Wichita Searchlight

SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. wichita, Kansas, Sa urday July 18, 03 Of two evils, don't choose both. It's all off. Lipton has a rabbit's foot this time. A city that is set upon a hill cannot be drowned out by a flood. The colleges are making our prominent citizens happy by degrees. A genuine sympathetic strike—when the clock strikes the hour to quit. The man who knows nothing is usually the one who insists on telling it. Never kiss a girl by mistake. At least don't let her know that it was a mistake. A Beta Theta Pi convention is coming. This must be the father of all the breakfast foods. Don't envy John D. Rockefeller. He has a stomach that refuses to digest anything he likes to eat. The publisher of "Who's Who in Servia" is working day and night to get his new edition ready. The Countess of Yarmouth appears to be giving her earl enough money to keep him quiet anyway. The man who thinks stocks can't go any lower is generally able to demolish his theory by buying some. The Sultan of Sokoto is making it necessary for British officers to regret to report. Why won't these sultans be good? The distinction between the upper classes and the common herd now is that the upper classes wear panamas and pajamas. If a burglar could realize on the value of stolen property as given out by his victim, he would never have to burgle again. The names of the new Servian ministry bear a striking resemblance to the list of hospital victims after a Paterson riot. As long as your sweetheart finds fault with you, you are safe. But when she finds fault in you, be sure to look for another girl. King Peter at Geneva was "happy to meet the brave representatives of the Servian army." King Alexander at Belgrade wasn't. Boston has "a society young man" who has not worn a hat for three years. He probably doesn't wish to hide his magnificent brain. The estimates of the population of Pekin vary from 500,000 to 1,600,000. A slight discrepancy of 1,100,000 doesn't bother the Celestials a little bit. "Doctor of sacred theology" is the new title bestowed by Columbia university on Dr. Gordon of Boston. But isn't all the theology sacred to somebody? Woman is the genius of compromise; she begins by wanting her son to be President; she ends by being satisfied to have him pass the plate in church. A million gallons of whisky were destroyed by fire in Glasgow. Fortunately the destruction of all this whisky was accomplished with the loss of only seven lives. Death on a white horse seems to have changed his seat to a racing automobile. At least that's what the returns from that big French race seem to indicate. The German scientists who have been studying American agriculture as it is to be seen in Chicago will have an extensive knowledge of the tare and wild oats crops. The experienced bachelor of the New York Press remarks that it's queer how all rosy lips look so much alike and yet taste so different. Hasn't he learned yet that he should never tell? Rev. Matt S. Hughes says the man who is part of an epic is greater than the man who writes an epic. It is to be hoped that the people who are writing epics will now turn to nobler and better things. Pope Leo is getting a good deal of comfort just now out of the Italian proverb: "The announcement of one's death always adds years to one's life." If this be so, the aged pontiff is good for a least a round century. Mayor Jones of Toledo, has a bed rigged up with mosquito netting and siceps on the roof of his house. The Toledo office seeker must be an especially determined specimen of the type if such expedients are necessary to escape him. A Brooklyn man objects to a memorial park in Plymouth square in honor of Henry Ward Beecher for the reason that he was not a man of national reputation. A lot of old subscribers would like to know who if was that made Brooklyn famous. Citric acid added to sea water precipitates the salt, making a harmless mineral water. Seven ounces of citric acid will supply a shipwrecked man with water for a week. Stevenson's Dream. The idea for "Jekyll and Hyde" came to Stevenson in a dream, and he began it as soon as he rose on the following morning. His wife could hardly get him away from his stable even for meals. The first draft of the tale was finished within seven days. He Knew Shakespeare. Luligi Arditi, under the guidance of his pupil, Mme. Valleria, and her husband, once paid a visit to Stratford-on-Avon, where he was shown all the relics connected with the immortal Shakespeare. "Ah!" exclaimed the enthusiastic conductor, when matters were explained to him, "Shakespeare, Romeo e Giulietta, Macbeth, Hamlet. Ah! I understand, ze lilrettist." Pioneer Woman Dentist. Dr. Elvira Castner of Marienfelde, near Berlin, who was one of the first German women to come to this country to study a profession closed to her in Germany, has given up her profession of dentistry after many years of successful work, and is devoting herself to a school of horticulture for women founded by herself. There are now a number of women dentists in Germany. A Good Story. Frederika, la., July 13th.—Mr. A. S. Grover of this place tells an interesting story showing how sick people may regain their health if they will only be guided by the experience of others. He says: "I had a very bad case of Kidney Trouble, which affected my urinary organs so that I had to get up every hour of the night. I could not retain my urine and my feet and limbs began to bloat up. My weight was quickly running down. "After I had tried many things in vain, I began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, a medicine which had cured some other very bad cases. "This remedy has done wonders for me. I have gained eight pounds in two months. The bloat has all gone from my feet and legs, and I don't have to get up at night. I took in all about ten boxes before I was all sound." Those who suffer as did Mr. Grover can make no mistake in taking Dodd's Kidney Pills, for they are a sure, safe and permanent cure for all Kidney urinary disorders. That New Office Boy. It was one of the recent damp, chilly mornings that the members of a manufacturing firm were together in the private office looking over the morning mail, when one said to the other: "That's a pretty heavy draft from the West." Instantly the new office boy jumped to his feet and exclaimed: "I'll fix that, sir!" and closed the window that had been left open for ventilation. Testament Kissed 100,000 Times. For swearing a jury at an inquest at High Wycombe, England, Mr. Charlsley, the coroner for South Bucks, recently used a New Testament printed in the year 1798. The book, which has been in constant use by Mr. Charlsley, his father and grandfather for 105 years, and is still in good condition, originally cost 9d. At the lowest computation the volume must have been kissed 100,000 times. Mighty Cheerful. Mamma had told her little daughter that she could not go out to play, but the little maiden determined to make one more plea. "Please, Mamma, it isn't very wet, and I won't go on the grass. "No, you cannot, Dorothy," said Mamma, pleasantly, smiling a little at her daughter's persistency. Dorothy regarded her mother aggrieved, and then said: "Well, seems to me you're mighty cheerful about it." EXPERIMENTS Learn Things of Value. Where one has never made the experiment of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum it is still easy to learn all about it by reading the experiences of others. Drinking Postum is a pleasant way to get back to health. A man of Lancaster, Pa., says: "My wife was a victim of nervousness and weak stomach and loss of apetite for years and was a physical wreck; although we resorted to numerous methods of relief one of which was a change from coffee to tea, it was all to no purpose. "We knew coffee was causing the trouble but could not find anything to take its place and cure the diseases until we tried Postum Food Coffee. In two weeks' time after we quit coffee and used Postum almost all of her troubles had disappeared as if by magic. It was truly wonderful. Her nervousness was all gone, stomach trouble relieved, appetite improved and above all a night's rest was complete and refreshing. "This sounds like an exaggeration, as it all happened so quickly, but we are prepared to prove it. Each day there is improvement for the better for the Postum is undoubtedly strengthening her and giving her rich red blood and renewed life and vitality. Every particle of this good work is due to Postum and to drinking Postum in place of coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. I ice cold Postum with a dash of lemon is a delightful "cooler" for warm days. Send for particulars by mail of extension of time on the $7,500.00 cooks' contest for 735 money prizes. WIT AND HUMOR HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. She (romantic)—But I'm afraid we can never be happy together. He (prosaic)—That's a detail. What I want to know is if you will marry me? "There, Georgie, you not only broke mamma's pretty dish but you told her a story about it, which is much more naughty. Papa will be so grieved when I tell him." "Will he feel awful bad 'cause I did it, mamma?" "Yes." "I'm so sorry. I know what I'll do, mamma. I'll tell you you did it." Shocking Misunderstanding "Young man," said the slightly deaf elderly person, eyeing him severely, "you may be going there fast enough, but you ought to be ashamed to make a boast of it." "Ought to be ashamed to say I'm going to Belfast:" he responded in surprise. "What for?" ``` **Only One Thing Dearer.** Wife—Do you love me as much as ever? Husband—I reckon so. Wife—Will I always be the dearest thing in the world to you? Husband—I am sure you will, unless the landlord raises the rent. **His Memory Not at Fault.