Wichita Searchlight

SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Dec. 5, 2003 KANSAS COMMENT. A NEW TOWN.—It is to be on the Katy south of Humboldt, and will be called Petrolia. PROSPERITY ITEM.—Seven agents are selling three different kinds of encyclopedias in Summer county. PROSPECTING FOR GAS.—Gas is being prospected for in Decatur county, in the northwestern part of the state. DOUBLE TRACK.—The Santa Fe has 28 miles of double track between Kansas City and Emporia on the "cut-off. NOHOO RAPIDS FIRE.—The business portion of the town, which was recently incorporated, has been destroyed by fire. LANE COUNTY WHEAT.—Wheat will average 28 bushels to the acre in Lane county. The total yield for the year is 1,161,160 bushels. CONWAY TO LARNED.—The Missouri Pacific Railroad company has established passenger service between Conway Springs and Larned. FIRE AT COLUMBUS.—An implement warehouse in the second story of which were the Odd Fellows and Masonic halls, is destroyed by fire. AT WORK AT 8.—Mr. Heap, a man over 80 years old, is foreman of the gang putting in a filter at the Rock Island station at Whitewater. PACKERS ARE COMPELLED.—The local butchers of Topela have forced the packers to reduce the price of meat to them by killing animals themselves. LOST A HAND.—Wesley Harder of Willard, while working in the pressed brick yards there, had his hand caught in a brick machine and terribly mangled. Mo. Pac. Extension.—It is reported on good authority that the management of the Missouri Pacific railroad has finally decided to extend the road from McPherson to Marquette, a distance of sixteen miles. A TEACHERS' HOME.—There were over 500 teachers in attendance at the Northwest Kansas Teachers' association meeting at Norton. They adjourned with $75.58 on hand. This association is tailing of establishing a teachers' home somewhere near the center of the district. It is incorporated and under good management. OLDEST RESIDENT.—Benjamin P. Harding, of Watheme, the oldest continuous resident in Doniphan county or in the state, has just celebrated his his 87th birthday. He had enjoyed good health until two years ago when he was stricken with paralysis. Since that time his speech has been affected and he has required considerable care. EIGHT YEARS IN PISSION.—Harry S. Sharpley, of St. Louis, was sentenced at Hutchinson to eight years in the state penitentiary at Lansing. He married Della Housinger of Sylvia, Reno county, when he had a wife in St. Louis. He also obtained money from farmers' boys, telling them that his father owned a street railway in St. Louis and by promising them jobs there. WOMAN CARRIES RUNAL MAIL.—"Every morning," says the Register, "a bright-eyed neat little woman drives out of Iola for a twenty-four mile trip north of town, carrying the mail on route No. 3. Her name is Lillian Smith and she is the regular carrier and expects to continue the work this winter. Miss Smith is a college bred woman, an ex-school teacher, a talented musician and a charming lady." ENCOURAGER WATERWORKS.—The Kansas Fire Preventing association held their annual meeting in Topela, about 40 insurance men being present. The object of the association is to induce cities to improve their waterworks systems and their fire departments. Whenever a city makes these improvements the association reports the fact to the insurance companies and the rate is reduced. POULTRY TO ALISKA.—A Winfield packing house ships orders of chickens and turkeys to Nome and Dawson. SANTA FE LOSS BY FIRE.—Fire, supposed to have been caused by sparks from an engine, destroyed the Santa Fe carpenter shop in Wellington, together with a large amount of paints, oils, lumber and other supplies stored in adjoining buildings. Officials of the company estimate the loss at $4,000. KILLED WHILE HUNTING.—Fay Lord, of El Dorado, aged 14 years, while out hunting with other boys, had a part of his head taken off by a charge from a gun, which was accidentally discharged. CRIME IN SMITH COUNTY.—Smith county has been overrun with crime during the past few months. Two or three mysterious murders have been committed, a bank has been robbed, several business house burglarized, numerous houses robbed and a half dozen or more people held up by highwaymen. A HUNDRED MORE MEN.—The new improvements and additions to the Cudahy packing house in Wichita, just completed, will give employment to 100 more men. OUTSTANDING WARRANTIES—Cherokee county has about $50,000 in outstanding warrants and no funds with which to pay them. County Attorney Williams is trying to devise a scheme to liquidate them. His idea is to have them taken to the county treasurer and stamped "not paid for want of funds" and then let the people at the next general election vote upon a proposition to issue bonds to take them up. He has advised with the attorney general over the feasibility of the scheme. 3LANTRY FIRM DISSOLVES.—The railroad contracting firm of B. Lantry & Sons, of Strong City, has been dissolved. Charles Lantry refines and Henry Lantry will conduct the business. This firm is one of the most noted railroad contracting firms in the west. It has done nearly all of the Santa Fe work for years. STEAL, MUCH WHAT.—Wheat thieves are working industriously about Arkansas City. H. F. Probst operates a line of elevators on the Kansas Southwestern railroad and lately several of his storage bins have been broken open. The thieves have made away with wheat by the wagon load. SUGAR MILL CLOSED—The Fort Scott sugar mill has closed down, having used up all the cane grown in that part of the country. This year there was a large amount of business at the mill, and this called for a large force of men. They have now all been laid off and are looking for other jobs. HUNDREED DOLLARS AN ACRE.—O. J. Martin, a farmer of Sedgwick county has sold this year enough apples to bring him in $2,047 in cash. Mr. Martin's is not a fruit farm, either, but he finds it a paying part of the business. His orchard consists of about twenty acres. PAIRSONS DEPOT ROBED.—The Frisco Depot in Parsons was broken into and the safe blown open with nitroglycerine. The robbers secured $600 in drafts, $100 in money and $50 worth of jewelry. The job was evidently the work of experts. There is no clue. KILLED BY TREE—Alfred Treadway, a 10-year-old boy of Lyon county, had his neck broken by a falling tree. He was in the timber alone and cut off a limb which was supporting a tree that had been cut down. His body was not found for several hours. TAUGHT 25 YEARS.—Mrs. E. M. Collins is now teaching her twenty-fifth term in the public schools of Sencea. In her honor a public meeting was held in the court house and she was made the recipient of a memento suitable to the occasion. CENTRAL KANSAS T. A.—The eighteenth annual meeting of the Central Kansas Teachers' association at Hutchinson was the largest in point of attendance and the best ever held in the district. Rock ISLAND'S MOGULS.—They weigh 200,500 pounds, with 150,000 pounds on the drivers. One of them went south from Herington with a freight train a mile long with big loads of freight. TWO ATTEMPTS TO WRECK.—The Hiawatha-Kansas City accommodation train met with obstructions on the track south of Hiawatha twice within a week, but no damage was done. ROCK ISLAND TAXES.—The Rock Island paid its taxes in Sherman county amounting to $12,631.87. The assessed valuation of their property in Goodland and Sherman county is $300,630. 3 HEAVY HOGS.—A farmer at McLouth has marketed two hogs that weighed 1,250 pounds. One tipped the scales at 710 pounds and the other at 540. BARN AND HORSES.—The barn of G. S. Fisher, six miles east of Ottawa, is burned and twelve horses were burned to death. NEW SCIENCE OFFICERS.—At the Manhattan meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, officers were elected as follows: President, Dr. Edward Bartow, Lawrence; vice president, L. W. Wooster, Emporia, and Prof. Eyer, Manhattan; treasurer, A. J. Smith, Emporia; secretary, G. P. Grimsley, Topela. DIVORCE CASES.—At the present term of the district court in Leavenworth there are 63 divorce cases. Judge Gilpatrick gave the applicants a rough house. FIRE AT COLUMBUS.—The Hoyt-Klienfield building was destroyed. The lower story was occupied by an implement company, while the upper was the Odd Fellows' and the Masons' lodge rooms. Very little of the contents was saved. The loss will reach from $6,000 to $10,000. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.—The 21st meeting of the North Central Kansas Teachers' association at Concordia last week was a success in every way. There were about 700 teachers enrolled. TEACHERS AT WIGATA.—The Kansas Special Teachers' Federation and association of accountants and bookkeepers, also the Southern Kansas Teachers' association met at Wigita last week. More than 300 out of town teachers were in attendance at the opening. PRESIDENT OF S. K. T. A.-R. F. Knight, superintendent of the Wichita public schools, was unanimously elected president of the Southern Kansas Teachers' association on its closing day. POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS.—The report issued by the postoffice department shows the receipts of the postoffices named for the last fiscal year as follows: Topelka, $171,484.17; Kansas City, $131,280.46; Wichita, $77,703.63; Atchison, $41,207.81; Lavenworth, $37,531.20; Lawrence, $34,777.00; Salina, $33,071.68; Hutchinson, $28,163.29; Emuoria, $20,684.00; Fort Scott, $21,204.71. This is for the sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper postage etc. It does not include the money order business or the other incomes of the office. CHURCH SELLS LAND—Bethany Lutheran church of Lindsborg, was given 60 acres in 1898 by the Union Pacific railway for church and school purposes. Ten acres were used for site of church and parsonage, ten acres for Bethany college, 20 acres was platted and sold years ago and now the remaining 20 acres are platted and the lots will be sold at auction on December 5. SAFE BLOW UP—At Hoyt, robbers blew open the safe in a general store. A portion of the safe door went through the side of the building. The money of the firm was in the bank and the thieves got nothing. They left on a hand car. FRAUDULENT PAPER.—Joseph Snow, charged with paying for a large shipment of horses from Geary county with fraudulent paper, was arrested in New York. The sheriff has gone to bring him home. Two POTATO CROPS.—Edward Rothrock, of Sumner county, has just dug his second potato crop from the same ground. The crop is much better than the first, though that was a good average crop. PENTENEILIARY ORGANIST.—Miss Jessie Morrison, who is under a 25-year sentence, is the organist in the women's chapel at the state penitentiary. She has become cheerful over her music. THINK IT IS GOLD.—Gold has been discovered on the farm of C. L. Becker, near Deerfield. It assays $16 a ton from surface and at $2 at a lower level. Experts believe it will run higher. BURNING CORN.—Last spring the floods in the Smoky Hill and Kaw river valleys spoiled large quantities of corn in the crib which is now being used for fuel. GOLDEN BELT TEACHERS.—The 8th annual meeting of the Golden Belt Teachers' association met at Ellis last week with nearly 150 teachers in attendance. HILL CITY BANK—In the recent fire at Hill City, Graham county, the bank building and contents burned, save what was in the vault, which was secure. HILL CITY FIRE.—The greater part of the south side of the town is destroyed. The damages will exceed $100,000, with probably $30,000 insurance. FOR MANUAL TRAINING.—The bid for building the manual training school for the Topela board of education which was accepted, was $63,847. IN ATWOOD JAIL.—Edward Kelley was captured in Chicago and he will be tried on the charge of robbing the Rawlins county treasury of $2,000. COSTS COUNTY $50,000.—The four trials of Coffelt, oh charge of murder of Detective Montgomery, have cost Cowley county about $50,000. HOLTON DEFENSE BONDS.—The city of Holton defeated a proposition for bonds for waterworks by 33 votes, a majority of the votes east. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.—The Kansas Academy of Science held its annual meeting at Manhattan last week. SCARLET FEVER.—The school of Mound Ridge are closed on account of scarlet fever. LARGE ICE HOUSE.—The Union Pacific is building another large ice house at Junction City. The house will have a capacity of ninety carloads of ice. During the cold weather this winter the company will haul its supply of ice there from Wyoming. TURKEY DINNER.—Officers of the Leavenworth Soldiers' home provided 2,800 pounds of dressed turkeys for the veterans' Thanksgiving dinner, together with 200 gallons of oysters, 20 bushels of cranberries and other condiments to match. THROWN FROM WAGON.—Marshal Mayfield, a farmer near Jonesburg, was almost instantly killed while hauling wheat to Peru. He was descending a hill when he was thrown from his wagon and run over, death resulting almost instantly. He was 40 years old and leaves a family. LARGEST MEETING.—The enrollment of teachers for this meeting was the largest in the history of the Southern Kansas Teachers' association. It was 548. This is 250 more than ever enrolled before. STILL LOSING HOGS.—Since the first of October a large number of farmers in Geary county have been losing many head of hogs by cholera. The disease spread rapidly, but for the two months it has been confined to a small portion of the county. A number of farmers have already lost more than a hundred head of hogs each. THREE CHURCHES UNITE.—The First Presbyterian, the Congregational and the United Presbyterian churches of Ottawa are talking about uniting. Ottawa has twenty-two churches. Susceptible to Plague. All animals living in contact with man, rats, chickens, horses, dogs, cats, are susceptible to the bubonic plague. Short Route to Yokohama. From Liverpool to Yokohama by the trans-Canada route will be only 830 miles. By New York and San Francisco it is 12,003 miles. Greatest Mountain Railway Twenty thousand young children, Italy and rightly, stand in the streets of London offering various articles for sale. Bibles for Doers. It is reported that in view of the looting of Boer Bibles that took place during the late war the Bible Society is to make a free distribution of 5,000 Dutch Bibles bound in leather. English Children in Canada. The London Times, commenting on a correspondent's letter on child emigration to the colonies, says in thirty-four years 45,000 children have been sent to Canada. Royalty Records Examination of the records of the characteristics of European royalty by Dr. Frederic Adams Wood, shows that the morally superior were the better endowed mentally. Largest Airship. The largest airship constructed is to be built at St. Ouen. It has been designed by Senor Jos De Patroceini, who has received a subsidy from the Brazilian government for the purpose. The Lost Tribes of Israel. The ten tribes of Israel were lost 721 B. C., when carried captive by S.almaneser, King of Assyria. Their fate has been a matter of all sorts of speculation. Kent Tab. A New York girl testified in a breach of promise case that the defendant had kissed her exactly 1.338 times. She must have used a street car register on him and rung up every pass as she collected it.—Denver Post. Pests Are Expensive. The United States is the host of the chinch bug at a cost of $100,000,000. The hessian fly costs $50,000,000 for its entertainment; the grasshopper, $30,000,000; the potato bug, $8,000,000; and the cotton boll worm, $20,000,000. Infant Mortality in France A recent study of infant mortality in France shows that out of every 1,000 deaths of infants under one year of age 116 are breast-fed, 290 bottle-fed, and 594 infants to whom solid food had been given too early. Glaciers Disappear. The ice in Greenland is melting more rapidly than it is formed. Comparison of the descriptions of the Jacobshaven glacier shows that its edge has receded eight miles since 1850, and it has lost twenty to thirty feet in depth. Old Presbyterian Church. St. Andrew's is the oldest Presbyterian church in South Africa, and it has for nearly seventy-five years been the garrison church for Presbyterian soldiers in Cape Town. It is proposed to erect a building to seat about 1,200 people. Antarctic Icebergs. Icebergs in the Arctic regions are neither so large nor so numerous as those seen in the Antarctic seas, but they are usually loftier and more beautiful, with spires and domes. When the sun shines on them, they look like a fairy city. Effect of Sun Srcta. In speaking of the effect of sun spots on the earth, Prof. Elkins of the Yale observatory said: "They produce no climatic or atmospheric disturbances or changes. The effect of the spots is entirely magnetic. It takes a very sensitive compass to be affected even." An "Early Auto." As far back as 1797, when the Courant was only about 30 years of age, Dr. Kinsley of his city drove through the streets of Hartford, one of which has since been named for him, a self-propelling carriage, which was really a steam automobile. And in 1788 John Fitch of Windsor began his experiments with the steamboat.—Hartford Courant. "JUST RUN ACROSS" Some people make an intelligent study of food and get on the right track (pure food) others are lucky enough to stumble upon the right way out of the difficulty just as a Phila, young woman did. 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Nitro Club and Arrow loaded with any smokeless powder. They are "Duck Killers." Catalogue free. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Agency, 213 Broadway, New York. --- Smallpox an Old Disease. Contrary to the popular impression, smallpox is not a disease of modern origin. It is doubtful if there are any authentic data concerning its first appearance, but the earliest chronicle now existing of its ravages dates from the sixth century of our present era. Statistics for Lovers. An expert mathematician has figured it out that if two lovers spent four hours together and the lover takes or receives 200 kisses, and each kiss takes ten seconds, in five years' time the lover would have had 365,000 kisses, and their lips would have been untied for the space of forty-six days and six hours. Seap an Enemy to Doctors A doctor once, when visiting a patient who was suffering from the effects of too much beer within and too little soap and water without, said to the invalid's wife: "If there was less beer drunk and more soap and water used there would not be half so much sickness in the world." To which the woman promptly returned: "Then half of you doctors would be out of work." Reads Like a Miracle. Friarspoint, Miss., Nov. 30.