Wichita Searchlight

SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Oct. 31, '03 Well, whatever else the sultan of Turkey may do, he doesn't drink. The frost killed all but about 2,000,000 bushels of the corn in the western states. Never worry about a small boy's health unless he is willing to stay in bed on a holiday. The king of Yap, deceased, left three wives to yap over the distribution of his property. Even a causes act could not cause more worry and misunderstanding than the new football rules. Magazine writers in describing the woman who works ought not to overlook the man who is worked. A man never appreciates what a versatile creature he is until he begins to get into the newspapers. The Filipinos are busy organizing a baseball league. And now they'll be calling for score instead of gore. Bill Devery hits the nail on the head again in a remark that every guy gets a finish handed to him once in a while. An authority on fall fashions says that a chic effect may be obtained by trimming your hat with rooster feathers. A woman never knows what a good man her husband is until she has heard his account of other women's husbands. A young girl named Della Woods is lost in Georgia. Sounds like she might be related to the Woody Dells of Missouri. One of the most recent New York weddings was between a salesgirl and a count. We suppose she got him by yelling "Cash!" Let window glass go up if it pleases, so long as it isn't eatable or drinkable. An old hat in the broken pane will keep out the cold. The general usefulness of the hairpin is impressed upon the mind by its recent utilization as a fuse to keep an electric car in motion. What a pity that the eighty insurgents who are reported to have repulsed 2,000 Turks couldn't have been present to defend the pass at Thermopylae! Baldness, we are told, can be prevented, and even cured, by going bareheaded. Thus far the Mexican hairless dog has successfully defied this treatment. The new Episcopal cathedral in New York isn't to be finished before 1550, which will be several years before the evacuation of Manchuria by the Russians. The fitness of things seems to be pretty well observed in making Lilian kussell the chief feature of a theatrical performance entitled "Whoop-Dee-Doo." A Chicago justice of the peace married a couple the other evening in two and one-half minutes. Where is the justice that can negotiate the ceremony in 2:00 flat? Critical examination of the Olympia in dry dock proves what was suspected before, that a combination of fog and rock makes an ideal condition for navigators to avoid. When a man has been refused four or five times, he begins to think that the newspaper stories about girls bringing breach of promise suits are only yellow journalism. Senator Hoar agrees with Pericles that "wealth, not honor, is the delight of old men." Well, perhaps they realize that they can't have the latter without the former in this irreverent age. The Germans of Gotham engaged in a "skat" tournament the other day, from which the conclusion is naturally drawn that the tom cats were becoming too numerous in the vicinity of Terrace garden. In being given the choice between remaining in the field and throwing themselves on "the mercy of the sultan," the Bulgarian insurgents realize the full meaning of being 'twixt the devil and the deep sea. A Chicago woman brought suit for divorce because her husband sat up all night to play the piano. The only reason she was not a widow was that they lived in a lonely place where the neighbors were out of carshot. And when the soldiers had successfully prevented the men from issuing the Victor Record, the wife of an employee stepped in and ran the entire office. Antony was not the last warrior who was vanquished by a petticoat. Sir Thomas Lipton boldly announces that he expects to keep on being a bachelor. Sir Thomas fully realizes the difficulty that one would have in continuing to be a jolly good fellow if he had to explain every time he missed the owl car. Studies Bird Migration. A study of bird migration from the Kentish Knock lightship at the mouth of the Thames, twenty-one miles from land, has been undertaken by W. Eagle Clarke of Edinburgh. Toklo's Foreigners At the beginning of this year there were altogether 1,512 foreigners residing in Tokyo. They included 684 Chinese, 298 Americans, 198 Englishmen, 90 Koreans, 83 Germans, 81 Frenchmen, 23 Indians, 10 Russians, 8 Canadians, 8 Swiss and 6 Austrians. Saving by Electricity. The results of the change from steam to electrical power on New York's elevated railways are a reduction of cost per passenger from 2.24 cents under steam to 1.98 cents; an increase in gross earnings of $400,000, accompanied by a decrease in expenses of $99,000. A Confirmed Pessimist Uncle John: "Well, Mary, my dear, what a long time it is since I saw you! And so you have a little sister now! I suppose she cries sometimes?" Little Mary: "Cries? I should think she does! I never knew anyone who seemed to look on the dark side of things as she does!" Drink Paraffin Oil Paraffin oil would hardly be deemed a desirable beverage by an epicure, but it is used as a stimulant in some parts of Russia. The habit once contracted is adhered to, even when other liquors are within reach of their purses. An oil intoxication produces intense drowsiness and the tippler of this odd drink goes to sleep as soon as he has become saturated with the liquid. The McBride Case Again. St. John, Kaas, Oct. 26.—Mr. and Mrs. William McBride and Jesse L. Limes. M. D., have gone before Mr. George E. Moore, Notary Public, and have sworn and subscribed to written statements confirming the story of the awful illness and subsequent cure of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. MoBride. Dr. Limes is particularly emphatic in his statement, and there does not now seem to be any room for doubt as to the fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills, and nothing else, saved the little boy. He was so bad that he had Epileptic spells which seized him with increasing frequency. He was semi-paralyzed in the right side, and his mind was badly affected. In their sworn statement, Mr. and Mrs. McBride say: "The very day we began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills our boy had twenty-seven of these Epileptic spells or fits. In less than a week he ceased having them entirely." The case has caused a great sensation in the neighborhood. The sworn statements have confirmed the whole story. Good Definition of "Luck." Here is Max O'Rell's definition of "luck": "Luck means rising at six o'clock in the morning, living on a dollar a day if you earn two, minding your own business and not meddling with other people's. Luck means appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch. Luck means trusting in God and your own resources." How Owls Rid Farms of Pests. Last summer a nest of young owls was taken by some English gamekeepers and inclosed in a box, but was left where the old owls could bring food to them. From June 25 to July 25 the following morsels were provided by the old owls for their offspring: Thirty-seven rats, fifty-nine mice, 118 moles, one sparrow, one patridge, one lark. Where the Fault Lay. Aristippus was an earnest sutor to Dionysius for some grant, who would give no ear to his suit. Artistippus fell at his feet and then Dionysius granted it. One that stood by said afterward to Aristippus: "You a philosopher and be so base as to throw yourself at a tyrant's feet to get a suit!" Aristippus answered: "The fault is not mine, but the fault is in Dionysius, who carries his ears in his feet." BUSY DOCTOR Sometimes Overleaks a Point. The physician is such a busy man that he sometimes overlooks a valuable point to which his attention may be called by an intelligent patient who is a thinker. "About a year ago my attention was called to Grape-Nuts by one of my patients," says a physician of Cincinnati. "At the time my own health was bad and I was pretty well rundown but I saw in a minute that the theories behind Grape-Nuts were perfect and if the food was all that was claimed for it it was a perfect food so I commenced to use Grape-Nuts with warm milk twice a day and in a short time began to improve in every way, and now I am much stronger, feel 50% better and weigh more than I ever did in my life. "I know that all of this good is due to Grape-Nuts and I am firmly convinced that the claims made for the food are true. I have recommended and still recommend the food to a great many of my patients with splendid results, and in some cases the improvement of patients on this fine food has been wonderful. "As a brain and nerve food, in fact as a general food, Grape-Nuts stands alone." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellyville." MARKETS CORRECTED DAILY Kansas City. NATIVE STEERS..... $ 3 05 @ $ 4 55 HOGS—Choice to heavy..... $ 5 90 @ $ 5 35 WHEAT—No. 2 hard..... 73 @ $ 74 CORN—No. 2 White..... 84 @ $ 86 HAY—Choices Timothy..... @ @ Choices Prairie..... @ @ EUTTER..... 18% @ $ 10% EGGS..... @ $ 10% Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEERS..... $ 5 3) @ $ 5 75 TEXAS FED STEERS..... 2 75 @ $ 3 50 HOGS..... $ 5 2) @ $ 5 40 Chicago Grain. WHEAT—No. 2 Hard..... @ @ $ 80 CORN—No. 2..... @ @ $ 49% OATS—No. 2..... 34% @ $ 35% St. Louis Live Stock. BERVES..... $ 3 4) @ $ 5 35 HEIFERS Corn Fed..... 2 25 @ $ 4 35 TEXAS STEERS..... 2 35 @ $ 3 55 Cotton. Midling: LIVERPOOL..... 6.8 d NEW YORK..... 10.3% @ 10.6% GALVESTON..... @ @ Chicago Futures. WHEAT Dec..... 80% 74% @ 80% May..... 79% 78% @ 79% CORN-- Dec..... 43% 44% @ 43% May..... 42% 43% @ 42% OATS-- Dec..... 36 38% 35% @ 36% May..... 30% 30% @ 30% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS..... $ 4 60 @ $ 5 15 CATTLE—STOCKERS..... 2 50 @ $ 3 00 COWS..... 2 60 @ $ 3 00 HEIFERS..... 