Wichita Searchlight

Saturday, August 1, 1903

Wichita, Kansas

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THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Sa urday Aug. 1, '03 Can the bartender be called a snake charmer? You may blow your own born, but don't toot your whistle. The Servian reignmakers may be useless in a drought district. You never hear anybody applauding the industry of the mosquito. If the problems solved by the graduates this month would only remain solved! What good will it do us if they have found the smallpox germ? We didn't lose him. Aquatic Harvard is beginning to realize that the amateur coach needs a lot of coaching. New York city has 1,320 millionaires, nearly all of them weak-chested, dyspeptic and irritable. Whether or not he gets the cup Sir Thomas is evidently going to give us a good scare this time. The powers have evidently decided to let Pete have the job as long as he is fool enough to risk it. Give a man what he wants most of anything in the world and in six months he will be tired of it. Irish members of the British parliament have almost forgotten how to get themselves put out of the house. Independence Hall is in Philadelphia. It is about the only sign of independence that Pennsylvania has left. "Women," says Judge Crane of New York, "should be made to think. The judge seems to be a man of extreme views. "John L. Sullivan's diamond belt is in pawn again," states an exchange. Then John himself is also once more "in soak." The biggest hypocrite in this world is he who says grace over a three-pound roast that he has no intention of paying for. If Australians had read the Kansas newspapers during the last ten years they would not be subscribing money to the rainmakers. King Edward's grief over the death of Alexander is pathetic, but his friends hope it will not serve to pull him down much. J. B. Burdette, whose automobile raced the Pennsylvania flyer, doesn't take after his namesake, Bob, for beating the flyer is no joke. Another wonderful boy violinist from Hungaria is now in this country. His name is Kun Arpad. It sounds as if he ought to be a corker. Not having expected much, the constituents who got the short government packages of third-rate seeds were not greatly disappointed. Why does the government go experimenting around with all kinds of new-fangled guns for the army when it can get toy pistols at such low rates? A jealous New York lover shot his sweetheart, but her corset stayed the bullet. This is one of the worst knocks ever handed out to Dr. Mary Walker. Rigid economy is being practised in San Domingo. In choosing Gen. Gil as their president the people have shown that they have no intention of wasting words. One who remembers Emerson now recalls that when rallied on his fondness for pie, the sage replied, "What is pie made for if not to be eaten?" How paradoxical, yet how true! The Argentine government has put a price on the heads of natives, the government paying $5 for each head delivered. There are heads in this country that would be dear at that price. Pleasure is not all pleasure. Every victory has a dozen defeats back of it. The recollection of other disappointments is bound to have a tinge of bitterness, however sweet the gathered fruit may be. The police in Providence have found in a vacant lot a dress-suit case packed with both masculine and feminine apparel, and containing also a marriage certificate. Now they are looking for the bride and groom. A Boston policeman spelled a citizen's name "Jerymier" while making up a list of voters. And now they don't know whether to banish him to Chelsea or to use the new spelling as the nucleus for a universal language. Miss Sophie Hanks, now the happy bride of Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist, says that she didn't feel obliged to get her father's consent to her marriage, because her father had remarried about two years ago without consulting her. That's reciprocality Largest Elephant Known. There has recently arrived in Germany the hide of an elephant that was 16 feet 9 inches high, this being over three feet above the largest elephant ever known hitherto. Capitulated. A Philadelphia mother spanked her laughty 4 year old, and set off a bunch of pistol caps in his hip pocket. The young patrol was hoist by his own petard, and immediately acknowledged his dependence on the mother country. —Toledo Blade. Wireless Telegraph Service. Since the great volcano disturbances in the Windward Islands it has been impossible to maintain unbroken cable connections between the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and the French government has established a wireless telegraph service between the two. The distance exceeds 100 mila Use American Implements Not only are American mowers, harvesters and hay rakes in use in all the farming districts of South Germany, but our smaller agricultural implements, such as forks, garden and tawn rakes, hoes, shovels, spades and hand potato diggers, have also rapidly grown in favor, and are now on sale in nearly every local hardware store. Unique Spirit of Loyalty. It is not all war in the industrial world. Here are 6,000 employees of the United States Express Company volunteering to furnish pieces of skin for the benefit of Assistant General Superintendent Fredericks, who was scalded in a train wreck. There is still something left of the old human relations between captains and privates of industry. A Fearful Thought. Intelligence that a young woman has chased Sir Thomas Lipton into a corner and kissed him several times will excite the haunting dread that the cup litter may yet be seen prowling around the country emulating the osculatory performances of Richmond Pearson Hobson. It was the same kind of experience that started that hero on his devastating career. A Mystery of the Season No one has ever clearly explained why, at this season of the year, a girl whose skin would be hopelessly ruined were she to roll up her sleeves and put her hands into a dishpan half full of water for a few minutes, can play golf or tennis, bare-armed, all day long, or go into the water bathing morning, noon and night, and be proud of the color she acquires in so doing. Why is it, girls? Don't all shout the answer at once. Found a Friend. Valley City, N. Dak., July 27th.—Mrs. Matilda M. Boucher of this place tells how she found a friend in the following words: "For years I suffered with a dizziness in my head and could get nothing to cure me till about two years ago, when I was advised to take Dodd's Kidney Pills. These pills cured me before I had used the whole of the first box, and I haven't been troubled since. "In January of this year I had an attack of Sciatica that made me almost helpless, and remembering how much Dodd's Kidney Pills had done for me before, I sent and got some and began to take them at once. "In three weeks I was well, and not a trace of the Sciatica left, and I have been well ever since. "Dodd's Kidney Pills have certainly been of great benefit to me. I have found them a friend in time of sickness, and I will always recommend them to every one suffering with the troubles that bothered me." Barbers Necessary. According to a Dublin scientist, who has spent considerable time in making the necessary calculations, a man's beard grows on an average about three millimetres a week. At this rate it would increase about sixteen centimetres every year, and thus, at the age of eighty-four, a man who had never shaved would be equipped with a beard about twenty-seven feet in length. SENSIBLE HOUSEKEEPERS will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. It is safe to say some authors would rather be president than right. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents. The vegetarian doesn't care whether his goose is cooked or not. "In the good old summer time" drink Dr. Pepper. It leaves a pleasant farewell and a gracious call-back. At all Soda Fountains 5 per glass. Every age develops all the heroes it needs. MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Summer Complaint, Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all Druggists', 25c. Sample sampled FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Killing Kings In Servia. A correspondent in Belgrade writes: "The bitterest sarcasm on the Servian situation was made by an Englishman who has a smattering of the language. In the park there was a notice stating that something or other was stricly forbidden. I asked him what it was. 'So far as I can make out,' he replied, 'it says: "You are stricly forbidden to kill kings in the park. There is a palace specially provided for the purpose."" SEEING THINGS. PROTECTION PROSPERITY TARIF REFORM IOWA PROSPERITY IOWA OBSERVATORY --- THE TARIFF BURDENS NOBODY SEEMS ABLE TO FURNISH SPECIFICATIONS. Easy to Assert That Industry Is Oppressed Because of Protection, But Much Easler to Prove the Blessings It Has Conferred. Alluding to the report that the president and some others have prevailed upon Gov. Cummins to abandon "the Iowa idea," at least until after the next presidential election, the New York Evening Post says: "It is not to be inferred that the "Iowa idea" has undergone any change or that Gov. Cummins has retracted one jot or title of his own previous sayings. Nor can such changes take place while the tariff burden resting upon western industry continue to weigh upon it. Petitions from makers of agricultural implements calling for relief from the duties on iron and steel and a great variety of articles which have been monopolized by trusts are now in circulation. They will be presented to Theodore Roosevelt and to the congress of the United States as soon as the latter come together in regular or special session. They embody 'the Iowa idea,' and they will disturb the harmony of the party in many places before the delegates are elected to the next national convention." It is a fault of free traders, in which class we do not hesitate to include Gov. Cummins, because if he had his own way he would destroy our protective policy by radically changing it for the benefit of foreigners and some selfish home interests, that they deal in generalities and carefully omit particulars. The Evening Post illustrates this trait in the above extract from its columns. What are the "tariff burdens" which now rest upon "western industry?" In what way is the west now burdened by any of the schedules of the Dingley tariff? All of them, working together, have been powerful factors in creating for this country in the six years since they have been in force the most marvelous and most general prosperity in that this country has ever known. SEEING TOWA PRODUCTION RECUPROOF The west has abundantly shared in this prosperity. No western industry has been oppressed by the Dingley tariff; all western industries have been helped by it. It is true that some western and eastern agricultural implement manufacturers, not satisfied with the control of the magnificent home market for they products which they have long enjoyed, and being themselves free traders, would still further increase their profits by enlarging their foreign markets through reciprocity at the expense of their own countrymen who