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The Wichita Searchlight. SUCCESSOR TO PITTSBURG PLAINDEALER. Makes Statement of Requisite Action of China, TO BASE MEDIATION UPON. Washington. July 26.—"The President of the United States. To the Em- mor of China: Greeting: I have received your majesty's message of the 19th of July, and am glad to know that your majesty recognizes the fact that the government and people of the United States desire of China nothing but what is just and equitable. The purpose for which we landed troops in China was the rescue of our legation from grave danger, and the protection of the lives and property of Americans who were sojourning in China in the enjoyment of rights guaranteed them by treaty and by international law. The same purposes are publicly declared by all the powers which have landed military forces in your majesty's empire. I am to infer from your majesty's letter that the malefactors who have disturbed the peace of China, who have murdered the minister of Germany, and a member of the Japanese legation, and who now hold besieged in Pekin those foreign diplomatists who still survive, have not only not received any favor or encouragement from your majesty, but are actually in rebellion against the imperial authority. If this be the case, I must solemnly urge upon your majesty's government: 1. To give public assurance whether the foreign ministers are alive, and if so, in what condition. 2. To put the diplomatic representatives of the powers in immediate and free communication with their respective governments and to remove all danger to their lives and liberty. 13. To place the imperial authorities of China in communication with the relief expeditions so that co-operation may be secured between them for the liberation of the legations, the protection of foreigners and the restoration of order. 14. If these are accomplished it is the belief of this government that no obstacles will be found to exist on the part of the powers to an amicable settlement of all the questions arising out of the recent troubles and the friendly good offices of this government will, with the assent of the other powers, be cheerfully placed at your majesty's disposal for that purpose. "WILLIAM McKINLEY." Who shall Escort the Ministers? Washington, July 27.—This government has acted all the while on the theory that the ministers were alive and has accepted in good faith the assurances of the Chinese government to this effect but it has not recognized in any way the suggestion contained in Cheng's eable that the Chinese government should furnish the foreigners an escort out of Pekin. It was said at the state department that the American minister is not to be de-delivered up by a force of Chinese troops to the allied forces or anyone else. This government deems it much more appropriate if he needs an escort out of Pekin, that it should be composed of American soldiers. Oats for Caralry. Duluth, Minn., July 25.—The United States government purchased 200,000 bushels of oats on the Duluth board of trade for use in China. The purchase was made from and through local dealers under orders from the war department, and the grain will be shipped to a Pacific coast port, where it will be reshipped for its Asiatic destination. Peru is on the Gold Basis. Washington, July 27.—Peru is on the single gold standard and has issued a gold coin known as the librater, or Peruvian pound, being identical in weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. The librea and the silver sol are now received on equal terms by the banks of the country and circulated concurrently. The coinage of the former is free and silver is used only in a subsidiary capacity. This comes from the United States minister to Peru. Cardinal Satolli Advanced Washington, July 25.—Unofficial, but thoroughly trustworthy advices from Rome announce that Cardinal Satolli, who was the first Papal delegate to America from 1883 to 1887, has been announced Prefect of the Propaganda by Pope Leo XIII. It has been tacitly understood among his acquaintances for some time that he would reach the highest station by reason of his marked executive ability. Cardinal Satolli will be remembered by all reading Americans. IT IS BREIDENTHAL. Full Ticket Named And Nomination of U. S. Senator Defeated. Fort Scott, July 26.—The second day of the three conventions finished the work. The action of the conference committees from the three conventions was confirmed and the following ticket is named: For associate judge of the supreme court, David Martin. For governor, John W. Breidenthal; treasurer, Conway Marshall; attorney general, Hugh Farrelly; secretary of state, J. B. Goshorn; presidential electors, L. B. Corstenson, H. J. Rogers, J. B. Fugate; insurance commissioner, Webb McNall; other electors, James Falloon and W. R. Turner. The convention refused to name a candidate for United States senator by a vote of 312 to 216. Fusion State Platform in Short. Fort Scott, July 26.—David Overmeyer, chairman of platform committee reported the work of the committee and it was adopted. First: Endorses Kansas City platform. Second: For railway legislation: for creating the office of railway auditor, and also a public tribunal for regulation and control of railways. Third and Fourth: Enlarging on railroad legislation. Fifth: Trusts. For co-operation of state and national governments to control them. Sixth: Charges the enactment of clumsy and adhortive laws to be the work of professional lobbyists. Seventh: For a resubmission of prohibition to the people. Eighth: Favors the public ownership of all municipal utilities. Ninth: Extends sympathy to the South African republics. Tenth: For the continuance of the state live stock sanitary board. Death of a Noted Character. Wichita, July 27.—Herbert Stimpson, a lawyer, shot himself in the county court house, after being arrested for embezzlement. He was the son of Prof. Stimpson who was for many years curator of the Smithsonian institution of Washington. He was an educated man, from the schools of Heidleberg, Paris and Italy, and spoke and wrote numerous languages. His writings were on scientific subjects. Being in Paris, leading a semi-vagabond life, he enlisted in the French foreign legion and served in Africa, in the capacity of secretary to the commanding officer. He was given a medal for his scientific services, among which was blowing up the gates of the capital of Dahomey. Stimpson received the medal of the Legion of Honor for saving many lives at the famous charity bazar fire in Paris in 1897. Ralps and Waahouts Topeka, July 27.—The railroads report a heavy fall of rain over all sections of the state and Colorado. A cloud burst near La Junta, Colorado, washed out several, hundred feet of track on the Santa Fe, making a few hours' delay in trains. Further than this no washouts of importance occurred. In Northern Kansas, where the rain was most needed, a heavy fall was reported. In other sections it averaged from one to three inches. Cold Storage Warehouse Burned. St. Paul, Minn., July 25.—The St. Paul Cold Storage and Warehouse company's large warehouse is destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at $750,000, with insurance of $550,000. The warehouse was filled with butter, fruit, tobacco, eggs, tea, whisky and other commodities. Leasing Grain Cars. Topeka, July 27.—The railroad people report that the immense wheat crop is being moved as fast as it is possible for them to handle it. On several of the divisions on the different roads it is impossible for the companies to secure cars fast enough to supply the demand. The Santa Fe leased 300 grain cars for use on their line on the Oklahoma and Pandhandle division. Extra trains are being run from Oklahoma and southern Kansas loaded with wheat. Filipino Resolutions Manila, July 26.