Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE, Remember Every Day Counts with a bad tooth. These prices February only. UNITED STATES SENATOR Robert M. LaFellette. Begins his brief discussion of a third Party after having discribed his Defeating in the Governorshiy Fight of Wiscontin in 1896. "Begining the work in the State, Put aside the Caucus and Convention." Dr. H. T. Bolden Dentist 513 N. Main St. Opposite Court-House Pnone Market 4637Or Market 2467 Remember Every L tooth. These prices UNITED ST Robert M. Begins his brief dis Party after hav Defeating in the Fight of Wisc "Begining the work in t Caucus and United States Senator Robert M. LaFollette comments on the idea of the formation of a third party to carry on the Progressive movement in this country in the current installment of his autobiography published in the February number of the American Magazine. In it he says that men do not create parties, but they are created by "the ripe issue of events." He supplements this by saying that "if a third party should come quickly, we may be sure strong leadership will be there." Senator LaFollet begins his brief discussion of a third party after having described his defeat in the governorship fight of Wiscontin in 1896. He says: "I think Sawyer, Spooner Pfister and Payne would have been glad to see me leave the party and start an independent movement. Many of my close ad vicers, too, believed that we all should break from the Republican organization and try to build up a new political party, and to give it life, and being and achievement, and perpetuity. --- Since February is known to be the worst month in the year for Aching Teeth. I will give Extreme low prices to all during this month of February, Come and see me. Examination Free Gold Crowns Emamual Crowns Bridge Work $3.75 Set Of Teeth { Best Material } $5. Teeth Cleaned .50ct. Amalgan Fillings .50ct. Cement Fillings .25ct. Day Counts with a bad February only. STATES SENATOR LaFellette. discussion of a third ing discribed his e Governorshiy contin in 1896. the State, Put aside the Convention." "New parties are brought fort from tfme to time, and groups of men have come forward as their heralds, and haue been called to leadership and command. But the leaders did not create party It was the ripe issue of events. It came out of the tomb of time, no man could hinder or hasten the event. Cabbell's M. E. Church Excellent Concert. The ladies Aid Society of Cabbell's Chapel M. E. Church will give a Box and Chittling Supper on Feb. 22-23, under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society. The evening of the 22nd. the Juuior Glee Club will give a Concert after the concert the ladies will serve chitting. The evening of 23, will be a box supper. All the men are requested to bring well filled boxes, the ladies will buy them. The ladies will have a fair and each evening admission to the Concert 10%. Come one Come all! and have a good time. Mrs. M. Pinkney Pres. Mrs. Briley Secty. --- Western University, Quindaro, Ks The Leading Educational Institute For Negroes In The West. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERSISERS They Will welcome You. Do You Read The Race Newspapers? Shower their Pastor The high esteem in which the members of the St. Paul A. M. E. Church, hold their pastor Rev. C. A. Williams and his family was shown in a substantial way on last Tuesday Jan. 30, when about forty of them showered in upon the pastor and family with almost everything imaginable in the line of provisions, consisting of three sacks of flour, meal, tea, coffee, butter, hams, eggs, maccoroni apples, sugar, a large assortment of canned good a big supply of vegetables and some finance and two live chickens that assisted materially in the noise making upon their arrival. It was an aggreeable surprise and the hearts of the pastor and family were indeed made glad jndging from their broad smiles. Rev Williams in a short speech thanked the good people and invited them back again. Mothers Aid Club. Miss. Mattie Smith of 522 N. Stenens St. was hostess to the Mothers Aid Club Friday afternoon. The meeting was very interesting and was enjoyed by all. The address by the president was buite a treat. Every one was so greatly enthused with it. A delicions two course luncheon was served and every one enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon. The Club will meet next with Mrs. Howerds. Mrs. W. N. Miller Pres. Mrs. Lillie Hext Sec. Mrs. Rev. Williams Cor. Sec. Let Us Do Your Printing. Patton-Starnes Minstrel With such soloist as Messers, Winfield Burks Ambrose Woodard Robert Brown, Thes Tyues, Howard Beattie Jack Hart Clay Robinson and Master Floyd Alexander and such cormedious as Teddie Filstock, Harris Moore, Claudie James Leo. Tyus, and those old reliables Patton and Starnes and a company of 15, others said Mgr. Clark whom is confronted concerning the Band Boys Minstrell. I can feel safe in saving that it will be the best Home talent show Wichita,s colored population has ever offered. Mr. Clark and his troupe of fun makers will be seen Thursday at night Feb. 15th. at the Masonic Hall Watch for the big parade at noon, Band Concert in front of the hall in the evening. Come! One and All! and enjoy the seasons best treat. Indian War Veterans, Attention. The United Indian War Veterans Headquarters 4338 Elizabeth Street, Denver, Colorado. Henry Hegwer Correspon- ing Secretary. DEAR COMRADES: WE ARE GRGACIZED for the purpose of getting House Bill, No. 779, passed, introduced by Mr. Kucker, member in congress from Colorado, that will give a pension to all soldiers who served on the Western Frontier 90 days or more, from 1865 -- 1890 The bill will be favorably reported immediately after the hol idays; by the House Committee Appeal To A Generous Public We the members of St. Paul A. M. E Church having outgrown our present and much delapidated structure at 525 N. Water St. and feeling the reed of a mere comodious and befitting place of worship, commensurate with a growing progressive congregation and in keeping with the fastgrowing city of Wichita. We therefore take this occasion to appeal for assistance. The membership of the church has been taxed to the exent that over $2,500.00 has been raised by cash and subscriptions for a site and building purposes. Any amount will be thankfully received and faithfully applied. Kindly Help Us. TRUSTEES;- T. Glover, Ed. Landrum, F. S. Wilkins, J. S. Fauver, M. J. Dancy, M. Perry and J. T. Chinneth, Clerk. on Pensions. As soon as that bill becomes a law we will be in need of the names and addresses of all who are entitled to a pension under this act, so that we can enter their names and addresses on our book, in order that we may be able to assist you in getting the proof of your comrades who served with you. Other papers please copy. NOTICE Smith's Band Boys are planing a Minstrel for an early date says Manager, Ford Clark. Mr. Clark has many new things for firstclass Minstrel Show, Watch this paper for the Date. Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office 517 N. Main St. Phones Bell4634 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY Lutie A. Brown Celebrated Their First Anniversary Jan. 19. The officers and members of Lutie A. Brown Chapter No. 16 together with the Grand Matron Mrs. Lutie A. Brown celebrated their first anniversary the evening of Jan. 19, by the way of a pleasant surprise party on Mrs. Luella White, who has been indisposed all winter. This being first anniversary, and the Mrs. White being the only member in the city could be present. An eloquent address on the work of O. E. S. was delivered by the scholarly grand Matron who closed by wishing many happy returns of the day. The evening was spent in conversation and music, after refreshments were served. All the bright stars went home. 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CLARENCE DARROW INDICTED Chief Defender of McNamaras Must Answer for Jury Bribling—May Mean Long Prison Term. Los Angeles, Cal. — Clarence S. Harrow, the labor unions' attorney, who defended the McNamaras, was indicted on two counts by the county guard jury here. Bribery is the charge in both counts, growing out of the alleged bribing of two jurors in the McNamara case. The maximum penalty that could be imposed upon Darrow for conviction on all counts is thirty years' imprisonment and fines aggregating $10,000. He is under $20,000 bail, but the former chief defender of the McNamaras said he was glad the suspense was over and that he faced arraignment with an equanimity born of his own innocence. Darrow said: "I wish to reiterate the statement which I have made several times recently, that is, that I know nothing of any bribery or attempt to bribe jurors or anyone else in connection with the McNamaras. I have retained Earl Rogers and Judges Cyrus W. McNutt as my counsel and will fight the case to the finish." SPASM OF VIRTUE IN CHEROKEE County Attorney Enforces "Blue Laws" in Mining Town—Threatens Theatrical Man. Columbus, Kas.—If "The Heartbreakers" attempts to fill the engagement for which it is booked at the theater in Scammon next Sunday night, the county attorney, Charles Stephens, will have George Damerel, the star, arrested for violating the Sunday labor law. The county attorney announced that Sunday shows in Cherokee county must stop. The theater men continued the Sunday performances. The moving picture men in Galena published a signed statement that they would pay no attention to the order. However, when Galena was given a touch of a genuine "blue law" regime last Sunday the "movies" fell into line for the first time in years. All the stores in Galena closed. Train Hit Leavenworth Girl. Leavenworth, Kan.—Twenty minutes after Edna McCormick, 14 years old, had been struck and fatally injured by a switch engine on the railroad tracks near the Home coal mine, her father, Clifford McCormick, and brother Will pased not ten feet from her. They heard the girl crying for her father. A physician was called but by the time he arrived the girl had died. Investigate Chinaman's Death. Newton, Kansas.-Tom Dah Klim, the Chinaman found dead here with his throat cut, seems to have had many important connections. A letter was received from the Chinese chamber of commerce of San Francisco asking for all details of the murder. The Chinese consul has notified authorities here that he will make an investigation into the murder. Meningitis Closes School. Falls City, Neb.—An advanced case of cerebro-spinal meningitis was discovered here in the person of Nellie Moss, a high school student. Two brothers and a sister of the patient were pronounced to have the disease in an incipient form, and to prevent its spread and to permit the buildings' fumigation the schools were closed. Tripped on a Tombstone. Wichita, Kansas. — Irving Delamater, an expert accountant, is in a hospital here suffering from injuries received in falling over a tombstone at Clay Center, Kan. He has several broken ribs. Stubbs for Roosevelt. Chicago, Illinois.—Governors Stubbs of Kansas and Hadley of Missouri joined Governor Osborn of Michigan and ex-Governor Fort of New Jersey here in accepting memberships in the Roosevelt national committee. THE OGRE IN THE CELLAR DON'T YOU EVER GET ENOUGH? DON'T YOU EVER GET ENOUGH? LAW GALLS FOR HIGHER RATE LAW GALLS FOR HIGHER RATE WOODMEN HAD TO RAISE OR QUIT BUSINESS. Sixteen States Now Have Statutes Regulating Basis for All Fraternal Orders. Kansas City, Mo.—The increase in Woodmen rates was made necessary because of what is known as the Mobile bill. This bill was drafted by the state insurance commissioners in convention in Mobile, Ala., in 1910. It provides that no fraternal insurance order shall be permitted to do business within the state unless its rates are adequate for it to do business and pay all death claims. Each one of the state commissioners attending the convention agreed to introduce the bill in the legislature of his state, and the National Insurance Convention agreed to indorse the bill. The Mobile bill has already passed the legislatures of sixteen states, including Missouri, and it will be introduced in the nine legislatures that meet this winter. In two or three years every state in the union will have this law in force and it will make it impossible for any fraternal insurance society to do business unless its rates are based upon approved mortality tables. Under the old rates the Modern Woodmen of America would have been barred out of sixteen states now and within a year or two would have ceased business altogether An idea of the amount of the raise which will go into effect in one year is shown by the following: Under the old rate a man joining the Woodmen at 21 years would pay $6 a year for each $1,000 of insurance he carried. Under the new rate he will pay $10.80. The rate for the same age and amount under old line life insurance is $19.50 a year. In the United States are 150 fraternal insurance societies, with 8,000,000 members carrying insurance, in which 40,000,000 women and children are interested. The rates of all those societies will have to be raised under the provision of the Mobile bill. OKLAHOMA HAS "DYNAMITE DIPS" Federal Officers to Help Suppress Mysterious Organization of Terrorists. Tulsa, Okla.