Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT A GRAND EVENT The Anniversary Of The Wichita Searchlight was Celebrated In Great Pomp and Splendor. A Big Crowd at the Park, and a Great Multitude At the Hall. FINE TIME AT THE PARK. AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM RENDERED AT THE HALL: AN ABLE ADDRESS BY JUDGE THOS. C. WILSON THE SEARCHLIGHT BEGINS A NEW YEAR. Wednesday was a gaia day in Wichita among the colored people. It was a day of days long to be remembered. It was remarkable in many ways. The weather was ideal not too warm, not too cool—and with not a cloud over head to mar the events of the day. This was Wednesday, May 29th, Which had been set apart by the management of the Searchlight to celebrate with their friends the anniversary of the paper's publication in this city. So ideal was the day but it seemed as though the day had been set apart by the hand of aid for this occasion. At 9 a.m. and Fisher's Military began a war parade through the resident out of the city and at 2 oclock p.m. a large and pleasant crowd met South Riverside Park to attend the Big Picnic which was in progress at that place. Prof. Fisher's land was out and furnished fine music to the great enjoyment of the large crowd present. We must here that this band has made a most marvelous progress since the organization last August, and all were highly pleased when they saw the boys place their music racks and Played many up-to-date pleas- [Name] park was a bicycle race. Those who entered were; Lawson Fines, Aaron Knox, and Henry Tutt. This was a fine race. Lawson Fines, first; Aaron Knox, second; Henry Tutt. third. Then came the foot race; the entries were: Henry Motin, Charley Patton, Fay Anderson, and Tom Lenon Henry Motin won. The potato race was a lively one; the entries were: E. Neeley, B. Neeley, Elmer Comb, Ray Gee, and Chas. Patton. Ray Gee won the first heat, E. Neeley the second, and Ray Gee the third, making Ray Gee the winner, after which a very interesting base ball game took place between the Searhlights and the Bufords, the Searchwinning. The day passed without any excitement. We are pleased to have noted the presence of Rev. Dr. H. F. Frazier and wife, and Rev. Dr. A. C Terrell and wife and other ministers with us at the ground and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves. At about 6 o'clock, all came in from the park and repaired to Peerlesshall where the grand jubilee exercises were to take place. At 7:30 Prof Fisher's Military Band made a street parade from $608\frac{1}{2}$ E. Douglas, to 3rd and Main, thence to 1st and Main, and there they played several fine selections, after which they went in the hall and there favored all by several very choice selections. One of the largest crowds that has ever entered the walls of Peerless hall were was there Wednesday night, and standing room was at high premium. The hour for the rendition of the program having arrived, W. N. Miller introduced Mr. S. E. Patton as Master of ceremonies, and in the taking charge of the excises, Mr. Patton made a very appropriate address, after which he announced the program. The first nnumber was a selection by the celebrated Chinneth's Mandolin club. These gentlemen furnished a most excellent selection se- WICHITA, KANSAS, JUNE 1, 1901. lection, and were applauded again and again. The second number on the program was Mr. J. E. Lewis, but, owing, to Mr, Lewis' absence from the city on business, the next number was called. Mrs. S. E. Patton having a very sore throat was very hoarse and was forced to ask [Name] A Member Of Prof. Fisher's Military Band. Wichita, Kansas. for an excuse. The next number an address "A Colored Journal Needed" by Judge Thos. C. Wilson. Judge Wilson made a grand, masterly and eloquent address in setting forth the reosons why a "Colored Journal Is Needed" he had his hearers with he had his hearers with him from the start and they listened to his every word and frequently interrupted his remaarks by prolonged applause. The audience highly appreciated the remarks of Judge Wilson. After Judge Wilson's remarks, the Chinneth Mandolin Club favored all with another choice selection and were aplauded as before. There is no question of the high merits of this mandolin club, which is one of the best in the West. Miss Winnie Ray was next on program with a nice paper; subject: "Future Colored Girl." Miss Ray handled her subject in a most pleasing manner and won the repeated applause of her hearers; every one agreed that the future colored girl has a bright prospect and Miss Ray brought them out. The next on program was a tenor solo by Mr. Wm. H. Jones; owing to business matters, Mr. Jones could not arrive in time, so the next came an instrumental solo by Prof. Chick Miller. Mr. Miller played and the audience sent in a special request for him to play "The Blue and The Gray." He did so. Mr. Patton, Master of Ceremonies announced that Mr. Miller would render the piece as it should be played, and then in rag time, this he did and was loudly applauded by the audience. Mrs. Sam Anderson was the next number on the program with a fine paper; subject: "Colored Women as Journalists." Mrs. Ander- son has already a widely established reputation as an essayist, and her paper last Wednesday night on "Colored Women as Journalists," proved to amply sustain the reputation which she had already established, her paper was highly enjoyed by all. W. N. Miller, answered the number, "Our Anniversary," which was the next number on the program. So highly pleased and happy was that gentleman over the large expression of appreciation shown him and his paper by the citizens that he was at a loss to find words appropriate to express himself; but he did manage to thank all the friends for their support in the past year and to give to them his word that in the future he will try to give them a paper as regular as he did in the year just closed. He also thanked the ministers of the city for the loyal support which they have ever been ready to give him in the past. The next on program was a bass solo by S. O. Clayton, entitled "The Old Sexton." Mr. Clayton received warm applause for his excellent singing. The next was the crowning of Miss Ethel Isler as Queen of the Wichita Scarchlight Anniversary Jubilee. CROWNING THE QUEEN. This part of the program having arrived, Prof. Chick Miller took charge of the piano and began a beau tiful march. The Queen ard her A. B. MR. JAMES R. JOHNSTON. One Of Wichita's Most Promint Young Barbers. Maids of Honor being in waiting in the Queen's Reception Room were notified and led by Mr. James Hudspeth and W. N. Miller the Queen's party approached the hall two by two. They marched down the north aisle and came up the center aisle to the time of the sweet strains of music, and ascended the throne that had been elegantly prepared to receive them. The crown was presented to W. N. Miller by little Miss Ruth White, and in a little speech appropriate for the occasion, Mr. Miller crowned Miss Isler Queen of the Wichita Searchlight Anniversary A PROMINENT CARPENTER. MR. W. C. NEELEY, One Of The Best Carpenters In The State of Kansas. Residence 1240 Blaine Avenue. Jubilee. Miss Isler, the Queen responded in a neat little address accepting the the honor and the crown The Queen and her Maids of Honor were dressed in a very becoming and tasteful manner. The Queen wore a white dress trimed in blue and pink ribbon; with large flowers in her hair dressed in the most up-to-date and fashionable style. Each of the maids of honor wore white and looked, indeed, Maids of Honor. We could not finish this without expressing our sentiments and appreciation for the friendly treatment accorded us by our friends. We wish to thank the ministers for the support which they gave us and in in particular do we wish to turn thanks to the officers and members of Toas lodge, No. 10, Knights of Pythias, and to the officers and members of Arkansas Valley lodge, No. 21, A. F. & A. M. for the loyalty which they have shown toward us. We are indeed proud to be a member of two such orders, and we pledge our brethren of these two orders to which we belong, that we will always feel indebted to them for their kindness. We also extend our appreciation to the other orders who did so much to make our effort such a grand success and to our friends, generally, we wish to thank each of you, and hope that in the future our relations may prove as pleasant as they have in the past. Taking all things in consideration, we have much over which to be proud and we certainly appreciate the same. The Wichita Searchlight Anniversary Picnic and Jubilee was a grand success. Are you a Sub scriber to the Searchlight? NO.1 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HAVE THEIR ANNUAL Sermon Preached At SECOND BAPTIST Church LAST SUNDAY The twenty-first annual sermon of the order Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A. E. A. A. and A., was preached at the 2nd Baptist church last Sunday under the auspices of Taos lodge No. 10, of this city. The sermon was preached by Rev. H. W. Scott, of Ottawa, Kan. The boys of Taos lodge made a fine appearance and they made the very air, so to speak, ring with Pythianism. The lodge here turned out with forty members; thyy met at their Castle hall, 342 N. Main st. at 2 p.m. and at 3 p.m. marched North on Main to Elm, west on Elm to Wichita, south on Wichita to the church; at the church the lodge was joined by the sisters of the Ladies' Court of Calantha, who marched in followed by the lodge. Chairman Jno. H. Phelps had the church nicely arranged so the Order occupied the whole front of the church from side to side. Rev. Scott preached a good sermon; after which Grand Chancellor Jno. E. Lewis made a few remarks concerning the progressive work being done by the Grand lodge of Kansas; when he had thus explain, Chancellor Commander A. T. Glover, of Taos lodge No. 10 made a few remarks and in the course of his remarks he referred to the almost unprecedented advancement of his lodge since he became its presider, near one year ago; he stated the fact that the lodge had increased its membership from 30 to 43 and that the lodge had 'lots of money' and did not one cent. A collection of $40.00 was raised. 442 N. TOPEKA AVE. Fortitude and Perseverance. 'The great art of life, so far as I have been able to observe, consists in fortitude and perseverance. I have rarely seen that a man who conscientiously devoted himself to the studies of any profession, and did not omit to take fair and honorable opportunities of offering himself to notice when such presented themselves, has not at length got forward. The mischance of those who fall behind, though flung upon fortune, more frequently arises from want of skill and perseverance. Life, my young friend, is like a game at cards; our hands are alternately good or bad, and the whole seems, at first glance, to depend on mere chance. But it is not so, for in the long run the skill of the player predominates over the casualties of the game. Therefore, do not be discouraged with the prospect before you, but ply your studies hard, and qualify yourself to receive fortune when she comes your way.—Sir Walter Scott. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post-Office at Wichita Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday at No 239 North Main Street, up stairs RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: IN ADVANCE. On year, by mail..... 61 69 Six months, by mail..... 75 Three months, by mail..... 50 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to "The Searchlight," Wichita, Kansas. All matters to be published must reach this office not later than Tuesday, to reach publication in the current issue. correspondents and agents wanted everywhere. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. "To Live and Let Live," is our Motto. The Constitntional Convention o revise the constitution of Alabama met Tuesday. So 800,000 Nesroes civil freedom is now in the balance. We appreciate the remarks made by Judge Thos. C. Wilson at Peerless hall last Wednesday night. He is alright. There is no man in Sedg wick county who is more thought of or higher esteemed than is Judge Thos. C. Wilson. May, 29th, 1901. Dear Editor, I have been reading the Searchlight for several weeks and am greatly charmed with it. It is a good, moral paper and a great credit to our race. With best wishes for your success. I am NOTICE TO MINISTERS. We kindly ask the pastors of our various churches to furnish us he program for their children's day exercises. It will please us to receive he programs not later than Wednesday Editor. An Esteemed Youmg Lady "A good name is better than riches." Wichita has some very highly esteemed young ladies, and the truth of the assertion is made demonstrative as the opportunities present themselves. Among the latest demonstrations that have made evidence in this particular, is the marked favor in which our people regard Miss Blanche Alexander. For a graduating present Miss Alexander was presented with an an elegant gold watch and chain, and on last Monday evening about 75 of the elite of Wichita's society met, as per arrangements, at the home of Mr and Mrs. Samuel Anderson to do her honor by way of a grand reception. An impromptu program was rendered, opened with a brief address by Thadddeus Summitt and responded to by Miss Alexander. The affair was superb in every particular and reflects much credit upon Mesdams S. Anderson, A. T. Glover, S. E. Patton and others who were at the head of the movement. A fond repast was served and at a late hour all sought "Home sweet home." Constant labor and an unswerving determination are the most reliable indications of success THE WECHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURDAY, JUNE 1st: 1901 St. Paul and Return $19.70 June 8th to 10th St. Paul and Return $21.70 May 27th, 28th and 30th Chicago and Return $20.65 July 28rd to 25th Will show you an Up-to-Date selection of Fancy Trousering at $4.50. No More and No Less. Staple and Fancy Groceries Fine Candies, Cigars AND Tobacco AT C. S. Truex's, 246 N. Main. Phone 743 S. G. Watkins, of Topeka, Ks. Grand Master of Prince Hall Grand lodge, Ancient, Free. & Accepted Masons will make ann visi u with Arkansas Valley lodge, N 21, of this city on Thursday, June 6th, 1901. Every member is requested to be present at this meet in 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 p m Preaching at 7.40 p m Rev. R McTurner, Pastor. Friendship Baptist church 722 E. Murdock ave. Preaching 11 a. m. Sabbath school 19:30 Preaching 7:30 p. m. Rev. W. R. Hardy, Pastor The K. C. Pantorium Remember. any price of goods in the house at one price. 209 East DouglasAve If our readers will watch our colmns they will be able to ffnd good bargains at the stores that ad vertise with us. When in Wichita go to the Hudspeth Hotel, 113 Tremont. Every thing is First-Class and Up-to-Date 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 payments. 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. Frank Garrett will open a brick yard on or about June 1st. His yard will be 17 blocks on South Mead. Mr Garrett has had more than 12 yrs experience in moking brick and turn out a superior quality of brick. If you are going to build, you will do well by figuring with him. Rev. H. F. Frazier and wife; Rev A. C. Terrill and wife, were among happy picnicers at South Riverside park Wednesday afternoon. A. T. Glover, C. C. of Taos lodge No. 10 sold the most tickets for the Anniversary Jubilee Wednesday night. He sold 63 tickets. The Famous Chihneth Mandolin Club rendered some fine selections at the hall Wednesday night. The Home Defenders make regular parades every evening. Remember the big Rally at the Tabernacle baptist church on the 3rd Sunday in June. THE S. E. KLENTZ MILLINERY STORE, 153, North Main Street are giving away Chinaware, Hat-pins, 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. Mrs. H. Abernathy, of Wellington, is visiting in the city. J.H Massay who has been indisposed for several daysis out again. Capt. S. W. Jones is on the sick list. Mrs. Celia Ford is visiting in Guthrie. I. G. Banks has built an addition and made other improvements to his residence on N. Water St. Mrs. Lucy Clark, of Valley Center, was a visitor in the city Wednes day. J. Marshall Tiggs, of Parsons, visited in the city this week, the guest of his sister, Mrs. Isaac Feygans. Fred Alexander left Wednesday night for a short visit in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Mabel Ross has returned to the city. ROCK - ISLAND ROUTE. Sanfrancisco and Return $45.00 July 6th to 13th Kansas City and Return $8.15 June 9th and 10th Milwaukee and Return $22.75 July 21st and 22nd Colorado points $15.00 to $22.50 All Summer and several others. For full in- formation call or address, "UNCLE JOSH" that fine play of 2 hours and 15 minutes, will soon be staged by Rev. A.C. Terrili and his selected company of excellent players. As will be remembered, this is the play which was so grandly presented during the fall holidays at Peerless hail. It is expected to be given to the public soon. Mrs. S. E. Patton is remodeling the building 601 N. Main preparatory to open a First-Class Bakery. Mrs. Patton's reputation as a baker is well known. When you want anything in the baker's line go to Mrs. Patton's place 601 N. Main. Mrs. B. A. Fisher is expected to return home next week. Miss Bulah Thomas left Wednesday for Alexander, La., to visit relatives and friends. Gov. W. E. Stanley was in the city Decoration Day. Will Visit. A Cool Place Where You Can Spend your SUNDAY AFTER-NOON and EVENING, is the CENTROPOLIS HOTEL. We make it a specialty to * * * * * Have Everything for the comfort of our patrons. Ice Cream, Soda Pop and Lunches. J. H. Hodge, Prop. 605, N. Main. CHURCH DIRECTORY Where to go unday. 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 p.m. Rev. A.C.Terrill, Pastor Preaching at 11 a.m., Sabbath school at 3 pm Preaching at 7.30 p m This Is Our Kansas Brilliant Coal It is tinted with rosin, visible and inuvi- 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 414 N. Main St. Phone 108. Mrs. Ara Dunn has a firstclass restaurant at715 E. Douglas. You can get a nice hot meal "like mother used to cook." Go there 715 E. Douglas. Call on Dr. E. Harrison when you want any medical treatment. He is well qualified and fair in prices and terms. Consult him. His office is at 407 Main. A Sudden Death: A very sudden death took place at the home of Messrs. Alex and Willis Carterlast Sunday. Their brother-in-law, T. E. Hurst, began to complain Friday of asharp pain in the stomach, he did not look upon it as any thing serious, so advise his family not to send for a physician; he rested arsy Friday night Saturday and Saturday night, but Sunday morning he suddenly became worse. A physician was sent for but before he could arrive Mr. Hurst had died. He had stated on Friday morning that he was feeling better than he had felt in four or five years and his sudden death was was quite a shock to his whole family. Thomas Elridge Hurst was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1856 and at the time of his death was 45 years, 4 months, and 5 days old. He came ta this county about fourteen years ago, and about thirteen years ago war married to Miss Hattie Carter. Their union was blessed with 4 children; 3 little girls, and one little boy. Mr. Hurst was considered one of our most prominent colored citizens. The funeral services were held at Manchester school house and were conducted by Rev. A. C. Terrell on Monday, May. 28th. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER EMBALMER OFFICE PHONE 205 REQ. PHONE 213 N MAIN ST. WICHITA, KANS. GREAT REMOVAL We have moved our Big Stock of QUEENSWARE from 350 N. Main to 140 N. Main St. and we invite you to come down to our New Store and inspect our Stock. We have a Special line of FINE DINNER SETS in open stock. Anything you may want. Drop in at 140 N. Main, we'll be glad to see you whether you buy or not. The Odd-i-ta, 140 N. Main. Now is the time to make a selection for your season clothes. The PEERLESS Miss Ethel Isler, "our queen," is a beautiful, quiet, unassuming young lady and well merited the honor. WN Miller, Attorney at Law NOTARY PUBLIC Kansas and Missouri. No.239 N.Main street. 火灾 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. WILL ELECT. The annual election of officers of Arkansas Valley lodge, No 21, A F. & A. M. will take place Tuesday night, June, 4th. The following officers are to be elected: Worshipful Master, Senior Warden, Junior Warden, Secretary and Treasurer. All members are expected to be on hand at the meeting. BOTH HAVE DIPLOMAS. Rev. A. C. Terrill and wife have taken the complete course in P of Morrisson's school of Pantheology, and both graduate with high honors, and have recieved their diplomas. This is the best institute of Pantheology in the world. Dr Morrisson is the founder and has founder and has established institutes in all the leading cities of the United States, as well as London, Liverpool and other foreign cities. By this treatment, cases which have been pronounced hopeless by some of our best physicians, have been permanently cured. We congratulate Rev. and Mrs. Terrell upon their successful completion of this course, and thus give to Wichita the honor of having the first and only colored graduates in the world from this distinguished school. Deputy Grand Master, J. L. Harper of the Odd Fellow Grand Lodge, and his committee, are making extensive arrangements sor the meeting of the Grand Lodge in this city, July, 16. 17, and 18th. The Odd Fellows have made a gaud progress in the past year and the forth-coming session is looked to-be a grand one. We can't afford to sell Gold Dollars For 99 Cents 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 J. L. Francis & Co., Paint and Wall Paper Dealers. 312 East Douglas ave. Searchlight $1.00 Rail Road Time Tab Leave - East Bound. Train No, 10 "Kansas and Nebraska led." for Ft, Scott and St. Louis 201 Train No 6, Kansas City and St. Louis press 10 00 p.m. Leave for South and West No 5 for Clearwater, Conway Springs, thony, Kiowa, Kingman, Norwich Oxford, Belle Plain and Winfield 74 No 451 For Conway Springs, Anthony and Kiowa 82 Leave for North and West No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limited for Hutchinson, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver No 124 local freight,carries passengers between Wichita and Genesseso 84 Arrive from the East No 9 Kansas and Nebraska imbed from Ft Scott and St Louis 11 No 5 From Kansas City and St Louis 71 Arrive from South and West No 6 From Kiowa,Anthony,Conway Springs and D M and Apoint45 No 452 From Anthony and Conway Springs 111 Arrive from North and West No 10 From Denver,Colorado Springs,Pueblo and Hutchinson 11 No 46e From Hutchinson,and Mt Hope(daily,except Sunday] 81 No 6 From Genesseo and Hutchinson 41 E.E.BLECKLEY.P Passenger station corner Dongli and Wichita st. Telephone FRISCO LIE. 108 For Monett, Springfield, St. Louis, all points East, daily, 1.25 102 Pittsburg, Joplin, Galena, Wash. and Carthage, daily, 1.25 107 Burton, Ellsworth, and all points daily, 2.40 102 Pittsburg, Girard, Joplin, Carthage ta and Sapulp. 10.00 102 Monett, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, mediate points daily, 10.00 102 Eureka Springs, Springfield, St. and all points East, daily, 10.00 For Sleeping Berths and through to all pointsand particular informa- tion B.E.DUNN, Dist. Pas- 100 Douglas No. Arrive Leave 408 10.35 p m 10.35 a m 406 11 15 a m 11 20 a m 416 3 o o p 3 o o p a 418 2 20 p 4 o o p a 458 2 55 p m Englewood fc 428 6 40 p m 6 40 p 472 11 o o a Wichita and West 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 12 20 p a 457 7 45 a m Englewood lrg 427 8 20 a m 8 30 a m 471 Wichita and Western, 517 West 416 3 00 p m 3 00 p m 428 6 40 p m 6 50 p m Fifty hours to Los Angeles, a Daily,except Sunday, L,R,DELANEY,Aged W.J.BLACK,G.P.A., Topeka,Kan CHICAGO,ROCK ISLAND and PAC Time Table, Effective Nov.19 19 Trains Arrive North and East No 2 Kansas City,Chicago and St Louis limited,daily 9 45 a.m 9 No 2 Colorado Springs, Denver and Pacific coast 9 45 a.m 9 No 4 Kansas City,St Louis and Chicago night Expr. 9 00 p.m 9 No. 36, Daily, Ex, Sun Colo, and Kan, City 1.10 p.m 13 No. 32 Accommodation daily except Sunday 0 30 a.m 9 South and West No 1 Ft Worth,Dallas, Houston and Galveston express,daily 6 40 p.m 7 00 No 1 Oklahoma,Ft Worth New Orleans and Pacific const, daily 6 40 p.m 7 00 No 3 Oklahoma,Ft Worth, Dallas and New Orleans express 6 35 p.m 6 25 No 3 Ft Worth, Houston, Galveston, San Antoin express, daily, No. 35, Daily, Ex. Sun. Oklahoma Express 3.10pm 3.10pm Elegant free reclining chair car on trains and Pullman Palace sleepers. Wichita to Chicago and Kansas City out change. Also sleepers on all night. to Fort Worth, Houston San Antoin New Orleans. Tickets sold and by checked to all points north, east, west. Steamship tickets sold to all Europe points lowest rates. Passenger se- corner Douglas and Meade aves. place C.E.BASCOM, D. Lodge Directory Knights of Pythias. Toas LodgeNo.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA KAN Toas LodgeNo.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA.KAN. Castle Hall 338 North Main street. Regular Meetings Second and Fourth Monday Night in Each Month. Visting Knights in good standing Welcome Bert Glover,Chan.Com. S.W.Fleming,K.of R.