Wichita Searchlight

We Offer Ladies Fast Black seamless hose with white dots from toe to top. Hose that never sold for less than 19c per pair. SPECIAL 9C SATURDAY Rev. Dr. Thomas of Washington D.C., in a recent lecture in that city, had this to say of the "Social Guage" of the average white man. "I tell you the colored man is being crowded out and does not stand the show that he did twenty years ago. The white man has invaded the field of labor which was formerly left entirely to the colored men in certain sections of the country. The colored man is fighting prejudice and discrimination even for the privilege of earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. We should join together as one race in one indomitabe brotherhood, build factories and give employment to colored men. Save your self from the degradation of begging work begrudged you by the white man." "You can talk about education all you please" continued Dr. Thomas, "but education isn't in it with money. Our young men go to college, generally distance the white men and come out with 'A. B.' and 'A. M.' after their names, Where do they go? You'll find them around the dining room tables of the hotels and at the boot-block stands. SEE WINDOWS FOR NEXT WEEK'S SPECIALS. Of Course. Every body knows it. Its all new stuff. and One Price to Everybody. Clothiers, Hatters, and Furnishers. Just Received. Some New things in Neckwear and Hats. Greenfield Bros., 112 East Douglas Ave.; One Price Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers. Second Hand Bicycles Money I say is the white man's guage of social distinction. He doesn't care about education. Let me tell you a story that illustrates this. A few months ago a colored man as blak as any one I see here came to New York from Hayti to buy some goods. When the sale was over the dealer took him to his hotel. Of the season and the large number of wheels that we have taken in part pay for new bicycles, we have on hand about 20 good second hand wheels that we will sell at prices that will move them in a hurry. Every second hand wheel that we take in is thoroughly over hauled and put in good repair and we guarrantee bearings to in good shape when they are sold: the bearings to be perfect and tires to hold air. Note Our Prices. swell During $17.50 Mount Rose $12.00 Andrae $15. Andrae $16.00 Ivanhoe $14.00 Ben Hur $12. King $10. Present $11.00 Iver Johnson $9. Ladies' wheels $10. to $20. A swell wheel for seven or eight years old girl $7.00 'We can't allow that man in here,' said the hotel man. 'But he is my guest' said the dealer. 'That makes no difference' they said. 230 N. MAIN WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT. "There was no more trouble. The dollar mark was over, the line of race prejudice and the white man could not see the color line. "Let me be introduce any where as a college man with a degree and, I get a polite, chilly reception. But you introduce me as a man with some honor. I demonstrate that would do honor or to a prince. All the white man wants to know is, 'Has he got money? and then, How shall I get hold of it?' "We have been talking too much about education. What we want is, an industrial unity that will give our laborers work and office positions to our educated youth." Picture Mouldings Sign and Banner Work a Specialty 119 South Main St. Is Loyal The Negro has stood by this government in all of its bloody battles with other nations and even when the great civil strife was on in this country, behold, they were and their blood stained many a South-east battle field when men's very souls were tried and won himself a name of which they are justly proud. Now they are asking and it is but right that they should, for a show in this American country. The emancipation proclamation was issued 38 years ago. Four millions and a half of Negroes were liberated from slavery, they were without money and education, without a hut to shelter them; in this most pitiful condition he began the race of life that seemed almost impossible. Today, 140,000 homes are held free of debt by Southern Negros valued at $140,000 000. The Negro's support seven colleges, nineteen academies, fifty high schools, five law schools, five medical colleges, twenty-five theological seminaries and raises $11,009,000 annually, for educational A WHITE MAN IS ARRESTED CHARGED WITH AN SAULTING AMERE CHILD WILL HE BE LYNCHED? E. W. Barnaby, a white man who claims to be 75 years of age, was arrested Thursday, charged with the heinous crime of assaulting little Gertrude Born, only 7 years of age. Barnaby ran a shoe shop at 13th and Market, and it is alleged that he en- ticed the little girl there by the promi- se of candy and pennies. The colored men met at the K. of P. hall last Wednesday afternoon in pursuance to the adjournment of the meeting held at the Searchlight office, Sunday 14th, inst. Quite a number were present, and they selected a name which was, "The Colored Men's Commercial Club." The constitution was adopted, and other routine business transacted. After a short discussion the meeting was adjourned until Tuesday night, April, 30th, to meet at the K. of P. hall when the permanent officers will be elected. Staple and Fancy Groceries Fine Candies, Cigars Lobacco C. S. Truex's, 246 N.Main. Phone 743. IGH AT HOME Geo. Gardner and wife have moved from Sherwoo ave. to 900 N. Water. A. Neeloy is able to be out among his friends after several weeks of illness. Mrs. G. H. Young has returned from Chicago after an absence of several months. Miss Bessie Jones is on the sick list. The "Heavy Lifters" club will give a nut-cracking entertainment, Monday evening, April, 29th, at the A. M. E. church. Many new and novel features will be introduced, and preparations are being made to make it a most pleasant affair. All are cordially invited to attend. Mr. 5. Dunson is quite m. MARRIED Mr. J. Dunson and Miss Maud F. Holmes, were married last Wednesday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glover. The marriage ceremony was performed by Elder H. H. Lucas. A SERIES OF MEETINGS. Rev. W. M. Alphin of K. G. Kas, is conducting a series of meeting at the Christian church, 708 Tremoht street. Every one invited. THE S. E. KLENTZ MILLINERY STORE 153 North Main Street are giving away Chinaware, Hatpins, Vases, etc., with every hat purchased; they have one of the most complete lines of Up to Date Millinery at living prices in the city. See their stock. Be a man and not a mouse, do not be so unnecessarily jealous of each other. 10 THE BRIGHT SIDE; gui So many critics constantly picture the dark side to the Negro's progress and condition. So few tell of his wonderful achievements. We admit that much of the criticism of a part of the race is true and when his short history is taken into consideration, and the conditions which were left to him as the result of a cruel bondage, and the conditions of his surroundings since, but little more might be expected even of the more unfortunate, and worst classes. But now why, not look on the other side at the progress and improvements of the better class? Whether it be admitted cr not, there is a distinct class of Negroes in this country, with an ambition and an aim as softy as that of any other people and, in spite of the opposition and discouragements, they are making their mark in the varied avenues of life. We are often amazed as we go around and mark their progress in their intellectual moral and religious attainments in the building up of homes, of schools and colleges and of churches. blonda I viboda I wad tad vavoe berveloseqm hereloseb evad evad vavoe nessas bexilas." RACIAL REVIEW Three hundred white ministers delegates to the Baptist State convention which convened at Greenwood, S. C. December S. rose and remained standing while the Rev. Edward Starks, a Negro was walking up the aisle of the church to the rostrum. Starks was 100 years August 18th, and has been preaching 76 years. He made an address, and before adjournment led the Music publishers say that the demand for "coon" songs has practically died on. The taste is now running to the religious and the pastoral. Over 500,000 copies of "The Holy City" have been sold so far, and the publishers have made nearly $100,000 out of it. Eugene Burkin, a colored boy of 19 years, who lives over in Chicago's great West side, is the inventor of a rapid fire machine gun which he claims is the most effective weapon of its kind in the world, and is destied to throw the invention of Maxim and Nordenfeld now in use in the armaments of the world into the scrap heap. Several experts who have seen Burkin's gun pronounce it a marvel of ingenuity. Little Sarah Hackett, a bright colored girl, is the prize speller of all the Alameda Grammar Schools in California, having won the honor over eighty school children selected as the best speller in four schools for the annual contest in the rooms of the Board of Education. When you want a good, hot meal, go to the "Bee Hive" restaurant, 346 N. Main. Meals only 15 cents. Hot lunch and Hot chili. Had you ever thought about the good things which Greenfield Bros. 126, E. Douglas, offer you? Now is the time to get a "bike," see the bargains that Schollenberger Bros. are offering. You can not beat them in price and quality. Go look at their wheels and buy. The K. C. Pantorium Will show you an Up- to Date selection of Fancy Trousering at $4.50. No More and No Less. Remember, any price of goods in the house at one price. 09 East Douglas Ave We should learn to be more promt in our engagements. If you have one engagement at a certain time, be there at that time. "The Helping Hands" Captain A. T. Glover's company of A. M. E workers, will give a grand May-Day drill at the Methodist church Wedn esday May. 1st. Every one is invited. Alabama has decided to call a con stitutional convention to disfran chise the Negro. The divils are still at work THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post-Office at Wichita Kan sas, 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 60 Fifth month, by mail. $1 60 Three months, by mail. $50 Advertising rates made known on application. [All matters to be published must reach this office not later than Tuesday, to reach publication in the current issue.] correspondents and agents wanted everywhere. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. GIVE HIM A CHANCE. We hear it so often repeated that the progress which the American Negro has made since his emancipation from slavery has not been in keeping with his opportunities. If those who are so quick to say this would stop long enough to remove the scales of prejudice which blinded them to every advancement of the Negro, and caused them to see through a glass darkly, they would at once see that they are in error. The progress of the American Negro since his emancipation has been nothing short of phenominal when compared with the progress of other people emancipated. When Israel went out Egypt they were ladened with the spoils of the Egyptians; when Russja emancipated her serfs she gave to each three acres of land; when the courageous blacks of Hayti, by their heroism defeated Napolian's army and threw off the heavy yoke of European masters, they became possessors of that beautiful island but when Abraham Lincoln affixed his name to the emancipation proclamation the American Negro was left penniless, friendless, without home or money; he had no where to lay his weary head: "without his forty acres and his mule," he went to work either for himself or former master, and by dint of hard labor and determination to succeed, has succeed. He has educated himself and children, he has accumulated property, he is engaged in all pursuits. There are now more than six thousand doctors and professional men among the race; fully $50,000,000 of church property, 140,000 homes and farms valued at $750,000,000; personal property of the value of 80,000,000. Considerng the adversary circumstances under which he has labored, this is a most excellent showing for little more than a quarter of a century, it is a record which should excite the admiration of the world and which should make the ex-slave holders feel proud, especially since they claim that the thrifty, intelligent and honest Negroes are the outcome of "ole mistis" and "ole masters" teaching. For every action there is re-action. If that be true what will be the ending in this country when the re-action sets in on the account of mob-violence, lynch-law and the burning at the stake Negroes in various states of this country, called 'The Land of The Free and The Home of The Brave?' He who brands the Negro as a worthless and indolent creature is an idiot or a fool, and can not see far enough to know that his nose is just in front of him. Where do you have your job work done? Why not bring