Wichita Searchlight

SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Aug. 8, '03 KANSAS COMMENT. HARPER EXPECTS.—And is happy in the expectation of a new academy. BROKE HIS NECK.—J. M. Proctor, postmaster and mayor of Willis, Brown county, while reshlinging a house, fell and broke his neck. PHONES TO RANCHES.—Ranches about Liberal are putting in telephones from the town, incidentally getting connection with each other. MISSOURI PACIFIC PAYS.—That road has compromised a good portion of the claims for damages resulting from the crossing accident with the Santa Fe near Hutchinson. MAKE LOAFFERS WORK.—The police of Ottawa have arrested a number of loafers, charging them with vagrancy, and the police court has given them 30 days each, which they must work out. TO LIGHT FORT RILEY.—The war department has awarded the Junction City Electric Railway, Light and Ice company the contract for the electric lighting of Fort Riley's streets and buildings. BURLINGAME WILL BORE.—A company of local capitalists has been organized to bore for gas and oil. It has raised enough money already to bore two wells and the machinery is now on the road. GAVE HIS LAND REST.—From a 155-acre tract of land John Trachsel, whose farm is near Goodland, raised 2,325 bushels of wheat this year. Mr. Trachsel obtained his big yield by letting his land lie idle last year. WANT AN ADVANCE—Rock Island telegraphers throughout Kansas have united in presenting a demand to the general manager in Chicago for an advance of $5 per month in pay with a nine-hour day. The operators now receive from $45 to $75 a month for ten hours' work a day. CHANGE IN SCHOOL CENSUS.—It formerly included all who would reach five years during the coming school and also those who had been twenty-one during the year past. The result was that the numbers were large. The new law requires the exact birth date and cuts all out not of the required age. A RIVAL FOR GEUDA.—The Interurban Railway company is said to have purchased the mineral springs in Summer county, about three miles from Geuda Springs and of the same curative waters. With the springs a quarter section of land has been purchased on which a town of unique design is to be laid off. THRESPING IN FULL SWAY.—Fully 250 machines are stationed over Barton county and the wheat yield is of much better quality than was expected. Wheat that has been threshed, near Great Bend has been averaging twenty-five to thirty bushels an acre, and testing sixty to sixty-three pounds. The Barton county yield this year will be between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 bushels. Corn is in fine condition at present, having had good rains. KANSAS MOONSHINERS.—Inspectors of the internal revenue department are after illicit stills operating in Kansas, They have seized one still in Russell county and are after two others in Western Kansas. They have been told there are two concerns of that kind in Wyandotte county and one in Shawnee and are searching for them. "So far as we can learn there are perhaps a dozen illicit stills in the state," said Frank Fleenniken, of the United States marshal's office. GOOD WATER AND PLENTY. — For some time the Santa Fe Company experimented to determine the supply and quality of water to be obtained at reasonable depth near the roadbed at Kiowa. Test holes were bored and the water drawn from them sent to Chicago to be analyzed as to its quality for drinking and mechanical purposes. The hole bored reached the subterranean water level at only 40 feet, and every attempt made to lower the water in the well with pumps of large capacity has utterly failed. DECIDE TO BUILD.—The Masons of Wellington have decided to build a fine home for their lodges, to be three stories high, having a fifty-foot front and being 140 feet deep. The first floor will have two large store rooms; the second will contain offices, and the third will be the lodge rooms. A basement will be built under the entire building. This will be utilized by the Ladies' Federation of Clubs for rest and reading rooms and by the Young Men's and Young Ladies' athletic associations for their club rooms. GIVEN WITH DINNER.—Isaac Peck, an Aitchison county farmer, recently invited his six children to take dinner with him. When dinner was over and the married ones were preparing to go home he handed each a .Cek for $2,000 the gift amounting to $12,000 in all. Ice Peck owns 600 acres of land near Halls Station. His children are industrious and deserving. ELEVATOR BURNED.—Cheatum's elevator and 3,000 bushels of wheat were consumed by fire at Cleveland, Kingman county. NEW GRADES FOR GRAIN.—The state-grain inspection commission have changed the rules for grading. No 1 hard wheat shall be required to weigh 62 pounds to the bushel instead of 61. Badly stack burned wheat is to be added to the rejected class. No 1 red wheat, weight same as No 1 hard, rejection same as No 1 hard wheat. A new grade of corn is to be established, with a classification between No 4 and "no grade." The grading of kafir corn has been changed from No 1, 2, 3 and 4, mixed, to No 1, 2, 3 and 4, white, and No 1, 2, 3 and 4, red. A weight test has been established for oats. No 1 oats shall be required to test 32 pounds to the bushel and No 2 shall be required to test 28 pounds to the bushel. To Wear SUNFLOWERS.—To conform to the law enacted last winter designating the sunflower as the official Kansas flower, Adjuan't General Kelsey has commanded the officers of the national guard to wear the sunflower device on the collars of their full dress uniforms. FIREMEN ASK A RAISE.—The Topelia fire department made an application for a general increase of 20 per cent in salaries. The petition states that the expenses of living are greater than they were formerly and that higher prices are being paid for labor generally. NEW DEPOT OPENED.—Music and refreshments between the hours of 8 and 10 p. m. marked the opening of the Frisco passenger depot at Wichita. The interior of the station was beautifully decorated with potted and cut flowers. STOLE HORSESOES.—A member of the Leavenworth city council, who has a blacksmith shop, is under arrest charged with stealing four kegs of horseshoes from the government store house at Fort Leavenworth. GERMAN AND LATIN.—The Sumner county high school trustees have employed George M. Sherrard, of Atchison, to teach the German and Latin classes in the school the coming term. SIX MORE.—That number of railway mail clerks not now living in Wichita have been instructed to make that city their headquarters. Two of the six are new and additional appointees. CATCHING FISH BY HAND.—The Ninnescah river was up two feet the other day. The banks were lined with fisherman and many a catch was made without hook or line. TOPEKA MAN AT RATON.—A. Harriety, of Topela, is appointed master mechanic of the New Mexico and the Rio Grande divisions at Raton to succeed D. A. Sullier. NAME WAS MAURER.—The report that J. Moyer, a farmer living north of Milan, was found dead was incorrect. The person found was Jacob Maurer. GENERAL RAINS.—The rains of July 30 and 31 were general over the state and were heaviest in the corn belt where rains were most needed. HAIL IN MEAD.—It is reported that about Globe, Meade county, during one of the recent rains a big hailstorm damaged the feed crop. IS A PREACHER.—The negro tailor who killed a man at Larned is a preacher. The coroners' jury gave a verdict of self defense. LOST VALISE.—Mrs. W. L. Davis, was robbed of $330 in gold and a smaller amount of silver at the depot in Cherryvale. NINE PARTIES OUT.—The University of Kansas has sent out nine scientific expellitions this summer. NEW TELEPHONE LINE.—The Santa Fe-Garden City telephone line is open and doing business. NEGRO TAILOR KILLS A MAN.—At Larned, R. B. Williams, a negro tailor, shot and killed Clyde Langdon, a young white man. A mob was formed to lynch Williams, but Sheriff McCoy had taken his prisoner cast on a Santa Fe train. CAME IN 1854.—William MacHammer, aged 84 years, one of the oldest residents of Doniphan county, died at his home near Troy. He crossed the plains to California in 1850 but returned and settled in Doniphan county in 1854. BOUGHT GREENLAND FARM—State Treasurer Kelly cashed a voucher for $25,000 in payment of the Greenland property, adjoining the penitentiary at Lansing as authorized by the legislature last winter. By the purchase of the land the extension of the penitentiary mine under Staiger's island is made possible and the construction of a new shaft on the island, which would be an expensive undertaking, avoided. Good WHEAT YIELD.—A Rush county farmer got 40 bushels to the acre from seventy acres of rented land. WILSON RETURNS.—County Attorney of Sumner County Emory E. Wilson, who disappeared from Kansas City on July 4, was found in his own dooryard at Belle Plain, on July 29. He was delirious, emaciated, ragged and filthy. He recognized no one of his family or neighbors. BONDS TAKEN AT HOME - The $30,000 bonds voted by Junction City for a high school have been taken by home men and the school board has purchased a site. The building will be put up this year. SAVED GIRL'S LIFE.—While Miss Sadie Bixler, of Lerado, Reno county, was dressing for a party at her country home a match set fire to her light organdie dress and she was immediately enveloped in flames. She ran screaming from the room to the porch, where Grover Clark, a young farmer, was waiting to take her to a party. The young man caught her in his arms and ran with her to a water tank seventy-five yards distant and dropped her in extinguishing the flames before serious burns were inflicted. W. S. GRANDY RESIGNS. — W. S. Grandy has resigned the position of master mechanic of the Middle and the Oklahoma divisions of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Newton. Mr. Grandy is well known to railroad men along the Santa Fe. He came to Newton when the shops were moved there from Nickerson in '96, and has been master mechanic for several years. He will be succeeded by A. Dinan, who comes to the Santa Fe from the Northwestern. KANSAS FLOUR.—For the first time in the history of the milling industry of Kansas the entire output of flour in the state this year will be sold in eastern and foreign markets as Kansas flour. Heretofore it has been customary for the Kansas millers to market their flour under some of the more poppular Minnesota brands. Herecater Kansas millers will refuse to brand the Kansas flour as anything other than the product of Kansas mills. NEW CHURCH AT PRATT.—The building committee of the Baptist church at Pratt have secured prepared plans which show a very elaborate structure. The building will be 49x90 feet, divided into convenient apartments. There will be an auditorium, Sunday school room, six class rooms, three dressing rooms, a baptistry, three vestibules, an infant class room, two front entrances, one rear entrance and one side entrance; also large basement. SECTION LINE ROADS.—The legislature enacted a law declaring all the section lines in Phillips and several other counties in the northwestern part of the state to be public highways and providing that the roads should be 60 feet wide. Many of the roads are only forty feet wide, and the attorney general was asked about it. He holds that the law applies only to roads not yet established. WILL LAY HIM UP.—Ed Key, who has been in the railroad business for fifteen years and never received an injury, fell from a street car in Wichita while going to work and suffered a severe sprain of the tendon of his left wrist that will put him off duty for at least two months. He is employed by the Missouri Pacific. HAVB No CONVICTS.—Twenty-one counties in Kansas have no convicts in the Kansas penitentiary. They are: Cheyenne, Gore, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hasiell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Lane, Morris, Morton, Ness, Rawlins, Rush, Scott, Sheridan, Stafford, Stanton, Thomas, Trego and Wichita. REMEMBERS KANSAS.