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The Wichita Searchlight. SUCCESSOR TO PITTSBURG PLAINDEALER. How the Constitution Is Twisted All Done To Keep The NEGRO DOWN. He's The Bone Of Contention. From The Medi trebuque, Chaalesion, W. Va One of the catch phrases of Democracy, is, "better to tear down the flag than tear up the constitution." There is nothing to authorize the assertion that the Republican party is tearing up the constitution, and the statement is utterly without foundation. There is no violation of the constitution in the conduct of the Spanish war, or in any policy of the Republican party. There is a state of war in the Phillippines, and the President as Commander in Chief has full power; the treatment of the Phillippines is not different from the treatment received by the people of Lousian a, after the Lousiana purchase, or the people of Florida, after the accession of Florida, or Mexico, or California. The same methods are being pursued. In all exegencies the constitution becomes very dear to the Democrat; they are as if they were specially charged by providence to guard it, when they were doing their best to destroy it, and to destroy the Union and the liberties of the people they charged Republicans with violating the Constitution. The constant charge brought against Lincoln during the war was that he was violating COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City. CATTLE - Heavy ..... 4 25 @ 5 6 BOGS - No. to heavy ..... 6 0 @ 5 12 WHEAT - No. hard ..... 6 6 @ 6 71 CORN - No. ..... 6 9 @ 6 71 OATS - No. ..... 6 9 @ 6 71 BAY - No. to palmoy ..... 0 0 @ 6 26 HAY - No. to palmoy ..... 0 0 @ 6 26 BAY - No. to palmoy ..... 0 0 @ 6 26 BUTTER ..... 6 25 @ 6 50 EGGS ..... 17 @ 19 EGGS ..... 12 @ 19 Chicago. WHEAT - No. 2 hard ..... 70 @ 21% WHEAT - No. 2 hard ..... 70 @ 21% OATS - No. ..... 22 @ 22% St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES ..... 4 20 @ 5 85 STORNERS & FEEDERS ..... 3 25 @ 4 45 SOUTHERN STEEERS ..... 3 45 @ 4 85 Cotton. Uplands. Gulf. Liverpool ..... 551 New York ..... 95% 9%c Garberon ..... ..... 9%c Wichita Grain. Ogun. High. Low. Today. Yday WHEAT ..... 75 71% August ..... 75 71% CORN ..... 75-1% 71%c August ..... 41% 40% OATS ..... 31 39% August ..... 21% 21% Begt ..... 21% 21% Begt ..... 21% 21% Wheat. September ..... 75% 74% Corn. September ..... 75% 74% Wichita Live Stock. BOGS ..... 4 40 @ 4 92% CATTLE ..... @ Chicago Live Stock. BEEVES ..... 4 65 @ 6 10 COWS AND FEEDERS ..... 4 65 @ 6 10 COOKINGS & FEEDERS ..... 3 35 @ 4 75 TOTALS BEEVES ..... 4 25 @ 5 00 BOGS ..... 5 05 @ 5 45 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF There were never so many commercial travellers on the road as now. St. Paul shows a population of 163.-622, and its twin, Minneapolis has 202,514. Blackleg is decimating some of the finest herds of cattle in northwest Missouri. The population of St. Louis is 575.-239; an increase of nearly 29 per cent in ten years. An anarchist meeting in Berlin was dispersed by the police, who arrested the speaker. The German police are driving out the anarchists since the assassination of King Wembert. While resoonitering a British party the constitution;that he was trampling under foot the liberties of the people;an that is now the case. The Democratic party in the South daily violates the constitution and tramples it under foot in distranchising the Negro citizens who are authorized to vote under constitutional amendments. They should not complain of the constitution being violate in the Phillip pines,when it is not denied that it is the purpose of the Demecratic party to disfranchise ten millions of American citizens. Lit ten what Senator Tillman,one of the Democratic leaders said,on the floor of the Senate,as it appears in the Congressional Record of 26 1900. In speaking of the Negro vote in the South,he said,"Yet you stood up here and insisted that we give these people a free ballot and a fair count.They had it for eiaht years, as long as boyonets stood there.....when this happened we took the government away;we stuffed the ballot boxes,we shot them,and we are not ashamed of it.So we called a constitutional convention, and we eliminated,as I said,all the Colored people whom we could under the XIVth and XVth amendment found a cache of 140,000 rounds of Boerammunition. A company of infantry left Fort Leavenworth over the Frisco Line, for Little Rock, this week. Empress Frederick, mother of the Kaiser and Queen Victoria's eldest daughter is seriously sick. Prince Eui Wah, heir apparent to the Korean throne is about to enter college in Washington, D. C. There are but a very few of the railroads of this country that have not an increased business this year. The United States is to build large warehouses at Taku, China; taking the material from our Pacific coast. The Press Club, of Chicago, entertained the leaders of both national parties with an exsecution on the lake. Mexico City is asking, through the Mexican government, that the next Pan-American congress be held there. Twenty thousand packing house employees in the big cities may quit work September 15 if their demands are ignored. Akron, Ohio, has quieted down and the state troops have been sent to their homes. There are arrests of ring-leaders of the mob. A big circus tent was blown down and badly torn by wind at Cameron, Mo., just as it had been put up. There was no show that day. The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger announces the engagement of Queen Wilhelmina to Prince Frederick Adolf of Mecklenberg-Schwerin. Sixteen of the negroes who were injured in the race riot in New York city, claim to be British subjects, living in Trinidad. They have put in claims. St. Joseph, Mich., suffered the loss of a church steeple, and near there ten barns containing this year's harvest were destroyed in an electrical storm. The Chicago Methodists are talking about selling two-million dollars worth of churches in that city and erecting a temple for a consolidated congregation. WICHITA, KANSAS, SEPT. 1, 1900. MORE ABOUT FIRE INSURANCE. Two Correspondents Attempt to Answer the Questions of "Property Owner." Mr. Editor: I read with interest a letter addressed to you and printed in your recent issue, signed "A Property Owner," in which he inquires why capital remains in the fire insurance business and why fire insurance companies increase in size, if as was stated in the article headed "Business Men's Ideas of Fire Insurance," also published in your paper, there is little profit. Being a property owner myself, and also possessing a small amount of fire insurance stock, I have investigated the question of profit in insurance companies. In the first place "Property Owner" is laboring under a serious misapprehension because he does not distinguish between the capital stock and assets of a fire insurance company. Men may subscribe $200,000 as capital stock to start a company. For every premium received 50 per cent of it has to be put up as a reinsurance reserve, if it is an annual policy, and much more if it is written for a longer term. This reserve is held to protect the policy holder so that if his policy is cancelled he can get the unearned premium. The assets of a company are its actual holdings, its own money. It invests them in stocks, bonds or any approved security. Dividends to stockholders are not paid on the assets which earn these dividends largely, but on the amount of capital stock which has been used to start and organize a company. I know of one company that pays 17 per cent dividends and people cite it as an example of enormous profits in fire underwriting. On the surface it appears to be true, but let us examine further. This company was organized before 1850 and has never increased its original capital, $200,000, but the assets of the company now amount to over $2,000,000, representing the gradual accretions from year to year. Stockholders get no benefit of any income save dividends. Seventeen per cent of this company's stock equals less than 2 per cent on its actual investment assets. If a man buys a farm it is his capital. He works then to build up a surplus, which represents that which he really possesses after deducting all he owes. His investment is his land and he desires to get reasonable returns. If he can add to his surplus his credit is that