1 60 @ $ 2 35 STEERS..... @ 3 00 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. President Roosevelt celebrated his 45th birthday on October 27. At Memphis Lou Dillon became queen of the trotting turf by trotting a mile in 1.58¼. Archibishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, is to be made a cardinal by Pope Pius X. The American investment in religious and educational institutions in Turkey is $6,500,000. The coke trade at Connellsville, Pa., continues to slump until now there are 9,000 idle men. The Bank of Joplin, with a capital stock of $5,000, holds a surplus forty times greater than its capital. Mayor Campbell, of Tacoma, Wash., prevented a prize fight in that city by giving notice that he would not permit it. H. V. Belger, of South Bend, Indiana, who died recently, left a bequest of $50,000 to the Chautauqua held at Chautauqua, N. Y. Troop ships are ordered to stop at Honolulu and Guam on every trip to the Philippines, and to stop at Honolulu on the way back. John C. Black, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, is at Garfield hospital in Washington suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. Dan Patch has clipped the world's pacing record of a half mile in $7\frac{1}{2}$ to 56 flat. Next he made a new pacing record to a wagon, making the mile in $1:57\frac{1}{2}$. The biennial session of the general convention of the Universalist church was held in Washington, D. C. President Roosevelt received the ministers on Saturday, October 24. Chambers of commerce throughout Spain have combined to urge Senior Besada, minister of finance to resist the attempt of American capitalists to monopolize the Cuban tobacco trade. Competent authorities estimate the wealth of the world at $400,000,000,000 of which amount this country has nearly one-fourth, and leads all the others. Great Britain comes next, then France, Germany and Russia. The American Sunday School Union held its eleventh annual conference in Chicago, October 26. The financial report shows that in the last year $180,000 had been raised for the work of the society. A Wisconsin hard drinker, with his own consent, was locked in a room at home a year. He came out in perfect health and had lost his craving for drink. His disappearance was a mystery to the neighbors. F. M. Wolf, who lives near Ridgeville, Ind., has been dumb for two years, caused by a lightning stroke. He says he dreamed that if he chewed tobacco he would regain his voice. He tried it and was able to speak plainly after a few days. The whaling steamer Humber captured a whale off Cape Spear, N. P., which was 110 feet long. It was a finback whale and the most gamey ever captured, 29 hours being taken up with the fight with it. The whale zigzagged at the rate of seven miles an hour, almost towing the ship under water, the sea washing its decks. C. P. Dewey and his son Chanceey, have been placed under arrest, charged with fencing government land in northwestern Kansas and intimidating the settlers. Deputy Tax Cnumissioner Michael O'Sullivan, of New York city, has been arrested. He is accused of having taken a bribe on pretext of getting a man appointed to the police force. There is race trouble at Fort Riley between a Texas regiment and a colored U. S. cavalry regiment, one of the best cavalry regiments in the regular army. Andrew Carnegie, before leaving Queenstown, contributed $5,000 to help purchase an organ for the Catholic Cathedral there. LORIN FARR "Love!" he said, without hesitation, I pany for years to find it out." Lorin Farr, head of the largest family in the world, bitterly opposes the theories advanced by Dr. A. C. Cotton, dean of Rush Medical College, Chicago, that love is a disease due to a microbe. Mr. Farr has had six wives, 39 children, 231 grandchildren and 56 great-grandchildren. He has seen his 250 or more descendants married and bearing children, and then, too, his experience as the husband of six wives, and living with all at the same time, makes him an authority on the question of love. There is no fine spun mysticism or sentimental poetry in the mind of this father of thirty-nine children. His definition of love was unmistakably plain. MISER'S CHART IS MISSING. Paper Showing Location of Buried Wealth Suddenly Disappears. The recent settlement and distribution of the estate left by Joseph Conatser, a miser, has again set the people of Whitman (Wash.) county guessing as to what became of a chart showing the location of various places where Conatser had buried his money. Just before death Conatser gave Thos. Keyes, his closest friend, a plat which contained a number of marks, dots and figures, and pointing from the window of his cabin, showed the spot where much money was buried. He asked Keyes to dig it up, and in an old tin can the latter found $260 in gold coin. Conatser gave Keyes to understand that each spot on the chart marked a place where the coin was concealed. When it was found necessary to move the old man to a hospital this chart and his other papers were sewed inside of Conatser's vest. After his death all the papers were turned over to the court, with the exception of the chart. The mystery which surrounds the lost chart may never be explained, and the accumulations of Joseph Conatser, the Sunset miser, may remain buried forever. Victory Due to Lost Key An amusing incident occurred at Cuxhaven during some land maneuvers which were being carried out by the German fleet. An adversary's fleet was supposed to be attempting to force the entrance to the Elbe, which was defended by troops on shore. The first attack of the "enemy" had been repulsed during a severe storm. The troops on shore retired to their bivouac, and to protect the rifles from the rain, which was coming down in torrents, they locked them up in a small wooden house. Suddenly the alarm sounded, but on rushing to get their weapons the key of the house was not to be found. When after considerable delay, the rifles were distributed, it was found that the "enemy" had forced the entrance and thus gained the victory." —London Mall. Why He Was Not Surprised. Glen MacDonough, who wrote the libretto for the comic opera "Babes in Toyland," was sitting in a New York cafe recently with Victor Herbert, the composer, when a waiter approached to take his order. The waiter smiled at Mr. MacDonough and said: "You don't remember me, do you? I used to sing in one of your companies." "I remember you very well," said Mr. MacDonough. "Are you surprised to see me here as a waiter?" asked the other. "Not a bit," replied the libretto cheerfully; "you know, I have heard you sing." "love is the natural affection between man and woman that has its foundation in the desire to perpetuate the race. That's love, but oh, how many there are to-day who marry with different thoughts in their minds." For a few minutes the old man seemed lost in reveries of years long gone. "Did I tell you that I agree with Roosevelt's views on the marriage question?" he asked. "His thoughts meet mine exactly. "Love often comes at first sight," he continued. "With my first wife it did. It is not always, though, that this feeling comes at first sight. But love comes as soon as the man and woman are well acquainted. If they love each other they do not have to keep company for years to find it out." Dr. Parkhurst Narrates Anecdote of a Converted Savage. Dr. Parkhurst delivered himself of a story in the course of his sermon in the Madison Square Presbyterian church at New York on a recent Sunday. This is the story: "An African chief became converted and moved to London, where he wore fashionable clothes and behaved in every way as an irreproachable man. One day he was giving a lecture in a church on the advantages of a peaceful, civilized life. His collar did not fit well, and in attempting to adjust it he tore open the buttonhole. "The ripping shirt band brought back all his old savagery, and he shouted out that civilization was all a sham, and he wished he was back in his old life. Whereupon he pulled off his collar, his coat and trousers and finally stood in the garb of the unadorned savage. Then he set fire to the church and took to the woods. "If his buttonhole had been a little stronger," added Dr. Parkhurst, "he would probably have remained an irreproachable man the rest of his life. That's the way with much of our civilization and virtue. A very small thing will reveal the real conditions." Denounced by Dying Woman. A dramatic scene was enacted in a dingy room of a New York East Side tenement, where an aged woman in her dying moments identified Patrick Shea as the murderer of William McMahon. The crime was committed last May, and was a typical Cherry Hill murder. Shea csepaed and after a long chase was run down in Philadelphia. Mrs. Catherine Brown, who had known Shea from childhood, was the only witness, and she could not go to court, so the court went to her. Propped up by pillows, she told the magistrate that she saw Shea, who stood manacled beside the bed, walk up behind McMahon and deliberately shoot him down. Cross-examination failed to change her statements, and she finished by roundly denouncing Shea. "Your mother," she exclaimed, shaking her head at him, "was a decent woman. Be off; I never want to see you again." Wealthy Residents Displeased Wealthy persons who own estates in and about the fashionable Tuxedo Park colony, near New York, are not at all pleased at the announcement that a convent of Sisters of the Good Shepherd is likely to be established near the park. Negotiations are practically closed for the sale of a large piece of property adjoining that of E. H. Harriman to a syndicate, which for the present will hold it, in trust for the Catholic order named. An old mansion is to be remodeled and turned into a school for girls whom the sisters are trying to reform. A J. W. Walls, Super- intendent of Streets of Lebanon, Ky, living on East Malta street, in that city, says: "With my nightly rest broken, owing to irregularities of the kidneys, suffering intensely from severe pains in the small of my back and through the kidneys, and annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secretions, life was anything but pleasant for me. No amount of doctoring relieved this condition, and for the reason that nothing seemed to give me even temporary relief I became about discouraged. One day I noticed in the newspapers the case of a man who was afflicted as I was and was cured by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. His words of praise for this remedy were so sincere that on the strength of his statement I went to the Hugh Murrey Drug Co.'s store and got a box. I found that the medicine was exactly as powerful a kidney remedy as represented. I experienced quick and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will prove a blessing to all sufferers from kidney disorders who will give them a fair trial." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine, which cured Mr. Walls, will be mailed to any part of the United States on application. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. The Supreme Test If a man is the guest of honor at his own table longer than six months after marriage it is a mighty good sign. —Atchiso Tooearly Bought. "De man dat has to learn by experience," said Uncle Eben. "is generely so near broke when he gits his information dat he can't use it." —Washington Star. To Clean a Brush. To clean an ebony-backed brush, soak the brushes in hot, soapy lather, rinsing first in hot and then in cold water. The backs should be rubbed with a small mite of linseed oil and then polished with a soft cloth. Dry the bristles as quickly as possible after washing or they are likely to get soft and flabby. Dry thoroughly before using. One of England's Old Inns One of the oldest inns in England is the George inn at Morton St. Philips in Somerset. The Duke of Monmouth slept there when he achieved the solitary success of his campaign, in June, 1685. He was shot at while standing at the window, but the bullet missed its mark. Oliver Cromwell, it is said, passed a night there. The license of this old hostelry dates from 1397 Consumption Among Negroes Consumption occurred rarely, if at all, among the negroes in slavery, but now, after a little more than a quarter of a century of freedom, it causes more deaths among them than all other contagious diseases combined. The negro death rate from consumption is more than three times that of the white. THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. The wise girl never distributes too many latchkeys to her heart. Now is the time to order Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus and Chinese Sacred Some women confide in men for the purpose of extracting secrets from them. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. A man only has his hair cut when he doesn't want it any longer. WHY IT IS THE BEST is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. The birds of a feather that flock together must be jailbirds. Deafness Cannot be Cured. Deathless cannot be cured. by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. They may one way to do it by applying the ear wax by constriction of Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or inflammation of the ear canal. The inflammation is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases have been treated with hearing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Dostness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Need for circulars, free. Sold by Druggles, 75c. HENKEY & CO., Toledo, O. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Many a man goes to the bad because he attempts to pose as a good fellow. Foreign Medical Students. Up to 1870 Paris was the Mecca of English medical students. After that date the larger number began to go to Berlin or Vienna; but the Russian, southern European and South American students still frequent Paris. Whisky Consumption. In sixty years the annual per capita consumption of whiskey has gradually decreased from two and a half to one and a fourth gallons. In forty years the consumption of beer has increased from less than two to more than seventeen gallons per capita. A Bad Fix When one wakes up aching from head to foot, and with the flesh tender to the touch, when Soreness and Stiffness makes every motion of the body painful, the surest and quickest way out of the trouble is to use St. Jacobs Oil promptly. It warms, relaxes, cures. Price, 25c. and 50c. WHEN YOUR GROCER SAYS WHEN YOUR GROCER SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. A drum is never a delusion although it may be a snare. When a well bred girl expects to eat. The well to remember that men like bread. We are going to show the steps to take. So they may learn good bread to make. GQOD GROCERS sell it. If yours don't drop us a postal and we will tell you who does. WICHTA. KANS. UNION MILLS. When a well bred girl expects to wed. The well bred to remember that men like bread. We are going to show the steps to take. So she may learn good bread to make. GOOD GROCERS sell it. If yours don't drop us a postal and we will tell you who does. WICHITA, KANS. UNION MILLS. Wichita Business College 1916 SHORTHAND INSTITUTE. Fazel, Adams, Hibarger & Price, Props. 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PUNISHMENT TO FIT CRIME. Washington, Oct. 28.—Boodling in public office is to receive the attention of the president and the majority in the coming congress is to be asked to effect legislation that will seek to suppress what is now believed to be widespread in its sway. It was learned from the very highest authority that President Roosevelt in addressing congress will dwell at length on the question of public dishonesty, and that he will incorporate in his message to congress some suggestions which have been made to him, at his request, by Joseph Wingate Folk, of Missouri. The two went over the matter of theft in office and the use of money to influence legislation. President Roosevelt said at the time that he thought seriously of taking the matter up with congress. Now he says that he would regard his anti-boodle chapter as the most important one in his forth-coming message. He is working with Attorney Gen. Knox to find a way to reopening the Cincinnati case. The state lost that fight, much to the disgust of the president. The defeat, however, only intensified his determination to have congress rise to the occasion. The president has the attorney general at work on a provision applying to the office holders who betray a trust, who violate oaths of office and who prove false to the public, making the punishment more nearly fit the crime and his determination is to provide more severe prison punishment and financial indemnity to come from bondsmen and so arrange that bondsmen are compelled to be interested in keeping a sharp lookout on the daily conduct of those thus guaranteed. The postoffice and the Indian Territory troubles have aroused the president to a keen realization of existing deprivacy and grafting, pilfering and stealing in office and municipal, state and federal boodling having grown so rapidly in the last few years it has become an issue in the judgment of the president and hence he will have something to say in his message. To Raise Price of Pig Lead. Galena, Kas, Oct. 26.—The mill and mine owners and operators of the Galena-Joplin district consumated plans for a total shut-down of the mines and mills to force the price of ore above the prices now offered by the smelting combine. Extensive operators here consider this to be the most practical and effective way of raising the price of ore and holding the price on a par with the price of pig lead. Government Indian Exhibit. Washington $ ^{2} $ Oct. 26.—S. M. McCowan, superintendent of the Chiloico Indian school, and in charge of the government Indian exhibit at St. Louis, had a conference with the officials of the Indian bureau for the purpose of submitting his plans. The total amount assigned for the purpose is $ 40,000. Commissioner Jones will probably recommend an increase so as to raise the total amount to $ 75,000. Killed by Strikers. New Orleans, La., Oct. 29.—At Waco, Tex., a street car, operated by nonunion men, was fired on from ambush by the striking street car men. A sympathizer and Henry Hay of Bridgeport, Conn., the motorman, were instantly killed. G. A. R. Commander Killed. Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 29.—Henry Kissinger, of Dayton, ex-state commander the G. A. R. of Ohio, was thrown from his horse and instantly killed during a G. A. R. parade. Bob Burdette's Church. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 29 — A $1,000,000 building will be erected here for the New Temple Baptist church, of which Rev. Robert J. Burdette, the noted humorist and lecturer, is pastor. Tishomingo Bank Closed Ardmore, I. T. Oct. 27.—The Bank of the Chickasaw nation at Tishomingo, the designated depository of the Chickasaw nation, has closed its doors. The capital stock of the bank was $50,000. The amount of deposits is unknown. The bank directors held a meeting and decided to apply to United States Judge Townsend for a receiver to wind up the bank's affairs. It is stated that depositors will be paid within thirty days. Kirdy Purdom is president of the institution. Cashier McLish resigned ten days ago. New Wireless System. Leghorn, Italy, Oct. 28.—A company has been formed to exploit a new system of wireless telegraphy, invented by a citizen of this city. The system uses the earth for transmission of waves. To Draw Indictments. Chicago, Oct. 28.—Oliver E. Pagin, assistant United States district attorney in Chicago, has been appointed assistant attorney in the department of justice at Washington. He is a skilled drawer of indictments. A PROMINENT CHURCH WORKER SAYS SHE OWES HER LIFE TO PE=RU=NA Mrs. Hattle LaFountain DOCTORS PRESCRIPTIONS FAILED TO RELIEVE Mrs. Hattie La Fountain, Treas. 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(Me.) woman sat for her husband till past one kick the rther night, intend- when he came to discuss with the sinfulness of his going Finally she gave it up and up-stairs only to find him and fast asleep there for hours. He hadn't been out New Games RSFURED. in Pennsylvania last week the Governor of that state refused to for a requisition made upon by Gov. Hunn, of Delaware, the return to New Castle ofward Riley, a Negro who is urged with attacking a ten old girl. The Governor dees full information in regards the alleged crime, and will be an investigation before he extradition papers, The refusal of Gov. Penny- Baker is said to be inspired by the feeling after the burning at stake of Geo. White, at Wil- ington, a Negro charged with crime which Riley is he d and little show in that state. While the Negro race does not alone such a crime as Riley is urged with having committed; while the race believes that man guilty of so atrocious a crime should be punished to the best extent of the law and without any delay—thely likewise and that all criminal, white black, and that all crimes be dealt with according to law—and by lawless mobs—the race, en, commends Gov. Pennypack on his stand. The Searchlight has no wings at but it gets there just the same ORGANS west prices on high grade ur Stock whether you de- Song Book free to all who Music Co., douglas Ave. New Games A FREE game inside each package of Lion Coffee 60 different games. Dr. Abernethy, a man proverbially intolerant of mere fads and crochets, had yet a strong personal objection to sleeping in damp sheets. The Iron Duke (and it may be remarked in passing that Lord Roberts of our own day has a similar aversion) would grow quite uneasy if shut up in the same room with a mad dog. Sir Walter Raleigh had a marked objection to prison life; and Lord Burleigh, his great contemporary, never liked to slip off a curbstone with his tongue Between his teeth.—London Punch. Do you notice anything new about the Scarlett fight this week? Look! El Prado Cafe Royal Meals 15 cents Ice Cream Saturdays and Sundays WM. S. MILLER, Prop 330 North Main Keep your eye open and your ear listening to see and hear about the big Thanksgiving event at Dunbar hall. Mr. Arthur Wood, of Kansas City, Mo., was in the city last week visiting his brother, Dave Wood and shaking hands with his many friends. Mr. Woods has a host of friends in this city we were proud to meet him. He left the first of this week for Kansas City. WICHITA. KANSAS. OCT 31 1903. ATTENTION! The Ladies of Princess Chapter No.12, O. E. S. invites you to be present at their musicale at Dunbar hall, Thursday night, Nov. 5th MUSIC by Clark - Chinneth Orchestra ADMISSION 14c. Cauple 25c ```markdown ``` At the Packing House Meat meat Market. Remember the place--Market at the Gate of the Dold Packing House. It ain't a thing o' beauty an its prut ain't always clean. But it straightens out his temper when a feller's fech'n' mean. It takes the wrinkies off his face an brushes off the frown. That little country paper from his Ol Home It tells of all the parties an' balls at Pumpkin Row, 'Beout who spent Sunday with whose girl an' how the crops'll grow. An' how it keeps a fellow posted 'bout who,s up an who is down— that little country paper from his Ol' Home Now, I like to read the dailies an' the story papers too. An' at times the yaller novels au' some other trash—don't yon? But when I want some readin that'll brush away a frown I want that little paper from my Ol' Home Town. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable ATTENTION The Ladies of P ter No. 12, O. E. S. in present at their mus bar hall, Thursday MUSIC by Clark Orchestra HAMS At the Packing meat Market. Remember the p at the Gate of the Election Nov. 3. People of Eleven States to Vote Next Tuesday. NEW YORK, Oct. 28. — Elections will be held in eleven states Tuesday, Nov. 3. Full state tickets are to be voted for in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa and Mississippi, while in New York, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Colorado a justice of the upper courts, regents of the state university, or minor state officers are to be chosen. Municipal officials are to be selected in Greater New Miss M. C. Hannibal. MILLINERY We solicit trade on the basis of Quality at the Lowest Prices. York., San Francisco, Salt Lake. The Prohibitionists have a ticket in tll the states except Colorado, the Socialist in all except Nebraska and Colorado, the Populist in two states—Iowa and Colorado; the Social Labor party in three—New York, Massachusetts and Ohio. Fusion was effected in one state only—Nebrsska — tho' the Republicans of New York endorsed the Democratic nominee for judge of the court of appeals The most interesting contests in the East are the state elections in Maryland and Rhode Island, and the municipal and county contests in New York city. ION! f Princess Chap- NO PROMOTION. In every business and occupation of our every day life, the thought of advancement and peomotion is the strong incentive which actuates meu, women and children to be true and to do their hest. The school child struggles on bravely, sits up late at night, foregoes pleasures and recreations preparing for the test which precedes promotion. The lonely guard upon the bleak field of battle, alone in the terrors of darkness surrounded by dangers upon every hand, faces privation, sniffing, meets death nerved py the thought that the faithful sergeant will one day be the famous captain. The unknown laborer digs, delves, shovels, but in his heart the thought of promotion sweetens his toil. The patient clerk bends over his task, but looking ahead into the future, he hopes, he sees, he knows promotion in wages and in position will come if he is faithful. The humblest man toiling on swinging his lantern, attending his brake, looks ahead to the day when he will be a conductor, a superintendent, a president of the road upon which he is employed. He strives persistently Nice Furnished ROOMS By the night or week Transient a Specialty to do his full duty because he wants to be promoted. In every occupation, regardless of nationality, provided the face is white, promotion comes. The Negro man enters the Pullman and railroad service and gives years of faithfulness, honest service. The company attests to this service by service bars, indicative of good character and faithful performance in the Pullman and railroad service bring no promotion to the Negro. He enters a porter, and it matters not what his length of service, though it be a hundred years, he dies just as he started—a porter. A Negro enters a great business concern as porter, laborer, or watchman, or what not. He knows when he enters just what to expect. To him comes no light of promotion. He is a Negro. The curse is upon him. He cannot rise. He is doomed to walk ever in the same groove. He may he faithful, honest and self-sacrificing—but he is a Negro, this kills every hope, for him there is no advancement. White men come, gain experience, rise to the top—but the Negro watchman ever sits at the door. Under such treatment what is to be expected of the Negro? We lift our weeping eyes, our sobbing voice and ask God to be merciful. But there is promotion for us when we begin to make business concerns and give employment to our young men and women. What factories, stores and business concerns have the ten millions of our people? Here's to the chigger That ain't any bigger Than the point of a good sized pin, But the bump that he raises Itches like blazes, And that's where the rub comes in. Ucle Sam's Women Employees. The largest number of women employees in any line of work are in the United States postoffice department. More than one-third of them are past middle age, and some are past 70. They fill all kinds of positions, even many of the rural free delivery routes being filled by them. AS TO NEGRO LABOR IN THE SOUTH. "Without touching upon the larger field of the general Southern attitude toward the question of Negro labor," writes Alfred Holt Stone in the Southern Workman, "I may say that most agricultural districts of course want to retain such Negroes as they have, but I know of no other of equal area wherein deliberate, systematic and persistent efforts are put forth to add to the Negro population. Nor do I know of any other to which so many Negroes are drawn through the efforts of kindred and friends who have preceded them. One of the most important factors in the permanent prosperity of the laboring Negro, entering as a matter of course largely into the question of opportunity, is the existence of kindly relations between the races, and I am satisfied that these rhlations are nowhere better than in the rural districts of the Mississippi Delta. I do not mean to say that we have reach- HOUCK Hardware Store The place to buy Good Cook Stoves and Heat ing Stoves at the Lo est Cash Prices. 116 East Douglas Ave. --- ed the millenium, that there is an entire absence of vicious Negroes and mean white men, for we have enough of each. But I do say that there exists among our Negroes a large measure of confidence in our white people, and among the latter an absolute absence of anything approaching hatred toward the former. The Negro's right of property is respected equally with the white man's, and the peacefull possession of all that he may acquire is enjoyed by him in the fullest possible degree. It is not too much to say that at least one of the vexed question entering into the race problem does not as yet disturb us here, that of the peaceable common occupancy of the soil. --- THE SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLER, Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M O NTH ..... 150. Advertising Rates Made Known On Applica- tion. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the part or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THE OFFICE. 