—In 1887 and 1891 Green county Pa., suffered from drowth followed by seasons of high waters, and Kansas sent there a relief fund of over $15,000. Now Green county has raised a like sum for the relief fund for Kansas flood sufferers. LARGER PRICE PER ACRE.—Mr. Hanson living four miles southwest of fola, sold a quarter section of land for $127 per acre. Two years ago he purchased the land for $40 an acre. FOR A CITY PARK.—Coffeyville is to vote upon issuing $5,000 in bonds for the purpose of buying land for a city park. SHORT TAX LISTS.—The delinquent tax lists of many counties are not long enough to pao for publishing them. MUST TEAR DOWN ALL FENCES.—A. H. Burtis, special agent of the interior department, has returned from Washington and says the department is really in earnest this time with its order to require western Kansas cattlemen to tear down all fences around government land. WOMEN LATH A CHURCH.—The Christian church at Marysville was ready for latening when harvest began. No men could be had to do the work and the women of the church put on the lath as high as they could reach. CONTRACTS LEV.—The contract for the new auditorium at the agricultural college has been let to Henry Bennett, of Topeka. This building will cost $40,000, will have a seating capacity of 3,000 and is to be completed by next June. John Winter has the contract for erecting a new creamery building at a cost of $15,000, to be completed by January 1. AFTER 22 YEARS.—Two brothers, one living in Herrington and the other on a farm near Hope, just lately came together. NEW MASTER MECHANIC.—A. Dinan is appointed master mechanic of the middle and Oklahoma divisions of the Santa Fe to succeed W. S. Grandy, who has resigned to take a place in the Rock Island mechanical department at Chicago. TOPEKA'S FIRST DIRECTORY.—D. G. Millison, who has been an honored citizen of Wichita for many years, was, in 1868 and 1860 a book and job printer in Topelia. It was he who published the first city directory of the capital city. HE WILL NOT BE TEMPTED. FREE TRADE 1904 AMERICAN INDUSTRIES PROTECTION PROSPERITY PROGRESS AMERICAN INDUSTRIES ARE LOSING INTEREST ARE LOSING INTEREST CUBA AND CANADA NOT EAGER FOR RECIPROCITY. All Markets Better for Cuba Than One Market Only, While Canada Will Not Sacrifice Her Domestic Industries by Tariff Reductions. In the following comment by the free trade Springfield Republican there is more of fact than is customary in that newspaper's discussion of tariff matters: "Cuba is reported to be losing interest in the adoption of reciprocity by the United States. It is finding itself able to get along very tolerably without reciprocity. One of the Minnesota congressmen says the people of that state are becoming more and more concerned about reciprocity with Canada, but Canada's interest in reciprocity, under repeated rebuffs from the United States, has been declining as interest on this side has been increasing." It is undoubtedly true that Cuba is caring less and less about reciprocity. She never really cared very much about it. The scheme of tying up Cuba with a bargain that in the long run was sure to be a bad one for her, while it was a viciously unfair and injurious bargain for the sugar and tobacco producers of the United States, originated with Havemeyer's Sugar trust. Cuba was not solicitous about the arrangement. Havemeyer was. The Sugar trust literary bureau was for a time successful in exploiting the idea that a moral obligation was involved on the part of the United States. Many sincere and conscientious people supported the reciprocity proposition on that ground solely. They recognized its injustice to a large and important body of domestic producers, but they felt bound to redeem a promise which they were persuaded to believe had been made at some time by somebody. They seem to have lost sight of the fact that nobody had the shadow of a right to make such a promise or the power to HE WILL NOT AMERICAN INDUSTRIES PROTECTION PROSPERITY PROGRESS carry it out—that is nobody but the United States congress. There is, we believe, no pretense that congress ever made such a promise. But the moral obligation plea so shrewdly worked up by the Sugar trust finally flattened out. For a long time past it has been patent to the dullest comprehension that there is no moral obligation in the case; merely a business deal in which a favored number of American manufacturing and commercial interests stand to get greatly the best of the arrangement, while the Cuban people outside of those identified with the affairs of the Sugar trust and the Tobacco and Cigar trust, are certain to be injured more by cutting themselves off from the world's markets than they would be benefited by giving to the United States a monopoly of Cuban trade. This is a view now very generally held in Cuba. It explains why Cuba is "losing interest in the adoption of reciprocity by the United States." Similarly true is the Republican's assertion that "Canada's interest in reciprocity under repeated rebuffs from the United States, has been declining as interest on this side has been increasing." Canada has found out that the United States, even if it would consent to any sort of reciprocity, certainly would not consent to a reciprocity limited strictly to natural products. Both Canada and the United States are sellers of natural products. Neither is a buyer. Canada would have much to gain by such reciprocity. The farmers, lumbermen and fishermen of the United States would be the losers. Finding that no such jug-handed swap can be made, Canada has naturally lost interest in reciprocity. Nobody in Canada, possibly excepting the farming, lumber and fishing interests, favors reciprocity in manufactures. Reciprocity in manufactures would virtually kill every Canadian manufacturing industry. Reciprocity of this kind, with a preference in favor of the United States, would not fail to bitterly offend Great Britain, to say nothing of Germany, France and the rest of the world. It is doubtful whether the British government would tolerate an arrangement so unfair and so injurious to the manufacturing interests of the United --- Kingdom. On Monday of this week this very question was under discussion in the house of lords. The cable report says: "The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said the government considered that the time had come when they should endeavor to find some means of ascertaining whether it was possible to obtain closer fiscal union with the colonies; to find some means of protecting them if they were subjected to ill-treatment in consequence of the preferential treatment they granted to the mother country, and to discover means of protecting British interests against inequitable competition." Closer fiscal union with the colonies and the vital need of discovering "means of protecting British interests against inequitable competition," such is and must be British policy. In such circumstances is it to be for a moment supposed that Canada, for the sake of enriching the manufacturers of the United States, will enter into a reciprocity arrangement that will stifle her own industries and at the same time subject British interests to a still more "inequitable competition" than that which is now complained of? Such a proceeding on Canada's part is out of the question. That is why Canada is losing interest in the reciprocity game. That is why the National Reciprocity league and its Minnesota branch, that is especially devoted to the Canadian part of the project, are wasting their time. All the facts and conditions are against any general scheme of reciprocity between Canada and the United States. There will be reciprocity when Canada becomes an integral part of the United States; not before. Democratic Opportunities. Republicans believe in good money, on a gold basis. In the scheme of being unlike, it behooves the Democrats to indorse silver at the Bryan ratio. Republicans believe in protection. Therefore let the Democracy howl for free trade. Republicans believe in prosperity and have labored with success to secure this. The Democratic program, therefore, is to howl in favor BE TEMPTED. FREE TRADE 1904 EUROPEAN MARITIME LEON BARRITT of the good old hard times with Coxey armies and soup houses. Republicans make no secret of believing in the institution miscalled "imperialism," and but partly described by the word "expansion." They want the country to grow and rejoice that it is growing. They regard the taking of the Philippines as having been a duty that to evade would have been cowardice. They assert that to keep the Philippines is the destiny of this people, and that this course is the only one consistent with honor, redounding to the credit of the United States and to the benefit of the islands. They hold that the record of the army has been clean and honorable, and that the American soldier fighting under a tropic sun does not by this act become a bandit, a thief or an assassin. All these points are cited simply for the purpose of throwing a preserver to Democracy as it flounders in a slough of uncertainty. It is different from Republicanism now, but if it wants to increase and emphasize the difference the way is easy enough.—Tacoma Ledger. Essentially Democratic. The "iowa idea" gained all its following from those who wanted to attack, the tariff as a means of hitting the trusts. The "iowa idea" represented an effort to lower the prices of commodities that were thought to be too high. It was born when beef cattle were $8 per hundred pounds. It voiced the sentiment of a non-producing class, purchasers, not sellers. It was a doctrine essentially Democratic, and it had to be put to death for the good of the country and the party. It was popular for a time, as free trade theories always are.—Des Moines Capital. True Americanism. Senator Hanna showed his true Americanism in the matter of his daughter's wedding gown. He decided that the material should be American made and all the work connected with the construction of the garment be done in this country. He placed no limit on the expense, but stoutly affirmed that no foreign texture or foreign labor should enter into a make-up of the trousseau. Good for Marcus.—South Bend Tribune. Another Boston Idea. The Aaron Burr legion has been formed, its object being "the rehabilitation of the memory of Aaron Burr." As you might know by the phraseology, its headquarters are in Boston.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Blames the Brother. Harry—What nonsense to say her description was photographic! It wasn't a bit like it. Dick—When I used the word photographic I had in mind some of the pictures her brother Fred takes with his camera.—Boston Transcript. Harvest for Watchmakers All the watch repairers in New York are working over time these hot days. They account for this peculiar business phenomenon by saying that when men discard their vests they do not properly secure their watches in the trousers' fob. The result is an epidemic of dropped time-pieces. Genluses and Others. During the year 1902 there were made at the English Patent Office 28, 976 applications for patents, of which only 13,764 were granted. Next to electric traction and motor car specifications the favorite subjects for invention were wireless telegraphy, golf balls and clubs and reversible outside seats for tram-cars. The Queen Victoria street fire led to a big boom in applications for patent fire escapes. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. The wise weather prophet never bets real money on his predictions. It doesn't require much effort to go down hill. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. An Irish philosopher says it is a wise man who marries his second wife first. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. The dignity of labor is not always represented by the laborer who digs. $100 REWARD $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that it is now possible to cure positive cure now known to the medical fraternity, Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a surgical cure taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient the opportunity to assist and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro- priores have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case of catarrh. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Free Theater Tickets People in Paris, who are interested in giving working girls a bit of pleasure now and then, have devised a scheme where worthy girls receive two tickets to a good theater once in a while. The scheme calls for an elaborate system of registration, but it is working to perfection. The Kaiser is thinking of introducing the idea into the royal theaters in Germany. Revolution In Street Car Traffic. Electricity is rapidly coming to control the country and a decided decrease is shown in the number of companies and trackage of other kinds of power. Of the single track mileage, 21,914 miles, or 97 per cent, are operated by electric power and 416 miles, or 1.9 per cent by other mechanical traction, while only 259 miles, or 1.1 per cent, are operated by animal power, as compared with 69.7 per cent in 1880. Describing a Dog. The Referee quotes this description by a little girl of a dachshund she had seen: "It was one of those funny ones—you know, the ones that are a dog and a half long and half a dog high." Said the other: "You must know the sort. It is a dog that only has four legs, but looks as if it ought to have six." Public Opinion gives another definition of the same animal: "The dog with the Louis XIV. legs."—New York Tribune. CHANGE Quit Coffee and Get Well. A woman's coffee experience is interesting. "For two weeks at a time I have taken no food but skim milk, for solid food would ferment and cause such a pressure of gas and such distress that I could hardly breathe at times, also excruciating pain and heart palpitation and all the time I was so nervous and restless. "From childhood up I had been a coffee and tea drinker and for the past 20 years I have been trying different physicians but could get only temporary relief. Then I read an article telling how some one had been cured by leaving off coffee and drinking Postum, and it seemed so pleasant just to read about good health I decided to try Postum in place of coffee. "I made the change from coffee to Postum and such a change there is in me that I don't feel like the same person. We all found Postum delicious and like it better than coffee. My health now is wonderfully good. "As soon as I made the shift from coffee to Postum I got better and now all of my troubles are gone. I am fleshy, my food assimilates, the pressure in the chest and palpation are all gone, my bowels are regular, have no more stomach trouble and my headaches are gone. Remember I did not use medicines at all—just left off coffee and drank Postum steadily." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Send to the Co. for particulars by mail of extension of time on the $7,500 cooks contest for 725 money prizes Widening Chicago River. Two million dollars will be spent in the widening of the Chicago river between Lake and Van Buren streets. The work will occupy two years, and a channel 200 feet wide and twenty two feet deep will be the result. Cable Lasts Long. A section of cable in the Caribbean sea was recently raised from 1,350 fathoms of water, where it had lain for thirty years. Tests showed its core to be in perfect electrical condition and the rubber insulator uninjured. A fear that sulphur from the rubber might injure the copper wire had no foundation. Endless Chain Religious Work. If there were only one Christian in the world and he worked a year and won a friend for Christ, and if these two continued each year to win another, and if every man thus led into the kingdom led another every year, in thirty-one years every person in the world would be won for Christ.—Church Eclectic. What Was It? Friarpoint, Miss. Aug. 3rd.—One of the strangest cases ever reported occurred here recently. The son of Mr. G. L. Butler was very ill. The doctor said he had some disease of the spinal cord, and treated him for two months, but he grew worse all the time, and finally the doctor told Mr. Butler that he did not know what was the trouble. The boy would wake up in the night and say that he was dying. He would be nervous and trembling and want to run out of the house, saying he saw ugly things which frightened him. His father was very much discouraged till one day he saw a new remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills advertised, and he at once bought some and began to give them to his boy. He used altogether eight boxes before he was entirely cured. He has not been troubled since. Mr. Butler says: "I feel it my duty to tell what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for my boy. All this remedy needs is a fair chance and it will speak for itself." A woman may have faith in prayer but she generally looks under the bed first. Wichita Business College and SHORTHAND INSTITUTE. Fazel, Adams, Hibarger & Price, Props. Wall Bldg. 114-116 N. Market St. WICHITA, KANSAS. Fazel, Adams, Hibarger & Price, Props Wall Bldg. 114-116 N. Market St. WICHITA, KANSAS. Has National reputation for thorough scholarship and Christian training. Low rate tuition and board. Special facilities in Elocution, Science, and athletics. Fall term begins Sept. 7. Tatalogue Free. J. M. NAYLOR, Principal. When a well bred girl expects to wed. 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Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION CLOUDBURST ALONG SMOKY Flooded Railroad Stations, Delayed Trains And Washed Out Track in Many Places. KAW VALLEY CORN LAID FLAT. Streets In Topeka Converted Into Rivers. Flooding Basements. Salina, Kan., Aug. 4.—A severe cloudburst occurred about fifteen miles southwest of Salina early Sunday morning and the country for many miles was flooded, the water sweeping over the farm lands and through the streets of towns with terrific force. A stretch of country north and west from Lindsborg and Marquette to Carneiro and Elsworth got the full force of the storm. At Terra Cotta, Carneiro, Brookville and Bavaria the water was higher than during the flood last May, but it began to recede rapidly on the highlands. The creeks between Salina and Ellsworth, with the exception of Mulberry and Dry creeks, were bank full and the Smoky Hill river, west from Lindsborg and Marquette, rose rapidly. At Marquette the river rose at the rate of a foot every hour. It is believed that the Smoky's tributaries will be able to care for a large portion of the water, as they were in a normal condition. At Carneiro the water was level with the depot platform; at Bavaria it was running over the depot platform, and Brookville reports Spring creek two feet higher than during the big flood last May. The water extended over the country for a distance of several miles in width, to within six miles of this city. Passengers on the delayed Union Pacific passenger train, though at no time endangered, had some experiences which they will probably remember for some time to come. The heaviest of the cloudburst struck the train broadside just west of Kanardo. The engineer slowed down, and finally stopped, seeing that danger lurked ahead. Near Paxico, Kas., the Rock Island tracks were overflowed, necessitating a detour of all trains via Manhattan. Passenger trains were reported 16 hours late. Topeka.—Between Topeka and Lawrence the rain amounted almost to a cloudburst. For over an hour the water came down in sheets. The streets of Topeka were converted into rivers, and scores of ceilars and basements were filled with water. The Kaw river rose rapidly. At least five miles of Union Pacific track was under water from three inches to a foot deep. Lawrence.—The sudden rise of the Kaw caused alarm. The waters flowed over the dam and great chunks of land on the north side of the new channel fell into the water. Perry, Kas. —The storm here was accompanied by a terrific wind that laid much corn in the Kaw Valley flat. About five inches of water fell. The streets of Perry were flooded and sidewalks were washed out of place. In many places on the public roads running water was hub deep. At Newman, four miles west, a mile and a half of the Union Pacific track is under water and the roadbed was was washed out in places. Annual Report of Santa Fe Chicago, Aug. 5. —The annual report of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway company for the twelve months ending June 30, shows: Gross earnings, $92,350,397, increase $3,215,312; operating expenses, $28,437,-112, increase $4,527,842; net earnings, $23,013,287, decrease $1,312,530; taxes and rentals $2,119,324, increase $7,344; income from operation $21,706,962, decrease $1,319,875. California Earthquake. San Francisco, Aug. 6.—Reports received from different portions of California say that but little damage was done by the seismic disturbance, although it was quite severe. The tremble was centered at San Jose, where numerous windows and much crockery was broken. The shocks were felt in the Yosemite valley. Strike On Russian Railway. Keiff, Russia, Aug. 6.—The employees in the workshops of the Southwestern railways and others have struck. A few battalions of infantry have occupied the railway station and the neighboring workshops. Quiet has thus been maintained. Campers' Fire. Salt Lake, Aug. 6.—Brush fires, supposed to have been started by campers, threaten to destroy the mining town of Bingham, 25 miles southwest of Salt Lake. Frands Not Extensive. Washington, Aug. 3.—Iquiries made by Mr. Shallenberger indicate that, while there have been some discoveries in Indian Territory relative to frauds in connection with the star route contract, they are not so extensive as has been indicated by dispatches from Muskgoe. Treasure From Nome. Seattle, Wash, Aug. 4.—The Steamship Roonkoh has arrived here from Nome with 123 passengers and $350,000 in treasure. Sick Headache Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed Indirect Cost of Warfare The immense indirect cost of warfare is illustrated by the fact that the Spanish-American war cost $1,000,000 a day for over a year, although hostilities occupied but three months. "Are You Ready? Go!" 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When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound removes such troubles. Case of this Prominent Chicago Woman Should Give Everyone Confidence in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—It affords me great pleasure, indeed, to add my testimonial to the great number who are today praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Three years ago I broke down from excessive physical and mental strain. I was unable to secure proper rest, also lost my appetite, and I became so nervous and irritable too that my friends trembled, and I was unable to attend to my work. Our physician prescribed for me, but as I did not seem to improve, I was advised to go away. I could neither spare the time nor money, and was very much worried when, fortunately, one of my club friends called. She told me how she had been cured of ovarian troubles, and how like my symptoms were to hers, seven bottles of your medicine cured her, and she insisted that I take some. "A number of my friends who have been troubled with ailments peculiar to our sex have taken your compound, and have also been President of the St. Ruth's Court, Order of For- men of America, after reading such letters. Don't some of you who are sick and miserable to remain so, making life a burden for when a cure is easily and inexpensively but it would pay to drop some of your old A. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, doctors for cures?" Surely the experience of women, whom the Compound has cured, is medicine, and remember that these cures whose letters are constantly printed in this out by "something else," but by Lydia E. Compound, the great Woman's Remedy for use to accept anything else are rewarded a or they get what they want—a cure. Moral that you know is the Best. Write to Mrs. Not forthwith produce the original letter and signature of you will prove its absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Plukham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. HER FREE TO WOMEN! What is left for the women of America, after reading such letters as we publish, but to believe. Don't some of you who are sick and miserable feel how wicked you are to remain so making life a burden for yourself and your friends, when a cure is easily and inexpensively obtained? Don't you think it would pay to drop some of your old prejudices and "Try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is better than all the doctors for cures?" Surely the experience of hundreds of thousands of women, whom the Compound has cured, should convince all women. Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these cures of thousands of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were not brought about by "something else," but by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want—a cure. Moral—stick to the medicine that you know is the Best. Write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. $5000 FORFEIT If we cannot forthwith produce the original letter and signature of above testimonial, which will prove its absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. suffer with sick headache frequently resort to the use of headache powders, irritating cathartics, which it is true do relieve headache by dulling the sensations of the sympathetic nerves, but such medicines never remove the cause, and to be candid, are really dangerous, death having been known to occur directly from their use. suiter with sick headache frequently resort to the use of headache powders, irritating cathartics, which it is true do relieve headache by dulling the sensations of the sympathetic nerves, but such medicines never remove the cause, and to be candid, are really dangerous, death having been known to occur directly from their use. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin (A Laxative) taken as directed when there is no headache will prevent it and put the organs of digestion in such a perfect condition as to forestall the suffering which attends this common and distressing affection. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a "corrective laxative" and not a "cathartic laxative." Throw away headache powders, pills and irritating purgatives. Buy a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin today. It is pleasant to take and sure in effect. All Druggists 50c and $1 bottles. If it should happen your druggist does not sell it we will send an interesting book and sample FREE. PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY, Monticello, III, U.S.A. cessive p secure pr nervous I was un scribed for advised t money, a one of m been cur toms we 270 Loomis St., Chicago, Ill. I resters, Catholic. What is left for the women of as we publish, but to believe. Don't able feel how wicked you are to r yourself and your friends, when a obtained? Don't you think it woe prejudices and "Try Lydia E. P. which is better than all the doctors of hundreds of thousands of women should convince all women. Follow the record of this medici of thousands of women whose let paper were not brought about by Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Woman's Ills. Those women who refuse to a hundred thousand times, for they go —stick to the medicine that you Pinkham for advice. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthw above testimonial, which will provi Lydia Wet Weather is no hindrance to the rider who wears SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR BRAND POMMEL SLICKERS Man or saddle can not get wet. EXCELSIOR BRAND OILED CLOTHING For all kinds of work. Wear appropriate coat. Look for trade-mark. If not at dealers, write H. H. Sawyer & Son, Sole Mfr. East Cambridge, Hast. suffer with sick headache frequent powders, irritating cathartics, which dulling the sensations of the sym never remove the cause, and to having been known to occur directly Dr. Caldwell's (A L) taken as directed when there is no organs of digestion in such a perfec which attends this common and dist Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is "cathartic laxative." Throw away purgatives. Buy a bottle of Dr. C pleasant to take and sure in effect. All Druggists 50c and $1 bottles does not sell it we will send an PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY The reason a colored poker player carries a razor is because he might have to cut for the deal. TRY ONE PACKAGE. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. on Chill C money_refunded_by_your_ "I did so, and am glad that I followed her advice. Within six weeks I was a different woman, strong and robust in health, and have been so ever since. PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC we provide the healing and cleansing power of Toilet Antiseptic we will mail a large trial package with instructions absolutely free. Use a thin sample, but a large package, enough to con- vince and wash. 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NEB. 4 bagi Zee Sl S 8 7 SSS eee : DOA VE OP lc ae aR : Ey ee ea. no Et a Sr 4 os 07 EEF e S 70S ea) fe a SSS ae a ae . é r eS ee eq Se SS = mS 2 = : 2 6 om Sa aa ——————————————— eee SseTSeeee—a“aOoaTSsSsSsSseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeE——eeeee 51H YEAR, WICHITA. KANSAS. AUG 8 1903. NO it SSS SSS eee VOU CAN SAVE MONEY RY TRANING WITH TUE MERCUANTS WYO ADVERTICE IN TUIC Daprp PPROVES US yieriber OF The Searchlight ives Views On The Ques- tion Of Negro News~ papers in Wichita, \TBD AND FAR-FETCHED eS Wichita, Kang, Aup. 6, '03. W.N. Miller, itor Wiohita Searchlight, Dau Sir—An article appeared ssrpaper a fow weeks ago con- ing the practice of some col- en to start these little “‘peri- sheets called Negro news- :, Lwent te say to you that I sbeattily approve of every wo d yousaid and I think thas sot the fair thinking eolceed ject Wivhita approves of the » Ibave been an actual resi- of Wichita for more than 14 aad I,know whet I say when {lyou that you are the only man bas successfully conducted a » paper in Wichita and 2 feel you are deserving the support ery Negro in Kansas. Wiobita slong {time baw sen known snghout the entire west as a igo “newspaper graveyard,” fei such because there has been Negro papers 9orn—and died furving, in tis city than any oth- ote city in the west. I think it igh time now that a stop was to those fellows who come strag- ginto Wichita to “run a news~ yee” As a cule they are all ke” when they land in thecity, only come to this eity hoping tthe people’s money on some beat “going torun @ papce.” jdickthat the colored people will wll to properly support the one yer—the Searchlight, which hes arunning all the while, and not vith these men who say they “going to doso much.” I have ly observed that in most cases ‘nen who are so anxious to start tefspaper are men who have than once tried to tuna paper reand euch time they have col- ‘sl in all the money possible and skipped out. I say, Mr. Millers 's time that a halt was made. Hse men, as you said im your ar- ‘edo noi hetp the raee” they are tiers to the race’s progress, Tam fly ashaned to see some of our who would have so little re- Pst for their fellow man as to sor the cause of a man or set cf tin the newspaper fleld when “‘Tknow that these same men oF Pilsame man has flveced the peo- ‘fore on this old, tine work “runting a Negro uewspaper,” I “ck,as you said, if these men to do something for the ruce, ‘thn take the money they have, “ey have any, and go into soe “of mercantile business, One 4 Qewspaper is all Wichita ean ae we have that paper in . aa Searchlight. I say; bth these bum fellows who phys lurking arvund to grab «tls money under some false - Away with them! Let We, v8? forth that the people of . 1 tne at being boodooed Ee this old paper gag. Mie ae has once fooled the tego 2's Bag what reason Mi nos People to believe that he "fol them again, All they want is achance. I think the peo- ple ought to hold an indignation meetivg the next time some bum of a man proposes to ‘‘start” anvth- er paper here. Itis time for in- dignatioa the people haye stood this thing long enough. Yours f yr Success, A Svs-catpen, 1™ All we have to say to a writer so true in speaking is, amen! amen! We are certainly proud to see that the people are awakening to the need of a remedy for this shameful dee p.ive evil. Editor. LYNCHINGS VS. LAW. Lawlessness begets lawlessness, crime qegets crime—these are un- disputed facts. The North tolevat. ed slavery in the South fer 250 years. So long as it was confined to the South Northern statesmen were content te make big speeches, denouncing the evil while the insti- tution remained undistuebed. Fin. ally slavery got tired of working io a limited sphere and threatened to invade the North. It took a four yeare war to check and destroy it. Thus it is with lynehing. Tbe country has remained apathetic in regards to this barbarous practice The North was coatent to shudder and condemn the South, but made no effort to stop the lawless proeeed- ings. Now it awakes to flnd lynch- ing flourishing atits very doors ‘The only difference in a Northern lynching and a Southern lynching is the Northern officer attempt» to protecd his prisoner, while the Southern officer hands his prisoner over to the mob without the least resistance. Where will this whole- sale riminality end? History re- cords no crime s0 black, no hearts so eallous to humon suffering asthe Ameriosn lyncbers. No Negro is safe outside of heaven. Far bett x that the whole race was exterminat- ed than grow up a race of cowards and transmit our servile traits to our species, Upon the slightest provocation a white man takes the life of a Negro and is exhonerated by the courts, A Negro strikes a white man and is strung up to ¢ telephone pole. Every Negro man who passes a telephone poie or rail road trestle thcse days feels a sf ran. ging in the neck. Every Negec thatis lynched is dubed a ‘‘bad character” by the white press and many Negroes will fall right in and adm_nish the peopls to derounce and beware that class of “bad Ne groes.” The fact is, any Negro whe will protcot himself when attack-d by a white man is called a bad Ne- gro. We have done everything in order to get along with the white man. We have surrendered man- hood, social and political rights, we haae stood by and feen our daugh ters destroyed by the base passion of white wen and said nothing— yeb we are ordered from ous homes, mobbed, burned at the stake aud given the hot end of the ira in ev. | Bee W. M. Dunson, Painter All Kinds of Fine PAINTING TheOaly Colored Painter in the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 936 _ The Negro race must soon learn that, by far, more can be done and better results shown in unity and in harmony than in division and in discord. If there ever was a time when the Negro race should be u- nited. now is that time. 7 re YT ee 7 per Pound : At the Packing House Meat ; a Market. ; Remember the place--Market at the Gate of the Dold Pack- ing House. TILLMAN ON RACE TROUBLE Chicago, July 30.