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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT BRASCO ON LEAVENWORTH'S BURNING. Continued From Last Week. Now I want to ask a question. What shall we do to eradicate this obvious habit of burning human beings? To the Colored leader of Kansas I now say that if there ever was a time that you need to call a mass meeting of the intelligent Afro-American leaders from all over the state, it is now, now is the time that every man should lift up his arms against this high-handed and dangerous crime, which is more than barberism in its worse form. You have no need to look at the truth any longer, but look at home and while you protest in a voice against the treatment the colored in the South, rivit eyes on things that occur at our home and while as individ- we can do nothing, yet as a stated mass we can accomplish itself. I am not speaking to ferret any insurrection, but I say that we preachers, teachers, law- doctors and all law- abiding citizens of the Afro-American race must meet in one general mass meeting all over the state of Kan- and make inquiries of all of our executive heads of each state and territory and if need be, to the president and Congress at Washington. If there exists no law that manders our protection until we have fair trial, let us see that law of our land says that all citizens of the United States should be a fair trial by jury and shall considered innocent until pro- guilty. Of late a set of men, more than demons, catch a man on the faintest evidene—if he Negro—bind him to the stake chains, saturate his clothing oil, pile their fagots around him and a man calling himself a citizen comes up and applies the torch as though he was turning a bundle of sticks. Oh, man! A burning shame! I offer it is remed for this prevailing epidemic, an anihilation of these false creeds and tormulas and disguises that allow a white man to trans- his features into the likeness colored man. I know of what I have beed proven that a man will disguise himself as a man, commit his heinous crime, make a disclosure of his false usage, turn around the corner and kill off his mask and join in the case after some poor innocent New- who perceiving that he is be-gered by a mob and know- the awful result if caught trysthis escape; then men who are prone to protect the lives of hman men, arrests men until one is used to resemble that disguise; he carried off to jail and with rhe consent of the man who has he is taen therefrom and bnned, hung or shot to death for no other "crime" than being black. In the cass of Alexander, the young lady herself says that she did say that Alexander was the identical man, and whoever say that she did makes an erroneous statement. She only said that he looked like the man, which could be easily accounted for. Thyre is any quantity of low-bred white men who study how to commit crimes and faeten the punishment upon some innocent party. I say let us meet in a general mass meeting from all over the state of Kansas and, if need be, the United States, and consider this duestion calmly, deliberately, and intelligently, and see it we can secure protection for our lives. Yours For Law, Order and Justice—W. L. Brasco. Pastor of Second Baptist Church of Burlington and Wellington. AS TO MRS. NATION Mr. Editor:— Please allow us space in your paper to present the views of the colored people of this community about Mrs. Nation and her wild career of property wrecking. The only thing that presents itself to our consideration is this—viz., Is the wilful distruction of property a crime or is it not? If a poor colored boy should steal a loaf of bread to releave his hunger, all the machinery of the law would be started at once to see that he punished for the heinous crime, but here is a woman who apparently lays aside all the conservative modesty that usually belong to her sex, openly defies the laws of the great state of Kansas, and destroys at her own sweet will the property of others, an yet they tell us that there is no law to reach her. Allow us to ask. Does the law allow me or any other person to commit a crime under the specious plea that I am trying to prevent a crime? Mrs. Nation calls her band: "The Home Protectors." Don't you think it would be wise for her to go home, if she has one, and try to protect it against disorder? I see by the press reports that she is tryin to enlist the colored people of Topeka in her lawlessness. Now colored men and women, beware; think for a moment. We are not in any way interested in this fight between fanaticism and law. We have ever been beseeched to espouse every crankism that comes to hand, but in justice to ourselves or homes and families we can not afford to help in any acts against the law. Respectfully, —J. H. Phelps. WICHITA, KANSAS, FEB. 9, 1901. THE NEGRO'S SIDE Dear Sir:—Just now there are a number of amateur writers on the race question seeking notoriety. The fact of the matter is, they are making conditions much worse for us by heaping opprobium upon the caucasian race and saying nothing against the indifference and negligence found in the ranks of the Ethiopians. Now the Negro has a side to this question; therefore let us not adopt these sinecure writers, for if we do it would not be long before bedlam would reign with chaos as its body guard. What we want is more pure and wholesome advice given to the young Negro and less of this harum scarum stuff that only tends to excite to anger, destroy his manhood, and make him a grumbler, growler and fault-finder which makes one contemptible and never to be loved. As I see it, this is what the young Negro needs First, to be told what the world requires of him; second, to be told what his possibilities are after ful filling the requirements; Third, the result of patient and economiliving. Dr. T. J. Morgan recently said: "The United States Government emancipated the slaves, enlisted them into its armies, conferred citizenship upon them, threw about them some protective legislation and made partial provision through the Freedman's Bureau for his education." Admitting that the national government has not done as much as it could have done; but on the other hand has the Negro taken advantage of all the opportunities given him by the government? Is it not a lamentable fact that nearly three-fifths of the young Negroes are idlers, "rounders" and street politicians? The other two-fifths, some of them become discouraged by this host of easy going and never-to-do-well crowd, stop school with the idea, "Oh its no use for a "Nigger" to get an education" and he verily cuts off himself from the advantages given him by the general government. Who is to be blamed for his ignorance? Who is to be blamed if he it not appointed as a clerk or given a commission of some kind? Who would want such a fellow as a partner in business? Why, he would bankrupt a Gould or a Rockefeller if given an opportunity. Not until the Negro uses the opportunity he has, will more be given him. He must prove himself worthy of those he already has. The other portion remaining, struggles on and masters some sort of an education and becomes the representatives of their race. They do not listen to the "no use" of the common hard, but march sreadily on with head erect and hope aglow believing "He can conquor, who thinks he can." This class are not the murmerers, grumblers or fault finders' but are workers, toiling night and day for the advancement of themselves and their race. Seeking to know something, to do something, and to have something. The Negroe's Possibilities. With the opening of the 20th century come glowing possibilities for the Negro to stamp indellibly his name upon the rock of time and prov to the world his ability to think to act, and to discriminate between moral and immoral characters. The field of literature and art, the many professions and the mercantile world, all stand with a beckoning hand inviting the young Negro to enter. Will he do it? Let us have more Paul Lawrence Dunbars and Chas. B. Johnsons who is recently the author of "Wind Whisperings." Mr Johnson is only about 19 years old and this is much to his credit. Let us have more doctors such as Taylor, of Topeka, Thompson, of Kansas City Mo; lawyers, as Ellis and Bruce, of Lawrence, Kan. Let us have more clergymen such as Grant, Wilson, Faiafax and Skinner. Let us have more college presidents as Scruggs. Jackson and Page. Now all of these with two exceptions are comparatively young Negroes who have proven what is possible for the race. Will you go up? They bid you come. The Need of Patience and Economical Living. As a rule the Negro is very impatient; he does not like to wait for development, and this is one thing that impedes his progress. What we as a race need is that precious gem, "patience." Patient in the developing of our intellectual powers; patient in our business; patien with one another and pa patient with ourselves. The hope of the Negro would be more bril liant if he was more economical in his manner of living. Too much of his money is spent in riotons living, fine clothing and his stomach. Very many young Negrocs get a taste of social life before they are prepared to digest it, and it usually digests them. We must save our money and if we do not desire to enter into any of the professions buy land and become producers. Live independently under our own vine and fig tree. This can never be done unless the young Negro will save his money. Accumulate wealth and do good. Then it shall be said: "The race that on the highwaay of history, robbed and half dead, welting in his own blood and passed by Levite and Priest, has sprung up out of the dust and and Ethiopia in America has stretched forth her hand unto God. What has God wrought? This is the Lord's doings and it is marvelous in our eyes." -Matt, S. Jones. D MUSIC AND TERARY. SS-VALEN TAINM GRAND MUSICAL AND LITERARY. GRAND MUSICAL AND LITERARY. AT PEERLESS HALL, frederic Doug festival will be Hall, Thursday the auspices pub. An excellent pre pared for LCAL and IN MUSIC of high A grand Frederick St. Valentine fest at Peerless Hall, 190l, under the Douglass Club. Gram is being pre-casion. VOCAL MENTAL MUSIC PROCESS 1 Oration "Life of Frederick" 2 Instrumental Solo. 3 Solo, "My Love is Like a Reed" 4 Reading, 5 Solo, 6 Funnyisms, 7 Bass Solo, "The Sentinel" 8 Paper, "Douglass, a Race" 9 Cornet Solo, 10 Comic, 11 Poem, 12 Solo, 13 Reading, 14 Oration, 15 Solo, St Valentine ONE of THE MOST AMUSING There'll be a letter EVERY BODY COME Fix Up Your The E. H. Sells on 25 Cents Lace Curtains, Bed Spreads, Ch Clothes Wringers, Study Cove Rugs, Family and Our Number: A grand Frederic Douglass and St. Valentine festival will be given at Peerless Hall, Thursday Feb.14 190l, under the auspices of the Douglass Club. An excellent program is being pre pared for the occasion. VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC of high order. PROGRAM. Frederic Douglass" Tha- miss, Blanche Like a Red, Red, Rose," Miss Mrs. Sentinel Asleep," S a Race Man," Mi Pro Brown Sam M R Mrs. He Sentinine Dostoff MUSING FEATURES of T be a letter for you, from— E Admiss Your House For Howard 5 Cents Weekly Paymen reads,Chenille and Tapest ly Covers, Rogers' Silvery family and Teacher e Bibles. 342 N 1 Oration "Life of Frederic Douglass" Thaddeus Summit 2 Instrumental Solo, Miss, Blanche Alexander. 3 Solo. "My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose," Miss Bessie Jones. 4 Reading, Jethro Peoples. 5 Solo, Mrs.S.E. Patton. 6 Funnyisms, W. E.Dean. 7 Bass Solo, "The Sentinel Asleep," S. O. Clayton. 8 Paper, "Douglass, a Race Man," Miss, Josie Jones. 9 Cornet Solo, Prof. B. A. Fisher. 10 Comic, Brown and Hickerson 11 Poem, Samuel Walkear. 12 Solo, John Edgerton. 13 Reading, Martin Vernon. 14 Oration, Richard Walker. 