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Fuel from mud and sewage. Fuel is now being manufactured in London out of mud, street refuse and sewage, for sale to the poor. A chemical process has been invented by which this waste material is so treated that it is rendered combustible. Mud has been will-drawn from the Thames at Millwall, treated chemically and compressed in briquettes, that in appearance closely resemble blocks of mud elbow or bog oak. This mud has been proved to have a calorific value of 7.52 pounds. It burns rapidly, excludes a minimum of smoke, and leaves only 25 per cent of firm ash. The street sweepings are mixed with a small percentage of cheap chemicals, pressed into blocks, and sterilized by being subjected to an intense heat of about 400 degrees Fahrenheit. This material produces great heat, burns freely with little smoke and leaves very little ash. The sewage when subjected to this chemical process and pressed into briquettes looks like the best coal, deep and rich is its sable character. This last fuel can be manufactured at the low cost of two dollars per ton, Pechin's FUR Rockers, Bed Room Suits, Springs, Mattresses, Couches, Cloth, Tents, Wagon 312 N.Main St. J.J.WF Is Headquarters for First .....At Le Cali and See Us,V Don't Forget the Number. F.M.Jaqu Special Prices made on Furniture for Holiday trade. Either Call in whether you buy or r ing goods and g F.M.Jaques & Co., MYRON 815 N.Main St. Headquarters for Staple and bers, Pants, Gloves, Stocking S. FURNITURE STORES In Room Suits, Go-Carts, Chairs, Lesses, Couches, Stoves, Carpets, Teats, Wagon Sheets, and Tables. M. WRIGHT Porters for First-Class Groceries. ...At Lowest Prices... and See Us, We will Treat You the Number. M. Jaques & made on Furniture, Stoves, Carpets buy trade. Either cash or easy after you buy or not. we take pleas goods and giving you price Co., RON A. DE St. for Staple and Fancy Groceries Gloves, Stockings etc. Rockers, Bed Room Suits, Go-Carts, Chairs, Iron Beds, Springs, Mattresses, Couches, Stoves, Carpets, Mattings, Oil Cloth, Teats, Wagon Sheets, and Tinware. Special Prices made on Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting for Holiday trade. Either cash or easy payments. Call in whether you buy or not. we take pleasure in showing goods and giving you prices. F.M.Jaques & Co., 243 N.Main St. MYRONA. DEAN, 815 N.Main St. Headquarters for Staple and Fancy Groceries, Shoes, Rubb bers,Pants,Gloves,Stockings.etc. 'Phone 101 H:FRANK Merchand The latest styles of Suiting always on hand, Strictly 307 East Douglas Ave. Merchant Tailor Sales of Suitings, Overcoats, and Ayes on hand,at Lowest price Strictly Guaranteed. s Ave. Merchant Tailor The latest styles of Suitings, Overcoats, and Pantaloons always on hand,at Lowest prices. Strictly Guaranteed. 307 East Douglas Ave. Wichita,Kansas. 137 N.Main St. "The best and Cheapet." 50 per cents reduction to the holiday trade. TANNER'S Book Store for TOYS. ForY and is equal in every way to the cheaper coals. Licenses have been granted to manufacture the fuel from these hitherto waste materials, and works are shortly to be installed upon the river's banks at Barking. Princess Buried as Pauper. Princess Buried as Pauper. The Princess Ludmilla Gorseszlow, once a famous Russian beauty, was buried recently at Budapest as a pauper. Although some of the noblest and wealthiest men in Russia were among the suitors for her hand, she depended with a handsome Hungarian adventurer. He maltreated and deserted her and at the age of thirty, her beauty gone, she had become a street beggar in Budapest. She died the other day, aged forty, from hunger, cold and neglect. No one followed the pauper's coffin to the grave. Bernhardt Supports Her Relatives. The London Chronicle states that Sarah Bernhardt is devoted to her family, and that fully half of the millions she has earned has gone to support her relative FURNITURE AND STORAGE CO. Go-Carts, Chairs, Iron Beds, Stoves, Carpets, Mattings, Oil Sheets, and Tinware. Wichita, Kansas. RIGHT'S 459 N.Main St. Class Groceries and Meats. Lowest Prices..... We will Treat You Right. es & Co., ure, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting or cash or easy payments. not. we take pleasure in show- giving you prices. 243 N.Main St. A. DEAN, Fancy Groceries, Shoes, Rub- gs.etc. 'Phone 101 Failor s, Overcoats, and Pantaloons at Lowest prices. Guaranteed. Wichita,Kansas. J.E.Farrow,deputy register of deeds,has a word of comfort for the croup among children at this time of the year.He says:When our children begin to cough we give them one or two doses of Henrion's Tar Expectorant and it always relieves all danger.We have raised three children,and have never had a case of croup in the house.We attribute it to Tar Expectorant,which we consider the best cough remedy, ever made.Sold by W.S.Henrion West Side Drug Store, H. C. Ken drick,W.O.Goodin. Heller's Market ForYourMeats. WICHITA, KANSAS, DEC. 29, 1900. SPECIAL SALE Any patent leather or patent Kid shoes in the store, for the balance of December, will be sold at 25 per cent Discount. MORRIS SPEER WICHITA, KANS. Jame A Jackson' of whom this is written,and whose likeness is here M. H. presented, was born in Taylar-ville, Christian co., Ill., June 20 th., 8963. He remained with his parents and attended school from 1870 to 1875. In 1875 his parents moved to the South, to the state of Tennessee. Young James being sensitiv of the way the South,refused to go,and resolved to remain in Illinois and battle in life for himself. And afterward made his way to Milwaukee and later to Springfield' Mo.,where in 1887 he met and married Mrs. Nannie Jarrett,and in 1888, moved to Wichita,and engaged in the hotel business,He has for years been constantly engaged in that business and is now proprietor of The Jackson House 343 N.Main.this city,he has made a grand successs in the same.james is a member of A.F. & A.M; Palesten Cammandery No12. and Mt.ZionChapter Mo 17.also a faithful member of the A. M. E church He has host of friends both white and Colored, and is one of the most prominent citizens of the city. Searchlight $1.00 Non-Union Men Protected. New York, Dec. 24.—The appelate division of the supreme court handed down a decision in the case of Samuel I. Davis and others against Nathan Rosenstein and others. The court affirmed the order continuing a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the plaintiff's business through "picketing" against non-union men during business hours. Belfast, Dec. 26.—Vere Foster, who has been engaged for the last fifty years in assisting the emigration of nearly 55,000 young women from the congested districts of the West of Ireland and in the building or furnishing of over 2,200 national schools in every part of Ireland, is dead. He was born in Copenhagen in 1819 and was formerly in the British diplomatic service in South America. Kalamazoo, Mich. Dec. 27.—Hobart Clayberg, a 17-year-old boy whose father, John B. Clayberg, is a prominent citizen of Helena, Mont., was kidnapped in this city by two men. The boy was blindfolded and compelled to walk to Mattewan, a distance of 11 miles. It became so stormy that the kidnappers released young Clayberg at Mattewan, after robbing him of the small sum of money he had in his pockets. The boy telegraphed here for help and was brought home. Washington Notes. Washington, Dec. 24.—The senate committee on military affairs has referred the army reorganization bill to a sub-committee, consisting of Senator Harris of Kansas, and Senators Hawley, Proctor, Sewell and Cockrell. Congressman Calderhead, will in all probability, be the only member of the delegation that will return to Kansas during the holiday recess of congress. Besides visiting Cuba during the recess, Congressman Bailey will investigate the conditions of Puerto Rico as well The subject of this sketch and the person whose likeness hear in ap-pears Mr Joe Fines, is a native of A. E. the state of Kansas, having been born in in Lynn co, March 29 th '70 He remained in his native county till he was 15 years of age, when he went th the 'strip' and took up a claim;he remained there one year, sold his claim,and on March 1, '86 came to this city;where he has since remained.He is quite a Society leader,is a member of Arkansas Valley lodge No.21,in which he is Senior Deacon;is Captain of the Host in Palastine Commandery No.12, and Secretary of Mt. Zion Chapt.No.17 VOL. II. NO. 31 Brown's Meat Market Fresh and Salt Meat. Game, Poultry and Oysters. Xmas Turkeys Cheap. Low prices on all meat. Lee Brown, Proprietor. 217 N.Main St. Wichita, Ks. Shaw's STORE GOODS. Anything in music, at Special Prices. Thos. Shaw's MUSIC STORE Is the place for HOLIDAY GOODS. Anything i Sewing Machines,or Bicycles,at Special Prices. Is the place for HOLIDAY GOODS. Anything in music, Sewing Machines,or Bicycles, at Special Prices. TURN THIS AROUND. tells you to come to the d=i=tatobuyyour Xmas and other presents. We welcome you all to 350 N.Main. It tells you the Xmas Presents? The Cheapest time,Come All!! Welcome, HOLD FAIR. N.Dailey,Prop. Great Market since meat of all kinds. 813 N.Main Xmas Supplies. Where you will find a Full new dates,Oranges,Bananas,fresh thing you may want. Sturgeon. Grocers. It tells you to come to the Odd=i=tatobuyyour Xmas and other presents. We welcome you all to 350 N.Main. Did You Know? That the H Fair was the Headquarters for Xmas Presents? The C Place in the city. Come One,Come All!! We THE HOUSEHOLD FA That the Household Fair was the Headquarters for Xmas Presents? The Cheapest Place in the city. Come One,Come All!! Welcome, Smith's Meat Market Is the place to get choice meat of all kinds. S.L.Smith,Prop. 813 N.Main FOR YOUR XMAS SUPPLIES. Come to our store Where you will find a Full line of Candies,Nuts of all kinds,New dates,Oranges,Bananas,fresh Baltimore Oysters,Celery,in fact any thing you may want. Longsdorf & Sturgeon. & WALKER. later season on Comfortables reputation as retailer of trust- it almost unnecessary for us and an invitation to you to the least possible prices, at CHAPMAN & WALKER. with an entire new stock. Our reputation as retailer of trustworthy goods in these lines make it almost unnecessary for us to say anything except to extend an invitation to you to come and buy the best goods at the least possible prices, at which we sell them. Jno.E.Lewis and Geo.Johnston will give an exhibition of their Moving pictures at New Hope on Thursday, Jan. 3rd. and at the 2nd.Baptist on Friday Jan.4th. Come out every body. FOR LOWEST PRICES. Don't forget the place in Millinery & Hair Goods We will and must close out our fall stock..... S.E.Klentz. 153 N. Main. 'Phsne 132 Blankets at 65c a pair 75c a pair 1.00 a pair 1.35 a pair 1.88 a pair 2.50 upwards 258 N.Main. CURRENT KANSA'S FACTS. Some Finney county farmers are talking of sugar beets. The M. E. church at Chanute received 100 new members at one time recently. Glen Elder will vote on the 7th of January on going in debt to build a city hall. There are now nearing completion in Columbus, a county high school and a new jail and sheriff's residence. The Santa Fe paid taxes in Franklin county, the other day, of $16,349. By paying all the rebate was $419,21. The Missouri & Kansas Telephone company has put up two long cables in Wichita, each having 100 wires. Thos. Hornby, of Morris county, brought back $75,000 more from the Klondike mines than he took there. Andrew Baird, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., has been re-elected to that position by the executive committee. Bank note No. 1, issued by the National bank of Honolulu, was received on a freight bill at Parsons recently. Dr. W. E. Middleton, one of the oldest settlers of Sumner county, died at his home in Oxford a short time since. Burglars opened a safe at Solomon, securing valuable papers and about $100. The store was injured by the explosion. A company has been organized in Franklin county who propose to make the run for land when the Kiowa country is opened. They are accumulating funds for the trip. H. R. Irvine, general roadmaster of the Rock Island, is selected to have charge of the extension from Liberal. W. H. Davidson, a division engineer at Des Moines, will become general roadmaster. The attorney general tells Warden Tomlinson, of the Kansas penitentiary, that he has the right to offer a reward for the capture of a convict who has been conditionally pardoned and has broken his parole. C. W. Goodlander has written a history of Fort Scott, which is on sale at the Goodlander hotel, the Goodlander mill, the Goodlander bank, the Goodlander lumber yard and at Mayor Goodlander's office. Mandamus from the federal court has been served upon the city of Medicine Lodge, to compel a levy to pay $3,700 of interest. The people say that it is not possible to secure such a sum by a special levy. There is a movement to repeal the law providing for the organization of private banks. There are now 55 of them, and under the proposed legislation they will be compelled to incorporate as state or national banks. There are now 5,565 books in the traveling library department of the state library. The scheme was started with 3,000 books. The case of 50 books has on the average 20 readers, giving a total number of readers of 16,800. The cook of the Copeland hotel in Topeka refused to give a waiter a plate of corned beef hash for breakfast and all the waiters went on a strike. Dinner was somewhat delayed before the places of the waiters were all filled. Ablene's business men, in meeting assembled, have, jointly with the city council, decided to continue to "regulate" the liquor business as has been done in the past. The council says that money must be raised some way. Jerry Simpson's pension of $12 a month was given him in 1896. Frank Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, told friends in Wichita that he expected to spend his declining years on or near his ranch in Kiowa and Clark counties. He is in love with the climate of southern Kansas. His residence at the ranch is a large modern building, erected with comfort rather than luxury in view. It is supplied with hot and cold water, and with gas manufactured on the premises. Austin W. Hall, of Trading Post, Linn county, is dead. Mr. Hall was the last survivor of the "Marias des Cygnes massacre," of May 19, 1858. The state of Kansas is erecting a monument at the scene of that May Day slaughter. Auditor Cole is preparing an estimate of the expenditures of the state for the next two years; classifying them into those provided for by permanent and by temporary appropriations; for the legislature committees of Ways and Means. The three national banks of Wichita have an aggregate of deposits of $2,487,027.08, on December 13, as shown by a statement that was made under the call from Washington for that date. Michigan parties have commenced the work of drilling for gas at Mound City. They brought two carloads of drilling machinery. J. W. Robison, of Ei Dorado, has received four Percheres, stallions which he purchased at $79 each, while attending the Paris excavation. Caldwell wants that proposed new Mennonite college. The new high school building at El Dorado is completed. The Lutheran church of Abilene now has a $1,500 pipe organ. Hunts for coyotes are the common thing in Sumner county these days. Wm. Byrnes, of Belle Plaine, puts out 39,000 bunches of celery every year. Kingman county has commenced agitating the question of new courthouse. Miss Jessie Morrison's bond was not filed in time for her to spend Christmas at home. H. U. Mudge, general superintendent of the Santa Fe, has purchased a home in Topeka. General W. S. Metcalf, of the Twentieth Kansas, has opened a loan office in Lawrence. A mutual burial association is a new organization in Wichita with 400 members already. Dodge City reports a shortage of coal, extending to about all of the surrounding towns. A Stevens county man has shipped 15,500 pounds of watermelon seed to an eastern seed house. A. F. Casad, the new captain of the West Point foot ball team, was born and raised in Wichita. There are only two members of the famous "Douglas House" who are in the present legislature. Wichita women have arranged for iron watering troughs at twenty of the entrances to the city. The two girls who tried to burn the Beloit reform school have been dismissed and sent home. Superintendent of Machinery of the Santa Fe Player denies the statement that he intends to resign. John Ryan, of Florence, lost 80 tons of hay by fire, started by a locomotive on the El Dorado branch. During the past two years five Kansas banks have failed and all of them owe depositors only $7,800. It is claimed that gold worth $7 was taken from a piece of rock the size of an egg, found near Mound City. Increase of cattle thieving in Pawnee county has induced the organization of a local stock association. A Belgian named Lambotte, who has lived in Salina 33 years, manufactures high grade violins for professional musicians. W. Q. Hayes, of Johnson county, exhibits ears of corn weighing from five to six pounds. They are taken from a field that yielded 80 bushels to the acre. The Fort Scott flax tow factory is now operating on full time, after being idle for four years. A large force is employed. The factory was idle from lack of straw but farmers have commenced raising it again in quantities to justify the reopening. The state library association gave a public reception this week while the city is full of people from over the state to acquaint the people of the state with the magnificent library which is at their command. It now contains over 75,000 volumes and has stack room for 175,000. This can be increased nearly a third by adding another story to the book stack, which can easily be done. John Player, superintendent of machinery on the Santa Fe system, has resigned and will be succeeded by Assistant Superintendent Sanderson, comparatively a new man on the Spinta Fe. Henry Alphin, aged 70 years, had the past season, 300 acres of wheat, the proceeds of which enabled him to buy another quarter section of land, fence it, construct a well and a wind mill, the best feed rack in the county, 45 feet long, a cattle shed 14 by 60 feet, and then have enough spending money to last until next harvest. It is asserted by school architects that there is more school room under the single roof of the Friends University in Wichita than can be found under any single roof in America. Adna Treat, aged 103 years, died at Hays, Kansas recently. In 1824 he was master of the Masonic lodge in Troy, N. Y., which entertained Lafayette. Mr. Treat was intimate with Presidents Monroe and John Quincy Adams. He was a prominent officer in the ceremonies of dedicating the Erie canal. A Lawrence firm has been awarded the contract for grading about 50 miles of the Rock Island's extension from Liberal. The flax seed crop of Bourbon county averages returns of $15 to $18 an acre. There is no market for straw and it is used for feed. Living southwest of Conway Springs are two brothers, sons of one of the Siamese twins. Formerly two sons of the other twin also lived in Sumner county, but it is not known there where they are now. TALMAGE'S SERMON. FOR THE WORLD'S DISEN- THRALLMENT. A Sermon Especially Appropriate for the Christmas Season—The Mission of the Saviour of the World—Proof That God Is Love. (Copyright, 1900, Louis Klopsch, N. Y.) Washington, Dec. 23.