission." The liquor interests who are making a campaign to make Kansas wet not only deceived Mr. Dolley, but they made their letters appear as though he was helping in the resubmission work. TRIED TO END YEAR WITH DEATH Man Found Dead and Woman Companion Dying in St. Joseph Hotel. St. Joseph, Missouri.—As the result of what is believed to have been a suicide pact, William Ebling of Rushville is dead and Mrs. Olna Couch of the same place is thought to be dying. The couple were found in a room at a hotel, where they had registered as Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lane, with a gas jet over their heads turned on full. The couple showed the effects of having been under the influence of the fumes for several hours. The two were not known to have been more than passing acquaintances. Efforts to find the woman's husband at Rushville have not been successful. She has been unconscious and not been able to explain matters. FRAT HOUSE AT COLUMBIA BURNS Only Pictures and a Few Chairs Saved—Six Persons Lost Their Clothing. Columbia, Missouri.—The chapter house of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity was destroyed by fire which spread from the fireplace. Of the furnishings, only the pictures of alumni members and a few chairs were saved. Guy Kirksey of St. Louis, star Missouri trackman, jumped from a third story window. He was bruised rather severely. Six members were in the house at the time, Roscoe P. Conkling of Kansas City, E. L. Marshall, John C. Mills, Brown Glenn, John P. Nicholson and Guy Kirksey. None was injured except Kirksey. All lost their clothing in the fire. Wreck on Central Branch Lenexa, Kansas.—Two men were slightly injured when a Central branch passenger train was derailed and upset east of here. James Corbin, a track labore*, was cut on his head. H. R. Tillotson, a passenger, suffered a lacerated hand and a bruised side. The engine tank, mall car, baggage car and the coach turned on one side. Spreading rails are said to have caused the wreck. The engine remained upright. Death for Persian Patriots Death for Persia Patriots. Tabriz, Persia. — Eight Persians were hanged by order of the Russian court-martial. Another eight were put to death later in connection with the recent attack on the Russian troops. Boy Kills Father. Sedalia, Missouri. — Because his father attempted to chastise him with a strap, Boyd, Woolet, a 14-year-old boy, shot his father, D. M. Woolet, a farmer, with a shotgun causing death almost instantly. BRUTAL STEPFATHER MAIMS BOY Joplin Man Broke Bones and Burned Flesh of Four-Year-Old Child. Joplin, Missouri.—With his little body bruised and scarred, his arms and legs just healing from fractures, deep burned marks on his arms and a large piece of flesh torn from his upper lip, four-year-old Virgil Douglas was taken to the Children's home. Bert Douglass, the stepfather, was arrested on charges of brutality. /He admitted to Prosecuting Attorney Andrews that he had beaten the child and the excuse he offered was that at times the child had "lied to him." Douglass admitted in detail that he had broken the child's bones but denied that he had cut his lip. The child's left leg has been broken, its right arm was broken in two places, and fire applied. The child said once the father held his hands on a hot stove and another time heated a table fork and burned the flesh on his legs. The mother said she was afraid to talk and declared she was afraid her husband would kill her if she told anything. She finally said that she had been forced to work in a laundry while the man stayed at home with the children. She said that after the father had so brutally beaten the boy she became frightened that he would kill the lad and stayed at home, refusing to work. The man then went to work in a mine near here. The mother corroborated the boy's story of how he had suffered. Warrants were sworn out for both the father and mother on the statement of the boy that the mother had helped the father. FIFTEEN HURT IN WABASH WRECK Depot and Three Passenger Coaches Are Burned—Spreading Rails Responsible. St. Louis, Mo.—Fifteen persons were injured in a Wabash railroad wreck at St. Peters, Mo., seven miles west of St. Charles, at 11 o'clock at night, when the Kansas City-Omaha fast passenger train left the track in front of the depot. One of the cars crashed through the depot, setting it afire. The depot, valued at $3,000, was burned as were three of the passenger cars. The train was made up of eight cars. Three were sleepers, one bound for Kansas City, one for Omaha and one for Des Moines. The other cars were two chair cars, one smoker for Kansas City, one mail car and one express. With the exception of the two rear sleepers all the cars left the track. Spreading rails are said to be responsible for the wreck. The train left the Union station, St. Louis, at 9:01 for Kansas City and was to pass St. Peters without stopping at 10:20 p. m. It was late and witnesses say it was running fast to make up for lost time as it struck the spot where the rails spread in front of the depot. Seemingly by miracle, no one was killed. The most seriously injured person was the fireman, who suffered a broken leg. The citizens of St. Peters opened their homes to the wrecked passengers and many of them remained in the town all night. The other injured were brought to St. Louis on the relief train. SEDALIA SHOPMEN LEAVE CITY Missouri Pacific Curtailment Causes Exodus—Seeking Work Elsewhere. Sedalia, Missouri. — When work was resumed in the Missouri Pacific railway shops in this city after suspension since December 22, only 300 men of nearly 1,000 employed prior to the suspension were put to work. Company officials gave no explanation of the curtailment. Many of the former employees have left the city to seek employment on other lines. St. Louis, Jan. 3. — A statement from officials of the Missouri Pacific says both track and shop forces are reduced because better progress can be made in both departments at a third the cost in warm weather. It is declared the company expects to put on bigger track and shop forces in the spring than ever before employed. Another Wabash Wreck. East St. Louis, Mo.-Five trainmen were injured severely and three passengers slightly hurt when a Wabash passenger train which runs from Granite City to East St. Louis, crashed into the rear of a freight train at Brooklyn, a suburb. A defective or misplaced switch is given as the cause. To Penitentiary for Life. Muskogee, Oklahoma.—William M. Irwin, a well known Muskogee real estate man, convicted a few days ago of murdering the two Sells children to obtain their land, has been taken to the state penitentiary. Vote on a New School. Emporia, Kansas.—The Emporia school board took action for a new high school building to cost $100,000. The money will be raised by a bond issue, which will be included in the annual election. Old, Church, Burns Wilmington, Delaware.—St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic church at Warwick, Md., a historic landmark was destroyed by fire. It was built 225 years ago. The blaze started from a defective flue. American Newspaper Publishers' Association Committee Attacks Plan to Double Rates. Washington.—A warm attack on Hitchcock's plan to increase the second-class postage rates is contained in a bulletin just issued by the postal committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' association. Don C. Seitz of the New York World is chairman of the committee. The bulletin says: "The extent to which the post office department does not carry second-class matter is well revealed in the following abstract of inquiry of publishers conducted by house committee on expenditures in the post office department (William A. Ashbrook, chairman) concerning the volume, weight and handling of the output of publications entered as mail matter of the second-class for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911: "Inquiry was made of all publishers, approximating thirty thousand, of which nearly seventeen thousand are weekly publications. "More than ten thousand returns were received, embracing sixty-six plus per cent. of all tonnage of publications. "The publications reporting represent an annual output of more than six and one-half billion copies, the weight of which was one and three-quarter billion pounds. "These publications delivered by mail in such period weighed 633,012,902 pounds. "They delivered by their own carriers, newsboys, and news companies 840,466,574 pounds, of which an unasscertain percentage was carried to destination by express and other rail shipments outside the mail. They delivered by express, 202,729,510 pounds, and by other rail shipments 121,491,748 pounds. The rate by express and rail varies from $ \frac{1}{4} $ to 1 cent per pound, but the bulk of these shipments went at a rate of $ \frac{1}{4} $ to $ \frac{1}{2} $ cent per pound. "The post office for the year ending June 30, 1911, handled 951,001,669, and excluding one-half million pounds free in county matter, it received one cent per pound. "All this goes to add to the absurdity of the proposed Hitchcock legislation doubling the second-class rate from one to two cents per pound, and limiting the 'privilege' to publications that carry as much reading matter as they do advertising. "The proposition was stupid enough when the postal deficit reached $17,000,000 two years ago. It becomes preposterous in face of a surplus. "What business has a transportation corporation, which is all the post office is, to prescribe how a business shall be conducted? "Newspapers cannot afford to expand their columns beyond the call of the day's news, nor can they be expected to control the requirements of their advertisers who have a right to reach the public as copiously as they care to. "It cannot be assumed that such legislation will ever get by congress. But publishers are requested to fight the theory that the right to send their output by mail is a "privilege." The figures show it is not. "The post office is a badly managed business. That is all. We should fight its dictation, its censorship and its inefficiency." Impracticable Suggestion. Robert Henri, the artist, was talking at a tea at Sherry's, in New York, about the Latin quarter. "In the Latin Quarter," he said, "in little streets off the Boule Mich, it is possible to get a good dinner for 15 cents—and even at that there's many a Latin Quarterite goes dinnerless." Mr. Henri smiled and sighed. "One spring afternoon," he resumed, "as I was sketching the horses of the green bronze fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens, a youth stopped and talked awhile. "The spring sunshine on the youth's coat brought out all its shabbiness mercilessly, and I ventured to hint: "Look here, old chap, why don't you have that coat turned? "He smoothed the shabby sleeves ruefully. "I would,' he said, 'if it had three sides.'" The Connoisseur Joseph E. Widener, being congratulated at the Ritz-Carlton in New York on the excellence of his father's pictures, smiled and said: "Yes, my father has been a discreet collector. He is not like the New York millionaire whom Sargent visited "Sargent was taken by this millionaire through a huge gallery of dubious Rembrandt, Titians, Raphaels and Murillos. "'Mr. Sargent,' the millionaire said, gazing pompously at the long lines of vast, dingy canvases, 'I have decided to leave my pictures to some public institution. What institution would you suggest' "I suggest,' said Mr. Sargent, 'an institution for the blind.'" Turn to Wooden Flooring The use of wooden flooring is on the increase in Italy, taking the place of the former extensive demand for marble, tiling and cement. Oak, larch and pitch pine are mostly adopted, and but little, if any maple, birch or beech has been brought to the market. What Was In Her Heart. "Tell me," he sighed—"tell me, beautiful maiden, what is in your heart?" The girl gave him a look of icy disdain, and then vouchsafed the monosyllable, "Blood!" In Place of Cheap Instrument One Presented by Kubelik. London, England.