& S. ERIA COURT No.7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs.J.H.Phelps,W.C. Miss Blencq Alcxander,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. Hopkins Abernathy, W.M. W.H.A, Clark, Secretary. Meets 1st. and 3rd. Tuesday each month. All Master Masons in good standing are Cordially Invited. PALESTINE COMMANDERY No.12. Wichita Kansas. J.T.Chinneth, Emminent Commander J.A.Roberson, Generalissimo. Phil Hyde, Captain General Joseph Fine Secretary. Sylvester Anderson,Treas Meets the 2nd Monday night each month MT.ZION CHAPTER No.17. W.H.A.Clark. High Priest J.S.Fauver, King. Ben Wilson, Scribe. J.T. Chinneth,Secretary Grant Ewing,Treas. Meets the 4th Monday night each month PRINCESS CHAPTERNO.12 O.of E.S. Mrs,M.E.Banks,Royal Matron, Miss Lizzie M.Burnham,Seerty Meets 1st and 3rd.Wednesday each month. Mt.Olive Court No.9,H. of J. Mrs Myrtle Glover,M A M Mrs J E Lewis,Secretary Mrs L Adams,Treasurer Meets every Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. Odd Fellow Lodges. .....State Officers..... Graud United Order of Odd Fellows, J.L.Harper, D.G.M, Wichita W.M.Jackson, D.D.G.M, Topeka S.P.Johnson, D.G.S, Emporia M.W.Jackson D.G.D Kans City HOME OF THE WEST No.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. Barnes & Newcomb Popular Music House. Pianos, Organs.Every thing known in music. Largest stock to select from and Lowest Prices. B.F.McLean. Lumber Dealer Wichita, Kansas. Yards at Wichita, Kas., Clearwater, Kas., Peck Kas., Cheney, Kas, Mrs. DUNN'S RESTAURANT.. FOR FIRST-CLASS MEALS. Meals, 15 Cents. 715 East Douglss Avenne Mrs. Ara Dunn, Proprietor. H. C. DUNBAR, PIONEER UNDERTAKER. 235 North Main Street. Wichita - Business - Directory 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. New Music New Music Firm, Burress & Goforth, are the Decker & Sons and Sweetland and Western Cottage goods. Machines of all kinds. 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Send postal express address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Houck Hardware Store Screen Door, Screen wire, Ice Crem Freezers, Rubber Hose, Lawn Mowers, etc. 116 East Douglas ave. Laundry. 155-159 N.Market St. 'Phone 237 Office on First Street. Agents Wanted Everywhere w. C. Neeley CA RPENTER All Kinds of Carpen terwork neatly done to order. W. C. Neeley, 1240 Blain, Ave. JOHN P. Oswego, Kansas Mrs. Lena Porter returned to her home at Joplin, Mo., Monday. Mrs Mattie Harper of this city returned home from Wagoner, I. T, Wednesday. Miss Mattie Reed, who has been visiting relatives in the city for several weeks, returned to her home at Cherryvale Thursday. Mr. Chas. A. Biggers returned home Friday from Galena. Little Luella and Corinne Sneede of Cherryvale are visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mis Nannie Pickett returned home from Cherryvale Saturday. Misses Nettie and Adelaide Worley of this city went to Jopli Saturday Mr Sam Beard of Chetopa was the guest of Miss Lizzie Parks last Sunday. Mesdames Charity Minnifield, Malinda Lindsey ane Miss Lillie Easter, Messrs. Joseph Parks, Jas Worley, Elijah Davis and Willis Brown went to Joplin Sunday morning to witness the ball game between Oswego and Joplin. Miss Resa Walker and Mrs Mary Walker of this city are reported quite sick. The Memorial Sermon at the Oppea House, Sunday, was largely attended. PAY UP. We kindly ask all of our subscribers to call at our office or pay our collector all that you owe us up to June, 1st. We would like to begin our new year with all clear on our books. Our collector is out now. Watch for him. HELENA, BUTTE, GARRISON, and ANACONDA Call at "Frisco Line" city ticke office corner Main and Douglas ave for full information or address B. F.Dunn, D.P.A., Wichita, Kansas. We call your attention to the Big Store of Mr. C. R.Fulton. You can get anything you want in gents furnishing goods. J. W. Garrett, BLACKSMITH, HORSE SHOEING, WAGON MAKING, and General Repair Shop. 708 Tremont ave. 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 For a Good, First-Class Snave GO TO Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cut & Shampoos. 6381 2 E. Douglass Ave., Burl Fisher.Prop. WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight.Only $1.00 per year. Bars Negroes SENATOR MORGAN'S PLAN FOR RUNNING THINGS IN ALABAMA. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ENTERS A PLEA FOR HIS RACE. Urges that the Constitutional convention take conservative action—Says a change at present would injure Both Races. On May 28th Booker T. Washington, in behalf of his race presented to the constitutional convention an appeal for conservative action. The address reminds the convention that the Negroes came here against their will, but have been benifited, trained and Christianized. They did their duty in the civil war and in the Spanish war. They have ceased for twenty years to be an offensive element in politics. Leading members of the race have persistently urged the Negro to learn to trust the white mau. For these men this is a crucial time. The Negro pays some direct taxes. He pays much more indirectly through his labor. He is in the main a producer of wealth and is generally contented and lawabiding. Already the emigrant agent and exodus association are at work on the Negro, who fears that his citizenship and his schools will both be taken away. The relations now are reasonably satisfactory between the two races. Any thing that will unsettle the Negro now when he is settling down to thrift and common sense would injure both races. The address pleads that all incentive right and useful living be not with drawn from the young Negro. It concludes: "Any law which will merely change the name and form of fraud and can be interpreted as meaning one thing wheu applied to one race and something when applied to another will not in our opinion improve our present condition, but unsettle the peace and thrift of our people and decrease the wealth of Alabama." The leading feature of the suffrage clause offered then by ex-Gov Jones is that which denies the right to vote to "any person who shall here after be guilty and convicted of selling his own vote or buying or bartering the vote of another, in any legal election or in any primary, caucus or convention, or who shall make or aid in making any false count or returns as to the result of such election, primary or caucus or convention, or who shall hereafter carry concealed weapons and be convicted thereof." Senator Morgan has pre- ared for the convention an address designed to support his suffrage clause. Senator Morgan's plan is simple. Nobody but a white man should hold office. A court of three registrars is provided for each county, and these courts shall have absolute power to determine the qualifications of every voter, save that an appeal from its decision lies in the circuit court. The real feature of the plan is in the provision the provision that only white men shall hold office. The registrar plan is similar to that in Mississippi, except that the courts of registrars have much wider discretion. A A woman is sick—some disease peculiar to her sex is fast developing in her system. She goes to her family physician and tells him a story, but not the whole story. She holds back something, loses her head, becomes agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally conceals what she ought to have told, and this completely mystifies the doctor. Is it a wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease? Still we cannot blame the woman, for it is very embarrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. This is the reason why hundreds of thousands of women are now in correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. To her they can give every symptom, so that when she is ready to advise them she is in possession of more facts from her correspondence with the patient than the physician can possibly obtain through a personal interview. Following we publish a letter from a woman showing the result of a correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham. All such letters are considered absolutely confidential by Mrs. Pinkham, and are never published in any way or manner without the consent in writing of the patient; but hundreds of women are so grateful for the health which Mrs. Pinkham and her medicine have been able to restore to them that they not only consent to publishing their letters, but write asking that this be done in order that other women who suffer may be benefited by their experience. Mrs. Ella Rice, Chelsea, Wis., writes; AM:—For two years I was troubled with falling womb. I suffered very much with bearing-down he, and was not able to do anything. What I but those who have suffered as I did. I could is the floor. I doctored with the physicians of this and grew worse instead of better. My husband write to you, but I had not been sent medi so bad that I concluded to ask your advice. I once advising me to take your Vegetable Compound, and taken two bottles I felt better, and after I had no happier woman on earth, for I was well Vegetable Compound cured me, and I wish and suffers as I did to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-ove me always grateful for the recovery of my E, Chelsea, Wis. REWARD Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have from time to time questioned the effectiveness of the best medical treatment we are constantly publishing, we have "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--For two years I was troubled with falling and inflammation of the womb. I suffered very much with bearing-down pains, headache, backache, and was not able to do anything. What I endured no one knows but those who have suffered as I did. I could hardly drag myself across the floor. I doctored with the physicians of this town for three months and grew worse instead of better. My husband and friends wished me to write to you, but I had no faith in patient medicines. At last I became so bad that I concluded to ask your advice. I received an answer at once advising me to take your Vegetable Compound, and I did so. But I received no bottles I felt better, and after I had taken five bottles there was no happier woman on earth, for I was well agree. I know that your Vegetable Compound cured me, and I wish and agree every woman who suffers as I did to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Believe me always grateful for the recovery of my health." --MISS. ELLA RICE, Chelsea, Wis. deposited with the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $5,000, which will be paid to any person who will show that the above testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission. — LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE Co. FOR SORE, WEAK & INFLAMED EYES. SALVE DRUGS UNNECESSARY. Price. 25 Cents. Druggists. MAKES THE USE OF DRUGS UNNECESSARY. Price, 25 Cents. Drugists. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIED One half of the world doesn't know how the other half lies about it. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED If you take up your wheat, adduce the land of plenty. Illustrated pamphlets, illustrated farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, report of wheat prices. Equal to That of May in Minnesota. To the Editor:—Thomas Regan and C. Collins of Eden Valley, Minnesota, went out to Western Canada last December as delegates to look over the grazing and grain lands that are being offered at such low prices and reasonable terms. This is what they say: information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of immigration. Department of Interior, Ottawa, Crawford, Crawford, 21 w. Ninth St. Kansas City Mo. "Wearrived in Calgary about the 20th of December and although we had left winter in Minnesota and Manitoba, we were surprised to find beautiful warm weather at this point, quite equal to what we have in May in Minnesota. There was no snow nor trace of winter to be seen, and the climate was really splendid. Horses, cattle and sheep were running out, in prime condition, with plenty of feed on the prairie, and really better than that of ours stabled in the south. We are impressed with this country as one of the finest mixed farming countries we have ever seen. The immense tracts of fertile lands well sheltered and abundantly watered leave nothing to be desired. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION It's easy enough for a man to be satisfied with his lot when it is centrally located in a large city. The best Ball Blue is Red Cross brand. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. "Leaving Alberta we returned east and visited the Yorkton district in Assiniboba. We drove out about ten miles at this point and were highly pleased with the splendid samples of grain we were able to see—wheat yielding 25 bushels, oats 60 bushels. Roots were also good specimens. From what we have seen, we have decided to throw in our lot with the Yorktoners—satisfied that this part of the country will furnish good opportunities for anyone anxious to make the best of a really good country." Some people don't know very much, and what little they do know they are not altogether sure of. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fumation, allays pain, cures wind colic. See a bottle. There's one thing about castles in the air. You don't have to pay any rent for them. Basketball players; Golf players; all play- ers chew White's Yucatan whilst playing. It takes rocks to build a brick house. "Any agent of the Canadian government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper will give you full particulars of the new districts being opened out this year in Assinibola and Saskatchewan. Yours truly. Old Reader- When a man goes without his dinner to do you a favor place his name at the top of your list of friends. A man may put on airs all his life and cut off heirs in his will. --- 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Piles Cured While You Sleep You are costive, and nature is under a constant strain to relieve the condition. This causes a rush of blood to the rectum, and before long congested lumps appear, itching, painful, bleeding. Then you have piles. There are many kinds and many cures, but piles are not curable unless you assist nature in removing the cause. CASCARETS make effort easy, regulate and soften the stools, relieving the tension, and giving nature a chance to use her healing power. 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Nurture what all your start taking CASCARETS today, for you will never get well and be well all the time until you put your bowels in order. Nurture CASCARETS today, under an abilis guarantee to cure or money refunded. Attractive name-cards for children's parties are made of sugar cookies, which have been rolled out very thin and cut in an oblong card shape. They are then baked, and afterward the initials of each child are written on with a stiff ice pressed through a paper horn, red sugar being sprinkled over the initials. King Edward Purchases Picture. An interesting picture has just been purchased by King Edward VII. It was painted by the Empress Frederic, then princess royal, in 1855, to be sold for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers who fell in the Crimea. It is called "The Battlefield," and was originally bought for 500 guineas, but recently reverted to a dealer. Quaint Greetings in Business. Quiet greetings in business. A firm in Wolverhampton, England, recently received a business letter from West Africa, which closed as follows: "But before you can do good enough to me in meantime to send me a very large assortment of samples, beads, woollens, cotton yarns, to enable me to send in my new orders. I conclude with my 10,000 kisses and prodigious greeting to you all." Mr. Pearson Will Not Resign. Rev. Mr. Pearson, the preacher who was elected sheriff of Cumberland county (Portland), Maine, after having been nominated as a joke by the liquor men, has been a source of unending trouble to them ever since. His rigid enforcement of the prohibition law has, it is said, resulted in an offer of a large sum if he will resign or go to Europe and remain there until his term shall have expired. Question in Sunday School. A Sunday school superintendent, who happened to be a dry goods merchant, and who was teaching a class of very little tots, asked when he had finished explaining the lesson: "Now, has any one a question to ask?" A very small girl raised her hand. "What is it, Martha?" asked the superintendent. "Why, Mr. Brooks, how much are those little red parasols in your windows?" said Martha.—Current Literature. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! New land is open to open. Be ready! Morgan's Manual, with supplementary maps, affords allotments, county seats, etc. $1. Supplement & Map 50c. Agents Wanted. DICK T. MORGAN, Ferry, O. T. A humorist says the joke that isn't printed is no laughing matter. Every man thinks he has his nose on the grind stone so much that he makes the fire fly. Save money—Buy Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. In attempting to pass another on the road to wealth always keep to the right. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien. 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 6, 1900. If the world owes every man a living it has a lot of gold bricks to settle for. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day of use. Nilfer of stiff Nerve Restorer. Seen for FITS $24.99 bottle and medicine. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 934 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa. The counterfeiter tries his best to follow a good example. For weakness, stiffness and soreness in aged people use Wizard Oil. Your druggist knows this and sells the oil. The Island of Barra is becoming famous for the longevity of its inhabitants. A correspondent gives a list of aged persons who have died quite recently, including Peter Macintosh of Gangston, who was 113 years of age, and Mrs. Murdoch Cameron of Borva, who was 111. are in a great measure due to lack of vitality of the liver and kidneys. During periodical sickness, change of life, pregnancy, and for all the ills which afflict womankind, the use of McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm will bring relief, and benefit every woman. It is unsurpassed in all troubles affecting the liver and kidneys; for Rheumatism, Lame Back, Lumbago, etc. Its efficacy has been proved for many years in thousands of homes. Better buy a bottle to-day, and have it in the house. $1.00 at druggists. Made by The J. H. McLEAN MEDICINE CO. St. Louis, Mo. FOR CATARRH OF HEAD THROAT LUNGS STOMACH KIDNEYS BLADDER FEMALE ORGANS Says of Peruna: "I join Senators Sullivan, Rosch and McEnery in their good opinion of Peruna as an effective catarrh remedy." PERUNA THE GREAT TONIC HALF ACTUAL SIZE. Private Mailing Card with colored views of scenery on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway sent on receipt of ten (10) cents in stamps. Address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. W.L.DOUGLAS $3. & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Real worth of W. L. Douglas $2 and $5.50. Douglas $2 and $5.50. Glitz Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. FACTORY, BROCKTON, MASS. It is not alone the best leather that makes a first class shoe. It is the best that have planned the best style, lasts a perfect mode of the foot, and the construction of the shoe. It knowledge that have made W. L. Douglas shoes the best in the world for men. Take no surprise on bottom. Your dealer should keep them, if he does not send for catalog giving full instructions how to order by mail. GUARANTEED TO CURE: Five Years ago the first box of CAMCHELLE similar medicine in the world. This is absolute proof of great merit, and guaranteed to cure or money refunded. Do buy today, two 600 boxes, give after using one 600 box, return the unused 600 box and the empty box to back for both boxes. Take our advice — no matter what all you want today, you will quickly follow and you will bless CAMCHELLE with KENYO 60, see fees or Chicagos. American-made boots and shoes are driving British made goods out of Australia and the British colonies in the East and West Indies and Africa, where they have always had a monopoly. Lawn Tennis Captures • K16: Lawn Tennis Captures a King. The King of Portugal is an enthusiastic lawn tennis player, and both the king and his brother, the Infante Don Alphonso, played for the south of Portugal against the north in the recent tournament at Cascaes, for the challenge cup offered by the Queen of Portugal. The king plays a hard volleying game, with good judgment in placing, and can hold his own with the best players in Portugal. Rate Reduction Increases Travel. New Zealand made reductions on its railway passenger rates to the extent of about 35 per cent recently. It was calculated that the reduction would cause a decrease of revenue to the extent of £75,000. It hasn't panned out that way, however. Railway travelling has increased so much that the deficit has been wiped off, and a handsome increase of revenue—nearly £20,000—is expected ere the financial year is out. South Dakota Farms Is the title of an illustrated booklet just issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, descriptive of the country between Aberdeen and the Missouri River, a section heretofore unprovided with railway facilities, but which is now reached by a new line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Everyone contemplating a change of location will be interested in the information contained in it, and a copy may be had by sending a two-cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. THE BEST POMMEL SLICKER IN THE WORLD BEARS THIS TRADE MARK TOWER'S TRADE FISH BRAND THOUGH OFT MISTAKES AS A SADDLE COAT IT HAS NO EQUAL ON SALE EVERYWHERE. CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS • A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. BULL Buy our up to date 1901 COW BOY POKE Best neck Poke made, Hickey poles, Rowels. Made adjust- able with automatic antiques. Can not lose off of an milk bottle. Write circulars of five knives pokes. Ask your bark ware dealer for it on a address. C. B. POKE CO. Wichita, Kansas W. N. U. WICHITA—NO.—22-1901 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Faner. 5. ```markdown ``` THE SEARCHLIGHT. J. Pierpont Morgan did not have quite everything bought in this country before he crossed the sea, but he left a man in charge on this side to pick up what few trifles he had happened to overlook. The recent reference in Youth's Companion to San Bernardino county, California, as the largest in the United States has brought out the fact that there is one even larger—Custer country in Montana. The one contains 19,457 square miles, the other 20,490. In the interest of accuracy, therefore, the palm must be transferred from California to Montana. The Geneva correspondent of the McKinley has informed President Kruger of the Transvaal that he cannot receive him, either officially or unofficial. No doubt that story will give comfort in London, and it can do harm anywhere else. We may be very sure that if President Kruger visits Washington he will be received with all the honors befitting his rank. Liquor dealers in Abingdon, Mass., by way of a joke nominated Rev. W. H. Wyman for constable, but they have about come to the conclusion that the joke is on them instead of on the reverend gentleman. They thought the proffer of such an honor would anger Mr. Wyman, but he enlisted the aid of local church people, was triumphantly elected and now declares that the Sunday and midnight closing ordinances must be rigidly observed. A film of kerosene on the surface of standing water is fatal both to the larvae and to the adult female mosquitoes which alight there to lay their eggs. A small quantity is sufficient, one ounce being enough for a space of fifteen square feet. Temporary pools which result from heavy rains, and even the water in hollow sumps and discarded tin cans may furnish a generation of mosquitoes. You may talk of the selfish men who succeed, but when we talk of success we don't mean tumblebugs who贮 their treasure home, pigs who succeed in finding acorns, bankers who pile up dollars, trust organizers who pick or gamblers who successfully win. When we mention successful men, we mean men really successful—those whose lives have added something to the dignity and decency of the human race. The dinner given by the survivors of the defenders of Belfort in the Franco-German war, on the anniversary of the age, was especially memorable because of the one woman present, who provided one of the most popular hosts. This was Mme. Belfort, a lieutenant of the Frances-Tireurs, who, then but a girl just out of her teens, was enrolled as a trooper in that corps, as she was a capital rider and shot. In this campaign she won both her commission and the military cross. When digging in the gravel beds of South Kensington for the foundations of the Victoria and Albert museum in London great quantities of the bones of extinct animals were found, creatures which lived in the London basin at the time that the river's