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage describes in a new way the sacrifices made for the world's disenchantment and deliverance. His text is I. John iv. 16. "God is love." Perilous undertaking would it be to attempt a comparison between the attributes of God. They are not like a mountain range, with here and there a higher peak, nor like the ocean, with here and there a profounder depth. We cannot measure infinities. We would not dare to say whether his omnipotence, or omniscience, or omnipresence, or immutability, or wisdom, or justice, or love is the greater attribute, but the one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than any other. It was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not in his dotage, as Prof. Elichhor asserted, but you can tell by the repetitions in the epistle and the rambling style and that he called grown people "little children" that the author was probably an octogenarian. Yet Paul, in midlife mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars hill, said nothing stronger or more important than did the venerable John when he wrote the three words of my text, "God is love." Indeed the older one gets the more he appreciates this attribute. The harshness and the combativeness and the severity have gone out of the old man, and he is more lenient and aware of his own faults, is more disposed to make excuses for the faults of others, and he frequently ejaculates, "Poor human nature!" The young minister preached three sermons on the justice of God and one on the love of God, but when he got old he preached three sermons on the love of God and one on the justice of God. Christ's Descent to Earth. If high intelligences looked down and saw what was going on, they must have prophesied extermination, complete extermination, of these offenders of Jehovah. But no! Who is that coming out of the throne room of heaven? Who is that coming out of the palaces of the eternal? It is the Son of the Emperor of the universe. Down the stairs of the high heavens he comes till he reaches the cold air of a December night in Palestine and amid the bleatings of sheep and the lowing of cattle and the moaning of camels and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for 33 years invites the wandering race to return to God and happiness and heaven. They were the longest 33 years ever known in heaven. Among many high intelligences, what impatience to get him back! The Infinite Father looked down and saw his Son slapped and spit on and supperless and homeless, and then, amid horrors that made the noonday heavens turn black in the face, his body and soul parted. And all for what? Why allow the Crown Prince to come on such an errand and endure such sorrows and die such a death? It was to invite the human race to put down its antipathies and resistance. It was because "God is love." Now, there is nothing beautiful in a shipwreck. We go down to look at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on Long Island or New Jersey coast. It excites our interest. We wonder when and how it came ashore and whether it was the recklessness of a pilot or a storm before which nothing could bear up. Human nature wrecked may interest the inhabitants of other worlds as a curiosity, but there is nothing lovely in that which has foundered on the rocks of sin and sorrow. Yet it was in that condition of moral break up that heaven moved to the rescue. It was loveliness hovering over deformity. It was the lifeboat putting out into the surf that attempted its demolition. It was harmony pitying discord. It was a living God putting his arms around a recreant world. Our World's Wickedness. Our World's Wickedness. But for this divine feeling I think our world would long ago have been demolished. Just think of the organized wickedness of the nations! See the abominations continental! Behold the false religions that hoist Mohammed and Buddha and Confucius! Look at the Koran and the Shastra and the Zend-Avesta that would crowd out of the world the Holy Scriptures! Look at war, digging its trenches for the dead across the hemispheres! See the great cities, with their holocaust of destroyed manhood and womanhood! What blasphemies assail the heavens! What butcheries sicken the centuries! What processions of crime and atrocity and woe encircle the globe! If justice had spoken, it would have said, "The world deserves annihilation, and let annihilation come." If immutability had spoken, it would have said: "I have always been opposed to wickedness and always will be opposed to it. The world is to me an affront infinite, and away with it." If omniscience had spoken, it would have said: "I have watched that planet with minute and all comprehensive inspection, and I cannot have the offense longer continued." If truth had spoken, it would have said, "I declare that they who offend the law must go down under the law." But divine love took a different view of the world's obeduency and pollution. It said: "I pity all those woes of the earth. I cannot stand here and see no assuagement of those sufferings. I will go down and reform the world. I will medicate its wounds. I will calm its frenzy. I will wash off its pollution. I will become incarnated. I will take on my shoulders and upon my brow and into my heart the consequences of that world's misbehavior. I start now, and between my arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent from Olivet I will weep their tears and suffer their griefs and die their death. Farewell, my throne, my crown, my scepter, my angelic environment, my heaven, till I have 'finished the work and come back'!" God was never conquered but once, and that was when he was conquered by his own love. "God is love." Christ the Comforter. If one paragraph of the creed seems to take you, like a child, out of the arms of a father, let the next paragraph put you in the arms of a mother. "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Oh, what a mother we have in God! And my text is the lullaby sung to us when we are ill, or when we are maltreated, or when we are weary, or when we are trying to do better, or when we are be-reft, or when we ourselves lie down to the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek of the mother against our cheek, and there sounds in it the hush of many mothers: "God is love." This was the reason the Bible was written. The world needs no inspired page to tell it that God will chastise sin, for that is proved in the life of many an offender. You can look through the wicket of any prison and see the fact which the world understood thousands of years before Solomon wrote it—"The way of the transgressor is hard." The world needed no Bible to tell it that God is omnipotent, for any one who has seen Mont Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean in a cyclone knows that. The world needed no Bible to tell it of God's wisdom, for everything, from a spider's web to the upholstery of a summer's sunset, from the globe of dewdrop to the rounding of a world, declares that. But there was one secret about God that was wrapped up in a scroll of parchment, and it staid there until apostolic hand unrolled that scroll, and let out upon the world the startling fact, which it could never have surmised, never guessed, never expected, that he loved our human race so ardently that he will pardon sin and subdue the offender with a divine kiss and turn foaming malefactors into worshipers before the throne. Oh, I am so glad that the secret is out and that it can never again be beiled! Tell it to all the sinning, suffering, lying race; tell it in song and sermon, on canvas, and in marble, on arch and pillar; tell it all around the earth—"God is love." The Domination of Fear. Notice that the wisest men of the nations for thousands of years did not, amid their idolatries, make something to represent this feeling, this emotion. They had a Jove, representing might; Neptune, the god of the sea; Minerva, the goddess of wisdom; Venus, the goddess of base appetite; Ceres, the goddess of corn, and an Odin, an an Osiris, and a Titan, and a Juggernaut, and whole pantheons of gods and goddesses, but no shrine, no carved image, no sculptured form has suggested a god of pure love. That was beyond human brain. It took a God to think that, a God to project that, a God let down from heaven to achieve that. Fear is the dominant thought in all false religions. For that the devotees cut themselves with lances and swing on iron hooks and fall under wheels and hold up the right arm so long that they cannot take it down. Fear, brutish fear! But love is the queen in our religion. For that we build temples. For that we kneel at our altars. For that we contribute our alms. For that martys suffered at Brussels marketplace and at Lucknow and Cawnpur and Pekin. That will yet bejewel the round earth and put it an emerald on the great, warm, throbbing heart of God. Proof That God Is Love. Do you want more proof that "God is love?" Yea, disinterested love. No compensation for its bestowal. No reward for its sacrifices. But I call that back. The world did pay him. It paid him on Calvary, paid him with brambles on the brow and four spikes, two for the hands and two for the feet, and one spear for the side near the heart; paid him in execution; paid him with straw pillow in a barn and a cross on a hill; paid him with a third of a century of maltreatment and hardship save one year—yea, is paying him yet in rejection of his mission of mercy. Having dethroned other kings, the world would like to dethrone the King of Kings. But he knew what he was coming to when he left the portals of pearl and the land where the sun never goes down. Yes, he knew the world, how cold it is, and knew pain, how sharp it is, and the night, how dark it is, and explation, how excruciating it is. Out of vast eternity he looked forward and saw Pilate's criminal courtroom, and the rocky bluff with three crosses, and the lacerated body in mortuary surroundings, and heard the thunders toll at the funeral of heaven's favorite, and understood that the palaces of eternity would hear the sorrow of a bereft God. What do the Bible and the church Itturgies mean when they say, "He descended into hell?" They mean that his soul left his sacred body for awhile and went down into the poison of moral night, and swung back its great door, and lifted the chain of captivity, and felt the awful lash that would have come down on the world's back, and wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice, and took the bolt of divine indignation against sin into himself, and, having vanquished death and hell, came out and came up, having achieved an eternal rescue if we will accept it. Read it slowly, read it solemnly, read it with tears, "He descended into hell." He knew what kind of pay he would get for exchanging celestial splendor for Bethlehem caravansary, and he dared all and came, the most illustrious example in all the ages of disin- Echoing Back Divine Love Echoing Back Divine Love. Now, the only fair thing for human hearts to do is to echo back that sovereign love: You and I have stood in mountainous regious where, uttering one distinct word, the echoes would come back with a resonance startling and captivating, and from all our hearts there should sound unto the heavens responses glorious and long continued. Let the world change its style of payment for heavenly love. No more payment by lances, by hammers; no more payment by blows on the cheek and scourging on the back, and hooting of mobs, but payment in ardors of soul, in true surrender of heart and love to the God that made us, and the Christ who ransomed us, and the eternal spirit who by regenerating power makes us all over again. Alexander the Great, with his host, was marching on Jerusalem to capture and plunder it. The inhabitants came out, clothed in white, led on by the high priest wearing a miter and glittering breast plate on which was emblazoned the name of God, and Alexander, seeing that word, bowed and halted his army, and the city was saved. And if we have the love of God written in all our hearts and on all our lives and on all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation would fall back, and we would go on from victory unto victory, until we stand in Zion and before God. Leander swam across the Hellespont guided by the light which Hero the fair held from one of her tower windows, and what Hellesponts of earthly struggle can we not breast as long as we can see the torch of divine love held out from the tower windows of the King! Let love of God to us and our love to God clas hands this minute. O ye dissatisfied and distressed souls, who roam the world over looking for happiness and finding none, why not try this love of God as a solace and inspiration and eternal satisfaction? When a king was crossing a desert in caravan, no water was to be found, and man and beast were perishing from thirst. Along the way were strenu the bones of caravans that had preceded. There were harts or reindeer in the king's procession, and some one knew their keen scent for water and cried out, "Lct loose the harts or reindeer!" It was done, and no sooner were these creatures loosened than they went scurrying in all directions looking for water and soon found it, and the king and his caravan were saved, and the king wrote on some tablets the words which he had read some time before. "As the hart panthet after the water brooks, so panthet my soul after thee, O God." Some have compared the love of God to the ocean, but the comparison fails, for the ocean has a shore, and God's love is boundless. But if you insist on comparing the love of God to the ocean, put on that ocean four swift sailing craft, and let one sail to the north, and one to the south, and one to the east, and one to the west, and let them sail on a thousand years, and after that let them all return and some one hall the feet and ask them if they have found the shore of God's love, and their four voices would respond: "No shore! No shore to the ocean of God's mercy!" FASTEST TRAINS. America Leads the World in the Matter of Quick Transportation. Statistics recently published reveal some interesting facts regarding the fastest regularly scheduled railroad trains in the leading countries of the world. The United States heads the list with four trains run from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. Two of these, running on the Philadelphia and Reading, attain a speed of 66.6 miles per hour for a distance of fifty-five and one-half miles, being the fastest regular runs in the world. The two other trains, on the Pennsylvania line, run at the rate of 64.3 miles per hour, the distance over its line being fifty-nine miles. The Midi of France, in a run from Morceaux to Bordeaux, a distance of sixty-seven and three-quarters miles, maintains a speed of 61.6 miles per hour. England brings up the rear with two trains, which are scheduled to make the run between Dorchester and Wareham, a distance of only fifteen miles, at the rate of 60.1 miles per hour. The fastest long-distance run is made over the Orleans and Mid railway, in France. The run is from Paris to Bayonne, a distance of 486¼ miles, and is made, including six stops, at the rate of 54.13 miles per hour. Then follows the New York Central's empire state express, running from New York to Buffalo, 440 miles, including four stops, at 53.33 miles per hour, and finally again England, with a train on the Great Northern, running between London and Edinburgh, 393½ miles, at 50.77 miles per hour.—Chicago Chronicle. American Honored by Italian King. General W. F. Draper of Milford, Mass., has received from the king of Italy the grand cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazare as a token of appreciation of the general's services during his mission in Italy. The grand cordon is one of the highest de- corations conferred by that court. Lord Rosebery's mother, the Duchess of Cleveland, is 81 years old, but in the best of health. She is one of the most active "woman politicians" of England. Archbishop of Canterbury's House. The new residence of the archbishop of Canterbury probably will be completed before spring. The coat is being defrayed out of money realised from the sale of Addington Park. Mustard from a Shrimp spout. Mustard, as usually served in cups or open pots, soon dries up. A German has invented an air-tight coat having a piston projecting through a top. On pressing the piston a cup or forces the mustard through a spout in the side of the cup. An Expensive Request The Portuguese government authorized the expenditure of over 500 rupees for the reception of Lord Ceyon, viceroy of India, on the occasion of his visit to Goa. Fire a Shot 20 Miles The United States will fire a dozen twenty miles, which will be a rover breaker for the distance. The from which it is to be fired will marvel of American ingenuity workmanship. Another marvel of American ingenuity is Hostetler Stombit Bittches. For fifty years it cured constipation, indigestion, pepsia and biliousness. Nothing angers a woman more than a man who refuses to lose his temper. Facetious Judge on Tramp Question Peter J. Carolus, judge of a Louis police court, suggests a new way of solving the tramp problem. He gests that all vagrants be sent to a lonely island in the Pacific. They would get strict military instruction for six months, after which they should be sent to chase Aguinaldo the Philippine islands. Fourteen Catskins for a Coat Portraiture of Love Affairs. Paul Heyse, who is noted among Germans for his portraiture of women and love affairs, explains in his cently published "Memoirs" that key to his love affairs is not to found in his personal experiences, had only three love affairs, the obj of the first, when he was a stud being a grandniece of Goethe's lotte von Stein. His other two were young women who subsumed became his first and second wife. FOUR DOCTORS FAILED. A Michigan Lady's Battle with B and How It Was Won Flushing, Mich., Dec. 22. —Special—One of the most active workers in the cause of Temperance and Social Reform in Michigan is Mrs. P. Passmore of this place. She is prominent and very enthusiastic in C. T. U. woman, and one who loses an opportunity to strike a blow against the demon of Intemperance Mrs. Passmore has suffered and bodily pain during the last three years through Kidney and Bladder Trouble. At times the pain was a most unbearable, and the good luck was very much distressed. 