much better. He wants it large enough to meet any emergency. If he fails to do this and has to mortgage his farm to meet expenditures people will not be free to give him credit. So with a fire insurance company. If it did not make money and grow people would wisely be wary of it. Hence the stockholders allow any profits it makes to accumulate, they merely getting reasonable dividends on their original investment. During protracted periods of fire losses a large surplus is essential for a company to hold the faith of its policy-holders. For example, since January last, in a period of six months, several companies have lost over $200,000 in their surplus and only two show even normal gains. As all commercial transactions are dependent on fire insurance, and all business of a material nature has to have fire insurance to get credit, it is plain that a fire insurance company needs to build up a safe net surplus. People do not realize that there are two parts to a fire insurance company, first the investment of its own funds on which interest is carried, and second, the selling of its policies. The public has nothing to do with the first, although the interest and the compound interest are great factors in building up a company's surplus and stockholders usually are paid dividends on the capital stock from the interest earnings. They could divide the assets and invest them individually if they desired. The second part only concerns the public as it is from the profits on the sale of policies which determines whether the people are paying too high rates for their fire insurance. The underwriting profit consists of the difference between the total premiums received on policies each year and the losses paid together with expenses paid for conducting the business. I have carefully gone over the official figures of fire insurance companies which are made under cath and reported to our state insurance department at Topeka. I find for the last eight years these companies show only an actual underwriting profit of 14 per cent, that is, on every dollar Baron's American Wife. Baron Mumm von Schwarzenstein, the new German ambassador to China, like his predecessor, Von Ketteler, has an American wife. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Le Vinsen, who were once residents of New York. Mrs. Le Vinsen is a descendant of the Rooscelvels. of premiums received the companies that have made 1½ cents. This does not include the companies that have failed, which have been many. I trust I have made this clear to "Property Owner." As to his queries regarding valued policy and anti-compact laws I am not qualified to speak, in fact, I would like to be enlightened myself. BUSINESS MAN. The following letter gives another man's views: Dear Sir—Noting articles in recent issues of your paper relative to fire insurance leads me answer in part at least "Property Owner," who inquires why capital continues in fire insurance if the business is unprofitable. The bulk of the world's commerce is conducted on credit, necessitating fire insurance. The wholesale merchant and manufacturer can and do trust to the honesty of their customers, but they cannot risk the loss of property by the elements. Therefore, insurance is not a matter of choice, but a prerequisite, and what is known as stock insurance is about the only variety that can be used as collateral. Stock insurance requires capital, and business men form companies more for the purpose of protecting their commerce than in the expectation of any direct profit out of underwriting itself. As an illustration: It will take from fifty to sixty millions of dollars to handle this year's Kansas wheat crop alone. Grain men have to borrow money for this purpose, and the banks have to have insurance policies as collateral to protect themselves and their customers from possible loss by fire, lightning, and tornado. The same is true of the retail merchant when he buys goods, or the owner of a lot or farm when he wants to borrow money with which to build. The sixty leading fire insurance companies doing business in this country for the ten years ending on the 31st of December, 1898, made a net profit out of underwriting of 2.51 per cent. Since then the fire insurance losses on this business have wiped out all this profit, and much more, yet capital does not withdraw from the business for the simple reason that it cannot as long as the commerce of the country is carried on on its present basis. A stock fire insurance company has a paid-up cash capital and surplus. On the wisdom with which its assets are invested depends the profit. The most successful companies distribute but a small amount of the profits on these investments to their stockholders, instead, allowing them to accumulate as a protection to their policy holders, and this accounts for how companies have doubled their assets, the object being protection for their policy holders in the event of conflagration or unusual fire losses. There is probably no business in proportion to the money invested in which there has been as much failure as in fire insurance. Certainly none in which there has been more. It is attributable to various causes, among others, to conflagrations and abnormal individual fires (such as this year) and especially to fire companies, unlike life companies, having no combined statistics showing what the average loss in a series of years has been on any class of property, the experience of an individual company being worthless, and hence having to guess at a rate, the fierce competition in the business rendering same as a rule below the profit line. The best evidence that the business of fire insurance has not been profitable is the fact that there is less than one-fortieth of the American companies doing business today in this country that were in existence twenty-five years ago. The capital thus invested was either lost in the business or placed in enterprises where it would not be liable to be wiped out by conflagrations or reckless competition. Most states have laws regulating the manner in which insurance companies are to invest their assets, and all states have laws regulating how much reinsurance reserve each company has to maintain for the protection of its policy holders. All stock companies have annually to furnish sworn statements to the various insurance departments of their financial condition, clearly and minutely setting forth of what these assets consist and how invested, and which statements can be verified by examination. There is no other business subject to such surveillance, necessitating showing clearly from what sources its profit or loss annually has accrued. Dealing in various kinds of collateral, especially fire insurance policies, requires my keeping posted on this class of business, and the foregoing is the result of my investigations. The congress for Christian archaeology, which recently held its session at Rome, has petitioned the Pope to open the crypts of the Vatican to scientific researches. Below the basilica of St. Peter there are long rows of galleries and a subterranean church, all containing valuable treasures. 1863 SEPT.