—While on his way from Sonth Carolina to Madi. son, Wis., where he will begin a de- bate on the race question with Sen- ator Burton of Kansas, this after noon Senator Tillman stopped in Coscago for a few hours. The sen- ator will continue the argument in cities of the middle west, Kansas being the field of the greater part of the debate. “Did I read of tbe trouble at Dan. ville,” repeated the Senator. “Well, yes.” And did you read of the Ev- ansville (Ind.) affair, of the Peorta Ill, difficulty and of the Belleville, Il, unpleasantness? A problem ot the South is it? Ib seems to me the problem of the United States. How long will it last? This problem will last as long as the fiftecath amend- ment, Just bing the problem right to your own state, and it wall be solved as it is in the south, The eventa of the jJast few weeks have proved that, I think. The people are all akin, INNOCENT NEGRO LYNCHED. Some days ago a Negro was shot to pieces in Dodge couaty for crim- nally assaulting Miss Susie John- gon, ateaeher. It now transpires that the Negro who was so crudly lynohed had never seen Miss John oon, and was, therefore, innocent of the crime. The members of the mob thonght they were lynching Ed Claus, who really committeu the as. saulton Miss Johnson, and it is said that the youug woman identi- fied the lynched Negro aa her ar- swilent. The Negro told the mob that he was innocent acd begged for time to get witnesses to prove hts alibi but the mob was meroi- less and shot him to death. The crime was commited near Darien Junction, and the lynching oceursed after the supposed crimin. al had been chased acroze coven counties. After the lynehing an investiga: tion was begua by officers with the result that they have located Ed C-aus the real as-ailant, and @ pos- se passes throug here this afternoon to arrest. Governor Terrell has taken ovg- uiaarioe Uf the fact that the wrong Negzo was lyached by offering a re- ward of $80U fur the appreheusion of Hd Clans. DEDICATION OF A MONU- MENT, Muskegon, Mich., Aug. 4.—The 25th anniversary of the dedication of the monument to the memory of Johnathan Walker, the “John Browa of the Ocean,” will take place this month and , preparations are being made to observe the evert. Walker wasa native of Harwick, Mass,, anda ev-worker with Jubn Brown, Phillips, Parker and others in devisicg ways to assist the slaves. He was conyicted of slave stealing and was sentenced to pay @ fine of $4200, serve seven years in prison, stand ina pillory for one hour and have the letters “8.8.” burned in the palm of his hand to ind cate that hehad been a elave stealer. The sentence was carried in its en- tirery. The monument was the gift of Photus Fink, an anti-slavery friend and a chaplain in the United Sates semy. On its face is a representa. tipn of Walker's branded hand SOLD INTO SLAVERY Aud Separated When Children two Are United After 44 Years. ‘Two sisters, separated during the elavery days of 1859, when one was 11 years old and the other 12, met at the home oj the younger one last Wednesday in Oxford, Ohio. Mrs. Lucy Husris, a colored woman who has resided here f.r many yeare, wes formerly Miss Lucy Croueh, daugeter of John and Mary Crouch, who were slaves in Justice county, Kentucky. In 1859 the two little girls were tora from their parents and sold, Luey g: ing toa new home in northera Kentucky, and Mary being sent to'Pennessee. From that day until last Wednesday’ the sisters had never seea or hvard from each other. - 24 Questions The Searchlight Makes a Few INQUIRIES Of Harrison. Sli hacer ttiense The public will watch and listen to hear from a Wolf in Sheep Clothing. Listen!!! The-v ry ideaof the makeshift of a man like this fellow E. Harrison attempting to prove something dis- paringly alfout a decent man. Any man who is alleged to have treated his wife as the people of Kansas City, Kansas, alleged that this man Haarison did his, isa pretty monk to talk about any fman’s character. For nearly a whole year this man Harriron has been making “cracks” about the editor ot this paper, we have let them go unchallonged, un- til during the past week this hypo- critioad saint tried his utmost to show some dark spot about us, we, light then and there made up our mind to go after him. He was ua- able to show one scintilla agai st us, but if he “does” know so much about us we are now g ing to make him “puke it up.” Oar bome has been in the state of Kansae sinee 1883, and this hypocritical saint wild have no troutle in tracing our fall history. We invite him or any one else to look up our record. Has this man Harrison got a character? Let him answer if he dares. We have gone the limit. He made the brag that “aay man who would publish anything about his charac— ver he would kili him, if he bad to ge ten vhousand miles.” We want tosay right here hehas a victim, And what is more abou: it we will not dodge from him or bis bullets, either. We have tried to avoid this busiuets as it does aot suit our fancy. But when a man goes all about our city seuttering li s about you in his effort to poison the minds of the people against you, what 18 your recourse? Has this man Hur— tison got an angelic record ia Wich- ita? Lethim ray. He bus ben herpiog 60 much on the score of ebaracter, ‘Tell the people all abuut your “character.” His taik will appear like “midnight callicg mid- day—dark.” We wish to ssk this Lypocritical saint a few questions which we trust he will answer with the same degree cf diligence whith he has tricd to “ferres out” some one else’s “character,” answer these wil you? 1.—How muny times have you beea married? 2—Why did your wife who now lives in Kansas City, Kansas, get a Livoree from you? 3—Why does she have to feed and othe your children—even now? 4—How much money have yoa given toward the support of your childrem in the past year, saying nothing about before that time? 5—Did you ever live in the state of Massachusetts? 6—Kindiy tell the good people all about your residence there, F—Are you a minister of tho gospel? 8—Why did you leav-,the colored M. E obureh? 9—How many times have you tried to joia the Baptist dcnomina— tion? 10—How many times was youe application fur afliliation refusea? 11—Why was it you gave up your charge as minicter in Kaneaa City, Kansas? 12—If you are a minister why aro you not in charge of achurch now? 18—Are you a member of St. Paul A. M, E. church in Wichita? 14—Why not? 15—Have you ever borrowed $20 from a certain widoy woman in W.chita and refused to pay her? 16--Have you paid her yet? 17—Are you a medical ductor? 18—Of wnat school did you grad- uate? 19—Why do you not show your ciploma? 20—Telljthe good people some~ thing about yourself the first thres or four years after coming to Amer- ica from the Jamaioa Islands. 21—Have you ever been natural~ izoa? . 22—At what place? 23—Are you exoreis ng the rights of an American, when in fact you are a foreigaer? Tell this tuo. 24—Lastly; kindly give every one a vopy of your record in Kaneas. Here are two dozen que-ticna which we submit to the hypvoritical saint and await his answer. Surely @ man who goes to the extent whieh this one bas will not obj:ct to tell and answer all these questions. We prefer to give this hypocriticsl saint @ chance to tell about himse f rath- er than for us to tell it for him He has started war in a hornet’s nest and the right man will come out on top. Les him do his worst. We have kept tilent hoping that finally hewould tire, but be tuk our si lenco to mean that he had useowed down, Wegwill sce. Get a Searchlight, if you want the news, W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehlta, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN Sr. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15c Advertising Rates Made Known On Applica- tion. 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So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any per son which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. A Most Cordial Feeling he editor of the Searchlight has only the kindliest and most cordial feeling toward every man, white or black, in the city of Wichita. At no time has he ever attempted to assume, any other mode. The human family, however, is strangely so constituted that few men are able to see in the same vein. Thus misunderstanding, in all such cases the editor of this paper has always stood ready and is now ready to meet any and all and adjust any matter within reason. "Self-preservation being the first law of nature," who can blame any man for thus preserving himself or his interests? There is no man who is more ready to do justice by every man than is the editor of this paper. Different men are differently tempered, thus another barrier, but all can be eradicated by calm, sober judgment. We are desirous, as we have oft times said, of seeing peace in the ascendency, and will do all in our power to promote peace. All that we demand is simply a man's chance and to that extent we will unceasingly contend. 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." The tax payers of Sedgwick county never had a more economical and business like board of county commissioners than are the present board. By applying the same business economy and business rules in transacting of the affairs of the county, which they would apply in transacting their own business affairs, the present board of commissioners headed by Mr. J. C. Rädfield as chairman, is saving the tax payers thousands of dollars. For up to the minute job work call at the Searchlight office, 110 N. Main st. Satisfaction guaranteed HIS WORK CLOSING. The conference year of Rev. P. D. Youm, as pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church is fast coming to a closing. The year which will soon close has been a very prosperous one and Rev. Yocum has made a grand success. He has by his daily life and walk proven himself to be a christian gentleman in every way. He has made many lasting friends in this city and all will hope for his return to this charge. He has stood aloof of the little bickerings and has advocated and stood as sponsor for the higher and more noble manhood and womanhood. His year of work has been crowned with much success for the St. Paul A. M. E. church. The additions to the church and financial management has been most successful. The race is in need of more such fearless and honorab e race leaders as Rev. Yocum has proven himself to be. El Prado Cafe Royal Meals 15 cents Ice Cream Saturdays and Sundays 339 North Main NEGRO MADE WEALTHY Found a Gold Mine in Hondurus. A dispatch to the Daily States from Los Quesbradas, Hondurus, says, John Knight a native Negro of this city, has struck a very rich gold mine there which classes him as one of the richest citizens of that country. The mine is a placer and he is washing out as much as $30 per yard. The location is about 26 leagues northwest of San Pedro, in the department of Santa Barbara. Assesmsnt Call No. 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. During the past week there was so much said about "character" that the editor of the Searchlight proposes to go a little further into this subject and straighten out some of the "characteristic kinks." Two men John Lewis and E. Harrison went almost into a frenzy in their effort to establish something wrong about our character. And since they have utterly failed we feel that now we ought to say something about these fellows "character." We believe we will be able to show before the matter is over that, even they, have reasons to tread "easy" on this score. It was quite amusing to us and these men just as well take what we say in the same light. The only difference being we shall back our statements with evidence and facts. Let the ball go on. 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. Yochnm, 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. 884 N. Water. 11 am Preaching, 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev. A. H. Mayo, Pastor. Let the colored men of Wichita stop so much bickering-concentrate their efforts for good and the race. Locals and Personals Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller moved into their brand new cottage at the corner of 15th and Rochester last Saturday. They are very well pleased with their new home and cordially invite their friends to call and make themselves at home. Mr. W. H. Brown of Newton, was a very pleasant visitor to Wichita on Tuesday. Aug. 4th Mr. Brown is chef on Supt. Fox's private car on the Santa Fe. While in the city he made our office a pleasant call and subscribed for the Searchlight. Come again. Mrs. Mamie Jackson is now in the city and will assist Rev. Yocum in his rally next Sunday, filling the pulpit at the A. M. E, church at 11 a.m., at 3.30 p.m., and at 8 p.m. Mrs. Jackson is an evangelist of wide reputation and all should avail themselves of the opportunity to hear her. Go to the big rally at the A. M. E, church Sunday. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE THEM. Rev. M. L. Copeland, former pastor of the 2nd Baptist church in this city, filled the pulpit at St. Paul A. M. E. church Sunday night Rev. Copeland preached a learned and eloquent sermon. After the general collection, Rev. Yocum raised a very nice collection for Rev Copeland. Mrs. J. H. Vanlue and her mother, Mrs. Ike Patton, left Saturday for Memphis, Tenn., to visit relatives and friends. The two ladies will spend the month of August in that city when they will return to Wichita. The Twilight Social Club entertained last Monday night, Aug 3rd at Hartman hall in honor of Miss Adela Miller, of Lawrence; Mrs. A. M. Holmes, of Pueblo; Mrs. B. J. Bailey, of Ponca City and Mrs. H. Jackson. The occasion was one of the grandest of the season. A short program was rendered. Miss Sallie Rawlee, Miss Lula Parks, Master Claud Cox, Mrs. R. Braden, Mrs. L. Collins and Mrs. F. E. Moten very ably assisted in the program. At a reasonably late hour a dainty lunch was served and all went home singing praises of the Twilight Club. Mrs. Mary Parks arrived in the city Saturday from Ft. Scott, where she spent several weeks visiting her daughter Mrs. Brown and friends. She reports a very nice time. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. We take pleasure in mentioning the fact that Mr. Wm. M. Dunson did the painting on the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller, 15th and Rochester. We have no hesitancy in saying that we think his work good and we think you would say the same should you chance to see the work. Mr. Dunson is a young man and all he needs is just a little encouragement. Let every one who may have any work just Mr. Dunson an opportunity to do it. Mr. Louis Banks of Kingman spent Monday in Wichita on important business, returning to Kingman Monday eve. Mrs. B. J. Bailey left Wednesday for her home in Ponca City. She had a nice time while in Wichita. The hot weather in this section is something with which t The Junior choir of the A. M. E. church will give an entertainment at Hartman's hall Thursday night, Aug. 13th. The exercises will be under the direction of Mrs. Ida B. Clark. Admission 10c. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable Miss Lillie May Douglas of Sherman, Texas, arrived in the city Wednesday to spend about four weeks visiting her aunt Mrs. Wm. H. Jones of 522 N. Water. Miss Douglas is one of Sherman's best young ladies and ranks high in the society of that metropolis of the Lone Star state. Although yet a young lady Miss Douglas has accumulated a fine, well equipped home of her own which net her quite a neat sum of money each month in rent. On the part of Wichitans we welcome Miss Douglas to our city. Miss Luella Baker of Roswell, N.M., spent Wednesday in the city as the guest of Miss Madge Yocum. She left for Kansas City. The opening of the new Frisco depot at Douglas and Mosley was grand in every way. The Frisco has one of the finest passenger depots in the west. For up-to-date guaranteed job ork, call at the old reliable Searchlight office 110 N. Main St. Th printers who can print. NICE PIC-NIC. The colored people of Wichita gave a very enjoyable picnic at South Riverside Park, Tuesday, Aug. 4th. Quite a nice sized crowd was present. The colored band of Newton furnished the music. A very creditable parade took place in the forenoon headed by the band. Barbecued meat was one of the features of the picnic. At the park in the afternoon speaking was one of the attractions! In the evening Garfield Hall, was used where James Parker, the nation's hero, made quite an entertaining address. The day was very pleasantly spent. The picnic was nice and much credit is due the gentlemen who managed it. The Searchlight is always proud to see our people make such very creditable showings. Chick Hawkins met with the accident of having his right arm cut off above the wrist by a Santa Fe train Wednesday night. No one saw the accident, therefore no details of how it happened can be learned. He was taken to the Wichita Hospital where his arm was an putated. The big Rally will take place at the A. M. E. church Sunday. All the ministers in the city and their congregations will be in attendance Mrs. Mamie Jackson will also assist Rey. Yocum at 11 a.m., at 3:30 p.m. and at 8 p.m. This is Rev. Yocum's last rally in the present conference year and he most cordially asks all to be present and assist in making this a grand event. Mrs. Adela Miller left Wednesday morning for her home in Lawrence. She spent several pleasant days in the city the guest of Miss Madge Yochum. Rev. B. Morris is one of Wichita' very prominent colored citizens and is a moving figure ifi the interest of the race. Alonzo Miller made an ideal Marshall on Aug. 4th. Mr. Miller is alright in whatever place he may be assigned. Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS --- --- COPYRIGHT USE IMBODE IMF IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR BREAKFAST FOOD and you will AT YOUR GROCER OUR SPRING STOCK Our clothes are going you want to be in the better call on the Peer and be up to date in workmanship and fit. Ourprices defy comp workmanship is equal to priced tailoring in the Call and convince you The Peerless Tail 508 E. Douglas Everybody Then we The Co-Operative By OUR co operative plan that will lighten the burden of m each member a respectable burri one, and without imposing on f Membership Derth Assessments. . . Adults OFFICE J. J. Blen 235 North CHILDREN C Dou't let them cry, give ICE CREAM. Its pure dont cost any more than Special Prices to Picc Everybody Must I Then why not Join Co-Operative Burial Association OUR co operative plan we are enabled to render assistance the burden of many a family and that will afford a respectable burial without working a hardship or without imposing on friends for assistance. Membership Fee Only 16cts. Assessments...Adults 11c, Children 6c J. J. Bleitz, Undertal 235 North Main St Everybody Must Die 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 16cts. CHILDREN CRY FOR IT let them cry, give them all they want of REAM. Its pure and wholesome—just not any more than the ordinary kind. Prices to Picnics and Socials. CHILDREN CRY FOR IT Dou't let them cry, give them all they want of BON-TON ICE CREAM. Its pure and wholesome—just right—and dont cost any more than the ordinary kind. Special Prices to Picnics and Socials. MESSERVE'S BON TON BAKERY & KANDY KITCHEN Phone 152 W. G. (S.ccesso Pumps, Pipe, 152 146 N. V. G. McKee (S. successor to A. N. West) os, Pipe, Hose, Wind --- W. G. McKee, (S. accessor to A. N. West) Pumps, Pipe, Hose, Windmills When you need a new Pump, or your old one need re- pairing, don't forget to give me a call. 118 South Main St. Phone 643 OTTO WEISS, Agent. The Sweet Girl With The Sweet Tooth will find good filling in this store, for no better sweetmeats can be found in any country, or many countries, than those we make and sell. We're proud of them. Why shouldn't we be? Good candies, and good candies easy, are purchased at Bissant. WICHITA - KANSAS. Our Celebrated ICE CREAM al ways EN'S PERIAL FLOUR AND IMBODEN MILLING CO. OUR SPRING STOCK. Our clothes are going fast, and if you want to be in the lead you had better call on the Peerless Tailor and be up to date in style and workmanship and fit. On prices defy competition, our workmanship is equal to any high priced tailoring in the country. Call and convince yousef! The Peerless Tailor. 508 E. Douglas Ave. y Must Die any not Join the Burial Association? we are enabled to render assistance any a family and that will afford to al without working a hardship on any friends for assistance. Fee Only 16cts. 11c, Children 6c itz, Undertaker Main St W. M. DUNSON, AGENT. RY FOR IT them all they want of BON-TON and wholesome—just right—and the ordinary kind. nics and Socials. 146 N. Main McKee, r to A. N. West ) Hose, Windmills MISSION VI. AUG. 9—DAVID AND GOLIATH. John Text—"If God Be for Us, Who can Be Against Us?"—Rom. 8:31—misha a Type of Worldly Power—David's Victory. Goliath, a Type of Worldly Power. Bom. 12. 1-31. After David's invitation to Saul's court an event occured which stirred the nation to its and profoundly influenced the force of both Saul and David. This was powerful attack from those parricidary of the Israelites the Philistines, who recovered from their defeat at Micha- with two armies faced each other, of Gath, stepped forth from the nine troops and challenged any lance to decide the war by single command. The challenge was renewed, morning screening for forty days, not even the Jonathan during to accept it; for it was a formidable giant. 9 feet tall high, 12 feet wide, more than 19 feet high if the longer cubit. The length of unit varied at different times. The suspected champion redeemed the new cause. David, sent from tending father's sheep to bear food to his older brothers a few hours' walk to hear Gath's boast-challenged and learned of the terror it inspired. He also heard that Saul offered to any one who would contend with Gath's marriages and political freezing of his father's house. At once he had himself for the trial. nish, a Type of Worldliness. 1. In knish. The church, struggling against world, often finds vast forces arraigned against -i-millions of money, of men, mighty reputations, but, would, like Goliath, can be humbled led at a touch. No sincere reformer attacked it in vain. ```markdown ``` in "David, a Type of the Christian fighting against Evil." I. Sam. 17: 32-27. lessons from David. If Gollath is a tit of the evil world, how is David a type of the man of God fighting evil? In his apparent insignificance. Even after all these centuries, the church weak, in money and other reasons, compared with the immense with and power of opposing evils such actions, war and political corruption. In his real power. "One, with God, majority." Sault. Armor: Every Man to his Warrior. Vs. 38-40. "Saul armed with his armour. An helmet of a coat of mail." "And David girded his sword upon armour." Fastening it to the military worn underneath the corsette. "And assured to go." He tried to walk, but argued. Therefore he frankly told me, "I cannot go with these." "It and he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook." Smooth, that they might go more swiftly and accurately, five, to use in succession, if the first failed. And put them in a shepherd's bag in the script. Smooth was a small leather bag specializing the wallet in which a traveler would food and other necessaries. "And his slang was in his hand." The Lesson for Us. Every Christian has its own best way of doing work for God. Bury one can do something, and no one can do anything. He discovered his talent and put it to use. IV. "Golgatha's Disdain: How the World Sense the Man of God."—Vs. 41-44. 41. The Philistine came on. And the man held the shield went before him." His armour-bearer, whose duty it was to carry the great shield, colored him against him for him to be detached again, and slay those whom his chief struck down. 43. "Am I a dog." Eastern town dogs are degenerate and depressed. "That thou comest to me with staves?" Goliath did not notice the sling. The staff was ordinarily employed not against men but beasts. "Erdmann. His David's Confidence: How God's Man Shall Meet the World." -Vs. 45.6. David was not a man to be daunted by big words. He made light of the giant's ponderous weapons. "Thou comest to me, with a shield. But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts," the hosts of heaven, or the armies of Israel, or both. "The God of the armies of Israel." "This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand." It was God who was to conquer, and not David. Therein David's confident claims differ from Goliath's empty boasts. "Unto the fowls of the air." David repeats Goliath's threat (v. 4). "That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." God's Confidence. 