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C. stamped on it ware of imitations. The man who is his own best friend has few others. TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF A NEW YEARS STORY New Year's Eve, and at home. This is a cozy little den of mine, just as it books now, quite eclipses anything I ever see at the club; books, pipes, easy chairs, a cheerful fire in the grate; pictures, busts, my well-beloved etchings all about the walls. What's the matter with you, old man, tonight? Why are you taking an inventory of these surroundings on this last night of the year? Everybody thinks you are tired of them, don't you know, for you spend very little time in their midst, says some provoking little voice. (Wonder if it's my con- Dorothy is up stairs, the servants are out; as soon as she finishes the setting of a button on Johnnie's retractory trousers she will come down, she says, and watch the old year out, being evidently well pleased over the prospect of a club night of our own, a little "Home, Sweet Home" sort of an arrangement. It seems that Johnnie is the only member of our family not a member of a club. Dorothy simply holds on to the little shaver by the collar, tied to her apron strings he is, and I am glad of it. Can I ever forget the day when our THIS IS A COZY LITTLE DEN. neighborhood took on a sudden quiet? The question arose, where are those boys? Dorothy and I knew all about it, for were we not invited to become honorary members of their club, "The Ollapodida?" We helped to foot the bills and evinced an interest in the affairs of the club; we lent them ten cents to buy material to reheat an old worn-out chair; there was another item; twenty-five cents for lumber, etc., and last, but not least, and that which caused Dorothy much suffering, were sundry pieces of rope to be furnished with all the paraphernula of a trapeze arrangement, preparatory to meandering aloft, all of which caused a rush of blood to my head, as I thought of these venturesome boys, three of them at work daily, experimenting with the center of gravity, walking on their heads being the objective point apparently. We are happily rejoicing these days, however, in a more recent occupant of the family cradle, who so far walks feet downward after the fashion of portals. As time goes on, the children's youthful exploits, with the accompanying worries of their elders, fade into oblivion, as the more serious aspect confronts us. The Olapodirria members of my family have taken unto themselves a few extra years; two of these aforesaid members are looking collegeward, and I seem to worry about them in a wonderful way quite unlike myself. The bread and butter question confronts me? What profession will be theirs? Are they sufficiently strong in purpose to resist this or that? The day will come when Dorothy and I cannot shield them or stand beneath them and the cold world; we won't be here to settle the little accounts or encounters, or watch the little coilitions they are going to have with the dwellers of this mundane sphere. Then comes the question over again: "Well, old fellow, what's the matter now? Can't you let the boys alone, and let them fight it out just as you did?" Some truth in that, I answer. "I will wait until Dorothy comes and I'll ask her, just for curiosity, what she thinks of my past, and the general outlook." In part I am going to turn over a new leaf. be here I on the table; he is so human, you know, and I will close my eyes, open the book (a litte game of chance, you see), and on the page where my finger rests I will try if by chance a word of comfort come to me, this would hit my case. I seem to have a case of the blues; probably staying away from the club on this convivial occasion is not agree- ing with me. "Shut your eyes, open the book," awes the little exhorter, that unseen individual. Presto—change—O, what meets my eye? Will it be, some dire prophecy or—? Here it is under my forefinger: "A Shadow." It reads: What would befall these children? What would be Their fate, who are now looking up to me For help and furtherance? Their lives, I said, Would it be a volume wherein I have read But the first chapters, and no longer see To read the rest of their dear history So full of beauty and so full of dread. Be comforted; the world is very old, And generations pass, as they have passed, A troop of shadows moving with the sun; Thousands of times has the old tale been told; The world belongs to those who come the last. They will find here and strength. They will find hope and strength as we have done. Was ever answer sent to a mortal man more clearly? I think I'm sent for; there's something besides old Father Time after me, surely. Here is the very answer to my dismails as to those boys and their doings. But here comes Dorothy, singing, apparently in a very cheerful mood. "This is perfectly lovely, George Augustus. "Johnnie's trousers are all right for tomorrow, and I have been looking over my precious tin box, and I find such lovely bits of literature and all sorts; suppose we look them over tonight." Perhaps Dorothy noticed an unusual expression on my manly countenance, for she paused and said: "What are you thinking about? What has this old year been saying to you? Are you having a retrospective sort of revival meeting all by yourself?" "Only a few ideas have struck me, Dorothy. I rather like this den of mine, especially tonight, and one or two articles in these books here seem to have been written especially for me, and an uncomfortable little voice has been questioning me. A thought strikes me that we, you and I, have drifted apart rather more than I ever dreamed we could. There has been a sort of 'We fellows at the club' air and manner about me, that I really think now, as I sit here, has been a foolishness on my part that I shall endeavor to discontinue; a sort of desire to be 'in with the boys' and 'off with my wife.' I hope, Dorothy, that you do not think my past is really a dreadful one to look back upon." "O, no." Dorothy replied, with something of a twinkle in her eyes; "but, then, you know, you might be more of a saint, if you tried dear." "And perhaps, most noble and adorable (my temper rising) and twentieth century wife, if I should give up my Sunday evenings at the club, possibly you may be willing to sacrifice a few of those insufferable 'teas' and bring an appetite uncontaminated with such diet as sipping frappes, Russian teas and chocolate to a respectable, cozy dinner with your George Augustus; and," (pausing for breath) "don't be angry; couldn't you leave out that tiresome, quarrelsome card party and await my return with unruffled nerves, for instance, meet me at the door just DOROTHY IS REALLY ELOQUENT. as you used to do, little wife?" (growing a little more tender). "Why, whatever can be the matter with you, George Augustus? It is only a case of too many clubs in the family, that is all; easily remedied, you know. If this is to be a Home club tonight, let us invoke the spirit of the New Year here, right under this roof; let us stand here, and with the right hand uplifted vow that naught shall come between thee and me, George Augustus and Dorothy; we will reach that land of trust and confidence that requires no weapon, not even a club, to create or guell a disturbance." Dorothy is really eloquent. "Bring down the tin box, Dorothy; "we are 'the Ollapodrida club' (the tin box, Dorothy and I) in memory of those boys who are trying another sort of trapeze swinging high or low with the wings of ambition, up to greater heights." By the way, Dorothy sketches and paints. I will give her a subject, earth, sky and water, the soft green turf, the blue ethereal, the hazy mountain top, while the lazy lapping waves touch the eager feet of the climbers yet in the valley as they stand on the shore twixt earth and sea, girded and armed for the steep ascent to the shrine on the distant heights. Send them wings, O guardian angels, and give me sight. I cannot read the all of their dear history The New Year Spirit. The return of New Year's day invites many people to the most somber reflections. Undoubtedly most of us can find abundant occasion for these, but there is such a thing as pushing self-examination and self-condemnation to the point of discouragement. The best temper with which we can enter upon the new year is that of faith, faith in God and faith in ourselves through His help. It is about as certain as anything can be that the new year will bring us new experiences. Our courage, our capacity for endurance, our steadiness of character and power of resistance is to be tested. At the end of the year we are going to be nobler men and women than we are today, or we shall have deteriorated morally, and forever afterward there will be narrowing opportunities. While we think of the latter alternative it is well to strengthen our hearts by the former. Let us believe that we are not going to fail and we have taken a long step towards success. When another New Year's day comes around we are going to be able to reckon solid gains in character won through the trials and temptations and emergencies of the year's experience—Boston Watchman. PASSING OF THE OLD Good-bye, old year! We've journeyed on together many days. And now behold the parting of our ways With thoughts of mingled gladness and of dread, I see the winding way that I must tread To Future Lands; For thee awaits the realm of shadows deep— The Silent Land of years that lie often Good-bye, old year! A few more steps ere we forever part— A few more words that wake the throbbing heart To hope and fear; A farewell smile, a lingering clasp of hand. Ere thou shalt lie within the shadow- land All silently; The while I haste a glad new year to greet. The while I journey on with memories sweet. Old year, of thee. Good-bye, old year! Alas, not half I felt or knew till now How kind and brave and true a friend wert thou; For ah, twice dear A loved one seems when comes the darkened day. darkened day When heart and lips all tremulous must say A last good-bye; Yet, though thy friendly face no more I see. The memories sweet my heart has kept of thee. Tragic. "I shall not see you till another year Has dawned," he said. Oh, fickle maid! she turned not pale with fear— She laughed instead. This seems a tragic lay, till we remember It occurred the thirty-first day of December. —N. Y. Truth. None to Gurn Over. "I thought you were going to turn over a new leaf, John," she said. "I was," he replied, "but I find I can't." "Why not?" "There won't be any new leaves until spring."—Chicago Post. Love's harmonies flow toward him full and sweet; Sin's wild, discordant cries are past him hurled. With sad, glad heart and brave, reluctant feet. He steps upon the threshold of the world. A NEW YEAR'S EPISODE "Well, well, so this is New Year's day," said Mr. Spooner. "Do you remember how we quarreled this day one year ago?" "Remember! I think I do!" cried his wife. "Why, the cards were ordered when it happened, and I didn't know whether I could have your name taken out and Dick's inserted, in case I changed my mind." "In case I changed my min$, you mean, dear. Strange that I never suspected how much poor Dora cared for me until that day." "I'm sure she had concealed it very well—the way she ran after Dick, as if he ever had eyes for anybody but me! He never told his love, but a woman's intuition was—" "A synonym of vanity, dear. Of course, I couldn't help knowing that she cared for me when I met her in the boarding house parlor, with her eyes full of tears, on the very morning after you had told Marie, her dearest friend, that we were to be married in a month." "Humph, that girl would cry about anything; I've known her to cry when the villain in the play was killed—as if a villain could expect anything in the last act. But as soon as I saw Dick that morning I knew that he knew it. Why, his necktie had slipped around under one ear and his voice, as he wished me a happy New Year, was so sad, that I felt guilty, though my conscience told me that I had not encouraged him." "You've forgotten how you used to praise the shape of his head." "As if that meant anything! A girl only praises the shape of a man's head when she can't find anything else to flatter him about. It—it means no more than it does when she tells a small man that he resembles Napoleon. But when I remembered that you had once gone down on the floor in your new trousers to pick up Dora's hand-kerchief I knew that I had been cruelly deceived. So when you reproached me about Dick, I—" "I remember how badly I felt when she replied to my New Year's greeting with the remark that happiness for her was over forever. And before I could comfort her Miss Marie came in and I could only go sadly away without telling her that I should always be a brother to her." The new leaf that very soldom gets turned over is the one in the diary. Some men claim that they see the old year out and the new one in by getting so drunk that they can't see anything. By New Year the silver plating wears off many a Christmas present. A good beginning is half the battle except in the case of keeping a diary. The new date is as hard to remember as the new leaf. Even though the arctic explorer never discovers the north pole he deserves credit, for he always keeps a diary. New Year gives us a chance to reciprocate to those who unexpectedly gave us a present at Christmas. Seeing the old year out puts a man in a fit condition to swear off the next day.—N. Y. World. The New Year's Greeting. "You look worried, Brown," said Green. "Worried! I should say I am, See those?" And he drew out of his overcoat pocket a great bundle of statements of accounts. "Ha! ha!" laughed Green, "you will make Christmas present to your wife, will you, without counting the cost first?" The lines around Brown's eyes deepened and his mouth drooped sadly. "No," he said, "that's not it. These are not for presents I made my wife." "Why, what are they for, then?" asked Green, wonderingly. "For the presents my wife made me." And the men shook hands in tender sympathy.-Detroit Free Press. It is not wise to have so merry a Christmas that you cannot have a happy New Year.-Chicago Tribune. "And poor Dick, I asked him if there was anything I could do for him; he replied: 'Yes,' but just then the maid came in with a note for him, and he said he must go at once—I think he wished to be alone with his sorrow. Then you came in, and, instead of sharing my pity for him, you accused me of flirting with him!" "I—er—don't remember that. But wasn't it odd that before I left you forever, Miss Marie should come in and tell us that Dora and Dick were engaged! I've often wondered how it happened that they decided to console each other." "And so have I. Why, here is Marie now—perhaps she can explain. Sit down, Marie, do. Tom and I are just going over old times. Do you remember last New Year's day, and—" "Indeed I do. I've just been to see Dora, and she was talking about it. She and Dick quarreled last New Year's Eve about the date of their marriage, and almost parted forever. A "SHE AND DICK QUARRELED." They think you both must have guessed it. I remember that Tom was in the parlor with Dora when I ran in on New Year's morning to tell her of your engagement. She had been on the point of asking him to help her to make up with Dick. And when she told me about it, I wrote him a note telling him that I believed she would forgive him if he came at once. That note found him at your house, Irene, where he had gone to ask your aid as peacemaker. Odd, wasn't it?" A Happy New Year. A happy New Year!" How many people realize the meaning of the words as they go about with this familiar greeting upon their lips? "I wish you a happy New Year!" Does it not seem that the wish carries a blessing with it? And I believe it does when spoken by friends whose words are always true and sincere. For the benefit of those thoughtless ones who never read between the lines, let us analyze this significant greeting. In the first place we wish our friends happiness, and the next question which naturally suggests itself is, what constitutes happiness? A little friend of mine tells me that it is to eat all the candy he wants and not to go to bed until he wants to do so. Another friend of more mature years says that she would be perfectly happy if she had all the money she wanted to spend as she liked. Another desires fame, another social position. And so we might go on asking and finding out that almost every one has a different definition for happiness. If the young lad were allowed to follow his own sweet will and surfeit himself with sweets and late hours, I think the result would be anything but happy. As for wealth, who can blame anyone for wishing for all that one cares to spend, and especially a woman to whom a separate income is the exception rather than the rule. It is the spending of it which decides the happiness or unhappiness of the possessor. I do not believe that any one was ever really happy who used wealth merely to gratify selfish ambitions. Fame, too, is a good thing to possess, but how many who have gained this high pinnacle will tell you that it brings happiness Social position is also something after which there is much striving. Yet when the coveted place is reached it is so often found to be barren, and happiness has no resting place there. Social position brings heavy responsibilities with it, and social duties are hard and laborious without the happy results that follow labor in more worthy causes. It seems, then, that there must be some special way to happiness not easily found. There is, but it is easy enough to be seen by all who care to follow its winding way. Wiser heads than mine found out long ago that only in trying to make others happy is real happiness ever gained for oneself. So in wishing our friends a happy New Year, we really obligate ourselves to do all that we can to make the wish come true; and for this reason the words should never be spoken idily, or used as a mere matter of form. On the other hand, to be sincere in the greeting and to do what the words imply, is certain to bring happiness to all. And now, let us go on to the next word in the analysis, "new." Everybody likes new things, unless an exception may be made to the so-called "new woman." New gowns, new bonnets, new personal belongings of all sorts appeal especially to women. While "clothes do not make the person," every one has learned that appearance in this world goes a long way toward success. Under the inspiration of knowing that one is well-dressed often one has done his best and the key note of success has been touched. It is human nature that womankind should love pretty new dresses, new bonnets and dainty surrounding, so let no one accuse her of vanity for desiring them. New ideas are sought after by the philosopher; new conditions by the scientist; new inventions by the inventor. Editors eagerly examine new matter; and that which is truly original or opens a new field of thought is never found "unavailable" no matter how poorly it may be written. There is a constant hunt going on for something new to further stimulate the energies, ambitions and desires of the world's people; and never was this craving so apparent as now when we are closing the nineteenth century. Everyone seems to feel that we are on the verge of a new era which in spite of the inventions of the past is to be the most wonder producing period in the world's progress. If the inhabitants of Mars continue to signal us, as has been stated, who knows but what some shrewd, enterprising Yankee will put on his thinking cap, build a flying machine that will overcome all atmospheric conditions and go sailing over to the planet one of these coming days? Perhaps the North Pole will be discovered in the same way, although why so many people will risk life and property to find a spot that is almost certain to contain nothing that will sustain life or hope, can only be laid to their insatiate greed for something new. It is to be hoped, however, that while these greater things are going on, some one may invent an automatic servant that will get up in the morning without being called, never let the fires go out, wash our best china without breaking it, and, from the very nature of the invention, cannot "talk back" when we happen to go into the kitchen and scold a little—Household Realm. The Annual Greeting. "A Happy New Year to you!" This is the greeting which will be heard on every side as we cross the threshold of the new year. It has become a custom to repeat it. In many cases it has little meaning, and is nothing more than an empty compliment or an idle wish. How much do you mean by it? It is very easy to repeat the formula. It is a very simple matter to buy a New Year's card and enclose it in an envelope. But when you send this greeting, or speak it, do you regard it as a pledge or promise that you will do nothing to make the recipient of it unhappy, and that you will do all in your power to relieve his anxieties and bring gladness to his heart?—Baptist Union. HERE NEW YEAR Crowned evermore in endless light she greets Visions too grandly bright for mortal gaze, To her unfold Blossoms each noble dead of earthly days, In beauty's mold. The glory of our Lord her eyes have seen, With undimmed sight. Safe in His presence dear, she dwells serene And knows no night. She clasps the hands of loved ones waiting there On Heaven's shore. With them she treads those streets so wondrous fair, In rapture o'er. In glad surprise, joyous and pure and free, Her soul so blest. Solves the deep mystery of eternity And perfect rest. —Isabel L. Boardman, in N. Y. (bserver. Merely an Official Form. He wished me a happy New Year; The words would have tickled me, but I knew from his bearing austere I was booked for a salary cut. —Chicago Record. 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 SUBSURPIRY! IN ADVANCE. One year, by mail ... $1 60 Six months, by mail ... 75 Three months, by mail ... 50 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to "The Searchlight," Wichita, Kansas. [All matters to be published must reach this office not later than Tuesday, to reach publication in the current issue.] correspondents and agents wanted everywhere. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. If you fail to get your paper notify us once. -239 N Main st. What do they mean? We have had a collector out for the past ten days collecting from city subscribers, and we must confess, we are really astonished and ashame of the tardiness of some to pay their bill. They say they want a Colored paper here, yet they neglect to pay, having first one excuse and then another. We are endeavoring to give this city a good paper, but how in the world do some expect it to be done, if they fail to do their part by paying up? It is no boast, but simply the truth, hhen we say, we have missed no issue, neither have we been 1 min, late in mailing our papers to our many readers and in doing so we have faithfully performed our duty. Now thon,having done our duty, why not do yours?Its easy and simple.We are compelled to call a halt sometime,so on Jan,12tn.,we will drop from our roll all who h ave not paid up on or before that date; and will as soon as possible thereafter publish a full list of th o se dropped with the amount owed by each. All of our readers know our address,239 N. Main,up stairs, and all those on whom our collector ha$ called since Dec.15th. will do us the kindness to call there and pay. To those who have so willingly and promptly paid,we desire return our heart-felt thanks and appreciation,and hope that our relation in the future may be as pleasant as those in the past. If you reach any high place in This world do not get the big head nor forget e h from wh ich you rose and do not desert the friends that helped you on the way. If the Negro can manage to be a friend to himself his future is secure He must learn the value of time and moneo.To waste either is foolish. If there be a Negro problem, the Negro is the best one to solve it. By industry,race pride,common sense, home,buying and home owning,coupled with morality,intelligence and honesty,the problem will be solved. Too often do we see men of families and responsibiliteies given over to frivolities and pleasures of life,wich are reprehensible in married young men.It is the boundenuty of the head of every family to do best toards providing proper support for that family.so ast o al-low the wife to stay at home and properly care for her children. If heaven has so blessed their union, and to attend those household dutie in cumbent upon the true wife and mother. AHAPPY Xmas Gifts. The Pastor and wife of the A. M. E.church'wresmiling at the Xmas boat.He and Mrs. Terrill received $7.25 and a big fat goose as an Xmas present. Mrs.Nannie Howard presented them a dollar a piece and Mr.Jno. T.Chinneth and frieds put on the Christmas boat for them $5.25.Mrs L.Crenshaw presented them a big goose for christmas dinner. The following are the donors: Jno.T.Chinneth ..... 25 W.H.A.Clark ..... 25 Edward Landrum ..... 25 F.D.Andrews ..... 25 Dndley Johnson ..... 25 G.H.Young ..... 25 J.S.Favers ..... 25 Joseph Phillipps ..... 25 James Robinson ..... 25 J.S.Anderson ..... 25 James Jackson ..... 25 Robert Iodges ..... 25 G.L.Scott ..... 25 Joe Owens ..... 25 W.T.Southard ..... 25 A.T.Glover ..... 25 Allie Buford ..... 25 Lawrence Simpson ..... 25 Samuel Collins ..... 25 J.H.Dunson ..... 25 Wm.M.Knox ..... 25 Mr. Thomas Glover worked hard and with the aid of the ladies made the Christmas boat a success. The friends have the Pastor and wife's many thanks. Mrs.H.F.Frazier,wife of Rev. H. F.Frazier,pastor.of New Hope,has returned f.om an extendeu Aisit to her home. Jno.E.Lewis and Geo. Johnston who have been touring the state with their moving picture exhibition,returned last Saturday. Mrs.W.G. Bostwick is better. J.W.Kimberly of the Indian Territory,is a new arrival in our city.He expects to remain. Fred Goodwin and wife of K.C. are visitors in the city. Rev.J.H.Vanlue,State Missionary,returned Monday from Parsons where he has been conducting a series of meetings at New Hope baptist church of that place. After his arrival the Reverend was seen with his arms full of Xmas presents. Mrs.Nancy Johnston left Wednesday for Great Bend to visit her son,who is pastor there. Mrs.Lon Brown of Lawrence arrived in the city Thursday. Miss Mammie Wagner arrived in the city Thursday. Samuel Abernathy Sr. will leave Sunday for Arkansas City and Wellington,returning Tussday. Mrs.Ike Miscole entertained Mrs Bradley and Miss Effie Bradley at her handsome home on N. Water. Those present; Mesdames Gaines and Smith.A nice time reported. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29d. 1900 Christmas at the churches. The various churches in the city observed Ohristmas in a very appropriate manner.Each of them were well patronized. New Hope. The New Hope Sunday School rendered an excellent program which it was our pleasure to hear, and which we greatly enjoyed. The following is the program rendered- Opening Address, Mrs.H-F. Frazier What shall I give hm, Lonnie Green. Xmas comes once a year, Stella Slater. Xmas comes, Albertha Lewis. Xmas all the year, Ida Wilson. We're cheerfully singing, Dora Allen. Song, Lizzie Underwood, Clara Johnson, Dora Allen, Corine Henry. If you are good, Eliza Jackson. Instrumental Solo, Lizzie Underwood. Xmas Carrol, Jessie Bates. When father carves a duck, Bessie Dorsey. Xmas, Josie Duncrery. Little children, Albert Monmoth. In a far off country, L.Bates. An Xmas problem, Jessie Bates After the rendition of the above progaam every member of the Sunday echool was presented a nice and useful present. A.M.F. The A.M.E. church had an X mas boat that beautifully and artistically decorated,Supt.Chinneth of the Sunday school,was master ceremonies.Many handsome and valuable presents were received. 2nd Baptist. The Second baptist church held their exercises at Garfield hall on Chrisamas night,Dec.25. They had an Xmas balloon which was decorated to a queen's taste;and the program rendered was something nice we tried hard to secure the program as arranged for publication but all our efforts were useless. The COncert given by the Miss Lula Covington at the Methodist church last Wednesday night was a Grand Success. $14.55 cleared. Dr.Copeland,pastor of the 2nd. Baptist church and his members, have prepared a grand program to be rendered Sunday eve. 8 p.m. Go out and hear it. For full detail of the grand Masonic banquet last Thursday night see our next issue. Thos. Parks left for Oklahoma City to spend Xmax. Are you a Subcriber to the Searchlight? Miss Barker entertained the following guest at Tea last Friday, December 20th. Messers: John Dodson, Albert Buford, Wesley Rawles, Thomas Parks, Mrs.C. Barker very pleasantly entertained at an elegant dinner Sunday,Rev.and Mrs.Terrill, Mrs F.A.Smith,Mrs. Craig and Dr. E. Harrison. Mrs.H.McKinney and daughter, Fannie,were visitors from the country to spend the holidays. Mrs.ssex Allen and children who have been visiting returned to their home in St Joe Saturday. Trade with our advertisers. A fine line of Holiday goods,Elegant pocket books for Ladies and Gentlemen,Fancy soaps and Toilet articles,Per fumes from all the leading perfume houses. An elegant line of Stationery.The leading brandr of Cigars in boxes of 10-13-25-50 and 100 at wholesale prices. Give us a call. Phone 253 601 E.Douglas Ave Ladies New Medical Guide P.P.AHERN. A fine line of Holiday good Ladies and Gentlemen, Fancy fumes from all the leading line of Stationery, The leading of 10-13-25-50 and 100 at who 'Phone 253 Ladies New M All newly Agents price $2.50. O Also New and Second-Hand Rock-Island Book Exchange, We present to you Mr. Stewart Waters,whose likeness we heret attache,Stewart N.Waters was born in Neshville,Tenn., Sept.15, 1876. A. B. He came with his parents to Topeka, Kansas, where he attended the public schools, remaining in that city 12 yrs. By profession, he is a musician and ballad singer. In both he has received promieut mention by the press. He came to Wichita in 1896, and has remained here since. On October 24,1900, he was united in marriage to Miss Birdie Howard, and their wedding was ode of the swellest of the year. He is a Master Mason, also a member of Prof. Fisher's Military Band. He quite a favorite among all who know him, and has a host ol friends Rememberthe K. of P. Installation at Peerless hall Monday night. OIL LEASES DEFERT TREATY. Cherokee Think it is Waste of Time to Consider Treaty This Session. Tahlequah, I. T., Dec. 27.—Leading members of the Cherokee tribe express the opinion that it will be merely a waste of time this winter for congress to consider and ratify the Cherokee treaty now pending before it. The Cherokeecs are dissatisfied with the treaty as they originally made it and with the amendments added by the Indian committees in congress it is now absolutely obnoxious to them. They will vote it down by an almost unanimous vote when it comes back for ratification providing congress ratifies it on the part of the government. The most objectionable feature of the treaty as it now appears is the provision in relation to mineral and oil leases. Congressman Charles Curtis, at the head of the house Indian committee has notified the leaders here that it will be knocked out in the senate. This oil lease provision is what has held up the treaty in congress so long, so the Indians say. Had that provision been knocked out and the treaty been ratified by congress immediately after it was presented, it would no doubt have been ratified by the Cherokees, so the leaders here say. But as time wore on the Cherokees themselves discovered many holes in the treaty and now none of them is satisfied with it. Sues the Santa Fe. Topeka, Dec. 26.—V. L. Lonegan, one of the Santa Fe telegraphers who went out on a strike recently is preparing to bring suit against the Santa Fe railroad company for alleged black list. When the telegraphers strike was ordered Lonegan walked out with the rest of the men. On December 19, he secured a position with the Western Union company and worked about six hours when he was dismissed. He claims Superintendent Sholes caused his dismissal. Superintendent Sholes says that at the time Lonegan was employed by the Western Union, the strike was still on and that the company was sending a good deal of business over the Western Union wires. He did not think Lonegan should be allowed to handle this business and that his removal was caused to protect the interests of the company. --- No.12. Wichita Kansas J.T.Chinneth, Enminent Commande J.A.Roberson, Generalissimo. Phil Hyde, Captain General Joseph Fine Secretary. Sylvester Anderson, Treas. Meets the 2nd Monday night each month. High Priest. J.S.Fauver, King. Ben Wilson, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. J.L.Harper, D.G.M, Wichita W.M.Jackson, D.DG M, Topek S P Johnson, D.G S, Emporia M W Jackson D.G D, Kans City At the A. M. E. church, 521 N. Water st Preaching at 11 a.m, Sabbath school at 2 p.m. Song service 6:40 p.m, Preaching 7.40 p.m Rev.Dr.A.C.Terrill will preach both moening and evening. At the 2nd Baptist church, N.Wichita, st. Preaching at 11 a.m., Sabbath school at 3 p.m Preaching at 7.80 p.m Rev.Dr.M.L.C. Copeland will preach both moening and evening. At the Tabernacle Baptist church. Preaching at 11 am, Sabbath school at 3 p.m Preaching at 7.40 p.m Rev. R McTurner will preach both mo- ning and evening At the New Hope Baptist church. North Mead Preaching 11 a.m, Sabbath school at 3 p.m Preaching 7.80 p.m Rev H F Frazier will preach both mo- ning and evening ```markdown ``` 520 E. Douglas. In Pekin Negotiations Has Been Turned. PLEDGES LEFT FOR CONGRESS. Washington. Dec. 27.—Secretary Hay has received a cablegram from Minister Conger, at Pekin, announcing that he had signed the agreement reached by the foreign ministers, but had done so with a written explanatory statement setting forth the exact position of his government. The text of the statement is not forwarded by Mr. Conger, but it is understood to be based upon the last instruction he received from the department, which, while disapproving the inclusion in the agreement of some of the more severe language, accepted it as the best arrangement that could be made at this time. It is believed that the United States also, while sanctioning the provisions of the agreement relative to the maintenance of permanent lines of communication, legation guards and prohibition of the importation of arms into China, indicates clearly that constitutional reasons prevent the executive from from making any pledge to take part in the execution of these plans. The signature of the agreement by the ministers closes what is regarded here as the first, the most important and the most difficult phase of the negotiations as to China, for it is not doubted that the Chinese envoys will subscribe to the agreement without amendments. This conclusion has been marked by one of the most curious mistakes in the history of international exehange for, by a cipher error, the majority of the last signatories found to their amazement that they had contracted to do exactly what they did not intend, and, moreover, the error was irretrievable The Joint Note is Signed. Pekin, Dec. 26.—The last obstacle is removed, the joint note was signed by all the foreign ministers. The note will be delivered to Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching, the Chinese plenipotentiaries, as soon as the former shall have sufficiently recovered from his indisposition. The Chinese close to Li Hung Chang still prefer to believe, despite the signing of the note, which they did not believe would take place, that the principal negotiations must be carried on in Europe or in America. Philippine Legislation Manila, Dec. 24.—The Philippine commission has passed bills prescribing that English text shall be used in the construction of all laws enacted; authorizing the provost marshal to establish police and health regulations, with limited punishments for their violation, appropriating $75,000 for the immediate construction of a highway from Pozor rubric, province of Pangasian, to Baguio, in Benguet province, along the line and surveyed for a government railroad. Colonist Tickets to be Abandoned. Chicago, Dec. 24.—The northern Pacific and Soo roads have agreed to the Great Northern's proposition to abolish round trip colonist tickets west of St. Paul. Other western roads are considering the advisability of withdrawing the rate west of Missouri river gateway. A Millionaire Brute. Berlin, Dec. 24.—Sternberg, the millionaire banker, who has been on trial for a long time past, was found guilty of unnameable immoralities and was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment with loss of citizenship for five years. Surplus of $30,000. surplus of $30,000. St. Paul, Dec. 26.—Archbishop Ireland's principal object in visiting Washington had been to attend a meeting of the Lafayette Monument Association. "We found that after paying all the expenses of erecting the bronze statute in Paris," he said, "we still had on hand $30,000. We almost decided to duplicate the monumental statute in Washington or some other American city, provided an additional amount can be raised. The matter will be definitely settled at a meeting to be held in Chicago early in January." Lodge Directory Knights of Pythias. Toas Lodge No.10 KnightsofPythia Toas Lodge No.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA.KAN. Castle Hall 338 North Main street Regular Meetings Second and Fourth Monday Night in Each Month. Visting Knights in good standing Welcome Bert Glover, Chan.Com. S. W. Fleming, K.of R.& S. ERIA COURT No.7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs. J.H. Phelps, W.C. Miss Blencq Alexander, R.of D. Mrs. Ida Martin, W.of R. of D. Meets 1st. and 3rd. Monday each month. Masonic Lodges. ARKANSAS VALLEY No.21. A.F. & A.M. Hopkins Abernathy, W.M. W.H.A. Clark, Secretary. Meets 1st, and 3rd. Tuesday each month. All Master Masons in good standing as "Cordially Invited." PALESTINE COMMANDEY MT.ZION CHAPTER No.17. W.H.A.Clark, Scribe. J.T. Chinneth, Secretary. Grant Ewing, Treas. Meets the 4th Monday night each month PRINCESS CHAPTER No.12 O.of E.S. Mrs. M. E. Banks, Royal Matron, Miss Lizzie M. Burnham, Stetty Meets 1st. and 3rd. Wednesday each month. Mt. Olive Court No.9,H. of J. Mrs Myrtle Glover, M A M Mrs J E Lewis, Secretary Mrs L Adams, Treasurer Odd Fellow Lodges ODD FELLOWS. .....State Officers..... Home of the West lodge No.1906 Wichita,Ka HOUSEHOLD RUTH No.612 Mrs.Harriet Harper, M.N.G. J.L.Harper, W.R. Mrs.Mary Griggs, M.W.Treas. Where to go Sunday. The San Jose scale The San Jose scale was first discovered by Prof. J. H. Cornstock, near San Jose, Cal., in 1879. It has been found in various parts of the world, and while the place of its origin has not yet been ascertained, it is conjectured to be Japan. Forsaking all Others LH PMRPREREAKAARARS SH DS ee ee Ramp gee ee tn truth poor Harvey, in many ways a boy still, needed the comfort the «man he adored alone could give; in fer presence he was speedily cheered and soothed. ‘oq’ an ugly story, darling,” she aid, “but no one knows it. And the Grmtion 1s substantially the same; Soa are your grandfather's helr mor- lly, if not legally, and surely your nother will not let you suffer all your ite for her fault—no woman in her fosition could be so wicked.” Harvey winced, Only the other day Ye had thought that mother little jower than the angels, Helen saw that ‘ewan she might speak too plainly, and took another tone. But inwardly she fejoiced that the woman she had felt ‘was her superior had not always lived jhove reproach. ‘The knowledge prom- jsed a certain hold upon her, and in yer manner towatd Gladys when next they met there was a hint of power anja measure of contempt the latter found it hard to bear. Hervey's demeanor, too, had altered. For days he looked pale and grave. ‘although perfectly respectable to his jmother he spoke to her as seldom as possible, addressing most of his re- marks, when the little family met at table, to his wife. Gladys sympathized vith his mood, and waited patiently for it to pass, She knew how galled his proud spirit must be; still, as the monotonous days eyawled by, bringing no change, she began to feel very lonely. She would have consoled herseif with the baby had she been allowed to do so, but Helen had her own ideas, wise ones, all of them, on the subject of child rearing. It made an infant precocious, she said, to notice them too much; bis intellect should be allowed to develop gradually. As for the in- ane nongense called baby tallk, no child of hers should listen to it. Good En- giish was just as simple and far more sensible, And Gladys, who would have coved the sweet mother jargon by the hour, all the world forgetting save the smiling mite in her arms, knew that a reproof was intended, and accepting it, left Harvey's baby to Harvey's wife. Had she been a strong-minded wom- an she would have have risen above her trials and found happiness im her own occupations; but she was only @ gentle, clinging creature to whom leve was as the breath of life. That gone, nothing remained, ‘She wondered sometimes how Har- vey, even though displeased, could neg- lect ber go. In the past they had been ‘everything to each other. Now he eal- dom gave her a thought; hi wife was his all in all, Helen's coldness did act hurt her; she was not of her bleod, and she had no claim on her affection; ‘but she bad given her life te Harvey, ead bis indifference was hard to bear. Que cold, rainy day Phebe found her ‘ccying in her private parlor, which wes divided from her sleeping and dressing rooms by a wide hall. The curtaias ‘Vere drawn and the spacious apart- ent usually so pretty im ite tints of Sas and blue seemed - cold and gloomy. CHAPTER IV. The housekeeper said not = -word, but went to the window am@ ‘threw back the curtains, them touched a ‘Match to the wood laid ‘ready in the fsrate. The flames leaped forth as if sid to escape from thelr resinous Trisoo, making glittering reflections in the polished tiles and filling every cor- Ser with a rosy glow. Phebe relied her mistress’ favorite chair to the hearth. “Come and sit here, Miss Gladys, While | get you a cup of coffee. It will arm you up. The room és like a vault.” Gladys crushed back a sob and meek- Wy did as she was bidden. She always obeyed Phebe. She drank the coffee when it was. brought and looked apolo- Setically into the housekeeper’s kind if im face. “I miss Louise Leonard so much!” she said. = “I know all about it, Miss Gladys, That reason will do as well as any ether. When are you going to have Mr. Walter Barr and his young wife here to dinner? They've been married three months now.” ‘I suppose 1 ought to invite them “on,” said Gladys, brightening a lit- te “But Mrs. Harvey so objects to company —" “And is the house to be kept like # femb to please her? She has her hus- tend and baby, and you have nobody, Reems. It's little I ever thought to we Mr. Harvey a womans fool! She ‘Wiss him around her finger, and the Set booby doesn't know it. Well, Rel. U won't say any more, but you're ‘Sng moped to death, and I'm not £o- ‘0g to stand by and see you fade away ‘tore my eyes, Rouse yourself, my (erie, You'll be a different creature if 700 s¢¢ living people once more.” Gladys looked thoughtfully into the te fora space, “I think you are right, Phebe,” she Sod said with an air of decision. do as you say.” Ste dressed herself with unusual Er dinner. She was resolved to Ruz ter sulky boy into good humor. itt iust taken his place at the table este entered, a charming vision ia Wit bitk and white, and he smiled in- Tluntarity, “Why, how lovely we are this even- SE” be szclatmed. vetta carted at him @ disapproving but the pleasant wards had es- Helen the head of the table. She cov- eted it, and Harvey was pleased to see her there, and she herself cared noth- ing for petty distinctions. ‘The conversation moved on pleasant- ly, if a trifle haltingly, and presently Gladys announced her intention of in- viting Mr. and Mrs. Barr and one or two other friends to dinner. “I had thought of next Tuesday, Har- vey, if you and Helen are disengaged for that evening,” she said. | _ “We are, ae fer as I know,” he an- swered, glancing at his wite, Helen did not respond. She was dis- pleased that Mrs. Atherton should con- template entertaining company at all, and doubly so that she had addressed her question to Harvey instead of to herself, and went on eating her dinner in her usual deliberate way. She had | A fine appetite, and took excellent care of her digestion, as a wise young wom- ! an should. | “Then we'll say Tuesday evening,” said Gladys, all unconscious of what | was passing in Helen’s mind, and mis- taking her silence for acquiescence, she regarded the matter as settled. | It was not until the very day of the | dinner that she discovered her error. | By this time she and Harvey were on | their old terms again, the coolness be- tween them apparently forgotten. | Helen’s manner never relaxed; she had | her own grievances and resented them in her own way. Gladys, however, gave no evidence that she observed anything amiss. | “I am sure you will like Mrs. Barr, | Helen,” she said at breakfast on Tues- | day, hoping to draw the younger | Woman into conversation, for her per- | sistent lack of interest in any talk in | which she was not directly included | was irksome. “She is a girl after your | own style—an excellent daughter, now @ capable wife. I hope you will be- | come friends.” | “Thank you,” said Helen, in wintry tones. “I am not a believer in married | women’s friendships. My husband and my child suffice for me. A woman's home should be her kingdom.” She glanced at Harvey for the ap- proving smile with which he always applauded her borrowed phrases, as though every word were a nugget of wisdom fresh from the mime, and add- ed a triffe less deliberately: 7 “I dislike strangers, and care noth- ing for social pleasures, so I can not truthfully say I am sorry I shall not meet Mrs. Barr this evening.” “What do you meaa, Nell? Have you forgotten she is to come here to din- ner?” “No; but you amd I are to dine at father's. I promised him tea days ago.” Helen spoke ealmiy, though her coler flickered as she encountered Harvey's astonished stare. Gladys, too, looked surprised. “My dear girl” Harvey burst oxt “why in the world did you not tell the mater so when ¢he was making ar- rangements for her dinner?” “Because she @id not consult me. She addressed you, and took it for granted I had no engagements. I never eifer unsolicited information.” Gladys saw an ominous look in Har- vey's eyes, and rose hastily. She ha¢ no desire to witness a matrimenial squabble. “It is not of the least consequence Harvey. I shauld like Helen to meet Mrs. Barr, who has a great deal of social influence, but there will be plenty of oppertunities for her to do so in the future, as I intend te opeu the house to my friends again. I have been living too quietly of late” She looked full at Helen, and there was 2 touch of defiance in the manner of both. “Do not give this little misun- derstanding a thought. I shall not; for it isn’t worth it.” She had left the room before the last word was uttered, and ran lightly down the piazza steps to the garden. “What a woman!” she thought “What a hard, agrrow, revengeful, sul: len woman! Pror Harvey! I hope he may continue blind to the end. it ie his only chance for happiness.” She need not have been concerned for Harvey. Already Helen, her arms about his neck, her voice broken with emotion, was making her cause good; and although he could not see exactly where Gladys had erred, he was soon convinced that his wife had been wan- tonly insulted, and was grievously hurt in consequence. Nothing could have been further from the truth than either convietion; but gazing into se- ductive eyes, tear drenched, pressing warm, red lips. quivering with sobs Yew men are wise enough to discrim- imate between the chastening dews o! sorrow and the bitter waters of spite or envy. Gladys’ dinner was a success. She felt Helen's absence to be a relief. I seemed pleasant to have the house to | herself again, and to sit at the head of her own table. She, threw off hei | sadness and became the charming OE a St ee ay ee ae ‘THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT,SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29d 1900 while resenting his injustice was hurt by it. She could retain his favor only by submitting to his wife's caprices, it seemed. Her long years of devotion counted for nothing; all was forgot- ten when this woman, between kisses, accused Ler of some petty meanness of which she was incapable, How dared he listen to charges so unjust? Before the meal was half over she rose from the table with a sudden hot anger that dismayed her, for she hai never felt anything like it before. She realized that she should end by hating Helen and despising Harvey; a ma- terial love that crushes out all purer affections degrades a man; not even the sacrament of marriage can render it holy. She rode further than usual that day, and was overtaken by one of the vio- lent thunder storms peculiar to the season. She came home drenched and shivering with cold. Phebe, who was waiting for her on a side veranda with a thick shawl, almost carried her to jher room, and without ceremony un- dressed and put her to bed. “We shall have you down with a fever next,” she grumbled. “You were about ready for it before.” Gladys, strangely inert, languidly opened her eyes, “it I am ill, Phebe, and I fear I am going to be, no one must wait on me but you. I may be delirious and talk. Keep Harvey out of the room at all hazards. Poor boy! If he should learn the truth —" “It would put him just where he de- serves to be put,” said Phebe, her smouldering anger against the mar- ried couple kindled into a flame by Gladys’ condition. “But don't fret, dearie; I'll do as you say. Shall I give the keys to Mrs. Harvey?” she added, feeling that her mistress was very ill already, “Yes; it will keep her out of your way,” said Gladys with a faint smile. ‘Then her eyes closed again and she sank into a troubled sleep.” Next morning she was tossing with fever, and for three months knew nothing of what was going on arouné her. One bright October day she op- ened her eyes and looked searchingly into Phebe’s face. The faithful woman, wearied by her long vigils, was nod- ding in her chair by the bedside. “Why, Phebe, how thin you are!” she exclaimed in a weak voice. Phebe started up with a stifled cry, “Oh, my lamb, my lamb, thank God you've come back to us again!” she said, tears streaming from her eyes. “Why, haw long have I bean here?” Gladys asked. “Fourteen weeks.” “Fourteen weeks!" She lay thinking the wonderful fact over, then turne¢ to Phebe with her own merry smile “And haven't you given me anythin to eat in all that time, you cruel wom aa? I am famishing.” e (To be continued.) THE HAIR HARVEST. ‘@ver 12,000,000 Bounds of Maman Hote ‘Used Anwually. Perhaps there is no staple article about which leas is knowa by the ay- erge person than human hair as an article of commerce. It will doubtless surprise many when it is stated that the dealers im human hair goods do mot depend om chance elippings here and there, but that there is 9 regular hady harvost that can always be relied upon. It is estimated that over 13,- 000,000 pounds of human hair are used annually in the civilized world for adorning the heads of women, says a writer in the Toledo Courier, Two- ‘thirds of the ladies nowadays use false hair, more or less, The decree of fashion or the desire to conceal a de- ‘feot or heighten a charm is the reason, of course. One woman, for instance, hes a high forehead and wishes to re- duce it in appearance. Another has worn off the front hair by continued frizzing, and would like to eonceal the fact. Both make use of front or top piece, with a choice of many styles. Ladies’ wigs cost from $20 to $100, Half wigs, top pieces and switches, from $6 to $50, according to quality. ‘The rarest supply of hair comes from Switzerland, Germany and the French provinces, There is a human hair market in Merlans, in the depart- ment of the lower Pyrenees, held ev- ery Friday. Hundreds of hair traders walk up and down the one street of the village, their shears dangling from their belts, and inspect the braids which the peasant girls, stand- ing on the steps of the houses, let down for inspection. if a bargain is struck the hair is cut and the money paid on the spot, the price varying from fifty cents to $5 in our money, Our Sun ® Third-Rate One, Our sun is a third-rate sun, situated in the milky way, one of myriads of stars, and the milky way is itself one of myriads of sectional star accumu- lations, for these seem to be count- leas, and to be spread over infinity. At some period of thelr existence each of these suns had planets circling around it, which, after untold ages, are fit for some sort of human beings to inhabit them for a compartively brief period, after which they still continue for years to circle around without atmos- phere, vegetation or inhabitants, as the moon does around our planet. There is nothing so calculated to take’ the conceit out of an individual who thinks himself an important unit in the universe as astronomy. It teaches that we are less, compared with the universe, than a colony of ants is to us, and that the difference between men is less than that between one ant and another.—London Truth, _ “But the world never forgives,” ob- serves one of the characters in a pop- ular novel, “It is only God and ow mothers that ean do that.” Mr. James Jackson, Dear Friend: Tarrived in San Francisco on Dec.7th, at 7oc, and went out to the camp Saturday morning; the camp is only two miles from town. Precedio is only a small town but the people are very sociable, I am in avery good state of health, I think I will sail on 16th, of the month.Tell Ed Hathman to send me a piece of his wedding cake. Say Jack,I saw all kinds of game, geese and ducks by the thousands I mean wild ones,and right along the rail road all bunched together, | Eugene Whittec and the other two boys sailed on tne Ist., so I did not get to see them; but John Robinson is till here.Jack write at once,there is so much crow di n g and talking around here that one = write with ady effect. When I get on the Island I will write a Jong letter.You people must write often,so to keep a fellow in good ‘cheer.Senp me “ The Searchlight ” so I cun havesomething to rea” | I will close, From your frien” Henry Robinson 25th.U.S.Infantry. Arkansas City. Loe Toms whs has been ill for the last three weeks with smail— pox,is improving nicely- MrsC. J. Will iams is up from Newkirk to spend the holidays. Quite a number of strangers are expected for the Pythian ball. Miss.Mary Taylor of cherry vale- Kan is in the city visiting her mother Mrs.Clay. YOU orn} eS eee See BOOK ON PATENTS eessat3ceze ™*@, A. SNOW & GO. Patent Lawyers. WASHINGTON, D.C. aie cscs c London, Dee. %4.—Eight hundred soldiers go this week to Africa, Two cavalry regiments have been ordered to leave as soon as the transports are ready. The colonial police will be increased to 10,000. Detachments of cavalry will leave as soon as they are formed. Further drafts of cavalry will be dispatched at once. Australia and New Zealand have been invited to send farther contingents. Thzee thou- sand extra horses have been contract- ed for. Killed by His Own Explosives. Lima, 0., Dee. 26.—William, Reddick of Findlay, president of the Producers’ Explosive company, was blown to atoms by an explosive of nitro-glycer- ine inthe magazine $f the company’s factory near here. The explosion shattered hundreds of window panes in the city. The factory was closed for the holidays and Mr. Reddick had gone out to put a padlock on the door. etre hdkinad buses es ee Parsons, Ks., Dee. 27.—According te a letter from a Parsons boy, who is in the Philippines, a-cablegram announe- cing the election of McKinley was received at Manila 39 minutes after it was filed in Washington, the operators relaying it nine times, He says extras were printed and on the streets of Manila in two hours and forty minuten after the messa,e left New York. Prince Tuan Arrested. London, Dee. 27.—'The Shanghai cor- respendent of the Standard says: The government has arrested Prince Tuan and Prince Chung on the borders of the Shansi and Shensi provinces. Yu Hsien has been ordered to return to Sianfu forthwith to be executed it ir supposed. It is inferred from these reports that the imperial authorities are preparing to concede the demands ot the joint note for the punishment of the ‘ustigators of the trouble in China. annie, weer gee St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 26,—Archbishop Ireland denies the statements recently telegraphed from Duluth that he was to visit Cuba and Puerto Rico as a special commissioner to settle the dis- putes in regard to church property. “There is nothing whatever in the story,” said he. “Sneh a taing was not mentioned by the president nor by any one on behalf of the government. ‘If I should visit the islands—and J have no present intention of doing so— it would be purely om my own ae ‘eoent.”. De St i «fo nl f | KING OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS. j i o a “ 5 : eo ERS f |Z ae. 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Hudspeth was born at Lock- hart,Texas.Jan 22nd. 1867; be re- maiued with his parents till 1883 Branching out,he began life for nimseif.His first stop was San An toino,'Texas,then to Austin, th e Capitol of thestateand worked there three years for D,W. Weaver. Remaining in Austin till April 16,1893;going from there to St. Louis,Mo.,from there to Chicago, thence to St.Joe,Mich.,Milwaukee, a t me pa Yer | ke | he | |e ZI. | | LG aE | D2 2 ees | Bees so OMS fs oe ea? igaee eke fe Wie.,St Paul,Minn,,ard went west (o Denver,Colo. in 1894,remaining in Denver till April 5,1897, when he went to K.C,,Mo,there ke learn ed the piano trade.From this place he went to Dennicon,lo wa, and joined the United States Army. During his eulistment he served as Corporal and was mustered ont at Macon,Ga.,Feb.28th.1899; going from there to his old home Lock- att, Texas to visit;{tom here he went to Old Mexico and a‘terwards to New Mexico, where he worked on the Eipaso & Northwestern railway He next went to Gurthrie, 0, T. where he remained till Oct.12th,99 when he went to Kingfisher. Since coming to Wichita he has establist ed himecif iu businese.On June 11 1900 he married Miss Ella Kyle o} Kingfisher,0.T.By trade Mr.Huds peth is a carpenter, blacksmith anc piano maker.His place of busines: is 131 Tremont and ai his place are seyeral handsome pieces of furni- ture made by him. Gold Currency Only. Washington, Dec. 27.