15 Solo, Mrs. Henrietta Harp er. St Valentine Dostoffice ONE of THE MOST AMUSING FEATURES of THE EVENING. There'll be a letter for you, from— EVERY BODY COME Admission, 10 Cents Fix Up Your House From The E. Howard Co. Sells on 25 Cents Weekly Payments., Lace Curtains, Bed Spreads, Chenille and Tapestry Portiers, Clothes Wringers, Study Covers, Rogers' Silverware, Clocks, Rugs, Family and Teacher e Bibles. Our Number: 342 N.Main St. WANTED The public to know that FIRST-CLASS BOARD and LODGING can be had at the Centropolis Hotel 605 North Main Street. JAS, H. HODGE, PROPRIETOR. --- FEB.14, WANTED VOL. 11. NO. 37 MUSICAL ND RARY. -VALENTINE AINMENT 1901. Eric Douglass and ival will be given Thursday Feb. 14 auspices of the An excellent pro- pared for the oc- and INSTRU- IC of high order. RAM. Douglass" Thaddeus Summit Miss, Blanche Alexander. Red, Rose," Miss Bessie Jones. Jethro Peoples. Mrs.S.E. Patton. W. E. Dean. S. O. Clayton. Miss, Josie Jones. Prof. B. A. Fisher. Brown and Hickerson Samuel Walkear. John Edgerton. Martin Vernon. Richard Walker Mrs. Henrietta Harp er. Dostoffice. FEATURES of THE EVENING. for you, from— Admission, 10 Cents House From Howard Co. Weekly Payments., mille and Tapestry Portiers. s, Rogers' Silverware, Clocks, Teacher e Bibles. 342 N.Main St. Crystal Steam Laundry, Long & Hite,Props. 114 S.Emporia Ave. Phone 270. 1901. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post-Office at Wichita Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday at No 239 North Main Street, up stairs RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: IN ADVANCE. On year, by mail. $1 66 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 every- where. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. LOST and SAVED Members of the 2nd. Baptist church gave second rendition of that splendid cantata "Lost and Saved" at Garfield hall, Thursday night. The play was under the management of Mr. James L. Harper and was played by some of the best talents in the city. The cast was grand in every way, and there was a hitch any where. The engagement Thursday night was the second and was played by special request. One of the specialties was a comical sketch by Henry Thompson who pleased his hearers with his wit. By request the invinstble and renowned comedian and ballad singer, W.E.Dean.came before the foot lights and after a few jokes, he sang 'Just because she made them goo goo eyes. ' Every one was well pleased and pronounced it good. To Stop Lynching. Senator Smith, of Edwards, introduced a bill in Senate Thursday, making lynching in Kansas a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment. If it becomes a law lynchings and burning at stake in this state will be few and far be tween in the future. It provides that any person who participates in a lynching shall, upon conviction, be punished by life imprisonment or by death. Abottors will receive upon conviction, from one to twenty years. A person concealing or attempting to conceal a member of a mob who has taken part in a lynching bee, same punishment. In case of lynching the county attorney to bring the guilty parties to justice or forfeit his office. If the sheriff let a mob get his prisoner he forfeits his office. Let every Colored man unite id asking for the passage of this bill. If you want to make enemies of some people,treat them like they are hnman.They cannot appreciate good treatment. Wichita should have one Colored man on the republican ticket at the spring election. That man is a contemptible creature, who never has a good word for any one,except about himself. There is no place in the 20th. century for grumbling,never do well, groundless fault finding fellow. He has truly outlived his usefullness. If some Colored men would find more time to try to have some—thing,to be somebody, elevate him self,and spend less time 'nosing' in other folk's business,far better his lot would be. That Negro "politician" (?), who imagines himself the 'whole show' is quite sadly misled. He is not the very smallest part of the 'show', has still less. Will some one kindly awake him from his dream? Don't forget that LUNCHES can be had at the CENTROLIS HOTEL on Sunday afternoon and night. The public is cordially invited. Jas.H.Hodge,Prop. J.C. Clay passed through the city Tuesday,oh his way from Denver, to his home ln Oklahoma. J C.Coffee while doing some work on a ladder at his home on last Monday,had quite narrow escape from being seriously hurt.The ladder slipped and he lost his balance and fell 12 feet and in falling struck his right wrist against a round of the ladder, quite severely injuring his wrist.He is improving IF you want help US,go to HAGIN'S Candy Store,429 East Douglas Ave.,to buy your CANDIES and FRUITS.Always the Best and Freshest.Mention this "ad". Mat Murry and Wm. Ericson, two young Colored boys,left Monday for San Francisco,from which place they will be sent to the Phil lippine Island to join the 24th. U. S Infantry. Rev.W.L.Brasco of Burlingson, was a pleasing visitor at our sanc tum last Saturday. Rev.J.H.Vanlue returned Saturday from Gaaden City,and left Monday for Topeka.' Palestine Commaunery will hold a meeiing Monday night. All the members are requested to meet. Mrs. Wm. Kelly left Monday for Colorado Spring on an extended visit to her sister, Mrs. S. E. Williams. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER EMBALMER. OFFICE PRINTS. RES. PHONE 885 213 M. MAIN ST. WICHITA KANS. Miss Sadie McQuarters, who has been very ill, is improving and is expected to be able to return to her home in Valley Center in a short time. Cardie Morrow is duite ill at her home on N. Wichita Street. A serries of prayer meetings are being held at the A. M. E. Church. RESTAURANT. Meals 150 at all hours. Week board $2.50. Calvin Quinn, Prop. 702 East Donglas Ave. A very pleasant surprise party was tendered Miss Susie Wilkins Friday evening, in honor of her birthday, at Mrs. M. Andrews. An elegant luncheon was served and all had a delightful time. Barnes & Newcomb Popular Music House. Pianos, Organs.Every thing known in music. Largest stock to select from and Lowest Prices. Latest Sheet Music and Books. For Firs -Class Furnished ROOMS GO TO Mrs V.Matthews If you fail to get your paper notify us once. -239 N Main st THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT,SATURDAY,FEBUARY,9th,1901 WILL BE IN ON THE 14th. "Samanthy, fer goodness sakes do open the door; Ive got somethin' to tell yer. Why, Josiah what on arth is the matter of yer? Yer a puffin an a blowin wus en a Santyfe swith injun. Do tell what has happened—an jist look at that ole nag jist we wet o' sweat. Josiah, what in the world?" "By doggies, wait a minnit Samanthy til git my breath an I'll tell yer. Here comes Jane, an Ill jist tell yer both.—But stop a second Josiah before you say another word. Tell me what has become o them whiskers? 'Jist what I wus go to tell yer. While wus in town to day I passed by Jackson' hotel I seed sich a crowd I thought Id stop in an see what the matter be, an when was a goin in the door a young feller run square into me an liked to knocked me off my pins and then yelled ont 'Take yere ole man I sho am goin' Goin whar sez i crazy? I went on in an thar wus Capt. Jones a readin the Searchlight all er bopt a big doings that goin to take place on the 14th at Peerless Hall. Samanthy, they'r goin to have a big Frederic Douglass an Valentine festival, an every body both young an ole is a goin. Well, I aint done no sprucin up since I went down to the worls fair at Chikigy, but blast my buttons if I aint er goin ter take that in, an I want you an Jane o straghten oucher calicoes an we'll drive in on the evening of the 14th an set a pace that theyll haf ter hustle to keep up with. Thats whats come of my whiskers. When I heerd Capt. Jones readin about the Douglass-Valentine festival an the post-office, I made up my mind right then and thar to go an wantin to look somethin like a spring chicken, I goes right out an drives aroun to Fisher's barber shop an had im to mow em off. Tell you what Samanthy, Im goin to strut like a thanks-givin turkey. While I wus gitin shaved, Fred Andrews, the peaner player poked his head in the door an asked Fisher if his music had come. Music fer what sez I? and Fish sed music fer the Douglass-Valentine festival. Law bless yer I didn't know they wus goin to have a program sez I, an when Jackson tole me that there wus goin to be a gran musical an literary, I liked to jumped outer the barber cheer I wus so glad, an as soon as I wus shaved I went right around to the Searchlight office an got me a paper so's you an Jane could see the program, an here it is. The first thing on program is an oration on the life of douglass, by Thaddeus Summit. He is one of the smartest young men in the city an the only coled graduate from the Wicita high school. Bet his paper will be mighty instrin, an then thars an instrumental solo by Miss Blanche Alexander. You know litte Blanchy Samanthy, canse she wus raised raised right thar in Wichita an a mighty fine girl she is too. She's goin to graduate this Spring an she will be the first colored young lady to graduate in Wichita Law, but she does play a peaner! Look here Samanthy a solo by Miss Bessie Jones. Capt. Jones, sister. She will sing something about love, as a red rose. Now if I wus as young as I use to be, Id have er to pin that rose on me er thard be no candy an peanuts left in town. Id put the white cap on them city chaps. After Miss Bessie sings, Jethro Peoples will deliver another oration on Donglass. I tell yer Samanthy thars a comin man. Hes a goin to be a great inventor. Hes already got an invention on a wire-stretcher an its goin to be money to im someday. The next thing on program is a solo by Mrs. S. E. Patton. Now talk er bout cheer singers! Thars one o best wimin singers I ever heed in my life. Why, Samanthy, she oughter be makin a fortune with her voice. Tell yer what, if you er Jane could sing like Sandy Pattons wife Id sell out and start traveling with yer tomorer. Funnyisms by W, E. Dean. Law, I jist bet he can make a horse laugh. Tell yer Jane yer better wear yer garments kinder loose fer Mr. Dean is funny fer true. A Bass solo by S. O. Clayton. I dont see how in the life of me that feller sings so in his stomik but I heerd J, T. Chinneth say he knowed im an he always did that way. Oh Trade with our advertisers. Ladies New Medical Guide Rock-Island Book Exchange. MURPHY & New M Is the place to buy all kinds of Organs,and Sewing Machine 507 East Douglas Ave. MURPHY & GOFORTH'S New Music Store 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. This Is Our Kansas Brilliant Coal It is tinted with rosin, visible and invisible. No, there is no soot to stick to your stove lids, and it is the coal in the market. You get moro heat from it than from most ordinary coals, and it does not cost you any more than the cheapest coal. Where is it mined? At Pittsburg, Kansas, from 108 ft. sha ft. No, it does not make any clinkers, will coke and all burn up clean. You will find this coal at Hacker Coal Co: 414 N.Main St. Phone 108. J.P.Massey, SHOE-N Second Hand Shoes Bought at 337 North Main st. ..... Second Hand Shoes Bought & Sold. General Repairing. 339 North Main st....... Wichita, Kansas. H.C.Kendrick WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight Only $1.00 per year. 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. SAMPLE shoes, at Wholesale prizes. Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw yes, an here is a note little Frank Buford ent Jane; wants her company fer that evenin. An here is a paper by Miss Josie Jones an if thars any thing I like, it is to see a lady like Miss Josie git up an press her pinnion, an to tell the truth she is one o the most pleasant ladies ever meet. A cornet duet by Professers Fisher and Bostwick Taint no use to say any thing more bout Fisher an Bostwick cause they sho is dan dies. Comic, by Brown and Hickerson. Thems the comicalist chaps I ever seen an you sho will enjoy em. Here is a recitation by Martin Vernon an Samanthy hes one born acter on the stage. You know you like to heer John Edgerton sing, an hes on fer a solo. John is sho a sweet singer. The Walker boys is on program too. Sammy is going to have a poem on Douglass, an his brother Richard an oration. Mrs. Henrietta Harper, the queen of melody an reigning princess of elocution will close the program with one of her choice selections. Mrs. Harper is an artist in her line an can snap her finger at the best of em. Now put this paper away Samanthy so we can show it to Deacon Jones an his family, fer they will want ter know all er bout it. Well I must go an feed an come back an eat supper an go ter bed. I must be good an rested whenit comes off. Got to write me some letters fer that post office too. --- A SHOE GOFORTH'S Music Store Of String Instruments, Pianos, s. Lowest prices in the city. Wichita, Kansas. A MAKER, & Sold. General Repairing. ..... Wichita, Kansas. S. W. Cor. Doug. & Lawrence w Prices. — Professional. Dr. Claude G. Baker, DENTALPALLORS. Up-Stairs Next to Eagle Office. Dr E.Harrison, Physician and Surgeon 138 North Main st. Wichita.....Kansas B.F.McLean. Wichita, Kansas. Yards at Wichita, Kas., Clearwater, Kas., Peck Kas., Cheney, Kas, James Burnett left Saturday morning for Hot Springs, Ark. where he is to be treated for a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. C.J. Williams has returned from Wich ita. Albert Hayter and Honry Marshall were in the city Monday night. Harvey Washington was the guest of Mrs J. Williams Sunday. PITTSBURG, KAN Claude Clark was up from Joplin Thursday Jeff lsiaac is on the ssck list Miss Joana Allen came down from Ft. Scott Friday, returning Sunday. Messers Neil Pierce and Lee Payne trans acted business in Yale Faiday night, O'BRIEN — PEACE. Henry Peace being tired living alone was married to Miss Mabel O'Brien las Sunday night at the home of the bride.The wedding was private, no stangers present. HUNTER—GRAY. Mr, Gray of Fleming and Miss Ella Hunter formerly of Fleming,but now of Pitts burg,were married by Rev.Henry Goodwin Thursday night. Cherryvalle, Kas. Mrs. Will Alstock is contemplating a trip to Wellingeon. A candy pullin at Jack Robinson's Thurs. Little Jake McBurgis quite sick. BORN-To Mr. and Mrs. Young,o baby boy. Mrs, M.E. Banks, Royal Matron. Miss Lizzie M. Burnham, Secy Meets 1st, and 3rd. Wednesday each month. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, J.L.Harper, D.G.M, Wichita W.M.Jackson, D D G M, Topkite S.P.Johnson, D G S, Emporia M W.Jackson, D G D, Kans City --- 520 E. Douglas. Lodge' Directory Knights of Pythias. Toas Lodge No.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA KAN 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. A. S. ERIA COURT No.7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs. J. H. Phelps, W. C. Miss Blencq Alexander, K. of D. Mrs. Ida Martin, W. of R. of D. Mects 1st. and 3rd. Monday each month. Masonic Lodges. ARKANSAS VALLEY Lodge 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 and Cordially Invited. PALESTINE COMMANDEEY No.12. No.12. Wichita Kansas J.T.Chinneth, Eminent Commande J.A.Roberson, Generalissimo. Phil Hyde, Captain General Joseph Fine Secretary. Sylvester Anderson, Treas Meets the 2nd Monday night each month MT.ZION CHAPTER No.17. W.H.A.Clark. Ben Wilson, Scribe. J.T. Chinneth,Secretary Grant Ewing,Treas. Meets the 4th Monday night each month PRINCESS CHAPTER 0.12 O.of E.S. 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 No.2906. G.U.O.O.F. J.L.Harper,N.G. Eddie Thomas,V. J.A.Matlin,P.S. Meets every Tuesday night. HOUSEHOLD RUTH No.612. Mrs.Harriet Harper,M.N.G. J.L.Harper,W.R. Mrs.Mary Greggs,M.W.Treas. Where to go Sunday. At the A. M. E. church, 521 N. Water st Preaching at 11 a.m., Sabbath school at 3 p.m. Song service 6:40 p.m., Preaching 7:40 p.m. Rev. Dr. A.C.Terrill will preach both mooning and evening. At the 2nd Baptist church, N.Wichita, st Preaching at 11 a.m., Sabbath school at 3 p.m. Preaching at 7.30 p.m Rev. Dr. M.L.Copeland will preach both mooning 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 morning and evening At the New Hope Baptist church. North Mead Preaching 11 a.m, Sabbath school at 3 p.m. Preaching 7.30 p.m Rev H F Frazier will preach both morning and evening Searchlight only $1. a year. AIGENENT IN TOPEKA, fist Fights Numerous---Keepers of Smashed Saloon Arrested, wATION ARRESTED 3 TIMES, ‘fopeka, Feb. 7—Mrs. Nation, with tno Topeka women, smashed the finest ‘loon in the city at about 5 o'clock a, 2 They surprised the armed negro urd, He attracted the police by fring his pistol. ‘The police came just js the women had finished their work. Mrs Nation was arrested, first for dis- turbing the peace; next for destroying property, and then by the sheriff, on {ate warrant for malicious destruction of property. The proprietors of the smashed sa- joon quickly had a new stock of liquors and four bar tenders serving the throng. A man at the door was crying “§ souvenir with every drink.” The souvenirs were broken glass, and many “<j them sold for 5 cents each, While the crowd of customers was tsrgest several deputy sheriffs appear- ej and arrested all who were selling firinks, and the guards, taking along all the wet goods in the place. Nothing else was talked of on the streets, or any where in the city, inelu- ding the legislativehalls, In the house of representatives a bill wasintroduced providing that no person destroying saloon property shall be arrested or eld responsible. Mrs Nation is greatly pleased over being arrested and stoutly demands trial every time, saying that she is ready to plead guilty. Chief of police Stahl says he does not care ifevery joint in Topeka is smash- ed, but it is his duty to arrest people who make disturbances. If joint smashing is a crime, Mrs, Nation will de proseented on that charge; then a ease can be taken to a higher court. ‘The people here are rapidly taking sides; many who have been conserva- tive now come out boldly on Mrs. Nation's side, and there will be some- thing done. People are lining them- selves up on opposite sides and developments are expected. There is prospect of violence, Special corre- ‘spondents are here from many e!ties. ‘Milltio 1f Required. Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 8.—At the re- quest of Governor Nash the state emer- gency board authorized him to ineur any expense necessary to prevent the proposed JJeffries-Ruhlin fight im. Cin- cinnati, February 15. The request was granted by unanimous vote of the finance committee, the chairmen of the twohouses of the general assembly, the state auditor and the governor. ‘This movement leaves no question about his intention to use the militia ifthe law fails to prevent the fight. Select » Kansas Man. Washington, Feb. &—At a eaneus re- cently held by the members of the de- partment of the Potomae, @. A. R., it was decided to elect Israel W. Stone, commander of the department for the cusuing year. Mr. Stone was a former resident of Lawrence, Kansas, and is At present one of the chief statisticiens of the agricultural department. He is ow the junior vice commander of the department and will jump his senior. Rests ike Osage City, Kas., Feb. 8.—The mem- bers of the colored Baptist church are ut war and as a result a partly finished church is in rains, Some time ago ‘one of the members left the church tnd immediately started to build an- sher worshiping place. ‘This did not suit the other members, amd they went there in full force with their axes and latchets and demolished the building. Appreciate American Sympathy. London, Feb, 5.—The king and queen, in a special audience. granted Ambassador Choate and secretary of the embassy White, after the eonelu- tion of the funeral serviees at Winsor, expressed themselves. as. profoundly touched by the manifestations of sym- Pithy in America, In the course of ‘ouversations had by Mr, White with other members of the royal family, all ve expression of similar sentiments. inakdsaes ee Topeka, Feb. 8—Chiet Stahl said: “The jointists violated their word of honor given me to close. All of those ‘who were approached promised. faith- filly todoso Only two places were closed. During the day I sent men to vestigate the different places. to see ‘they were running. At every place, ‘sre those mentioned they were selling. Tmade up my mind that I would keep them so busy coming to the station and firing bond that they eould give only “Portion of their time to. their busi- “ss. ‘They did not keep their word to Re oF to Sheriff Cook, King Gots Bulk of Furtane, Tondon, Feb, 7.—The latest rumor Tearding Queen Victoria's will is that " bequeaths £140,000 each to the Duke @ Connaught, Prince’ Christian, Prin- 68 Louise and Princess Beatrice, and cludes liberal legacies for the Duch- “sof Albany and a number of the fete grandchildren. ‘The bulk of te risate fortune, however, goes. to Kog taward, and both Balmoral and Ssborne House are given to the king. Teo small. houses on. the, Osbot ‘tate are given to Princess Beateice. NOMINATES GENERALS. ‘The President Sends « List to The Senate For Confirmation. — ee Washington, Feb. 6.—The president has sent the following nominations to the senate: Army: To be lieutenant general, Ma- jor General Nelson A. Miles; to be major generals, Brigadier General Samuel B. M. Young, U. S. A., Colonel Adna R. Chaffee, Eighth cavalry, U. S. A. (major general U.S. V.,) Brigadier General Arthur MacArthur, U. 8. A. (major general U. 8. V.;) colonels to be brigadier generals, John C. Bates, Second infantry, Colonel Lioya Whea- ton, Seventh infantry, George W. Davis, Twenty-third infantry, ‘Theo- dore Schwan, assistant adjutant gen- eral U.S. A. (brigadier general U. S. V.,) Samuel S, Sumner, Sixth cavalry, U.S. A., Leonard Wood, assistant sur- geon, U. S A., (major general U. 8. V.,) Robert M, all, Fourth infantry, U. 8. A. (brigadier general U. S. V.,) Robert P. Hughes, inspector general U, S.A. (brigadier general U. 8, V-,) George M. Randall, Eighth infantry, U. 8. A. (brigadier general U. S. V.;) also Major William A, Kobbe, Third artillery, U. S. A. (brigadier general U.S. V.,) Brigadier General Frederick D. Grant, U. 8. V., Captain J. Franklin Bell, Seventh cavalry, U. 8. A. (briga- Gier general U. 8. V.) THE FUNERAL OF VICTORIA. A Grand Spectacle Marred by Numerous ; Personal Injaries. London, Feb. 5—All business ceased during the funeral parade; even the drinking houses closed their doors during the day. The newspapers sus- pended publication and life in London, like the rest of the empire turned from its customary channels and was focused on three milesof West End streets. ‘The kings and pr:aces, beneath sil- ver hemlets and wearing gold braided coats, were men, but the sight seen of the king riding after the coffin of his ‘mother and queen, with four other | kings and half a hundred of the high- ‘est royalties of European dynasties saloon, and the hereditary quaint attaches of court, was one never to be forgotten, The eight cream colored horses at. tached to the gun carriage which: bore the coffin became intractable and they were unhitched, the jackies from Portsmouth taking their places in drawing the gun carriage. ‘The hospitals cared for 1,300 persons, who wére injured in the crowd. Of this number, however, only 60 were seriously hurt, including several policemen and soldiers and a number of women suffering from broken limbs. One woman fell dead in the street. ‘There were 35,000 of the naval and military forees in the line. ‘The day was wet and gloomy, a heavy rain was falling when the. yachts left the vessel to accompany the remains of the queer | past the war vessels. Important Arrests In Manis. Manila, Feb. 8—Theodora Carranza, a wealthy Spanish merchant and hemp and cocoanut. buyer, was arrested charged with furnishing supplies to aid the insurgents. Carranza is also partner of M. Carman, an American, contractor and owner of boats, whe had considerable transportation con: traets with the government. Both the insurgent presidents who claim tohave dealt with Carranza and Carman, are now, imprisoned in Manila. One of them, Fabella, fears hanging because he was captured as an insurgent after having sworn allegiance to the United States. Carman is one of the best known Americans in Manila. General Otis has confidence in Carman. Other Ma- nila merchants are being investigated. ‘(at bie oes Ue eee ‘Topeka Feb, 8.