—Federal officials will join with the officials of Osage, Tulsa and other. counties interested in breaking up a mysterious organization known as "Dynamite Dips," which has been operating in Osage county several weeks. The Dynamite Dips have of late been paying particular attention to farmers who, in enclosing their lands, have fenced up what for years were open trails. Many such farmers have been warned to open up these old trails or suffer vengeance at the hands of these marauders. Springfield, Missouri. For the first time in many years "navigation" has been resumed on White river in Missouri. With the clearing of the ice from the river, sixteen barges of the Ozark Water and Power company, loaded with material and machinery, are being towed between Branson and the site of the proposed dam and hydro-electric power plant. County Treasurer Dead. McPherson, Kan.—Frederick Gateka county treasurer of McPherson county, died at his home here from ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Gateka was just beginning his third term as treasurer of this county. Oklahoma Wants Irrigation Oklahoma City, Ok.-The government is to be asked to revive the irrigation projects in southwestern Oklahoma started in 1903, abandoned in the following years when rain was plentiful in the section. Bergmann WILL VOTE AGAIN ON NEW RULE Adoption of Commission Form to Be Resubmitted to the People of Burlington. Burlington, Kansas — The question of the adoption of the commission form of government will be submitted to the voters of Burlington again this spring. It was defeated last winter by a very few votes, and many of those opposed to it then are in favor of it now. Several of the women's clubs have debated the subject during the winter, and the members practically are unanimous in favor of it. The movement was started after the annual meeting of the Commercial club. The fifty business and professional men each made one suggestion as to what they would do if boss of the town, and the suggestion for commission government met such an enthusiastic reception that when a motion was made that it should be adopted, practically every one present voted for it. Committees were named to circulate petitions, and the matter will be presented to the council at the next meeting. FT. RILEY MAY BE ABANDONED Stimson Plans Retrenchment—Large Number of Forts Expensive and Unnecessary. Washington, D. C.—Secretary of War Stimson, acting upon an exhaustive report from the general staff, has decided that no less than 16, and probably 18, existing army posts should at once be abandoned, in order to put an end to the extravagance and inefficiency resulting from improper distribution of the mobile army. If the elimination of army posts proposed in the secretary's report is carried out, the status of Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley and Jefferson Barracks will be very much in doubt. The large number of posts in that region are unnecessary for strategic purposes. Mr. Stimson believes, besides entailing欠费 expenses. Riley might serve as a suitable station for a cavalry brigade. As to the possible disposition of Fort Leavenworth the report is silent. FARMER MURDERED AND ROBBED Body of Thomas Creson Found in Kitchen of His Home Near Springfield. Springfield, Missouri—The body of Thomas Creson, 65 years old, a pensioner, was discovered by his niece, 14-year-old Mabel Jeffries, in the kitchen of a farmhouse five miles north of here. Creson had been murdered and robbed. The purse was found near the body. He and his wife had been living with his son-in-law on a nearby farm and the old man returned at night for chores. He had been shot in the face, the bullet lodging in the back of his neck. New City Hall Open. Salina, Kansas—Salina's new $45,000 city hall is now occupied. The building when completed will be one of the best city buildings among smaller cities in the state. It is three stories high and the top of the dome is 110 feet above the ground. A Cake With 102 Canles. Healdsburg, Cal.—A cake of her own baking, with 102 lighted candles, held the place of honor on the table when "Grandma" Electra Kennedy gave a birthday party in her home here. She is 102 years old. Water Power Law Void. Madison, Wisconsin.—The Wisconsin supreme court declared unconstitutional the law which sought to vest in the state all rights to water power held by corporations and individuals, subject only to lease. FIRST BRIDGE OF ITS KIND WICHITA WILL TRY OVERHEAD ARCH CONCRETE. Ordinary Stone Construction Failed and City Engineer Designed New Type Less Expensive. Wichita, Kansas.—Bert C. Wells, city engineer of Wichita, has designed and is building the first concrete overhead arch bridge ever constructed in Kansas. Bridge engineers assert that such a design is just what is needed through central and western Kansas and in the prairie sections of other states, where conditions make the ordinary concrete arch bridge too expensive. The city has constructed a drainage canal through the east part of the town to drain the storm water from some seventy square miles of land. It often is bank full for a short time after a rain, in dry weather caries little water. Ordinary concrete arches were built at street crossings, but the bridges did not clear the maximum flow and caused the canal to overflow. Mr. Wells worked for many months, and finally, after numerous tests to see, if it would stand under heavy loads, adopted a design of overhead arch similar to the ordinary arched bridge. The Wells design has a clearance of thirty-five feet between the abutments. The big beams that stretch across the channel are twenty-four inches thick and contain twelve steel rods, each five-eighths of an inch thick. The re-enforcing rods of the arch itself and of the posts that connect the arch with the beams under the roadway are all connected with the rods of the big supporting beams by heavy plates, so that the re-enforcing of the entire bridge is practically one solid mass of steel rods, without splices and all bound together. An ornamental concrete railing is laid under the arches. The design is not patented and may be used anywhere. GOT FIFTY IN WICHITA RAIDS Many Jointists Taken for First Time—Liquor Scarce as Move Was "Tipped Off" as Usual. Wichita, Kansas.—The police gathered in a half hundred men and women upon whom liquor sales have been fastened by secret service men. Several motor cars were pressed into service by Chief Cubbon and they left the station at 3:30, simultaneously, each car carrying a chauffeur and from one to three policemen. The whirl of the returning cars, accompanied by the shouts and laughter of the victims, drew a large crowd to the police station. Little liquor was found, as the raid had been "tipped off" several days ago. The raid was directed primarily against the pool and billiard halls, where it was apparent that loiterers have been "dealing from the hip," a small quantity at a time. Every wayfarer in such places was arraigned on a John Doe warrant. BRIBE FOR BLACK HAND WITNESS St. Louis Woman Offered Money to Drop Prosecution of Husband's Slayer. St. Louis, Missouri.—Hunted by a fear that an effort had been made to implicate her in "black hand" tactics Mrs. Catherina Camarata, widow of Joseph Camarata, who was killed by Antonio Sansone a year ago, fled to Father Caesar Spigardi and told him she had been offered a $10,000 bribe to drop the prosecution of her husband's slayer. Sansone's trial was called early this week and continued because the headless body of Salvatore Leoni, the star witness for the defense, had been found in an ash pit. Wild West on a Train Palmyra, Missouri.—Between Hannibal and this city a drunken halfbreed Indian terrorized the assengers of a Burlington train. Sneriff Lasley was in the car with three prisoners. He removed the handcuffs from one of his prisoners and knocked the Indian down with them. The Indian was brought to Palmyra and placed in jail. A Bride in Knee Skirts Denver, Col.-The youngest married woman in Denver is Mrs. Edward Walker, who has not yet celebrated her 13th birthday anniversary. She was Annie Dietrich, a pupil at a grammar school, and she was married to Edward Walker, 16 years old. Organizing for Suffrage Clay Center, Kansas.—The women of Clay county have determined to carry this county for woman suffrage at election this fall and organized a Clay county woman suffrage association. Fifty women were present and elected officers. Memphis Bridge to be Costly. Chicago, Illinois.—The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad is planning to spend between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 in building a bridge across the Mississippi river at Memphis, Tenn., and in terminals. Pellagra Kills Horses. Lexington, Kentucky.-In the last three weeks a disease known to veterinarians as pellagra has made its appearance among horses in Kentucky and southern Indiana, causing the deaths of nearly 500 animals. "A man has to be up-to-date to do anything nowadays." "Yes," replied Mr. Dustin Stax. "When I talk to an investigating committee I find it desirable now to dwell needlessly on the past." PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. Your request has been made for a MONTH'S care any case of Icing, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 500. Not Original. Author—This story is the child of my brain. Editor—Then it is an adopted child. 44 Bu. to the Acre is a heavy yield, but that's what John Kennedy of Edmonton Mills Warehouse W in Wheat acres of Spring Wheat in 1910. Reports from other farms show other excellent results—such as 4-14 bushels from 129 acres, or 83-13 bushels, 25, 50 and 40 bushels from 129 acres, or 83-13 bushels, 25, 50 and 40 bushels. As high as 125 bushels of oats to the southern Alberta fields in 1910. The Silver Gup at the recent Spokane Borough Field E Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach and bowels are right. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE Genuine must bear Signature A Poor Weak Woman As she is termed, will endure bravely and patiently agonies which a strong man would give way under. The fact is women are more patient than they ought to be under such troubles. 