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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT "CARRY THE BAIT" ESPONSIBILITY FOR SLAVERY PIGSTORY THAT ILLUSTRATS THE NEGROES POSITION Negroes At Tuskegee Are " Carrying the Bait " — First Lesson For the Black Man Must Learn Is That He Must Work. 4TH YEAR. "CARRY T ooker Washing Advice T ESPONSIBILITY PIG STORY THAT ILLUSTR Negroes At Tuskegee Are "C For the Black Man Must Le srago, May 9.—“In no way I know can I better illustrate people how they can secure the co-operation of the white than by telling a certain story, Booker T. Washington at the titonium. “An old darky fish on the river bank saw the boy was with him fall into the am, and plunged in after him. a heroic struggle he brought youngster to shore. As he lay the bank panting a white man up. That was a brave deed of yours ‘k’ he said. “Is that your son?” Noah, he ain't no son o' mine.’ Neighbors boy then? so, sah, he ain't no naybor's Well, it's all the more pra se- tary that you should risk your for a boy you don't know You ur- stand that don't you uncle?" Well. Ah doan know as Ah per- ry understan yo', but I know he he have all de bait in his pocket,' I away to you my people put the in your pockets. Make your- ses so valuable that the white in must have you. Don't try to the fishing yourselves—be satis if you can carry the bait which make them need you. Then they forget such things as race dems and race lines—those will need no settlement, will be forgotten." I was with such homely tales as the founder of Tuskegee institute held an audience, which filled Auditorium from the orchestra to the top tier of the fifth gallery two hours last night. He watched no sermon, save that of simple truth as he understood it; raised no ideals that the humblist right tot reach, into his talk a in every day kind of talk as one can makes to his brother, there not the touch of pathos and the art of humor, but always he wasipping the way which he felt can be followed if the Negro is to free from every form of bondage, and the burden of it was "Work." Her James H. Eckels had introduced him in a few words in which said he believed the Negro would free with him that the first step his uplifting was not political and social equality north and south H. Washington began in a moduled tone to discuss what he termed the problem of this century. when I was on my way here," he said, "I met a man who said that he hoped that when I spoke in Chicago I would tell my audience which was responsible for the introduction of slavery in this country, the north or south. I did consider this matter, but after thinking it over I concluded it was a question for some one besides me. It reminded me of a tarner who sold a man a pig one morning. The pig got away from him and went back to his old sty. Another man who wanted a pig came along in the afternoon and he old darky sold the pig again. A mile from the old fellow's cabin the first purchases met the second and they argued over the ownership of that pig. Finally they decided to go back and talk it over with the darky. They rode up beside the bench beneath the tree where he was smoking his pipe and stated their cases. Then they waited for his decision. He looked up in disgust. "Foh lan sakes, white folks, dat haint mah pig; can't you folks go off an settle dat foh yohselves?" "It seems to me that the North and South should settle that matter without asking the Negro to take part in the argument. The black man has the distinction of being the only race which actually has been pressed to become Americans. We feel that after all the trouble that you went through to bring us over here, even to the extent of paying our passage, it would be ungracious to say no more, for us to go back to Africa. "This problem must be worked out—and we will work it out ourselves with your aid. I believe there there is wisdom enough and charity enough and Christianity enough here for us to work this out side by side. To do this successfully our race must learn the secret of civilization We must learn that idleness is a disgrace. A lover of the country, with its hills and valleys, its rocks and rills, the birds and all nature, must be instilled into us. For that is where the Negro belongs—in the country. We must learn that it is a great thing to make an acre yield fifty bushels of corn where twenty grew before, for it is in the study of the soil, yes the soil itself, that we will find our salvation. So long as we remain in our natural environment, the country, we are honorable. It is only when we get into the big cities that we yield to temptation. The black man must be taught to put brain, skill and dignity into his work. When he does, it becomes something more than mere drudgery. Down at Tuskegee we make nine-tenths of the bricks manufac- WICHITA. KANSAS. MAY 16 1903. By honesty, thrift and industry, the Negro race will win. Let the leaders of the race advocate more work and less politics and the results will be more pronounced and beneficial to the whole race. The one thing which the Negro race is in need of now is, not more politician, but more skilled labor'rs tured in the county. Who buys them? The white man. Does he draw the color line? Not when he sees that the black man can make better bricks than the white. That is what I call carrying the bait. Last year one of our graduates devoted his time to seeing how many bushels of sweet petates he could raise on one acre. He analyzed the soil and produced by other things taught in our school. He harvested 248 bushels. The average yield is fifty bushels. Farmers cam fifty miles to see that crop. They didn't draw the color line on them potatoes—no, indeed. They wanted to see how it was done. That Negro had the bait with him. I don't want to hurt the feelings of the white folks present, as we say nown south, but I must tell you some facts. There are more ignorant black children in the south today than there were in 1870. Now New York spends this year $41 on each of its public school children; Louisiana spends $1.95. I admit that I have met some mighty ignorant white folks and some mighty stupid ones, but I never tought that the whites were so hard to educate that that it required twenty times as much money to do it as it did to educate blacks. But I am not asking for money, We don't want charity. What we want are leaders, those who will come to us with their souls in their work and their hands outstretched to lift us. I know of no field where one can see the grains of knowledge sprout and grow and blossom and yield with such tremendous increase as in this field. The primary lesson for the black man is that he must work. He must know that do man is free until he is out of debt. The shackles of mortgaged lands and crops are as great a bondage as any chains, and the call of the creditor stings worse than any overseer's lash. When we By honesty, th try, the Negro n Let the leaders vocate ' more w politics' and the more pronounc cial to the whol thing which the in need of now itician, but more The Watch in Hot Weather. Some men are as prone to take up a fashion as women. A 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 buttonhole of the lapel, so that the chain ornamented that part of the garment. Then the fashion disappeared. It has returned, and during the first warm days of last week when walst- learn that education means something more than books, and that it includes three meals a day, which come with thrift and economy, then shall we be approaching our goal. We hear of crimes committed by Negroes. We we not hear of crimes committed by the white man? Judg us by the best, not by the worst. No race was uplifted by calling attention to it's weak rather than its strong points. Let me tell you that one little farm free from debt, no matter how small its value, tells more of the advance of the black man than all the oators ever heard id this hall. One little house, which taken the place of the rough cabin, speaks more than all the tracts you can spread and statistics you can poke at people. One homo, free from mortgaea, where the black man owns his mules and stock, sends his children to school and spends his days in toil, is worth all the cloquence of a Demosthenese. Our pathway must be through the soil. It must be up through the mother earth, the hillside and the swamp the rocks and forests. The Negro is young in civilization. The white man has many centuries the better of us. Yet we have progressed, slowly perhaps but still going ahead. In the days of the civil war, when you lsft your helpless women and children to our care none ever suffered. Always we have been ready to defend the flag, and we have carried it wherever our white brother has painted the way. This is dur pat. I believe our future will be greater, and I ask pou in all sincerity is not snch a race worth the saving?' " UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. " SEARCHLIGHT $1.00 Per Year rift and indus- race will win. of the race ad- work ' and less results will be used and benefi- race. The one Negro race is is, not more pol e skilled labor'rs coats were discarded the tendency to transfer the watch to the upper outside 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 that the watch in the coat pocket is