—The resolutions adopted by the Filipinos here favoring President McKinley's amnesty resolutions were sent to Aguinaldo by his mother. These resolutions were adopted by the representative Filipinos of this city on June 21. General MacArthur's answer to them will also be sent to the insurgent chief. It is understood that Aguinaldo will summon his advisers. Filipinos here gave a banquet in honor of President McKinley's order of amnesty. WICHITA, KANSAS, JULY 28, 1900. BUSINESS MEN'S IDEA OF FIRE INSURANCE Common Errors Concerning Its Relation to the Public Brought Out by the Investigation of Prominent Men in Commercial Life. The recent annual report issued by the Insurance Commissioner of Michigan and the veto of the valued policy law passed by the Legislature of Iowa, by Governor Shaw of that state, have called public attention to the fact that there has been a widespread misunderstanding as to the true relations of fire insurance to public interests. Of late property owners, aroused by these statements from two enilent state officials, have been giving some thought to the subject, and the conclusions reached are that owing to a misconception of the functions and practices of fire insurance companies, as well as to the prejudice fostered by professional politicians who play on the passions of the public, the people have been standing in their own light. As fire insurance premiums are a necessary part of the expense of every sensible business man and householder, it is but natural that the public should desire this item to be as low as possible, and that a fire insurance company should give a fair and equitable rate. Recent investigations and study on the part of several men who pay large sums for indemnity owing to their extensive interests, have shown that the public is taking an entirely erroneous course in attempting to secure lower rates regardless of all other considerations, and that every law intended to compel rate reductions has in effect caused higher rates. The public mind looks upon a fire insurance company as a corporation, isolated entirely from any human interest, whose sole desire is to get as much money as possible with little trouble. The vital relationship between fire insurance companies and every form of business life is unrecognized, as is its essentiality to credit and commerce. Property to the amount of $150,000,000 is totally destroyed in the United States every year. If this fell entirely on the losers it would cause business paralysis in hundreds of communities. Large plants and small enterprises would be swept away, and the accumulations and work of a lifetime would be reduced to ashes. This calamity without any means of return would affect every person dependent upon or having dealings with these various concerns. The business man having all or a large part of his means invested in his daily interests could obtain but little credit without his fire insurance policy, his operations would be hampered, and if his property were destroyed by fire he would in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred be bankrupt and unable to recoup his loss. It is to prevent disaster of this kind that the fire insurance tax is collected. A heavy loss would cripple one man, but if properly apportioned all over the country the loser can regain his feet and continue. Each property owner pays his share into the fund, and it is distributed where losses occur. This interdependence of human life is nowhere so nicely exemplified. Fire insurance companies were created to assess, collect and distribute this fire insurance tax. It is a system of indirect taxation, necessary for the successful conduct of business, and because the tax gathering is done by competing institutions, and is not a government work, false ideas as to profits on part of the companies have been widespread. For a period of ten years (1890-1900) the companies have only made an average underwriting profit of thirty-six hundredths of 1 per cent. During 1898 Even the girl who complains that she has nothing to wear can still put on airs. Paracell's Superstition: Parnell had some pet superstitions, according to his biographer, Barry O'Brien. "He would not pass another person on the stairs. He was horror-strenken to find himself sitting with three lighted candies; the fall of a picture in the room made him dejected for the entire afternoon, and he would have nothing to do with an important bill drawn up by a colleague because it happened to contain thirteen clauses. He also thought green a most unlucky color—a strange and inconvenient feeling for a Nationalist leader—and the sight of green banners at the political meetings he addressed often unnerved him." May Come to Pass. From Harlem Life: Immigrant Inspector—We have information that you come over here on contract. Lord Fitsmud (indignantly)—Aw-what-er-why, you wude, impudent fellah! I come ovah here to marry Miss Angelina Goldust of New York. Immigrant Inspector (trumphantly)—Well, what's the matter with yer; isn't marriage the hardest kind of contract? You'll have 'o go back. The State Historical Society they lost $1½ per cent; in 1899, they lost 13-7 10th per cent. Nearly $100,000,000 of cash assets have been year by year kept as a guarantee by the companies for the protection of their policy holders. It might be largely swept away by confagration. The risk has been great, and yet taking every hazard into consideration, the average earnings from underwriting of American companies on their assets at risk have been less than $3½ per cent. Banks during the same period have earned $3 per cent. It will be seen, therefore, that the fire insurance companies have been earning but a small profit for the risk assumed in the investment. That the risk is great is shown by the fact that during the last quarter of a century over 1,200 American fire insurance companies have failed or retired, and out of the survivors, only 32 organized during the same period are still in business. Recognizing, then, that the companies have not been bleeding the public, policy holders who have been observing the trend of affairs see that anti-compact laws, valued policy laws and all legislation of such a nature, invariably cause higher rates because of the additional hazard, loss and expense to companies which has to be collected from the public. Statistics show that from 1893 rates in the United States steadily declined, while in the anti-compact law states, they continued to incerease, and not until 1897 did they reach a lower percentage than in 1893. The average rate from 1893 to 1898 was $1.11 per $100 in the United States, eleven cents lower than in 1893. In states having an anti-compact law the average rate during the same period was $1.27, or one cent lower than in 1893. Laws prohibiting companies to associate together to maintain fair rates have utterly failed to reduce them. After such laws are enacted, no company with business principles will write policies at ruinous rates. The old rates, therefore, prevail. If companies were allowed to associate together and compare their experiences in these states, the figures might show that rates could be decreased. They cannot reduce them because they are forbidden by law to act in concert. Valued policy laws which require companies to pay the face of the policy in case of a total loss, whether the property burned is worth that amount or not, have increased the amount of fire waste and caused higher rates, because the greater loss requires just that much more fire insurance tax. When a fire company issues a policy of $10,000, for example, it does not agree to pay that amount in case of a loss, but it does give the policy holder the privilege of protection up to that amount. If he has that much value and it is destroyed, he is entitled to that amount of insurance. To compel companies, therefore, to pay the face of a policy, regardless of the value of the property destroyed, is an incentive to crime. When a man through misrepresentation secures $10,000 insurance on $5,000 worth of goods, the valued policy law compels the companies to pay, not the value of the property destroyed, but the amount named in their policies as the limit of their liability. The only persons who can possibly be benefited by such laws are those who carry insurance beyond the value of their property. Rates have to be increased where valued policy laws prevail to cover increased fire waste, in fact, it may be stated as an axiom that any law that increases the expense of fire insurance, or tends to increase the fire waste of this country, causes a corresponding finerease in the cost of fire indemnity, which must be paid by people who need it. When you can drop a nickel into a phonagraph talk must be cheap indeed. Small Valuation "Do you regard Silas Woodruff as one of the important people in Canby?" asked a summer visitor, referring to a member of the state legislature whose home was in the little town. "I hear he can talk up to the folks on politics," answered the Canby farmer to whom the question had been addressed, "so I reckon he's some use to the state, mebby; but in Canby we don't count him of any more value than a couple of rods of side hill."