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Address as above. For tea you can't beat LIPTON'S TEA OVER 2 MILLION PACKAGES SOLD WEEKLY ENDED THE SPELLING LESSON Bobby's Education, Under Aunt's Tutelage, Afterward Proceeded Under Different Lines. Miss Thompson, whose form nature has endowed with all-too-ample curves, was giving her little nephew a lesson in spelling the other day. He had spelt b-e, be, and h-e, he, and now she was trying to get him to tell her what m-e, spelt. "Listen, Bobby," she said earnestly. Then closing her lips she pronounced the sound of a long m, and opening them, the sound of a long e. "What does that spell?" "Bobby looked at her and shook his head. Again she tried, and this time, while pronouncing the sounds, she vigorously tapped her own rotund chest with her plump forefinger. "Mum, ee. What letters am I saying and what do they spell?" she asked, still vigorously tapping her chest. "I don't know what the letters are," replied Bobby, watching the plump forefinger, "but I guess they spell Fat." WORSE. Cholly—They're saying that the valet whom you discharged yesterday used some plain language to you. Reggy—Plain? Baw Jove, it was positively ugly! BABY'S HAIR ALL CAME OUT "When my first baby was six months old he broke out on his head with little bumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break out again and it spread all over his head. All the hair came out and his head was scaly all over. Then his face broke out all over in red bumps and it kept-spreading until it was on his hands and arms. I bought several boxes of ointment, gave him blood medicine, and had two doctors to treat him, but he got worse all the time. He had it about six months when a friend told me about Cuticura. I sent and got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. In three days after using them he began to improve. He began to take long naps and to stop scratching his head. After taking two bottles of Resolvent, two boxes of Ointment and three cakes of Soap he was sound and well, and never had any breaking out of any kind. His hair came out in little curls all over his head. I don't think anything else would have cured him except Cuticura. "I have bought Cuticura Ontment and Cuticura Soap several times since to use for cuts and sores and have never known them to fail to cure what I put them on. Cuticura Soap is the best that I have ever used for toilet purposes." (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Harmon, R. F. D. 2, Atoka, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ontment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to "Cuticura," Dept L, Boston. His Test of Religion. The ordinary man cares only for what religion does, and not a jot for what religion is. Man of the Present. 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Write for weekly price list and references. MARGHERY MONS LOUGHTON, N.Y. Dealers in Fur, Hides, Wool Established 1850. FURS man and patiently away under, they ought may obtain use of charge writing to station, R. V. Dr. Pierce e Invalids' N. Y., for IDEAS FOR HOME BUILDERS BY WM.A.RADFORD. 8217x Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178, West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The accompanying illustrations show a concrete house design, which, although simple and inexpensive, can be made exceedingly attractive. The lower portions of this house, the foundations and first story walls, are made of concrete blocks of uniform size; and right here is where a most artistic and interesting effect can be obtained by means of a proper surface finish on these blocks. The concrete block industry has passed through a number of years of experimentation. It has suffered at the hands of inexperienced block makers whose product has been used by amateur and unskilled house designers, the result in general being a poor building material used in an awkward and inappropriate way. The little block men have talked "cheapness" until this fine material was in danger of becoming discredited for anything but cheap work. The recent "cement shows" have proved conclusively, however, that there have been giant strides in the concrete block industry, both in the manufacture of the blocks and in the methods of finishing them, and of using them in modern construction. The complaint has been made that blocks absorb so much water that any house made of them is always very damp. At several of the exhibits, however, demonstration concrete blocks were made showing an absorption of less than one per cent, which is much less than the standard grades of brick and building stone. These blocks were made with a very wet mixture and were put under great 8217× pressure in the molds by simple, mechanical means. The business-like equipment used for compressing these blocks allowed a comparatively lean mixture to be used, resulting in the low cost block, but the extreme pressure compacts the material to such an extent that it is as nearly impervious to water as any building material can be. The complaint has also been made against concrete blocks that they are inartistic and uninteresting in appearance. And it must be admitted that the old-fashioned, imitation, rock DINING ROOM 12'0"X12'0" KITCHEN 8'6"X12'0" CASE DOWN HALL LIVING ROOM 12'0"X14'6" LIP VEST CLOSE PORCH 17'0"X8'6" First Floor Plan. face finish deserved most of the hard things said about it. The blocks that are now being made, however, are finished in an infinite variety of ways. There are faces with pebbles showing of different sizes and colors; there are faces formed of variously colored sands; there are marble dust faces and crushed granite faces. In fact, by the simple process of selecting the material to produce the surface finish desired and then deposit- ing it in a half-inch layer next the face plate of the block machine, any one of the unique and artistic surface finishes is easily obtained. One of the most interesting of these surface finishers is produced with fine pebbles, one-eighth to one-quarter inches in size. A layer of the mixture containing these pebbles is placed a quarter to a half inch thick next the face plate of the mold with the ordinary concrete block mixture filling the remainder. The intense pressure is applied and the block removed. The end of the first day the CL. BED RM. 10'6"X12'3" BED RM. 10'6"X12'3" BATH 0'5"0"X7" HALL DDOWN BED RM. 12'6"X11' CL. CL. Second Floor Plan. face of the block is scrubbed with wire or fiber brush which brushes away a part of the cement and sand, leaving the pebbles exposed. The surface is then brightened by being washed over lightly with water to THE HOME OF THE MAYOR which a small amount of muratic acid has been added. As these pebbles are of all different colors and shapes the interesting character of this surface finish can be easily imagined; yet one has to see a wall of these blocks to really appreciate the beauty and character of this material. With material of this kind a house would not need to be elaborate not decorated in any way to attract favorable attention. In fact, square cut simple designs are most effective for work of this kind. This keeps the cost down, for it is the towers and angles, bay windows and fancy porches, complicated roofs, etc., that run into money in building, without making any reasonable return in the way of conveniences or utility. This house is almost square in its general outline, being 22 feet 8 inches wide by 28 feet 8 inches. It has a simple gable roof, the slope of the roof being toward the front. A low dormer window breaks the line of this roof. A simple square porch projects in front. The concrete block wall from grade to the second floor line is designed to have one of these attractive surface finishes. The second story harmonizes with this; yet is lighter in effect. Cement plaster on wood lath, divided into panels in English half-timber style is used for the second story. The whole building has the appearance of durability and comfort. It would certainly be a desirable addition to any neighborhood. The floor plans will show the convenient arrangement of this house The first floor is nicely laid out with large living room, and dining-room, kitchen, stair hall, etc. There are three good sized bedrooms and bath on the second floor. The cost of this house, using first-class materials and workmanship throughout is estimated at $2,500. Precent Upon Precent "How dare you, sir!" exclaims the beauteous creature, after the methodical young man has kissed her. "Why, didn't you just agree with me when I said that I believed in 'place for everything and everything in its place'?"—Chicago Evening Post. "THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST" In this Production Puccini is Nappy to Find His First Opportunity to End an Opera in The Major Key of Peace and Joy Rather Than the Minor Key of Sadness.—The Biggest Advance Sale in History of Forum. CARLOTTE Irma Dalossy, Prima Donna Soprano with Henry W. Savage's Production of "The Girl of the Golden West." "The Girl of the Golden West" marks a new and important epoch in the musical development of Glacomo Puccini's genius and completes the die which stamps the composer from Lucca as not only the leading composer if Italy, but the greatest living opera writer. The new work, however, remains characteristically Puccini. It is a development and not an abrupt change from his former style. There is not apparent the break in the evolution of Puccini's tonal art that is to be found in Wagner—between his "Tannhauser" and his "Die Walkure"—or as in Verdi—between his "Ernani" and his "Falstaff." The composer of "La Villi," Puccini's first work, is to be seen in the score of "La Boheme," as well as in "The Girl or the Golden West." There has been no revolution in Puccini's art, or life; there has been, instead, a consecutive and consistent development and growth. "The Girl of the Golden West" is conceded to Puccini's masterwork. It is deeper and bigger than his early "Edgar," which, though musically fine, was spoiled by an unworthy libretto; it has the cohesion of design that "Ma Irma Dalossy, Prima Donna Soprano w "The Girl of th non Lescaut" lacked, popular as that work is; it has the realism of "La Boheme," but it evidences a mature genius, greater inventiveness of themes; it is as opulent harmonically as "La Tosca," but it has a spiritual grandeur that th sordid Sardonn story did not inspire. "Madam Butterfly" by some, and until the advent of "The Girl," thought to be Puccini's best work, with its poignant story and mingled music of joy and sadness remains remote and foreign when compared with the intimate and immediate appeal of this human story of the golden west, which Puccini has reinforced with his most vigorous and vital music. Puccini had come to America in January, 1907, to take a hand in the initial performance of his "Madame Butterfly" at the Metropolitan Opera House, shortly before Henry W. Savage made his English production of the tragic Japanese Lyrical drama. He was also attracted to these shores by the fact that the grand opera forces in New York were to give a complete cycle of his principal works, "La Boheme," "Manon Lescaut," "Madame Butterfly," and "La Tosca." He witnessed, during his stay near the Great White Way, a Belasco performance of "The Girl of the Golden West," and as the drama unfolded itself, Puccini dreamed melodic dreams and heard new harmonies singing to his consciousness. Here was something new. Here was his chance to attack a novel subject and discover greater distances in his art. His Italian soul expanded to contemplation of the grandeur of the West, and motives of befitting bigness occurred and recurred to him incessantly, expressive of the magnificent areas of this country so new to him. He greamed "open ```markdown ``` harmonies," and determined on the spot to put the fascinating, vigorous story behind the bars of his immortal music. Negotiations to that end were speedily consummated and Puccini delved at once into the history and the life of the West. So the story itself is mainly responsible for the inspiration which led Puccini's genius higher up the slopes of Parnasus than any other living opera composer has ascended. Most of all Puccini was delighted at the thought that, at last, he had a plot with a happy ending. It is said of Dickens that he wept when he had to "kill" "Little Nell." She had become a daughter of his dreams, and yet a reality. He postponed the calamitous climax as long as possible. Victor Hugo is said to have suffered similarly with the fate of his characters, and Belasco was tender-hearted, too. Likewise Puccini says, it moves him profoundly to write the catastrophe music of his operas. In "La Villi" Puccini had first to "kill" the gentle Anna, suffering her to die of a broken heart at the faithfulness of Roberto. Then he had to dispose of the lover, who, repentant, with Henry W. Savage's Production of the Golden West." returning to the Block Forest, learns what a tragedy his perfidy wrought, and is bewitched to his death by the fairies. Puccin's second opera "Edgar," written during the mourning days following the death of his mother, reflects woe from nearly every measure: "Manon Lescaut" dies in the desert of a foreign land, singing: "Time will obliterate my faults, But my love will never die." "La Tosca," Puccini's best work, instrumentally, till "The Girl of the Golden West," is the most harrowing story of all, with its torture chamber, its lust, its assassination and suicide, and "Madame Butterfly" tears at the heartstrings cruelly. But in "The Girl of the Golden West" Puccini is happy to find his first opportunity of ending an