1st. 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The colored people can in ever hope te be a people as long as they ought so long as envy and malice are in the ascendance. If one of us starts up the hill, do not try to pull him or her down, but we should give them a good, long shove forward and help to push them to the front. It is quite evident that every number of the race cannot be teachers, lawyers, doctors, bankers, preachers, or any other one thing. So it is equally true that we all can not be at the head. Some must lead; others must follow. The spirit of envy must take its departure. No nation has ever gone forward when envy abounded. Let us all see more of the good deeds of our fellow man an dless of his misdeeds. IS NOW THIRTY YEARS OLD The editor of the Searchlight, W. N. Miller, was thirty years old last Thursday, Oct. 29th, he having been born in Pulaski, Giles county, Tenn., Oct. 29th, 1873. The editor of the Searchlight is the youngest Negro editor in the West who owns a and controls a Negro newpaper plant as large and complete as that of the Searchlight; he is also the youngest Negro who ever operated a Negro paper with as wide and large a circolation as that of the Searchlight; he is the youngest Negro to be a "master printer" when he began publication; he is the only Negro who has ever published a Negro paper five (5) consecutive years in Southern Kansas without the loss of an issue and is still publishing. These statements are not made boastingly- but simply because they are facts and also to show what the young Negro may do if so inclined to push ahead. Kansas State University has a department of journalism—one of the first in America. Did you ask the merchant with whom you trade, who her he "ads" in our paper? If not, why not? Insist upon it that he "ads" with us. "Tis now the honest farmer packs His apples up to town. This is the top row in the sacks 〇〇〇〇〇〇〇〇 And this is lower down 〇〇〇〇〇〇〇〇" Colored Man Discussed. Colored Man Discussed. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 26. -The principal feature of the session of the American Mssionary Association was the sermon by Rev. Dr. P. S. Moxom, of Springfield, Mass., who spoke on "Our Problem with the Negro in America." He made the recent killing of Prof. Le Forrest A. Planving, of the PoinpstuCoee Indlstrial and High School, in Louisiana, the immediate occasion of his theme. He said that the very rise of the Negro he seemed to stimulate the antipathy to him. "There is a curious recrudesceuce of Negrophobism," he said, "No scheme of wholesale emigration is practiceable. A general deportation of the blacks, even if it were possible, would paralyze the industries of the Southern states and destroy their growing material prosperity. There is a great multitude of whites who need educating and Christianizing. "Now, the American Missionary Association is pushing into the lowlands with its schools, and it finds invitation and opportunity far beyond its present means to met. The association sould have at least $500,000 a year for the General work and $1,000,000 for immediate endowment of its higher institutions. The evil of the Negro problem does not belong to the south alone; it affects all the country." Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, of Columbus, Ohio, the president of the association, in responding to the addresses of welcome, said among other things: "There are many questions before the people of Ohio in this campaign—questions of taxation, of State administration, of national policy, perhaps—but none of them compares for a moment with that tremendous question which will be before us here everp day—What is the nation going to do with the black man?" The Daniel Hand income account for the education of colored people in the South shows an income for the year of $66,139, and a balance on hand and appropriated of $6,869. CHURCH DIRECTORY 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. Rev. S. M. Hall, Pastor Tabernacle Baptist. 834 N. Water, 11 am Preaching, 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev. A. H. Mayo, Pastor APPLICATION FOR PAROLE. NOTICE. William Snell has made application for parole; his petition will be heard by the Parole Board on the first Wedn sday in November, 1903, and disposed of at that time or continued until further investigation. Published by order of Prison Parole Board. 1st 10-24-1903 The job press in the Searchl ght office has been kept humming for the past two weeks, working day and night to get out the large amount of job work given us by our friends. We are more than grateful to all and are prepared to do all the work that may me our way, Won't you give us a trial? Locals and Personals The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRONIZE TUTM. Mr. Lev Davy has purchased the People's Restaurant at 346 N. Main st., formerly conducted by Prof. C. K. Smith. Mr. Davy will make several improvements in the restaurant and invites the public and his friends to call. The People's Restaurant will be open day and night. 5e Lunch Counter in connection. Rov S. S. Washington filled the pulpit at the C. M. E. Church in Newton during the past two Sundays. He had a good time there and came home with a very friendly feeling toward the good people of Newton for the hospitality shown him while in their city. Mrs. W. E. Whitted. Hair Goods, Braids, Switches, etc., etc All Orders Promptly Delivered. 509 North Water St. John McQuarters, of Springfield, I.K., is in the city visiting with his mother, Mrs, Sarah McQuarters, of Valey Center, Es. Mrs. McQuarters served a special dinner in honor of her son last Sunday at which Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hilbert were invited guest. Rev. H. F. Frazier, pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church, has just returned from an extended vacation trip through the South. Rev. Frazier had a very enjoyable time and while in Texas preached at Dennison and Sheaman. He says that the colored people in the South are doing fine; but for his part give him the Norton. He returns looking much better and feeling fine. The ladies of Princess Quapter, No. 12, H. of J., will give a grand musical program at Dunbar hall on Thursday evening, Nov. 5th. Program will begin at 8 p.m. All are cordially invited to attend. The Searchlight will start a general collecting campaign. It is our desire that every one be "square" with our bookg by Jan. 1st, 1904. We have no complaint to make of the colored people in this city; we have sent them the paper and they always pay us. Let this record keep to the front. Club "G" of the 2nd Baptist Church will give a Unique Social at the church Tuesday evening, Nov. 3rd. This will be one of the most novel socials ever witnessed. It is the original deign of Mrs. S. E. Patton and no pains will be spared to make the event entertaining in every way. A prize will be given the one dressing the most antique. NOTICE:— The members of Mr. R. Watson's club, Club "A", of the 2nd Baptist Church, will meet Tuesday evening at the residence of Mrs. Ella Kyle, 239 N Water. Rev. Hall had a small rally at his church, the 2nd Baptist, Sunday. The rolly is called small because the church made no "special" effort; but simply and ordinarily raised $30 07. Richard Walker was down from Topeka Sunday to attend the funeral of his step-mother. He is doing fine and left Monday for his duties in Topeka. Rev. Smith, of Mexico, Mo., preached at the 2nd Baptist church, last Sunday night. Mr. Mac McRay, one of Wichita, a pioneer colored citizens died at the Wichita Hospital last Tuesday. Mrs. Lee Anderson has opened a Hair Dressing parlo in the Oldham Building, corner 1st and Main. Get a Searchlight, if you want the news. GRAND SUPRISE PARTY. On last Monday night a large crowd of members and friends of New Hope Baptist Church gathered at the home of Rev. Frazi r, 289 New York Ave., and surprised and aroused the Rev and family about 8:30 o'clock by singing "There's a Stranger at the Door". Rev. and Mrs. Frazer were very much surprised when they opened the door to invite them in with their arms and bakeeis full of so many good things, which were so cheerfully received After spending an hour in merry glee and social conversation with pastor and family, who so gladly thanked them all for their many donations, they all went home feeling happy over what they had given and the warm reception they had received from the pastor and wife. Those present, were:—Mesdames M. Davis, F. Jones, R. Frazier, J. F. Frazier, L. Ilson, E Pearce, I. Barnum, F. Floyd, J. H. McBride, I. Wethers, C. Mitchel, G. Hyde; Misses S. Love, G. Botts V Hamonds, I Wilson, E. Hamonds, M. Gloyer; Messrs R. Frazier, I Barnum, Pearce, J. Mitceell and M. Davis. THANKS, Dear members and friends, we welcome you to come again. May the Lord bless and preserve your iives for the kindness shown by your coming to our house. Rev. Frazier and family. GOT 8.62. The managers of the He'en Gould Orphan Home for colored children placed several donation boxes in several different places and each box remained thirty days. When gathered up the boxes had the following amount:— Tabernacle Baptist church $415 Police Station 276 Klondike Saloon .58 Boston Store .55 Rich's Bakery .22 Frankenfield's Store 21 J. T. Chinneth's Shop .15 Total $8.62 The members of the Tabernacle Baptist church, through its pastor, Rev. A. H. Mayo, Deacons Miles Parker and M. Mayo, led all the places with the largest donation of any. Much credit is due them. The police station comes next with $276 and so on down the list. This is a worthy institution and should ceire the patronage of all. Mrs. Walker, wife of Mr. Joshua Walker died at the family home, 1327 S. Main st. last Friday night. Mrs. Walker had been sick for several months. She was a member of the Second Baptist church and her funeral took place from that church last Sunday and was conducted by Rev. S. M. Hall. She leaves a husband, ond child, a sister and a host of friends. THANKS. We wish to thank our friends who were kind enough to take our "Donation Boxes" for the Helen Gould Home. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Neeley. ATTENTION:— The Fulton Store is offering a specialty this week and next in fine suits. You can get a fine $50 Suits for $10. We apvise all to take advantage of this special sale and get a good winter suit at a saving of $5. The weeding bells are ringing once more. Dan Cupid has once more beeh successful. This time it is to be among Wichits's most fashionable colored set. It is said that Mr. Charles H. Gordon, one of the populr colored firemen at No. 3 hose house, will be united in marriage Miss Ida Hill, one of the belles of Valley Center, Ks. The wedding is said to be scheduled for next Tuesday evening, Nov. 3rd. We will watch our friend, Mr. Gordon, bye the bye. Honest Goods at Honest Prices This is, and always will be, our " MOTTO. " We carry the largest assortment of Men and Boys' Suits and Overcoats, Furnishing Goods, Hats and Shoes in Wichiia and guarantee a saving on every article you purchase here. We have a line of very dressy, well made Suits, and Overcoats that can't be duplicated elsewhere for .ess than $15.00, handsome patterns in dark gray mixtures and plain blacks and blades. Boys' Suits and Overcoats as low as $1, and uq to $5 You'll Find It Pays To Trade At THE FU Working man'r Friend for Go and Furnishi THE FULTON ing man'r Friend for Good Clothing, Hats, and Furnishing Goods Working man'r Friend for Good Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Furnishing Goods Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store Your Dollar's Worth or Your Money Back CHILDREN CRY Don't let them cry, give them ICE CREAM. Its pure and dont cost any more than the Special Prices to Picnics CHILDREN CRY FOR IT don't let them cry, give them all they want of BE CREAM. Its pure and wholesome—just right cost any more than the ordinary kind. Special Prices to Picnics and Socials. CHILDREN CRY FOR IT Don't let them cry, give them all they want of BON-TON ICE CREAM. Its pure and wholesome—just right—and dont cost any more than the ordinary kind. Special Prices to Picnics and Socials. MESSERVE'S BON TON BAKERY & KANDY ITCHEN Phone 152 USE BODEN MPI ne 152 146 N. USE I V BODEN'S IMPERIA --- BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating. AT YOUR GROCER3 IMBODEN MILLI GROCER3 IMBODEN MILLIE MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW Select your FALL and WINTER SUIT, OVERCOATS and TROUSERS at the PEERLESS TAILOR'S. Our stock comprises the latest novelties in FOREIGN and DOMESTIC Woolens. See me before placing your order. The Peerless Tailor 508 E. Douglas Ave. Everybody Then why not The Co-Operative By OUR co-operative plan we that will lighten the burden of many y each member a respectable burial wit one, and without imposing on friend Membership Fe Derth Assessments....Adults 11c. OFFICE J. J. Bleitz 235 North Ma Everybody Must I Do Then why not Join The Co-Operative Burial Association By OUR co-operative plan we are enabled to render assistance will lighten 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. North Assessments...Adults 11c, Children 6c OFFICE J. J. Bleitz, Undertaker 235 North Main St W. M. DUNSON, AGENT Everybody Must Die The Co-Operative Burial Association? By OUR co-operative plan we are enabled to render assistance that will lighten the burden of many a family and that will afford to each member a respectable burial without working a hardship on any one, and without imposing on friends for assistance. Membership Fee Only 16cts. Derth Assessments...Adults 11c, Children 6c OFFICE J. J. Bleitz, Undertaker 235 North Main St W. M. DUNSON, AGENT. Mr. J. B. H. Frey was up to the Searchlight office Thursday afternoon and saw the office force hard at work pushing job after job to a finish and seeing the office "minus" wash pan and soap surprised the office by donating those two much need- --- ULTON ood Clothing, Hats, Shoes ing Goods Y FOR IT m all they want of BON-TON and wholesome—just right—and the ordinary kind. s and Socials. N'S ERIAL FLOUR AND IMBODEN MILLING CO. My Must Die not Join Burial Association? We are enabled to render assistance a family and that will afford to without working a hardship on any words for assistance. Fee Only 16cts. Children 6c z, Undertaker main St W. M. DUNSON, AGENT. ed articles. We accept them most graciously, and as they can e on our birth day, we count them so. Come again, Mr. Fray—with something else. 146 N. Main Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 RELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... L KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHPENISCH BROS, PROFS. N. Main St. Phone 530 then in hand of Groceries not forget that you can always get the Best at the west prices at KERNAN'S 22 E. Doughier Ave. 'Phone 357 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. Hess & Co Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition, Fishing Tackle and General Sporting Goods. '209 N. Main phone 444 CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant When You Want AG O O D M E A L ways The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS 15ets — C. L. KINER, Prop. $ N. Main St. Wichita, Kas Dr.J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. GO TO ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F.W. Israel, 127 N. Market Wichita. J. B. GIVE My whole attention to Pianos, organs, Sewing Machines, Music boxes, Gramaphones, Piano players supplies, etc., etc. can make better prices can ordinary dealers on anything. THOS. SHAW, 132 North Main Street B. F. McLEAN, YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. CHAS. A SC Real Estate, and Insurance NOTARY MYRON A Groceries, Fru and I 815 N. D SECOND HAS. A SCHWENDIGER Real Estate, Rental, Lo Insurance Agent, NOTARY PUBLIC CHAS. A SCHWENDIGER Real Estate, Rental, Loans and Insurance Agent, MYRON A. DEAN veeties, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 315 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones SECOND TO NONE Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS —— It Is White As Snow. —— We trade Ranches, Farms, J. F. Belle Real Estate & Homes So Installment Pla Western Lands and Ranges A Oklahoma and Colorado Patronage Office 110 N. Ma Trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Me F. Bellew & Co. Estate & Imigration Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Lands and RangesA Specialty. Dealers in Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Land Atronage Solicited Office 110 N. Main, wichita, K We trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Merchandise Real Estate & Imigration Agts Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Western Lands and RangesA Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lands. Patronage Solicited- Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kansas. The greatest event of the Season will be the big Thanksgiving Offering at DUNBAR hall, 233 N. Main st., to be given under the auspices of The Searchlight. Program will appear next week. A PLEASANT BIRTH-DAY SURPRISE Thursday evening when W. N. Miller went "bursting" home about 10:30 he found a housefull of friends there laughing, jesting and waiting. In the dining room was a toble ladened with all kinds of good things to eat and several useful and ornamental articles. He was g-ad to see his friends but could not imagine the cause. Ss soon as he had an opportunity he inquired, and lo! and behold!! he found that those present were a surprise party called together by his thoughtful wife in token of his thirtieth birthday. Then the fun began. It was, indeed, more than a surprise. At a fair hour all sat at the table and refreshments were served. In turn each recited an appropriate quotation. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gibbs, Mr --- = DEALER Phone 184 408 W. Douglas HWENDIGER, Rental, Loans Agent, PUBLIC Over 117 N. Market—Phone 773. A. DEAN its, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 TO NONE OTTO WEIFS, Agent. City Property and Merchandise ew & Co., Imigration Agts Sold On on. Easy Terms. Specialty. D alers in, Kansas, Farms and Ranch Lands. Solicited= ain, wichita, Kansas. and Mrs, J. W. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. A. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Gainss, Miss Winnie Ray, Mrs. Addie Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Miller. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Up-to-the-Minute Mr. A. Mr Richards, who has been conducting a chattel loan office at 151 N. Main for a number of years, is of sing up his business affairs and will soon leave the city in quest of a better climate for his fast failing health. For so many years past his health has continued to fail him and he is forced to seek a more congenial climate for the present at least. He has a host of warm friends in this city who will regret to loose his company but who will be proud to see him regain his good health. He contemplates going to New Mexico. --- PERSONAL MENTION. One of the most energetic coloured men in Wichita is Mr. Al Covington. He is getting a hold on some of this world's goods. Though he is quiet and is hot found on every corner, yet he is making hay while the sun shines. Among our landed coloured men is Mr. Henry Underwood. Mr. Underwood owns a nice farm east of town and two houses in the city. S. E. Patton is making an ideal jailor and is doing credit to himself and to the race. You scratch our back and we will scratch your back. Is that fair? Dr. J. E. Farmer is a good doctor and has a fine practice. Doc says he finds better results in sticking to his practice han in mixing in politics—thus he is a doctor and not a politician. Good for Farmer. Although a "farmer" by name, he is not a farmer at practicing medicine, but strictly up-to-date. One of Wichita's progressive men, who is not seen of heard of much, is Mr. R. E. Smith, 422 Steven, Mr. Smith is a Wide awake ra c man and is a heavy property owner. He is a trainman on the Mo. P. Ry. Mr. Garfield Fray is one of the new additions to Wichita's swell young set. He is setting a pace that all the young people can follow. Billie Glauberg, the well known milliner, has in his employ Wade Rogers, son of Mrs. C. K. Smith who is a little wonder. Besides his regular work he makes hats and works on doll heads for the holiday trees. Mrs. Addie Adams has returned from an extended visit in Lawrence. Do you notice the new face on the Searshlight this week! We're coming, coming, coming. W. M. Dunson Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 986 W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. The Searchlight will begin collection of the unpaid subscriptions immediately, as we want all our subscribers to be paid up by the first of next year. Look for the "Searchlight man" at any time, especially Saturdays. Get ready to pay up. We are trying to give you a good paper and expect your appreciation by your promptness in payment of your subscription. In the past 5 years we have had no trouble in collecting and only hope our subscribers will do as well in the future. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Some of our correspondents are very irregular in sending in their communications. It should be remembered to create an interest in a community is essential to be prompt Friends in the various cities and towns could assist their representatives by handing in items for their column. We hope our correspondents will all bestir themselves and send in the news of the doings of our people. Do not wait for something to "turn up", but turn something up. Our Correspondents did nicely this week in response to the above request. Good!! Keep it up. —Editor --- Fur Boas from 75c to $15.00. You will find the swellest line of Trimmed Hats in the city here. Corduroy Caps. Price 50c. Haulberg's Wholesale and 407 East TRAVELER THROUGH Between St. Louis, Kansas City, Mem- fort Smith, Wich And Points in Missouri, Kansas, Ari- klahoma and Indian Territory Information as to train service and rates, also illu- plication to B.F. 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Your f had satisfaction from them for two year Stop experimenting and buy— Peerless Tires, each ..... $3 Peerless Thorn Proof Tires ..... $3 Scholtenberger Bros. Wholesale and Retail Millinery 407 East Douglas 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. DURNE DIV. PASS. AGENT Wichita, Ks. We repeat that our Tires are made of pure Para rubber and high grade fabric; the wear that they give proves them to be properly made. Your friends have had satisfaction from them for two years. Stop experimenting and buy— Peerless Tires, each ..... $3.25 Peerless Thorn Proof Tires ..... $3.75 Schollenberger Bros. Good Bicycles Only Pb ne 545 230 N. Main 545 230 N Receipt Book FREE Call UNION by the Thursday Afternoon Campbell, Pres. You can use these receipts, but PEERL the cake " and suits every UNION MILLS and Re the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club, Mrs. Campbell, Pres. You can use any brand of flour receipts, but PEERLESS PRINCESS "cake" and suits every lover of good cooking UNION MILLS and get a Receipt Book by the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club, Mrs. B H Campbell, Pres. You can use any brand of flour with these receipts, but PEERLESS PRINCESS "takes the cake" and suits every lover of good cooking The Wichita Union Mill Co. JOB WORK 180U Let us try yo B WORK IS OUR HOME Let us try your next or ```markdown ``` Let us try your next order Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store. We have just received a large in voice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and all kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES You'll find an excellent line of "Colonials" the proper thing and latest fad, in our regular stock, at $2 TAPP BROTHERS & HANSAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main I. J. Porter returned Wednesday from Ft.Riley, Ke, where he attended the Annual Maneuvers of the State Militia. He brought Mrs Porter and the children several fine presents. He also brought Mr. and Mrs. W N Miller some large Irish potatoes and other things. He had a fine time on his trip. After spending about two weeks visiting relative- and friends in this city, Mrs. Thos. G. Banks left Wednesday for her home in Arkansas City. She says she always enjoys a visit to Wichita. --- Retail Millinery M. 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Get the Original Ozonized Or Marrow as the genuine never falls to the touch. It makes it healthy, like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies. It makes it superior and giving qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not any anybody's produce a preparation equal to hair. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal 'or express money' to us, please mention name of this product when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Co-Operation in England In England alone the volume of cooperative business has grown, in the last forty years, more than forty times as fast as England's international trade, one hundred times as fast as her manufactures and 130 times as fast as the population. HORTICULTURE A Disease of the Privet. Some of the privet hedges of Stillwater are being greatly damaged, if not destroyed, by a fungous disease of a sort which is called "anthracnose." The fungus of this disease attacks and kills the bark and wood of the stems, says a report of the Oklahoma station. Starting at a point on the stem, it spreads through and around the stems. When the leaves of the plant first begin to wither, the place attacked by the fungus may often be located just below the lowest of the withered leaves and above the green ones, if there are any such on the shoot. Close inspection reveals the fact that the bark is slightly shrunken at the point of injury, and, if the stem be sliced lengthwise, the diseased wood and bark will be found to be colored, while that below, if healthy, will be fresh, and that above simply seasoned. The wood above the point of the first attack dries out, and the fungus seems to spread down the stem to the crown of the plant, and from to all the roots and stalks. About the point of first attack black spots appear on the bark, and when the bark thus spotted is scraped or cut, it is found that these spots are the openings of spore-bearing postules. Hedges which have not yet been injured by this disease should be closely watched, and at the first sign of attack by this disease all the injured shoots should be cut off below the affected part and burned. If the crown or roots are affected the plant should be removed bodily and burned. In case the hedge is badly damaged it will probably be best to remove it entirely and not plant privet in the same pl ce, as the soil is likely to be infected with the spores of the fungus. Diseased hedges are a menace to healthy ones in the neighborhood. It has been recommended that the hedges which are exposed to infection by this anthracnose be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, especially in the spring, at the time when the buds are swelling and expanding, and while the new shoots and leaves are tender. To Check the Apple Worm. Spraying alone, though successful within its own limits, cannot ensure the fullest product of perfect apples without the concurrent practice of other methods looking to the final reduction of the numbers of the coding moth. The most important of these associated methods is the banding of the trees and the destruction of the attracted worms every ten days from the fall of the first wormy apple till the fruit is all in the bin. The second is the immediate destruction of all fallen wormy fruit, and the third is the destruction of as many as possible of the worms wintering over under bark scales, in old birds' nests, in cracks in apple bins or barrels, or elsewhere in the fruit room. These associated practices are not to be expected to show their full results in the season in which the work is done, though the immediate value of the first is considerable as a means of reducing the number of worms of the second or later broods of the same season.—E. A. Popenoe. Great Realm of Horticulture A prominent writer on horticulture says: From the horticultural side of the business, there are three great series of questions with which the nurseryman has to deal. These are the whole question of soil, the whole question of propagation and the whole question of varieties. Any one of these fields is large enough to occupy an investigator profitably during a lifetime. The probability is that if any man were to devote his life to either of these series of questions, he would feel at the last that he had touched only the borders of it. The Hoghouse AGRICULTURE Pushing North the Corn Belt. A communication from the Minnesota station says: Owing to the cold, wet season, the corn crop in Minnesota and surrounding states is ripening so late that a very serious shortage is threatened in home-grown seed for next year's planting. The experience of last year should be taken as a valuable lesson, and every bushel of the best ears of the best yielding varieties which ripen this season should be selected, thoroughly dried and carefully stored for use or sale for planting. The ears of first quality should be saved to grow in hills, or thinly in drills to produce grain; and those of second quality should be saved to plant thickly in drills for fodder or silage. There is always a good market for the second quality of Minnesota dent varieties to plant thickly for fodder corn, though at a less price than for corn suitable to grow for ears. There is a