do not make agricultural implements, but who do make other things. But these embodiments of the most brazen selfishness that the world ever knew can not truthfully say that the Dingley tariff has been a "burden" to them. It has immensely helped them, and well they know it. But the Dingley tariff has not helped selfish agricultural implement manufacturers or their selfish interests in the east or west to close American iron and steel works, or helped them through reciprocity to substitute the wool of the Argentine Republic for that of American farms, or to substitute French gloves and brushes and glassware and other French products for the products of our own factories. All these and similar absent features of the Dingley tariff are not "burdens." As well say that the laws which are intended to restrain the enemies of society from the commission of crime are "burdens." In addition to controlling the home market absolutely, and charging for their reapers and mowers and threshers and plows and cultivators such prices as they care to exact, our agricultural implement manufacturers have been steadily extending the foreign market for their products ever since the Dingley tariff became a law, as the following official figures will show. Our experots of agricultural implements amounted in the calendar year 1902 to $17,981,597, against $16,714,308 in 1901, $15,979,909 in 1900, $13,594,524 in 1899, $9,073,384 in 1898, and $5,302,807 in 1897. To increase these exports more than three fold in five years does not look as if our agricultural implement manufacturers had been carrying many "burdens" in their export trade under the Dingley tariff. We do not believe that the west wants the free trade policy of Grover Cleveland, or any policy approximating it, to be substituted for our present protective policy. Under this latter policy it has no "tariff burdens" to complain of—only tariff blessings to be thankful for.—Iron and Steel Bulletin. All Records Beaten We never sold so many products of American manufacture to foreign nations in one month as in the last April—the month of March and April, 1900, alone excepted. And yet the Democratic free traders again want to tinker the tariff in order further to increase our export trade. In 1893-7 the tariff reformers got in work in economic law which they thought would increase our foreign trade. The net result was they despoiled our domestic trade and at the same time home manufactures failed to get a foreign market such as we now have under the Dingley tariff. On the only occasion in two generations of American politics when the Democratic party had opportunity to show for what purpose it existed, a Democratic President and congress not only failed to effect good results, but actually succeeded in bringing disaster on all American interests. The less the Democratic tariff reformers now say about promoting our foreign trade by tariff tinkering the better, especially as under the present tariff all records are being beaten in the history of our exports, alike of manufactures and of the products of the farm—Boston Herald. MAIDEN FIRST VOTERS. Colorado Women Display Interest in the Next Presidential Contest. A unique and interesting feature of the campaign of education inaugur- THINGS. PROTECTION PROSPERITY IOWA OBSERVATORY ated by the American Protective Tariff League, with reference to the contest of 1904, is furnished in the returns from Colorado. In that state unrestricted woman suffrage prevails and among the lists of persons who will cast their first vote in a presidential election next year are a large number of young women. Here indeed is a fruitful and inviting field. What more necessary, more useful, more profitable or more agreeable work could there be than to provide with Protection literature the thousands of fair ones who will next year be the "first voters" in Colorado? And where moreover, could the good seed of sound doctrine be more advantageously scattered? Women are vitally concerned in tariff matters, for they are the chief sufferers when free trade hard times take the place of protection prosperity. Truly a pleasant task it will be to aid in rightly directing the political steps of the budding electresses of the Rocky Mountains. If further proof were needed of the value and utility of the "first voters" plan, this would settle it! Ready to Meet It. "Can the tariff issue be suppressed?" asks the New York Journal of Commerce. Suppressed by whom? Republicans do not ask to have it suppressed. They have not raised the issue and would be glad enough to have the tariff let alone and protection go on its prosperity-making way for an indefinite term of years. But, if the free traders and tariff reformers insist upon forcing the issue, Republicans are ready to meet it. It is an issue which they have no need to shirk or evade. All the strength of the situation is on the Republican side. Democrats will make the tariff an issue. They always have, and always will, we suppose. Very well, let them do it again in 1904. Republicans will welcome the tariff issue. They will not lift a finger to suppress it. DAIRY Chicago Has New Dairy Laws. The Chicago city council has just passed some new and stringent laws relating to the milk traffic. There has been for a long time much complaint of the very loose way in which milk was bought and sold in that city. Its handling was often conducted under conditions that were likely to make milk a conveyor of disease. Moreover, in some of the poorer localities the milk sold for whole milk was both skimmed and watered. In many cases it was so nearly sour that its use for children's food resulted in much sickness and some mortality. The new laws create a milk and food department in the board of health. One of the most startling innovations is the rule that all cans containing skim milk shall be painted bright red. This is because the sale of skim milk has been largely conducted under the pretense of selling whole milk. It is not desired to prevent the sale of skim milk, but only to prevent its sale as unskimmed milk. The cleanliness of cans and other milk-holding utensils is to be rigidly enforced. Mixtures of any two or more of the following articles is prohibited: Whole milk, skimmed milk, cream, condensed milk and buttermilk. Cans containing any one of the foregoing are required to be labeled in three-inch letters. The caps of bottles are similarly required to be stamped. The test provided for milk is 3 per cent butter fat and 9 per cent other solids, a total of 12 per cent solids. For cream the minimum fat must be 15 per cent. No skim milk can be sold if it contains less than 8.5 per cent of solids, including butter fat. Watered milk, adulterated milk and impure milk will not be permitted to be sold at all, nor can the milk be sold from cows diseased or kept in a filthy condition or fed on slops or refuse. Any attempt to sell such milk will result in a fine of from 5 to $200. Impure or condemned milk must be destroyed. Cow stables must be washed daily and diseased animals must be kept away from the well ones. Refuse matter must not henceforth be stored in dairies. As a notice that the laws adopted Monday last are to be enforced, the milk inspectors on Tuesday seized twelve cans of watered milk and poured their contents into the gutter. The men that sent them cannot be fined, as they are outside the jurisdiction of the city. It is doubtful, however if they send any more watered milk to Chicago. Errors in Milk Testing. Professor Eckles of the Missouri station says: If cream is tested by measuring out with the 17.6 c. c. pipette, as is done with milk, the reading will be too low for two reasons. The basis of the Babcock test is 18 grams. The 16.7 c. c. pipette delivers this weight of milk, but as cream is more adhesive than milk, a considerable amount will stick to the pipette. In sour or thick cream this error may be as much as 1.5 per cent. This error is easiest removed by filling the pipette about one-third full of warm water, shaking to loosen the cream from the sides, then adding this to the cream in the bottle. The other cause for error is on account of the lightness of the cream, as compared with milk. A 17.6 c. c. pipette full of cream does not weigh quite 18 grams, the regulation amount, but somewhat less, depending upon the richness of the cream. If it is necessary to have an exact test of cream, it can be obtained best by using delicate scales and weighing out the desired amount. Scales especially arranged for this purpose can now be purchased at a reasonable price. The temperature at which cream bottles are read is of great importance. A difference of over 1 per cent can be made by changing the temperature from 110 degrees to 180 degrees; extremes often met with in various testers. The exact temperature at which reading is correct has not yet been determined, but should be somewhere about 120 degrees. The best way to get bottles at a proper temperature is to set them in a pan deep enough to bring the water up near the top of the bottle. Grading Up. From Farmers' Review: In grading up a herd I start with ordinary cows, but always with a full blooded sire and, by the time his get is old enough for breeding, I change my sires, only using the same one two years. By the eighth cross you have as near a full blood as can be, unless it be a thoroughhred. For a general purpose cow I would rather have the cross, my choice for a general purpose cow being the Durham.—L. H. Allen, Clinton County, Michigan. To Keep Milk Cans Clean. From Farmers' Review: On return of cans from factory, empty at once, wash cans thoroughly with warm water, then put in boiling water, put covers on, let stand five minutes, empty and wipe dry, put in sun and let stand until milking time, rinse with cold water and use. In case the cans should be sour, add a teaspoonful of soda to the boiling water—H. H. Mormey, Van Buren County, Michigan. The "primary" feathers of the wings are those used in flying, but are tucked under the wings, out of sight, when at rest. India's Irrigation Works. India's irrigation Works. The irrigation works recommended by the Geological Survey give interest to the report on the irrigation works of India. The net revenue to the government was 7.36 per cent on an outlay of $110,000,000. The value of the crops raised on the irrigated area during the year is estimated at $135,000,000—a sum in excess of the capital outlay. Have Built Many Churches The Christian Endeavorers of America have built twenty-nine churches in destitute portions of the United States. Twenty-one of these have been built by the Christian Missionary League of the Reformed Church in America. The Christian Endeavor gifts from this denomination during the past year amounted to $10,477. Projectiles Used by the Navy. Four classes of projectiles are used in the United States navy—armor piercing projectiles for use against armor, common shell for use against unarmored or very thinly armored parts, shrapnel for service against exposed detachments of men a considerable distance away, and canister, which is employed against detachments of men lacking protection within close range. It's curious how affection and confection are made to harmonize by the summer girl. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. To the prima donna life ought to be one grand sweet song. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For children teething, softens the gums, reduces infammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. If all the world's a stage the baker has a satisfactory roll. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Paradoxical as it may seem, coal is up because most of it is down. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. Tros, Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. The rule of the road to literary fame is "Keep to the write." Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. The chronic kicker deserves to stub his toe. DONT SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 5c. a package. Joy cometh in the mourning to the woman who looks well in black. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds. Charity covers a multitude of sins, and sometimes becomes contaminated. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Worry is a bad bedfellow. Kick it out. 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. A girl doesn't object to a tight squeeze if it's the right kind. There is more Catarrth in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurred. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarrth to be a constitutional disease, and disease treatment. Hall Catarrth Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 doses of disease, and it is localized blood and mucus surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulus and testimonials. Address J. C. HUGHY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Drugstress, Hall's Family Pills are the best. A person who will steal an umbrella on a clear day is naturally deprived. 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. What a young man who has a best girl wants to do is to hold his own. BT. MARY'S ACADEMY. Notre Dame, Ind. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of St. Mary's Academy, which appears in another column of this paper. We do not need to expatriate upon the scholastic advantages of St. Mary's for the education of our students of work included in its curriculum, which is of the highest standard, and is carried out faithfully in the class rooms. We simply emphasize the spirit of earnest devotion which makes every teacher at St. Mary's young and attentive there into the trust, love, and most intelligent womanhood. Every advantage of equipment in the class rooms, laboratories and study rooms, every care in the matter of food and clothing, and exceptional excellence of classic conditions—all these features are found at St. Mary's, which is the only place obtained by the consecration of devoted lives to educational Christian work, in a spot favored by the Lord. Summer is a good time to treat Chronic Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary troubles with Doan's Kidney Pills; they conquer the most stubborn cases. Doan's Kidney Pills, PRICE 50 CENTS, A SPECIFIC FOR KIDNEY COMPANY NAME..... P. O..... STATE..... For free trial box, mail this coupon to Fowler-Killburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. If above specify in handwritten, write address on sepa- rate slip. If afflicted with { sore eyes, use } Thompson's Eye Water U.M.C. CARTRIDGES AND SHOT SHELLS represent the experience of 35 years of ammunition making. U.M.C. on the head of a cart- ridge is a guarantee of quality. Sure fire—accurate—reliable. Ask your dealer. Catalog sent upon request. THE-UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA. FULL COURSES IN Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Architecture. Thorough Preparatory and Commercial Courses. Rooms Free to all students who have completed the studies required for admission into the Sophomore, Junior or Senior Year of any of the Collegiate Courses. Students will moderate charge to students over seventeen preparing for Collegiate Courses. A limited number of Candidates for the Ecclesiastical state will be received at special rates. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under 13 years, is used for the 60th Year will open September 8, 1903. Catalogues Free. Address P. O. Box 259. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY NOBRE DARY-ANCIANA One Mile West of Notre Dame University. Most beautifully and healthily located. Conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame, Grace Carter School, a private patroon. The Theatre, English Classical, Science and Commercial Courses, advanced Chemistry and Pharmacy. Regular College courses. Pupils for regular, special or collegiate courses. Physical Laboratory well equipped. The Consortium of Schools is directed on plans for the Conservatories. The Art Department is modeled after leading Art Schools. Minim Department for children under twelve years. Physical Education for Dr. Sargent's Normal School of Physical Training. The best modern educational advantages for fitting young women for lives of usefulness. The constant erection of additional fine buildings with latest Hygiene equipments. Moderate cost. New school year begins September 5th. Mentions the paper The Directorate of ST. MARY'S ACADEMY, Nogre, Negre-Indieng. PAXTINE TOILET To prove the healing and cleansing power of Paxtine Women will mail a large trial package with book of instructions absolutely free. This is not a tiny sample, but a large package, priced at twice vince anyone of its value. Women all over the country are praising Paxtine for what is all inflammation and discharges, wonderful as a cleansing vaginal douche, for sore throat, nasal osteart, as a mouth wash and to remove tartar and whiten the teeth. Send today; a postal card will do. Sold by draggists or postpaid by us. 80 THE R. PAXTON CO., Boston, Mass. Who's Afraid The childish confidence which this illustration portrays shows exactly the confidence of everyone who has ever used Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin (A Laxative) Perhaps no medicine ever put on the market has met with such phenomenal cures and the output of our laboratory has increased steadily 500 per cent every year. This speaks volumes for Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin which is positively guaranteed to cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, malaria and all troubles arising from the stomach (excepting cancer) and if you will purchase a 50 cent or $1.00 bottle from your druggist it will be a complete revelation to you. Heads off billiousness, induces sound and refreshing sleep, cures nervousness, and is praised by women in all parts of the country. We will be glad to send you a sample bottle and a little booklet on stomach troubles if you will send us a postal. PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY, Monticello, Ill. Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and loin pains overcome. Swelling of the limbs and dropy signs vanish. Correct urine with brick dust sediment, high colored, in passing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills remove calcine and gravel. Relieve heart palpitation, sleepiness, headache, nervousness, dizziness. Mrs. James Beck of 814 West Whitesboro Street, Boston, MA. Troubled with my kidnester eight or nine years; had PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight Shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. There is no rest for the man who takes a vacation. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Notre Dame, Indiana. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the great educational institutions of the West, which appears in another book. We also mention that professors who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the President, who will send them a catalogue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, etc. We also mention that students of the Sophomore, Junior or Senior years of any of the Collegiate Courses. There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the University, in which students of all grades will have every opportunity of preparing themselves for higher studies. The Commercial Course is intended for vocational preparatory business, may be finished in one or two years according to the ability of the student. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under thirteen, is a unique department of the institution. The higher courses are thorough in every respect, and students will find every opportunity of perfecting themselves in any field. Thoroughness in class-work, exactness in the care of students, and devotion to the best interests of all, are the distinguishing characteristics of the University of Notre Dame. Sixty years of active work in the cause of education have made this institution famous all over the country. _____ It doesn't bother the golfer to get in a hole. M. Mrs. Anderson, a prominent society woman of Jacksonville, Fla., daughter of Recorder of Deeds, West, says: "There are but few wives and mothers who have not at times endured agonies and such pain as only women know of. I wish such women knew the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is a remarkable medicine, different in action from any other I ever knew and thoroughly reliable. 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WHOS AFRAID COMFORT. much pain in my back; as time went on I could hardly endure it; I could not stand a time; I could not wait a time; I grew weak and exhausted; I could not even do light housework; I could not achieve severely; I was in pain from my head down to my heels; centering in the kidneys it was a heavy, steady, rest nights, and got up mornings weak and tired. I used for when I was about to for, when I saw the King's advertisment. Within a week after commencing their use I began to improve, and grew better. I used five boxes in all and was cured." THE PALACE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS NORTH BRITISH BOREHO SULU ISLANDS MINDANAO LOCATION OF ISLANDS IN DISPUTE The old rumor of a royal residence in Ireland has again been revived. Some people go so far as to say that Rockingham, the beautiful place in Roscommon, now occupied by the Only Time the Late Pope Was Known to Be Bitter. All his life the late Pope Leo was noted as a wit, but his humor was of the kindly sort. It is said that only once did he utter a retort that cut deep. This was in the case of a nobleman who boasted that he would put the future pope (Leo was then cardinal) at a disadvantage. They were fellow guests one evening and after dinner the count offered the cardinal his snuffbox. The lid opened with a spring and disclosed an exquisite Venus painted in terribly frank fashion. Cardinal Pecci looked steadily at the painting for a moment, then he leaned his head to one side slightly as if to get a better focus, the other guests meanwhile standing breathless. Finally the cardinal raised his eyebrows in questioning fashion and said to the count sweetly: "Madam la comtesse?" ("Your wife?") WILL BE BRIGADIER GENERAL Colonel Thomas H. Barry Is Selected for Promotion. It has been announced at the war department that Colonel Thomas L. BRIG·GEN·THOS·H·BARRY Barry of the