1. It knows God's power. 2. It trusts God's promises. 3. It recognizes the victories of the past. 4. It seeks God's glory and not its own. 5. It boldly faces overwhelming odds. VI. "David's Victory: Trust in God Justified." Vs. 48-50, and to the end of the chapter. 48. "The Philistine . . . drew his contempt and anger very easily. God did not stop to receive from the armour-bearer his helmet on his shield." David hastened on toward the army" (the Philistine troops drawn up) to meet the Philistine." 6. "Took thence a stone and slang rt." whirling his sling around his head. And smote the Philistine in his forehead. And smote the armour, if indeed, he the whole of his armour, all his person but his eyes and the arm of his head just above—almost the only part where a small stone hurled from a sling could inflict a fatal injury. "That the sunk into his forehead." Goliath's sunk into could be an easy mark for Dwarf. "And he fell upon his face to the earth." Dismayed at the fall of his champion, Philistines fled, while the Israelites pursued them hotly for nearly twenty-five miles, slaying many, till they found refuge in their fortified cities, Ekron and Gath. David's Combat—A Type of Christian Experience. As David was amazed at the splendence of the Hebrew warriors and vigilant at the insults offered by God, so every Christian should be eager to average upon Satan the insults he offers constantly to Christ. Like David, we must reject the weapons of the world—selfish prudence, cynical maxims, regard for money and the like. But, like David, we must use our sheep weapon—the one that God has given us. Each soul has his best way of fighting God's enemies and doing God's work. Discover that way, practice it, use it. Fremasons of the World. There are at least 1,750,000 Free-masons in the world, of whom 150,000 belong to 3,430 British lodges. Keats Manuscripts. In London twenty-nine autograph letters and manuscripts of John Keats were sold for 1.070 pounds. How to Attain Age. How to Attain Age. It is asserted that the longest-lived people are those who make breakfast their chief meal. B. F. McLEAN, LUMBER YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. CHAS. A. SC Real Estate, and Insurance NOTARY LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas Real Estate, Rental, Loans and Insurance Agent, J. L. Fran Wallpaper, P Stearns 403 East Douglas Ave TRAVELER THROUGH Between St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo. Fort Smith, Wich. And Points in Missouri, Kansas, A. Oklahoma and Indian Terr. Information as to train service and rates, also the application to DIV. PA Wich. THE TRAVELER'S FAVORITE FRISCO SYSTEM THROUGH SERVICE Between St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Birmingham, Paris, Fort Worth, Fort Smith, Wichita, Oklahoma City And Points in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories, Indiana and Illinois. Information as to train service and rates, also illustrated descriptive matter, promptly furnished upon application to B. F. DOWN D. F. PASS. AGENT Wichita, Ks. Rev M L Copeland left the city Wednesday for Atlanta, Ga. where he will spend two weeks visiting his sister; afterwhich he will go to his charge in Omaha. While certain fellows have been trying to find fault and grumbling about him, the editor of the Searchlight has been working night and day to get himself and family a home. Now he has accomplished that, and the same men who were grumbling and finding fault are still renters. Do you see the point? Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones' are making a vety nice addition to their home 522 N. Water. They aae addi n a large dining room and kitchen and when completed they will have a nice eight room house. The thing for the colored people to do is not to be so much at war, but to do more war work for harmony. No matter what a Negro's station in life may be; no matter what his complexion; no matter what his environments; no matter what his intelligence; no matter what his wealth—he cannot get away from the last that he is a Negro. Then let us remain in one accord. Senator James W. Tapp made a fine speech to the colored people on Aug. 4. In his speech Senator Tapp tlded them that he was their friend and as a friend to the race he wished to point out to them some of their short comings. He said that as a race the colored man was too jealous, one toward the other. That the race can never hope to succeed as long as jealousy, malice and hatred abounded. He said again that the race, a r a race, did not give the proper support to its own enterprise and was far too willing to help pull down one of the race who was trying to come to the top. During the course of his speech he said many good things which will do every member of the race good who will think of them and consider what he said. Wichita Fabernacle No. 34 met Thursday afternoon. J. L. FRANCIS = DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas HWENDIGER, Rental, Loans Agent, PUBLIC Over 117 N. Market—Phone 773. ncis & Co. paints and Oils, Paint The Paint that Holds. Wichita, Kans. THE S FAVORITE DISCO SYSTEM H SERVICE Amobils, Birmingham, Paris, Fort Worth, Hitchin, Oklahoma City Kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Territories, Indiana and Illinois. Illustrated descriptive matter, promptly furnished upon DISCO AGENT Hitchin, Ks. Rev. L. W. Hall, the recently selected pastor of the 2nd Baptist church left Tuesday for Yale to visit his family. Rev. Hall will fill his pulpit Sunday night. Next Sunday is the big rally at the St, Paul A. M. E. church. Go Out. Peace in an humble hut is far. to be preferred than confusion in a palace. Mrs. W. H. Brown of Newton is expecting to make a trip to Oakley, Kans., to visit her sister. Rev. J, E. Fletcher filled the pulpit at the A. M. E church Sunday morning. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Judge C. C. Stanley made a good speech. AGENTS WANTED We allow agents a big commission for their work. Write to-day for terms. Agents wanted in every town and city in the U. S. Send 2c stamp for Sample Copy. The Frisco Restaurant Restaurant MEALS AT ALL HOURS—15c Mrs. C. J. Jackson, Prop Did you ask the merchant with whom you trade, whether he "ads" in our paper? If not, why not? Insist upon it that he "ads" with us. Before you buy a good horse, find out what is the matter with him. J. H. BUTLER HOUCK Hardware Store Building Hardware, 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 ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 When in need of Groceries to not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S (102 E Donnell 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 AGOOD 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. Everybody is getting ready for the big Re-Union which will take place Aug. 10th to 15th. Mr. Clark is able to be up again. Mr. and Mrs. C H. Neal has moved their house on their lot. Frank Thomas left Monday for Neodesha. Levi Holt serves Ice Cream each Sunday. Patronize him. Alex Cooper made a trip to Kansas City last Sunday. John McIntosch came up from Coffeyville and is now working in this city. Wm. Berry has moved his family to Neodesha. Mrs. Mary Washington is visiting her mother, Mrs. Jennie Moore. Electric cars will soon be running from Cherryvale to Independence, Coffeyville, Chanute and Oswego. Ben Reed passed through the city to Oswego to visit his sister. W. H. Neal is visiting in Kansas City this week. Wesley Griffin is home from New kirk. Miss Jennie Thomas, of Perry, O. T. is visiting her sister. WINFIELD, KAS Sterling Simpson has resigned his position as waiter at Bretton and has accepted the position of asistant cook at the St. James. Messers Jas. anr Geo. Dickson, of Oxford, were the guest of their cousin and sister, Mrs. Jas. Askins and Miss Emma Dickson, Mrs. Allen Brown and children left Sunday for Humbolt, Kas. Aaron Dickson was over f.om Oxford last Sunday. Dad Bandy holgs the record in this vicinity for catching fish with a hook; he caught three last week of 31 lbs, saying nothing of sma i ones Rev A Walker of Cherryvale, filled the pulpit at 2nd Bap. church last Sunday. Mrs Ed Thompson of Wellington, came over to visit relatives, Rev Gratton of Linnepah, I. T., preached Sunday at the A. M. E. * UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. Capt. J. B. Fishback made a speech which will long be remembered by all who were fortunate enough to hear it. Capt. fishback is all right. We are indeed very sorry to an nounce that word from Topeka, states the death of Mrs. Dr. Venella Mrs. Venella was one of Kansas' most noble woman and her many friends in Kansas will regret most painfully to learn of her death. She died Monday night and was buried Thursday. The Searchlight extends its condolences to the family and friends. $6.00 Eureka Springs $6.00 And 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 Agt Wichita, Kans, County Attorney Otto G. Ecktien. left Saturday, Aug. 1st, to spend a few weeks in vacation and a much deserved rest. Mrs. F. E. Moten will leave the city next week for Topeka where she will make her future home. We wish her success. 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. HORTICULTURE Valuable Fruit Lists. Many mistakes are made in the planting of fruit trees because the planters do not take advantage of the opportunities they have for the securing of reliable information on varieties. Our state experiment stations and state horticultural societies have at great expense and after years of labor prepared lists of the fruits that are reasonably certain to do well on the soils of the state. One of the states, Indiana, has prepared this list according to counties, and this is a very great help when the farmer is preparing to set out an orchard of any kind of fruit. The lists are of course not complete, as it is manifestly impossible to include varieties that will do well in a part of the state, but are not certain to do well in all. Except where lists are fitted to suit counties instead of states, the varieties recommended are such as will give good results within the limits of the state for which they are made. In a state like Illinois, nearly 400 miles in length, the variation of soil and climate is very great. This has led the Illinois State Horticultural Society to divide the state into three portions known as the northern, the central and the southern parts. For each of these three sections there is a different list. The tree planter has a very difficult problem to handle when he tries to choose between varieties. He needs to make careful and continued inquiry. Especially must he study the varieties that are grown in his neighborhood, if there are any such. The states differ enormously in their fruit lists. Thus east of Indiana the Baldwin is found among the number of recommended varieties. Of it the Ohio list says: "One of the best winter apples for the northern part of the state, but is a fall apple in southern counties. Very prolific, bears every other year, not seriously affected by apple scab." It would be a great mistake for a Wisconsin grower to take this as suitable for his state. If he planted an orchard of Baldwin trees he would doubtless have cause to regret it. His orchard would be killed out by some of the dry winters and he would pronounce apple growing a failure. But the fault would be with himself in not having selected the proper variety or varieties. This is especially true of plums. The Ohio list puts Abundance (a Japanese variety) at the head of recommended plums. This might do for any locality south of Chicago and north of Tennessee, but it would be misleading if applied in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Incidentally it may be remarked that some of our states are behind in this work and some that have completed lists have admitted varieties that are in dispute as to their adaptability. Thus we notice some of the Japanese plums in the