a better mode of wearing it than in the pocket of the negligee shirt. Must Protect the SOUTHERN NEGRO Master APPEAL FOR JUSTICE In his charge to the Lincoln county (Miss.) grand jury, Judge Robert Powell called upon the grand jury to act vigorously and by indictment suppress the whitecapping which has existed in Lincoln county for several months. The lawlessness is directed against the Negro labor on the plantations operated by non-residents and merchants. It has run a large amount of this labor out of the county. The Judge said: I confess, gentlemen, that I can't understand this foolish hostility to the Negro. He is here without his consent, and here he must undoubtedly remain in large numbers. He has been eliminated by our constitution and laws from all political control. He asks not for social recognition. He only asks the privilege ef working for his daily bread in peace and to indulge the hope that the coming years may bring something better to his posterity. We of the white race have all the offices of power, from governor to constable, and the Negro is simply a creature of our mercy. It strikes me that for us to oppress where we should protect, to debase where we WIN FIELD, KAS. Mr. Geo. Banks was up from Arkansas City last week the guest of his brother Jesse Banks. Mrs. Thomas Campbell and two children Nora and Ernest visited friends in Arkansas City last week. Rev. Watson preached in Wellington last Sunday. Rev. S. S. Brndy spent last Sunday and Monday in Arkansas City visiting friends. Miss Nora Tomes of Arkansas City was a guest of her sister last Sunday, Mrs. A. R. Simpson. Arthur Covington was taken to the reform school last Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Sidal. Miss Myrtle Delano of Arkansas City spent Sunday in the city the guest of Mrs. Thos Campbell. Rey. A. Simes held quarterly meeting last Sunday in Arkansas City for Rev. Brown of the A. M. E church. If you want to get all the news read the Wichita Searchlight. It is only $1 a year. J. W. Wood is the authorized agent. Wm. Hayter is out again after a brief illness. Rev. Hughes, of Arkansas City, preached at 2nd Baptist church last Sunday. NO 51 might lift up, is humanly and unworthy of the proud race to which we belong. Stand by the nobler traditions of your race and let it be understood once and for all in Lincoln county that no man or set of men are so powerful that the strong arm of the law cannot reach them, or so lowly that the broad shield of the law cannot protect them. Our mother state (God bless her), wounded and destroyed as she has been by the cruel ravages of war, is at last lifting her face to the rising sun of a better day and pressing onward uud upward with gi an t strides in the great race of industrial development. Let us not hamper her in her struggle by terrorizing capital and forbidding immigration. Rather let it be understood mong our people and by the stranger who is within our gates that life, liberty and property are secure to all within our borders. I call upon you as Christian and civilized men to rally to the standard of the law and put down this miserable whitecapping in your community. Miss Josie Marshal of Arkansas C.ty visited in Winfield last Sunday. Rev. Watson of the A. M. E. church has purchased a lot on S. Muner just north of Mr. Arch Brow where they will build a church parsonage. Mr. Henry Johnson, night porter at the Brettun Hotel is taking a week vacation. Wm. Hater is filling vacancy. On Tuesday night May 8th, the cow of W. N. Miller gave forth a calf. After the calf was born nature failed to perfor its duty, with the result that the cow became very sick. On Sunday, seeing the danger of losing the cow Miller called for Dr. J. T. Kinahan, veterinary surgeon, who lives at 528 Riverview Dr. Kinahan hurried out and removed what nature had failed to do He treated the cow and on Tuesday the was restored to a healthy condition. Every one who saw the cow Sunday before Dr. Kinahan was called said she wouldn't live till night. But Dr. Kinahan has proven what skill can be accomplished in the treatment of cows. We recommend Dr. J. T. Kinahan, 528 Riverview, to any all who may at any time have sick horses or cows. His prices are reasonable and his treatment sure. Remember you can call him qy Phone:512. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kausas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. 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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 person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. Election May 26 1903. For Congressman, 7th Congressional District, HON. VICTOR MURDOCK. Our Stand Our Stand For nearly five years the Wichita Searchlight has been before the people. During that time we have at all times stood firm for principal. In political affairs we have at all times advocated the principals of the Republican party. We have advocated these principals because we believed them right and more beneficial to the interests of our people. During every day and every hour of this time we have stood firm as an exponent of republicanism, It has mattered not what others may have said or done, we have stood firm. And today after these years of advocacy, we are firmer in our stand for republicanism than ever before; because we find that by longer study and association with those principals the more correct we learn their value and meaning. We believe in the Republican party from principal. In other affairs we have at all times advocated the highest and best standard for our people. In our efforts we are proud to note that the colored people have stood with us. They are still with us. If in all our past and future toil for our race we can do one jot that will tend to help our people to a higher plane, then we shall be happy. We have at all times tried to be fair, and at no time have we ever deceived our people, but on the other hand, frankness, open and fairness has been our motto. We trust that in the future we shall be as able to so maintain and hold up our people's interest as we have in the past. Judge Thos. C. Wilson and James H. McPherson are leading a winning campaign for Vietor Murdock. Both gentlemen are tireless and able workers. We thank our friends very much for the many pieces of job work which they handed in our job department. The colored voters of the Seventh Congressional District and especially those of Wichita and Sedgwick county, will act wise in giving Hon Victor Murdock, republican candidate for congress, their undivided support. They will find that Mr. Murdock will be as good a friend to the race when in congress as he has always been during his life-long residence in Wichita The annual sermon of Home of the West lodge No. 2906, G. U. O. O. F., was preached at the A. M. E. church last Sunday. The's er m o u was preached by Rev. H. F. Frazier It was a nice affair. Mrs. B. Morris is on the sick list. FROM REV. H. V. PLUMMER. We received the following from Rev. Plummer, former pastor of the 2nd Baptist church of this city which explains itself: Kansas City, Ks. May 13 '03. W. N. Miller, Esq. Editor Wichita Searchlight, Please allow me space in your very valuable and widely read paper to express the true feeling of my heart to my friends in Wichita, and especially to those of the 2nd Baptist church with whom I labored for one year and nine months. The people were very kind to me during my stay in their city, and as pastor of the 2nd Baptist church I wish to say—as I sit quietly at my home and look over the field, I am very thankful to God for His love and mercy which enabled me to do such a great work in so short a time. With a people who have no railroads, no banks, no wholesale or retail stores, but a people, who, only a short while ago emerged from an abject slavery and poverty—this recital shows the great secret of God's mighty hand by which these people succeeded under my leadership. The ambition of my heart was to have seen the church house moved from the railroad tracks to a more convenient location. I wish to again thank the Wichita Searchlight for its ever ready and willing support in keeping my plans before the people. May the blessings of God ever shine upon the Wichita Searchlight and its very gentlemanly editor. The Searchlight is a God-send and a jewel to the colored people of Wichita, if the people only knew how to appreciate it and the efforts which is putting forth in their interest. After nearly two years dealing with the Searchlight and its editor, I frankly say, I have never dealt with a more honest and upright gentleman in every way, than I found this editor—W. N. Miller—to be I hope that multiplied thousands will see the importance of this paper and will give it their whole support. I shall at all times, and in every place do all I can to advance it, as I did during my stay in Wichita. A NAMESAKE OF CLEVELAND At the recent for the benefit of Tuskegee institute, with Grow Cleveland in the chair, William H. Baldwin told this story. "I spent a week at Tuskegee not long ago. One boy who had just arrived there from South Curolina, interested me particularly. He was a bright little fellow of 15, small, wiry and black as anything you ever saw. 'When did you leave home I asked. 'A year ago,' he answered; 'But how could it have taken you a year to get here?' I sat in surprise. He explained that he had inquired his way, received wrong directions and had gone up to Baltimore, and then had turned back and walked the entire distance to Tuskegee, earning his food and shelter by the way. "I looked at him. He had big feet and big hands—hands that had done a man's work—and a little body, the body of a child. 'What is your name?' I asked. His name Mr. Chairman"—here Mr.Baldwin turned to Mr.Cleveland—"showed that boy's character. It was Caleb Joshua Groven Cleveland McFadden." The audience reared, and Mr.Cleveland in his arm chair on the platform shook with laughter until he Locals and Personals SHOES SHOES SHOES Miss Lizzie Nelson of Guthrie O. T., is in the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bronson 641 N. Wichita st. Miss Wilson will spend about two weeks in the city. Rev. Maho, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, will occupy his pulpit Sunday after an absence of 30 days visiting his home Boston Mass., and other eastern cities. The members and friends of the Tabernacle church are pleased that Rev. Maho has returned sound and well. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER, PATRONIZE THEM. Chief of Police Frank S. Burt, left Sunday for New Orleaus, Lh., where he will attend the annual meeting of the International Association of Police Chiefs of the United States and Canada. Mrs. Canie Barker and Mrs. John Davis went to Arkansas City Thursday to be present at the graduation of Miss Norveda Wilson in that city which will take place Friday, May 15th. Miss Wilson will return to this city with them. The Peerless Steam Laundry Selover & Sons props, will move i.to their new location 235-287 N. Market, Saturday, April 25th. They invite you to call and see their new OUR PRICES and OUR WORK are both as good any other. Give us a trial. There will be a rally at the A. M. B. church for the benefit of the stewards. The church is divided into four clubs and each club is putting forth every effort to raise $25 each. Rev Barnett of Hutchinson will be here to assist in the rally. Rev. H. F. Frazier expects to begin the erection of his new church in the new future. When the new New Hope Baptist church is completed it will be one of the finest church edifices in the west. Mrs. Lee Anderson, Dr. J. E. Farmer, Miss H. V. Davis and Mr. Young made a pleasant trip to the country last Friday. They report a nice time. Officer Henry Buford is proving himself to be a competent and capable policeman. He is all his friends claimed for him. Wichita Tabernacle No. t34 will meet in regular session Thursday at 2 p. m. All the daughters are requested to be present. Witliam Crouch sent a $7.00 present to Miss Noveda Wilson as a graduation present SHOES Men's, Wome We do not ask you to pay for a job that we do, if our work is not satisfactory. Give us a trial order. Rev. H. V. Plummer, after spending two years in Wichita as pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, preached his farewell sermon at that church last Sunday. Rev. Plummer has done much good while he was pastor in this city and it is with much regret that we learn that Reverend Plummer leaves our city. Rev. Plummer is a full fledged race man and made many friends while in our city. H* goes to his home in Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Emma Gaines, Grand C. P. wno was in the city several days last week, lslt Sudday at 11:15 via the Santa Fe for her home in Topeka. Mrs. Gaines was very favorably impresse with Wichita and her very hospitable people The ladies of the B. F. W. club met Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Glover. After an interesting meeting refreshments were served. Mrs. E Landrum and Mrs. M. Glover of the the G. L. A. club were visitors. The club adjourned to meet next Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Lucy Anderson. Dr. J. E. Farmer left Thursday for Kansas City where he will visit his parents and attend some personal business. Dec expects to spend a week or ten days in the twin cities. The Elite Restaurant is one of the finest in the state and serves good wholesome meals. They are open all night. Mr. Jas. Jackson has charge at night. Mrs. L. C. Hilbert and sister left this week for Topeka, called there by the serious illness of their mother. A very enjoyable party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller, 428 W. 14th st., in honor of Ms. Emma Gaines Grand Chief preceptress. Those present had a very enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. G, H. Young anticipate going to Chicago in the near future to spend a few months. The stewards rally at the A. M. E. church has been postponed until the fourth Sunday in this month. The Maypole entertainment given by she members of the A. M. E. church was a grand success. Rev. H. F. Frazier will have a grand rally at the New Hope church the first Sunday in June. Park Massey is day clerk at the central station. The heavy rains will bring forth some very htgh water. Mayor B. F. MeLean spent a few days in Tepeka this week. CHAS. A. SCHWENDIGER. SECOND SECOND TO NONE Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT The New Store GREENFIELD ONE PRICE Hatters and Trunks and Entire New Union Block FORT SCOTT, KANS. USE IM BODE 1MP --- --- ENFIELD CLOTHING CO. 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Our prices defy competition, workmanship is equal to any big priced tailoring in the country. Call and convince yourself. The Peerless Tailor. 208 E. Douglas Ave. OTTO WEIIS, Agent. "Outfitters to His Majesty The American Man" FLOUR AND IMBODEN MILLING CO. Best Hand Laundry In the City First-Class Work Guaranteed. 699 East Douglas Ave.....Wichita. Go To ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F.U.D. Israel Wichita. The Sweet Girl With The Sweet Teeth will find good filling in this store, for no better sweetmeats can be found in any country or many countries, than those we make and sell. We're proud of them. Why should we be? Good candies, and good candies only, are purchased at Bissant WICHITA KANSAS Our Celebrated ICE CREAM al- ways Amblots you finish should not jump ready to the conclusion that the suckest and surtest way to get rich to become a burglar or train rob- Occasionally one of these fea- SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday, May 16, 03 The latest physiognomical wrinkle is the alum face. Is Wisdom wise when it goes to the revels of Folly? If so, it is foolish. The Vanderbilt-Nellison merger goes into effect under the most flattering auspices. With racing and baseball in full bloom spring might as well settle down to business herself. There is another crisis in the Balkans. It is the fourth that has come along since a week ago Friday. The Missouri man who has been working for twelve years on a crazy quilt must have a mind of that pattern. Dr. Cyrus Edson says that grip is caught through kissing. And yet a kiss has caused many a man to lose his grip. The Mad Mullah's mother is sought. Now if they could catch his mother-in-law, perhaps he'd quiet down and live in peace. It is a wonder the people of Denmark have never risen in their wrath and thrown vegetables and things at the stage Dane. They have discovered George Washington's little hatchet, and it cannot tell a lie, for didn't Parson Weems invent it? A bald-headed men's club has been formed in Cleveland. Isn't it about time for the people who wear glass eyes to get together? A New York goat ate its owner's mackintosh and $50 in bills which were in the pockets. Moral: Don't have money in your mackintosh. Thieves stole a statue weighing a ton from a Chicago office building. They probably concluded that the building was old and not worth taking. A clergyman in New York announces that he will write no more Sunday sermons for the papers of that city. Perhaps they have stopped asking him. Rockefeller is now troubled with insomnia as well as dyspepsia. What's the use of being a multi-millionaire if you must have sleepless sleeps and eatless meals? Because a New York policeman could not show that he had a bank account he was declared insane. This may be called prima facie evidence—in New York. The attorney general of New Jersey has been fined for running his automobile too fast. The people of New Jersey must be taking their laws seriously this spring. Springfield, Mass., has a millionaire who works as a day laborer. But he is probably doing it for fun, and not because he is afraid of losing his job if should rest up a bit. In the 10 years ending with 1901 the world's production of gold was 4,905 tons, worth $2,291,400,510. Even Mr. Rockefeller isn't rich enough to corner the gold market yet. The ex-Crown Prince of Saxony and her former husband have made up and will be married again "for the sake of the dynasty." That dynasty must be pretty hard up for material. There is absolutely no truth in the story that Harry Lehr barked like a dog on his way home from the Vanderbilt wedding. He may have barked like a puppy, but not like a dog. A beautiful girl has married a titled Englishman who had to go to the workhouse because of his poverty. The wonderful thing about the case is that she isn't an American heiress. Betting on horse races is a