opera in the major mode of peace and joy, rather than in the minor key of sadness. It has given his muse buoyant wings and she has soared higher than ever before. Critics declare with mucu unanimity that there is evident throughout the score a spirit of exaltation and of abounding beauty which runs the whole gamut of an optimism not to be found in any other work of the great Italian maestro. He has revelled in the greatness and vastness of his theme; he has brought to its treatment a matured and expanding genius, he has found a story of surpassing charm and interest, and finally, he has been inspired by an optimistic joy, growing out of the reassuring end of the tale—the happy conclusion. The composer whom Verdi once said would be his successor has fulfilled in "The Girl of the Golden West" the prophesy of the grand old man of Italian music. At the Forum, Friday, February 9. AT THE WICHITA THEATRES. GRAND OPERA at WICHITA. Great Preparations Being Made—Savage's English Grand Opera Co. to Sing Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West" at the Forum February 9. An attraction which is causing a vivid interest in all sections of the state is the production of Puccini's masterpiece and latest Grand Opera, "The Girl of the Golden West" in Wichita at the Forum, on February 9th, by Henry W. Savage's great English Grand Opera Company. Some idea of the magnitude of this attraction can be gained when it is made known that he carries six complete sets of principals with the company, that is, six tenors, six basses, six baritones, etc., so if necessary, he could change casts for six consecutive performances. The singers are used with the same idea as the ball teams use their pitchers, using the one that is in the best voice on the occasion. This attraction will be one of the greatest to ever visit the West, and Wichita is most fortunate in securing it. Mr. Wolfe was forced to put up a guarantee of $3,000.00 for their share on this date. Special trains will be run into Wichita from all points, and the merchants will put on special sales in all their lines to offer as a special inducement to shipmen. The prices range from One tq Three Dollars; there are fifteen hundred seats at $1.50, and the same number at $1.00. The large capacity of the Forum makes this possible. The City Commissioners have let a $4,000.00 contract to perfect the acoustics in the building and this will be finished by this date. A mail order sale is now open at the Forum box office, and by sending to Fred B. Pickrel, manager of the Forum, out-of-town patrons will receive the same attention as local people. If further information is desired, simply address Mr. Pickrel. The date is FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9th. At the New Crawford. Klaw & Erlanger's musical comedy de luxe, "The Pink Lady" will be one of the attractions at the New Crawford, Wichita, Saturday, Feb. 17, this season. This entertainment is the musical sensation of the current season and has just closed a run of a year in New York where it set a new standard for works of its popular classification. It is in reality a play with music and is in three acts with as many scenes. While each essential department of "The Pink Lady" is noted for its strength and popular appeal, the true merit of the piece lies in its very happy combination of both, blended into a production marked by rare judgment and exquisite taste. Such effectiveness in tone, harmony and color scheme of the ensembles has never been seen before upon the American stage and it is in this department that Klaw & Erlanger have elapsed their own enviable reputation as producers and brought forth an attraction that is distinctive and really epoch-making. It is all clean-cut and diverting entertainment, while the music is delicious and the whole performance a capital affair of clever acting, good singing and tasteful and intelligent stage direction. A company of 100 people is en tour and will be seen in the production here along with the famous "Pink Lady" orchestra that is traveling with the attraction to bring out all the charm of the music. There will be thirty musicians in the orchestra pit during the local presentations. Then also the big numbers will introduce the famous pink of perfection chorus of this big organization. The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown—"Mr." Richardson as "Miss" Brown. It has been ever so long since the Wolfe Stock has produced a comedy at the Auditorium. This has been owing to the fact that Mr. Wolfe has been unable to secure one that he thought would please his patrons. However, after weeks of labor he has succeeded in getting released for his use and will produce for the first time in Wichita a real brand new comedy along novel lines never before seen in the West. "The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" had a long run in New York when it was first produced, with no less a star in the leading role than Eddy Foy. One of the very unique features of the play will be the fact that it will serve to introduce Mr. Richardson in an entirely new role, that of "Miss Brown." The play borders on life in a boarding school. By some accident a young man is compelled to stay in the girls' dormitory for awhile and disguises himself and appears as Miss Brown. The situations which follow are of a kind to keep the audience in roars of laughter throughout the rest of the play. The play will be given during the week ending February 3. "His Last Dollar." No play ever produced by the Wolfe Stock company ever met with such success as "His Last Dollar." which the company produced at the Auditorium recently. People fairly jammed the big playhouse every night and towards the last of the week many were turned away. Mr. Wolfe has had so many requests to run this play again that he has decided to reproduce it the week of February 17. Remember the date and get seats early this time. LUNCH AND DESSERT GOOD THINGS THAT TAKE LIT. TLE TIME IN PREPARATION. Chicken Cream and Women's Club Sandwiches Are Two Delicacies —With the Afternoon Cocoa Serve Fairy Puffs. Chicken Cream Sandwiches—Chop a cup of white meat and a cup of celery, add a cup of rich milk, bring to the boiling point and thicken with cornstarch. When thick, add the beaten whites of two eggs, two tablespoons of butter, salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste. Turn into a mold and place on ice twelve hours. Slice thin and serve between thin slices of buttered bread. Women's Club Sandwiches—Crush cream chees and molisten with fresh rich cream until the right consistency to spread. Add one-fourth the quantity of finely chopped olives, season with salt and paprika. Spread on sandwich bread, cover with cress, then with another slice of bread. Celery Stuffed With Cheese (to be served with sandwiches)—Select tender, well-balanced stalks, cut into neat lengths of about three inches, leaving on the small blanched leaves. Work three tablespoons of butter to a cream, and add a tablespoon and a half of highly flavored cheese—Roquefort is excellent. Season with salt and a sprinkling of cayenne and paprika. Spread the mixture on the inside of the celery stalks. Serve on a bed of crushed ice. Afternoon Cocoa—Scald a quart of milk in a double boiler. Mix three tablespoons of cocoa with one-fourth cup sugar, add enough boiling water to make it smooth, add another cup of hot water, and let boll one minute before adding to the milk. Beat briskly with a whisk when all is in the boiler, to prevent unsightly scum from rising. When ready to pour add a teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract. If it is for a company affair a teaspoon of beaten egg white may be placed on each' cup of the cocoa. Epicurean Dressing for Any Sort of Salad—Mix these dry ingredients first: One-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon of pepper, one tablespoon of chopped sweet red pepper, one tablespoon finely minced parsley. Now add two tablespoons tarragon or malt vinegar, four tablespoons salad or olive oil, and blend well. Fairy puffs are nice to serve with hot cocoa or coffee. They must be used the day they are fried. Put three tablespoons of butter into a pint of hot water. When boiling, quickly stir in a half pint of pastry flour. Take from the fire and break in one egg, beat well, then add another egg, and so continue until four eggs have been used. Drop the pastry into boiling fat from the point of a spoon. They will puff wonderfully and turn a golden brown. Drain and sprinkle with cinnamon and powdered sugar. This same recipe makes the most delicious cream puffs, but they must be baked on oiled paper in a slow oven instead of being fried. Cream of Celery Soup. Wash a bunch of celery and cut into inch lengths. If you wish you may use for this the outer stalks of a large bunch of celery, keeping the white, crisp pieces for use on the table, uncooked. Cook the celery slowly in enough boiling salted water to cover it for three-quarters of an hour, or until it is tender; rub it through a colander. Have ready a quart of milk, heated and thickened, and proceed as directed for cream of spinach soup. Rose Wafers. Add gradually two cups of granulated sugar to one cup of butter; dissolve half a teaspoon of soda in half pint of sweet milk; add one teaspoon of rosewater and a few drops of cochineal; then add gradually one quart of sifted pastry flour. Turn large pans upside down, wipe the bottom clean, brush them over with butter and put mixture in a moderate oven. While still hot cut them into squares and lift them off the pan carefully. Prune Pudding. It melts in your mouth and is a real novelty. One cup cooked prunes, unsweetened and chopped fine; one cup sugar; one cup chopped nuts; one-half cup milk; one tablespoon butter; one teaspoonful baking powder; three crackers rolled fine; one pinch salt; one teaspoonful vanilla. Bake in a buttered pan for about twenty minutes. Have oven at moderate heat. Serve hot. Brightens the Carpet Brightens the carpet. A teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine added to two gallons of warm water will restore the brightness to carpets that are dulled with dust. After sweeping the carpet thoroughly, wring a cloth out of the water and wipe the surface of the carpet, first against the grain and then with it. This also prevents moths from eating away the nap of woolen carpets. Simple Charlotte Russe Take dry sponge cake or, better still, some lady fingers, place in dish, whip a half-pint of cream until stiff, flavor with teaspoon (small one) vanilla and pile on the lady fingers (or cake) in a glass dish. If you have any currant or grape jelly, drop a little on each one's portion when served. SEARCHLIGHT, PAGE FOUR THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS Founded in 1898 by W. N. Miller. MRS. W. N. MILLER, Proprietor. N. B. COFELAND, Manager. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. 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Address all matter for pub- lication into The Wichita Searchlight 630 N. Main street, Wichita, Kansas. Sixth. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected to brought to the attention of the editor. END YOUR NEWS IN EARLIER Saturday Feb. 3, 1912 FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, NARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO CMB AND PUT UP IN ANY ANDY THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT.WRI. FOR TESTIMONIES,TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINKY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DRUNDROUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE,PUT UP IN 25+AND 50+BOTTLES WITH DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU,WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES,SMALL SIZED BOTTLE,25+LARGE SIZED BOTTLE,50+ THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST.,DEPT. CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. STIRLING CLOTHES A BIG financial rally is on at the A. M. E. Church, the twelve tribes of Israel are out for $100.00 each, the rally closes the first Sunday in June—from the interest being manifest so far the desired amount will be realized. About $800.00 is already been pledged. Mrs and Sam Brazil entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ralston for dinner Sunday. Don't fail to hear the Master Floyd Alexander Wichita's great est Tenor singer with the Smith Band Boys Minstrell. Don't fail to see Patton and Starnes in their new Comedy Co Playette——"Little Willie." A leap year party will be given at the A.M.E. Church on Monday eaving Feberry the 5th by the ladies of the Auxillary club Every one is invited to attend. Mrs. Mary Clark is visiting in Garden Plain with friends. The funeral services of Miss Hattie, Patten was held Monday afternoon from the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. The ladies of the G. L. A. club met on Tues, afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. E. Letcher they will meet next week with Mrs. J. T. Sandford. The entertainment given on monday evening at the A. M. B. Mrs. Chinneth Captain was a success. Thomas Gardner of Kans, City is in the city Visiting his cousin Mrs. Marguerite Mishell. The St. Paul A. M. E. Church are contemplating on having a Great Rally in the near future. Help them and they will help you. Ventriloquism Taught By Mail. Five Lessons for One dollar, $1.00 Write for particulars JOSEPH WRIGHT. 