—The Butler case still continues to be the talk of the town. Mr. G. L. Butler, the father of the little boy, says: "The doctor said my boy had disease of the spinal cord, and treated him for two months, during which he got worse all the time. Finally the doctor told me he did not know what was the trouble. The boy would wake up during the night and say that he was dying. He would be nervous and trembling and would want to run from the house, saying he saw ugly things which frightened him. After we had tried everything else, I read an advertisement of Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for Nervous Troubles. I purchased some and used them until he had taken altogether eight boxes when he was sound and well with not a single symptom of the old trouble. This was some months ago, and I feel sure that he is permanently cured. We owe to Dodd's Kidney Pills all the credit for his restoration to good health." A politician thinks he is entitled to as many kinds of opinions as he may need in his business. Lewis "Single Binder" straight beige cigar. Made of ripe, mellow tobacco, so rich in quality that many who formerly smoked the cigars now smoke Lewis "Single Binder." Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill. Conscience isn't in it with the hamiltonization of being found out. RED CROSS PALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. A fool can atract quite as much at tention as a wise man. A. Rare Good Thing. "Am using ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE and can truly say I would not have been without it so long, had I known the relief it would give my aching feet. I think it a rare good thing for anyone having sore or tired feet. Mrs. Matilda Holtwater, Providence, R. I." Sold by all Drugstores, 25c. Ask to-day. The self-satisfied people are generally the happiest. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, §§. FRANK J. GHERY makes each that he is sender partner of the form of F. J. CHENY & CO., doing everything, and that sold firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARTH that cannot be buryed by the use of HALL'S CATARTH-CURE. FRANK J. CHENY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1858. A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarth Cure is eaten internally, and acts gently on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Divence pulls the feathers from the wings of love. 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. If afflicted with [use sore eye, use] Thompson's Eye Water CHILDREN QUANTITIES OR London January Sales. Grossom, Muskrat, Mink, chimpanzee, and elephant. Highest prices of them are Write A E. Birkhart, Mala & Sad, Cleinmann, O. RIPPIN TABULES RIPPIN TABULES are the best drug- store medicine ever made. Hundreds of them have been sold in the United States in a single year. Constipation, heartburn, sick beastache, dizziness, bad breath, swollen cheeks, nervousness arising from a disordered stomach are relieved or cured by Rippin Tabules. One with generally active rider within twenty minutes. The five-cent package is enough for ordinary occasions. All druggists sell them. BROOM CORN WANTED JAPANESE TABULAS IO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. 217 SOUTH WATER ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Baby's Troubles Mothers, you may rely upon Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin It keeps the baby's little bowels cool and regular, cures Wind Colic, and helps them to grow strong and hearty. Special directions for the babies each bottle label. Your druggist sells it. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, III. KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Attendance of Old Timers Was Larger Than Usual. THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Topeka, Dec. 3.—The attendance at the annual meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society was larger than usual and the papers read of more than ordinary interest. James C. Horton, of Kansas City, brought down the house by making a speech mimicking Jin Lane. The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, John Martin, Topeka; first vice president, R. M. Wright, Dodge City; second vice president, H. L. Moore, Lawrence. George W. Martin holds over as secretary, his election coming every two years. Directors were elected for a term of three years. One of the most interesting features of the meeting was the report of Secretary George W. Martin, showing what the society has done. It follows in part: "During the year ended June 30, last, there have been added to the library 2,947 volumes of books, 6,516 unbound volumes and pamphlets, 1,467 volumes of newspapers and periodicals, 2,117 single newspapers and single magazines containing matter of historical interest, 19 maps, atlases and charts, 533 manuscripts, 92 pictures and other works of art, 736 miscellaneous relics. Of these 10,700 have been procured by gift and exchange and 20 by purchase. "The society now has 27,371 books, 27,393 volumes of newspapers and 73,305 pamphlets." "These figures show the largest increase for a year in the past seventeen years. In 1902 John Marvin gave his library to the society, of which 1,658 volumes were placed on our shelves, while many duplicates were shipped away. "The additions to the museum during the year have been of more than ordinary character. "The correspondence of the society during the year amounted to 4,100 letters and 1,500 postal cards. The postal cards were simply tracers sent out after missing papers and some acknowledgments made in this form. Seventy-five per cent of the letters were inquiries for information along historical lines, or for official data pertaining to Kansas. The larger number of these letters were answered off-hand, or after a few minutes' examination, but several hundred of them were of a nature requiring from one hour to five hours each of research. The variety of calls makes the labor one of absorbing interest." Blind Boone's Aunt. Paola, Kans, Nov. 30.—The appearance of Blind Boone, the negro pianist, in this town will be remembered, by Mrs. Tabitha Miller, an aged negress, who is Blind Boone's aunt, with whom he had spent much time when he was a boy. Boone made enquiries and learned that a mortgage on her home of $350 was being foreclosed and he paid off the mortgage. San Domingo Surreadered. Cape Haytien, Nov. 28.—Dispatches received here from Puerto Plata say that the city of San Domingo is surrendered to the revolutionists and that President Wos y Gil and his ministers took refuge on board a British war ship. Foot Ball Fatality. Paris, Ill., Nov. 28.—Felix McWhorter, jr., of Depaup, is unconscious and probably fatally injured as the result of a collision with Shaw, a half-back. House Controls Situation. Washington, Nov. 30. — Until the senate either passes the Cuban bill or rejects the measure, no proposition to adjourn the extra session of the Fifty-eighth congress will be entertained by the house. This is the declared position of the leaders of the house and there is likely to be no effort made by that body to bring the extra session to an end until it lapses into the regular session December 7. In taking this stand the house leaders declare that they are simply emphasizing the purpose for which the session was called. Italians Hate Austria. Rome, Dec. 1. — The anti-Austrian demonstration is assuming a grave character and the government has stopped the delivery of all telegrams sent in cipher. All over Rome the cry is "Down with Francis Jose; let us break the triple alliance." At the university the Austrian flag was burned amid wild scenes of enthusiasm. At Genoa the demonstrators succeeded in reaching the Austrian consulate, where they shouted the most hostile cries. Colombia Notifies Canal Co. Bogota, Nov. 28. — Columbia has notified the Panama Canal company of Paris that it will not allow it to transfer its privileges to the United States. Quiet at Colon. New York, Dec. 3. -Passengers on a steamer from Colon say that quiet prevailed at Colon and that business had assumed its usual course. It was denied that the prisons were filled with political prisoners, but about 130 per all, it was said, were deported for showing discontent. The Secret of Pope Leo's Long Life The great secret of his 93 years, his power and capacity, is diet. He ate for the good of his body. He let his mind tell him when to stop. He ate little, but he ate enough and it was of the best quality. He was born a physical weakling, had been inclined to sickness all his life and yet he toiled more hours, weighted with greater responsibilities, than any other living man. His diet consisted largely of vegetables, fruits and cereals. 