** One small boy recently was sent by his mother to the bakery for a loaf of bread. He returned with cake. "What did I tell you to buy?" asked his mother. "You said to get a loaf of bread but I didn't understand you," was the answer. HAD NOTHING TO She (romantic)—But I'm afriad w He (prosaic)—That's a detail. W me? Her Lot Was Hard. "Mrs. Guggins is feelin' mighty miserable." "You don't say so! I thought she was lookin' in splendid health." "Yes, that's just it. She's feelin' so well that she can't think of nothin' to take patent medicines for, an' she jest sits and reads the advertisements and pines." The Acme of Meekness McJigger—Chicken-hearted? Well, I should say; he's the limit. Thingumbob—Is that so? McJigger—Nothing can make him fight. Why, I've even seen him let a man cheat him out of his turn in the barber shop, and he never said a word. Good Riddance. “Of course,” said the funny man, “when you die you'll leave a will?” "No. My wife." Entir ly Right. Tess—O, yes, I feel pretty sure of him. I rejected him when he proposed first because I was positive he'd try again. Jess—And you were right. He did try again, and I accepted him—Stray Stories. "What a tiny egg you've got there!" she exclaimed, over the breakfast table. "Isn't it cute?" "Cute!" he replied, when he had broken it; "I should say, rather, it is chic." The Retort Malevolent. Doctor—See here, when are you going to pay me what you owe me? I am getting out of patience. Delinquent—If you didn't send so many of them to the cemetery you wouldn't get out of patients so fast. A Burning Question. "Pa," said little Morris, "why did the man put his light under a bushel?" "I don't know," answered pa, after some reflection; "but I suppose that the bushel was very heavily insured." He—I understand that the contractor who is putting up the building over there is making the men work overtime on it. She—He is away ahead of his contract. Why is he in such a hurry? He—He wants to get it all up before it falls down. 2 Mrs. Hunter Price—The price of this gold chair was ten dollars, but I got a discount and it only cost me $8.99. Mrs. Hunter Price-I know, but Kutter & Co. wouldn't have taken off anything. "A natural inference. "It was very affecting when I asked old Binks for his daughter. Why, I wept myself." "Did he kick as hard as all that?" THE WAY THEY He—I understand that the contract there is making the men work overtiring. She—He is away ahead of his con. He—He wants to get it all up b Effects of Misfortune. "Didn't the loss of all your money drive you to drink?" "No; only to thirst. It kept me from drink." DO WITH IT. can never be happy together. what I want to know is if you will marry Pretty Well Kept. "And you have never kept a dog?" "Well, I won't go quite so far as that. My neighbor's two dogs get all their meals at my kitchen door." Mrs. Hunter Price—The price of I got a discount and it only cost m Hunter Price—But you could have Co.'s for $6. Mrs. Hunter Price—I know, but I anything. Escaped in Time. "No matter how brave men are they are all afraid of their wives." "I know one who isn't." "Who is he? He must be a phenomenon." Machines to Burn. The New Yorker—It seems to me you have a great many slot machines in this town. The Philadelphiaian—Yes; we have them to burn—Philadelphia Record. Burglar (to Mrs. J.)—If you as much as open your mouth I shoot! Mr. J.—How much will you charge to stay here by the week? GO UP NOWADAYS. ator who is putting up the building over me on it. tract. Why is he in such a hurry? before it falls down. No Chance of Dying. Patient—Tell me candidly, doctor, do you think I'll pull through? Doctor—Oh, you are bound to get well. You can't help yourself. The Medical Record shows that out of a hundred cases like yours one recovers invariably. "That's a cheerful prospect." "What more do you want? I've treated ninety-nine cases, and every one of them died. Why, man alive, you can't die if you try. There's no humbug about statistics!" The Inconstant One: A pretty girl, a winter night, a moon-impassioned vow, a gentle word, a solemn vow, a kiss— And all is well, oh! Again the girl, an other night, same moon— Thus far, 'tis well, oh! But if we took another look, we'd see— Another fellow! Arranged It. Patience—I told him last night that the day he bought my engagement ring he should put his arm about me and kiss me. Patrice—Well? "He waited until after midnight, and said he'd buy it to-day." All That Saved Him. "Yes, sir, he was obliged to go to the snake country, so he took a gallon of whisky along." "And how did he make out?" "Splendid! Got so full and wabbled so the snakes missed him every time they struck at him!" Old Joke Nora—They niver hod a cook before awn only got th' oideae from th' comic papers. Bridget—How do yez know? Nora—Because she asked if Oi was goin' to entertain th' polacemon in th' kitchen. BARGAIN. this gold chair was ten dollars, but e $8.99. e gotten the same thing at Kutter & Kutter & Co. wouldn't have taken off "You are the light of my life!" he protested. "Candle, kerosene, gas or electric?" asked the practical girl, for well she knew that all lights are not held in the same esteem at the present time. Study. Anyhow. Polly Pinktights—Yes; she had to give up her part. Fanny Footlights—Was it a case of overstudy. Polly Pinktights—No; understudy. Shipment of Nuts. The total amount of nuts shipped from the Amazon valley so far this season is 3.953 tons, and has been about equally divided between Europe and the United States. Scented Motor Car Lord Anglesey is credited with being the pioneer of the idea of a scented motor car. Thus when he goes abroad on his car, instead of the fumes of gasoline or some other noxious odor being left in his train, there is a fragrance of cau de cologne. Children and Crime According to English law a child under seven years of age is incapable of committing a crime. If over seven and under fourteen it is left to the jury to say whether he had guilty knowledge of doing wrong. Persons over fourteen are, of course, hold fully responsible. Electrical Currents It is said by the Electrician that low-tension electrical currents say under 120 volts, are more deadly than those having ten times the voltage. Dr. Bertelli and Prof. Prevost, have made the remarkable discovery that high-tension currents are capable of restoring the action of a heart that has been arrested by a low-tension current. WHY IT IS THE BEST is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. Don't forget there is a wrong side to a question as well as your side. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. 25c a bottle. Success only knocks once at the door but adversity will pound all day. Piso's Cure cannot be too high spoken of as & cough cure. J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. When in low spirits some fellows take to high balls. Is taken interpally. Price, 75c. Many a young man gets to the front by securing a job as motorman on a trolley car. MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING. won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for saem money. An honest man is the noblest work of God—if he has been put to the test. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. 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Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. Lay figures form a very important item in the stock equipment of a poultry farm. The Thomas Sanitarium is located in the most healthful and quiet part of the city of Wichita and is surrounded by extensive grounds with fine shade. It combines the comforts of a private home with the advantages of a modern hospital. Both medical and surgical cases are treated but no contagious diseases are admitted. Cor. 10th St. and St. Francis Ave., Wichita, Kansas. Even the blind beggar may have an eye to business. Thirteen years ago I was afflicted with Sciatic Rheumatism. The physicians had given me up and could do nothing for me. I was confined to my bed suffering untold agonies. One of my neighbors recommended my trying Crippen's Compound for Rheumatism, which I did, and two bottles cured me and I have never had Rheumatism since. THOS. F. PHILLIPS, P. O. Box 102. Kingfisher. O. T. As your Druggist's or mailed on receipt of One Dollar. THE CRIPPEN MEDICINE CO. Wichita, Kansas. The expert accountant generally speaks figuratively. In Kansas City there has been established, for the last 26 years, an institution making a life study of diseases of the rectum, such as piles, fistula, fissure and kindred diseases, which are treated on a positive guarantee—which means that the patient pays no money until cured. "This is the only way women from every State in the Union, to say nothing of the standing of those in Kansas City, whose names appear signed to testimonial letters in their free 200-page book for men and their 100-page book for women. These books contain much valuable information concerning rectal diseases. If afflicted, read carefully the adverbs in the title of the book, write Dr. Tappleton & Minor, 1080 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo., at once and get these books, which are sent free and postpaid. 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I in- sisted on his getting a box ‘of your pills and trying them, ‘s0 I went to Mason's Drug Store and got a box. The first box helped him so much that I got the second and also the third, and now he is en- tirely well."—Mrs. LW. Auuvuss, Lock Haven, Pa. HONOR TYROL’S HERO . ae Brave Little Nation Venerates the Memory of Andreas Hofer, | and Twite a Year the Story of the Liberator Is Told Again in Dramatic Manner. pens (Special Correspondence.) It is nearly a hundred years since | his last drop of blood for the hoitse of Andreas Hofer, the herole innkeeper | Hapsburg. For foreigners the study of the Passeler, roused his country- | peasant feels a fine contempt, blended men to arms ageinst the power of | with pity and yelled by a dignified Napoleon, and inspired the same fer-| courtesy to ‘the strangers who come vent loyalty to Kaiser and fatherland | from all parts of the world to seek which is so strong in every Tyrolese | health in the sunshine of Meran—the heart today, routed the armies of} pearl of Tyrol, as one of her lovers France and Bavaria and won for bim- | calls her. felf a place among the immortals of | It is for these wanderers from less history. | favored lands that twice a year the The flowers of ninety springs have | story of Andreas Hofer is played in blossomed on the soil once red with | the fields beyond the town gate, by the blood of Austria's enemies; ninety|men whose grandfathers fought in years of change and stress have left | grim earnest on that very spot. their mark on the Hapsburg throne | A bright faced “Dirndl” speaks the since the ery, “Down with Bavaria!” | prologue in good Tyroler German, and rang through Tyrol; but walking | the play begins. History lives on the through the pleasant Meran valley,|rough boards for a space. In tae where Adige and Passer rush together | rugged country tongue the moving tale ; aes GEN s r gti 25a, 3 eee 1 ee ere oe ame J ely oe ne eo ee ts ree as eeeh a ee 7 sa to flow united southward into Italy, the past seems strangely near, and the very rocks of that stirring time when the mountain folk humbled the pride of Europe's master, and gave their Kaiser pack bis own, There, where Schloss Tyrol stands on the edge of a gray gorge, cleft deep in the green hillside, was fought a bloody battle, when the Frenchmen, caught in a trap between the peasants and the chasm, sprang by hundreds over the erum- bling edge rather than face the deadly bullets of the mountaineers. Down in the streets of old Meran still stands the house where Hofer slept on that winter night when the base treachery of a fellow-country- man bad worked nis downfall. In this old Gasthof and in that, his comrades met’ to Vow unswerving resistance to the invader. Through the old Vinstgauer Thor rode the messenger who bore the signal of revolt to the Western valleys. In the wall of a whitewashed Bauernhof, beside a picture of the Blessed Virgin, you may yet see ’a French cannon ball, half buried in the stonework. Above the peasant has painted the date; A. D. 1809. No need for an inscription. For the Tyroler these figures are enough. That was the 1 K ers sees Oe a 2o | Ge eee eg a oe — acide eae ee es aan oe Lo as es a es - 2 Ses a co oe a Ss : i. e " oa 1 ee ‘ ro Kr: Sere ee ; ee us oo ae eg | ae in 2 Se ee ee = os oe | ie i, oo eae! mi, ee i a —= SOS ee pe eos } an Renee cane ne pen a as ; ae. es ee eee SE ye PE ee es Pie haat oe Po eigen Rete ek oe oe: re Be see es Mee aes earn ee ee ol a Rae ews aie ou Chapel at Innsbruck. glorious year when the storm broke loose and swept the foreign yoke from the people’s neck and restored to the country the freedom which is its chiefest boast and most precious in- heritance. Every child knows why the Tyroler eagle spreads red wings on a silver ‘field. 