—Youth's Companion. Hard to Take "Jim, the loss of that $5 is like a barbed-wire fence." "How's that?" "Hard to get over."—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Church Divorce Laws The lower house of the convocation of the church of England has passed a resolution declaring that the law of the church does not recognize divorce, and asking the bishops to devote themselves to securing action of parliament to the end that the church shall not marry divorced persons. PARIS LETTER. From Our Regular Correspondent. From Our Regular Correspondent. There is no limit or rule for accurately measuring or comparing International Expositions, but, after six weeks' study, I think the Chicago Exposition was in many respects not inferior to this of Paris. There are more and better-class art about this show; the ensemble is more artistic, and it would be hard to excels the beautiful scene that stands before you when the sunlight or the electric light it lumes the domes and minarets that adorn the space between the Champs Elysees and the invalides. There are more traces of the artistic spirit among the exhibits than at Chicago, and, in truth, for an exhibition of European art—I do not say the very best but at least the second best—the exhibition in Paris in 1900 would be hard to beat. But that is all, wonderful to say, seeing that some years have elapsed since the Chicago World's Fair, and that great progress in many directions might have been expected. One thing very noticeable now is the interest in the number of visitors. Paris is not, or seems not to be, more crowded, but the Exposition is. Last Sunday, just 40 people under half a million passed the gates. The price of tickets had come down to ten cents, which may have, must have, had some effect, and there was a Christian Endeavor pilgrimage or an English trades excursion, 8,000 or 4,000 strong, which helped to fill. A few weeks ago, the universal remark was—"What a crowd of Germans!", and in truth, Paris was, as some put it, for the time more German than Berlin. Where ever you went, on the boulevards, in the Exposition, in the aes, on the tops of the omnibuses—"in the air" as the French say, there they were, thousands of them, in spectacles, nearly all in straw hats, and dressed as though they all had the same tailor, or none. It was a fresh German invasion, and not a wholly popular one. For popularity in that way, the invasion must be American, for the latter visit the shops first, and then the Exposition from the Effel tower. One cafe owner bitterly complained to me that Germans had driven away his regular customers, "and they drink no wine" he concluded sadly, "only beer." Not that the anti-Tutonic feeling is very strong in France. It seems slowly but surely dying out, not so much because the French hate the nation that took Alsace - Lorraine from them in 1870, as because they hate the nation that beat them at Waterloo, and stood them off at Fashoda more. Besides, though of different religion, there is much in common between the Germans and French. Both are Continental nations, they have what the French are please to call a "largeness" of ideas that is unknown and highly antipa thetic to the Anglo-Saxon, whether he American or English, German Protestantism of the land of Luther, is not in reality so antipathetic to French Catholicism as is American or English Protestantism. And why? Simply because the Protestantism of the latter is too decent, too monol, for French taste and French tolerance. The German is not nearly so shocked by French latitude of opinion and speech and conduct as is the Anglo-Saxon, and Par is sights and sounds, to which a German would habituate himself in a week, remain for years, perhaps for over, odious to the Anglo-Saxon. It is, in this morality, this ingrain, instinctive morality, lays the secret of the Anglo-Saxon power and dominion. No nation that is not strong morally will permanently be strong physically. Of late, however, the German invasion has been notably diminishing and the American—not the English-is taking its place. At any rate, Americans are more num er o u s, more about the center, cec tainly more thick in the richer and more expensive quarters of the town. You rarely see a German in a fashionable restaurant or very expensive hotels. The Americans you do see and hear also for this cordial unreserve, their affability and uneasiness of approach make them always live and agreele companions. FREE TO INVENTORS. The experience of C.A. Snow & Co., in obtaining more than 20,000 patents for inventors has enabled them to helpfully answer many questions relating to the protection of intellectual property. This they have done in a pamphlet treating briefly of United States and foreign patents, with cost of same, and how to procure them. trade marks, desigas, caveats, infringements, decisions in leading patent cases, etc., etc. This pamphlet will be sent free to any one writing to C.A. Snow&Co., Washington, D.C. WELILNGTON Sharman Teal has put in the 3rd chair in his barber shop; he is doing a good business, Mrs Francis Bromer has returned home from Oklahoma, where she has been visiting relatives. Mrs Maggie Owsley will leave the 28th for Hennesey to visst her parents. VOL. II. NO. 9 Misses Annie and Josie Strong have returned from Caldwell where they have been conducting religious services. Chas Robinson has purchased a home in a very fashionable part of the city. Several are anticipating a McKinley—Rosevelt club. Mesdames Amanda Oldham and Addie Robinson will leave the 28 for wichita, where they will visit relatives. Deacon Hall has been with a lame back for several doys. Misses Lizzie and Maggie Fletcher are visiting in Winfield. THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. Senator Gear of Iowa, just buried, went to Fort Snelling, Iowa territory, in 1838. A general rain has fallen over nearly all of India. The famine areas are benefited. Miss Jessie Norman, a society leader of St. Joseph, Mo., is quarantined with smallpox. Fire in the Boston navy yard caused a loss of $194,000, on buildings, stock and machinery. Twenty-five square miles of forest on Cape Cop, in the town of Sandwich, has been burned over. President McKinley has accepted the grand army invitation to attend their annual encampment in Chicago. Rev. C. M. Sheldon addressed 20,000 people at the Christian Endeavor world convention on "Commercial Problems." Lord Salisbury says that a dash toward Pekin, without a month or two of preparation would be military suicide. It is expected that three brigadier generals will be ordered to China and that they will be Gens. Grant, Hall and Bell. A locomotive on the Sandusky and Hocking Valley road jumped a trestle and fell 64 feet. Engineer Rolla Clauss was killed. Mail passes between Paris and Berlin in less than an hour; sometimes within 35 minutes. It goes in pneumatic tubes. It is now said that A. E. Stillwell has, in addition to the "Orient" scheme another for an airline road from Kansas City to Galveston. The people of St. Louis are holding mass meetings to protest against the continuance of the strike and boycott by the ex-street car men. The founding of the Spiritualist college will be considered at the Interstate Spiritualist Association of Missouri, Kansas and Texas, which meets at Liberal, Mo., August 15. A Savannah line steamer was passing Sandy Hook when a shell, fired from the proving grounds struck the water 150 feet from the vessel and bounded over it about midships. The passengers were frightened. The North Carolina supreme court has sustained a decision rendered in Burke county imposing $1,000 fine on the Southern railway for giving a free pass to a doorkeeper of the legislature in 1897. Bocas del Tora, in Jamaica, has been visited by a hurricane which was very destructive, and it was followed by a fire which swept the town. President McKinley received the news from Minister Conger as he left the train in Canton, where he had just returned from Washington. The Yaqui Indians have been active again of late and the Mexican troops who are operating against them have been reinforced with four regiments from Hermosillo. Word comes from Washington that Haskell institute at Lawrence, Ks, will have this year a new $25,000 school building, a $3,000 laundry and shops to cost $2,000. The Southern Pacific railroad has six million acres of land in Texas and is negotiating with leading Boers to come and settle on it. In San Francisco a fund of $18,405 was raised for the benefit of the family of a fireman who was killed while on duty. A German relief column went to rescue a party of thirty German, American and English missionaries in China, and could not find them. It is believed they had been slain. MILLER & LEWIS, Publishers. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday at No. 140 North Main Street, up stairs. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Correspondents and agents wanted everywhere. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. THAT government, under which the rights of all persons are not equally protected, is organized injustice. Some Luther autograph manuscripts have been discovered in the Vatican library by Prof. Fiker of Strasburg. There are two commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans, one on the text and the other on the sense, and commentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews. They were written in 1516 and 1517, shortly before the nailing of the ninety-five theses at Wittenberg. The ways and means committee of the house of representatives has been authorized to sit during the recess of congress, with a view to preparing a bill to reduce the taxes which were imposed or increased at the outbreak of the Spanish war. This committee, according to present plans, will assemble in Washington about ten days before congress meets in December. Much of the time of congress is saved by committee work during recess. In the rivalry between steam and sailing vessels for the freight traffic of the ocean, the steamship has of late years had greatly the advantage, increasing much faster than the sailing vessel, in number and size. But it should not be inferred that the sailing vessel is going out of existence. Wind is cheaper than fuel, and in the case of goods for the delivery of which there is no haste, its great power will long be utilized to carry freights across the seas. Trade secrets are protected by law in Germany. A machinist who entered the employ of a firm for the sole purpose of carrying back to his real employers all the "points" he got, was recently sentenced to three months in jail, the business men who hired him to spy upon their rivals being sent to keep him company. We do not know of any other industrial nation in which this pleasing event could have occurred. Yet it is surely just that a manufacturer who invents a process for perfecting or cheapening his product should be defended against unscrupulous imitators who do not hesitate to filch other men's brains. Miss Florence Leonard, a young woman from Arlington, Ga., was locked up all the other night in the observation tower on the state reservation overlooking the falls of Niagara. Her experience fairly shattered her nerves. She had been viewing the sights during the afternoon and about five o'clock thought she would like to take a last look at the falls. The superintendent of the observation tower took her up in the elevator and then forgot all about her. At six o'clock, as nobody else appeared, he shut up for the night and went home. When he arrived in the morning, Miss Leonard fainted away. The Hon. Peter A. Porter has written to the Niagara Falls Cataract Journal calling attention to a relic of the struggle between England and France a century and a half age, which lies about a mile and a half above the falls. It is nothing less than the outlines of one of the block-houses which were built by the English for the protection of the Portage Road, which ran to the present site of Lewiston from the old stone chimney near the river's bank. According to Mr. Porter, no other authentic relic of that period is known around the falls. An effort is being made by the Niagara Frontier Historical Society to have the relic preserved. Striking, novel and of peculiar interest, especially as showing the way in which bridge-making will develop in the future, is the new bridge which is building to connect New York with Brooklyn. Perhaps the most popular feature is to be a bicycle path, covered with asphalt carried at a certain height above the tracks for trolleys and for carriages. This bicycle track is to be for the exclusive use of whelmen, and the opposing streams of traffic will be carefully divided. Below the bicycle track is a footpath for pedestrians, and above it the track for the elevated railway. On each side are double trolley tracks affording accommodation for four cars abreast, while the outer sides of the bridge are reserved for carriages and vehicles going the same way, so that the traffic will be as little impeded as possible. The bridge is to be 7,200 feet long, or nearly a quarter of a mile longer than the present bridge, most of this increased length being taken up by the approaches. GRAND SESSION Ladies Court of Cnlanthe. Kansas City,Kas.July 23rd 1900. The Grand Court of Calanthe was called to order by W.W.Plumb G.W.C.,at 10 30 a m G R of D,Mrs J Maddox,read the call. Vacancies were filled. The G. W.C. then declared the Grand Court open for buisness and appoint the Committee on Returns, and Credentials. Com: Mesdames. J Maddox,Bettie Bailey,Adala Miller.The Court adjourned till 2 p.m At 2 p.m the court was called from refreshments to labor. The committee on Returns and Credentials reported the following Courts Lilly of the Valley, No 100 Sunflower, , 5 Prince Albert , 85 Queen Victoria, , 25 Arian , 7 Saunders, , 8 Excelsior, , 99 Queen Ester, , 6 The following were recommended to receive the Grand Court degree:Mesdames, Maggie Patterson, Lizzie Williams, Mary Tyler, Anna Saunders, Lula Gibson, Willie Anderson, May Greene, O. Wilson. Brothers—J E Lewis,Dr.C H Lane, A F Vanhook.The various committees were then appointed.The G.W.C. then read his annual address, and the same was referred to the proper committee. The report of the Grand Reg.of Deeds was read, and referred to the committee on Finauce.The report of the G S of E was read and referred to the com. A communication from Sunflower court No 5, of Junction City, was read and referred to the committee on State of the Order. A communication from the Juvinile department of Lawrence, was read and referred to the same committee. Sisters Williams, Craig and King were appointed as a special committee on Law and Supervision for the Juvinile department. A communication from Excelsior court No 99, was referred to the committee on Appeals and Grievances. The communicati'n from Arian court No 7, was read and referred to the committee on State of the Order. Sister C.E. Hollan, of Syracuse court No.159 of Tyler, Texas, was introduced and made welcome. The court then took a recess for 30 minutes. The court was then called from rrefreshments to labor, minutes of previous meeting read and approved. Miss Mattie Davis and Dr.C H Lane were appointed reporters for the papers. The delegates were provided with places by committee. Resolution from Sunflower court was read and referred tothe com. The court then adjourn till 8 o'clock Tuesday morning. Newton This Colored men who went out west to unload coal for the Santa Fe, have returned. If any one wishes to get a fine place to board,go to Mrs Jas. Gurrets The friends of Hon Jno. Frame gave birth-day party in honor of his 21st.birth day.Friends were present from Florence,Peabody, and Hutchinson.Every one had a nice time. You no doubt have heard of pea ple who had 'chicken on the brain?' The people here have 'pic - nics' their minds. Think of it, pic - nics. The sewing circle met at Mrs Williams Thursday night. Good many members out. Mrs. Hart has returned faom K. C, where she has been visiting since the 4th. Rev M S Jones of Wichita,preached at the 2nd Baptist church Sunday morning,and Rev Tom Naper Sunday night. Good meetings. Rev J M Brown of Topeka,delivered a wonderful sermon at the C. M E church Sunday. Mrs J Stanley made a flying trip to Newton Saturday,returning to her home in Wichita,Sunday. The 2nd Baptist Sunday school is progressing nicely. Arkansas City Mrs Katie Hopper is on the sick list Rev Gambol of Hutchinson is in the city visiting. He preached at the A M E church Sunday eve. Rev is certainly growing stronger as he grows older. Mrs Amanda Porter is on the sick list this week Aug. 1st the uniform ranks of K of P will give an entertainment at their hall, every body is invited to attend Mrs M Harvey served lunch for the following Sai. eve July 14th Rev Gambol Rev Bandy and Mrs. Austin and Mrs Kelller Several of the ladies of Queen Esters Court No 6 are expecting to attend the Grand lodge which convenes in Kansas City A certain young man carries a wounded arm for trying to ride an other gents, wheel. The weel too is a little done up A Surprise party was given in honor of Miss Pearl Elllott Tues. eve at the residence of Miss Maria and Florence Williams, on S. 8th street. The rally given at the 2nd Bap. church Sunday was well attended. Rev Gambol preached in the afternoon, every body likes him. Messers Marshall and Reingall have returned from Wichita. The last few rains was indeed a blessing to the people in this section of country. The masquerade social was quit a success Tuesday night. Rev Bandy left for Coffeyville to attend the association. Rev Bandy preached at Newkirk O T last week. Mr Buckley, wife and daughter, of Colo. Springs, is in the city, visiting his sister, Mrs Kemp. Nathan Cooper's mother of Cherryval,is visiting her son and friends in this city. Fleming Dots. The Court Calanthe held their installation of officers Sat. night. Dr. C-Lane, A. F. Vanhook and Mrs Geo Crawford left Sunday for K C to attend the Grand Lodge of K of P and the ladies Court. Sunday school was well attended Rev, H. H. Goodwin and deacon Bonwell have returned from the association. They report a fine time There was a Grand Ball in the new barn Sat. night. Every new building is initiated with a dance A fine looking young lady visited Mrs Walker Sunday, we itched to learn her name No citizen should approach the ballot box ignorant of the question to be decided by his vote. ```markdown ``` GUILTY OR INNOCENT? CHAPTER VIII.—(Continued.) Dr. Carter, terribly agitated, lays his hand on Mrs. Bouvierie's. "We may prepare for the very worst. After the judge's charge they will bring him in guilty. My poor friend, it will be more than you can bear. Come with me now." The mother's head is bowed, her lips form a faint "No." Then with an effort she raises herself and looks steadily at her son, who must know himself that his cause has been lost. His counsel sits with bent head and moody face. There is a mystery in the Portraven bank robbery that even he cannot fathom, unless, indeed, the prisoner is the hardened criminal so aptly described by the judge as he thundered out to the jury the sin of one law for the rich and another for the poor. homeward bound steamer, her face full of hope as every throb of the scree brings her a moment nearer to seein George again. Her father's death has been a shock, but hardly in one sens a grief; for she had not seen him since her childhood and retained only a very faint memory of an austers, silent man who seldom spoke to her. She has been told that she is rich, that her father's will has left her everything completely and unconditionally. She may marry whom she chooses. The news of so much wealth had come a surprise on Barbara; she can hardly realize it. In her deep mourning she sits on deck, with grave, steady eyes looking over the tossing waves, and thinking of George. What a surprise it will be to him to find he is to have a rich wife! There is not long to wait. The jury come back to their box with their minds made up. "Guilty!" Every one expected it, but yet a thrill as of horror shudders over the crowd as the wind sighs and waves over a field of corn—a wave of feeling that makes itself felt. Then, for the first time, despair, dark and terrible, whitens the prisoner's face. He hears his mother's broken utterance of his name, and his eyes turn to her with a passion of regret; then he nerves himself to receive his sentence. Even Sebastian Saville turns cold as he listens. The judge is a stern judge, and determined not to let the prisoner's position stand in the way of being made an example of. Five years' penal servitude is the least he can give-five years in which this hardened sinner will have time to repent. Before he pronounces the sentence he delivers a homily on the sin of gambling, the yearly increasing sin of betting on every race. He points out how, in this case, it has brought the prisoner at the bar to temptation and sin, and finally to the awful position in which he now stands. And then the dreadful sentence—five years' penal servitude; and George Bouverie, white as death, like a man going to the scaffold, goes from the dock out of the sight of his fellow men. His mother's eyes, dry with an agony that is tearless, gaze after him. "Will they let me see him?" she says a little wildly. "My son, my darling!" Ay, were he the sinner the trial has proved him to be, he is hers still, the mother-love is his in spite of all. "I will try and arrange an interview," Dr. Carter says huskily. "My poor friend, nothing I can say can comfort you. There, there, try and fight off the faintness; let me take you into the air." Sympathetic voices whisper, "She is his mother," as the doctor pushes his way out through the crowd, half carrying Mrs. Bouverie, who feels as if her heart were breaking. They had told her not to hope, that the Crown was sure of a conviction, but the hope had not died till the words five years' penal servitude fell on her ears. Up to that moment the mother had believed in some proof of George's innocence being produced. It is all over now. He has been led away a free man no longer, to live out a hideous nightmare of days and weeks and years, crushed, ruined and disgraced; and he had said he was innocent! --- It is the same evening; but the glad, bright morning has turned to rain, and the drops race down the window panes. Sebastian Saville sits opposite his mother at the other end of the long dinner table. His face bears an expression of satisfaction. They are discussing the all-absorbing topic of the bank robbery. "The judge charged dead against him." Sebastian says, filling his wine glass. "The jury was not ten minutes out of their box." Mrs. Saville, as usual, regally attired in satin and lace, smiles half disagreeably. "It is very fortunate it was all over before Barbara's return. She will hardly care for going on with her farce of an engagement now." "Hardly!" sneers Mr. Saville, leaning back in luxurious contentment. "Even Barbara wouldn't be mad enough to wish to marry a convict!" Then he stands up and strolls over to the window. "What a wet night!" I suggest we try and forget the Bouverie episode. What do you say to our taking Barbara to London, or abroad, or somewhere? She'll get over it soon enough." "A very good suggestion," Mrs. Saville returns. "I am sorry for Mrs. Bouverie, of course, but for her unprincipled son I have no pity. It will rest with yourself, Sebastian, to win Barbara. I think a tour on the continent would be the best plan. Being in mourning, we could not go to any gaeties, and the Court would be depressing just now for Barbara." While mother and son are amicably arranging over Barbara's future, Barbara herself is sitting on board a By AMY BRAZIER. homeward bound steamer, her face full of hope as every throb of the screw brings her a moment nearer to seeing George again. Her father's death had been a shock, but hardly in one sense a grief; for she had not seen him since her childhood and retained only a very faint memory of an austere, silent man who seldom spoke to her. She has been told that she is rich, that her father's will has left her everything completely and unconditionally. She may marry whom she chooses. The news of so much wealth had come as a surprise on Barbara; she can hardly realize it yet. In her deep mourning she sits on a deck, with grave, steady eyes looking over the tossing waves, and thinking of George. What a surprise it will be to him to find he is to have a rich wife! "I will help him to use this money wisely and well," muses Barbara, little dreaming that behind prison bars the man she loves is living through the first awful days of his sentence—days when despair clutches at the heart, when the terrible realization of the horror of the life breaks down the manhood, when even trust in the mercy of God seems but a mockery. CHAPTER IX "Have you quite made up your mind to resign?" Mr. Kelly, the bank manager, puts the question to the cashier, who has asked for an interview, and has announced his intention of resigning his post at the bank. In answer to Mr. Kelly's question, Mr. Grey lifts his eyes from the contemplation of the carpet. "Yes, sir. I have made up my mind. I have never been the same since that day. Every time the bank door opens my heart beats. It has affected