-22 1900 Wichita-Kas Emancipation Celebration AND OLD FASH'ON BARBECUE! ATSouth Riverside Park Saturday.September 22nd And At Night At PEERLESS HALL Music-Prof.Fisher's Military Band GOOD - SPEAKING. Come and See the Foot Race,Bicycle Race,Potato Race,Wheel Barrow Race,and a Great Crowd of The Human Race.Match Game of Base Ball. The Committee has taken the Greatest Precaution to make all detail arrangements for this,the most Gigantie and Elaborate Entertainment Ever Given in the State. Excursions from Winfield,Newton,Hutchinson,Wellington,Valley Center and all points in Southern Kansas. Reduced Rates on all Railroads. Don't fail to be there.Large $^{8}$t, Finest ever in Kansas. Citizens Committae:W.C.Neiley,J.S.Quarler,J.E.Lewis,T.J.Banks. Phillip Hyde,Jno.W.Hall. Rev.M.L.Copeland,Master of Ceremonies. Jas.Jackson,Marshall of the Day. Address all communications to W.N.Miller,General Manager 140 N.Main st Wichita, Kansas Admission- To The Park,FREE,FREE To The Hall Only 10 Cents WORRY TRACES WRINKLES. To Be Beautiful — Keep Your Temper. Bad temper and worry will trace more wrinkles in one night than hot and cold bathing and massage and complexion brushes and creams and lotions can wash out in a year's faithful application. Physicians assert that an immense amount of nerve force is expended in every fit of bad temper; that when one little part of the nervous system gets wrong, the face first records it. The eyes begin losing the luster of youth, muscles become flabby the skin refuses to contract accordingly, and the inevitable result is wrinkles, femininity's fiercest and most insidious foe. Indulging in a fit of temper not only makes a woman old and ugly before her time, but it actually shortens life. Moreover, every time she loses control of her temper she hieses a moral brain cell and weakens by several degrees her capacity for self-control. The oftener she permits herself to indulge in what she believes to be righteous indignation the more frequently she finds such occasions presenting themselves, for life is full of such irritating opportunities. It is these bursts of passion that prevent women from growing old so beautifully that they seem to retain their youth, and like a tree, becoming more attractive with age. A mouth that learns how to set itself in an aggrieved or hard line soon settles in a grim curve that writes years of age upon a woman's face and deep lines an accusing and disfiguring wrinkle. There is no use attempting to reason with a woman about the evil effects of ill-temper while she is in an ugly mood. She knows perfectly well that it is bad form; that it savors of the coarse and underbred; that it is weak and belittling and immoral, and that it hurts her cause to lose her temper. But she does not stop at just that time to think about it, and to remind her of the fact only adds fuel to the flames. Queen's Favorite Preachers Queen Victoria has always taken a great personal interest in her favorite preachers. Dean Stanley received his first appointment at court as chaplain to Prince Albert, to whom he had been introduced by Baron Bunsen, but he did not come into special contact with the queen until after the death of the prince consort, when, in fulfillment of an arrangement made by the prince VOL.11. NO.14 T.-22 1900 Vita-Kas On Celebration FASH'ON BECUE! Riverside Park October 22nd Night At PSS HALL Her's Military Band SPEAKING. The Foot Race,Bicycle Race,Potato Race,Wheel Barrow Race,and a Race.Match Game of Base Ball. Test Precaution to make all detail most Gigantie and Elaborate Given in the State. Speaking at 2:30.. Hutchinson,Wellington,Valley in Southern Kansas. On all Railroads. t, Finest ever in Kansas. S.Quarles,J.E.Lewis,T.J.Banks. Jno.W.Hall. monies. mall of the Day. N.Miller,General Manager Wichita,Kansas To The Park,FREE,FREE To The Hall,Only 10 Cents before his death, Dr. Stanley accompanied the prince of Wales on a tour in the east. He went uncomplainingly at a time when his mother lay stricken with a fatal illness and there seemed little prospect that he would return in time to see her alive. Her majesty was unspeakably touched when she discovered this set of loyalty, and her own grief drew her into close sympathy with one who likewise sorrowed for a loved one. Upon his return from the east Dr. Stanley spent a week at Windsor, where he conducted a series of mournful and moving services in connection with the anniversary of the prince consort's death, and was the means of affording much spiritual comfort to the queen. At that time a friendship was cemented which closed only with death. Trade with China. During the year 1898 China imported from all foreign nations goods valued at $146,000,000. During the same year the exports of China amounted to $118,000,000. As an evidence of which nation has the greatest interest in China so far as trade and commerce go it may be stated that of the total of Chinese imports Great Britain and its colonies supply goods to the amount of $111,000,000, while of the exports it buys about $60,000,000, or more than one-half is transacted through the British Most of the English trade with China is transacted through the British crown colony of Hongkong, which was ceded to Great Britain by China in 1841. During the same year the United States imported goods from China to the value of $13,000,000 and sent back in return American goods valued at a little more than $9,000,000. Ruilng Class in China. The Tartars, who overthrew the native Chinese dynasty of China in 1644, are the ruling class in China. There are in the neighborhood of 10,000,000 Tartars in the empire. The "Chinese pigtail" dates from the Tartar invasion, when the Tartars forced the Chinese to grow cues after the Tartar custom as a mark of subjection. Thousands of Chinese were killed for refusing to plait their hair, and even now the New China party has as one of its objects the abolition of the old rule. There are, or were until recently, less than 12,000 foreigners permanently resident in China. Of this number 5,000 are British, 1,600 Americans, and 1,200 Jap- --- W. N. MILLER, Editor. 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: IN ADVANCE. Address all communications to "The Bearlight," Box 1017, Wichita, Kansas. 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. If you fail to get your paper notify us at once. 140 N Main st What we say About It. In our last issue we commented briefly upon a portion of an editorial which appeared in the Eagle of this city,the portion quoted and commented upon follows: 'The truth is, and every intelligent and conservant Colored man knows it to be a truth, the Republican party can get along without the Negro, much more surely and safely, than the Negro can get along without the Republican party. The Colored man can not help, much less save, the Republican party in the south, because the Democrats will not permit him, WHILE the Republican states of the North will be Republican EVEN IF the Colored vote SHOULD GO SOLIDLY over to the aid of its old time and natural enemy' And in commenting briefly, we said in part: 'It is a truth, and every intelligent and conservant republican knows it to be a truth that the Republican party would be relegated to the rear, was it not for the black vote' In the issue of 30th inst of said paper he said in part: 'That blabbed mouth negro who was encou tered howling around on an Eagle editorial, of the other morning, is neither true to himself nor his race. HE IS PROBABLY UNDER PAY.Every word was was so consevatively true thai no Democrat dare deny it.' There is an old adage and true, which says, "You must not judge other people by Yourself". Because one man demands and receives pay for his public writings and utterances, is no criterion that all men are so fortunate. It is more than manifest to the unprejudiced interpretator, that the constituti'n in the southern states mentioned, are clearly in violation of the XV amendment to the constitution, in particular which reads— Art.NV,Sec 1,Elective Franchise, — 'The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or any State, on account of race, or color, or Previous Condition of servitude' Yet,a Messiah,a great law interpreter suddenly emerges from the ranks of those who wrote passed, and championed the adoptiod of this amendment and in the words of that bigot and self confessed 'nigger 'murderer and hater, Ben Tilman, he boastingly bids other states to pass similar acts by proudly telling them'and which CANNOT be annulled by the Supreme Court.' It is quite evident that the framers of that amendment looked far into the future and anticipated the forth coming of some such 'inter—Pretators?' We still claim that; the Colored vote is the claim winning card for the republican party and to prove or ascertion let facts and figures ta -In California McKinley's majority was in '96,3,291,Colored vote 3,000,Delaware 4,195,Colored vote 6,300,Indiana 18,421,colored vote 12,000,Maryland 34,216,colored vote 45,000,Kentuckey,958,colored vote 58,000,West Virginia, 12,000,colored vote 9,000.The electorial votes of the states named a mount to 54.McKinley had in the electorial college 371 votes,necessary for a choice 244, simply by deducting 54 from 271 it is easily seen that McKinley would have liked 27 electorial votes being elected. To further show the great importance of the Colored man's vote to the republican party we will instance Indiana. There McKinley received 327,729 votes,while Bryan received 309,318 Colored vote for McKinley 10,000 with 2,000 scatter ing Simply put these 10,000 in Bry asu colum and he would have carried the state by 1,579 majority. And what is true of this state is true of others. This is said with no mention of the Colored votes in New York,New Jersey,etc.It is most im portant then,to give the Colored votor more than passing notice. It is the wise party leader and politician who will think twice, before deciding that the Colored orators newspapers and votes will not be needed to win in this campaign We call your attention to our job department. A high grade of work in this line is what we do. We are prepared to give our trade First Class Letter heads, Envelopes, Hand bills, Wedding, Invitation, and Calling cards, statem ents, Posters, Dancing programs, in fact, anything in the printing line. Our prices, you will find as low, as the lowest. Our work as good as the best. Give us your next work. —Remember the Emancipation Celebration at South Riverside Park, Saturday, September 22 nd.