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Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stck in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. The fellow who makes unpleasant remarks is by no means remarkable. To Cure A Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Brome Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 23c. A "no account" man is one who has no balance in bank. PUTNAM FADBLISS DYES color more goods, brighter colors, with less work than others. Many a man owns a house coat who doesn't own a house. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Bull Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. 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 cards contain only 12 oz. Memorial to Pugilist A memorial has been erected at a cost of £130 in Toowoomba cemetery, near Brisbane, Queensland, over the grave of Peter Jackson, the pugilist. Kansas Dialect There are a great many people who go through life like the cat, which is no sooner in than it wants out, and no sooner out than it wants in.—Atchison Globe. Socialism in New Zealand. New Zealand has gone farther than any other nation in realizing the ideal state of the Socialist, where the government owns all the land, manages all the industries, and is the only capitalist in the community. About one man in every six throughout the islands is in some form of government employ, or is in receipt of a pension from the government. Foreign Students in Germany. Of the foreigners in German universities 628 study philosophy, 616 medicine, 588 mathematics and natural sciences, 351 law, 199 forestry, 146 agriculture, 124 evangelical and Catholic theology, 29 pharmacy and 27 dentistry; 876 are matriculated in Berlin, 406 at Leipzig, 257 at Munich, 197 at Heldelberg, 146 at Halle and 128 at Freiburg. Remarkable Telescope. With a 13-inch parabolic reflector of only 20 inches focus Professor Schaeberie has obtained with less than five minutes' exposure images of stars which are apparently too faint to be seen in the great 36-inch telescope of the Lick Observatory. The little instrument also reveals, with a similarly short exposure, all the stars that the large Crossley reflector of three feet diameter is able to picture with an exposure of two hours. Piso's cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure—J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave, N., Minneapolis, Mine, Jan. 6, 1900. The manufacturer of yeast doesn't always rise in the world. 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. In the body of a horse that died suddenly at Newport (Yorks) the veterinary surgeon who made a post-mortem examination discovered three large stones, one of them nearly as large as a cricket ball. Profit in Municipal Plants. Municipal development of water, gas, electricity, street railways, markets, baths and cemeteries in Nottingham. England, has shown an average annual net profit of $158,000 for the last four years. The money is applied to the reduction of taxes. Women's Respect for Age. Did I understand you to say that women had no respect for age? Verily, my good friend, you are woefully mistaken. So much do women respect age that they refuse to grow familiar with it at any stage of their existence.—New Orleans Times-Democrat Some of the old Nile lakes, which were formerly dry salt plains in summer and covered with a few inches of alkali water in the wet season, have been reclaimed by the British government and are now worth from $200 to $300 an acre. They produce magnificent crops. American Patents. The United States patent offices issues one-third of the whole number of patents issued in the world, or nearly as many as France, Germany and Great Britain combined, and four and a half times as many as Germany, the only one of our near competitors which makes novelty researches before granting patents. The most marked change in the uniform of the army, under the general order just issued, is that the stripe on the infantry trousers, which was changed a year or so ago from white to blue, will again be white. The same change will be made in the chevrons, and the box spur and black leather trousers strap will be abandoned. DOANS KIDNEY HILLS FIRST KIDNEY THE ORIGINAL THE ONLY GI LOVEN'S KINNEY PILLS DOEKS KINNEY PILLS. WM. II NEIGHBORS, the well-known jeweler of West Main Street, Wytheville, Va., says: "Some four years ago an attack of grip settled in my back, and I have suffered off and on ever since with a dull, heavy aching across the small of my back, always more severe in the morning. It was difficult for me to stoop or straighten, and if I sat down for any length of time it was hard for me to arise. I took two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills, and the dull, disagreeable aching left me." DOAN'S DONEY TILL CURED. and notpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles 200 page illus. treatise on Diseases of Wom- tion, notpaid a cent till cured—we furnis- THORNTON & MINOR, 10:30 DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and notpaid Rectum; also 100 page visits by our mild method, once per DRS. THORN1 PATENTS PATENT 3141 NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. WEESE FREE and notpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistles and Diseases of the Rectum; also 600 page that, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by Drs. Thornton & Minor, 10:30 oak St., Kansas City, Mo. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 10:30 oak St., Kansas City, Mo. Leo's Long diet. He ate for the good of enough and it was of the be all his life and yet he toi man. His diet consisted example of rational self-co Odd Post-Mortem Profit in Municipal Plants Women's Respect for Acc. Reclaims Nile Lakes. American Patents Change in Army Uniform. WHAT SICK KIDNEYS CAUSE WHAT SICK KIDNEYS CAUSE KIDNEY COMPLAINTS.—Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Inflammation of the Kidneys, Dropsy (swelling of the limbs or body), incessant pains in the back or leins. BLADDER TROUBLES.—Inflammation of the bladder, inflamed passages, pain in passing urine, incontinence of urine, too much or too little urine. URIC ACID TROUBLES.—Rheumatism, Gravel, Gout, Gall Stones, Lumbago. NERVE TROUBLES.—Neuralgia, Sciatica, Nervous Collapse, Sleeplessness, Melancholia. Many other disorders are caused directly or indirectly by faulty kidney action, and can be reached and cured by Doan's Kidney Fills. This remedy has cured every complaint recorded above, and over 50,000 testimonials prove its surprising merit. 50 cents per box, of all dealers, or mailed on receipt of price, by addressing Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A. Miss Rose Peterson, Secretary Parkdale Tennis Club, Chicago, from experience advises all young girls who have pains and sickness peculiar to their sex, to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. How many beautiful young girls develop into worn, listless and hopeless women, simply because sufficient attention has not been paid to their physical development. No woman is exempt from physical weakness and periodic pain, and young girls just budding into womanhood should be carefully guided physically as well as morally. Another woman, Miss Hannah E. Mershon, Collingswood, N.J., says: "I thought I would write and tell you that, by following your kind advice, I feel like a new person. I was always thin and delicate, and so weak that I could hardly do anything. Menstruation was irregular. "I tried a bottle of your Vegetable Compound and began to feel better right away. I continued its use, and am now well and strong, and menstruate regularly. I cannot say enough for what your medicine did for me. —$5000 forfelt if original of above latter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will cure any woman in the land who suffers from womb troubles, inflammation of the ovaries, and kidney troubles. IDOANE KIDNEY PILL PARKS KIDNEY PILL FIRST KIDNEY PILL MADE THE ORIGINAL DISCOVE THE ONLY GENUINE. FIRST KIDNEY PILL MADE. THE ORIGINAL DISCOVERY. THE ONLY GENUINE. DOAN'S KIDN KEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. nostpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the gillus. treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured must paid a 200 title for furnish their names on application. BRENTON & MINOR. 