—The house and sen- ate committees. on taxation have ap pointed. a subcommittee to draft some tax laws that are absolutely necessary for the interests of.the state, and they will be pushed through. ‘The question of selecting a commission to revise the laws and report to the next legislature is still unsettled. Many of the leaders, including Speaker Barker, are in favor of it, but the proposition will have to be fought out op the floor of the two houses. Must Lose Their Heads. Pekin, Feb. 8.—The ministers. defin- itely decided at a third meeting, to de- mand the imposition of the death penalty upon all twelve of the.Chinese officials named in the list submitted, imelnding those who are dead, on ac- eount of the moral effect upon the Chinese. ‘The sentence on the living. must be inflicted except in the cases of Prince Tuan and Duke Lan, which the emper- or may commit to banishment to Turk- estan. ¢ ‘ecisinieanenaie-tmieiiaaiiial Saibaba Emporia, Feb. 7.—Dr. Miller states that the last bill of the College of Em- poria has been paid and the mortgage eancelled. ‘This institution never had a brighter future,” Dr. Miller said. Mr. Carnegie writes that the money 1s ready for the library. The corner stone will probably be laid at the opening of the next school year, Dr. Miller has received a letter about 2 large donation to the school and that it would not be two years until, the money would be in their hands. ‘THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT,SATURDAY, FEBUARY, 9th 1901 rE | Dishita « B Trade at Ft Clothin g,Hats y For Men 2 ; | Largest stock, Best selectio: —_ 4 Gre ee | SEASONABLE GOODS,, nee) ot BO | cececsesecsescnee «Wichita’s Gre Me Ese TEAM Ne Surgical & Medical TREATMENT IN ALL Lungs, Nervous, Chronic, and Private Diseases; also. diseases of the EYE,EAR,NOSE, THROAT. Prices Reasonable, All Task is a treaiment. Office 138 N.Main St, [age aye ge angen j ' For Reliable Rates | | And Quickest Time | | Patronize The i | \ | ia f ‘Through reclining chair cars and latest improved Pullman coaches WITHOUT CHARGE oa all Frisco trains between WICHITA | AND ST.LOUIS. FRISCO LINE. | ‘Trains leave Wichita at 1.20 and 10. | 45 p.m,,atrive at Wichita 3.25 p.m. and 6.35 a,m.See that your ticket reads via,the Frisco Line — it will save you money and time. Should you desire any “information as to rates,time,routes. maps.ete.,call or write any Frisco Line agent or the undersigned, It is a great pleasure | for us to answer questions. { CITY TICKET OFFICE Cor.Main and Douglas. | B.F.DUNN, BRYAN SNYDER, Dist.Pass.Ag’t. Gen.Pass.Ag't, | = Wichita,Kan, St. Louis, Mo. | Peerless Steam Laundry. 155-159 N.Market St. "Phone 23g eee; Office on First Street. WN Miller, Attorney at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC Practices inall the Courts of Kansas.and Missouri. No.239 N.Main street. Wichita... ..... 2. Kane, Nida eens Bane PONY EXPRESS ‘W.A.MecComb,Prop. Baggage and Light Transfer Work Promptly and Cheaply Done. Packages Delivered 10 cts. Phone 276. Office 311 N.Main St Independence. REMEMBER THE BIG. Douglas - Valen. Celebration at Peerless Hall Thursday night Feb.14th. 190). Admission 10 cts DOishita . Business - Directory i ; Trade at FULTON’s-It pays. Clothin g, Hats&Furnishing Goods For Men,BoysandChildren. Largest stock, Best selections,Latest styles, Finest assortments, Greatest Values. SEASONABLE GOODS,AT OUT OF SEASON PRICES. Hetcsseesseseeee «Wichita’s Greatest Clothing Store. seneeeresensessgagen one For cheap Hardware, Stoves,Sewing Machines, Guns and amrau— nition go to— The Wichita Hardware Co., 293 E.Douglas, = F.M.Jaques & Co., Special Prices made on Furniture, Stoves,Carpets,andMatting é-> see> Either cash or easy payments, Gall in whether you buy or not.we take pleasure in shor: ing goods and giving you prices. F.MJaques & Co., 243 N.Main St. SS SS SS When in need of Groceriez do not forget that you can always get the Best at the| The eerless Tailors Lowest prices at nnd Furnishers KERNAN ‘S | wilt cell you Suite, Overcoate, ai 1102 E Douglass Ave. ’Phone 357 | Trousers at 15 per cent lees th OLD SCHOOL DAY. Get up my boy tis getting late, The Snn is shinning bright. Prepare yourself for school to-day, ‘Then sleep some more to-night. 1 shall mama,the answer came, ‘Then after breakfast yea With school books will 1 scamper off As happy as can be, "Cause I just love to go mama, My playmates are'so good. We love each other dearly, Just as know we showld. ‘Then onthe ground we romp and play Ron up and down the hill ‘Throw pebbles in the little brook, ‘Thai runs the good old mill, Till ding-dong the bell does ring, And then we ail march in. After we have morning prayer, Our studies do begin: With books and slates 1né earnest wark We learn to read and write, And once a week « Bible verse, By heart we must recite. ‘Then more and more we learn cach day. Our teacher often said, ‘A smarter class in ochool than we, He hever yet has led. He also said in futare Jife, ‘Pho’ time may ohange the ways, Some time we may ail rejoice ‘Those long by-gone school days. By Sterling Brown, LYNCHINGS IN 1900 THE SOUTH IS FARIN THI LEAD. ‘The Chicago Tribune’s record ot the lynchings in the United States for the past year (1900) is as follows “ The lynchings reported in 1899 were only 107,being smaller than in 1885,but in 1900 they show an increase in numbe. Judge synch executed 115 during the year. The following tableshowing the num bor of lynchings fora series of years should be of interest to those en gaged in this onteresting question. eer crna erie MEBs cconsescsansVenainspafvicza tie UAE TEED cored paukes oh picteciue eae TEDL ep isapsbrctitsoosg luis sags eae BO se: tsetastenseggevvaante( 181 TONG scccctiviscrcocsqseeitoreaniai alee The eerless Tailors nnd Furnishers ha sell you Suits, Overeoate, and Trousers at 15 per cent lees than on regular price Furuishing goods 20 per cent less. A GOODselection and nobby styles to select from. The PEERLESS TAILOR & FURNISHER 508 E Douglass Ave-,, ’Phone 511i | Are you a Sub scriber to the Searchlight? "For a Good,First-Giass Suave GO TO Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cut& Shampoos. 6384 E. Douglass Ave., Burl Fisher.Prop. IMI ooo sais scases isc, esensace-sdsees UR DD a ccvsncecsiscsnciepeven. <iceessensy AEB Lhe lynchings in the various states and territories were: CM MIMMMbas xs soccactssinssccsns -ovssusan’ © TE DRBABScscssicssetsee, os .se sas seeons 6 WOM csen cciecssensckeorsacsesicconi 8 Gedtelp Gracie ren Ie DR ass ss nssonescsscsnisossonesatsee Beane 6iscdacccsvissieaceeid Lousiana .......:0.ccccceeeeseeeere 20 Maryland .....-..0... ceseceeseseeeeee 1 Mississippi. ..ccc.ssessecsssssese 20 MAMIE ccnsiarserscescaissinise corer Z: North Carolina. .. ...........000 2 South Carolina .........0+.cscssceseee 2) Tommensee........ ..-0-----00ee eseresee 7 Witginlincccccenigunannecaa 6 Wants Virgaiag ooaiisahucen a “Of these lynchings 107 occured in the Sonth and 8 in the North. Of the total number 107 were Ne groes and 8 were whites. The alleg ed.crimes for which they were lynch ed were as follows:Murder,36; rape, 18:attempted rape,13;race prejudice 10;assaulting whites,6; burglary, 4: threats to kill,5;information.2; rob bery,2;suspicion murder,2; complie ity in murder,2; unknown offences, 2;suspicion of robbery, 1;no offense, {jarson,2; suspicion arson, 1; aiding escape of murderer,l.” ‘The above table shows that nearly one half of the lynchings of the last year took place in three statee namely. Lousi ana,20; Micsissi ppi,20;Georgia,16; to tal,56, Where will it ond? ‘The Sunday schoo! furnishes the one indispensable element of a complete life, and this never leaves the men.— Rev. A. Bilkovaky, Universalist, Balti- Missourr Paciric Rariway. 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A new bridge is about to be built across the Bophorus, bearing the name of the sultan, Abdul Hamid. It will be constructed of granite and metal by the Bophorus Railway company, which designs a junction between the railways of Europe and the transaslatic railway of Bagdad, now being built by the Germans. The narrowest dividing line of sea has been chosen for the point of construction. DON'T GET WET! TOWER'S FISH BRAND Oiled Clothing BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUSTITUTE. FREE CATALOGUE, SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS, A.J. TOWER CO. BOSTON. MASS. The paper upon which bank-notes and bonds are printed is all made at Dalton, Mass., and its manufacture is one of the greatest secrets connected with the government system of money making. Each sheet is as carefully watched from the time it first assumes shape until deposited in the vaults of the treasury department at Washington, as though it were gold.—Golden Hours. Dog Meat Not Served. Indians living on the eastern end of the Keshena reservation, near Oconto, Wis., recently held their annual "dog feast." In old days dog were fattened specially for these feasts, roasted and eaten with relish, but in these times of degenerate civilization the braves are content to eat turkey, chicken, goose and other delicacies, all of which were plentiful at the Keshena feast. Turquoise mining in New Mexico is of very remote origin. 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"La Creolè Will Restore those Gray Hairs "La Creole Hair Restorer is a Perfect Dressing and Restorer Price $1.00 State Want New Constitutions Alabama and Virginia will both try for new state constitutions during 1901. The people think that some features of their early organization laws should be eliminated or modified. Congratulations from Many Lands Professor Cornellis Tiele of Leyden university, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the other day, received congratulations from all parts of the world, especially from England, where he is known by his Glifford lectures in Edinburgh. The universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin and other learned societies have sent addresses, and Edinburgh university has made him a doctor of law honoris causa. The man who lives for himself alone is apt to be neglected by the world at large. Chronic Sore Lez. Mr. J. Richardson had a running tore on his leg for twenty years. Tried doctors and medicines without end or any permanent good. Mr. L. 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February opened with 1,100 students enrolled at Kansas university, with more expected. Students at Ottawa university placed a half dozen quarantine flags on the building, for a lark. It seems unlikely that the legislature will repeal the law providing for a new insane asylum. Winfield Freeman, of Wyandotte county, is being pushed for appointment as consul at Dublin. The clerks of the district courts of the state met in Topeka last week. They have "salary" complaint. Geen H. Tucker, of Eureka, respond-to the toast of honor, "Kansas," at the Kansas Day banquet in Topeka. Mark K. Dowell, a deaf mute, was knocked from a westbound track, inside of Wichita, and seriously injured. The Santa Fe has added a tinware department to its Topeka shops and will manufacture its own tinware. The snow of February 1st and 2nd was quite general over Kansas, and is considered valuable for the wheat. The officers of the Kansas National Guard are asking the legislature for $15,000 for an encampment in 1902. The young men of a Saline county neighborhood got together and drove the lightning rod sharps out of the county Three hundred miners went out on a strike at Leavenworth because of the presence of thirty non-union men in the shaft. On the last four days of February the twenty-third annual session of the Kansas grand lodge of the A. O. U. W. will meet in Leavenworth. While Mrs. Nation was in police quarters in Topeka, she received a telegram from Buffalo, N. Y., offering to pay her expenses if she would go there. A Hiawatha druggist was told that he must quit selling whisky or quit business. In ten minutes his door was locked and a sign put up offering his place and stock for sale. A new elevator in Wichita between the tracks of the Santa Fe and the Rock Island, is totally destroyed by fire. It had a capacity of 40,000 bushels of grain and it was nearly full. Three Hutchinson boys were senten't to the reform school for stealing chickens. There were two more boys in the gang according to their own story, who begged to be sent too. They were sent. Half a dozen people were injured in a salina barber shop by the explosion of a gasoline lamp. Rev. George Caldwell, a United Brethren minister, may die. People who were passing were blown into the street and cut by flying glass. Stockmen of Osborne county who have tried both say that they can raise more and better feed from sorghum than from alfalfa, acre for acre. A mattress factory in Wichita uses about 300 cords of cottonwood, each sea-on, from which excelsior is made. The factory has the latest machinery for this purpose. An oil tank wagon at Beloit caught fire near the Standard Oil depot. The team and wagon were destroyed and the driver was badly burned. The tank did not explode. The father of the negro Alexander, who was burned in Leavenworth, proposes to sue the city and county for damages. E. W. Thrall, of Eureka, is the owner of the largest herd of Galloway cattle in Kansas, and is also the newly elected president of the American Galloway breeders' association. Barnum B. Brown, formerly a collaborer for the natural history museum of Kansas university, goes to Africa on a collecting expedition for the American museum of New York. A business man of Horton laid down his overcoat in the Rock Island depot writing room in Topeka, to take a drink of water. When he turned around his coat was gone and the $850 bill which was in its pocket, with it. Representative Storms, of Stevens county, staid by his land there when everybody was leaving. He "managed to live someway" and picked up a cow taw and then—kept the calves and after awhile found himself one of the most substantial of the cattlemen of Western Kansas. The Rock Island has ordered 500 more new box cars. The Elks of Atchison propose to erect a $20,000 clubhouse. The pay of the legislature stops on February 27 this year. The senate refuses to bar lobbyists from the senate chamber. The state auditor collected fees in January amounting to $132.50. Company H, Twentieh Kansas, held a reunion in Lawrence, February 4. Mrs. Catherine Jacobs, a widow, was burned to death in her house in Pittsburg. The Kansas agricultural college dairy makes 1,500 pounds of butter a week. The Kansas Grain Dealers' association are to meet in Topeka on March 12-13. Winfield jointists have removed most of their costly furniture in anticipation of a raid. All the joints in Hiawatha are wrecked and the proprietors have skipped out. Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Ready, who have lived in Topeka 30 years, have been married 71 years. The board of managers of the Sons of the American Revolution met in Topeka on January 28. Bank Commissioner Mort Albaugh has appointed S. E. Crummer, of Belleville, one of his deputies. E. J. Eicholtz, a Hiawatha druggist, has destroyed his stock of liquors. His stock was quite valuable. The Santa Fe has added to the libraries provided for the reading rooms for employes along the line. A new Bank has been organized at Wathena to take the place of the bank which was wrecked by its cashier. L. M. Erb, of New York, visited Lawrence with a view of placing an electric street railway in that city. Mrs. Jessie Brown and her two children were drowned while fording the Verdigris river south of Coffeyville. C. W. Jewell, a retired banker of Topeka, who died recently, left $10,000 to the endowment fund of Washburn college. A Pullman car load of interested business men of Wichita will attend the Livestock meeting at Woodward, O. T. Leading ladies of Harper visited the saloons there and insisted that they be closed; to be followed by destructive acts. Mr. Huckle, of Osborne county, being handy, rigged an attachment to his windmill to work a crosscut saw at his woodpile. O. P. Updegraff, of Topeka, was one of those who could talk, and did talk at the National Live Stock association meeting at Salt Lake City. Lawrence has established a pest house on an island in the Kansas river. The two mild cases of varioloid of university students are about over. State Labor Commissioner Lee Johnson was re-elected by the Kansas State Labor society; also B. P. Scott was re-elected as assistant commissioner. After March 4 the following members of the Kansas delegation in Congress will each control an appointment to the naval academy at Annapolis: Representatives Chas. F. Scott, J. D. Bowersock, A. M. Jackson; W. A. Calderhead and W. A. Reeder. A Decatur county farm of 200 acres has been sold for $8,000. The buildings on the farm are worth no more than $300. The riddle is solved by the statement that more than a quarter section is seeded to alfalfa which produces more than $4,000 a year. A little daughter of O. H. Putney, of Summer county, caught her arm in a milk separator. After amputation blood poisoning resulted and she died. The Wichita consistency has sent an elaborate invitation to President Diaz of Mexico, who is a 33rd degree Mason, to attend their twentieth century jubilee in April. John Kilburn, of Bourbon county, has just sold about 1,000 bushels of flax seed at $1,55, which he figures paid the entire cost of his farm with a surplus of $3 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Palmer, of Nortonville, recently celebrated their 67th marriage anniversary. Mr. Palmer is 90 and his wife nearly as old. A $250 team, hitched to a road wagon, was stolen from a hitch rack at Oxford. Large rewards are offered by Sumner county and by the Anti-Horsethief association. The State Cattlemen's association at their meeting in Topeka, decided to use their best efforts to secure a railroad bill without classification on rate schedule. Fees collected in January by the superintendent of insurance and turned into the state treasury, amounted to $170.45. The superintendent of the insane asylum at Topeka turned in to the state treasury on January 31, $864.90 received for the maintenance of private patients. Abraham Whitehead and wife, of Lincoln county, were born on the same day in 1830. They lived together 33 years and both died on the same day last week. KANSAS LEGISLATURE. The house, by a vote of 102 to 4, adopted the joint resolution accepting the gift by congress of the Fort Hays reservation. There being several railroad bills before the railroad committees of both houses they met in joint session and named a committee to draft a substitute for them all. The house assessment and taxation committee has prepared a bill to relieve counties from liability to the state for uncollected taxes. Petitions come in from all parts of the state urging the appropriation of $300,000 for the Kansas semi-centennial in 1904. The senate has passed the bill suggested by the governor for the parole of prisoners. There is a bill on the house calendar to make it a misdemeanor to allow weeds on farms to go to seed. Its author is Mr. Heberling, of Osage county, who is watching for a favorable opportunity to take a vote on it. There is a bill which has some chances of becoming law which provides that road taxes, including the tax upon railroads shall be paid in cash. The senate went home Saturday, but the house remained and worked on third reading of bills: 39 of them being passed; largely local bills. Under the present law the jury making an examination of cases of insanity, get no fees unless the patient is declared insane. One of the bills passed changes this. One of the bills passed makes the costs payable by the estate of the insane person; if declared sane the county to pay the costs, except when the jury declares the proceedings to be without good cause, the costs are to be assessed against the party filing the information and he will be committed to jail until the costs are paid. Another bill passed provides that proprietors must furnish seats for female clerks; and another that an employer must not coerce his employee to join any labor organization. The sub committee to draw up a substitute for the several railroad bills are: Seaton, Rees, Miller, Grosser and Mason. An effort will be made to provide by law a way for the veterans at the Kansas national homes to vote. Senator Henly has a bill providing forworking convicts in the penitentiary on country roads. Senator Morrow has introduced for Supt. Nelson, a bill providing a state levy of 2 mills to be divided among the counties in proportion to the number of teachers employed. The barbers are numerous around the state house in the interest of Senator Cubbison's bill for a state board to examine barbers. The senate passed the bill relating to competency of man and wife in divorce and alimony cases. The appropriation bill for the State Historical society provided for a raise of $300 in the salary of Secretary Geo. W. Martin. The house cut this off by a vote of 44 to 40, because Martin's newspaper at Kansas City, Kas., is a non-union office. A majority of both houses decided in caucus not to pass a resolution calling for a constitutional convention. The senate passed Senator Smith's bill exempting wide tire vehicles from taxation; also his bill giving townships the right to establish libraries. The senate also passed the Postana antifusion election bill. The mileage accounts of the members of the house aggregate $8,400; that of the senate will be $3,000 or over. All mileage is velvet as every member carries passes. The legislature attended the statehood convention. The council visited the A. & M. college on Feb. 1. The city waterworks system at Enid is to be enlarged and extended. The miners' bill regulating the manner of electing delegates to the state association of miners, and providing for more deputy mine inspectors, passed both houses and went to the governor in time to become a law before the annual meeting of the association. A proposition to invite Albert Griffin to address the legislature on the temperance issues was tabled in the house. Adverse committee reports were made in the house upon the bill to abolish days of grace; also the proposition to create a board to examine lawyers; also a proposition to establish a branch normal school at Concordia; also upon the bill to regulate the triming of hedge fences. A bill seems likely to be passed giving fees to witnesses in criminal cases. The bill providing for insurance by the state was unfavorably reported. The house bill requiring mutual and assessment insurance companies to deposit $50,000 in the state treasury met with an unfavorable committee report in the senate. There is a bill in the senate to grant the Holliday monument association the right to erect a monument to Cyrus K. Holliday in the state house grounds. The senate judiciary committee does not favor the bill to give the state the right of change of venue in criminal cases. A bill has appeared in the council for the removal of the headquarters of the historical society from the university at Norman to a safer place, until there is a capitol erected. The council passed a mechanics' lien bill; also a bill reserving a homestead from forced sale regardless of which member of the family holds the title thereto; also a bill empowering the territory to take change of venue in criminal cases; that paupers may take an appeal to the supreme court without security for costs. Both houses accepted an invitation to visit the A. & M. college at Stillwater in a body. Will Talk it to Death. Washington, Feb. 2.