Wisconsin list, while some of the leading plum growers in that state declare that Japanese plums there succeed only in very favorable locations and do not do well as a general thing. Strawberry Enemies. In common with all other domestic fruits the strawberry has its insect and fungus enemies, says a strawberry grower. Among the more destructive of the former are the white grubs, a name given to the larval stages of the different species of the June beetles. As these work no apparent injury until the patch is two years old, it is advisable where injury it liable to occur to plow under the patch as soon as the first crop is harvested. Other insect pests are the Strawberry Sawfly, or slug, and the Strawberry Leaf Roller. These may be controlled to a certain extent by spraying. Rust, or Strawberry Leaf Blight, as it is commonly called, is perhaps the most destructive enemy of strawberry culture. This disease if not checked, soon spreads all over the leaves and attacks the fruit stems, often completely girdling them, causing them to shrivel up, and the berries are consequently useless. Fifty per cent of the crop is often lost from this cause. The most satisfactory remedy for this evil is spraying with the Bordeaux mixture, which should be applied in July or August of the previous year and before and after blossoming of the fruiting season. Michigan Fruit Prospects The Michigan Department of Agriculture reports the fruit conditions of the state to be as follows: Prospects for an average crop of apples, 60 per cent; peaches, 35 per cent; pears, 38 per cent; grapes, 71 per cent; black raspberries, 85 per cent; orchards that are cultivated, 38 per cent; trees alive from last spring's setting, 85 per cent. Fourteen counties are included in the Michigan fruit belt. The prospects in these for a full crop of peaches are as follows: Allegan, 28; Berrien, 27; Ionia, 10; Kent, 21; Ottawa, 29; Van Buren, 24; Muskegon, 42; Newaygo, 44; Oceana, 66; Bendie, 40; Grand Traverse, 62; Manistee, 93; Mason, 60; Leelanau, 51; average for Michigan fruit belt, 36. In many localities it is the practice of the merchants buying butter to pay the same price for all butter, good and bad. This is one of the hardest customs with which the progressive dairyman has to deal. The custom is a bad one, as it discriminates in favor of bad butter and against good He Giveth His Beloved Sleep. He sees when their footsteps falters. When their hearts grow weak and faint; He marks when their strength is falling, And listens to each complaint. He bids them rest for a season. For the pathway has grown too steep; And, folded in fair, green pastures; He giveth his loved ones sleep. Like weary and wofn-out children. Who sigh for the daylight's close. He knows they oft are longing For home and its sweet repose; So he calls them in from their labors. For them to sleep the day after sleep, And, silently watching o'er them. He giveth his loved ones sleep. All dread of the distant future, All fears that oppress to-day. Like mists that clear in sunlight, Have noiselessly|passed away. No call or clamor can rouse them, From number so quiet and deep. For only his voice can reach them. He giveth his loved ones sleep. Weep not that their toils are over; Weep not that their race is run; God grant we may rest as calmly When our work, like theirs, is done. Till then we would yield with gladness Our treasures to him to keep And rejoice in the sweet assurance He giveth his loved ones sleep. Quiet Hour False Ideas of Salvation. "He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."—Matt. x. 29. It is very tiresome to be constantly told that the chief purpose in life is to save your soul. There is a kind of subtle and poisonous selfishness in having reference to your own salvation in everything you do. There can be as much selfishness in spiritual concern as in worldly matters, and it is equally bad in both. The religion which teaches you to save others is a great deal better than the religion which prompts you to save yourself. If you do your duty you can trust your salvation to God and not give a thought to it. A person may be just as mean in the use he makes of religion as another person is in his use of the opportunities of financial success, and meanness is simply meanness, and, therefore, contemptible, in whatever department of life it makes itself manifest. Here, for example, is an avaricious creature, who is planning and plotting to get all the dollars that are within reach into his own pocket. He is not particular about the means he employs, if only his bank account grows bigger and he is able to surround himself with all the comforts and luxuries which money can buy. He contemplates the result of his labors with serene satisfaction, and never gives either eye or ear to the misery which fills the world so full. He has enough to eat, and it matters little whether others starve or not. He has a surplus which he does not need, but he never dreams of parting with it to charity or education. He lives in the attitude of grasping, and his sleep is not disturbed by the moans of wretchedness, the sighs of despair, or the sobbing of bereavement. He has saved himself, so far as this world is concerned, and as for the rest of mankind they may sink or swim for aught he cares. The pulpit denounces that kind of selfishness as beneath the dignity of manliness and honor, and is quite right in its criticisms. But we are inclined to think that religion may be as much a perversion as avarice. If it teaches you to pray for yourself instead of working for others; if you are indifferent to the wrongs from which mankind suffer; if you have never spent your time and energy to reclaim someone who has strayed in forbidden paths, you may possibly have a religion that is better than nothing, but you have not the kind of religion which Christ came to reveal. No soul will be saved in the future world which has not tried to save some other soul besides itself in this world. If the rich man who spends his money on himself is deserving of censure, so also is the religious man who hopes to get to heaven whether other people get there or not. Do not fret about your personal salvation. Put the matter out of your mind as of no particular consequence. You will go where you belong. Nothing can interfere with that law of spiritual gravitation. It will be utterly impossible for you to get into the wrong place, for your deserts will either lift you up by their buoyancy or sink you down by their own weight. If you have heavenly qualities of character you will assuredly go to heaven, and if you have not you will never get there. When you pray, pray for the ability and the opportunity to be of service to your fellow-man, for in that way alone can you become truly great.—George Heworth. Principles. It is not strength of brain that saves a man, or orthodoxy of creed, or connection with a church. All these have often proved to be but ropes of sand. They are not proof against the tides of temptation. There must be firm, heaven-implanted principle—for no one is safe in business, in politics, or in social life, or anywhere, when conscience is unloosened. from God. The parting of the cable may be unseen for a while, it may even be unsuspected; but it is a mere question of time how soon the backslider may strike the rocks. Jesus Christ never insured any one who united with the church, and yet has no "anchor sure and steadfast which entereth within the vail," and "binds fast to Christ himself." And if you ever reach heaven, my brother, you will come in as I have often seen vessels come into yonder harbor of New York, with the storm-tide anchor swinging proudly at the prow. "There are ships," said the eloquent Melville, "that never go down in life's tempests. They shall be in no peril when the last hurricane shall sweep earth and sea and sky; and when the fury is overpast, and the light that knows no night breaks gloriously forth, they shall be found on tranquil and crystal waters, resting beautifully upon their shadows." These are they who have been piloted by the Holy Spirit; these are faithful ones whose innner soul was anchored to Jesus Christ.—Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. Duty or Feeling. Feeling is a poor guide of conduct. A large share of our duty is the doing of what we do not feel like doing, and the not doing that which we feel like doing. If a boy or man is set a task within his ability, it is no excuse for his failure to do it that he did not feel like doing it. No court would acquit a prisoner of guilt on the ground that he felt like stealing. A man may at times write well, or preach well, or sing well, or perform well on a musical instrument, or fight well in the hour of battle while he feels like it, but most men have to do those things when they do not feel like it. The world's best work is done by those who are not at the time under the influence of impelling and controlling feeling in that direction. If you feel like doing a thing, or like not doing it, consider whether you ought to do it or ought not to do it. in spite of your feeling, and then be guided by your duty rather than by your feeling. It may be to your discredit that you cannot feel like doing what you ought to do, but it is never an excuse for your not doing. Witness-Bearing. True Christians are witnesses for God by their sufferings. All Christians suffering is a kind of witness-bearing. It is the greatest consolation of saints under heavy trials, in long debilitating illnesses and those retirements and straits which forbid active service, that they are all the while passively serving. Under the cross they bear witness to God, attesting his justice, his faithfulness, his power, his wisdom, his covenant gentleness; they bear witness of Jesus, that he hears the sigh of the humble, distills the dew of his grace, sustains the fainting head with his arm, tranquilizes and elevates by his spirit, and shows himself altogether lovely. Only they can say, "We speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen." They can tell of a savior who has proved himself sufficient in the day of trial, who has lifted them out of the swoon of despair and breathed rapture into them with the kiss of peace.—James W. Alexander, D. D. The Meaning of "Paradise." It may not be generally known that the word Paradise is of Persian origin, and was transferred to the Hebrew, and afterwards to the Greek. Literally, it means a tract of land, enclosed in walls, and full of beautiful fruit-bearing trees—a royal pleasure ground attached to the palace. The word soon became spiritualized in Hebrew thought. It was used for the Garden of Eden, and also for the heavenly abode of the righteous dead. We do not know the exact sense in which Christ used it in speaking to the thief. The fact, however, that he said "with me in Paradise," would be sufficient to give the repentant man a sense of peace and safety, but whether of being actually in heaven is uncertain. Opinions Not Always Principles. Men and women everywhere, says the New York Observer, are too apt to mistake their opinions as to methods of bringing in the millennium for the principles upon which all millenniums are based. It will take many rays in combination to constitute the glory of the golden rule. Radicalism must be tempered with reason, and testimony against the evils of the world must be mixed with love toward those who differ from us as to the methods of combating or exterminating those evils. The great need of the day in the temperance line is the uniting of all genuinely "temperance people" on a practicable basis of working against the saloon evil. Doing Good. Doing a little good is better than doing no good. But doing good as we have opportunity is even better than doing a little good, for every one of us has opportunity of doing good in more than one way, and usually to more than one person, every day of our lives. Therefore, let us do good as we have opportunities. 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