— City Locals. T Grimes was on the sick list. Frank Able and bro. will leave for Des Moine, Iowa'Saturday. Rev Frazier preached a good ser mon both morning and evening Harvey James of Hutchinson was in the city Thursday. Henry Sherrill has purchased a beautiful homs on Oak street. Mrs S E Patton will return from Colo.Springs Sunday. R.Hodges left Sunday for Chicago to attend the encampment. Mrs Mattie Pondexter is able to be up again. Wm Lewis left Sunday for Chica go where he will reside. Miss Alice Esters left Monday for Leaveuworth to visit her mother Mrs Cornelia Bateman has returned from Kingman. Jetho Peoples and Nettie Fitch ere in the city this week from Mead Center. Mr Wright and wife are both sick. A certain young man been attending the Methodist church quite regularly, lately,he has his cap set for a fair lady. Henry Wyatt was in the city Thursday. Mrs Lottie Wilkins left Thursday day morning for Minneapolis,Min where she will join her husband. Mrs Lee Anderson has returned from her extended visit. Mrs Emma Jones arrived home Sunday from Valley Center, Mrs Wm.Jones is remodeling her house. Mrs Gaines has her beautiful cottage near completion. Andrew Hall of Ft Scott was in the city Sunday,the guest of his brother Jne.W Hall. Building and Remodeling is quite epidemical among the Color people of this city.Good news. Dr.E.Harrison of K.C. arrived in the city Friday and preched a powerful sermon at the Methodist church Sunday. He was also a welcomed visitor at Sunday schoclDr Harrison was formerly pastor of that church. He expects to practice medicine in this city. Rev Irby of South Carolina preached at the A.M.E. church Monday evening. He also entertained with his new panorama conoort and talking machine. Capt.Jones will soon have his elegant hous completed. Read The Searchlight Read The Searchlight Miss Lula Parks left Wednesday for Ft Scott, where she will spend Thursday and Friday visiting her sister Mrs A.Brown. She will then so-journ to Jefferson City, Mo. where she will take up her studies at Lincoln Institnte. Mrs J.C.Coffee contemplates a lengthy visit to her former homs in Memphis,Tenn.,in the near future.She has our best wishes. DIED—Robt. Slarer, Thursday at the family residence on N. Market street, Funeral Friday afternoon. Mr Slater was an old end respected citizen and has been sick for some time, he leaves a wife and family to morn after him. Arkansas Valley lodge No.21 A. F.& A.M.held an initiation last Tuesday night,it is claimed by all that it was grandly conducted in every respect. A fine lunch was spread.The got a little unruy and in his frenzy forgot that Jas. Jackson was not a candidate and proceeded to re initiate him. He was made be still and his victim made good his escape. Those initiated: J.W.Thompson, Taylor Reed, Ed Miller,and Glover Scott. J.H. McBride, J. W. Thompson and Henry Braden have returned from l'opeau where they attended the re union of the 23d Kansas. They report a royal time. Richard Love Love's Shop when in need of a good Shave, or Hair Cut. 344 North Main street Contre Admiral Behdemann of the German navy, who has been placed in command of the east Asiatic squadron to represent Germany in the Chinese imbroglio, though little heard of heretofore, is one of the oldest and most experienced commanders in the German navy. Prince Henry, the German emperor's brother, requested to be given this command, but the emperor refused, undoubtedly because the critical situation requires a man of experience and ripe judgment. A Veteran Missionary The Rev. Dr. Griffith John, of the London Missionary society, is probably the most distinguished of the many missionaries in China. He has labored among the Celestials for forty-five years with wonderful zeal. It is now eighteen years since Dr. John was home on a furlough. In 1888 he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, for 1899, but on account of the claims of the mission field declined the honor. Col. John W. Geary. Colonel John W. Geary, the last alcalde and the first mayor of San Francisco, has been invited to take part in the semi-centennial admission day celebration. San Francisco's first city charter was adopted on May 1, 1850, and Alcalde Geary was elected mayor under its provisions. He refused re-election and in 1852 left the Pacific coast for Pennsylvania, where he is now living. The Original Chinese Capital. Nanking was originally the seat of government of the Ming dynasty in China. The Emperor Yungloh, however, made Pekin the capital in 1411, and it has retained that position ever since. The population is estimated at 2,000,000 persons. The northeast gate of Pekin commands the city, and it was by this gate that the allied troops entered Pekin in 1860. Prosperity in Japan. The unusual prosperity of the farmers of Japan is worthy of special notice. In spite of the increase of the land tax, the farmers continue to get good profits from their fields, because they are able to keep up the prices on rice and other cereal necessities of this vegetarian nation. Petroleum Wells in Japan. Petroleum fields of some importance are being opened in Japan and the companies engaged are capitalized at more than $5,000,000. The industry has reached such proportions that two Tokio banks have arranged to open branches in the region and plans are on foot for building a pipe line to Tokio. The Only Way A Fascinating Romance by Alan Adair... CHAPTER IV. "Do you mind, my dearest?" "Yes; I wish I had been the first, Alan." loved him for that very truthfulness which would hide nothing from her. "I wish you had not told me," she said. For a moment she thought that The two people who were speaking were sitting together on a boulder by the seashore of one of our prettiest watering places. It was early October, and although it had been a late season, yet there was already a touch of coldness in the air, notwithstanding the brilliant sunshine. The sea was as blue as the sky, tossing and little disturbed by the wind, yet only enough to give it color and motion. The little town looked white and clean, smiling in the autumn sunshine. A thoroughly conventional English scene, just as the girl herself was a thoroughly conventional English girl. Her dark blue eyes were brown and of a soft texture; her face a perfect oval, with a little square chin, into which there had been pressed, as by some loving finger, the prettiest dimple in the world. A tall, slight figure, that gave promise of a fuller, ampler womanhood; a clear white skin, flushed rosy; and lashes and eyebrows many shades darker than her hair completed a whole that was very captivating. She was dressed, too, conventionally, although the blue serge dress and jacket fitted her as only a tailor-made gown can fit. A little sailor hat was perched upon her head in just the most effective manner possible. But at this minute the dark blue eyes looked troubled, the pretty hands were clasped round her knees, and she was looking seawards and away from the man by her side. He, too, looked troubled. It had cost Alan Mackenzie a good deal to record the events of his life, and to speak of the young wife he had lost four years ago. He had wanted the past to be past; and although Veronica's memory was dear and sweet to him, and the girl herself had been loving and tender, it yet seemed to him hard to bring up the dead past. There was such a chasm between that