growing appreciation of the small varieties of northern dent corn to plant thickly for fodder. It is useful for wintering horses and sheep, as well as for cattle. It is very easily grown, cleans the land of weeds for grain crops, and yields enormous quantities of food per acre. When grown thickly, corn does not bear ears, but the substance of the grain is largely distributed throughout the stems and leaves. It is much more valuable per ton as dry fodder or as silage than stover from which ears have been husked, or than fodder corn grown from the seed of the larger varieties. Fodder of these small varieties of dent corn is a strong competitor of the hay crop. Where the corn is husked into the wagon from the standing stalks, the best ears may be thrown into a box on one end or side of the wagon, or they may be picked out as the corn is being unloaded into the crib. Seed corn is often injured in ways not fully understood when stored in bins or cribs, even though it is well protected from outdoor weather. The moisture from live stock which collects on seed corn stored above stables, is generally fatal to good seed. The grain should remain on the cobs until nearly corn planting time, and purchasers should prefer to buy seed corn on the ear to be grown for grain. Minnesota has rapidly increased the area devoted to corn in the past twenty-five years, but it is not sufficient to let it rest as it is. There is need for a much more rapid increase in order to supply the demand within the state. Last year and this year have been exceptionally adverse to the production of corn, but with the varieties now secured and improved the corn acreage may profitably be increased to more than double or treble the present area. These adverse short seasons will help to eliminate all the undesirable and poor varieties. Those varieties which ripened this year and last and yielded well in the various localities are of very great value to Minnesota. From these varieties every bushel of good ears should be saved for seed, and farmers can well afford to pay high prices for such seed, if properly saved. Allowing this opportunity of selecting and properly curing large quantities of choice seed to pass will be a misfortune which will be felt by the entire state. The varieties which have been found to ripen during these two very short seasons in northern Minnesota should be preserved and used as a basis in breeding more hardy and better yielding varieties. The dent varieties which ripen this season in the southern portion of the state are worth millions of dollars and should interest breeders in every county. The state is large and the amount of seed used annually (about 200,000 bushels of field corn alone) is great, so there is little danger of over-estimating this important work. Seed corn for field grain should be taken southward rather than northward. Bringing the larger yielding varieties northward and adapting them to the new conditions should be left mainly to men who have experience in corn breeding. The corn belt has been and is now being pushed northward by the introduction and acclimating of varieties and especially by carefully breeding varieties already introduced. Corn breeders should use mostly those varieties already adapted to their locality. This good work should be continued, but in a conservative way, by those who are prepared for the work. Get Good Sheep. A mistake often made by farmers who start in with a small flock of sheep to act as scavengers is to buy anything that any one may choose to call a sheep, has a little wool on its back and will eat weeds, and then to treat them as meanly as their appearance seems to deserve. This does not pay. Good blood, individual merit and good care are as necessary for profitable sheep raising as with any other kind of stock. Buy a few good, pure-bred, registered sheep of any one of half a dozen of the standard breeds, treat them right, and they will do the handsome thing by you. They_will earn their keep during the summer by destroying weeds, but they must have good care and feed during the winter. Where a considerable number of sheep are required and pure-breds cannot be obtained at satisfactory prices, good grade ewes will do, but a pure-bred ram should be used.—J. W. Wilson. in Newton Mrs Smith and daughter, of El linwood, Ks., were the guest of Mrs J W. Wood lase week 'The 2nd Baptist church is undergoing much needed repairing. Mr Jesse Miles is from Chanute visiting his family Glauberg, the popular priced mil- liner, 407 East Douglas, does both wholesale and retail. He has one f the largest and most complete stock of millinery goods, at lowest prices. Read the Searchlight every week, OF MORE THAN The services at the A. M. E. Church were of more than usual interest last Sunday evening. The services opened at 7 p.m. with the Song Service, which was conducted by Mr. Jon. Hall, and the manner in which Mrs. Hall conducted it was extremely creditable to her. All were well pleased at the manner in which she lead and many favorable compliments were expressed. At 8 p.m., the hour for opening the regular service, Rev. Ychum announced that the choir had prepared a sacred concert which would take the place of the regular service. Mr Geo. W. White the very able conductor of the choir, was master of the program and had charge of its rendition. The public is so well acquainted with Mr. White's ability to get up firstclass Sacred concerts, that should we not say more, this would suffice to say this was one with Mr. White at its head, was grand. Player was offered by Rev. J. E, Fletcher, allowed by a song by the choir. The toping number on the program was a recitation by Mrs. Parthena Glovr, titled "The Old Church Bell". This number was followed by a song by the choir, "Nearer my God to Thee." The third number was a vocal 10 by Mr Robt. Freyd, of Kingman. Mr. Floyd pleased his hearers and received a nice applause. The choir then sang "Lift up your hearts". When the name of Mrs. Ida B. Clark was called, there was loud andong applause, and as she came forward the audience applauded her time and again. Her subject of declamation was "The Punish Boy" and in her well accomplish adgurtures and perfect tone of voice, she again proved herself mestress of declamers. She did fine and was again and again appauded when she had concluded. The choir sang "In the Shadow of the Cross". It is not here an iss to say that Wichita has a prima dona and she cae forward in the full melodiousness of the songs er when Miss Madge Yochum was called forward and sang a solo titled "I heard the Sound" Miss Yochum was well received by her hearers. Next was a song by the choir, "Sing me a Song". The following number on the program was a duet by Mesdam SGeo. W. White and J. W. Thompson. These two ladies are well known for their ability as duettests and they acquitted themselvesain a very ceditable manner. Song by the chir, "Away, away, away". Next was a vocal solo by that sweet singer and favorite of all, Mr. Stewart Watr, who sang a solo entitled "Jerusalem" Mr. Waters, by his sweet melodious voice, has please many an audience and when he came forth it washe signal for a sound of applause. The audience called him back the second time. The concluding number was a short address by Mr. Thomas Glover or Unity. Mr White and the choir may well feel proud of the program tendered Sunday night. After the oblation was raised by Rev. S. S Wash- Beginning Monday Nov 2nd. we will have some one at our office who will receipt all who wish to call at our office and pay Call at any time at 110 N. Main. UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL. NEWTON, KANS. Mesdames Jones and Newling, who have been visiting Mrs Robinson returned to their home in Aichison, Ks. Miss Sallie Rawls, of Wichita, was the guest of Zola Anderson durin the Fair. Mesdames Ella Landrum and Chas. Anderson, of Wichita, enjoosed Thursday and Friday with Mrs. C. Miller. Mrs. Jones, of Hutchinson, is visiting Mrs. J. Garnest Mrs. Robert Eton, formerly of St. Louis is visiting Mrs. Chas. Miller. Those who enjoyed the Fair from Hutchinson, were: John Gardener, Anderson Brown, Bert Bell rnd S. Jones. Mrs. Wayman Anderson entertained Mr. and Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Eton, of St Louis, at her home for 7 o'clock dinner. Miss Ella Johnson and sister spent Fair week in Newton. Mrs. Hall is visiting her mother here. Mesdames Bush, Dell and Powel, of Peabody, are visiting Mrs. S. M. Hall in this city. PUEBLO, COLO. The children's concert and Tom Thumb wedding at Rev. Hardy's church, Monday night, Oct. 19, was a success, Mr. M, L. Davis is getting along as nicely as can be expected. The Gazoo concert at the A. M. E. Chvrch Tuesday night, Oct. 20, was a grand success. Rev. Plummer preached at St. John's A. M. E. Church Wednesday day night* The cantata was repeated last Thusrday night at Bessemer Hall. The Athenian Literary Club met with Mrs. Lihcoln, 1108 Beulav ave. Monday evening. A paper was read on Russia by Mr. C. H Holmes. The Court of Calantbia gave a Chicken Fry at the Odd Fellows' Hall Wednesday night. The sewing circle of the A. M. E. Church met at the home of Mrs, W, B. Townsand Friey afternoon. Rev. D. A, Jefferson went to Colo. Springs Monday. The sewing circle of 8th st. Baptist church met with Mrs. De Shadio last Friday afternoon. Rev. Peck, of Shorter Chaple at Denver, has taken charge of Allen Chaple at St. Joe, Mo., and Rev. Dyett will take charge of Shorter Chapel. Mr. W. A. Holly is very ill at her home on 8th st. Mrs. Watson has moved from the north side to a cosy little home of her own. Several of the young people of the city are preparing for a grand concert in toe near future. Mrs. L. C. Manuel is improveng slowly. Mrs. N. Garrett, of Denver, is visiting her daughter in-law. Mrs. P. B. Lawrence, and is also recovering from a slight attack of la grippe. 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