Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT How Does Twentieth Century slavery Suit Colored Democrats? MORE CRUEL THAN IN ANTE-BELLUM DAYS. Constitution Of the United States DEFIED;and Fourteenth Amendment NULIFIED. Could any Colored man vote the Democratic Ticket Now? Anderson, S. C. March 7th. More horrible and heart-rending than the story of torture and suffering pictured in "Uncle Tom's cabin" is the evidence presented to the court today in support of the charge that slavery of the twententh century type existed in South Carolina dence not yet made public. will show that a white man came on and offered to pay the negro's debt, but the constable declared that he would not part with the human flesh for $1,000. Both Miller and his overseer, J. A. Emmerson, were indicted and they will be tried for false imprisonment and By the evidence it was shown that negroes had been traded as slaves, seized on the highways, committed to prison dens without trial and made to toil on farms whil armed guards and bloodhounds were by to prevent escape. A state law exists by which convicts from the state penitentiary can be leased to private individuals. Anderson got a good share of these, but other enterprising farmers who did not leas prisoners captured negroes like wild beasts and sent them to stockades where the wretches signed contracts giving the landlords the right to sell them. Trades were made and unscrupulous people came from other states and swapped negroes for horses. Others bought outright. After the grand jury made its presentment in which it was recommended that four of the land-lands be prosecuted, Judge Bennett querred out slowly, but with care and deliberation, the wrath of the law on the men who had made slavery possible in this modern day. The jury told today that negroes had been inhumanly treated and had been whipped to a point of insensibility. At Jule Miller's private stockade, one case in particular was mentioned to show the mode of operation. Warren Sloan was captured in the county, hand-cuffed and dragged to the stockade It is claimed that the evi- dence not yet made public. will show that a white man, came on and offered to pay the negro's debt, but the constable declared that he would not part with the human flesh for $1,000. Both Miller and his overseer, J. A. Emmerson, were indicted and they will be tried for false imprisonment and for assault and battery in roughly handling the slaves. The grand jnry said: "In many respects the most remarkable case was that of Elias McGee who never employed state convicts but who built a stockade and prepared to treat his laborers as convicts. His contracts provide that the laborers shall be worded under guard and lockes up at night and there was abundant evidence to show that he had worked underguaad, locked up in the stockade and whipped his laborers. Some of the negroes had been arrested and sighed contracts after being arrested. John Clinkscales, first accused by Elias McGee of stealing corn was brought to Anderson handcuffed, and after he had signed a contract was turned over to W. O. Hammond who carried him to his stockade. Quince Hamilton a burley landlord operated a stockade where he kept negroes as the jury showed and held them unber force. These negroes were heavily shackled. A crippled black veteran of the civil war has already begun proceedings seeking damages from Hammond for false imprisonment. The jury cites many instances of the system. Prosecutions, it is said will speedily follow the expose, MORE IN DETAIL OF CONDITIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA'S HELL. Charlston, S.C., March, 7th. As the investigations of the grand jury into the convict slavery conditions in Anberson county S. C. continues, the developments WICHITA, KANSAS, MARCH 16, 1901. prove more startling and more horriple than was at first imagined by the presiding judge who ornered a spacil.erm of the court for today to which the presentment of the jury was received. Every effor has been made to suppress the fact The jury has been hampered in its work,but proof has been secured to show that the system of slavery was more binding than the awful slavery system in operation in the South before the proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. Men high in authority will be dragged into the scandal, but there is power enough in the county to protect ringleaders who are said to be responsible for the iniquities of the stockades. Under the guise of the convict lease system. This scandalous condition has been allowed to go on. Since the jury began its investigation more than a score of ignorant negroes have been liberated from the vile dens. The convict garb has been removed and the shackles have been lifted from the feet of black wretches who have been bound for years. Fearing the warth of the courts, the managers of the private stockades have been allowed to depart, but death was threatened to all who attempted to divulge the secrets of the stocks, and privrte detectives are following the men to shoot them like rats if they try to use the information which will send wealthy planters to the penitentiary. A planter who has been involved has made the open threat that a massacre will follow any attempt by the courts to change the system, and negroes in Anderson who might produce proof against the managers, have fled through fear of their former masters. But the grand jury which is backed by the law has not been influenced by the threats openly made. The investigation has reached that point where a "white washing" can not occur. The governor of the state and the influence of every court are being directed against the twentieth century slave dealers, and the indiscriminating trading of human lives will cease. The great constitution of the United States has been violated and if prompt action is not had by the state it is said that a movement will be directed against the system by the federal government and in this event no loophole of escape can be offered the guilty. Of the twentyfive negroes re leased not one had been sent in for an infraction of the law. The systems were quietly operated. There was no authority for their establishmen, and back in the mountain section, away from the world, these places held hundreds of ignorant negroes who had been stolen away from their families to make fortunes for white men who occupied high positions in the social world of the county and state. What, call you back? No, love; Perhaps of me thou do'st so think. But ne'er again shall we two link Our vows. My heart at such an ill do'st rue, As o'er the fated past I view— My once bright hope—a wreck. Call you back, love? Alas! Low in the dark, deep, sea of fate, The hope that did my soul elate Lies dead. Nor can we now that life recall. From out its dark, aqueous pall: 'Tis gone—forever-more! What, call you back? Away! Speak not those words to me again: Thy pleadings bringeth but disdain And misery. Love's rose grew sweetly in thy name. But sorched beneath the heat of shame That thou did'st bring--farewell. --Simeon Oliver Clayton. WANTED The public to know that FIRST-CLASS BOARD and LODGING can be had at the Centrpolis Hotel 605 North Main Street. JAS,H.HODGE,PROPRIETOR. Bargains in BICYCLES New and Second Hand at greatly reduced rates. Roman $5.00 Remant $15.00 Storm 7.50 Steams 12.00 Ariel 10.00,new wheels.Argens $15. Cresent 25.00 to 50.00 Featherstone 25.00 to 50.00 Tribune 40.00 to 50.00 Sewing Machines at Department store prices. Will trade sewing machines or wheels for horses or cattle See me for bargains.Repair shop connection. Stencil cutting and key fitting our Specialty. Geo.M. Litson, 115 South Main St. Peerless Steam 155-159 N.Market St. 