1010 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. FREDERICK G. FISCHER PATENT LAWYER & SOLICITOR OF U.S. & FOREIGN PATENTS, FREE BOOK ON PATENTS, TRADE-MARKS, ETC. 314 to 317 Junction Bld., Kansas City, Mo. eo's Long Life He ate for the good of his body. Heough and it was of the best quality. He lhis life and yet he toiled more hours, an. His diet consisted largely of vegetable of rational self-control Deen's Kiney PILL Y PILL MADE. L DISCOVERY. GNUINE. H. B. McCARVER of 201 Cherry Street, Portland, Oregon, inspector of freight cars for the Transcontinental Company, says: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and other symptoms of kidney trouble which had annoyed me for months. I think a cold was responsible for the whole trouble. It seemed to settle in my kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it out. It is several months since I used them, and up to date there has been no recurrence of the trouble." KIDNEY --- BROMO- SELTZER CURES ALL Headaches 10 CENTS--EVERYWHERE PAXTINE TOILET To prove that the cleansing pow. of the cleansing powder is not only useful mil a hard paste but also very fine, this is a thin package, containing twice as much of the water as the powder, which is therefore quite thick. It has come in to touch all inflammation, and discharges cleansing vaginal douche, for some cathars, as a mouth wash and to and writen the teeth. Senectuus a. cents. Sold by druggists or persons post-aged cents, by druggists than a person Musk. THE R. PAXTINE 213 Columbus Ave. CAPSICUM VASICUM (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUMBLE) A substitute for and superior to masonry or other plaster, and will not binder the most qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and improve the ache and sciatica. We were encouraged to best and safest external counter pressure, also the stomach and stomach and all the rheumatic nebulous gouty complains. A trial will prove what a claim for it, and it will be found to be capable in the proper manner, possibly in the cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or sending the $ amount to us in postage money will send you a tube by mail. No such should be accepted by the public until the same carries the medicine you require. CHEESEBROOK MED. CO. W.N.U. - WICHITA--NO. 49,1003 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. We would teach the lady who buys. Lesson number one. Starch is an extraction of wheat used to stiffen clothes when laundered. Most starches in time will rot the goods they are used to stiffen. They contain chemicals. Dofrance Starch is absolutely pure. It gives new life to linen. It gives satisfaction or money back. It sells 16 ounces for 10 cents at all grocers. It is the very best. MANUFACTURED BY TP2 DEFIANCE STARCH CO. OMAHA - NEBRASKA PISO'S CURE FOR PURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cough Syrup. Very Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION TO WOMEN! To place the highest ranking on your list, Toltec will mail a large basket with book of instructions absolutely free. Take a tiny sample, then have vices any one of its women all of its value. Women all of its value are pristine in food treat it has done in food treat MRS. GEORGE WALLACE JR. of Elmita, N. Y., wife of George Wallace, broker of West Water Street, and King at 687 Baldwin Street, says "In March, 1897, I was cured of kidney and bladder trouble by Donn's Kidney Fills. My physician said at that time that my life could be saved only by an operation. Night after night I had been kept awake for hours at a time with terrible pain in my back, and the secretions from the kidneys were in as bad a state as possible. I suffered with feverhages frequently and was in a weak state. Four hours of Donn's Kidney Fills cure me, and I now gladdly wondrous the remedy, because during the time which has since shaped, nearly seven years, I have never had the slightest sign of a return of the trouble." THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN WE HAVE UNUSUAL A That enables us to so grade for the lowest possible entire time and attention to business in its various bran take care of all your wants If you want to buy, sell, it will pay you to let us fig Our Repair Is in the hands of workmen. All We solicit an McKinney 411 East Do UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES That enables us to sell Pianos of the highest grade for the lowest possible price. We devote our entire time and attention to the Piano and Organ business in its various branches and are prepared to take care of all your wants in our line. If you want to buy, sell, exchange or rent a Piano it will pay you to let us figure with you. Our Repair Department Is in the hands of competent factory workmen. All work guaranteed. We solicit an opportunity to serve you. McKinney Music Co. 411 East Douglas Ave. VERTHROW OF PEONAGE. The war against peonage so successfully inaugurated in Alabama last summer has been carried into Georgia. The indictments under the peonage law in Alabama were returned by a and jury composed of typical abamans. The cases were carried before a Southern-born Judge of the accused were found guilty by Southern-born men. purposes, and the Turpentine Operators' association raised a fund of several thousand dollars for the purpose of testing the peonage statutes in the courts. The truth was that the prosecutions were instigated by Southerners who condemned the peonage system in unmeasured tsrms. Many employers, when their attention was directed to the abuses under the system, joined in the movement to abolish it. The tests were made in the courts in The exposure of the horrible condition prevailing under the peonage system aroused men of parties, and it was believed that the prosecutions at Montmery would lead to a complete perthrow of the peonage system Alabama and ultimately to the perthrow of the system in all states. Investigation in 1902 showed that whites as well as black were held as peons or slaves under contracts in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, and that Italians and other emigrants were held under the same system in West Virginia. Appeal to the state courts or to the state authorities did not secured substantial re-terms. In 1901 a local grand jury in South Carolina indicted some prominent planters in that state who were working laborers under the peonage system. The defendants were tried before a jury and were acquitted. Thereupon prosecutions were begun under the Congressional enactment of 1867 abolishing peonage in the United States and territories. This was to meet conditions in Arizona and New Mexico, where the local laws and customs recognized the peonage system. The first conviction under the sonage law of 1867 was that of M. M. Clyatt of Tifton, Ga., who may 24, 1902, was convicted in the United State Circuit court Tallahassee, Fla., of the violation of the law of 1867. The court sentenced Clyatt to four years' imprisonment, and a writ of error was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals. The cry was raised at that time that the prosecution of Clyatt and others was instigated by the national administration for political --- 5TH YEAR. ADVANTAGES Well Pianos of the highest tale price. We devote our to the Piano and Organ unches and are prepared to in our line. We exchange or rent a Piano ure with you. Department competent factory work guaranteed. opportunity to serve you. Music Co., Douglas Ave. purposes, and the Turpentine Operators' association roised a fund of several thousand dollars for the purpose of testing the peonage statutes in the courts. The truth was that the prosecutions were instigated by Southerners who condemned the peonage system in unmeasured tsrms. Many employers, when their attention was directed to the abuses under the system, joined in the movement to abolish it. The tests were made in the courts in Alabama and they resulted in the conviction of the accused or in a plea of guilty from many of those indicted. In the Georgia cases the explanation is made by many of those under indictment that they have not practiced peonage since the decisions of the United States court in Alabama Others were disposed to make a test of what they call the contract system. The cases, like thos in Alabama, are to be tried before a Federal Judge born and bred in the South. The indictments have been returned by white citizens of Georgia, and the verdict in every case will be given by a jury mode np of Southern white men. The crusade, therefore, is not a political one. It is a movement to abolish the twentieth century slavery under which whites and blacks have been subjected to abuses as inhuman and repulsive as the abuses under the slavery system of fifty years ago. As was said six months ago, the overthrow of the peonage system in Alabama, Georgia and Florida means its overthrow in all the states. Miss M. C. Hannibal. MILLINERY We solicit trade on the basis of Quality at the Lowest Prices. 135 N. Main St. Wichita, Ks Mrs. Robt. Davis, after spending ten days visiting friends in this city, left Friday evt. for her home in Kingman. She had a royal time w here. WICHITA. KANSAS. DEC 5 1903. HAMS 7cper pound Remember the place--Market at the Gate of the Dold Packing House. MR. NAFTSGER TALKS. We had a short talk with Mr. L. S. Naftsger, president of the Fourth National Bank of this city, this week, and in the course of conversation we asked: "Mr. Naftsger, about what per cent of the colored people are depositors in your bank?" "There is a very small per cent of the colored people who are de depositors in our bank. I think," he said, "that there are not more than four or five colored depositors at this time." Continuing, Mr. Naftsger said: "But regardless to this the tendency of the colored people is to a betterment of their condition. While the per cent of colored depositors is not great, yet, there is a large percent of them who own their own homes in this citp and still more who are buying their homes today. Considering the short time in which the colored people have had since slavery, they have made a wonderful advance. I think, and there is no reason why they should not continue. What they want is to get education. With competition as sharp as it is today, every man needs an education in order to battle successfully with the business world today. In my judgement, the colored people of Kansas are making a far greater advance than thos of the South, where the disfranchisements and arce discriminations tend to cower the colored race and take from them the ambition and energy to push forward. The colored people can not get too much education—not only a common schel education but a higher education. They need a business training and in order to secure it they need a business college. "I was reared among the colored people in a former slave state and have had an opportunity to study the race closely. I have no prjudice on account of a man's color or the race to whihh he belongs. A man is a man, and every man is just what he makes of himself. If a man is of a low degree, whether black or white, he will show it. A colored man in business will get the same opportunities as a white man. I always use colored help at my house and much prefer them. I am of the opinion that education of the colored people and the acquisition of property will raise them to a higher and more noble stand. Thinking about work is enough to make some people tired. A soft answer turneth away wrath, and sometimes bill collectors. And the man who paid $300 for a first edition of Shelley in London is named Wise. All a person has to do with his troubles these days is to get outdoors and forget them. Any automobile can be stopped in its own length, if what it runs into is strong enough. About the only open-work stockings that are being worn now are those that need to be darned. It is just like a mother to do her son's problems in algerba for him, and that to be proud of him for it. The man who has been married three times may be a possimist now, but he wasn't a little while ago. When Paris apes Newport by doing "smart set" honors to a trained monkey imitation ceases to be flattery. The man who writes sixteen-page love letters before he is married thinks a ten-word telegram is very long afterward. Prince "Cupid" says that the way to pronounce his name is "Kal-e-au-y-o-ala." It sounds a good deal like a college yell. Another girl has found a husband by writing her name on an egg. That's cheaper than paying railway fare out to Seattle. "It takes a mighty good memory," remarked the philosopher, "to be able to forget the things one don't want to remember." The people of Boston want their harbor made wider. But that would only make it easier for the enemy's war ships to get in. Still, in spite of all this unprecedented record breaking, it will probably be some time before the one-minute horse gets here. The nature of the "compromise" in the Alaskan boundary decision appears to be that the United States got the hide and Canada the tail. All the newspapers in New York but one supported Low, but the one modestly remarks that it has more readers than all the others put together. The cable announces that Russia and Japan have settled their differences. This perhaps means that Russia sattles Manchuria and Japan sattles Corsia. Premier Bainour thinks there is no danger of a war between Russia and Japan. In that case let's hurry and get excited again over the situation in the Balkans. A Cleveland company proposes to insure bank depositors against loss. Is not this rather an uncertain way to increase the stability of our financial institutions? Even if the man in Washington wanted to complain to the President that he was being pursued by airships is right about it. Prof. Langley can easily prove an alibi. A WICHITAN Gives An Expression On The Race Question. There is not a man in Wichita today who feels that the colored people should, in the least, surrender any rights vouchsafed to them by the Constitution of the United States, or of the state of Kansas. In Wichita we have but two distinct races, the black and the white, and the distinguishing trait between them is so marked that it requires no investigation nor inquiry to determine one from the other. It is difficult at times to distinguish an Irish-American from a German-American. Marked distinction in races, nationalities, wealth, society and intelligence are always productive in every community of intense and sometimes bitter controversy. All of us, both black and white, possess, more or less, the characteristic of selfishness. We are jealous of the advancement and success of others. We are never jealous or envious of the man who is continually facing poverty and misfortune; on the other hand, we have sympathy and commission for such a person. If exery colored man in this city today was so unfortunate as to be prostrated with disease and no means wherewith to furnish them with the necessaries of life, their wives and children subjected to the most humiliating methods to earn a pittance, sympathy and compassion would be given them instead of critibism and envy, The colored people of this city ard not prostrate with disease; they are fairly prosperous, their wives and children are neatly and comfortably dressed, the men, with few exceptions, are diligent and industrious and many of them, at least as large a number in proportion to their population as the whites, own their homes. If the present condition of the colored people of this city is instrvmentol in occasioning a feeling of envy and jealousy on the part of some colored people as well as some white, then for the good of all intelligent people and to the shame of some colored people and the inhumanity of some of white people, let the diligent, industrious, sober and honest colored element march o n. There is too much agitation about equality between the races, and those who are continually discussing this question know nothing of which they speak. There never was and never will be equality between the white people. There never will be equality between the colored people. The colored man who has labored to acquire an education and worked, saved and so conducted himself to secure an honorable and respected position in society, will never permit himself to associate with his inferiors. Stop agitations and let every colored man in this city pursue the even tenor of his way in diligent industry, strict economy and ,nswerving honesty. Do not NO 28 seek the company of colored or white people unless you know you as welcome. Do all you can to make of yourself an independent factor in society and you will find that people, both white and black, who are dependent will seek your company, counsel and assistance. There is nothing a man can do that will lower himself more in the estimation of honorable, law-abiding and respectable people in any community, than to exercise his rights of suffrage in a merchantable manner. Every citizen, regardless of color, creed or nationality, ought to take an honest, intelligent and patriotic part in politics. The political structure of every branch of our government is so constructed as to make political campaigns, schools, of learning. To deprive any American citizen of the rights of suffrage, robs him of his ambition and also of all desire to learn and know the principles upon which our government is founded. The system of American politics has been more instrumental than our colleges in creating an ambition and desire in the minds and hearts of young men to acquire an education and an emulation to hold an honorable position in society. The man, be he white or black, who is locked upon as one who is always ready and willing to barter his vote for money or drink, invariably is shiftless, worthless and unreliable in every walk of life. The opinion and estimation held of him by the better class of people is an insurmountable barrier to the most menial position in society. Be it true or untrue, it must be conceded that the prevailing opinion among the white people is that the colored voter does refpond more readily to bad influences at elections than they should. If this prevailing opinion could be eradicated, and it can be, providing the colored voter will show by his conduct and voice that he holds the ballot in a mare sacred light than his white brother, then, although the past life of the Negro has been a tragedy full of sympathy and compassion, his future life will be full of pleasing ovations and shining promises. Brailsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable The club being formed by Dr. J. E. Farmev to organize an Elk lodge, will meet at Dr. Farmer's office, 703 N. Main, Tuesday night, Dec. 8 at 7:30 pm. All members of the club are asked to be present. THE SEARCHLIGHT. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kausas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M.ONTH ..... 150. 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So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any per son which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. A GRAND RACE. The Negro race is one of the grandest races under the sun today. No Negro need be ashamed to be a member of the Negro race. Though limited in opportunities, though being the object of relentless and unmerciful race prejudice, more sr less, on the part of every other known race; and though the race, as a race, has oftimes been led by false and untrue leaders both white and black, though denied the full privileges of true manhood, which can be none less than true citizenship, yet through these, and countless more, the Negro race is forging itself to the front. There is little in the past and present history of the Negro race to condemn, and much to commend. With the past unprecedented progress of the race, and its present envied success, time alone ban tell af the many great and grand achievements to be yet wrought in the future by this noble race of menand women. Who would dare a prediction? None. The progdess of the Negro race, amid the many obstacles with which it has had to contend, could onoy be made possible by a grand race full of push and energy. Then why not try to make the race's future more grand than ever before? We have a race of which we have good reasons to be proud. It is a grand race. ELECTED OFFICERS Princess Chapter No 12, met in regular session at their hall Wednesday night. They elected their officers for the ensuing term. The officers elected are: Royal Matron, Miss Grace Baker, Asst Matron, Mrs H Massey, Secretary, Mrs I B Olark, Treasurer. Mrs J W. Thompson, Conductress Mrs W. N Miler Ass Con Mrs J S Fauver. ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. Mrs. S. E. Freeman has a class formed in the north end of the city which she is teaching to make artificial flowers. SEARCHLIGHT $1. Per Year. Send in your subscription today. Fresh : Salt Meats J. T. FITZSIMONS, Prop. Phone 1091 612 E. Douglas A SWELL BANQUET. The swellest banquet of the season was served by the Elite Restaurant Sunday eve at 10 o'clock p. m. to the following people: Misses Maybell E. Cox, Maude Pettis, Lilian Webb, Mamie Coleman and Gertrude North; Messrs, E. Thaddeus Summytt, Frank Street, Monroe Street, Ned Starnes and G. William Tidwell. J. S. Fauver, the retiring Worshipful Master of Arkansas Valley Lodge, No. 21. A. F. & A. M., may wall feel proud of the record which he has made as the presiding officer of this body. He has made friends for himself with every member. Some people are famous on account of what "they think they know", some are famous on account of what they really "don't know" and some are famous on account of what they try to "make other people believe they know". Which of the three is the most famous? Wichita society is still talking of the Thanksgiving Event. Miss Lula Coleman is one of Wichita's most prominent young society Misses' There are many worthy recruits to Wichita society. All up to date. Though now a "married man", Sam C. Collins still holds his own among the society numbers of our city. Many worthy and appreciable complimrnts have been passed on Mr. J. B. H. Fray as an up-to-date dancing master, He deserves them. This column is open for any and all society items. Send them in. It is a guess which are the more popular, the "Carey Boys" or the "Manhattan Boya" Which are? W. M. Phillips, the popular headwaiter at the Manhattan Hotel, is one of our most prominent os social leaders. He sets a pace which all the boys may well follow. Wichita society was largely in attendance at "In Old Kentucky" at the Crawford Tuesday night. A merry opera party composed of Messrs E. T. Summytt, M. J. Stazmes, M Street, Thos. Anderson and M.asses Mabel Cox, Bertha Moore, Mamie Coleman and Lillian Smith attended "In Old Kentucky" at the Crawford Tuesday night. It is useless to say they had a fine time. That is sure. The bail given by the Manhattan club Thursday night was a grand success. Much credit is due Wm. Phillips and F w Buford for the management. 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. Mavo, Pastor Locals and Personals RALLY AT ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH ON SUNDAY, DEC. 6, 1903. Regular services at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. In the afternoon Rev. Hall, pastor of the Sacred Baptist Church, will preach. The pastor extends a cordial invitation to every one to be present at the rally. Messrs Tocompron and Landrum are the captains of the two clubs and desire their friends to assist them in raising the acquiree amount. NOTICE! At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Interstate Literary Association on Nov. 28, it was found that although a large number of societies had reported, there were others that desired more time, therefore the time for reporting was extended to Dec. 12, 1903. All societies not having reported by that time will not be represented on the nagram. Enrollment fee for new societies, $1 50; for old ones, $1.00. Address On Monday night a program will be rendered at the A. M. E. Church by the members of the choir. The members of the song Service will also render a program on Tuesday evening at the church. Hasley EcCall, foreman of No. 3 Hose House, assumed his duties after an absence lasting sixty days. Dacrything is "OK", among the fireman at No. 3. Mrs. Wm. Edmunds, formerly Miss Lou Gee' spent several days in the city as the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. Braden. She left Friday for her home in Carthage, Mo. Mr. Eph Dun, who has been confined to his bed for the past year, is resting as easy as can be expected. Robert Davis left Saturday evening for Kingman after spending a day ot hunting with his friend, W. N. Miller. Misses Dollie Norh, Maud and Huce Pettit were guests of Miss Mamie Coteman last week. Mrs. Cannie Barker entertained the Pettit sisters Thanksgiving day. Miss Alice Thompson will leave Sunday, Dec. 6, for Chicago. She will be gone about two months. Mrs. Lee Anderson returned Monday from a visit with her mother in Columbus, Ks. Mrs. Doe Baker is slowly improving. Mrs. Rives is quite sick this week. Miss Mary Alexander was on the sick list the first or the week. Mrs. R. Heek, 355 N. Market, is steadily improving. Mrs. Laura Smith is sick this week, Louis Jackson, who has been quite sick at the Centropolis hotel, was taden to the Wichita hospital Wednesday. The infant of Mrs. Saunders, 1116 N. 5th, is recovering. Miss Lizzie Pheps is recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Mrs. John E Lewis is sick this week. The 2nd Sunday in December the two clubs of men of the New Hope Baptist church with Henry Underwood as captain of one and Bud Hickerson as captain of the other, will hold a big rally at that church On the 2nd Sunday in January, 1904, the two clubs of ladies of the same church, with Mrs. John E. Lewis and Mrs. Bud Hickerson as captains, will hold a big rally. Each club asks the assrstance of all. ELECTED OFFICERS. Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, A. F. and A. M., met Tuesday night, Dec. 1, in regular session, with Worshipsul Master J. S. Fauver presiding. After routine business, the lodge elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Worshipful Master Joseph Fines Senior Warden W. H. A. Clark Junior Warden W. A. Wright Treasurer Geo. Hicks Secretary W. N. Miller The officers will be installed on Dec. 15th. Mr. J. C. Redfield, chairman of the board os county commissioners, has returned from Ohio, where he and Mrs. Redfield spent thirty days visiting among old time frends. Mr. Redfield formerly lived in Onio, He reports a fine trip and returns feeling much improved. W. A. Wright haa been given a position with the Wichita Plaining Mills, 1st and Wichita sts. Mr. Wright is the colored man who was forced from his position at the United Sash and Door Works because the employees refused to work with a colored man. Robt. Davis and W. N. Miller made the "woods on the prairies" ring with their volumnous shooting last Saturday while they were out hunting. They had a fine time, but for fear of exoitement, we will not tell how much game they killed. Rev. J. E. Fletcher filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. Chur ch Sunday morning at 11 and Sunday evening at 8 p. m. At both hours, Rev. Fletcher delivered masterly sermons. Both sermons were full of historical and biblical review and were very forcibly and eloquently delivered. The G. L. A club met at the residence of Mrs. George White, 1145 Onio, Tuesday affrnnon. After an hour of needle work and arrangements wese made for the holidays, the club was served to an elegant three cours lunch, The B. T. W. Club met at the residence of Mrs. N. Clark Wednesday afternoon. After the transaction of business, the hostess served a deinty luncheon. The club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Bowers, on E. 13th st. next Wednesday afternoon. GOOD COMPANY. On Thursday night at the New Hope Baptist church, Kwilke Sakkan, the South African Hott-not, lectured to a large and appreciative audience, which seemed well pleased at all it saw and heard. The marks of persecution by the Zulus on Sakkan's body are evident; all one has to do is to look for themselves. The stereopticon views by Mr. Elmer Jackson are clean and the illustrated songs are excellent. The entertainment was opened by a varied selection of musical records on the largest graphophone that has ever been used in Wichita, Mr. Samuel R. Ball, the owner and general msnager, may well feel proud os his attraktion as he has one of the largest and strongest lectuse features that has ever visited Wichita This fine concert will be repeated at the 2nd Baptist church Monday night, Dec. 7th. All who attend will be given a fine treat. The L. M. A. Club met Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Lulu Co-ington. After an interesting meeting, a luncheon was served. They adjourned to meet Wednesday evening with Miss Winnie Ray. Rev. P. D. Yoshum, pastor of the A. M. E. Church, delivered the sermon at the 2nd Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. E. G. Stafford, Cor. Sec., 505 Washington Ave., Kans. City, Kans. OUR SICK LIST. J. H. TURNER, 533-543 W. Douglas 24 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 Woodens. See me before placing your order. The Peerless Tailor 508 E. Douglas Ave. USE IMBODEN IMPI BREAKFA and you will Love AT YOUR GROCER IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR BREAKFAST FOOD —and you will Love good eating.