119 W. Pine St A.C.MUELLER BOTH PHONES 325 WICHITA KANS. 142 N MARKET. MEET EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT. The Durbax: Lyceum meets every Friday evening at New Hope Baptist church. Everyone is cordially invited to come over and take part with us. This Means You!! Copy for publication which reaches this office later than Wednesday of any week will not be printed in current issue of the Searchlight. Please send all your news and locals to 630 N. Main Street, All locals and personals published FREE. N. B. Copeland, manager BAD NOTES EASILY DETECTED Almost Impossible to Impose Upon Handlers of Money. Incidentally it is interesting to note that the skill which enables one to detect a counterfeit comes not from study of counterfeits, but from a thought and unconscious familiarity with the genuine. If a man were pointed out to you and you were told that some day another who much resembled him would try to impose upon you, you would be pretty apt to fix his features in your mind; you would not spend any time looking at other people who looked something like him, would you? And the moment the impostor appeared you would note that in this that or the other particular he failed to meet the details of the other man's face and figure. Just so it is in the detection of counterfeits. A skillful teller in a bank, counting money rapidly, will involuntarily throw out a note which in the slightest degree departs from the well-known pattern which is so strongly impressed on his mental vision. That involuntary act will nearly always prove to have been justified, for the bill in 19 cases out of 20 will prove to be a counterfeit. It is because of this fact that when a request is received from some one to loan him a collection of counterfeits for the instruction of his cashiers, he is advised to have the young men study the genuine carefully, and there will be no trouble in detecting the bad notes - National Magazine. Send for the S. P. C. C. A "Young Mother" asks our opinion of "the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies." We must frankly say that we con- ould it a brutal practice. As the mother of a great many babies, of all ages, we never rocked on any oi then intentionally, and we would probably be accused if we expressed our full opinion of any woman who woul' come to so.—Lippincott's Ms. Jnknown Peoples of America Who Have Perished Utterly. Between the region occupied of old by the Aztecs and the realm far to the south over which the Incas ruled lies an immense stretch of territory, a thousand miles long and 800 wide, where the remains of unknown and wonderful civilizations are being discovered, says a writer in Van Norlen's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica. In one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who attained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in ineduity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weave; in beauty of dextrichness of color and fineness of texture no fabric of to-day supersedes it. Afro-American BUSINESS == DIRECTORY Attorneys: R. B. McWilliams ... 601 N. Main Street E. P. Blakemore ... 535 N. Main Street. Barbershops: Cousars Parbershop, ... 513 N. Main Street. Bennetts' ... 112 W. Elm Street Palace ... 611 N. Main Street Carpenters: Morris Mayo ... Cor. 18th, & Burns Chiropodist: Dr. N. D. Briley ... 3728 E Second St Clothes Cleaned & Pressed: Jackson cleaning shop ... 640 N. Main Street Pattons cleaning department ... 605 N. Main Street N. Robinsons' cleaning & pressing ... 112 W. Elm St. Starnes-Johnsons ... 513 N. Main Street. Caterers: Miss. Stella Turner ... 601 N. Main Street Mrs. Geo. Wallace ... 855 Eagle Street Doctors, Medical: Dr. J. E. Farmer ... 219 West Elm Street Dr. A. K. Lawrence, ... 517 N. Main Street Dr. G. G. Brown, ... 601 N. Main Street Dentist's: Dr. H. Truman Bolden ... 517 N. Main Street Drugstores: Makin Eye drug Co. ... 517 N. Main Street. Electricians: Sam Jones & Sons' ... 501 N. Water Street Frank Bynum, ... Grocery Stores: Chas. A Morris ... 517 N. Main Street A. A. Ross Grocery ... 1126 N. Mosley Ave Hairdressers: Mrs. J. T. Chinneth ... 530 N. Waco Ave. Hotels: Centropolis hotel ... 695 N. Main Street Little Wonder hotel ... 507 N. Main Street Orienta Hotel ... 629 N. Wichita Street Music Teachers: Mrs. G. L. Scott ... 712 N. Waco Ave Manicuring: Mrs. Sally Hall ... 1024 Ohio Ave Orchestras: Smith's Y. M. C. A Orchestra ... 615 N. Main Street Clark & Chinneth Orchestra ... Paperhangers: Will Dunson paperhanger ... 412 Wichita Plumbing: S. W. Jones plumer ... 501 N. Water Street Restaurants: Cousar's restaurant ... 508 N. Main Street I. Patton's restaurant ... 605 N. Main Street R. H. Todd's restaurant ... 603 N. Main Street. C. L. Kiner's restaurant ... 630 N. Main St. Shoe Repairs: J. C. Dorsey shoe repairing ... 224 W. Elm Street G. Starnes shoe repairing ... 1121bash Ave Tailors: C. B. Patton merchant tailor ... 604½ N. Main St. Grocery Department WE SELL FLOUR WE SELL MEAL WE SELL LARD WE SELL MEAT WE SELL POTATOES In fact, we so everything kept in a First-Class Grocery. WHY CAN'T WE SELL TO YOU? Makin Eye Drug Co. 517 N. Main St. - Wichita, Kan - Bell Phone 200 You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff, in the District Court of Sedgwick County Kansas; wherein Hazel Teamer is plaintiff and you are defendant and wherein she rays for a absolute Anulment of marriage from you for the reasons set forth in her petition, and for further quittable relief that may be granted by the Court, and that you answer the name on or persons the 5th day of Feb. 1912; judgement will be rendered agains you for anulmtat of said marriage, nailed name, other relief. E. P. Bakemore Atty. for Plaintiff. $^1$Seal: $^2$ Chas, Fazel, Glerk. Attest, By J. L. Milhaupt, Deputy FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE WICHITA, SEARCHLIGHT JAN. 28th. Publication Notice IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS: DIVISION No. 2. Carrie V. Nicholson, Plaintiff, -VS. W. C. Nicholson, Defendant. No. 29668 State of Kansas, Sedwick County, ss. The State of Kansas to the said Defendant, W. C. Nicholson: You are hereby notified, that upon the 31 day of November, A. D. 191., the said plaintif filed her petition against you in the above nam ed Court, praying for a divorce and the costs of this Suit and that you must answer her petition filed as aforesaid, or on before the 9th day of Morch, A. L. 192, or the same will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you accordingly for a divorce and oil costs of this action. Carrie V. Nicholson Plaintiff R. B. McWilliams Attorney for Plaintiff. ATTEST CHAS D. EAZEL Clerk of District Court Sedgwick County, Kansas. 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS Feel What do you suppose tools were made for? That you might tread upon them, and starve them, and get the better of them in every possible way? By no means. They were made that wise people might take care of them. That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and wise man to the world about him. He has his strength given him, not that he may crush the weak, not that he may support and guide them. In his own household he is to be the guide and support of his children; out of his household he is still to be the father, that is, the guide and support of the weak and the poor; not merely of the metteriously weak and the innocently poor, but of the guilty and punishably poor; of the men who ought to have known better; of the poor who ought to be ashamed of themselves.—John Ruskin TO HESITATE LONG IS TO PAR Successful Business Man Must Have Attribute of Courage. Many a man falls because he does not dare to take risks, to take the initiative. When do you expect to do anything distinctive in life? When do you expect to get out of the ranks of mediocrity? The men who do original things are fearless. There is a lot of dare in their make-up, a great deal of boldness. They are not afraid to take chances, to shoulder responsibility, to endure inconvenience and privation. 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But, under the Postal Laws, we will be compelled to drop some who are in arrears unless remittances and promptly made. METZ'S LUMBER IS IT? Largest yard under shed in the state. Best grade of lumber to select from. Choicest finishings, posts, shingles and everything in the lumber line. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Low and Easy to Meet. Let us figure next Lumber Bill. Yards and Office 3rd and Main Streets. TO CONSOLIDATE OUR NAVY YARDS HE secretary of the U. S. navy, backed by that coterie of experienced officers who are his counselors, has been charisling for the past year or two an important new scheme which many persons believe congress will be compelled to indorse,—ultimately if not in the immediate future. The new scheme is nothing less than a project for consolidating a HE secretary of the U. S. navy, backed by that coterie of experienced officers who are his counselors, has been cherishing for the past year or two an important new scheme which many persons believe congress will be compelled to indorse, ultimately if not in the immediate future. The new scheme is nothing less than a project for consolidating a number of our navy yards and thus eliminating a considerable portion of the industrial plants now scattered along our seacoasts as outfitting and repair stations for Uncle Sam's war craft. Various advantages are claimed for the new method of managing things, but one of the principal arguments, as may be surmised, is that it will enable the government to save a lot of money every year. Action by the congress of the United States is required before this proposal can be carried out in anything like its full scope, but already a beginning has been made in line with the new policy. Thus we see two navy yards, those at New Orleans and Pensacola, Florida, virtually abandoned save for caretakers, and the work which was formerly done there transferred to other plants in the south where, with the larger forces of workmen available, it can be handled more expeditiously. If the officials have their way the navy yards at San Juan, Port Royal, New London, Sackett Harbor, Culebra and Cavite will also be abandoned in short order. But of course this is easier said than done, for no town or city wants to see its navy yard abandoned any more than it wants to see one of its local manufacturing plants removed to some rival city and consequently each community thus affected can be depended upon to fight the proposal through members of congress and any other national authorities upon whom influence can be brought to bear. To appreciate the position of the naval officials on this mooted question it is necessary to bear in mind the functions of a navy yard, as they regard them. The head of the navy department contends that navy yards are primarily for use in time of war and only incidently for use in time of peace. They are supposed to be establishments for the docking, repair and refitting of war vessels and not, ordinarily, plants for the construction of new warships although Uncle Sam has from time to time constructed a number of warships in his navy yards and is building battleships in navy yards at the present time. The function of navy yards, therefore is to maintain the efficiency of the ships of the fighting fleet and they should be placed at strategic points. The officials contend that we have considerably more navy yards than the requirements of the fleet justify. The secretary of the navy recently did some investigating to ascertain how Uncle Sam compared in possessions of this kind with the leading foreign powers and the result will surprise many people. It was disclosed that the United States has twice as many first-class home navy yards as are possessed by Great Britain, although John Bull has a navy about double the size of ours and that, furthermore, we have one more navy yard of the second class than Great Britain has. In other words we have eleven first and second class navy yards in the United States while Great Britain is worrying along with six of the same kind. Germany has three, and France five. Doubtless our far-ding coast line on two oceans, to say nothing of the Gulf of Mexico, has been large-ly responsible for our prodigal investments in navy yards. All the same this pre-eminence in navy yards has cost Uncle Sam a pretty penny since he began to acquire such holdings more than a century ago. The sites for some of our navy yards and naval stations (also coaling stations) were gifts, but Uncle Sam had to pay good hard cash for most of them and in the aggregate such first investments totaled the tdy sum of nearly three million dollars. But that was but a drop in the bucket compared to the expense of equipping and maintaining these bee hives of activity. Indeed the total cost for buildings, improvements, machinery, etc., for these naval institutions has been to date more than $160,000,000, while for the past half decade the yearly maintenance of these plants has involved an annual drain of more than twelve million dollars upon Uncle Sam's pocketbook. The worst of it is that some of our navy yards now in existence actually have not sufficient water leading to them to allow modern vessels to approach and lie at the docks. The explanation of this queer state of affairs is to be found in the conditions during the early history of the republic when our coast defenses were of a minor character and it was thought best to place the navy yards some distance back from the coast for the sake of protection. The vessels of the old navy were of light draft so that location did not much matter, but this does not help matters today when the navy men have to take into account battleships of 27,000 tons instead of sloops of 1,500 tons such as the famous old Kearsarge. In the old days when the war craft were dependent upon sails for motive power and dis- NEW DREADNAUCHT AT CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD MARRIED IN WHITE MAN'S WAY --- tances were not so easily traversed as at present it was considered necessary to have places for the repair of naval vessels at frequent intervals along the coast. This explains, in a measure, how it happens that we find on the Atlantic coast some ten naval institutions, whereas the Pacific coast has but two such MARRIED John Lodgepole and Mary Steep Hill, full-blooded Indians, came over from the Crow reservation last week to get married in the white man's way, says a dispatch from Sheridan, Wyo. They brought with them numerous relatives, and when the Rev. Mr. Carney of the white church called them before him to perform the ceremony there were enough Indians around the court house to start a wild west show. But a marriage in the white man's way by the white man's preacher is not an everyday occurrence on the Indian reservations, and when one does take place every Indian within 40 miles comes, if he can possibly do so. So, when it becomes noised and was announced over the Crow reservation that Lodgepole was to marry Mary Steep Hill, daughter of Short Boy and Buffalo Robe, every "buck" who got wind of the coming event came over to Sheridan to see how it was done. The bride was only 17 years old, while the bridegroom was 22. She was dressed in a gown of bright-colored calico, with a gorgeous blanket over her shoulders, and she came as near to looking pretty as is possible for a Crow girl. Dodgepole was dressed to "kill." He wore a cowboy costume and around his waist was a sash of so many colors that Joseph's famous coat would have looked like a piece of burlap beside it. A metal badge, nearly as large as a saucer, was suspended around his neck by a buckskin thong. Every move showed the white spectators that he thought he was conferring a great favor on the Indian maid by giving her his name. After the ceremony the bridal party started off down the street. John, the bridegroom, and his new father-in-law in front. Then came the mother-in-law with a papoose on her back, and along behind came the bride, walking by herself. Presently, John halted and motioned to his bride. As she approached he threw a package he had been carrying into her arms. "Ugh!" he said. "Squaw carry." Then he --- rendezvous. However, even on the west coast the situation does not entirely satisfy the naval experts. The navy yard on Puget Sound is pronounced pretty satisfactory in almost all respects, but the one on Mare Island, near San Francisco, is objected to because there is an inadequate depth of water to accommodate our heaviest warships. Of course the people at the Golden Gate will not hear of the removal of their naval station, and, indeed the naval officials do not want to abandon this locality altogether, consequently, as the only alternative, congress will be appealed to for money to build a new and up-to-date navy yard on some new site on San Francisco Bay. Easily the most radical of all the proposals having to do with navy yard consolidation and the one that has resulted in the greatest storm stalked off down the street. The honeymoon was over. But John will treat Mary according to the old Indian law or he will lose her. She is married according to the white man's way, but that will not prevent the squaw from leaving his tent and returning to that of her mother if she feels inclined to do so, and nothing John can say or do will have the least effect in forcing her to return to him. For a number of years the government has done all in its power to force the Indians to marry in the white man's way and to reman married after the ceremony, but very little progress has been made. Once in a great while there will be an Indian wedding performed after the white way, but a large majority of them take place under the old Indian customs. The Indian word for marriage is the equivalent of "she followed him." and that phrase tells the whole story. Literally, when an Indian girl marries a "buck" she simply walks out of her mother's tepee and into that of her future lord. Anl likewise, when she wants a divorce she takes the back trail and returns to her mother. The Indian law will not permit the deserted husband to interfere with her in any way, once she leaves his tent. She is then free to "marry" any other Indian she may wish to. Where a divorce is so easily obtainable the marriage vows are not regarded very highly. In fact, there are no marriage vows whatever in the Indian ceremony. The parents of the bride and bridegroom do most of the "courting," and, contrary to the general belief that the girls are sold to their husbands, this is rarely done. The older ones make all arrangements and then the young "buck" calls on the girl. They sit in the tepee with the other members of the family, but so close together that the old squaw throws a blanket over them, hiding them from sight of the others in the tent. Finally matters are arranged to suit, and the young man for four of protest from the cities to be left out in the cold is the suggestion that the navy department abandon the navy yards at New York, at Boston and at Portsmouth, N. H. (in reality Kittery Point, Maine) and handle all the work now entrusted to these three yards at a new and thoroughly up-to-date navy yard to be established at some point on Narragansett Bay. Congress can scarcely be expected to sanction such a radical move in a hurry, although it may permit some of the other details of the main scheme to be carried out because of the plea for greater economy in running the government. If the big station were established on Narragansett Bay it would become the chief rendezvous for all our warships in the North Atlantic, whereas the common objective point in the more southerly seas would be the new naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which is now declared to be the key to the defense of our entire Southern Atlantic coast, the Gulf coast and the Panama Canal,—which latter will have to be taken into account in all future calculations relative to our naval doings. Guantanamo Bay offers deep water for accommodating at anchor a fleet of thirty-five battleships and is ideal in almost every respect and it will be strange if this island outpost does not become in time the chief naval base of Uncle Sam on the Atlantic just as Pearl Harbor will on the Pacific. Dry docks complicate the situation with reference to abandoning existing navy yards. A navy yard without a dock capable of accommodating such warships as need repairs to the underwater portions would be at a most serious disadvantage. Thus while undoubtedly the repair and manufacturing work required for the navy could best be done in fewer yards the fact remains that Uncle Sam has a lot of money tied up in docks and repair facilities and the navy department cannot arbitrarily abandon yards with dry docks capable of receiving battleships. consecutive nights, serenades his inamorata, the serenade consisting of music made on a kind of flute. On the fourth night, however, instead of turning away after playing his tune, he boldly enters the girl's tepee and sits down. After a few minutes' wait he gets up and walks out. The girl follows him. He goes to the tent or cabin which he has previously prepared and enters. A moment later the girl enters, lays aside her blanket and starts cooking dinner. The marriage is over. The bridegroom, before the courtship, has made a "present" to the girl's father. Sometimes it is a bunch of cattle or horses, or whatever may be agreed upon. The older man holds this present for several months and if the young people are getting along together nicely, he then gives it all back to them as a kind of dowry. If, however, they have trouble, and there is a "divorce," he keeps the gift and later gives it to the girl. And the mother-in-law is supreme. The girl's mother can, at any time she chooses, go over to the young people's tent, take her daughter by the hand and lead her home. The husband can say nothing whatever to an action of that kind, and for that reason, he cultivates the god opinion of his mother-in-law more than he does that of his squaw. That is the kind of marriage relation the government has been trying to discontinue, and all efforts have been made to persuade the Indians to be married according to the white man's ways, but with so little result that a marriage a la "white man" is a rarity that attracts the attention of both the whites and the Indians. WANTED. "I should think," said the woman of the house, "you would have too much self-respect to make your living by begging." "Lady," protested Ruffon Wratz, straightening himself up, "self-respeck is not wals me! I wouldn't do this fur no other man on earth." PRESIDENT ASKS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO WANTS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL Legislation in Interest of Alaska is Imperative — Homestead Laws Need Revising—Leasing Law Recommended—Would Probe Cost of Living. Washington, Feb. 2.—The president's special message on the work of the internal department was read to congress today. There is no branch of the Federal jurisdiction which calls more imperatively for immediate legislation than that which concerns the public domain, and especially the part of that domain which is involved in the reclamation act has made clear the defects of its limitations, which should be remedied. The rules governing the acquisition of homesteads, of land that is not arid or semiarid, are not well adapted to the perfect conditions in land available by government reclamation work. I concur with the secretary of the interior in his recommendation that, after entry is made upon land being reclaimed, actual occupation as a homestead of the same land is made for the same entry, but that cultivation of the same shall be required, and that the present provision under which the land is to be paid for in ten annual installments shall be so modified as to allow a patent issue for the land at the end of five years' worth of land, and to allow a reservation of a government lien for the amount of the unpaid purchase money. This lenency to the reclamation homesteader will relieve him from occupation at a time when the condition of the land makes it most burdensome and difficult to the end of five years when furnish him with the money which the can borrow money and continue the improvement of his holdings. I also concur in the recommendation of the secretary of the interior that all of our public domain should be classified and that each class should be disposed of in such a manner that most appropriate to that particular class. The chief change, however, which ought to be made, and which I have already recommended in previous messages and communications to congress, is that by which government coal land and phosphate and other mineral lands containing coal are leased by the government, with restrictions as to size and time, resembling those which now obtain throughout the country between the owners in fee and the lessees who work the mines, and in leases like those which have been most recently leased by the Nova Scotia. The showing made by investigations into the successful working of the leasing system leaves no doubt as to its wisdom and practical utility. Requirements as to the working of the mine during the term may be so framed as to prevent any holding of large mining properties merely for speculation, while the mine is not unduly to increase the cost of the coal mined, and at the same time sufficient to furnish a reasonable income for the use of the public in the community where the mining goes on. In Alaska, there is no reason why a substantial investment may thus be raised for such public works as may be deemed necessary or useful. There is no difference between the reasons which call for the application of the leasing system to the coal lands still relied on by the government in the United States proper and those which exist in Alaska. I am not in favor of government ownership where the same certainty and efficiency of service can be had by private enterprise, but I think the conditions in Alaska should be such a character as to warrant the government the purpose of encouraging the development of that vast and remarkable territory, to build and own a trunk line railroad, which it can lease on terms which may be varied and changed to meet the property and development of the territory. For some years past the high and steadily increasing cost of living has been a matter of such grave public concern that the United States should propose an international conference be proposed at this time for the purpose of preparing plans, to be submitted to the various governments, for an international inquiry into the high cost of living, its extent, its impact, its present need, and therefore recommend that, to enable the president to invite foreign governments to such a conference, to be held at Washington or elsewhere, the congress provide an appropriation, not to exceed $20,000, to the president, for participation by the United States. The magnitude and complexity of modern industrial disputes have put upon some of our statutes and our present mechanism for adjusting such differences...where we can be said to have any mechanism which can be used to have never intended to bear and the which they are unsuited. What is urgently needed today is a re-examination of our laws bearing upon the relations of employer and employee and a careful and discriminating scrutiny of the various plans which are being tried in several of our own states and in other countries. This would seem to be the first natural step towards an adjustment and a definition of relations better suited to the newer conditions of industry. My attention has been called to the injustice which is done in this country by the sale of articles in the trade purporting to be made in Ireland, when they are not so made, and it is suggested that the justice of the enactment of a law which, so far as the jurisdiction of the federal government would be applicable to the public and fraud upon those who are entitled to use the statement in the sale of their goods. I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law, for congress to enact a law making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. I think it to be interstate commerce any articles of merchandise which bear upon their face a statement that they have been manufactured in some particular country when the fact is otherwise. Detained. "A Chinaman is quoted in a newspaper as saying that his countrymen took a step forward when they cut off their queues." "No doubt they did. In fact, I once saw a Chinaman whose queue prevented him from taking a step forward." "How was that?" "It was tied to a picket fence." On the Market Now. "What is your idea of nothing to buy?" "An imitation dried codfish." 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Bronson—A man is never a hero to Woodson—No, but considering the chances I have learned to take without flinching, I ought to be one to my chauffeur. Fishes Survived Drought. A curious drought survival by fishes is reported from France. The ditch or moat of Monaco, completely dried up last summer, although usually a canal three miles long and fifty feet wide, with five feet of water. All carp tench, perch, and pike disappeared, leaving dry mud. A recent sudden rainfall however supplied a little water, and the fishes were actually seen rising—as lively as ever—from the mud in which they had buried themselves. Artist (angrily)—No; I don't want a model. I only paint flowers or fruit. Model (smilingly)—Oh, that's all right. Every one says I'm a peach. GRAND TO LIVE and the Last Laugh is Always the Best "Six months ago I would have laughed at the idea that there could be anything better for a table beverage than coffee," writes an Ohio woman, "now I laugh to know there is. "Since childhood I drank coffee freely as did the other members of the family. The result was a puny, sickly girl; and as I grew into womanhood I did not gain in health, but was afflicted with heart trouble, a weak and disordered stomach, wrecked nerves and a general breaking down till last winter, at the age of 38, I seemed to be on the verge of consumption. "My friends greeted me with 'How bad you look! What a terrible color!' and this was not very comforting. "The doctors and patent medicines did me absolutely no good. I was thoroughly discouraged. "Then I gave up coffee and commenced Postum. At first I didn't like it, but after a few trials and following the directions exactly, it was grand. It was refreshing and satisfying. In a couple of weeks I noticed a great change. "I became stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was not troubled with forgetfulness as in coffee times, my power of endurance was more than doubled. "The heart trouble and indigestion disappeared and my nerves became steady and strong. "I began to take an interest in things about me. Housework and homemaking became a pleasure. My friends have marveled at the change and when they enquire what brought it about I answer 'Postum, and nothing else in the world.'" Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek. Mich. Read the little Book, "The Road to Wellville," 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 humans INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. William Evans, D. D., Director Bible Course Moody Bible Institute, Chicago THE WISE MEN LED BY THE STAR LESSON TEXT—Matt. 2. MEMORY TERSES. GOLDEN TERSE—Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is noe else.”—Isa. 45:22. So quietly had Jesus made His appearance into the world that His arrival was unknown in Jerusalem until the Wise Men came from the East. Perhaps the shepherds had not told their tale of the heavenly vision, or perhaps they had told it, but it had been unheeded or ridiculed. So as the morning star still rises without noise, and as the seed shoots up and the flower opens in silence, so was it with the coming of Christ, the Rose of Sharon, and the Bright and Morning Star. No thunder awoke the hills of Palestine; no trumpet peal went through its city; no herald went before Him; no royal salute greeted Him. His mother and the chosen few of the inner circle who had witnessed the wonderous birth, made no proclamation of it—the they received all in silent, happy faith, and pondered these things in their hearts. Even so does Christ to-day make His advent into many a heart. So silently does He oftimes come that one scarcely is able to tell the day or the hour when Christ was born in his life. The Kingdom of God does not always come with observation. The inquiry of the Wise Men suggests a deep interest in Christ. Herod made no such inquiry save in jealousy; Jerusalem was not particularly interested in the subject; but a very few in Israel cared anything about it. How like conditions today. The Wise Man confessed their ignorance. The truly wise man is never above asking questions. Pride keeps many people from Christ. Because, falsely, we say, "we see," our blindness remains with us. If we would find the Saviour, if we would know the forgiveness of sin, let us admit our ignorance and our need of a guide; let us cry to God to help us. It is better to ask God to lead us than to trust in our own reason. We seldom wander on our knees. The Wise Men had a motive for their search—they came to worship Him. And that is just the reason why they found Him. Herod could not find Him, nor could the chief priests and scribes—for the simple reason that they did not want to worship Him. No seeker will find Christ unless the motive of his seeking be that he may be saved by Him, and from henceforth live for and serve Him. A seeking sinner and a seeking Saviour will not be long before they meet, and the meeting will be a blessed one. Have you found Christ? If not, why not? The Wise Men received encouragement in their search for Christ. They saw His star, which led them through the long desert until they found their place by Christ's side. So will it always be with those who are really seeking Christ. There is a light that others perchance may not see, a hand that others may not perceive, a voice that others may not hear—all of these are visible and audible to those who by faith are seeking Christ. The Church, the Bible, the Preaching of the Gospel, exemplary Christian lives, inward impulses—these may be stars that light the way to Him. The Wise Men did not consider it enough that they had seen the star. They continued their journey until they saw the Christ. Is there not danger of our seeing the Church, the Bible, the sacraments, and yet missing Him! It would have been too bad for them to have come as far as Jerusalem and then to have given up without seeing Him, just as it would be too bad for us to have used all these spiritual aids, and yet not have found the Saviour. As soon as these earnest seekers found Christ, they worshiped Him. What a glorious vision they had as they looked upon the Christ Child! They saw that which alone is worth seeing; that which fills and gladdens the soul when seen and known; that which righteous men of old desired to see, but saw only in glimpes and at intervals; that for the seeing of which Moses prayed so earnestly; that to which the eye of every creature should turn in longing anticipation; that which everything in heaven and in earth is intended to reveal; that for the beholding of which our eyes were made, and for the appreciation of which our minds were formed—Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the Saviour of the world. To see anything less in the Christ child is to miss the heart of the vision. They worshipped Him. They could not help it; nor can any man when once he has seen the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. It was said of Gladstone that when one was ushered into his presence, he was constrained to bow his head or raise his hat. So those who behold Christ must worship Him. Who can behold the sun without being dazzled? 