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The Wichita Searchlight. SUCCESSOR TO PITTSBURG PLAINDEALER. Ran For His Life. Negro had experience with the "Consent of the Governed." HAD TO LEAVE HOME BETWEEN TWO SUN "This educational qualification the election laws of the South is farce",he went on. "The Demos actually make some of the people of the North believe that,when Negro complies with the educational requirement,he can vote. Well,he can't. The educated Negro have more trouble in the South can anybody.This is why I am in Kansas.I could read and write, and assisted on my right to vote under the federal and state constitution. Leave this state or you will be killed,' they said. I stood out as long as possible, and then left. It was a question whether I should say there and be hanged or leave. Left.To the ignorant Negro they say 'you can't vote till you can read and write'. Then when the Negro learns these things he is told to 'leave the state or be killed.' So there is not much incentive for a Negro to become educated there. He is like the Christianized Chinaman in China, who is beheaded by the Boxers as soon as he professes Christianity. I skirmished around and got a fairly good education as education is measured in South Carolina, and was given the position of assistant postmaster in a town there. I engendered the ill feeling of the Democrats by insisting that I had a right to vote, and they ran me out of the country. Another feature about the educational requirement no matter how we all Negro can read and write, the election judges can prevent him from voting. They are the sole judges as to his qualifications. Some of them cannot read nor write themselves. When a Negro presents himself and is tested, the jndges declare that he didn't read it right or that his explanation of the meaning of the matter which he read does not explain, and he is barred. The test is really no test at all, It is a farce. It was adopted to disfranchise the Negro vote; it has done it. The Democrats of South Carolina are not making 'the consent of the governed' in the Phillippines the paramount issue of this campaign. That racket is only being worked by the Democrats of the Northern states. Pope Wanted to See. Rome, Sept. 10.—The pope, during his reception expressed a wish to see the two American students, Harry Hengal and George Laughney, who are studying at Eichsadt and who were lost in the catacombs and found the next morning by some German student friends. Consequently the two young men were sent for and had a long talk with the holiness. Meeting of German Catholics Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 10.—President Nicholas Gouner of the Central Society of German Catholics has announced that all arrangements are completed for the annual meeting at Peoria, beginning on Sunday next. The society covers all states in the central west and has a membership of more than 50,000. Santa Fe Bridges. Chicago, Sept. 12. - E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe road, stated that the railroad was intact as far as Virginia Point, across the bay and three miles from Galveston. Between that point and Galveston there are three railroad bridges and the company is proceeding on the theory that they have been destroyed although this cannot be ascertained until the water recedes—and rushing material forward to repair them. A Special Rock Island Train. A Special Rock Island Train. Chicago, Sept. 13.—A special freight train of fifteen cars, running on a passenger time schedule and laden with food and clothing for the Texas sufferers, will probably start from Chicago within forty-eight hours. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad offered the train to Mayor Harrison and he accepted it. Aside from necesities contributed it is estimated $15,000 has been donated. The Rock Island has also wired Governor Sayers to draw on them for $4,000 for the relief of the sufferers. WICHITA, KANSAS, SEPT. 15, 1900. Bryan Heard From On Negro. ```markdown ``` EXPERIENCE IN HOUSTON. Cue Hundred and Fifty Spent a Night With Death Near Them. Dallas, Tex., Sept. 12. — F. T. Woodward of this city relates his experience in the grand central depot at Houston: "In company with about 150 others I was in the Grand Central depot, which, standing as it does, alone, was exposed to the full force of the hurricane, and the first strong gust was followed by a sound of shattering glass. Several of the windows of the general offices overhead had given away under the almost irresistible pressure of the storm. "This was the beginning of a night of terror. For seven hours the storm raged with unabated fury, and the roar of the wind was accompanied by the sound of crashing glass as one after another of the many windows were torn from their fastenings and shattered upon the sidewalk below. "The crashing of glass was soon followed by a sound of ripping and tearing which was clearly and distinctly heard above the almost deafening roar of the storm. "Section after section of the tin roof was rolled up like a sheet of parchment and hurled hundreds of feet away." Then the electric lights went out, when many crowded about the entrance as though hoping there might be safety outside, but they were met by a blinding sheet of water. While looking out they saw the roof of the Grand hotel torn off, and they heard wailing from there and from the Lawler hotel. It was not long before the depot was gone except the lower story, and that remained, giving us some shelter. TERRIFIC LOSS OF LIFE. Ten Million Dollars Worth of Property Lost. Houston, Texas, Sept. 11.—A well known newspaper correspondent has arrived from Galveston and says that the storm destroyed 1,500 lives there. National aid asked for. He says the loss in property will reach ten million dollars. Dallas, Texas, Sept. 11.—Houston and Texas Central railroad officials have received bulletins from their general offices in Houston, that the loss of life will reach three thousand in Galveston. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas relief forces telegraph that the loss of life will not be less than five thousand and may reach ten thousand. Miss Lizzie Bell Found. Topeka, Sept. 14.—A dispatch from Boston states that Lizzie Bell, who has been wandering in the woods near Lewiston Maine, for days, has been found. Miss Bell left Topeka last June with the apostolic evangelist, W. F. Sandiord, to become a pupil of his Bible school at Shiloh, Maine. A recent dispatch told how she had lost her mind under the fervor of religious excitement and had been wandering in the woods for days with searching parties out after her. EARL LI'S CREDENTIALS. Still Lack Assurances Required from the Chinese Government. Washington, Sept. 13.—The state department has issued the following: parameter has issued the following: "The following communication was handed to Acting Secretary of State Hill by the Chinese minister. "Cablegram from Earl Li Hung Chang, dated September 7, 1900; "I am in receipt of an imperial edict of the 30th day of the seventh month, August 24, 1900, transmitted from Pao Ting Fu. It is as follows: "Li Hung Chang, envoy plenipotentiary, is hereby vested with full discretionary powers and he shall promptly deal with whatever questions may require attentions. Respect this." "To the above communication Acting Secretary Hill has handed Mr. Wu the following reply: "The United States does not feel called upon to express any opinion at this time as to the sufficiency of Li Hung Chang's authority, but hopes it will transpire that his credentials are full and authoritative, not only for negotiations but to enable him without further delay to give assurance that the life and property of Americans will henceforth be respected throughout the Chinese empire." Coal Strike is Ordered. Indianapolis, Sept. 14.—President Mitchell and Secretary Wilson, of the United Mine Workers of America, have affixed their signatures to the document which will call 142,000 miners of the Pennsylvania anthracite region from their work and precipitate one of the most gigantic strikes in the history of the labor world. The document was the official endorsement of the request of the anthracite districts to strike. It is expected that 134,500 men will strike. Phillppine Postal Affairs. Washington, Sept. 13. — The postmaster general has received a communication from F. W. Vaillle, director of posts in the Philippines, showing that there will be a surplus of receipts over expenditures up to June 30, of $19,449. This does not include fees for money orders of $6,500, and there is one department, that of Eacolor, yet to hear from. Worse Every Minute. Dallas, Tex., Sept. 14.—A bulletin from Galveston via Virginia Point and Houston says: The situation becomes worse every minute; water and ice needed. People in frenzy from suffering from these causes. Scores have died since last night and a number of sufferers have gone insane. Arkansas Pearls. Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 13.—Representatives of New York jewelry houses, who have been at Black Rock, Ark., the past week, left for home with $40,000 worth of pearls, representing the season's pearl fishing in northern Arkansas. All the pearls were taken from the Black, St. Francis, Spring and Current rivers. 1863 SEPT.-22 1900 Emancipation Celebration AND OLD FASH'ON BARBECUE! AT SouthRiverside Park Saturday.September 22 nd And At Night At PEERLESS HALL Music-Prof. Fisher's Military Band GOOD - SPEAKING. Come and See the Foot Race,Bicycle Race,Potat 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 data arrangements for this,the most Gigantie and Elaborate Entertainment Ever Given in the State. Dinner at 12:00. Speaking at 2:30. 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.Largest,Finest ever in Kansas. Citizens Committae:W.C.Neeley,J.S.Quarles,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 239 N.Main st Wichita, Kansas. Admission- To The Park,FREE,FREE To The Hall,Only 10 Cents A Strange Meeting. Wichita, Kas., Sept. 13.—Franklin Crawford, brought to jail here on a charge of attempting to defraud the United Stated pension department, met two sisters in the federal court who had not seen him for twenty years. They were Mrs. J. H. Barnes and Mrs. Thomas Blessard, of Ashland, O., and they had been summoned as witnesses against him. An elder brother of Mrs. Barnes and Mrs. Blessard had enlisted in the civil war, and died of fever at Vicksburg, 1802. Some one had assumed his name and was trying to defraud the government. The two sisters were summoned here to testify against him. When they arrived, they found the defendant was a younger brother who had left home as a boy, twenty years ago, and who had for fifteen years been thought dead. The meeting was such a scene as make men shed tears. The Storm Was Predicted. Houston, Texas, Sept. 13. —The storm in Galveston, was predicted by the weather bureau for Friday night. The conditions on that night were ominous, the danger signal was displayed and shipping was warned. By 10 o'clock Saturday morning it was almost a gale, yet no serious apprehension was felt as late as noon. At two minutes before 6:30 p. m. the instrument to measure the velocity of the wind showed 100 miles an hour. Two minutes later the instrument was blown away. After that the velocity attained is a matter of conjecture. At 7:30 p. m. the barometer in the press correspondents' office stood at 28.04½%. By 10 o'clock, it had reached 28.09. From that time the wind gradually subsided and by midnight the storm had passed. California's Semi-Centennial. San Francisco. Cal., Sept. 11.