fascinating sport and when conducted through race betting firms the opportunity to lose money is quite as good as if the customer were present in the pool ring. The larger the wheat crop the happier the railroads. The smaller the wheat crop the happier the operators who wish to corner it. The consumer, as usual, has the privilege of paying in either event. The new Shamrock's spinnaker boists 140 feet, is 78 feet across the foot and is exceptionally full. There must be cloth enough in it to make canvas trousers for a whole orphan asylum full of boys. Count Robert de Montesquiou is saying uncomplimentary things about Americans since his return to that dear Paris. This is unkind of the count. Didn't he find the people smiling wherever he went over here? The Economites, a community of cellists who once flourished near Pittsburgh, have died off or deserted until only half a dozen are left, and they have just sold out and retired from business. It's pretty hard to keep any community up to the standard on cellacy. He Has Been Told That His Broom Is a Nuisance. THE IDWA IDEA (TARIFF REFORM) PROTECTION AS TO STANDING PAT LATEST ASPECT OF THE TARIFF REVISION QUESTION. The Plain Speaking of President Roosevelt, Secretaries Root, Shaw and Others Has Wrought a Marked Change in the Situation and Outlook. The changes that have occurred in the situation and outlook regarding tariff revision during the past few days are the subject of careful comment by a member of the cabinet in the Washington correspondence of the New York Tribune of April 7. If the speeches of Secretaries Shaw and Root, March 31 and April 3, respectively, were read and approved by the president before they were delivered—and nobody doubts that they were—the meaning and the intent of the President's speeches at Milwaukee and Minneapolis become all the clearer. His purpose obviously was to throw the entire weight of administration influence against the supreme folly of talking tariff revision at this time. Secretaries Shaw and Root delivered powerful addresses designed to prove that changes in the Dingley law schedules in the direction of lower duties or no duties are not called for by any of the conditions of industry and trade; on the contrary, the country's interests will be best served by letting the tariff entirely alone, at least until after the national election of 1904. Right upon the heels of these public declarations by his two secretaries came, first, the speech of President Roosevelt at Milwaukee on the general subject of trusts, in which he took the ground that a remedy for trust evils must not be sought for in tariff revision. The same week, at Minneapolis, the president fired his big broadside against any and all forms of tariff tinkering. If Secretaries Root and Shaw left any part of the ground uncovered in their speeches, the President certainly covered it at Minneapolis. In the language of the cabinet officer quoted by the New York Tribune, the President "went direct to the territory where the ' Iowa Idea' is supposed to prevail. In both speeches he struck straight He Has Been Told Tha THE IDWA IDEA (TARIFF REFORM) out from the shoulder, and he rang the bell twice." In the same week Senator Allison gave out an authorized interview in which he said: "No tariff revision," and incidentally took occasion to say that in his judgment reciprocity in competitive products was a dream that has little chance of ever being realized. Senator Frye, the acting Vice-President, declared himself in equally positive terms. About the same time William Jennings Bryan was delivering a speech at Des Moines in which he praised Gov. Cummins warmly for his "progressive" tariff ideas and welcomed him to the Democratic fold. All this is interesting history. It means much to the Republican party and the country. It means, says the cabinet officer quoted by the Tribune, that—"Tariff reformers masquerading under the guise of Republicans will have to become classified under another name, or welcomed back into the ranks of the Democracy, as Gov. Cummins has been by Bryan. The Republican party, with Roosevelt at its head, will stand for no tariff revision, at least until after the next Presidential election. This is the lesson to be learned from the developments of the last week." From the temper displayed by the Iowa "progressives" it is evident that the speeches of the President and Secretaries Shaw and Root have not stamped out the "Iowa idea" so far as the leaders in the revolt are concerned. They still proclaim their intention to clamor and work and plan for the realization of their pet ambition. They want to go thundering down the corridors of time as the rescuers of the Republican party from the dire dilemma of too much prosperity, as the Moseses who shall lead that party out, of the bondage of the Pharaohs of the trusts and into the promised land of a "reformed" tariff and "potential competition." These schemers for power and control declare it to be their fixed and unalterable purpose to go before the national convention in 1904 and demand a downward revision of the tariff. If they have their way they will force tariff revision as a dominant issue of the campaign of next year, in spite of the demand of the President and his advisers and the best brain of the party that tariff revision shall be entirely kept out of that campaign and not taken up at all until after the election of 1904. But the question is, not what these scheming leaders want, but what the people want. To be a leader one must have a following. Can these Iowa disturbers succeed in winning the people away from the President and the great mass of the Republican party? Will the people follow them in the direction of the camp where Mr. Bryan stands reaching out his hands in eager welcome? It remains to be seen. We are inclined to think not. Encouraged by Bryan. It is to be hoped that Gov. Cummins of Iowa is entirely satisfied. He is one of the chief exponents among Republicans of tariff revision. There are a few persons out his way who believe in tearing things up and who are followers of what has become to be known as the "Iowa idea." They have been received with open arms by Brother Bryan. "Let us encourage Gov. Cummins," said Mr. Bryan at a Jeffersonian banquet in Des Moines on Thursday (Fancy Bryan looking to Jefferson for comfort!) "Let us encourage him, for every word that he speaks in favor of tariff reform or anti-trust legislation will have an educational influence." While Bryan was speaking in Iowa, Senator Lodge and Secretary Root were making addresses in Boston and taking the ground that protection had made the country great, and that to abandon it or to permit it to be ripped up by "tariff reformers" or "tariff revisionists" would result in a general upheaval of business. Gov. Cummins found no indorsement for his course among these Republican thinkers, but from Mr. Bryan he received praise. From which it would appear that the "Iowa idea" is exceedingly comforting to the Democrats. Praise from Bryan! Certainly Gov. Cummins ought to be ready to retire on his laurels now.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Folly of Free Trade. A paper,which is constantly agitating itself over the evils of the present protective tariff, in an article on England's food supply, says that in His Broom Is a Nuisance. PROTECTION 1854-55 the United Kingdom was practically growing enough wheat to feed her population of 27,000,000; but in 1900-1901 only one-fifth of the wheat consumed by the population of 41,300,000 was grown in the British isles, the other four-fifths being imported from foreign countries." Admiral Freemantle of the British navy, recently called attention to Great Britain's dependence and helplessness in case of war with the United States, and warned the British people of the perils incident to becoming a nation of middlemen, with constant decline in the sources of domestic production. Great Britain ceased to raise its own wheat when it adopted the policy of free trade. The agriculture of Great Britain flourished as long as there was a duty on British grown wheat. The value of its acres have declined, and fields which bore large yields of wheat under high culture have been put into grass. The farms have been abandoned and the cities are crowded with population, thousands of whom, within the past few weeks, have marched in processions in London, asking for labor. There is no labor for them. Great Britain buys her bread a little cheaper in the United States and other countries, but bent on cheapness, she has lost the independence incident to her ability to raise the wheat. For a time she controlled the markets of the world for her textiles, iron and other manufacturers, but in these things the other nations have overtaken her, and now Great Britain helplessly deplores the decline of her foreign trade compared with her great rivals—the United States and Germany—Irish World. A Priceless Jewel. The richest market in the world, the priceless jewel of commerce, is the market of the United States. The protective tariff holds its treasure secure to the American wage-earners and all the American people. This is the simple essence of protection. It is the cardinal principle of the American tariff system which has been made a national policy by the Republican party; which, with the control of the "trusts," will be the great issue on which Mr. Roosevelt will go to the voters next year asking them to elect him President of the United States.