it to our office? We can and will do as cheap as any one. Give us a trial. If there is any one thing which the colored people here need more than another, it is, to be of one mind. The Wichita Searchlight Base Ball team are having their new suits made. The suits will be the hotest that ever went on a ball ground. The boys mean to give every one their money's worth this season, as there is billed some very, very good games already. You will do well to keep your eyes on these columns for the day and date. Big rally at the A. M. E. church on May 5th, to raise money to lift the church debt. Every one should do something to make this a grand event. The Negro's blood that is being wantonly spilled by the cruel hands of his white brothers is like that of righteous Able's has gone up from the ground to God as a testimony against them. Who will be able to withstand the great tury when the avenger comes? New Music Firm, Burress & Goforth, are the DECKER & Sons and SWEETLAN and WESTERN COTTAGE goods. Machines of all kinds. Repairi Firm, Burress & Goforth, are the sole agents for the celebrated DECKER & Sons and SWEETLAND Pianos: the BURDETT Organs and WESTERN COTTAGE goods. String Instruments and Sewing Machines of all kinds. Repairing a specialty. Remember The Place. BURRESS & GOFORT 149 North Main St. 149 North Main St. The Searchlight Base Ball Club went up north to practice Sunday-afternoon and met a white club there practicing; after the white boys had watched the "Searchlights" practice awhile they challenged our boys for a game; this was referred to Manager Hickerson who accepted, it was to be a four innings game; the white club had all their men on the ground while the "Searchlight" boys had only five of their regular players. The game began the four innings played and the Searchlight team won by a score of 9 to 5. This team is going to show all what real ball-playing is this season. "The Searchlight" team then challenged the other boys for a further game, but they said that the "Searchlight" team had them "out-matched," and would not accept. Hurrah! for "The searchlight" Base Ball team. They are the "real thing" sure. Imbued with the spirit of prophesy, a writer in Youth's Companion observes that the first quarter of the twentieth century will probably see as great wonders as the last twenty five years of the nineteenth century have seen. Inventions which add to the comforts of mankind and which will place many of the so-called luxuries of today in the possession of all, will be more numerous, for inventive opportunities are as boundless as the imagination of man, and past inventions are often but the tools placed in the hands for attacking unsolved problems. In short, advance will be in every direction where progress becomes of special practice value, and inventions will continue to give us unimagined treasures. Often will the youth o today repeat the words of Lord Kelvin, "What yesterday I should have declared impossible, I have today seen realized." THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURDAY, APRIL, 27th, 1901 Around Town. We call your attention to the store of F. M. Jaques & Co. 243, N. Main, they are dealers in new and second-hand furniture and sell on easy paymens. You will find them perfect gentlemen to deal with. They are the poor man's friend and believe in dealing honest with every one. You will do yourself a favor by going there and buying what you want. Jno. E. Lewis, Grand Chancellor K. of P. of Kansas, made a flying trip to Sterling last Monday eve, returning Tuesday, on official business. John is a rustler. Mrs. Robert Davis, after a two weeks visit in Kingman with her husband returned last Saturday morning, much refreshed from her trip. Her husband accompanied her home and remained in the city until Sunday morning, when he returned to resume his position there. the sole agents for the celebrated Pianos: the BURDETT Organs String Instruments and Sewing ing a specialty. The Place. & GOFORTH Main St. What might have proven a serious affair happened at the home of Mrs. Turner, 824, Water St. last Wednesday. In building a fire, Miss Georgia Turner thought to hurry up matters a bit by bringing into service kerosene. The result was. an explosion, a wrecked oil can, a frightened girl and a general pandemonium. The young lady is now bitterly opposed to the Standard Oil Trust, and swears that she will never use oil again in building fires. Every one knows the reputation of Rev. H. F. Frazier and his church the New Hope Baptist, at rallies, well there will be a big great big ralley there on Sunday, May (19) Rev. Frazier says he is going to eclipse all previous ralleys at that church. He wants you to come down and help him do it. Go down and help to make this the greatest of the grand rallys - On May 1st, 1901, the great big rally will take place at the A. M. E. church. Every one is expected out to see the result of the work of the "Heavy Lifters" captained by S. S. Washington and the "Helping Hands" captained by A. F. Glover, this will be a "Banner Ralley" to remove the entire church debt. Come out every one. The annual sermon of the Odd Fellows will be preached on the second Sunday in May, (12) at the A. M. E. church, the sermon will be preached by Rev. H. F. Frazier, pastor of New Hope Baptist church. Remember the date and place. Does your neighbor read "The Searchlight?" Tradewith our advertisers. Gold Dollars For 99Cent s Nor can we sell a first-class paint for less than cost of materials, but we give you an honest dollar's worth of Paint Value for every dollar you spend. We sell QUARTERLY MEETING Sundav was Quarterly-Meeting day at the A. M. E. church. Rev. Terrell was assisted in the services of that day by Rev. H. H. Lucas, of Wellington, who preached at each of the services that day. Every one is acquainted with Rev. Copeland's masterly delivery and extensive and accurate knowledge of the scripture and all highly enjoyed his sermon. More than $50.00 was raised at the rally proper. The Friendship Baptist church is composed of some of our best people and they are doing a grand work, they have a fine Sunday School and a good membership, Rev. W. R. Hardy is one of our most refined and well educated ministers of the gospel, and as a speaker he has a reputation of no mean proportions. We wish them success. There was a big rally at the Friendship Baptist chnrch last Snnday afternoon. It was well attended. Every colored church in the city was represented. Rev. W. R. Hardy, the able and pleasant pastor of the church, was assisted in the rally by Rev. M. L. Copeland, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Rev. H. F. Frazier, pastor of New Hope Baptist church, and Rev.R. McTurner, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist church. Members of every colored church were present and did their whole duty in making the occasion a success. The object of the rally was to raise money with which to build. Rev. M. L. Copeland preached an eloquent and masterly sermon. Ben Ross, catcher for the Searchlight base ball team, sprained his finger in the game Sunday. Mr. Troy Porter, of Paris, Ill. wa a pleasant caller at our office Thursday, in company with our friend Mr. Lee Anderson. Mr. Porter is a successsful business man in Paris, here looking over Sedgwick county farms. He is thinking of buying a farm here as an investment. While in the city Mr. and Mrs. Porter were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson. He left Thursday for his home in Illinois. AGREEABLY SURPRISED Jno, E. Lewis. Superintendent of New Hope Sunday school, was quite agreeably surprised Sunday by being donated the sum of $2.70 by his school. The presentation speech was made by Assistant Superintendent Jas. S. McCune, who in a well delivered speech told Mr. Lewis that the school made the donation in appreciation of his long and valued services as their Superintendent. As soon as he was able to recover from his surprise, Mr. Lewis in a few appropriate words thanked the school for their highly appreciated donation. 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 more 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. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Where to go Sunday. A. M. E, church, 521 N. Water st, Preaching at 11 a.m, Sabbath school 2 p.m. Song service 6:40 p.m., Preaching 7.40 pm Rev. A.C.Terrill, Pastor. Second Baptist church, 521 N, Wichita st Preaching at 11 a.m., Sabbath school at 3 pm Preaching at 7.30 p.m New Hope Baptist church, 221 N. Mead ave. Preaching 11 a.m, Sabbath school at 3 p.m. Rev. H. F. Frazier, Pastor. Tabernacle Baptist church, 840 N, Water st, Preaching at 11 am, Sabbath school at 3 pm Preaching at 7.40 p.m Rev. R McTurner, Pastor, Friendship Baptist church 722 E. Murdock ave. Preaching 11 a. m. Sabbath school 18:30 Preaching 7-30 p. m. Rev W. R. Hardy Pastor RESTAURANT HOT and COLDLUNCHES HOT CHILI, a specialty. 346 N. Main st. Dennis Brockway, Prop. A CHALLENGE "We, The Wichita Searchlight base ball team, hereby challenge any amateur base ball team, colored or white, at any place to play a game of base ball on any date after May 15th, 1901, the winner to take 60 per cent and the loser 40 per cent of the gate receipts. Columbus C. Hickerson, Manager, Care of Wichita Searchlight. THE NEGRO FIRST OF ALL AN AMERICAN. My study of the Negro began when he was still a slave, but when the fetters were already dropping from his hands. Fleeing from a Confederate prison, I sought his aid with confidence, and tested not only his faithfulness, but his sagacity. As a soldier, I saw him shed his blood for the flag which meant only bondage and oppression to his race, though already growing radiant with the promise of liberty. During fifteen years of the early years of his freedom (1865 to 1880) I studied him as an employer, a citizen, a lawyer, a judge. I was thoroughly familiar with his status in every portion of the Southern states, and since that time had studied it in every state of the South, keeping always uppermost in my mind his view of his past and his hope for the future. I have studied him, I will admit, with growing appreciation. He is a new type, a new MAN. He has sloughed off the African and is, first of all things, an American—American in instinct and aspiratian, as well as largely in blood. In some respects he understands the white man better than the white man understands himself. COLE'S Grocery Store 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. To be a man demands infinitely more than that you are twenty-one years of age. B.F.McLean Wichita, Kansas. Yards at Wichita, Kas., Clearwater, Kas., Peck Kas., Cheney, Kas. For a Good, First-Cross Shave GO TO Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cut & Shampoo. 638½ E. Douglass Ave., Burl Fisher Pron The Court House RESTAURANT. FIRST CLASS MEALS Lunch at all hours. Cold drinks Cigars and Tobacco. Ice Cream 601 N.Main St. Jones and Williams, Progs 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. If you want your money's worth in Clothing,Hats and Furnishing Goods,trade with GREENFIELD Bros 112 East Douglas Ave. For Firs-Class Furnished ROOMS GO TO GO TO Mrs V.Matthews 239 N.Water st. Houck Hardware Store Screen Door, Screen wire, Ice Crem Freezers, Rubber Hose, Lawn Mowers, etc. 116 East Douglas ave. WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight. Only $1.00 per year. Mrs. Luvenia Brown, who has been quite ill for several days, is able to be up again. Lodge' Directory Knights of Pythias. Toas LodgeNo.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA, KAN. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Castle Hall 338 North Main street. Regular Meetings Second and Fourth Monday Night in Each Month, Viking Knights in good standing Welcome Bert Glover, Chan. Com. ERIA COURT No.7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs.J.H.Pheips, W.C. Miss Blencq Alexander, R.of D. Mrs.Ida Martin, W.of R. of D. Meets 1st. and 3rd. Monday each month Masonic Lodges. ARKANSAS VALLEY Lodge No.21. A.F. & A.M. 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, High Priest J.S.Fauver, King. 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 Matron, Miss Lizzie M.Burnham,Seerty Meets 1st and 3rd.Wednesday each month. M. Olive Court No.9, H. of J. Mrs Myrtle Glover, M A M Mrs J E Lewis, Secretary Mrs L Adams, Treasurer Secrets every Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m. Odd Fellow Lodges. Grand United Order. of Odd Fellows. J.L.Harper, D.G.M, Wichita W.M.Jackson, D.D.G.M, Topeka SP Johnson, D.G.S, Emporia M.W.Jackson D.G.D Kans City HOME OF THE WEST No.2906. 