2 "Tig not alone the red sunshine, Nor yet the country’s fiery wine, It le the blood my foés have shea ‘That dyes my wings with fadeless red. The verse is rude; the Tyroler is a man of few words. He goes his way, paying but little heed to the march of ‘progress; he plows his fields or tends ‘his vines and shoots at the target on Sundays. The “Kaiser knows he is ready, now as in bygone times, to cive isis Sos ei his last drop of blood for the house of Hapsburg. For foreigners the study peasant feels a fine contempt, blended with pity and veiled by a dignified courtesy to the strangers who come from all parts of the world to seek health in the sunshine of Meran—the pearl of Tyrol, as one of her lovers calls her. It is for these wanderers from less favored lands that twice a year the story of Andreas Hofer is played in the fields beyond the town gate, by the men whose grandfathers fought in grim earnest on that very spot. A bright faced “Dirndl” speaks the prologue in good Tyroler German, and the play begins. History lives on the rough boards for a space. In tae rugged country tongue the moving tale is unfolded. Peasants in the dresses of many valleys flock to the fair, which is held before the wooden house. They wear the clothes treasured as_heir- looms, which their fathers end moth- ers wore in the days of the country’s danger. ‘They laugh and talk and chat- ter, when suddenly a band of children, eager and excited, rushes into the crowd and spreads the news that the enemy is. at hand. The flag swinger is ready—no dressed up mummer this, but the man whose present office is to call the people to arms in the hour of need. With stern face, his lips mov- ing nervously under his brown beard, he’ unfolds the silken red and white striped flag and whirls it round his head. The folds ripple fast, now high, now low, over head, under foot, twist- ing and turning till the eye swims to see it, and the stalwart arm of the swinger drops exhausted. Now the peasants pour across the stage, armed with old fashioned mus- kets, flails, seythes and _pitchforks. Their faces are set; they feel, these honest folk—in real life, tradesmen, peasants, innkeepers and craftsmen— the spirit that fired their forebears. When cannon shot are heard and puffs of blue smoke dim the vivid color of the mountain pastures, the play seems actual and grim reality. Scene succeeds scene. They are all there, the men whose names are household words in Tyrol. Hofer, the “Sandwirt,” a thick set, plain faced man, slow of speech, whole hearted for the cause; Lanthaler, with his apostle face and flowing beard; the blind pedier, thirsting for vengeance on his torturers; the stout hearted girls, who loaded their lovers’ and brothers’ muskets and urged them to valorous deeds. They show how a race’ of heroes fought “facing fearful odds,” and among them the broad figure of the brave innkeeper is ak ways to the fore. It is never too late to'learn that you may be too previous. Schloss Tyrol. 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Chronic invalids who have languished op yearson sick beds with some form ot feral disease begin to improve at once atter be ginning Dr. Hartman's treatnient Among the many promigent womer wie recommend Peruna are.—Belva Locl.sd, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Col. Hamni':on, ofColumbus, Ohio; Mrs. F. E. Wares, wife ‘of U. S. Senator Warren, of Wyoming If you do not derive prompt and satistac- tory results from the use of Peruns, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full sie, ‘ment of your case, and he will be pleased ‘to give you his valuable advice gratis, _ Address Dr. Hartman, President of The ‘astian Gentiedtan. Colanbus Ohi. : WY Lok iets E GE SLSR | GF Eee 4 3 V4 ne a A Put your fine M ger on our trade mark. Tell your dealer you want the best jf starch your money can buy. ‘Insist on having the best; DEFIANCE. ig It Is 16 ounces for to cents: ff No premiums, but one [pound of the very best (starch made. We put all # our money In the starch. ff It needs no cooking. i {It Is absolutely pure., ‘It gives satisfaction of money back. f THE DEFIANCE sTARcH co. Omaha, Neb. W" N.U. —WICHITA—NO.29, 1909 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN REMINISCENCE Of the Frederic his Article was ly For The By A Wid and will Appear this Article was Written Especially For The Searchlight By A Wichita Lady and will Appear In Three Parts PART THREE The next time I saw Fred Dou- was after many years had pass- and he came to Wichita to de- lecture (here again I am at as regards date.) My husband i went to the hotel where he entertained, to call on him, but had gone to the depot. It was only an hour before train time, we went to the depot, and in- sisted ourselves. I informed him at I was one of the young girls listened to his parlor talks on way, and his experience of slave at the time when he carried his hands in a slidg from the effects of Pendleton mob. he was immediately interested, and required after our friends there, telling many of them by name, and I had always corresponded with them. I was able to answer his questions satisfactorily. He expressed the warmest feelings toward them, and told me he carried a souvinier that occasion in a lame hand. He looked worn and sick, said he had a hard trip, the train was late and he oblided to go on the platform without even a cup of tea. It was a doubtful honor — that of entertaining him at a first-class hotel. If some colored family had taken him and given him one cup of tea and kindly sympathised with him, his countenance would, I am sure, have heed a less sad ex session. He told us that he had met with a kindly and courteous recognition from several of his master's family; that once when he was a delegate to a convention in Philadelphia, and they were marching, an elegantly dressed lady with two children, rush up to him and gave him a cordial and affectionate greeting, and told him that she had come quite a distance and waited a long time to see him, having learned that he was a delegate and was expected to be there. She was the daughter of Mr. Thomas Auld, and Miss Luretia, his first wife. Douglas oftimes visited at her home. He delivered a lecture at the county seat, in the court house, at which place, when a slave he was dragged behind a horse with a rope around his neck, and lodged in jail for attempting to run away. The sheer罪 who arrested him was yet living and welcomed him cordially, and attended his lecture; he also told us that he had visited by invitation, the home plantation of Col. Loyd (his own master was an manager of this plantation on when --- 5TH YEAR. Great Douglas Written Especial- Searchlight hita Lady In Three Parts IREE he was sent from his grandmother) where he was treated with great courtesy and shown over the plantation; seated on the broad veranda talking over the old times, and dining in the great dining hall with the family. He also eisited ex-Gov. Loyd's daughter, where he was treated as an honored guest, and when he started away he was presented with a lovely booget by the beautiful little grand-daughter of his not-ess. (Of his meeting with his old master, Mr. Thos. Au.d, I will quote from his memours: "The last time I saw the grand old man was in 1892, when the National Encampment of the G. A. R. was held in Washington, n. D.C. One beautiful day thre was an excursion to Mt. Vernon — Washington's home; there was a great throng of people there, and before us I saw ahead above the crowd. I said to my husband, do you know that tall man in front of us. He answered, "I think not" I said that is Fred Douglas. After a time we came up to him as he had taken a seat, and we again introduced ourselves. He seemed pleased to meet us and again enquired about our Fall Creek and Pendleton friends, still remembering names and calling incidents. We had but a short conversation with him as our time was limited, and he looked worn and weary. The storms of nearly twice forty years had swept over his head. He had fought a good fight, he had been a valiant soldier in the defense of his people and his labor had been crowned with success. His people were no longer bondmen, they were making progress in all the mechanical arts, in agriculture, in the various departments of business, and in the professional world; they had schools and colleges, and ne, their tried and trusted friend, defender, and leader would rest. Not long after this he received the welcome call of "Good and faithful servant enter thou into the joy of the Lord." Eberhardt & Hays, GENERAL MUSIC DEALERS. Piano Tuning $2 50. Phone 981. Cor Douglas and Emporia. Wichita, Kansas. WICHITA. KANSAS JULY 18 1903. Oh here's to the girl in a dream of lace, In a dizzy, peek-a-boo frock; Sauce of movement and fair of face The girl with the screen-door sock! Naturally there will be a great clamor on the part of the admiring public to know where Opie Read. George Ade, James J. Montague, "Al" Bixby, Burt Leston Taylor, S. E. Kiser and myself are going to spend the summer months. Goethe says, "On every mountain height is rest." This high altitude laxity is all right for some of the literati, but others are insisting there shall be "no saloon in the valley." They want it on the mountain top, where they can buy cracked ice at a nominal figure. Last summer Burt Taylor, the "Line-o-Type" man, went to Grand