adjutant general's department, has been selected for brigadier general in the permanent service to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Gen. Leonard Wood. Dr. Buckley's Neat Retort Here is a little story about Dr. Buckley, the famous Methodist editor, orator and wit, who was a leading figure at the Epworth league convention in Detroit. Dr. Buckley was a speaker at the recent alumni luncheon at Wesleyan. He began, as usual, in a low tone; and, almost immediately an overanxious undergraduate who was looking on from the gallery, called out "Louder!" without changing his pitch. Dr. Buckley retorted: "That young gentleman will be able to hear me distinctly if he will only use the full length of his ears." Maryland's Ex-Governors. Maryland has three living ex-governors—William Pinkney White, John Lee Carroll and Eliuh E. Jackson, Mr. White has been honored by his fellow citizens by election to many offices—mayor of Baltimore, comptroller and attorney general of the state, United States senator and several positions of minor importance. He and the two other ex-governors are all passing the closing years of life quietly. ISLANDS CAUSE PHILIPPIN NORTH BRITISH BORNEO SULU ISL LOCATION OF ISL The islands near the coast of north Borneo, whose alleged seizure by an American warship has brought a protest from a British company operating in north Borneo, are Taganac, Bagua, Bakkungsan, Lihman, Si- Lord Lieutenant, will be the spot fixed upon, and that Lord Dudley's occupancy of it is only a trial trip preparatory to the king taking it up as his abode. MUCH ARID LAND RECLAIMED. Irrigation Has Proved of Great Value to Idaho. As a result of the most successful engineering work yet done for the reclamation of arid lands, 260,000 acres of land in Idaho have been thrown open to settlement. These lands lie in the valley of the Snake river, in Lincoln and Cassia counties. Through what is known as the Twin Falls canal, the waters of the Snake river are to be lifted 38 feet, and through 100 miles of main canal and 1,000 miles of laterals spread over 700 square miles of desert. By this enterprise sources of agricultural wealth in Idaho, which have long iain dormant, will be developed. According to plans 268,000 acres of land from the Public Domain will ultimately be brought under irrigation. According to the terms of the contract with the state and national governments the canal on the south side of the Snake river will be 65 miles long, 90 feet wide on the bottom at the head, gradually narrowing to 15 feet at the other end. It will have a grade of one foot in 5,000, will carry water 9 feet in depth and have a capacity of 3,000 feet. ROAD ACROSS THE DESERT. Arid Colorado Plain Will Soon Be Traversed by Fine Boulevard. Work is now in progress in southern California upon a boulevard intended to pass through the Colorado desert in a straight line from the projected town of Rockwood to Calexico, on the Mexican border. It will be 100 feet wide and thirty-five miles long. Along either side of the boulevard and down the center will be rows of trees to shut off the glare of the desert sun. Also on either side will be small canals, which will not only irrigate the shade trees, but also will be utilized to lay the dust, when the road is completed. It will require only two men to care for the entire thirty-five miles. The rapid growth of trees in the desert country will insure a magnificent avenue in a very short time. At the international line 14-month-old willows are growing on the banks of the imperial canal seven inches in diameter and thirty feet high. The boulevard will give access to the towns of Rockwood, Grawley, Imperial, Sillsbee, Calexico, Mexicala, Mexicula and many new villages. Would Stick to the Fence: A few nights ago two members of parliament encountered each other in the lobby. "Look here," said one of them, "what are you going to do about this protectioninst business? Have you made up your mind?" The other, who has been more prominent as a journalist than as a politician, replied that he had. "Well, what are you going to do?" questioned the other, "of course as a conservative—well, what are you going to do?" The reply came, "I'm quite determined—absolutely determined—to nail my colors to the fence." London Standard. Any Change Would Be Welcome Prof. Irwin Rautenstrauch of Washington University, who formerly lived in Sedalia, Kan., has asked the courts to change his name. Nobody in this country has ever been able to pronounce it right and the professor has got tired of being called "Rottenstraw," which was conferred upon him in his school days. OF CONTROVERSY E ISLANDS MINDANAO ANDS ANDS IN DISPUTE. baung, Baeran, and Lankyan. Although so small their names do not appear on the map, they are important because of their location which commands Sanakan harbor and Labukay in north Borneo. Major T. H. Mars. PERUNA CURES CATARRH OF THE KIDNEYS STORE STORE Pe-ru-na Creating a National Sensation in the Cure of Chronic Ailments of the Kidneys. which are sure to follow if the poisons are allowed to remain. It gives great vigor to the heart's action and digestive system, both of which are apt to fail rapidly in this disease. Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because it cures catarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. Wesend FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Flatulat and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page lilies, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands curated by her husband, a cent curated by her husband, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR. 10.30 Oak, Kansas City, Mo. Bromo-Seltzer Promptly cures all Headaches It's not sentiment — it's not the price — that makes the most intelligent and successful shots shoot Winchester Factory Loaded Shotgun Shells. It's the results they give. It's their entire reliability, evenness of pattern and uniform shooting. Winchester "Leader" shells, loaded with smokeless powder, are the best loaded shells on the market. Winchester "Repeater" shells loaded with smokeless powder are cheap in price but not in quality. Try either of these brands and you will be well pleased. Be sure to get Winchester Factory Loaded shells. Major T. H. Mars, of the First Wisconsin Cavalry regiment, writes from 1425 Dunning street, Chicago, Ill., the following letter: "For years I suffered with catarrh of the kidneys contracted in the army. Medicine did not help me any until a comrade who had been helped by Peruna advised me to try it. I bought some at once, and soon found blessed relief. I kept taking it four months, and am now well and strong and feel better than I have done for the past twenty years, thanks to Peruna."—T. H. Mars. At the appearance of the first symptom of kidney trouble, Peruna should be taken. This remedy strikes at once the very root of the disease. It at once relieves the catarrh kidneys of the stagnant blood, preventing the escape of serum from the blood. Peruna stimulates the kidneys to excrete from the blood the accumulating poison, and thus prevents the convulsions THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. 5TH YEAR. SAVERY IN THE SOUTH. Georgia colored woman was lived over nine months ago of clergy, and employed a lawyer to read her—or rather one offered a note. After she had been kept till three weeks it was made clear she had been married to the with whom it was charged she living with illicitly, but she unable just then to pay the wife's fee that he demanded. frequently she was carried away distant camp of some acquaintance of the lawyer to work out amount of her fee, it being deed among the nice Christian gentlemen that it would take ten months work—and third that—to pay the bill. She only did work nine months, because was taken of her case she was brought before a magistrate who inquired into the case circumstance that shows that it is little civilization among the people of Georgia. She tested among other things that durer involuntary servitude she checked up at night, and that she was whipped severely that tap four inches broad—because she went to a cowpen was suspected of trying to escape and once when she was charged with neglecting her work, and happened last year and this in "Empire State of the South!" let us hope it is an exceptional though there have been rumored many similar cases in some other states. Is slavery really dislished after all. E COLOR LINE IN INDIAN OLA. The people of Indianola, Miss., now getting their mail 'y carr from Heathman, and maintain private office for distribution at expense of the citizens. Indianola it will be r called, was for a time a center of interest because of an agitation to remove the red postmistress, but was evently compelled to close the post. Since that time the people Indianola have been getting mail by way of near by towns. Finally, Indianola is not on the map. in organizing a mail system of his own it might be supposed that the people of Indianola would settle once the race question. Since any objected to receiving their mail a colored postmistress it was natural to suppose that in starting private mail delivery only whites would be employed. Yet the news come from Indianola that the mail that point is delivered by a ne- wo named Will, hired by the citi- ness. "Our mail," says the editor of Sunflower Tosin, published at Indianola, "is brought to us from Madison, four miles west of Indianola. Since Jan. I we have been without a postoffice and if President Joseph waits for the people of Indianola to petition him for a office we will wait ten years. Our Negro Will who brings over the in a trunk twice a day, is a good fellow. He carries his mail trunk back and forth in a one horse cart. He has had the job about four months. e situation in Indianola, then, just this: To get mail from a negro who has been hired by the government is an insult to the peo- cile. Bat for them to hire a negro to deliver their mail simply settles the problem and hurts nobody. There are strange angles to the col-problem in Indianola. DONT'S FOR DIGESTION. Son.e of the Things Not to Do if You Wish Good Health. Don't eat when very tired, if you expect to get any good from your food and preserve your beauty. When you are exhausted lie down for ten or twenty minutes before eating. Don't eat more than one hearty meal a day. This is the secret of good looks, health and long life—a secret, which, if everyone followed the doctors could not make a living. Don't eat much meat in hot weather if you would keep your skin free of eruptions. Don't eat hot or fresh bread if you want to be healthy and beautiful. Don't eat cold, starchy foods like potato salad and cold porridge unless you have strong digestive organs. Don't eat ice cream too fast. Eat slowly and allow to melt in the mouth it can do no harm to either stomach or complexion. Don't drink iced water. It kills more persons than strychnine does. Cool water quenches thirst much better than ice cold fluid. Don't drink much water at meals but take a glassful the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night if you want peach cold cheek Don't drink too much coffee or tea unless you want a complexion like leather in color. Don't drink sparkling waters and unsweetened lemonade if you want to gain flesh. They act directly on fatty tissue. Don't eat potatoes, peas, macaroni, cream, o'live oil, pastry and boobons if you want to lose flesh. Don't go to bed hungry. A glass of milk or a cup of chocolate will refresh you. Don't think you can eat too much spinach, lettuce, water cress, dandelion and carrots. They are splendid complexion beatifiers. NEGRO PROBLEM. Pungent Extracts From an Address Delivered by Hon. Chas. Gardner of New York In 1860 the slave states held 4,215,615 Negroes and the rest of country 236,216 or 1.2 per cent of its population. In 1901 there were 80,061 Negroes in the former slave states, the rest of the country 759,-788 or 1.5 per cent of its population a relative increase in forty years of merely three-tenths of 1 per cent. There are now in the free states of the Mississippi only 162,613 Negroes and in New England only 59,089. Thus the Negro "is today, where they have always been in the old slave states. Moreover he has not moved north ward, but since emancipation he has steadily moved southward, gradually segrating himself into the lower Atlantic and Gulf states, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. In many counties of these states black outnumber whites three to one, while throughout the six states taken as a whole, Negroes today exceed the whites. In the states however bordering these to the north and west whites have increased since the war 140 per cent while Negroes have increased 80 per cent. WICHITA. KANSAS. AUG 1 1903. SUCCESSFUL NEGRO BOYS. These Two Bought and Paid for a Farm of 320 Acres. Booker T. Washington in World's Work. After having spent several years at the school, during which they worked upon the school farm, Frank and Dow L Reid left Tuskegee at the completion of the B middle class. Frank, the older brother left in the year 1888, and Dow in the year 1891. Before coming to Tuskegee these young men lived upon a rented farm with their father, but on returning home they decided to buy a farm of their own. They entered into an agreement to purchase a farm of 320 acres, four miles from the old homestead, and with little or no money but with a determination to succeed, they began to cultivate the land. They agreed to pay $5.50 per acre for the place and regardless of the fact that they had little at the time they bought the farm, within a few years the whole amount of $1,700 was paid. In addition to this farm the Reid brothers, as they are styled for miles around have bought another farm of 225 acres at $10 per acre. This farm is about two miles away from the first place mentioned. When the last payment upon this last purchase is made in the fall, after the crops have been gathered and marketed, it will make a total of 4 010 made and paid for land alone by these young men since the younger one left Tuskegee some 12 years ago. The stock and farming implements upon these farms are far superior to those seen upon most of the plantations. On the farm of 320 acres are seventeen fine horses and mules, all large and in go'd condition; these are thirty well bred cows and fifty fine healthy looking hogs, besides a large number of chickens and guinas which furnish plenty of eggs for the families use. The farming implements, including plows, mowers, rakes, harrows, etc. are of the latest improved Deering make. The four double wagons, the single top buggy, the road wagon and go cart are all in good order and are kept under cover when not in use. Not infrequently do we find farmers in the South, who, when the crop is made, leave the plows, the rake and in fact all the farming implements standing out in the field in all the weather during the winter months. A visitor to the Reid brothers plantation, however will not find this to be true with regard to their farm machinery. Each piece of machinery on this plantation has a place under a shed built for the purpose, and is kept there when not in use. A large cotton gin with an eighty tooth saw is owned and operated by these young men. Last year, besides ginniag the 125 bale of cotton raised upon their own plantation, they immed the cotton raised by nearly all the other farmers in the neighborhood. W. M. Dunson Painter All Kinds of Fine TheOnly Colored Painter in the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 986 Even slimers are not satisfied with the wages they receive. Around the world in nine and one-half minutes is not so slow. Sometimes a Greek cabinet doesn't even wait for the first pay-day. By this time Admiral Cotton must wear "the smile that won't" etc. Glass is going to be higher. Look out for the windows, ye players of one-old-cat! On second thought King Peter is firmly opposed to regicide as a political expedient. What a pity nature did not furnish something as good as tobacco that would not be harmful. Laureate Austin has just written a drama which is every bit as good as anything he ever wrote. Sir Thomas Lipton may not have brought over a winning yacht, but he still has that winning smile. No one would object to a judicious merger of the floods in the West with the forest fires in the East. New York society women are wearing men's hose, and, strange to say, the men are raiding no objections. Lieut. Peary announces again that he is willing to lead another polar expedition. But nobody seems to notice. It now looks as if Sir Thomas would once more have to recross the herring pond in a cheerful but cupless condition. The Worcester Evening Gazette convicts itself of lese majeste by speaking of "the kid potentate of Spain." The man with his ear to the ground may hear more than other people, but the trouble is he hears too much that it's not so. No, it wasn't a paper away out in Kansas or Arizona, but the Boston Herald that said, "Mr. Sankey is now out of sight." Colombia possibly fears that if it had that $10,000,000 in its safe a dozen revolutions would be after it before morning. William Zimmerman attempted to loop the loop on roller skates at Indianapolis last Monday. The fool killer was present. China now has the pleasant alternative of deciding whether it prefers to be drubbed by the Anglo-Japanese alliance or by Russia. You may have noticed that it is always a boy or a man who dies of lockjaw. The female sex is too strong for the tetanus germ. The London Lancet advises parents not to have a fat baby. What would the Lancet have them do with the child? Give it away? A Denver woman has written a book which is intended as a reply to Mary MacLane's warm work. Why poke up the dead, especially in this hot weather? The fool and his money are soon parted. But the fool usually has money to be parted from, and it's mighty seldom you'll find the wise man so well heeled. Jim Corbett uses a punching bag filled with 225 pounds of sand, and Bob Fitzsimmons says that all the sand Corbett has is in this bag. Knocker! Gen. Cassius M. Clay is thought to be crazy because he loves his wife who has twice deserted him. We can't understand why the lady doesn't file an indignant protest. W. S. HENRION 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. The price of Hawaiian sugar has been raised $3.75 on the ton. Vesuvius is spouting lava which at at night is a magnificent spectacle. The native party of Hawaii talk of petitioning congress for independence. Two buildings were wrecked by an explosion in Pucboil of ammonia. H. P. Winn was killed. The Turkish cruiser built at the Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia was launched on June 25. Five hundred firms in the City of Mexico have been found guilty of evading the stamp tax. An explosion in the tover of a distillery at Terre Haute, Ind., destroyed the entire plant by fire. The Irish land bill has passed its first reading in the house of lords. The second reading was fixed for August 3. The Missouri Pacific and Frisco systems plan to build a joint line down the west side of the Mississippi river from Memphis to Baton Rouge. The Oceanic Steamship company's steamer Sierra has sailed from Sydney for San Francisco with $2,500,000 in gold on board. There is likely to be early action at the session of congress next winter for the opening of the 480,000 acre pasture in the Kiowa-Comanche country to settlement. Near Columbus, Montana, poison was scattered on the sheep range where Grimes' sheep were ranging, killing over 1,200 sheep. Another sheepman has lost over 300. Western stockmen are not pleased with the St. Louis Fair commissioner's orders that do animal with horns shall be exhibited. They are determined to have an exhibit of range cattle. Russia has not only notified the United States that she will raise no objection to the opening of ports in Manchuria to the trade of the world, but she has said the same thing to England and Japan and it is believed to every other power. The steamship Mongolia, built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, was launched at Camden, N. J. The Mongolia is the second largest ship ever built in the United States. She is to be used in the Philippine and China trade. Her sister ship, the Manchuria, will be launched in October. The board of governors of the Building Trades' employers' association of New York ordered all members of the association to start work on buildings at once, using any housesmiths, hoisting engineers and showers who would individually sign their plan of arbitration. The battleship Kearsarge crossed the Atlantic in nine days, coming from Portsmouth, England, to Car Harbor, Maine. This closed a cruise of 8,200 miles without a single accident to machinery. The clergy of Kishineff, Russia, have been instructed to labor to allay the anti-Semitic religious hatred. The amount expended by the Elks during the year for charity was $189,616. Eberhardt & Hays GENERAL MUSIC DEALERS. Piano Tuning $2.50. Phone 981. Cor Douglas and Emporia. Wichita, Ka 1866. AGENTS WANTED We allow agents a big commission for their work. Write to-day for terms. Agents wanted in every town and city in the U. S. Send 20 stamp for Sample Copy. Before you buy a good horse, find out what is the matter with him. The rational man carefully abstains from doing anything rash. The average man firmly believes that he is above the average. Favorable comment has but one leg as a rule, but slander is a centipede. It is capable of proof that many a lean baby grows up to be a big, fat man. Chronic loungers should not treat their busy friends' private office as a public snap. Mrs. Nat Herreshoff's husband seems to be the only man able to beat Nat Herreshoff. Conscious that he is not an Adonis Oom Paul has taken to repulsing camera fiends with a club. Colorado has discovered a cowboy poet. And now the west knows where to look for its poet-lariat. These contradictory dispatches from Somaliand leave one in doubt whether the Mullah is mad or glad. Designer Watson of the Shamrocks has just married. Which shows that he can win something, anyway. It may be that Lynbomir Zslxkovits was one of the leaders of the Servian revolt, but we suspect the linotype. The latest scientific dictum is that the mustache is unsanitary. So is the corset, but the girls insist on both. Going, going—two German counts and a French marquis. Now, girls, who