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G. P. Box 394, Weir, Kansas. SIR A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. 8. #21 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kan, Wks, SARAH W FORBES, C. G. R 717 “C” St., Lincoln, Neb. SIR WILLIAM CORE, C. G. T. 1120 Lane, foveka, Kan. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M. 480 Horton, Ft, Scott,’ Kan. SIR C. M. JOHNSON, G. P. P 3330 Maple, Omaha,-Neb. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. 0. 222 Ave. E. W. Mutehinson, Kans. MRS, PAULINE WOODFORK, C.G.rr, 823 Freeman, Kansas City, Kan. SIR W. N. MILLER. General Attorney, 630 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas. TEMPLES. Rev. F ank Wilson, C, G. M. 1—A. H, Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sit L. W, Stewart, Box 481; 13 Fri 3—R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan, Sir Jno. N. Davis, 521 “L,"; 13 Fri, Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., Sir 8. R. Jackson care Frye Shoe Co.; 13 Mon. 5—St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., Sir Joe Walker, 1220 West (north); 1-3 Thurs. ¢—Humphrey, Omaha, Neb., Sir W. H, Jackson, 2515 N. 17th. 7--Mt. Nebo, Wichita, Kan., Sir. Rev. 3. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington; 13 Fri. “—St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan. Str Robt. Allison; 1-3 Tues, %0—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan. Geo. Walker 417 Kiowa. ‘\—Taborian, Wichita, Kan. Sir Chas, Taylor 623 N, Wichita 1-3 Thurs 12—Moses Dicksg, Parsons, Kan., Sir W. N. Williams, 2201 Corning; 13 Thurs, 18—Silver Leaf, Salina, Kan, Sir J. ©, Hudkon care Hudson Grocery Co, i1—Golden Gate, Coffeyville, Kan. Sir N,N. Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe; 13 Wed. 19—Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan, St W. H. Jones, care Sarta Fe De pot; 24 Thurs, §2—Barak, Oswego, Kan., Sir L. R. Wilson, Oswego College. %4—Jas, H. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan, Si Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E, Teh, %—Washington, Kansas City, Kan, Sir J. H. Downs, 422 Hasxell; every Friday. $9—Sunnyside,. Topeka, Kan., Sit Peter Davis, 1008 Washburn; 18 Thurs, 60—Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan., Sir U. S, Grant, 120 Kansas; 1-3 Mon, 12—Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Sir J. L. Wright, 1st Nat'l Bank. Ree re eee: 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.; 13 Wed. 2Golden, fola, Kan, Mrs. Ell Weston, 709 Buckeye; 24 Sat. 8—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan. Mra, Mary Goss, 2423 Jewett 1-3 Fn. (Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan, ‘rs. Ella Jones, 630 W. 4th; 123 Thurs. S—Crescent, Atchison, Kan, Mrs. Hattie Montgomery, 1115 N, 5th; #4 Fri. S—Rebecea Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Miss Katherine Glaspie, 128 Mulber- ry; 1-3 Thurs. 1—Sundeam, Saline, Kan. Mrs. Lit Han Shobe, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Pri % Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan, Mrs. Laara Donnell, 410 E, 5th; 24 Fri, Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mra, ‘Lulu Deliey, 120 Kansas Ave; 13 Fre 10—St, Marta, Lawrence, Kan, Mra, % “Carrte Davis, 448 Main; 1-3 Wea, 11+Rebecea Saba Mereo; Kansas City, - Ren. Mrs, JA, Smith, 847 Free jaan; 13 Mon. 2%—Uoluen Rule, Kansas City, Kan as, Mrs, B. Johnson, 211 Stew- ~cp 18 Thars, W—Americs Davis, Wetr, Kan, Mrs. Maggie swwart, Box 14; 24 s—Silver Leaf, Pzrsons, Kao., Mrs. K, Shakespear, 112 Main; 1. Wed. 17—Western Queen, Ft, Scott, Kan, Mrs. A. Masir, 317 B. Wall; 12 Sat. 18—St. Marie, Cmaha, Neb. Mrs, E Patterson, 2115 Nicholas; 24 Thurs. 19—Amelia Levels, Omaha, Neb., Mrs Ella Golden, 202 N. 25th. 20—Maria, Ft, Scott, Kan, Mra, P Johnson, 501 Ayman; 22 Fri 21 Queen Sheba, Osweg. Kan., Mrs. ‘Nancy Landis, Box 144 2-4 ‘Pho 24—Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan.; Mrs. A’. Garner, 704 W, :2th; 13 Wea. 28—Modern, Parsons, Kan. Mrs. D. . Dorsey, 716 E. 15th; 1-3 Thurs 29~Crystai, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. H. La Tand, 407 Kickapoo; 1-3 Tue, 30—Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Blla McKinais, 217 Sherman; 1-3 Fri. 32 Emma Gaines, butte, Mont., Mrs Salina Kasters, 334 Dakota [rear] 84—Wichita, Wichita, Kan, Mrs, Sal lie Hall, 1024 Ohio; 13 Thurs 35—Golden Rule, So. Omaha, ‘Neb, Mrs. Sadie Jones, 819 N. 27th; \ 18 Thurs, 37—Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mamie Sloss, 1121 Oak; 1-3 Fri 38—Covenant, Weir, Kan, Mrs, 1, 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; 13 Fri, 771—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; 18 Thurs, 92—8t. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L D. Davis, 3833 P; 24 Fri, 93—Macedonia, N. Topeka, Kan., Mra S. A. Brown, 15th and Washing ton; 13 Thurs, TENTS. Rev. Frank Wilson. C. G. M. Mrs. Bessie Hall, G. Q. M. 1—Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan, Mrs. Eliza Scott, S. 3rd; 4 Sat 2--Frank Wilson, F& Scott. Kan., Mrs, Eyima Maxey, 411 Ransom. 3—Moses Lickson, Wichita, Kan. Mrs. B. Brown, 813 N. Wichita 4—White Rose, Kansas City, Kan, Mrs. Lulu Ross, 433 Nebraska; 2-4 Sat. 5—New Hove, Coffeyville, Mrs. Ada Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe., 2-4 Wed. ton, 1-3 Sat. 7—Lone Star, Yale, Kan., Mrs. Calle Lewis. 8—Golden Eagle, Iola, Kan., Mrs, Sarah Mayes, 20 Campbell, 11—Golden, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Car- rie Brown, 920 N. 10th; 24 Sat, 10—Washington, Kansas City, Kan, Mrs. Effie Porter, 1036 Grand- view Bivd.; 1-3 Sat. 11—Alice Tucker, So. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. I. M. Faulkner, 169 N. Bist; 1-3 Sat. 11—Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Mary Brown, 325 Miae; 7-4 Sat. 14—Busy Bee, Atchison. Kan., Mrs, Aria Stone, 823 Main; 1-3 Sat. 15—Louisa Mae, Cherryvale, Kan., Mrs. M. E, Holt, 517 West Main. 16—Pearl, Wichita, Kan, Mrs. Anna Jones, 1457 Wabash Wichita; 2-4 Sat, 17—Castle Rock, Weir, Kan. Mrs. H. H. Askins, Box 26. 18—Star of West, Salina, Kan, A. 0. Murrell, 633 S, 4th; 1-3 Sat. 20—John Wilson, K. C., Kan., Mr. C. D. 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Vernon Richardson Fredonia, Kansas, Dear Sir: I nave written some fifty odd poems for my race and all who wish to read, ‘‘War On Mob Violence” Or ‘‘Opening the Negros’ High Way.” I am also the author of the song. “Maris and the Rose” that is just off the press. I have finally resolued to gain fame in the lit- erary field as an author of verse and prove to my race that we are“‘One” in the great Catalogue of Nations Lend me your aid, Wm Vernon Richardson. ly The greatest questions that con- front us could be answered. But the worry of che nation will not let our votces swell; We first hada common language but it could'nt holdits station It depended on the people, “The condition of the Nation.” 2. Yon may solve and work each problem in each book you read You may sit up wigh the Drs. you may let th: lawyers plead You may seareh the scriptures daily, get best of information; But you cannot solve the prob lem.“‘The Condition of the Nation We must count each living per- son, to find waere true value lie, * Even then we're not contented for man was born to live & die: There're dead deads, pimps, and rogues among us, Each of these a Condemnation Only fit for making trouble, “In The Condition of the Nation.” 4, Sé we wonder plead & worry, At the mixture on’ our hands. We consult the different people In the different foreign lands, Yet we cannot understand it If we take their explanation, It will always be a wonder— “The Condition of the Nation.” Wa, Vernon Richardson ee Wm. V.Richardson’s has some of the best original, poems ever written. Get a book of his poems. Qe es eee ees Fess’ ACH ioe Gt! oy FSX GBS .. PROGRESS... As People Let Us Stand Togather. United we stand Devided we FALI.. IsThe Above StatementTrue, fOOK UMBRAGE AT ASPERSION. Citizens Resented Being Voted for as Town's “Meanest Man.” Old Scrooge might be a philanthrop fo Carnegie alongside certain tighb wads in Mount Vernon, but William Friedberg has no license to, determine publicly who are the mea who would fyucexe a dollar until the eagle yelled: “Help! I'm melting!” For conducting @ voting contest to deter mine the meanest man in Mount Ver non Friedberg, who keeps a ciga store there, was fined five dollars by Vudge Platt here. 4 arning went nth the fine. Friedberg lives in Astoria, but does dusiness in Mount Vernon. He placed ta his window a placard: “Come ir amd vote for the meanest man if Mount Vernon'” This was followed by a lst of nasies. Conspicuous in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and staid citizens. After every name was ‘@ number signifying the votes the ‘ewner of the name had received so far. Great was the wrath of the so-called “meanest men.” Friedberg was or dered to take the sign out of the wim dow, bit he refused to do so. His im @ictment for libel followed. In court he pleaded guilty, but asserted he did aot know he was violating any law—e White Plains Cor. New York Sun. The Quaint Bettuga. Caviare can be made of the ree of any fish; but the principal supply comes from the sturgeon -and the bel- luga. The latter is about the most curfous fish tn the world, It weighs up to 1,000 pounds and innab‘ts the raters of the swift-flowing Volga. It ‘s so abundant that the natives of Astracan throw away the fiesh— which is whiter tha» veal and verx aainty—and p-eserve only the spawn, of which they sometimes take as much as 200 pouvds out of one fish. This bellig., Ii¢3 on the bottom of the river at certain seasons and swal- lows many large pebbles of great weight to ballast itself against. the force of the stream; that is, the pebbles act as an anchor. When the flood subsides and the waters are lene violent the belluga disgorges _ it that ts; It-umbaltasts tate Th 1 chor and swims about for provend A Queen’s Will. Queen Adelaide, the wife of William IV., was 2 woman of great piety and exceptional humility, which was shown tm the directions for her funeral. “I die in all humility,” she wrote, “knowing well we are all alike before the throne of God, and request, there- fore, that my mortal remains be con- ‘veyed to the grave without any pomp or ceremony. They are to be moved to St. George's chapel, Windsor, where T request to have a quiet funeral “I particularly desire not to b» .Inla out in state, and the funeral u vane Place by daylight; no procession, the coffin to he carried by saliors to tse chapel. 1 die in peace, and wish to be carried to the tomb in peace, and free from the vanities and the pomp ef tle world.”"—Home Noies. Antiquity of the Sausage. ‘The sausage dates back to the year 697. It has been asserted that the Greeks in the days of Homer manu (actured sausages, but thts prehistoric mixture had nothing in common with our ee ee ‘The ancient so- called sausage was composed of the same materials which enter into the make-up of the houdin of the French market and the blood pudding of the French-Canadisn The ancient sausage was enveloped in “he stomachs of goats, Not neti (he centh century did the sausage made of hashed perk be some known. It was in or near the yoer 1500 that, thanks to the introdue- Wien into Germany of cinnamon ané saffron, the sausages of Frankfort and Strassburg acquired a universal repu tation, BOY ROSE T- BIL UATION. BOY ROGE T- BILUATION, Quick Wit and Intelligence Displayed by Youngster. His parents are convinced that Ciar- ence wil be a great man; the only doubt ig whether it will be as s states: man on scientist. He is only four yeare old, and their confidence is based largely on one incident. The Doy never told of it, and it would have deen lost to history if a neighbor had Rot beem a chance witness Clarence Ives in the suburbs, and bes a cat and kittens. One day he ‘went into the yard next door with one Of the little ones to play. There was a dig pile of brushwood here, and he shoved his pet into a hole im this, Bhe crawled so far back that all his ef- forts to get her out were vain. "Had he been a man be would have ‘pulled the pile of brush apart, but Yacking strength for this he resorted 2 cunning. Running home. he seom returned with the mother cat He ‘shoved her into the hole after her off- spring, and she soon came out with the little one between her teeth. Clar (qnce bore them both home is triumph.