Marias to cure a bad attack of "N.P." (nervous prostration). He is now busily engaged in saving enough bands to insure a second summer at this popular resort. It is understood he will not have the same Indian guide this season. Chief Splatterwater, who "canoed" him about last summer is no more. At Ade's suggestion he mounted the famous water wagon, fell off and broke his neck. Ade will further combat "N.P." by keeping flowers on Splatterwater's grave during the open season. "AI" Bixby will soon repair to his summer residence at Medicine Hat. It will be remembered that Medicine Hat is where the blizzards originate. In summer it is as cool as the proverbial swine on congealed water. "Bix" has had a new bathrobe built and will "cut some ice" with his pencil during the torrid months. Mr. Kiser is preparing to set sail in his "alternating currents." He goes on one current and returns on the other. The objective point is Utopia. Opie Read will soon leave Chicago for "Jucklins' Roost," where he will be the biggest cock of the walk. One of the chief delights at the "Roost" is the mineral spring, along the rivulet of which mint juleps grow profusely. Mr. Read will be "companioned" during his trip by "a gentleman from Kentucky," and the governors of North Carolina and South Carolina. You will recall what they said to each other. George Ade will continue to tour the states in his automobile, "The Little Whooping Cough," returning now and then to see that no time is lost in his "fable" factory. It is understood there is the prospect of a strike in the factory during the hot summer months. The fables insist they are being overworked, but Mr. Ade, knowing the rapacious appetite of the "Whooping Cough," insists he can afford no increase in wages. It is suggested that a board of arbitration, consisting of Charles Eugene Banks, "Cutch" and Gerald Sullivan be appointed to settle the difficulty. James Montague, on our recommendation, will visit Waxelbaumville, Minnesota. "the place where the big fish grow." He will take a cottage for the summer, observe all the rules and ride on the railroad velocipede to Lakeville for supplies. If said supplies drop out of his pistol pocket, hit the railroad track and spill, he will also hit the track and return with more supplies. We have furnished him with a map of the swimmin' hole and have loaned him our treatise on "How to be Lively and Catch Frogs." That he will thoroughly enjoy his vacation there can be no doubt. Board reasonable. As for us, we had intended going abroad to our Cupola at Sketches (accent on the second "e"), Italy. Owing to a misunderstanding caused by our corporate manager butting in, we have altered our plans slightly, and will remain in the city with our wife, who has been on her vacation and who is lonely when we are far away. We have found much comfort in these words by John S. Dwight: "Rest is not quitting the busy career; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere." Friends who seek us, therefore, during the soozy summer days, will find us busily engaged in fitting ourselves to our sphere. First door to the right, ground floor. Ask the office boy! 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. * UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. Santos-Dumon's new air ship is a wonder. It sails in the air. It takes an exceptionally fine brand of salve to turn a human crank. A weather record is never broken in a town that has an oldest inhabitant. The only criticism to be found with the past of some women is that it is too long. What a lot of damage a small creek can do when it collaborates with a good-sized cloudburst. The summa cum laude college graduate will soon begin to learn how much he doesn't know. The only time the devil ever gets fooled is when he hangs around a woman with a new baby. Harry Lehr "has just bought a parrot." So he can now go in for a regular parrot and monkey time. Much better results can be obtained by paying a woman a compliment than by trying to argue with her. There must be some mistake in the statement that Mr. Morgan left something on the other side of the Atlantic. It has just been discovered that Entersan found his greatest inspiration in the warm glow of a cranberry pie. In spite of the discovery of radium and polonium, the gold brick has not yet gone out of style among confidence men. No explanation has been offered of the recent uprising of the Kurds. Somebody must be making whey with their liberties. Mrs. Pat Campbell carried $100,000 away. Her earnings were about equally divided between bridge whist and dramatic bunco. It is not probable that the world will ever be destroyed again by water. Try as it may, the Missouri can not beat its record of '44. Every time a 100 to 1 shot wins half the male population feels the necessity of taking a fresh grip on the resolution against betting. The Evanston society girl who married a brakeman may be sorry some night when he has a "down-brakes" nightmare and tries to twist her head off. As an "originator of 'reight" Pittsburg leads every other city in the country. As an originator of soft coal smoke, however, it leads the world. London physicians have advised John W. Gates to take a rest. Mr. Gates has a penchant for taking everything in sight without waiting for advice. The late Edward McIntyre, a Pennsylvania man, who fasted forty days, to cure an attack of paralysis, had the satisfaction of not dying from paralysis anyhow. W. M. Dunson, Painter. W. M. Dunson, Painter. All Kinds of Fine The Only Colored Fainter in the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Keen to Office 708 N. Moor Phone 936 Little Lunacy in Egypt. Egypt, with nearly ten million people, has only one lunatic asylum, and that with only 500 beds. There must be far away somewhere A realm in which glad angels dwell, Not merely that we may have these 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. COLORED MAN'S BUSINESS CHARACTERISTICS. One of the mysterious characteristic traits of the average colored man who seeks to engage in business pursuits in his oagerness to engage in only a business in which some other member of the race is engaged. For an example, if there was a colored man engaged in the grocery business, every other colored who would desire to go in any business would choose that of grocery. His object would not be to give the race more enterprises but to tear down the business and trade of the colored man already in business. It would not matter to him whether the colored population of the city was only sufficient to maintain but one grocery store, it would not matter to him that there would be a better investment in a coal yard, a drug store, a meat market, a clothing store or something other than a grocery, he would go in the grocery business anyway, just because some other colored man was already engaged in that business and his whole aim would be to "break him up." This is a very mean, envious spirit, but though it is painful to acknowledge, yet it is as true as steel. The same rule applies to the field of Negro journalism, if a colored man is engaged in the newspaper business in a town, every colored man who thinks of going into any business can see no other kind of business but that of "running" a newspaper. He does not enter with a true motive or to stay, but only with the mean and low intent to "put the other man already running a newspaper out." Why is this? Out of all the opportunities in every trade and business mentionable. Why is it that our people will not learn that the only way to increase the races interest is not to try to turn down the enterprises already running, by trying to push superfluous opposition, but to establish new enterprises of various character. This cannot be charged to the race as a whole but to those who pose as its 'leaders?' The time is now at hand when the Negro must learn that the maintenance of one race enterprise only opens the way for the establishment of other in the race. There is a movement on foot in Macon, Ga., to obtain a lot for the erection of a home for indigent ex-slaves. Colore men own in [the United States 240 drug stores in with an investment of over a half a millio n dollars. A company of negro business men of New York have recently contributed money for two scholarships at the Tuskegee Institute. CHERRYVALE, KAS At the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Richardson, occured the marriage of their daughter, Miss Fannie Richard on, to Mr. Aaron Robinson, of Cherryvale, Kansas. Miss Fannie is one of Cherryvale's best girls, good natured and kind to all. After congratulation, refreshments were served. Mr. Robinson had bought and nicely furnished a neat cottage, the home for his bride. Many presents were received. NO 8 Race Suicide The reeve u terances of President Roocevelt on "race suicide " have set methematicians and census experts to work tabulating statistics on percentage of births and deaths among the people of this country. In dealing with the question as it affects the colored people of this country, the following from the Washington Post may be of some interest— "Race suicide" or any kindred theory will always be frowned down by the colored people of the land. It is said in holy writ that "God commanded them to multiply upon the earth," and the colored brother has never ceased to keep this injunction in view, especially in Texas. Some years ago it is said that Bishop Henry M. Turner, in answer to a query said, that while the colored people of America were not reinforced by immigration, the race drew from three sources, viz., the offsprings of a colored man and a colored woman, the offsprings of a white map and colored woman, and the offspring of a colored man and a white woman. In these later days, however, the race receives but few additions from the two last mention causes, and "foreign invasion" is being repelled on all sides. Finger prints are now utilized in the courts for establishing the identity of persons. Little children should be warned that mamma can discover who put their dirty hands on the wall paper. Probably if Uncle Sam could establish a belief that fishing worms are plentiful along the line of the Panama canal he could get an army of rooters to tear up a hole down there without paging for it. THE SEARCHLIGHT, —____ WICHITA, - - - KANS. ——— W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiebita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Pablithed Every Saturday at No. 110 Noazrs Mary Sr. * “RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION- @®@ STRICTLY IN ADVANCE! One Year [ by mail ] ...... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ]...... 