will close the sale by saying "Gonc"? Mr. Gates says the worst has been reached in the stock market. This is not consolation to the man who reached it. According to a dispatch from St. Petersburg Russia and Japan now agree. Korea may well be alarmed if this is true. King Peter now has an opportunity to decide whether or not he will sleep in the room in which his predecessor was assassinated. A Pittsburg doctor has received a fee of $34,000 for treating a man who died. He will never need to take anything for his nerve. Mary MacLane announces that she will write another book. Then Mary will probably discover that she struck twelve some time ago. Mr. Lincoln Steffens, the Asmodens of American cities, has got around to Philadelphia, and taken the lid off in his usual masterly style. One of the most important elements of successful humor is surprise, and it was not missing in comical little Marshall Wilder's marriage. "If the price of potatoes goes too high," says the Boston Globe, "eat rice." Was there ever a more painful example of disloyalty to the home food staple? If impatient lovers would only wait a few days it is possible the appeal to carbolic acid would not be required, but love is blind and very, very foolish at times. People are beginning to wonder what the next get-rich-quick scheme is going to be. All of the old avenues to hasty wealth seems to have been successfully plugged. It is announced that Clyde Fitch is going to spend the winter in Washington, and will probably dramatize either the department scandals or the Congressional Record. As the navies of both powers are now in prime condition France and England feel that this is an exceptionally opportune time in which to entertain proposals for permanent peace. Two elderly parsons deserted their wives and eloped with young girls. And the strange thing about it is that with neutner of them had marriage been a failure. One had five children and the other eighteen. THE SEARCHLIGHT, W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehite, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15c. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appi cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for public 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 THIS OFFICE. 8rd. In asking to change your paper from one office or one address to another always give both, the old and new. 4th Send Us all the news from your section of the City, County, State or County. We publish it FREE OF CHARGE. Writ 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. Because two men said that W. N. Miller used "profane language" to them in his, W. N. Miller's office; Miller has been suspended from the Knights of Pythias for 99 years. That is all right, gentlemen, why did you not just make it 999 years while you were about it? It would have been just as easy. After five charges—all of which the committee found to be false, was made against W. N. Miller by John Lewis and Bert Glover in the Grand Lodge. The committee found Miller not guilty in each one—and so reported. But the thing was, pre-arranged, and the committee's report was disregarded, and Miller suspended for 90 years. What that hanging over our head we are the same as we ever were. We can get stand a few more of the lies of these men, go on your way, you may have easy selling new, but it is an "ill wind that blows nobody good." We have no sore spots about us, and we take this unjust and unlawful act gracefully. We have only to say that we are still here. We looked for this and it came as no surprise. When the law is laid aside by a tyrant in the presiding chair how can any man who may oppose oppression hope to gain justice. With things as they existed then we are not sore. We are glad that the suspension was not for defrauding the grand lodge or any subordinate lodge out of one cent, it was not for violating any grand lodge law, it was not for assaulting any person, it was not for invading the homes of any knight, it was not for spoiling the virtue of any knight's wife or daughter, it was not because we were guilty of anything, except talking in a very rough manner in our own office to two men who came there to meddie in business of which they were not concerned. And we did not only do so then, but would do so again under a like circumstance. If these men do not want people to talk rough to them in other people's place of business let them stay away and mind their own business. As we have said we have no sore spots. We will take one dose of medicine—it is a pretty good sized dose—but we will swallow it just the same, and we will not be made sick over it either. TO OUR READERS. Beginning with this issue of the Searchlight we will begin to do real business. We will start our collector out about Aug. 15th and we trust that all will be prepared to pay something on their account. We have been very good in the way of collections and we trust that all our patrons will be the same to us. We do not ask any to pay for any time which they have not received our paper. We only ask them to pay for what they have already got. During our time of publication here the people have been very good to us, and we trust they will do so in the future. Look for our collector any time after Aug 15th. We ask all our patrons who can to call at our office and pay. We will highly appreciate this act. Jasl. H. Guy, Drs. Thompson and Anthony left Thursday night for their homes. Proceedings os the Grand Lodge and of the Grand Court will appear in our next issue. The Grand Lodge will meet in Topeka next year. Just think of it, a man is suspended from an order for 90 years because he tells another man that it is none of their d——n business, that he brought a suit against another man." Does that seem right? Does it seem that the man suspended is given fairness? When all the facts are stated it will be seen. Eigth Annual Session Will Meet at Colorado Springs, Colorado August 3, 4, 5, 1903. To the Press: Pursuant to the regular appointment under 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 Wednesday, August 3rd, 4th and 5th 1903. All proprietors, editors, managers, reporters and correspondents west of the Mississippi river are eligible to membership in the association, and are urged to be 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 ace in this country. Recent developments shows the need of action on the part of the intelligent and thoughtful members of the race, and the press must undoubtedly take the lead. The official program that will be published later will bd up to the usual high standard. We would again urge upon every paper and its entir staff to make this meeting a personal matter in order to secure a large and enthusiastic gathering. The executive committee: W. W. Taylor, of Salt Lake City, chairman; H. R. Pinkney of Kansas City, Col. F. L. Jeltz of Topeka; T. W. Mahamet of Omaha; Nick Chiles of Topeka, W. H. Dncan of Colorado Springs, will apprise all western railroads of the convention and will request them to extend courtesies to members and publishers of the craft. W. H. Duncan, Colorado Springs, 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 13th day June, 1908. Jos, D. D. Rivers, President Denver, Colo. W. H. Luncan, Secretary Colorado Springs, Colo. Pleased Him. "I think we might give Bridget a dollar more a week," said the family man. "What?" exclaimed his wife. "I set her to work cleaning the parlor today, and you should see the way she left it." "I did. That's what influenced me. I noticed she fixed the piano with the keyboard close up against the wall." His Sole Artistic Effort. "He calls himself an artist, doesn't he?" "He hasn't said anything about the kind." "Come to think of it he draws." "Indeed! What does he draw?" "His breath." They Worried Him Greatly. "Debt," remarked the frugal man, "a terrible thing." "It is," answered the cold citizen. "Nothing annoys me more than febts." "I didn't know you owed anything." "I don't. I refer to what other people owe me." Locals and Personals Miss Minnie E. Jackson of Detroit, Kas., will be here to assist in the rally at the A. M. E. church on the second Sunday in August. J. W. McPike of Lawrence, Kas., was in the city this week as a delegate to the G. L. The rain Thursday is worth more money to Sedgwick county than can be enumerated. Let the rain fall we need it. F. D. Coleman of Ponca t was in the city attending the Gra Lodge this week Mrs. B. J. Bailby was among the Grand Lodge v. i. is week. There will be a rally at the A. M. H. church on the second Sunday in August. The church is divided into four clubs which are named for the bishops of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Allen of Iola were in the city this week attending the Grand Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter of Topeka were among the guests i. Wichita this week. B. G. Jackson of Yale was in the city this week attending the grand lodge. Hon. Jas. H. Guy of Topeka, one of Kansas' very prominent attorneys spent the week in the city. He was in attendance in the Grand Lodge. Mrs. Lee Anderson gave a nice social to the visitors at her home last Monday night. A large and appreciative number were present. Mr. Harry Hale treated the visitors who were in the city this week af the drug's ore on East Murdock. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Plumb of Topeka were among the visitors this week. Mr. Jas. T. Baxter is organizing a horse talent company and will play at the Opera house next week. The G. I. O. O. Calanthe held a very interesting session in Wichita this year the ladies are making fast progress in this work. What have the colored people to gain by the prolongation of their fights, one against the other. The truth of the matter is that none of them have anything over which to fight. None of them have anything to gain by the continuation of the fighting. They may get revenge, as it is said, but how far does that go and to whom is there a benefit? As little as they may think they only make their own lot and that of the race harder by their "fights." Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable CHURCH DIRECTORY St. Paul A. M. E. 521 N. Water St. 11 am preaching. 4 pm Sunday school, 7 pm Song Service, 8 pm Preaching. Rev, P. D. Vochn, Pastor, Residence 521 N. Water. New Hope Baptist, North Mead ave. 11 am Preaching. 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev H. F. Frazier, Pastor 239 New York ave. Second Baptist, 521 N. Wichita. 11 am Preaching, 3 pm Sunday School, 8 pm Preaching, No Pastor. Tabernacle Baptist. 894 N. Water, 11 am Preaching, 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev. A. H. Mayo, Pastor. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE TYEM. Great preparations are being made for neighborhood picnic to be given on the lots back of the home of Mr. Ike J. Porter, 1449 Sherwood. The picnic will be given Tuesday Aug. 4th, and promi es to be one of the grandest events of the year. Mr. Porter and all the neighbors are making great preparations for the event. Everyone is invited to come and have a good time. No pains will be spared to make this event one long to be remembered. Remember the place at the home of Mr. Ike J. Porter 1449 Sherwood, To those who may wish to find the place and may not know we give the following direct ons: If on the cars, get off stock yard car at 14th and Fairview and go three blocks west. There will be swings, croquet, ball game, speaking. The picnic tables will be spread with all good things which the market may afford. Let every one take a day off and go out to the big picnic at Mr. Porter's home, Tuesday, Aug 4th, 1903. Sherman Teal of Wellington was in the city this week. Dr. S. H. Thompson and Dr. I. Anthony of Kansas City were in the city this week. W. E. Wood and Chas. Floyd came up from Kingman Thursday. El Prado Cafe Royal Meals 15 cents Ice Cream Saturdays and Sunday WM. S. MILLER Prop 339 North Main Assesmsnt Call No. 2. Assessment No. 2; of the Co-operative Burial Association is now due. Members please pay at the Office of J. J. BLEITZ, 235 N. Main st. J. Tipp, ....o....o....o.... PROP. Tipp's Hand Laundry Best Hand Laundry In the City 609 East Douglas Ave..... Wichita, Ks Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. $6.00 Eureka Springs $6.00 und Return Via FRISCO SYSTEM Tickets on sale for regular trains Monday, August 3d, good to return until Aug. 13th. For further information call at City Ticket Office or address A. H. Deem B. F. Dunn City Pass Agt. Div. Pass Agh Wichita, Kans. --- Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS --- --- COPYRIGHT. USE --- IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL BREAK and you will AT YOUR GROCER BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating. 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Everybody Must Die The Co-Operative Burial Association? By OUR co operative plan we are enabled to render assistance that will lighten the burden of many a family and that will afford to each member a respectable burial without working a hardship on any one, and without imposing on friends for assistance. Membership Fee Only 10cts. Derth Assessments.....Adults 11c, Children 6c OFFICE J. J. Bleitz, Undertaker 235 North Main St W. M. DUNSON, AGENT. CHILDREN CRY FOR IT Don't let them cry, give them all they want of BON-TON ICE CREAM. Its pure and wholesome—just right—and don't cost any more than the ordinary kind. Special Prices to Picnics and Socials. MESSERVE'S BON-TON BAKERY & KANDY ITCHEN Phone 152 W. G. (SUCCESSO Pumps, Pipe, 152 146 N. Main V. G. McKee, ( Successor to A. N. West ) os, Pipe, Hose, Windmills W. G. McKee, ( Successor to A. N. 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Anyone, upon opening after death the body of a hen, will find a cluster of eggs in formation much like a bunch of grapes, and called the ovarium (see cut). These, however, are not rudimentary eggs, says the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales. Each of these eggs is contained within a thin, transparent sac and attached by a narrow pipe or stem to the ovary. These rudimentary eggs have neither shell nor white, containing wholly of yolk, on which floats the germ of the future chicken; and as they become larger and larger they arrive at a certain stage when, by their own volition, weight or other cause, they become individually detached from the bunch, and fall into a sort of funnel leading into a pipe or passage way called the oviduct—this organ in the hen being from 22 to 26 inches long. During the passage of this egg or ovum to the outer world it becomes coated with successive layers of albumen—the white—which is secreted from the blood-vessels of the oviduct in the form of a thick glial fluid, and is prevented from mixing with the yolk by the membrane or sac which surrounded it before it became detached from the cluster. It is also strengthened by a second and stronger membrane, formed around the first immediately after falling into the funnel, and having what is like two twisted cords of a more dense albuminous character, 6 The OVITARY AND OVIDUCT OF A LAYING HER called by anatomists chalazes, which pass quite through the white at the ends, and being, as it were, embed- ded therein, thus preventing the yolk and germ from rolling about when the egg is moved, and serving to keep the germ uppermost, so that it may best receive the heat imparted during incubation. It is during the passage of the egg through the lower part of the oviduct that it gets covered with the two skins which are found inside the shell. These, although lying close around the egg, at the thick end become separate, and form what is called the air-bubble or chamber. When the egg has advanced more than halfway down the oviduct, it is still destitute of shell, which begins to be formed by a process of secretion, and when about completed the various shades of brown and tinted coloring matter is imparted in those breeds in which colored eggs are peculiar. The Status of the Grange. In the quarterly bulletin issued when the year begun, Editor Batchelder said: The grange enters upon the new year in splendid condition in all sections of the country and prepared to fight the battles of the farmers in every legitimate manner. The success of the organization in 1902, both in membership and influence, has given the members renewed courage and increased vigor from ocean to ocean, and will stimulate them to still greater work in the year to come. It has finally dawned upon the people of the country that this organization has assumed a permanent character, which is to be treated with all the respect and consideration accorded older and more pretentious organizations. It has taken its place by the side of the school as an educational factor, next to the church as a great power, and has demonstrated its right to a place in the front ranks of the world's numerous and worthy fraternal organizations. The grange has won this reputation by an honest, earnest, straightforward course, neither catering to the sympathies of people by the advocacy of specious measures, nor deceiving the people by shifting its course with every shift in public sentiment. 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Howells The Read to Paris, Stephens An Enquiry to the King, Stephens A Gentleman Player, Both Phones 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, PROFS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S (102 E.Dowling Ave. 'Phone 857 ROWLEE Hardware Store 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 CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant When You Want A GOOD MEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS 15cts — C. L. KINER, Prop. 408 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas: 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. For Gentlemen Only. W. M. Hallum, Prop. GO TO ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F.W. Israel, 127 N. Market Wichita. CHERRYVALE, KANS. Mr. Frank Brady is visiting in Kansas City for a few days. Mrs. Angie Cooper will leave for Wichita Wednesday to visit Mr. Wm. Knox. Mr. Wiley Jones is up from Coffeyville and working in the brick yard. Miss Oda Richardson were entertained by her best feller from Chanute last Sunday. The Old Soldiers Reunion will be held here on August 10.h. Low rates on all railroads. The young people of Cherryvale will give a grand fishing party Thursday out to McTigist mill. There will be all kinds of refreshments. Mr. W. H. Neal came home last Saturday from Neodesha. C. H. Neal is laid off from the brick yard on account of his foot being run over by a wagon. Mr. B, F. Thomas came home last Saturday night and left Sunday. Mr. Samuel Richardson is expected home soon from Texas. Cherryvale base ball boys will match a game with St. Louis, Sunday Aug. 2. The Frisco team has won from some of the best teams in the country. WINFIELD, KAS. Miss Ward of Pittsburg, Kansas, passed through last week enroute to Newkirk to attend the Normal. She is a teacher in Kay county O. T. Luthins Simes, little son of A Simes, came near being drowned in Walnut river last Wednesday. He was unconscious when reached by a man. Miss Emma Dixon of Guthrie is visiting her sister Mrs. James Askins. Mr. Jerry Taylor arrived from Kansas City last Sunday to visit home folks. Jerry looks well. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Simpson returned from Pratt last week, where Mr. Simpson assisted his brother-in law in his big harvest. Miss Ada Louie who has been on sick list is slowly recovering. Mr. James Askins made a flying trip to Guthrie last Thursday. Jesse Banks came home last week from the eastern part of the state. Mr. G. W. Ambler has completed a six room cottage in the west part of town and moved in last week,the ladies of the A. M. E. church gave a social in it before they moved in which was well attended. Mrs. Wm. Hayter left last week for Lawrence, Kans., to visit relatives and friends. Misses Dora Carpenter, Hattie Marshal Mrs. Podelom and son of Arkaneas City was in town last week. Mr. Wm. Lone Wolf, blacksmith at Chilocco Indian school was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hayter a few days last week. The Frisco Restaurant MEALS AT ALL HOURS—15c Mrs. C. J. Jackson, Prop 903 East Douglas. The sins by which God's Spirit is ordinarily grieved are the sins of small things, laxities in keeping the temper, slight neglect of duty, lightness, sharpness of dealing. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON V., AUG. 2—SAMUEL, ANOINTS DAVID. Golden Text—"Man Looketh on the Outward Appearance, But the Lord Looketh on the Heart."—1 Samuel, 16: 4-13—David's Exaltation. 1. "First Step in David's Exaltation. Samuel turned from the Past to the Future."—1 Sam. 16: 1-3. It was natural that Samuel should be bowled down with grief after Saul's disobedience and hypocrisy had disclosed the fatal weakness of his character, and God had uttered the sentence of condemnation. But at this sadstest hour of the prophet's life God came, as he always does come to his children in their distress. The Lord hade Samuel to cause more for Saul, his long horn with anointing oil, and go to Jesse at Bethlehem, one of whose sons was to become king in Saul's stead. II. "Second Step in David's Exaltation. The Sacrifice at Bethlehem."—Vs. 4. 5. Resigning his will, and sadly abandoning the king who had so won his affection, the obedient prophet followed Jehovah's instructions. 4. "And came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town, the shepherds, with Jesus among them. "Trembled at his coming. And said, Comest thou peaceably?" Illustration. "Hundreds of years after this, when the heavenly light was seen in the same place by the shepherds, they, too, were 'sore afraid'; but there was as little to fear in the one case as in the other; for in both there was a provided sacrifice, and in both the mission was one of peace; yea, as Samuel came to anoint Jesus, and as Jesus almed Jesus appeared to make us kings and priests unto our Lord and his Father."—William M. Taylor. 5. "To sacrifice unto the Lord." The sacrifice consisted of a feast, certain portions of which were set aside and consecrated to the Lord, in token of his communion with his people. "Sanctify yourselves." "That is, wash your whole person and put on clean clothes."—Gelikle. The ceremony was symbolic of inward purification, and the sacrifice. "Probably the sacrifice was not till the next day."—Cook. "Aid he sanctified Jesse and his sons." Illustrations. God's children may sometimes, think that his providences are working against them; but his ways, says Richard Sibles, are like the wheels of a watch, which move contrary one to another, some backward, some forward, yet the watch as a whole is constantly moving forward. 4. "Inward Step in David's Exalation. The Seven Sons Rejected."—Vs. 6-10. The lads were hastily summoned from their various tasks—all but David—and passed in review before the prophet. 6. "He looked on Eliab and said," speaking, of course, to himself, "Surely the Lord's anointed is before him." 7. "But the Lord said unto Samuel." That is, God spoke, not audibly, but none the less really, within Samuel's soul. "I have refused him." For the Lord seeth not as man seeth. "Saul was the king of God's chosen." David was a man after God's own heart. 8. "Abinadab" was next called, and similarly rejected. 9. "Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by." 10. "Again" (or, as it may better be, "so") "Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel." The seven included the three already named, but not David. "And Samuel said unto Jesse The Lord hath not chosen these." IV. "Fourth Step in David's Exaltation. The Anointing."—Vs. 11-13. 11. "Are here all thy children? And he said. There remaineth yet the youngest." Evidently too little considered to be sent for, to take part in Samuel's review. Children are likely thus to be underwatch by their elders; but God looks more wisely upon them. "And in the keepeth the sheep." Often in world's history, the greatest leaders of men have been drawn from the lowliest origins. "We will not sit down till he come hither." Practical. It often happens that men neglect the very person, young or poor or obscure, whom God has chosen for highest honor; but whomever men may choose (crown, the real feast cannot proceed in) God's candidate has been discovered. 12. When a man is rudely in hair and fair skin. In southern hills, where skin and hair are dark, these are considered especially handsome. "Of a beautiful countenance." "Literally, 'Beautiful-eyed and goodly in appearance.'"—Camb. Bible. "Arise, anoint him." "Christ" signifies the anointed one," he being our Prophet, Priest, and King. 15. "Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren." That is, in their presence. The later history shows that they did not understand the meaning of humility act. It is not told that even David or Jesse comprehended what Samuel was doing. Note: The effect of the anointing: "The spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forbeside." The Hebrew for "describes" is *pervading impulse*). -Camb. Bible, Just as Saul upon his anointing (I. Sam. 10: 6, 10), so David received a supernatural exaltation for his lofty destiny. "So Samuel rose up, and went to Rachel." V. "Fifth Step in David's Exaltation. David's Introduction to Saul's Court." I. Sam. 16: 14-23. The remainder of the chapter describes the providential manner in which David was introduced to the household of the king whom he was to succeed. Saul's disobedience was punished by his father, from God, a form of melancholia akin to patient insanity. Such maladies are often bettered by the influence of music, and at the suggestion of Saul's attendants David was sent for, since his skill upon the harp, as well as his courage, prudence, holiness, and wisdom, were well known. He at once won the affection of Saul and proved himself so skillful in playing the harp that he was often sent for afterwarda. In this most unexpected and marvelous way did God begin to work out his great design for David and the kingdom. Note in all this the fifth step in God's exaltation of David—the steady movement of providence as the young man developed his gifts naturally, and as opportunities for exercising those gifts opened up before him. The elixion of his opportunities came in the combat with Goliath, which we study next Sunday. There is nothing in David's advancement which may not be essentially true of any boy or girl, if he or she will be obedient to the anointing of duty. Ten members of the legislature have turned their per diem and mileage for the special session over to the relief fund—leaving only 155 senators and representatives who haven't. A bridal couple was in Emporia this week riding about town in a low-necked hack. "This," explains the Gazette, "is love!" An effort will be made to have the next legislature "regulate" the deadly Fourth of July toy pistol, and the only surprising consideration is that no master legislative mind thought of it before. High noon on the desert. The sun is fire That scorches, that maddens, that burns unto death. And the waves of his fury beat higher and higher, Till e'en the gray lizard is gasping for breath. The yucca no longer sets gray against gray; The sagebrush has vanished, the white poppy fled. And the sand ocean stretches away and away O'er the desolate leagues of a world that is dead. White night on the desert. The solemn moon glows O'er the sands where two camp through the cool of the night— What matters the story of words, and then blows? While women are fair, men will quarrel and fight. Now Maggie McHenry was fairer by far Than many a maid who is known as a belle; And Duncan had vowed she should shine as his star. While Donovan's answer I'd shudder to tell. Gray dawn on the desert. The sun sent a ray, Like a first arrow shot by a merciless foe, And the shades of the night-time crept slowly away, And the sands were alight, like a furnace aglow, Then Duncan awoke, rubbed his eyes, looked about— FARM ON HISTORIC GROUND One of the most famous farms in the United States is being conducted by Uncle Sam on a portion of the historic estate formerly the property of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Two hundred acres are set apart for farming operations. The remainder of the estate is the National Military cemetery, where are buried 16,000 Union soldiers who lost their lives in the civil war. Uncle Sam is not engaged in farming for his own profit, says the New York Press, but for the benefit of the farmers of the entire country, who will be given the results of the experiments by the experts in the employ of the government. For more than a year laborers have been engaged in clearing the land and preparing it for crops. Modern buildings are in course of construction, and within a short time the farm will be in full operation. Breeding of superior or wheat, corn and oats will also be attempted. New fruits will be introduced, and those already grown in this country will be improved upon. Diseases of pears, peaches, plums and other fruits will be studied with a view to stamping out the alliments of fruits and making fruit growing more profitable. Experiments for the purpose of determining the best forage crops and the most economical plans for feeding cattle will be some of the features of this interesting place. GO BACK TO SAVAGERY There are about half a dozen men living, somewhere in the interior of the big African continent that the English military authorities would like to interview. And it wouldn't be a long interview, either. One of these much-wanted individuals was formerly a colonel in the Russian army, but had to leave it under disgraceful circumstances. Another is a Prussian ex-sergeant, who also got into trouble at home. The rest were European soldiers of various nationalities. All of them drifted into Egypt, where they abjured Christianity, professed Mohammedanism and joined the forces of the Mahdi when that strenuous party was at the height of his power. Their military experience made them valuable, and as the Arabs thought their converts were sincere and looked upon them with the utmost favor, all obtained responsible positions in the army of the Mahdi. The Mahdi and his followers were not inclined to deal any too gently with Christians who fell into their hands, Gus A Miller Art Co DR. J. T. KINAHAN. Veterinary Surgeon AND Dentist Office and Stable 528 Riverview Wichita, Kansas Sign and Banner Work a Specialty Artistic Picture Moulding 352 Noreh Main St., No Donovan there; but a note in his place: "I've taken the water; I'll need it no doubt, And the best man, I reckon, 'll win in the race." High noon on the desert, high noon once again, 'Mid the dry bones of death shining white where they fell; And Duncan, a victim to thirst and its pain, With the blood in his veins like the liquid of hell. Yet staggering on. To and fro, to and fro, Ran the white flames of heat in their devilish play; And the lying mirage is making its show of a green land of peace where the cool waters play. At eve on the desert one found him at rest, Crushed down, beaten low in that furnace of hell; She found him, and kissed him, and held to her breast, And laved him with water that soothingly fell; And, "Maggie," he whispered, as opened his eyes— What matters the pain when the race has been run?— And I judge there is justice somwhere 'neath the skies. For, borne through Death's caldron, the best man had won. —Alfred J. Waterhouse, in New York Times. Secretary Wilson is taking pride in directing this work. The portion of the Lee estate set apart for farming purposes is about the poorest piece of land in that section of the country. It was entirely unfit for agricultural purposes, and it was necessary to fertilize and improve it. The experts of the Agricultural department expect to demonstrate that the poorest land in the country can be profitably utilized for successful farming operations. Gen. Lee's former home is one of the most beautiful spots in the vicinity of the national capital. The mansion stands on the brow of a hill which slopes away half a mile to the Potomac, 200 feet below. The view from the portico of the old mansion had been famed for a century. When Lafayette was a guest at Arlington he pronounced the prospect from the porch one of the most beautiful he had ever looked upon. Since Lafayette's visit the view has been changed, new beauties have been added, while some of the old ones were destroyed by the ravages of war. The completed capitol, with its majestic dome, the symmetrical Washington monument, the beautiful Congressional library and other architectural features have taken their place in the picture, while a grove of majestic trees which graced the slope below the house were utterly destroyed during the greatest civil conflict ever waged. but these apostates went far beyond the dervishes in cruelty. Their presence with the Mahdi ultimately became known, and the feeling toward them among the English soldiers was quite different from that felt toward the dervishes, who were regarded as brave men and their legitimate enemies. Yet, while thousands of better men fell before the sweep of the Maxims in the terrible charge at Omdurman these apostates escaped. At least their bodies were not found on the battle field, although a most careful search was made for them. It is supposed that they fled to the south, and are now hiding with some of the tribes of central Africa or the southern Soudan. 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