—The opponents of the shipping bill have decided to continue the debate on that measure with the hope of being able to keep it going until it will become necessary for the Republican majority to take up the appropriation bills and other measures which should pass before the 4th of March. They say that they have speeches assured for eight or ten days, and that there are probably other senators who will prepare speeches within that time. A PRETTY COMPANION By Louise Bedford. The gas was turned up to its full height and flared noisily in the front parlor of a lodging house in the suburbs of London. Just underneath it, so that the bright light illuminated the varying shade of her auburn hair, sat a girl, with the advertisement sheet of the Daily Mail laid upon the table before her. One finger passed rapidly down the columns. "I wish I were a cook, Neville. Here are cooks required of every size and shape, no limit to either age or sex, apparently. I could get a dozen situations tomorrow if I could roast a joint properly, and I could earn a fortune if I could do made dishes." The brother that Janetta Howard addressed was a good-looking lad about 19 years old, with dark appealing eyes, and closely-cropped curly hair. The face was spoiled by the purposeless, weak mouth and the characterless chin. He reclined in an easy chair, and was smoking a pipe, with his hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets. "What nonsense, Jennie! As if I should ever consent to your going out as a common servant! Besides, I don't believe you could do a red herring properly." "Given a good fire and a toasting fork, I would evolve the way to do the herring," retorted Janetta merrily. "But that I dare not draw out our last penny of capital I would go in for a series of cooking lessons, come out at the top of the tree, and take a place as cook in a high family, I tell you. I would not adopt the title of 'lady help.' I'd be cook, and rule my kitchen with a rod of iron." And she clenched her hand, as if she really gripped the rod of which she spoke. "And, failing this, what do you propose to do?" asked Neville lazily. "Anything that offers," replied Janetta quickly, resuming her search through the paper. "It is quite clear that, if you are to accept this chance of a stool in an accountant's office, I must supplement your salary in some way; you can't live on it." "I need not accept it; I can wait for something better." "Wait until we come to our last penny, in fact!" cried Janetta impatiently. "No, Neville; you must take this clerkship, and I must get something and help you all I can. You know I'm ready enough to do it; but"—with a little break in her voice—"you'll keep steady, dear, when I'm gone!" Her tone implied that the boy's past had not been altogether blameless, and he started to his feet, as if stung by her words. "I know I've been a beast, Jennie. I've wasted a lot of money; but if I hadn't had such bad luck I should have won it back on the last Derby." "That's just it—you'd no right to risk it," replied Janetta despairingly; "but you'll leave it alone now—you must promise me to try and keep straight. I think it would break my heart if you turned into a drinking, betting man like father!" The last words were brought out sadly and reluctantly, briefly telling the tale of the present low ebb in their fortunes. "He's dead; you need not bring up his sins against him," said Neville, rather sulkily. "And I would not, except that I love you so dearly that I must give you one word of warning. You've nobody else, you see," said Janetta, with a smile that was almost a caress. "Let me see, where was I? Bent upon finding that wonderful situation that is to make both your fortune and mine," she continued, with an effort to regain her usual light-heartedness. "What do you say to this?" "Wanted immediately, a young lady as companion, good-looking and good-tempered. Photo must accompany every application. References required." "Humbug!" ejaculated Neville, from the depths of his easy chair. "Come and look for yourself, if you don't believe me," said Janetta, with laughter in her eyes. He rose and peeped over his sister's shoulder. "Why, yes! it's there safe enough. It's a hoax, of course. You won't be green enough to answer it?" "This very night," said Janetta brightly "at least, if you honestly can assure me that I fulfill the requirements. I'm not old at two-and-twenty, am I? "I'm averagely good-tempered, and could attain perfect self-control if an occasional outburst meant a loss of situation. And"as she spoke she glanced at the common little mirror above the mantel shelf—"don't mind my feelings, tell me truly; am I good looking enough?" "Oh, as to that, you'll do," replied Neville, with the bluntness of a brother. The face that the mirror reflected was framed in a cloudy mass of hair, set like an aureole round the daintily-polished head. Hazel eyes, half veiled by the long lashes, looked wistfully from under level, clearly-defined eyebrows; a creamy complexion; and a smiling mouth, whose half-opened red lips disclosed the whiteness of the small, even teeth, completed the picture. Beauty was the one possession left to Janetta, and tonight she prized it more than she had ever done before as a possible means to an end. What if the simple fact that she was pretty CHAPTER I should win for her the situation she so longed to obtain? "I shall send her my prettiest photo, Neville," she said, after her brief self survey. "You don't even know the sex of the advertiser. It may be a widower advertising darkly for number two," suggested her brother. Janetta laid down her pen in some alarm. "I don't care," she said; "I shall write and send my photo and references. The answer will tell us all about it. I think it's a very rich old maid, with a poodle and a parrot. I shall probably have to wash the poodle, and play pretty Poll with endless lumps of sugar, and get my fingers well packed in the process. There! my letter is at any rate short and to the point. Will it do?" she said, tossing it over to Neville. "A man could not have put the thing better. Old maid or widower, I would close with you at once if I were the advertiser. You write a short note and a pretty hand." "Very well, we'll go out and post it," said Janetta, stretching out her hand for her hat. "May good luck attend it!" She received an answer by return of post. The pointed handwriting in which the letter was written was of the style prevalent about 40 years ago. "An old maid! Look at the writing!" cried Janetta triumphantly, as she opened the envelope. "There is a modern brevity about it," said Neville, peeping over her shoulder. "Read it out, there's a dear." "Dear Madam: I think you seem likely to suit me. The salary I offer is £60 pounds a year; but I shall be willing to raise it at the end of the first quarter if we find we get on together. Will you come for a month and see how you like it, beginning on Monday? "Can you leave by the train which starts from Paddington at 2 o'clock? I shall be sending to Northcliff Station meet a friend, and you could come by the same carriage. Wire reply. "Believe me, faithfully yours, "(Miss) Clarice Seymour." Janetta and her brother burst into simultaneous laugh when she finished the letter. "Either the woman is a lunatic or it's a hoax," said Neville. "I'll go and see for myself. It's too good an opening to miss. Sixty pounds a year for doing nothing, apparently. No mention even of the poodle or the parrot. Anyhow, it's a genuine place; I've looked it out in the 'Gazetteer.'" Thus it came to pass that, on the Monday following, Janetta and Neville paced up and down Paddington station together, both their hearts too full of the approaching separation to trust themselves to speak of it. Instead, they talked of trivialities, watched the other passengers as they hurried down the platform to the train, commenting idly upon them. "Look, Neville! what a handsome man that is getting into the first-class carriage not. far from my humble third. If he were a girl, and applied for my situation, I should not have a chance, should I? He's so very good looking!" The man in question turned, as if he had heard the remark, glancing at the brother and sister, who had come to a halt before the carriage in which Janetta had placed her rugs. The glance was but momentary. He signed to the porter, who followed him, to hand in his belongings, jumped into the carriage, and closed the door. "I believe he heard you, Jennie," said Neville quickly. "If he did it can't matter. We shall never meet again, and it can't be the first time that he's heard his good looking," said Janetta, with a little laugh. "Oh, Neville, I must get in! I don't know how to say good-by. I will write tonight. Good-by, dear; good-by. Jump in a minute, I must kiss you; and you'll keep steady, for my sake?" The last words were said in a whisper. "All right, don't bother!" said Neville, horribly ashamed of the fact that there were tears in his eyes. CHAPTER II. In a few minutes more the train was puffing slowly from the station, and Janetta, who had craned her neck from the carriage to obtain a farewell smile from Neville, sank back into her corner, with plenty of time before her in which to consider her prospects and her fellow travelers. The latter were singularly uninteresting, with the exception of a little girl not more than two years old, who sat just opposite Janetta, regarding her with thoughtful eyes. "Pretty," she said presently, stretching out her arms to come to her. And Janetta, with a reassuring nod to the mother, stood the child by the window and talked to her for the first hour, only handing her back to her natural guardian when the little thing was tired out, and showed signs of dropping off to sleep. A glance at her watch told her that she could not be many miles from her destination, and she looked out of the window to notice the sort of country through which they were traveling, fancying that in the fast-fading light of the February afternoon she could catch the shimmer of the sea in the distance. CHAPTER II The thought had scarcely framed the self before she was conscious of a curious swaying to and fro in the carriage, then a shivering vibration ran along the train as if the brake had been applied with unwonted force; and, before she could do more than read the awful alarm that was written upon the faces of her fellow travelers, there came a crash and a total cessation of movement. The earth itself seemed tottering under her, and she was thrown from her seat to the floor. She was too stunned for a few minutes to realize in the least what had happened; but when at last able to collect her senses, she knew that there must have been an accident, the nature and character of which she was incapable of gauging. The air was alive with sounds more or less distressing—the hissing of the engine, the shouts of the engine driver, the piercing shrieks of women, and close to her, making itself heard above the dln, the pitiful, frightened wall of a little child. "Poor little dear! it must be the little child I was talking to" said Janetta, trying to raise herself on to her knees so as to see better what had happened to her fellow travelers, and much relieved to find that her own limbs were whole and sound. The carriage was jerked off the rails and was pitched half over on its side, and the struggles of others to free themselves were beginning to be unpleasantly felt when, from her kneeling posture, Janetta caught a glimpse of the man whom she had seen getting into the first-class carriage a little beyond her own at Paddington. "Hallo!" he said, with a pleasant smile, "You seem to want help here. Don't be frightened; I don't think there is much harm done, barring the smashing up of a carriage or so. No, no! don't struggle behind there! Ladies first, please. I must help you out through the window, as the door is jammed, and beware of broken glass." "The child first," said Janetta, with quivering lips, who had laid hold of the little frightened heap that had been propelled right under the