'Phone 237 Office on First Street. Agents Wanted Everywhere According to Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical society, Americans are responsible for forming such a successful corner in polar dogs that the pending British and other arctic expeditions are confronted with a difficulty nearly as great as the ice fields. It appears that E. B. Baldwin, the American explorer, has bought up such a large supply of dogs that their price has risen from $18 to $30 and they are hard to procure even at that price. Grand Celebration TWENTY=FIRST ANIVERSARY OF THE ORDER UNDER THE AUSPICES OF TOAS LODGE No.10. A Grand LITERARY and MUSICAL program will be rendered. This will be a GRAND TIME. PROGRAM. 1 Opening Address, "The Grand Lodge J.E.Lewis,G.C,of Ks. 2 "Grand Court Calanthe" Mr. Lee Anderson, D.D.W.G.C. 3 Toas lodge No 10. A.T.Glover,C.C. 4 Erie Court No.7. Mrs.J.H.Phelps,W.C. 5 21st. Anniversary, W.N.Miller. 6 Instrumental Solo, Miss Blanche Alexander 7 "Progress of a race" Mrs.Sam Anderson 8 Instrumental Trio, Phillips,Garrett and Stevenson Subject to change without notice. A Carload of SWEETLAND Pianos and the celebrated DECKER & Son Pianos;also have the agency for WESTERN COTTAGE goods;and have just ceived another shipment of String Instruments and a nice selection of Sheet Music. MURPHY & GOFORTH 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 S Crystal Steam Laundry, Long & Hite, Props. Liberal Commission to good Agents. Write for terms. Barbers preferred 114 S. Emporia Ave. Phone 270. SLAVEHOLDERS DROP DEATH The Slaves In Stockades Are Holding Thanksgiving. BELIEVE IT IS A NEMESIS Charleston, S. C., March 14.—sudden death of Preston B. Allen, w owned and operated a slavery est PORTLAND, TACOMA, SEATTLE and SPOKANE—$25.00. Tickets on sale at th "Frisco LINE" city ticket office, corner of Main and Douglas ave. on the follo owing Tuesdays. March 5.12,19,26.April2. 9, 16, 23 and 30 1901. Further information will be cheerfully given at the city ticket office or by B.F.Dunn, D.P. A., Wichita, Kansas. Arizona newspapers declare that deer, antelope and mountain sheep will soon be exterminated there unless immediate steps are taken for their preservation. When a woman discloses a secret it is always with telling effect. --- 342 N.Main S SLAVEHOLDERS DROP DEAD. The Slaves In Stockades Are Holding Thanksgiving. BELIEVE IT IS A NEMESIS. Charleston, S. C., March 14.—The sudden death of Preston B. Allen, who owned and operated a slavery establishment in Anderson county, has caused the wildest excitement. Reports from Anderson say that the negroes and especially those who were held as slaves, are holding thanksgiving meetings Allen lived ten miles from the city of Anderson. He owned a stockade, where several negroes were confined, but the jury did not produce evidence sufficient to have him indicted. Allen had called on Judge Fowler, the father of the system, and was discussing the fearless work of the jury, when suddenly Allen fell over dead. The news spread to the negro quarters and blacks began to pray and sing. Another farmer who was implicated in the slave horror, it is said, died last week under similar circumstances. His name was not mentioned by the jury after his death, but the fact was known to the negroes and the two deaths, following in succession, have caused the negroes to believe it a Nemesis and they are glorifying. 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 SUBSCRIPTIONS IN ADVANCE. correspondents and agents wanted everywhere. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. The pathway of the colored brother in the South toward anything approaching success in the way of industrial achievements has, at no time since his enfranchisement made it possible for him to act for himself, been strew with roses. Indeed, he has found it a hard road to travel. And they have not been few, from among those of his own race as well as otherwise, who have seen unnecessarily willing to exploit the discouraging belief that the outlook for the permanent and progressive betterment of his condition through his own efforts was practically hopeless. The friends of the negro who have been loth to accept these pessimistic conclusions, find however, that the facts, as brought out in reports as to what is actually being accomplished in the matter of the industrial advancement of the race, warrant no such gloomy view. Evidence is not lacking for confirmation of the statement that the negro toiler is gaining ground, literally as well as figuratively. Bearing directly upon this point is an interesting and extended account in the Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser of the proceedings of the tenth annual conference of negroes at Tuskegee Ala. The faculty of Tuskegee institute, Booker T. Washington's great school, originated and promoted the holding of these conferences, it being their deftinately declared purpose "to enconrage the buying of land, to get rid of the one-room cabin and the abuse of the mortgage system, to promote raising food supplies, building better school houses, lengthening the school term, getting better teachers and preachers and improving the relations betwee the races." Nearly one-half of the entire number of states and two of the territories were represented in the recent gathering about 2,500 farmer delegates having taken part And their reports, many of which were given at length in the publication mentioned, are most encour aging. Practically they are of one voice in the rehearsal of an experience which not only is full of hope and promise but chronicles a modest measure of success already achieved-an advance from the humblest beginning, through patient, self-denying labor, watchfulness and perseverance, to a plane of comparative prosperity and an assurance of even better things in the future. A report of especial significance and interest in that it brings into view the important feature of woman's aid, is that of Mrs. Johnson, president of the Women's Auxiliary, Oakland, Tex. Unusual difficulties had been striven against by the members of the organization during the year preceeding, in consequence of floods and hardtimes, Mrs. Johnson said, but still there had been noticeable progress. Efforts toward a betterment of the conditions existing under mortgage system, an improvement in methods of farming, a movement in the direction of co-operative buying at the stores, together with an aim toward home ownership always in view, characterize the onward movement of the organization. Its members now number 2,500 and already they have become the owners of 50,000 acres of land and of property whose aggregate value is $700,000. Such facts, and they are but typical of all the reports made in the conference, constitute an eloquent refutation of the doleful declarations of those who decry the ability of the industrious negr to aid himself in the struggle for advancement. As Mrs, Johnson forcibly puts it: "Let indnstry, sobriety, skill and mutual helpfulness be the negroe's platform, and he can exchange them for whatever he wants. James L. Harper is the only colored man on the City Central Committee We are proud of the selection of Mr. Harper as a member of so important a committee as we feel that he will do his whole duty and he will be ever ready to sponsor the cause of his people. He is a gentleman of high standing among the colored people and we all have faith in his ability and integrity. We wish him much success and shall do all we can to help him and back him. The Republican Centrel Committee has selected J. H. Stewart as its chairman. This was a wise selection. In Mr. Stewart the city will find an untiring worker, a perfect gentleman and a republican of the highest type. Ben F. McLean is the next mayor of Wichita. If you should hunt for a whole year you could find no better or cleaner man. He is a perfectly reliable business man, and will give the city a perfectly reliable clean and business administration. A vote for McLean is a vote for a clean, business ad ministration. There are many men who lose all self-controle when they see a few dollars in sight. If the colored men will vote as a unit, Capt. Sam Jones will be the next clerk of the city court. Ben F. McLean will be elected mayor of Wichita on April 2nd. Watch our predtction. The time has come when a man must treat all men right. Geo. A. Cubbon has made a good Chief of Police. The colored men can not afford to tamper or vote any other way than for the straight republican nominees. Elect Ben F. McLean as mayor and all else will be added thereto. Hurrah, for Capt. Sam Jones !!! THE WICHIITA SEARCHLIGHT,SATURDAY, MARCH, 16th, 1901 We extend an invitation to our Colored friends to please call and look our line through. You are welcome at our store. GREENFIELD BROS., 112 E.Douglas. W. M. Nicholson, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, is in the city. Mrs Pearl Taylor, of Kansas City, Kansas, is visiting relatives in the city. Dr. E. Harrison has temporarily moved his office to The Jackson Hotel, 343 N. Main St. and will be pleased to see his patrons there for the time being. Robert Davis has accepted a job at Kingman paying $18 per week, and left for that place Wednesday afternoon. James Jackson left Monday for Arkansas to visit relatives. Jack expects to spend about a week in that state. Prof. Fisher's Military band had a drill practice Friday night and they made the air ring with music. E. E. Harvey will make an ideal judge of the city court. Vote for him. Hopkins Abernathy and son were in the city a short while Wednesday afternoon He was looking well. Always pleased to show goods. Come in and see our line of Fancy Hosery. GREENFIELD BROS., 112 E.Douglas. The twentieth century is too late for a selfish man to aspire for political recognition; while it would have done ,possibly, in the first there is no place for it now. Colored men with Democratic money ideas, have but to refer to the recent Anderson, S. C, case to find out how really foolish they are. Let them go there and if they can get through on the plea that they are Democrats, or if they will be treated as negroes, because they are negroes. There are not and can never be, under the present condition of affairs in the United States, any negro democrats. Give us Ben F. McLean for mayor and we will give you a good business man for mayor. Every colored man who has the best interest of the race at heart will vote for Capt. Sam Jones for clerk of the city court. Remember, he is the only colored man on any ticket, and that ticket is the straight Republican ticket. Vote for Jones and all the rest. Vote 'er straight. Claude Stanley is the man to cast your vote for, for police judge. Remember that Henry Schadd is the right candidate to be elected marshall of the city court. OWN THEIR OWN HOME NOW I. J. Porter, of 1449 Sherwood, has paid the last penny of indebtedness on his elegant home at the above address. In him we find a fair example of thrift and industry. He is one of our most progressive citizens let others follow in his wake. —HAVE you bought your Easter suits? If not,see Miss Ida MeDonald and Mrs.Luela White. They will furnish you with Ladies and Misses Tailored Garments or cloth by the yard. Cloth Suits,Skirts, Jackets and Walking Suits. Taffeta, Silk Jackets, Skirts, and Waists. See their $10. & $15 Suit Our Hat Sale will continue on Saturday at 93 cents at GREENFIELD Bags. 112 E.Douglas Trade with our advertisers. Ladies New Medical Guide Rock-Island Book Exchange, This Is Our Kansas Brilliant Coal It is tinted with rosin,visible and iuvisi- ble.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, shaft.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. WE WISH TO MAKE YOU A PRESENT OF A VOLUME OF "The Story of My Life and Work," BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. J. B. H. and Recognized Leader of the Negro Race. This valuable work is published in one large volume of over 400 pages, and beautifully illustrated with more than 50 original drawings and photo-engravings — size 6 by $8\frac{1}{2}$ inches. SEND US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. We want you to help us in the fight against the racism that we face for the purpose of introducing it in your community. We also want agents in every county and district in the country to sell your work and to teach each town, Write now and be sure to get one. Address: J.P.Massey, SHOE-N Second Hand Shoes Bought & 339 North Main st.... E-MAKER, Bought & Sold. General Repairing. ... ... ... Wichita, Kansas. Second Hand Shoes Bought & Sold. General Repairing. 332 North Main st....... Wichita, Kansas. DEPARTMENT Dr E.Harrison, Physician and Surgeon 138 North Main st. 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. Searchlight $1.00 B.F. McLean. Lumber Dealer Wichita, Kansas. Yards at SAMPLE shoes, at Wholesale prizes. Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw THE NEXT Police Judge Claude C. Stanley, republican nominee for Police Judge, is a native Kansan. He was born in Lawrence, Douglas co., June 9 1879, and is the son of President E. Stanley of the Friends University, a life long republican. He was educated at Lawrence and is a graduate of Kansas State University and Eaitham College, Richmond, Ind, and later at the Kansas University Law school. After finishing the course at the above law school he commenced the practice of law in Kansas City, Mo. and moved to Wichita in the fall of 1897, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice as a member of the firm of Stanley and Stanley. His practice although of a general natre has inluded many of the important criminal case docked within the past three years He has always been actively interested in politics and prior to coming to Wichita he held the position of chief clerk to the school fund commissioner, under Morrill He is a staunch republican, a friend to the colore! man, and is in every way capable and worthy to hold the responsible office to which he aspires, and if elected, as we predict he will be, will hold the office with dignity worthy of his party and the entire community. Vote for him. For six (6) children,ages from 2 to 7 years,apply to Let little petty excuses go, and vote for Col.Dyer for City Attorney Hurrah for Ben McLean the next Mayor of Wichita --- --- A SHOE Homes Wanted, 火灾 J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Ill. WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight.Only $1.00 per year. Wichita, ..... Kansas Wichita, Kas., Clearwater, Kas., Peck Kas., Cheney, Kas, Watch tor our Fancy Silk Vest Sale. It's coming! The price will be 95 cts at GREENFIELD BROS., 112 E. Douglas. If you have any news for the SEARCHLIGHT leave it with Miss Lula Covington,501 N.Water, Prof, Burl Fisher's barber shop, 6081 E. Douglas, Mrs.Ella Landrum, 119 w. Pine st., James Jackson, Jackson House and our reporter will get it; or you can send or bring it to our office, 239 N. Main St. up stairs. It will always receive our prompt attention. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Knox was buried Sunday from their home on 815, Eagle, Avenue. Mrs. H. Foster and children who have been spending the winter in the city, left Sunday for her home in Springfield, Mo. She was accompanied by Miss Beatrice Turner who will visit a week with her. Books to Read. "The Story of My Life and Work" by Booker T, Washington; and the 'Remarkable Advance of the Afro American" by Prof.W.H.Crogman I also have a fine assortment of Family and Sunday School Bibles, etc.Leading and Best Works at the lowest prices;all guaranteed as represented. Miss Ida McDonald, Agent. Don't vote but once, but vote a straight republican ticket. 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.& S. ERIA COURT No.7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs.J.H. Phelps,W.C. Miss Blenco Alcxander,K.of D. Mrs.Ida Martin,W.of R. of D. Meets 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 are Cordially Invited. PALESTINE COMMANDERY No.12. Wichita Kansas. J.T.Chinneth, Emminent Commander 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 NO. 12 O.of E.S. Mrs, M.E. Banks, Royal Matton, Miss Lizzie M. Burnham, Secetty Meets 1st, and 3rd. Wednesday each month. Mt.Olive Court No.9,H. of J. Mrs Myrtle Glover, M A M Mrs J E Lewis, Secretary Mrs L Adams, Treasurer Odd Fellow Lodges. ODD FELLOWS. .....State Officers..... Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. J.L.Harper, D.G.M, Wichita W.M.Jackson, D D G M, Topeka S P Johnson, D G S, Emporia M W Jackson D G D Kans City HOME OF THE WEST No.2006. G.U.O.O.F. J.L.Harper,N.G, Eddie Thomas,V.G J.A.Martin,P.S. Meets every Tuesday night. HOUSEHOLD RUTH No.612. Mrs,Harriet Harper,M.N.G. J.L.Harper,W.R. Mrs,Mary Griggs,M W.Treas Where to go Sunday. At the A. M. P. church, 521 N. Water st Preaching at 11 a.m., Sabbath school 2 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 morning 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. Rev H Frazier will preach both morning and evening NOTICE to Committee The Committee of Arrangements of Toast lodge,K.of P. will meet at the Searchlight office at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.All members of the committee are requested to be present. By the Chairman. Miss Bessie Jones The Court House RESTAURANT. Where you can get FIRST CLASS MEALS. Lunch at all hours. Cold drinks Cigars and Tobacco. Ice Cream. 001 N.Main St. Misses Jones,Proprietræses, COLE'S 705 North Main street is the place to get your Groceries at Reasonable Prices. As cheap as the cheapest and as good as the best. Only store in town run by a Colored person.Try Us. 705 North Main street. Schollenberger Bros. BEST EQUIPPED REPAIR SHOP IN THE SOUTH-WEST. 230 North Main St. Sale Continues on Lamps, Rockers, and Parios Tables. Furniture and Musical inst uments sold on Easy Payments. Lamps put away on deposit. New goods in Queensware, Glass- ware also Granite and Tinware. The Odd-i-ta. 350 N.Main St. The Crystal Steam Laundry 114 So. Emporia, fs the place to take your clothes. Try them. - $23.00- HELENA BUTTE, GARRISON, and ANACONDA Call at "Frisco Line" city ticket office corner Main and Douglas ave for full information or address B. F.Dunn, D.P.A., Wichita, Kansas. Read The Searchlight The Festival given at the Methodistchuroh Thursday night was well attended and a nice time was had. Magnetic Islands Sinhal's experience with the magnetic island that drew his shop to destruction might have occurred in the Hebrides islands, as recent investigations show that these islands possess strange magnetic properties. On the isle of Skye is this particularly pronounced. At almost any point on this island a compass is absolutely useless, the needle changing direction every few feet, pointing to widely divergent points of the compass. The rocks of the Cullinin hills, composed mainly of gabbro and basalt, are permanently magnetized. Stone pillars set up to mark topographical survey work become magnetized in a very short time. -Chicago Journal. Greer Would Live Simpler Gov. Greer of Oregon does not approve of the bill to provide for the purchase of an executive mansion, says an exchange. "I am too poor a man to accept such a favor at the hands of the state," he says. "I am now living very comfortably, very economically, and very happily in a house, the rent of which amounts to $15 per month. To buy a fine house and turn it over to me to furnish and keep up would, instead of being a financial help, simply amount to an increased burden. Paradoxical as it may seem, I can not afford it, and if the bill now pending should pass the house so purchased would have to remain vacant while I am in office." A Trial Court's Error Where on a trial for murder the prosecution contended that the defendant concealed himself in a growth of mesquite trees and shot the deceased, and the defendant, in order to rebut this theory, offered to show experiments that had been made by the country surrounding the scene of the homicide did not furnish a place of concealment by trees or bushes, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas holds that these experiments were proper and should have been admitted and that it was error in the trial court to exclude them. 1. We have just received a large shipment of FOREIGN and DO-MESTIC WOOLENS in nobby Suitings and Trousers. It will be to your interest to call and inspect our line before placing your order. The PEERLESS TAILOR & FURNISHER 508 E Douglass Ave., 'Phone 511 PUEBLO, COLO Mrs. Turner wife of Rev Turner was called to Denver to attend the bedside of her sick daughter, Quite a number of the Elite of the city attended the Rose-bud reception at Colorado Springs last week. J. H. Morris the Colorado representative of the Western Mutual Life Association has been called to Denver on business for the company. W.H. Edwards who represented the American Woolen Mills, of Chicago, Ill., died at his residence on Spruce st, last Wednesday. Thomas Holmes who has been laid up with the la grip for some time and other complications is again able to be at work. Sunday was quarterly meeting day at the A.M. E. church, Rev. S.W. Byrd, P. E. preached both morning and evening. Jas, Easter well and favorably known in Pueblo has gone to Almoosa, Colo, for the purpose of starting a laundry, Geo.I Mitchell and Miss Mamie Thurman were quietly united in marriage last Wednesday eve at the home of the bride's sister in the Irving place. Only a few intimate friends and relatives present. The celebration given by the Odd Fellows at Woodman's hall last Monday night was quite a success. Every one had nice time. The out put of the Pueblo smelters is greater than that of any city west of Pittsburg, Pa. And it is for that reason Eastern newpapers have rightly named it the Pittsburg burg of the west, while others call it the smelter city. There are three large plants here, namely, the Pueblo Smeltering and Refining Co.; the Colorado Smeltering and the Philadelphia Smelter. The firs named is the oldest having been built in 1879. It covers several acres and employs 800 men. The Colorado is owned by one individual, Anton Eiler, and employs 800 men. the Philadelphia, the newest and much the largest of either of the other two, covers many acres, and employs over 1600 men, numbers of these are colored men. The Millwood Saloon Murder. Leavenworth, March 15.—George Turner, John Wiburn, Andy Wilson and Son Thornburg were bound over in the city court for trial for the murder of Mrs. Hudson in the Millwood saloon. Warrants are out for two more of the mob, James Kelsey and John Cummings, but both have left the county. The testimony showed that about fifteen men were in the raid and that while two temperance men took part most of the others were inspired by spite work against John Hudson, husband of the murdered woman. Another Railroad Chartered. Topeka, March 15—A charter has issued to the Hutchinson & Southeastern Railway company. It is stated that the road is intended to be an independent concern. The company is capitalized at $600,000, to build a line 400 miles long from Hutchinson to Fort Smith, Ark. The new road would go in a general southeasterly direction from Hutchinson, passing through the counties of Reno, Harvey, Sedgwick, Butler, Sumner, Cowley, Greenwood, Elk, Chautauqua and Montgomery. Select Friends' Suspension. Fort Scott, March 14.—The supreme officers of the Order of Select Friends announce that the order has been forced to suspend by the action of the Kansas insurance commissioner in revoking its license because it was considered by him to be insolvent. The order has a total membership of 3,600 in Kansas, Missouri and Colorado and was carrying six million dollars insurance. Arrangements are being made to transfer its business to a new order, the American Crusaders. Topeka, March 13.—Congressman Charles Curtis says: "There is some question about the validity of homesteads taken by squatters on the Fort Hays reservation. In 1895 the land was granted to Kansas but the president failed to sign the bill. The land was then declared open to settlement and 16 homestead claims were filed. I wired at once to have the land withheld but the claims were taken before the lands were withdrawn. The secretary has held two to be valid while the others are in doubt." THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT,SATURDAY,MARCH,16th 1901 Wishita - Business - Directory Clothin g,Hats&FurniShing Goods SEASONABLE GOODS,AT OUT OF SEASON PRICES. C.R.Fulton C.R.Fulton Wichita's Greatest F.M.Jaques Special Prices made on Furniture Either Call in whether you buy or m ing goods and g F.M.Jaques & Co., Special Prices made on Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting Either cash or easy payments. Call in whether you buy or not. we take pleasure in show- ing goods and giving you prices. F.M.Jaques & Co., 243 N.Main St. When in Topeka go to Henry C. Wilson's Cheap Eating House Opposite A. T. & S. F. Depot. Established 1878. Mrs. L. White and Miss Id- Donald, make First—Class La- Suits. Are you a St. For Reliable Rates And Quickest Time Patronize The FRISCO LINE Through reclining chair cars and latest improved Pullman coaches WITHOUT CHARGE on all Frisco trains between WICHITA AND ST.LOUIS. FRISCO LINE. Trains leave Wichita at 1.20 and 10. 45 p.m., arrive 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, etc., 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, Kau. St. Louis, Mo. 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 414 N.Water street. For a Good,First-Class Shave GO TO Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cut & Shampoos. 638½ E.Douglass Ave., Burl Fisher.Prop. When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E.Douglass Ave. 'Phone 357 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER EMBALMER. OFFICE SHORE 2350 RES. PHONE 985 213 N MAIN ST. WICHITA KANS. Clothing Store. ... es & Co., ware, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting or cash or easy payments. not. we take pleasure in show- iving you prices. 243 N.Main St. Mrs. L. White and Miss Ida Mc Donald, make First—Class Ladies' Suits. Are you a Subcriber to the Searchlight? WN Miller, Attorney at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC Practices in all the Courts of Kansas and Missouri. No.239 N.Main street. Wichita, ..... Kans. The Missouri Pacific Ry Shortest Line To Colorado Points. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Mos Direct Line To KANSAS CITY Reclining Chair Cars on all trains SEATS FREE. Call at our New Passenger station cor. Douglas ave. and Wichita st. for reliable information relative to any trip you may contemplate. E.E.BLECKLEY.P. & T.A. CAFrankenfield ...PROPRIETOR OF. City Meat Market. Dealer in Groceries,All Kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats,Poultry,Game, HAGIN'S Candy Store is the place to get choice CANDIES and FRUITS.Best Ice Cream in the city at moderate prices. Ice Cream for Festivals and Parties. Delivered. Jno. Lewis made a flying trip to Arkansas City Saturday. Mrs. Laura Brown, of Wellington spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson. Mrs. Lee Anderson, D. D. G. C. was in Arkansas City Friday in interest of the Ladies Court, and found every thing there in good condition. Mrs. Anderson contemplates a visit to all the courts in her district soon. Searchlight only $1. a year. --- Rail Road Time Table MISSOURI PACIFIC. Leave - East Bound. Train No. 10 "Kansas and Nebraska Limi ed." for Ft. Scott and St. Louis 2 25 p m Train No 6, Kansas City and St. Louis Ex- press 10 00 p m Leave for South and West No 5 for Clearwater, Conway Springs, An- thony, Kiowa, Kingman, Norwich Oxford, Belle Plain and Winfield No 451 For Conway Springs, Anthony and Kiowa 7 40 am 6 30 pm Leave for North and West No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limit ed for Conway Springs, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver No 5 mt Hope, Hutchison and Genesaeo 7 30 pm No 124 local freight, carries passengers between Wichita and Geneseseo 8 55 pm Arrive from the East No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limit ed from It Scott and St Louis No 5 From Kansas City and St Louis 1 05 p m 7 10 p m Arrive from South and West No 6 From Kiowa. Anthony, Con way Springs, D M and A points 4 55 pm No 452 From Anthony and Con way Springs 11 15 a m Arrive from North and West No 16 From Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Hutchinson No 46e From Hutchinson, and Mt Hope(daily, except Sunday) 6 10 p m No 6 From Geneseseo and Hutchin son 9 40 p m E. E. BLECKLEY, P and T A Passenger station corner Douglas ave, and Wichita st. Telephone 112 FRISCO LINE 108 For Monett, Springfield, St. Louis and all points East, daily, 1.20 p m 102 Pittsburg, Joplin, Galena, Webb City and Carthage, daily 1.20 p m 107 Burton, Ellsworth, and all points West daily 3.40 p m 102 Pittsburg, Girard, Joplin, Carthage, Vinita and Sapulp, 10.00 p m 102 Monett, Fayettville, Fort Smith, and inter mediate points daily 10.00 p m 102 Eureka Springs, Springfield, St. Louis and all points East, daily 10.00 p m For Sleeping Berths and through tickets to all pointsand particular information see B.E.DUNN, Dist.Pass.Agt. 100 Douglas Ave ATCHISON,TOPEKA and SANTA FE. No. | Arrive | Leave 408 | 10.35 p m | 10.35 a m 406 | 11 15 a m | 11 20 a m 416 | 3 00 p m | 3 00 p m a 418 | 2 20 p m | 4 00 p m a 458 | 2 55 p m | Englewood Express 428 | 6 40 p m | 6 40 p m 472 | 11 00 a m | Wichita and Western, South and West 407 | 6 45 a m | 6 50 a m 405 | 4 50 p m | 4 55 p m 415 | 1 10 p m a 417 | 12 15 p m | 1 20 p m a 457 | 7 45 a m | Englewood Express. 427 | 8 20 a m | 8 30 a m 471 | Wichita and Western, 5 15 West 416 | 3 00 p m | 3 00 p m 428 | 6 40 p m | 6 50 p m Fifty hours to Los Angeles. a Daily,except Sunday. L,R,DELANEY,Agent, W.J.BLACK,G.P.A., Topeka,Kan. CHICAGO,ROCK ISLAND and PACIFIC Time Table, Effective Nov.18,1900 Trains Arrive Leave North and East No 2 Kansas City,Chicago and St Louis limited,daily 9 45 a m 945 am No 2 Colorado Springs. daily except Sunday 9 30 a m 9 30 a m South and West express,daily, 6 49 p m 6 48 p m No 1 Oklahoma, Ft Worth New Orleans and Pacific coast,daily, 6 48 p m 6 48 p m No 3 Oklahoma, Ft Worth Dallas and New Orleans express 6 45 o m 6 45 a m No 3 Ft Worth, Houston, Galveston, San Antoin express,daily, 6 35 a m 6 35 a m a No 36 East Bound 5 10 p m 5 10 p m a No 95 West Bound 3 10 p m 3 10 p m a Daily except Sunday. Elegant free reclining chair cars on all trains and Pullman Palace sleepers from Wichita to Chicago and Kansas City without change. Also sleepers on all night trains to Fort Worth, Houston San Antoin and New Orleans. Tickets sold and baggage checked to all points north,east, south and west. Steamship tickets sold to all European points owest rates. Passenger station corner Douglas and Meade aves. phone 190 C.E.BASCOM, D.P.A. J.L Leland will make a good City Clerk;vote for him. DR.E.HARRISON. Surgical & Medical TREATMENT IN ALL Lungs,Nervous,Chronic and Private Diseases; also diseases of the EYE,EAR,NOSE,THROAT. Prices Reasonable. All I ask is a treatment. Office Jackson House WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. OZONIZED OX MARROW Oswego, Kansas. Oswego, Kansas. The A.M. E. church will give a social Sat urday night. Mrs. Belle Robinson was called to Parsons Wednesday on account of the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Margarett Perry. The teacher's county convention convened in Oswego on March 9th. Rev, Dunden preached at the 2nd baptist church at 3 p.m to a large crowd. Mrs. Anna Elm made Mrs. Kinchen a pleasant call Sunday afternoon. Rev A.J, Duncan of Chetopa, preached at the 2nd baptist church twice last week. Rev South, presiding elder of the M. E. church preached Tuesday night. There are only two colored pupils in the graduating class of 1901, they are, Brooks Porter and Miss Romelia Kinchner. Miss Dora Broadus was here Snnday. Gus Renfro is visiting his wife and parents. There will be a new choir organized at the A.M.E. church. WHAT Firm is located at 354 N. MAIN? WHAT do they give SPECIAL attention? ANSWER 1st.Tucker Grocery Co. 2nd.The best of Everything in the Grocery line at the very lowest Cash prices. W.A.Patton of Kansas City is in the city visiting friends and rela tives. He contemplates remaining in the city several weeks. Douglas Turner of Kingman, who has been visiting in the city for two weeks, has returned home. The time to work and the time to play are synonymous with the organ grinder. If You Have Dyspepsia Send no money, but write Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Box 143, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Restorative, expense paid. If cured, pay £5.50—if not, it is free. There are times when even the pastor thinks there is no earthly hope for the choir. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BURN QUINN TABLETS. All drugs refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. 25c. When a fool parts with his money the chances are that some other fool gets part of it. Memphis, Tenn., March 10.—At a recent meeting of the General executive committee of the Confederate reunion for 1801 a committee was appointed to join with the several commercial bodies of Memphis to visit Washington and invite President McKinley to be the guest of the city of Memphis on the occasion of the reunion in May next. The committee will leave for the national capital in a few days. As the time for holding the reunion approaches the several committees are becoming more active. The city is being canvassed by the committee on hotels and accommodations and every available room is being registered. A. D. Langstaff, secretary of the commissary committee, a sub-organization of the general committee in charge of Confederate reunion arrangements, has been very active in the past week or so in the discharge of the duties assigned to him. He is engaged in planning ways and means for caring for the Confederate veterans when they come to the reunion. Many of the commands will very likely bivouack in order to observe strict army regulations and if this should prove true they will have to be cared for the same as if they were in actual service again, but with more care for their comfort. The commissary committee is to look after these matters. Mr. Langstaff announces that it is the purpose of the committee to have the means of caring for every Confederate veteran whether he is able to pay his own way or not, and they will do so if it is possible. They want it understood that the commissary committee is not organized to look only after those who are able to pay their own way, but to look after the rest as well. It takes a double supply of love to make a happy home if the wife is a poor cook. Final There is an end to acute suffering when St. Jacobs Oil promptly cures Sciatica Speltz GREATEST OF ALL CEREALS Speltz Startled the Farming World in 1900: it will bring every heart in 100, with its 80 lb. of grain and fordish lay, equal to thinly, per acre of ground of Salzen, dig harvestor. Combination Corn are the things of the century. It is early and an enormously fabulously rich, a sort bound to revolutionize corn growing. Salzer's Vegetable Seeds. The beauty about Salzer's vegetable seed is that they never fall. They sprout, grow and mature in the heat, equal to droughts, rain and the elements, taking 15 prizes everywhere. We warrant this. For 14 Cents and This Notice we send 2 packages of rare, choke, fine, spleen, additively beautiful flower seeds, all worth $1, and our big catalog for only 11c. And this Notice, it is instructed to contain 1000 new customers in 1200 maps for 1400 to 1900 maps, fully worth $10.00 to get a start and our great catalogue. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. LA GROSSSE, WI. SWEET POTATOES Sent out to be sprouted on shares. No experience required. Directions for sprouting free with order. T. J. SKINNER, Columbus, Kan. The Kiowa Book gives complete description of the Kiowa, Comanche & Apache reservation soon to be opened. It is illustrated and contains a large sectional map. Send postpaid $30, a simple 3 yrs in civil war, is adducting claims, atly since DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Sends personal findings 3 yrs in civil war, is adducting claims, atly since DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worms Book of testimonials and to DAF's treatment FREE. DR. H. L. GREEN'S. ON. Baxi A. Atlanta, Ga. W. N. U. WICHITA-NO. 11—1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. A comparison of the roll of cities now with that at the time of our first census, in 1790, discloses sol. 2 strange mutations of fortune. In 1790 the fourth city in the United States was Charleston, S. C., now the sixty-sixth. The seventh was Salem, Mass., now the one-hundred-and-tenth. There were only six cities of over 8,000 inhabitants; not even a village west of the Alleghanies had a place on the census roll, and even in the east there was no Jersey City, Newark or Washington. Saturday Evening Post. Law Against Short Guns. As finally passed, the new law in South Carolina against the pistol-carrying habit makes it unlawful for any person, except a peace officer, to carry a deadly weapon less than twenty inches in length or four pounds in weight. Big Product of Mobi45: It is estimated that there are about 400,000 Angora goats in the United States and that our annual production of mohair is about 1,000,000 pounds. Although very little has been said or written about Angora goats during the last forty years, they have been extensively bred in the western states and territories, especially in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, California and Oregon. Was a Clever Englishman. Dr. William Pole, the English authority on whist, who died a few days ago, was not a physician, but a successful civil engineer, and his doctorate was a degree for music conferred on him by Oxford university. It was a proof of his cleverness that he wrote an able treatise on the method by which the eye discriminates color, although he himself was color blind. This treatise caused him to be elected a Fellow of the Royal society. ON VERGE OF INSANITY. East Randolph, N. Y., March 11.—(Special)—Mrs. E. A. Deacon of this town is Vice-President of the local Women's Christian Temperance Union. She is a lady of splendid capabilities, and these she has always directed towards the uplifting of humanity. What Mrs. Deacon says is accepted in East Randolph without question. No one has ever doubted her truthfulness or honesty of purpose. Mrs. Deacon says: "My attention was first called to the remarkable curative value of Dodd's Kidney Pills, through the cure of a literary lady who was a friend of mine, and who from mental overwork was on the verge of insanity. After the failure of her physician to help her, her husband was advised to have her try Dodd's Kidney Pills, which she did with gratifying results. She used five boxes before she was completely cured, but at the end of two months' treatment, she was her own happy, brilliant self once more. "Feeling languid and worn out myself, I thought they would perhaps be a help to me, and I am very glad to say that two boxes made a new woman of me. I feel ten years younger, am in the very best of health, and appreciate that it was entirely through the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I give them highest indorsement." These cases are becoming very common in Cattaraugus County, and many ladies have had experiences similar to those of Mrs. Deacon and her friend. What Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for these suffering women, they will do for anyone who gives them a fair trial. They are 500, a box, six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local druggist if you can. If he cannot supply you, send to the Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Work kills fewer men than the worry of having to listen to other people's troubles STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY 185. Frank J. Cheney makes cath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State offices said, and that said firm will pay $100,000 for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. [SEAL] A. W. GLEASON. Hall's Catarh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Y. HENEY & CO, Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 78. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Loafers seem to have a grudge against all men who are busy. Don't Get Kooiseare! Get FOOT-EASE. A certain cure for Swollen, Smart- ing, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder. Cures Frost-bites and Chilblains. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeKoy, N. Y. Many a woman is forced to stand up for her rights in a crowded street car. When you buy bluing, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large package 5c. Sure things are more or less uncertain. By taking Garfield Tea, the danger of contracting La Grippe is lessened, for the system is cleansed, the blood purified and the digestion perfected by this great herb cure. The most of our mistakes come from being in a hurry. When cycling, take a bar of White's Yucatan. You can ride further and easier. Some actors appear at their best in a dying scene. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. Nature made a mistake in creating men who live for themselves alone. La Creole Will Restore those Gray Hairs La Creole Hair Restorer is a Perfect Dressing and Restorer Price $1.00 Worms CASCARETS are a sure cure for tape worms and those other pests of worms that make the lives of children and their mothers miserable. Any variety of parasites that live in the human stomach or bowels, and feed on the substance which should properly nourish the body, are dislodged by Cascarets Candy Cathartic, and expelled. One or two tablets usually drive them out, and persistent use is sure to do away with the unwelcome intruders. Many children and older people suffer from worms without knowing it, and get thin and weak, although their appetite is good. The best way to find out is to take Cascarets. Never accept a substitute! BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. THIS IS CCC THE TABLET THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP 10c. 25c. 50c. NEVER SOLD IN BULK. DRUGGISTS GUARANTEED TO CURE all bowel troubles, appendicitis, billions of bad breath, had blood, wind on the stomach, bloated bowels, foul mouth, headache, indigestion, pimples, pain after eating, liver trouble, swallow compulsion and chafing. When your bowel doesn't work properly, you may get a greasy, stick. Constipation kills more people than all other diseases together. It is a marker for the allusion to long-term suffering that comes afterward. No matter what all you need, Cascarets CASCARETS today your right will never get away and be well until you put your bowels right. Take our advice; start with CASCARETS today, under an absolute guarantee to cure or money refunded. GUARANTEED TO CURE: Five years ago the first box of CASCARETS was sold. Now it is over six million boxes in year, greater than any similar medicine in the world. This is absolute proof of great merit, and our best treatment. We have faith, and will sell CASCARETS absolutely guaranteed to cure or money refunded. Go buy today, two CASCARETS, give them a house and a house, and the empty box after using 500c box, return the unused 500c box and the empty box to us by mail or by druggist when you purchased it, and get your money back for both boxes. Take our advice; what all you start today. Health will quietly follow and you will bless the day you firs started the use of CASCARETS. Book free by mail. Add: STERLING CARETS Co., New York or Chicago. THE DUTY OF MOTHERS What suffering frequently results from a mother's ignorance; or more frequently from a mother's neglect to properly instruct her daughter! Tradition says "woman must suffer," and young women are so taught. There is a little truth and a great deal of exaggeration in this. If a young woman suffers severely she needs treatment, and her mother should see that she gets it. Many mothers hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examination; but no mother need hesitate to write freely about her daughter or herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure the most efficient advice without charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. MISS PALZGRAF Mrs. August Pfalzgraf, of South Byron, Wis., mother of the young lady whose portrait we here publish, wrote Mrs. Pinkham in January, 1899, saying her daughter had suffered for two years with irregular menstruation—had headache all the time, and pain in her side, feet swell, and was generally miserable. Mrs. Pinkham promptly replied with advice, and under date of March, 1899, the mother writes again that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her daughter of all pains and irregularity. Nothing in the world equals Mrs. Pinkham's great medicine for regulating woman's peculiar monthly troubles. Profit by the experience of others if you are looking for a short road to success. Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. It's only natural for a bright man to reflect. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W.M. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. But for prejudice more opinions would become universal. For Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Indigestion is effectually cured by the original HERB medicine, GAR-FIELD TEA, which causes a normal action of the digestive organs. Some people would rather do a thing twice than do it right in the first place. Ask your grocer for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. Too many men like to stand around and grunt while some other man lifts. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Fre. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Chiblains and Frost-bites. At all druggists and shoe stores; 25c. Unless people swallow flattery it is apt to make them sick. Whisky at Scotton Funeral. A Highland Scotch minister has been creating some excitement in Perthshire by denouncing from the pulpit the custom of supplying whisky at funerals, and he declares that henceforth he will not attend funerals where whisky is to be served. Capitalist's Deal with Farmers. A Chicago capitalist is making a curious deal with Kansas farmers. He buys heifer calves, which he puts out among the farmers on shares, the agreement being that at the end of six years the farmer shall return to him for each calf so taken one 2-year-old steer and $1 cash. It is calculated that in six years there will be an average of half a dozen animals to represent each original calf. Lord Eute's Gorgeous Home For twenty years the great house of Lord Bute, on Bute island, has been in process of construction, and is not finished yet, the chapel remaining to be completed. When it is finished, however, Mount Stuart, as the place is called, will be one of the most gorgeous establishments in the world. The entrance hall alone, with its great marble columns and floor, walls and ceiling in marble of every variety and hue, will have cost $500,000. Scotland's Oldest Morning Paper. The Glasgow Daily Mail is the oldest morning paper in Scotland. The Glasgow Herald is a much older paper, but it did not come out as a daily until some years after the Mail. The Kelso Mail is about the oldest paper north of the Cheviots, and it and the Aberdeen Journal and the Glasgow Herald are the oldest three. But the Mail, which changed its name the other day from "North British Daily Mail" to "Glasgow Daily Mail" is the oldest daily. Date of Marshall's Gold Discovery. After careful and patient investigation the historical committee of the Society of California Pioneers has learned that Jan. 24, 1848, was the exact date of the discovery of gold in California by James W. Marshall. The gold was first found in the rocky bed of the tailrace of the Sutter sawmill at Coloma, on the south fork of the American river. Marshall himself made three or four differing statements of the date. The committee was unanimous in its decision. Curlous Russian Sulphur Mounds There have lately been discovered near the Amu river, about 100 miles from Khiva, in the Transcaspian province, huge mounds of native sulphur scattered over an area of about twentythree square miles, says the Youth's Companion. The mounds are described as dome shaped and about 300 feet in height. It is estimated that they contain more than 9,000,000 tons of sulphur, making this one of the richest sulphur deposits known. The "ore" is for the most part sandstone and yields about 60 per cent of sulphur. Don't ache, use Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Rheumatism, neuralgia and all pain banished by it. See your druggist. Some pictures taken from life indicate the artist ought to be. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 35c a bottle. It's peculiar that the product of the still makes men noisy. The man who is afraid to think for himself should acquire a wife. CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. A Remarkable Experience of a Prominent Statesman. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON GIVES PE-RU-NA A HIGH ENDORSEMENT. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON, OF OHIO. Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own State, but throughout America. He began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman. Catarr with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was his only unconquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Pe-ru-na came to the rescue, and he dictated the following letter to Dr. Hartman as the result: Lungs perfect, diges Hence the popul among the leading a Miss Carrie Thomas rie Thomas, in spe says: "I have used P did results. Would n "I have used several bottles of Peru-na and feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that if I like it a short time longer I will be able to fully eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing. Yours truly, "David Meckison." Many people can tolerate slight catarrhal affections. A little hoarseness, a slight cough, a cold in the head, or a trifling derangement of the digestive organs, do not much disturb the average person in his business. But this is not true of the public speaker or stage artist. His voice must always be clear. lungs perfect, digestion undisturbed Hence the popularity of Pe-ru-na among the leading actors and actresses of this country. They have come to regard Pe-ru-na as indispensable to their success. Their profession is so exacting that it requires perfect health in every particular. They regard Pe-ru-na as their friend and safeguard. Many letters are received from this class of people. Miss Carr Miss Carrie Thomas They have come to regard Pe-ru-na as indispensable to their success. Their profession is so exacting that it requires perfect health in every particular. They regard Pe-ru-na as their friend and safeguard. Many letters are received from this class of people. Miss Carrie Thomas, in speaking of Pe-ru-na, says: "I have used Pe-ru-na with spilled results. Would not be without it. No money would hire me to have a settled cold or chronic cough, or hoarseness. Catarrh is the most dreadful thing that could happen to one of my profession. Pe-ru-na is my shield and protector against this most undesirable disease."—Carrie Thomas If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio