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SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Bulgaria needs a little cracked ice. Alas for Canada, no Alaska for Canada. Some married couples live happy ever after they are divorced. Men who sue for divorce and wives who invite it should never write letters. Japan is apparently tired of speaking softly and is nervously fumbling the big stick. Life's fitful fever over, the Georgia negro woman who twisted the mule's tail sleeps well. The sultan is all ready to reform, but he doesn't seem to be able to find any good place to begin. Extravagant New Jersey has been filling railroad washouts with pea coal. How different from 1902! The successful poet is the one who carbs his fine Genzy and earns a good salary keeping books in a bank. Unfortunately for individual human- ity, no one knows his best days until they have been added to the past. "A nursery thermometer costs 20 cents," says the New York Times. But, as, that is not the 'sole expense! One of the universities has estab- lished a chair of dressmaking. Excellen- t! Now for a chair of dishwashing. And when the 8th of October was duly past the Bear rolled over for another hibernation—with one eye open. Dr. Robert Collyer says a man's best friends are his ten fingers. We always thought two of them were simply his thumbs. A woman never goes traveling without dressing in such a way that in case of an accident her clothes would be a credit to her. Japan insists that Russia shall leave Manchuria. When Russia does Manchuria will know how it feels to be a squeezed lemon. The Sultan of Turkey has levied a heavy war tax. Thought the old bird hadn't even a pluckable pin feather; but Abdul knows how to use tweezers. When magnates get to quarreling over their stock the public is permitted to find out how it is called upon to transfer its cash for their green paper. An albino deer and a five-legged deer have been shot in Maine this fall, but prizes of this kind cannot be promised to every buyer of a $15 license. If the Yankee lake fishermen are wise they will give the Canadian shore a wide berth until the men across the border have had a chance to cool off. If the improvement of great guns and smokeless powder continues the navy that wins the next great*battle on the sea will be the one that doesn't sink itself. The announcement that the backbone of the Macedonian rebellion is broken would be all right if the rebellion didn't get along just as well without a backbone. With southern California turning out more than a million gallons of wine in a single season, there should be no continued scarcity of "rare vintages from France." The Boston Globe has decided that an angora goat is worth more than an angora cat. Well, while admitting that there is a strong argument in favor of the goat, most women prefer to carry the cat. The Toledo lover who cried fire and secured a promise of marriage in the midst of the excitement might have known that the girl would suffer a revulsion of feeling after the all-out signal was sounded. The Minnesota dog who has been appraised at five dollars by the board of equalization must feel quite superior when he meets up with a horde of men who are not down on the tax rolls for even a dollar. After eating four beefsteaks at a meal, a man in Ansonia, Conn., became despondent and cut his throat. He probably concluded that it was hopeless for one man to try to knock out the beef trust all alone. The Ancient and Honorable artillery company of Boston has given the Honourable artillery company of London a banquet that cost the snug sum of $60,000. We didn't suppose that there were that many beans in the world. A man in the Adirondacks, mistaken for a deer and shot in the thigh, made bandages and stopped the flow of blood. Then he started to crawl out of the woods, and had gone two miles when he fainted, where he was found. Now he has some idea how a wounded deer must feel. CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BYRON WILLIAMS On the Beach. She sat upon the sand In sweet and pensive mood, Her moulded form petite In graceful attitude! The seagulls in the light Reversed with dizzy wheel And there upon the beach I felt my senses reel! Before the maid so fair I knelt in knightly style, Interling too, to tell My burning love meanwhile! "IN SWEET AND PENSIVE MOOD." But where I knelt to sue A clam-shell sharp arose, And that is why I failed To gracefully propose! But she was deft and true, And quickly moved. Her face, Suffused with red, she lasped: "Here—is a—softer place!" Then long upon the sand We watched the billows roll; And for that wounded knee I claimed and got love's toll! Did you ever collect any toll like that? It comes high, but our hired girl says it beats washing dishes, all hollow. ya ya ya The city man kicked the footrest under his desk viciously and sighed. The city man kicked the footest under his desk viciously and sighed. "If I could only get out into the country," he murmured, with vistons in his mind's eye of red leaves and babbling brooks, chattering squirrels and lowing cattle. "If I could just hire an old horse hitched to a democrat wagon and go nutting again, I'd be happy. I wonder if the chipmonks still hide their nuts in those hollow logs down in Day's woods. 'Long about now they must be pretty busy quarrelling with the gray squirrels and the crows! Ah, me! What a slave I am!" And the city man reached in his pocket for a dyspepsia tablet and forced himself to the carking grind again. Out in the village park, where the fall wind was whispering secrets to the redolent woods, the country merchant sat on a rustic bench and cailed. "The same old story, day after day, I wish I lived in the city where I could see a new face occasionally and get out of this rut. "Wouldn't I like to go into Opolis and spend about two weeks seeing the sights, instead of ripping off calico and denims. I'd be happy there! My, but this is a hard life!" and the business man sauntered over to the store with ennui in his gait. This is the way of the world. Wonder why men can't enjoy themselves where they are, without being miserable because they are not somewhere else? 2 Sometimes, even when my rent is paid, I wish I lived in a little dug-out in Iowa, or Indiana or the Philippines. Doesn't it beat all? ```markdown ``` There's daybreak and noon and afternoon, too. Night time and Sunday when Bill courts his Sue. But morning or eve, Mirandy allows, There's no time quite like when Towse brings the cows. The great sun has set in glorified red And mock-birds have put their young ones to bed. The wood-oor-will calls his mate in the wood. The owl's faint halloo frights Dame Mouse's brood— Then Towse comes a-yelp behind the bovine, Straight up the long lane they jog in a The brindle cow leads with bell loudly stirred— "Bob-tail" in the rear, the worst of the The farmer shouts, "Polgh!" to call the fat stock That bellow and squeak o'er fruit of the shock; The chickens at roost in building and tree Are chuckling "Good night" as soft as can be. Here's plenty and peace, and still some in store. And when that is gone there's always some more. So he for the time when faithful old Towes Sets forth on his task of bringing the ddd Dying of Shame There is a saying that a nightingale dies of shame if another bird sings better. The nightingale is a foolish bird. At every hand we find men who outdo us, yet we falter not. Instead of dying, we imbibe inspiration and strive to equal their songs. Now, there was that book agent that called yesterday. He had a song as long as a Chinese opera and a masterpiece in business rhapsody. Instead of depressing us, he inspired us to thrash him. Instead of casting us down, we cast him out and set the dog onto him. Do not be lugubrious over the songs of others. They spur a man to action and exercise. Even the song of the mule has an uplifting enthusiasm that man might well emulate! Silly nightingale to die of shame because some other bird sang "Hiawatha." A livryman in Texas is reported as having put in a new stock of horses, carriages and -coffins. Must he runaway horses. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Lesson VII. Nov. 15—David's Trust in God Psalm 23. Golden Text—"The Lord Is My Shepherd; I Shall Not Want"—Psalm 23:1. dow of death." Cheyne says that this may mean "the gloom like that of Hades," or "the very gloom of Hades." nert. I Shall Not Want — shall The Lord our Shepherd.—V. 1. "The Lord." Jehovah, the ever-living, eterna- nal God. The Good Shepherd of John 10: 1-16 is the same Jehovah manifested and made visible in the person of Jesus Christ. I. He Satisfies Every Want. "I shall not want." "Every real need shall be supplied, both temporal and spiritual. Every wayward desire may not be gratified. It may not be best for us that it should be. Our Shepherd is wise as well as kind. He consults for our true and lasting welfare, rather than for our immediate gratification; and he knows better what will promote the former than we can possibly do."—Prof. W. H. Green. II. The Life of Peace and Plenty.—V. 2 First. "He maketh me to lie down." The most active life needs periods of rest, as we put hyacinth bulbs for a time in the dark if we would have the best blooms, or as crystals are formed in the stillness of the saturated solution. "There are times when a man needs to lie still, like the earth under a spring rain, letting the lessons of experience and the memories of the Word of God sink down to the very roots of his life, and fill the deep reservoirs of his soul.* * They are not always lost days when his hands are not busy; they are growing days. And for this side of a man's life the Great Shepherd provides in his green pastures. * * * Now and then God makes such an lie down. * * * Many a man has had to thank God for some such enforced season of rest, in which he first learned the sweetness of meditation on the Word, and of lying still in God's hands and waiting God's pleasure."—M. R. Vincent. Second. "In green pastures." The good shepherd always feeds his sheep. Note that the lying down is amid green pastures, where there is abundant food for the soul. This experience becomes an oasis amid the desert sands of life. The soul needs food as really as the body. Whatever enlarges the soul, builds up the character, increases faith, hope, love, knowledge, and all the virtues, makes the conscience more tender and true, cultures the will, perfects the judgment, and enables the soul to work out a pure and holy life and fits it for heaven—whatever does these things constitutes the green pastures. The Good Shepherd leads us into the experiences and discipline which thus feed the soul. He sends the Holy Spirit, who imparts new life and vigor. By his example and personal presence he nourishes the soul. He brings the power of heaven into our daily life. Third. "He leadeth me." "The shepherd goes before them, and they follow him, come to his call and crowd round him for safety if danger threatens. There, there is perpetual danger from sudden torrents, from wolves and robbers; there are but rare and scanty streams, and the flocks often suffer from parching thirst. The shepherd never leaves them. When night approaches, they follow him to some safe fold—a cave in the hillside. Surrounded by his watchful dogs, the guardian, 'keeping watch over his flock by night,' makes his bed in front of the cave, on a pile of twigs and brushwood, collected within a circle of stones, to protect him from the damp, and rushes heaped upon them to give warmth. When morning comes, the sheep are counted as they pass out of the cave, and then follow the shepherd to the green pasturage belonging to the village or tribe."—Canon Tristram in S. S. Times. So Christ goes before his flock. He does not ask them to go where he does not go himself. He shows them the way both by precept and example. All he asks is for them to follow him. III. Restoring the Soul.—V. 3. "He restoreth my soul," or life, the same Hebrew word being used for both. The soul is the seat of life. The Good Shepherd restores the soul from wanderings into sin and error and mistakes as the Eastern shepherd spends much of his time in recovering straying sheep. God restores us by the promise of his forgiveness, by the gift of his Holy Spirit, by his providence, by thorns and afflictions, by the teachings of his Word. He restores it by putting a new life and a new heart in man. IV. Divine Guidance.—The restored soul he not only brings back to the green pastures and to the fold, but "he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness," That is, in the right paths in which one ought to walk, the paths which lead to the best places, the paths of duty and right living. "For his name's sake." Not because of our deserts or claims. We could not have the face to ask it for our own sakes. But because he loves to guide us, because it is his nature to help us, because he would not be true to himself and his promises, unless he guided us thus. It is this thought that gives us courage to trust him. It is for his name's sake "that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Jesus Christ (Eph. 2:7). "It is to show how his grace can make a blazing beacon out of a charred brand, a mitered priest out of a criminal (Zech. 3:2, 5)."—M. R. Vincent. V. Protection in Times of Danger.—V.4. "Yea, though (or when) I walk (go forward steadily in the path of duty) through the valley of the sha- dow of death." Cheyne says that this may mean "the gloom like that of Hades," or "the very gloom of Hades." It refers to times of darkness, depression, and almost despair, as when Jesus on the cross felt that his Father had forsaken him; times when there are such thick clouds of sorrow and pain that God's sun and stars are blotted from the sight, as when Ellijah wished to die under the juniper tree; and John the Baptist in the Machaeus dungeon. Compare Bunyan's picture of Christian in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, the pathway close by the side of hell whence came flame and smoke and hideous noises, and fiends approaching; and the way as dark as pit, so that "when he lifted up his foot to set forward he knew not where or upon what he should set it next." This experience is well represented by the flock which often David must have seen in the gloomy ravines which penetrate the cliffs overhanging the Dead Sea, where he was caught by the setting of the sun, by sudden storms and torrents, exposed in the darkness to robbers and wild beasts. "I will fear no evil." "He does not say that no evil will ever come to him. For he knows well enough that there are many grievous things in life and hard to bear. But do we not know that infinitely more suffering is caused by needless fear than by actual disasters? . . . We may be hurt, but never harmed."—Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. God did not take up the three Hebrews out of the furnace of fire, but he came down and walked with them in it. He did not remove Daniel from the den of lions; he sent his angel to close the mouths of the beasts. He did not answer the prayer of Paul to remove the thorn in the flesh, but he gave him a sufficiency of grace to sustain him. "Fou thou art with me." Thou who are stronger than all the powers of evil, thou who controlest all forces, all inductions, all powers art ever near. I cannot see thee; but I hear thy voice, I feel thy presence, I recognize thy protecting love. "Thy, rod and thy staff they comfort me." How did the rod comfort the sheep? The rod, the shepherd's crook, was used for helping any sheep which had been caught in the rocks or torrent, or had been injured. The crook was placed around its neck or leg, and the shepherd drew it out of its difficulty. The sight of the rod in the shepherd's hands showed that he was able and willing to help in every time of need. How did the staff comfort the sheep? The staff was the weapon of defense against robbers and wild beasts. The sheep saw the shepherd with the staff over his shoulder, and knew that their defender was at hand. "They comfort me." Comfort means much more than to console. It means also to strengthen, to invigorate, to encourage. From con, "together," and fortis, "strong." Vt. Guests of God.—V. 5. "Thou preparest (or spreadest) a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." He can sit down and eat in perfect security, though surrounded by enemies. The servant of God is more than a sheep to be fed—he is an honored guest. His enemies see that God is his friend and protector, and they cannot harm him without first overcoming God himself. The covenant of bread, of eating together as host and guest, was one of the most sacred in the East. "The master of the table is bound, so far as his jurisdiction extends, to protect every one who eats with him. If there be foes at hand, it is easy to see what a comfort it must be to a defenseless man thus to pledge for his succor one powerful to help." Compare the fate of the Templar in Scott's "Ivanhoe." "Thou noinest my head with oil." An attention shown to guests. "The ancient Hebrews, like the Greeks and Romans, and most Oriental peoples, made constant use of unguents. The great perspiration and frequent bathing drying the skin, made some such application necessary to comfort."—William Ewing. VII. The Overflowing Cup of Life. "My cup runneth over." The cup that holds God's blessings and mercies is overflowing with them. There are more than he knows how to use. God's love and mercy are free and abundant. He gives "good measure, pressed down and running over." VIII. God's Blessings Are for Everlasting,—V. 6. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me." "The Hebrew word translated 'surely' more often means only; i. e., goodness and mercy only—nothing else—will follow me."—Cowles. The goodness and mercy will follow him; he need not seek anxiously for them as an illusive blessing, as the child seeks in vain for the rainbow; but they will pursue him and overtake him, if only he is a true sheep of the Good Shepherd. God loves to give good things to his people. He is overflowing with blessings he desires to confer. And every blessing we receive is a new proof of his goodness and bears the image and superscription of his love. And we need not be troubled about the future, for the goodness and mercy shall follow "all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord, for ever." The dwelling in God's house here, the abiding in his worship, in the heavenly atmosphere of his love, under all the divine influences of God's house, prepares us to dwell in his heavenly home where we can "serve him day and night in his temple." THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD Mrs. L. C. Glover, Vice Pres. Milwaukee, Wis., Business Woman's Association, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAH Mrs. Pinkham: I was married for several years and no children blessed, my home. The doctor said I had a complication of female troubles and I could not have any children unless I could be cured. 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What I suffered can hardly be told. Complications set in, the particulars of which I will be pleased to give in a personal interview to any one who requires information. This I can con- Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 57 Sixth st., Fond du Lac, Wis, Presbyterian clergyman, says: "I had attacks which kept me in the house for days at a time, unable to do anything. What I suffered can hardly be told. Complications set in, the particulars of which I will be pleased to give in a personal interview to any one who requires information. This I can scientiously say. Doan's Kidney Pills caused a general improvement in my health. They brought great relief by lessening the pain and correcting the action of the kidney secretions.". Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Lemon Juice for Dog Bite. Lemon juice for Dog Bite. If a person is bitten by a supposedly mad dog, let him call a physician and apply lemon juice to the wound. This is the advice of Dr. Lagorio, of the Pasteur Institute. DONT SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 5c. a package. You can't liquidate a debt by paying compliments. I am sure Piso's for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. TOS. ROBINB, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. The average man likes to head a public parade of his own good works. Fruit acids will not stain goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. If you propose to do as you please why ask advice. W. H. Culp & Co., Florists, Wichita, Kansas, can fill your orders for choice out flowers for all occasions. Plants and bulbs in season. Telegraph, telephone or mail orders promptly filled. Send for price list. Bank records show some surprising things about "good" men. Catarrh cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take it internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in the field, and its prescription it is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination is the products such as wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, O. Hold to Your Friendships. A man should start out in life with the determination to never sacrifice his friendships. He must keep them alive or sacrifice a part of his manhood and a part of his success. There must be a live wired kept continually between him and them.—Success. Chatham Islands. The Chatham islands are a group in the South Pacific, 380 miles east of New Zealand, of which colony they form a part. They are mainly used for cattle and sheep breeding for the purpose of supplying whalers and other vessels calling to refit and take in stores. One as Good as Another. A wife wanted her husband to sympathize with her in a feminine quarrel, but he refused, saying: "I've lived long enough to know that one woman is as good as another, if not better." "And I," retorted the exasperated wife, "have lived long enough to learn that one man is just as bad as another, if not worse!" One on the Lawyer. Counsel (to witness)—How can you prove that the prisoner stole six of your handkerchiefs? "Why, because they were my handkerchiefs that were found on him. Look at them for yourself. They are exactly the same as mine." "That proves nothing. I have some handkerchiefs like nose." "That's quite possible," replied the witness, "several more of mine are missing." HAPPY DAYS. When Friends Say "How Well You Look." What happy days are those when all our friends say, "How well you look." We can bring-those days by a little care in the selection of food just as this young man did. "I had suffered from dyspepsia for three years and last summer was so bad I was unable to attend school," he says: "I was very thin and my appetite at times was poor, while again it was craving. I was dizzy and my food always used to ferment instead of digesting. Crossness, unhappiness and nervousness were very prominent symptoms. "Late in the summer I went to visit a sister and there I saw and used Grape-Nuts. I had heard of this famous food before, but never was interested enough to try it, for I never knew how really good it was. But when I came home we used Grape-Nuts in our household all the time and I soon began to note changes in my health. I improved steadily and am now strong and well in every way and am back at school able to get my lessons with ease and pleasure and can remember them too, for the improvement in my mental power is very noticeable and I get good marks in my studies which always seemed difficult before. "I have no more of the bad symptoms given above but feel fine and strong and happy, and it is mighty pleasant to hear my friends say: 'How well you look.'" Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellyville." THREATEN POET'S BIRTHPLACE. May I beg the courtesy of your columns to ask if it is possible that a new generation of Gastrells are at work in Stratford-on-Avon, this time pulling down ancient landmarks in Henley street, adjacent to the tenement, to gaze at which, as the birthplace of Shakespeare, all the world is making pilgrimages? The utmost that the researches of 150 years have developed is that, at the time of Shakespeare's birth, his father, John Shakespeare, was the owner of three tenements on the same side of that meager little thoroughfare—in one of which his illustrious son was certainly born! Is it worth while to destroy any tenement, contemporary or ancient, which may contain a timber of the house in which William Shakespeare might have been born? The occasion is, we are told, the presentation to Stratford-on-Avon of a Carnegie library. But surely there is room enough in Stratford-on-Avon, or in some of its outlying precincts (for it is a wholly inland town), to build as many libraries as may be desired! There is little enough of Shakespeare even in Stratford-on-Avon, heaven knows! And one would suppose that that little might be permitted to remain. But what makes the mystery still more incredible is that the honorable mayor and aldermen of Stratford—although Mr. Carnegie has generously declined even to permit his name to be attached to the library at all, stipulating that it shall be called simply the Stratford-on-Avon public library, and although there is the entire county of Warwickshire to build libraries in—are pulling down historic, or at least archaic, houses on narrow little Henley street, so that they can save expense by heating the library, when built, with the same hot air or hot water plant that is now used to heat another public building that happens to be nearby—namely, the so-called Technical institute. Even on the lowest possible—the commercial—ground, it seems incredible that a body of Englishmen could proceed to tear down a portion of their town's stock in trade to save a few pounds! To save them from being laughed at, if not to save for posterity a possible relic of Shakespeare, do you not suppose, sir, that a sufficient number of our citizens would be willing to make up amongst them the cost of heating this Stratford-on-Avon public library, a miniature building according to the dimensions announced? If this vandalism keeps on, even Englishmen will begin to regret that Mr. P. T. Barnum, in 1847, did not succeed in purchasing all of Stratford-on-Avon that the world cares about and setting it up in Bridgeport, Conn. There, at least, it would have been out of the reach of Stratford-on-Avon aldermen, and destroyers would have had to keep their hands off. Appleton Morgan, President of the Shakespeare Society of New York. Americans Travel Abroad. All kinds of people in the United States go abroad. In the second cabin you will find men who work for day's wages, school teachers, clergymen from the country towns and villages, merchants, farmers, mechanics, and representatives of every profession and persuasion, who consider it profitable to spend $50 or $60 of their savings for a steamship ticket in order that they may have an opportunity of seeing something of the world. Vies With Jackrabbit. An engineer on a Kansas railway has made a request to be allowed to run faster than sixty-five miles an hour, because a jackrabbit has been making fun of him on his run. First to Make Creamery Butter. M. Van Dusen, of Manchester, la, claims the distinction of being the first creamery butter-maker in the world. He is eighty-one years old. Dissipation at a Discount. A Minnesota editor advertising for a printer says "No cigarette flend or booze-chaser need apply." The young man of good habits is growing more and more in public favor as people come to realize that artificial stimulation incapacitates one for performing acceptably the duties of life in any position.—Nebraska State Journal. A. Chinese Custom. Chinese women never think of taking the hairpins out of their hair when they go to bed. These hairpins are very different from those worn by American women, being from six to ten inches long, of silver, gold or some bright material, and curiously bent and twisted. They are worn night and day, and only removed when the hair is to be newly dressed for some important occasion. First Load of Freight. Millican Hunt, a Chicago merchant, is said to have received the first trainload of freight sent to Chicago. He is eighty-two, and received his consignment in 1848. The greatest successes in the electrical transmission of water power have been made in the United States. The maximum distance over which power is transmitted is from Colgate ta San Francisco, 220 miles, with a loss of 25 per cent.' At Colgate the body of water is small, but the fall is 1,500 feet. Little Headway for Cremation. The practice of cremation makes slow progress despite the considerations in its favor which can be urged. It will treat you the same way. You can not be constipated and remain strong and well. Indigestion and dyspepsia are its symptoms. If you belch you have constipation. Dr. Dill first got constipation, then he lost his appetite, he became weak and sick, his kidneys went back on him and he had to give up his practice. Mull's Grape Tonic Cured Him just as it will cure you. Constipation is the rotting of undigested food in the stomach. A physic won't cure. It makes it worse. Pills, Castor-oil, Salts and other such treatments are no good in a case like this. Dr. Dill tried them all. Mull's Grape Tonic will not physic a well man. Its action on a constipated person is quick and permanent. Gentlemen:—I beg to thank you for calling my attention to Mull's Grape Tonic, some time ago. My profession requires close application and confinement to the office, and after several years of this indoor, sedentary life, my health completely broke down; my stomach was bad, my liver out of sorts and I felt tired and worn-out all the time. When you first showed me Mull's Grape Tonic I was skeptical, but took your word for it, and now after taking several bottles, feel as well as I ever did in life. It is a splendid medicine for the stomach and bowels, and the best general tonic I ever saw, and I am still for calling my attention to Mull's Grape Tonic. Yours very respectfully. North Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. For a large sample bottle send 10 cents to cover postage to Lightning Medicine Co., Rock Island, Ill. All druggists sell Mull's Grape Tonic. 50 cents a bottle. The Shortest Way out of an attack of Rheumatism or Neuralgia TRADE MARK. Is to use St.Jacobs Oil Which affords not only sure relief, but a prompt cure. It soothes, subdues, and ends the suffering. Price, 25c. and 50c. Nearly 23,000 persons became insane in England and Wales last year—a higher number than in any year since records have been kept. The increase over the previous year was 3,251. An Old-Time Legend. When King Edward II. of England was among his torturers who hurried him to and fro that no man should know where he was they set him down upon a bank and the more to disguise his face shaved him and washed him with cold water from a ditch. The king said, "Well, yet will I have warm water for my beard," and so shed abundance of tears. Woman's Fire Brigade. Woman's Fire Brigade. The town of Armidale, New South Wales, has a woman's fire brigade that has earned distinction in numerous encounters with the flames. A dozen or more young women form the brigade, electing one of their number as captain. They drill with the town brigade appliances and are capable of rendering assistance to the male firemen when necessary. They are expert in rescuing work with the lifeline and with the jumping sheet. Has He Found It? Polk, Ark, Nov. 9.—A remedy that will absolutely cure Rheumatism has been discovered by Mr. George Hilland of this place. Mr. Hilland is satisfied that the remedy he has used is a sure cure, for it cured him of a very serious case of Acute Rheumatism when he was so bad that he could not move. This is what he says: "I was troubled with what is called Acute Rheumatism in 1900. I was in such shape that I could not move without help. I was treated by a physician, who helped me some, but I was still in great pain when my wife saw Dodd's Kidney Pills advertised as a cure for Rheumatism. She insisted on my trying them, and I felt better after taking the first box. I continued and now I am well and able to work all the time. I have found Dodd's Kidney Pills to be just what they are claimed to be, a perfect cure for Rheumatism." Mr. Hiland's very positive statement seems to settle all doubt as to whether or not Rheumatism can be cured. You can't find any fault with the friend who listens when it is your day to kick. It will treat you remain strong and w If you belch you haw he lost his appetite, on him and he had Mull's G just as it will cure you. A physic won't cure. I ments are no good in a will not physic a well ma VINE Ruined Dr. Dill's Health. A St. Louis Doctor Tells How He Was Cured. This is not the only doctor who recommends this great cure. Mull's Grape Tonic is pleasant to take. It will cleanse the entire system of all disease. It will make strong muscles and solid flesh because it makes pure rich blood. If it fails, you can have your money back. The grape is the greatest flesh-builder known. Mull's Grape Tonic is in no way like cathartics and pills. Most people who are run down are sufferers from constipation. Cod-liver oil won't help them because it increases the constipation habit. Mull's Grape Tonic will positively cure. He battle send 10 cents to cover postage to Lightning Medicine Co. Rock Island Ill. Woman's Best Characteristics. The readers of one of the French newspapers were set to enumerate the qualities which their ideal woman should possess. Placed, as they say in examinations, "in order of merit," these characteristics are, first, economy; second, fidelity and modesty; third, kindliness; fourth, maternal love; fifth, cleanliness and patience. Objected to Tombstone Paving. Tombstones are not so infrequently employed in different parts of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, England, for the purpose of paving; and a year or so back the inhabitants of the Vale of Belvoir raised a vehement protest against their being used for a pathway leading to the parish church. Influence of Transportation. A recent remarkable illustration of the influence of railway transportation on commerce is given by the opening of the western section of the Transsiberian railway. There were only 140 dairies in Siberia in 1898, which produced for export about 5,000,000 pounds of butter. In 1902 there were 2,500 dairies, producing upward of 90,000,000 pounds. Why Hood Left Nashville. An old pleasantry worth repeating relates to the experience of Gen. Hood, who in great haste left Nashville on one side of the city just as the Federal troops were entering upon the other. His colored servant being captured, was asked why Gen. Hood left in such a hurry. "Ah," he said, "Massa Hood didn't think he could do himself justice in this city."—Boston Christian Register. Now is the time to order Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus and Chinese Sacred Lillies, Cut Flowers and Plants. CHAS. P. MUELLER, 1012 N. Market St., Wichita, Kaps. Most of us expend more energy in fault finding than in praise. SENSIBLE HOUSEKEEPERS will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Good intentions are all right if they have sufficient backbone. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For children teething, softens the gums, reduces infammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. Pride goeth before a fall and after- wards there isn't anything left of it. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after sending it to Dr. Klein's Great Nerve Restor- er. Send Dr. Klein's bottles and creat- er. Dr R. H. KLINE, LTD. 931 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. The fellow with a bad temper ought to lose it once in a while. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents. There's one good thing about eggs; they never get too fresh. STops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. No. Maude, dear; the church social is not made up of socialists. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Some people aim high, but lack the necessary ammunition. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. MARSHALL FIELD AND CO'S WAREHOUSE MANAGER Cured of Catarrh of Kidneys by Pe-ru-na. HON. JOHN T. SHEAHAN OF CHICAGO HON. JOHN T. SHEAHAN, OF CHICAGO. Hon. John T. 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One of my foremen told me of the great help he had received in using Peruna in a similar case, and I at once procured some. "It was indeed a blessing to me, as I am on my feet a large part of the day, and trouble such as I had affected me seriously, but four bottles of Peruna cured me entirely and I would not be without it for three months salary."—JOHN T. SHEAHAN. Mr. Jacob Fleig writes from 44 Sumner avenue. Brooklyn, N. Y.: "I am now a new man at the age of seventy-five years, thanks to your wonderful remedy Peruna."—Jacob Fleig. disease is at once suspected, but the chronic variety may come on so gradually and insidiously that its presence is not suspected until after it has fastened itself thoroughly upon its victim. At the appearance of the first summer Catarral inflammation of the mucous lining of the kidneys, also called "Bright's disease," may be either acute or chronic. 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One treat help he had received in using it once procured some. as I am on my feet a large part of had affected me seriously, but four and I would not be without it for SHEAHAN. disease is at once suspected, but the chronic variety may come on so gradually and insidiously that its presence is not sus- pected until after it has fastened itself thoroughly upon its victim. At the appearance of the first symptom Peruna should be taken. This remedy strikes at once at the very root of the disease. A book on catarrh sent free by The Peruina Medicine Co., Columbus, O. UNLIMITED QUANTITIES SALE FOR 10 APRIL SALES, Opposing Male Mankin Skunk, Raccoon and others. Highest price paid prices. Write A. E. Burkhardt, Main & 2nd, Cincinnati, O. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES) A substitute for and superior to mustard or say dillenium oil. It is a delicat skin. The pain-allying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache. It is a moist skin. It is safe and safest external counter-irritant known as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neumatic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we know about it. Many people are unable in the household. Many people say it is the best of all your preparations." Price 15 is the all dressing or other sedation. See our stock. We will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUGH MEG. CO. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. DR. H. C. C. DR. DILL, St. Louis, Mo. Is Cured. The time ago. Several years of this indoor, sedentaryelt tired and worn-out all the time. For it, and now after taking several bowels, and the best general tonicery respectfully. DR. E. A. DILL. Cure. Mull's Grape Tonic is it will make strong muscles can have your money back. This is in no way like catharticsation. Cod-liver oil won't Tonic will positively cure. Co., Rock Island, Ill. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT PIANOS ORGANS A most complete stock. Lowest prices on high grade goods. Call and examine our Stock whether you desire to purchase or not. A Song Book free to all who call. McKinney Music Co., 411 East Douglas Ave. Race Struggle. Breeding Giants. the Poor Whites Are Trying French Experiment That Recalls To Crowd Out the Negro. The Project of Frederick The race strggle that is now on between the Negro and poor white man is growing ever each day. That is the problem of the day. The white man is determined, ifsible, to crush and keep the gro down, but the Negro is as determined to rise. Been the better class of white people, that is, people of means of intelligence, and the Negro are no race problem nor trou. North nor South. The moneyed and intelligent people are to-day and have always been friendly disposed toward the Negro. The race trouble of to-day in America is simply an effort of the educated and ignorant, preyed, poor white class of people who have to work for their living, just as the Negro does; to teach and keep the Negro from living an honest living, and this just the reason why Negro women are fools for joining in labor orgonizations. As a result, the white man in union labor organizations has not a really feeling toward the Ne- The best and wisest thing for American Negroes to do to-day is keep to himself from a laborer's standpoint, make friends with the intelligent and better ones of white people, trust the man that brought him out of the southern bondage, and last, but not least, by preparation with his eye toward the enemy, standing in a brave man and die only in the last ditch in defense of his old-given rights. Good men can do more; brave men ought to do less. - American Eagle. Brailschis Breeding Giants. French Experiment That Recalls The Project of Frederick Among the various remedies to arrest the decay of France it is proposed to offer prizes for large families, the remission of taxes to peeple who have a nnumber of sons, the extra taxation of childless families and. bachelors; and one interesting plan is to make bachelors ineligible for official posiIions under the government and the municepalities. Aeother ingenious gentleman suggests that married men and fathers of children be exempt from military service and that the French army be limited to bachelors only. Other inducements have been proposed and it is rather apropos that just at this time, when so much interest is being excited in this subject, one of the professors of the University of Chicago should be fortunate enough to discover the food of which giants are made. The discovery has been recentlp published in France and attracted muce attention. Some time ago Count Alfred de Pierrecourt left a legacy of $2,000,000 to his native city of Rouen to pay the expenses of experiments forthe propagation of giants. His heirs raised a row about it and appealed successfully to the courts, which have recently given them three-fourths of the estate and retained one-fourth of it as ample to carry out the ideas of the deceased. Under the supervision of the municipality an institution for raising giants is to be established, with the income of $500,000. The trustees are to seach the world for men and women of large stature and are to prir them off in couples and place them in the homes upon a farm near Rouen. It would be a good idea to feed them on the stuff which the Chicago professor has been wasting on white rats. If he can double the size of a white rat he ought to do wodders with a lot of Frenchmen. WICHITA. KANSAS. NOV 14 1903. --- Buy your Fresh meat at the Packing House meat market and save money. Remember the place--Market at the Gate of the Dold Packing House. The talk about town is, Thanksgiving Night at DUNBAR HAJ.L. Race War Stirs Princeton. Advent Of Colored Postman Raises Howl of Protest in University Town. Special Dispatch to The Searahlight. PRINCETON. N. J., Nov. 9.—The race issue has reached Prince ton. A. B. Davis, colord, started last Thursday to deliver the mail on one of the rural free mail delivery routes outside of Princeton, but the owner of boxes along the route are objecting to their new postman on account of his color. Davis passed his civil-service examination and received appointment over the heads of several white applicants on the merits of his standing. There are a good many Negroes in Princeton, and the feeling between the races is none too friendly. That Davis should get the appointment instead of one of the white applicants has enraged the box owners, and about twenty of them threaten to withdraw from the route if Davis is retained. Dr. Abernethy, a man proverbially intolerant of mere fads and croonets had yet a strong personal objection to sleeping in damp sheets. The Iron Duke (and it may be remarked in passing that Lord Roberts if our own day has a similar averon) 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. English Railway Enterprise. The Highland railway company of Great Britain announces that it has completed arrangements for telephonic communication between trains and stations on its line, thus not only gaely lessening the danger of wrecks on the road, but also enabling its passengers to commuicate with friends and business associates while traveling from place to place. HAM Gorman Issue From the Chicago Chronicle It is to be hoped that Democrats generally will not adopt the theory evidently held by Senator Gorman that there is a presidency in the race issue. To far as social equality is concerned, there is not now and has never been any important sentiment at the North for it. Political equality, while recognized and asserted in the law, is almost as generally ignored at the North as it is at the South. In the states having a colored population sufficiently large to make the question a serious one the ballot has been restricted in such a way as to disfranchise colored ignorance and worthlessness most effectively, and there is not much disposition anywhere to protest. Indeed, there is considerable sentiment at the North favorable to ballot reform which may lead to important results in places at no distant day. Excepting only the criticism passed upon a few Southern states for dealing more leniently with white than with black ignorance it is not likely that a good sized mass meeting could be held anywhere in the United States to consider the race question in any of its phases. This being the case, the wisdom of Mr. Gorman in attempting to make a national issue of the alleged purposes of anybody to assert the social and political equality of the Negro may be questioned most seriously, particularly from the standpoint of the Democratic party and of the South. Miss M. C. Hannibal, We solicit trade on the basis of Quality at the Lowest Prices. 135 N. Main St. Wichita, Ks 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. BIG THANKSGIVING EVENT Dunbar Hall 233 North Main St Wichita, Kansas Under the Auspices of The Greater Wichita Searchlight. THE BRITISH EMPIRE IS A COLORED RACE DOMAIN. According to the London representative of the New York Tribune, carefully compiled statistics of the population of the British empire, published by a trade paper, bring out the rather startling fact that out of a population of nearly 400,000,000 about 48,800 000, or less than one-eighth, are of British birth or descent. nearly 4,000,000 are non-British birth white men, and the colored race number 343,000,000. SUES WHITE MAN FOR BREACH OF PROMISE At Franklin, Pa., last week, Miss Essie Lawson, a colored lady, began suit against Thomas Devilbiss, white, for breach of promise to marry, claiming $10, 000 damages. Both reside in the city of Franklin. MULATTO NOBILITY The color line cannot be absolutely drawn in the aristocracy of Great Britian, for the announcement of the coming marriage in South Africa of Lady Mary Grey recalls the fact that the third wife of the late and eighth Earl ef Stofford is a mulatto, the daughter of a Hottenot cook and laundress in the family of that peer, whom he married after she had borne him two children, Lady Mary takes her place in Burke's 'Peerage, but John and Frances, the son and daughter, borne by Martha Solomon before the earl married her in 1880, although legitimate by the Dutch law, are not so in the estimation of the house of lords, whose committee on privileges determine the succession of peerages. NEGRO INVENTOR'S GOOD FORTUNE. Andrew Beard, a Negro who has worked in the mchine shops of the Louisville & Nashville Rail road Company, in Birmingham, Ala., for twenty years, has just sold a patent for a car coupler of his own invention for $100,000. In addition he is to get a royalty on every coupler made on his mod el for seventeen years. Get a Searchlight, if you want the news. 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. A new Pittsburg theater is to be planned so that automobiles may drive right up to the boxes. With some plays this will be a distinct advantage in giving sufferers a chance to get away quickly. A New York woman who lost her voice three years ago has had her speech restored by the application of electricity. Every effort was made to cure her, as she was not married.—Salt Lake Herald. When it comes to answering Mr. Balfour's warm invitations to come into the ministry and get into trouble up to their eyebrows most of the leading Conservatives have pressing engagements elsewhere. An investigator with a microscope and a large stock of patience has found out that there are 200 kinds of mosquitoes. Some men are never happy except when they are digging up trouble for other people. Of course it will be interesting to read what a grandson writes of his grandfather, but for downright originality and continuity of interest give us a grandfather's remarks on the life and deeds of his six-year-old grandson. In one year more than 5,000 books have been stolen from the New York Public Library. As this is an increase of some 2,000 over the previous year, shall we take it as an indication of the growing yearning for knowledge on the part of the American public? Then, again, there's the octogenarian who got married and then dropped dead. There doesn't seem to be any safe rule after all, despite the frisiky talk of Senators Depew and Platt. Do these people who talk of getting to the north pole in automobiles ever stop to think where they would be if the gasoline tank should freeze up? The city of Windsor, Canada, closes its police station at night; a refutation of the familiar phrase that evil loves darkness rather than light. That Toledo boy who put a rope around his neck and swung off a rafter "just to see how hanging felt," will tell its relatives all about the sensation when he meets 'em in heaven. Young Cornelius Vanderbilt has been made a colonel in the New York state militia. But alas! this doesn't make Mrs. Vanderbilt a coloneless. The late B. F. Jones of Pittsburg left a fortune of over $17,000,000. If there are any unmarried daughters England is ready to do the rest. --- W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehito, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. 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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 person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Livo and Let Live," is OUR Motto. The Republic's The report of the national commissioner of education shows that in the year ended June 30 last 15,925,887 children were enroll in the common schools of the United States. Other schools and the colleges brought the total up ts 18,80,840. This year it may rise to 18,500,00, and possibly higher. Other nations take a just pride in their armies, but no other has such an army as this. In all the mighty British empire with over 300,000,000, there probably not so many children in school. Even in Germany, the land of scholars, probably not so large a part of the population is in school. And the future of no other nation is so safe in the hands of its army as is the future of the United States in the hands of this Grand Army of the Republic—the army of its 18,000,000 school boys and school girls. The strength of the republic is in the discipline which it schools give to the millions of recruits which they send each year into the ranks of active citizenship. Thereby are the rising generations armed against those enemies who would persuade them that because this or that thing is wrong their country is going to destruction. In its schools are the swelling millions of the republic armed with the sword of the truth that that sword is kept bright and sharp, so long will the nation be safe in the guardianship of its grand army and so long will the republic endure. CHANGE CONNERTED A BISHOP Bishop William M. Brown of the Arkansas Episcopal diocese said the other day, that before he left Ohio for his present field of labor he used to look with horror on lynching. "But since I have been South my eyes have been opened." he adds, "Imprisonment does no good, and I can think of no punishment other than lynching for the crime which causes illegal executions in the South. The enfranchisement of the Negro was a serious mistake I am of the opinion that it would be well to leave the solution of the Negro question to the Southern people. They know best what to do." Shame! shame!! shame!!! on any man who wears the honored title, minister of the gospel, say nothing of one who holds so exhausted a positiu as that of bishop, to make such statements as the above credited to bishop Brown. The bishop certainly does not mean to insist on his assertion that “there is no other punishment”(?) If the white ministry—from the pishop down—are to thus advocate trampling the laws under-foot—what may be expected of the laity? We refuse to believe that the bishop voices the sentiment of any part of the white ministry—and—in fact not his own—for be it remembered—the bishop is speaking now, not in Ohio, but in Arkansas, and, no doubt, since “leaving Ohio and going to Arkansas” the bishop has learned that “When you are in Rome do and speak as the Romans do.” We trust so, at least. You can make your hair just as straight and smooth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before will not come back. The Ozonized Ox Marrow also keeps hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. It never fails. One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of refinement all over the country, giving perfect satisfaction. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. 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, 8 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. II. Mayo, Pastor Fresh : Salt Meats J. T. FITZSIMONS, Prop. Phone 1091 612 E. Douglas Rev. Halt made a few short calls in Newto and several other towns last week. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE THEM. Thanksgiving day at 11 a. m., Rev. Hall will preach his master ermon on "Thanksgiving". He desires to have everyone who can to be present at this time, he bais something of special interest that he wishes to say to every one, young and old. Come out. At 6 p. m, another sermon will be delivered. Locals and Personals There will be a Thanksgiving dinner and supper given at the Peerslars ball by the two clubs of the A. M. E. church, viz The Silver and Gold edge Shingle clubs. The program for the evening will consist of an "Old Maids Convention." The Hard Time Social given by Club "C", of which Mrs. H. Harper is president, at the 2nd Baptist church Wednesday night was a grand suce in every way. Mrs. Ella Kyle won the prize for the "Hard Time" make up. The iz was a coal-hod full of coal. Mr. Blakely won the second prize which was 25c worth of sugar. The next big thing at the 2nd Baptist church will be the big spelling match given by Mrs. Lucy Anderson's club Thursday night, Nov. 19th. Mrs. W. E. Whitted, DEALER IN Hair Goods, Braids, Switchee, etc., etc. All Orders Promptly Delivered. 509 North Water St. Chief Burt and Police Judge Stanley are going after those who insist on selling liquor on Sunday Last Monday warrants were issued for A. E. McVicars, and G. W. Van Werden, two Main street druggists, and a Mrs. Klause. Each of them is charged with having sold liquor on Nov. 8th. Rev. S. M. Hall preached a wonderful sermon Sunday night. It was inspiring. He held his audience spell-boudd during his entire sermon. His eloquent, learned and logical sermons are the talk of the town. He is fine. Eugene Whitted, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Whitted, 509 N. Waters', arrived in the city Monday from Ft. Niabaria, Neb. to spend a few weeks visiting his parents and his many friends. Rev. B. Morris whose house was burned a few weeks ago has bought a neat five room cottage with 50 ft front at 1112 N. Wichita. The deal was made through J. F. Beliew & Co., 110 N. Main st. Samuel Walker and Porter Perry will go hunting Thanksgiving Day. Both will return in time, however, to attend the Big Thanksgiving Event at Dunbar Hall Thanksgiving night. Club "D" of the 2nd Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Lucy Anderson is president, will give an old fashion spelling match and chicken try on Thursday eve., Nov. 19th. There will be two sides in the spelling mrtch with a captain to each. Each captain will choose his own spellers. This promises to be very interesting and all should attend. Admission be. J. E. ALLEN, Successor to A. M. Richards, MONEY = TO = LOAN ON CHATTELS 151 N. MAIN WICHITA Miss Grace Baker returned Sunday morning from Kansas City, where she spent several weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. Hunter. Hon. Chas. H. Luling went back to Topeka Monday afternoon. There will be a Thanksgiving dinner given at the Second Baptist church by clb "V". There will also be a very interesting program at night. Mrs. Wm. Bowers is president and Mrs. Alien Austin, is secretary of this club. Bill of Fare Ham and Cabbage Corn Bread Turkey and cranberries Chicken Celery Tomatoes Creamed Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Punkin Pie Ice Cream Cake ALL, BUT ONE. All the members of Hose Company No. 3 are now married men except Booker Hocket and he will be "getting a move" on himself soon. Firemen Ller, Horton and Jones are the only members of the company who were mried when they went to work. Fireman Harley McCall set the boys a pace by getting married and his example was followed by fireman G. W. Robinson. Now fireman Chas. H. Gordon has entered the "married list". It is said that the members of No. 3 who are married are to make themselves a committee to find a match for this lone unmarried companion, fireman Booker Hocket It is now up to friend Hockett. Pass a bride to Mr. Hockett, please. Joe Bell and Arthur Nelson played a very entertaining duett, entitled "The Song Without Words", t the song services Sunday. Both gentlemen did well. Cal Cox of Kansas City spent Sunday in Wichita the guest of his friend, Eugene Smith. RALLY NOV. 29TH. Rev. S. M. Hall, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, will hold one of the biggest rallies ever held by any church in this city beginning on Sunday, Nov. 29th and closing Wednesday night, Dec. 5th. For further particulars, watch these columns. At quite an expense Chas Kiner as decorated his restaurant at 408 N. Main st. Is looks nice. Every mail brings the mss of new sub-criers to the Searchlight. It is something immense and it makes all ticklish all over. Miss Mary Boats, of Galesburg, Ill., is in the city visiting her sisters, Mrs. Phillip Hyde and Miss Gertrude Boats of 217 New York. Rev. Taylor filled the pnlpit at the A M. E. Church Sunday night. Mrs. W. N. Miller spent a few days in Kingman this week visiting with her friend, Mrs. Robt, Davis. Rev. J. H. Vanlue, State Missionary, spent several days in the city with his family. Rev. lives here. Rev. Hall was a little indisposed last Saturday, but was able to make a splendid sermon Sunday. Miss Daisy Bradford left Thursday for Kansas City where she will spend the winter. Much luck to her. Rev. Hall, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, will have for his sermon tomorrow (Sunday) night, Nov. 15th, the subject: "Dry Bone". All who hear this sermon will be highly pleased. Mr. Pete J. Coleman and Miss Etta Pitts were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hail L. Neeley, 1242 Blaine, for 6 o'clock dinner Sunday. The infant of Mrs. Sylvania Sanders was quite sick this week. Great reduction in Prices in Boys' and Children's wear, at F I E B U B, 114 N. Main Great Suit Sale We have just received a big lift we purchased at a great discount to ourer who, on account of the continuer and backward season, was willing at a great sacrifice. We propose to of Wichita and vicinity the benifit of Ladies' Man-tailored Suits, in brown venetians, made up late trimmed, all sizes, regular $2 values everywhere. Our Special P Other Suits in broadcloth, and imported fancies at prices below. Come and see for yourself. The New York Co. AN We have just received a big line of Suits we purchased at a great discount from a man who, on account of the continued warm weather backward season, was willing to unload a great sacrifice. We propose to give the pita and vicinity the benifit of our big dities' Man-tailored Suits, in black, blue or brown venetians, made up latest styles, immed, all sizes, regular $25. Values everywhere. Our Special Price $150. Other Suits in broadcloth, zibeline, checked fancies at prices below their value and see for yourself. NEW YORK CLOAKS AND SUITS We have just received a big line of Suits which we purchased at a great discount from a manufacturer who, on account of the continued warm weather and backward season, was willing to unload them at a great sacrifice. We propose to give the people of Wichita and vicinity the benifit of our big discount Ladies' Man-tailored Suits, in black, blue and brown venetians, made up latest styles, silk trimmed, all sizes, regular $25. $15 values everywhere. Our Special Price Other Suits in broadcloth, zibeline, cheviots and imported fancies at prices below their value. Come and see for yourself. 147 N. Main USE BODEN'S IMPERIAL FI BREAKFAST and you will Love good e AT YOUR GROCER IMBOL IMBODEN'S IMPERIA FLOUR BREAKFAST FOOD —and you will Love good eating.— DER 4 IMBODEN MILLI USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating.— AT YOUR GROCER IMBODEN MILLING CO. MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW Se'lect your FALL and WINTER SUIT, OVERCOATS and TROUSERS at the PEERLESS TAILOR'S. Our stock comprises the latest noveties in FCREIGN and DOMESTIC Woolens. See me before placing your order. 508 E. Douglas Ave. . WHY NOT! Buy your wearing apparel where you for the Least Money? It's to your or it? If you can get a stylish, well Overcoat worth $18.00 for $15.00 $15.00 for $12.50 or one worth $ wouldn't you go to the place that g vantage? Here you'll find just such different Compare with other dealers. our wearing apparel where you get The Least Money? It's to your own benifit you can get a stylish, well fitting Sunhat worth $18.00 for $15 00 or one worth $12.50 or one worth $12.50 for $ you go to the place that gives you the you'll find just such differences in price with other dealers. Buy your wearing apparel where you get The Best for the Least Money? It's to your own benift isn't it? If you can get a stylish, well fitting SUIT or OVERCOAT worth $18.00 for $15 00 or one worth $15.00 for $12.50 or one worth $12.50 for $10. wouldn't you go to the place that gives you this advantage? Here you'll find just such differences in prices. Compare with other dealers. Same thing if you buy Shoes, Hats or Furnishing Goods, the latest and best at lowest prices. The Man Who Swears At his Bicycle Tire Troubles Never Tried Peerless Thorn-Proof Tires They have the weight, the thickness and the Rub- ber; it's rubber that makes your tire wear. MADE FOR AND GUARANTEED BY SCHOLLENBERGER BROS, We'll Treat You Square. 'Phone 545 230 N. Main Christmas is coming! Ideal Bicycles please the children. SAY BILL will you meet me at Dunbar hall Thanksgiving Night? Big Doin's takes place a big line of Suits which count from a manufact- continued warm weath- willing to unload them pose to give the people unfit of our big discount. s, in black, blue and up latest styles, silk ear $25. $15. both, zibeline, cheviots, es below their value. self. K CLOAK AND SUIT Co. S. BELLER S CRIAL FLOUR AND ST FOOD good eating.— MBODEN MILLING CO. 1 T! ere you get The Best your own benifit is'nt well fitting SUIT or SELOVER 245-247 Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St anner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISOH BROS, PROPS. N. Main St. Phone 530 men in need of Groceries not forget that you can yays get the Best at the best prices at KERNAN'S E Downtown 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. Hess & Co circles, Guns, Ammunition, Fishing Tackle and General porting Goods. 209 N. Main CALL AT the ELITE Restaurant When You Want AGOOD MEAL Days The Best, and Cooked Well -MEALS 15cts - C. L. KINER, Prop. N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. I. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Nurgeon Classes of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F.I.D. Israel, 127 N. Market Wichita M. B. whole attention to Pianos, Sewing Machines, Music, Gramaphones, Piano players ties, etc., etc, can make better prices in ordinary dealers on thing. WHOLESALE or RETAIL THOS. SHAW, 92 North Main Street B. F. McLEAN, LUMBER YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. CHAS. A SC Real Estate, and Insurance NOTARY MYRON A Groceries, Fru and I 815 N. NUMBER = DEAL AT Ph Norwater, Peck, ey, Kansas. 408 W. AS. A SCHWENDIGE al Estate, Rental, Lo insurance Agent, NOTARY PUBLIC LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas CHAS. A SCHWENDIGER Real Estate, Rental, Loans and Insurance Agent, MYRON A. DEAN eries, Fruits, Vegeta and Feed. 15 N. MAIN ST Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. SECOND TO NONE Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. We trade Ranches, Farms, J. F. Belle Real Estate & I Homes So Installment Pla Western Lands and Ranges A Oklahoma and Colorado Patronage Office 110 N. Ma Trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Mer F. Bellew & Co. Estate & Imigration Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Lands and RangesA Specialty. Dailers in Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lands. Etronage Solicited Price 110 N. Main, wichita, Kane 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- 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. 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 it 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. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Up-to-the-Minute = DEALER Phone 134 408 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 New & Co., Immigration Agts Sold On In. Easy Terms. Specialty. Dealers in, Kansas, Farms and Ranch Lands. Solicited- min, wichita, Kansas. What kind of representation have the colored people in Wichita? What kind of employment is open to the colored boy or girl who finishes his schooling? Think. Yet some talk about race progress. What! Look about you. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TATEN FROM LIFE. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. TRY IT PERSONAL MENTION. Among Wechita's very progressive young men is Mr. G, L. Scott. Mr. Scott is one of the trusted employees of the Kansas Steam Laundry and is a prominent figure in Masonic circles of this city. Wm. Lee is making a hit at the Fulton Store, where he has been for the past 7 months. He hails from Texas and is a wide-awake young man Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Neeley deserve much credit for the very able manner in which they are conducting the Helen Gould Orphan Home for colored children a. 1447 South River st. They are both wide awake. Thomas Anderson and E. Thaddeus Summytt are among Wichita's up-to-the-minute young men. The one is shipping clerk at his Lawrence Wholesale photo supply House and the other mail clerk at the Post office. Mr. Chas. Agan, 903 N. Mead, stands in the front ranks of the coming colored men of Wichita. When we came here, five years ago, he was a rentor; now he owns as a home, as well furnished with all the modern improvements as any colored man here. It seems t at Mrs. Ela Glenn Shields isathe most successful pension agent in the city. She is to g to Washington soon to "hurry up" a few of her claims which are pending there. TO CALIFORNIA $25.00 One Way Colonist During Nov. ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM Homeseekers' Excursion to Texas Nov. 24th. $15.00 Down and Back. C. E. Bascom, C. P. A. The Negro professional man who so far forgets his position as to attempt to "down" any Negro enterprise should be very careful of his ground. He should remember that though he may flourish in his opposition for a season—yet he is doomed. No Negro professional man can profit by thus doing. And when the tray does turn, as it surely will, he should not complain—he is simply reaping what he has sown. Exchange New Games A FREE game inside each package of 60 different games. To introduce our Children's Suits and Oveecoats, we will sell them at a great reduction. THE HUB, 114 N. Main st Glauberg, the popular priced milliner, 407 East Douglas, does both wholesale and retail. He has one of the largest and most complete stock of millinery goods, at lowest prices. Read the Searchlight every week 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 120 times as fast as the population. We have a competent person who has taken charge of our SKIRT DEPARTMENT. We alter them here and fit them right. OUR PRICES WILL DO THE REST Our Trimmed Hats are the talk of the town, they are gotten up stylish, and you can not beat our prices. East Douglas THE ER'S FAVORITE FRISCO SYSTEM Bough Service City, Memphis, Birmingham, Paris, Fort Worth, Smith, Wichita, Oklahoma City Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territories, Indiana and Illinois. rates, also illustrated descriptive matter, promptly furnished upon B.F. DUNN DIV. PASS. AGENT Wichita, Ks. Book FREE ON MILL and get a Receipt Book Afternoon Cooking Club, Mrs. B H. You can use any brand of flour with PEERLESS PRINCESS "takes every lover of good cooking. Whita Union Mill Co, RK YOUR HOBBY. Buy your next order nings to Eat 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 DIV. PARS. AGENT Wichita, Ks. 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. Douglas Phone 98 Francis & Co., N'S PAINT The Paint That Holds r, Paint and Glass Wichita, Kan. Nice Furnished ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty J. L. Francis & Co., STEARN'S PAINT The Paint That Holds Wallpaper, Paint and Glass 407 East Douglas Wichita, Kan. W. M. Dunson, Painter 1 407 East P TRAVELER'S FRISK SYSTEM THROUGH Between St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Fort Smith, Wichita And Points in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory Information as to train service and rates, also illustrate application to B.F.D. DIV. PABSE Wichita Receipt Book Ca UNION by the Thursday Afternoon Campbell, Pres. You can use these receipts, but PEERL the cake" and suits every lo The Wichita U JOB WORK IS OUT Let us try you Good Thing Bread 306 East Douglas J. L. FRANCIS, J. L. Frank STEARN'S P Wallpaper, Pa 407 East Douglas 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 & HANSHAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Home made Bread, Pies, Cakes and all kinds of Pastries. Our Home made Candies cannot be equalled anywhere. They are made fresh every day. Bissant WICHEFA - KANSAS J. H. TURNER Mrs. R. Hack, Prop. 244 North Water St. All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Rasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 936 LIVE STOCK Horses at the World's Fair. The $93,640 allotted for horses, asses and mules at the World's Fair is divided among twenty-four classes, as follows: Trotter, Thoroughbred, Perchon; French Draft, Clydesdale and Shire horses, $6,205 each; jacks and jennets, $5,425; French Coach, German Coach, English Coach, Hackney, Morgan, Belgian and maddle horses, $4,300 each; Suffolk Punch and Arabian, $1,115 each; mules, $3,415; Shetland ponies, $3,410; ponies in harness, $800. Harness horses are allotted $4,800. Roadsters are given $1,700, divided equally between "roadsters for dealers" and "roadsters for others." Business horses have been given $2,315, and horses of commerce have $1,485. These sums are exclusive of any special prizes. The class for German Coach includes East Friesland Coach, Hanoverian, Holstein Coach, Oldenburg Coach and Trakehnen. Under the English Coach are included the Cleveland Bay and Yorkshire Coach. The American Percheron Horse Breeders and Importers' association has set aside $2,000 for special prizes for Percherons at the World's Fair. The association has suggested to Chief Coburn an arrangement of this sum for an offering of thirty-seven prizes to provide a number of classes for the especial encouragement of American breeders and of the display of stock bred by exhibitors. The National French Draft Horse association has offered $1,000 in World's Fair special prizes for that breed. The total amount in regular and special prizes for Percheron and French Draft horses is $15,410. The "horse of commerce" class in the World's Fair prize list provides a new and deserved recognition of the market types of horses. "This class," the prize list announces, "provides for an exhibit of horses of the leading types that find a ready sale at trade centers and that are especially deserving of the attention of breeders who appreciate the advantages of a profitable home and foreign market assured for all worthy specimens." In this class a first prize of $75, a second of $50, a third of $40, and highly commended and commended awards are offered for artillery, cavalry, coach, saddle, omnibus and fire department horses and for drafters, expressers and roadsters. Exhibits in this class are confined to goldings four years old or over, with the exception that mares will be eligible in the section for saddle horses. Animals will be shown in harness or under saddle. Judges in this class will be experienced buyers on the market, or United States army officers. The World's Fair classification for horses presents a remarkable series of awards in the breeding rings, offering nearly $80,000 for these classes alone. A single stallion may win $500 solely on his individual merit in any of the more important classes. As the sire of pure-bred coils he may win $100 additional, and in the stud rings he may help to win $750 more. The appropriations for grade goldlings and mares by recorded sires aggregate $10,840 in the World's Fair breeding rings. Duroc-Jersey Points The following points are abstracted from a detailed description of the Duroc-Jersey by an official publication of the American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders' Association: The head is small in proportion to the body and tapers well down to the nose. The eyes are bright and prominent. The ears are medium in size and moderately thin, and point forward and downward. The neck is thick and short. The jowl is broad, full and neat. The shoulders are broad and deep and do not extend above line of back, which is straight, or slightly arching and of even width from shoulder to ham. Sides are deep and ribs long. Bolly and flank are straight and full. Hams and rump are broad and full. Legs are medium in size and length. Tail large at base and bushy at point. Coat is thick and fine. Color is cherry red without admixtures. Size is large for age and condition. Two-year-old boar should weigh 600 pounds; sown same age, 500 pounds; year-old boar, 350 pounds; year old sow, 300 pounds; boar and sow six months of age, 150 pounds. Action is vigorous. Disposition is gentle and they are easily handled and driven. The Sow to Keep. Using a sow once and fattening her for the pork barrel is no way to get together a good lot of breeders. It takes several farrowings to prove what is the real ability of a sow in this direction. A man that has half a dozen sows farrow, all with good litters and keeps only two of them is as likely to keep the poorest as the best. A sow must be permitted to bear pigs two or three times before she can safely be put down as a good breeder and mother. If a farmer that raises several broods of pigs a year will keep each promising sow through two or three breedings and continually select the best for future work and weed out the poorest of the good ones he will in a few years have a collection of brood sows that will make him money. As a man must sleep and eat with himself there is the best reason why he should keep himself clean.-Sloux City Journal. NOV. 25th the Date Club "G" of the 2nk Baptist church, of which Mrs. S. E, Patton, is president, will render the following program at the church, Wednesday night, Nov. 25th. PROGRAM 1— Opening Chorus 2— Mandolin and Guitar. 3 Ree ..... Mrs, Lucy Anderson 4 Solo ..... Miss Mary Alexander 5 Rec. ..... Ms. H. W. James 6 Piano So o ..... Mi's Corine Miller 7 Solo ..... Miss Carrie Bradford 8 Rec. ..... Mrs. S. C. Collins 9 Solo ..... Mrs. R. Braden 10 Instrumental 11 Solo ..... Mrs. Thos. Fines 12 Solo ..... Mrs. Alexander 13 Instrumental Duet 14 Goose by Company 15 Sol 15 Solo ..... Eveline Estel All meat eaters should take notice that beginning with Sunday, Nov 15th, all meat markets will be closed every Sunday till April 15th. Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, will elect their officers for the ensuing term, on the first Tuesday night in December. Mrs. Wm. Dent left Friday for Dawson, I. T., where she will hold a series or meetings during the next three weeks. The B. T. W. Club met at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Thompson. After the transaction of business and the rendition of the program, the hostess served her gueses to the choicest of delicacies, Mrs. Thompson proved hers an excellent hostess. The club will meet next week with Miss Yocum on N. Water. Mrs. Gertrude White, who was visiting in Memphis, Tenn., was called home on account of the serious illness of her little niec, Mary Sanders. She reports n nice time. WINF1ELD, KAS. District Court convened last Tuesday. Mrs. Carrie Franklin came up from New kirk last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Alston were up from Ark. City to attendh quarterly meecing Sunday. Mrs. T. Works, of Oxford, spent Sunday in Winfield. Jas. North came in from Wichita Monday. Leroy Frauklin came from home from Kansas City Sunday. Presiding Elder Randsome held his first Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. He is an uble speaker. Rev. Bandy is home from Pratt. He has charge of the 2nd Baptist Church at Pratt. Rev. Garnett preacheh at 2nd Baptist Church Sunday. Mrs. P. A. Delano, of Ark. City, was the guest of Mrs. Thos. Campbell last week, NOTICE NOTICE One dollar's worth of fun for One Dime. Go to the 2nd Bapti t Church next Tuesday night and see the girls and boys of the early seventies in a grand old time school exhibition. Don't fail to eat some of those chittlings and other good things they'll have. Mrs. E. J. Alexander, Capt. Club "T" Wichita light this Are You a. The Athenian Club met at Mrs. L. A. Hargrove's The paper read by Miss Bowers, "Does Educati n Ce fleet with Religion?", was inceed an excelent one and deserves special credit. It was freely discussed by the club. Father Ley was present. Rev. Hardy is able to be out again after a week's illness with rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Cornors were in the city last week from Denuer. Miss K. V. Fulton returned to her home in Belton, Texas last Wed. Mrs. Dr. Howe returned to Denver with the remains of her mother last week. Iqe funeral of Mr. John Nelson was preached at St. John's A. M. E. Church, Nov. 9 at 2:30 p.m. The Elks and Masonic lodges runed out in memory of one whom the Lord saw fit to take from them. The floral offerings were beautiful. Rev. Taylor conducted the impressive ceremony. Mr. Kitt, of Battle Creek, Mich., is in the city for an indefinite period. Mr and Mrs. Wade, of Kansas City, are in the city stopping with Mrs. Armstrong. Mr. Nelson, father of deceased, is lying very low at his home on W. 4th st. Mr. Wilkerson, who left Pueblo a few weeks ago to take charge of the Baptist church at Canon City, reports a grand success. Mrs. Kereford, of 6th st., was called home Monday on account of the death of her mother. The entertainment given at 3rd st. hall last Wednesday night was reported as a grand success. The anniversary of Rev. D. A. Jefferson, of the 8th st. Baptist church, was celebrated Fo day eve., The program, an excellent one, was as follows: Selection by the choir, prayer by Rev. McIntyre, announcement by Mr. Gatewood, solo by Miss Townsend, reading by Mrs. Geo. Hall, duett by Miss V. and H. Trailer, duett by Mrs. Williams and Mr. Gatewood, reading by Mrs. Taylor, recitation by A Summers, solo by Miss Phillips and recitation by Miss R. Bowers. The social was given by Mrs. J. A. Jones and Mr. J. Wilcox, and was a grand surprise to the pastor and his wife, $6.00 being turned over to them. The beautiful home of Mrs Warren, 1943 Buelah ave., was very prettily decorated in violet and white, the colors of the art club, in a reception given bp them to their president, Miss K. V. Fulton, who left for her home in Texas. Miss Fulton will be greatly missed by the members of the club as well as by the other friends that she has made. We regret much to have her leave us but she assured us that she had enjoyed her 3 months' stay in Colo. and would come again. Those assisting were: Mrs. E. Mathews at the punch bowl, Mr. Gatewood and Miss Baker at the piano, and those serving were Misser Elliot, Bowers, V, and H. Trailer, J. Huddles on and Baker, and Messrs Baker and Banks. At a late hour all departed declaring that they had enjoyed themselves. The Mother's club met at Rev. Hardy's church last Thursday. Mr. Riley Trailer is in the city en a visit to his brother, Mr. Trailer, 441 E. River. Mrs. Watson went to Pittsburg, Pa. to attend the parent body of the unite mission in connection with the general conference to be held in that city. NEWTON, KANS. Rev. Hall, pastor of 2nd Baptist Church of Wichita, was in Newton Thursday. Ulysses Rickman and Merguerite Phenix were united in marriage Tuesday, Nov. 3. Presiding Elder J. M. Rives was in Mewton Sunday to attend the quarterly conference. Miss Carrie Davis has returned to her home in Guthrie Okla. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Page left Friday to visit friends in Emporia, Mr. Patterton, of Flore es spent several days in this city visiting his sons, Walter and Iris. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Paige, of Old Mexico, are in the city and are undecided whether to locate here or in Emporia Mr. Eddie Owens, of Eldorado, is visiting here. N. A. Andeason is on the grand jury for this term of Court. CHETOPA, KAS. Mrs L. A. Williams, of Vinta, I. T., was in the city last week visit ing her brother, H. L. Edu onds. The concert at M, E. Church was a grand success. The play at the M E, Church was entitled "Sleeping Beauty" in which Clara Nelle Williams was Princess viettetta. Messrs A. Dials, U. R. Smith and C. A. Lacey, of Kansas city, spent a few hours in the territory Monday. C. A. Lacey was summoned to the bedside of his mother, who is very ill. Mrs. Ernestine Brown, of Coffeyville, Sundayed in Chelope the guest of her cousin, Helene Smith Mrsrs Oscar Kidd, I. Donnelly, of Coffeyville spent a day here seeing about the Thanksgiving festivities. Those on the sick list are, Grandpa Saunders and Mesdames McGuinis and Lacey. Mrs. L. Woods went to Parons Sunday and brought home her sick nephew. Mr. George Chinneth was in the city visiting his mother, Mrs. Bufford, and relatives. Birse Dials, Ernest Porter Newt Edmunds and Miss Pobert are freshmen and Miss Willie Hudson is a senior at the high school. ARKANSAS CITY, KAS. Mrs. Kittie Jones returned from Newkirk Thursday. Rev. Garnett preached in Winfield Sunday. Sam Kirk spent Sunday in this city. Mrs. Hooker spent Sunday in Newkirk. Mr. Harry Jones and Marian Fowler went to Wichita last week. Mr and Mrs. Garret Banks returned to Denver last week. The W. T. V. Club will entertain at Miss Alston's Wednesday. HOUCK Hardware Store The place to buy Good Cook Stoves and Heating Stoves at the Lowest Cash Prices 116 East Douglas Ave. We Want YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT, WHY NOT? W. G. McKee, ( Successor to A. N. 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