—President Taft, of the Philippine commission, has come forward with another suggestion for the settlement of the Philippine currency question, which is now press- ing urgently for adjustment. He dis- cards the two former plans of coining something like a trade dollar and of maintaining by the credit of the Uni- ted States a fixed ratio between the Mexican dollar and American gold, and proposes teadopt gold money pure and simple as the money of the Philip- pines. He points ont that as radicai as is that movement, it must be adopt- ed sooner or later if the islands are to remain under control of the United States, and delay only serves to aggra- vate the evils of the present confusion of system. i a ae London, Dec. 27.—A representative of the Associated press has been in- formed at the British foreign office that all the editorial comment in the London Times and other English pa- person the Nicaragua canal treaty is entirely unauthorized and not inspired by the foreign office. To use official language, “England has too. many irons in the fire to take up the Nicara- gua canal matter at present. She has received no official communication on the subject nor has she given it any official consideration.” Rail Road Time Table, Missourr Pactric Raruway. Leave Wichita Leave Wichita For St.Louis 2,25 p.m Daily, » _, Kansas City & St.Louis 10.06 p,m +, Hntchinson, Lyons & Geneseo 7.15 a.m »» Local Freight Hutchinson, Lyons and Geneseo 8.55. a mEx. Sundy +» Geneseo, Pueblo and Denver 5,20 p.m +» Anthony and Kiowa 7.25 am »» Anthony and Kiowa 6.30 pm Arrive Wichita From gi.Louis 1.05 p m Kansas C:ty and StsLouis 6.30pm Denver, Pueblo and Geneseo 11:10pm Hutchinson 6.10 pm Ex.Sunday, Geneseo and Hutchiuson 9.40 pm Kiowaand Anthony 11.15 a.m Ktowa and Anthony 5.10y m For Tickets, Time Tables, Maps, Reser Books,and further Mnformation, call on E.E.Bleckley, Passenger and Ticket Agent, 114 North Main st. FRISCO LINE. 109 For Monett, Sprinafield, St. Louis and all points East,daily 1.20 p.m 102 ,. Pittsburg,Joplin, Galeno, Webb City and Carthage, daily 1,20 pm 107 ,, Burrton, Ellsworth aud all points West,darly 340 pm lo2,, Pittshurg, Girard, Joplin Carthage, Vi- ita and Sapulpa 10.0 p m loz ,, Monett,Fayetieville,Fort Smith and intermediate poiuts,daily 10. pm 1o2 , , Eureka Springs,Springfield,St Louis andall points Esst,daily 10. p m For Sleeping Berths and Through Tickets toallpoints,and particular infermation, see B F.Dunn, Dist. Pass, Agent. 100 Douglas Avenue. L.R.Delaney, Ticket Avent, Union Depot. ATCHISON, TOPFKA and SANTA FE. North Bouud. Arrives Leave Kansas City and east 11,50am 110m Freight,except Sund’y 2.20pm 3 45pm Denver and Cal daily Bou pm Wellington acco ex Sun 6 4opm 6 50pm Cal !well accomo ex Sun 6 40 p m 650 pm Kanses City andeast_ 1035 pm Jo35 pm South Bound. Oklahoma and Texas 6 45am 650am Wellington accom daily $15am 30am Caldwell accomex Sun$ 15am 83¢am Freight,except Sunday 11 50 a m 12 45 pm Passeufier,daily, 11opm Texas Expressdaily, 4 50pm 455 pm Freight,Mou and Friday 780 pm 825 pm Daily trains except Sunday Arrive ‘Tuesday, Fhursday and Saturday. Depart, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. LR DELANEY, Agent GHICAGO,ROCK-ISLAND and PACIFIC eae No 1 Texas Vestibuled Exe. 6.48 p.m B No.8 Texas Fast Fxpress. 6.85 a.m.D. No.85, 3.10 p-m.E, Local Freight. 4.55 p.m.E East Bound, No.2 Chieage Vestibuled Ex, 9.45 a.m.D7 No.4 K,C, and Eastem Ex, 9,00 pm D No86 1.80 p.m, Ey - Locel Frotght. 9.450 mE, | ‘The Rock Toland has established a rep: tation of having the very best dining-car service in the worldjand on their express trains between Kansas City and Chicago meals are served a la carfe, These trains are equipped with new library = bufict cars which have ali the advantages of a clnb supplied with all the latest periodicals, illus. trated papers,and a chcice library of books, The Rock Island depot in Chicago. is in the heart of the city,opposite the Board of Trace building,conveuient to all the large and best hotels,and is the only depot locat- ad on the Elevated Loop, which affords con venient and rapid transportation to all part of the city. D.Daily. E.Except Sunday. E.DRAKE, District Passenger Agen ‘dill alae ie: iii In New Zealand there exists a brass band whose mefibers ate wholly mounted on bicycles. This band con- sists of ten laytry,ehd these not merely ride their bicycles to practice, but fulfill thetr engggements on the wheel, _ ate sae ARMY REORGANIZATION BILL Secretary Of War Root States The Situation Plainly. RISK OF NATIONAL DISGRACE, Washington, Dec. 26.—At the last meeting cf the senate committee on military affairs Secretary Root made a strong presentation of the necessity for immediate necessity for the regula- tion of the army. He stated broadly that if congress did not at once indorse the army bill in substantial accordance with the recommendations of the war department the United States would be obliged to abandon a large portion of the Philippine islands where civil government is established. If the present garrisons are withdrawn from certam portions of the islands the municipal officers, mostly Filipinos, will be left defenseless, with every Prospect of being deprived of their lives and property, and at the same time the United States will be dis- graced, the secretary said, for having proved faithless to its solemn obliga- tions. The secretary argued that it was necessary to pass the department bill as a whole in order to properly ad- just the military organization to the new conditions created by the increase of numbers. “We do not any of us,” he said, “ex- pect that for any considerable period an army of 100,000 men will be main- tained, and for an army of 60,000 men the provisions made (by the committee) are sufficient.” Heavy Mall from Europe. New York, Dee. 24.—The North Ger- man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse has arrived with 690 cabin and 641 steerage passengers and an unusually heavy mail. The postal clerks on board report that the num- ber of letters handled during the voy- age was 275,000. There were 5,829 registered letters, making 2,276 sacks of mail. ‘The postage on abont 40,000 letters was insuficiently prepaid. ‘The receiving, checking and opening of this amount of mail, together with the sep- arating and registering required the constant work of four clerks and two assistants for eleven hours each day of the steamer’s voyage. Non-Union Men Protected. New York, Dec. 24.—The appelate division of the supreme court handed down a decision in the case of Samuel 1. Davis and others against Nathan Rosenstein and others. ‘The court affirmed the order continuing a tem- porary injunction restraining the de- fendants from interfering with the plaintiff's business through “pieket- ing” against non-union men during business hours. ‘tiene teeta en ines ek Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 22.—The cat Ue trade in this section is¢onsiderably interested in the report that John D. Rockefeller is behind a syndicatewvhich is said to be dickering for the famous XIT ranch, the largest one on earth. ‘The two states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined are not as large as this ranch. It contains over 3,000,000 acres, or 5,000 square miles. ‘A Unefal Life Ends. Belfast, Dee. 26.—Vere Foster, who has been engaged for the last fifty years in assisting the emigration of nearly 25,000 young women from the congested districts of the West of Ire- land and in the building or furnishing of over 2,200 national schools in every part of Ireland, is dead. He was born in Copenhagen in 1819 and was former- ly in the British diplomatic service in South America. ‘whibdetne Raeistaten, Manila, Dee. 24.—The Philippine commission has passed bills prescribing that English text shall be used in the construction of all laws enacted; au- thorizing the provost marshal to estab- lish police and health regulations, with limited punishments for their violation, appropriating $75,000 for the immediate construction of a highway from Pozorrubie, province of Pangas- inan, to Baguio, in: Benguet” province, along the line.and surveyed for a gor- ernment railroad. Cape Colony in Revolt. London, Dec. °4.—“We understand that private reliable advices have been received in London,” says the London Daily Mail, ‘‘to the effect that virtually all the districts of Cape Colony in the vicinity of the Orange river are in more or less open revolt and that there is likely to be sharp firing on a rather large seale before the invasion is erush- ed. The tactics of the Boers in rally- ing as many 2s possible of the Dutch in the back country to their cause are proving successful.” ila ge ea, Philadelphia, Dee. 26.—Every nation that was represented at the Paris ex- position has contributed a portion of its exhibit to the Philadelphia com- mercial spuseum, and several countries have presented their entire exhibit. Dr. William P. Wilson, director of the museum, has returned from Paris, where he went in October to obtain donations. The city has appro- priated $20,000 to pay the freight of the contributions from Paris to this country. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, Adjourament ‘Taken for tho Holldayr to January Third. vounremrrn Day. ‘The senate extonded the time for the ratin- gation of ‘cortain treatios pending with certamh Sout American states and also tho agreoment ith Basland. supplements’ to. the Haye. Pauncefote treaty itself. The latter was agreed to without a dissentinye vote, which relioved those avorine the treaty. Senators Foraker and Morzan defended the polley of making the canal neutral. ‘The house has passed Ar. Pipnn's bill for ‘moré money for allotments and. xing tne vote ot opening of Kiowa-Comanche Jands on Aug. 6,190. Mr. Flynn has introdiiced a DU providing that beiore the opening of the Widhite and other Indian jandx manne the president shoud Subdivide the same inte counties and designate A place for, the ‘county seat of each to contain S20 geres. "hat these lauds, in advance of the ‘opening be platted and the iovs sola at auction stland atter the opening: the receipts from the fale to be used in Duliding county buildings, Bridges, roads and other pubile’ improvements, gd to foaintala ho, county government unt taxes are collected. Tae bill provides for two T'S" Iona districts to be established when the Jand is proclaimed open for setttemeat. ‘PLYTRENTH DAY. Senate committee reports a substitute forthe army reorganization bil, with many. chances, among them oho ‘allowin beer only to. be sold fu army canteens, “Chaplains are reduced tojone for each regiment, with no post chap- Jains. “The Neterinary corpe fs strlekon gut ‘Tho iaaximum strength St the army is. xed at {00,000 men. Blistment of Fiipin’s is author- {ei to the number of 13,000; also a native rea iment in Puerto Rico, “The senate passed tk house bill authorizing the president to appoint Representative. Bou telle of Maine, a captain of the navy on the e- ‘The sciiate passed the urgency, deciency bil that carries fr Piyne's legistation coueoraing the aew tedium taal cpeaing My. Long is at work for an appropriation for .8itef00 pubile building at Muteninson, ‘Kane sas, ‘The house rivers and harbors committee has ‘desided "to. make "a Jum " appropristion of Bou. oF the improvement of the, Stissourk ‘Fiver, to be expended under the atrection of ar department. “Me iit would abolish the “‘Miscouri river commission. ‘Phe house passed ‘ils requiring the Pens sylvanla und the Baltimore & Onio ratlroads to alter their routes into Washington and. build ew stations "‘The bill appropriates’ 8.500.001 tovover the outlay. ‘Tatts, to pay the’ roads fordoing what itis to thelr iater‘et to do. SIXTEENTH DAY. “The senate ratified the treaty with Great Britain which was signed on ‘February 5, 1000, by ecretary Hay ‘and Lord Pauncetote, alter adopting all of the amendments proposed by the cominittee on foreign relationsand rejecting all amendments offered by opposing senators. ‘The house passed the Indian Dill and the mil- {tary academy appropriation bill. ‘Mr. Cannon made comparisons of past and. present cost of educating Indians, showing that appropriations have trebied in 13 years, and it now costs nearly five times as much per capita to educate Ine dan pupits az" it does’ those of the District of Columbia. Mr. Curtis expiained that indian [pupils were also Doared aint clothed.” ‘The In- Han bill fxes the pay of court clerks in Indian ‘Territory to sult them. SEVENTEENTH DAY. Senator Cullom reported from the committee ‘on foreign relations two bills to refund to Mex= ico sums patd on American claims whieh, the supreme court has decided were procured by fraud. Mr. Sutherland (Neb) Introduced a bill for the appointment of a committee of seven to Ine Yestigate government ownership of raliroads in Europ, and in this couatry. for use in future legisintion. SEAy SEEN ation UL at Nericite eee az tion. bill authorizing the prese Ident toncivet two volunteer brigadier generals for retirement resardiess of ages ‘There was a luck ofa quorum in elther house, ‘The river and harbor bill has been completed fn committee, with a total of about #80, ON, ‘This {< exceeded only by the act of 1807 which was 672275004, ‘Congress adjourned vztil January 3, 101. Fraudulent Divorce Bureau, New York, Dec. 24.—Recorder Goff has sentenced: Henry Zimmer, one of the heads of a fraudulent divorce bu- reau, to ten years in state's prison, and James Holden, alias Frank Wilson, a professional correspondent, to three years in the state's prison, Mrs. Byrde Herrick and Mary Thompson, who said they had testified falsely in divorce cases were allowed to go under suspension of sentence. Guieulss Siskdle to be Abuadonads Chicago, Dec. 2%4.—The northern Pacific and Soo roads have agreed to the Great Northern's proposition to abolish round trip colonist tickets west of St. Paul. Other western roads are considering the advisability of with- drawing the rate west of Missouri river gateway. ‘Two Hundred Christians Killed. London, Dee. 22.—A dispatch to the Daily Express from Vienna reports re- cent Moslem excesses against the Chris tian population in the central pro- vinces of Turkey, where 200 Christians have been killed. Christians Colebrate Century: New York, Dec. 26.—Plans are per- fected to hold a monster religions revival to usher in thes twentieth cen- tury. This revival isto be the fruition of the plan evolved by the late Dwight L. Moody, which his friends took up and have enlisted in its support the most prominent Christian workers of the country. It is to be national in scope, with New York as the center. It is to be absolutely undenomina- tional in character and “Christ and the | Bible” is the only battle ery. boom sg Chieago, Dec. 24.—Fifty thousand dollars in gold is to be distributed by the American Express company among its employes,.as..Christmas remem- brances. Every man. who has been in the-employ of the company for one year. will receive a $5 gold piece on Christmas eve. It is estimated that there are over 10,000 employes in the United States, Canada and Europe, who will be remembered in this way. There are many of them in Kansas and the two territories. Loyal Fillpino Leaders. Manila, Dec. 26.—The recently or- ganized -antonomy party was launched atameeting attended by virtually ail the loyal Filipino leaders’ in Manila. The declaration of principles was read, and@iafter some discussion adopted by « vote of 123, less than half a dozen de- clining to vote. | All signed an indorse- ment of the platform, including Senor Paterne, one of the. most influential of the former insurgent leaders, whose real attitude toward American author die had dese tiesch Guestionsd. Griggs to Retire ; ee ee ——- eS A Saws S| 1 <r re WPAN jij: 2 di \~ oh HY : I ig <[ far | ioe 4) eo ay’ ZV — APOSTLE OF ANARCHY MAN OF WEALTH PROPOSES TO AID THE CAUSE. George Do Lion Will Devote His Riches to Spreading Mis Doctrine—Will Par- chase Large Tract of Land and Ex- periment. The richest anarchist in’ the world is George De Lion, of Dawson City, Alaska. Two years ago De Lion was living in California and did not have a cent to his name. To-day he Is worth up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and by spring it is said his fortune will reach the million-dollar mark. When De Lion struck Dawson in 1898 he had one nickel in his pocket and that was given to him by a man to buy a postage stamp to post a let- ter to his folks in Los Angeles. De Lion started out to dig for gold, but changed his mind and resolved to let others do the digging while he profited through business channels. Now he "ev d Asi Dig | al 4 eld we owns several large structures and much land in Dawson and vicinity. De Lion will establish an anarchistic colony in southern California, He says of the project: “My plan is to purchase 100,000 acres of land, which I think can be done at a cheap figure in the southern part of this state, and then to locate upon {t 1,000 families who shall be found to be congenial.” Each family is to have its hundred acres of land, share and share alike, and for each family I shall have a house built, and each I shall eupply with tools and seed. 1 shall take no more land and no less than any other:member. In this way we shall all be on an absolute equality and when no one is superior to an- other there can be no dictatorship. Other than the mere incorporation into a company to satisfy the legal require- Feng Se tale aaa no the teat sige ob coveremnehee Thi, however, shall not preclude e0-opera- tion, so long as co-operation may be perfectly voluntary, “To insure a true solidarity it will ‘be necessary to get only those families While it is probable that most of President McKinley's official’ family will remain with him when he begins his second administration, it is. certain that there will be some changes. One cabinet officer whose retirement is a certainty ‘and whose services will be missed by the President is Attorney- General John W. Griggs. Mr. Griggs entered the cabinet at the solicitation of Vice-President Hobart, when Judge MoKenna left the legal department to become a member of the Supreme Court. The Vice-President and Mr. Griggs were neighbors and_{atimate friends at Paterson, N. J., and the for- mer believed that the brilliancy antl profound legal knowledge that had made Mr, Griggs a power in New Jer- sey affairs would contribute to the suc cezs of the McKinley administration, ‘Mr. HoBart’s predictions have been more than justified by Mr. Griges’ conduct of the legal depattment, ee ‘that willbe congenial: To this end Ivshall employ expert phrenologists and physiognomists to examine all ap- plicants for admission to the: colony. “Once established in the colony, it is expected that each member will re- spect the fullest freedom in every other and carry out the spirit of Proudhon’s paradox: ‘Property is robbery.’” pak ats ae emetic de ie eae ‘The plague which recently visited Sydney, New South Wales, and made evident all the hideous defects of its sanitary systems has caused the civic authorities to wake up, and, like Rip Van Winkle, to formulate stringent sanitary regulations. Noxious sub- stances must be conveyed through the city between midnight and 6 a. m., and in water-tight buckets. Unhealthy premises are to be made healthy by proper system of connection; no live ‘poultry wiil be allowed in the city un- der conditions dangerous or injurious to health. The manufacture of any matter intended for human consump- tion must be carried on under sanitary conditions, and the smoke nuisance from factories must be abated by the consumption of smoke in the chim- neys, Marine stores, which, as a rule, are most unsavory, have a special pro- vision regulating their control. Baths ‘are made compulsory adjuncts to all dwelling houses; lodging houses must register and be licensed, and further general provisions have been issued regulating other matters likely to at- fect the well-being and health of the community.