Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT 4TH YEAR. it that they receive their just proportion. It is already said that the Republican party since the election will not keep their promise to fittingly recompense the loyalty of the colored voter. During the campaign the party was saying that the colored men wanted money and thus could not expect anything in the past, now the colored men in the past campaign did not ask for and did not receive any money, what can they expect and what will they receive? We believe in fair play, we believe in justice and we will contend for justice for the colored men, because they are entitled to it. We are Republican and every man, woman and child in Wichita knows that we are, but we nevertheless believe in the Republican party doing the right thing to all men and more especially to the colored men who joyfully supported the Republican ticket. Time will tell and we hope that all things will come to a satisfactory conclusion in this matter. We wait for results. UNITY. The main question which confronts the American Negro at this time is "UNITY" of action. Above all the things that he must learn at this time is to be of one mind in all the important things that may confront him. The race, as a race, can never hope to accomplish any thing as long as part of them are arrayed against the other part. Unity must be the pass word if the race would succeed. The man or men who are at all times trying to find something to find fault with, that class of men who are at all times trying to tear down the race, will, ere long, find that their room is infinitely of more import than their company. The race must put a stop to that class of mouthers. The watch-word of the race should be "Onward and Upward". The fellows who are always kicking up a disturbance and the man who is too little to see the rights of any one else except those of his own selfish creation, is the man who is a stumbling block in the way of the progress of the race. You may talk about the race being denied rights and you may talk about the race being ostracised, and about the race being discriminated against and all the ills that now befall the race, but until the Negro race learns to be for one another the same condition of affairs will steadily exist. It is just as impossible for the Negro race to accomplish any great victories as they now stand as it is for an army to win a battle WICHITA. KANSAS. DEC 6 1902. by shooting down the men in its own ranks before the enemy. We, as a race, cannot hope to accomplish anything as long as we are shooting daggers at each other. Then, again, the race must rid itself of the man who will and does do all kinds of devilment, the man who takes pride in breaking up homes, the man who delights in ruining our young girls, the man who takes delight in taking a seat at the gambling table and then will come forth and pose as a leader. Such men are only wolves in sheep's clothing. The sconer that the race will religate such men to the rear the sooner will the race reach that point in the sisterhood of races that they can hope to receive that recognition to which they are justly entitled. The Negro race, as a race, is alright but the trouble with the race is that the wrong material has put themselves forward. As long as men go forth to represent the race that the public at large can point a just finger of scorn against and can say, "He broke up Mr. so and so's home", "He ruined Mr. so and so's daughter", "He was charged with doing so and so"; just so long, we say, as that class of men keep trying to put themselves to the front as the leaders of our people, just so long will the race be in bad hands and just so long will the race have an up hill pull to prosperity in this city. We believe in right, and we believe that every man should be satisfied with the one wife of his choice. These are some of the things that the race must overcome and until the do overcome them, these would go leaders will keep them in the back ground. Very, it is not every man who will say Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Let the race rid itself of its Judas. The rely at the A. M. E. church last Sunday was indeed a spirited, interesting and friendly contest between the members and friends of the two clubs, the Blue Birds and the Red Birds. The members of each club rallied to the front and the collection waxed warm and interesting. The Blue Birds were captained by Mrs. Nannie Howard, but owing to becoming suddenly sick Mrs. Howard was unable to be in attendance; but Mrs. Henry Baker took up her cause and fought the battle nobly and won, Mrs. Baker was assisted in her work by Mrs. I. B. Clark and Mr, J. C. Coffee. These did good work and the club came out $10.80 in the lead. The Red Birds also did good work and went past the mark of $50.00, having raised $51.20. The Red Birds were captained by Miss Mattie Andrews, assisted by Mrs. Jno. T. Chin neth, Miss Alice Thompson, Miss L. Simpson and Mr. S. S. Washington. It goes without saying that the good pastor of that church. Rev. P. D. Yochu , feels very grateful to the members and friends of the church for their most hearty response to his call for aid. In the afternoon Rev. H. V. Plummer, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, and his members came over and very substantially assisted in the rally. Possibly there has never been a rally in that church where the same amount of money was raised without the aid of giving some kind of entertainment. There was no entertainment given to aid in this rally and the whole sum was raised by straight donations. The two clubs did well and they should both feel proud. The object of the rally was to raise only $100 00, but now they have over reached that sum by $13.30. May the goov work continue. The rally of Sunday is an evidence to Rev Yochum that the good people of Wichita are with him and the only thing which he needs to do is to call and they are ready and willing to answer to his call. He has done well and may his work in the future be more prosperous and brighter than it has been in the past. He is the right man in the right place. THE FUTURE RACE. The question of the future of the Negro race is one that should and does concern every member of the race. The present Negro race has in its care the future of what their posterity will be. The present race can make of the future race just what it should and will be. The future race is the youth of today and youth yet unborn. To bring the youth of today up to the requirements that will be the essentials necessary for the future race is the duty of the present race. The fire-side and the home is the place where the youth will receive that instruction and training that will lead them through life in the future. This duty develops on the parents. They are the custodians of the future of their children and they alone will and should be held accountable for the making of their children just what they should be. It is a duty that every parent should take much pride in. OUR FAILING The colored people, as a people, are alright. There is no nation or race of people, who, if left alone will decree better and fairer justice to any and every man, than the colored race. They have a right to believe in fair play and they have a right to believe in justice. For hundreds of years the colored race in America has been the recipient of untold and unspeakable unfairness and unjust dealing and thus it has ample reasons to know and to appreciate fair play. They have a right above all other people in America today to demand that the law be meted out to all men alike—for God knows—and he only—that the American Negro has received everything, except the fair and equal benefits of the law. The American Negro believes in and loves the race to which he belongs. He is proud of the progress which the race has made in the past and the progress which the race is making today. He is proud of the enterprises of the race today and he will do all in this power to maintain and sustain them. He is God fearing and loves his home and family. With all this in his favor, yet to the outside world there seems to be liking a oneness of interests. This is not the true colors of the race, but it is the false color which is placed on the race by a few designing and tricking men who use the race name to accomplish some selfish and personal interests. They are the men who are the aggitators and are at all times figuring out something by which and with which they hope to get the colored men to fighting one another and during the generalmelee they hope to accomplish their dirty and deceiving work. As we have said, this is not the race, not even a small part of it. These are wolves in sheep clothing, men who, to accomplish their selfish designs, would put the whole race asunder when they accomplish their object stand off and laugh at a strug gling race of people trying to recover from the shock of the fall given them by their betrayers. We presume that every race is more or less burdened with this same class of wailfs and chaff. But the Negro race must learn to select the chaff from the wheat and to throw the chaff to the four winds. Men who will enter your home and seduce your daughters, men who will come between you and your family for the sake of a greedful-tiness, men who, we say, will not respect the sacredness of your family and their own, will indeed make very poor NO 28 and bad leaders. The man who will advocate the impurity of the ballot, mm who will advocate the voting for money only, the men who will at all times come to the front with some proposition that will tend to tear asunder the race and its enterprises, no matter how large or how small, we aay, are not fair samples of the manhood of the American Negro. Far from it. Our failing is then, that we too often listen to the trash of such men. We do not look far enough ahead and see the ditch into which they hope to lead the whole race. Can any man be sincerely a race man and do any one act that will injure the race or its progress? We say no. The Negro race must ere long that every thing that glitters is not gold. Try a man and see what he is. A man who has once proved a failure needs no more to be tried. Let the race stop and I look about them and see if they can detect the d toch into which someone would lead them. It is not hard to find, neither is it hard to see. Our advice to our people is stop, 'consider and think before leaping too far. Let us not make the old time and well known mistake of not thinking until after we have leaped. Pasblo, Col., Dec. 1, 1902. Mr. W. N. Miller. Dear Friend: — It now comes my turn to write you a few lines about our work. I am well trusting that you and wife are the same. We have just closed our year's work ending Oct. 30. God has blessed us with 69 additions. We have raised $1,519.75, donated to charitable purposes $63.58, built a beautiful parsonage at a cost of $700.00, attended 20 funera's, married 18 couples and on last Sunday, beginning our new year, if it as pleasing to the Lord, we raised in a little rally, $111.50. If it is the will of the Lord for me to continue in this field of labor, we hope to commence our new meeting house next year. Give kind segarde to all my friends. Your Friend, (Rev) W. R. Hardy. One of the most beautiful picture that we have ever seen is the one that is on exhibition in the Gus A. Miller Art Co's. store at 352 N. Main. It is the scenery of the Black Canyon in Colorado and is a large, fine one. It is valued at $75. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M. OTHH ..... 15c. Advertising Rates Made Known On Application. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for publication must be signed by the part or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication in the current issue. 1st. All Subscriptions must be paid in advance strictly. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will appear in that week. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one office or one address to another always give both, the old and new. 4th Send Us all the news from your section of the City, County, State or Country. We publish it FREE OF CHARGE. Write it plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any per son which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. The Real Benefactors The man who is really helping to solve the race problem in Wichita is the man who has really opened the way that some member of the race can find employment. The man who is giving employment to members of the race. It is not hot air and brags that will solve the race problem in this city, but it is the actual employment of the race. It is not the man who can hatch up the biggest political lie and with it strive to get his people stirred up and in strifes that is solving the race problem; it is not the man who is always trying to find something with which to find fault and to get other people, who would be otherwise consented, to find fault, that is solving the race problem in this city. But it is the man who will get employment for members of the race. We are giving employment to five (5) members of the Negro race today and as soon as we can find the proper material will give employmeet to two (2) more. These five people get "theirs" from the proceeds of this paper every week. And we do not owe any of them a cent either. How many of the "leaders(?)" can say as much? We are interested in our race and we prove it by dividing with some members of the race what little we are able to earn. We believe in "doing more" and talking less. Is there another Negro enterprise in Wichita that gives direct employment to five members of the race? Name them. These people are on our pay roll. Besides them there are ten others who get "spending change" from the Searchlight as agents in various parts of the state and Oklahoma. Let's hear from some of those great mouthy race leaders (?) and hear tell hofi many members of the race they employ or how many even get "spending change" from them or from any enterpris which they have. This is an age of action. Talk use to be the capes but it dont go new Our Gratitude We wish to thank our friends for the many nice pieces of job work which they brought and sent to our office this week and we assure them that we appreciate the same and we will try to please you in the future as we have tried to pleas you in the past. We solicit your continuation of the same, We thank you again. Why Not Have A Hall? If there is any people in any city in the Union who need a hall or a place where they may hold their public gatherings, that people is found in Wichita. For several years it has been seen the open necessity for such a place. But the recent event shows most conclusively the absolute necessity of such a place. At the present time there is not a place in the city of Wichita where the colored people can hold any kind of meeting or social gathering without having to pay enormous prices. The money which the colored people pay out each year for hall rent for their lodges, public lic meetings and social gatherings, would, if put in a hall, almost build one, and after it has been built it would be theirs to have aud to hold and to use as they might see fit. The trouble seems to be that every individual is afraid of the other individual and thus no one will venture forward to undertake such a movement. We said more than a year ago that the colored people of Wichita would see the time when it would be almost an impossibility to secure a hall in this city for any purpose and any price. They stand today almost face to face with such condition of affairs. The one hall which is now at their disposal is only through the courtesy of a lady who has it leased. And the fact of the matter is, when this lady's lease shall expire we expect to see that one place closed against them and they then cannot secure it at any price. Why not the colored people stop and see the necessity of taking this matter in hand and beginning to work on the matter at once? The sooner, the better. Why will the colored lodges of the city continue to pay exorbitant rents, why will the colored people continue to pay high prices for halls when they might go to work and by just a little unity of effort they can build a hall and then have it to use at their pleasure at less then one tenth of the present cost. We can never be able to do anything until we, as a people, will learn to put just a little faith in the honesty of each other and will do business on a business basis. A hall in this city is at that all can readily see the need of, yet we will only "talk, talk, talk". Talk will not build a hall. It will take the money. The matter could be easily accomplished if the race had not so many "if I can't, you shant" people. Let us get to work. LION COFFEE GAMES Christmas Games FREE In each pound package of Lion Coffee from now until Christmas will be found a free game, amusing and instructive-50 different kinds. Get Lion Coffee and a Free Game at Your Grocers. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the coloured people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRONIZE THEM. Mrs. Wm. Whitted is on the sick list this week. All kinds of fancy and up-to-date Jeb Work at the Searchlight office, 110 N. Main St. These wintry days asks a fellow "what have you done with you summer wages?" How many can tell? Don't all speak at once, The ladies G. L. A. club met at the handsome residence of Mrs. Jno T. Chinneth last Tuesday afternoon. After spending an hour in fancy needle work the club was served to a most delicious luneheon by the hostess, The ladies adjourned to meet next Tuesday at the residence of Mrs. Thos H. Cox 906 N. Wichita, St. P. O. Danford has added the check system to his express route. He is now able to check your trunks to and from the depot to any part of the city. Leave your orders at 110 N. Main St. Arkansas Valley Lodge No 31, A. F, & A. M., met last Tuesday night. This lodge is making fast progress in the work of Masonry and much credit is due to our worshipful master Jno. T. Chinneth for the labor which he has put forth to being his craft up to the standard in Masonry. Mrs. F. W. Phelps left Sunday night for Kansas City, Mo., where she will make her future home. The many friends of Mrs. Phelps in this city wish her a most enjoyable residence in the twin cities. The city council met last Monday night in their regular monthly meeting, Mayor McLean presiding. Appropriations employed most of their time. The rally at the A. M. E. church last Sunday was a most phenomenal one and proved the fact that the people of Wichita are well pleased with the good work which Rev. P. D. Yochum as pastor of that church is doing. Mrs. M. A. Hodge has took charge of the Centropolis Hotel and will have the full management of it in the future. Mrs. Hodge owns the hotel and is prepared to give her patrons the very best accommodation- tions. When you want a good glace to lodge in Wichita call at the Centropolis Hotel 605 N Main St. Hrs. Hodge has had a good many years experience in the hotel business and will give all good treatment. Rev. H. V. Plummer, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, will hold a big raily at his church on the second Sunday in December, 14th. Rev. Plummer asks that all the friends of his church come over and aid him on that occasion. Rev. Vochum and the members of the A. M. E, church will be over and help Rev Plummer and his church in the afternoon of that day. Keep your eye on the date—Sunday Dec. 14th. Do not forget to be there on the 14th. Bring a full pocket-book. Something Special? This paper and The Chicago Inter-Ocean$1.50 per year. Ask us what it means, CARD OF TAANKS. We, the members of the Helen Gould Colored Children's Orphan Home, wish to thank Chief Frank S. Burt, his assistant, Harry Sutton, and the entire police force for the donation to the Colored Children's Orphan Home which is highly appreciated. H. H. Neely, Supt. Jas. Jackson, Pres. Rev. J. E. Fletcher preached a fine and inspiring sermon at the A. M. E. church Sunday night. He was well received by a large and appreciative audience. There's a weekly letter from Washington, D.C., in The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean, and its contents alone make the paper well worth the price of its regular subscription price of $1.00 per year. Yet by our special low price arrangement both this paper and The Inter-Ocean may be had for $1.50 per year. Can you think of a better investment? Frank Gardenhire, who has been a substitute at No. 3 Hose House, 18th and Lawrence, was removed by Chief Walden last Wednesday for insubordination and refusal to obey orders. The Ne Plus Ultra club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Lee Anderson, 724 St. Francis, Thursday night. Mrs. Lizzie Henderson, Pres. Miss Mattie Andrews, Sect. USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating.. AT YOUR GROCERS IMBODEN MILLING CO. YARDS 215 & 303 W. Douglas. USE IMBODI IMF BREAKFA and you will AT YOUR GROCERS R Swell Dresser Know that The Peerless Tailors can't be beat for fine work, fit and style. Our stock is complete in all the latest novelties for this season. You can save 10 per cent by ordering your clothes before the rush of the season from us. PEERLESS TAILOR 508 E. Douglas Wichita, Kas OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. G. MUELLER UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. OFFICE PHONE 925 RES. PHONE 925 213 N.MAIN ST. WICHITA, KANS. When in need of Greceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E Dovl Ave. 'Phone 357 " UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. " HOUCK Hardware Store Building Hsrdware, Garland and Quick Meal Steel Ranges Garland Cook Stoves at the very low est prices. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Cor. 1st. & Market, Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. Edward Landrum has been appointed by Chief Walden, as a member of No. 3 Hose house to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Frank Gardenhire. We compliment the Chief on so good a selection, as that of Ed Landrum. Ed is alright. AGENTS WANTED We allow agents a big commission for their work. Write to-day for terms. Agents wanted in every town and city in the U. S. Send 2c stamp for Sample Copy. --- Office 303 W. Douglas EN'S PERIAL FLOUR AND AST FOOD Love good eating.—— IMBODEN MILLING CO. 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In a total of 286 patients only 5.6 per cent of the antitoxin cases died, while of those treated by other methods 28.9 per cent succumbed. > 0 SS Se ee ae ee a ae 3 mt ¢ 0 BY | Hii ee WH] ee il te ey 2 aaa SUN UHl\iesceeee re tate Gru ta aap i At the QgM 5 and toc Store HII ae See il Here’s alist of unusual Show Values priced at less than half, for quick sell- | 2 . . | ll ing, our big Stock of goods being moved from over Annex into this Store. 1) 2 ee ee ee | $200 and. $1.50 Ladies felt show ana slipners with dongola and calf Boy's and Men’s Lumbermen’s heavy aie es onl nice © pair at Ill | Taiee: Aeakpsisnd Qrerstver, See eg ae re Aasee conte Men’s wool pants—Srnflower brand $2.50 and $3.50 val, price $1.50 era a ere Men's felt sole tined shoes $2 50 values, price..... 81.69 | , wal ES eboes, Size 6, 64, 9, 10 | the Xmas Goods now » PI | | an tieeene 1 $h.d0 pars to glean up quickly, Prioe...950 - e ANNEX will] Ladies’ wool button over gaiters, 50c values, ......25¢ Il Men's knit felt boots with eneg proof, one and two buckle overs worth |ye on Sele in thi] $1.00 and $1.25 lined duck coats, enol ..ix:s-u790 |||] $8.00 to $8.50 a pair, this sale pricg enn. nnn 8108 Store room priced at] An egonomical glove for house and yard chores made of canvas and fleec- HI ee a si: i Bo Hanae Mi Men's one aud two buckle snag proof all rubber’over shoes worth $2,00| — * ‘rd of od, all sizes, Palen: +-10e I | ‘and $2.25 a pair, at this sale, price.........:.0e- $119 Men’s fleeced Derby ribbed underwear, 390 values, garment ......25¢ | aa i : . 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Market St. Phone 10, ‘ * Keo Me Keo Roke KeReBoPeMeReMeMeMeMoMe KeMaSe Ke MeMe Meade MosBecka. O. K. Dye Work Clothes Cleaned, Pressad and Repaired, > Ladies’ Work A Spocialty. New’ and Second Hand Clothing Bought and Sold. Satisfaction Guranteed. 315 N. Main St. —<—$___ + CUSTOM GRINDING + sng Specialty is ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 622.N. Main St Phone 530 T Hardware Store S23 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we" Pay no rent and have light expences —__ SEEN! Sheriff Schad Appoints Sheriff-elect Henry Schad has ap Fointed Ben H. Downing as hie un- der sheriff, D, V. Donnelly as court bald, and Sandy E.,Patton as fil. : These are all geod appointments and meet the approval of all the People. Mr, Downing is an old, time tried and true blue Republican and id much to make the success of the ‘ole Republican ticket possibili Mz Donrell, is well known in Republicancireleand did good work Ha the recent campaign, Sandy Patton, as his many friends ail call him, is one of the ery prominent fslored Republicans of this county ind is among those colored Repub- Veans who are not always holding Yeirhands behind them asking for ‘ow cents during the campaign, but he gets outand works and that has eounted. We congratulate Sheriff Schad upon’ the appointment of so representative a colored man as Sandy Patton. The appointment of Sandy is a lesson to those color. ed men who have to always be “got in line” that the way to succeed is tostry in line. We congratuate Sandy upon his appointment, be. cause we beliave that be deserved it and that he merited it, Thus Sher if Schad has kept his word-and withthe colored people, He is al- right. smperor William has taken a par ticular liking to buckwheat cakes, but wait until brother Henry tells him about baked beans, codfish, Mulligan stew, terrapin and escalloped oyatera “Right is greater than might. Get a Seareblight, if you want the news. SSE Ee SS Lee ee ee ee Christmas Presents For the Man or Boy If you are perplexed ss to what to give him, we can HELP YOU SETTLE THE QUESTION by showing you a great assortment of articles suitable aud appropri- ate, inexpensive and expensive. ; Smoking Jackets, Fancy Vests, Shirts, Fancy Hose, Neckties, Fan- : cy Suspenders, Initial Handkerchiefs, Grips, Suit Gases, Trunks, ; and other things too numerous to mention. § * AT THE , oD Wichita s New One Price Clothing Store ; 114 North Main Street. oo GoGo Gehl EEL EEEETED EELEREEREEEP EI NOTICE!!! ‘The Intcr-State Literary Associa- ticn of Kansas and the West will hold its Annual Session in Leaven- worth, Kaneas, at a date tobe fixed by the executive committee. ‘An effort is beiug made by the executive committee and citizens of Leavenworth to make this the ‘star’ session in the history of the associa tion. Each literary is entitled to (3) three delegut:s—one of whom may have a place on the program. Soci: ties in the association last year may retain their membership by sending $1.00 to the Corresponding Secretary. New Societies may be- come members by the payment of $1.50 to the Corresponding Seercta- ry before Docember Ist 1902. ‘The executive committee will hold a meeting at an early date in Nov. for the purpose of arrangeing the the program. It is, therefore, impor tant that Societies send in the names of their representatives and his or her subject to the Correspond ing Secretary at the earlicst possi- ble date. Send money by Money Order or Registered Letter. Address all communications te Turner W. Bell Esq., Leavenworth, Kan., Chairman Exeoutive Commit. tee or to Mrs. E. M, Guy, 224 To poke Ave, Topeka, Kansas, Cores ponding secretary. Ambitious youths should not jump hastily to the conclusion that the quickest and surest way to get rich 's to become a burglar or train rob- her. Occasionally one of these fel- lows is nabbed. ot a Gento Answer. “Is he a vegetarian?” “Why, no.” “Thought maybe he was. I hear him ask kis wife if dimmer wasn’: ab most ready, and she answered: ‘Go te grass!’” His Fpeciatty, Hiller—They tell me that Snyder fs active in every good work. Burt—I guess that's so; but bis ac tivity, unfortunately, is always mis directed. SECOND BAPTISt CHURCH The Following Are The Schrduled Services At The 2nd Baptist Chureh For The First ''wo Sundays In Decamber. FIRST LORD’s DAY, DEC 7,’02. 11 a.m Covenant meeting 8 p. m, Holy Communion. 2up. Lonp’s pay, Dec. 14,702. lla. m, Subj, “O, Lord, Revive Thy Work”. 3 p.m. Rally, service conducted by Rey. P, D. Yochum and otter visiting clergymen 8 p. m The following Biblical Biograpbical program will be ren- dered by ropresentatives of the B. T, Washington and R. F. Boyd di- visions of the 2nd Baptist church. Adam, the Furst Man; Noah, the Righteous; Moses’ the Law-giver ‘Abraham, the Obedient; Aaron, the Priest; Ruth, the devotee; Esther: the Queen. Elijah, the Prophet SS the Preacher; Peter, the De snyer, Designs: red for B. T.,W ne yellow for R. F. B. | A Cincinnati judge has granted ¢ man a divorce because his wife in sisted on having & dog sleep in the bed with them. So say we all! Thai | uen a be B® good law anywhere, =! Pailsclis | “FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable | Shc ete Mid ogy ose eigen OE ene ge ee eo ~ Republi ammmcas BGP ettcm | Paper, Evitorially Fearless, Consist-nily Republican Always, ‘News from all parts of the world. Well writien, original stories, An— Swers to queries cn all subjects. Articles on Health, the Home, New Books, and on Work about the Farm and Garden. Lop ‘The Weekly Inter-Ocean ‘The INTER-OCEAN is a member of the Associated Press and also receives the entire telegraphic news service of the New York Sun and Special ( able of the New York World, besides daily reports from f over 2000 special correspondents thrrughout the country. Subsernbe for Taz Wrcnrra Seancuxrout and Tue Weexty Twren-Oozax one year, buth papers for $1.50 | 13~ Call At Our Office 110 N. Main; or send order by Mail. ‘wine eine aaa ee ee ee 0 i ei ene m ABELINE, KAs. The 0. L S. gave a sosial Thurs doy and it was a success. The colored and white foot-ball teams, both of Salina, played against the same of thig city and Abilenc won. Mrs. S. Hampton ison the sick li-t. Mr.N, A. Warder has returned to Gypsam. Mrs. Mattie Williams is visit-ng in the c'ty. Prof. W. M. R. Fulbright will lee ture at the A. M. E church on Tues day night, December 9%b, and on Thursday night, Decemb r 11th. His subject will be “The Phillipines, their habits, customs and manners.” Prof. Fulbright has traveled all over the Phillipine Island as a soldier in the 49th Regiment (infantry) and ie well versed in and speaks seven different languages of those trib:s. He hasftraveled in China and Japan and bis lecture will be full of inter esting and learned advice on those peebie Prof. Fulbr ght is ene of the leading educators among ow people and has taught school it most Miscouri, Oklahoma and Kan. sas, All will be well treated whe core out to hear his lecture. Ad: mission 15 cts, for the two nights, Come out and herr him. ‘The Watch in Hot Weather. Some men are as prone to take up a fashion as women. 4 few years ago it became a fashion to wear the watch in the upper outside pocket of the coat, fastening the bar of the chain in the buttonkole of the lapel, so that the chain ornamented that part of the gar- went. ‘Then the fashion disappeared. It has returned, and during the first warm Aays of last week whar waist- General Frederick Funston is on the list of those to receive medals of honor and certifleates of merit, under a gen- eral order. ‘The latest statisties show that the Socialist press of Germany numbers 140 publications, of which fifty-two “are dailies. Mrs. Eliza Chase Ingalls, mother ov John J. Ingalls, died at her home in Haverhill, Mass., on July 22. She was 90 years old. ‘The Seendinavian emigrants leaving Copenhagen during nine months end- ing with March, 1902, were: From Denmark, 3,383, Sweden, 15,600; Nor way, 8,049. All of the Filiptno prisoners held in. the island of Guam whe take the oath of allegiavee to the United States will be returned on transports to the Phil- ippine islands. Grasshoppers are stripping every- thing green at La Junta, Colorado, ‘They eat peaches on the trees, leaving the stonys on the stems. Alfalfa was ent whea two-thirds grown to save it, The trustees of the Methodist Epis. copal clmreh, south, have decided to raise a $5,000,000 endowment fund the interest of which is to go to superan- nuated ministers, widows, and or- phans, ‘The Missouri editors, after their con- sention meeting at Kansas City, passed over the Santa Fe to Colorado, ‘The largest fire Albany, N. Y., has had for years destroyed the Columbian. hotel and a dozen manufacturing t 1ild~ ings Prof. Fulbright, who reently re- torned from the Phillipine Islands where he soldiered for three years, will deliver two lectures at the A. M. E, ebureb, one on Deo. 9th and the other on Deo 11th. His lectures will be on the Phillippinos, their habits, iives and cuatomes. All are invited. Prof. Fulbright is one of the leading educators of our race. coats were discarded the tendency to transfer the watch to the upper out side pocket of the coat was very, marked. An authority on such matters says the fashion originated In New York when negligee wear was more of a novelty among men than it is now: ‘The same authority adds ‘hat the watch in the coat pocket is a better mode of wearing it than in the pocket. of the negligee shirt. My friend, examine me, open minister, "were the average man to turn and look himself square in the eyes, and ask himself what be casi- needed most, what wound be the reply suggested to his mind?" "A rubber neck!" shouted the preci- ous urchin in the rear of the roo McGinnis (sadly)—Tim, me and wife how parted feriver. Tim—I dev ye say! McGinnis—Yis; she tuk a- mony. Tim—Poor crature, diu she a- mony?—Denver Times A nouveau riche recently attended a picture sale in this city. A friend who had noticed him at the sa asked afterward: "Did you pick up anything at that picture sale, Johns?" and the other responded: "O'yes, a couple of landscapes; one of e'was a basket of fruit and the other storm at sea."—Boston Comm. 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He says: "I thank God that there is one medicine in the world that does help weak and sick humanity. I would earnestly advise every one who has Kidney Trouble to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. They have given great satisfaction in our family." Wherever Dodd's Kidney Pills have been used according to directions, they have not failed to cure all Kidney Troubles, Bright's Disease, Dropsy, Rheumatism, Lumbago and Backache. Highest Recorded Medical Fee The highest medical fee ever paid became the property of a blind physician, Dr. Gale, of Bristol, who cured a wealthy patient of a diseased knee by electric treatment, and in return found his banking account richer by £50,000. Garfield Tea cures constipation. A PETRIFIED FOREST. Almost everyone has heard of the petrified forest in Arizona, but few know that it is comparatively easy of access to visitors. The distance from the railroad is but seven miles and at the station Adamana, on the Santa Fe, a few miles east of Holbrook. Mr. Albert Stevenson maintains a small inn, accommodating about ten people and provides a spring wagon outfit and several saddle ponies for those who desire to visit the forest. The old pioneer, Adam Hanna, who, in the sense that John Hance made the Grand Canyon, made the Petrified Forest, has moved away. At the forest there are hundreds of sections of tree trunks of various sizes and in variegated colors lying exposed on the plain or half buried in the hillsides. There are several extinct volcanoes in the vicinity of the forest and about two miles from the railway station are the ruins of an old Aztec settlement and curious hieroglyphics carved on rock. Stop-overs are granted at Adamana on through railroad and Pullman tickets where the holders desire to visit the Petrified Forest. As people lose innocence they find experience. Garfield Headache Powders are especially adapted to the needs of nervous women. Try them. A great Popcorn Farmer. A. L. Schaeffer, of Edgar county, Illinois, last year harvested the largest crop of popcorn ever gathered in the world. From his 103 acres he had 1,800 bushels, a yield of a little over seventeen bushels to the acre. It cost him $19 an acre to raise, sort, shell and pay ground rent. BEFORE HE TOOK VOGELER'S he Could Not Touch His Wife's Dinner, and They Were "Fit" for a King." So writes our esteemed friend Mr. Frank Chambers of 9 Bennett street, Chiswick: "For over two years I suffered agonies from indigestion and became reduced to a mere shadow of myitalwart self. I would return home from my business feeling so faint that I could hardly drag one leg after the other. My dear wife did all she possibly could to tempt me with dalty dishes, and as I entered the house I sailed and thought: 'Oh, how good! I know I can eat that!' But alas! no sooner had I eaten a few mouthfuls, when I felt sick; severe pains shot through my chest and shoulder blades, my eyes swam and everything seemed black, I became alternately hot and cold, and got up from such a dalty dinner heartily sick of living, and feeling I was a sore trial to everybody. I may mention that I was also very much troubled with scaly skin, and often bolts. But one evening I noticed my wife seemed more cheerful than usual. I questioned her and found she had been reading a pamphlet she had been of men afflicted just as I was, and who had been cured by Vogeler's Compound. Said she, 'What gives me more faith in it is that it is made from the formula of an eminent physician now in active practice in the West End of London, so I am sure it is no quack thing.' 'All right, dear, let's have a bottle,' said I. After taking the contents of the first bottle, I felt very much better, and determined to give this remedy a fair trial, and I can positively assure you that a few bottles made a new man of me. I can sleep well, eat anything, and thoroughly enjoy it. I have told several of my friends whom I knew were suffering the same as myself, and they all wish me to say that they are like new men. I sincerely bless the great physician who gave you the formula of Vogeler's Curative Compound, and also yourselves for making its virtues known to a suffering public." The proprietors (The St. Jacob's OL Ltn., Baltimore) will send a sampl tree to any one writing to them and sentitioning this paper Lodge Directory Knights of Pythias. Toas LodgeNo.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA, KAN. Dr. E. Harrison, K. of R. & S. HERGULEAN LODGE NO. 20, K. Of P. W, M. Hallum, Chan. Com. Ed D. Grayson, K. of R. & S. Meets 1st and 3rd Friday night each month. ARRIA COURT No. 7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs. Lucy Anderson, W. C. Miss Blanch Alexander, R.of D. Mrs. Lee Anderson, W. R. of D. Meets 1st. and 3rd. Monday each month Masonic Lodges. 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. HOME OF THE WEST LODGE No. 2906. G. U O. O. F. Jas. L. Harper, N. G. Willis Bartlett, V. G. Chas, H Gordon, P. C. Meets 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesday night. Eureka Springs AND Monte Ne' TIME OF TRAINS AT ICHITA EAST-BOUND St. Louis Mail and Express — Leaves Wichita 1:30 pm Arrives St. Louis 7:20 am Arrives at Memphis 8:00 am St. Louis and Fort Smith Express — Leaves Wichita 8:15 pm Arrives St. Louis 7:00 pm Arrives Fort Smith 2:30 pm ARKAN John T. W Meets 1st All Master How No. Jas. L. H. Willis Meets 1st, Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store. Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and all kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES You'll find an excellent line of "Colonials" the proper thing and .atest fad, in our regular stock, at $2 TAPP BROTHERS & HANSHAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main Returned army officers from the Philippines say that English and German firms have done a large business in smuggling war supplies to the Filipino insurgents. Parties from St. Louis and Indianapolis have bought 10,000 acres of land in Woods county, Texas, and are negotiating for another tract of 8,000 acres; both to be occupied by colonies. The state of Idaho has sold 12,000 acres of pine land and has received the last payment on the bargain. The tract brought the state $101,652. An earthquake in the Canterbury district of New Zealand devastated the township of Cheviot and injured many people. Colonel Arthur Lynch, of the Boer army, was elected a member of parliament, at Galway, Ireland, by nearly a vote of three to one. His election is likely to be contested on the charge that he is a traitor. LORD' DAY. 10:30 a. m. Prayer and Praise Meeting 11:00 a. m. Preaching. 2:30 p. m. Sabbath School. 4:00 p. m. Mission Circle. 7:00 p. m. B. Y. P. U. Service. 8:00 p. m. Regular Divine Service, WEEK DAYS. The total vote at the Ohio state election was $44,147; of this the vote for governor was 12,581 less. Governor Nash's plurality was 67,467. Citizens of Oakaloosa, Iowa, lack only two thousand dollars of $40,000 they propose to use in erecting a building for the Y. M. C. A. Work is commenced. You are cordially invited to attend each of these services. H. V. Plummer, pastor The ma bought liq and was fin he accepted The mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, bought liquor during prohibited hours and was fined. He told the court that he accepted disqualification for his office which extends two years. More than 90 per cent of the vessels using the Suez canal navigate by night. Toronto got $12,754.25 for its share of the street railway earnings for September. The potato forms nearly 14 per cent of the total food of the people of this country. WN Miller, Attorney at Law NOTARY PUBLIC Practices in all the Courts of Kansas and Missouri 110 V country. Did you whom you in our pap sist upon i Tenant— condition, walls has inches. Landlord larger, and sent.—Phil A new emigration law in Italy confines departures to Naples, Genoa and Palermo. Did you ask the merchant with whom you trade, whether he "ada" in our paper? If not, why not? Insist upon it that he "ads" with us. On the Hip. Tenant—Our house is in a frightful condition, Mr. Quarterday. One of the walls has bulged out three or four inches. Landlord—Ha! Then the house is larger, and I shall have to raise your seat—Philadelphia. THE SCENIC ROUTE FRISCO SYSTEM MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY, TEXAS and the SOUTHWEST, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA and the SOUTHEAST It reaches the rich farming lands of Kansas and Oklahoma, the mineral fields of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, the cotton fields of the South and Southwest, the oil fields of Kansas and the Indian Territory, and hundreds of other industrial places of interest and profit to the home-seeker and investor. And last, but not least, it will carry you to the famed health resorts of the Ozarks. ICHITA WEST-BOUND Kansas City and Colorado Mail and Exp. Leaves St. Louis 8.85 pm Leaves Memphis 8.25 pm Arrives Wichita 8.10 pm Through Parlor Coaches and Reclining Chair Cara. also Pullman Pallace Sleepers between Wichita and St. Louis without change. For reliable information as to rates, outes, time, etc. apply to any Frisco agent or the undersigned. It is a pleasure for us to answer questions. B. F. DUNN, District Passenger Agent, WICHITA. A. Hilton, Bryan Snyder, Ghn'l Pass. Agt.; Pass. Traffic Mgr. ST. LOUIS, MO, $100 cash prize for a name For the new Daily Limited train to California to be placed in service November 1, 1902, by the Rock Island System and Southern Pacific Company via the El Paso Short Line. The competition is open to the public and condition involves no fees of any kind. For circular of instructions, write Jno. Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager, Rock Island System. Chicago. CHURCH DIRECTORY Second Baptist Church, Wichita, Kansas Tuesday, 4 p.m. Junior Choir practice Thursday night, Prayer and Praise. Friday night, Senior Choir practice and Teacher's meeting. It Always Pays to let people know what you ave to sell and how much they may s by tradig your store, and the only way to inform the greater number of people of this fact is through the columns of their paper. An advertisement in this paper doesn't cost much, and it pays.— Make a cross (X) in the circle under the Eagle. No place else. Toas Lodge No.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA, KAN. Castle Hall 338 North Main street Regular Meetings Second and Fourth Monday Night in Each Month. Visting Knights in good standing Welcome W. N. Miller, Chan. Com. WICHITA TABERNACLE No. 34, Mrs. Lee A. Anderson, C. P. Miss Lula Covington, C. R. Meets 1st and 8rd Thursday afternoon, 2 pm AT WHOLESALE PRICES ODDS AND ENDS. On the Bip. Conway Springs and Coffeyville For St. Louis For Kans, City and St. Louis Hutchinson, Lyons and Geneseo Geneseo, Salina, Puablo, Denver For Anthony and Kiowa, For Anthony and Kiowa, Arrives Due Little Rock, Conway Springs, Coffeyville From St. Louis From Kan, City and St. Louis From Denver, Pneblo, Salina, and Geneseo From Hutchinson From Hutchinson and Geneseo From Anthony, Conway Springs From Kiowa, Anthony and Conway Springs WICHITA and WESTERN No. 472, Pratt and Kingman Passenger, except Sunday 11.00 No. 474, Pratt and Kingman accommodation, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1.20 No. 471, Kingman and Pratt Passenger, except Sunday 5.18 No. 473, Kingman and Pratt accommodation, Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9.18 No. 1 Texas Vestibulated Ex. No. 8, Texas Fast Express No. 35, Daily, Except Sunday, EAST BOUND No. 2, Chicago Vestibulated Ex. No. 4, K. C. and Eastern Ex. No. 36, Daily, Except Sunday St. Louis Mail and South-west- ern Limited 1.30 St. Louis and Ft. Smith Ex. 6.15 WEST BOUND Kansas and Colorado Mail Ex. 3.10 Meteor 8.25 ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE R. Leaves D Kansas City, Chicago Express 11.90 K. C., Colorado, California Ex. 2.55 Wellington Accommodation 5.15 Arrives Daily Panhandle Express 10.00 Englewood Branch, Except Sun. 8.00 Leaves D Panhandle Express 6.25 Oklahoma and Texas Express 6.55 Oklahoma Daily Express 8.30 Wellington Accommodation 8.45 Caldwell Ace. Except Sun$ 8.45 Texas Express 5.10 Englewood Branch, Ex. Sun. 7.45 Searchlight $1.00 The Missouri Pacific Shortest Line To Colorado Po MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Most Direct Line To KANSAS CITY Reclining Chair Cars on all trail SEATS FREE. Call at our New Passenger stati cor. Douglas ave. and Wichita for reliable information relative Routes and Rates. A. B. Call On Me For the Best Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines, Bicycles Mandolins, Guitars, — or any- thing you want — As cheap as anywhere in the United States. Thes. Shaw, Wichita, Kansas SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday, Dec. 5, 02 KANSAS COMMENT. NEVER DEFEATED.—Clyde claims to have a football team that holds that record. BUYS CREAMERIES.—The Rev. T. M. Erb, of Newton, has bought two creameries; one at Wellington and one at Harper. KANSAS PEOPLE THERE.—Some former residents of Abilene are in Guatemala, in the region affected by the recent earthquake and volcanic eruptions. HARRY P. LUSK.—The death of the editor of the Parsons Morning Sun is announced. Mr. Lusk was 47 years old and was one of the best known newspaper men in the Southwest. DEMAND FOR HOUSES.—There is lack of shelter for families going to Neodesha. The Rev. Mr. White, the Baptist pastor there, is living with his family in a barn until he can build a house. GLASS PLANT BRINGS PEOPLE.—The new glass plant at Independence resulted in the building of fifteen new houses and every one was taken possession of as soon as the last nail was driven. WICHITA MEN IN FLOOD.—A party of Wichita hunters went to the Choctaw nation and their camp was surrounded by freshets. Their supplies gave out leaving them both dry and hungry in the midst of waters. Two of them swam out and they tell the story. FAMILY WITH A RECORD.—John A. Reeds, of Fort Scott, is of a family with a fighting record. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, his grandfather served in the war of 1812, his father served in the Mexican war, he himself spent four years in the civil war, and his son was a volunteer soldier in the Philippines. MANAGED HIS MOTHER'S FARM.—Ben Bixler, who lived six miles from Reading, was leading a mule with the rope tied around his wrist. The mule is supposed to have kicked the young man and then ran dragging him eighty rods, when the rope broke. The injuries received by Bixler were fatal. He was the support of his widowed mother. MILLERS HAVE TROUBLE.—Clay Center millers are experiencing considerable difficulty in getting the railroads to take their flour out of town, owing to the heavy traffic. One miller had a car lay on the track about twenty days before the railroad could handle it. When an engine finally stopped for the car the miller had fifteen cars ready for shipment. No COAL AT LIBERAL.—A number of citizens of Liberal and vicinity have no coal and those that have coal have not enough to divide. No coal has been shipped there since August and then there was not enough to supply the demand. Coal ordered by the dealers was confiscated by the railroad. There are threats to hold up engines and take coal from. LOVE'S LIBRARY SOAKED.—Fire in the residence of J. Mack Love, in Arkansas City, did damage to the property amounting to $2,500 or more. The chief damage was done to the library by the water. Mr. Love has an extensive and valuable library and the water which was thrown into the house caused the ruin of several of his best books. The bindings, some of which were very valuable, were entirely ruined. SIXTEEN POUND SON.—Mrs. A. M. Kicklefs, who lives near Bendena, Doniphan county, has given birth to her sixth child which weighed 16 pounds. Her other five children weighed at birth—two girls, 10 pounds each and three boys 12 pounds each. MORE COUNTRY BANKS.—Two small towns of Cowley county, Atlanta and Latham, are to have banks by the new year. The former bank is capitalized at $7,000 and the latter at $5,000. This makes five small towns in the county having state banks. TOOK THE GOLD MEDAL.—Larned won the honors for the second time at the meeting of the Southwest Kansas Teachers' association. Miss Mae Kimball is the successful one this time at the Kinsley meeting, who takes the gold medal in the elocutionary contest. Miss Alberta Whitney was the winner last year. FOR MALPRACTICE, $650.—In the Cowley county district court Mrs. Collins was given a verdict for $650 damages for re-setting broken bones badly. EIGHTY CANS OF APPLES.—John Welmer, of Hiawatha, packed and shipped 12,800 barrels of apples, making eighty carloads, during the season. Mr. Welmer says that apples will keep poorly this winter, and that he expects the wholesalers to lose at least 65 per cent of their cold storage stock. EFFECTS OF A SHOT.—Peter Peterson, of Wichita, was shot in the head and since that time has been unable to speak a word, and before the accident could scarcely hear, while at the present time he can hear a faint whisper. Eggs in Missouri. A Boone County hen owned by Jack Lynes has produced a novelty in the form of an "eggless egg." The shell was perfect, but when broken open was found to have no contents. The production of such fruit is a species of enterprise which Missouri farmers will hardly approve in their hens. Fine Portrait of McKinley. B. J. Greenhut of New York has just bought what is considered the best life-size portrait of President McKinley ever painted. The president sat for this picture a short time before his assassination. Mr. Greenhut was a warm personal friend of Mr. McKinley. No Need of Horses. A Missouri man who went to Washington to sell horses, reports the following conditions there: "The people travel on electric cars and do not need roadsters; they ride bicycles and automobiles and do not need fast trotters; they gamble by wire and do not need race horses, and there you are." A Little Improvement. Senor Ojeda, the Spanish minister at Washington, denies flatly the story that the young King of Spain recently paraded through the palace at Madrid wearing nothing save a royal smile and one sock. We infer, therefore, that his majesty had on at least both socks, besides the smile. Petroleum In Place of Coal. An effort is being made to secure legislation to compel the use of petroleum instead of coal in London. The fogs from which the city so often suffers through its interference with both business and health is caused by unconsumed particles of coal from its chimneys. How Is This for Rent? For a storeroom 25 feet wide and 110 feet deep, a block distant from Herald square, New York city, beginning with May 1, 1903, a railroad will, for the ensuing three years, pay $37,000 as annual rental. Architects for the railroad company are drawing plans to transform the room into what it is asserted will be the finest ticket office in the United States. Zola Not Popular in Paris. A goodly number of municipalities in France have decided to have streets named after Zola—Lyons is one of them. There is a movement to this end in Paris, but it does not promise to be successful. The French subscription toward the erection of a monument to Zola now amounts to about 37,000 francs. The Indian Chief Tammany. Tammany lived in the seventeenth century. He was a native of Delaware, but settled on the banks of the Ohio river. He was chief sachem of his tribe, and his reign was discreet and peaceful. His great maxim was: "Unite. In peace unite for mutual happiness; in war, for mutual defense." Lost Twenty Years. Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 1st—Twenty years is a long time to take out of one person's life but that was the fate of Anna M. Willis of this place. For twenty years she suffered all the torments of Kidney Trouble, and anyone in that state is not living, but simply existing. Now Anna M. Willis is fully recovered. She appreciates the pleasure of living again and never forgets to tell you that it is all because a friend advised her to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. In speaking of her wonderful cure she says: "For twenty years I suffered from Kidney Trouble. The disease was terrible in itself and it was all the more terrible because I could get no relief and my case seemed hopeless. "But one day I got six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and by the time I had taken five boxes my pains had left me and I was a free woman." Choked by Peanut Shell. A Philadelphia baby was choked recently by a peanut shell given to it by its mother to keep it from crying. The Experimental Psychologist. One of the latest departures of the experimental psychologist consists in prodding people with a pointed stick when they are asleep to find out how much excitation is required to wake them up, says Nature. Take Off Their Veils Turkish women are said to be getting more independent every year. Nowadays, in spite of orders to cover their faces in public, many boldly let their veils fall aside and keep them off altogether when entering a shop. How Rich Mine Was Discovered. The famous Rat Hole mine in the mountains of Arizona was discovered by a woman who watched a trader rat carrying things out of her tent to its hole in the rocks. The mine, it is said, has paid several millions in dividends. Massachusetts' Smallest Town. Massachusetts Smallest Town Gosnold, the smallest town in Massachusetts, comprises those little specks of land which, beginning at Wood's Holl, at the "shoulder" of old Cape Cod's right arm, extend seaward till they terminate in that fatal reef of the Sow and Pigs. Shirts and Hats of Bark. Shirts and hats that are never in need of ironing are worn by the Indians of the interior of Bolivia. They are made of the bark of a tree, which is soaked in water until the fiber is softened, and then beaten with stones to make it pliable. POPULAR SCIENCE Window-Cleaning Apparatus The invention shown in the accompanying drawing has been designed by S. C. Lawlor of Duluth, Minn., for use in cleaning the outer surfaces of windows by a person operating from the inside, thus avoiding the exposure in Operated from the Interior. cold weather and the danger of falling from the window. The apparatus consists of a horizontal tube with spring-actuated rods projecting from either end to press against the sides of the window frame and having a sliding block mounted on the tube to support a lever controlling the action of a vertical member, which extends outside the building and carries the cleaning devices. Inside the vertical member is a rubber cord, secured at the lower end and connected with the sliding cleaner at the top. By pulling on a cord which runs over the pulley at the elbow and lies parallel with the controlling lever the cleaner is lowered from the top to the bottom of the sash, while the return motion is effected by the rubber cord. To put the apparatus in operation, the rods are contracted sufficiently to permit engagement with the window frame, the window sash having been previously raised to allow the passage of the vertical tube. The lever is then grasped in one hand and the cord in the other, thus exerting a pressure on the glass as the cleaner is raised and lowered. Metric System in Great Britain The United States consul general at London forwards a letter from the secretary of the Decimal Association of England on the subject of the agitation now going on for the adoption of the metric system in Great Britain, of which the substance is as follows: There are 290 members of the House of Commons in favor of the adoption; sixty town councils have passed resolutions in favor of the movement; all the chambers of commerce, nearly all the school boards, the trade unions and many scientific societies are likewise in favor; the prime minister of the colonies, lately in session in London, passed a resolution urging the adoption of the measure, and the prime minister of England is also very favorable. It is probable that at the next session of parliament the necessary bill will be passed. If England enters the metric union the United States will probably follow. Then we may look out for expensive chaos in the machine shops, architectural offices, etc., throughout the country and for a plentiful crop of lawsuits regarding titles to land that must arise when the dimensions of city lots are expressed in decimetres instead of in feet and inches. The metric system has been legal in the United States since 1866. Any one who wishes to use it can do so. All persons to whom it is an advantage already use the metric system. Why should it be forced down the throats of those to whom it is no advantage? Liquid Air Power . The result of tests of a liquid air plant, made at Cornell university, reported at the Pittsburg meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, indicates that the expenditure of one horse-power continuously for one hour results in the production of just enough liquid air to produce, if utilized in its turn as a source of power, in a perfect machine, one horse-power for one minute. The experimenter adds that the most efficient method of obtaining liquid air as yet discovered would increase the time to only five minutes. New Folding Opera Glasses: Many persons who attend the theater do not take an opera glass along because it is too much bother to carry it around owing to its bulk and weight and it is probably for this reason that Folding Wings Inclose the Rear Lens. a man is seldom, if ever, seen at the show with a glass—unless between the acts. A new device is a glass recently designed by Emile Batault of Geneva, Switzerland, an illustration of his invention being shorn herewith. It would seem from this picture that the new glass can be made so light and fold up in such small compass as to be carried in the pocket with no inconvenience at all. The frame is of spring steel, covered with leather or other suitable material, with the pro # jecting wings hinged to the eyepiece and adapted to open or close according to whether the objectives occupy a position parallel or perpendicular to the plane of the instrument. A button on the side of the case provides means for tilting the shaft which carries the objectives, and the usual adjusting screw projects the eyepieces until the instrument is in proper focus for the user. To close the glass the objectives are turned flat, the wings folded together and the eye-piece contracted inside the projecting shield. Light in the Ocean Depths. Light in the Ocean Depths. That there is a natural light in the ocean's depths, far beyond the point where the solar rays can penetrate, is shown by the fact that animals have been found there capable of producing their own light. This is caused sometimes by phosphorescent secretions which cover the body of the animal, and sometimes by clearly defined and localized visual organs. The picture of such an animal here shown, reproduced from Public Opionion, is of a poulpe caught in the Antarctic ocean at a depth of 1,500 meters, and photographed on board of the steamship Valdivia immediately after its capture, south of the Cape of Good Hope, when its luminous organs still emitted light. These organs are twenty-four in number, some forming a crown around the eyes, while others are placed on the ventral face and on the arms, the light varying from firey red to pure white. Each light consists of a small cup covered with a black pigment and recovered with a transparent lens. Optometer. The Jewelers' Circular thus describes a new optometer, recently patented: "In an optometer, the combination ```markdown ``` with a supporting frame, of a disk pivoted centrally thereto and provided with lens holders, said frame being provided with arms having longitudinal slots located beyond the periphery or the disk, and lens-holders, having screw-threaded shanks projecting through said slots and provided with set-nuts. It is the invention of Edward Clark, Saginaw, Mich." Fall of a Meteorite. PAN of a meteorite. L. Fletcher, F. A. S., gives in Nature an account of a meteorite stone which fell at Crosshill, Crumlin, about ten miles west of Belfast, on Sept. 13 last. This meteorite exceeds in size any which has fallen in Britain for eighty-nine years. It is also larger than any which has fallen in England since 1795. A lapse of twenty-one years represents the time since any meteorite had previously descended on the soil of Britain, and in Ireland itself no such visitant has been recorded for thirty-seven years. Mr. Walker, on whose farm the meteorite fell, says that the stone was hot when it landed, and felt hot for at least an hour thereafter. The fall was accompanied by a noise compared to the bursting of a boiler. A cloud of dust showed where the stone had entered the ground, and by aid of a spade it was extracted from a depth of a foot and a half. A sulphurous odor was perceived in the near vicinity, and the noise made by the detonation was heard: a distance of thirteen miles from Crosshill. Economical Food for Horses. The Omnibus company of Paris maintains a laboratory in which questions like that of obtaining economy in feeding horses are studied. The first managers of the company used only hay, oats and straw as food. During recent years the ration has been mixed with horsebeans, locust beans, oilcake, etc., and the price of the daily ration has been thus diminished from nearly three francs to about 1 8-10 francs. In 1855 the cost was about 2 6-10 francs; in 1867, 2 8-10; in 1878, 2 2-10; in 1889, 2, and in 1900 1 8-10 francs. The food is chopped and thoroughly mixed before using. Mass of the Rings of Saturn Mass of the Rings of Saturn. The mass of the rings of Saturn was first determined by Bessel in the year 1831 by observations on the motion of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite. The method employed gave an approximate mass which was admittedly too large. Tisserand, by a different method, obtained the result that the mass of the rings was to that of the planet as 1 to 620. Prof. Asaph Hall in the Astronomical Journal No. 20 obtains a much smaller ratio; namely 1 to 7,092. This gives the ring a mass only two-thirds that of Titan, whose mass is to that of Saturn as 1 to 4,500. When a short young man gets sweet on a tall girl he immediately buys a high silk hat. R HUMOR OF THE DAY. HUMOR OF THE DAY. MERRY JESTS ABOUT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. Uncle Cy Finds a Fellow-Unfortunate —Politician Knew It Was Not His Wife Who Had Been Interviewed— Onion as a Remedy. In the Style. He was a hard worker, but by effort he had secured several assistants and was having things a little easier. A friend who had not seen him lately called at his office and found him busy as ever. "Hello, old man," greeted the visitor, "still doing seven men's work?" "No," responded the industrious one, "I have seven men doing my work." "Oho," laughed the caller, "so you have organized a trust, too, have you?" A Good Prank. Edythe—I want something to keep the chaps away from my lips. Druggist—Certainly, miss. Suppose you try this onion. More Material Mr. Newliwed—I tell you, dear, I simply can't afford to get you a new gown. Mrs. Newliwed (sobbing)—I think you're just hateful, and you're the man who used to call me your "angel" and promise me every— Mr. Newliwed—But it's your fault if I don't consider you an angel: any more. An angel wouldn't worry about clothes the way you do. He Had Treasure to Burn. Capt. Kildd in his last moments announced that he had hidden his plunder. "But why," asked his companions, "did you bury your treasure when you had money to burn?" "I suppose cremation would have been better," replied the pirate, "but it will be all fired hard to find, anyway." Too Proud. "I want you to understand, sir, that my pride forbids me to accept anything from you after I marry your daughter." "How are you going to live?" "Well, I thought you might make some kind of a settlement beforehand." The College Boy. "Advertise for a young man to dictate to the typewriter," said the busy merchant. "Yes, sir," responded the confidential clerk; "college I state that he must be a college graduate?" "No, if he's a college graduate he'll probably want to dictate to me." Love and Finance. "A woman," she said, "gives all or nothing." "And she takes," he replied, "all she can get." But then they had been married many years, and a millinery bill had just come in. FURS Uncle Cy—Hellow, you've been skinned, too, hey you? A Mistake Somewhere "What does she say?" asked the crafty politician who had referred the committee to his wife for information as to his intentions. "She refused to talk," replied the spokesman of the committee. Then it wasn't my wife you met, gentlemen," he rejoined, with great positiveness. "It was somebody else." All By Itself. It was the first time that four-year-old Willie had ever seen a snake; and, as it writhed and squirmed along, he ran into the house to tell of his discovery. "Oh, mamma," he exclaimed, "come here, quick. Here's a tail wagging without any dog." WONDERFUL WORK. Case No. 18,977.—David M. Bye, P. O. Address, Box 297, Midland, Mich., says: "Three months I was almost incapacitated from labor; could not sleep at night; had to walk the floor, owing to terrible pain in the hips, in the small of the back, in my instep and ankle of the right leg. I was treated for sclatic rheumatism in the hospital, but received no benefit. One month ago I returned home and was given a box of Doan's Midney Pills. To-day residents of this city can bear witness to the fact that I am able to work, and can also walk to my work without the aid of a walking-stick or crutch. In speaking of the immediate effect of Doan's Kidney Pills, I did not find them to deaden the pain, but quickly and surely to eradicate the cause of it. I am of the opinion that Doan's Kidney Pills are the best remedy for kidney ailments that can be procured. I was especially careful in my diet, in order to give the treatment fair play. In conclusion, I shall be pleased, at any time, to answer any inquiries regarding my case, from anyone desirous of obtaining it." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Bye will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. The marrying clergyman is always in favor of unions. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. A boy is usually ready to eat every time he stops playing. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fummation, allays pain, cures wind colic. Scoa a bottle. Where there's a will there's a way out of it. MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for saem money. In some poker games it isn't safe to raise an opener without first opening a razor. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York. Cures Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists. 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. It's easy to have the patience of Job when the boils are on some other fellow. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. Plague Laid to Bate. Bats and their parasites are held responsible, by an Italian expert, for the transmission of plague in some cases. Some Valuable Hints If your cellar is dry it will be healthy for the children; if it is damp it will do to raise that delicacy, snails, in which there is much profit, suggests the Baltimore Herald. Water in the cellar can be used for the purpose and entertainments of your ducks, which are palatable; these few hints may suffice to suggest some profitable industry to homekeepers. Scotch Conjugal Concord. Good stories come from Scotland as well as porridge and bagpipes. The last is quite admirable in its way. A traveler, observing an ancient couple arguing and gesticulating in the road, in order to avert bloodshed asked the cause of the dispute. "We're no deesputin' at a," answered the man; "we're bathh o the same mind. I hae got a half-crown in ma pooch, an' she thinks she's no gaum to get it—an' I think the same."—London Globe. A. --- Miss Maggie Welch, tress. All cough remedies nauseate me, and nothing afforded me relief until my doctor said rather in a joke; 'I gues Peruna is the only medicine that will cure you.' "I told him that I would certainly tr it and immediately sent for a bottle. found that relief came the first day, an as I kept taking it faithfully the coug gradually diminished, and the sorenes left me. It is fine."—Maggie Welch. Address the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free literature or tatarb. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. Were FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistles and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page illus. treatise on Diseases of Women. If the thousands cured were free, the 200 page treatise would be DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 1030 Oak, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops, as a blood purifier, strength and health restorer, and a specific for all stomach, liver, and kidney troubles, leads all other similar medicines in its wonderful sales and marvellous confidence of the people, especially our vast German population. It is not a new and untried product, but was made and sold more than sixty years ago. If possible do not associate with those who anger you. ST. JACOBS OIL POSITIVELY CURES Rheumatism Neuralgia Backache Headache Feetache All Bodily Aches AND CONQUERS PAIN. Constipite Cure Those who have used salts, castor oil, many home and manufactured know that in such treatment there is bility of a cure from constipation remedies are at most physics and do no good. In fact they frequently p. fistula, female disorders and many of appendicitis are traceable to their use. Soon the ordinary doses of these physics fail to have any effect upon the bowels. Mull would not cure, other treatment, and most positive cure. At the fruits that strong testinal tract. In strength and creat in the finest thing, an anteed to cure you, address on receipt Medicine Co., Rock All druggists sell PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and postpaid Rectum, also 60 per week by corrugid method, none per DRS. THORNT DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. Dr. H.H. GREEN 8 SONS, Box K, Atlanta, Ga HAY We buy or sell at all points on all railroads. J. H. TURNER. 841 W. Douglas Ave. Long Distance Phone 496. WICHITA, KANE YOUR GRANDFATHER WORE TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING When you buy garments bearing the above trademark you have the result of more than half a century of experience backed by our guarantee. SOLD BY REPRESENTATIVE TRADE EVERYWHERE. A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. JANUARY BUYING There is no time like January for satisfactory buying. The holiday rush is over and the early Spring trade has not yet begun. In January your it always get first pick of all the earliest Spring goods and there is ample time to align your orders with greater promptness. Send 15 cents TODAY for our large General Catalogue No. 71. It gives pictures, descriptions and prices on your items. No exsak wear or use. Save 40¾ on everything you purchase by sending your orders to MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. CHICAGO "The House that Tells the Truth." RAIN CAN'T TOUCH the man who wears SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR BRAND Suits and Slickers Warranted waterproof. Made to stand hard work and rough weather. Look for the mark if you don't have them, send for catalogue to H. M. SAWYER & SON, Sole Mfr., East Cambridge, Mass. PISO'S CURE FOR GUREB WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Wasted Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION The growth and prosperity of Minnesota are well indicated by the number of new banks organized this year. Carlyle's Good Advice. It is to you, ye workers, who do already work and are as grown men, noble and honorable in a sort, that the whole world calls for new work and nobleness. Subdue mutiny, discord, widespread despair, by manfulness. justice, mercy and wisdom.—Carlyle. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package. 5 cents. The people who don't know the value of money seldom have any. INSIST ON GETTING IT. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, whit. they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance; Starch. Requires no cooking. Some folks remember the Sabbati day to keep it wholly for pleasure. Hall * Catarin Cure is taken internally, acting dir bitly upon the blood and mucous surface. See * Frier* 150 pp bottle * Sold by all druggists.* Hall's * Family * Pills are the best. When you sow wild oats you can hire others to reap the crop. pation red oil, and the purgatives, is no possi- on. These absolutely covoke piles cases. There never was a use of temporary or obstinate constipation that Is Grape Tonic First, Mull's Grape Tonic is unlike any for constipation. It is the greatest laxative known. But that isn't what sadly supports the worn-out women the worm-out muscles of the in- ull's Grape Tonic builds flesh makes as rich, red blood. Mull's Grape Tonic ever known for constipation. It can large sample bottle sent free to any of 10 cents for postage by Lightning Island, Ill. Send your drugstist's name. Mull's Grape Tonic at 50 cents a bottle. TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. A 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured a did a cent cured—we furnish its names on application. TON & MINOR, 1030 Oak St, Kansas City, Mo. It takes only one vote to pass a good resolution. In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable, nervous and often cold and damp. If you have sweating, sore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents. Sample rent free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. A small boy is never so industrious as when it is time to go to bed. TRY ONE PACKAGE If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. You can't deny that it looks shiftless to own more than one dog. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. It always makes us mad to see a poor player wear a baseball suit. All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do—use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. Ameer Makes Costly Gift. The most expensive book in the world has lately been given by the Ameer of Afghanistan to the Shah. It is a copy of the Koran, bound in solid gold and set with pearls, rubies and diamonds. It cost $400,000. Instinct of Birds. The principal routes taken by migratory birds, as registered in books of natural history, show a wonderful geographical instinct on the part of the feathered bipeds, as they take, for the most part, the seas and oceans at their narrowest and the river valleys at their longest. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggistrefund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Some office-holders seem to forget the time when they-were office-seekers. When two cats pull off a fight after dark they scratch a match. When a family has a black sheep it keeps dark about it. six sheets 10x15 inches, of beautiful reproductions, in colors, of pastel drawings by Bryson, is now ready for distribution and will be mailed on receipt of twenty-five (25) cents—coin or stamps. Address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Her Brief Hour of Triumph. A Romance of the Hop Fields. "SAY, Mollie," said Nolan, in an in- hand manner, "what's that fellow in the leggings doin' up here?" The sun had passed the me- morial shade and the sun had beeginning to fall on Nolan's side. The hopfield code of courtesy demands that when a man is picking with a "lady" he give her always the shady side. But Nolan, in little irritation of mind, forgot his manners. "Nothin'," came indifferently from Mollie, feeling the August rays pelting down her head, and remembering the thoughtfulness of the fellow on the other side. "Say, Mollie," asked Nolan, persuasively, after a half-hour's silence, during which several couples had changed sides so their eyes could benefit of the shade, "what was he hangin' 'round you all mcrnin' for?" "Nothin'." The black eyes were stubby to their work, while beads of perspiration stood out on the round, tanned cheeks. Thereafter, vine after vine was reached and stripped in oppressive silence. At length, after having decided to adopt a new hairstyle, she broke the haughty spirit of this girl, and make her neck upon his slightest word, Nolan near himself say, before he knew it, in tender, coaxing tones: "Say, Moi! I was he talkin' to you about, anyway?" "Nothin'!" Mollie's chin went into the air and her lips snapped together like the blades of a jack-knife. The beads of perspiration had grown into rivulets that came out of the nose, and splashed into the basket. The chin was row was picked in silence. The foreman of the fold rode by several times, and noticed gratefully there was less talking and more work being done between the two men. The shadows grew so long it did not matter which side of the row she was on, and the sun began to redden behind a bank of smoke and dust, the joyful sound of the shadows filled over the fields. Arms just lifted, hands in the act of stripping a branch, fingers just crooked to pick a last hop, stopped and fell empty at the sound of that first tap. The unhappy Nolan could not stop the laugh, nor resist a last appealing, "Say Mollie, what's the matter with you, anyway?" But the maid only threw a defiant "Nothin'! over her shoulder as she was joking, and the black-finned fellow in leggings. The black eyes lost their defiance, the lips rippled into smiles as she pushed her sun-bonnet back and into the laughing face under the somberro. "Great place, isn't it?" the tall fellow said, half to himself, as he watched the children of every nation, Indians, Japs and whites of every continent and conditions. There was the objectionable element of "hobos," of course, in their wagons, loaded with the pickers were the men who after their own meager little have crops, packed their wagons, loaded in their families, and dogs and hogs and started off for a three or four weeks in fields. With these families it is a regular institution, and the one interesting occasion of the year. Here new acquaintances changed for tule district scandals, flirtations and romances spring up, flourish, and die, with the hops, and most of the stockade but from the Saturday night dances. Mollie stole a one-sided glance at the fellow in the leggings, and took in every retail as his eyes followed the crowd. He was often the one most than usual when familiar faces looked up and saw her chatting with this stylish-looking fellow in the corduroy knickers. When he some of her Coon Creek friends came to see her, he went velent to look their way, for she felt that in refined society their "Hello Mol!" would not be considered good form. "Long have you worked here?" the tail form asked, "and his stride to fall in with her little trim. the tall fellow asked her, shortening his sleeves and her little trip. Mollis delighted to have her little trip for information, gurgled out everything she knew about the hop-fields; the advantage of the piece instead of the day, the amount of time she made a day, the weighing in the baskets, the processing in the kiln, the pressing and baling, and the joys of the dance, the joy of the dance, the joy of the dance, she could scarcely believe this distinguished-looking personage could be a common picker, like Nolean and him, like of them: 'Are you visiting at Hoptown?' "No," the fellow laughed, "I'm a citizen if I can stand these beastly hours, when I can stand them in soil in order to fill up my coffers for the next semester." This fellow relished the taking power of the black eyes beside him, killing power of the Primer of Chemistry, felt herself on an intellectual level with this college senior, they neared the camp she was conscious of, peering at her from under tent flaps, but tucking her chin up into the air, she longed to be a part of them, apparently, if she knew a new friend were alone in a wilderness. Before picking-time the next morning it was thoroughly understood by all the inhabitants of the northern, Nolan, his Nolan's race was run, and that Mollie had a new "steady" from "below," as the southern counties are termed by the inhabitants of the northern, Nolan, his Nolan's race was run, and that awareness of this fact when he waited at the usual trysting place by the first row of poles, and saw the tan someroire looming poles, and saw the tan someroire looming poles, and saw the tan someroire looming the cheerful fibes of his friends about being thrown down for a city "guy." Poor Mike, even his dauntless good humor went down under their clumsy efforts at even being thrown down for a city "guy." But Mike Nolan was not the only one suddenly emfaced from the girl's fickle-memory. There were Pinny, and Spike, and Big Terry, into whose young and old eyes he had burned big holes, now not even seen when they pressed her on the row. The eyes under the sombrerole lost nothing of the situation. This little girl was wearing a rose type, she certainly was the only one in the field who could help to make the long hot days endurable to him. Her eyes had a way of widening when he was sitting, and he was highly agreeable to him, and he spared opportunity to produce that effect. Her cheeks, too, had a frank little way of going pink—sometimes red—when the allusion was direct enough—and altogether her open adornment put a fine glitch edge on his self-esteem. "Is it possible you have never been to San Francisco?" he asked her one day, and she admitted, apologetically, "but," she hastened to add, in order to dispel any idea of rusticity that admission might have given. "I've been twice to Red Bluff, and we only nine miles from Coon Creek." "Have you ever thought you might like to live there?" he pursued, reaching up to pull down a cut vine from the pole. His glance was very direct this time, and his eyes were wide open. "See her eyes and cheeks glow with a deeper hue, so intent was he on noting the effect he could produce with the slightest touch. He did not wait for an answer, but went on. "Wouldn't you But just then the Sacramento train thundered by on the trestle, drowning his legs on the beels of that, the noon bell rang, at which everybody quit work, and they walked up to the settlement together in the ground only in high places, her foolish little way up in the clouds, the mams thoughts miles away from the scene about him, and the hope of his survival concerned on getting on the varsity football team. By the end of the season Miss Mollie's social circle had narrowed down to few men. She had discovered her tastes to be of the climbing variety, and had reached the fatal conclusion that not one of her old friends at Coon Creek possessed a parental care for discpersing for another year, the pickers prepared to give a grand ball in honor of the wind-up of the hop season, Mollis determined to show them the size of the gulf that now yawned between herself and them. We use the top-pickers' dances are open to everyone, so there are not many lines of social distinction drawn. The men exchange their bandana neck kermesh for stiff celluloid collars, and the girls wash their hands with a frolicant and ready for the frolic. But Mollis, with a reckless slash into her summer's earnings, burst upon the scene, on the eventful evening, an animated billow of frills and floures and furbelows. The frolic progresses to yellow with his scream as he arm watched the scene from the doorway with an amused, wondering smile. The big dining-room that seated 500 hungry pickers three times a day had been transformed into a stage where the tables had been holested to the ceiling by stout bale ropes, where they were secured to the rafters, while the shelf that ran the length of the room on both sides was studded at regular intervals with a reckless reach of which was stuck a tallow candle. After the good old-fashioned custom, Pliny Smith, with a girl in a yellow frock, led off the grand march, after which there were poles, schistles and an anklet in the town-breed feet had forgotten, or never learned, when his eye caught Mollie's, he crossed the room to ask her for a dance. From the opposite doorway, Spike had started her fan—a gauzy, filmsy thing that represented the price of several long days' pickling, so she might not seem to notice Spike—and her breath in fear lest she should reach her first. The fellow in the room, with roundings he walked slowly, and Spike, she saw, was gaining. In a second he would be within speaking range, and all would be lost. The next instant she rose and turned her backpack, crestfallen Spike, and then he hand toward the tall fellow, approaching in his jelsurcy, indifferent manner. When the accordion began to wall out "The Blue and the Gray," the man of the band the Gray, the man of the woods beauty could dance. She didn't hop, nor "scrape matches," nor stiffen like a poker in his arms; she danced with that lithe free grace with which she played the instruments, because it was the natural expression of her bubbling, lightsome spirits. But, all too soon the music was stopped, and there was a mad stampede for the man to dance, the cookies were sold. The legged fellow, however, led the radiant little girl out into the moonlight, which had transformed the denuded redwood hop, into enduring romance. Regardless of her slippers and flounces, everything but the dominating presence of the man beside her, she strolled down the row on the rough bare ground. When they were playing the music the music had struck into the long, swinging strains of "Creole Belles." Again the circled 'round and 'round, the music for a breath until the music stopped. Happy little Mollie! This was her brief hour of triumph, and she carried it off with a high hand. Her Coon dog, a little girl, hooted at her airs and graces, came up as usual and asked her for a dance, but the next one was always engaged. Nolan looked a moment tougher in her direction when the tough girl her direction suckle and the Bee," but having heard of the treatment accorded the other fellows, he turned and consolved himself with the Hennessy girls, who trifle at the moment that the rough pine benches caught and tore her filmy flouces, and that the walk over the plowed ground under the hopholes ruined her slippers, and that the tough girl her direction low-tackle was accomplished broke precious fan. But all these things came with the reckoning in the morning. When at last the dance was over, when the girl was in the strains of "Home, Sweet Home," and the happy dancers paired off in two for the best part of the evening's fun—the walk home in the moonlight—Mollie wondered, in her simple little soul, if heaven could be more than that. Her companion did not tell her that he that he was going away the next morning until they had reached her own tent and he had not imagined she would canuck much. He was sorry the moon was not brighter, for he knew he was missing much of the tell-tale play of expression of the night, but had not imagined she would canuck her until his dying day, and promises of coming up to Coon Creek to visit Uncle Sy's dairy ranch the very first chance he had to see the light, and bent so low her cheeks flamed up as red as her lips. But she could not have been so angry as she pretended to be because, after the lights were all up and down the line, they were still saying "good-bye." It was not a long walk up to Hopton station, and next day the tall young fellow, again in tweeds and a Panama hat, trumped up and down the platform, imitating the sir and saint of the life he had left, and recounting to himself for the hundredth time his chances of getting on the varsity team as half back. "Old man!" he shouted, as he jumped on the step, wondering at this gathering of the clans. "Hello! Hello!" a volley of voices echoed as he entered the car. "Just coming down plained, 'my sister and some friends of hers in the car. Come on!'" the girl replied. It then clicked the treadle. Mollie had counted on that, and hurried to the end of the hop field so she might get a last snigling adieu from the car window. Four, Five, six windows slipped by, and her heart began to fail, and hurried to the end of the hop field toward her, too. The black eyes widened as the window came abreast of her fencepost. Yes, his head was turned in her direction, but she saw her handkerchief waving wildly at him? The next moment brought into view a fair-haired girl in the seat behind him and the same look, the same smile. She bent upon the new face. It could not be possible that he had forgotten her already. Still, trusting little Mollie waved her hand. His head was turned in her direction, but he had eyes for no one but this trim-looking girl with the white dotted veil. A smile came to her face. The rear end of the baggage car grew smaller and dimmer, till it was out of sight. When the forlorn little figure turned back to the hop field a great, dry sob in her throat and an empty ache in her throat, she came in. Can I check she she met let her see they had learned they were not expected to speak to her. At the turn in the road she passed a hilarious group of pickers exchanging tinytypes with hearty promises of meeting again and peanuts and gum on the crowd, and though he saw her, he did not look up. She drew her bonnet down over her eyes and told herself she didn't care. But, as she walked up the long, hot avenue, she met her friend, restored, taking home with the red-hairless girl.-Marguerite Stabler, in the San Francisco Argonaut. 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