—The street boy violinist, David Paget, who played before the Kaiser at Lady Londonborough's garden party, has now become the protege of Kubelik. Paget who is only fourteen, formerly gained a livelihood by playing outside the doors of theaters, and came into prominence by winning the first prize at a competition organized among the street musicians. Subsequently he secured an engagement at the Hippodrome and through the influence of Mrs. Francis, wife of the Westminster police magistrate the boy played before the German emperor. The boy's achievements, chronicled in the newspapers, caught the eye of Kubelik, who has just arrived in London to fulfill an engagement and the famous artist asked that the boy should be presented to him. To demonstrate his abilities the lad played the intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" so effectively that Kubelik exclaimed: "Bravo, bravo!" Then handling the boy's $1.50 instrument, Kubelik remarked that he must have a proper violin. First the virtuoso handed to Paget his Emperor violin, which is claimed to be the most perfect specimen of the workmanship of Stradivarius, and upon this instrument the boy, at Kubelik's request, gave a further demonstration of his powers. At the end of the performance Kubelik said to Paget, "You must let me give you a violin," and the boy with eyes filled with tears nodded his acceptance of the offer. The little party went to Mr. Hill's premises in Bond street and after trying one or two instruments Kubelik selected for his protege one with a strong and beautiful tone, upon which the youth played the intermezzo once more and again clinched the praises of Kubelik. Instructions were given that a good supply of requisites should be provided for Paget, and Kubelik ordered that there should be attached to the case a plate bearing the inscription: "To David Paget, with best wishes for his promising future, from Jan Kubelik, May 25th, 1911." Kubelik plays at the Forum on January 22, and tickets are now reserved by writing or poning to Slmen Buchfalter, 515 Butts building. "The Country Chairman"—Lyceum. When George Ade wrote "The Country Chairman" he was so situated as to make the task easy or an observing man. Ade, as you all know, is a near politician. On campaigning tours where his public career has meant beside the "Big Noise" and be introduced many times, and after frequent calls for a speech the noted writer always finished by telling the truth. "I thank you, but I can't talk, meaning, of course, that he could not make a speech. Well to get to the point of the story, he was flood bound in Mississippi in the middle of a hot campaign. Forty-eight hours mingling with the rural politicians gave Ade plenty of material for "The Country Chairman," said to be the best of all his comedies. North Bros. Stock Co will present this play at the Lyceum New Years week. Harry North and Spencer Arthur Abbott (Old Abb) in the cast. Live Without Water. In Lower California a large number of the smaller desert mammals never drink water, according to American scientists who have recently visited the peninsula. They live and thrive on dry seeds and scraps of vegetation in places where the heat and aridity are excessive without ever touching their lips to water, and it has even found impossible to teach some of them to take water in captivity. Where Wesley Wrote Hymns. The Rev. J. H. Wicksteed, vicar of Bexley, Kent, has presented to the Wesleyan Methodists of Gravesend and Dartford Circuit a tree from the vicerage garden, a sapling of the old oak under whose branches John and Charles Wesley, with George Whitfield, often met in friendly conference. It is believed that Charles Wesley composed some of his hymns under its shadow, and John in his diary of September 22, 1740, writes: "I went to Mr. Piers (the vicar) at Bexley, where in the mornings and evenings I expounded the sermon on the mount and had leisure during the rest of the day for business of other kinds." He was there again on Saturday, December 2, 1749, "and preached about 11."—Church Family Newspaper. Entirely Original. "Do you consider Wobbleton's humor original, Binks?" asked Dubbleigh. "Sure it is," said Blinks. "Absolutely. I don't believe there is any humor in existence that antedates Wobbleton's jokes."—Judge. The Rural Uplift "Has your family been of much assistance to you in running the place?" "I should say so," replied Farmer Corntossel. "Food has been so high that the summer board season would have been a failure if it hadn't been fur mother and our son Josh." "They saved the expenses of help?" "No, sir. But Josh is a right good hand in a poker game an' the way mother picked up bridge was somethin' amazin'." a = — hatin — . : Sia ePIC el ogee a . a i i rmpamencgenyet cs EE . ib <A EE NS or ZZ TS, | LU cg tustokamenoanemant US | Fae KA ie i ‘ar: i/| et ae; Ss - Ce ee Oe () | Mie ‘ —=$=$— —j a if cS ee ee HE past few months have wit- ————— 1 i NN \\ j fe o nessed political changes in r | ay } if ef eee ry China that are fraught with | t : . | EN j ibook EY es L ie = grave import for the people 4 é A NFN I gel SE >) of the most populous country >» ax. aN \77 Ny i ge { on the globe. At th same an fe EA Ty } Sean A= cue Z time there has been \ orking sR a \ He t=... \A toa culmination another evo- 23% || Reni 8 om) eon | Za lution {n public affairs that © Lima ed) \ | COLE ae Mie 3 My i i A holds almost as much signifi. A £5837 Soa \ he A FR oo Peet Ed | cance for the inhabitants of we Oe \ q i; 4 ae 5 ee the Orient as does the up- Ble! BY y a hd Ve ary Mf i) ae heaval of the machinery of government. This a. ibe | i | pri ticmncam aif A ee Yate development is a crusade to free the a WAS ee 8 Chinese, and, incidentallly, other peoples of ie et ok x ) Fy Ne the worlds tram the lotiddge of thes optim Y 2.8 a \wW Vf? _— ee habit whith ‘has for so many years been a el Oo aa || WA fi. — drag upon their intellectual and material ; ee 2) V F oe = progress. oe yo A <a AuNE SE We, as Americans, must feel an especial 1 14 ty, i Ge SCHOOL pride and interest in this breaking of the De < Tp, Fi are grip of the deadliest drug habit because it eee = Wy FN PEM has been brought about largely through the WiEee thrr-Cprvit, \ NY eB 4, efforts of the United States. Or, in other “AN CUNneernas ARF EN G4 UC U6 words, Uncle Sam set the ball rolling at QQ “40 420 JS RS ZG Uk b = eg VN ee "2g i Be ha i \\ — SR A Bt Va ts Hg RF og ee os Se CU se Smal ee ke See > as aa eee a Ye een” oe OS SE ay ney oe re ee a ASR a) Fe ORE OO ES ok oF od a ae Eee Pe en ne) ‘ RRR NS a a A re . Sle BG eee Ses par see ik ee gi ee ee Ae ae = 5, EN PN ae mae as Pe AGS Sa Oe Sas MN Ae ian, “MeO ed Pticatca? \ ¥ 7 a OG \ ee” Se Oa a ee D beasts Sa aes crt at ae = et ee —— KO CHU a i 5 | ~ PATIENTS MBE a | f af = “i S ED AT mags cco pester pu arcu camnonnnnesaas = Sopa es eee ae io ek. eT as ppmiiane ovement siciply had ae, oe object je banishment of opium from China, but gradually the scope of the antl-opium “mis- sionary work” expanded until it embraded the whole world—every section of the globe where the use of opium has become a habit—and finally within the past few months the fight against the evil has been expanded In scope until it embraces prohibitive or restrictive action not only against opium, but also against morphine, cocaine, and, in short, all habit- forming drugs. ‘The fight against the opium evil, with Un- cle Sam as the chief aggressor, has been going on steadily for some years past but !t 4s only now on the eve of complete success that it has come to attract attention from all classes of the community. From the time when Chinese began to settle in the United States, bringing with them, many of them, their love of opium smoking it was realized that the evil was one the menace of which would sooner or Iater be brought home to our people—particularly those residing on the Pa- elfic slope and in the western section of the country where the bulk of the Mongollans settled. However, it was only after Uncle Sam came into possession of the Philippines, following the Spanish-American war, that our publie- men and government officials were thoroughly aroused to the necessity of grappling with the problem. In the Philippines our people found great numbers of Chinese who were confirmed ‘opium smokers, and, worse yet, they were rapidly teaching the destructive habit to the natives of the islands. There was much agi- tation of the subject both in the Philippines and here in the United States and the up- shot of the matter was that the congress of the United States passed laws prohibiting the tmportation of opium into the Philippines except for medicinal purposes. From that mo- ment there was a marked improvement of conditions. The example of Uncle Sams action and the complete success which attended It, awakened hina to her own need and gave hope of a solution. The progressive men of China were deeply moved by the spectacle of another na- tion (and one that had always been tradi- tlonally friendly to China) combating at the (very doors of the Orient with an evil that was realized by all thinking men to be sap- ping the life blood of a large share of Asia's population. ‘The result, was a strong anti- opium movement in China and out of this grew a direct appeal to then President Roose- Yelt fiom representatives of misslonary so- tieties in the Far East and from commercial organizations and institutions in the United States. It was the plea of these various in- terests that