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. When in Topeka go to Henry C. Wilson's Cheap Eating House Opposite A. T. & S. F. Depot. Established 1878. POSITION OF THE SEARCHLIGHT BASE BALL CLUB. THEY ARE A HOT NUMBER. B. Anderson, C. H. Buford, P. G. Wallace, E. Gragg, 1st b. M. Vernon, 2nd b. E. Jackson, 3rd b. S. Collins, s. s. J. Edgerton, l. f. A. Lowe, c. f. Captain. W. Johnston, r. f. C. C. [Bud] Hickerson, Manager. The Colored Commercial Club will meet at the K. of P. hall next Tuesday eve. at 7:30. Come Out. -823.00- HELENA, BUTTER, 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. 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 Express 10 p m Leave for South and West No 5 for Clearwater,Conway Springs, Anthony, Kiowa, Kingman, Norwich Oxford,Belle Plain and Winfield 7 40 am No 451 For Conway Springs, Anthony and Kiowa 6 30 pm Leave for North and West No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limited ed for Hutchinson,Pueblo,Colorado Springs and Denver 5 05 p m No 5 mt Hope,Hutchison and Genes4eo 7 30 p m No 124 local freight,carries passengers between Wichita and Genesseo 8 55 p m Arrive from the East No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limit ed from Ft 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 and D M and A points 4 55 p m No 452 From Anthony and Con way Springs 11 15 a m Arrive from North and West No 10 From Denver,Colorado Springs,Pueblo and Hutchinson 11 20 a m No 46® From Hutchinson,and Mt Hope(daily,except Sunday] 6 10 p m No 6 From Genesseo and Hutchin 9 40 p m s on E.E.BLEGKLEY,P and T.A. Passenger station corner Douglas ave. and Wichita st. Telephone 112 FRISCO LIE 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 103 Burton, Ellsworth, and all points West daily 3.40 p m 102 Pittsburg, Girard, Joplin, Carthage, Vimita and Sapulpa 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 15 416 3 oo p m 3 oo 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.I.BLACK,G.P.A., Topeka,Kan. CHICAGO,ROCK ISLAND and PACIFIC Time Table, Effective Nov. 18,1900 and St Louis limited, daily 9:45 a m 945 am No 2 Colorado Springs, Denver and Pacific coast 9 45 a m 9 45 am No 4 Kansas City, St Louis' and Chicago night Expr. 9 00 p m 9 00 p m No 32 Accommodation daily except Sunday 9 30 a m 9 30 a m South and West No 1 Ft Worth, Dallas, Houston and Galveston express, daily, 6 48 p m 6 48 p m No 1 Oklahoma, Ft Worth No 3 Oklahoma,Ft Worth, Dallas and New Orleans express 6 45 o m 6 45 a m 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 35 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. Pasaenger station corner Douglas and Meade aves. phone 190 C.E.BASCOM,D.P.A. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURDAY APRIL, 27th 1901 Trade at FULTON's-It pays. Clothin g,Hats&FurniShing Goods SEASONABLE GOODS,AT OUT OF SEASON PRICES. C.R.Fulton Wichita's Greatest F.M.Jaques Special Prices made on Furniture Either Call in whether you buy or n ing goods and g F.M.Jaques & Co., ..... Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store. F.M.Jaques & Co., 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 showing goods and giving you prices. F.M.Jaques & Co., 243 N.Main St. See the "ad" of Snyder Bros. You can find them at 212, N. Main. WN Miller, Attorney at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC Practices in all the Courts of Kansas and Missouri. No.239 N.Main street. Wichita..... Kans. 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 8.25 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. The Red Front Racket. Quotes the following list merely as a sample of the prices that pre vail in onr store: 17 lbs Granulated Sugar .....$1.00 13 lbs Sal Soda ..... . . . . . .25 8 bars Diamond C Soap .....25 1 gallon N. Y. Apples .....25 3 cans best Tomatoes' .....25 1 can Warranted Bak'g Powder 10 1 lb Smoking Tobacco .....20 5 lb package of Oat Meal with nice soup bowl .....25 Best line.lowest prices of Dry Goods Clothing and Shoes Ever had for sale.Call and examine and prove for yourselves. Red Front Racket The Peoples Economy Store. Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw. 'Phone 257. 255-257 N.Main es & Co., store, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting for cash or easy payments. not. we take pleasure in show- iving you prices. 243 N.Main St. 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 AND EMBALMER. OPPICE PHONE 325 RES. PHONE 325 213 N. MAIN ST. WICHITA, KANS. Peerless Steam 155-159 N.Market St. 'Phone 237 Office on First Street. Our Summer Suiting Is Going Fast Now is the time to make a selection for your season clothes. TAILOR & FURNISHER 508 E Douglass Ave., 'Phone 511 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. Mrs. Ida B. Clark, Agent. 626 N. Water St. Searchlight $1.00 Sale Continues on Lamps, Rockers, and Parlor Tables. Furniture and Musical inst uments sold on Easy Payments. Lamps put away on deposit. New goods in Queensware, Glassware also Granite and Tinware. The Odd-i ta. 350 N.Main St 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 fol- lowing 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. For six (6) children, ages from 2 to 7 years, apply to If our readers will watch our colmns they will be able to ffnd good bargains at the stores that advertise with us. Laundry. The PEERLESS COLONIST IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and the greatest living Negro of our times. The book is published in one large volume of over pages and beautifully illustrated with over 1,000 photo-enrangements and over 1,000 photographs in cloth, $1.50. Here indeed is a life-story stranger than fiction. It is the most thrilling experience, heroic struggle and remarkable achievement of the GLAEANISMS which tells all about Mr. Washings's autobiography. Free Offer! Send us your name and address and we will immediately forward our free offer of a volume of the $5.00 book. We want you to buy it. We also want agents in every county and district in the country to sell it. it. If you will enclose only ten cents in stamps we will also send our magnificent agents' vassing box. We allow highest commissions, pay freight and till orders on thirty days' credit. Write at once! J. L. Nichols & Co., Naperville, Illinois Trade At SNYDER BROS. As we have a large stock of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC WOOLENS, at Nobby Prices. All Work Guaranteed. 212 N. Main St. A B The Store IS AN AUTOPIGRAPH Tuskegee Normal and Negro of our times. T 400 pages and beautiful and original drawings in cloth. $180. It is a recital of the m markable achievement "GLEANINGS" which Free Offer! See after book. We want you to We also wantigate in it. If you will enclose only ten cents in stamps vassing book. We allow highest commissions, p Write at once! J. L. Nick DR.E.HARRISON. 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 407 North Main St. The Missouri Pacific Ry Shortest Line To Colorado Points. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Mos Direct Line To KANSAS CITY AND {ST.LOUIS.' 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. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By ```markdown ``` This wonderful half pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair straighten the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. It is the best preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pinprick and beautiful. A toilet necessity. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its great advantage it is superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not positional to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by designers or by the designer for 3 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabask Ave., Chicago, Ill. C. GRIFFITH Book Free! Story of My Life and Work BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal of the Industrial Institute, and the greatest living book is published in one location, beautifully illustrated with 50 photo-gravings by Frank Beard. Size, 68½ inches; retail price, $12.95. A life-story stranger than fiction, thrilling and ever written. Ask for a free copy of our basket list all about Mr. Washington's autobiography, a couple's address and we will forward our free book to the $5.00 have a copy to introduce it in your community. Every county and district in the country to sell we will also send our magnificent agents' copies, fresh and ill orders, on thirty days. Books & Co., Naperville, Illinois Oswego, Kansas Oswego, Kansas Miss Fannie Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. July Robinson, and Mr. Geo. Parker of Cherryvale were in the city Sunday. Miss Lela Biggers anticipates spending the summer in Ottawa. Miss Mazie Grant, of Neosho, Mo. Mr. John Lindsay, and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, of Joplin, Mo. were in the city Sunday. Miss Alice Worley, of Joplin, Me. is visiting relatives in the city this week. Mr. Godfrey Price, of Sedan, is in the city visiting his aunt, Mrs. Sarah Walker. Misses Adah and Anna Williams Nellie Washington, and Mesdame, Clayton and Evans of Parsons were in the city Sunday, as were ake, Messrs. Arthur and Wesley Cohen Grimes, Bradley, Craw, Potter and others. Several persons from Chetopa Sunday. Rev. Wittley, the pastor of the M. E. churchj is enjoying the presence of his family which arrived Wednesday. Mr. Robert Walker and Miss Lizzie Murray were quietly married Thursday. The ceremony was performed by Judge Burns. There was a pound party given in honor of Rev. Wittley and family last Wednesday evening. These present were: Mesdames Millie Jones and Lizzie Brown; Misses Olivia Perter, Lillie Easter, Carrie Lindsay, Pinkie Richardson, Luddie Johnson, Mary Isaac, Gertrude Anderson, Ellen Marion, and Messrs. Nat Landia, Arthur Thompson, Joseph Parhs Willie Thompson, Brooks Porter, George Davis and James Irvine. Al report a fine time Mrs. Hattie Dawson, of Jopha Mo. is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Mr. Tom Mayhew, of Chetopa, has in the city Monday. Mr. Frank Bedell is recovering from the small pox. —Died, Mr. Joseph Fryson, Tuesday, of pneumonia. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his sad departure. Died, Mr. Jim Baown of consumption. He leaves a mother, two sisters and four brothers to lament their bereavement. The Boston Store offers bargains in Ladies' Hosiery and Shirt waists Know thyself, before you try to learn about others. (ene Ss ISAYS er Cheerfully “Rec wmmend Peruna./toi All Who | iene eee) : | ==) Wantia id Tonic. and a Safe. — wes | pecs aged «Cure? for Catarrh.” |S) Prominent mombérs of the @lersy ate’ kivide’ Poruna” thelr’ unqualified en- |oeflorsement. Thgeg-men sums runa especially adapted. to..preserve them |“ ‘grom eatarrh ofttnariocal 8 which tas always been the bane of public 153] rs, and BBnesall catarth@! debility incident to the sedentary life of the |, Seteyman. Ampne- aa futterances of noted clergymen on tho cura- PC ltfve virtues of Perna: following one from Bishop James A, Handy, “AD_D,, of Baitiinpres 4 os 4 ‘“Ltake ghemt pléasdretn acknowledging the curative effects of ip Perna tie Gligtaiioh of a friend I used your remedy and cheerfully eepetmend your Peruna to al! who want a good Tonic ete dette aEEE lamoc A Handy. $3 & $3.50 SHOES ier Logg a MADE, .;,.. ey ee ‘Tho real worth of my. #2 2 shoes compared with, REM : other naxes atop to Babh ay si Cit eizehauecaunot bo” ENA J Sypailed at any ples: “Hest ta the eet for mca ib ei mlled a} any price, Dov: ts he wg for mega 5 627) Sens Weitftiamdicataerecasynhanany sinergwaacon , biggies prove that may statement ie nue tree no? oneness Pee.) ro “Signed)-W.-L. Dongine, ii aed ‘Poke no substitatet Insist on having WT. Dowplasshors Sanit pinacanstiitctataaenatns Sotceatertnl” ANRe Hosp thom | ito one denier ectarvo.cala fa ease cn HE a Bees ope in ‘aui'whi nat pet thee fortron ofter c/a Bice tes tactopy ‘enclosins pre and sserectra for carriace. (GMs. CASE RAN Dver 1,000,000 satishied wearers. ‘New Spring Catalog free: “Qasaaane Mea > see Past Calor Eyelets used exclusively. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. GPanmIN Weegee, “A HushandEscay li gd ; It the Agngs, <-. 3 a o wt aay fees i sore AMTAMMS F008 og 15388 2 fis \ Oe = AN A re ae Edward Stevens, ; Mrs. Edward Stevens, of Carthage, “ NY., writes as ‘follows: &. “1 now take pleasure tn. notifyin; youl that my husband has entirely r ‘covered from catarrh. He is a well ma today, thanks to you and Peruna. Hé took six bottles of youragedicine as dis, Tected, and it proved to be just the thing ‘for him. His-appetite is good and every thing he eats seems to agr with him. His cough'has left him an he is gaining in flesh, and seems to be" well every way. I hope others will try your medicine and receive the benefits | that we have.”—Mrs. Edward Stevens. ‘When the catarrh, reaches the throat it Is called tonsilltis, or larnygitis. Ca- tarrh of the bronchial tubes is called bronchitis; catarrh of the lungs, con- sumption: > Any, internal. remedy that yill cure catarrh in one location will eure it In’any other: location, This is . .W. L. DOUG $3 & $3.50 SHOE other axes ft to Ba.bh shy Sets Clit ee ‘Sunied a uy psteg” est in th word fort et fiaee scree cent ae at Sicerin the world. X willpay 81,000 10a Drove thae my statement is mge trne “Signed)-W: ‘Take no substiteitet Insist on having W. Heep thous eigdve one deaior exetuatve ale i 5 sho'does nok Ksop thom anit will not get them x irect from factors. enciosinz price and 20, Drer ion cavistied wear. ‘New Sp Fut Cir Bylot suedectenvey. W. L DOUGLAS SOZCDONT Tooth Powder. 25¢ vere treet Thompson’s Eye Water ‘ey BE Asthma soliot for : KIDDER’S PASTILLES, So.t 0s aif Deures CS as IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED yp Ap py N nomesin Westera Cau. do the land of plenty Pest apy ae WEaN! ag ses oe F Golegates, ete. and full {sforzation as to reduoal rairay rates can be had ‘on appiteation to the Superintendent of Pomigraticn, Deparument of Inyerioe, uaa, Ganada‘or o: 3.8, Grewroed, 21 W. Ninth St Havens Clty Mo. Special excursions to Westera Gaasde duce Machaes Aol, MORE. THAN HALF A CENTURE eee, OUR GVARANTEE ea yume cue AeA Sete TAP I |\ sows. EEE oe gaara ee eee Psy pens A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON, —— PLEASURE © C: i GO HAND IN Bk Saal aussie ae BEG tay mane set cai eae | sof eee cer | nisi eeepc ica | ie eee” ear S36 it é@ B:> G&ITIRE COMPANY, | Indianapolis, Ind. a Why Perna has-—beeome eo “justly famous in the cure of catarrhal dis- CASS. -« It. ures catarrh, wherever lo- cated. Its cures remain, Peruna:does fot palpate; it eures. * MrsPrederick Willams, President ‘ot thé South Side Sakiltes* Aid Society ‘Ot Chicago, Ml. ggzites the following words .of- pralse'gaa saad for Peruna fromg™ 973 Cuyler ‘a¥e,, 9.i gfe Chicago, i11.j° 2 oe “My “home ted? iS never with oat? o Peruna, for figs have foul dua Jim ing the:past six$: Zam (Mh years: that there 194 TS is no remedy 7” [peavey E that will at once TAM? § for Feruna im 5 973 Cuyler ave, +: gee Chicago, iL; ° Tae = My “home ted? 4 never with oafts > AE Peruna, for'¢4 have found digg Em, ing the.past six’ ba hy years: that there 7 Se is no. remedy 1/, et BYE that will at once { UG alleviate. _suffer- dyer: ing and “actually “Mrs. Fred Williams. cure, as Peruna does. Four bottles Jetely cured me. of catarrh of the of ceveral year Pees if. may ly, or | of us col e° take Péruna,, 1 day or two dehias thrown the siekn % ol system.”—Mrs. ae sxgailsen 109 Shemera cee ee Pate ot 00 st rend, Chicai j@ Assistant ae. cee gal SN" a Shortae ay ped ‘about Perens - viii? 4 ties tobsctve 4 A {he wonder fuli7 4 WX E arative . effects 14a We Of Peruna cspe- eae ERS ‘efally on persons 2”? Rees E eine ei et weer ) Peop te Hospi- ———— “a eer ae OD 3 following ay 1 pe he Te th tb cobserve 3 . hrative . effects [game gE “Of Peruna cspe- | SmER SENS F selally on persons 4” Roe suffering with a STERN Ter TT reonges ee pale ‘Mrs. W, A, Allfson. tion. of ¥ 1, Iungs, and stomach, generally. walled catarrh.~ It allaviates Baia-and. soreness, increases the appe- “and: so-tones up the entire system thatthepatient quicklyregains strength and health.”"—Mrs. W. A. Allison. It yon do not derive prompt: and satisfactory results from. the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving @ full statement of. your case and he will be pleased to glve you his aluable advice, gratia: ‘Address ‘Dr, Hartman, President of ‘The Hartman Sanitarium; Columbus, O. |. The 1a lives on top of amoun- taig [Ragas to climate. “Bhaplicity, “6 thelind purity com: bin gt seers & the herb medi cine’ fiitt. cures coustigtion and liver Orbe ea ‘ A-pig Gid pot acquire his ee ee “Be Pousgeek Ache and Borat Shake int8Yotfr shoes, Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet, At all Druggists and Shoo Stores, 25c. Sqmple sent FREE, Address Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Generous to Galveston. Mrs, J,,C. League of Galveston has given $5,000, one-half the cost of re- pairing the. damage. done the Ball high school in that city by the stort | ot last ‘September. Sho fs o daughter ot George Ball, who gave the school fto the city. Government Will Purchase Daiieer: « ‘Thesold Corcoran “art “gallery, “at Penn. avenue and Seyenth, street, now rented for ns¢ by’ the United States as the-court-of-cinims; is to-be bougitt Jnxthe-gaxernment £95. $3,200,000,5 The ‘owners rppeb., getting, 319.900 "a yan end be Hel eb a ed from {é Will’ not be’ hidpd to PT eeky iyfie new Corcorad gt it Ti becatcs ‘The ineome only wil] be expended... Ree S SERIA Mat ytd Lee ee “ ayas a eoiniting gt re- ci oe meeting recent ‘lp lew Bp wos camenting ot the =: sarogess Hitaele assockitiod: and Sh See 10 emo Phare of ich sRév. Dr. MSArt? is pastor. The: bate and eeeeeegerere Bers Wa Tee eRanest Shjntse nitnistBr to this country, was the prihclpal apeak- erand “Rev, Dr. Heber, Newtomy the distinguished Jp also Gdittdad an aici CONCH ve en, BAEC OF CADE Prestient-Thwing of the’ Westere Regerye University at Cleveland sys in noting <:amaried ‘esieageetel jum of divinity.students that. tw in- Hidhosd grchice this realilt-the jarger dnducemeiits-‘which . commaralal Spurs ‘Suite. otter Aud. the unsettling @f re- youd: belfets ‘end doubts as:to. future relationg between: church and sagiety. ‘Young ‘mens says Mr. Thwing; ate {0 doubt, whether the church is tobe & place of worship ora sort of club PRADO RAI ALL LDP RARER SEPERATE HS ; ‘ 2 : 5 5 j an’t Sleep? : } Did you ever have that feeling of oppression, like a weight on your chest, or a load of.cobblestones in your 3} stomach, keeping you awake nights with:a horrible Sensation of anxiety, or tossing*restlessly in-terrible dreams, that make the cold perspiration break out all ‘over you ? That's insomnia, or sleeplessness, and some. unfortun- ates suffer with it night after night, until their reason is in dangerand they are on the edge of going mad. The Cause of this fearful ailment is in the stomach and bowels, and a Cascaret taken at night will soon bring relief and 1 give tthe! sufferer, sweet, refreshing sleep. Always:insist on getting CASCARETS! S a 2f Lore: cele 180) ait t'4thim hobo-mobo troocks!—Fack. id Scenic : | vot nave boom using cascamers | the od ge ig for lasomola, with watch Bevo been aleted ae Sag: | Guocgreta neva given te more relictintoacy |S og sdogol a= gy Bameey ~ ~"-} SRST, recommend thom tomy trieads ax'te- | 8d atnoall WY .0 410 - aa AS iia eee (EY Ube ‘The Coldest thr f are. © aw] whaler Tat wre fh idee Seathen | Bi” 2 ‘ 2S re it. Bis: t BEST'FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. : gg THIS £ as poh Hn ; te alae e et lee feet) Ww : iS ee ed tance WORK WHILE YOU se Wve spun oct. THE TABLET. "a ; _ae DRUGGISTS SPAR ARZAND.O.cURE i vevslgrenbencamentiolie onion: | oa SE ARANTHOR 10 Ghee: rine, fonts ee we ere ter dec ae: Sepiee ate bey aera | Sacer chiaee mecca Fieeatanitaciapny: aves sane Ene RCRmER agree | Sues atte sesreetrtaere Reneaea ened bd Rea got ane gene ets Hird: bake gut adv tae Rat hth DABEAMEN tog ly pur ob aneclace Bac ee bed wazen) Pane oupaavien te mater, what ails Festa ee ee eer Heicr A eset oan mawrernbeanadial Bete eee ACERTAING! et SORE, VEAK BINFLAMEDEYES. MITCHELLS 29S ‘SALVE MAKES THE USE OF DRUGS UNNECESSARY: Price. 25 Cents Davai. Loneliness of the Ocean. CPOWISE THLE THe WEA LY DE, the fron four-masted sailing - ship Afghanis ed to SERA Soo oR RAS to Liverpool without being spoken by another vessel. Not-a word was heard trom her dsparture till she sailed up the Mersey-a-few Gays, ago. Burgards as Town Scavengers. Charleston, S.C, ‘enlists the ¢0-6p- thatlontof a-tolouy of bumaartedn the scavenging of the town. In order to im sure that the birds are allowed to-con- tinue their humane work unmolested a fie of $5 is fmpdsed for killing or per- manently disabling any member of this active auxiliary scavenging depart- ment, ‘Their favorite resort is ‘the old market house on Meeting street. Piano Keys... | Did you clean your tvody| plado! keys and knife handles with alcohéls A so lution of two-thirds of alcohol and one-third of sweet oil will take ink stains from wood. But if they are {ech -stains-and-not-inrge; before -try- ing that take a soft cloth, breathe up- on the stain, then rub geatly while tho spot is damp and aoft frm the breath, and there are ten Siang poe pia the spot will ub/out without. trowbl i aac a ‘The plan of the Céntral Pacific ratl- road to cut off 107 miles. by. crossing Great Salt lake involves a great en- gineering problem, °-The'lake has to"ba crossed at a point where it is thirty- two miles wide; trestle-wotk bemg necessitated for the whole of the dis- tance, excepting two miles across the tocky- Promontory-potat:"~"Tiis- View afforded passengers over.the new route will be novel and picturesque, Watnat Troe Brings 84,000. A mammoth blick Walnut tree om the: farm. of{ B.:P, Gaus -in.. Williams county, Ohio, has just. been..sold for $4,000. Several Iumbet dealers have examined ehips from this tree, and all have declared it to be_the finest specimen of that “kind of wood they ever saw.—-Phe-tree~swas -eight- feet in. diameter, forty feet above the stump and extended seventy-three feet ffom the butt to the first limb.” id, a ke A In St. Lou-s, where street carttrans- fers are good only within an Hour of the time of their issuance; "an> ordi- nance has been introduced in cOuncils to compel the companies to place a clock in every car. ‘The compas Taake ‘no allowanee-for! mistakes of the conductors in punching the time on the transfers and the object of the proposéd Iegiblatioa is fo. enable paw -sengers to eall the conductors to abe count when they: err. : ‘Try Red Cross BallBiite, 5 cents pee eR » «( liven, the -gowardly. cnginggr whistles at danger. , geosinnsgenteaes eatoet waned + Good tok fs a necons Cae. GSES ths bese "Costs oo meee tine poor aE, | A phildsopher gains gréat results by putting up with small annoyances: + | ste tei othg Byron For children teetbing, sotteoa the guns, reduces fy | Eanmatte, are paaccorenwibdcate: Seat Even in a civil Suit the lawyers em be very uncivil to cach other. 5 Bee eet | acough cure.—J.s9¥, OBniES, 22 /ThITg Axe, By alnneapolia Wide daa eae OE An audience may be apathetic in witnessing a pathetic play. 2 $éd2 seres2 od? iasaiagtad boog ve etd eedisey | ‘Distress fo Swiss Villages SP He VInaEees Tear Pripowrg,-Switeere land, are in great distress, the old in- aay of Platte BterE ech used a: ¢ the thtrad! Mtitite money, having disappeared. Other countries furnish the markets, - senBomand for Mare eas ‘ the Secretary fe Navy recent= munpamiea’ mote battieshins, Congress Considered hi Fecommendaticns favorably and au e constrnction of eve fl ngwerdatfwarahipy Breteuaph ts hat our ‘seaports - raquire,| and ‘for! tions Will not adaequately supply this, Defense Against. all disorders of the digestive ore fins, such a3 dyspepsia, constipation, Dil- adequately aiferited by that aiicient eme edy. Hostetter’s Stomach ‘Bitters, ‘Try it. ‘An ounce of might is often more posverful than.a.pound.of right. Jeti ui dene eeecialnal eee gmoney, but writs Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis, ae "Horse pottes of he. ahoohe thematic é ye Ie cured pay #20; 1¢ not itis tree. Ada tatorite flower of the fortune hunter is marigold. Woon gyéling, take a bar of White's Yo catan, You can ride further and easier. Life is too short to be wasted in ‘hatred and petty worries. | + [Itjeretzonh thew ngw good a remedy wi A pea f@ | Wizard Oil its sales pen quble iit a. day. | Memory is. the tax-gatherer of the past. ce Red Cross Ball Blue is better than bottle or. box. blue: and-also much cheaper. Large 2-oz. package 6 cents. ‘Too many: ancestors have spoiled many a good,man, , _ BOTS FaneeEss prEs-re duce the fastest_and brightest colors ES known dye stuff. pi Theiatod dealewis always.an the ? lookout for slippery customers. | Take Garfield Tea for constipation; it has this to recommend it: it is made from health-giving uerbs and it surely CUES. yy yp pe ype “It doesn’t/sharpen a maa’s! wits to keep his nose dawn té the/gtindstone: piss fee wee mie al eek ans It ig the. only Mercer Syollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating. Feet, Corns and , Bunions., Ane, Allen's Foot-Hase, 2 powdet-to b¢ 6haken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample-sent PREB. Ad- dress, Allen, . Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. ‘Talk is. cheap uptil.youvant to use a long distance telephone. Spring Cleaning Made Easy. ‘Much of the terror of Spring Cleaning may bere fot bana ae weather should boselected for the worl, and ovety Fhinghecamses pibvidal bolore and Ivory Boap will be found best for washing paints; floors and 33 {t, Jy) harthless tnd eiy odbelnn Gd Nake Obiibue Gess and fresh, ELIZA R. PARKH It isn't{hbtdh fot id | play polter witli a fellow who is color blind. el. ee Se “WG aitaF CAB anata Dollars roy? 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KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Presbyterians of Hiawatha have build a $10,000 church. Baker University is not only out of the city but has $5,000 for added equipment and new buildings. Stiff Simons, of Sedgwick county, paid his 160 acre farm on the Little Tennessee river for $8,400. Gee B. Landers, a wealthy cattleman and banker of Anthony, died at the Watsonie insane asylum. Theletic field at Fairmount college is 300 by 355 feet and is enclosed with tight fence eight feet high. A telephone war between the two telephone companies in Emporia has lost the stage of wire cutting. Secretary Colburn is the author of a book on alfalfa which is being published by the Orange Judd company. Tupelo has had 214 fires in the past year of which 19 were incendiary, according to the opinion of the fire chief. Mrs. Wiley Trother, aged 22, of Jackson, made attempts to take care of life; first with aconite and spread with a razor. Prof. christman, of the Emporia Normalized in re-election to his position for the reason that in his lectures he agrees that a man never loves. E. W. Cunningham, associate justice of the supreme court, has been superintendent of the First M. E. church of orara for 31 years continuously. A hotel at Atwood was quarantined until the inmates kept in by armed citi- ness. The county health officer be- feared of bloodshed and wired state secretary for help. The Union Pacific railroad company in need an application to increase its digital stock from $196,000,000 one mil- lion dollars more. The filing fee is the greatest ever received by the state of Massachusetts being $10,200. That big well made at Greensburg in many days still stands although closed it. It is more than one hundred feet up and twenty-eight feet in diag- ter and will stand while time lasts; bringing earthquake. Captain Edgar G. Frye, formerly a tenant in the 20th Kansas has passed mination for appointment in the regular army, and his name is placed on the list of appointments to become from Kansas. Valories of certain of the city officers in Nebraska have been fixed as follows: drive, $2,000; city attorney, $1,200; brief of police, $1,200; fire marshal, 2000; police judge, $720; special de- tectives, $80; patrolmen, $720. President McKinley's stop at Junc- nion city on June 8, was arranged for passing the Kansas G. A. R. encamp- ment. His stay there will be 45 min- utes. The encampment dates have been changed until that time from June 8. The tax committee met in Topeka and elected John Francis chairman and agus flurrell secretary. Sub committees were appointed on special lines as follows: on real estate, Representative C. F. Biddle and Treasurer Grimes. on personal property, Senator F. D. Smith and Representative Emil Grosset. on railroad telegraph and express company and Pullman company's property. Senator Hurrell and Attorney general Godard. Under a new law old soldiers are to be given preference in political appointments in Kansas under a heavy penalty for violation of the act by state, county and city officials. John Prathe, of Atchison county, aged 75, married a woman of 65 and after four days the bride quit the much because the groom did not provide well and would not light the morning fire. The central school building in Osage city is to be enlarged and improved in summer to the amount of $3,000. Many eastern Kansas lands who allowed their property to be sold for homes are now endeavoring to clear their titles. A constable, acting under orders of court, destroyed the furniture of four plants at Mineral. Cherokee county, buried at $500. The property belonged to Kansas City beer company. a carload of matches in the Newton crush caught fire. Next to it was a jar of oil. The situation had a bad look, but the fire was put out with only the loss of four cases of matches. Rural free delivery of malis is a valuable stimulant for the work of making good roads. The postoffice department makes it a condition for the continuance of service. Kansas communities are awakening to the occasion. Mrs. Carrie Nation had leased her furnished house in Medicine Lodge to the pastor of the Baptist church. While at home on her late visit she urged the minister out of doors and possibly removed the furniture, blas-emoniously declaring that God had told her to do it. Wichita has been made a division point by the Frisco line. One Jewell City firm paid $2,800 for hogs in one day recently. The teachers' pay roll in Topeka is a little more than $12,000 a month. Arrangements are being made to manufacture soda ash at Hutchinson. A company has been organized to manufacture voting machines in Topeka. Kansas flour is now in demand and is on sale in all the principal cities of Ohio. President McKinley's visit to Kansas will be the first since the visit he made in 1894. A half block of frame buildings in Enterprise was destroyed by fire on April 22. The aphis, or wheat louse, has appeared in the Chikaskia valley in Sumner county. Salina has had two trials under the Hurrell law and in both cases the jury failed to convict. Last fall a Harper county man bought a half-section of land for $3,200. In April he sold it for $6,000. Ex-Congressman Funston and his wife, parents of General Funston, will be in Topeka when the president is there. Judge Hazen has a hard knot to unravel and has taken time to unake up his decision on the mayoralty contest in Topeka. Agents for the purchase of cavalry horses for the British army visited Wichita making selections. They want 1,000 of them. Senator Burton will not interfere in the appointment of postmasters in Kansas except in the Third congressional district. The general store at Ransomville, Franklin county, was looted of much goods. The robbery was done in the night. No clue. The cloud on the title to the Bennett property has been cleared off and the state will now close the purchase of it for a governor's residence. J. M. Whittaker, the Labette county cattleman came back from Mexico to attend his daughter's wedding and will remain at his home at Montana. The tax commissioner of the Frisco line starts on Sunday after church with all the state officers, taking them to Arkansas on a fishing excursion. The agatite works near Mulvane have suspended operations because the raw material near the surface is exhausted, that is near enough to be worked profitably. Waverley suffered from a fire on April 22, which destroyed a millinery store, two restaurants, a feed store and the office of the Waverley Gazette. Loss mostly covered by insurance. Assistant Postmaster E. B. Jewett, of Wichita, was presented with a fine gold watch by the postoffice employees just before his leaving to take command of the penitentiary at Lansing. Harry Waddell, of Vinton, Cowley county, was drowned in Grouse Creek while attempting to cross on a foot log. He had a little sister in his arms and the foot log broke. The child was rescued unhurt. Wm. Edwards, of Jewell county, started for Hot Springs to recruit his health. On his way he switched into the Kansas City stockyards and stumbled on to good bargains, as he believed. At any rate he bought a fine jack; also a carload of horses which caught his attention. While the horses were being loaded he saw thirteen Belgian hares and took the lot. By the time he reached home he was as well as he well as he ever was in his life. H. H. Dewey, of Wichita, will attend the Presbyterian general assembly in June and on the trip will visit his cousin Admiral George Dewey. The cousins were boys together but have not met for 50 years. Fire has destroyed a $10,000 hardware and implement store and stock at Beloit, and did damage in a lumber yard. There has not been an acre of government land worth a dollar, in the Topeka land district for more than twenty years. Seventy-five Kansas teachers have already sought the endorsement of the state superintendent for positions as teachers in the Philippines. Monsieurneur George Jacquemin, of Rome, is in Wichita to spend a month's time. His mission is to visit hospitals, and his stay in Wichita is at the St. Francis hospital. Stella Waggoner, 16 years old, was was drowned by the upsetting of a boat on Doyle Creek in Marion county. There were three others in the boat who were rescued. The 6,000 corporations in Kansas find the law of last winter's vintage not so safely ignored as was the old one. The penalty for not filing reports with the state charter board incurs a heavy penalty, including the abrogation of charter. During five months, from October to March, a Woodson county lady, aged 60, marketed 100 pounds of butter from three cows. A neighbor sold 116 pounds of butter from January 18 to March 29, from one cow, besides supplying two families with milk. *** Hollow Ash... Hall BY MARGARET BLOUNT. CHAPTER III — (Continued.) CHAPTER III.—(Continued.) The rooms were all unfurnished; but in one, "The turret chamber," as it was called, though it was not built in turret fashion, Rose came upon a tangible relic of the past. It was a large oaken cabinet, black with age. Its doors were open. As they approached it the setting sun broke from a bank of thin white fog, and filled the whole apartment with a ruddy glow. Rose, ever curious, was the first to search the cabinet. There were several toilet ornaments in Venetian glass and gold upon the upper shelf. Upon the lower one lay a small yellow packet and a fragment of an old letter. Rose took it up eagerly and read these words traced in a delicate yet unformed handwriting: "And so I send the gift, but I fear it will outlive your love. Last night, when you left me you forgot my goodbye kiss; and so this morning I thought——" There the fragment ended. It was the old, old story, coming down from remote years. Woman's tender love—woman's pained recognition of a slight—woman's faith, mixed sweetly with woman's fear of losing what she prized far more than anything else the world had to bestow. Rose stood musing with the torn paper in her hand, till her father spoke. "Poor little goose! I wonder where she and her lover are now? What is in the packet, Rose?" The girl broke the string. A long tress of dark brown hair fell lightly over her hand. That was the "gift," no doubt, which was still fresh and glossy, while the head on which it grew was perhaps lying low in the grave. Rose laid it reverently back beside the letter. Mr. Cowley fidgeted about a moment or two, and then said that they had better go. He had evidently seen enough for that day at least. As for Rose, the dead girl's words seemed sounding in her ear all the way home. "Yet why dead?" She asked herself that, as she woke with a start at two o'clock the next morning. Mrs. Cowley went back to the village hotel in a more agreeable frame of mind. She fondly imagined that the gloom and silence of the Hall had been too much even for the jovial spirits of her husband to encounter. Brighton looked nearer than ever, as she sank placidly to sleep that night. But the next morning undeceived her. Mr. Cowley was up with the lark, and when she descended with the girls to the nine o'clock breakfast, he was not there. "He had gone to the Hall," meck Mrs. Grimes informed them with a courtesy. "To the Hall!" gasped Mrs. Cowley in dire dismay, "What for?" "Mr. Grimes went up with him, mum. They took out a lot of painters and plasterers, mum. Not to speak of the two charwomen as is to go next week." "Mercy preserve us!" exclaimed the horrified British matron. "Is the man in his senses? Can he think of living there after all that we saw last night?" Mrs. Grimes shook her head and sighed. "Men is that contrary, mum, that an angel from heaven would not well know what to do with them!" she observed, sympathizingly. And certainly, after living so many years with Simon Grimes, she ought to have been a judge. Mrs. Cowley took her breakfast with what appetite she might. At noon her liege lord appeared—dusty, tired and cross. From him she learned that the workmen were progressing favorably, that the place would be ready for the charwomen by the end of that present week, instead of the next, and that everything would be finished by the last day of the month. "So get ready to move on the first day of December, old lady," he added, merrily, "for we shall keep our Christmas there!" The "old lady" groaned at the thought. What sort of a Christmas would it be in that dismal, lonely, haunted ruin? But Mr. Cowley carried his point, as he always did. Day after day did he spend at the Hall, sometimes with Mr. Grimes, sometimes with the agent, but oftener alone with his workmen, who did their tasks in platoons, and would, on no account, stay on the premises a moment after sundown. Not so the charwoman who succeeded them. She was a stranger in the place, and felt no reverence for its traditions. Consequently she refused to believe in the ghosts; and when Mr. Cowley heard her avow her want of faith in a great strong voice and with a hearty laugh he was so enchanted with her good sense that he engaged her on the spot to remain at the Hall as servant till the scruples of the neighboring damsels should be sufficiently overcome to enable them to serve, with or under her, or perhaps to take her place. But for her opportune arrival, Mrs. Cowley might have been forced to make her own bed,get her own dinner and black her husband's boots—for no village girl could have been induced for love or money to engage at the Hall till it was fairly proved whether Queen Bess was there or not. Mrs. Macarthy, however, was a host in herself, and the sight of her broad, smiling face was enough to put the most crabbed ghost into good humor if by chance she should happen to meet one. She worked with a will during the week of her occupancy. Carpets were put down, curtains hung up, beds alred and made, drawing and dining rooms swept and dusted; till, from the dismal shell, on which Mrs. Cowley had looked with such horror, a handsome, modern-looking dwelling place was deduced, possessing every comfort which the most fastidious taste could require—at least, for a short sojourn. Mr. Cowley might have been less liberal in furnishing any other house, but here his honor was in some measure at stake, and he was not satisfied till he had done his very best. He came home late on the evening of the thirtieth of November, and announced, with a pleasant smile, that all was ready for the removal. Rose scarcely knew whether to be glad or sorry that her often repeated wish was about to be granted. In her heart she began to feel a little timid, though she would have gone to the stake rather than acknowledge it. Catharine shed some tears, but her father only laughed at her. As for Mrs. Cowley, she packed her trunks as if for an expedition to the Fejee Islands, and Mrs. Grimes assisted her, groaning dismally the while over the "contrariness of them men." At two p. m., all was ready, but Mr. Cowley never made his appearance till five. Then, taking a mournful farewell of Mrs. Grimes, the devoted wife and mother entered the fly and drove heroically away. The gates of the Hall stood wide open this time to receive them, and Mrs. Macarthy was smiling and bowing at the door. Lamps were lit in the hall and fires burned in every room. Beautiful carpets, curtains and furniture, together with books and pictures, and a piano, so transformed the gloomy drawing-room that the girls scarcely recognized it. Mr. Cowley was in ecstasies at their exclamations of surprise. "I knew you would like it," he kept repeating, as he rubbed his hands together, "and I have spared no expense in making it pleasant and comfortable for you. Now, my dear, if you will go upstairs and take off your things, Mrs. Macarthy will give us some tea. I, for one, am as hungry as a hunter. My love, I am glad you like the place so well. Was I not right in urging you to come? I knew you would see it in the end—and you do!" But did they see it, after air? Grave enough was Mrs. Cowley's face as she sat down to that first meal in her new house. The tea was hot and strong—the toast nicely buttered—the cold ham cut with Vauxhall nicety, yet she could not eat. If a door creaked, she started nervously in her chair—if a mouse gnawed at a wainscot, she looked as if she was about to faint. Yet the habit of obedience to her husband's wishes was so strongly implanted within her breast that she never dreamed of saying how uncomfortable she felt. Mr. Cowley had made up his mind to live in a haunted house—consequently a haunted house must be the best place possible to live in. She was serving her fellow creatures by proving to them that the doctrine of ghosts must be false. No martyr ever underwent more agony for the sake of a good cause than she. At last the meal was over, and the ex-charwoman had cleared away. The group drew around the blazing fire. Mrs. Cowley took her knitting; Miss Catherine, with an air of making herself at home, performed wonderful feats with her crochet needles; Mr. Cowley pished and pawhed over the columns of his Times, which in the hurry of removal, he had not had an opportunity to read before. All were employed except Rose, and she evidently found it very hard to settle to anything. She walked about the room, till her father growled out a request that she would not fidget him; so then she lifted the curtain and gazed out for a long time upon the bare and desolate lawn, looking more desolate still beneath the pale light of the wintry moon. A thought struck her as she stood there. She gave a little delicious shiver, then left the room and went upstairs. The turret chamber had been prepared for her by special request. Miss Cowley's room was exactly opposite, so that the sisters could easily communicate with each other if necessary. Mr. and Mrs. Cowley had chosen a large, square chamber at the back of the house, and the revolver was already lying on a table close beside the bed. Fires were blazing brightly in all these rooms. They looked exceedingly snug and cozy in the ruddy glow. Still, not the less for fire and candle, did Rose feel the unseen presence of some former inhabitant of the place. She hurried nervously down the passage, entered her own room, took a book from her dressing bag and retreated without daring even to give a glance at the oaken cabinet in the corner. Quicker and quicker she went on her way back, breathing short and feeling terribly frightened, though ashamed that she should do so. She to live in a haunted house, and have no more nerve than this? The thing was ridiculous—she would be more sensible. And making a brave effort to feel collected at the head of the stairs, she heard or fancied she heard one breathing close behind her—felt, or fancied she felt, the touch of a cold. CHAPTER IV. light hand upon her own. She shrieked wildly, and ran headlong down, only to find the whole family in the hall, looking pale and frightened, and evidently ready to face twenty ghosts, for the benefit of whose fleshless noses Mr. Cowley grasped the tongs. "Good gracious, Rose!" exclaimed her mother, trembling from head to foot. "What is it? Have you seen anything?" "No," said Rose, looking extremely silly; "but I was all in the dark at the head of the stairs, and I fancied some one touched me!" "I wish to goodness you would be sure of your danger, young lady, before you scare us all out of our wits another time!" said Mr. Cowley, leading the way back to the drawing-room and disposing of the tongs in their place once more. "I made sure by your squalling that old Queen Bess, at the very least, was after you. If you are going to fancy ghosts in every direction, you had better go back and take shelter with Mrs. Grimes as soon as you can. Why, here's Kitty, who couldn't bear the idea of this house, and look at her now. She don't like it, and she may believe there are ghosts here, but I don't think she would invent them for herself beforehand, as you seem to have done. No more nonsense, Rose, if you please, or every one in Banley shall know that you, who were so eager to get here, were the first to cry out 'Wolf!' half an hour after you came." Mr. Cowley, having delivered his lecture, resumed the perusal of the Times. Catherine said nothing, it is true, but even her crochet needles, as she worked, seemed to assume an air of superiority over Rose. That young lady sat, looking sulky beside the fire. Human nature prompted her to throw her book at Catherine's head, but young lady nature came to the rescue, and prevented any such untoward act. At last her sense of injury subsided as she drew near the lamp and began to read. Certainly she had chosen the queerest volume possible for such a place. It was Mrs. Crowe's "Night Side of Nature," a book well calculated to give a sound nightmare even to the most incredulous opponent of the ghost theory. For some minutes she was very quiet; but Mrs. Cowley, looking up from her knitting, got a glimpse of the illustrated cover, where, beside the old hall clock, and by the light of a splendid harvest moon, a genuine orthodox ghost, in a winding sheet, is appearing to a terrified maid-servant, just preparing to faint upon the floor. One look was enough for Mrs. Cowley. She uttered an exclamation that drew every eye to the unlucky book. Mr. Cowley looked over his spectacles at his daughter, as if he had thought she had suddenly gone mad. "What could have possessed you to bring that horrible thing here?" he asked sternly. "It is the greatest nonsense, only fit to go into the fire. I have half a mind to make you put it there now!" Miss Rose, at that moment, owed her entire family a grudge; and, having frightened herself to death with the grisly tales she had been reading, suddenly determined to frighten them also. "If I can't sleep a wink tonight for thinking of these dreadful things, neither shall Catharine," was her amiable resolve. So, putting on her sweetest smile, she looked up from the obnoxious book into her father's face. "Dear papa, you are just a little prejudiced against Mrs. Crowe—you know you are." (To be continued.) An Island of Sulphur In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, is situated White Island, which consists mostly of sulphur mixed with gypsum and a few other minerals. Over this island, which is about three miles in circumference, and which rises between 800 and 900 feet above the sea, floats continually an immense cloud of vapor, attaining an elevation of 10,000 feet. In the center is a boiling lake of acidulated water, covering fifty acres, and surrounded with blowholes from which steam and sulphurous fumes are emitted with great force and noise. With care a boat can be navigated on the lake. The sulphur from White Island is very pure, but little effort has yet been made to procure it for commercial purposes. Record for Longest Reign Now that Queen Victoria is dead, Francis Joseph of Austria holds the record of the longest reign in Europe, or, indeed, in the world. He has been on the throne more than fifty-two years and is in the seventy-first year of his life. But Francis Joseph is by no means the oldest ruler. The possessor of this distinction is neither the emperor of Austria nor, as is generally supposed, King Christian of Denmark, who is 82, and has reigned thirty-seven years. The oldest living ruler is a lesser known personality, the Grand Duke Adolphus of Luxembourg, who came into the world in 1817. Carrier Pigeons in German Army. 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Of Seven States Hold Their Regular Meeting in Wichita. INTERESTS OF THE INDUSTRY. Wichita, April 24.—A regular called meeting of the Western Sanitary Live Stock boards of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, met in Wichita for the purpose of reorganizing the Western Quarantine association. A temporary organization was formed with Dr. D. F. Luckey president and W. E. Bolton secretary. The purpose of the organization was decided to be the securing of more uniform regulations by the states and territories named for the benefit of cattle raisers and to promote the interests in general of the live stock industry. To more effectively enforce regulations against violations of the federal and other quarantine lines. The co-operation of people living north of the federal line was thought to be necessary to a successful guarding against infection. A resolution was passed recommending that each state and territory delegate at least two members to attend the next meeting of the Interstate Association of Live Stock Sanitary Boards. The following resolution was made by Dr. Luckey and adopted unanimously: "For the purpose of perfecting the system of southern cattle inspection and the promotion of legitimate traffic in southern cattle, be it resolved, that the inspection be co-operative between the states of this association bordering on the quarantine line in that permits issued by an authorized agent of any of these states be recognized by the authorities of the state to which the cattle inspected are destined and monthly reports be made by the inspector to the secretary of the sanitary board of such state." Aguinaldo Composed it Manila, April 23.—General MacArthur informed the representative of the Associated Press that the effect of Aguinaldo's address to the Filipinos would undoubtedly be beneficial. Aguinaldo composed his address without assistance. The original draft was in Tagalog. It was afterward translated into Spanish. It is believed Aguinaldo is sincerely desirous of peace. He is not an educated man, but is possessed of considerable character and improves on acquaintance. Aguinaldo is not anxious to visit the United States, and it is considered best that he should remain here pending the completion of the work of pacification. Co-Operative Grain Association. Wichita, Ks., April 25.—A. S. Pierce, an old grain man of this city is forming a co-operative grain association among the farmers of the Arkansas valley. His idea is to establish elevators in this and other towns, with farmers as stockholders, in which to store grain and borrow money, if necessary, on warehouse receipts until such time as profitable disposition could be made of the grain. There are good prospects for the success of his efforts. State Dinner to Cubans Washington, April 25.—Much of the time of a cabinet meeting was devoted to discussing the coming visit of the committee appointed by the Havana constitutional convention, which is now on its way to Washington. The commissioners are to be received cordially and are to be shown every courtesy. A state dinner in the state dining room at the White House will be given by the president in their honor on Thursday night. Nursing Her Brother Topeka, April 23.—Jessie Morrison, the slayer of Clara Castle, of Eldorado, is now a smallpox nurse. Her brother, Hayward Morrison, the school teacher, who stood by her so loyally through her first trial was taken with smallpox. His parents turned the house over to him and, for their own protection, went to the farm. Jessie Morrison would not go. She insisted on staying at home and nursing her brother through his siege of sickness. Annual Banquet of Cattlemen Kingman, Kans. April 25.—The annual meeting and banquet of the Kingman County Live Stock Association, held at the Hotel Brunswick, was well attended. The officers elected for the coming year are: W. L. Brown, president; J. L. Humphreys, secretary; J. McFall, treasurer. Preliminary steps were taken for the annual picnic in this city next fall, which will be made even a bigger event than heretofore. Police Killed by Tramp Joplin, Mo., April 25.—Policeman Chas G. Sweeney was shot and killed and Officer Bert Brannon was fatally wounded while attempting to arrest a gang of five tramps found in a box car. The officers were taking the men to the station when one of the tramps shot both policemen from behind, four of the men escaped, the fifth, James Roby of St. Louis, gave himself up at the police station. Roby says they were on their way to Fayetteville, Ark. POSTAL CLERK GOES WRONG. Was One of The Oldest Men Running Out of Kansas City. Kansas City, April 25.—Willis F. Neff, for fifteen years in the employ of the government as a railway postal clerk, has been arrested at Wellington, Kans., by Inspector McKee. He is charged with rifling the mails. He was brought here and immediately arraigned before United States Commissioner Earhart and admitted to bail. The arrest of Neff will doubtless create somewhat of a sensation among the railway postal clerks running out of Kansas City, as he is one of the oldest men in the service here and is widely known. Neff was trapped by Inspectors McKee and Stice, who have been working on his case for the past five weeks. During the past two or three weeks the inspectors have mailed numerous decoy letters along Neff's run, and five of these letters, it is said, were found on him at the time of his arrest. Inspector Stice stated that Neff had nearly $50 of his and Inspector McKee's money. All of the money sent by the government secret service men was marked. Russians And Chinese Fighting. St. Petersburg, April 24.—Official information has been received that renewed military activity is beginning in Mauchuria. Chinese troops are strongly entrenched at three points around Mukden. They are armed with good Mauser rifles and have thirty Krupp guns. To the eastward there are 12,000 men under the chief Boxer General Lutantz. To the northwest there are 6,000 Chinese under the former governor of Mukden. To the eastward in Mongolia there are 9,000 more under the Chinese General Schu. One fight has occurred at Mukden. The situation in southern Manchuria is disquieting and another advance of Russian troops will be necessary in the early spring. Allotments to the Wichitas. Guthrie, Okla. April 24.—Judge A. R. Museller of Perry, who has charge of the allotting in the eastern portion of the Wichita Indian reservation, reports the work going on rapidly. There are 950 to receive allotments, of which there are about as many Caddos as Wichitas. The Judge is quoted as saying: "There are plenty of people anxious to get into that country, and I do not blame them much for that. There are fine stretches of farming and grazing land and without any question it is one of the finest countries in the southwest." Ripley Not Guilty. Frankfort, Ky., April 23.—The trial of Captain Ripley, the fourth of the alleged assassins of Governor Goebel, ended with a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was a surprise as it was generally expected to be a hung jury. The jury was composed exclusively of democrats. As yet no application for the extradition of Governor W. S. Taylor has been made upon the new governor of Indiana, where he now resides. Increasing School Fund. Topeka, April 22.—The state treasury now has on hand $7,411,422.23 in bonds in the permanent school fund. This is the largest amount of bonds this fund ever had. During the past two years the commissioners have purchased $2,250,074.55 in bonds. This is also a record breaker. "The permanent school fund is increasing at the rate of $150,000 a year," said Roy Kitchie, bond clerk in the treasurer's office. Work of State Labor Bureau Begin: Work of State Labor Bureau begun. Atchison, April 25.—Farm and harvest hands are in demand already. State Employment Agent T. B. Gerow has already received several letters requesting him to supply men at certain points in the state when the proper time is at hand. The writers say they want to get their letters on file so they will have their wants supplied without delay when harvest is on. Gun Went Through Ship London, April 23.—While a 28 ton was being landed from a government vessel for the new river fort the derrick chain snapped and the gun crashed, muzzle down, through the deck and bottom of the ship. Three hundred artillery men are now at work endeavoring to prevent the total loss of the ship and gun. Galena Milling Plant Burned. Galena, Kas., April 25.—The Nancy Lee milling plant on the McCann ground is destroyed by fire. The fire started in the boiler room. The mills were built about eighteen months ago by Halderman Bros., of Marion, Ind.; J. E. Haffner, of Joplin, and L. Carney, of this place, at a cost of about $11,000. Left $50,000 to Employer New York, April 25.—Oswald Ottendorfer's $50,000 legacy has been distributed to the employees of the Staats Zeitung, of which paper he was the proprietor. In his will Mr. Ottendorfer directed that the money should be divided among all the employees, from office boy to managing editor, who had worked for one year on the paper. Each employee received a sum which amounted to 23 per cent of his annual salary. WORKING FOR PACIFICATION Sentiments Of Filipinos a Surprise To Aguinaldo. URGING ALL TO SURRENDER. Manila, April 24.—An agent of the Associated press interviewed Aguinaldo. He said he was doing all he could to assist in the pacification of the Philippines and expressed himself surprised at what the Americans accomplished. When he was first captured, he went on to say, he was greatly astounded to find that a majority of the Filipinos entertained the opinion that American sovereignty was preferable to independence, but now he was inclined to believe that way himself. "I am now urging in the strongest possible manner that all insurgents should surrender and swear allegiance to the United States." He expressed the opinion that Tinio, Lusban, Malvar and other representative insurgents will surrender as soon as they come to understand the nature of the amnesty offered them. He said he hoped that when the work of pacification was complete and conditions were settled the prisoners in Guam would be released. After referring in grateful terms to the courteous treatment accorded him by the military authorities, he declared his conviction that the civil government which would follow pacification would realize the highest hopes of the Filipino people. In concluding the interview he observed: "Every word in my address to my countrymen, the Filipinos, came from my heart. I hope the Americans believe thoroughly in my sincere efforts to secure peace and under American auspices to promote the welfare and prosperity of the Philippines." All Volunteers Home by July 1. All volunteers home by July 1. Washington, April 25—All of the new regiments are to be sent to the Philippines as soon as they get into proper military condition for the relief of the regular regiments which have been in the Philippines for two years or over. It it not expected, however, that this movement, which is entirely independent of the movement of volunteers now in progress, will not begin for several months. It is stated at the quartermaster general's office that ample facilities have been provided for bringing home before the first of July all the volunteer troops in the Philippines. Frisco Will Enter Mexico St. Louis, Mo., April 25.—President and General Manager B. F. Yoakum of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad when asked concerning the reported purchase of the Mexican Central by the Frisco company, stated that there was no truth in the story, but he admitted that the Frisco management is considering the extension of the line to Mexico, possibly south from Brownwood, Texas, toward Eagle Pass, where a connection will be made with the Mexican International via Torreon, thence to the City of Mexico via the Mexican Central. Want Americans to Stay. Pekin, April 25.—Many applications have been made to Mr. Rockhill and General Chaffee by Chinese of all degrees for the retention in China of the American troops until the general withdrawal of the troops of all the powers. Many of those who are making this request think withdrawal of the Americans will make the others remain longer. There are also people who do not desire to see any of the soldiers go, fearing anarchy and an uprising against foreigners. The soldiers who return do so with all the honors of war. Kansas Spell Binders. Topeka, April 23.—The Kansas State Elocutionary Association closed its annual session here by the election of officers for the year as follows: President, Frank Nelson, state superintendent; vice president. R. E. Kline, Ottawa; secretary, L. R. Cartwright, Topeka; treasurer, A. E. Leach, Baldwin. Cora Marshland, of Emporia, was elected delegate to the national convention, and F. A. Metcalf, of Manhattan, was chosen alternate. Shot Guns for Militia Columbus, O., April 22.—Adjutant General Gyger has decided to supply the Ohio militia with cartridges loaded with shot instead of balls to be used when the troops are called out for riot duty. General Gyger says the new shells are reasonably effective at short range and will not kill innocent people at a great distance from the rioting, as is universally the case where cartridges loaded with shells are used. New Missouri Pacific System. New York, April 25.—It is admitted by persons close to the Missouri Pacific that the amount of new stock used in the purchase of Denver and Rio Grande will not exceed $6,000,000. The remainder of the $30,000,000 to be authorized will be issued from time to time as the company finds it advantageous to secure new properties. The company is making a conspicuous point of its financial methods to be employed in the general scheme of creating a new system. Kansas City. CATTLE—Heavy. $ 4 60 @ 5 60 HOWS—Unlike to heavy. 5 75 @ 5 90 HOWS—No 2 hard. 70 @ 71 CORN—No 2 Mixed. 42½ @ 43 HAY—Choice timothy. 11 00 @ 11 50 Choice prairie. 9 50 @ 10 50 BUTTER. 9 50 @ 18½ EGGS. 11 @ 27 Chicago. WHEAT—No 2 hard. $ ... @ 73 CORN—No 2. $ ... @ 47½ OATS—No 2. $ ... @ 27 St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES. 3 75 @ 5 65 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 2 85 @ 4 85 SOUTHERN STEERS. 3 40 @ 4 90 Cotton. Uplands. 4 21-32d NEW YORK. 8½c. 8½c GALVESTON. 8½c Wichita Grain. Open High Low Close Today Close Yday. WHEAT May. 71% 72% 71% 72% 72% July. 72 73% 71% 72% 71% CORN 40% 48% 40% 48% 40% July. 44% 45% 44% 44% 15 44% OATS May. 25% 26% 25% 26% 25% 24% July. 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 24% WHEAT: May. 73% Puts. CORN: May. 49 47 Wichita Live Stock. HOGS $ 5 40 5 70 Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEERS $ 4 00 @ 6 00 COWS & HEIFERS. 2 80 @ 4 75 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 2 75 @ 4 85 TEXAS FED BEEVES. 4 25 @ 5 35 HOGS. 5 85 @ 5 95 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF Joplin, Mo., has had a $50,000 fire in a dry goods stock. A court in Joplin, Mo., decides that mining machinery is not a part of realty. The United Mine Workers of America expended last year for the relief of strikers and their families, $153,000. An elevator at South Bend, Indiana, with capacity of 500,000 bushels, is burned, with about 200 carloads of grain. Minneapolis Sash and Door manufacturers have agreed to quit using the union label on their mill work. A strike is likely to result. There are new taxes in England; that on coal has brought business to a standstill as merchants cannot pay the new tax while filling contracts. The United States treasury holds $500,278,506 in gold; a larger amount than in any one national treasury, or in any other depository in the world. The worst of the flood was declared to be over on April 23, both from Cincinnati and Pittsburg, and from other points of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Arkansas supreme court has decided that railroads are not responsible for the value of liquors seized under the state law while in their possession. The date of the opening of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo is delayed three weeks on account of the rains and snow which delays work of preparation. A 28 ton gun was being landed for a new English fort and the derrick chain broke and the gun crashed, muzzle down, through the deck and the bottom of the ship. The hamlet of Biscayne, Florida, was struck by a tornado on April 19, which demolished several houses and dangerously hurt two men. Forest trees in its track were torn up. An aged German of St. Joseph, Mo., has been arrested for defrauding old soldiers by claiming to be in the government employ, and collecting fees for which he promised to secure pensions. Machinists employed by the Illinois Central railroad have demanded higher wages and a nine hour day. The boiler makers and blacksmiths are ready to support the machinists in their demands. The United States government has instructed its representative to Turkey to protest against the decree of the Sultan which limits the sojourn in Jerusalem to three months, of any foreigner of the Jewish faith. A tank 25 feet long and six feet in diameter was loosened by the wind and fell, with 40,000 gallons of water, from the roof of a building in Chicago, through six floors, making a hole in each forty feet square. It occurred on Sunday when but few people were in the building. Aguinaldo is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has broad shoulders, is more like a negro in color and features than most of his race. He is intelligent but not a scholar. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, through their attorney generals, have formed a friendly alliance to eradicate fake insurance companies. Russia, especially Siberia, is exporting two train loads a week of butter. In 1900 the exports of butter amounted to 37,729,200 pounds. The Arkansas legislature has passed an appropriation of $30,000 for an exhibit at the 1903 exposition at St. Louis. Already changes are announced in the itinerary of the President's trip. Sunday June 2, is to be spent in Colorado, possibly at Glenwood Spring instead of in Salt Lake City. Much of the press dispatches of late are about labor troubles in Pennsylvania. One day everything looks brighter; the next day it is mostly sombre; and so it goes. Minister Conger Says Their Acts Were All Justifiable. DAMMED CANALTO DROWN US. Victoria, B. C., April 25.—Minister Conger, while here enroute to San Francisco, said in an interview: "There were really no acts on the part of the missionaries there that were not entirely justified when the circumstances are known. Missionaries did not loot. Missionaries found 2,000 destitute men and women on their hands. There was no government, no organized authority. There were houses of men who had been firing on the foreign quarter, directing the attacking leaders of the Boxers; their property has been abandoned, as a result of the state of war, and it was taken in order to succor hundreds of suffering and destitute Chinese whose lives the original owners had been laboring to destroy. Winter was coming on and measures of some kind were imperative and the appropriation of property for the ends in view was unquestionably justified. I am prepared to justify the conduct of the American missionaries before the siege, during the siege and after the siege." Dr. Ament, a missionary who was with Mr. Conger, told the reporter that the goods taken by the so-called loot committee were goods left in stores by people who had sought refuge in the legation during the siege and the goods were taken to prevent their destruction. The clothes and bedding were given to men working upon the barricade. Most of the goods were taken from buildings that the military authorities had ordered burned. Dr. Ament explained the sale of goods in the Mongol prince's house by saying they were without food and sold the goods on the advice of Mr. Conger. Had they not taken possession the place would have been destroyed by the Russians. About $4,000 was realized by this sale which was devoted to the needs of the native Christians. In conclusion, Dr. Ament said: "The Chinese damned up the caul and were going to drown us out. They supposed the foreigners had subterranean burrows in which to take refuge and were certain that underground passages had been made from the legation to the Fu, so they resolved to drown us out like rats in a trap." Colorado Will Defend Water. Denver Colo., April 22.—Attorney General Post will go to Washington about April 27, for the purpose of combatting in the United States supreme court the petition of the state of Kansas for leave to file a suit in equity against the state of Colorado anent the use of the waters of the Arkansas. If the petition of the state of Kansas for leave to file the suit is granted, then a number of attorneys will be taken in to assist in the hearing of the case, which will be set for some future date. Left Their Herds in The Snow Knoxville, Tenn., April 24.—A party of herders arrived here from the Smoky mountains, having been driven out by the heavy snow. They report that they left 400 to 500 cattle behind, all of which, they say, have frozen to death by this time. The snow was from four to six feet deep when they started homeward. They had to flee for their lives. Their horses were too numb to carry a human load and had to be led out of the mountains. Last Days Are Busy Days. Washington, April 22.—From now until the departure of the president for the West, only those having the most urgent business will be seen by him. He has an immense amount of public business to dispose of during the next few days, and it would be impossible for him to get it out of the way if his days should be given up to receiving visitors. *Kitchener is Bloodthirsty. Capetown, April 24.—Lord Kitchener has issued a proclamation to the effect that any resident in the martial law districts of Cape Colony found in arms, inciting to fight, or aiding the enemy by any overt act will be tried by court martial and be liable to the most severe penalties. Such persons may even be shot. DeWet in Hard Lines London, April 23.—A dispatch to a news agency here from Harrismith, locates General Dewet near Kroonstadt, and says he has a few followers and is unable to recruit a sufficient force to make an offensive movement. There have been numerous surrenders of starving Boers. Must Stamp Verbal Agreements Washington, April 24.—Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes has held that persons engaged in taking orders for transactions described in paragraph 3, section 8, of the act of March 2, 1901 (bucketshops) are imperatively required to issue a memorandum after every such order, and to affix and cancel the requisite stamp thereon. They are not relieved from such requirement by the fact that they transmit these orders to their correspondents elsewhere. NO MEETING DELEGATIONS. at Lawrence, Baldwin, Ottawa. Topeka, April 24.—Delegates of officials and prominent citizens who will go to the Colorado line with a view of crawling on the presidential train and escorting the president through Kansas, may find themselves left alone out on the western prairie as the train whizzes by. The president doesn't want to be met by any delegations. At least, that is the information contained in a letter from Fourth Assistant Postmaster General J. L. Bristow to Governor Stanley. Bristow said that it was not the president's desire that a delegation meet him; that all he expected was to be met at the train at the various stopping places by a local reception committee, whose duties would begin upon the arrival of the train at the town and end with its departure. The two hours stay in Topeka will be the official visit to the state, according to Bristow's letter. Here the governor, other state officers, congressmen and officeholders in general will be expected to assemble to pay honor to the president. The party will not take lunch in Topeka. They will eat between Topeka and Lawrence. Steps of five minutes will be made at Lawrence, Baldwin and Ottawa. Regular Army of 76,000 Washington, April 25.—It has been determined to increase the regular army to approximately 76,000 men and to leave it at that number unless conditions in the Philippines should make more troops necessary. The president and Secretary Root reached this conclusion and the details will be worked out by the secretary and General Miles. It has not yet been determined what proportion of the troops shall be stationed in the Philippines, although it is known that a large force will be needed there for some time. Catholic Mission Destroyed. Rio de Janeiro, April 25.—News has reached here of the complete destruction in Maragnone, Brazil, of the Roman Catholic mission established by the Capuchin Fathers, by a band of hostile Indians. The mission, which was organized in 1896, was situated in a desolate district, but the missionaries had been successful and had already founded two orphan asylums. Four of the Capuchin Fathers, all Italianes from the province of Milan, seven Capuchin Sisters, and more than 100 of their little charges were massacred. Buildings at Fort Riley. Junction City, Kans., April 23.—The war department is advertising asking for bids on three buildings, two artillery stables and a hospital stable at Fort Riley. Bids are to be opened at 2 p.m. May 15. The old stables cost not far from $15,000 each, and each year the dignity of Fort Riley calls for better equipment. It is safe to say that the new stables will be good ones. The hospital stable will probably be smaller. Floods in the Hudson River Focus in the Hudson River Glens Falls, N. Y., April 24—One hundred feet of the cofferdam of the new dam of the Hudson River Power Company at Spier Falls went out, owing to the high water from the melting snow in the Adirondacks and the heavy rains nearly a whole week Frank Smith and Oscar Satterlee of this city, were thrown into the river by the breaking of the guy rope of the derrick and Smith was drowned. The Wilders go to Europe: Topeka, April 25.—Edward Wilder, treasurer of the Santa Fe, will leave tomorrow for New York city, where he will sail the following Tuesday with his son Walter for Europe. Mr. Wilder's other son, Edward, is now in Europe and will be joined by Mr. Wilder in Paris. Two months will be spent among the European capitals before they return to the United States. Large Catch of Seals St. Johns, N. F., April 25. The sealing steamer Terra Nova, the largest of this sealing fleet, returned from the ice floes recently with 42,000 seals, the heaviest cargo for many years. She was frozen in the ice for two weeks quite unable to escape. She reports that the steamer Virginia Lake has been similarly imprisoned for a month and is not yet clear of the ice. Gen. Grant Salls For Home. Washington, April 25.—General Mac Arthur has informed the war department that the transport Sheridan sailed April 22 via Nagasaki with Generals John C. Bates and Fred D. Grant, 60 officers and 1,832 enlisted men of the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth infantry. Also that the transport Kintuck had arrived there. Rob a Choctaw Train. Memphis, Tenn., April 24.—The fast express train of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, was held up by three masked bandits at Bridge Junction. It is not known what booty the robbers secured, but a dispatch received at police headquarters stated that the express messenger and porter of the train were injured after resisting the bandits. The Wells Fargo Express company usually makes its heaviest shipment to the west on this train.