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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT 44TH BEILUM LIBRARY VOL. III. That Dinner. The daily and weekly papers of oretine country have been saving considerable about President Rosevelt's having invited Prof. Douglas T. Washington, of the great Isekeegee Industrial School, to dine with him at and in the White house. The attitude of a great many people in this our native land tow- ANTI BELLUM SPIRIT RUB a bowl comes from some parts of the United States, and more often from the South than elsewhere. Now let us see, Mr. T. Roosevelt president of the United States, and is a full grown man, of age, and efficiently able to take care of him, and because he had sense and will to know that to dine with Mr. B. T. Washington would not many way besmirch his moral or physical well being, a large part of our Southern chivalry (?) is indigent, and they are saying so many things that is indeed otherwise, these same howlers are eating meals every day that are prepared by black cooks, their children are cared for by black mammas, and many of them in ante-bellum days drew their blood from the breast of a black dummy. The howl, in our judgment is coming from the wrong source, and out of taste. We admire the stand taken by our President; he is exhibiting the true chivalry that will mark him as a man having convictions and daring to assert them. The Negro of this country is being educated to think. Mr. South- man would have us always be a kind of automaton, but we are out- gwing that' and we are patiently taking, and enduring all things, hoping that the day will come when South will stop putting stumbl- blocks in the way of our pro- gress. It is not good judgment on our part, for we have Negroes who the Negro is peculiar. Every- day they see a Negro receiving a distinction because he merits --- carry in their veins some of the very best blood of the southland and he is not to be blamed for it. President Roosevelt has not been hurt by dining with Mr. Washington is every way the peer of many who are abusing the President for having treated him as a gentleman Negro Progress OBSERVATIONS FROM THE EXTENSIVE TRAVELS OF REV. R N. COUNTEE. SHOWING THE NEGRO'S PROGRESS IN ALL LINES. BER!! You will never be able to tell very much concerning the progress of a people, by standing aloof from them. It has been the good fortune of the writer, to visit the Negro during the last twelve months in Ark., Miss., La., Ga., Fla., N. C., S. C., Va., Penn. N. Y., and Canada. The reader will notice that eight of the states given are old slave states, and two are what we call Northern States. We can always judge what a people are doing, first from their churches and schools, when we ascend to a high point we can see a much greater distance than we can from a low one. The Negro, as a general thing, is always viewed from his worst side, and hence is very often painted very black and mean. The educational advantages of the Negro, so far as our common school in the south goes, is very limited save it be in the large cities. Four months of free school privilege is a maximum average, and often the teacher is a man or woman of very limited ability, yet all over the South one one is elated with the progress of the Negro. In each one of the states named as Southern, the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalists have fine colleges and even universities for the education of the Negro. In the large cities it is no uncommon thing to find the ministers of the various churches reading their bibies in Hebrew and Greek, and their sermons on Sabbath are replete with intellectual lore. I have said their free schools are, well I can say truthfully, are in some places mere excuses. To remedy this, you will find, that the Negroes are taking the matter into their own hands and in many places they are employing teachers and are establishing academies of their own, building and owning their own school houses, and these houses show some architectural beauty. The Record Brief REV. H. V. PLUMMER and THE MEMBERS OF BAPTIST CHURCH RAISE THE FULL AT CHURCH DEBT IN SIXTY DAYS. GREATLY IN THE HISTORY OF THAT CITY GREAT IS THE WORK DONE BY RAY Never in all the history of the made a few told of coming The Negro church of the South is as a general thing an up-to-date structure, and in many of the larger cities they have finer churches than the white people, especially is this true of the Negro Baptist of the south who out-number all other denominations at a ratio of three to one. The Negro in the South is undoubtedly at home. The shanty is giving place to nice neat cottages and flower gardens surrounding them. The bulk of the Negroes of the South own their own homes. Business, the Negro of the South is developing considerable tact; to use a slang phrase we may say, "He is strictly in it." He is to be found in all parts of the southland engaged in all kinds of business. He is the brawn of the south, and as such he is to be found working at all the trades, blacksmithing in all its branches, bricklaying, carpentering, lathing, plastering, and the poor white of this country who turns up his nose at the Negro artisan and builds his labor union to starve him out, is glad to work in the middle of a brick wall in such cities as New Orleans, Vicksburg, Miss., Jacksonville, Fla., and other towns while Negro men carry up the corners and have charge of the line. (To be continued next week.) Methodists Accept Donation. Negroes Barred from Proposed University in Oklahoma. Chickasha. I. T.. Oct. 27. -The committee appointed by Bishop Key, of the Methodist conference of tho two territories, consider the offer made by the citizens of Oklahoma City, whereby a donation of 245 acres of land and $1000 is promised if the Methodist church and the Methodist Church South would utilize conjointly the same for an endowed institution of learning, last night made its report to the conference, accepting the same, but with an amendment that no Negro or person of Negro descent be permitted to enter the school. The conference as a whole adopted the committee's report without alteration. The Record Broken. REV. H. V. PLUMMER and THE MEMBERS OF THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH RAISE THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE CHURCH DEBT IN SIXTY DAYS. GREATEST RALLY IN THE HISTORY OF THAT CHURCH. GREAT IS THE WORK DONE BY REV. PLUMMER. Never in all the history of the oldest inhabitant of Wichita, has such a storm of enthusiasm ever seemed to invade the whole people; never in all the accounts of rallies; never in all the memory of any, has such an out-pouring of people taken place as was witnessed at the Second Baptist church Sunday at the close of their convocation week. It seemed that Rev. Plummer and his members had gone to the four corners of Wichita and from there brought forward the young and the old. The whole day was indeed one of continuous enthusiastie demonstrations. And it was and is manifest that Rev. Plummer is the man whom the people of Wichita needs. By his courteous gentlemanly bearing since coming here he has won the whole people. On being inducted into office less than 90 days ago he pledged to the members of the Second Baptist church and to their friends that he would use his best endeavors to pay off the church debt which had been a mill-stone around the neck of that splendid church for some years. He went to work in earnest and the results Sunday show that he knew whereof he spoke, Besides paying off the church debt, he has raised enough to liquidate every floating or incidental expense on the chuach. Besides paying off the debt he has bought and paid for two large church stoves, had the electric lights repaired, had the church remodeled, had many other incidental things done which were quite needed. Great is the work of Rev. F. V. Plummer. His work Sunday will go down in history as the greatest ever done in Wichita. Every service was resplendent with enthusiasm. At the services Sunday afternoon the following chnrches were represented: New Hope Baptist, by their able and enlightened pastor Rev. H. F. Frazier; Rev Frazier made a few remarks in which he said he felt much interest in the welfare of the 2nd Baptist church, he said he knew what it was to be in debt and what it was to pay a church out of debt, as his church had been out of debt for three or four years. Rev. A. C. Terrill represented his church, the A. M. E. The Tabernacle was represented by Rev. R. N. Countee; Rev. Countee made a few remarks in which he told of coming to this city 9 years [Name] REV. H. V. PLUMMER, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH Wichita, Kahsas. Who in sixty days has raised over $500. and released his church from debt. Was a grand work. ago and finding the 2nd Baptist in debt, and that his prayer was that that day would witness the final wiping it out. Rev. Wareham represented the 1st Baptist church and made a few remarks. The services were opened and closed by a few very appropriate remarks by Rev. H. V. Plummer. We would not close without saying that Rev. Plummer should be proud of the members and friends of his church who so nobly came to his assistance and that the members should be proud of a pastor who in so short a time leads them to such a grand and glorious victory. Hereto attached we present the likeness of Rev. H. V. Plummer, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church of Wichita, Kansas. The subject of our sketch was born a slave in the state of Maryland; and in 1863 entered the U. S. navy, where he remained two years. He was educated at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D. C., was ordained a minister of the gospel at Bladenburg, Md., at the 1st Baptist church at that place. His first charge was at Bladensberg. Md.' then he began a Missionary pastorate at Frederick City. Md., New Hope Baptist church Charles county, Md.; his next charge was with Mt. Carmel Baptist church Washington, D. C.. where 4 or 5 years was spent in church-house, building and gathering a congregation. All of these chnches are in a prosperous condition to-day, as the result of the energy, pluck and devotion of him who is the object NO.23 of this sketch As a leader and pioneer in politics and education of his people, he was trained under the late Hon. Frederiok Douglas, J. R. Lynch, etc.; and was a companion of Capts. B. F. Bingham and R. S. Widdecombe. In the regular army he saw four regiments of soldiers, men of his race, with all white officers, and bound by a law which read that all colored troops should be commanded by white officers but after much hard labor he was appointed chaplain of the 9th U. S. Cavalry by President Chester A. Arthur in 1884, thus having the distinction of being the first colored man ever appointed chaplain in the U. S. army. For ten years he held that position, and during which time he kept up the fight for colored chaplain's among the colored troops and to-day every colored regiment has a colored chaplain. He came to Kansas and took charge of the Rose Hill Baptist church, Kansas City, Kansas, and led these people for more than four years. He remodeled their house of worship-gathered the members together and lived in peace with all and introduced his successor Rev. Jackson, and turned a united people to him. He came to our city Aug.11th 1901, in answer to a call by the 2nd Baptist church, and after a week of conference among the officers and members, he entered upon the labors as pastor of the 2nd Baptist church. In three month's time, he has raised over $500 and has appointed the FOURTH LORD'S in November, 1901, to wipe out all debts and burn the mortgage, which has bound the people for 9 years. Rev. Plummer has the distinction of making an unprecedented record in Wichita in raising and paying off church debts. The Rally on the 4th Sunday in October, 1901, was a memorable one for the 2nd Baptist church. The following will tell why: First=For perfect organization. Second—Clubs and auxillaries. Mo. Pacific—Conductor Mrs. S. W. Lea, and Mrs. I. Patton engineer, amount $59.00. Rock Island—Deacon R. Watson, conductor; Mrs. Richard Watson, engineer, $51.65. Frisco—Conductor, Deacon Theo. Reed, engineer Mrs. L. C. Carr, $48.20. Juvenile conductor, Mrs. J. H. VanLew $34.35. Tne Greati Santa Fe—Conductor, Mrs. S. R. Patton, Mrs. H. W. James engineer, $100.00. Mission Circle, Mrs. Lucy Anderson president, $5.00. Sabbath School, Supt. H. W. James $1.25. B. Y. Y. P. M., R. Walker president, $1.25. Total collected and pledged, $340. THE SEARCHLIGHT. WICHITA. KANS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered the Post-Office at Wichita, Kansas as Second Class Mail Matter. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT 110 NORTH MAIN ST. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: IN ADVANCE. On year, by mail. 81 00 Six months, by mail. 81 00 Three months, by mail. 80 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to "The Searchlight," Wichita, Kansas. [All matters to be published must reach this other later than Tuesday, to reach publication in the current issue.] correspondents and agents wanted every- where. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. FREE! FREE!! Saturday, Nov. 2nd The Big Sale, 238 N. Main. Don't fail to get one of those lovely Sou- verniers. Remember with each pur- chase of one Pound of coffee or 25c. worth of Tea, your choice in either of our windows. JONES TEA & COFFEE Co. 238 N. Main. Sterling Brown, the poet-comedian, has written a nice piece of poetry for us which will appear in our next issue. What is the matter with our band? Boys get together. This will never, never do. We MUST have a band. Mr. C. R. Fulton, the popular E. Douglas avenue clothier, has purchased a fine delivery wagon. And it is in charge of George Sest unk George has a new livery snit with brass buttons, and make a neat appearance. NOTICE K. of P'S. A party of Wichita Knights will go to Hutchinson Tuesday to help G. C. John E. Lewis set up a new toodge. All are invited to go who will. Tuesday night Nov 5th, remember. Rev. B. Morris, one of our prominent colored ministers, will go to Winfield Sunday to preach. John E. Lewis has returned from a few days sojourn in Hutchinson where he gave several exhibitions of his moving picture. Cherryvale News Everybody is wishing for a rain as the wells are all failing. Mr. M. King passed through our city Tuesday eve enroute for Oswego. Mr. L. Landis was in the city yesterday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Williams Tuesday a 10lb boy. A certain man in the vicinity is quite popular with the young ladies in his old days. Everybody should subscribe for the Searchlight!. B.F.McLean. Lumber Dealer Wichita, Kansas. Yards at Wichita, Kas., Clearwater, Kas., Peck Kas., Chency, Kas. Yards at Settling in Northwest Territory. Canada is now the only country in the world offering free land to home seekers of limited means. Fifty thousand immigrants are each year entering her ports, and 75 per cent of these people go at once to the Northwest territory. The Jackson House, 343 N.Main Street MEALS. Board by the Day or Week. Jas, Jackson, Prop. Mrs. Sterling Brown and baby left Wednesday for K. C. Mo. to spend the winter. Mr. H. W. Harding. an expert colored stenographer and typewriter ie in our. city, He hold first class diplomas and is a young man well to be proud of He is stoping at the Centropolis Hotel, Mrs. Dames J. C. Coffee W. N. Miller made a trip to the Carter farm Sunday and reported having a royal time, Look out for the Japanese Banquet at Peerless Hall Wednesday Nov. 6 th. 1901. Mrs. J. H. Vanlue left the city on Tuesday last for ST. Loucs Mo. where she will inter one of the medical Sanitarnms and be treated for Spinal Curvature. Mr. J. Macintush was in the city Thursday the guest of Miss Emma Finest. Chief-of-Police, Frank S. Burt, after making things warm for crooks, criminals and loafers in Wichita, left Wednesday for the west to make things warm for wild game. If he is as successful in the latter as he is in the former, a special train will be needed to bring in his game. Reuben Johnston, Sr., and family left Thursday morning for the Territory to make their future home He was accompanied by his sons William and Reuben Jr. and their families. The Searchlight extends a warm and sincere wish that they may prosper and have a grand success. Mr. Al. Glover, one of Wichita's progressive young men, who recently resigned with the street railway company, has accepted a position with the Pullman Palace Car Co., and is now running between St. Louis, Mo., and El Paso, Tex. He began with that company a few weeks ago, and since which time has visited the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Indianapolis and many other prominent places. He is doing fine, and is in excellent health. His many friends here will take pleasure in learning that he has purchased a camera and is taking snap shots of principal objects to bring home when he returns. Mrs. Geo. W. White and the ladies who conducted the Hallow's Eve, entertainment at the Peerless Hall Thursday night deserves much credit. This was one of the best we have witnessed. They had a crowded house. If you are going to give a public or private entertainment, let us do your printing. We can save you money and give you good work. Try us. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURLAY NOVEMBER, 2. 1901 Rev. Dr. Countee is an expert nographer. and will open a Class in our city, if he can find twenty of our young men and women who desires to learn shorh nd writing, he will teach the full course for $5.00 and gurantee his work. He claims to learn any one of average ability in 10 days. Our friend W. C. Neeley is quite sick at his home 1240 Blaine. and has been for several weeks. We are quite sorry that we did not learn of Mr. Neeley's sickness, until now. But not being in the habit of seeing Mr. Neeley very often, and no one mentioning it we did not know. Mr.-Neely has always been one of the strong friends of our paper and it is with much sorrow that we learn of his illness. Under the watchful care of his physician, Our capabie Dr. E. Harrison, is able to be up and improving, may he soon recover. The Literary Association of the Tabernacle Bapt. Church is a live organization It meets at the church building every Thursday night 7.30 pm. Rev. Countee. will give a series of 15 minute talk each night of his travels thru Europe illustrated with Panoramic views, followed by Solos, Duetts, Select readings, Recitation &c. Free to all. Mr. C. Price, Secy. TO ORGANIZE. A call is hereby issued for all those interested in a literary society to meet at the 2nd Baptist Church Thursday evening Nov. 7th. Everyone is invited. Organizing and electing officers will be the principal business that night. Come out all. A Town Talk. The Japanese Banquet to be given by the ladies of the Wichita Tabernacle No. 34, at Peersless Hall next Wednesday eve. Nov. 6th, seems to be one main topic of interest. Everyone says they are going because they know it will be something quite nice and interesting. The ladies are making grand preparations and will be prepared to handle the large crowd who will be present. Go out and have an enjoyable time. At the door you will meet Mesdames L. Jones, and Thompson who are door keepers. Attend the East Side Literary at the New hope Baptist church. Every Friday night. They have a good program each night and invited you to come down and take part. Every Friday eve. A committee of ladies of the A. M. E. church, headed by Mrs. G. W. White gave a very nice Hallow eve entertainment at Peeriess Hall Thursday night. Able Alexander is on the sick list. Send all your news to the Searchlight Office. let your friends see what you are doing. Phillip Hyde has moved his workshop over the Kansas National Bank. MRS. LEE ANDERSON HAIR DRESSER— and MASSAGE PARLOR. 442 N. TOPEKA AVE. Dr. Claude G. Baker, DENTIST DENTAL PARLORS —— Up Stairs Nextto Eagle Office DeLaMater. MANUFACTURING JEWELER AND OPTICIAN. He Fits Your Eyes And Repairs Your WATCHES, CLOCKS, and JEW. ELRY At low prices. 316 E. Douglas Oswego News Mr. Moses King came home from Iola, Tuesday, for a few days visit. He returned Sunday. Mrs. Annie Elms has gone to the Territory for a few weeks visit. Rev. S. S. Crockett returned to his home at Parson Monday. C. M. Goran of Parson was in the city Sunday. Miss Alice Worley, of Joplin, is in the city visiting relatives. James Brown was struck down with paralysis last Friday. Rev. Parks of the A. M. E. church preacher. and family have moved to Wier City. Rev. Clay returned to his home in Vinity I. T. Thursday. Rev. Brown, the A. M. E. pastor is on the sick list. Rev. N. C. Robinson returned home Monday from Coffeyvile. The revival at the 2nd Baptist Church is still going on they are dovery good work Holbort Bros.' RESTAURANT MEALS LUNCH AT 15c. ALL HOURS 356 N. Main St. Rev. H. F. Frazier, pastor of New Hope Baptist church, and his members will give a Big Rally on the 2nd. Sunay in Dec. Watch our columns for full details later. The Missouri Pacific club, Mrs. S. W. Lea, Conductress; and the Shunta Fe club, Mrs. S. E. Patton, Conductress, have entered a contest to see which can raise the most money. Watch the race. We wish to thank Mrs. White and the ladies for the nice piece of job work which they favored us with, and say to them. Come again. We had the extreme pleasure of attending the meeting of the recently organized K. of P. Lodge, last Friday night. We must say that this lodge is composed of some of Wichita's choice colored citizens. They have a membership of 23, all good men. Our friend Ed Landrum is the power on the throne—and wields the gavel as C. C. Ed is alright and will make a good presider. It looked nice to see so many as twenty of the members of Toas Lodge present and to see everything working in peace and harmony between the two lodges. This is as it should be. May they prosper. The contest is still on. 5 Tons Of Glass wares, Procelain wares, AND China wares. ON SALE AT THE SM 5 and 10 CENTS TORE. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. SCHMITT & MARTIN'S 5 AND 10 SM STORE WICHITA, KANSAS. NO.408.EAST DOUGLAS AVE. 3rd door East of Topeka Ave. 3rd door East of Topeka Ave. Mrs V.Matthews 239 N. Water st John Braitsch, THE CASH SHOE DEALER FINE SHOES A SPECIALTY. 120 East Douglas ARKANSAS CITY NEWS. Rev. Brown, of the St. James A. M. E. and his members are making preparations to build a new church. They will begin to work on their new structure. which no doubt will be a fine one, about Nov. 1st. Rev. P. A. Delano, who has been quite ill for several weeks with typhoid fever, is slowly improving. Misses Nora and Capitola Toms spent Sunday in Winfield, the guest of Mrs. J. W. Wood. A. L, Hailey was in the city Sunday visiting friends. He returned to his home in Ponca City, O. T., Sunday eve. The ladies of the Eartern Star Lodge gave an entertainment in the Masonic Hall Thursday eve, which was quite a success both socially and financially. Misses Ella Wall and Sarah Dixon were in the city Sunday from Winfield the guest of Miss Nolia Keller. Mrs. Toms, who has been very sick for some time, g nicely. She is able to be out now and has been for about two weeks. Mr. E. K. Luox, traveling representative for the Searchlight, wa in the city Thursday and Friday, Oct. 23 and 24. soliciting subscribers and to engage a reporter for the paper. Capitola Toms. who has been reporter accepted the position and is now ready to take down all items of interest and also to enroll as many new subscribers as possible, and to renew all old ones. She kind-solicits your patronage. ONE MORE CHANCE To Visit EUREKA SPRINGS ARKANSAS Wednesday, August 15th 1901 THE FRISCO LINE will have a special excursion at rate of. $5.00 for the round trip, tickets limited to ten days from date of sale and good re- turning on any regular train withid lim- it. This is only a gentle hint to give you an opportunity to make your prepar- ations. Watch 'this space for full particulars or make yourself known to einer of the un- dersigned by postal or letter. B. F. Dunn, Bryan Snyder, Dis't Pas'r Ag'g't. Gen'l Pas'r Ag'g't Wichita Ks, St. Louis, Mo The Missouri Pacific Ry Shortest Line To Colorado Points MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Most Direct Line To KANSAS CITY AND ST.LOUIS. Reclining Chair Cars on all trains SEATS FREE. Call at our New Passenger station cor. Douglas ave. and Wichita st. for reliable information relative to any trip you may contemplate. E.E. BLECKLEY.P. & T.A CHEAPER THAN EVER TO COLORADO and UTAH Daily June 18th to Sept. 10th 1901..... VIA THEC Great Rock Island Route ROUND TRIP RATES FROM Missouri River Points to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. $15. July 1 to 9 June 18 to 20 Sept. 1 to 10 July 10 Aug. 31 Similar reduced rates on same dates to other Colorado and Utah points. Rates from other points on the Rock le land Route proportionately lower on the same dates o ale. Return Limit October 31, 1901 THE SUPERR TRAIN THE COLORADO FLYER Leaves Kansas City daily at 6.80 p.m. Omaha 5.20 p.m., St. Joseph, 5,00 p.m. arriving Denver 11 a.m., Colorado Springs Manitou, 10.35 a.m., Pueblo 11.50 a.m. Write for details and Colorado literature E. W. Thompson, A. G. P. A., Topeka, Ks John Sebasian, G, P. A., Chicago. ep ATHLETIC PREACHER. sev. WORKMAN, ONE OF THE ‘woRLD'S GREAT RUNNERS. gu necently Vanquished the Bost Dis- see itauners of Yale and arvard— Juiveming Feature of England's Te eeu! ‘gne of the best athletes to be found athe world today is an English Negoosn. We is Rev, Herbert W. forkman, and his prowess as a run- jo was forcibly brought home to juericans at the recent international pos at Berkeley Oval, near New Phy, when the best athletes of Yale fui Harvard met the best men of Ox- ford and Cambridge on the field, Al- oven the American representatives (ona majority of the contests, their gece runners were outclassed by fer Mr. Workman, who carried the fom of Cambridge. He easly cap- fired the one-half mile and the two fie events, and in the former, it is felleved, he could have broken the orld’ record had he been pushed rd. vier Mr. Workman is @ typical En- ish athletic Christian, ‘That a fall- foiged rector of a large parish should mss the Atlantic to compete in ath- joie games may seem a little strange Americans, Who are accustomed to trey who give up strenuous athletic jot when they enter the theological wniuaries. In England, however, the sbletic rector is in great demand with fone parishes, and there was no sur- prise when the young Cambridge run- ger was sent to a parish in South- soyion, ‘This athletle clergyman 1s toroughly English, both in appear- save and manner of speech. He is of edium height and slender build, but bis face and carriage tell of the great wdurance necessary to championship (stance running. There is plenty of jealthy color in his smooth-shaven Geeks. On his visit here he has worn tie usual black clerical garb of the English rector, except when in run- sing clothes, and the colors of his uni- verity Rey. Mr. Workman has been a run- rer since two years before he entered Cambridge University. He ascribes bis remarkable running powers to Ff j A \ | KS = $) fh iM f ft i i bs ft Nh ae (Il a ge” _/ \ <i i V/) Yy ad ® Ta 2 CG Whe WY V7) Fs MV YYZ aN} REY. HERBERT W. WORKMAN. wevlar meals and regular hours. He * fond of smoking and has yet to find ‘tat {t handicaps him in his contests. le frequently goes to the track with pipe in his mouth. His parish duties hcrfore somaphat with He Ualuiag, the manages to get in good shape all his matehes. The clergyman- allete says that he will retire after jie next English championship games, ‘hich will be held in England next yer, and devote all his time to his cuisterial duties, What Ambiguity Cost a Lawyer. 4 good story illustrates the danger ‘tet lics in ambiguously worded tele- raph dispatches. The wife of a New Tork city lawyer of large means and Hequete knowledge of the value of ‘ie dollar had gone to an auction sale ‘tlaces, of which she is inordinately ‘od, and had seen some pieces which tok her faney. ‘The price was $2,000, ‘1 she hesitated to make the pur- ‘as without asking her husband tether she should do so. She did and ‘elved this reply: “No price too eh.” Madame promptly bought the ‘es, and so struck was she by the Revosity, not to say gallantry, of her Sstand that she added to her store Say hundred dollars’ worth besides. Then her husband returned that eve- *2g sho learned that the dispatch he read thus: “No, Price too Sn Oe ee Porto Rico has no debt. No coun- P's more lightly taxed, It pays for army or navy. It bas no internal fretue taxes, Tt enjoys unrestricted fie ‘with the United States. This Jeunts to a bounty on every ton of sr it raises, Its government is omical. Its ehiet charge is for “cls. Brigandage and petty thiey- Save been suppressed, After all tins and vicissitudes which ®, hurricane, famine and reorgan- “ou of its political and social sys- 7, ‘ought it is awakening to a new thesttefeestonal Bee Hunters. ere is a large number of profes- Sl “bee hunters” in the west and “vest of Texas, Small caves and messes formed by shelving rock Ai along the waterways of the "vers, They are the natural f the wild bees, and take the ‘Dot, Be hollow tree trunks of Srst regions of the northern “tr. These caves are used year Year by the bees and in many Ih pte have been found to be ly Sled with honey. ‘WHY THEY TALKED HOPEFULLY ‘While from the First the Chances Were All Against the President. ‘Only one error, according to the Philadelphia Medical Journal, can fair- Jy be charged against the surgeons and physicians who cared for President McKinley, and that error is siniply one of prognosis. ssut, though they un- oxbtety made prophecies which were contradicted by the termination of the vease, the Journal both asserts and ‘strongly argues that this, if an error at all, was infinitely preferable to an error In the other direction, and is, in- deed, to be commended as well as jus- tified, since its effect was to add ap- Breclably to the patient's chances of recovery. “We take it as a well-es- tablished fact in practice,” explains the Journal, “that a hopeful prognosis is ‘better than despair in any case and under any circumstances whatever. ‘There is a real and genuine asset to be derived from hope, and the individual who comes in for the biggest share of this asset is the patient. The tristful or lugubrious doctor who cannot see some silver lining to the cloud in an essentially doubtful case should retire, He is not in the psychological mood to avail himself of all his opportunities.” It seems to us that these opinions are sound and reasonable, and they lend a sort of credulity to a curious theory which at least a few people have had in mind ever since the president died. The theory is, in effect, that the doctors, though thoroughly realizing the high probability of death from the very beginning, deliberately put their own reputations for knowledge and foresight 1n peril, and assumed and ex- pressed a confidence which they did not feel in order to gain for thelr pa- tient such advantage as might come to him from the confidence and hope not only of the few friends who were ad: mitted to his room, but of everybody in the city, in the country, and in the civilized world. ‘The force of psychical influences is recognized nowadays by others than those who degrade them into foul superstitions for the sake of robbing the ignorant and the weak minded, and, fanciful as the theory is, it explains the otherwise inexplicable and changes what seemed a gross mis: take into self-sacrifice of the noblest ae. CAUSE OF LEFT-HANDEDNESS. An Anstomical Explanation for That Quality in the Eyes. It 1s a well-known fact the stronger activity of the nerves of the right hal of the body (for not only the hand is concerned) must be ascribed to a pre: ponderance of the left side of the brain, whose finer development, espe cially as the seat of the center of speech, is a matter of common know! edge. In a paper by Dr. Luddeckens in the Algemeines Journal der Uhr macherkunst yaluable information re- garding the two hemispheres of the brain fs furnished. A sketch touch- ng on the history of evolution leads from the original symmetry of the organism to a subsequent symmetrical arrangement of the heart and the large blood vessels, from which it follows | quite naturally that the two halves of ‘the’head are not placed on an equal footing as regards the distribution of ‘the blood, and consequently of the blood pressure; and that, on the con- ‘trary, there must be, under normal conditions, a strong pressure on the arteries of the left side of the head. This theory is borne out by well- ‘known experience of anatomists and pathologists says the London Express, and a series of interesting observa tions. Of especial interest is the ef- fect of the higher blood pressure upon the left eye. Dr. Luddeckens found in the latter, as compared with the right one, in a surprisingly large number of cases, a narrow pupil in consequence of a more filled-up condition of the vessels of the iris and upon closer ex- amination a shorter construction of the eyeball. This furnishes reason for the fact that in a large number of persons the left eye is the better one. Thus the finer development of the left half of the brain is explained very simply by the fact that it is better eup- plied with blood, and the question why it Is the seat of the center of speech and why most people are right-handed ‘Se athved. iu. the mont satire) meaner, ‘Train de Luxe for Africa. Cecil Rhodes is determined that travelers upon his Cape to Cairo rall- way shall not have any cause to com- ‘plain of lack of comfort while en route. ‘There has just been shipped to South ‘Africa a train de luxe which, so far as comfort and convenience are con- cerned, cannot be excelied by any rail- way either in England or America. The 4rain comprises a dining saloon, three ordinary carriages convertible at night into sleepers, one carriage containing smoking-room, library, cardroom, but- fet and observation platform at the rear, and a combined postal and lug- gage wagon. Each coach measures 56 feet in length, and, being suspended on bogie wheels, the maximum of comfort and smoothness in running is attained with an absence of vibration.—London Daily Mail. Britains Growing Taller, No nation is increasing in height ana weight so rapidly as the English, says a British student. ‘The proof of this is shown in statistics recently collected of the height of 10,000 boys and men. At the age of 17 these averaged 5 fect 8 inches; at the age of 22, 5 feet 9 inches, In 50 years the average has gone up for the whole nation from 5 feet 7% inches to 5 feet 8% inches. Gu. The Sheriff—You say thet fellow who broke jail left a message behind? "The Keeper—Yes, sir; here it is on this paper. “Excuse the liberty I take.” FREE TOBACCO IAGS| Sensible Management of a Forest. Willtam C. Whitney will not allow his great park in the Adirondacks to be “lumbered™ in the ordinary way. Instead, he cuts trees of over ten inches in diameter, leaving the smaller ones to grow, and thus always has a handsome fores Resignation of Fatthfet Postmistress. Miss Louise C. Danforth, who has had charge of the postoffice in Weath- ersfield Bow, Vt., for fifty years, has resigned. Her salary, depending upon the stamp cancellation, has been about. $150 for a number of years. ne Quinine of Java. The island of Java, which is only 673 miles long and about 125 miles wide and located only three degrees off the equator, has the distinguishing position of supplying practically all the einchona bark from which the world’s supply of quinine is made. There are abcut 25,000 acres of this island used in growing cinchona. Swell society must be the kind that in pated up. st a Kip zag fi) CS $0 7408, 4 Nolet re ey LX El, srnesl is = Pa ‘e vy | } w ae Nl rece Roe 4 aug aN Deepens Gia S | jae | a a Sy SS A Miracte. Two Cripple Creek plumbers broke all records by laying 2,600 feet of sewer pipe in seven days. They are now lay- ing for a fow more contracts of that kind, after the completion of which ‘they will lay off—Denver Post. Saving Helle of Yucht. The Mttle Elfin, the smallest of the British royal yachts, is to be broken up, after nearly half a century’s serv- ice as a dispatch boat for the late Queen Victoria. Her fate is thus as- sured. Soon all that remains of her will be in the form of a relic, pos- sessed, probably, by the king, Journalism a Road to Rank. M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs, who had much to do with the arrangements for the czar’s visit to France, is a journalist who has won his way to his position straight from journalism. Journalism in France is one of the high roads to political rank. Witness MM. 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An enterprising person in Chicago has discovered that the bee keeps just as busy in storing away honey on the third floor of a home as in a hollow tree in the woods. A remarkable case of suicide came under the notice of the authorities at Cureghem, near Brussels, recently. A printer driven to despair by habitual drunkenness, made his own coffin, placed it in position, and hanged himself. The corpse was found dangling over the coffin. Professional baseball umpires are so worried by the abuse they receive that most of them are subject to nervous complaints. Aware of this fact, some of the life insurance companies refuse to issue policies to them. It is only a short time ago when an amateur umpire in Farmersburg, N. Y., was clubbed to death because he rendered an unfavorable decision. Jean Paul says that the mother puts the commas and semicolons into the child's life, the father the colons and periods. The whole punctuation of the late Empress Frederick's life was inherently royal. As Mr. Balfour recently put it before the House of Commons, she was "endowed with gifts of nature and of education which would have made her, even in another station, a remarkable and accomplished woman." In mine accidents it has often happened that rescuers were baffled and lives were sacrificed because the exact whereabouts of the imperilled men were unknown. The mine owners of Scranton are about to place telephones at regular intervals along the workings in their mines, so that the instruments may be easy of access to the men when danger demands their use. The step is greatly to be commended, and it suggests other beneficent uses of the telephone. "Government in America is practically shaped in the caucus. For the Christian man the primary meeting should be as sacred an appointment as the place of prayer, and if the Christian men of a community would interest themselves, they could get good men nominated." These words, spoken at the recent Christian Endeavor convention, embody a truth familiar to all, yet one that it is well to emphasize during the month before election. The evils which exist in politics are largely the result of the neglect of duty by the very men who most loudly complain of them. A curious story comes from the Russian frontier. At the little Russian town of Wystitm 400 families became homeless owing to a great fire. The town being next to Rominten, where the Emperor William shoots every year, his majesty not only sent soldiers to help extinguish the fire, but gave £500 for the distressed townpeople. The weather being inclement, blankets were bought for those who were compelled to camp out of doors. The Russian customs officials refused to admit the blankets until the high customs duty, which in Russia is impassed upon such articles, was paid. The wire cables used by tourists for protection and aid in Alpine climbing may prove a source of danger. On July 20 several tourists made an ascent of the Tribulaun, in the Stubuler Alps. Near the summit, where the ascent had to be made with the help of wire cables, the rocks began to emit a humming noise, and an ice-pick, coming in contact with the cable, produced sparks. Shortly before there had been a thunderstorm, which caused this electrical disturbance. Before the tourists realized what was occurring, the lightning struck the cable, stunned a tourist and the guide and hurled them several hundred metres below. The federal government and the state of Minnesota will soon clash in the courts over the question of the ownership of many thousands of acres of valuable lands. The tract in dispute is situated in northern Minnesota running from Rainy Lake to Lake Superior, a distance of about 200 miles and taking in the entire northern tier of townships. The lands are located in the gold fields recently discovered and on that account are considered very valuable. The lands were selected by the state under the provisions of the Swamp act of 1860, but it is contended by the Washington officials that the tract so chosen on the border on Canada is not swamp land, hence the proceedings. One of the most talented men in England is Walter Crane, the decorative artist. He is a teacher and writer in art, a book illustrator, a painter, a designer of furniture, glass, mosaic wall paper and fabric. He is, besides a poet, lecturer and a fearless Socialist Albany. N. Y., claims the honor of having made the first carriage man factured entire in this country. Several were built in the year 1814, and the event was duly noted at the time as an evidence of the spread of United States enterprise. On the Trigger's Pull. There is always trouble of one sort or another when a woman meddles with those things which do not concern her sex. Obviously, carbines were none of Miss Mivart's concern. If she felt that she had to play with fire-arms she should have kept to Flobert rifles. Nothing would do, however, but that she must learn to shoot a carbine, and the result was that the whole post rose up and cut Burton to a man; so that there was no peace for him any longer in that regiment and he had to seek transfer to another. There were other results, also, but they come further on. does Greville think about that?" The adjutant was married, so he was out of the running. "Mr. Greville is teaching me, too," said Georgia; "and here he comes for me now." Burton was safe on the target range, over behind the barracks. Miss Mivart and Greville went in the other direction, but the back of the officers' row, over in the foothills across the creek, Greville nailed the top of a big red pasteboard box to the trunk of a tree, and Miss Mivart hit once out of sixteen times—when she was aiming at the head of a prairie dog at least twenty feet away to the right. Some thought that what Miss Milvart did was done on purpose, and some thought that it was a piece of idiotic silliness. The latter based their argument upon the general frivolousness of her ways and upon the innocency of her round, blue eyes. The former held to the belief that Miss Milvart was one of those women favorites of Fortune who look greater fools than they are. They said, with a certain show of reason, that Georgia Milvart was a child of the service and not an importation from civil life. She had been born in a garrison and had played with rows of empty, green-rimmed cartridge shells at an age when most little girls play with paper dolls. She had hummed snatches of the bugle calls before she could talk, and the person she had admired the most and obeyed the best for the first dozen years of her life had been Kreutzer, Captain Milvart's tow-headed striker. A few years of boarding school back East could not have obliterated all that. Besides, the veriest civilian, who has never come nearer to a carbine than to watch a Fourth of July militia parade, might reasonably be expected to know by intuition that in a target practice competition every trigger has got to pull just so hard, whatever the regulation number or fraction of pounds may be. Otherwise it is plain that the nearer you come to a hair-trigger the better your aim will be. However, whether Miss Mivart was fully aware of what she was doing, nobody ever knew, unless perhaps it was Greville—and he, like Zuleika, never told. But Burton had a bad time of it and all his beautiful score went for worse than nothing at all. That, though, was the end. And the beginning ought to come first. The beginning was when Miss Mivart undertook to learn to shoot a carbine. There was a target practice competition going on at the post; no one which was of any interest to the service, or even to the department at large; just a little local affair devised to keep up the spirits of the troops and to lighten the monotony of life. There were three contests, one for troops and companies, as such; one for individual privates and one for the officers. This last was to finish off, and then there was to be a big hop. Every one knew from the first, when Burton and Greville shot with their troops, that the officers' competition would lie between them. This made it interesting in more ways than one, because the rivalry was not confined to the target range, but extended to the winning of Miss Mivart's hand and heart, and every one believed that this would settle a matter she did not appear to be able to settle for herself. Not that she was to blame for that. Anyone, even a person much more certain of her own mind than Miss Mivart was, would have been put to it to choose. They were both first-leutenants, and both cavalrymen, and both good to look upon. Burton was fair and Greville was dark, but she had no fixed prejudices regarding that. She had often said so. Also, both were as much in love with her as even she could have wished, and were more than willing that all the world should see it—than which nothing is more pleasant and soothing to a right-minded woman. The rifle contest lasted ten days, during which time the air hummed with the ping and sing of bullets over on the range, and with the calls of the markers in the rifle piles. Only scores and records and bets were thought and talked about. Miss Mivart herself had bet, with all the daring wickedness of a kitten teasing a beetle. She even went so far as to bet on both Burton and Greville at once. The adjutant undertook to explain to her that that was called "hedging," and was not looked upon as altogether sporty. Miss Mivart was hurt. Was it really dishonest, she wanted to know. The adjutant felt that he had been unkind. He hastened to assure her that it was not—not dishonest in the least; only that it took away from the excitement of the thing to a certain extent. Miss Mivart smiled and shook her head. No, she didn't think that it did, because, of course, she knew herself which one she wanted to have win. The adjutant admitted that that might possibly be just as interesting for herself and the fortunate man. And which was he, if he might ask. Miss Mivart shook her head and smiled again. No, she didn't think he might ask. As the man himself didn't know she could hardly tell anyone else just yet, could she? She had her own ideas about fair play. "I can shoot a carbine, myself," she told the adjutant, with her cleft chin proudly raised; "and my shoulder is all black and blue. Mr. Burton is teaching me." "Oh!" said the adjutant. "and what does Greville think about that?" The adjutant was married, so he was out of the running. "Mr. Greville is teaching me, too," said Georgia; "and here he comes for me now." Burton was safe on the target range, over behind the barracks. Miss Mivart and Greville went in the other direction, but the back of the officers' row, over in the foothills across the creek, Greville nailed the top of a big red pasteboard box to the trunk of a tree, and Miss Mivart hit once out of sixteen times—when she was aiming at the head of a prairie dog at least twenty feet away to the right. The other fifteen shots were scattered among the foothills. Then her shoulder hurt her so that she was ready to cry. Greville would have liked to have her cry upon his own shoulder, but, as she didn't, he did some fancy shooting to distract her. He found a mushroom can and threw it into the air and filled it full of holes. She had seen Burton do the same thing that morning with a tomato tin. In fact, from where she sat now, on a lichen-covered rock, she could see the mutilated can glittering in the sun over beyond the arroyo. So she thirsted for fresher sensations. "I'll tell you," she said to Greville, as he held up the mushroom can for her to inspect the eight holes he had made with five shots, "let me toss up your hat, and you make a hole through the trademark in the crown." It was a nice, new straw hat. Greville had sent East for it and it had come by stage the day before. It had cost him, express paid, four dollars and seventy-five cents. This, too, at a time when anything he had left after settling his mess and sutler's and tailor's bill, went into stick pins and candy and books and music and riding whips for Miss Mivart. But he took off the hat and gave it to her without even a lingering glance at that high-priced trademark within. And he felt that it was worth four times four dollars and seventy-five cents when she picked up the tattered remains at last and asked if she might have them to hang in her room. Then she looked down at her grimy hand and considered the first finger, crooking it open and shut. "I think it's going to swell," she pouted. "That is a perfectly awful trigger to pull." Greville did what any man might have been expected to do. He caught the hand and kissed it. Miss Mivart looked absolutely unconscious of it. She might have been ten miles away herself. Greville, therefore, thought that she was angry, and his heart was filled with contrition. Yet he was old and wise enough to be a first lieutenant. He walked beside her back to the post in a state of humble dejection she could not understand. The next morning it was Burton's turn. Greville was over on the range now, vainly trying to bring his record up to where Burton's was. This time Miss Mivart fired at a white pasteboard box cover, and hit it three times out of twenty. She was jubilant, and so was Burton, because she was making such progress under his tuition. "That's an easy carbine to shoot, isn't it?" she asked as they wandered home; "it isn't at all hard to pull the trigger." Burton glanced at her, and she met his eyes innocently. "It's just like any other trigger," he told her. "Yes, of course. And is that the very same carbine you use in the competition—the one you shot with yesterday, and will use this afternoon when you finish ur." He told her that it was. "Well," she said complacently, "I think I'm doing very nicely, don't you. I hit the target three times, and my first finger doesn't hurt a bit—this morning." That afternoon the competition came to an end, with Burton a good many points ahead of Greville. And that night there was the big hop. It had been understood from the first that the man who won was to take Miss Mivart to the hop. So she went over with Burton, and gave him one-third of the dances. Greville had another third, and the rest were open to the post at large. Greville did not look happy at all. It was not the target record he minded. He never thought about that. It was having to go down the board walk to the hop room behind Burton, and to watch Miss Mivart leaning on his arm and looking up into his face from under the white mists of her face hood. He was not consoled at all when she looked up into his own face even more sweetly at the beginning of the second dance, and whispered that she was "so sorry." Now as the second dance had been Greville's, the third was Burton's. That was the way it had been arranged. As the band began the waltz, Miss Mivart stood beside Greville in the center of quite a group. The commanding officer was in the group, so was Burton's captain, and so was the adjutant. There were some others as well, and also some women. Miss Mivart may have chosen that position, or it may simply have happened so. Anyway, just as the waltz started, Burton, light-hearted and light-footed, came slipping and sliding over the candle-waxed floor, and pushed his way into the midst. "Ours," he said triumphantly. But Miss Mivart did not heed him at once. She was telling them all how she had learned to shoot a carbine as well as any one, and they, the men, at any rate, were hanging on her words. "Mr. Greville taught me," she said, "and so did Mr. Burton." (This was the first either had known of the other's part in it, and they exchanged a look.) "They taught me with their own carbines, too. The very same ones they used themselves in the competition. But I shot best with Mr. Burton's carbine. He must have fixed his trigger to pull more easily; it was almost like, what do you call it, a hair-trigger?" She looked about for an answer, and saw on their faces a stare of stony horror and surprise. They moved a little away from Burton, and the commanding officer's steely eyes were on his face. The face had turned white, even with the sunburn, and Burton's voice was just a trifle unsteady as he spoke. "This is our dance, I think, Miss Mivart," he said. The innocent, round, blue orbs looked just a little coldly into his. "No," she told him, "I think you are mistaken. It is Mr. Greville's dance." And she turned and laid her hand on Greville's arm.—Argonaut. Meissonier's Cute Gardener. A good story is being told about a gardener who was for many years in the service of Meissonier. This gardener was not only wonderfully skilled in the art of cultivating flowers and vegetables, but he also was a true scientist, and as he was endowed with a phenomenal memory he was able to give offhand the botanical name of any plant that was shown to him. Some of his employer's friends frequently tried to baffle him by handing him seeds or cuttings of exotic or other out-of-the-way plants, but they never succeeded. Now Meissonier was proud of him, but he vowed that he would, once at least, bewilder him, and one day, while Emile Augler was dining with him, he summoned the gardener, and taking from his pocket a small paper package, in which he had previously placed some eggs of dried herring, he said to him: "Here are some curious seeds. Can you tell me what they are?" "Of course I can, sir," replied the gardener, and after examining them for a moment or two he gave them a most impressive Latin name. "If you sow them now," asked the painter, "how long will it take for them to appear above ground?" "A fortnight," was the reply. "Well," said Meissonier, "I wish you would sow them at once, for I am curious to see what kind of plant it is." A fortnight later Emile Augier, desiring to see the end of this joke, came to breakfast at the painter's villa, and as he and his host were at table the gardener presented himself and said: "If you gentlemen will oblige me by stepping into the garden I will show you the plants that those curious seeds have produced." The two friends followed him to the conservatory, where he pointed out to them twelve odd-looking objects in a box filled with freshly watered brown earth. They stooped to examine them more closely, and the next moment they burst into shouts of laughter, for the strange objects were the heads of twelve red herrings. The New Handwriting If handwriting is an index of character American women are all getting to be exactly allike. Every fashionable woman now writes the angular English hand and others are cultivating it. Good form decrees that paper, ink and wax must be of a certain style, and this, taken in conjunction with the similarity of penmanship, makes one fashionable woman's letter resemble another's almost exactly. The angular writing possesses one merit, that of being easily distinguishable. Contrasted with the fine, light, slanting, Italian handwriting that was the fashion for women thirty or forty years ago the writing of the modern woman shows a remarkable change. Even ten or fifteen years ago the school girl who wrote with a heavy black stroke of the pen was considered at fault, while extremely light or delicately shaded Spencerian penmanship was commended as perfect. But all this is changed nowadays. The blacker the writing the more character it is supposed to possess, just as the sketches of some artists who are lavish with their India ink are rated as strong. Shading has gone out entirely. It was quite a fad with women of long ago to cross their four and five-page letters of finely traced writing. Such a letter today would be undeclipherable to modern eyes. There is no need for the average woman to cross her letters nowadays, as they are as brief as possible. The long soulful outpourings with pen and ink between women friends are no longer indulged in. It has been said that the art of letter writing has completely died out and that there are no more love letters of the old sort written between betrothed couples. Even among women the telegraph and the telephone have done much to make letter writing as it used to be practiced considered an out-of-date accomplishment. Rheumatism is said to be remarkably prevalent in Kansas. Certainly the state has had a great deal of trouble lately with its joints. There is a thought in nearly every line of poetry; the versemaker has to think of one word that will rhyme with another. Of all the sons of Johnny Bull who have crossed the briny deep and mingled with their brothers on this side of the Atlantic, none has come closer to the great American heart than Sir Thomas Lipton, the gallant British sportsman and owner of Shamrock II., the fleet yacht whose races with the Columbia for the yachting supremacy of the seas have been attracting such deep interest on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans admire a game sportsman and that is one of the reasons why Sir Thomas is so popular among us. Added to this, he has a charming personality and a hospitable nature that knows no bounds. This is not the first time that Sir Thomas has endeavored to take back to British shores the cup that was brought over here by the old slop America 50 years ago and which has since remained in Uncle Sam's keeping. Two years ago he built, at great expense, the Shamrock I. and brought it over to this side, but it was signally beaten by the same boat in which American hopes have centered this year. Sir Thomas returned, and showing the sportsmanlike qualities that have made him so many stanch admirers, determined to build a better boat. Expense cut no figure and the result was the Shamrock I..acknowl- SIR THOM IT CALMED THE TUMULT. SIR THOMAS LIPTON. SIR THOMAS LiPTON. Garfield's Memorable Utterance After Lincoln's Assassination. Perhaps few persons who, on Sept. 19 last, repeated the words, "God reigns and the government at Washington still lives," are familiar with the circumstances under which they were uttered. One who first heard them uttered by James A. Garfield thirty-six years ago, thus describes the occasion: "It was in New York city. The tidings of the shooting of President Lincoln, bulletined before the office of every prominent new paper in the city, had drawn together citizens of every grade and complexion until the streets were massed with an excited, angry, fearful throng, so that it was well nigh impossible for a vehicle to pass. Alterations were frequent. Men suspected of harboring disclayal sentiments were hustled by the crowd and forced to hide themselves for safety. Gallows were carled through the streets with ropes dangling from the cross beams and labeled 'for traitors.' Strong men trembled last some overt act or unguarded utterance should precipitate a riot. Particularly was this the case when the teleg am flashed the terrible words, 'Mr. Lincoln is dead.' "At this moment, when the tense excitement had increased to the extreme danger point, a stranger not yet 34 years of age, but of commanding presence and a full and far-reaching voice, sprang upon a box standing near one of the bulletins in newspaper row, and raising him arm to command silence, said in a slow measured voice: 'Clouds and darkness are round about Him. Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne. President Lincoln is dead, but God reigns and the government at Washington still lives.' "As by magic all angry words ceased and the crowd melted away into silence and tears. "This man was James A. Garfield, who sixteen years later was struck down by the bullet of an assassin and was mourned by the whole nation as our second martyr." The Irish soldiers at Fontenoy bequeathed to their beloved France names which became so many synonyms for honor and worth and fidelity. Irish in France. edged by experts to be the best boat England has ever sent over here. Sir Thomas has had a remarkable career. Forty years ago he was a messenger boy in a stationer's shop in Glasgow and his father was a day laborer. A half dozen years later, or when 18, he ran away from home and came to America. He worked in New York as a dock laborer for some time. A few years later, having saved some money here, we find him a small provision dealer in Glasgow. He branched out and, advertising himself on every side, his business grew to great proportions. He started stores in London and built packing houses in Chicago. He entered the tea trade and now owns great plantations in Ceylon. All his enterprises turned out successful. Today he is worth at least $25,000,000. His charity is unlimited. He has given immense sums to the poor of London and it has been so placed that it has done the greatest possible amount of good. The cost of building and maintaining two cup challengers has gone far up into the hundreds of thousands. The feeling of Americans for Lipton is best expressed in the sentiment that has been heard quite often of late: "Well, if the cup is to go back to England, there is no one we would sooner see taking it back than Sir Thomas." M. The Lallys and the Dillons have ever since figured with the highest nobility of nation. We find more than one Dillon raised to the dignity of an archbishop; another wed to a cousin of the future Empress Josephine, fought in America with Lafayette, and later, during the reign of terror in 1794, when he was commander-in-chief of the French army of the North, perished on the guillotine. Again we find another Irish descendant. Clarke, selected by Napoleon as his minister of war and given the title of Duke of Feltre. We find a Guillaume Magher occupying one of the most prominent posts in the East Indian troubles; later still, in the early days of the now spent century, we find an Abbe MacCarthy, famous as a courted preacher of such extraordinary merit that an eminent authority, M. Icard, for years the taciturn superior of the sminary of St. Sulpice, declared him to be head and shoulders above Lacordaire. Siberia's Wonderful Growth Siberia is growing with wonderful rapidity, says Leslie's Weekly. The Russian government is very kind to its emigrants. This summer I met a train in Siberia. It was taking fourth-class passengers a distance of 2,500 miles for $2.25, giving each person a sleeping berth, and feeding some of the poorer ones at the many feeding stations along the Siberian railroad. Over 600,000 emigrants have crossed the Urals into Siberia in five years. Siberia today looks just about as Dakota did 12 years ago. To give you an idea of the increase of traffic in Siberia the following figures given me by Prince Khiloff may be interesting: 'The West Siberian road, that is, the section of 2,000 miles from the Urals to Irkutsk, in 1896 carried 760,000 passengers, 169,000 emigrants and 90,500,000 puds of goods. (Pud is 40 pounds.) In 1898 it carried 379,000 passengers 195,000 emigrants and 30,000,000 puds of goods.' Oldest Reigning Sovereign. Now that Queen Victoria is dead, the emperor of Austria, who was 71 years old on August 18, is the sovereign who has had the longest reign in Europe at the present time, for he has been on the throne for nearly 53 years, one of the hardest working sovereigns in the world, and this has been characteristic of him all through his long life. Edge Directory Knights of Pythias. oa's Lodge No.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA, KAN. Castle Hall 338 North Main street. Regular Meetings Second and Fourth Monday Night in Each Month. Wisting Knights in good standing Welcomed S. W. Fleming, Chan. Com. W. N. Miller, K. of R. & S. ARRIA COURT No. 7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs. J. E. Lewis, W. C. Mise Blench Alexander, R. of D. Mrs. Ida Martin, W. of R. of D. Metts I. and 3rd, Monday each month ARKANSAS VALLEY Lodge No.21. A.F. & A.M. John T. Chinneth, 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 MTZION CHAPTER No.17. W.H.A.Clark. High Priest. J.S.Fauver, King. Ben Wilson. 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,Scerty Meets 1st and 3rd.Wednesday each month Mt.Olive Court No.9,H. of J. Mrs J. E.Lewis,M. A.M. Mrs.J. S.Anderson,Secretary Mrs L.Adams,Treasurer Meets 1 & 3 Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. HOME OF THE WEST No.2906. G.U.O.O.F. Ms. H. Gordon, N.G. Major Davis, V.G. J.A. Martin,Secretary Meets 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesday night. For Reliable Rates And Quickest Time Patronize The FRISCO LINE Through reclining chair cars and latest improved Pullman coaches WITHOUT CHARGE on all Frisco trains between WICHITA AND ST.LOUIS. FRISCO LINE. Trains leave Wichita at 1.20 and 10. 45 p.m. arrive at Wichita 3.25 p.m. and 6.35 a.m. See that your ticket reads via the Frisco Line — it will save you money and time. Should you desire any information as to rates, time, routes, maps, etc., call or write any Frisco Line agent or the undersigned. It is a great pleasure for us to answer questions. CITY TICKET OFFICE COR. Main and Douglas. B.P. DUNN. BRAN SNYDER. Disk Pass. Ag't. Gen. Pass. Ag't. Wichita, Kau. St. Louis, Mo. when in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the lowest prices t KERNAN'S 102 E Doyne ve. 'Phone 357. --- GREENFIELD BRO'S M.Jaques & Co. les made on Furniture, Stoves, Carpets Either cash or easy pay whether you buy or not. we take pleasu- cing goods and giving you prices. & Co., 243 e at FULTON's-It ing,Hats&FurniShir For Men,BoysandChildren. Best selections, Latest styles, Finest Greatest Values. SLE GOODS,AT OUT OF SEASON F.M.Jaque Special Prices made on Furni Either Call in whether you buy or ing goods and F.M.Jaques & Co., Trade at FUL Clothin g,Hats& For Men,Boy Largest stock,Best selections,L Greates SEASONABLE GOODS,AT 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. Trade at FULTON's-It pays. Clothin g,Hats&FurniShing Goods For Men,BoysandChildren. Largest stock,Best selections,Latest styles,Finest assortments. Greatest Values. SEASONABLE GOODS,AT OUT OF SEASON PRICES. C.R.Fulton Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store TAPP BROS Having adopted we expect to make any one and will all goods sold. No 19 Pounds Granu Note that this is the largest pack a year for a dollar—Tapp did it Sugar by the sack, $5.15. I Gasoline, per gallon 16 cts. I Colorado Potatoes, per peck 30 Phone Tapp Bros. & Ha 255-277 No BROS. & HANS g adopted the cas ect to make price and will promptly sold. Note prices Bounds Granulated Sugar $1 is the largest package of Sugar sold dollar—Tapp did it. sack, $5.15. Lion Coffee, per pac gallon 16 cts. Best Flour per sack atoes, per peck 30 cents. Phone 257. Bros. & Hanshaw 5-277 North Main Having adopted the cash system we expect to make prices below any one and will promptly deliver all goods sold. Note prices 19 Pounds Granulated Sugar $1.00 Note that this is the largest package of Sugar sold in Wichita within a year for a dollar—Tapp did it. Sugar by the sack, $5.15. Lion Coffee, per package 10 cents Gasoline, per gallon 16 cts. Best Flour per sack 85 cents Colorado Potatoes, per peck 30 cents. Phone 257 Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw 255-277 North Main Street A. B. Surgical & Medical TREATMENT IN ALL Lungs,Nervous,Chronic, and Private Diseases; also diseases of the EYE,EAR,NOSE,THROAT. Prices Reasonable. All Lask is a treatment. A certain man went from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, who beat him and stripped him and left him for dead. A good Samaritan seeing this, clapped spurs to his ass and galloped away, lest he should be sent to the house of detention as a witness while the robbers were released on ball. Moral—The perceiver is worse than the thief.—Lanigan's Fables. --- ```markdown ``` 112 E. Douglas. The Good Samaritan. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 Overcoats Will you need a new OVERCOAT this fall? If you do, don't fail to examine our line. We are showing all the new, swell styles in Coats. Every day adds something new to our stock. Sare Price to Everybody. ques & Co., Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting Either cash or easy payments. y or not. we take pleasure in show- and giving you prices. 243 N.Main St. BULTON's-It pays. & FurniShing Goods on, BoysandChildren. ions, Latest styles, Finest assortments, greatest Values. AT OUT OF SEASON PRICES. OS. & HANSHAW. apted the cash system make prices below will promptly deliver Note prices Manulated Sugar $1.00. Best package of Sugar sold in Wichita within did it. Lion Coffee, per package 10 cents Best Flour per sack 85 cents back 30 cents. One 257. Hanshaw North Main Street For a Good, First-Class Snave GO TO Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cu & Shampoos. $638\frac{1}{2}$ E. Douglass Ave.. Burl Fisher.Prop Houk Hardware Store Garland and Quick Meal Steel Ranges. Garland Cook Stoves. Beckwith Round Oak Heating Stoves. 116 East Douglas ave. H. C. DUNBAR, PIONEER UNDERTAKER. 235 North Main Street For First-class Meals GO TO THE B B RESTARANT 346 North Main Street. BURNS & BA YNUM, PROPS. Meais 15 cts. 117 NLawrence st SCHROEDER & CO 256 North M SCHROEDER & MATTHEWS Linen carpet at. Ingrain carpet All wool filled co Matting ..... Six-foot extension Six cane seat dir Six wood seat d Screen wire, per Iron beds ..... Rubber hose, per Steel ranges ... SCHRODER & 256 NORT Linen carpet at..... 28c Ingrain carpet at..... 30c All wool filled carpet..... 59c Matting..... 15, 18, 20 and 25c Six-foot extension tables..... $4.75 Six cane seat dining chairs..... $5.75 Six wood seat dining chairs..... $3.50 Screen wire, per square foot..... 1 1/2c Iron beds..... $2.95, $3.75, $4.25 and $5.50 Rubber hose, per foot..... 7 1/2 and 12c Steel ranges ..... $24.00, $32.00, $37.00 SCHRODER & MATTHEWS. 256 NORTH MAIN THE PEERL 508 EastDo THE PEERLESS TAILOR 508 EastDouglas Avenre. Kingman Notes George Floyd spent Sunday at Anthony. A party given at the home of of Mrs Joseph Banks on last Friday eve, was a success, A number of the young people present report an enjoyable time. Mrs David Jacobs was enjoying a visit from her grandmother, brother and uncle from Hawley Ok, the first of the week. The colored people ef Kingman have for a year been making a great effort to get their church ready for holding services, they have at last almost completed the repairing. The first meeting was held Sunday night, Rev, Eli Marti preaching. May success follow them in the future. Iola News Rev. Young returned from Chanute ast Monday. The G. U. O. O. F. met last Monday, for their regular instructions election of officers. Rev, T W Greene passed through enroute for Burlington. Miss Stella Coker, a graduate of 1901 left last Wednesday for Chandler Ok, where she has a position as teacher. "My lady," says a well-known chemist, "writes tender sentiments to her lord with ink made from an old copper coffee-pot, on paper made from old collars." The utilization of waste products, which is adding so enormously to the wealth of the world, furnishes many such fantastic adaptations. "Give me the sewage of New York," says Doctor Long, "and I will return you yearly the superior milk of a hundred thousand cows." The waste soap-suds from woolen factories, which used to pollute hundreds of rivers, is now precipitated, and the coagium is pressed into bricks and converted into superior illuminating gas. These are but examples of the ingenuity of man. That the field is far from exhausted is instanced in the estimate that from six hundred to a thousand of fine coal are thrown away every day in the ashes of New York. It is not impossible that some reader of this paragraph will invent a process for reclaiming this wasted material. SELL MATTHEWS Main Street. at ... 28c pot at ... 30c carpet ... 59c 15, 18, 20 and 25c vision tables ... $4.75 dining chairs ... $5.75 dining chairs ... $3.50 per square foot ... 1½c $2.95, $3.75, $4.25 and $5.50 per foot ... 7½10 and 12c $24.00, $32.00, $37.00 & MATTHEWS. TH MAIN OUR STOCK FALL and WINTER WOOLEN is now complete. It will pay you to inspect our line and get prices before placing your order for an up to - date suit or trousers. LESS TAILOR Douglas Avenre. WN Miller, Attorney at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC Practices in all the Courts of Kansas and Missouri. No.239 N.Main street. Wichita.....Kans NOTICE! I have told others what a wonderful effect The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has in making the hair grow. My hair is shorthair and came out by the comb-bull hair. I can use the original Ozonized Ox Marrow I can fix it any way I want to. Please send me three bottles more. I enclose money order $4.40. Resp. yours. MISS JESSIE HARRIS. Bristol, R.I. THE ORIGINAL OZONIZED Ox MARROW (copyright) also makes kinky or curly hair and stops the hair from falling out. Dandruff and stops the hair from falling out. Harmfulness. Only 50 cents. Sold by drugstores and dealers, or send us 50 cents for one bottle. We pay express charges. Adverse Ozonized Ox MARROW Co, 76 Waltham Ave, Chicago, Illinois. AN OLD "BEECHER BIBLE." Name Given to a Rifle by Early Western Settlers. At Lecompton, Kan., the other day, says the Kansas City Journal, a lad paddling around in the shallow waters of the Kaw found a Sharp's rifle of the ancient pattern of fifty years ago. Some one has suggested that it is one of "Beecher's Bibles," the name given by the early settlers to this weapon, and the suggestion recalls a curious bit of early day history. When the first emigrants sent out by the New England aid and other societies of the north found their settlements beset by bands of pro-slavery men from Missouri they called upon their eastern friends for arms with which to defend themselves, and many shipments of Sharp's rifles were made to them from both Boston and New York. But all goods shipped to Kansas had to come up the Missouri river and through "the enemy's country," and the Missourians had a fashion of confiscating such weapons as they found. So the rifles were shipped as something else in packages shaped to deceive. For example, in 1855, Amos Lawrence wrote from Boston to his agent at Hartford, Conn.: "Request Mr. Palmer to have ten Sharp's rifles packed in casks like hardware and to retain them subject to my order. Also to send the bill to me. I will pay it either with my note at 7 per cent interest or in cash." And these rifles were shipped to Lawrence and got safely through, as did others packed in a way to deceive. It was charged that Henry Ward Beecher had sent a box of the rifles marked "Bibles," and when approached by a New York Post reporter he admitted it to be a fact. "I believe," he said, "that the Sharp rifle is truly a moral agency, and there is more moral power in one of these instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas are concerned, than in 100 Bibles. You might just as well read the Bible to buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow." So the weapons took the name of "Beecher's Bibles," and by this they were commonly known. Leave- East Bound. Train No. 10 "Kansas and Nebraska Limited." for Ft. Scott and St. Louis 2 25 p m Train No 6, Kansas City and St. Louis Express 1 00 p m Leave for South and West No 5 for Clearwater, Conway Springs, Anthony, Kiowa, Kingman, Norwich Oxford, Belle Plain and Winfield 7 40 am No 451 For Conway Springs, Anthony and Kiowa 6 30 pm Leave for North and West No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limited ed for Hutchinson, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver 5 05 p m No 5 mt Hope, Hutchison and Genesaeo 7 30 p m No 124 local freight, carries passengers between Wichita and Genesaeo 8 55 p m Arrive from the East No 9 Kansas and Nebraska limited ed from Ft Scott and St Louis 1 05 p m No 5 From Kansas City and St Louis 7 15 p m Arrive from South and West No 6 From Kiowa, Anthony, Conway Springs and D M and A points 4 55 p m No 452 From Anthony and Conway Springs 11 o m Arrive from North and West No 16 From Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Hutchinson 2 0 a m No 46e From Hutchinson, and Mt Hope(daily, except Sunday] 6 0 p m No 6 From Genesaeo and Hutchinson 9 40 p m E.E.BLECKLEY, P and T.A. Passenger station corner Douglas ave, and Wichita st. Telephone 112 FRISCO LIE. 08 For Monett, Springfield, St. Louis and all points East, daily, 1.20 p m 09 Pittsburg, Joplin, Galena, Webb City and Carthage, daily 1.20 p m 07 Burton, Ellsworth, and all points West daily 3.40 p m 09 Pittsburg, Girard, Joplin, Carthage, Vinita and Sapulp. 10.00 p m 102 Monett, Fayettville, Fort Smith, and intermediate points daily. 10.00 p m 102 Eureka Springs, Springfield, St. Louis and all points East, daily 10.00 p m For Sleeping Berths and through tickets to all points and particular information see B.E.DUNN, Dist.Pass.Agt. 100 Douglas Ave. CHICAGO,ROCK ISLAND and PACIFIC Time Table, Effective Nov.18,1900 Trains Arrive Leave North and East No 2 Kansas City,Chicago and St Louis limited,daily 9 45 a m 945 am No 2 Colorado Springs, Denver and Pacific coast 9 45 a m 9 45 am No 4 Kansas City,St Louis and Chicago night Expr. 9 oo p m 9 oo p m No. 36 Daily, Ex. 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Barnes & Newcomb Popular Music House. Pianos, Organis.Every thing known in music. Largest stock to select from and Lowest Prices. Latest Sheet Music and Books. WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight. Only $1.00 per year. Harvard Graduates as Presidents. Theodore Roosevelt is the third graduate of Harvard College to become President of the United States, the first in seventy-two years. John Adams was a member of the class of 1755. John Quincy Adams graduated in 1787, and Mr. Roosevelt in 1880. Mr. Hayes studied at the Harvard Law School, but he was a graduate of Kenyon College. Short Skirts for Women The subject of short skirts seems to be agitating the English women now that a report has come from Paris to the effect that the Parisian women are to wear skirts clearing the ground by two inches. Short skirts in London, except for bicycle riding and golf playing, have not appeared, so they will be a novelty when they arrive.—New York Sun. Individuality of the Voice: No man can disguise his voice in talking through a telephone. Every person has some little peculiarity of speech that, no matter how infinitesma it may be, is sure to be accentuated and made more recognizable over the wire. The man who has a sharp ring in his voice will seem to speak more sharply, a gruff voice will be mad more gruff, and by the same rule an insincerity voice is given a greater tone of insincerity.—Philadelphia Record. Jewelry at Russian Court. The young Empress of Russia, it is said, cares little or nothing about jewels, or indeed, about any kind of finery, and in this respect presents a striking contrast to her mother-in-law, the still young-looking and even pretty Marie Feodorovna, whose jewel casket in the days when she was Empress was the most famous in the world from a gem point of view, hardly second even in the matter of pearls to the collection of the Empress of Australia. The Objection Removed. President Tucker of Dartmouth has been in the habit of spending his summers on a New Hampshire farm. The family becoming dissatisfied with certain details—the proximity of the pigpen to the house, and the manners of the servant girl—he wrote to the farmer that he could come no more, and mentioned these objections. In a few days he received the following conciliatory reply: "Dear Sir: There ain't been no hogs since you left, and Hannah has went." The Teacher's Wire. Clarissa, Minn., Oct. 28th.—Mrs. Clara Keys wife of Charles Keys, school teacher of this place, tells a wonderful story. For years her life was one of misery. Her back ached all the time; her head ached all the time; neuralgia palms drove her to desperation. She used much medicine, but failed to get any relief till she tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says: "Very soon after I began using Dodd's Kidney Pills all my aches and palms vanished like the morning dew. I consider this remedy a God-send tr suffering womanhood." Encouraged by their success in her own case, Mrs. Keys induced her mother, an old lady of 74 years, to use Dodd's Kidney Pills for her many aches and palms. Now both mother and daughter rejoice in perfect freedom from illness or suffering which is something neither had enjoyed for years before. The Metric System. The metric system is to-day compulsory in twenty countries, representing more than 300,000,000 inhabitants —Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Roumania, Servia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Says to All Sick Women: "Give Mrs. Pinkham a Chance, I Know She Can Help You as She Did Me." "DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM: The world praises great reformers; their names and fames are in the ears of everybody, and the public press helps spread the good tidings. Among them all Lydia E. Pinkham's name goes to posterity MRS. H. F. ROBERTS, County President of W. C. T. U., Kansas City, Mo. with a softly breathed blessing from the lips of thousands upon thousands of women who have been restored to their families when life hung by a thread, and by thousands of others whose weary, aching limbs you have quickened and whose pains you have taken away. "I know whereof I speak, for I have received much valuable benefit myself through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and for years I have known dozens of women who have suffered with displacement, ovarian troubles, ulcerations and inflammation who are strong and well to-day, simply through the use of your Compound."—Mrs. H. ROBERTS, 1408 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. 60001 does not condone it to not genuine. Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham. She will understand your case perfectly, and will treat you with kindness. Her advice is free, and the address is Lynn. Mass. New Canal Treaty Satisfactory As It Is. THE SENATE WILL RATIFY IT. Washington, Nov. 1.—There is the most satisfactory and important news from Europe. The entire British cabinet have agreed to the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty. At the time the substance of the new treaty was announced about three weeks ago, Lord Lansdowne, the minister for foreign affairs, assented to it. But subsequently, as a matter of form, the lord chancellor had to be consulted, and after him the Marquis of Salisbury and the cabinet as a whole. This has been done, and as every one supposed would be the case, the assent of the government was promptly given. Therefore, Lord Pauncefote, who is now en voyage to this country, comes prepared to conclude the treaty with Secretary Hay. The provisions of the new treaty are precisely as outlined three weeks ago. Subsequent attempts to give the treaty a slightly different aspect were based on misinformation. The treaty does not in terms give the United States the right to fortify the canal, but it does give the United States full power to take such steps as it may deem proper for the protection of the canal and protection of the interests of the United States in time of war. Of the ratification of the new treaty there is now no doubt whatever. It will have the support of Senators of both parties almost without exception. By President Roosevelt and by Secretary Hay the new convention is regarded as a strengthening of the Monroe doctrine. There is good ground, further, for the statement that the British cabinet also regards it as pledging the support of Great Britain to the Monroe doctrine so far as the Isthmus of Panama is concerned. The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette says: "Walter Baker & Co., of Dorchester, Mass., U. S. A., have given years of study to the skilful preparation of cocoa and chocolate, and have devised machinery and systems peculiar to their methods of treatment, whereby the purity, palatability, and highest nutrient characteristics are retained. Their preparations are known the world over and have received the highest indorsements from the medical practitioner, the nurse, and the intelligent housekeeper and caterer." A Gift to Washburn Topeka, Oct. 31.—Washburn college has received a gift of $50,000 from a Boston man. The donor gave the money on the condition that his name be absolutely withheld. He specifies that the amount shall be used for the building of an astronomical observatory. The trustees of the college have accepted the gift and its conditions. Gax at Lawton. Lawton. Ok., Oct. 28.—A strong flow of gas has been struck on the property of the First National Mining company. From a test it was ascertained that the pressure was 80 pounds to the square inch. When the flow was ignited, it is said to have blazed up 20 feet. The depth of the well is 120 feet. The property is owned by stockholders in the First National company. Counterfeiters Caught. Dallas, Tex., Oct. 30.—United States Marshal Green, at headquarters in Dallas, was notified that three counterfeiters who have been operating extensively in the Texas Panhandle for the last two years have been arrested at Haskell, Tex., and are now in jail at Abilene, Texas. Booker Was Invited. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 28.—Booker T. Washington was a guest of Morris F. Tyler, treasurer of the university, at a dinner at Mr. Tyler's residence. Mr. Bissell, Mr. Cleveland's former law partner and later postmaster general, also accepted an invitation to dine with Mr. Tyler that evening and met Mr. Washington. Mr. Tyler said that the invitations were sent and accepted about ten days before Mr. Washington dined with President Roosevelt in Washington. Dispute of Indemnity Lands. Guthrie, Ok., Oct. 28. —Attorneys at Lawton are advising clients that Oklahoma has no legal title to indemnity lands selected in the counties of Caddo, Comanche and Kiowa. They are furnishing information upon which contests can be made at Washington. J. J. Houston, secretary of the school land board said that the claims are unfounded. He believes that persons instituting contests will receive no consideration at Washington and lose the money paid their lawyers. To Consolidate Land Offices Washington, D. C., Oct. 31.—The suggestion recently made for the consolidation of the Guthrie and Oklahoma City land offices has attracted the attention of Secretary Hitchcock to the general condition of affairs existing in Oklahoma and it is probable that a comprehensive plan will be arranged which will admit of the abolishment of at least three of the ten land offices now in Oklahoma. It is probable that the first office abolished will be the one at Oklahoma City. INCIDENTS AT AUBURN. Letters Sent to the Assassin in Prison to be Listed. Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 31.—In the morning, before the execution, the superintendent stood in front of the steel bars and when the guard had called Czolgosz's attention, he said: "I want to make a statement before you kill me." "What do you wish to say, Czolgosz?" asked the superintendent. "I want to make it when there are a lot of people present. I want them to hear me," said the prisoner. "Well, you cannot," said the superintendent. "Then I won't talk at all," said the prisoner, sullenly. The criminal, however, made a brief speech in the electric chair. There were 26 persons present. He said he was not sorry for what he had done. In less than four minutes from the time the prisoner left his cell the full penalty was paid in his death. The hundreds of letters written to the assassin, while in prison, will not be destroyed until they are listed, for the purpose of securing the address of the writers. The grave of the murder will be guarded until quicklime has had time to completely destroy the body. New Rails on Branch. Wichita, Nov. 1.—Roadmaster A. West of the Santa Fe believes that he will have all the new steel rails laid on the Hutchinson branch by November 10. There will then be a little surfacing and a general cleaning up, but he is confident that by the first of the coming year, the Hutchinson branch will be in excellent shape. When it is completed, it will be one of the finest pieces of track in the entire system, with the exception, perhaps, of that part which is rock ballasted. An Incendiary Fire. Chicago, Nov. 1.—Seventy-five families lost their homes and $250,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire that started in the Peterson & Co's picture frame factory. Fanned by a strong wind, the flames got beyond control and spread to the small packing establishment of Einberg & Stopp and a long row of residences adjoining. Two blocks of dwellings were destroyed. A man was seen setting fire in a lumber pile, and was shot at by a watchman, but escaped. Will Protect Colored Settlers Guthrie, Ok., Oct. 31.—Horace Speed says that he will prosecute any white man who bullies a colored man into leaving his claim in Kiowa land under the conspiracy statute, and will set that white men who form themselves into organizations to force negroes to leave the country will lose their claims. Johnnie Reiff Exonerated London, Oct. 29.—Johnnie Reiff has been exonerated from all blame as the result of the charge of foul riding brought against him by Madden, who rode Giglio, the winner of the Hermitage Plate at Sandown park races, while Reiff rode William C. Whitney's Delacey, which came in second. Epworth University. Oklahoma City, Oct. 31.—Oklahoma City is to have a university which will be to the southwest what the Northwestern university is to that section of the United States, an educational institution which is destined in time to rank with the best in the land. It will be known as Epworth University. Greece May Annex Crete. London, Nov. 1.—A dispatch to the Times from Constantinople says that the Turkish ambassador at St. Petersburg has informed the Sultan of Turkey that the annexation of the Island of Crete to Greece is imminent and inevitable. Two World Records Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 29.—The Memphis trotting association's fall meeting closed with two more world's records to its credit. The feature of the day was the free for all pace, best two in three heats and in this event Prince Allert, by Crown Prince and driven by Curry made two world's records. The first heat pace was the fastest $ \frac{1}{2} $ mile ever made by a gelding, passing the pole in $ 59\frac{1}{4} $ . In the second heat he established a world's record for geldings, completing the circuit in 2:000%. Will Give Reward to Widow Winfield, Kas., Oct. 29.—The Santa Fe employees who recently announced that they would contribute $2,000 for the capture of the murderer of Santa Fe detective George C. Montgomery, have decided to give the money to Mrs. Montgomery and erect a monument to her husband. One man has been arrested on suspicion and now awaits the action of the district court but otherwise the case is at a standstill as the detectives have no clue whatever to work upon. $13,400,000 in One Policy St. Paul, Oct. 31.—The Northern Pacific received from the railway underwriters an insurance for $13,400,000. In addition to the above, the company has also insured, out of its own fund, a large amount of property, the total being about $8,600,000, making a total insurance just provided of $20,000,000. The insurance includes rolling stock, merchandise in transit, warehouses, depot buildings, shops, round houses, etc. Insurance on railroad property is considered a good risk Women'sWoes The King Liked Perfumes George IV. was fond of perfumes, but did not c e for the English manufacture. He had all his perfumes brought from Paris and a factory in south France was kept running full time during the season in making perfume for the king and royal family. Schools in Porto Rico. The expense of maintaining schools in Porto Rico is very high if we consider the amount spent for the small number of schools we educate, however, is always essential to education. It is important that the people are being educated to the fact that there is a sure cure for indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness and malaria, fever and ague, and that knowledge of Bismuth Bitters. Try it. Our Private Dip Stamp is over the neck of the bottle. Non-Cumulative Stock Non-cumulative stock is stock on which dividends unpaid at any time are not necessarily to be paid thereafter. Cumulative or preferred stock is entitled to a dividend before any dividend is paid on the common or non-cumulative.—New York Sun. America's First Stereotyped Book It is said that the first book printed in this country from stereotype plates was a catechism by a Mr. Watts. This work was issued in New York in the year 1813, and was compiled for the benefit of the children of several New York churches. Foolish and obstinate people alone suffer from neuralgia or rheumatism. For they can always secure Wizard Oil and cure themselves. The steeple climber is one sort of high churchman. Overwork kills fewer men than excessive leisure. Love may be blind but it is an expert at making spectacles. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Many a man imposes on himself when he taxes his memory. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constipation of the mucous lining of an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infused you have a humbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; aine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surface. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The man who hates another has an ingrowing grudge at himself. IRONING A SHIRT WAIST Not infrequently a young woman finds it necessary to launder a shirt waist at home for some emergency when the laundryman or the home servant cannot do it. Hence these directions for ironing the waist: To iron summer shirt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch, then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be laid, away two or three hours. When ironing have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the ironing board. Have your iron hot, but not sufficiently so to scorch, and absolutely clean. Begin by ironing the back, then the front, sides and the sleeves, followed by the neckband and the cuffs. When wrinkles appear apply the damp cloth and remove them. Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom. If there are plains in the front iron them downward, after first raising each one with a blunt knife, and with the edge of the iron follow every line of stitching to give it distinctness. After the shirt waist is ironed it should be well aired by the fire or in the sun before it is folded and put away, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. W. L. DOUGLAS UNION MADE $3.50 SHOES $3.00 OUR MAJOR THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOE MAKE W. L. Douglas $4 Gift Edge Line cannot be Equated to a Quarter of a Center For More than a Quarter of a Center the reputation of W. L. Douglas $0.00 and $5.00 shoes. W. L. Douglas wear has created all other makes sold at these prices. The ex- cellent reputation has been won by men thoughe that W. L. Douglas wear is superior to other $5.00 and perfection satisfaction than other $5.00 and the best $5.00 and $5.00 shoes must be main- tained. The standard has always been placed and that the best shoes for him in the W. L. 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I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Tros. ROBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. What's the use of buying trouble when you can borrow it. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color silk, wool or cotton perfectly at one boiling. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. Crumbs of comfort may be all right but they dout make a square meal. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treads. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 29 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Few people get out of breath blowing about their own achievements. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Any tramp will tell you that a dog in the manger is worth two in the front yard. INSIST ON GETTING IT Some grocers say they don't keep DeFiance Starch because they have a stock in 16 oz. brains, which they cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. DeFiance Starch for same money. An Irishman says that posthumous works are the books a man writes after he is dead. Care of the Complexion Many persons with delicate skin suffer greatly in winter from chapping. Frequently the trouble arises from the use of impure soap and cheap salves. The face and hands should be washed only in clear, hot water with ivory Soap. A little mutton tallow or almond oil may be used after the bath to soften the skin. ELIZA R. PARKER Men who have loose habits are not often stuck up. Largest Funeral on Record. The largest funeral on record in Kutztown, Pa., was that of Dr. J. S. Trexter, which occurred recently. 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The greatest dropy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. Don't look a Christmas present in the price mark. WHEN YOUR GROCER SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Gothic Water Starch, but contains 12 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. A laugh on the face is worth two in the sleeve. Trifling that Costs. Neglect Sciatica and Lumbago And you may be disabled and incapacitated for work for many long days. St. Jacobs Oil Will cure surely, right away, and save time, money and suffering. It Conquers Pain Price, 25c and 50c. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE. IN WET WEATHER A WISE MAN WEARS TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED WATERPROOF CLOTHING BLACK AND TELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE - CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON.MASS.48 W.N.U.WICHITA—NO.44—1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Hention This Paper.