drift and brick earth were being deposited. These were the bones of the great stages then common, of the elephant and of the primeval horse, creatures which lived before the channel was cut between England and France, though not perhaps before man had appeared in what is now the Thames valley. A scientist, to whom some of the remains were taken said that they remained him of the great discovery of similar remains in the brick earth at lilford, in Essex, England, thirty-seven years ago, when he personally saw dog from the brick fields of that parish the head and tusks of one of the largest mammoth elephants in the world. Within the next two months the government will close out its business of educating Indians by contract, and thenceforth will retain practically the whole control and conduct of the militar. The change from the old system to the new began in 1895, when Congress passed a law providing for sectarian schools, the decrease being twenty per cent each year. Meantime, as the cutting off of this alder deprived Indian boys and girls of the privileges which they had enjoyed for them in government schools, the attendance in which has increased from fourteen to twenty-two thousand, and is still growing at the rate of a thousand a year. The next step contemplated by the government is a measure of compulsory education for young Indians. It is a pleasure to note that Hampton Institute, being entirely non-sectarian and performing a service which would be hard to implicate will still receive a certain measure of government assistance. An interesting and unusual ceremony will take place in Quebec next month, when a suitably inscribed bronze tablet will be placed by the Sons of the American Revolution upon the spot where the brave Gen. Montgomery fell, on December 31, 1775, in this ill-fated attempt to capture the château. The ceremony of unveiling the tablet to the American general will be followed by an international exchange of courtesies and a banquet; and it is safe to predict that, although the city held out successfully against the fathers, it will capitulate to the sons. Hollow Ash... Hall BY MARGARET BLOUNT CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.) "You will find her the greatest coward of us all," she observed. "But if you really want to hear the horrible sound, open the door." He did so. Every one was silent: and through the hall came plainly enough the rocking of the cradle and the low sound of the mother's song. Mr. Crowley stood for a moment at the door; then he shut it, and came back to the fireside looking just a little pale. "I wonder if it is a hoax," he observed, after a short pause. "That can hardly be. For we all saw the room the first night we came, and there was no one there, though the cradle rocked all the time. Is it not horrible to have to live in the house with it?" "Indeed it is; and I question if it is right for you to do so. You must make my uncle go as soon as you can." "I am sure that it is easier said than done," sighed Mrs. Cowley. "I know what I would do," observed Marjorie. "But the cradle has failed to do that." "Then I would give him something worse than a cradle. If hearing things would not scare him, I should be inclined to try what seeing things would do." Rose clasped her hands delightedly. "I have it, Cousin Charles. If you and Marjorie will help me, we can manage it easily." "How?" "You must be ghosts." "What nonsense you do talk, Rose!" said Catharine. "It is not nonsense. If you or I undertake to play the part, papa would see through it at once, because he would miss us. But he knows nothing of Charles' return, and he has never seen Marjorie. They would both make capital ghosts." "There is something in it," observe! Mr. Cowley. "And if you will leave it to us we will make my uncle very willing to go. But you must stow us out of sight before he comes." "The turret-chamber is ready, and a fire is lit there," said Mrs. Cowley. "But that is the room said to be haunted." "Oh, never mind! But what knock is that?" "Good gracious! It is Mr. Cowley. Run, Rose! get your cousins up into the room before we let him in. Here take the cloak or he will be sure to see it. We will send you up some supper, Charles. Rose shall come; but for mercy's sake, be quick now!" With much suppressed merriment and laughter, the two ghosts were got out of the way, and were safe in the turret-room long before Mrs. Macarthy had let in her master, and was fuming over what he termed her "stupid Irish delay." Mrs. Cowley looked exceedingly guilty when her lord and master entered; but he, being full of his own business, did not observe it. He 'aid aside his wrappings, called for hot water and the spirit case, and sat down by the fire with an air of a man who had earned his repose and meant thoroughly to enjoy it. "Have you been alarmed in any way since I went, Mrs. C.?" he asked when his teddy was thoroughly mixed. "No, my dear," she replied briskly; which was a gross fib, as we know, because the unexpected arrival of her nephew and his wife had nearly sent her into a fit of hysterics. But that was only one of the white lies that are perfectly allowable, and even praiseworthy, when the head of the household is in question. If British matrons hesitated long over a "tar-diddle," there would be little peace, I fear, in many a British home. "Not alarmed, ch!" said Mr. Cowley, sipping at his glass. "Well, I'm glad you are getting so brave. I have been to see the agent, and there is no reason why we should not rent the house for another year. Mr. Vernon will not want it, and the agent evidently looks upon it as one of the best speculations he ever made." "Another year! Mercy preserve us!" said Mrs. Cowley, holding up her hands in horror. "And why not, pray?" was the sharp reply. "If we go sooner we shall have done no good. People will think we are frightened away, after all; whereas if we stay for fifteen or sixteen months they cannot have the face to hint at such a thing." Mrs. Cowley groaned. "Besides, I have been talking with the agent about the drains, and he has given me leave to have them set to rights. A capital dodge that, isn't it, my dear?" "Don't you see? While the men are at work, I'll make them take up the floor of that pantry. Depend on it, there is nothing there but rats." "Can rats rock a cradle, Mr Cowlex?" asked his better half, severely. "There are plenty of singing mice in the world; perhaps ours belongs to that breed, my dear. However, what I mean to say is this: That the house being old, is in all probability swarming with the brutes; and that, in some of their antics in the pantry, they contrive to imitate the rocking of a cradle and to make a sound which will "Frighten him." "You must be ghosts." CHAPTER X Mrs. Cowley groaned. Mrs. Cowley only sighed. pass muster as a human voice. So I'll have the floor up, and we'll put a stop to their fun at once." "It was a human voice!" said Mrs. Cowley, indignantly. "The idea of trying to explain it in that way! I never heard of anything so absurd in all my life! Did the agent offer you any refreshment, my dear." Mr. Cowley wagged his head good humoredly. "I see what you are driving at; but I was never more sober in my life, Mrs. C. And we'll have the floor up tomorrow, and you shall see if, during the rest of the year, we hear anything more of the cradle." Mrs. Cowley held her peace. Experience had taught her that argument in a case like this would be of no use. But if in her heart she had harbored any little sweet scruple as to the propriety of the plan by which the young people intended to dislodge her lord and master from the strange home he had chosen, it vanished from that hour and she stood as deeply committed to the ghost scheme as any one among them all. "Where is Rose?" asked Mr. Cowley, looking up suddenly. Mrs. Cowley blushed up to the eyes. "She—she is upstairs, I think. Do you want her?" "Yes; I have brought her a book. As she is so very fond of ghost stories I bought her the most horrible thing I could find in that way. It will serve to pass away her evenings very pleasantly this winter." At that moment Rose entered, looking peculiarly well satisfied with herself, and everything in general. "A book for me, papa? Now that is kind." Mr. Cowley grinned to himself over his toddy. "You'll be charmed with it. There is a picture on the first page, enough to turn any one's hair white." "I'll look at it directly," said Rose, laying it down upon the table. "But papa, how could you leave us so long alone this evening? That cradle has been rocking so dreadfully all the time!" "Rats, my dear. Nothing in the world but rats." "I wonder what you would do if you saw a ghost, papa—a real ghost!" "Pah! It is all nonsense, my dear, Ghosts are an exploded theory. For my part, I have so little faith in them that I would not in the least mind staying here in the old house by myself all night long." As he spoke the hall clock struck twelve, and Rose gave her mother a peculiar glance. "Oh, how dreadful! This is just the time when ghosts go their rounds. Do let us all go to bed or we shall be sure to see one." "Yes, let us go to bed at once," said Mrs. Cowley, rising from her chair. As a matter of course, their end was gained, for Mr. Cowley was seized with a fit of obstinacy upon the spot. They knew well that nothing would induce him to stir from the spot till he had finished his gin and water and smoked his cigar. "Go to bed, all of you," he said benignly. "I'm not afraid to stop here by myself, and I shall come up before you are fairly asleep." Mrs. Cowley and her two daughters left the room. The bright face of Rose was sparkling with mischief and laughter; and the instant the door shut behind her she caught her mother's hand an whispered joyously. "Mamma, you need be under no concern. He will not want to stop here long after tonight. You never saw two such horrible objects as Charles and Marjorie have made of themsleaves with my help and Mrs. Macarthy's. Come and see them before you go into hour own room to wait for him. Mrs. Cowley and Catharine followed her into the turret chamber. Though they had been warned to expect a ghastly sight, neither of them could help staring and well-nigh crying out when they saw the figures that stood in the center of the room. One was a nun dressed in the flowing black robes of a Sister of Mercy, with her hands bound tightly together, and clasped above her breast. Her face was white as death—and from the right temple a deep crimson strain ran down toward the chin. The contrast between the pallor of her face and the bright blood stain were ghastly in the extreme. On her left hand stood a stalwart black man, clad in flowing robes of the purest white. Mrs. Cowley's best dressing gown had been pressed into this service, and about his swarthy brow was folded a turban, consisting of several yards of India muslin, on which she set great store. In his hands he held a rusted dagger, which Rose had hunted up in her exploring tours through the house. His height seemed almost terrific, a circumstance soon explained when she showed the false soles and heels he had managed to affix to his boots. His air stern and menacing; and, altogether the pair were by no means the most pleasant visitants that could be imagined to the gentleman sitting alone over his toddy in a haunted house. "Shall we do, aunt?" exclaimed Mr. Cowley, as she entered. "Do? You are perfectly dreadful! Who dressed you like that?" "Rose." "And where on earth could she have got such dreadful ideas from? You never saw a ghost, child?" "No, mamma; but I have read about them often enough; and papa says book knowledge is not of the slighest use to us, unless we can apply it to real life. I hope he will be pleased with my application tonight." "You are a saucy girl, Rose," said her mother, still eyeing the appariations with some apprehension. "I wonder, now, what he will say to you? If it was me, I should go into a fit the moment you opened the door." "My uncle is made of sterner stuff. Still, I hope we shall give him a start. One don't want to take all this trouble in dressing for nothing." "Shall you go down to him, or let him meet you on the stairs?" asked Catharine. "Oh, we will go down; we shall be seen to much more advantage in a room." "Besides, he has threatened to pinch your nose with the tongs, and he cannot do it if he is on the staircase when he sees you," added Rose. "That is a consideration." replied Mr. Cowley. "Now, you will ladies betake yourselves to bed? It is nearly half-past twelve—the very hour when two orthodox ghosts would be most likely to set out upon their travels. Good-night, aunt; we will send him up to you in a very short space of time." The ladies retreated. Mrs. Cowley, in order that she might not be suspected of any complicity in the plot, if by any means it should be discovered, undressed and retired to bed as usual. But Rose and Catharine sat down beside their chamber door and waited the result of their operations with great impatience. Meanwhile, Mr. Cowley, sitting over his cigar below, little dreamed how his nearest and dearest were conspiring ruthlessly against his peace of mind. The ghostly cradle was silent at last; his cigar was a fine one, and his toddy was grateful to the taste. Sitting here, monarch of all he surveyed, he thought over the events of his visit to the agent, and the promise which he had drawn from him about the drains. "A clever dodge that!" he mused approvingly to himself. "Nothing can be easier than to set the men at work among the pipes in the cellar, and to take them on till they are under the pantry, and be hanged to it! I'll stop that noise or my name isn't Cowley! People shall not have it to say that after laughing at every one else for the belief in ghosts, I went to get frightened at one myself! Ghosts, indeed! Suppose there actually is one about the premises; of course, the poor thing cannot rest in his grave till something he's got or omitted to do on earth, has been done for him. Very well! What could be easier than to say to the troubled spirit, 'Make yourself quite easy; I will attend to it at once! Don't stay out of your grave a moment longer, for fear that you should take cold, my dear sir?' Of course, any sensible ghost, being addressed in such a sensible manner, would immediately return to his grave and stay there. That is what I call common sense kind of dealing with the citizens of another world. They would appreciate it—I am sure they would—Oh, Lord, what's that?" He might as well ask the question; for his flow of self-congratulation was suddenly checked by a low, hollow groan outside the door. He listened intently. The groan came again, but louder than before. “There is a noise!—I’m not dreaming!” he mused, while his hair stood on his head “like quills upon the fretful porcupine,” “What on earth can it be? Mrs. Macarthy walking in her sleep, I suppose!” he said, with trembling lips, and a face white with the fear he was ashamed of, which he could not control. The door swung open—a gigantic black man entered, leading by the hand a bleeding nun. (To be continued.) Randall's Island Slang The boys in the Randall's Island Institution for the reformation of juvenile delinquents have a slang of their own. A "scorf" is a boy who is a big eater of all kinds of food as distinguished from a "chuck scorf," which means a boy who eats quantities of bread. "Snitch" is a telltale, a boy who breaks the unwritten law of all schools not to split on a schoolmate under any circumstances. If one boy refers to another as an "Up" it means that he is a captain or a lieutenant, for the school is military in its training. By the same token a "kid" is a captain or lieutenant who is of small stature. "Hard guy" means a particularly tough boy and is a title commanding more or less secret respect. As distinguished from "kid" a "Spud Up" means a captain or lieutenant who is of large size, "spud" meaning either a big boy or a potato as the case may be. Shoes that are made outside of the institution are called "cities," and "whiffing," and a match is a "striker." When it is said of a boy that he has "got a goto," it means that he is angry. If he has a "fierce goat," it means that he is very angry, in a towering rage, in fact. A "girk" is a second-hand dried chew of tobacco, and is in the list of juvenile delinquent treasures. A "rakes" is a boy's chum or closest friend. Boer Colonies in Russia. In the Grodno and Vollin districts of Russia there are about ten small boer farm colonies, numbering from 400 to 500 inhabitants all told. They were founded in 1820 by emigrants from Holland, and the method of living is exactly the same as that of their relatives in South Africa. The amateur violinist is continually bowing and scraping. A QUESTION OF INTENT. How a Subhief Obeyed His Superior's Orders. In one of the executive departments not a thousand miles from the Star building a young man fresh from the plains of the Southwest was appointed a subchief in one of the divisions. He had a misunderstanding with one of the clerks a few days after his advent, and he was instructed by his superior to displease the clerk, as the latter happened to be in the wrong. "You must discipline him. Not harshly, but sit down on him properly," said the chief of division. "I don't like to do that," replied the Texan. "We can't take our likes and dislikes into consideration in government service in the administration of our duties," advised the chief. "Give him a gentle dressing down and then sit down on him quick and hard." "I hate to do it." "Can't help it. It's your duty. He is in a room by himself. One will hear or see you. It will be good practice for you, as you will have to do it often. He's a little fellow, too." "That's the worst of it. If he were my size, I'd like the sport better than branding and roping steers. However, having been a deputy sheriff I know what my duty means. When I was told to go out and get a cattle rustier or a bad cowboy I usually got him, even if he came back to the court house feet first. You're boss, so here goes. I hate to do it." "Nonsense," exclaimed the chief. "It's nothing. Report to me what he said." About a half an hour later the subchief entered his superior's room. His face was scratched and his clothing appeared somewhat rumpled. Otherwise, his usually serious demeanor was unchanged. "I sat on that clerk for fifteen minutes," he said, quietly. "What?" shouted his chief. "I sat on him for fifteen minutes by the clock. For a little fellow he put up a stiff fight. I bucked him, bound him and almost branded him from force of habit. But it was easy." "My God!" gasped the other man. "You said to be gentle with aim, you know." "Holy smokes!" cried the chief, nearly fainting. "You obeyed my orders literally! I meant for you to sit on him figuratively." "You didn't say a word about figures," responded the ox-cowboy, sullenly. "I didn't say for you to sit down on him literally." "You didn't say at all where I was to sit on him, but I sat there all right," said the former cowboy, desperately. "No, no, you don't understand," said the chief, when he recovered his breath. "You must not take everything in a literal sense in Washington. You are not chasing cows or frontier bandits, and you mustn't be so serious. When you are ordered to 'sit down on a clerk' it means in a figurative sense only, and you should give him, to be thoroughly explicit this time, a good talking to with your mouth. You mustn't actually sit on him. If this gets out we will be the laughing stock of the office. I must fix it up at once." It was "fixed up" by sticking patches of soothing plaster on the little clerk's wounded body and feelings by the positive promise of a promotion to the next vacancy occurring in the division if he kept quiet. The ex-cowboy squared himself by treating the clerk and his chief to lunch for a fortnight. It was at one of these lunches that they told a Star man all about it, and the joke is too good to keep.—Washington Star. COOKING BY ELECTRICITY. It Is Getting to Be No Trick at All to Prepare a Meal. In the modern house the practice of the art of cooking is not confined to the kitchen alone. There dishes only seen in their perfection within arm's length of the fire that cooked them. With an electrically-heated steel griddle at the hostess' elbow, griddle cakes are prepared on the breakfast table, which attain the highest degree of excellence, as they are flipped, crisp and hot, from the griddle to the plate. Five o'clock tea has its attractions enhanced when the tea table is heated by electricity, obviating the dangers and inconvenience which attend the use of alcohol. And the chafing dish, what a subtle charm lurks within its mysteries! For even the masculine mind has succumbed to its allurements, and with what results? We are told it makes heroes out of cooks and cooks out of heroes. There is no simpler method of entertaining than by a chafing-dish supper. The few necessary supplies can be had in any market. How often it has happened that when everything else is made ready, and while the guests are waiting for the host to exhibit his skill, it is discovered that there is no alcohol in the house. No fear of this in the electrically-equipped house; only touch the switch and the feast goes on. There is no troublesome alcohol, no flame and no danger; and surely the "Welsh rarebit" or "lobster a la New burg" reaches the highest degree of perfection when elevated in the electric chafing dish. Indeed, the guests may assent that electricity has added a new flavor to their favorite dish, especially that they have as good an imagination as had the immortal Franklin, who, describing a dinner given in honor of electricity in 1769, says of the turkeys killed by electricity: "We conceived ourselves that the birds killed in this manner ate uncommon tender."—Harper's Bazar. "Rag" rugs and carpets are no longer relegated to the kitchen or the atic playroom. They are enjoying a vogue of their own, due probably to the colonial craze and the objection the housewife of to-day has to carpets instead of bare floors strewn with rugs. Every one cannot have Oriental rugs, so the rug woven of rugs supplies its place as an article less expensive than a Persian or Turkish rug and more attractive and serviceable than a cheap carpet. In the dining room of an uptown house the polished floor has a peculiar rug in pale colors—dull blues, soft browns and faded reds and greens—all intermingled with charming effect. A border of black gives "accent" to the mixture of soft hues. The rug cost practically nothing, considering its undeniable beauty (and its practical owner complacently expects it to "wear as long as the floor"), but it is in perfect harmony with the old mahogany chairs and sideboard, the china cupboards with mullioned panes and other artistic and dignified furnishings of a singularly attractive apartment—Prairie Farmer. California's trade with the Philippines amounts to $2,000,000 per month. Old Horn Sauff Box. An old horn snuff-box once belonging to Sir Francis Drake, possibly the one which he used at Plymouth Hoe during his famous game of bowls, has just been sold for £3 10s in London. The snuffbox is a quaint old relic, bearing the coat of arms of Sir Francis, with his name on the lid. Printing Without Ink. A company has been formed to control the process of printing without ink, and in a short time it is expected that old methods will be revolutionized. There is one thing, however, that has resisted all attempts. That is, Hostess' Stomach Bitters. It is a well-known dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness, insomnia, constipation and nervousness. It also prevents malaria, fever and ague. Try it, and you will not be disappointed. Loper Hospital in Mountains. The treatment of lepers is to be provided for in the Vosges Mountains, where a large hospital is being built for the isolation of such cases. A corps of scientific men is to have charge of the treatment of the patients, and those interested in the undertaking have hopes that some method of dealing with this terrible malady will be discovered. Old Love Letters as Models. An English woman has just had her maid servant arrested for stealing the love letters that she, the mistress, wrote to her husband during their engagement. The maid, it was brought out at the trial, considered them superior to any model letter writer to be found, and was going to use them as models in writing to her own sweet-heart. Tolling Up White House Stairs. "Whew!" exclaimed Senator Hanna on Saturday, as puffing and blowing he reached the top of the well-worn White House stairs. "Hanna," said a friend who was with him, "why don't you get the President to put an elevator in this building?" "Well," said Senator Hanna, laughing. "I suggested it to the President, but he remarked that he noticed that I got here just the same."—Albany Argus. Japanese Empress Wido Awake. There is no more ardent admirer of things English and American than the Empress of Japan, who, with her husband, has done much to develop her country on western lines. The empress, who has been married thirty years and has a family of five children, is still as vigorous as any of them. Every day she spends an hour in her private gymnasium in the palace at Tokio and she is said to be one of the most skillful horsewomen in Japan. Verdict Meant Death: Aldrich, Mo., May 27th.—Four of the best doctors in the vicinity have been in attendance on Mrs. Mollie Moore of this place, who has been suffering with a severe case of nervousness and kidney disease. Each of them told her that she would die. Hearing of Dodd's Kidney Pills, she began to use them, and instantly noticed a change for the better. Her improvement has been continuous since then. She says that the disease first manifested itself by the appearance of dark spots floating before her eyes. Her nerves were so bad that many times they would collapse completely, and she would fall down as if shot. The fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills saved her after four doctors had given her up, has caused no end of talk in this neighborhood, and all are loud in their praises of this new remedy—Dodd's Kidney Pills—which is curing so many hitherto incurable cases, in this state and elsewhere. Korean Prince in Virginia. Prince Eui Wha, the second son of the King of Korea, who is a student of Roanoke college, Salem, Va., is about twenty years old, and falls in naturally with American manners and customs, with which he expressed himself as very much pleased. He is a young man of pleasant and agreeable manners, and has made many friends. Wrote "Zoology of the Talmed." Rabbi Dr. Ludwig Lewysohn, who died recently in Stockholm, Sweden, was born in Germany in 1819. He occupied the post of preacher in Frankfort-on-the-Odor and Worms, and in 1859 settled as rabbi in Stockholm. He lived in retirement after 1883. He became well known as the author of "Zo-ology of the Talmud." An Editor's Pathetic Appeal. "Bellewing," says the editor of the Gaylord (Kan.) Herald, "that it is the duty of every man to be as good to his wife as circumstances will permit, we have just bought our better half a nice new hoe and garden rake, and if some of our subscribers, ought to have done so long ago, will pay up we shall buy her a wheelbarrow and shovel." A. Plencer Salmon Packer. Joseph Hume, who died in Berkeley, Cal., a few days ago, was the pioneer salmon packer of the Pacific coast. He was born in Augusta, Me., and was a grandson of the Earl of Marchmont in England. He served in the civil war as a member of a Malne regiment and received a bullet wound in the leg. He contracted the disease in the army which terminated his life. Hizher Mathematics The story writer who figures out that there has been 121 generations of the human family beginning with Adam has done something that ought to discourage the most onthusiastic genealogist.—Boston Globe. Canals in Heavenly Bodies Canais in Heavenly Bodies. Considerable doubt has been thrown upon the supposed artificial origin of the Martian Canals by the discovery that they cross the polar caps, and also by their reported detection in Venus, Mercury and two of Jupiter's satellites. MEMORIAL DAY 1901 THE REMEMBERED GRAVE. BY MARY E. WILKENS. "I guess there won't be a great show of flowers on Sylvester's grave this year," said Sarah Cook. Her voice had a certain triumph in it, but it ended in a decorous sigh. "I guess there won't, either," returned her sister Mrs. Kemp. "I guess Phebe Ann is too sick to think much about it." Her voice sounded like Sarah's. Lucy Kemp dropped her sewing for a minute and turned her face toward the window. "It seems 'most too bad, don't it?" she said, meditatively. "When she's done so much every year, and thought so much about it." "I don't know as I think it's too bad," said Mrs. Kemp. "Of course I'm sorry Phebe Ann is sick, but when it comes to these flowers she's always covered Sylvester's grave with, Decoration day, I guess there was a great deal of it for show. It would have seemed different if he had been in the war, but I've thought a good many times, when I've seen Sylvester's grave with more flowers on it than any of the soldier's, that Phebe Ann had a little eye to what folks would say, for all she felt so bad." "There's the band!" cried Lucy. It was a very warm day for the season—almost as warm as midsummer. The windows were wide open. The two women and the girl leaned their heads out and listened. They could hear far-away music. Two little girls with their hands full of flowers ran past. "They're just forming down at the town hall," said Lucy. "Annie Dole and Lottie are just going." "They came over here for flowers this morning," said her mother, "and I told 'em I hadn't any to give. All I had was lilacs, besides that little early rose bush, and they'd got all the lilacs they wanted of their own, and there was only just three roses on that bush, and I could not bear to cut 'em. The procession ain't coming—the music don't sound a mite nearer. It won't be here for an hour yet." "I don't spose Phebe Ann's husband will lift his finger to help us, even if she should be taken away, and he left without a chick nor child in the world," said Mrs. Kemp. Phebe Ann's husband was her own dead husband's brother, but she never spoke of him by his own name. "I wonder how much Phebe Ann's husband has got?" said Sarah Cook. "Well, I guess he's laid by a little something. They must have, with no family!" "Mebbe he will do something if it ever happens that he ain't under anybody else's thumb." "It won't make any difference now. He's laid under the thumb so long that he all flattened out of the shape he "I WONDER WHO PUT THOSE FLOWERS THERE?" was made in. He used to bow kind of sideways behind Phebe Ann's back when I met him, but he don't do that now. I met him face to face the other day, and he never looked at me. I don't know what poor Thomas would say if he was alive. I wonder what Lucy is picking lilacs for? Lucy!" "What say?" Lucy's sweet, thin voice called back. Her smooth, fair head was half hidden in a great clump of iliac bushes by the gate. She was bending the branches over and breaking off full purple clusters. "What you picking those lilacs for?" "I just thought I'd pick a few." "What for? I ain't going to have any in the house! They're too sweet—they're sicklish!" "I ain't going to bring them into the house," said Lucy. She let a branch fly back and went across the yard with a great bunch of lilacs in her hands. "I wonder what she's up to?" said her mother. Lucy returned just before the procession passed. The cemetery was a little way beyond the house. Her mother and aunt, and a neighbor who had come in stood at the windows listening eagerly to the approaching music. Lucy joined them. The procession filed slowly past: The Grand Army men, the village band, the ministers and local dignitaries, and the rear-guard of children with flowers. An accompanying crowd thronged the sidewalks. "I've just been saying to Sarah that Phebe Ann won't have Sylvester's grave decked out much this year," said Mrs. Kemp. Her voice was pleasanter and more guarded than before. "I heard Phebe Ann was pretty low," said the neighbor. Phebe Ann's husband went softly behind the nurse to the bedroom. Phebe Ann looked up at him and beckoned imperatively. He went close and bent over her. "What is it, Phebe Ann?" said he. "Is it—Decoration day?" she whispered with difficulty, for she was growing very weak. "Yes, tis, Phebe Ann," said her husband. "Have you got—any flowers for—Sylvester's grave?" "No, I ain't. I ain't thought of it, Phebe Ann, with your being so sick, and all." "Go—get some!" she panted. Her motioning hand and her eager eyes spoke louder than her tongue. "Yes, I will, I will, Phebe Ann! Don't you fret another mite about it." The nurse followed him out of the room. "I can't go to the green-house!" he whispered agitatedly. "It's five miles away!" "Land, get any kind of flowers!" said the nurse. "Get dandelions and buttercups, if you can't find anything else." The old man took his hat down with a bewildered air and went slowly out of the yard. At the gate he paused and looked around. There were no flowers in the yard; there were several bushes, rose and phlox, but it was too early for them to blossom. Over at the left stretched a field, and that was waving with green and gold. Phebe Ann's husband went over into the field and began pulling the buttercups in great handfulls, and the grass with them. He had all he could carry when he left the field and went solemnly down the road. Sylvester's grave was at the farther side of the cemetery. The old man, with his load of buttercups and grass, made his way to it. The soldiers' graves were decorated with flags and flowers, but the people had gone. The cemetery was very still. When John Kemp reached Sylvester's grave, he started and stared. There was a great bunch of lilacs on the grave and three charming, delicate pink roses in a vase. "I wonder who put those flowers there!" he muttered. He laid the buttercups and grass down on the grave; then he stood still. It was over twenty years since the boy Sylvester had been laid there—a little soldier who had fought only his own pain. "I wonder who put those flowers there!" John Kemp muttered again. He went out of the cemetery, but instead of turning down the road toward his own home, walked hesitatingly the other way toward the house of his sister-in-law-Thomas' wife, as he always spoke of her. Lucy's face was at one open window, her Aunt Sarah Cook's at the other. "Lucy!" called the old man, standing at the gate. Lucy came out to him tremblingly, Sarah Cook ran to tell her sister; she thought Phebe Ann must be dead. "Do you know who those flowers there?" asked the old man in a husky voice. "I did," said Lucy. Her face flushed. "I thought there wouldn't be anybody to see to it, now Aunt Phebe Ann is sick," she explained timidly. Her uncle looked wistfully at her, his eyes full of tears. "Sylvester was a dreadful sufferer," he said. Lucy did not know what to say. She looked up at him, and her soft face seemed to take on distressed lines like his. The old man turned abruptly and went away. "Phebe Ann is sinking" he said, indistinctly, as he went. Lucy's mother and her aunt rushed to the door to meet her. "Is Phebe Ann dead?" Sarah Cook called out. "No, she ain't dead." "What did he want to see you for?" asked Mrs. Kemp. Lucy hesitated; a shamefaced look came over her face. "What did he want?" her mother asked, imperatively. "He wanted to know who put some flowers on—Sylvester's grave." "Did you?" "Yes'm." "What did you put on?" "Some illacs and—roses." "You didn't pick those roses?" "O, mother, the illacs didn't seem quite enough! Aunt Phebe Ann has always done so much!" Lucy said. Her mother and her aunt looked at each other. "I shouldn't have thought you'd have picked those roses without saying anything about it," said her mother, but her voice was embarrassed rather than harsh. She went back to the kitchen and proceeded with her work of making biscuits for supper. The sewing was all finished. Lucy set the table. After supper they went out in the cemetery and strolled about looking at the flowers, in the soft, low light. "Who brought all that mess of buttercups and grass, I wonder?" said Sarah Cook, as they stood over Sylvester's grave. "I guess it must have been Phebe Ann's husband—it looks just like a man," Mrs. Kemp replied. Lucy got down on her knees and straightened the buttercups into a bouquet. "I wonder if she'll live the night out," said Sarah Cook, soberly. "I've listened to hear the bell toll every morning this week," said Mrs. Kemp. "I don't believe she can live much longer. I'd go up there tonight if I thought she wanted me to." The next morning Mrs. Kemp, listening with her head thrust out of the window in the early sunlight, heard indeed the bell tolling for Phebe Ann. "She's gone," she told Sarah Cook and Lucy; and Lucy cried. They all went to Phebe Ann's funeral and followed her to the grave. Mrs. Kemp's and Sarah Cook's eyes were red when they came home. "There were a great many good things about Phebe Ann, after all," Mrs. Kemp said, "I always said there was." Sarah returned defiantly. The morning after the funeral John Kemp came to the door. Lucy answered his knock. He looked old and dejected, but he tried to smile. "I want to see you a minute," said he. "No, I can't come in—not this morning. I'm coming before long. I hope things will be different from what they have been. It was her wish. I went home that day and told Phebe Ann how you'd put the flowers there, and she beckoned to me to come and lean over. Then she made out to tell me. She wanted you to have Sylvester's money that we put in the bank for him when he was born. It's been growing. We haven't spent any, excepting for the flowers, and its near five hundred dollars. She wanted me to give it to you right away, and you're going to have it just as soon as I can get it out of the bank. Phebe Ann said you could have some more schooling and not have to work so hard. And I guess you'll have more than that, too, some day, if you outlive me. Phebe Ann, she thought mebbe I could make some arrangements with your mother and aunt to come to our house and live, and take care of it. She said she didn't want any other women in there. She knew they were good housekeepers and would keep things the way she did. You tell your mother I'm coming in to see her some time before long." John Kemp went feebly down the walk, and Lucy returned to the kitchen. A man and a woman stand in front of a gate. The man is wearing a hat and a coat, while the woman is wearing a dress. They are facing each other, and the man is leaning on the gate. The woman is standing slightly behind him. There are leaves and branches scattered around them. "DO YOU KNOW WHO PUT THOSE FOLOWERS THERE?" en. The door had been ajar, and her mother and Sarah Cook had heard every word. They were both crying. "Coming just now when we didn't know which way to turn!" sobbed Sarah Cook. "Poor Phebe Ann!" "Well, there's one thing about it," said Mrs. Kemp, brokenly, "there shan't one Decoration day go by as long as I live, without Sylvester's grave being trimmed as handsome as if his mother was alive!"—Youth's Companion SKETCHES FOR MEMORIAL DAY A Memorial Surprise Party. Alma Maynard sat at the window, looking thoughtfully out at the newly budded trees. Poor Alma had been confined to the house all the spring with the scarlet fever which had left her so weak that at first she could hardly lift her head, but now that she was up and her young friends were allowed to visit her, she had been wishing they would come in a party some evening. She did not know that at school that very day her playmates were planning to surprise her on the afternoon of Decoration day, which was the next Wednesday. The day dawned bright and warm and about 1 o'clock that afternoon Mrs. Nelson said: "Alma, you had better go and lie down awhile." So Alma lay down and was soon fast asleep. At a signal from Mrs. Nelson the children trooped noiselessly from a neighbor's, where they had gathered, and soon the room adjoining Alma's was filled with gays lads and lassies, all bearing sweet spring flowers which they arranged around the room and then sat down to wait for Alma to awake. At last she opened her eyes, then closed them again, thinking that the flower-filled room with its gay occupants was only a dream. Then Viva Leland, Alma's most intimate friend, came and took her hand and led her into the room, where the shout of "surprise! surprise! surprise!" met her on all sides. Half dazed, she looked from one to another, then broke into a gay laugh in which they all joined. The afternoon passed quickly and pleasantly, and at 6 o'clock they were called to the dining room for supper. And such a supper! They were seated in couples around the table, Alma and Ray Thornton, her favorite chum, presiding at the head. After supper Alma's father told them stories; and later they returned to their homes, leaving the flowers for their convalescent playmate, and with them many wishes for a speedy return to health. A PATRIOTIC PIC-NIC BY CANDKE A. BRAMBLE A Juvenile Story for Memorial Day There was a regular houseful of Dawson's in the little, low, red house which stood all by itself on the edge of the village; there were six children who called the little house their home, and six noisier, happier, heartier children were never known. There were the twins, Fred and Frank, who headed the list, and then there were Grace and Nellie and Harry, and last of all came Minnie, the baby, the tiniest and noisiest of them all. There were great plans afoot today in the curly heads of the merry crowd, Tomorrow would be Decoration Day, and were not the four oldest of the young Dawson's to march in the long procession of school children and carry garlands and bouquets of flowers to strew on the graves of our soldier heroes? There were the flowers to hunt in the woods, for the Dawson flower garden showed only two flaming red and yellow tulips and a few fragrant lilacs as its offering to the children. But that fact troubled them not at all; they were only too glad of an excuse for spending a long, delightful day in the woods. There would be the garlands to make and bouquets to arrange and "pieces" to rehearse and a thousand and one other things to do; so it was no wonder that all the little Dawson's were up and flying around as busy as bees at an exceedingly early hour. Even the baby was interested, and toddled around tipping over everything she could and getting into everyone's way. So much hustle and bustle made them a little bit cross, perhaps, and so it turned out that there was a slight disagreement between Grace and Nellie and the twins early in the morning, and as each side added fuel to the flames, in the shape of sharp words and angry frowns, by the time they were ready to start for the woods the quarrel had grown to be something serious. The boys had been very provoking, and the girls were so angry with them that they decided to take the lunch basket and hurry away when the boys were not looking, and thus take revenge upon them for all the mean things they had said and done that morning. Their plan worked to perfection and they got safely away without being seen by anyone; but, somehow, they did not look very happy in their triumph, as they trugged silently along. They walked quite slowly as soon as they once were out of sight of the house, instead of skipping gaily along, as they always did upon such happy occasions. At last Grace stopped suddenly and said: "Nellie, I don't feel good one bit. I guess we'd better go back. I don't care if the boys were mean, we ought not to be mean, too, and 'tis awful mean to run away like this. The lunch is as much theirs as ours, and it's most as bad as stealing for us to take it all. Come on. I'm going back." And away she went on a run, with Nellie following as fast as she could at her heels. The boys had not missed them yet, and so they knew nothing of the girl's intended treachery. They seemed to have recovered their usual good-humor; and it was a very merry little party that started a few moments later for the woods. What good times they did have that day! What treasures of woodland wealth they found. How good the lunch did taste, and what fun it was to eat it out there under the green trees all alone. Yes, it was a long, glad, beautiful day. They enjoyed every moment of it, and stayed just as long as they dared. But at last they decided that they must start for home, for there were the flowers to arrange yet, and there would be but little time to spare if they noped to finish their tasks that night. It was even later than they had thought, they found, when they came to the edge of the woods and saw how low the sun had sunk. So they hurried along as fast as they could. When they came to the fallen tree upon which they had crossed the noisy little creek in the morning, perhaps they were a little careless, and when it came Nellie's turn she slipped, and, with a little frightened cry, down she went into the water. The creek was high with the spring rains, and the water was over Nellie's head; so it was no wonder that it was a frightened, as well as a shivering little girl that Frank dragged out upon the bank, a moment later. "Oh—oh, dear!" she cried; "I am so wet and cold, and all my flowers are lost," and she pointed a trembling finger at the basket which held all her pretty blossoms and was sailing gaily away with them to some unknown port. "Never mind," said Frank, cheerily, "I'll get it for you. I can't get any wetter than I am now," and in he plunged again, and in a twinkling the flowers were rescued, and they were on their way home; but Nellie's wet clothes were very uncomfortable, and her teeth fairly chattered before she had taken many steps. Suddenly Fred stopped and said: "Here, sis; why didn't I think before? You take my coat, and then Frank and I will take hold of your hands and run, and we'll be home in a jiffy. There, that's right—one, two, three, and we go." A few hours later, Nellie and Grace, who had returned before the others, were sitting alone, finishing the last of the garions, when Nellie said, suddenly: "Oh, Grace, how glad I am that we didn't run away from the boys this morning. I am sure I would have been drowned, if we had," and snee shivered again at the thought of her icy bath. "Yes, I am glad, too," returned Grace. "An.. Nellie, I was glad all day. I am sure we had a much nicer time than we would if we had gone alone, and we would have felt so mean if we had taken the boys' lunch away from them." "Yes, so we would. And, Grace, do you know, after this when the boys are C. "ALL MY FLOWERS ARE LOST." cross, I don't mean to take any notice and see what effect that will have upon their tempers." This plan Grace and Nellie carried out and it worked so well that harmony has reigned in the little red house ever since. Only in a world of sincere men is unity possible, and there, in the long run, it is as good as certain.—Carlyle. Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance.—Zimmerman. A loss of $2,000 was sustained by the burning of David Ralston's home near Wabash. Insurance. $800. RAYMOND AND THIS COLOR- BEARER Raymond had just been over to the hall with his basket of flowers, mostly, from the woods and fields. Decoration day always found him on hand; and although his contribution was simple, he was glad to be able to do even a little toward furnishing material for this touching memorial service. Raymond was the grandson of a veteran of the civil war, and this year he wanted to do something more than usual, to let the old friends of the grandfather whom he had never known understand his loyalty, both to his grandfather's memory and the country that he had died for. Suddenly he remembered an old tattered flag that stood in a corner in the attic, and beside it a musket, rusty and time-stained. Then he looked at Rover. "Can you do it, Rover?" Raymond's eyes asked the question. The soft brown eyes of the dog answered, "Try me." "All right, Rover, I will." Rover's tail ceased its impatient tattoo upon the floor, and with a yelp of delight he followed his master up the attic stairs. Half an hour later the boy and the dog sat side by side upon the door-step. The boy held a flat piece of wood in one hand, and his jack-knife in the other. Occasionally he lifted a faded flag, and slipped the end of the worn stick through a hole which he was whittling in the new piece of wood. At last he sprang to his feet, saying, "All ready now, Rover! Do you think you can hold that in your mouth?" Rovers' eyes said, "Of course I can!" as his tail gave three excited thumps. Good, faithful Rover! Raymond knew that he could be depended upon to be his color-bearer. Now TOMBERTON "WITH BARE HEADS AND SOLEMN LITTLE BROWN FACES." for his own part in the program. The sound of approaching footsteps and the beat of a drum floated up to the spot where the boy and the dog were making ready to honor their country's fallen heroes. From a window of the cottage a pair of tear-dimmed eyes watched the strange preparations. Raymond hastily donned an old soldier cap, and shouldered the rusty gun. He hoped that he looked like a soldier. Rover's admiring eyes assured him that he did. "Now, Rover," said Raymond, putting the dog's head, "I'm going to let you hold the flag." Rover never was happier than when he could carry a bundle; but this was such an unexpected privilege that for a second or two the flagstaff veered like a weather-vane with each delighted thump of his stub of a tail. Then, seeing his master's motionless attitude, Rover took pattern; and as the little company of veterans drew near, the color-bearer and his master attracted instant attention. Every man in Company C loved Raymand; loved him for his own sake, for he was a bright and lovable boy, and also for the sake of the brave comrade who had marched with them through many a weary campaign, and at last had given his life for his country. There was a quick order from the front, and instantly every man lifted his hat, and the band struck up the "Star-Spangled Banner;" and Raymond, with his faithful dog beside him, and his grandfather's tattered flag waving in the breeze, was the hero of the day.—Helen M. Richardson. Thousands of Unknown Dead. One of the largest national cemeteries in this country is located at Salisbury, N. C. There are 11,000 unknown dead in the cemetery, which is kept in splendid repair by the government. The society hand-shake isn't exactly what you'd call "a pretty how'd you do?"