7e Three months[ by mail } ....50c ONE MONTH oo... 180 Advertising Rates Made Known On Appli cation, NOTICE! - All matters addresser to Tue Searcuticur for publicc tion must be signed by the part or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIr OFFICE. Ast. All Subscriptions must be paid ir advance strictly. Agents take notice nd. Communications receives ster Wed aesday n00n will appear ‘mthac week. 8rd. fn asking to change your paper fron fone office or one address to another alway: give both, the old and new. 4th Send Us all thenews from your sx tion of the City, County, State or County: We publith it FREE OF CHARGE. Wri it plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our book without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. @th Address all eonmunications to“ The Wichita Searchlight ” Wichita, Kansas. Th Any erroneous reflection upon th ebaracter, standing or reputation of any per son which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor, “To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. —— THE TRUTH HURTS Some members of “ de gang” criticise the editorial which appear- ed in the columas of the Search- light on July 4th. In this artic’e under the heading; “ Do they help the raca? ” the ill-effect on the race is shown “y the men who are the promoters of fake negro papers. We are not at all surprised at this criti. cism, but expected it. Coming from a member of “de gang ” as it does, we are indced pr.ud to hear it, The deception which hs been practiced on the colored and white people of Wicuita by colorod men on the plea of ‘running ’ or ‘going to run’ a ne- gro paper has been carried to th e extreme limit, and some measures ought to be taken to put a stop to it We stand by every word which we said in that article. We contend, that when a person pays for a pe- per for one month or one year, they are just 1s much entitled to receive the paper fur the time for which they havo paid, as any person is en. titled to receive any other article for whieh they pay. The mere fac! that some colored man * savs”” be is‘ running’ or is‘ geing to ran’ a‘ colored’ paper, docs not make him a liscensed robber of the people and entitle him ty go among the pec pleand by deception secure thei: money and after they have collect- ed every cent collectable, then the paper ceases publication. We would like to see the colon of the man whe can truthfully call this anything else but robber with the crime of re. ceiving money under false pr tenses added. It te-ms that the. public at targe bas no redress, and if the col- oced men who do know thrss fakers and their methods, do not appris: the hones} public, a great and dam, aging injury will conttnue to be thus thrust upon the pub.ie. There an- cther feature ot these ‘ fake papers’ whiob rarely, if ever, come out. It is this: Tatse feliows always some one two or more colored men here wh are fairly well known and it is these men who steer the rubber on Lis victim; thus these men are equally asguilty Thed alis always nade that the robber’s guide shal} get a per sent out of ell “ collections ” We condemr this practice as being a m anace and gross imposition on ; the honest people of this city, The {men who are the aiders, abettor or | boosters of the fakes and schemes to swindle the the people are just as guilty as the fakers und swindlers jest and the people ought to know them. It is hard enough for the white man, who has millions of, to stend such loss and it is a down. right, dirty shame to have the color- ed people thus humbugged. We are of the opion that very radical and stringent methods ought to be put in yogue against such practices, W.N. P. A. MEETING. Kigth Annual Session Will Meet at Colorado Springs, Colorado August 3, 4,5, 1908. To the Press:— Pursuant to the regular appointment un- der the provisions of the constitution, the Western Negro Press Association of the United States is hereby called to convene at Colorado Springs, Colorado, in_its eighth annual session, Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday, August 3rd, 4th and 5th 1903, All propriétors, estitors, managers, repory- ers and correspondents west of the Missis sippi tiver are eligible to. membership in the association, and are urged to Le present, We cordially extend an invitation to members of the fraternity throughout the country to meet with us in Colorado Springs to consider those questions so vital to the welfare of the aace in this country. | Reeent developments shows the need 0 aston on the part of the intelligent and thoughtful members of the race, and the press mnst undoubtedly take the lead. The official pregram that will be published. lat- er will bd up to the usual high standard, We would again urge upon every paper and its entir staff to make this meeting a personah matter in order to secure a large and enthusiastic gathering. ‘The executive committee: W. W. Taylor, of Salt Lake City, chairman; HR, Pink- ney of Kansas City, Col. F, L. Jeltz of To» peka: T. W. Mahamet of Omaha; Nick Chiles of Topeka, W, H. Dnncan of Celor- ado Springs, will apprise all western rail- roads of the conveution and will request them to extend courtesies to. members and publishers of the craft. W. H. Duncan, Colorado Spriugs, Colo. is chairman of the program committee, W. W. Taylor, Salt Lake City, Utah, is chairman of the executive committee. Witness my hand and seal this 131h day June, 1903. Jos, D, D, Rivers, President Denver, Colo. W, H, Luncan, Secretary Colorado Springs, Coto. (Cther papers please copy) PIC-NIC AT LINWOOD PARK, New Hope Buptit church with give a big pie nic at Linwood park next Thursda , July 23.d,] This promises to be one of the swellest events of the year. All kinds of re~ freshments will be served on the ground. Take a day off and go to the beautifu}Linwood park. Mrs. M. E. Langston, Grand Ma- tron, Order of Eastern Star, will be in Wichi a next Wednesday and will vi-it the Eastern Star chapter Wednesday night. Phureday night Mrs. F. E. Mo- ten again demonstrated her zbility as a polished elocutionist The Clark’ Chinneth Orchestra fornisbed some fine musie at th hell Thursday night. 4 Mr. B. J.Delyfain and wife, of Georgetown, Ky., are in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rutter. Me. Delplain is Mrs. Rut- ter’s bro:her, He is one of the very prom aent merchants of George. town aad ‘s quite a favorite among the culored people of that ctty. Dr. and Mrs. §. H. Thompson, of Kantas City, Kansas, lost their in. fant son last Thursday. The Search. light extends its sympathies to Dr. and Mrs. Thompson. To Daery os0s80.500800ce0120sec-e PROF. Tipp’s Hand Laundry Best Hana Laundry In the City First-Class Work ae Guaranteed, 609 East Doug'as Ave............ Wichita, Ks. Cee nee AGENTS WANTED We allow agents a big commis. sion for their work. Write to-day for terms Agents wanted in every town and city in the U. S. Send 2c stamp for Samp! Snpy. Locals and Personals Miss Nanzy Phelps was much im proved this week. She was abie to) ieee ae tide over to hor sister's Mrs. Lee) PICO are oar aot Anderson and was a guest of Mrs.) PX nee AEE i Anderton for breakfast and dinner. | 575 averse s Ail are pleased to see her mending. | an Miss Lula Parks returned to this city last Friday from Jefferson City, Mo., where she graduated from the Lincoln Institute. Mies Parks will remain in Wighita for the present, The bey rack party given by Messers Finesand Morris Tuesday evening was a grand success. About a dozen couples were in attendaoca and reported a fine. jolly, good time The ladies of the A. M. E. ehurch wil) give an Entertainment at Hart man’s hall, Wedaceday night, July 22nd. A prize will be giveo the most ragged dressed person in the hall. An entertaining program will be rendered. Miss Madge Yochum returned from Kansas City and Independence Mo. She hada pleasant time visit- ing relatives and friends. ‘The train porters on the Mo, Pac Ry runping out of Wichita were quite {ortuvate in getting their sal. aries raised from $45.00 to $65.00 per month, Eddie Thomas is confined to his bed at bis howe, 419 N. 5th., suffer- ing with typhoid fever. _ Mrs. Mary Parks ts expected to return to Jhil city in about two weeks from Ft. Scott, where she is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Brown. Mr. Sid B. Wolf, formerty witb the Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw grocery and his brother Pete W. Wolf, for- merly ‘with Kelehner on East Doug las, have bought the Badger meat market at 538. N. Emporia. They have a good stock of fresh and salt meats always on hand and inyite their many friends io call and see them at 538 N. Emporia. We have not heard from Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis and our bil] yet. We trust we will however. ‘The Emporia ave. extension makes quite an addition to Wiehita’s very good street car system} ‘Praitsclis FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable CHURCH DIRECTORY St.Paul A. M. EB. bal X. Water St, 11 am preaching. 4pm Sunday school, 7 pm Song Service, 8 pm Preaching. Rev, P, D. Yocham, Pastor, Residence By N. Water. New Hepe Baptist, North Mead ave, 11am Preaching. 1pm Sunday School, 8pm Preaching. Rev H. F. Frazier, Pastor 239 New York ave, Second Baptist, 521 N. Wichita. 11 am Preaching, 8 pm Sunday School, 8 pm Preaching, No Pastor. Tabernacle Baptist. $34. N. Water, JI am Preaching, 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching, Rev. A. H. Mayoy Pastor, Bebe ebbbbd beh bbbde yy Secono To None Secone Te None : Pleases All GooD BREAD MAKERS —— It Is White As Saow. —__ ‘ TRYIT : OTTO WEIFS, Avent SPEER EEE LEDER EE TLE a! The Mercnants who ap- preciate the trade of the col ored people ADVERTISE IN. THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE TYE. Why not organize a good colored band in Wichita? There is nothing which so enlivenc a townas a good colored band. —S=2 A Tse ; ; a et Girl eae clei aS NG ey EWE ter swectments can be foun! ic 7 Ae AGA x many comes than thn ve ee Sea] JERS sell, We're proud of them. Wy ae Ag Wit we be? Good candies, and good cana, i GR a é Ata | ur Celebrated ICE CREAM, Aik ‘oe Presiding Elder J. W. Braxton arrived in the eity Wednesday and will hold quarterly meeting at the A.M, E. church Sunday. Assesmsnt Call No. 2. Assessment No. 2; of the Co-op erative Burial Association is now due. Members please pay at the Office of J. J, BLEITZ, 235 N. Main st. See See eee eee eS eS eS USE 4 IM BODEN'S IMPERIAL } FILOUR«s ? BREAKFAST FOOD | ——and yon will Love good eating. — { AT YOUR @ROOER: IMBODEN MILLING C0. : tho Fo-RovfeRocFesRocRestet oto PeeResfetectes Rete festnes Reto ReiisT steak g ‘The colored people are quite sc- ciety givers and thus they always haye a good time. _ Rev. P. D. Yochrm left Wednes [day for Eldorado where he preach- edito a large and appreciative ‘con ‘gregatlon. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. EB [church next Sunday, . Sey), OUR SPRING STOCK. Wwr7 , ots) Sxl, Onr clothes are going fast, abil a you want to be in the lead yonby A better call op the Peerless Tui Wz FB and beup to date in style wi )) workmanship and fit. (77 N \ <= Onrprices defy competition, ud \ = workmanship is equal to any hig HI {priced tailoring in the country. ey Z Call and convince yourself. 7 )) : (( ~ The Peerless Tailor, aS 4 508 E. Douglas Ave. . o Everybody Must Dic Drearhy. cot Soin The Co-Operative Burial Association? By OUR co operative plan we are enabled to render sssistanc that will lighten the burden of many a family and that will afford to each member a respectable burial without working a hardship on ai ‘one, and without imposing on friends for assistance. Membership Fee Only 16cts. Derth Assessments... , Adults 11¢, Children 6c ome J. J. Bleitz, Undertaker . 235 North Main St W. M. DUNSON, AGEN’. EELEEAEEEEE ES PEE CHILDREN CRY FOR IT - EY Dou’t let them cry, give them all they want of BGN-TON ICE CREAM. Its pure and wholesome—jast right a0" ; dont cost any more than the ordinary kind. Special Prices to Picnics and Socials. MESSERVE'S ON TON ANDY Bitar & K frcumn Phone 152 146 N. Main Dr. J. E. Farmer, —_———- Physician and Surgeon Diseeses of Women and Children a Specialty. —- = Office 703 N. Main St. ‘Tel. 936. —— 20.65 Chicago, Ill. $20.65 and Return via aN )) FRISCO | Fm) Accourt Summer Schools Tickets on. sale June 1th, 15th, 40th and July Ist. Good to return until Sept. J5th. Call at corner of Main and Dong: las ave. A.R, Deom, B. F. Dunn, City Ticket Agt Div Pass Agt. Wichita, Kansas. pwogtenieeelal c W.G. McKee, (S.ccessor to A. N. West ) Pumps, Pipe, Hose, Windmills ‘ {2° When you need anew Pomp, or your old one 20d pairing, don’t forget to give me a call 118 South Main St. Phone 643 Fon foGo Gone Goo Perfor Bo Bofurle Bees BecLe Rofo fucfocfontesfefotott The sins by which God’s Spirit is ordinarily grieved are the sins of small things, laxities in keeping the tem- per, slight neglect of duty, lightness, sharpness of dealing. HORTICULTURE Hand Pollinating. The Almighty created the vegetable kingdom, but he gave its dominion to man. To what extent this dominion has been given to him man himself has not yet realized. It is evident that he has the power of molding the vegetables of this kingdom to a most remarkable extent. Take for instance the sugar beet, which man found containing 5 per cent of sugar, and has molded it till it contains 15 per cent, sometimes 20 per cent. It may be even possible to do better than that. In our modern cabbage, the cauliflower and various kinds of turnips we find it almost impossible to recognize the original wild forms, so much have they been changed. As yet the work of man has been with a few plants. What about the thousands that his hand has not yet attempted to mold? There is much hope to be placed in the cross pollination of fruits—especially in the pollination that is done by land, for in that way definite results are attained. The possibilities of this work are very great. Hardy and high quality fruits may be combined, even though it may take years to get results that will be a fair reward for the labor and time expended in obtaining them. In hand-pollinating, the flowers must be well understood. The amateur will soon learn that the ovary is the receptacle in which the seed is formed, that the pistil is the central cylindrical portion, the female organ of the flower, that the stamens are the male organs of the flower, bearing knob-like bodies on their tops, in which is the pollen that is to fructify the ovary through the pistil. The petals and the sepals are of no consequence to the pollinator, as they are only for the protection of the organs of germination. The pollinator selects a bud that is about to open, opens it with instruments and removes the stamens. This is to prevent the stamens fructifying the ovary. If taken before the flower is open none of the pollen will have escaped from the stamens, nor will the ovary have received pollen from any other source. It requires a little practice to remove the stamens without harming the pistil and ovary, especially if the flower is small, but it can be done. The petals are also frequently removed with the stamens, as they are of no particular value except to attract insects to assist in the work of pollination. To get the pollen from another blossom is an easy task. A blossom should be selected that would open in a day or two. It is cut open and the anthers on top of the stamens removed. These are damp and are full of pollen. They should be spread on a paper and laid in the sun. When they are dry they will burst open and let out the pollen. This is applied to the other blossom by means of a fine brush, the pollen of course being placed in the stigma, which is the entrance to the ovary. A sack of considerable size should then be placed over the fertilized blossom to prevent any other pollen getting into it. The sack should be removed after the fruit has set, and a bag of mosquito netting substituted. These will catch the fruit if it starts to drop and will be a means of identifying the crossed fruit at harvest time. A tag should be put with each pollinated fruit, giving the names of the varieties crossed. The Strawberry Patch. In locating a spot for a strawberry patch, bear in mind that the strawberry is a surface feeder, and, consequently, easily injured or killed by a surfeit of water or during severe drouth. The land should be well drained and one that has been previously planted to hoed crops, so that weeds will give as little trouble as possible. Plow the ground in the fall and again the spring, while in the meantime a liberal coat of barnyard manure should be given. After having plowed the plot it should be thoroughly cultivated and then rolled. It is then ready for marking out, which may be done in various ways, with whatever the planner has convenient for this purpose. The rows are usually placed about three and a half to four feet apart, and the plants 15 to 24 inches apart in the rows, according to the thriftiness of the variety or varieties grown. The choice of varieties is often a very perplexing question, and can only be decided by actual test. Varieties that succeed well in localities are entire failures in others. In fact, varieties will thus fluctuate on a single farm, according to the variation of the soil. If the intending grower has had no experience in selecting varieties, his only safe course is to choose those succeeding best with his neighbors, or such standard varieties as have a wide-spread reputation. Begin planting as early in the spring as possible, so as to get the benefit of the early rains, and thus give the plants a vigorous start. The plants should be well trimmed; all large or dead leaves removed, together with the tips of the roots, which will then branch out and take a firmer hold of the soil. Commence cultivation immediately after planting and continue it throughout the season, thereby keeping all weeds in check, conserving moisture in the soil, and confining the plants to their allotted space in the rows. All blossoms should be removed the first season, and also any runners that may make their appearance before the plants are in a vigorous condition to support them.—Arthur Peer. B. F. McLEAN, MBER = DEALER AT Phone 134 water, Peck, YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. CHAS. A. SC Real Estate, and Insurance NOTARY CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant AS. A. SCHWENDIGER, Real Estate, Rental, Loans Insurance Agent, NOTARY PUBLIC CHAS. A. SCHWENDIGER Real Estate, Rental, Loans and Insurance Agent, When You Want AGOOD MEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS 15cts — C. L. KINER, Prop. 408 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. OPEN ALL NIGHT GO TO ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F.I.D. Israel, 127 N. Market Wichita. Get a Searchlight, if you want the news. WOLF BADGER ME Wolf Br All kinds of Fre YOUR PATRONA LF Props. P. W. WOLF DGER MEAT MARKET Wolf Bros, Props, Is of Fresh and salt Meats YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED. All kinds of Fresh and salt Meats YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED. Home See E FRIS SYST Eureka Springs, Ark., on sale every Monta Ne, Ark., on sale every day Boston, Mass., on sale June 30th ne Seekers Excursions FRISCO SYSTEM Ark., on sale every day $11 round trip, limit 90 days. k., on sale every day, $11 round trip, limit 90 days. on sale June 30th to July 4th, $37.95 roundtrip. FRISCO SYSTEM Eureka Springs, Ark., on sale every day $11 round trip, limit 90 days. Monta Ne, Ark., on sale every day, $11 round trip, limit 90 days. Boston, Mass., on sale June 30th to July 4th, $37.95 roundtrip. SUMMER RATES. 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Call at Frisco City Ticket Office A. R. DEEM, City Ticket Agt. Colonists Tickets South—On sale first and third Tuesdays of each month. One way for half fare plus $2.00, to points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Homeseekers Tickets—Round trip to points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas for one fare plus $2.00, on sale first and the Tuesdays of each month. Limited 21 days. IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY COLEER . WASHINGTON. Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, and the greatest living artist of the 20th century, he volumes of 400 pages and beautifully illustrated with over 50 paper drawings and original drawings by Frank Board. Size, $0.85 inches; retail price in cloth, $1.50. Here indeed is a life-story stranger than fiction. We have never seen a book so remarkable achievement ever written. Ask for a free copy of our booklet "GLEARINGS" which tells all about Mr. Washington's autobiography. "Free Offer" ately forward our free offer of a volume of the $1.50 book. We want you to have a copy to introduce it in your community. We also want Agents in every county and district in the country to sell our books. it. If you will enclose only ten cents in stamp- vassing book. We allow highest commissions, write as once! L. Nice 11. If you will enclose only ten cents in stamps we will also send our magnificent agents' can- vassing book. We allow highest commissions, pay freight and fill orders on thirty days' credit. write at once! L. Nichols & Co., Naperville, Illinois WOLF 538 N. Emporia 4 408 W. Douglas Over 117 N. Market-Phone 773. Notice to The Public GENTLEMEN: When you are Tired and Worried and want a good night's sleep call at 113 Tremont Street. First door south of Carey Hotel. We are not writing in the sand. The tide does not wash it out. We are not painting our pictures on the canvas and with a brush, so that we can erase the error of yesterday, or overlay it with another color to-day. We are writing our lives with a chisel on the marble, and every time we strike a blow we leave a mark that is indeible. P. W. WOLF Both Phones Colonists Tickets North and West Onewawo, on sale duntil June . 