life and this, such a difference between the dark-eyed, half-Spanish girl he had wooed under the brilliant South American skies and this girl whom he was wooing beside the tumbling English sea, that it often seemed to Alan Mackenzie that he must be an entirely different person. He leaned forward and looked at her. She had her face turned towards the sea, so that he could just see the delicate profile outlined against the blue sky, could just see the pink ear nestling against the coils of her hair. It was not for her beauty alone that he loved Joyce Grenville. He felt that she was his equal in most, his superior in some, things. He and she together, he thought, could live the perfect married life. And now there was the shadow of poor Veronica to come and throw a gloom over their wooing. Veronica, whom he had never loved like this girl; Veronica, for whom he had had the tenderest protective pity, but that was all. And now he looked at Joyce, and felt to the full that if he lost her he lost everything that made life worth living; that life without Joyce would be incomplete, and that all his success in life—and he was by no means disposed to undervalue that—would mean nothing to him without Joyce. She was so desirable, was Joyce, with her high-bred, British air, and with all the qualities that he knew her to possess, and with that fact staring him full in the face that he loved her, and her alone. His voice trembled as he said: "Do you mind so much. Joyce, that it will be an insuperable bar? Do you mean that you cannot say 'Yes to me'?" She turned round and faced him, and he could see the trouble in her eyes and the twitching of her lips. "No," she said, in a low voice, "I don't mean that; I cannot give you up, Alan. You have made me love you; I cannot change my love in a day. But it has cast a shadow over me. I cannot rejoice over my love for you as I did now I know this: That life cannot give the unalloyed happines that I thought possible half an hour ago." "Because you are not the first, Joyce? In one sense you are the first. I have told it you all quite truthfully—how first I felt nothing but pity for her, and then gradually I wanted to shield her from the hardships of life, and there was no other way. I married her." "And she—did she not love you?" "And she—did she not love you?" Alan did not hesitate, nor did he prevaricate. A less truthful man than he might have made light of Veronica's devotion, but he could not. The dead girl's passionate eyes, fixed upon him with an expression of undying love in them, rose up before him. "She," he said, in a low voice—"she loved me more than her life." Joyce gave a little exclamation. It was not altogether pain, but as if she had said that she had known it well. Of course she had loved him! What woman would not have loved Alan Mackenzie? He said nothing, but she could see his lips quivering. That troubled her. She felt that he would say no more, but that the first words must come from her. He had stated his case; he had pleaded with her. It was for her to say "Yes" or "No." Only he had told her the whole truth. Some men would have said less; but then she loved him for that very truthfulness, which would hide nothing from her. "I wish you had not told me," she said. For a moment she thought that this really was so, and that she would rather not have known; it was only momentary, however. "Would you rather not have known?" he said, and looked at her reproachfully. "Joyce, I hate having to give you this pain; but I have always thought that the very essence of married happiness lay in the fact that husband and wife had no secrets from each other." "Did you tell her everything?" asked Joyce, woman-like. "No, dearest. God forbid that I should wish to deprecate the girl who loved me so well; but she was not your equal. She was simply a pure, sweet, loving woman; but she would not have understood. She had pretty ways of making a house homelike and charming; but she had but very little education. I could not have told her everything. Joyce, you know all about our brief married life now. I don't believe that you—I don't believe that you would be jealous of the dead woman. Now tell me straight out if you will make me happy. I don't think you know or can guess what you are to me. How my whole life and soul are bound up in you, how empty my life would be without you. I think if you understood that you would forget all about the story I have told you, and give yourself to me, to hold and to keep as the dearest thing in the world." The tears were standing in his eyes, he was so much in earnest. It seemed to him as if the making or the marring of his life was in this slender girl's hands; and she was moved, too. "Of course I mind, dearest," she said. "If I did not mind so much I should not love you so much. Just think how would you like it if some other man had had my first kiss, my first words of love!" "I should not like it at all; I should hate it, Joyce," he said, frankly. "I knew you would. I should have asked you to marry me a year ago if I had not had this past behind me. I have loved you well enough all the time. It is only now that I have been presumptuous enough to think that you love me a little that I have spoken; and if you do truly love me, Joyce, you will only be sorry for all that I have suffered in the past." Joyce was not an ungenerous girl, and though there was a certain sting in the fact that Alan had suffered through another woman, yet she could feel it in her heart to pity the girl who had only been Alan's wife for four months, and who had died in so tragic a manner. She rose. "Shall we go in to the others, Alan?" she said, softly. But he caught her hand. "Not before I have had my answer, Joyce. Oh, no! not before I have had my answer! Don't be cruel, darling! Put me out of pain!" "Dearest," she said, "you know your answer. You know that I love you, and that I would never deny my love. This unhappy story of yours has been a surprise to me, and a little shock; but it does not really make any difference, does it, when two people love each other?" "Joyce," he cried—there was the purest joy in his tone—"Joyce, you have made me so happy that I have no words to express my happiness. And you will not think of this again? It will not be a bar between us? It only comes to me now and again, when I have thought that you would not like it. And now, Joyce, you are cheating me of my kiss of betrothal. Come behind this rock." And as Joyce was just a sweet, loving girl, who had promised herself to the man she loved, she made no demur, but gave him his kiss; and they both walked up to the house, trying to forget the thing that had been discussed between them. And, as a matter of fact, they did forget it. They were so happy in each other, and so happy in the prospect of the new life before them, that they actually did forget. Alan told his story to Joyce's father as he had told it to Joyce, and after that he felt he had done all that would be asked of him. He revelled in the thought of Joyce's love, and poor Veronica might never have existed for him at all. There was nothing but talk of preparations for the wedding and settlements, nothing but congratulations and envyings of his luck, nothing in all this to remind him of the simple preparations for the civil marriage that had been the only one possible in Rio. Joyce had begged for a six months' engagement, Alan had insisted on three; and as there was really nothing to wait for he had his way. He had known Joyce for more than three years, and had met her at the house of a mutual friend, had been attracted to her from the first; so that it seemed as if they had actually been engaged much longer than was the case. He was still in the firm of Dempster, only now he was a partner instead of an employee. He had been called to the bar, but did not practice regularly, seeing that he did not have much time. The three months passed very quickly; there was so much to do, so much to settle. It was a very happy time, but one evening Alan got rather a nasty shock. He had been seeing Joyce, and they had spent the usual happy time together. He was immersed in thoughts and dreams of her, and was not looking very much where he was going. Turning a corner sharply he ran up against a man who seemed a little unsteady in his gait. "I beg your pardon!" Alan said. The man uttered an imprecation. At the first sound of his voice Alan thought that it was familiar to him. He gave a start. "Hutchinson!" he cried. The man looked up. A gleam of recognition lit up his drink-sodden eyes, and with the recognition there came, too, a gleam of hatred. "It's you!" he cried, and he swore again. "Yes," said Alan, "and I am sorry to see you like this. Can I do anything for you, Hutchinson?" "Do anything for me? You? I'll trip you yet!" cried the man, his hatred flashing like a knife. "Do you think I have forgotten how you got me turned out, how you ruined me? No! And I will be even with you yet if I hang for it! And there's that girl of mine, too! I always thought that you had a hand in her disappearance! I will be even with you yet, my fine young man!" "Well," said Alan, coolly, "I would have helped you if you would have let me; not that I regard your threats. It was your own dishonesty and nothing else that was your ruin. And as for the girl, you are right there. I married her, and she was drowned; but she was no daughter of yours, and you knew it." Hutchinson's surprise got the better of his caution. "I brought her up," he said, "even if she was not my own. In a way she was mine. And so you married her, did you? And now you say she is dead." "She is dead, poor soul!" said Alan. "Died in the wreck of the 'Valparaiso' four years ago; and I'm to be married again. I wish you would let me help you, Hutchinson!" An evil sneer crossed Hutchinson's face. "Married again, are you? Soon Well, I will wish you joy, you and your bride. You may have an unexpected guest at your wedding, although I am not quite sure. We will see what way things will go. Goodby, my fine gentleman!" He left Alan with a curious sense that something untoward had happened, although the young man could not say what it had been. (To be Continued.) HISTORIC ATMOSPHERE. Motive Is the Ground Color for Hist torial Pictures. Unless an author can maintain, without deviation, from the first to the last pages of his book, the language of the period of which he writes, his work will be better, his pages will be more easily read; and whatever true atmosphere he may be able to create in other ways will be more convincing if he writes in the language of his own times. No books have a stronger flavor of their own period than the D'Artagnan romances, well translated into modern English. It were as well for an English author to attempt to give German atmosphere to a story of German life by writing it in broken English, as to attempt to give old-time flavor to an old-time tale by writing in a tongue composed of both the old and the new. If I am right in my conclusions, atmosphere may be imparted by facts and language, subject to the conditions above stated. These two methods, although generally attempted, more frequently fail than succeed. Novels wherein old-time phrases and historical facts only are relied upon to give old-time color are accepted without question, perhaps, by those who do not know the period of which the novels treat, or do not care to analyze the question. But to an inquiring mind, knowing the period, such a novel as to its atmosphere is usually as disappointing as wet gunpowder. It is from the setting of the story and from the acts, motives, and methods of thought of the characters that true atmosphere may be imparted. What the characters are made to feel, do, and give real atmosphere. What they say is the important matter; not how they say it. Motive is the ground color for all historical pictures. There is no period in history of which we have a complete view. At best we can only catch glimpses of the environment of men and women who have preceded us, and who have faded into the dim, hazy light of the past. We have but fragmentary pictures, that come to us in sections, like the picture-blocks of a child, with many parts missing. These parts which we lack we try to fill in as best we can, guiding our hands, as we draw, by the parts we have.—Charles Major in the June Scribners. 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In his heavy diving dress, weighing over 200 pounds, he was lowered into twenty feet of water, and rode the machine for a considerable distance. Burglar's Good Manners "Among other things a burglar at a Sydenham house recently took a bath. Then he took breakfast and afterward his departure, leaving the word "Thanks" spelled out in cherry stones on the window sill—London Express. Palace Car for Dogs In England a sort of special palace car has been built for dogs. Each dog will have a species of loose box constructed on highly luxurious and hygienic principles, provided with running water, elegantly nickled food receptacles and even thick and velvety mats to lie down upon, while plate-glass windows will allow them to admire the landscape. Low Rate Excursions, via Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route. To points in the West, Southwest, and Southeast, at half-rates (plus $2.00) for the round trip. Tickets on sale Tuesdays, September 4th and 18th, October 2nd and 16th, November 6th and 26th, and December 4th and 18th, 1900. For full information, land folders, etc., address any agent of the above lines, or H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Shoot at Moving Targets. Movable targets of a new sort have been invented for the use of the German army. These targets are propelled toward the markmen at full speed to represent a cavalry charge, being run on rollers, the motive power supplied by horses which are started at a gallop after being attached to the target ropes. The soldiers thus learn to gauge distance and its variations with great accuracy. British Guiana for Settlement With a view of relieving some of the congested districts of India, British authorities are considering the question of opening up British Guinea as a field for immigration. It is hoped that some entire Hindoo communities may be induced to settle in the South American possession, where the climate and soil would combine to give the strangers a much better living than they have hitherto known. Ten Years Pain "I am a school teacher, have suffered agony monthly for ten years. "My nervous system was a wreck. I suffered with pain in my side and had almost every ill known. I had taken treatment from a number of physiolans who gave me no relief. "One specialist said no medicine could help me, I must submit to an operation. "I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham, stating my case, and received a prompt reply. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and followed the advice given me and now I suffer no more. If any one cares to know more about my case, I will cheerfully answer all letters."-MISS EDNA ELLIS, Higginanport, Ohio. TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL The Best Saddle Coat. SLICKER Keeps both rider and saddle per- fectly dry in the hardest storms. Substitutes will disappoint. Ask for A. J. TOWER. Pommel Slicker- it is entirely new. It is not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Bottle up, use, Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Never Again Will The Old Heroes March Together. ONE VETERAN FALLS DEAD. Chicago, Aug. 30.—For four hours and a half the thinning ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic passed in review before the leaders and before probably a million spectators, packed in almost solid masses along the four miles of the lines of parade. It marked the climax of the thirty-fourth annual encampment, and was, according to Commander-in-Chief Shaw, the greatest parade since the day in Washington when the hundreds of thousands of veterans, the most powerful army on earth, marched in review to their final disbandment. Probably 30,000 members of the army of veterans took part in the parade. For exactly four hours and twenty minutes, most of the time with ranks almost perfectly aligned, but occasionally faltering under the burden of years, they filed past the reviewing stand on Michigan avenue, saluting as they marched by, General Nelson A. Miles, Commander-in-Chief Shaw, General Daniel E. Sickles and the Spanish minister, the Duke of Arcos. Weather conditions were almost ideal for the parade. The rays of the sun were veiled by light, fleecy clouds nearly all day and even when unobscured their effect was greatly tempered by a cool breeze which blew steadily off Lake Michigan. The line of march, too, was much shorter than ever mapped out for the annual parade, but notwithstanding, here and there, a veteran, exhausted, dropped out of the ranks. Charles Beckwith, of Algonza, Mich., dropped dead. Cheer after cheer went up as General Daniel E. Sickles, accompanied by his aides, rode past the reviewing stand. All along the line of march old commanders who were in line were all given a most flattering greeting. A long line of carriages followed the battle flags, each containing ladies who are officials of the various organizations which are affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. Commander-in-Chief Shaw remained standing until the last veteran had filed by. "We will never have another parade like it," he said, turning to Bishop Fallows. "The comrades are getting old. The years are pressing them closely. But this one will live in our memory." Large Yield of Oats Clifton, Kan., Aug. 31.