seat opposite to her own. "Hand her out, please!" cried the man, depositing the child high up on the bank near by. "She's scared out of her wits, as well she may be. Now give me your hands, and place your feet on the handle of the door; I'll keep you steady as you climb through and lift you out." Janetta obeyed every direction swiftly and deftly. With her arm about the child, Janeteta sat and watched the strange scene with dazed, bewildered eyes. The huge engine, which had run off the line, stood half embedded in the bank at the side, snorting and puffing as if indignant at finding himself in such an ignominious position. Men with scared faces hurried hither and thither; women stood in groups along the line, sobbing in helpless terror. The mother of her little charge lay stretched at full length on the grass close by, borne thither by the strong arms of her rescuer, who seemed almost the only man who kept full possession of his senses, except a fair-faced, fair-haired young doctor, who hastened forward towards the prostrate figure, kneeling by her and feeling her pulse with professional calm. "Fainted, that's all," he said, looking up at the man by his side. Then a quick glance of recognition passed over his features. "Why, Merivale, you here?" he exclaimed. "On your way to the George, I suppose?" From a certain hardening of the voice Janetta gathered that, for some reason unknown, the fair-haired doctor did not like the handsome stranger, whose fine physique and pleasant bearing seemed so attractive to herself. "TELEPHONE EAR." Operators Say Answering Call Does Not Affect the Heard. Chicago girls who listen to the click in the telephone receiver for eight hours every day in the week laugh at the idea that their New York sister operators are getting a "telephone ear," or a deafness, from the constant snapping of the call signals, says the Chicago News. "A 'telephone ear,'" remarked one girl who has operated a board in the central office for three years, "is the most acute one in the world, and the more noise there is in the phone the more trained our ears become to detect what is being said." "There are a great number of girls in this office," said the chief operator. "I sat at a board myself for several years, and I never heard a girl complain that the sound of the phone affected her hearing in the least. I know it never did mine." In speaking of the effect of the click on an operator's hearing A. S. Hibbard, the general manager of company said: "I do not care to say that the New York people are wrong in their contentions that they have had cases of deafness due to the sound made in connecting and disconnecting the telephones, but it sounds improbable to me. We have had the signal system in Chicago for about five years. Almost every phone in Chicago now calls the main board without twisting a crank, and yet I have never heard of a complaint." Cat That Never Tasted Meat. A kitten has been brought up on an exclusively vegetable diet by a family of vegetarians. The result is that it will not touch animal food and it pays no attention to rats or mice. Almost any evil can be remedied if you face it fearlessly and honestly to remove it. CAUGHT BY THE GRIP. MISS EMMA JOURIS D.L.WALLACE MRS. T.W. COLLINS MRS. DR. C. D. POWELL MRS. M.A. SHAHICK LIEUT. CLARICE HUNT. La Gripie is epidemic catarrh.—It spares no class or nationality. The cultured and the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pauper. The masses and the classes are alike subject to la gripie. Nope are exempt—all are liable. Have you the grip? Or, rather, has the grip got you? Grip is well named. The original French term, la gripie, has been shortened by the busy American to read "grip." Without intending to do so a new word has been coined that exactly describes the case. As if some hideous giant with awful Grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, children, whole towns and cities are caught in the baneful grip of a terrible monster. "Following a severe attack of la gripie I seemed to be affected badly all over. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me."—L. D. Wallace Gripie Causes Deafness. Mrs. M. A. Sharick, chaplain G. A. R. Woman's Relief Corps, writes from Fremont, Wash. "When la gripie was the prevailing illness in this Western country I was laid up the whole winter, I partially lost my hearing, and had a very bad Pe-ru-na For Grip. Mrs. Dr. C. D. Powell, President of Epworth League, also President of Loyal Temperance Legion, writes from Chehalis, Wash: "I have used several remedies in cases of severe colds and la gripe, but none I consider of more value than Peruna"—Mrs. Dr. C. D. Powell. After-Effects of La Grippe. Miss Emma Jouris, President Golden Rod Sewing Circle, writes from 40 Burling street, Chicago, Ill., as follows: "This spring I suffered severely from the after-effects of the gripe. As the doctors did not seem to help me I bought a bottle of Peruna."—Miss Emma Jouris. Congrarsman Howard's Letter. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen----"I have taken Peruna now for two weeks and find I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also taken it for a gripe and I take pleasure in recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow sufferers."----M. W. Howard, Member of Congress. La Grippe Leaves the System in a Deployable Condition. D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the International Harbers' Union, writes from 15 Western avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.: Sawyer's Pommel Slickers Warranted Waterproof. Sawyer's Excelsior Brand Pommel Slickers afford complete protection to both rider and passenger in a large room. The air is insuring a dry seat for rider. Easily converted into a walking coat. Every garment warrants a warranty against loss of the trade mark. If your dealer does not have Excelsior Brand, write for catalogue. H. M. SAWYER & SON, Sole Mfrs. East Cambridge, Mass. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Glove Truck, Tank, Use in time. Sold by drugstores. CONSUMPTION Adversity is apt to bring a man out—especially at the knees and elbows. The man who aims to be good in this world may miss fire in the next. Secretary Cortelvon Works Hard. George B. Cortelyou, secretary to the president, works harder and for longer hours than almost any other employee of the government, except the president himself. He is at the white house at 9 a. m. and works until 6 or 7. At 10 he returns to his office and is there with the president until 12, and sometimes until 1 or 2. "Following a severe attack of la gripe I seemed to be affected badly all over. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me." — L. D. Wallace. Grippe Causes Deafness. Mrs. M. A. Sharick, chaplain G. A. R. Woman's Relief Corps, writes from Fremont, Wash.: "When la gripe was the prevailing illness in this Western country I was laid up the whole winter, I partially lost my hearing, and had a very bad case of catarrh of the head and throat. I read of Peruna, tried it and had my hearing restored and catarrh cured. I cannot speak too well of Peruna."—Mrs. M. A. Sharick. La Gripe cured in Its First Stage. Lieutenant Clarice Lunch, of the Salt Lake City Barracks of the Salvation Army, writes from Ogden, Utah: Two months ago I was suffering with so severe a cold that I could hardly speak. "Our captain advised me to try Peruna, and procured a bottle for me, and truly it worked wonders. Within two weeks I was entirely well."—Clarice Hunt. Congressman White's Letter. Gentlemen—"I am more than satisfied with Peruna and find it to be an excellent remedy for the grip and catarrh. I have used it in my family and they all join me in recommending it as an excellent remedy."—GEO. H. White, Member of Congress. Remained in Feeble Health After Cured of La Gripe. Mrs. T. W. Collins, Treasurer Independent Order of Good Templars, of Everett, Wash., writes: "After having a severe attack of la gripe I continued in a feeble condition even after the doctor called me cured. My blood seemed poisoned. Peruna cured me."—Mrs. T. W. Collins, Address The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, O., for a free book on catarrh. A woman always loves those who admire her, but she doesn't always love those she admires. Many complicated diseases and much suffering result from constipation. Garfield Tea, the great Herb Tea, will cure the most obstinate case. Be sure you are right—then pause a moment for reflection. Consumption is a germ disease. The germs are everywhere, but they cannot get hold of you unless you get your lungs ready for them by neglecting a cold or failing to properly cure a cough. The important merit of Morley's Honey Pectoral is, that while it cures quickly it cures thoroughly. Ask your drug-gist. The older a lamb grows the more sheepish he becomes. Other birds fight on the co-operative plan, but the eagle fights all his battles alone. Railroad to Tan Siberia. German capitalists have planned the construction of a railroad through the Samoyede peninsula with the object of bringing the wheat of western Siberia quickly and economically into the world market. The wheat will be shipped by the Ob and its navigable tributaries to Obdorsk; then by rail to the seacoast and thence by vessel to London or other porta. Lincoln's Early Life BIRTH PLACE STUDYING BEFORE OPEN FIREPLACE. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin county, Ky., on Feb. 12, 1809. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln and descended from Samuel Lincoln of Norwich, England, who emigrated to Hingham, Mass., in 1638. Some of the descendants moved to what is now Berks county, Pa., and subsequently to Virginia. Abraham L. Lincoln, father of Thomas, followed Daniel Boone to Kentucky, where he was killed by the Indians while clearing his farm in Jefferson county. Thomas Lincoln was shiftless. He subsisted in a precarious way by doing odd jobs of carpentry; but he married Nancy Hanks and took her to a wretched cabin in Hardin county and tried to make a living at farming. In this hovel the future president was born, and came up at haphazard until he was seven years old. By walking four miles to school he contrived to get a very little of such rudimentary education as the backwoods afforded; but his schooling did not include more than a year of desultory instruction, and he had no home encouragement. At this formative period, Lincoln owed nothing to home training or home atmosphere. His father was a shiftless creature with very ordinary intellectual gifts, and his mother, a frail woman, was broken by the ceaseless and hopeless struggle to keep body and soul together. In 1816 Thomas Lincoln pulled up stakes and started with his family and LINCOLN'S RESIDENCE AT SPRINGFIELD. meager household effects for Ohio. He brought up in Posey county, Ind., sold his boat and took up land in the wilderness of Perry county. Here the wife gave up the unequal struggle and died. Abraham was nine years old and was left without any care whatever. He was neglected, ill-clad and cuffed about when he got in his father's way. The elder Lincoln was not consciously brutal, but he was impatient and unregardful of the boy's interests. A more forlorn childhood, or one less likely to develop the qualities which Lincoln displayed in after life, it would be hard to imagine. But in the midst of this depressing life, the lad was giving himself the moral training for which he became so conspicuous. Within himself he was building a strong and solid foundation of moral character. He became what was called a "serious boy." This seriousness gave him an air of maturity and was quite as much the cause as the effect of his pondering upon such grave problems of life as his undeveloped mind could grasp. His education was limited, but he was of a studious turn, and pored over the few books which fell in his way. When Abraham was about twelve years old a new element entered into his life. His father took for a second wife a woman with whom it is said he was in love before he married Nancy Hanks. This woman had energy and soon wrought a revolution in the domestic economy of the Lincoln. She cleaned and clothed Abraham and his sister, and better still, took a real ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SCENES OF HIS EARLY LIFE. (From Portrait Taken in 1858.) motherly interest in them. She was especially fond of the boy, and seemed to discern in him qualities above the average. Probably she pitied the forlornness of the silent; awkward lad. At all events she was kind to him and won the heart unused to kindness. She encouraged him in his studies and gave him the warmth of sympathy which expanded his nature and for the first time made him feel that he was a human being and that somebody shared his hopes and aspirations. Lincoln always retained a loving remembrance of this woman, and in after life he referred to her as "saintly." Abraham grew with amazing rapidity, and before his seventeenth birthday was a strapping lad six feet four inches tall. He was strong and sinewy, with enormous hands and feet. He was described as having "disproportionate length of legs and arms, and over all a rather small head; his skin was yellow and shriveled, and his complexion swarthy. He wore coarse, home made clothes, and a coonskin cap; his trousers, owing to his rapid growth were nearly a foot too short." He attended school irregularly until he was 17 years old. At that age he quit school for good and all, but his studious habits remained with him and to them he owed an education self-acquired. After leaving school Lincoln earned money by working at odd jobs, and at the same time acquired a more or less deserved name for laziness. But what boy that had spindled up to six feet four inches in seventeen years would not be lazy at times? Even at that time he was noted for his propenests for story telling. He did not love work perhaps, but he loved reading and study. "He would lie under a tree or in the loft of the house, and at night sit in the firelight to read, cipher and scribble on the wooden fire shovel." He read everything he could get hold of. He had a retentive memory and a taste for speaking in public. He familiarized himself with grammar by the study of a borrowed book, and his first dip into the law was through reading the statutes of Indiana borrowed from a constable. The year he was 16 years old he worked on a ferry boat on the Ohio river for $0 a month. A couple of years later he went down the Ohio and Mississippi as first mate of a flat boat. This trip gave him some knowledge of the outside world and awakened in him a desire to do something for himself. But the Lincolnls had remained in Indiana as long as the restless Thomas could stand it, so in 1830 the family migrated to Illinois, settling at a point near Decatur. Shortly after arriving at the destination, young Lincoln came of age and launched out for himself. In 1832 he went into the Black Hawk war in a company enlisted at Sangamon. He served with credit, but without particular distinction, and ever afterward was disposed to speak jestingly of his military experience. Young Lincoln established considerable popularity soon after reaching his majority. His physical strength, quaint humor and inimitable stories appealed to the Westerners, and in 1832 he was a candidate for the state assembly. But he was not elected. His platform was straight Whig doctrine. To quote his own words in declaring himself a candidate: "I presume you all know who I am; I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a national bank; I am in favor of internal improvement and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same." SCHOOL HOUSE SPLITTING RAILS Having been defeated in his canvass, Lincoln embarked in a disastrous mercantile enterprise at New Salem with one Thomas Berry. His partner fleed and Lincoln assumed the debts of the firm, the last of which he paid off in 1839. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster at Salem, and served three years. The salary was almost nothing. The mails came but once a week and as Lincoln could not afford to hire a room he carried the letters around in his hat and delivered them. In 1834 Lincoln was an acknowledged Whig leader and was elected to the legislature, where he first met Stephen A. Douglass, the "Little Giant," who was to become his competitor for the senate and for the presidency. A Wrestling Match. A story is related of Lincoln when he was a clerk in the store of Denton Orfutt, at New Salem. Orfutt had a great opinion of Lincoln's mental ability, but a positive admiration for his feats of strength, and never tired of dilating upon the latter. It seems that a somewhat notorious gang of terrors lived in a neighboring settlement. They prided themselves on their ability to wrestle and fight and put every newcomer to the test. They soon heard of Lincoln and were anxious to try his mettle. Lincoln was not a brawler and did not court contests of that character except as a means to an end; but Orfutt entered readily into the spirit of the thing and bragged so much about what Lincoln could do with the terrors that affairs reached a crisis and he had to yield to public clamor. A match was arranged with a chosen champion of the gang by the THE COURT HOUSE AT PETERS-BURG. (Where Lincoln and Douglas Met in Debate.) (Where Lincoln and Douglas Met in Debate.) name of Armstrong. The latter is described as a perfect specimen of physical manhood, powerful and agile and versed in all the tricks of the wrestler. When the match came off, all business was suspended, and the partisans wagered their small possessions freely. The contest was a draw, as the men were so evenly matched that neither could throw the other. But when Armstrong found that he could not throw Abe he resorted to foul tactics. This angered Abe, who abhorred dishonesty in sports as in everything else, and he seized Armstrong by the neck and shook him until the breath almost left his body. Abe was not so expert a wrestler as Armstrong, but in strength the latter was an infant in the former's hands. Behind the Counter. An incident which occurred while he was in trade for himself gives additional insight to his character and shows that he was prompt to rectify errors for which he was responsible. Once he walked three miles after the store closed to return to a customer an over charge of six cents, and at another time when he discovered that he had given short weight of four ounces on a pound of tea, he hurried to put up the shortage and deliver it to his customer. It is far easier to form an impression than it is to destroy it. When Doctors Disagree Astronomers are discussing the theory that the moon is in its glacial epoch. One telescope expert calls the "craters" ice cups, and the streams along their sides glacial weather. Another insists that the signs of volcanic action are unmistakable. Tablet Luncheon in Paris. A veritable quick luncheon, it is said, is to be had at a restaurant in Paris, where a dinner of several courses composed of concentrated food in the form of tablets can be consumed in a few minutes. The entire meal, indeed, can be carried about in the vest pocket or pocketbook. Never Attains to His Ideal. Talking to some British art students the other day, Sir Lawrence Alma Tudema said: "There is never a picture that leaves my studio which I am not glad to see taken away. I have grown so sick in trying to obtain what I have been looking for, but never quite succeeded in effecting." Government of Colombia. The United States of Colombia has a senate composed of twenty-seven members and a representative chamber of sixty-one, elected by general suffrage, in which the legislative power resides. The executive power is exercised by a president, chosen every two years by the people of the different states, and by four ministers.—Golden Hours. Mosquitoes in Switzerland. Mosquitoes were unknown in Switzerland until the completion of the Saint Gothard tunnel under the Alps. The tunnel gave them a short-cut to the land of William Tell; but they do not seem to forever thirst for Swiss blood. A little of it satisfies them. A New Jersey insect, on his own soil, is ten times as rapacious. Pardon by Retiring Governor. The last act of Governor Scofield of Wisconsin before giving place to his successor was to pardon Ellen Long, who in 1884 was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a ten-year-old boy, her relative. The recommendations for pardon unite in saying that there was no motive for the crime and that the woman must have been deranged when she killed the lad. Sixty-Sixth Wedding Anniversary. The sixty-sixth wedding anniversary of James and Mary Lewis occurred recently at Miami, Ind., and comprised a reunion of five generations. Mr. Lewis is 88 years old and his wife 86. There were 11 children, 26 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren in attendance. Training Canary Birds: In the canary breeding establishments of Germany only the male birds are valued, for the females never sing. The method of training the birds to sing is to put them in a room where there is an automatic whistle, which they all strive to imitate. The breeder listens to the efforts of the birds and picks out the most apt pupils, which are then placed in another room for further instruction. PRESIDENT OF PRESIDENTS. A Distinguished Lady Indeed, Is Mrs Mary E. Folee of Whiting, Id. Whiting, Ind., Feb. 4, 1901.—(Special.)—The Presidents of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic have an association composed exclusively of the Presidents of the different State Associations. This Presidents' Association chooses a President, and to this very high and distinguished position Mrs. Mary E. Poole of this place has been elected. Mrs. Poole is thoroughly deserving of this great honor. Her devotion to the interests of the Association is very marked, and her experience with the old soldiers of the G. A. R. is wide. Mrs. Poole is never slow to take advantage of anything that may benefit the veterans, and her zeal has resulted in much that is good to these grand old men. She writes of her experiences: "Honor to whom honor is due, and having seen the numerous cures effected through the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills, I gladly endorse them as being particularly effective to cure that dreaded disease of so many of our old soldiers, Bright Disease and Kidney Disorders of different kinds. Kidney Disease soon poisons the entire system, and as a result the vital organs are attacked, and I have found that no remedy so surely completely and quickly finds the weak spot and heals it as Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I have used them myself in slight attacks of biliousness and indigestion, and usually find that from three to four pills do the work." Such evidence from a lady of so much distinction and experience should convince any sufferer from Kidney Trouble that Dodd's Kidney Pills is the remedy that never fails. 50c a box, six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local druggist if you can. If he can't supply you send to the Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Aid for Orphan Asylum. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Fitzgerald of Danville, Va., have deeded their place on the north bank of the Dan river, worth $20,000, to the Danville orphanage as a permanent home. When some men entertain an idea it is a fair idea of cheap hospitality. The successful blacksmith can either shoe a horse or make a horseshoe. Division of Millionaire's Estate Division of Millionaire's Estate The $5,000,000 estate of the late Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the famous American dentist of Paris, has at last been settled, the relatives who contested the will receiving $800,000 among them. In the will but $250,000 was left to relatives, the remainder going to the Thomas Evans Museum and Institute society of Philadelphia.