my health, Mr. Kelly—indeed it has!" "In that case you had better go," says the manager. "What do you think of doing?" "I have a brother in America; he will get me work," Mr. Grey says, rather evasively. "And, Mr. Kelly, I never told you that I am a married man. My wife was beneath me in position, and I kept it secret. It is chiefly to please her I am going to America." "Well, I hope you will get on," replies Mr. Kelly, "but you have a good berth here, and would be likely to get a raise." "I know all that; but my wife is extravagant; I give her all my salary. Oh, you don't know what an anxiety it all is!" explains the cashier, glancing round with his frightened gaze. "You don't look well, Mr. Grey, and I am sorry your marriage is an unhappy one. Perhaps you are wise to emigrate, after all." The interview is ended, and Mr. Grey goes back to his work, a crushed, depressed looking figure. He is nervous and starting at every sound. He has never been the same since the attack made on him at the time of the robbery; the shock left him a perfect wreck. A carriage rolls down the street and passes the bank. Mr. Grey sees it driving by as he looks over the wire blind of the bank window. It is the carriage from the Court, with two men on the box in faded claret livery, and in it are seated Mrs. Saville and her son, en route for London, to meet Barbara on her return from Tasmania. The Court is to be half shut up, and the few servants remaining in charge are to be left on board wages, for it is not Mrs. Saville's intention to return until the marriage between Barbara and Sebastian has taken place. Three days later Barbara herself stands before her aunt, with blazing blue eyes looking out from the whiteness of her face. She has landed only this morning, and Sebastian met her, and brought her straight to the hotel where his mother is staying. Mrs. Saville, with heartless callousness, has told her niece of the bank robbery, and the crime and punishment of George Bouverie. Anger and pity swell the girl's heart to bursting. George in prison! Words seem to choke her. She cannot speak, but stands with her hands locked together, staring at her aunt. Sebastian regards her critically. "My dear Barbara, Bouverie was always a bad lot," he says calmly. "Tolerably good looking, I grant you, but quite unprincipled. He was bound to come to grief." Barbara turns slowly. "You are not speaking the truth, and you know it!" she cries, with sudden passion. "If I had only known, if I had only known!"—her eyes wide and full of pain. Mrs. Saville, in her sable draperies, sweeps across the room. "My dear child, try and be thankful that you have escaped without having your name mentioned with such a man. Not a soul knows of any foolish nonsense between you." "It was no nonsense!" Barbara says firmly. "I was engaged to George Bouverie when I left home, I am engaged to him still!" There is pride and determination in the young face. Mrs. Saville gives a short laugh. "You will have plenty of time, dear, to test your constancy and his. Five years is a good slice out of a life, and they say convict life has a degrading influence. Where are you going, Barbara?—as, with one wounded, indignant look, Barbara moves towards the door. "I am going to save George," the girl says, her voice rising with a kind of triumphant ring. "I shall cross over to Dublin tonight. No, Sebastian, do not say one word. I am going to prove George Bouwerte's innocence. "I fear you are attempting an impossible feat." snears Sebastian, a dull flush spreading over his face. Barbara, with her hand on the door, lifts her glorious eyes. "He is innocent. It was I who lent him the money. I forced him to take it, and it was for my sake he kept silence. Oh, I see it all now!" she cries, with a little impressible not "If I had been there it could never have happened! The hundred pounds was mine, only he was too honorable to make my name public!"—a loving tender look sweeping over her face. (To be continued.) HEALTH AND GOOD LOOKs Something Useful May Be Learned free an Actress' Experience. One of the most admired of American actresses, both for her grace and comeliness, has been divulging some of the secrets by which she has preserved her beauty. "Vigilance," she says, "is the first requisite. I am ever on the alert and when I discover traces of fatigue or any other beauty-destroying symptoms in my face or figure I set about remedying it at once. I don't attempt to be anything but a professional woman during the theatrical season. I don't receive and I don't go to other people's houses. I simply haven't time, and I don't make it. My mode of life is very simple. I sleep nine or ten hours as a rule—never less than eight. I eat regularly and heartily, and avoid everything that would be apt to give me indigestion. Indigestion is a powerful foe to beauty, a greater foe than age, as great even as worry. I walk every day, rain or shine, and I wear a corded corset waist and stout fat-heeled boots. I try not to worry, no matter what happens, and I never tire myself unnecessarily. My method is so very simple few women would care to try it. It has no balms or diets, and I don't even go in for fancy baths. A warm bath at night and a cold bath in the morning are good enough for me. On Sundays I have to go to the theater, but I don't devote it to lolling or receiving visitors. I have my usual amount of exercise and then devote most of the day to manicure and hairdresser. When one's hair is five feet long and very thick it is not an easy task to have it shampooed. How do I keep the same weight all the time? Why, by vigilance and determination. If I gain a pound I immediately stop drinking water at meals and give up sugar for a while. If the bones in my neck begin to show I eat bananas and cream and put an extra spoonful of oil in my salad. It's so simple, but, of course, it precludes much pleasure." INVENTION AND APPETITE. Great Thinkers Are Sometimes Great Eaters. Sometimes the ability to meet a prolonged and highly productive mental strain is curiously linked with the ability to digest a hearty meal; it is another way of saying that great thinkers are sometimes great eaters. This may be especially the case where great thinkers have really had very little to eat. This story is told by a Chicago paper, evidently on the authority of Mr. Tesla himself, of a somewhat amusing experience which Nikola Tesla once had when in Mr. Edison's employ. Mr. Edison had a laboratory in Paris, and to this establishment, when a student, Nikola Tesla went to ask for work. The laboratory was in charge of a foreman named Fulton, who told Tesla that he would employ him, but only on the condition that he "would work." Tesla said he would, and he did, to such purpose that for two days and nights he did not close his eyes. At the end of the first fortnight he had not had forty-eight hours of sleep. The foreman here intervened and ordered the young man to rest. "We have both been under a strain," he said. "Let us go and get a good meal." He took Tesla to a restaurant, and ordered one of the biggest and thickest steaks that could be bought anywhere. It was enormous. With it there were various garnishings, which made for the two men a hearty meal. But when they had finished it, something in the young student's look led Mr. Fulton to say: "Is there anything else you would like? You are out with me, you know, and I wish you would order anything you want." Tesla looked around vaguely for a moment, as if making up his mind, and then said: "Mr. Fulton, if you don't mind, I would like another steak!"—Youth's Companion. As to the Teeth. Sound teeth not only add to one's comfort, but they prevent disease. Many diseases of the eye, ear, and carities of the head are traceable to unsound teeth, and there is not a disease to which the body is liable that is not aggravated by an unhealthy condition of the teeth. Eye diseases are especially common as the results of poor teeth. These affections may vary from a simple dimness of sight to total blindness, the symptoms, however, usually disappearing when the teeth are attended to. Poor teeth are, moreover, a common cause of indigestion, for good digestion can take place only when the food is thoroughly masticated, and this demands sound and healthy teeth. Proper care of teeth during childhood often means prevention of much trouble later in life. EVERY enfranchised citizen should exercise his right of suffrage. Messers Clayton Robinson, and W. Ho'bert, Hurley Crouch, made a flying trip to Newton on their bicycles Sundday morning, making the trip and returnsng in about 6 hours; the distance being about 60 miles, the gentlemen think they could have made it in less time, had it not been for the heavy wind prevailing. The Searchlight is permanently located at 140 north Main street. Keep your eyes opened for the big event that will take place Aug the 11th S. Riverside Park. Every Colored persons should contribute something to the maintenance of the Helen Gould Child ren's Home. The officers are J. C. Parrish Pres: W. C. Neeley Sec H. H. 