the United States government, considering its’ historical attitude in regard to the opfum traffic in the Orient, should take the Initiative in assisting China to secure the prohibition of that traffic. This was in the year 1904, but {t was a couple of years later that definite plans were made for an international concert of action in the matter. In that year Bishop Charles ¥. Brent of the Philippines, who was, natur- ally, in a position to appreciate the havoc wrought by opium, wrote to President Roose- velt appealing to him “to promote some move- ment that would gather in its embrace repre- sentatives from all the countries where the ‘traffic in and the use of opium ts a matter of moment.” Thereupon President Roosevelt had his secretary of state, Mr. Elihu Root, ‘opea up corraapondence with all the powers CALIFORNIA TREASURE STORY having possessions in the 8 Far East to ascertain tt it > = would not be possible to — form a distinguished inter- ee national commission that - would study the opium < problem asit then appeared —— in the quarter of the giape z Where it had proven the greatest menace, and would, further, report the wisest measures for better- ing the situation, It required a year and a halt of letter writ- ing, back and forth, before the governments concerned could be induced to meet each other on a common basis. In explanatién of this reluctance it may be pointed out that a number of the countries, notably Great Britain, and her colonies, France, Holland and Siam, derive large revenues from the opium trattic, and in some instances opium production is a government monopoly. Should the traffic fn opium be virtually abolished, as it is kely to be in time, these various powers stand to lose revenue to the enormous aggre- gate of one hundred million dollars a year. No wonder they hesitated. However, In the end the common cause of humanity. tr umphed and it was arranged that an interna. tional opium commission should be created. This commission, which took up Its work at the eity of Shanghai, China, early in the year 1909, discussed all phases of the moral, eco- The story of a wound received in the Civil war which sealed the hiding place of a fortune for more than half a century and of a strange trick of fate which cleared the hider's memory in the evening of life was brought to Los An- geles by the hider's son, J. K. Anderson of New Orleans, who is at the Van Nuys en route to the old placer mining flelds of Callfornta, says the Los Angeles Herald. Anderson’s father joined in the gold rush and was one of the miners of the '49 days. He located a claim in Placer county, near Auburn and Newcastle. Within a year he had snatched from the river bottoms a fortune. ‘Then the call of the south for volunteers reached him. He buried the gold beneath the adobe blocks of a tavern in the vicinity of nis claim, strapped all the precious substance he could carry about his body and hurried to join the Confederate army. Anderson says that his father was struck in an engagement with the Union troops by a bullet which tore open his scalp and robbed him of his memory for fifty years. During that time, the son says, the parent was like a child with all knowledge of the hiding place of the gold gone. Before he died, a year ago, his memory of the gold rush returned to him and he was living again in the past that preceded his part in the conflict. It was during these last moments that the old man told his son and the mother where he had buried what he claimed was a fortune. The son is hurrying to unearth if possible the buried treasure. Anderson sald: “My father said he buried the gold under a corner of an old adobe tavern patronized by the miners in the early days. This tavern was in Long valley at a point halfway, 1 have learned, between the present towns of Newcas- tle and Auburn. I have learned through corre- Trained Nurse Who Snores nomic, scientific and political aspects of the opium problem, not only as existing in the Far East but throughout the world. The out come of the gathering was the unanimous adoption of a series of recommendations in which the delegates arid experts assembled, strongly urged that their respective countries take action in three matters, namely an overhauling by each nation of its own regu- lations with reference to the oplum traffic; the adoption of measures for the suppression of opium smoking. and, finally, the enforce- ment of restrictions upon the manufacture and sale of morphine. ‘The experts of the different nations having agreed upon the measures that ought to be taken to curb the evil, it was up to the United States, she having inaugurated the project, to make the next move in the matter. This she did with no loss of time. Our officials wrote to the various powers suggesting that they get together and take action on the recommendations that had come from Shang- spondence that a family by the name of Scott occupies the tavern as a farmhouse and that the country around it is devoted to the rats- i ee a oan ea the building. The adobe blocks are heavy. | have obtained permission from the owners to here ae ee a ee : Trained Nurse “In all those months | was in the hospital somebody ought to have warned me, | think,” sald the trained nurse, according to the New York Times. “Of course I had it from the folks at home that I snored a little, but 1 never took it seriously until I went on my first case. I found then that it is a serious matter for a nurse to snore. “I took the case from a nurse whose own health had broken down. The patient was nervous and excited over the contemplated change, and that made my ordeal more se vere; a brand new case of my own would have been much easier. Still, we got along fairly well together the first half of the night. He was a kindly man, and soon after midnight he insisted that I should try to get some sleep. I didn’t think I'd catch a wink, but by and by I dozed off. It was a fatal sleep for me. The next morning the patient's sister told me about the snoring. “‘James could not rest at all,’ she said. ‘L heard you in the next room.’ “Before night I was looking for another job. Of course I did not have to give up nursing entirely, but the hard cases, where I am re sl \ aes sia (2 hal. In other words, it was suggested that as a sequel to the earlier effort there should now be international co-operation for the plac- ing of the production and traffic in opfum un- der international law. ‘The culmination of the long fight is now in sight. An international conference was held recently at The’ Hague, the capital of the Netherlands, to arrange for measures that will put up the bars against oplum and other habit-forming drugs all over the world. Many of the men who attended the Shanghai con- ference were appointed by their respective governments to represent them at The Hague. ‘The power and significance of the two gath- erings was vastly different, however. At the Shanghai conference those in attendance could only advise and recommend. At The Hague conference the delegates were empow- ered by their respective governments to agree upon definite measures. After prolonged ses- sions, measures were decided upon which, it ig expected, will fully carry out and put into effect the objects of the conference. These measures will be reported to the various gov- ernments represented, to be followed by legis- lative action on the part of their law-making podies putting into execution the regulations agreed upon, This is supposedly a mere mat- ter of routine, as all the powers have given their promise. Foremost of the regulations agreed: upon are those for uniform national laws and regu- lations to: control the production, manufacture and distribution of opium and its derivatives. ‘Almost as important will be the regulation by the universal postal union of the transmis- sion of opium through the mails. Going yet further in the direction of complete control will be the restrictions that are to be placed upon the cultivation of the poppy, from which opium is derived, and limiting the number of ports through which the drug may be shipped by opium-producing countries. There was adopted also uniform marks of identification for packages containing opium in interna tional transit. The nations that are interested in this world-wide crusade and were represented at the conference include the United States, China, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rus- sia and Siam. Some of the other powers, notably /Austria-Hungary, were not directly represented because they are not much affect- ed by the opium evil, but they have given as- surance that they will abide by the regula- tions which have been agreed upon by the conference. When the international confer- ence was first proposed, China showed her intense interest by appointing a strong dele- gation including such progressive men as Dr. Yen, who was educated in American colleges and is in sympathy with American ideas and ideals. “The latest agony,” said a spendthrift to his dissipated companion, “is the way I felt this morning. My wife asked me for a £10 note and I cut the matter short by telling her that it could not be done, for the simple reason that I had only a matter of 5 bob or so in my pocket. “"T knew you'd tell me that,’ she safd, ‘and it's true too.” And as I looked up in amaze- ment she added, ‘I looked in your pockets last night. I've got the £10 note.’ “Fancy how I felt! But what could I do?"— London Tit-Bits. Plousible. “Braggs is up in Maine hunting. He writes me that he's shot the biggest’ bear on record.” “Don't doubt {t. It would have to be a mon- ster for Braggs to hit it."—Boston Transoript, FOR THE BAKING DAY HINTS THAT OUGHT TO BE HELP. FUL TO HOUSEWIFE. Perfect Parker House Rolls—Lady: Washington Rolls—Norfolk Sally, Lunn—English Tea Cakes— White Fruit Cake. Perfect Parker House Rolls.—At night pour one pint of Juke warm milk over two tablespoons of sugar, and two of lard; add a little salt, one quart of fiour, half cup bakers’ and one cup of home made yeast. Stir well; let Taise till morning, when add one more quart of flour and knead for ten min- utes; let raise till after noon, then kmead another ten minutes; roll out half inch thick, cut out with biscuit cutter; crease with floured knife; spread a pat of butter on one-half, fold over, pinch ends, brush with melted butter and set to raise till very light. Bake in hot oven 20 minutes. Lady Washington Rolls.—Pare and slice one large potato, boil in half pin water till tender, then mash in water, adding one tablespoon sugar, one o} butter, two of flour, one teaspoon salt| and half cup strong yeast. Mix well, set in warm place to raise. When light, stir into batter one well-beaten egg, one-half pint sweet milk, three pints sifted flour. Knead well, set to raise, when light, make into oblong rolls, dip in melted butter, let rais® half hour. Bake tn very hot oven. Norfolk Sally Lunn.