—The best yield of oats reported this year is that of Charles and Bert Odle, who live five miles northeast of here. From one field of thirteen acres 940 bushels were threshed, making an average of a little over seventy-two bushels per acre. From another field of twenty-three acres, 1,380 bushels were threshed, averaging sixty bushels per acre. This is probably the record for the state. No crop has been heard from that equals it. Another Santa Fe Shop. Topeka, Aug. 31.—A truck erecting shop is being built in this city by the Santa Fe. It is to be a frame building about 75x150 feet in size. There will be two tracks leading into the building. The car trucks will be put together in this building and run out over the steam table and into the coach erecting shop. The tinners will also occupy a portion of this building. This will make vacant a great deal of space which has been needed to use in repairing coaches. Bryan not in Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 29.—William J. Bryan has followed the example of President McKinley and declined to be a visitor at the national encampment of the G. A. R. He sent a message to Executive Director William H. Harper, the head of the local committee in charge of the local end of the encampment, saying that because of the absence of President McKinley from the encampment he considered it advisable to remain away. She Was from Kansas. Kansas City, Aug. 31.—It is announced that Mary Huston was killed while fleeing from Shan Si to Hankow with a party of American missionaries. Miss Huston was a native of Kansas, coming from Abilene to Kansas City in 1895, and was a diligent worker in the establishment of the Gospel Union in Kansas City. In 1896, desiring a broader field, she went to China, and worked among the Celestials, bearing all the hardships that accompany her work with untiring fortitude. Messages Interfered With: Washington, Aug. 30.—Evidences of interference with messages in China have accumulated to a point where the government has determined to take steps to establish cables of its own, even if it is necessary to employ the rather expensive device of the man-of-war flying between Shanghai and Che Foo for this purpose. Meanwhile, word comes that rapid progress is making with the shore cable which is to connect these points, and this means of communication will soon be open. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure.or Moner Refunded by Your Merchant.so Why Not Try It? Price 50c NO NEWS OF PEARY. NO NEWS OF PEARY. ARCTIC EXPLORER SILENT NEARLY TWO YEARS. Slight Chance of Relieving Him Because of Immense Ice Floes—The Steamer Windward Disabled—Was Bound on the North Pole. (Special Letter It is now two years since Lieut. Robert E. Peary, the noted Arctic explorer, started for the frozen north, and the fact that no message has come back from him is beginning to excite comment. He sailed from Greenland July 7, 1898. The last message he sent to civilization was dated Aug. 18, 1898, and read: "So far all my plans have been successfully carried out." When Peary sailed on his present voyage he not even attempted to conceal the fact that he was bound for the north pole. He has an indefinite leave of absence from the navy. The daring explorer is a native of Cresson, Pa., and is now in his forty-fifth year. The steamer Windward, which has gone to the relief of Peary, has been disabled and is now in the harbor at Port au Basques, N. F. But even if she should be promptly repaired the chances for reaching the explorer now are said to be remote. There are immense towering bodies of ice along the Labrador coast, extending beyond Turnavick. Over 200 craft, with several thousand men of the fishing crews, are tied up at Assizes harbor, unable to proceed north, and nothing to LIEUT. ROBERT E. PEARY. speak of has been done on Labrador fisheries, this being the worst season for 20 years. SIBERIA'S PROGRESS. That Wonderful Region Has Now a Population of 8,000,000. The population of Siberia is now 8,000,000 and yearly 200,000 farmers migrate there, the Russian government providing them with free transportation and giving to each family the use of 37½ acres of land for a stated time. Making a computation upon the basis of the population of Russia in Europe, Siberia is capable of sustaining a population of 80,000,000. The annual production of cereals in Siberia is 2,000,000 tons, 600,000 to 800,000 tons of which are exported. The country can produce 10,000,000 tons annually, from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons of which are subject to exportation. Siberia now exports butter to Denmark. It is estimated that she can export annually $15,440,000 worth of butter, wool, leather, dried and preserved meats, and fish and tallow may figure conspicuously in her exports in the near future. A movement is now in progress in the direction of forest preservation, the destruction having caused a scarcity of furs, blue fox and zibelines. Siberia produces one-tenth of the world's yield of gold and but few of the mines have been worked on account of the climate. The immense coal deposits have hardly been touched. One mine, with six beds, contains as much coal as all the deposits in England. The lack of transportation facilities alone has prevented it from being worked. There is annually an excess of 1,500,000 births over deaths in Russia and Siberia is the outlet for this overflow. Electric Headlights for Locomotives. Electric headlights for railway locomotives are coming very generally into use in the western states and are paying for themselves in saving the railway companies large sums formerly paid for cattle killed on the track. The light will show a cow or a horse at a quarter of a mile on a dark night. With a good clean reflector the intensity of the light is about 8,000 candle power. On the front of the locomotive boiler, just aft of the smoke-stack, is located a small dynamo and a steam turbine, the whole being coupled together and enclosed in a watertight casing. To light up the engineer simply turns on steam, the apparatus absorbing about one and a half horse power when in operation. With one trimming of carbons the headlight will burn eight hours without further attention. A woman's wrongs are of more importance than her rights. It's a case of misdirected energy when a young man runs after a girl who doesn't appreciate him. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TAKING When You Take GROVE'S Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on each bottle, showing what it contains. Imitators do not advertise their formula, knowing that you would not buy their medicine if you knew its ingredients. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions, and is in a tasteless form. Grove's is the original Tasteless Chill Tonic and any druggist who is not pushing an imitation will tell you that all other so-called "tasteless" Tonics are imitations. Grove's is the only Chill cure sold by every druggist in the malarial sections of the United States and Cuba that is guaranteed to cure any case of malaria, chills and fever, or money refunded. Price 50 cents. Must Have Searchlights. All vessels passing through the Suez canal must satisfy the agents of the canal company that they have on board one electric searchlight of a power sufficient to illuminate the channel for a distance of 4,000 feet ahead, and constructed so as to admit of rapid splitting up of the beam into separate segments with a dark sector in the middle, and also with electric lights capable of lighting up a circular area 700 feet in diameter. A BOSTON INSTITUTION Among the unique institutions of Boston is the Peabody Medical Institute, No. 4 Bulfinch St. established nine years before the death of the great philanthropist, the late Joseph Bulfinch, from whom it takes its name. During the past 30 years it has achieved a wide and lasting distinction. The medical publications of this institute have millions of readers, and are as standard as go'd. Their last pamphlet for men Mr. George's body, from whom it is sent free by mail, sealed, on receipt of 6 cents for postage. When some people shake hands their hand is as cold and motionless as a dead fish's tail. Each package of PUTNAM FADE-LESS DYE colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better, too. The man who is driven to desperation usually assists in the driving. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM keeps the hair soft and plenitudin and restores the color when gray. 15cta. The burglar who breaks into a shoe store is always after booty. Ask your grocer for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. Good nature is a glow worm that sheds light in the darkest places. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in fammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Largest Reliable Diamond. The Rajah of Matilian owns the largest reliable diamond in the world. It weighs 367 karats and is shaped like an egg, with a queer little dented hollow marking the small end. 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. Ticture of Myrrh. Tincture of myrrh is excellent as a dentifrice, for it cleanses the mouth, sweetens the breath and hardens the gums. It may be used three times a week with great benefit. THE DOUGLAS SHOP. The best advertised and consequently the best known shoe in the world today is undoubtedly made by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., of Brockton, Mass. The one idea of this company has always been to sell a shoe for $3.50 which equals in every way the $$ shoes of any other concern. They are able to do this on account of there being no middle man's profit, as the goods are sold direct from the factory to the wearer. In 60 of the principal cities of the country they have their own retail stores. The goods are made in all sizes and widths, and few shoes equal them for style and durability. The factory at Brockton employs over 1,100 hands, and all labor troubles are settled by the state board of arbitration. Nothing but union labor is employed, and pay about the best average wages of any shoe workers in the United States. The factory pay roll amounts to $17,435 per week. This company makes shoes for men only, and it is their proud boast that over one million men wear them.—Denver (Colo.) Post. Egypt's Insane Hospital. Ever since the thirteenth century Egypt has had but one hospital for the insane. The number of patients in it has risen from 300 to 500, and it has been called "an abomination to the human race." DR. MOFFETT'S TEETHINA (Teething Powders) Allays Irritation, Aids Digestion Regulates the Bowels, Strengthens the Child, Makes Teething Easy. TEETHINA Relieves the Bowel Troubles of Children of ANY AGE. Costs only 25 cents at Druggists, Or mail 25 cents to C.J. MOFFETT, M. D., ST. LOUIS, MO. WILL MAKE BABY FRY AS A PIG. Some titled foreigners are born rich, others acquire riches, and still others have heiresses thrust upon them. A boy is always willing to go over to a neighbor's to borrow the ice cream freezer. Some articles must be described. White's Yucatan needs no description; it's the real thing. No, Maude, dear, the cannibal who eats a grass widow could scarcely be called a vegetarian. When it comes to blowing the froth from a glass of beer any young man can raise the wind. Mothers must not forget that Dr. Moffett's TERTAINA (Teething Powders) will cure their child. Now that the berry season is over there is no excuse for a man's feeling seedy. Most women seem to think the live news of the day is to be found in the death notices. 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. Why is it that men hang around cigar stores. A much better loafing place would seem to be the baker's. A Pretty Shirt Waist. A Pretty Shirt Waist, properly laundered with Faultless Starch" is a constant delight. At grocers—10c. A high churchman—the steeple climber. It isn't wise to rush the growler in dog days. The pensive maiden sometimes becomes an expensive wife. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 50c. A crusty old bachelor says that when a cow can climb a ladder one may expect to find wisdom in women. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," as the pig remarked when he ran away from the butcher. When you buy bluing, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large package 5c. It matters but little what your ancestors were—it's what you are that counts. A hen may be made to lay perpetually by hitting her on the head with a stout club. Important to Mothers: Important to mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Mitchell. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Society is a fashionable game in which diamonds are wagered against hearts. It may not hurt a joke to crack it, but some of the crackers ought to be hurt. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunlons. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. An envious person is apt to disparage everything, be it good or bad. The oftener a man fails the greater the applause when he finally succeeds. WILL MAKE BABY FAT AS A PIG. DR. MORE TEETE (Teething P Costs only 25 cents Or mail 25 cents to C. Reform is an airship that is always on the verge of starting. A woman's mirror will tell her what none of her friends will. Best for the Bowels No matter what alls 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 natural movements, cost you just cents to start getting your health back CASCARETS Candy, Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Be ware of imitations. The less a man boasts the more treasure he possesses. A lovers' quarrel is the sauce that seasons the courtship. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet Corns and Bunlons. Ask for Allen Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. T. Some men never do anything with out overdoing it. Dead crows are silent mementoes of the lost caws. TOE-GUM Cures Corns 15c; all Drugs (If it falls—it is free.) LADIES When doctors and others fall to love you, try N. L. M. R. if you box free. Mrs. R. L. Borsa, Nebraska DENSION JOHN W. MORRER Washington, D. C. Successfully Provides U.S. Gov. Law Sincere by applause. U.S. Pension Sues 3 vrs in civil war, 13 adjudicating claims, atty USE. FAULTLESS THE BEST STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS, COLLARS, CUFFS, AND FINE LINE. $3.00 W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE PETER B. The modern, easy- fit 14 g., conventional shoes for progressive men are the W. L. Douglas $3 and $3.50 shoes. Perfect shoes that hold their shape and fit until worn out. Over 1,000,000 satisfied wearers. Established in 1876. A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU Why do you pay $4 to $5 for shoes when you can buy W. L. Douglas shoes for $3 and $3.50 which are just as good. A $5 SHOE FOR $3.50. A $4 SHOE FOR $3.50. A 34 SHOE To show your $8 and $5.90 shoes compared with other ankle shoes in $8 to $8. We are the largest makers and we make sell more $8 and $5.90 shoes than any other two manufacturers. Having the largest $8 and $5.90 shoes business in the world, and a perfect system of manufacturing, we produce great quality shoes than can be bought. THEREASONS W.L.Douglas and L.E.Douglas are other makebes because THEY ARE THE BEST. Your dealer show shop. Take no substitutes! Initise on having W.L.Douglas shoes with name and price for you, and direct to factory, enclose price and $2. extra for carriage, and send direct to factory. Our shoes will reach you anywhere. Catalogue Free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. W.N.U. WICHITA NO.-35-1900 When Answering Advertisements Nindly Mention This Paper.