—New York Press DEVOTION PICTURE Among the pictures which commanded immediate attention at a recent notable exhibition was one which will be remembered by its laconic title, "Devotion," as well as for a certain weird fascination it exercised over all who saw it, compelling a close study of the minutest detail. Critics compared it to that most remarkable picture in the British Royal Academy of Elizabeth, the daughter of Charles I, and found a likeness to the imaginative painting of the "Sands of Dee," but this later picture was far and away beyond comparison with either. It was a tragedy itself, not the copy of one. The picture was that of a young woman lying at full length—abnormally long and thin—on the floor of a bare room, a lifeless extended figure with pallid face and one bared arm from which a tiny stream of blood was trickling. The background was a board partition on which was sketched like an artist's proof the angelic head of a child. The likeness between the two was unmistakable; even the lines of penury and hardship in the face of the mother were duplicated in the sweet features of the child. Both were idealized by the sublimity of death. But there was something in the face of the girl that was like the expression of the holy martyrs. One felt instinctively that she had lived—and died—for others; that no thought of self had dominated her in the sacrifice she had made. Here is her story: "Estelle! I have called you twice. I am dying of thirst." "Yes, Harlow, I am coming. I—I—was dreaming. But, my dear one, there is nothing for you to drink. The wine is gone and the lemons. There ```markdown ``` A woman stands in a room, facing a man sitting on a bed. She holds a flower in her hand and looks at the man. The room is dimly lit, with a window on the left. "Estelle! I have Called You Twice." s no money left—not a penny. We have nothing now that we can sell for food." "There—that will do. If you have nothing better to tell me do not speak. It is a great misfortune to be sick and poor. So everything is gone and we will come upon the town at last? There is still—that—it would bring a few pennies." He pointed with a weak and wasted hand to the sketch on the rough board partition—the last on his studio wall. "No, no, Harlow, not that—it would kill me to part with that—all that is left of my baby. Trust me, dear, a little longer, and you will see if I can get an order—if only you are strong enough to work. The lady that promised me one is ill, but I will see if she will not advance me something on the portrait. I am going there this morning and will be back. If I get the money you will have everything to eat and drink and canvas and brushes for your picture." He had burned the last in a fit of delirium—and temper. He looked narrowly at Estelle and asked in a complaining tone: "Your eyes are red! What have you been doing to them?" She did not answer. He caught hold of her roughly and jerked her to him. She looked at him with a divine smile that held the hint of a breaking heart—but not to him. "I was thinking of little Earle," she said gently. "Always of him, but never of me. I am tired of being neglected for a baby. Besides he does not need you." "No," she said pitifully, fixing her tear-blurred eyes on the sketch, "that makes it so much harder, dear." "Crying again—always crying. Why not go if you must and see how much longer we have to live. Curse this fever that keeps me chained here like a bedridden woman! My mouth is parched with thirst—I am starving for a draught of wine." Estelle had put on a cheap shawl and a meager hat, but these poverties of the toilet could not disguise her charm and beauty. A frown drew the man's harsh brows together as he he looked at her ungraciously. "You will not go near a studio, Estelle?" "Have I ever deceived you, Harlow?" "I don't know. I would kill you if you did. You know what I mean. Before you should be a model for any of those fellows." * * * She was gone a long time. His thirst consumed him and the demon of ill-temper tortured him with jealousy. What was keeping her? The afternoon sun dropped low on the horizon and the streets grew empty. The young moon hung in the sky like an arc of hope to the happy. The artist noted the beauty of the night, but his passion raged at fever heat. Estelle had never left him alone as long as this—perhaps some dreadful accident had happened to her, and since they had no friends there would be no one to run and tell him the unwelcome news. The evening passed into midnight and that ominous stillness which is A woman in a long dress stands in front of a mirror, holding a flower in her hand. the precursor of dawn. The fever burned in the sick man's veins and thirst consumed him, but he dragged himself from the bed to the window, from the window to the bed, and when it was the chill white light of morning she came, walking in softly like a spirit, whiter herself than the petals of a lily. Something was clinched in her right hand—she staggered feebly as she walked and extended her closed hand to Harlow. He struck it savagely with impotent force as he saw it contained a roll of money. Then she fell at his feet, pale and inert, her eyes humid with pain and love fixed on his distorted face. "She was a model," they said when they found her lying dead at his feet, and the sketch of the picture was outlined by the mad artist on the same wall on which he had drawn their child. The dullest of the gaping crowd saw that it was a great work of art and an exact reproduction of the scene before them. What they did not see was a slip cut from the advertising sheet of a daily paper, which Harlow had found—too late—clasped in Estelle's dead hand. The name of a noted surgeon was appended. It read: "Wanted—A healthy young person who will consent to assist an invalid lady in a case needing the transfusion of blood. The highest price will be paid for the service."—Mrs. M. L. Rayne in Chicago Record-Herald. THE BEST RESULTS IN STARCHING can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. It generally takes a lot of backing to make a good front. IF YOU USE BALL BLUE, Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue, Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Industry without knowledge is better than knowledge without industry. DEFIANCE STARCH DEFIANCE STARCH should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz, more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. No. Successful Traitors Though you search the pages of history you will find no record of a successful traitor. Because whenever a traitor has succeeded, history, the conscienceless jade, calls him a hero. Editor Given Professorship. Dr. George Frederick Stout, editor of Mind, has been appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics in St. Andrew's university of Glasgow, in succession to the late Prof. Ritchie. Was the BILL Ready. Too? It is said that a case of insanity in Atchison is due to a shock a woman experienced upon going to her dressmaker's and finding that her dress was done ahead of time. - Atchison Globe. Pork Responsible for Cancer. Many English doctors are now convinced that the eating of pigs' flesh in different forms is greatly responsible for the increase of cancer. They point out that it is most common among the poor, whose chief meat is that of pigs, while the disease is extremely rare among the Jews. A Tight Squeeze. Brazils, Ark., May 11th.—To be snatched from the very brink of the grave is a somewhat thrilling experience and one which Mrs. M. O. Garrett of this place has just passed through. Mrs. Garrett suffered with a Cerebro-Spinal affection, and had been treated by the best physicians, but without the slightest improvement. For the last twelve months two doctors were in constant attendance, but she could only grow worse and worse, till she could not walk, and did not have any power to move at all. She was so low that for the greater part of the time she was perfectly unconscious of what was going on about her, and her heart-broken husband and friends were hourly expecting her death. *The doctors had given up all hope and no one thought she could possibly live.* In this extremity Mr. Garrett sent for a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. It was a last hope, but happily it did not fail. Mrs. Garrett used in all six boxes of the remedy, and is completely cured. She says: "I am doing my own work now and feel as well as ever I did. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved me from death." Cold Baths Not Advisable. Dr. Hacher (Munchener Med. Woch.) says that the method of hardening children by means of cold baths is not only unnecessary, but it is oftentimes injurious. It increases rather than diminishes their susceptibility to "colds," thus inducing coryza, throat affections, bronchitis and pneumonia. Anxious to Please. A Washington woman who is troubled with chronic nightmare, caused by heart failure, and who frequently cries out in her sleep, recently advertised for room and board "with a family who will not object to screening in the night." Among the answers she received was one which asked, "How often would you require us to scream?" Art Critic Stirs Connoisseurs Art Critic Stirs Connoisseurs. Giulio Bonola, the well-known Italian art critic, has just finished his investigation in regard to the Santa Cecilia of Donatello and the results will presently be published. According to Bonola, the bas-relief in the British museum, which is regarded as the original "Santa Cecilia," is nothing but a copy. The critic asserts that he has found the authentic original in Padua. LAST RESORT. Pure Food Should Be the First. When the human machine goes wrong it's ten to one that the trouble began with the stomach and can therefore be removed by the use of proper food. A lady well known in Bristol, Ontario County, N. Y., tells of the experience she had curing her only child by the use of scientific food: "My little daughter, the only child and for that reason doubly dear, inherited nervous dyspepsia. We tried all kinds of remedies and soft foods. At last, when patience was about exhausted and the child's condition had grown so bad the whole family was aroused, we tried Grape-Nuts. 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Should you, says an expert, wish to examine into the freshness of your eggs before breaking hold each one before a strong light and look directly through it. If fresh the white will be clear and the yolk round. Yes, of course, but the expert omits to state how to treat an egg with a rhomboid formation of yolk and a generally frowning countenance. The man who knows it all hasn't sense enough to keep it to himself. Liquor instead of drowning trouble merely floats it. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Let him who would move the world get a move on himself. Drink Dr. Pepper. It is good for the cravings that comes with spring. It is delightfully refreshing, healthful and invigorating. At soda fountains 5 per glass. A gold brick is a gilt-edge investment but it's all on the edge. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. Some people seem to think that the sin of gambling is in losing. When a man sends a telegram he realizes that what he says goes. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES cost but 10 cents per package. The sculptor does his best to bust his patrons. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Sufficient unto the day is the evil of yesterday. "The Klean, Kool Kitchen Kind" of stoves keep you clean and cool. Economical and always ready. Sold at good store stores. Some people regard a clear conscience as luxury rather than a necessity. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorers. Send fits to 430.430.430. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 631 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Orthodoxy on one side of the fence is heresy on the other side. The Wichita Stove & Iron Works have increased their facilities and force for handling all kinds of structural iron work. 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Miss Gray took her leave for Didsbury, Alberta, the home of her sister and other relatives and friends on Jan. 10 last, and after a two months' sojourn in her western prairie home, she writes of it as follows: "I know I shall grow to love the prairies. We have a beautiful view of the mountains and it seems wonderful to me to see home after home for miles, and it is becoming thickly settled all around us. With the exception of the last few days which have been cold and stormy, we have had beautiful spring weather ever since I came. The days are beautiful. I call this the "land of the sun," as it seems to be always shining; the nights are cold and frosty. On arriving here, I was so greatly surprised in every way. Didsbury is quite a business little town. All the people I meet are so pleasant and hospitable. They have four churches in Didsbury—the Baptist, Presbyterian, Evangelical and Mennonite. The Evangelicals have just completed a handsome church, very large and finely furnished, costing $2,500. They have a nice literary society here, meets every two weeks. They have fine musical talent here. Your friend, Anna C. Gray. Long Term In Pastorate. The Rev. William Armhold has been connected thirty-eight years with the Congregation Keseneh Israel of Philadelphia. The Rev. Armhold is in his 74th year and is still active. Internal Economy. Two years ago a Polander out on Nublin Ridge swallowed a grain of wheat. Last week he was attacked with a fit of coughing and coughed up a 50-pound sack of flour and 100 pounds of bran. Truth is mighty and will prevail.-Hartford Day Spring. When a man gets bald he realizes that there is plenty of room at the top. ALL UP TO DATE HOUSEKEEPERS use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better and 4 oz more of it for same money. Mrs. E. Mrs. Tupman, a prominent lady of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer with woman's troubles, tells how she was cured. "For some years I suffered with backache, severe bearing-down pains, leucorrhoea, and falling of the womb. I tried many remedies, but nothing gave any positive relief. "I commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in June, 1901. When I had taken the first half bottle, I felt a vast improvement, and have now taken ten bottles with the result that I feel like a new woman. When I commenced taking the Vegetable Compound I felt all worn out and was fast approaching complete nervous collapse. I weighed only 98 pounds. Now I weigh 100% pounds and am improving every day. I gladly testify to the benefits received."—Mrs. R. C. TUPMAN, 423 West 30th St, Richmond, Va. — 85000 forfeit if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, is it justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it would help me?" Surely you cannot wish to remain weak and sick. Mrs. Pinkham, whose address is Lynn, Mass., will answer cheerfully and without cost all letters addressed to her by sick women. Perhaps she has just the knowledge that will help your case—try her to-day—it costs nothing. FOR SALE OR TRADE—For stock of dry goods, not over 45,000. 160-acre wheat farm 35 miles from Wichita, Kan. Address W. S. WHITE. St. Louis, Mo. NOW is the time to sell M. & M. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Terms; exclusive territory. Send stamp for catalog. M. & M. MFG. CO., 1st St., Springfield, Mass. DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. 3 yrs in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atisy since SOZODONT for the teeth. It prevents decay. It hardens the gums and purifies the breath and mouth. SAVES YOUR TEETH A Cocaine in Demand. Disease—But What's the Cure! Hall's Catarrh Cure Laundering the Baby's Clothes. INSIST ON GETTING IT. Campfire Tales The Dark Before Dawn. Oh, mystery of the morning gloom, Of haunted air, of windless hush! Oh, wonder of the deepening dome— Afar, still far, the morning's flush! My spirit hears, among the spheres, The round earth's ever-gluckening rush! and past officers of the Department of Massachusetts and delegates w held in the state house in Boston r cently to consider the subject. was resolved to ask Commander Chief Stewart to use all proper The birds darting among the spheres. The round earth's ever-quickening rush! A single leaf, on yonder tree. The plains, on yonder tree, bath heard. And soon all branches whisper be! That whisper wakes the nested bird— The song of thrush, before the blush Of dawn the dreaming world has ever erased The old moon withers in the east— The winds of space may drive her far! In heaven's chancel waits the priest— Dawn's pontiff-priest, the morning star! And yonder, lo! a shafted glow— The gates of day-spring fall ajar! -Scribner's A War-Time Incident. Several months ago, when Department Commander Weber of the Grand Army was in Chattanooga looking after a site for the Ohio monument to her soldiers who fought at Mission Ridge, he met a Capt. Smart. Incidentally, in the conversation, Commander Weber spoke of the charge of the Union forces up the ridge, and of a Confederate battery which tried to escape, but snagged one of its guns on a stump. He spoke also of one of the boys of his company who dropped a red cap near one of the batterymen. Capt. Smart gave him the address of Capt. Dent, who commanded the battery, and the commander wrote to him receiving the following interesting reply: "I commanded what was known as 'Dent's battery' at the battles of Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. My battery was on the ridge and not far to the left of that part of the Confederate line which was opposite Orchard Knob. My battery was divided when the assault was made on the ridge. I had two guns at the left of a public road, and four to the right of said road. I think the road was the Shallow Fork road, but am not sure. I had six brass 12-pounder Napoleon guns, and lost five of them in this battle. "I feel satisfied from your description of the battle that it was my battery that fired on your flank, or at least a part of it. As soon as the assaulting column got under the hill so we could not reach them by front fire, we turned our guns so as to infilade the assaulting column as much as possible. One of my guns, the one nearest the road, got away. When I found the fire so heavy that I could not hope to escape that way, I tried to take the guns over through the underbrush. "In going down I remember the axle of one of my guns caught against a stump. I tried to have it lifted over the stump, as the ground there was quite steep, and got the front axle over, but before we could get the hind axle over your people got very close and opened fire, killing, as I now remember, one man, and wounding several others. I was with this gun, and a bullet went through my coat sleeve. The gun, of course, was abandoned there. "The red cap which your people found there belonged, I think, to the man killed there—his name was Schaub. When I say he was killed—I know he was shot through the neck and fell, and judging from the way the blood spurted, I saw no chance for him, and we left without ceremony. "My impression is that the officer who rode the white horse in that battle was Gen. Patton Anderson. Gen. Anderson was afterward very badly wounded in the battle of Jonesboro. He died a few years ago in Memphis, Tenn., but went into the army from Florida. "My battery was reorganized, but with only four guns, and I was in all the battles from Dalton to Atlanta, and was wounded July 22, 1864, in the battle of Atlanta—the day Gen. McPherson was killed—and later was wounded in the battle of Nashville. I was also in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, as some of your people call it and was wounded there. "The war is over. I have a son in the navy who took part in the Spanish-American war a few years ago—so you see he fought for the flag in that war, if I did follow the stars and bars in the war of 1861-65. "S. D. Dent, Eufala, Ala." In a postscript the captain says of the battle of Mission Ridge: "One incident of the battle you may recall. As your column advanced up the hill just opposite where one section of my battery was posted, which was to the Confederate left of this road, in firing on the column with the infilading fire, we cut down the only tree, as I remember, left standing. The tree fell right on the advancing column, and, as it rolled down the steep hill, it carried with it one man, who had evidently been caught in the limbs of the tree. The picture of that man as he was carried down by the tree is very vivid in my mind." Think Railroad Rate Too High. There is a good deal of comment in Grand Army circles in the East over what the comrades regard as too high a rate established by the railroads for the trip to the National Encampment, to be held in San Francisco in August. Seventy-three dollars from New York is regarded as too high. They cite the fact that the Christian Endeavors, when their international convention was held in San Francisco, were given a rate of $52. Massachusetts veterans have taken the matter up seriously, and a committee of six will be appointed to act with the Department Commander of that state in securing lower rates, if possible. A meeting of the present and past officers of the Department of Massachusetts and delegates was held in the state house in Boston recently to consider the subject. It was resolved to ask Commander in Chief Stewart to use all proper influence to get as good rates to San Francisco for the week of August 17 as was given the Christian Endeavor society. Colored Man Was Grateful. "I had a pleasant reminder of the war the other day," said the Captain. "It came in the shape of a silver cream pitcher and sugar bowl, accompanied by a well-written letter, which my people liked very much. The letter abounded in references the significance of which was apparent only to myself. After one, of the hot engagements of the war I came upon a young colored man who had been between the lines and who was like a man paralyzed. I spoke reassuringly to him and hurried after the retreating enemy. "In the evening some of my men brought the young negro into camp, and as I passed the group I heard the boys explaining to the young fellow that he was free and could do as he pleased. They wanted to know what he was going to do about it, and intimated pretty strongly that if they were in his place they would take the job of cooking for a certain mess in their own company. As I passed the colored man came toward me and stammered that he didn't know what the massas meant, but if he could do as he pleased he would do whatever I wanted him to do. "He became my cook and man of all work at company headquarters, and remained with me to the end of the war. I took him home with me and in due time established him in business. Then I came West, and after my location in Chicago did not hear from my protege, for thirty years. He, in the meantime had changed location, had prospered in business, and after thirty years' waiting sent me the silver creamer and sugar, and a letter testifying to his gratitude and affection. I liked that, you know, and I was as glad to hear of his success in life as I would be to hear of the success of an old comrade in arms."—Chicago Inter Ocean. Few Fraudulent Claims. Every now and then is heard a remark to the effect that many applicants for pensions are frauds, or that many claims made by soldiers are fraudulent, and the unthinking believe it. The last report of trials and convictions for one year shows there were 226 convictions, against 159 persons, as follows: Soldiers and sailors, 11. Women's roll-Claiming as widows (after remarriage), 22; bogus widows, 11; claim as mother of soldier, 1; false witnesses, 4. Civilian's record, men's cases-Attempting bribery, 1; conspiracy, 2; false certifications, 23; false claims, 22; false personation, 1; forgery and perjury, 24; prosecuting claims while a government officer, 3. Offenses also against pensioners-Embezzlement from minors, 1; charging illegal fees, 15; personating government officers, 13; retaining pension certificates, 2. Only eleven soldiers and sailors appear in the above list, two of whom were deserters, and one other served in the Spanish-American war. Grand Army Notes The fifteenth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of Georgia was held at Fitzgerald, Ga., on Saturday, March 21. E. D. Bacon, department commander of the G. A. R. of Alabama, has issued general orders from the headquarters, Birmingham, Ala., convening the fifteenth annual encampment of the department at Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday, March 24. The members of the Roanoke and Newberne Association held their annual reunion at the Grand Army Hall in Athol, Mass., on Saturday, March 14. The meeting was well attended. James Oliver is president and R. L. Doane secretary and treasurer of the association. Raising Funds for Encompassment An effort is being made to raise a fund of $100,000 to pay the expenses of the coming ex-Confederate soldiers' reunion in New Orleans. One contribution of $1,000 has been made, and is the largest thus far. Three of $500, one of $300, and five of $200 have been made. The Union Veterans' Association has given $10, regretting its inability to give more, and saying: "We are prompted to this action by the kind treatment always accorded us by the Confederate veterans during our residence among you." Commander Charles W. Keeting, department commander of the Grand Army of the Department of Louisiana, in general orders recently issued from headquarters at New Orleans announces that the twentieth annual encampment of the department will be held at Tulane Avenue Baptist church, New Orleans, La., on Wednesday, March 25. Commander-in-Chief T. J. Stewart has promised to be present. Postpone Meeting Till October. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee has decided to postpone its meeting in Washington, D. C., from May to October 15. This action has been taken on account of a desire to have the President present at the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Sherman. DOCTOR ENSOR SUPT. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE INSTITUTION LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER THE BEST QUALITY STRAIGHT 5CIGAR ALWAYS RELIABLE W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 and $3.00 Shoes Union Made You can save from $3.00 to $3.00 yearly by wearing W. L. Douglas $3.50 or $3 Shoes. They are just as good in every way as those that have been ordered you from $60 to $650. 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Special One way Second "Colonist" Excursion to Northwest and California VIA Day Second Class Cursion to the California RAILWAY Daily during period June 15, inclusive Rates: — $25.00 25.00 20.00 22.50 25.00 ents in proportion to those above med and for full information and through our accommodations SHERWIN, P. & T. A. Wichita, Kan. No. 472, Pratt No. 474, Pratt commodation, day and Saturday No. 471, King senger, except No. 473, King commodation, and Friday CHICAGO, ROOSEVELT No. 11 Texas T No. 13, Texas T No. 35, Daily, No. 12, Chicago No. 14, K. C. No. 36, Daily, St. Louis Mail ern Limited St. Louis and I Kansas and Co Meteor ATCHISON, TO Kansas City, C. K. C., Colorado Wellington Acc Panhandle Exp Special One way Second Class "Colonist" Excursion to the Northwest and California MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Tickets on sale daily during period Feb'y 15 to June 15, in Rates to principal points as follows: — San Francisco and Los Angeles Portland Seattle and Tacoma Salt Lake, Helena and Butte Spokane Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. Rates to all intermediate points in proportion For rates to any points not named and for if regarding routes, time of trains and through our calls on or address I. R. SHERWIN, P. E. E. BLECKLEY, T. P. A. Wichita, Kan. Feb'y 15 to June 15, inclusive Rates to principal points as follows: — San Francisco and Los Angeles ..... $25.00 Portland Seattle and Tacoma ..... 