—Three pints flour, six eggs, four ounces butter, one- half ‘pint yeast, one pint milk; melt butter, but do not boil it; mix well beaten eggs with flour, put all ingredi- ents together, beat well, put in baking pan and let raise till morning, when bake in steady oven for three-quarters of an hour. For tea, let raise six hours. English Tea Cakes.—One quart flour, ‘one cake compressed (or one cup liquid yeast), two eggs, three-quarters cup butter, one teaspoon sugar, salt, one pint milk. Warm flour, dissolve butter in warm milk, stir well beaten eggs in yeast, mix batter well, add enough more flour to make firm dough, and knead well. Let ratse three hours, then knead again; divide into eight pieces, roll out as large as small plate, set on buttered tins, and place in warm place to raise." When very light, bake 20 minutes in good oven; turn out, split with fork, butter liberally. Pile one on another. Begin at 7 a.m, for afternoon tea. A White Fruit Cake—One pound of sugar; three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of flour, one dozen eggs—whites only; one pound of, citron, three pounds sweet almonds, blanched and chopped fine; two pounds grated cocoanut, _ one-half pound grated pineapple, one level tea- spoon soda, one glass brandy, or white wine. After mixing the cake, slice three bananas and stir lightly in, Bake and ice, as any other cake. Ironing Handkerchiefs, To make handkerchiefs that have been washed look like new put a very thin starch in them after washing— just a suspicion of starch—and after they are dry, dampen slightly and let lie for half an hour. Place them on the ironing board with the embroid- ered side down, if they are em- Broidered, and over them put an old thin piece of muslin. Press with a hot iron, fold and press—always un- der the muslin. This keeps them from getting yellow and makes them look exactly like new. Dutch Apple Pudding. One pint of flour, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder, half tea- spoon salt. Rub one-quarter cup of butter with the flour. Beat one egg very light, add to it three-quarters of a cup of sweet milk and stir into flour. Place in well-buttered pan. Pare and core sour apples to cover the top and sprinkle over them two tablespoons sugar. Bake quickly and serve at once with egg sauce. Sauce—Ono cup sugar, half cup butter, half cup hot milk. Separate two eggs and beat well. Add whites last. Guba Mibttete ‘Melt two scant cupfuls lard and add to it two cupfuls molasses, one tea- spoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful salt, a teaspoon- ful soda dissolved in a little hot water, one well-beaten egg and sifted flour, adding the flour a little at a time un- til the dough is thick enough to roll out. Cut in fancy shapes and bake in a moderate oven, Salting the Almonds. Beat two tablespoonfuls of butter inva chafing dish, add one cupful of blanched and dried almonds. Stir un- til evenly colored. Drain and sprin- Kle with fine salt. To blanch the al- monds, drop them into cold water, bring slowly to boiling point, then strain and remove the brown skins. Dry and use. Curried Rabbit. Fry two cottontails a golden brown im olive oil; season with salt and add to meat one chopped apple and small onion; cover with boiling water; sprinkle a teaspoon of curry powder over top, cover tightly and simmer three-quarters of an hour. Serve with a border of boiled rice. Wild pigeons may be cooked in the same way. Apples. After peeling apples drop them into ‘cold water, ‘This will prevent them, becoming discolored. i IDEAS FOR HOME BUILDERS BY WM.A.RADFORD. N. 530X Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Radford Attorney and Manufacturer he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 197 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The plan this time is for a little five-room cottage for $1,000; that is, it should be built for $1,000 in towns and smaller cities where labor and material have not gone entirely out of reach. In these days of prosperity, it seems to be necessary to jump a little higher every time you reach for something. There is a limit, no doubt, and we may reach it some day. In the meantime we shall get as much as we can for our own productions, and buy in the cheapest markets possible. It is difficult these times to build a house for $1,000; but it can be done if we hold our ambition sufficiently in check. You can have a good deal of comfort in a $1,000 house if you plant it on the right lot and arrange it with care to get the most for the money. It is more difficult to plan a satisfactory cheap house than a good house twice as large, because we are hampered every time we undertake to make a move. We have not room enough to turn without bumping into some new problem. You cannot run a hall down through the middle of a small house without wasting a whole lot of room. You must have the house wider if you do, and this means a great deal more expense in the roof. When you get above 28 feet in width, you have quite a roof problem to deal with. This house is 28 feet wide and 40 feet long, which is a very good proportion. The roof is plain and straight, being just slightly relieved in one or two places for looks, which makes a straight roof that any carpenter can go ahead with and work right along until it is done. When there is no stairway, a hall is not necessary. By leaving out the M hall and using the sitting room and an entrance, we have all large, comfortable rooms, and they are all conveniently arranged. There is no provision for heating the dining room directly; but it is not necessary to do so, because there is a stove in the sitting room, and this, together with the heat from the kitchen, makes the dining room warm enough during meal time. It is not generally advisable to make a living room of the dining room, because usually you have a sideboard or some other provision for keeping eatables, and it is not a good PORCH ANTRY BED ROOM 14.0' x 13.0' KITCHEN 9.0' x 13.0' SUPP CLO5 BATH ROOM DINING ROOM 12.0' x 14.0' BED ROOM 13.0' x 14.0' SITTING ROOM 12.0' x 13.0' PORCH Floor Plan. plan to keep food in a room where people spend a great deal of time. Some kinds of food are very susceptible to contamination from the air. The sitting room may be made as warm as necessary with a good coal or wood stove; and, by placing a drum in the bedroom, these two rooms will be comfortable in any kind of weather. The pipe from the kitchen range may be made to warm the back bedroom in the same way. This makes a very economical way of heating the house. The kitchen fire is needed anyway, and is sufficient in mild weather. Two fires in a house --- of this size are enough at any time, and they are easily taken care of. There are no built-on porches in this plan. It is cheaper to include the porches under one roof, and there is no objection to doing so when building a cottage house. There is no room overhead where you will suffer from a cold floor. What is all right and proper for one style of house often is all wrong for another. It makes a great deal of difference in building, whether a man can go right along on one straight job. If you can start on a plan and work right around it without any breaks, the work moves along quickly from start to finish; but if the men have to knock off now and then to start some projection, this appears to the contractor like commencing another job. Modern plans are intended to utilize all the space within the four walls to the best possible advantage, and to design the exterior that is worth the money it costs and is as pleasing in appearance as possible; but first of all, the house must be comfortable. SECRETIVE MEN OF ACTION World's Most Able Soldiers and States men Averse to Sharing Thoughts With Others. Washington's reserve made him stiff formal and ill at ease in company, but it also prevented his plans from being betrayed to the enemy and the country from being deceived by his promises. William the Silent was frugal of words, because a reserve that concealed his designs, even from those acting with him, was necessary to the independence of the Netherlands. The most dramatic of silent men was Wallenstein, the antagonist of Gustavus Adolphus and the commander of the emperor's armies in the Thirty Years' War. He insisted that the deepest silence should reign around 530X him. His officers took care that no loud conversation should disturb their general. They knew a chamberlain had been hanged for waking him without orders and an officer who would wear clanking spurs in the commander's presence had been secretly put to death. In the rooms of Wallenstein's palace the servants gilded as if phantoms and a dozen sentnels moved around his tent charged to secure the silence the general demanded. Chalns were stretched across the streets and roads in order to guard him against the disturbance of sounds. Wallenstein's taciturnity and love of silence that caused him to be irritated at the slightest noise were due to his constitutional temperament. He never smiled, he never asked advice from anyone, and he could not endure to be gazed at, even when giving an order. The soldiers when he crossed the camp pretended not to see him, knowing that a serious look would bring them punishment. The Prisoner's Plate A restaurant near the Tombs which frequently supplies the city prisoners with meals sent in dinner the other day to a man/awating trial for burglary. When the dishes came back a message was found on the plate: "Please cut bread thick; I am a poor man." The letters had been cut out of a newspaper and pasted on the china with wet bread. The good-natured restaurant keeper made the slices of bread extra thick and threw in a large piece of apple pie with the next order. When the dishes were returned a grateful "Thanks" was pasted on the plate. No more messages were received for a week, though the restaurant man saw that the prisoner always got something extra. Then one day the empty plate came back bearing the prisoner's farewell: "Good-by and God bless you. I got seven years." The Boy's Request "The next time you get married will you please marry a policeman?" --- Her Art—Or Heart? "Julia, just be sensible and reason this thing out with me." Leon Wilson, astride a chair gazed over folded arms at the girl. "You want to follow a career and I haven't a desire in the world to marry and never will have. Why not go through the marriage ceremony with me? Come—be sensible." "It was a perfectly detestable thing to do—to make such a will." Julia was on the verge of tears. "Uncle Harry might have known I would follow my art without his money!" "That's just it," expostulated Leon. "The old man hated careers and