—The feature of the program in the semicentennial celebration of the Sons of the Golden West was a magnificent parade. Over 30,000 men formed the marching column. Five hundred thousand people witnessed the parade. Floats, emblematic of the gold-digging days and of the latter day commercial bodies were the feature. VOL.11.NO.16 T.-22 1900 Celebration FASH'ON ECUE! Porside Park October 22nd Night At PSS HALL Her's Military Band PEAKING. The Foot Race,Bicycle Race,Potat Race,Wheel Barrow Race,and a Race.Match Game of Base Ball. Test Precaution to make all data most Gigantie and Elaborate Given in the State. Speaking at 2:30... Hutchinson,Wellington,Valley in Southern Kansas. On all Railroads. Best, Finest ever in Kansas. T.S.Quarles,J.E.Lewis,T.J.Banks, Jno.W.Hall. Monies. Hall of the Day. N.Miller,General Manager Wichita, Kansas. To The Park,FREE,FREE To The Hall,Only 10 Cents Allies After Boxers. Tien Tsin, Sept. 14.—A body of 4,000 allied troops, including 200 men of the Fifteenth infantry under command of Major Robertson, marched against the cities of Sheng Hai Sien and Tilo, where the presence of the Boxers threatens the Tien Tsin region. An Old Fund Well Applied. Atchison, Kas., Sept. 13.—In 1896 the people of Atchison raised a fund to relieve tornado sufferers. There is an unexpended balance of $271.32 in this fund which will be sent to the governor of Texas to be used in aiding the storm sufferers. Spent its Force in Texas Washington, Sept. 12.—Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the weather bureau, said that the West Indies storm which developed into a hurricane after reaching the United States, and did such appalling damage in Texas, was central in Oklahoma and was rapidly losing its destructive character, the wind at Oklahoma City being reported as blowing thirty miles an hour. Thirty Cars a Day of Melons. Topeka, Sept. 10.—Fruit, watermelons and Roeky Ford melons form a considerable portion of the freight traffic, which at present is being carried over the Santa Fe. The road is having considerable rustling to do to secure sufficient refrigerator cars to handle them. For some time past a regular watermelon train has been run from western points to the east, to carry the enormous supply which has been demanded by the market. This watermelon train is run daily and is made up usually of thirty cars or more. Prompt Action for Relief. Topeka, Sept. 13.—Governor Stanley has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of Kansas to aid the Galveston storm sufferers. A balance of $500 in the treasury of the Indian famine relief committee will be forwarded to Galveston at once. Like action is reported from governors, mayors and railroad companies in all parts of the country, and relief is now beginning to arrive at Galveston. OFFICIAL ORGANoftheKNIGHTSOF PYTHIAS. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post-Office at Wichita Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday at No 239 North Main Street, up stairs RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: IN ADVANCE. One year, by mail. $1 00 Six months, by mail. 75 Three months, by mail. 50 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to "The Searchlight," Box 1017, Wichita, Kansas. [All matters to be published must reach this office not later than Tuesday, to reach publication in the current issue.] Official organ of the Knights of Pythias of Kansas. 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. 239 N Main st Republican Ticket. National. For President Wm.McKinley. For Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt. Congressional. FG; Congressman 7th.Dist, Chester I.Long, ,,,, at Large Chas.F.Scott. State For Governor, W.E. Stanley. For Lieutenant Governor, H.E. Richter. For associate justice, W.A. Johnson. For secretary of state, Geo.A. Clark. For Treasurer, Frank Grimes. For auditor, Geo E Cole. For attorneygeneral, A.A. Goddard. For Supt Public Inst, Frank Nelson. For Insurance Commissioner, W.V. Church. County. For Clerk District Court, T'R,McCulley. For Probate Judge, Thos.C.Wilson. For County Attorney, O.G.Eckstien. For County Supt, J.S.Carson. For State Senator, John D.Davis. For Rep.70th dist. Henry Schweiter. For Rep.71st.dist. Chas.H.Luling. For Rep.72nd dist. A.M.Riechenberger. For Commis'n'r,city dist. J.C.Redfield. To Our Subscribers—There seems to be quite a number of misdeliveries,and delays in the delivery of this paper each week. The Search light is mailed every week in ample time so every one in the city can receive their paper Saturdays. If you fail to get your paper on Saturday you will greatly accommodate us,by notifying us at once. Owing to the fact that the building which we formerly occupied at 140 N.Main, having been trans- formed into a hotel, we have moved and can be found now at 239 North Main,where we will be glad to meet any of our friends. Bryan has in an off hand manner given his opinion on this all important race question. Next to be heard is president Mckinley. He has remained unusually quiet on this subject—even so, for four years. Has he nothing to say? What the Colored man wants is not so much luck,but more pluck. The Negro is not clamoring for 'social equality,but the due exercise of his civil rights. Bryan seems to believe, "If at first you don't succeed,try,try again But what if doomed to always fail? Would a division of the Negro vote in the Southern states put down the race prejudice there?If it would,it would, no doubt, be the proper thing to do And in that event the Colored man in the North might use the same medicine, for the same disease. But will it cure? Prof. Fisher's Military Band is making great preparations for the big event Saturday Sept 22nd. at South Riverside Park. Be sure to hear the Band Concert at the Park A.F.Johuston and John E. Lewis have embarked in the barber business 244 N.Main.Johnston haa the management. We wish them much success. Both are business men. The boys of Toas lodge, K of P., seem well pleased with their C.C. Chas.Smith of Connorsville,Ind is in the city and intends to make this his future home. Joe Phillipps is very popular in K of K cirles. He's alright, too. You can't fool Chas. Statton boys so there's no use to try. Little Miss Clara Johnson entered Misses Edith and Arbie Morton, Lillie, Ardie and Josie Slaughter, Thursday eve. Mrs Maggie Graham has returned from Kingman where she has been visiting for the past month. —Remember the Emancipation Celebration at South Riverside Park, Saturday, September 22 nd.— Charlie Statten states that he will be able to join the grand band of matrimony this fall. Willis Bartley arrived Sunday from Kansas City,he is paying a pleasant visit to his brother and sister, Frank Garrett and wife. Miss Beatrice Turner will return from Leaveuworth, Oct.1st. The National Baptist convention is in session at Richmond, Va. This body represents one million eight hundred thousand people. Miss Lula Helm of Parsons, who is visiting her brother and sister, will return about Oct 10th. A certain gentleman was very glad when a certain gentleman who was in the city last week, left for Fort Scott. Henry Dillon, Marshall of the United States District court arrived in the city Monday and will remain a couple weeks. A bright little boy was born to Mr and Mrs I.G.Porter,on Sept.5h. Mrs C. Bateman has returned from Oxford. Mesdames Mattie Pondexter and Cora Rattliff left Monday to spend a few days in Hennessey,O.T. The revival meeting which has been in progress for the past ten days at the 2nd Baptist church has been closed.with grand results.Rev J Thomas who assisted Rev. Copeland has returned to his home in Leavenworth,Kansas. Mesdames J. L. Harper and S. E. Patton left Tuesday night for Dalton, Mo. to visit their aunt, they will return about Oct. ist. Mrs T. H. Cox and family returned Tuesday from their extended visit in Kansas City. HE'S COMING!! HE'S COMING!! Who's Coming? The Collector for The Searchlight. So have your money ready. He will be looking for U. Rev Washington preached at the Methodist church Sunday morning, subj. "Give the ladies a chance" Mrs Nancy Harper, mother of Mrs Ana Coleman was afflicted by a parietical stroke Tuesday eve. Since that time she has been unable to open her eyes or mouth. Unless her mouth can be opened soon so she can take nourishments she cannot long survive. Old age is the cause assigned by the doctors. It is with the greatest of pleasure that we announce to our many readers the arrival in our city this week, Prof. W.G.Bostwick, of St. Louis, Mo. Prof Bostwick came here upon the solicitation of our friend Prof.Burl Fisher. Prof.Bostwick comes to our city highly recommended as a musician. He is a teacher of both vocal and instrumental music; also an arranger. He has taken charge of the band recently organized by Prof.Fisher. There are about 20 bright, apt and earnest young men in this band and the prospects were ne v e r brighter for us to have a good Colored band, than now. On behalf of the progressive citizens, The Search light welcomes Prof. Botswick to cast his lot with us. Read The Searchlight Read The Searchlight 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 haads, Envelopes, Hand bills, Wedding, Invitation, and Calling cards, Statements, 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. A Jolly Good Time. The Ragtime Ball given by the band boys Wednesday night at Peerless hall was one of 'the events' of the season. It was up-to-date in every respect.The word 'ragtime' in its common and vulgar acceptance,has no meaning as to this event,which was swell in every particular.The citizens show that the effort being made to give this city a good Colored band mee's their approval.A grand time was had. MEN SEXUAL STRENGTH REGAINED. It is sent securely sealed in plain envelope FREE on receipt of 2c stamp for postage. We are the leading specialists in curing all cases of kidney and Bladder trouble, Sexual Weakness and Impotency, Syphillis, Gleet and Stricture, quick and permanently. We have cured at their own homes. All Letters kept stricty and answered in plain sealed envelope. Consultation by mail free. Write to day. Address Dr.W.H Saunders & Co.. Rev. Terrill will preach his last sermon Sunday before going to the annual conference in Ft.Seott. Wm J Adams of Kansas City is in the city.He will remain awhile. Mrs A D Hobson of Columbus, Kansas is in the city visiting her daughters, Mesdames,Lee Anderson Jeff Sanford and S W Fleming. Geo-Jones received a telegram from St Joe Mo. Thursday, telling of the serious illness of his sister Mrs Essie Allen:Miss Josie Jones left Thursday night for St Joe. A Surprise. Last Thursday Hon.John Frazier,father of Rev H F Frazier,pastor of New Hope Baptist church, surprised the most thoughtful by taking unto himself a wife. The lucky lady was Mrs Hattie Jack—son. The Searchlight extends to them its best and most sincere wish for a long and happy life. The Only Way A Fascinating Romance by Alan Adair.... Another room in an obscure part of London; but this room was, though poor, scrupulously neat and tidy. It was even adorned with a few flowers, and some colored prints hung upon the walls. A woman and a child were sitting together in the one large chain that the room possessed. The woman, slight, still young, and astonishingly beautiful; the child, one of those brown, curly-haired children, with blue eyes, who have sprung from parents of different nations. The woman's face we have seen before. Now the only alteration in it, and one it was that did not affect her beauty, was a great sadness, except when she spoke to the child, and then her whole face changed. "It is such a great city," she was saying—"such a great city. I did not know it would be so difficult to find any one. I thought that when once I got to England it would all be well, and now I have been in England more than a year, and I have not seen him. And yet I am so longing to see him once again, and to show him our boy. Oh, how happy he will be! How happy we both shall be! These weary years will be as naught, and I shall forget everything once I feel his arms round me again!" There was a step on the stairs. Veronica listened. She had grown more womanly in these last four years, and she looked more thoughtful. Sorrow, the great master, had taught her many things. Now she did not look unhappy, but eager and anxious. She evidently recognized the footsteps on the stairs, and it did not bring her any pleasure. She was shrinking together in the chair with the child when the door opened to her call "Come in!" and Hutchinson entered. "Good afternoon," she said, but showed no pleasure at the sight of him. "How did you find me out?" "How? It is always easy to find any one when you have a mind to, and when you have any sense in your head!" He scanned Veronica's face as he spoke, and noticed that she flushed slightly. "I saw you go into a music shop, and I followed you home the other day, and I made a note of the road and the number, and here I am." "What do you want of me?" asked Veronica, rather hopelessly. "My dear girl"—Hutchinson spoke airily—"my dear girl, why could you not have confided in your father? It would have saved you a great deal if you had." "You are not my father," said Veronica quietly, "you told me so yourself." "Why quarrel about an expression? I am the man who brought you up, Veronica, why did you not tell me that you had married Alan Mackenzie and that this is his child?" Veronica gave a great start. She knew why she had not mentioned Alan's name to him. She knew of the hatred that Hutchinson had for him, and even now she did not know what to say. "How do you know?" she asked at last. "Who told you?" "He told me himself," said the man, watching the agitation that Veronica betrayed. "I should not have known unless." "When did he tell you?" she asked, her lips almost refusing to utter a sound. "About two months ago." Veronica sprang up. "He is here, in London. Two months ago! Oh, take me to him! Let me see him at once! Why did you not tell me before?" "How could I?" the man said dryly. "I tell you you should have had more confidence. I did not know you were his wife." "How was he looking?" cried Veronica. "Oh, my darling, my darling! Did he speak of me two months ago? I think we shall die of happiness when we come together again!" "No doubt," said Hutchinson. "Does he know of the boy?" "No. The boy was born five months after the shipwreck. I have told you I was so ill after the wreck that I lost my reason for a time." "Pity," said Hutchinson, reflectively, "that when you told me so much you did not tell me all." Veronica did not answer. Something in the man's tone awakened her suspicions. "Are you sure," she asked, after a little silence, "that you do not want to hurt him?" "Why should I?" asked Hutchinson. "No, what I want to do is to make money out of him. He will not be able to deny me anything when I restore him his wife and child." That sounded possible. Veronica smiled, and let herself be happy in the thought that what she had so longed for and worked for for years was about to come to pass. "My darling, my darling!" she murmured. Hutchinson looked at her curiously. "You seem fond of him," he said. She gave a glance of contempt at the way he expressed himself. She caught the child up in her arms. "My darling," she said, "my little Alan, you are going to your father at last!" Hutchinson was thinking. He had a difficult task before him. He had allowed Alan to get married, and had given him some weeks of happiness before he began his work of destruction; now he had to make sure of Veronica. He would have infinitely have preferred a woman who would have blustered, and have sworn that she would have her rights; but Veronica was the sort of woman who would shrink away and be lost to the world rather than hurt the man she loved. He had shrewdness enough to see that the girl would say that it was the only way to act, and that she would sacrifice both the child and herself; therefore it was imperatively necessary that she should know nothing of Alan's marriage, of his love for another woman. That must come to her as a surprise. She must be led to expect that Alan was longing for her, and would be overjoyed to see her again; then would be his, Hutchinson's, opportunity. He knew men so well that he fancied they must be all alike. Alan would not give up Joyce —he felt sure of that; then he must be made to pay for his silence. He must feel that he, Hutchinson, could hold the sword over his head, that he could let it fall at any moment. He had rubbed his hands at the publicity of the marriage. Alan Mackenzie would never give up his beautiful wife. Veronica would have to be paid off. Joyce would not be Alan's lawful wife. It was going to be a life of misery for the young man, and at the end there would be Hutchinson's dagger for his heart. But the whole thing needed careful handling, and Hutchinson felt that he was the man undoubtedly who could handle it carefully. Even if at the end Veronica refused, as was possible, to come forward and make Alan unhappy, nevertheless he would have to pay for his silence. "He lives in a nice little house in the country," Hutchinson said at last. "I will give you the address. You had better go by train. Have you any money?" "Yes," said Veronica. "I was paid for my lessons yesterday. I must write to her when I have seen Alan again. He may not wish me to go on giving lessons." But all the time she spoke her face was transfigured. The feeling that soon her weary time of probation would be over was strong within her. She looked with pride at the beautiful boy, whom she still held in her arms. "Will not his father be proud of him?" she asked, longing for a little human sympathy. "He is handsome, is he not?" "Oh, yes, he's a good-looking child, although I am no judge," said the man. In his head he was revolving plans. "I would not go straight up to the house if I were you," he said. "The servants might not understand it. You wait for him at the lodge gates." "Very well," said Veronica, docile as always. She could not guess that Hutchinson's one fear was lest she should meet Joyce and so spoil his whole plan. He had looked into Joyce's face as she was walking with Alan one day, and he could see innocence and purity written upon it. Joyce was not the woman to consent to the paying off of the first wife. And so it was decided that Veronica should go down to Summerhaye and await the coming of Alan. It was a lovely day in early July, when she went down, with that precious possession, her boy, hugged close to her heart. The sun was shining and the sky blue, the corn was waving in the fields; and it was under the shade of a leafy tree that Veronica awaited the coming of the man she loved. Hutchinson had discovered what train he usually came by. It was so important that Veronica should see him alone! And sat there quietly straining her her ears for the sound of his footsteps. It took her back to her girlish days at La Paz, when she had often watched for him as she was doing now. Truly there had been no years of separation from him, and no boy beside her. As the time drew nearer the strain grew almost too intense. She put her hand over her heart so as to stop its wild beating, and the rich color that generally flooded her cheeks left her, and she was pale. And suddenly she heard footsteps in the field that was before her—manly footsteps, which she had not heard for four years, but which she knew at once. Then a figure vaulted over the stile and Alan stood before her. She toterted to her feet, holding out the child. He looked at her wildly and gave a great cry, as if body and soul being rent asunder. "Veronica! O God! O God!" He fell backwards against the stile, covering his face with his hands, as if to shut out the sight of a great horror. She stood trembling before him, pushing her child in front of her, as if she wanted to obliterate herself and to obtrude the child; but he stood there, shaking and shivering, moaning at intervals. "Veronica! O God! O God!" It was she who spoke first; he could not find words, or anything but the piteous moan, and her voice was touching in exquisite joy. "Yes, Alan, it is I, saved from the sea, my dearest. And here—here is our child. Are you not pleased? Tell me you are pleased, for I have longed so to see your dear face again! I have longed so to hear your voice I cannot believe it has come at last!" She came quite near to him, ad- vancing as she spoke. It seemed as if she were longing for him to uncover his face, to take her into his arms. "Alan," she cried, "oh, my darling, are you not glad to see me?" There was still no doubt in her mind. She thought that the joy of seeing her had been too great, and that he was trying to recover from the shock. She had no doubt, poor soul, at all. He loved her, therefore her coming to him must be inexpressible joy. Then Alan uncovered his haggard face. "Glad? No! It has ruined my life!" he cried brutally. But for the moment he could think of nothing but Joyce—his Joyce, with whom life had begun so joyfully, and whose heart he must now break, as his own had been broken. "I wish I were dead!" he said, with a sob. "Alan!" The angish in her voice matched his. "Is that what you have to say to me, your wife, the mother of your child, who has undergone all hardships, and who has just lived on because you were in the world? Oh, Alan, if you do not want me, I had better go." She turned, walking unsteadily, holding her child's hand tightly. And then a great temptation assailed Alan Mackenzie. The temptation to let her go, to let her be lost to him, to say nothing to Joyce; but to go on as if the day's work had never been. And then he saw in a flash what this life would be. How every moment of happiness with Joyce would have its corresponding moment of bitterness when he was alone; how he must live a double life, always on the brink of detection. Not worse, perhaps, that the life parted from Joyce; but then he would be an honest man, and not a traitor. He put his temptation away from him, thanking God that he could do so, knowing that Joyce would not love a man who was dishonorable. So before Veronica had staggered a dozen steps away he called to her hoarsely to come back. She turned at once, obedient as always, and for a moment he hated himself for his brutality to so gentle a woman. Her team were falling down the beautiful face. She looked up at him with the old look of faithful love, still pushing the child towards him. "Yes," she said, questioning him, "what is it, Alan?" "I am married," he said, crudely and hoarsely, thinking it best to tell her at once. "I thought you were dead. I heard nothing from you since I left you; it is four years ago. They told me all on board were drowned, and I could hear nothing of you. What wonder then I thought you were dead? And so I married, Veronica—I am married now!" And then for a long time there was silence between them. (To be continued.) BAPTISMAL VAGARIES: One of the results of the war in South Africa is an outbreak of curious names. Luckless infants born at or about the time of great events are being christened after the events themselves, as well as after the more prominent individuals concerned. Redvers