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I continued to use your medicine until the swelling was entirely gone. When the doctor came he was very much surprised to see me so much better." -MRS. MARY S could not walk. The doctor told my husband I would have to undergo an operation. This I refused to do until I had given your medicine a trial. Before I had taken one bottle the swelling began to disappear. I continued to use your medicine until the swelling was entirely gone. When the doctor came he was very much surprised to see me so much better."—MRS. MARY SMITH, Arlington, Iowa. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I was sick for two years with falling of the womb, and inflammation of the ovaries and bladder. I was bloated very badly. My left limb would swell so I could not step on my foot. I had such bearing down pains I could not straighten up or walk across the room and such shooting pains would go through me that I thought I could not stand it. My mother got me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and told me to try it. 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The 57th Year will open September 4th, 1900 Catalogues Free. Address REV. A. MORNISSEY. C. S. C.. President. PISO'S CURRE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Better than any other cure. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION LISTENED TO THE APPEAL. Is Willing To Mediate Between China And The Powers. Washington, July 25.—The president has listened to the appeal of the Chinese government as transmitted through Minister Wn, and has signified his willingness to mediate between the imperial government and the powers, but only upon conditions which first must be met by the Chinese government. It is known that the answer is entirely consistent with the statement of principles laid down by Secretary Hay in his identical note to the powers, and, moreover, it accepts as truthful the Chinese statements relative to the safety of the foreign ministers at Pelkin. It would not, of course, be possible to take the initial steps toward mediation were either party to the negotiations to entertain openly distrust of the accuracy of the statements of the other. There must be confidence between them. The United States' answer does not go to the length of the French answer to a similar application in laying down conditions which the Chinese government could not meet, even if so disposed, if it actually is struggling for its own existence. It does, however, look to the immediate relief of the foreign missionaries in Pekin, and, moreover, to the protection of all foreigners, missionaries and traders in China and to the restoration of order. With that much accomplished, the state department feels that it can properly approach the powers with the Chinese propositions for a settlement for what has occurred. Neeley and Rathbone Washington, July 27.—Mr. Bristow's report on Cuban embezzlements is given out. He finds that Neeley's embezzlements aggregated at least $131,713, and says he was justified in recommending the removal of Director General Rathbone. Whether or not the latter was guilty with Neeley, he says, there can be no doubt that in the matter of unauthorized per diem allowances, personal expenses and warrants unaccounted for, he unlawfully appropriated to his own use the money of the United States. For this, Mr. Rathbone will be required to answer. Chinese Arsenal Captured. Tien Tsin, Friday, July 13, via Che Foo. July 17 and Shanghai, July 24. After fighting all day, a force of Japanese, supported by British and Russians, captured the Chinese fortified arsenal two miles east of the city, making a night attack. The foreigners charged under a very heavy fire from the arsenal, following the chinamen and killing 400 of them. The foreign loss was heavy, but is not reported. Chang Remains in Shanghai. Washington, July 27.—The state department has received a cagramble dispatch from Consul General Goodnow, but it is stated that it contains nothing to clear up the situation at Pekin. Mr. Goodnow says that Li Hung Chang will remain at Shanghai for the present and will conduct his negotiations from that city. Snow and Hail in Michigan. Marshall, Mich., July 24.—Snow fell here for a few minutes during a hard wind storm. The wind did much damage, blowing down oreffards and barns, unroofing houses and breaking glass. Federal Official Endorses Strike. St. Louis, Mo., July 27.—President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, who has been here investigating the strike of employees on the St. Louis Transit company, has left here for Chicago. W. P. Mahon, president of the Analgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, said that before leaving here Mr. Gompers endorsed the strike and said the movement would have the support of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers is a U. S. official. Bradstreets' Report on Grain. New York, July 26.—The supply of wheat east of the Rocky mountains, decrease 625,000 bushels; in Europe and afloat on the ocean, decrease 1,300,000 bushels; total decrease, 1,925,000 bushels; against 678,000 bushels, increase a year ago. Corn decreased 1,168,000 bushels and oats decreased 872,000 bushels. There was a decrease of 102,000 bushels at Pong Huron and 100,000 at northwestern interior elevators; with increase of 181,000 in Chicago and 75,000 at East St. Louis. Legations May be Sent to Tien Tsin. Paris, July 25.—This comes from Shanghai: "Information from Pekin, dated July 18, says that the tsung li yamen deputed Won Jui, an under see retary of the department, to see the foreign ministers and he found every one well, without any one missing, the German minister excepted. "General Yung Lu is going to memoralize the throne to send them all under escort to Tien Tsin in the hope that the military operations will then be stopped." Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure or Moner Refunded by Your Merchant, so Why Not Try It? Price 50c. Difficult to Stop. Experiments seem to show that a large ocean steamer, going at nineteen knots an hour, will move a distance of two miles after its engines are stopped and reversed, and no authority gives less than a mile to a mile and a half, as the required space to stop its progress. The violent collisions in some cases during fogs may thus be accounted for. Sandwich Men: The walking advertisement known as a "sandwich man" is by no means a modern idea. In 1346 a procession of men dressed to represent straw-covered wine bottles used to parade the streets of Florence, Italy, being hired by the wine merchants there. HEALTHY WOMEN. Mary J. 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Such being the case anyone who knows anything whatever about the operations of Peruna can understand why this remedy is a permanent cure for summer catarrh. It eradicates chronic catarrh from the system, invigorates the stomach and liver, cleanses the blood of all impurities, and therefore permanently cures by removing the cause—a host of maladies peculiar to hot weather. The cause being removed the symptoms disappear of themselves. "Summer Catarrh" sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. The flustered bride usually has all sorts of presence except presence of mind. Eat What You Like. When you take Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial, for then, dyspepsia, indigestion heartburn, foul breath, dizziness, and the long train of similar troubles will disappear and your cleansed and awakened system will demand food. Sound digestion and sound appetite go together, and both follow the use of this time-tried remedy. Sold by agent in every town. If there were no fools in the world wisdom would be at a discount. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Notre Dame, Ind. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the great educational institutions of the West, which appears in another column of this paper. Those of our readers who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the president, who will send them a catalogue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, etc. There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the university, in which students of all grades will have every opportunity of preparing themselves for higher studies. The Commercial Course, intended for young men preparing for business, may be finished in one or two years according to the ability of the student. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under thirteen, is an unique department of the institution. The higher courses are thorough in every respect, and students will find every opportunity of perfecting themselves in any line of work they may choose to select. Thoroughness in class work, exactness in the care of students, and devotion to the best interests of all, are the distinguishing characteristics of Notre Dame University. Fifty-six years of active work in the cause of education have made this institution famous all over the country. The more grass a man has on his lawn the mower he wants. SEND 47 cts. New Plano & Cognam best grade at half price. COMMON SENSE VIOLIN 1 An Editor's Apology. A new editor having taken charge of the Gallatin North Missouri, the following apologetic notice appears in the first issue published under his management: "Attention has been called to one blemish upon our record, and of a term in the Missouri legislature, but we can offer as an extenuating circumstance the fact that when an attempt was made to give us another term we were acquitted by a very large majority." Proof Against Wasp-Stings. Mr. Murray, a Scottish naturalist, in a recent paper on the habits of wasps, tells how a blackbird will stand at the side of a hanging wasps' nest and deliberately tear it in pieces, in order to get at the larvae, apparently undisturbed by the swarm of angry insects, whose vicious stings instantly put to flight the human curiosity seeker who ventures near to watch the demolition. Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Ease Trade-Mark. Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunction, with costs, and a full accounting of the costs. He also ordered the manufacturer of the foot powder called "Dr. Clark's Foot Powder," and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, the Balm Clark's Foot Powder, which is declared, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of "Foot-Ease," the Balm Clark's Foot Powder, which shoes for tired, aching feet, now so largely advertised and sold all over the country. Allen S. Olmsted, of Lo Roy, N. Y., owes the Balm Clark's Foot Powder Ease" and he is the first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. He will send a sample Free to any in this country, writes him for the trade-mark in this case, his trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudulently attempt to profit by the extensive "Foot-Ease" advertisement and spurious and similar appearance preparation, labeled and put up in envelopes and boxes like Foot-Ease. Similar suits have been filed against him now infringing on the Foot-Ease trademark and common law rights. The humble author has one advantage over a king—he can choose his own subjects. WANTED.—Lady canvassers to introduce new catchy article. Can make $3 a day. Write at once. Don't miss it. OSCAR WILKINSON 50 E. 14th St. New York City. About the only kind of hoods used in summer are false-hoods. Did You Ever Run Across an old letter—ink all faded out? Couldn't have been Carter's ink for it doesn't fade. If you want advice consult a disinterested party. To Cure Dandruff Quickly use Coke Dandruff Cure. Monay rounded if it fails, so why not try it? Love is too often measured by a tape line bearing dollar marks. NOTICE.—Two traveling millions wanted in each state. Salary and expenses, experience not necessary. Address Pocahontas Tobacco Works, Bedford City, Virginia. Love is often a hurdle race over Cupid's obstacles. FITS Permanent Campus. Noelle owensnesses after first day a use of Dr. Kline's it got Nervousness. Sand for FREE $2.00 in all bottle and treaties. Dr R. H. KLINK. Lcd. 313. Arch St. Philadelphia. Pa. Heated arguments over the best way to keep cool are in order. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get in the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable and send what they advertise. An old bachelor says that time is the only cure for lovingsickness. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. A true man would as soon be knocked down as pitied. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. 25c a bottle. A high temperature will give most of us a high temper. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. Wise men may acquire much knowledge from those who have none themselves. Write to Dr. C. J. Moffett, St. Louis, Mo., for his valuable little TEETHINA Wash-List Book, free. Some fellows make a rye face every time they take a drink. Get Your Money's Worth. It's hard to appreciate the full worth of Morley's Wonderful Eight until you have used it in a score of the emergencies that come in every household. Dr. T. F. Barnhart, of Claiborne Parish, La., says: "Permit me to say I have tried Morley's Wonderful Eight and found it a good medicine in Pleurisy and Pneumonia. Nothing equals it in relieving pain." Price, 25 cents. Sold by agent in every town. The prettiest hood is childhood; the most expensive is womanhood. When cycling, take a bar of White's Yucatan. You can ride further and easier. It might be a good thing to send General Humidity out to China. SPECIAL OFFER: Cut this ad, out and send you this Violin琴房 by EKW Press to examination. Examine it at your express office and if not exactly as represented, and the most wonderful bargain you can find, agree to a CIAL OFFER PRICE, $28.47 for G.10 and EXPRESS charges. This is a regular $G.00 Sparvarius color, colorfully polished, powerful and in tone, complete with violin case, rosa and one of the best instruction books ever published. Write for musical instrument and organ and piano. M.T. ROBERTS' SUPPLY HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN. The Best Prescription Is Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle So That the People May Know Just What They Are Taking. Imitators do not advertise their formula knowing that you would not buy their medicine if you knew what it contained. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that Grove's is the Original and that all other so-called "Tasteless" chill tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove's is superior to all others in every respect. You are not experimenting when you take Grove's—its superiority and excellence having long been established. Grove's is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 500 WINCHESTER FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS "NewRival," "Leader," and "Repeater" Insist upon having them, take no others and you will get the best shells that money can buy. ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM. WILL MAKE BABY FAT AS A PIG. DR. MOFFETT'S TEETHINA (Teething Powders) Costs only 25 cents at Druggists, Or mall 25 cents to C. J. MOFFETT, M. D., ST. LOUIS, MO. Allays Irritation, Alds Digestion Regulates the Bowels, Strengthens the Child, Makes Teething Easy. TEETHINA Relieves the Bowels Troubles of Children of ANY AGE. Room for improvement—The school room. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILD TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 500. Nothing comes home to a man so much as an unsettled bill. Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow. Large package 5c. Do not stone the baby when you rock the cradle. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. 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Better make your calls short than pose as a yawn maker. ABSOLUTE SECURITY Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Austin Food See Pac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Price 25 Cents GENUINE MUST BE NATURAL SIGNATURE. Purify Vegetable. USE THE BEST FAULTLESS STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS.COLLARS.CUFFS.AND FINE LINER KIDDER'S PASTILLES A Suro relief for Asthma. Sold by all Dungtah STOCK Charlestown, Mass. W.N.U.WICHITA-NO.-30-1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly