Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT FOR McLEAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FRIEND TO THE LABORING MAN. ELIEVES IN AN GOOD WAGES FOR THE MAN WHO TOILS or more than 19 years Ben McLean has been in the lumber business in Wichita. During that time he sold lumber to more col. who have built houses in that city. Like most of people who go old, the colored people in most have bought their lumber on and paid for it on the installation plan. During the nineteen there has been a colored who has gone to Ben McLean by lumber and meant business, has been turned down. Evrey of them would rather buy from McLean than from any other dealer in the city. This was years before Ben McLean ever out of running for any kind of local office. Why was it that colored people would rather their lumber from Ben McLean from any other lumber dealer city? It was because they Ben McLean would treat them and would give them a chance out. In his nineteen years ago with the colored people of ita there has never been a case he has foreclosed on any man on account of a failure on time. There has been cases where colored men have at their lumber from Ben McLean and month after month have before they could make a sin payment. This was caused by less, unable to find work and causes, but never has McLean the man to attempt to close in any of them. In many cases we have now before us the colmen would not have been able we a home today had it not for the generosity and kind of been McLean in letting have their lumber on small pents. This is the way that a ought to be tested. Then he not a candidate. To find out his true status towards a people back and dig up his record when as not a candidate for office and stood firm then he will stand now. Ben McLean believes in the colored people a chance old nice homes and he realizes they are not able at all times to large sums of money and thus need that they might, it is need in most cases, to allow them we their lumber on small pays down and small payments month. This is what we call a. Nineteen years ago Ben can started in life a poor man he has realized what the drawings and ills are to the poor man thus a man and a laboring man says able to reach Ben McLean. Ben in Kansas is a better friend for people and to the laborer than Ben McLean. Ben can does not believe in the reason of the wages of the wages he believes that $1.50 per day is small enough for any laboring man to work for and had he the whole say, he would permit them to receive more. What is true of Ben McLean in his private dealings with the colored man and with the laboring class of men in his public affairs. With a man in the mayoralty office who believes in the reduction of the wages of the working people and who is arrayed directly against the colored men of this city and their interest, this will indeed be a sorry place for those two classes of citizens. The reduction of the wages by the city in general. As soon as the city has reduced the wages of its laborers, other contractors and men who employ labor will come to the conclusion that they ought not be required and will not pay a better scale of wages to daily laborers than is paid by the city and the result will be a general reduction of wages all over the city. Of course this reduction will not at first affect the skilled laborers, such as brick and stone masons, carpenters etc., at first, but it will affect a class of men unable to have their wages reduced and that is the daily laborers. And when the wages of the daily laborers are reduced and then becomes unable to support his family from the effects of poor pay, and the result is that want and misery will take the place of happiness and contentment which has been manifested among the laboring class during the administration of Ben McLean. By Ben McLean and the present city administration paying the laborers who work for the city fair living wages it has set a pace for the other men who employ labor and today the laboring class of people of the city of Wichita are receiving as good wages as they are receiving as good wages as they are receiving in any city in the west. The standard of wages to be paid is judged by the contractors and the men who employ by the scale of wages paid by a city. The laboring people have it in their power to maintain good prices in the city by retaining an administration that believes in good wages for the laborers. If the change should come the laboring class of people will to a great measure be responsible for it, and if they suffer themselves and their families to be thus cheated out of what they have in right entitled to receive, they will have none but themielves to blame. We do not believe, however, that there will be any laboring men in the city of Wichita who will so far forget the interest of himself and his family to vote on April 7 to have their wages reduced and to have bread taken from the mouths of their families. A vote for Ben McLean is a vote to maintain good wages. And a vote for Finlay Ross is a vote for the reduction of the wages of the laboring man. The records of the city council meeti of May1, 1897, Mayor Ross in the chair, show that it was recommended by the Ross administration that hose house No. 3 be closed, that the firemen reduced one mau at each house and that the wages of the firemen be reduced $5 per month. We believe that the laboring man should receive good wages. Ben McLean has proved that he is a friend of the laboring man and the laboring men of the city of Wichita should show their appreciation by making the re-election of Ben McLean one of the greatest of ny may ..... n fo WICHITA. KANSAS. MAR 28 1903. If the colored people wish to retain their present representations and if the laboring men wish to continue to receive an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, both will do wise to cast their vote for Ben M'Lean and prosperity. M'Lean has proven his friendship to both the colored people and to the laboring man. The records of May 10th 1897 proves that Mr. Finlay Ross is neither a friend to the colored people or to the laboring man. See Record. that office It is conceded by the managers of the opposition that Ben McLean will be re-elected by 1000, but lets make it greater and lets make it a solid 2,000. There is no question that Ben McLean will be re-elected it is only a question of merits. When Ben McLean is incited into the mayoralty office in April, the wage earners and the colored people may rest assured that they have a true friend for the next two years. If the colored p retain their pres tions and if the wish to continue honest day's pa day's work, both cast their vote for and prosperity. ven his friendship colored people boring man. May 10th 1897 p Finlay Ross is n to the colored p laboring man. NEGROES APPEAL They Appeal to all Pow ers of the Old World To Stop Cleveland, O., March 23.—Three hundred thousand Negroes who belong to the Equal Rights association have appealed to the emperors and kings of the old world to aid them in the United States. The petitioners declare they are victims of gross injustice and that all of them are likely to be murdered to be murdered by the whitss of America. Intervention through the representatives of the European and Asiatic monarchs at Washington is requestdd to compel the United States to grant the blacks the justice they assert is denied them. C. W. Hines, chairman of the executive committee of the Equal Rights association, is the author of the appeal to the old world. He made public the appeal today at the headquarters of the association in this city. The views expressed are not his alone. They represent the Thorp of Boston is president, and I. E. Turner of New York i treasurer of Nhw York is treasurer of the association. The right of the Negroes to appeal and foreign governments to insentiment of all the members of the association for they were adopted at a secret session of the association in this city February 9. W. H. people wish to sent representa- laboring men to receive an y for an honest will do wise to or Ben M'Lean M'Lean has pro ip to both the and to the la- The records of proves that Mr. neither a friend people or to the See Record. s lrs on the United States's interference in behalf of the Cubans. Copies of the appeal have been sent to the heads of all foreign governments. Additional copies will be distributed throughout the United States. We, the Afro-American of the United States of America, are brutally and barbarously maltreated and basely compelled, for no crime or misdemeanor, to suffer every indignity, cruelty and murder that inhuman, fiendish nature can invent, by some of those who once held the Afro-Americans in bondage and slavery or the descendants of those who once held the Afro-Americans in slavery and bondage in the United States, and who still without cause, harbor in their hearts a deadly hatred against the Afro-American race. "We behold with sorrow and grief the 20th century ushered in with the same bloody catalogue staring he American people in the face, witnessing mob violence, mnrder disfranchi-ing and crime against th Afro-Americans in this city most alarmingly on the increase. Such oppression,whole-sale lynching and wanton murder of an innocent people,was never before eard of in any civilized country. "From one to five or more are either tortured, hung shot or butchered and driven from their homes daily, while others are burned to death at the stake. It has come to besuch a common occurrence that the press and pulpit say but little about it They pay more attention to the barbarities of the foreign countries than they do to their own America; to slack the deadly hate and foul thirst for murder and to wallow their hands in the warm blood of their dying victims. NEGROES CUT UP AND SOLD. "And while the victims are writhing in pain in the fire, their ears, eyes and fingers are cut off for souvenirs, and pieces of their sizzling, frying and burning flesh are stashed from their burning bodies and are auctioned off to the highest bidder aster this fashion, holding it up. 'Who wants a piece of nigger meat? Who wants a piece of nigger meat?' It is sold at ten cents. The heart is divided into four quarters and is sold at 25 cents each. "And they seldom get employment except at menial labor. Wages that they receive are the smallest that is paid to any other employee. They are barred out of almost every place that other races are admitted and in places of amusement and on common carriers, in hotels the color line is drawn on them. They are discriminated against in courts, now and then permitted to sit on the jury but not if the Afro-American is litigent in a suit against any other nationality. They cannot even rent a decent house to live in. "The courts are presided over by what are classed as white men. The officials of the law are the same except now and then an Afro-American policeman. Education, character and competency cut no figure in their behalf. "We have time and again pleaded and appealed to presidents, to congresses of the United States to enforce the laws and to stop the inhuman wholesale murder, that discrimination and slaughter of an innocent people, but every plea and appeal has been ignored. "We, therefore, now in the name o God Almighty, do hereby appeal for the powers of Europe and to every civilized nation of the old world, through their representative at Washington, D. C., to int rfer in some way in behalf of the poor. Continued to 3d page POLICE JUDGE C C STANLEY Popular With Everyone - Everyone's Friend The accompanying cut is a good likeness of the present very popu- A. CLAUD C. STANLEY Wicbita's Very Popular Police Judge He Has Made a Better Record Than Any Man Who Ever Filled that office before His Time. HE IS A SURE WINNER. lar Police Judge of Wichita, Claude C. Stanley. Judge Stanley is a Kansan by birth, having been born at Hesper, Kars, near Lawrence, June 19, 1872. He was educated at Lawrence, graduating in the high school and the State University at Lawrence. He later attended the Quaker University at Richmond, Ind., and graduated there. He was appointed chief bond clerk to the School Fund Commission of Kansas and held the position two years. When the populists took charge of affairs Mrs. Striker was appointed his successor and she went over his books and published a signod statement in the Topeka Capita, stating that Claude C. Stanley had made the best bond clerk which the state had ever had. This was quite a compliment coming as it did from the opposition party. He then graduated in the Kansas University law school and began the practice of law in Kansas City. Mo. Later when the Garfield University was purchased by Friends of which his father Edmond Stanley is president, he came to Wichita on business connected with the school. While here he decided to cast his lot with a Kansas city, the best of them all—Wichita. He is a member of the firm of Stanley & Stanley and has been actively engaged in the practice of law. As police judge of Wichita he has made a clean, clear cut record. He is a man who knows no color, line—and decides all cases which come before him on its merit and nothing else. During the two years that he has been on the bench he has passed on 3,000 cases. Personally Judge Stanley is jolly, jovial and always good matured. He is a man who make friends fast and who has the good fortune to keep them. As a Repubican he is as true as steel. He will be re-elected with a large, handsome majority. 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Stanley Judge City Court......Ge0. H. Alexander Marshal City Court...........Thos- Voss Clerk Citv Court ......... . L. Barrett ouncilmen First Wai .......... S. B. Kernan Second We ........... W. F. Schell Third Ward Long ‘Term.. ...W. 8. Pierce Short Term ..... H. Freeman Fourth Ward ....... .......W. H. Isley Fifth Ward ...........W.H.M ee Sixth Ward............J.G. toner MEMBERS SCHOOL JARD First Ward. ...........- Levi Horner Second Waid ......:..... Fred Cossitt Third Ward ............... J. ©. Jones Fourth Ward........-...B. E. Rowlee Fifth Ward........ ......... Fred Bell Sixth Ward........... Jobn M. Martin Hooks Lik: ctor Murdock Will Win. At this time when the convention that wilt nominate a suocessor tc Caester I. Long isso close at hand there ure many and varied candi- da‘es forthat boror. From all re- liab’e source‘comes ths wews that the brilliant son of Wichita and o} Wichita and of Sedgwick county, Hon. Vietor Murdock, stands at the head of the column And why should he not stand at the hoad of the col. umn, but why should he not be an easywinner? If the Republicans of the “Big Seventl’” wish to pick awinner at the polis, Sedgwick ‘gounty bas that winner in her chos en son—Vieto Murdock. With all the qualities that. are reqnisite to make 9 fitting aud honorable sue- oeesor to choster I. Long, Victor Murdock, of all the men whore now aspiring for that; honor. could more easily win. This ia not. the time for the Republicans of this district to be taking: “chance” can: ci for this big race in this. big district. To win they must have a man for their candida‘ewho is equal to the man who has lett the position vacant. In V.c:or Murdock they have that man. I ig ‘not. solely because Victor Murdock is a resi eit ef Wichita aad’ of Sedgwick county, that: we ofthis cify aut onnty are so strenuously urging ing and pushing bis candidacy ; but it is from the ‘edditional fect that akeon, as all the voters of the Seventh district know, tha u Ve t ¥ Murilock as the Republican cen- didate, sucess is assured, In Vie- tor Mar ogg #20 people wil find the equal of Chester I Long and the Seventh district will find in bim a representative in the truest and noblest sense of the word. If the ncmination was left to the people o this district, as the election must be there would be no question abou! theichoic All would eise in one solid mass and shout “Victor Mur. ce © Victor Murdoek!! Murdock! Murdock!!!" We trust tha the mer ‘who wilt compose the eon-reteional nominating convention will act wis and select Victor Murdock for that place. He will surely win the ‘polls. Earl Blake MHE NEXT CITY ATTORNEY. Se eae eg ee ee for city attorney, was born in lows near Bedford, Sept. 11, 1866, Like Ben McLesn and mostly afl the candidates on the Repvblican ticket, Mr. Biake is a self made man who rose in the world while his nose was kept uncomfortably close to the grindstone. In 1834 he came to Kansas, and the first two tickets sold over the Wichita and Western road were suld to him aud bis fath- er. They settled ia Kingman in 1884, where Earl taught school, clerked ina store and learned the printing basiness in the Ccurier of. fice, advancing from ‘devil ” to fore- man of the shop becaute of his iv- dustry and aptness ina few years. Mr, Blake is aow and for several yearshas been the senior partner of the firm of Blake & Ayres. They are'the rising lawyers of Wichita, Mr, Ayres, bis partner, has been promment for ten or more years in Democratic and Populist polities, and said yesterday that outside of his politics Earl Biake is one of the best mes he has ever known. Mr. Blake himself has never been deer in politics beyond attending prim- aries aud going to couuty vonven- tions. Heis what lawyers eail “digger,” that is a bookworm in the law, This gives him a special fis. negs for the city attorneysbip, for it is largely an advisory position, o1 one thet calls for a wide knowledge of the law. Being the stenograph- er and student of Harry L. Gordon when the latter was, city attorney, Mr. Blake has already @ thorough understanding of the duties of the office, Mr. Blake is married and has three beautiful children. He is fond of home life and books, his favorite being the law book. He ss said to be one of the best read lawyers in Wichita. Personally he is very quiet, although a very genial man, and is we 1 thought of by everybody who knew him as a boy fighting heroically for his legal standing, and who know him now as @ man and a lawyer. Itis thoughtthat he wiil be among those who will get tue highest vote on the Republican ticket. The legal interests of the city will be safe in his hands. Mr. Bike lived in the Scoond ward from 1892 to 1900 and_altho not an intense partisan was usually ou the delegations from that,ward 40 county conventions and quietly improved every opportunity to_ ad: vance the interests of the Republi ean party’ He is now county com- mitteeman from the third precine! o itk¢f1i ward, where he has lived for the past {hr years. - a Re MURR, os. eOeeee1sO.sseesOsevees PROP. Tipp’s Hand Laundry |" Best Hand Launary In the City Furs. Claes Work [Gesranteed, (609 East Douglas Ave.........Wicbita, Ks. ——— eg eT ge ot ae a Searchlight $1.00 Locals and Personals Poortben Siam id ED + gee ge The Peerless Steam Laundry, ‘Seelover & Sons, proprietors, will move in about two weeksto their new quartere, 243-245-247, North Market St. The building on North Market St., which they will ocenpy 3 a brand new structure and was recently built for the special occu- pancy cf this fastest growing laun- dry in Wichita. Mr. Seelover and his cons will equip this laundry with abe latest and mest mcdern Janndry fixtures obtainable and hon completed it will be one of the best equ’pped laundnes' in the west. They willspare’no money to make this a strictly first-clacs laun- dry. High-grade and tip to-date work will be their main featuren their mew location, as it has been the cecrot of their marvelous success m the past. They invite you to call and see their new machinery and equippments when they are folly mstalled. The Merchants who ap- preciate the trade of the col ored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZETYV=M. Greenfield Bros, are busy this week moving their immense stock of elothing to their new store at the corner of Market and Douglas Ave. they will have their grand opening in the aear future. Watch these colmne for the day and date. A vote for Ben Me. Lean is a vote for the laboring man, and a vote to enable the laboring man to get living price fo bis labor. This is notthe time to have a general xe- duction of wages of the laboring men. ‘he election of Mr. Finlay Ross will certainly mean a gonera reduction of the wages of the men who support their families by the sweat of their own brow—the labor- ing man, , HECK. SLATER NUPTIALS. Mr. Richard Heck and Mrs. AL phe Slater were united in marriage last Monday at the home of the bride, 335 N. Market. The mrsiage was quiet only intmate friends and members of the immediate famly were present. The Segchlight wishes Mr. and Mrs, Heck such happiness, and a long prosperous married life. Mr, and Mrs. Lee Anderson were the gucet of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Mill-r at dinher Suuday. Mra. J. L. Harper is still con- fined to her bed on the sick list. Mrs. H. F. Frazier is somewhat troubled with {the very anocying and sometimes painful rheumatism. Rev. P. D. Yochum and daughter Were ont calling in the north ond of the city Tuesday and celled to see Mrs, Miler. Mr. J. P. Valley has moved hi: family Meines Iowa, where they will make their future home. ‘The ladies’ G. L. A. club met at the residence of Mrz. S. W. Jones lastT- esday afternoon. After spending an hour in many needle work the various eommittees ap: pointed to make rrangemeats for theie entertainment in the ne ar éu ture made their report; after which lunch was served ‘and the club adjourned to meet next Tuesday at the residence of Mr. J. T. Chinneth 520 Naco ave. Notice. | Office of City Clerk, Wichita, Kan. Jan. 7t7., '03. The ~eistration books of the city of Wichita, are now open for the registration of voters. Coll toa y ‘and Kave your name er rolled. J.L. LELAND, City Clerk. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HELP HELEN GOULD ORPHAN HOME. ‘The board ef county commission- ers at their mecting last Saturday appropriated the sum‘ef $50.00 to help the Helen Gould Orphan Home, situated at 1447 South River Si. This is a worthy inctitution and is maintained in the iaterest of homeless and friendless colored children, The action of the com- missioners show that the gentlemen who compose the present board of county eormiszioners are willing to helpa wortby énstitution among the colored people. The commis- sioners a’e deserving of much credit fos thus showing their willlogness tohelp maintain this institution. Dr. J. E. Farmer. Physician and Surgeon Diseeses of Women and Children a Specialty. a Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. Pe ee ee eae age eee art ee HIM. There is no man on the repub- lican ticket who deserves the votes of all the people of this city more than Capt. Geo. DB. Harris, Capt, Harris is one of the pionesr citizens of Wichita, having come to this city when what is now Wichita, was a howling wilderness. He has spent iin Beet daya, and tieluags' ot nan: hood and the days of vitelity in helping to nake {Wichita a good place to live in. It is to Capt. Har- risas much ag to any other one man, that the present generation are able to enjoy this- prosperous and growing metropolis, He came to this city a man of fairly good means and spent his money to im- prove this city and like thousands n bis days when the dreadful boom fame and went it left Geo E. Har. risa oor man, Having spent hie life’s vitatity he has been unable to ully recover from the effects of dis- aster. In his three score and tenth year he now comes before his fellow townsmen and ask at their band the office of city treasurer. During the term of one and one half year: that he has been in that office be has conducted the affairs in- nees and up-to- date manner and i acredit to his townmen. A vot fot the right man for the right place. 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Will plain Mr. Hobson be such an attractive kissing proposition as the gallant captain? "What constitutes a New Yorker?" asks the World. Well, conceit is one of the ingredients. More power to the elbow of Miss Rogers, late of Wellesley—though she doesn't seem to need it. A Siamese working elephant may be bought for $650, but it costs more for feed than an automobile does. News from the Balkan states indicates that Miss Stone's ransom money has been fairly well invested. Chicago is now bragging because its birth rate has not decreased. It is a case of, how much? not, how good? Undue attention to the mote in our neighbor's eye gives him an opportunity for effective repartee.—Puck. The Chicago doctor who tried to argue against a hallful of women might have known where he would wind up. With The Hague tribunal so handy it would seem as though the Dutch labor unions might arbitrate their grievances. Radium is selling at $900,000 a pound in the European market, and most of the inhabitants have shut off their radiators. The Moroccan pretender has gathered his forces and gone to pretending again. He may be Gen. Uribe-Uribe in disguise. The first wireless newspaper has been printed on board a ship at sea. Even a dash for the pole may now have added terrors. What a mammoth federation of women Venezuela will have if the daughters of the revolution in that country ever organize! The Crown Prince of Saxony is not to be consulted as to the successor of the errant Louise. All wives must look alike to a crown prince. The story that Mr. Morgan is going to buy up all the Cuban railroad system is not at all improbable. He has the necessary money and the buying habit. The task of traveling at a $10,000 pace on a $1,000 salary has again wrought its customary ruin and disgrace. Its frequent repetition waxes tedious. Some of the specialists believe Knapp, the Indiana man who murdered his six wives, is a degenerate. They don't explain why they hold this extraordinary opinion. Secretary Shaw has decided that ten thousand dollar gold certificates may be issued to individuals on demand as well as to banks. Demand yours early, as the supply is limited. Calcium salts, it is announced, will cure nervous diseases. The calcium light has been applied to many eminent personages without causing a reduction either of nerve or of swelled head. That Mississippi judge who charged the grand jury to indict persons accused of playing progressive euchre probably has been forced to attend a progressive euchre party at some time in his career. A Frenchman, who contended that the soul could leave the body and return, succeeded in proving part of it. He let his soul out all right, but the undertaker attended to the rest, and he hasn't reported. Probably if the wild birds had anything to say about it they would insist that the privilege of remaining alive seems quite as important to them as it does to the gentleman in the bird-dealing business. At the Cincinnati fire a man on a burning roof was saved by writing a note on his cuff and throwing it into the street. That should be a warning to people with undetachable cuffs not to sleep higher than the second floor. George Manville Fenn, an English writer, recently reached his 71st birthday. The titles of his books fill seven pages of the catalogue of the British museum, although you may know no more about him than posterity will. A congressman in the house restaurant the other day had for lunch a milk punch, a chicken sandwich, an oyster stew and a piece of custard pie. And the country is paying him $5,000 a year to help control the destines of this mighty nation! Cause or White Hair. Gray hairs at an early age are hereditary in certain families. It is thought to be the result of men with dark hair marrying women with dark hair through several generations. Cozy Double Windows. Experiments in the double glazing of windows with a view to reducing the loss of heat through them show that the two sheets of glass should have a space of two and a half to one and a half inches between them to produce the minimum radiation. Pirate Songs Seized. Pirate Songs Seized. The owners of musical copyrights in Great Britain are taking severe action against the pirates. At present no fewer than half a million copies of pirate songs are packed away in Scotland Yard. It is calculated that the compogitions seized represent copyrights of the value of $175,000. Cause for Congratulation. Dr. J. H. Girdner of Philadelphia owns a little dog whose name is Spot. Spot is very bright and a great faforite of the family. The doctor's seven-year-old daughter said to her father the other day: "I'm glad Spot can't talk; for if he could he might say something that would make us think less of him." American Teachers in Demand. Some missionaries lately returned from Japan say there is a great demand for American teachers there. Salaries ranging from $75 to $135 a month are offered them, and houses are provided in addition. The government is devoting great attention to the development of educational institutions. There are now a number of American teachers in the big schools. Where Crime Is Unknown. The police force on the island of Sark a few years ago consisted of two constables. The prison was a small room in the schoolhouse. One of the constables was asked as to the prevalence of crime on the island. He replied that the only person he had ever had to arrest and incarcerate was his own colleague, who had been a little overcome by the hospitality of certain unregenerate tourists. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defance Starch for the same price of other starches. The head is frequently made the scapegoat of the stomach. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. A woman's age is emphasized by her efforts to appear young. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs. -Wm. O. ENDSELEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900. Did He Gamble? This is one that is said to be new. A countryman went down to the city and returned full of tales of the time he had had. He was relating them in the village store and one of the admiring crowd inquired if he had gambled. "Gambled!" he shouted, "gambled! Why, my friend, I played the goldinged slot machine till no more gum would come. Did I gamble? Well, say!" She Found Bank Bills Mrs. Mary McClintock of Claremont, N. H., in sorting paper stock at a paper mill the other day found two letters containing bank bills issued by state banks more than forty years ago, before the days of the national bank. The three bills found were: A $10 bill, issued by the Commercial Bank of Whitehall, N. Y., in 1859, and two $2 bills, one issued by the Union bank of Troy, N. Y., in 1861, and the other by the Stark Bank of Benington, Vt., in 1862. A Needed Precaution. White lines are painted across all windows in third-class cars in Japan as a check upon the impulse of occupants to thrust their heads through them. Window glass is an article with which the people are not familiar in daily life, and since passengers commonly suppose that sashes are merely spaces for air the bill for glazing was one of the largest petty items in the monthly accounts for all the companies until the white line was invented. FOOLED THE HOSPITAL Was Pronounced Incurable, but Got Well on Pure Food. Sometimes in a case of disease resulting from the use of improper food the symptoms are so complex that medical science cannot find the seat of trouble, and even the most careful hospital treatment falls to benefit. A gentleman of Lee, Mass., says: "On April 1st, 1900, I was sent home by one of our Massachusetts hospitals, saying nothing more could be done for me. I have been a great sufferer from nervous diseases and rheumatism and nervous prostration and had previously been treated at Sharon Springs and by a number of doctors without getting much assistance. "One day I was feeling worse than usual when I read an article about your Grape-Nuts that impressed me so that I sent out for a package. I commenced using it at breakfast the next day. "For fifteen months I never missed one day. If you ever saw any one grow strong and improve it was I. I gained from 125 pounds to my old weight of 165. I will always be a cripple from rheumatism, but otherwise I am so much improved that I now feel as well as any man in the country." Name furnished by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. There is a recipe book in each package of Grape-Nuts that will interest the housekeeper. INTERESTS CONFLICT WHAT THE EAST WANTS THE WEST DOES NOT. New England Asks Free Trade for Coal and Protection for Codfish, While the Far West Objects to the Arrangement as Unjust. The Boston Herald, which has always been more or less devoted to the free trade idea, has published recently several lengthy articles favoring the removal of all duties upon coal, either by direct legislation or through the negotiation of a reciprocity treaty with Canada. The point of this is that Massachusetts does not produce coal, and it is believed that if there were free entry of Nova Scotia coal in the mining of which New England capital is largely interested, Massachusetts would profit in two ways, by cheaper coal in her markets and by larger profits for the capital invested in mining in a foreign country. As a sample of the statements by which the Herald backs up its arguments, take the following: "The natural coal supply of the Pacific coast has thus far bee' the coal mines of British Columbia." The natural coal supply of the Pacific coast is and has been the coal mines of the State of Washington, mines which at this time employ 5,000 men, and the product of which reaches annually 2,690,789 tons, valued at $5,300,854.22. It is this industry of the State of Washington which Massachusetts is prepared cheerfully to sacrifice in order to secure some slight local advantages. For the purpose of making an argument which Massachusetts can understand, the coal mining industry can be compared with the cod fishing industry of Massachusetts. There are more men employed in the coal mines of Washington than in the cod fisheries of Massachusetts, and the value of their product is greater. Canada is more the natural source of supply of cod fish on the Atlantic than of coal on the Pacific. The admission of coal free of duty would be far more detrimental to the interests of the State of Washington than the free admission of cod fish would be to the interests of the State of Massachusetts. The admission of either would be to the advantage of Canada. Of the two, Canada would be willing to make far greater concessions to secure the free entry of her cod fisheries products into the United States than to secure the free entry of coal. If the interests of consumers in the United States are to govern, free cod fish would be of infinitely greater value and to a vastly greater number of consumers, scattered over a much wider scope of territory, than would free coal. Here is the situation then: There is a protected New England industry of not so much commercial value as the coal industry of the State of Washington, employing fewer people and distributing less wages, the protection of which tends to exclude from the markets of the United States a Canadian food product which is a common article of diet in the homes of the working people of the United States from one end of the continent to the other. There is more valuable protected industry in the relatively small and poor State of Washington, the protection upon which operates merely to secure to the people of Washington a relatively small local market and leaves unaffected the great mass of the people of the country. Canada is prepared to make far greater concessions to secure the withdrawal of protection from the New England Industry than it would make to have protection withdrawn from the Washington industry, and far more American consumers would profit by free cod fish than by free coal. Massachusetts wants reciprocity with Canada to enlarger her trade opportunities in the Dominion. Washington cares nothing for such reciprocity. Under these circumstances the honest, the decent and the fair thing to do would be for Massachusetts herself to pay the price of the reciprocity which she demands and which would be largely for her benefit; not to attempt to throw the cost upon a state which has less to offer to Canada, which does not desire reciprocity and which would secure no trade advantages through it, but rather nothing but injury. Massachusetts has raised the cry of "free coal." Washington counters with the demand for "free cod fish." If the Boston Herald and the Massachusetts sentiment which it represents are honeste and sincere in their convictions of the advisability of reciprocity arrangements with Canada, they should be prepared to sacrifice local interests to it, and not cross the continent for the purpose of throwing the whole burden upon the State of Washington, as they are desirous of doing—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Legislating by Treaty. Reports from Washington indicate that the Cuban reciprocity treaty will be rejected if brought to a vote in the Senate. Republican senators with beet sugar constituencies have served notice on the administration leaders that they will be forced to oppose ratification of the treaty. As it requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to secure ratification of a treaty, there is little likelihood of its being approved. It is singular that the administration should have undertaken to secure our "plain duty" to Cuba by treaty. At the last session of Congress a bill to reduce the duty on Cuban products passed the House of Representatives and was defeated in the Senate. Obviously if a bill could not be passed, it is little less than folly to expect a treaty, proposing to accomplish the same ends, to be ratified. There is opposition by Democratic Senators to the treaty on the ground that it involves an unconstitutional method for reducing the tariff. The constitution contemplates that all revenue measures shall originate in the House of Representatives and be acted upon by both branches of Congress. The reciprocity method of reducing duties eliminates the House of Representatives, the only really representative brach of the Federal government, and places the power in the hands of the executive and the Senate. The objection is well taken. Tariff legislation by treaty is repugnant to our scheme of government, and an obnoxious and unwarranted use of the treaty-making power.—Milwaukee News. TRADE OF 1902. Marked Gain in the Volume of Exports and Imports. The table of imports and exports of the United States for the twelve months ending with January, 1903, shows an unusual fluctuation in exports because of crop shortage and consequent increased prices of food stuffs, and it also shows a steady increase in importations from the low point of $68,350,459 in February, 1902, to the high point of $94,356,987 in December, 1902. The exports also show a marked increase from the midsummer minimum of $88,240,483 in July, to $148,012,403 in December. In spite of smaller exports owing to exceptional conditions, and in spite of 'the largest imports for any year in the history of our commerce, the figures show a comfortable trade balance in favor of the United States amounting to close upon $400,000,000. If the advocates of "potential competition" through the larger admission of competitive products from abroad had had their way, it is certain that the trade balance for 1902 would have been very much smaller. The following table shows the total imports and exports of the United States in each of the twelve months ending with January, 1903: Month. Imports. Exports. February ... $68,350,459 $101,569,695 March ... 84,227,082 106,749,401 April ... 75,822,268 109,169,873 May ... 75,689,087 102,321,581 June ... 73,115,054 89,240,483 July ... 79,147,874 88,790,627 August ... 78,923,281 94,942,310 September ... 87,736,346 121,232,384 October ... 87,419,138 144,327,428 November ... 85,386,170 125,200,620 December ... 94,356,987 148,012,403 January(1903) 85,109,891 134,040,932 Totals ... $975,283,637 $1,365,600,704 PROTECTED AMERICAN INDUSTRIES COMPETITIVE RECIPROCITY A Coincidence! We note with some concern that Gov. Cummins—perhaps because of a bad throat, toothache, or other form of indisposition—has not found it convenient to accept any invitations to speak at agricultural gatherings in the past few months. Not long ago his name was mentioned among those invited to address the national convention of live stock growers at Kansas City. He did not appear at that convention. He has not talked to farmers for some time. One would think that so strenuous a tariff reformer as the governor is would with avidity improve opportunities to spread the "Iowa idea" of potential competition as a price cutter among agricultural communities. He has found it possible on numerous occasions to talk reciprocity, tariff revision and trust busting at gatherings of manufacturers, but his throat or something seems to go wrong whenever it comes to presenting his views before gatherings of people who make their living out of the soil. Farmers are such sound protectionists that it seems strange to find Gov. Cummins so reluctant to propagate the "Iowa idea" among them. The Only Hope The only hope for a campaign issue for the Democrats lies in the question of tariff revision. Being a "free trade" party they will be obliged to greatly revise their tariff policies, for they will certainly not find free trade or tariff for revenue only a winning card with the business community or even the producers. They have tried that policy once before and its adoption brought universal ruin and bankruptcy—Dayton (Fla.) Journal. Dying Away The Western demand for tariff revision is dying away as time goes on and the present tariff continues to prove its merits.—Waterloo (Ill.) Republican. SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL Two immense power plants are to: be established on the east slope of Pike's Peak, from which power for lighting and heating purposes will be furnished Colorado Springs and adjacent towns. Texas oil is already making itself felt in Europe, where liquid fuel for vessels, particularly those engaged in the Asiatic trade, is making rapid strides. Tankage is to be provided in the harbor of Copenhagen for the accommodation of several such vessels now building. All the locomotive works in America are at present taxed to their utmost capacity with orders, and most of them are refusing commissions, except for remote delivery. Some of the railroads are in such dire straits that they are offering premiums, sometimes as much as a thousand dollars for engines to be delivered in the near future. The builders are not getting the advantage of these offers, but the companies which have ordered the engines, but those necessities are not so great as those of some other company. The positive identification of a handsome diamond in an elaborate setting is often a matter of difficulty. Rosenheim, a foreign investigator, has recently devised an easy and positive method of distinguishing diamonds from glass, paste or any other precious stone, such as ruby, emerald, zircon, topaz, opal, etc. The precious stone is taken into a darkened room, with a rod of bismuth coated with the new radio-active element, polonium. Under these conditions diamonds and no other substances, emit rays which act on a photographic plate. The biograph as a promoting agency has been found to be very valuable, especially when there is any really good object to promote. One of the first instances of such utilization of the biograph was by a Canadian railway in an endeavor to arouse interest in an "All British" route to the East. The moving photographs of the canyons and mountains were shown to illustrate the stupendous engineering difficulties to be encountered, and, on the other hand, the panoramic views of farm lands and logging scenes showed the promising commercial possibilities of the country to be traversed. It is known that typhoid bacillus produces little or no toxin in artificial cultivation, and all attempts to obtain a typhoid antitoxin have hitherto proved failures. Chantemesse, however, by growing the typhoid bacillus in a special culture medium prepared from spleen and bone marrow, claims to have obtained a toxin with which he has been able to immunize horses and to prepare a typhoid antitoxin. Of 179 cases treated with the latter, seven died, a case-mortality of only 3.7 per cent., whereas of 1192 cases treated during the same period on general principles, 286 died; a case mortality of 19.3 per cent. Observations made in France, by M. Tripet, regarding the variations in the activity of reduction of oxyhaemoglobin in the cause of a balloon ascent, at an altitude of 5000 metres, met with the following results, with the three subjects used: At great altitudes, the duration of reduction of the oxyhaemoglobin diminishes to less than one-half of the normal time of reduction, this diminution in the balloon in the absence of all fatigue being nearly instantaneous. In all three subjects the proportion of oxyhaemoglobin increased with the height. As the balloon approached the earth the converse phenomena were noted, but the return to the normal was slow and was not completed on arriving at the surface of the earth. The results of observations on the arterial blood pressure at varying heights was also noted. A Wonderful Railway. A wonderful mountain railway is being constructed at present in the Tyrol, and when completed next summer it will be the steepest line in the world. The railway, which will be two and a half kilometers in length, will join the village of Kaltern to the summit of the Col de Mendel at a height of 2550 feet. This distance will be covered in exactly twenty-seven minutes, while by road it takes four hours to reach the top. The force is electricity, and the cog (middle) rail system has been employed. The maximum grade is 64 in 100, surpassing that of the Stanser-horn line, which formerly held the European record. The coaches will hold fifty persons and baggage, and special precautions have been taken to enable the tourist to view the wonderful scenery through which the line passes. M. Strubb, a Swiss engineer of Clarens, is carrying on this remarkable enterprise. Not to Her Taste. Once, when Tennyson went to dine with Sir Arthur Sullivan, his wide-brimmed felt hat and long, flowing cloak greatly impressed a new servant at the composer's house. At the end of the evening, when Tennyson had departed, she gave vent to her feelings, after asking whether that was "really the poet," in these words: "Well, he do wear clothes?" "Yes, so do most poets?" answered Sullivan; "and then you must remember that he is the Laureate." The girl thought it over for a few minutes, no doubt copitating on his official position, before she remarked, with a sigh: "What a uniform!"—Argonaut. A writer in London Health says that in no sense of the word is the American face distinctive, and there is nothing that will call it up in the mind from the world's group of Caucasian faces. The answer to this is that the American face is a composite, necessarily. Comfort for Church Slumberer. Hitherto it has been considered a moral weakness to slumber in church. Now Dr. Dabbis, the editor of Vectis, comes to the rescue of the church sleepers with scientific facts. "You call it irreverence to sleep in church. Nonsense! It is only carbonic dioxide." The really irreverent person is he who permits the church to be full of this foul air. Establishes a Procedent A lady who was formerly prominent in New York society has secured a divorce from the French baron who married her for her money, and will resume her maiden name. This is the most extraordinary case on record. It was formerly supposed that no American woman would relinquish a title under any circumstances after once purchasing it. A Cure for Rheumatism. Alhambra, Ill., March 23d.—Physicians are much puzzled over the case of Mr. F. J. Oswald of this place. Mr. Oswald suffered much with Rheumatism and was treated by doctor after doctor with the result that he got no better whatever. They seemed unable to do anything for him, and he continued to suffer till he heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Oswald began a treatment of this remedy, which very soon did for him what the doctors had failed to do and they cannot understand it. This is the same remedy that cured Hon. Fred A. 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For the first time in six months I had slept through the night without a break. A "Yes, that fat little boy by the window is Charlie, and his skin is as white as a snow flake, thanks to the Cuticura Bemedies. I think everybody should know about the Soap and also the Ointment, and if it is going to help other mothers with sick babies, go ahead and publish what I have told you." MES HELENA RATH burning of the skin as in eczema; is; the loss of hair, and crusting; the facial disfigurements, as in suffering of infants, and anxiety trust, tetter and salt rheum,—all perhuman virtues to successfully Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent all doubt. No statement is madeified by the strongest evidence. power to afford immediate relief, manent cure, the absolute safety from the standard skin cures, blood the civilized world. ARTICULTORE First Sprayings of the Apple. The practice of spraying trees and shrubs when they are dormant is becoming widespread. It has been recognized that in this way many of the spores of fungi are killed before they can do harm by reproducing themselves in the fruit, leaves or the tree. Just what efficacy there is in winter spraying we do not yet know, but it is believed that much good results. Winter spraying is inclusive of that done at any time before the buds open, even late in March while the buds are swelling. Even many people that are in doubt about the necessity of spraying trees when dormant, yet follow the practice, to be on the safe side. It is certain that if, as some have supposed, the spores of the apple scab fungus lives over in the bark of the tree or on rubbish on the ground, spraying will do good. The man that is prepared to spray late in the winter is in a position to be prompt with the same work later; and it is promptness that is necessary. Some men do not spray till a few days after they should have completed the work, and the pests for which they sprayed get the upper hand and keep it. The first spraying of the apple should be while the tree is dormant. This is likely to check the apple scab. If this spraying is omitted, the first one should be given when the leaf buds are open and before the flower buds expand. This spraying should be with Bordeaux mixture, for the scab. If the bud worm has been prevalent in the neighborhood, spray with Paris green as soon as the leaf tips appear in the buds. This treatment will also check the case-bearer. If the apple trees are affected by San Jose scale, then spray with whale oil soap—two pounds to a gallon of water, when trees are dormant, or use crude petroleum at the rate of 25 per cent, or kerosene in the proportion of one to five of water. Apply the soap or petroleum before the buds start. Packages for Fruit. From Farmers' Review: The question of relative desirability of barrels and bushel boxes, or relative cost of the two, for the shipment of apples and pears, depends very much whether the handler is catering to the wholesale or retail trade. If the latter then the box is the most desirable package. Its contents is more nearly what a family will need at one time; is more easily and cheaply conveyed to the consumer's home than a barrel. A barrel holds more than an average family can consume and a part must need go to decay. If boxes are bought one can be taken from cold storage at a time as needed. The temperature of the home cellar is too warm for the storing of fruit. When buying in smaller quantities than a barrel the tastes of different members of the family can be consulted and several varieties kept on hand which would not be practical if a whole barrel had to be bought for each member of the family. Then again the smaller the quantity of fruit bought, the relatively higher the price paid. On the other hand if the grower or packer is supplying the wholesale trade the barrel is for some reasons the best. The cost of a three-bushel barrel, would be considerably less than three-bushel boxes. While the freight if shipped in car lots of 30,000 pounds, would of course be the same if actually weighed into the car, the cartage would be greatly in favor of the barrel. As the cartage, especially if done in small lots, would be as much on a bushel box as on a three bushel barrel. The contents of a barrel are safer from accident and theft than a box—T. E. Goodrich, Union County, Illinois. Study the Matter of Woodlots Study the Matter of Woodlots. Farmers that have woodlots should made a study of them to a point where they will know how to best handle the various kinds of trees that compose them. In the prairie states this question is less acute than it is in the hilly states, for the reason that the proportion of land good only for wood growing is much smaller in the prairie states than it is in the hilly states. But the greater scarcity of wood makes its care all the more necessary. There are many localities in the East where wood will be a cheap forest trees and so keep the land in a fuel for a generation yet. Not so in the prairie states. It will in many cases pay the farmer to learn something about growing forest trees from seeds, including the handling and transplanting of the seedlings. There is much land on some of our farms that is neither wood land nor arable land. It should be so treated that it will be one thing or the other. Now it is growing weeds, alders, and shrubs of no account to the woodman. Moreover, these weeds and shrubs prevent the growing of the seeds of condition of uselessness. If the land be wet, yet there are varieties of trees that will grow in such a place and it is better to have them than to have nothing. There are other places on the farm that are being gullied to death, so far as the plow is concerned. They too can be put into forest, if only on a small scale. We have hardly yet touched this great matter in this country, as coal and wood have been hitherto abundant. But the time is here when the matter must and will receive attention. It has been demonstrated that alfalfa can be successfully grown in nearly all the northern states. DISGUISED CATARRH. PERUNA THE GREAT St. Jacobs Oil Is the greatest remedy in the world for all bodily Aches and Pains for which an external remedy may be used. Price, 25c. and 50c. M Miss Louise Mahon, 3 Glen Ballie Street, Toronto, Ont. Can, Secretary of the King's Daughters and Secretary of Lady Macaulay, will be derived from taking Peruma we would have many happier and more healthful women. My health has never been too robust, and I am easily able to do anything. I am so able I was so run down that I had to take to my bed, and became weaker and weaker. A friend advised me to be grateful, for in two weeks I was out of bed and in a month I was perfectly well, and I now find that my health is much more robust than formerly, so that I am twice a week and keep well "Louise Mahon." Peruna is such a perfect specific for each case that when patients have once used it they can never be induced to quit it until they are permanently cured. It begins to relieve the disagreeable symptoms at once. The backache ceases, the trembling knees are strengthened, the appetite restored, the digestion made perfect, the dull headache is stopped and the weakening drains are gradually cured. These results certainly follow a course of treatment with Peruna. Barbara Alberty, corner Seventh and Walnut streets, Appleton, Wis., writes as follows in regard to Peruna: "For years I have suffered with backache and severe pains in the side. I doctored so much that I became discouraged. *A school friend told me how very much Peruna had benefited her and I sent out for a bottle, which did more to relieve me than all the other medicine I have ever Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Money won't buy happiness but it will at least buy coal. Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, all pain, cures wind colic. See a bottle. The oftener Cupid hits the mark the more Mrs. he makes. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling. The fellow who is perfectly satisfied with himself is not always perfect. DO YOUR CLOTHS LOOK FELLOW! If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. The obituary poet says his work is dead easy. Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corus, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease. It treats all drugstores and Shoe stores. 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Whatever you pray for you might also work for. HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Caterdin that cannot be cured by Hall's Caterdin Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known J. J. Cheney for honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX Wholesale Drugs Fighter, Toledo, Ohio; WIALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholehearted Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and anous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 25c per bottle. Sold by all drugsfires. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Laugh and the world laughs with you but not at your own jokes. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package con ains 16 ozs., while all the other kindr contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. St. Jac Is the greatest remedy i Aches a for which an external Price, 25c MRS. EVA BARTHO. PERUNA THE GREAT TON MRS. ANNA MARTIN. If afflicted with | sore eyes, use | Thompson's Eye Water DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives quick relief and cure new cases. Book of treatmentals and 30 DAYS treatment FREE. Dr. H. H. GREEN'S BOND. Box E. Atlanta, Ga. DON'T GET BLUE POP ART You may feel out of sorts, all run down, cross, irritable, headache,back ache, nervous, discouraged blue—but you need not. Eat what you want, keep regular hours, get plenty of sleep and take a small dose of Dr.Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin after each meal. If constipated, take a tablespoonful before going to bed. Mrs. Sarah A. McCracken, of Corning, Ohio, writes follows: "While sitting in Bayou ville, Ill. I came across the Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pensin. I have used two and one-half bottles, and it has done me more good than all the medicines I have taken. Please let me know if you will send me three or four bottles and what it will cost to send it to Corning, Perry County, Ohio, and oblige." Your druggist sells this remedy if he is a good druggist. 50c and $1.00 bottles. Your Money Back If It Don't Benefit You PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, Ill. W. N. U.—WICHITA—NO. 13, 1903 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Hention This Paper. obs Oil in the world for all bodily and Pains remedy may be used. and 50c. taken. I used it faithfully for two and it completely cured me. I had had any pain since anywhere like a new woman. I am truly for what Peruna has done for me bara Alberty. Mrs. Kate Mann, 808 Bathurst Toronto, Ont., Canada Ladies Aid Society, wrote to give praise to Peruna for the found through in me. I suffered for backache and dragged down pain and to go to bed and stay there when I was sick. I was very simple godsend to me when I was my notice. Every drop seemed to give life, and every dose made me feel and I promised myself that I found that color the women should know of it. I health for one year, I enjoy work and cause in such fine health, and so trouble heavy to bear when you are in too much she simply has a household housing will be without it again. "It is Kate Mann. MRS. KATE MANY M. Mrs. Anna Martin, 67 Hoyt St. N. Y., writes: "Perma did to惊 that I feel it my duty to recommend to who may be similarly afflicted. About a month ago I went to the backache, dizziness and irrepress- ment seemed dark indeed. We had used Perma home as a comic, and for colds and churn months I became regular. my pains had disappeared, and I am now perfectly well. Anna Martin." Mrs. Wm. Hetrick, Kentucky Watson County, Neb., writes: "I am fifty-six years old and he felt well since the Change of Life ten years ago. I was in many se- most of the time. My back was very and my flesh so tender it hurt me again the back of a chair. I be under my shoulder-blades, in the back and hips. I sometimes wipe self out of this world. Had hot spells, dizziness and trembling of and was losing flesh all the time. following your directions and taking I now feel like a different person." Wm. Hetrick. If you do not derive prompt and factory results from the use of He write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving statement of your case, and he w pleased to give you his valuable advice Peruna can be purchased for $ bottle at all first class drug stores. Address Dr. Hartman, President & Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio Equal to 0 Inch of Re A full stand of guarantee. You fail if you use us Send for circulation Equal to o Inch of Re A full stand of prenticed. You fall if you use our Send for circulation TOPEKA FOUNDRY, Topeka, I BROMO- SELTZER CURES ALL Headaches 10 CENTS--EVERYWHERE WESTERN CANADA GRAIN GROWING. MIXED FARMING. FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE The Reason Why more grown in Western Canada than short months is short months, because grown portion to the sunny. The northern latitude in which we come to perch is its. Therefore Gills, perch and the aerial 300s in the East. Area under crop in Western 1908, 1,967,830 Acres. Yield, 1908, 1,717,830 HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES the only charge for which is 800 for making a cheap, good grass for posture and hay, a sufficient rainfall, and a climate giving a sufficient rainfall, and a climate giving Send to the following. Also and literature, and also for certificate giving frosted freight and passenger rates, etc. Abundance of immigrants, etc. or to J.S. Crawford, St. Mary St. Kearns, the authorized Canadian Government. U.M.C. cartridges and shot shells are made in the largest and best equipped ammunition factory in the world of U. M. C. make is now accepted by shooters as "the worlds standard" for it shoots well in any gun. Your dealer sells it. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Bridgeport. . . Conn. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Used in time. Sold by drucery. CONSUMPTION We Want LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT, WHY NOT? r. Stubbs of Pennsylvania is in city. He is in charge of a price car. Irs. Ada Barton will take charge jackson house as its manager on 5th. Artistic Picture Moulding Wichita,'Kansas WANT OUR PRINTING Print THING BADS BADS EVENTS HEADS BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US. WORK OB ROOM. Now Prepared To Do All Of Fancy, Up to Date. We Invite A Trial. Guarantee To Please You, Both And Price. You Will Find The Old Reliable Stand At North Main St. Us Your Next Job. INVITE YOU TO CALL Who Can PRINT AS LOW AS THE LOWEST IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST YOU? ber to the HLIGHT? WHY NOT? ONLY FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. BETO·DAY Mr. Geo. Jones is very sick. Rov. Frazier aftar a week's illness is able to be about again. Thomas Brown, of Lawrenes, Ka spent a few days in the city as the guest of Mr. Stewart Waters Mrs. Amerson left Thursday for Gutherie Okla. Rev. Walker went to Sedan, Sat. Mrs. Alice Coker made a business trip to Coffeeville last week. Mrs. Walker and daughter Mrs. W. Wheaten was a Coffeeville visit or last week. The concert given by the 2nd Baptist choir was well attended and a fine program was rendered, Mr. B. F. Walker made the opening address. Solo by H. G. Wilder E. K. Knox and Robinson. Jesse Harvel of Columbus Kan. was in the city Thurrday. Mrs. Tommy Teal is very sick ail her home. Mrs. Gilbeat Robinson is able to be up again. Mrs. Sherman Teal came to Cherryvale to visit her mother-in-law. Sherman and Riley Teal came to Cherryvale to visit their mother and grandmother. Mrs. Belle Mc Intosh came from Coffeevill to see her sick mother Miss Josie Powell returned home from Coffeeville Sunday where she spen three weeks. HON. W. F. SCHELL, OUR COUNCILMAN. W. F. Schell, councilman from the second ward and the republican nominee to succeed himself needs no introduction to the voters of the second ward. Mr. Schell has always kekt abreast of the needs of the residents of the second ward and has always advocated them and push them. He is a man of business and has made a good councilman and will be re-elected on April 7th to succeed himself. With his colleague Mr. Chas. H. Luling, he has always proven to be a colored man's friend in the council and the time has never been too strenuous or the occasion to heated that W. F. Schell would not rally to the colored people and they appreciate this fact, and on the election day they will prove it by voting for him strong. The second ward has had most excellent good fortune in the fact that it has always had councilmen who stand up for their ward as other councilmen do. Vote for W. F. Schell. Mr. Willie Caldwell has returned to Denver after a weeks visit with relatives. Ruthford Work has returned from Topeka. The L. L. Society, will give an educational entertainment next Sunday at the Baptist Church. Mr. Louis and Allen Oldham, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kirk were guests at Miss Rosa Phill p's wedding last Wednesday. When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E.Donglass Ave. 'Phone 857. Continuee from 1st page down trodden, outraged AfroAmerican of the United States. "In God's name will the king of England, will the emperor of Germany, will the czar of Russia, will the sultan of Turkey, will the shan of Persia, will the emperor of Austria, will the king of Italy and will the king of Greece, will the president of Switzerland, will the king of Portugal, will the president of France, will the king of Sweden and will the king of Siam, will the emperor of China, will the emperor of or the mikado of Japan, will the rulers of Belgium, Roumania, Luxemburg, Montenegro and all other foreign powers interfere in some way in behalf of the suffering outraged and murd red Afro-American people of the United States and thus save the name of Christienity from reproach, meckery and derision and the name of humanity from shame, ridicule and contempt, and civilization, with all of its dear amenities from disgrace, scorn and ignominy." Our job department was rushed all last week from Monday noon till Saturday night. Our friends, on the announcement of our buying brand new, up-to-date type flooded our office with their orders and the result was that it kept our printers on the go and kept our press humming all the week. That is what we like and we invite you to do the same. We will not complain about how much you give us to do, we have the printers who can and will do the work that we want and are looking for. Upon installing our type last week we found that we did not have enough to meet the demands of hur varied patrons and so sent in another order which happily arrived Saturday March 21, and we have them now in our office. We thank our friends who favored us with their order last week and invite you to bring us your work. Our motto is "To live and let live." Don't you believe in the same thing? If you don't you should. Bring us your order. in The Ne Plus Ultra club met at the residence of Miss Daisy Bradford last Monday night. A grand program was rendered and a delicious lunch was served. All hada nice time. The Tabernaeis will give a Tacky party at the Sons of Voterans hall 233 north Ma st, Thursday night All are invited. Mrs. Dora Brown of Leavenworth is in the city visiting her fatherC. H. Young. Mrs. Brown is not in good health and thought that the change of climate for a time would improve her health. Since coming to this city she has greatly improved and has great hopes for recovery. The Tabernacle will meet in their regular monthly meeting at No. 533 N. Main st. next Thursday afternoon April 2nd. All members are asked to be present, important business. Commission Merchants Money Always On Hand To Loan To Responsible Parties Your Business Sollected Wichita Stock Yards Prices 466 You are respectfully invited to be present at our "Formal Openin" of Spring Millinery on Friday and Saturday of this week, at woich time we will have on display, fully a thousand Pattern Hats, both imported and domestic. Boston Store 103, 105, 107, 109 E. DOUGLAS AVE. WALLENSTEIN & CO. N. The S&M 5 & 10c store. LADIES' BLACK PETTICOATS THAT ARE ALL THAT THEY SHOULD BE We've placed on sale a lot of Ladies' Mercerized Sateen and Spun Glass Petticoats that are much better in quality and price than we have ever offered, and we have some very unusual values the last year. By buying all the manufacturer had of several numbers we got a liberal discount from the regular discount from the regular jobbing price and have marked them at the ssme ratio. To introduce this department we make the special coupon sale below, which is good until Monday, April 6. We have them at the following price—99e, $1.29, $1.49, $1.00 to $2.49. PETTICOAT COUPON. Good or 25c on any Petticoat worth $1 or More. This coupon will be accepted at the S. & M. Store at 25c in cash on any petticoat that sells at $1.00 or over. Must be used before April 6. (S.L.) S. B. KERNAN, OF THE FIRST WARD: Mr. S. B. Kernan, councilman from the first ward has made a clean and clear record since he went into the council. Representing a ward where the colored population is spare, yet Mr. Kernan has been and is now one of the staunchest friends which the colored people of Wichita have. He is a man of standing and is a councilman in every sense of the word. He has not confined himself to the first ward, but has done all in his power to make Wichita a good place to come to and a good place to live after one has come. He will be elected from the first ward and is in harmony with the rapid progress that our city is now making; and while in the council will do all in his power that prosperity continue, Rev Green of Kansas City is ass- Rev. H. F. Lrazier in the revival meeting at the New Hope Baptist church. You cannot afford to miss the big time which will be had at the Tacky Party to be given by the ladies of Wichita Tabernacle No 34, at the Son's of Veterans hall next Thurs day night, April 2nd. OUR JOB DEPARTMENT. We wish to call your attention of our friends and patrons to the fact that an expense of $161.00, we have recentl installed in our new office several fonts of new and up-to date job type and we will in the future make a specialty of high-grade work and commercial printing. We are not so selfish as to take the credit all to ourselves, far from that, but you, our friends, have stood by us at all times. We ask you at this time to remember us when you want any thing done in the job line rnd we will treat you with the same courtesy that has characterized us since we began making an effort to keep abreast of the times and our exceeding good prosperity during the past year has enabled us to do so. We wish to say to our friends that there was never a time since we began business in this city that we were prepared to do them all kinds of high grade work than at this time, business among you more than four years ago. We have gradually climbed untill today we are prepared to do you any and all kind of work and at prices as low as the lowest and with work as good as the best. Give us a trial order and be convinced. COLONISTS TICKETS Will be on sale at Santa Fe ticket office daily to June 15, at the rate of $25.00. These tickets will be honored on fast trains carrying free chair cars and Pullman tourist sleepers. Liberal stopover privileges in California accorded. The same favorable rates will be made to many intermediate points in Arizona. If you contemplate locating in California, this is your opportunity to go there comfortably and economically. Irrigated farms, orange and lemon groves and other branches of agriculture have yielded competencies to other persons. Why shouldn't you be as successful? I have illustrated descriptive literature about California, as well as of t Other books describe the equipment of our California trains. If interested come and get copies, or write me and I will mail them to you. A FALSE RUMOR. The Street Rumor That Mayor Ben McLean Voted For the Closing of Hose House No.3 While in the Council is False TRUE COPY OF THE COUNCIL MEETING DISPROVES IT. READ RECORD FOR YOURSELF. The street gossipers who are advocating Finlay Ross' cause being unable to answer the statements made in the SEARCHLIGHT concerning Mr. Finlay Ross and the colored voters of Wichita, have admitted that all we have said is true, but hopes to find an excuse, by saying: "Ben McLean voted for the abolishing at Hose House No. 3 on the recommendation of A. G. Walden, Fire Marshal." When this rumor came to our knowledge we did not believe it so we went to work to hunt the matter up and found the record at the meeting at which Hose House No. 3 was ordered closed. For the benefit of all our readers we reproduce a true copy of the record as on file in the city clerk's office: (See record.) Proceedings of City Council, May 10th, 1897—Mayor Ross in the Chair. All councilmen present except Daniels, McLean, Miller and Sutton. Chairman Handley of the Fire and Water Committee, submitted a report in which the committee recommended that Hose House No. 3 be discontinued, also that the force be reduced one man at each house and that the wages of firemen be reduced $5.00 per month. Chairman Handley moved the adoption of the report. Councilman Minnich moved to amend and include No. 4 in the report. The amendment was lost by the following vote: Yeas: Minnich and Schell. Nays: Allen, Gribi, Handley, Reese, Smith and Young. The vote on the original motion, to close No. 3 Hose House, to reduce the force one man at each house, and to reduce the firemen's salaries $5.00 per month, was as follows: Yeas—Allen, Gribi, Handley, Reese, Smith and Young—Councilmen Shell and Minnich voting against it. By reading the above proceedings it is seen that this was one at the very few nights which Councilman Ben McLean, now Mayor McLean, was absent. Thus it is seen on its face that the rumor that Ben McLean voted to close Hose House No. 3 has no foundation as he was not present at that meeting. Councilman Schell voted against closing the House as he believed then as he does now, that the colored men should be retained. One thing which is quite noticeable is the fact that MR. GEORGE YOUNG, then in the Council from the Second Ward, VOTED TO CLOSE HOSE HOUSE NO. 3 AND TO REDUCE THE FIREMEN ONE MAN AT EACH HOUSE AND REDUCE THEIR PAY $5.00 PER MONTH; yet Mr. Young would have the colored people admire him as a great friend (?) to the race. Thus it is seen that this false accusation of Ben McLean has no foundation whatever and it is still with Mr. Finlay Ross to explain the closing of L. R. DELANEY, Ticket Agent. Hose House No. 3. It is the true facts that we will give our, readers. No matter whom it may injure. ELECTION PROCLAMATION. I, B. F. McLean, mayor of the city of Wichita, by virtue of authority vested in me by law, do hereby make proclamation to the qualified electors of said city of Wichita that there will be held on Tuesday, the 7th day of April, A. D. 1903, an election for the purpose of electing the following named officers, to-wit: One mayor, to succeed B. F. McLean, to serve for a period of two years. One city attorney, to succeed A. E. F. Helm, to serve for a period of two years. One city clerk to succeed J. L. Leland (term expires May 25), to serve for a term of two years. One police judge, to succeed C. C. Stanley, to serve for a period of two years. One judge of the city court to succeed E. E. Harvey, to serve for a period of two years. One clerk of the city court, to succeed R. S. Bell, to serve for a term of two years. One marshal of the city court, to succeed Tom Voss, to serve for a term of two years. One member of the city council from each ward, to serve for a term of two years. One member of the city council for short term in the Third ward. One member of the board of education from each ward, to serve for a term of two years. Three justices of the peace. Done at Wichita. Kansas, this 17th day of March, 1903. B. F. McLEAN, Mayor. Attest: J. L. LELAND, City Clerk. Election Proclamation. Wichita, Kansas, March 17, 1903. Whereas, on the 3rd day of March, 1903, amended the 17th day of March, 1903, there was presented to me a resolution adopted by the board of education of the city of Wichita on the 2nd day of March, 1903, and amended on the 17th day of March, 1903, together with a certificate thereto; a copy of which resolution as amended as aforesaid and certificate is as follows: "Resolved, That the educational interests of the city of Wichita and school district number one, require and render it necessary to issue and sell the bonds of the board of education of the city of Wichita in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-nine one and Dollars ($125,000). for purchasing a suitable site and erecting, furnishing and equipping a high school building thereon. Be it further "Resolved, That said bonds shall be issued in denominations of Five Hundred ($300) each, payable in not less than five years nor more than twenty years from date, with option of redemption of all or any portion of said bonds, at any interest payment thereof, after ten years from date; and said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not exceeding four and one-half per cent per annum, evidenced by interest coupons payable semi-annually, and both principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable at the fiscal twenty of the state of Kansas, in the Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($125,000), for the purpose of purchasing a suitable site and erecting, furnishing and equipping a high school building thereon. Said bonds to be in denominations of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) each, payable in not less than five years nor more than twenty years from date, with option of redemption of all or any portion of said bonds at any interest payment thereof, after ten years from date, and bear interest at the rate of not exceeding four and one-half per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and both principal and interest to be made payable at the fiscal agency of the state of Kansas, in the city of New York." The ballots used at said election shall have printed on them the following: "For the High School Bonds." [] "Against the High School Bonds." [] Said election shall be held under and pursuant to the laws of the state of Kansas; the opening and closing of the polls and the selection of persons to serve as judges and clerks at said election, in each election precinct of said city, shall be carried on and done at the time and in the manner as by law provided. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of March, 1903. (Seal) B. F. McLEAN, Mayor of the City of Wichita. Attest: J. L. LELAND, City Clerk. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. GO TO ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. P. W. Israel, 127 N. Market Wichita. trees NOW IS THE TIME reign agents that are the country—come ery this spring, make s and save money. trees are the Best Plant Trees Early NOW IS THE TIME Don't patronize foreign agents that are now traveling over the country come direct to the Nursery this spring, make your own selections and save money. Home-Grown Trees are the Best You know it. Call on or address CHITA NURSERY WICHITA NURSERY Cor. Lawrence and 21st St. Ear direct to grounds. WICHITA, KAN. New Phone 1100. Take Stock Yards Car direct to grounds. WICHITA, KAN. Bell Phone 459, New Phone 1100. city of New York. Be it further "Resolved, That the following proposition for issuing and selling said bonds be submitted to the electors of the city of Wichita and school district No.1, at the ensuing regular city election, to be held on the 7th day of April, 1903, and that the mayor be requested to submit it." I, C. E. Caldwell, secretary of the board of education of the city of Wichita, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of resolution, as amended, as it appears spread upon the record of said board, and that the same was duly adopted at a regular meeting of said board on the 2nd day of March, 1903, and amended at a special meeting on the 17th day of March, 1903, and that the same were adopted by a recorded yea and nay vote, there being nine yeas and one nay, as appears by the minutes and records of said board. C. S. CALDWELL, Secretary of the Board of Education of the City of Wichita. Attest: LEVI HORNER, President of the Board of Education of the City of Wichita. And whereas, the action of the board of education as above set forth shows a necessity for the purchasing of a site and erecting, furnishing and equipping a high school building thereon; Now, therefore in conformity with the above resolution and pursuant to the authority in me vested, I, B. F. McLean, mayor of the city of Wichita, do proclaim and make known that an election will be held in the city of Wichita, Kansas, on the 7th day of April, 1903, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of the city of Wichita the proposition to issue school bonds to the amount and for the purpose as fully set forth in the above and foregoing resolution of said board of education. The proposition hereby submitted to be voted on is: "Shall the board of education of the city of Wichita, and of school district No.1, issue and sell bonds of said district to the amount of One Hundred ```markdown ``` Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store. 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