—J. Hunter Stephenson in Chicago Record. Gites Create, The most remarkable phenomenon of modern Europe is the growth of Germany since the Franco-Prussiar war. The treaty of peace was signed in 1871, and since that time Germany has not. extended her territory by a single acre of the continent of Europe with possibly the exception of Heli- goland, but she has increased her pop: ulation by 16,000,000. The Germans numbered 40,000,000 in 1871; they number 56,000,000 now, and _ yet, though there are so many mouths to feed the Germans are better fed, bet- ter clothed, and in every way more prosperous than they were then. This is attributed to the fact that for 20 years Germany devoted herself to tha elementary education of her people. Stress on a Pause. Mark Twain lays great stress on the pause just before the point, in the use of which he regards Artemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley as the greatest adepts. For instance, Arte- mus Ward would say eagerly, excited. ly: “i once knew a man in New Zea- land who hadn't a tooth in his head’ —here his animation would die out; a silent, reflective pause would follow, then he would say dreamily and as if to himself—“and yet that man could beat a drum better than any man |! ever knew.” German silver is not silver at all, but an alloy of various of the baser metals, which was invented in China and used there for centuries. The Attorney-General now finds himself unable to remain. He is a poor man and naturally has an ambi- tion to acquire a fortune. His great legal ability enabled him to make large ‘sums while engaged in the practice of his profession, but he is a liberal man and spent most of his income in, enter- taining and educating his daughters, It was a financial sacrifice when he gave up his private practice and went to Washington, but the earnest solici- tation of President McKinley and Vice-President Hobart and his keen appreciation of the honor conferred impelled him to lay aside money con- siderations. It is a well-known fact, of course, that a cabinet position re- quires greater expenditures in the way of entertainment than the salary covers, and Mr. Griggs now feels that, in justice to himself and his family, he shoult’return to active work im his ee z [ln the Public Eve Chicago's Municipal Campaign. Chicago is getting ready for another municipal election. The present May- or Carter H. Harrison, who has been twice elected, will again be the candi- date of the Democrats, Graeme Stew- art, Illinois’ member of the Republican 4 ee aes, . gee a : PF ea | 5 4 ee 4 Ee eee | a ay : ed oe eae Rete eG & te Vas a pe one ge ; Py a tT oe | a cd 5 a y GRAEME STEWART. National Committee, is already in the arena for his party's nomination, and It looks as if he would be Harrison's chief opponent. Like Harrison, he 1s a.native of the city. He has long been high in the councils of the party in state and nation. Boom for Oklahoma. ‘The Territory of Oklahoma is on the verge of a new boom. Within a few montis President McKinley will throw open to settlers a former Indian reser- vation, embracing no less than two and a half million acres of land in the extreme southern part of the ter- oF nitory, bordered on a Esyows| the south by Texas | eh ie and on the east by ene: << J the Chickasaw Na- rT tion reservation. be Of the land in the Re | territory to be SE LL ( opened 50,000 acres [ moter 4 jwill be reserved as ‘a government res- The Territory to : he Phekon Gea, OrvVatios Ging crv” 728 Bone ees er [poe The Territory to be Thrown Open. Se EN PE sn ie te tad ae pa and nearly 500,000 acres of allot ments to the Indians of the thrée tribes who have- disposed of their tribal holdings to the —govern- ment. Of the remaining land only 80,- 000 acres are adapted to strictly agri- cultural purposes, the remainder _be- ing, however, good grazing territory. ‘The opening proclametion will be is- sued 4s soon as the secretary of the fn- terior has completed the work of allot- ting to the individual Indians the 160- acre plats to which each of them is entitled under the agreement of pur- chase. Ware estes tee tek Oe are “Mrs. Lillian M. N, Stevens, who has just been re-elected president of the ‘Women’s Christian Temperance Union, is a native of Dover, Me., and began her work as a@ teacher in her own state. At 21 she married Mr. Stevens and went with her husband to his home near Portland. Mrs, Stevens first Ba ee Se eas ree 4 Bee | te ee, ee re 8 . ey, Li | CA i toh ‘ aa BN oe. 4 sic | pes Aare 8 | MID. iS ae ate ee A - | Le Se MRS. LILLIAN M. N. STEVENS. met Miss Willard at Old Orchard in the summer of 1875, and there assisted in the organization of the Maine W. C. ‘TU, Her first office was that of treas- urer of the state union. She next be- came president’ and under her guid- ance the Maine organization soon be- came conspicuous in the national un- jon and its president no less con- spicuous among the ladies at work in the temperance cause, Mrs, Steyens’ advance in the union was rapid. She was elected vice president during the life of Miss Willard and succeeded that great reformer as president when Miss ‘Willard died. A Curious Constitution, ‘The most remarkable of the three complete drafts of the constitution submitted to the Cuban constitutional convention is the one submitted by General Rivera, It follows our constitution as to form of government when once consti- tuted, but differs very materially as to the modes-of constituting it.” It pro- vides for a congress of two houses and @ president. Nothing is said aboyt a Judicial branch in the summary’ at hand; but undoubtedly that -is pro- vided for. Hach of the provinces is to have local government superficially after the analogy of our state govern- ments. But it appears that only the representatives in congress and three electors in each municipal district are to be elected by direct vote of the peo- ple. ‘The municipal electors are to choose the members of the provincial legislatures, and these legislatures are to choose the provincial governors and the national. senators, and all'-six of them sitting together are to choose the president of the republic, who must be ‘@ native Cuban, | =RCQN;, PURELY PERSONAL Rear Admiral ww... ere se ee at the United States np were as fondly regarded by tna, ordinates as Rear Admiral se erick McNair, who died a: Wat ington the other day. yr. MeNay Was the ranking rear admiral ow Bavy, standing next to Dewey. He ye 4m command of the Asiatic squsan prior to Dewey's appointment ‘nf would have reaped the honors tha fell to Dewey at Manila hat not og those changes which occur at regu Intervals in the navy brougie yg home just before the outbreak of ty Spanish war. He was a man of tag and courage, handsome in igure ws Jovial in the social hours he eajgy with his men. Since his return toy Asiatic waters he has been on sh ‘duty, his last post being superisiap = of the naval academy at Annuy Ms. MeNair was born in Pennsylvania) 1889 and entered the navy in 183, 1859 he was assigned to the steam ¢ gate Minnesota, of the East. Iai Squadron, Early in the civil wer went to the steam sloop Iroquois g the West Gulf squadron, and pari pated in the bombardment ot Fog Jackson and St. Philip and ‘Chalmely batteries, ‘The engagement at Gray Galt the passage, both wars, oi Vicksburg batteries, and the desim, tion of the Confederate ram Arkansg He served also in the war on the stg ‘sloop Juniata and Seminole, with ty South Atlantic Blockading ‘squadrey and participated in both attacks q Fort Fisher, May Enter the Cabinet, Wayne MacVeagh, who is mention as a possible successor to Attory ea ee fea a i ee a Oe Paa ke oe Po a eee it 4 \ ee ork eg Oe eh Mee ee ee WAYNE MACVEAGH. General Griggs in President McKie) ley’s cabinet, is a Philadelphia larye| ot ability and prominence, a! he has been the recipient ¢ high honors from both the great je litical parties. He was appointed tt ed States attorney general by Pre: dent Garfield in 1881, and resid with’ the rest of the Garfield cabisé upon the accession of President 4» thur, In 1892 he supported Clevele! for president, and in 1893 he was mal ambassador to Italy, which post ® held until 1897, Since that time has practiced law in Philadelphi though spending much of his time Washington, where he now Js, a where he ‘will spend the winter. MacVeagh was born in Phoeniav‘lk Pa,, on April 19,1833 Roosevelt Is Not Rich. As vice president Mr, Roosevelt wi occupy a rented house . Washingt and his friends say it will not bea expensive residence, for the Tea that the vice president clect is not rich man. The property which ti father left to him in New York yids him an annual income of $6,000 4 $10,000 a year. Hence it is that Mr Roosevelt feels called upon to ensit deeply and constantly in literary wer next year to Increase his income, nt withstanding that it will be $16,000 $18,000 a year anyhow. $4.600 a Nisht. While the American stage 15 sa | be over-run with European tales there is some consolation in th fact that the European stage is né shy on American talent of the firs magnitude. In this connection the a nouncement comes from London ‘that a single night’s performance at the ao oe ye eae je eerie A i Po aie ee he Cee ee aa 5 se Pe Bee ee 4 Pea 4 pega 2 MaRIE GEORGE. Strand theater, netted yarie Oi the American actress, fhe nandsom sum of: $4,600. There: not 547 pean Woman, seve, perh@ys, Yersiir Whose nightly receipts ip this om" anything like approach. those isu" {Diseases of the Kidneys. .. 2"... MORROW’S KID-NE-O1DS are for sale by all druggists or by mail prepaid on receipt of 50 cents. Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are made only by JOHN MORROW & CO., cuemiszs, SPRINGFIELD, CHiO. So | UPRIGHT . a = ames ) BA cone SF : ae | Mi sae | I; Jacobs | 0 eee? 2 5 et A } ee ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Very omell and as easy ‘otake as auras, Sq |FOR HEADACHES CARTERS|ron vizziness. Wiirrruc |FoR Biuiousuess, IVER |Fo2 ToaPio uiver. We FOR CONSTIPATION. * |FoR SALLOW SKIN. i |FOR THE COMPLEXION GaRoa were tfte | raveny Vopetabte,Ceorar Corot CURE SICK HEADACHE. ee . relief for a, ODERS PASTILLES, 4s one ROR s,s eraser An ce For the Ladies, E PRIESHEYER SH2= —_——————— CO. i SHOES THAT WEAR, . Ask Your Dealer For Them. src Boogarian Government Atter Gypelem The Hungarian government is about to take steps to effectually put an end to the wanderings of gypsies, who are % frequeatly to be met in that coun- uy. The stalwart Hungarian gypsy, ‘With his multi-colored cloak, bis dark- ered, fortune-telling wife, and his ovd of half-naked children, is one of the mast picturesque figures in this part of Europe. Some cough remedies hide @ cough; they drug it into silence, but the ir- Nation stays in the Iungs to cause troble, “Morley’s. Honey Pectoral foes, heals, strengthens and cures thoroughly. ‘The cough stops because the cause Is removed. Price, 25 cents. Sold by agent in every town. Dens Cou Since the assassination of King Tunbert the Pope is said to have been ‘ey carefully guarded in the Vati- 2. It was his custom to take the ally in the Vatiean gardens, at- ‘taded by two guards and one or more Fejstes, but the number of guards has %s been increased, and. the whole Conesene is searched thrice dally. § QUGLAS @) D ° ¥ ‘SHOES: $ 1B UNION MADE Poe real worth of We Ebro eosin Siem commerea| 2 Toss ees | ee each Bicerine| fi cette gated ‘at mM grenade tbat) : OZ we ke SNE SE \ol ST cone DO PSE ssh antl EreLeTs iia poet odeart ine Sir * ON MASS. Meare the Iai makers of men’s 83 SSO shoes fetue wena Wovmnke “St tno manaiactarere ie tke De The peat we Uist nsial et eT Sia) Sear ts g.00 Scandal orale pee Ue, ade es aattnee ee SHOE. rs net ete Soa ar ee Bolte Sosy ceases OSe a eLee: whe eeee S, Take EN coe desler exclostve tale ta ench towne ce aetactated ina aa Re careers eee hares ee Ser na ee ati Sette aes Se ee fies Zod geyengies cottons Pree —— (sR aes fn. CRSP RENE ALL LSE PAILS eH By S7rep, ames Good Ure Fa CONSUMPTION & Four boxes rule the world—the car- tridge box, the ballot ‘box, the jury box and last, but not least, the femin- ine hat box. Bassball players; Golf players; all play- ore chew Water ucatad whites playing. Silence speatss much, words more and actions most of all. Cm, crabnree, Towa, wll, om. request explain atl avout he Gladtator Gold Atinlng, Com Sabyt attreialy ivarosting’ we me. ‘Some people never forget themselves they couldn't if they tried. soware of Olutments for Catarrh That | Contain Mercury, ‘As mercury will surely destroy the sense ot SEEM Sid Gomaplcssly derancetus whole stan Sheu cacertap i tarot the imucous suaces EUSE Stvicled should never be used except ot Breer tio eo reputable picans he Saage they will dom tenfold 10 the good. you can posstiy derive trom them. Halts Catareh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Foledo"O: contaies: no mereany, an fa taked haceniuly: sting “uireeuy ‘upon ie blood and ecou Surlaced Of the epatem, in buying Hatratatarth core bentroyougei ie genuine itis taken tureruly,andmade Toledo, Obl, by F. J. Cheney &Co. Testimonialsiree, Sold BY Drageiats price te per bottle. aie ats Biteate tne best Honor follows those who precede it» ‘batdt fleeetéomn those who-pareee it. Coughs tell you that there is come- thing wrong in throat or lungs. It is the cause, not the cough, that you must look after. Morley’s Honey Pec- toral searches out the cause of trouble, it heals the inflamed surfaces, stops the irritation, loosens the cough and cures you thoroughly. Sold by agent fa every town. Carter's Ink has 001 deep color and {t does motetrain the eres. “Cartere dosen't tate, Piso's Cure for Consumption {s an tnfalltble ‘medicine for coughs aad cols. —N. W. SaMuEt, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1000. It is folly to draw a bill on a blind man payable at sight. Dyeing is as simple as washing when you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, Digger Indians seldom smile, ‘tis ‘aid. They must be grave Diecers. U. S. SENATOR DAVIS DIES FROM KIDNEY DISEASE. ' Senator. Daits made a prolonged and gallant fight with disease. The trouble, of which the kidney affection was the fatal outcome, first. appeared about Sopt. 0. a ae a ee ‘Trouble Stealthily Encroached. ‘Tho trouble had, however, steathily encroached ‘upon a vital organ, and on’ Noy. 11 examination of the urino proved the presence of inflammation of the kidneys. Bott acute nephritis and dlabates made thelr appearance, avd Dr. Murphy, of Chleago, was suinmoned.” He agreed with Doctors Ssone and Lankester as to the presence of these serious ailiaonts in acute form, and, while pot making any pablie statoment, he made known privately to some of Senetor Davis" business associates hls opinion that the ease was liopoless, ae PASTS, ver ag /_ ‘To those, however, who were familiar with the symptoms of acuto idney troubles the bulletins ‘held ominous information, the rapid respiration, fluctuating pulse, doliriom and approaching. coma telling the story of death's nearness. "St, Paul Dispatch. Mr. J.C. Schoeh, of DuBols, Pa., convinced beyond tho short of a doubt that Sorrows Kidcne-otds cure ildnoy trues promplly and | to stay cured. “Kor about year I had a dull, heavy pain io tho small of my back, whien would be tended | ‘ Dy sharp, sting pain Re hen feng or etooptog a rer, "On account of ‘the pain in my back I out not sleep and got (BPE GY) proper rost- and word F Y tn Y fool dulland tired when Cad arising in the morning instead of fresh and £4 ‘Vigorous. When Mor- A ied rors Kit-neosis were \ PSI tie sdvercsea Vata oe ee Ga fer curative qualia, but after seeing them ‘eoosmended torslere Mr. J. O-schoch, symptoms like my own, Z procured some a Vosbure’s drug sare aad {ook them sccording to. élections. Tn 8 few Gays the pain in iny back stopped. The Kid-ne- ads have done away wrth tht il, ed foling Sod Tam enjoying better heath than T have for Yours." Mies Bahoehy lines at 137 Ove Ave, MHedience Stmpiifies Lite. Nothing simplifies life like obedi- ence. We sometimes think we are be- set by problems, that life is a very difficult and complicated affair. It is Rot really so, Ali life is simply do- ing or bearing the will of God. There is never more than one duty for one moment—Rev. H. A. Bridgman, ‘Taboo Pets in War Times. Animal fanciers in England say that pet beasts have not been sought by fashionable women’ since the war be- gan. “Pet animals are not wanted in time of war,” says Jamrach, the fa- mous animal dealer of St. George's, East. “People have far more serious things to think about and spend their money upon.” Shiftiess Poor Increasing. ‘The Philadelphia Medical Journal de- clares that “it requires no mathematt- cian to discover that the ehiftless, the thriftlees, the indigent poor—the class which produces relatively the greatest number of eriminals and paupers, if not of the mentally deficient—is in- creasing out of all proportion to the thrifty, the well-to-do—the class which produces relatively few of the paupers and criminals.” All the world’s a staircase on which all men go either up or down. + To be always happy, use Red Cross Ball Blue. Sc. Refuse imitations, A man of means isn’t necessarily a mean man, TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, ‘Toke LAXATIVE Baono Quixmme TABLETS. All Gruggiats refund the money If Tt falls. to eure, E. W. Grove's signature ls dn the box. 256. The more a smoker fumes the less he frets. Garfield Tea is the original herb tea for the cure of constipation and sick headache; ft is a specific for all disorders of stomach and bowels, Pride isthe fog that surrounds in significance, Over $2,000,000 worth of thorough- bred stock was on exhibition at the greatest fat stock show that was ever held in any country, at Dexter Pa- vilion, Chicago, Dec. 1-8, 1900. Neary $100,000 was paid to exhibitors in prizes. “Advance,” the champion fat steer, was sold for $1.50 a pound, live weight, and weighed on the Chicago Scales Co.'s scales, the official: scales of the show. This is the highest price at which any animal was ever sold for beef. is Re et We get the professional beggar with -a touch of winter. ‘Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. ~ For cbildren teething, softens the gains, reduces in= Sacination, slays pala,enres wind colic‘Ssoabote. An egotistical artist says the sun gives him a sitting every evening. Read the Advertisomonts. 