15th San Francisco and Los Angele Cal ..... $25 00 Billings, Helena, Butte, Mont 20 00 Ogden, Salt Lake City..... 20 00 Spokane, Wash..... 22 00 Portland, Seattle, Tacoma.. 25 00 Vancouver and Victor a B. C. 25 00 These rates apply to intermediate points HOUCK Hardware Store Building Hsrdware, Garland and Quick Meal Steel Ranges Garland Cook Stoves at the very low est prices. 116 East Douglas Ave. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Up-to-the-Minute PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 When in need of Groceries to not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S (102 E. Douglass Ave. 'Phone 357 ROWLEE 823 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses SEE!! H. H. Hess & Co Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition, Fishing Tackle and General Sporting Goods. 209 N. Main Phone 444 Phone 444 A Japanese inventor has discovered a compound which will remove natural and artificial blemishes in the skin. Birthmarks and tattooing disappear after one application. Few Theological Students. The number of theological students in Germany has diminished gradually from 4,267 in 1830 to 2,149, or less than half, although the population had doubled since 1830. Automobiles Frighten Cattle. A farmer complains that his cattle grazing in fields near a motor-frequented highway, instead of fattening grow thinner and thinner from fright. Baltic a Dangerous Sea. There are more wrecks in the Baltic Sea than in any other place in the world. The average is one wreck a day throughout the year. Liverpool's Annual Rainfall. Liverpool, generally called a wet place has an average rainfall per annum of 34 1-8 inches of rain. Royalty and Free Masonry. For the past 160 years the royal family of Britain has been identified with Free Masonry. Chinese Crews on British Vessels. Over 1,500 British vessels plying in Eastern waters are manned by CLISE crews. --- LIVE STOCK Starving Cattle Ticks. A bulletin of the Mississippi Station says: The longest time that we have been able to keep them alive is about three months. Prof. Morgan succeeded in keeping them without food from September 14th, 1897, until January 26th, 1898, about four and one-half months, and during warmer weather about two months—from July 20th to September 15th. Dr. Schroeder, of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, collected a number of female ticks February 3d, 1897. Eggs from these had hatched by March 11th, and many of the seed ticks remained alive until July 21st—four months and ten days—when they were placed upon a cow. A number of these were matured by August 13th, when they were collected. We thus see that these ticks remained alive more than five months. If we suppose that tick eggs can retain their vitality five and one-half months and the seed ticks live five and one-half months without food before dying, we see that eleven (11) months would be the maximum time that a pasture could remain infested after removing all cattle. In this estimate, however, we make no allowance for their chances of being killed by cold, sunlight and heavy rains. Polled Herefords. In 1898 Gen. W. W. Guthrie of Atchison, Kan., showed a group of cattle at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha that attracted much attention. These cattle had Hereford characteristics, minus the horns, and General Guthrie called them "Polled Kansans." They had been produced by crossing Hereford bulls on "muley" cows, inbreeding being avoided by resort again to Hereford stock. The bull shown was said to get a good percentage of hornless calves. Since then the interest has grown, the name Polled Hereford has been adopted, and recently the American Polled Hereford Cattle Club was organized, with headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa; Warren Gammon, secretary. The polled variation is not so common among Herefords as among Shorthorns, and this imposes a considerable disadvantage on one who attempts to fix it; but there are occasional registered Herefords that have never developed horns. An effort is now being made to collect these animals into one herd and thereby form the nucleus for more extended operations. Such work is commendable and will be watched with interest.-Bulletin 34, Bureau of Animal Industry. Soaked Feed for Horses. It is often claimed that soaking feed, especially hard grain, renders it more easily masticated and improves its digestibility, says bulletin 170 of the Department of Agriculture. It is doubtful if the matter is as important with horses as with some other classes of farm animals. It has been found in experimental tests that healthy horses with good teeth digested dry beans and corn as well as the same material that had been soaked in water for 24 hours. Soaking or wetting feed may sometimes be of importance as regards the health of horses. According to the experience of an English feeder, chaffed straw, which was fed on account of a shortage in the hay crop, gave better results when soaked than when dry. The dry material caused colic and constipation. It was also observed that the horses relished soaked grain. It is believed that the dust in hay causes heaves, and, to avoid such trouble, both long and cut hay, especially clover, is very often dampened before feeding, to lay the dust. The Original Angoras. The opinion of Mr. Schreiner, the South African authority, of a purebred Angora is as follows: I think it is certain that the original pure-bred white mohair goat was a small, very refined, delicate animal, of great beauty, clipping at twelve months' growth of fleece about from two to four pounds (according to age and sex—kids considerably less) of dazzling white, fine, soft, silky, very lustrous mohair, curling in ringlets from 10 to 18 inches long, with merely the minimum of oil in its fleece requisite to the growth of hair of the highest excellence, so small in amount as to be inappreciable to the unskilled observer. It was perfectly clothed in every part; it had short, silky, curly hair about the face and down the lower parts of the legs to the hoofs; a soft, silky, curly "kuf" (tuft on the forehead), and small, thin, light-colored horns. The ewe was, of course, smaller and finer than the ram, and had only one kid at a birth (of this there is abundant evidence). Death of Missie 165. Shorthorn breeders will learn with regret of the great loss sustained by Mr. E. W. Bowen of Delphi, Indiana, in the death last week of his celebrated cow, Missie 165, one of the finest examples of the best type of Shorthorn that ever entered the show ring. At the great International Expositions of 1901 and 1902, where were gathered the flower of the breed from all parts of the world, Missie was awarded second premium, her competitor for first place being the undefeated Ruberta, who has yet to meet her match. When green peas are not particularly tender, a little bicarbonate of soda and a few mint leaves will improve their quality and flavor. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON II. JULY 10—SAMUEL'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. Golden Text—"Only Fear the Lord, and Serve Him in Truth With All Your Heart"—I Samuel 12:24—Saul's Victory Over the Ammonites. I. "Saul Confirmed as King."—I Sam. 11: 14, 15. After his victory over the Ammonites, Saul's popularity among the people was very great, and Samuel saw that the time was ripe for a hearty confirmation of the step taken at Mizpah, by the national assembly. "The prophet therefore called the people together at Gigal, between Jericho and the Jordan. II. "The People Testify to Samuel's Uprightness."—1 Sam. 1: 5. It was at this gathering, which closed in a conspicuous and definite manner his service as judge (though not his work as a prophet), that Samuel made the valedictory Address which we study in the present lesson. Samuel challenged the thousands for him to name, in the presence of God and for his strong, strong act of which he had been guilty, to voice the people took solemn oath that he had governed with absolute purity. III. "Samuel Testifies to God's Faithfulness."—1 Sam. 1: 6. After receiving this testimony to his own faithfulness, Samuel turned on the people with clear testimony to a faithful God. He reviewed their history, their wonderful rescue from Egyptian slavery, and later, under Gideon, Barak, Jephthah, and himself, from Sisera, the Philistines, the Mossiites, the monites. All these trumpets were due to God, and yet they had foolishly and ungratefully desired a mortal king. IV. "The Service God Requires from his People."-Vs. 13-15. Samuel had traced the history of God's dealing with the Hebrews down to the time when they ungratefully asked for a king. "And even now that you have a king," the event on to say, "God will not forsake you when you ask him. He will deal with you and your king just as he dealt with you without your king." 14. "If ye will fear the Lord," ete. Samuel proceeds to name five things the king and nation must do, if they would win God's favor and maintain their own safety; they must (1) fear the Lord; (2) serve him; (3) obey his voice; (4) not rebel against his commandment; (5) continue (persevere) in following the Lord; (6) enter into the Lord's conclusion, perhaps "If shall be in your you," is to be supplied, as in Ex. 32: 32. 15. "But if ye will not obey, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you" not from hatred but of necessity. "As it was against your fathers." V. "The Requirement of Service Emphasized by a Miracle."—Vs. 16-19. Samuel had plainly stated God's unchanged and unchangeable sovereignty, and the service it called on the people to render. But the nation was slow to understand and quick to forget. They would be more likely to remember an object lesson, especially if it was startling and stern. Joseph Samuel now obtains from Jehovah: 16. "Now therefore." In order that you may realize God's power and claims, "Which the Lord will do." 17. "Is it not wheat harvest to-day?" Wheat harvest began in May or June, and hasted about seven weeks. "The Lord . . . shall send thunder and rain." It meant the ruin, perhaps in an hour, of the crops on which they had spent months of toll. "That ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great. All Bible miracles have a moral purpose and thus are distinctly different from the miracles of the earth." 18. "So . . . the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord." 19. "The people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants, for we have added unto all our sins this evil." The penitent people thus confessed not only their sin in asking for a king, but their previous sinfulness. 20. "The Kind of Service Required."—Vs. 20, 21. It is to be (1) hearty—v. 20; and (2) single—v. 21. 21. "And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not, ye have done all this wickedness," but God will forgive you, and will still accept your service. "But serve the Lord with all your heart." This is the first requirement of service, that it be hearty, enthusiastic, whole-souled (Mark 12; 30). 22. "And turn ye not aside." The second requirement of service, that it be single, unmixed with service of any idol. "For then should ye go after vain things." 23. "Helps to the Required Service."—Vs. 22, 23. They are divine (v. 22) and human (v. 23). 24. "For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because he with pleased the Lord to give you his people." Just such a comfort may come to any Christian in the assurance that God has chosen him. 23. "As for me." This is the second, the human, element in the help Samuel is offering. He offers to help in two ways: 1. By prayer. "God forbid that I should hastest the Lord in ceasing to pray for you." 2. Samuel's second way of helping the people is by instruction: "I will teach you the good and the right way." Samuel is laying down his authority, but not his office as a prophet. He will not longer rule, but he will teach. Motives for the Required Service"—Vaillant, mother of prophet (1) that of love, gratitude (v. 24); Othot of fear, prompted by self-interest (v. 25). 24. "Only fear the Lord." But in verse 20 Samuel had said, "Fear not." Bishop Hall, therefore, distinguished between two fears, one slavish or hostile, the other filial. They were to fear God as children revere a father, not as enemies fear a powerful foe. "And serve him in the service of his heart." The service must be sincere. "For consider how great things he hath done for you." Literally, "with you." 25. "But." Here comes in the second motion to service—fear, self-interest. "If ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king." Rulers and people are closely bound together. A country, whether governed by a king or a president, depends for its welfare upon virtue, that of its citizens and rulers. Sin, as Jay insists, violates the duties of civile life. "It destroys subjugation it relaxes the laws which bind mankind together and makes the selfish and mean; it renders men enemies to cath other." Sunday schools and churches, in making men better, are performing services as patriotic as those of any statesman. FROM WICHITA TO SCOTLAND.—R. N. Davidson, of Glasgow, Scotland, acts in the capacity of foreign agent at that place for the Cudalhy Packing Co. Two and three carloads of export meat loaded and prepared at the local plant are shipped directly to Scotland billed to Mr. Davidson at Glasgow each week. THE NEB., KANS. AND GULF. - A meeting of delegates from Lindsborg, McPherson, Moundridge and from all over the county, met in McPherson to discuss voting bonds for the Nebraska, Kansas and Gulf railroad. MATRIMONY AS SHE SEES IT The girl who was generally cheerful came in from an afternoon of calls with a long face. "Now what's the matter with you?" asked her mother. "Well, this has been an afternoon of ideal smashers. Didn't know there were so many busybodies to spoil one's faith until to-day. I haven't an ideal left. All my little ballcans have come plopping, plopping, down to earth. I have learned that there are no heights, and that what I imagined were heights are simply clouds. There is nothing lovely under the sun; every thing and every one is smirched." "Where have you been asked her mother. "Well, first I went to Mrs. Literary's. I said I didn't know when I enjoyed a lecture as I did Mr. Reader's the other night, and Mrs. Literary fairly fell over herself to tell me that 'most of the lecture was stolen,' and that she had 'read the greater part of it in Emerson's essays. You know I don't know a thing about Emerson's essays, so I thought she might be right, therefore I skipped at once to light opera, with which I flattered myself. I was well acquainted. I said there was some fascinating, catchy music in the latest comic opera favorite, and Mrs. Theatergoer, who also was calling on Mrs. Literary, sniffed and remarked that 'the music in that opera was as ancient as the hills, just old stuff made over.' Then I switched back to literature again and ventured that the novel of the day was a mighty interesting book, and Mrs. Literary squelched me with "The plot of that book has been used hundreds of times. It's the same old thing, dressed a little differently, that's all. And that's the way it went all the afternoon. "I dropped in to see Mabel next. You know she makes no pretense of knowing anything about books, music or art. I thought I should find solace there, but she displayed a disagreeable knowledge of people. I mentioned that Mr. Blank was an admirable The attractive woman of forty was undergoing a rigid examination by the young woman who had been married three months. "Why have you never married?" she asked. "Of course, I know a woman with your attractions has had many chances; but, on the other hand, you do not act like a person who has been prevented from marrying because of some unfortunate love affair. That's why I venture to ask you why you've never married." "Of course I have had chances to marry; most woman do here," was the reply. "It's simply because I'm so happy unmarried that I have decided never to give up single bliss. I've done a lot of observing of married people, and I'm quite ready to deliver a lecture on this subject. Now here it is." "The peevishness of young married men, the ill-grace with which they bear the burdens of married life, is doing more to make young women look with disfavor on matrimony than higher education or a desire to be independent. When a young woman sees a man who had a sweet-tempered wife act aggrieved if she expresses a desire for his company once in a while; when she sees him bearish and inconsiderate of his wife's well-meant attentions; when she hears him complain because his money must be shared by another; when she hears him groan that he no longer has only himself to think of—when a young woman observes all these things, I say, she makes a silent vow that she will remain a spinster all her life, and decides that it is much better to struggle with the world than to bear the continual irritable taunts of a husband. "The great trouble is that a man wishes his wife to be very much married, but he himself wants to be as free as in his bachelor days. He would consider himself ill-treated if his wife should act as if she were still a daughter in her father's house, and took no responsibilities. He would vigently protest if he should come home to supper and find her absent, and upon her return later hear her say, 'Oh, I met some of the old crowd of girls, and we decided we'd go for a trolley ride, and then have a little supper afterward. All sorts of a good time.' He would declare at once that he had grounds for a divorce. He would make things pretty lively if his man, so devoted to his work, and such a perfect gentleman. She emphatically declared that he was 'a roaring bluff, looked serious and shirked his work on to others, and treated his family atrociously.' Then I spoke in enthusiastic terms of Mrs. Stunning's figure, and she assured me that it was all artificial. I learned that the manly looking little Blueblood boy was capable of mean tricks, that most handsome men were vicious, that pretty girls were invariably made up, and that my bosom friend did not do me a favor because she liked me, but because she had some axe to grind. "I suppose these same people go around telling children there are no fairies, and old people that the Bible on which their faith is pinned is nothing but an ordinary book. I suppose they tell trusting wives that their husbands are not always upright, and fond mothers that their children are far from angels. I suppose they stick their noses into every one's business and make every one uncomfortable. Why, you know one of these cranks that I called upon this afternoon went so far as to tell me that I was not what I seemed. She said she knew I was not naturally cheerful, but adopted that manner because I knew the world did not care for a melancholy person, and that she had also a suspicion that I had a nasty temper under my sweet smile. The old cat!" "And what did you say to all these disagreeable people?" asked the girl's mother. "Well, I told them that 'when ignorance was bliss 'twas folly to be wise,' and that I hoped I should always remain in ignorance of the shortcomings of my friends and relatives, and that I was not in sympathy with people who were always trying to undermine another's air castle." The girl's mother smiled. "And then you wondered because some sharp-tongued person told you that you had a nasty temper under your sweet smile." wife took upon herself only those duties which she had before marriage and insisted on having servants to do the rest of the work. He would rise up in his wrath if his wife said, 'Here, take care of the baby this evening. I've been working hard all day and now mean to go out and enjoy myself.' He would say his vife was extremely selfish if she took no interest in him aside from his earning money to feed and clothe her. And still there are few husbands who manifest much interest in their wives except to demand that the house be kept in decent order and that the cooking be of the best. "If it is hard for a man to adjust himself to the new order of things; if it is hard for him to remember that there is some one to think of besides himself; if it is difficult for him to consider that another's pleasure is to be considered before his—it is also difficult for a woman to remember that she has responsibilities before undreamed of. It is exasperating for her to know that she must sit down and mend when she would like to make a call on a jolly unmarried friend. It is a cross to her to withdraw from some gay party, because she must be home to get dinner or to greet her lord and master when he returns from business. It is irritating when she is absorbed in a book to have to drop it to attend to the iceman or to give orders about taking out the ashes. 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