25.00 Salt Lake, Helena and Butte ..... 20.00 Spokane ..... 22.50 Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. ..... 25.00 Rates to all intermediate points in proportion to those above For rates to any points not named and for full information regarding routes, time of trains and through our accommodations calls on or address I. R. SHERWIN, P. & T. A. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Scott, Ponca City " " B. J. Bailey, " " " " " W. Davis Mrs. F. D. Coleman, " " " Mr. and Mrs. W. Jones " " " Mr. Jas, Bibb, " " " Lewis Parks " " " Jas, Harrold " " " Miss S. F. Andrews " " " Luzy Parks " " " Minnie Coleman " " ARKANSAS CITY ITEMS Rev. Bandy of Winfield spent Sunday in the city. Miss Lula Edwards has returned home from Oklahoma City. Miss Nora Tomms and Jessie Marshall spent Sunday in Winfield The L. L. L. Society of Arkansas City will give a grand educational entertainment in Winfield, May 23. Bread and Butter Ham Sandwiches Salad Salmon Sherbett C A K E The L. L. L. City will give entertainment Mrs. Ben Ba Mrs. Ben Bailey, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith were in the city from Ponce City last week. The Eastern Star will give a grand entertainment next Wednes. Richard Love and Miss Hattie Herring were united in marriage Wednesday eve of last week. Rev. H. F. Frezier officiated. P. P. Alston, Geo. Oliver W. O. Logan, J. B. Burns, H. Pettit, Miss M. Harvey Mr. Bailey Mrs. L. Gilmore. Newkirk, O. T. Richard Low Herring were Wednesday even H. F. Frezier Grand Mast Chetopa, visited lodge No. 2906 Grand Master P. H. Bassett, of Chetopa, visited Home of the West lodge No. 2906 last week. PONCA CITY ITEM On April 30th at the beautiful residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Scott, the Zelia Page Art Club gave a reception in honor of the Twentieth Contury Club, of Arkansas City, Kansas; Evening Venus Club, of Newkirk, O. T. and friends. The Z. P. A. Club was organized three months ago by Miss S. F. Andrews and some good work has been done in that short time. The officers are: Miss S. F. Andrews, pres., Mrs. J. H. Scott, Sec. The rooms were decorated in the Club colors—lavendar and white and japanese lanterns. Games were indulged in until a late hour, after which a dainty lunch was served, consisting of: Mr. Lewis Parks furnished music fes the evening with a phonograph. A very sociable time was had and the guests left wishing success to the Z. P A. Club. Those present: Mrs. M. M, Andrews, Arkansas City " P. F. Alston, " " " " Geo. Oliver " " " " W. O. Logan, " " " " J. B. Burns, " " " " H. Pettit, " " " Miss M. Harvey " " " Mr. Bailey " " We have just received a large in voice 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 latest fad, in our regular stock, at $2 TAPP BROTHERS & HANSHAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main Dr. Bordeau, Lesterau, Tates Center, Kansas City and St. Louis 9.25 am Conway Springs and Coffeyville 11.30 am For St. Louis 3.00 pm For Kans, City and St. Louis 9.50 pm Hutchinson, Lyons and Geneseo 7.85 am Geneseo, Salina, Puablo, Denver 5.00 pm For Anthony and Kiowa, 6.10 pm For Anthony and Kiowa, 7.40 am Arrives Daily Kiowa, Anthony, Conway Springs, and Clearwater 9.20 am Little Rock, Conway Springs, Coffeyville 4.50 pm From St. Louis 2.35 pm From Kan. City and St. Louis 7.05 am From Denver, Pneblo, Salina, and Geneseo 11.25 am From Hutchinson 4.00 pm From Hutchinson and Geneseo 9.25 pm From Anthony, Conway Springs 4.40 pm Kansas City, St. Louis, Yates Center and El Dorado 5.507 pm From Kiowa, Anthony and Conway Springs 9.05 pm No. 472, Pratt and Kingman Pas No. 474, Pratt and Kingman ac- commodation, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1.20 am No. 471, Kingman and Pratt Pass- senger, except Sunday 5.15 pm No. 473, Kingman and Pratt ac- commodation, Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9.15 am Leave Daily No. 11 Texas Vestibuled Ex. 6.50 pm No. 13, Texas Fast Express 6.00 am No. 35, Daily, Except Sunday, 3.10 pm EAST BOUND No. 12, Chicago Vestibuled Ex. 9.50 am No. 14, K. C. and Eastern Ex. 10.30 am No. 36, Daily, Except Sunday 1.35 pm Leaves Daily St. Louis Mail and South-west- ern Limited 1.30 pm St. Louis and Ft. Smith Ex. 8.15 pm WEST BOUND Kansas and Colorado Mail Ex. 3.10 pm Meteor 8.25 am ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE R. R. Leaves Daily Kansas City, Chicago Express 11.20 am K. C., Colorado, California Ex. 2.55 am Wellington Accommodation 5.15 pm Arrives Daily Panhandle Express 10.00 am Englewood Branch, Except Sun. 3.00 pm Leaves Daily Panhandle Express 6.25 pm Oklahoma and Texas Express 6.35 pm Oklahoma Daily Express 8.30 am Wellington Accommodation 8.45 am Caldwell Acc. Except Sun 8.45 am Texas Express 5.10 pm Englewood Branch, Ex. Sun. 7.45 am Frisco Excursion Rates St. Louis, Mo. Exposition Dedication Ceremonies Tickets on Sale April 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 $15.05 for round trip National Pfummer's Association Tickets on sale for above meetings May 3rd, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18th. $45.00 for the round trip COLONIST TICKETS (one way, 2nd class) On sale Daily until June 15th. San Fran', Los Angeles, Sacramento $25. Billings, Livington, Butte, Helena 20. Ogden, and Salt Lake City, Utah 20. Spokane, Wash. 22.50 Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle 25. Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. 25. For further information call at @CITY TICKET OFFICE Corner Main St. and Dougal Ave., A. R. DEEM, B. F. DUNN, City Ticket Agent. Div. Pass. Agt. Did you ask the merchant with whom you trade, whether he "ads" in our paper? If not, why not? Insist upon it that he "ads" with us. Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store. Sample Shoes RAILROAD TIME TABLE Corrected up to May 25th 1902. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. WICHITA and WESTERN FRISCO SYSTEM $ 45.00 for the round trip EARLY FROM OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderfully designed kit is the only single preparation in the world that makes curly hair straight as shown above. It needs no hair dryer, no falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold as a set of four testimonial free on orders was the first preparation ever sold in the world. Testimonial free on orders. Get the Original Ozonized Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep it in the necessary necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children elegantly perfumed. The great advantage is that it can straighten your own hair at home. Or to its superior and conditioning qualities it is the perfect preparation for anybody to produce a preparation equally as good as our 50 oz. cups. Sold by druggists and dealers us 50 oz. or one bottle or 1.49 for anybody. Same prices. Same delivery. Postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The Missouri Pacific R Shortest Line To Colorado Point MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Most Direct Line To KANSAS CITY AND ST.LOUIS. Reclining Chair Cars on all trains SEATS FREE. Call at our New Passenger station cor. Douglas ave. and Wichita for reliable information relatives I. R. Sherwin, P. & T. A THE SCENIC ROUT FRISCO SYSTEM Its rails penetrate the fertile States of MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY, TEXAS and the SOUTHWEST, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA and the SOUTH It reaches the rice farming lands of Kansas and Oklahoma, the mineral fields of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, the cattle fields of the South and Southwest, the oil fields of Kansas and the Indian Territory, and the dreds of other industrial places of interest are profit to the home-secker and investor. And last, but not least, it will carry you to the family health resorts of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs AND Monte Ne' TIME OF TRAINS AT WICHIT EAST-BOUND St. Louis Mail and Express — Leaves Wichita 1:50 p Arrives St. Louis 7:20 p Arrives at Memphis 8:00 p St. Louis and Fort Smith Express — Leaves Wichita 8:15 p Arrives St. Louis 7:00 p Arrives Fort Smith 2:00 p WEST-BOUND Kansas City and Colorado Mail and Exp. Leaves St. Louis 8:30 p Leaves Memphis 8:25 p Arrives Wichita 3:10 p Meteor Leaves St. Louis 2:30 p Leaves Memphis 9:15 p Arrives Wichita 8:25 p Through Parlor Coaches and Rechair Chair Cars, also Pullman Pallace Sleep between Wichita and St. Louis without change. For reliable information as to raise outes, time, etc. apply to any Frisco agro- th. undersigned. It is a pleasure for ad- to swer questions, B. F. DUNN, District Passenger Agent, WICHITA. A. Hilton, Bryan Snyder, Ghn'l Pass. Agt. Pass. Traffic M JST. LOUIS, MO