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 adver- tisers are reliable and send what they advertise. ‘One smile is worth a dozen frowns at any stage of the game. EERE TN Malis cae A man’s character is often shown by wkab be esnciders aushuble. | Unless the whole mind is given to ¢ task it cannot be accomplished. Faded hatr recovers tt» youthful color and soft cas by the tse oF Eanes Hate Batra Wixbunconre, tle Usa care for corse. Hieta, Yearning for riches is the mother o discontent, Eire Peas at br Riven gat Nos dinar SP Rs Sit as eee An Irish politician says that half the lies told about him are not true. Ladies who take pride in clear, white ciothes should ase Rea Gross Ball Blue Don’t think a man’s a fool because he doesn't think as you do. - DuBoise,Pa.andis lways glad to say a good word for that peerless kidney remedy—xXid-ne-olds, Mrs. Gold Campman 48 River St., Sharon, Pa, graphically deseribes her condition before and after aho used Mortow's Kit-neoid, hoping by s 60 doing she will help x fome other woman to Py ge My get rid of the debdilita- fs ting backaches s0 eom- ‘moti to the femalo sex. S a Sliaron, Pa., Nov. & 1900. John Morrow & z Go. Dear Sirs:—"T take Neos pleasure in recommend- peo fing your medicine tothe SBP § psvic in the hope that ary ft may boneft others as pp f) ithas me. Throe years GP 2x0 in March I wasat- ae tacked with a severe fe Yer which left me Ina’ Mra. Gold Oampman. miserable, weak condi ton. About one year ago, after my Kidneys be- came affected, the pain in my back was so bad { could not sit up or tle down. T sw Morrow's: Kid-ne-olds highly recommended and procured a box and took them eecording to directions, which resulted in a eure, I have teken 10. ali three boxes 2nd consider the medicine so good for kidney troubles that I will take no other.” ‘Yours truly, Mrs. Gold Campman, Graphic interview given our reporter by Mr. D.8. Sterner, of Altoona, Pa., who sufferod for ‘years with kddney troubles, “I suffered several years with kidney trouble and did considerable doctoring. even colne to ai . . ee SS ee ee ee oe be debilita- eB ‘the hospital for atime, es $0 com-| a Bs -u it seemed that tay emalo sex. Sf Qo diseaso was incurable, a. Nov. &| Af plies NO. My sunsring was ter Morrow &| 4 BY, tte covey wit s:—"Ttake| ff A my back, - Tsaw Mor ecommend: BNE row's Kia.neoids ad- Heine totho| E vertised and recom. hope that| H [3 mended so bishily by t others as| F) other persons’ whose rhroe years| WA gail, J symptoms, wore aint. h I was at- Beene" fy lar to my own that I aseverote-| Qh FA ff decided to try them, ft me Ina Tbogan to improve in ak condi Ns” twoor three dayeattor rianeys be: mat Teommenced to talce assobadi| Mrs. D. 8. Sterner. them, and continued ; Morrow's | to improve until the pain in my’ back has all die d procured | appeared. Thave felt like a now person since Airections, | faking. Kid-no-lds and am only too glad to be een 1a ali able to reeommond sick a valuable, medicine.” ne s0 good | Mrs. Sterner rosides at 10187%h Ave., Altoona,Pa. b are for sale by all druggists or y Prepaid on receipt of 50 cents. e made only by SPRINGFIELD, Ct ‘Mortality Among War Correspondents. Attention is called to the number of casualties among newspaper represen. tatives who went out to South Africs to describe the Boer war. They scarce- ly ran the same risks as the soldiers but they appear to have suffered in 2 far higher degree. All told, they were ninety in number, and only fifteen o! them reached Pretoria. The mor- tality was 15% per cent.—London Let- ter New York Tribune. ‘hinte & End ot Semen. Several of the European general staffs are studying the feasibility of organizing special corps something aft- erthe Boer model. The principal dit- ficulty lies in the: Imited supply ot horses at the command of the vari- ous governments, with the exception of Russia, The last equine census in that country is stated to have shown considerably more than 10,000,000 horses fit for war purposes, Heated Poker Controls Tigers “When all other methods of control- ling wild beaets fail, the keeper has only to employ an iron rod which has been made red-hot at one end,” says an old circus man, Lions and tigers will cringe bfore the heated poker, and no matter how restless and fretful they may hay been, the sight of the glow- ing iromsimmediately brings them to their beat of animal senses.” Picaiciate. as Sac exccaaibakenn » Among the papers read at the con- vention of American ornithologists in Cambridge, Mass, a tew days ago was a most interesting little thing on “The Pterylosis of Podargus, With Notes on the Pterylography of the Caprimul- gidae.” A school teacher says he whips his pupils to make then smart, It is well to remember that GARFIELD TEA cleanses the system, purifies the blood, regulates the ilver and kidneys and cures chrontc constipation, The history of mankind is an im- mense volume of errors. ‘Tho Dest Freseription for Chilis and Fever is a bottle of Gnove’s TasTRLEss Cunt Toxtc.. Itis simply iron und quinine in ‘tasteless form. No cufe-no pay, Prico, 5s. A fellow who has a smiling coun- tenance often has a red nose, Most to Quantity, Hest in Qrality, Morley’s Sersaparil!a and Iron is a tonic, a blood purifier and a bloot maker. It does not stop with merely curing certain discases, Ike scrofula, sores, abscesses, etc., but cleanses and builds up the whole system. All who havo tried {t say there is more cure in one bottle of Morley’s Sarsaparilla and Iron than in six of any other kind. Sold by agent in every town. The greatest favorites are not the people who are always asking favors. GOVERNOR OF OREGON Uses Pe-ru-na [0 in His Family _ For Golds ica and Grip. a CAPITOL BUILDING, SALEM, OREGON. A Letter from the Executive Office of Oregon. ‘The Governor of Oregon is an ar- | tarrh out of fts victims. dent admirer of Pe-ru-na. He keeps|only cures catarrh, | it continually in the house. In a re-| Every household shoul cent letter to Dr, Hartman he says: | with this great _remed State or Oregon, colds and so forth. Executive Department, It will be noticed that ‘Salem, May 9, 1898, says he has not had oc The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, | Pe-ru-na for other ailme ‘Ohio: |son for this is, most < Dear Sirs:—I have nad occasion to | begin with a cold. Usir use your Pe-ru-na medicine in my | promptly cure colds, h family for colds, and it proved to be|famiiy against other a an excellent remedy. I have not had | is exactly what every o' occasion to use it for other allments.| the United States shot ‘Yours very truly, ‘W. M. Lord. Pe-ru-na in the house Any man who wishes perfect health | coughs, colds, la gripy must be entirely free from catarrh. | climatic affections of wi! Catarrh ts well-nigh universal; almost | will be no other ailment. omnipresent, Pe-ru-na Is the only ab- | Such families should. p solute safeguard known. .A cold is/|sclves with a copy of ‘the beginning of catarrh, To prevent free book, entitled “Wi colds, to cure colds, is to cheat ca-| Address Dr. Hartman, ( FREE ELECTRIC BELT OFFER | pasSy Wikies pierce, eiuoomtemtneanay | PPE wee ea Pete Pet ochee Mivnie tne genutco ana | fl Sevcing Btachincs eo cuca) (Ve is BRE Giese | Pe Bees BRO" teller Rig | Chega i a eee | eee cn ie Ser wes SNE es Serer easdesia tata ition eacanioce a SEARS, ROEGUGK & CO.. chicago. | DROPS Ys: WITHOUT BEE | F888, DE. HW. 3 GREENS LONK. Box B, Atlanta, Ga a B ATENTS Bins Aeastption:| W.N.U. WICHITA—NO.--52—19¢ Diy. BLO Be SEPA Renee Whea Answering Advertisements Mind goceocecs: searceoesoscoorezezoesooonce 8 FREE 3 WINCHESTER Winchester SHOTGUNS Factory loaded Our 160.page aa shotgun shells, iMlustrated cata-@ FACTORY LOADED SHOTOUM SHELLS ® «NEW RIVAL,” logue. ‘he winning combination ia the feld or at @ “LEADER, "and the tmp. All dealers sell hem “REPEATER” FREE 3 WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS C0, A til wil prove tho Wincsizstax Ava., Naw Haven, Coun, @ their superiority, eeeesooscecse:! tarrh out of its victims. Pe-ru-na not only cures catarrh, but prevents. Every household should be supplied with this great remedy for coughs, colds and so forth. It will be noticed that the Governor says he has not had occesion to use Pe-ru-na for other ailments. The rea- [fon for tha ia, most other ailments begin with a coid. Using Pe-ru-na to promptly cure colds, he protects his famliy against other ailments. This is exactly what every other family in the United States should do. Keep Pe-ru-na in the house. Use it for coughs, colds, la grippe, and other climatic affections of winter, and there will be no other ailments in the house. Such families should provide them- selves with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book, entitled “Winter Catarrh.” Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, 0. ey Wikies a Fos FAA a rg aa as i SevringStachinca, Viannm, Grae R of (bees Bice saree: aot Fae) Pasi satiaac ie ges saiaaaaseatce ae cde ‘Maraess, Sacdien, Wito Fencing eRe Hema g Wainet Cee a Premien, Wattn oe Stock DROPSY osm es ane sores fi REWER in W.N.U.WIGHITA—NO.--52—1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly { Mention This Paper. Choice ones 8 $ \frac{1}{2} $ lb. Hand made Lard 8 $ \frac{1}{2} $ lb. Pork Shoulders 7 $ \frac{1}{2} $ lb. Whitlock Bros. If You are Look Bargains In New or Second hand Furniture It will pay you to call J.R.Evertson 4 See Blakeman For Your Christmas Oy BLUE POINTS A SPECIAL Looking For Mains Furniture and Stoves. You to call on 452N.Main man Bros. Your s Oysters A SPECIALTY. In New or Second hand Furniture and Stoves. It will pay you to call on J.R.Evertson 452N.Main 'Phone 650 WICHITA ENGRAVING For Plates of all Descrii Half Tones& Zinc Designing and Drawing. Pract McCOY BRO. MURPHY & GO New Music S Is the place to buy all kinds of String In Organs,and Sewing Machines. Lowest 507 East Douglas Ave. GRAVING Co., All Descriptions Zinc Etchings Practical,Original Experien ce 203 N.Main. GOFORTH'S Music Store Of String Instruments,Pianos, Lowest prices in the city. Wichita,Kansas. WICHITA ENGRAVING Co., For Plates of all Descriptions Half Tones& Zinc Etchings Designing and Drawing. Practical,Original Experien ce McCOY BRO. 203 N.Main, Is the place to buy all kinds of String Instruments, Pianos, Organs, and Sewing Machines. Lowest prices in the city. 507 East Douglas Ave. Wichita, Kansas. BRAITSCH'S SHOE STORE hoe Dealer. PECIALTY. Suitable for both rich and poor. Wichita Business Directory. The Cash Shoe Dealer FINE SHOES A PE Fall and Winter Goods. Prices suitable for FINE SHOES A PECIALTY. Fall and Winter Goods. Prices suitable for both rich and poor. Wichita Business Directory Barnes & Newcom Popular Music Hos Pianos, Organs.Every thing kn in music. Largest stock to se from and Lowest Prices Popular Music House. Pianos,Organs.Every thing known in music. Largest stock to select from and Lowest Prices. Latest Sheet Music and Books. EYES TESTED FREE OF CHARGE. W W PEARCE JEWELER. 138 N.Main St. Wichita, Kas. Jacob Bissantz, DEALER IN HARDWARE, STOVES, Queensware, Brushes, Toys, Etc. 123 E.Douglas Ave. Wichita.Kas. For Firs-Class Furnished The Largest line,the Lowest prices of HOLIDAY GOODS at My Racket, 204 N.Main St. Senta Claus Headquarters. (Cut this out for Reference.) A. SOMMER, Jeweler & Optician. 316 E.Douglas, Wichita,Kas For a Good,First-Class Shave GO TO City Meat Market Gus Suhm,Prop. 1028 E.Douglas. Nevin's Has the Finest Candies & Cakes. 'Phone 152 for Ice Cream. Dunn & Dunn, L0w Price Grocers. 728 N.Main st. Wichita,Kas. H.C.Dunbar UNDERTAKER 235 N Main St 'Phones Office 308 Residence 362 --- Hand made Sausage 81c lb. Fresh Side meat 81c lb. Good Oysters 25c, Qt. 222 E.Douglas. Barnes & Newcomb ROOMS Mrs V.Matthews 414 N.Water street. Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cut& Shampoos. 6381 E.Douglass Ave., Burl Fisher.Prop. WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight Only $1.00 per year. Our Fall Styles. Our Fall and Winter Stock of Imported and Domestic Woolens is complete and we can save you from 10 per cent np in fine Tailor Made Suits. Coats and Trousers. First-Class workmanship,perfect fit and style absolutely guaranteed. The PEERLESS TAILOR & FURNISHER. 508 E Douglass Ave., Phone 511 120 E.Douglas Trade at FULTON's-It pays. Clothin g,Hats&FurniShing Goods C.R.Fulton Wichita's Greates For cheap Hardware, Stoves, Se nition go to— The Wichi H.C.Kendrick, Pure DrugsLo Miller & Hull, Greatest Clothing Store. ... Stoves, Sewing Machines, Guns and ammunition Wichita Hardware Co., 223 E.Douglas. S.W. Cor.Doug. & Lawrence drugsLow Prices. — Professional. Dr.Claude G. Baker, Wichita, For cheap Hardware, Stoves, Sewing Machines, Guns and ammunition go to— The Wichita Hardware Co., 223 E.Douglas. H.C.Kendrick, S.W. Cor.Doug. & Lawrence Pure DrugsLow Prices. Fine assortment of Holiday Furnishings for Gentlmen 152 N. Main. When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at I am after U For A Cus tomer. If good goods and light prices will Do It. ita,Kas. WN Miller, W.D.Carney 600 E.Douglas, Wichita,Kas. DEPARTMENT Full of fine shoe and at money saving prices is what we call your attention to.Did you ever wear a Smith-Wallace shoe? If not, you hardly know what comfort is in the shoe line. Not comfort alone but wearing quality as well, is what those shoes are known for. You don't pay fancy store prices with us.We are able to buy at a bargain, and we give you the advantage. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By KANSAS SEMI-CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION TOPEKA 1904 Power of C. P. Huntington. In buying out his associates in the Southern Pacific, Collis P. Huntington becomes sole and individual owner, manager and controller of a vast transportation system, embracing 7,600 miles of railroad, ferries, terminals, river and ocean lines extending from Portland, Ore., through California, to New Orleans, and representing $350,000,000 of securities and nearly $60,000,000 of annual gross earnings. CONCERT. e A.M.E.church. night,Jan.1st.190l. c. Come every body WE WISH TO MAKE YOU A PRESENT OF A VOLUME OF "The Story of My Life and Work," BY BOOKER T. WABHINGTON, Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and Recognized Leader of the Negro Race. GRAND C at the A.I Tnesday night Admission l0c. GRAND CONCERT. at the A.M.E.church. Tnesday night,Jan.1St.190l. Admission 10c. Come every body This valuable work is published in one large volume of over 400 pages, and beautifully illustrated with more than 50 original drawings and photo-engravings — size 6 by 8½ inches. SEND US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. We want you to write us your name and address for the purpose of introducing it in your community. We also want agents in every county and district in the country to sell your work to each town. Write new and be sure to add one. Address: Volcano or Coseguria The most noted volcano in Nicaragua is Coseguria, which, after a long series of earthquakes along the Andes mountains and throughout the Central American states, in June, 1835, broke into violent eruption, scattering ashes over 1,500 miles of country. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` A SHOE J. B. DENTALPARLORS. Up-Stairs Next to Eagle Office. Dr E.Harrison, Physician and Surgeon 138 North Main st. Wichita, ..... Kansas Attorney at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC Practices in all the Courts of Kansas and Missouri. No.239 N.Main street. Wichita. ..... Kans. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. OFFICE PHONE 325 RES.PHONE 385 213 N.MAIN ST. WICHITA, KANS TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair appear as shown on fallout paintings. It proves to be a great hair pomade and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. It is the first preparation ever sold for queen. It was the first preparation ever sold for queen. Get the Original Ozized Ox Marshmallow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and the hair soft. It is the greatest gentlemen. Meganly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the economic benefit of preparing it to prepare it a preparation equal to a preparation with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by Money Order for 5 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Litteracy in Romania. Roumania would appear to be the most illiterate country in Europe. The last census shows that, in a population of nearly 6,000,000, nearly 4,000,000 can neither read nor write, and that only a little over 1,000,000 have any education at all. Joe Stewart's Meat Market, Headquarters For All Kinds of First-Class Meat. Game and Poultry. Joe Stewart. Prop. 239 N.Main St. CHRISTMAS CANDIES A specialty A large assortment from the Cheapest to the Highest price. Every thing our own make. BISSANTZ 306 East Douglas. 'Phone 98. Kansas Steam Laundry. Opposite the Post Office. The largest and most complete Laundry in the State. ....Clothes Cleaned and Pressed..... All work guaranteed to be First - Class. Cone & Cornell, Prop. Telephone 195. Kansas Steam Laundry. Opposite the Post Office. The largest and most complete Laundry in the State. ....Clothes Cleaned and Pressed..... All work guaranteed to be First - Class. Cone & Cornell,Prop. Telephone 195. REMEMBER when in need of C FURNISHING Go the old reliable Star C Sign of Big Star, 117 E.Douglas ave., when in need of CLOTHING,HATS FURNISHING Goods,not to forget the old reliable Star Clothing House. Sign Of Big Star, Robt.Jacks, 117 E.Douglas ave., Man'g'r. J.P.Massey, SHOE-M Second Hand Shoes Bought on 337 North Main st..... CYCLE Headquai Holiday 224 E.Do SHOE-MAKER. Second Hand Shoes Bought & Sold. General Repairing. 339 North Main st.... Wichita,Kansas. Headquarters For Holiday Goods. 224 E.Douglas Ave I.L.Squire, DEALER IN Groceries, Flour & Feed. Brooms at Wholesale We have added a New Meat Market Under supervision of Litzenberg. 320 N.Main St. J.H.WILDIN, Ice Cream and Confectionery, OYSTERS IN SEASON. 320 E.Douglas, Wichita,Kas FAVORITE MEAT MARKET, W.H.Kelchner,Prop. 131 N. Main, 'Phone 294 T.W.Gill, UNDERTAKER & EMBALMER Office open day and night. Office 327 E.Douglas Phone 182 Residence 241 N Emporia Phone 250 SANTA FE RESTAURANT. Meals Ike at all hours. Week board $2.50. Calvin Quinn, Prop. 702 East Donglas Ave. Banner Meat Market 504 East Douglas Ave. Is the place to buy your Frosh,Salt & Smoked Meats. The Best always on hand. Joe Dawson,Proprietor. 306 East Douglas. 'Phore 98. B.F.McLean, Lumber Dealer Wichita,Kansas. Yards at Wichita,Kas.,Clearwater,Kas.,Peck Kas.,Cheney,Kas, Choiee Candies, Pure, Sweet and cheap. Fresh Every Day. Wholesale prices to Sunday school children. Come and see me before buying. Hagin Candy Bazar. 152 N.Main. Peerless when in need of a good Shave, or Hair Cut. 344 North Main street Tailor Made Suits, Pants, Coats and Vests of J.A.Robinson, 807 N. Wichita street. He is the only Colord man in the city who can furnish you in High Grade, Tailor Made Clothing. Give him your next order. Remember the name. J.A.Robinson, 807 N. Wichita st.