he knew that you couldn't study without money—and you can't Julia. You can't go abroad and study under good masters and all that sort of thing without money and if you are not married by the end of next week you are penniless and I get all the money. It puts me in a mighty position—especially when we are such good pals." "I know—but—we don't love each other—that way," cried Julia. "That's the joy of the whole arrangement." Leon jumped excitedly from his chair. "If we did, it would be goodby to career, goodby to mp trip around the world and goodby to the freedom we both love." "You are putting it rather sensibly," admitted Julia. "But—you may fall in love some day and then—" "Never! Living all my life with so perfect a specimen has made me indifferent from the ordinary woman." He turned frank, serious eyes toward her. "Unee did me the greatest turn of my life when he picked a little waif out of the snow and gave her to me for a sister. Do you think I am going to let an old man's foibles stand in the way of your desire? If you were in love with some one and thinking of marrying in time to save the money it would be all right, but you are not—are you?" "No," laughed Julia. "Good! We can be married immediately as the will demands and then—we can drop each other at the first lamp post," he added lightly. "It is a good idea," admitted Julia, "but I still feel that I am stepping between you and happiness." "Rott!" Leon's tone satisfied her. "In another minute I would sell this beautiful old Wilson Manor and give the money to a home for stray mice. Just because Ucnee Harry was jilted by a girl who chose a career instead of him and a family I see no reason why he should seek to cut you off." "Perhaps he expected that clause in the will to make me settle down with a husband and family," Julia laughed. "Uncle was mistaken," Leon said. "Then it's settled! Julia, you are a trump!" "So are you," echoed Julia. "Settle the bargain!" He leaned over and they kissed each other—a kiss void of tremor. "Eloping would save a lot of embarrassment." Leon suggested. "We can send the certificate back to the lawyer, and he will fix you up with the money." "Half of it," corrected Julia. "But I didn't know you were coming with me." He raised his surprised eyebrows. He raised his surprised eyebrows. "My dear Julia! Do you want all the villagers to know the conditions of our marriage? Certainly I will escort you to Paris—I suppose that's your destination—and from there I will start on my Joyous trip. We are both sick of this place—the conditions of the will are really a blessing to each of us. If the break hadn't come this way we might have hung on at the old place for another decade." "Yes, and we couldn't have lived in this house together, anyway," laughed Julia, "and wouldn't the place seem terrible—with one of us gone?" "It could be. Our marriage is doubly sensible." Leon gazed reminiscently about the old-fashioned sitting room. "We will leave old Mammy Jane in charge while we are away." He turned and faced Julia. "There is a full moon—are you game to elope tomorrow night? We can sail Saturday and I am sure you would rather get a trousseau in Paris than in Wilsonville." "You forget—I don't need a trousseau." Leon looked uncomprehendingly at her, and a slow blush mounted her cheeks. "That's so," he laughed, quickly. "Well, I must be off to get the rings. They are to be thick and broad so that none of those French guys will try to flirt with my wife." The word sounded strange in Julia's ears and she would have called him back, but he was gone. The following evening they slipped off and were quietly married. A trip to France was filled with keen enjoyment nor was it marred by embarrassment at their unique position. It was more a continuation of the life they had always led. The day of parting arrived. It was raining and gloomy. Leon went to Julia's studio in the Latin Quarter. "Remember, Julia—if you are over lonesome or if you have the slightest desire to marry—just telegraph me. In the former case I will come to cheer you and in the second—we will look into an annulment of our marriage. It is all very simple." "You are an old dear," murmured Julia with tears in her voice. "And promise you will do the same." "Haven't I already promised to love, honor and obey?" he chided lightly for the tears were very near. "Well, I must be off. Come and kiss your husband goodby!" he commanded. Julia went and stood within the circle of his arms and he drew her close into them. "Now, be good to yourself—and study hard." He turned and was gone. The girl, left alone, threw herself down on the couch and sobbed out her loneliness. Paris without Leon. Paris with only work ahead seemed a very dreadful place to Julia. She dried her tears and set to work with a will. When Leon left his wife he turned into all the booking offices he passed and purchased tickets to Rome and St. Petersburg and Berlin and all the places he had seen in his dreams for many years past. I was terrible to buy only one ticket. The pleasure of traveling had been diminished by one-half with no Julia to buy a ticket for. During the long journeying, Leon managed to pick up an occasional friend, but occasional traveling companions were few. Leon was desperately lonesome. There was no one to rhapsodize with; there was no one to grumble with and—there was no one to talk home with. Home and the thoughts of home became an obsession. He longed for the great chair in the living room at Wilson Manor, his pipe and tobacco were always there. He thought many times of his big clean bed with its sheets that smelled of lavender. Most of all he wanted to sit in his own dining room and watch Julla pour him a cup of Mammy Jane's black coffee. Some five or six weeks later, having come by the quickest route from the interior of Japan a man alighted from the train as it steamed into the station at Wilsonville. The long station bus was discernible in the darkness and the man sprang eagerly toward it. Before the tank horses started off another passenger crept into the bus. Wilson could see that it was a woman. The wheels rumbled on through the darkness and finally drew up at the huge entrance posts at Wilson Manor. The horses would have turned in, but Leon Wilson sprang lightly out. "I'll walk up through the grounds." He spoke shortly because the sight of the old tree lined drive had made speech hard. He swung off through the winding lane on which the trees cast weird shadows. When the lights from the living room gleamed through the foliage the refrain of "Home, Sweet Home," burst from his lips—nor did he hear the voice that had called to him a second time. "Leon! Leon! Wait for me—I am afraid of the shadows!" His suitcase dropped on the roadway as he turned swiftly but a little panting figure had tumbled into his arms. "Julia — sweetheart!" he breathed. "How in the world—" He could only gaze down into her eyes. "I dropped my bag down by the gate," she panted, "so I could run fast enough to catch up with you—I came in the bus." Her voice halted, but he still looked down at her. "I couldn't stand Paris any longer without—" "Without—?" he prompted. "Leon," she asked quickly, "do you love anyone?" "Yes," he said, "I do." He felt for the hand with its two rings and his own closed over it. "Shall we go home now?" "The lights are beckoning—aren't they, Leon?" Fair Offer. She was strong-minded and meant to have her rights at any cost, and when she was hauled up before the justice of the peace for exceeding the speed limit she demanded to be represented by counsel. "I just tell you one thing, judge," she said, whacking the table with her right hand, "I'd rather pay a lawyer $25 than give this court $10 for a fine." "All right, madam," said the judge. "I'm th' only lawyer hereabouts, and if ye'll jest hand over that $25 I'll guarantee to appear before myself and get ye off."—Harper's Weekly. Too Suggestive. "I see where the newspaper report of proceedings at a colored church conference states that a large collection was 'lifted.'" "That is a word which should never have been used." "No?" "It starts a 'pusson' to thinking deep thoughts about a chicken roost." His Usual Way. He—Brown says he's mad enough to kill his wife. She—Will he go home and lick her? He—No, he'll stay downtown and liquor. Its Urgent Need. "What kind of labor bill does your party want?" "One which will work." The KITCHEN CABINET W E MUST never complain of our E MUST never complain of our lot; trials introduce heroism and strength; ignorance the joy of learning, and sin itself the glory of salvation. WINTER BREAKFASTS. There are those who will say that they want an egg, a piece of toast or two, a slice of bacon and a cup of coffee, without variation, throughout the cold months. The breakfast table should never be so fixed in idea that one may not look for a little change. In some families the buckwheat cake is in constant demand from December until April. The buckwheat cake is a perfectly good cake, but we all know when we have enough. To most cooks and housekeepers the breakfast, if any variety and study is put into its menus, is the most difficult of the day, for appetites are at the lowest ebb and need to be coaxed by appetizing and dainty food. Fortunately for those who are not blessed with a large amount of worldly goods to expend upon the table, fruits and foods that are cheap and good are easily prepared. Oranges are now reasonable and will be cheaper; grape fruit is never very cheap fruit, but it is so agreeable for the breakfast table that it should be used as often as possible. When three can be bought for a quarter, they may not be called too much of a luxury. An orange, an apple or half a grape fruit is a most gratifying beginning to a breakfast. There is such a variety of ways of cooking breakfast eggs that the poached, fried and "cooked in the shell" should be varied, often. There are any number of omelets, which may be served plain or with sauces, then a very nice egg dish. is one in which the eggs are baked with a tablespoonful of cream in small ramekins. Griddle cakes may be served in any number of ways, in combination with cooked rice, or cereals. Gems and muffins are improved by the addition of cooked cereal. The coffee cake and the doughnut are special breakfast cakes. The following recipe is the Queen of Doughnuts.—Beat together two eggs, add one and two-thirds cups of sugar and beat until the sugar is nearly dissolved; add a half teaspoon of salt, one and a fourth cupupls of sour milk, a fourth of a cup of sour cream, a teaspoonful each of soda and nutmeg, and as little flour as possible to handle. Set on ice to chill and roll out as soft as possible. The secret of a good doughnut is frying them very soft, using very little flour. When cold shake in a paper bag with a few tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. WHO receives friends without himself bestowing some palms upon the repast prepared for them, does not deserve to have friends. SEASONABLE DISHES The time-honored dish of roast pig is served during the cold weather, as pork is best served in the winter months. Roast Pig.—A pig for this purpose should not be over four weeks old, and should not be kept more than two or three days after it is killed. The skin of a larger pig will not develop that desirable crackle which is one of the charms of the roast. The pig is usually stuffed with a poultry stuffing, though some like rice and cheese. The fore legs are skewered forward and the hind legs back. The mouth is fastened open with a piece of wood or a cob, and when it is served the traditional apple is used in its place. The ears are protected with buttered paper while it is roasting. The oven should be moderately hot, and basting often improves the roast. The time for roasting is about three hours. Roast Goose.—A young or green goose is recognized by its pliable yellow feet and its tender windpipe. As it grows older the down on its legs disappears and the feet become darker in color. The skin is so fat and greasy that a warm soda bath and a good scrubbing is necessary to prepare it before it is drawn. When the goose is drawn, wash quickly in clear water and wipe dry. Roast like a turkey, pouring off the fat from the pan. Serve with giblet sauce, made by adding to a brown gravy the liver, heart and gizzard chopped fine after boiling tender. Stuffing for Goose.—Use hot mashed potato highly seasoned with salt, pepper and parboiled onions or onion juice. Moisten with one tablespoonful of butter and the yolk of an egg to each cup of potato. Sprinkle a little sage over the potato, if liked. Steamed Apple Pudding.-Slice tart apples into a deep dish. Cover with a light bread dough into which has been worked a large spoonful of butter. Set in a warm place for an hour, then lift the edge and add one-half pint of boiling water, according to the size of the pudding. Cut an opening in the middle and cover with an inverted basin. Set on the back part of the stove and cook steadily one hour, without lifting the cover. Serve on a hot platter with the apples on top. Use thick cream and maple sirup for sauce. F. THINGS don't go to suit us. Let's never fume and fret. For finding fault with fortune Neat minded matters yet. Make best of what they're happens; Bear failure like a man; In good or evil fortune Do just the best you can. —Eben E. Rexford. SOME SIMPLE DESSERTS. Often the word simple does not imply inexpensive, as a simple gown may be one of much cost; a simple dish may be of few ingredients yet quite expensive. The following is both cheap and simple when eggs are plenty: Sponge Pudding.—Stir a third of a cup of flour into a cup of milk until smooth. Set in boiling water and cook. When cool add a half teaspoon of melted butter and the yolks of three eggs well beaten, with a fourth of a cup of sugar. Cut and fold in the whites of the eggs beaten stiff, and after flavoring to taste set in a pan of water and bake twenty minutes. Servo with hard sauce. Prepare the sauce by creaming four tablespoonfuls of butter and add a half cup of sugar and a teaspoonful of boiling water; flavor with grated nutmeg and chill before serving. Powdered sugar makes the sauce more smooth and creamy. Cavendish Pudding—Put a cup of stale bread crumbs to soak in a pint of cold milk, let stand for half an hour. Beat two eggs slightly, put in a layer of bread crumbs in a greased mold, then some fried fruit and bits of butter; mix a half cup of sugar and some of the milk and the eggs with a little flavoring and pour over, steam one and a half hours. Serve with any desired liquid sauce. Lemon is particularly good. Fig Cups.—This is a most delicious dessert and sounds extravagant, but will not prove so. Take a half pound of pulled figs, steam them until tender in a sieve over water; cut small opening in the side and fill with chopped salted almonds. Prepare a sauce of a half cup of orange juice, a tablespoonful of lemon juice and a half cup of sugar; when hot drop in the figs and simmer until thoroughly cooked. Serve cold with unsweetened whipped cream. When serving hot ginger bread for dessert, apple sauce is a fine accompaniment, or seasoned cream cheese mixed with a little grated rich American cheese and molded in green peppers, then when well chilled slice in small slices and serve with the ginger bread or with crackers and coffee as dessert. B: DIPLOMATIC.—A farmer out west used to keep himself supplied with coal by making faces at the engineer as the train went by. USING UP LEFT-OVERS. Left-overs are like the poor, "always with us," and the problem how to convert them into appetizing and wholesome dishes is a constant one. Especially at this season, after the holiday dinners and entertainments, there is always much left that is too good to be thrown away. The questionable economy of some housekeepers, who are most careful to save every particle of food and convert it with great pains and expense into dishes which cost more than the original, cannot be too strongly condemned. Common sense and brains must be used in mixing food. Turkey Soup—The carcass of the turkey makes a finely flavored soup. Break the bones and cover with cold water, adding any bits of meat that may be left. Bring slowly to the boiling point and simmer two hours. Strain, remove fat and season with salt and pepper. A few pieces of celery may be added to the soup while cooking, or a slice of onion, for flavor. The ways of using stale bread and cake are legion. The crumbs may make stuffing for fowl or for breading chops or crumbling croquettes, for puddings and griddle cakes, such a number of things that never a crumb should be thrown away unless it is to fed the hungry birds. Buckwheat Cakes.—Pour a pint of scalded milk over a third of a cup of bread crumbs and let stand thirty minutes; add a half teaspoonful of salt and a yeast cake which has been softened in lukewarm water, then add enough buckwheat to make a thin batter to pour. Let rise over night; in the morning beat well and add a tablespoonful of molasses and a fourth of a teaspoon of soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of water. A HEALTHY, HAPPY OLD AGE A HEALTHY, HAPPY OLD AGE May be promoted by those who gently cleanse the system, now and then, when in need of a laxative remedy, by taking a desertspoonful of the ever refreshing, wholesome and truly beneficial Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, which is the only family laxative generally approved by the most eminent physicians, because it acts in a natural, strengthening way and warms and tones up the internal organs without weakening them. It is equally beneficial for the very young and the middle aged, as it is always efficient and free from all harmful ingredients. To get its beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the genuine, bearing the name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every package. You need expect no quarter from the footpad until you give up your last cent. Constipation causes and aggravates many serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The favorite family laxative. Mr. Littlerest—Doctor, what did you tell me was your special treatment for sleeplessness? Medico—We strike at the cause or the origin of the trouble. Mr. Littlerest—You don't say so! Well, you will find the baby in the other room. Only, don't strike at him too hard. MAKING THE BEST OF IT. JOHN BARRY She—I am sorry I ever married you! He—Oh, don't worry about me. I'm pretty tough and can stand it! She—I am sorry I ever married you! He—Oh, don't worry about me. I'm pretty tough and can stand it! Expensive Possession. A small applicant for Christmas cheer was being interviewed by the charity worker. "What is your father?" ask'd the latter. "E's me father." "Yes, but what is he?" "Oh! 'E's me stepfather." "Yes, yes, but what does he do? Does he sweep chimneys or drive 'busses, or what?" "O-o-w!" exclaims the small applicant, with dawning light of comprehension. "No, 'e ain't done nothin' since we've 'ad 'tm."—London Answers. A dyspepsia veteran who writes from one of England's charming rural homes to tell how she won victory in her 20 years' fight, naturally exults in her triumph over the tea and coffee habit: "I feel it a duty to tell you," she says, "how much good Postum has done me. I am grateful, but also desire to let others who may be suffering as I did, know of the delightful method by which I was relieved. "I had suffered for 20 years from dyspepsia, and the giddiness that usually accompanies that painful alliment, and which frequently prostrated me. I never drank much coffee, and cocoa and even milk did not agree with my impaired digestion, so I used tea, exclusively, till about a year ago, when I found in a package of Grape-Nuts the little book. 'The Road to Wellville.' "After a careful reading of the booklet I was curious to try Postum and sent for a package. I enjoyed it from the first, and at once gave up tea in its favor. "I began to feel better very soon. My giddiness left me after the first few days' use of Postum, and my stomach became stronger so rapidly that it was not long till I was able (as I still am) to take milk and many other articles of food of which I was formerly compelled to deny myself. I have proved the truth of your statement that Postum 'makes good, red blood.' "I have become very enthusiastic over the merits of my new table beverage, and during the past few months, have conducted a Postum propaganda among my neighbors which has brought benefit to many, and I shall continue to tell my friends of the 'better way' in which I rejoice." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellyville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. William Evans, D. D., Director Bible Course Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. LESSON FOR JANUARY 7 BIRTH OF JOHN FORETOLD. LESSON TEXT-Luke 15-23. MEMORY VERSES-15, 16. GOLDEN TEXT-"Without faith it is impossible to please God.'-Heb. 11:6. The Old Testament closes with a prophecy; the New Testament opens with the announcement of the fulfillment of that prophecy. Thus both Testaments are characterized in this lesson: The Testament, prophecy; the New Testament, fulfillment. It is clear from our Lord's own words that John the Baptist fulfilled this Old Testament prediction, (Mat. 17: 10-13). It may be that a more literal fulfillment is still future, preceding Christ's second inning. Our attention is first drawn to the persons through whom God fulfills his promise. Zacharias and Ellizabeth were both righteous. By that is not meant that they were either sinless or perfect—no human being is that—but that they were parents whose whole heart, mind, and strength were dedicated to the will and service of God. Zacharias' unbelief shows that he was not sinless. This is the kind of people through whom God is willing, and ready even today to fulfill his promise and bless the world—not through perfect people, but through those who are constantly striving after perfection. There is no limit to the blessings God will confer upon the world through us if only we will not touch the glory. The glorious vision and message came to John when he was performing his duty. And so it is always. While shepherds watch their flocks the angel comes. We must not forget that Elizabeth also in her modest, humble seclusion was used to bless the world just as much as Zacharias who was exercising a priestly function so high that the opportunity came to a priest but once in a lifetime. God chooses the weak things as well as the great things: D. L. Moody, the uneducated shoe clerk, as well as Paul, the scholar. So Isaac was a quiet man and dwelt in tents. The next thing to which our attention is the content of the prophecy. First, it concerns a child. Zacharias and Elizabeth were childless. It is no sin to be childless provided that no law of nature is violated. It is a sad thing to be childless. At least it was so considered in Old Testament days. Would that it were considered so today! A revival of the mother instinct is needed. This child was to be an extraordinary child—well every mother's child is wonderful! This child was to go before the Lord and prepare his way, just as your child may follow after the Lord and walk in his steps—a worthy career for both John and your child, and every child. Why should we not hold this ideal constantly before childhood? Upon the promised child was to rest the vow of the Nazarite. That meant two things: Absolute prohibition from intoxicants, and entire dedication to God. Can you think of any two things more desirable for your child, for every child? These parents had an ideal before them for their child, and that was a tremendous help. Have you? Or do you bring your child up at random? Start today with an ideal. Let it be high; let it be the highest, even Christ. The mission of John, the Baptist, was to be performed by the aid of the Holy Spirit. Is there not a subtle contrast here between the prohibition of intoxication and the filling with the spirit? Just as the person under the influence of intoxicating liquor is governed and controlled by such spirits, so the Christian worker is to become so fulfilled with the spirit that every part of him—intellect, sensibilities, will, feelings, are under the spirit's control. This spiritual equipment is what is needed for Christian workers today. Because the Baptist was spirit-filled, he was enabled to turn the hearts of the children towards their fathers. Doubtless the Jews had become tainted with the idolatry of the surrounding nations so that they had to some extent forsaken the faith of the patriarchs. Every Christian has the Holy Spirit, just as Egypt has the river Nile; but every Christian does not have the fullness of the Spirit, any more than Egypt always has the overflow of the Nile; and just as the overflow of the Nile means a bountiful harvest to Egypt, so the infilling and overflowing of the spirit in the believer means a bountiful harvest of fruit unto eternal life. It is strange, is it not, that Zacharias should doubt in the presence of this heavenly visitor! Surely one should believe in the presence of such a sign as this. There are people today who say that they would believe if they could hear a voice from the other shore speaking to them, or if one should come to them from the other life. Did the Jews believe even though Lazarus came back to them from the dead? No. If we believe not the scriptures, neither would we be persuaded in the presence of so supernatural a sign as this. Zacharias continued ministrations. Death Lurks In A Weak Heart If You're is fluttoring or weak, use "RENOVINE." Made by Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn. Price $1.00 DCall Squillbob—Don't know how to court the girl? Well, my boy, you just tell her that you know she despises "jollying" and is the one woman in the world who can't be flattered. Squilligan—Well? "That sort of guff will flatter her!" THE KEYSTONE TO HEALTH IS HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS You can strengthen the system,keep the bowels open,prevent Colds and Grippe by taking the Bitters. The Backteriologist. A Richmond darky chanced to meet on the street a friend who complained of much "mis'ry." Indeed, the afflicted one was in despair, so "tuckered out" was he. "Wot seems to be de matter?" asked the first negro. "Jim," said the other with a moan and a gesture indicating the portion of his anatomy that was giving him so much trouble. "Ise got sech awful pains in mah back heah!" Jim assumed an air of great solemnity and wisdom. "In dat case," said he, "dere's only one thing fo' you to do. Jes' yo' put yo'se' in de hands o' dat Doctah Blank. I hears dat he'd be finest backterologist in de whole souf." ALMOST FRANTIC WITH ITCHING ECZEMA 一 "Eight years ago I got eczema all over my hands. My fingers fairly bleed and it itched until it almost drove me frantic. The eruption began with itching under the skin. It spread fast from between the fingers around the nails and all over the whole hands. I got a pair of rubber gloves in order to wash dishes. Then it spread all over the left side of my chest. A fine doctor treated the trouble two weeks, but did me no good. I cried night and day. Then I decided to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment but without much hope as I had gone so long. There was a marked change the second day, and so on until I was entirely cured. The Cuticura Soap we have always kept in our home, and we decided after that lesson that it is a cheap soap in price and the very best in quality. My husband will use no other soap in his shaving mug." (Signed) Mrs. G. A. Selby, Redonda Beach, Cal., 15, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by drug-gists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to "Cuticura." Dept. 24 K. Boston. Tearful Pair. "I'm the saddest thing there is—the ghost of a lost love." "Huh! I'm worse than that! I'm the ghost of a vanished bank account!"—Puck. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Physical Proof. "Mr. Jims, I saw your double on the street today." "Impossible, madam. I'm a single man." PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Your druggist found money Your drugist found money Blending or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 600. Many a man's handshake is less sincere than the wag of his dog's tail. Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. 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Curse scalp disease & hair falling. $0, and £1.00 at Druggists PISO'S IS THE NAME OF THE BEST MEDICINE for COUGHS & COLDS Jones and Brown argued as they always did when they had time enough. They had dined together, and as Jones lived at a distance and it was very late Brown offered to put him up for the night. On the way home they fell to discussing the strategy of the Civil war as indicated by the campaigns of Lee and Grant. The topic was elastic enough to keep them going for half an hour, and reached its height as they neared the Brown house. Then Brown lost his temper. "Jones," said he, "if you don't admit that Grant was a greater general than Lee, you can't sleep here." It was then two o'clock in the morning, and Jones was eight miles from home.-Chicago Post. Her Resignation. "Papa," she said, "I am very angry with Geraldine. "What's Geraldine done?" asked hre father. "Why, I told her a secret last summer," said the little girl, indignantly, "and she has just told me she's going to tell it." "That's very wrong of Geraldine. Has she any excuse?" "Why, I told her it was wicked to tell a secret, and what do you think she said? She said: 'Oh, I know, but I've resigned from the secret.' "Papa," she concluded, earnestly, "you can't resign from a secret, can you?" The mental processes of children are past finding out. Young, but Oh, My! The lawyer was sitting at his desk, absorbed in the preparation of a brief. So bent was he on his work that he did not hear the door as it was pushed gently open, nor see the curly head that was thrust into his office. A little sob attracted his notice, and turning, he saw a face that was streaked with tears, and told plainly that his feelings had been hurt. "Well, my little man, did you want to see me?" "Are you a lawyer?" "Yes. What is it you want?" 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But— CREAM OF BYE A T 44 Bu. to the Acre is a heavy yield, but that's what John Kennedy of ammonia stores in the acres of Spring Wheat in 1910. Reports FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA once showed other ex- cellence. The 1910s bussels of wheat bussel, buperace, 28 s and 40 yellow berries, yellow erotis, 183 bushels of oats to the Alberta fields in 1900. FEE The Silver Cup at the recent Spokane Fair was warded to the Arizona exhibit of grain, grasses and yields. Reports of excelsior and saltwater lakes in Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Free homesteads of 160 acres, 160 acres of 160 acres ($3 peracre) are to be had in schools, schools convenient, climate excellent, soil the hand, building lumber cheap, building lumber available in price, water easily procured, mixed Write as best place for settlement descriptive illustrated "Last Best West" (sent free on application) and other information Ottawa, Can., or the Canadian (58) W. H. ROGERS 125 W. Ninth St. Kansas City, Mo. Please write to the agent you need MOREY IN TRAPPING. We tell you how and why we trade cattle. We price weekly price lists for weekly price lists. IN SABEL & SONS LOUNGFILE, RY. Dealer in Furs, Hides, Wool. Established 1856. FURS Discouraged LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS Electrotypes IN GREAT VARIETY FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICES BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Kansas City, Missouri DEFIANCE Gold Water Starch makes laundry work a pleasure. 16 oz. pkg. 12s. W. N. W., WICHTA, NO. 1, 1912. Knights & Daughters ```markdown ``` 1911—GRAND OFFICERS—1912 NEXT PLACE MEETING. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle will meet in Leavenworth, Kansas, the second Tuesday in July, 1912. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. Taborian Home, Route 8, Topeka, Kan SIR D. L. TAYLOR, V. G. M. 299 E. Center, Salina, Kan MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. LAURA LEE, V. G. P. Box 394, Weir, Kansas. SIR A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kan. MRS. SARAH W FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St. Lincoln, Neb. SIR WILLIAM CORE, C. G. T. 1120 Lane, Topeka, Kan. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M. 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. SIR C. M. JOHNSON, G. P. P 3330 Maple, Omaha, Neb. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 222 Ave. E. W. Hutchinson, Kans. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORK, C.G.P. 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kan. SIR W. N. MILLER, General Attorney, 430 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas. TEMPLE6. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. 1—A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sir L. W. Stewart, Box 481; 1-3 Fri. 3—R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Sir Jno. N. Davis, 521 "L,"; 1-3 Fri. 4—Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., Sir S. R. Jackson care Frye Shoe Co.; 1-3 Mon. 6—St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., Sir Joe Walker, 1220 West (north); 1-3 Thurs. 6—Humphrey, Omaha, Neb., Sir W. H. Jackson, 2515 N. 17th. 7—Mt. Nebo, Wichita, Kan., Sir. Rev. S. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington; 1-3 Fri. *—St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., Sir Robt. Allison; 1-3 Tues. 10—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan. Geo. Walker 417 Kiowa. 11—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir W. N. Miller, 630 N. Main; 1-3 Thurs. 12—Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan., Sir W. N. Williams, 2201 Corning; 1-3 Thurs. 15—Silver Leaf, Salma, Kan., Sir J. C. Hudson care Hudson Grocery Co. 17—Golden Gate, Coffeyville, Kan. Sir N. N. Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe; 1-3 Wed. 19—Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., Stg. W. H. Jones, care Santa Fe Depot; 2-4 Thurs. 22—Barak, Oswego, Kan., Sir L. R. Wilson, Oswego College. 24—Jas H. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan. Sir Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 25—Washington, Kansas City, Kan. Sir J. H. Downs, 422 Hassell; every Friday. 59—Sunnyside, Topeka, Kan., Sir Peter Davis, 1008 Washburn; 1-3 Thurs. 60—Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., Sir U. S. Grant, 120 Kansas; 1-3 Mon. 72—Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Sir J. L. Wright, 1st Nat'l Bank. TABERNACLES. Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. 1—Queen of the West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Malinda George, 603 State Ave.; 1-3 Wed. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Ella Weston, 709 Buckeye; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Mary Goss, 2423 Jewett 1-3 Fri. 4—Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. Ella Jones, 630 W. 4th; 1-3 Thurs. 6—Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Hattie Montgomery, 1115 N. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 6—Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Miss Katherine Glaspie, 128 Mulberry; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Saline, Kan., Mrs. Lili- ian Shobe, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Fri. 6—Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan. Mrs. Laura Donnell, 410 E. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 9—Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Lulu Delley, 120 Kansas Ave; 1-3 Fri. 10—St. Marla, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Carrie Davis, 446 Main; 1-3 Wed. 11—Rebecca Saba Mereo, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. J. A. Smith, 847 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. 12—Wolken Rule, Kansas City, Kans- as, Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stew- man; 1-3 B. Thurs. 15—America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. Mary Goss, 2423 Jewett 1-3 Fri. 777 Directory 6—Silver Leaf, Persons, Kan., Mrs. K. Shakespear, 112 Main; 1- Wed. 17—Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. A. Masir, 317 E. Wall; 1-3 Sat. 18—St. Marie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. E Patterson, 2115 Nicholas; 2-4 Thurs. 19—Amelia Levels, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th. 20—Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P Johnson, 501 Hyman; 1-3 Fri. 21—Queen Sheba, Oswego, Kan., Mrs. Nancy Landis, Box 144 2-4 Thu 24—Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan.; Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th; 1-3 Wed. 28—Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. D. Dorsey, 716 E. 15th; 1-3 Thurs 29—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. H. La Tand, 407 Kickapoo; 1-3 Tue. 30—Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman; 1-3 Fri. 32—Emma Gaines, Butte, Mont., Mrs Salina Easters, 334 Dakota [rear] 34—Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Salie Hall, 1024 Ohio; 1-3 Thurs 35—Golden Rule, So. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Sadie Jones, 819 N. 27th; 1-3 Thurs. 37—Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mamie Sloss, 1121 Oak; 1-3 Fri. 38—Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. Washington; 2-4 Wed. 39 Deborah, Abeline, Kansas, Mrs. Mable Baskerville. 2-4 Thurs 52—Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Cora Yeager 26 Main; 2-4 Thurs. 63—Fair West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Rosa Saunders, 716 N. J; 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Jennie B. Taylor, General Deliv. 85—Magdalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. M. Richardson, 1425 Van Buren. 89—Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. N. L. Hibbs, 2805 Cummings. 91—Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th; 1-3 Thurs. 92—St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L D. Davis, 3833 P; 2-4 Fri. 93—Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. A. Brown, 15th and Washing ton; 1-3 Thurs. TENTS. PALATIUMS. Rev, Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Sir C. M. Johnson, G. P. P. 1—Light or the West, Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Sarah Severe, 829 S. 26th. 2—Evening Star, Topeka, Kan., Ransom Taylor, 4th Thrus. 3—Moses Dickson, Auchison, Kan, W. H. Barnes, 4th Mon. 4—Queen City, Parsons Kan., L. Bridgwater, 2430 Appleton. 5—Jewell Wilson, Lawrence, aK. Chas. H. Kuntze, 932 E. Adams; 1-3 Mon. 6—Queen of Kansas, K. C., Kan. 6—Pride of Kansas, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Anna Madison, 1309 Ann; 1-3 Fri. OFFICIAL O8GAN. The Wichita Searchlight, 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kan Only $1.00 per year. To Readers of the Searchlight. To the readers of the Searchlight, all those who read the account about Cuba being the Negroe's land of hope, now to bring this great fact closer to you observation and to fix it so you can get information and see the won derful booklets of Cuba and to learn of their interesting terms, you can call to see Mr. H. H. Neely at their residence at 1447 S. River St. or call them by the telephone Market 3539 X. As they are General agents for the State of Kansas and have purchased a tract of land there come friends and learn something about this wonderful country. 50 Wide Awake Agent are wanted. This is something that can make a good living at if you will hustle, we want wide awake Hustlers and thats all. SEE Mr. B. H. 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Wildes Veterinary Surgeon & Dentist The Finest Equipped Hospital In the City Phone Market Office and Hospital 1730 230 N. Market St. Wichita Trade with our advertisers They Will treat you rlght. NOETH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractor Have You Paid Your Subscription To The Wichita, Searchlight? Readers of the Wichita Search light 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 remitances and promptly made. The subscription price to The Search- light 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 great deal of race inspiration by having a few colored newspapers with uplifting race news in your homes each week. Try andsee. NOTICE I wish to announce to my friends that I have moved from 326 N. Water to 523 N. main. Mrs. Lula Wilson Phone Market. 2374 HAIR BRAIDS For Sale, Cheap Can Match Your Hair COME IN AND SEE ME See The Braids IHa Mrs Ella Chinneth, Residence 530 N. Waco Phone Market 231 ..PROGRESS.. As People Let Us Stand Togather. United we stand Devided we FALL. Is the Above Statement True, Omaha, Neb., Dec. 10, 1911. Mrs. W. N. Miller, P. H. P. Dear Daughter and Sister in Christ: When I heard of the sad news of the death of your husband, Su. W. N. Miller, it gave me great distress. I hardly know how to address you under the present circumstances, but I cannot resist the desire to express my sympathy for you. Mr. Miller was a dear friend of mine, and when I heard of his death it gave me great distress. I feel very much grieved at the loss of so dear a friend and Bro. Sir Knight. The death of Sir Knight Miller has brought great sadness to the hearts of every member of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. The Order has lost a faithful officer, a manly man, a steadfast friend, a good husband. Nothing we can say or do avails him now, but he needs no human aid, no sympathy, no praise. He lived intellectually free and he is beyond all harm. But those who knew and lover Sir Miller, his professional brethren and sisters and his associates in the Order of Twelve, may well bemoan his death. I having known Sir Miller and worked with him in the Order for years in the practice of his profession as an officer he was generous, fearless and incorruptible. He brought to the performance of his duties unusual learning and ability. His patience was untiring, his sense of justice was profound. As general attorney for the Order he knew no friendship and the cause rather than the representative received his consideration. He was a just counsellor, a lovable, brave and honest Sir Knight. His death is an irreparable loss to his friends, to his associates, to his family and to his profession, which he honored and adorned. The memory of his worth and works will be an inspiration to the young man, an encouragement to good citizenship. May the Lord comfort you. Time alone can bring you peace. But you have this time surety it is well with Sir Miller. Trusting that you will see the side of the cloud that is turned to heaven, I g mwith deepest sympathy, Yours fraternally, C. M. JOHNSON, G. P. P. 3220 Charles St., Omaha, Neb. P. S.—I received the minutes and they are some of the best we ever had and all are pleased with them.