Buller Thompson was used a few days ago, and Dundee, Glencoe and Elandlaighte have all been given. At the Cape, among the many curiosities are Talana Elanda Smith, Belmontina Grasspana Modderivivo Brown and Penn Symons White Robinson. A Eper named Troskie, residing in the Craddock district in Cape Colony, had his son baptized Immanuel Kruger Steyn Triomphus. The mania appears to have taken South Wales in a very acute form. A few days ago Modder River Jones, John Redvers Buller Thomas, Harry White Redvers Joseph, Harold Baden Mafeking Powell, and Ezekiel Methuen Macdonald Baden Powell Williams were the names given to helpless infants by patriotic parents in Neath. At Pontypridd there are poor babes called Richard Colenso Scott, Oliver Colenso Williams, Kimberley Clifford, Charles Redvers James, and Baden-Powell Williams; and at Mountain Ash, Victor Colenso Warren, Warren Sandford, Macdonald Claremont, Methuen Phillips, John Stanley Methuen Williams, and Baden-Powell Price. Mr. Shandy, father of the famous Tristram, it will be remembered, believed there was something fateful in a name. The world seems to have been blessed with a sufficient number of individuals of ophilus similar to this, else how can one account for such names as Peter the Great Wright and William the Conqueror Wright (twins), King David Haydon, John Bunyan Parsonage, King George Westgate, Martin Luther Upright, General George Washington Jones, Lord Nelson Putman, Empress Eugenie Aldridge, and John Robinson Crusoe Heaton? The parents, no doubt, had a plauso hope that the children so named would grow to be worthy of the great persons whose names had been appropriated. The hope has not been realized, for none of these individuals seem ever to have set the Thames on fire. And perhaps it is rather well for humanity that there are no second editions of these "kings of men." But even quiet times have their remarkable names, Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Ugar Erchenwys Saxon Esa Cromwell Orem Nevill Dysart Clageneten is still living in Wales—perhaps because he never attempts to use all his own name—London Leader. Barton county is one of the principal wheat growing sections in Kansas. Its crop will probably reach 5,000,000 bushels, and it has a population of only 12,000. An Honest Guaranteed Remedy—Mo Positively straighten knotty, Nappy Cures Baldness, Dandruff, Titlet, Tetfer, and Diseases. Causes the hair to grow long and April morning. Please see a box. Four bows and we will immediately send you four bows guaranteed to make rough skin soft and which cures all Skin Diseases, removes W Spots, and all Facial Blemishes, also from the human body, Womb Disease we will send for $1.00. This grand offer is receive four lots. BOSTON CHEMICAL Writing from a ship enroute to Cape Neme, a Thayer, Kas., man says: "This Sunday morning Rev. 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FIVE THOUSAND AT LEAST Bodies Taken Out To Sea, Buried In Trenches Or Burned. VERY FEW ARE IDENTIFIED. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 13.—Mayor Walter C. Jones estimate the number of dead at 5,000, and he is conservative. Over 2,300 bodies have already been taken out to sea or buried in trenches. Other hundreds are yet to be taken from the ruins. The bodies are now all badly decomposed and they are being buried in trenches where they are found. Others are being burned in the debris where it can be done safely. There is little attempt at identification, and it is safe to say that there will never be a complete list of the dead. A soldier of Captain Rafferty's battery, while patrolling the beach, ordered a man to desist from looting. The fellow drew a weapon and the soldier shot him dead. The soldier was attacked by four other men and he killed all of them. He had five cartridges in his rifle, and each of them found a victim. Other men have also been shot, but the details are not known, nor can the exact number be ascertained. It is probable that twenty-five were killed. The ruins of the heavy brick buildings have not been searched for the dead, and there is a large number in them. In the mass of rubbish which marks the site of the Lucas Terrace bridge house, forty or fifty people were killed outright and their bodies are still in the ruins. The Orphan's home is totally demolished. Ninety-two children and eleven nuns were killed. It is rumored that one sister escaped, but if she did no trace can be found of her. Of the regular soldiers few remain. Twenty-three were drowned at the barracks at Camp Hawley, and seven at Bolivar. One man drifted about in the bay until Monday and was taken out alive. Idlers are being made to work at the point of the bayonet. Every horse and mule that was left in the city is in service. Supplies are coming in from Houston. 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An Errand of Mercy San Francisco, Sept. 14.—The United States government transport Lawton sailed on her errand of mercy to the far north, with all available space below decks devoted to berths, provided with bedding for nearly a thousand persons, besides the regular complement of officers and crew. The big transport will proceed to Cape Nome, to bring home destitute people, stopping at Seattle for supplies. Railroads Lose Millions. Houston, Tex., Sept. 14.—The railroads will suffer the loss of millions of dollars on actual damage to say nothing of the loss from the stoppage of business. At Galveston their wharves, warehouses, depots and tracks are ruined. The costly bridges which connect the island are in ruins and must be entirely rebuilt. The International and Great Northern and Santa Fe have considerable track washed out while the Galveston, Houston & Norharn will suffer heavily. Port Arthur Saved. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 12. It was learned at the general offices of the Kansas City Southern railway here that beyond a rather severe wind which unroofed a large warehouse and partially wrecked the road's pier no serious damage was done at Port Arthur, Tex., which is eight miles inland, by Saturday night's storm. No information is obtainable here from Sabine Pass, which is on the Gulf, some ten miles from Port Arthur on the Southern Pacific railway. Wheeler on the Retired List. Chicago, Sept. 12.—General Joseph Wheeler, considered one of the most picturesque figures in the United States army, is retired to private life, having reached the age limit of 64 years. General Wade will be temporarily in charge of the Department of the Lakes until General Otis, appointed to the place, arrives. General Wheeler will go to his home in Alabama, and following this he and his daughters expect to take a trip abroad. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure or Money Refunded by Your Merchant so Why Not Try It? Price 50¢ A TAX-PAYER'S VIEW. Mr. Editor: I have read the discussion in your columns on the subject of fire insurance, and with your permission, I desire to give my experience as a property owner and former resident in a state where there is a law prohibiting fire insurance companies to combine to charge certain rates. When this bill was before our legislature I championed it, but afterward saw it was folly and tended to raise rates. A rate on a building or stock is made scientifically. The fire insurance companies see what the profit or loss has been on a certain kind of property for several years. They then fix a rate on a standard building and charge an addition for those that are not up to the standard, thus encouraging good construction. These rates are given agents, and when a man improves his property his rate is decreased. If laws are passed to prohibit companies from using these rates, invariably they stick to the old rates and when a man improves his property he gets no advantage in his rate. These laws therefore keep rates up and companies can not pool their experience to see if they can be reduced. Since 1893, rates in all states in this country having no anti-compact laws have materially declined. The average rate in these states for twelve years has been $1.11 on every $100, or eleven points lower than 1893. The average rate in states having laws preventing combinations or rates for the same period is $1.27 or one point lower than 1893. In the last seven years rates of fire insurance have been lowered 17.2 per cent while in anti-compact states they have been lowered only 7.8 per cent. In Kansas, for example, which has an anti-compact law, the average rate for fifteen years is $1.35. In states having no such law it is $1.07 for the same time. The average rate in Kansas since 1893 is $1.32 in states having no anti-compact fire insurance law, $1.11. States passing such laws, and there are sixteen, hoped to force companies to reduce rates, but it will be seen such was not the result. These figures are taken from the state insurance departments. These anti-compact states like Kansas have not participated in the benefit of reduced rates because the companies were not allowed to combine and see if the results warranted a decrease. Kansas today does not know whether its rates are correct simply because the companies cannot figure out their combined experience. Knowing that to abandon rates is to invite disaster, companies will stick to the old rates, therefore anti-compact law states get no benefit at all of new rates, based upon standards that give reductions. I for one see that these laws are failures and should be repealed. TAX PAYER. Scotch and Irish Talent By the elevation of Sir Richard Webster to the office of master of the rolls, England is left unrepresented, in the great law offices of the kingdom, as the new attorney-general, Sir Robert Finlay, is a Scotchman, and the new solicitor-general, Sir Edward Carson, is an Irishman. The latter is the first man who has been solicitor-general both in Ireland and in England. Countles Named for Presidents. In the United States are 212 counties named after presidents. Every president except Arthur and McKinley is in the list. There are thirty-one Washington counties and one Hayes county. Next of the extremes are Jefferson twenty and Fillmore and Tyler two each; Jackson, twenty-two, and Buchanan and Cleveland three each. Guano Poachers' Severe Experience. Guano poaching has no more charms for the five men who were left on Elido island by the Mexican gunboat Democrata, and had the alternative of starving or risking their lives in a small boat to reach the mainland. 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It rises some yards above the top of the meteorological station on the Zugspitze, the highest point in the German empire, and runs down the side of the mountain to the bottom of the Hollenthal, where there is running water all the year round. The length of the rod is five and a half kilometers, nearly three miles and a half. Rare Philippine Jewels. The rarest corals in the world are to be found in the Philippines. As precious as this jewel is, there is still a rarer one, and that is health. It may be possessed by any one who will use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for indigestion, dyspepsia, belching, heartburn or sleeplessness. Try it. If the summer girl knew her business she would be cool to the men. It requires no experience to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Simply boiling your goods in the dye is all that's necessary. Beware of the bottle—especially if it is broken and you are a bicycle rider. Ladies Can Wear Shoes. One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. 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