— IMBODEN MILLI USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD —and you will Love good eating.— AT YOUR GROCER IMBODEN MILLING CO. B. F. McLEAN. LUMBER YARDS AT Wiobita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. MBER = DEAL AT Ph water, Peck, Kansas. 408 W. 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Letters are desisrd not only from farmers and farmers' wives, but also from merchants, school-teachers, clergymen; from everyone in brief, who has a story to tell and who knows how to tell it. For circular giving details write John Sebastian, Pas enger Traffle Manager Rock Island System, Chicago, Ill. The Kink That Won't Come Back 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. WINFIELD, KANS, Rev. Ramsey prescheed in Wellington Sunday. Miss Blanch Lenox spent Thanksgiving with her father and sisters in the south part of the county. Bob Davis, of Ark. City, came up Monday. He is the guest of J. W. Wood. Henry Evens and G. Williams were up from Ark City. Geo. Caldwell gave a masque- vade ball Thanksgivsn8. The Johnson-Jackson Mandolin Club played in Sedan Thanksgiv'n'. The ladies of the O. E. S. meet every Thursday. Harry Wilkins is here from An- thony visiting his brother. Miss Gertende North has return- ed heme from Wichita. Geo. Caldwell has gone south. Rev. S. S. Bandy attended the ordination of Rev. Hughes, of Wellington, held a. Ark. City. Rev. Garnett was up from Ark. City Tuesday: The Negro professional man who forgets his position as to at em it 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 Mr. and Mrs. John Collins, of Morrilton, Ark., arrived in the city to pay a visit to relativer and friends. Mrs. Collins is the daughter of Mrr and Mrs. Burl Anderson, 736 E. 13th. Mrs. W. M. Dent left Friday for Tulsa, I. T., where the will connect a series of meetings. ABOUT SOME PEOPLE. Phillip Hyde has a regular carpet making room over 127 N. Market. It is fitted up with the very latest carpee making devices. Phil is coming to the front. Eugene Smith has been at the Bitting block for the past 8 years. He is an expert engineer and plumber and does all such work at the Bitting building He is one of Wichita's very substantial young men. E. Thaddeus Summytt said he had "the finest time of his life at Dunbar hall Thanksgiving night." That's good. J. W. Thompson, though a young man, is making his mark. He has a fine home at 142 N. Musley and what's more he has an ideal wife at that home. These two make life pleasant. One of the most earnest church workers in our city is Mrs. Jno. W. Hall, 518 N. Water. Mrs. Hall is always prompt in her work in the interest of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Davis have a very pretty little baby boy. His name is Jno. Wesley Davis—after his papa—of course. He is a fine little fellow four week old. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. White, 1454 N. Washington, have a beautiful home. They have added one room and several closets to the home. They are coming to the front ranks. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE TYPEN. 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, Mrs. Robt. Davis, of Kingman, and Mrs. W. N. Millar were entertained by Mrs. Estella Patton at the residence of Mrs. Lncy Anderson at dinner Sunday. Quite an enjoyable time was had. Those present: Mesdames Davis, Miller, Harper, Marsh, Anderson, Patton and Rev. S. M. Hall. It is difficult for Americans to understand that business in Mexico is conducted largely upon a personal basis. An order for a thresher from a wealthy Mexican farmer depends as much upon the salesman's personality as upon the merits of the machine. Rushing, bustling, strictly business methods are not successful in Mexico outside of the larger cities, and not to any great extent even in them. Toy Manufacture in Germany. The manufacture of toys in Germany gives employment to fully 50,000 people. The total value of the annual exports amounts to $13,196,386. The manufacture is centered chiefly in the cities of Nuremberg and Sonneberg, while many domestic lines of manufacture which are mainly associated with the industry have sprung up in the surrounding county hamlets. Location of Iron Works. On comparing the location of the iron furnaces with that of their raw material, it will be found that, with the exception of some of the iron works in the Southern states, their geographical situation is not favorable. This is not so striking in the case of fuel, although even that has to be carried a greater distance, or the average, than in Germany. Farming in Mexico. About 20 per cent of the agricultural implements and tools used in Mexico are modern; the other 80 per cent are on the crudest and most primitive type. Only the large farmers or haciendados employ modern agricultural implements, and those only within comparatively recent years. Origin of Grain Weight. By an English law, passed in 1266, it was provided that a silver penny, called a sterling, should equal in weight thirty-two wheat grains, well dried, and taken from the center of the ear. This is the origin of our grain weight. About Equally Dangerous. It is curious that one little pellet of lead in a man's anatomy is considered so strong a proof of devotion to his country when he can fill himself fuli of malaria or salicylic acid for the same reason and never be noticed. Do You Want A fur boa and k We can save you 25 per cent We also take orders for Seal garments. Come to see us for SKIRTS a A fur boa and keep warn? can save you 25 per cent to 50 per cent also take orders for Sealskin and Electri ments. to see us for SKIRTS and MILLINER A fur boa and keep warn? We can save you 25 per cent to 50 per cent. We also take orders for Sealskin and Electric Seal garments. Come to see us for SKIRTS and MILLINERY. 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Sample Shoes We have just received a large in voice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford's 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. SAITH THE THE WISE SAITH THE WISE CANARY Flaunt not your plumpness in the face of the house cat. Happy the bird with plumage as the quills of a porcupine. How terrible, the thunderous rumbling of a cat's purr! Cultivate well your warble, for the number of your trills bears in ratio to the supply of loaf sugar. Be not over-prodigal of song in your youth, as sugar has still its sweetness to the aged. bone. Envy not the freedom of a dove for one canary in a cage were worth ten pigeons in a pie. Trust not thy music to soothe the savage feline breast. 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Dunson, Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 986 WISE CANARY bone. Envy not the freedom of a dove; for one canary in a cage were worth ten pigeons in a ple. Trust not thy music to soothe the savage feline breast. Coquet at a woman and she rejoices in her own arts. Peck savagely at a man's finger, for it increases his pride in his own strength. No mew is heard in heaven. Better the bars of a cage than the ribs of a cat. Nearby hangs a tail—would I were an eagle for the nounce. An 'twas all over with 'the soft hickling of chops—Barton Currie in New York Times. AGRICULTURE A One-Year Clover Crop. In a report of the North Dakota farmers' institutes D. C. Smith, a farmer of that state, is quoted as follows: What is our present experience with clover in the red river valley? Does it not amount to about this? We have found that, if properly seeded, we can generally get a catch and we can as a rule carry it safely through the first winter under the snow that fills the high stubble over it. We are delighted and say, "We can raise clover." The following winter the clover, no longer having the stubble to catch the snow and protect it, dies and we then sit down in woe and say, "We can not raise clover." Now I wish to offer a suggestion. I might call it a new idea but for its being so apparent that the only novelty in it is the recognition of the conditions named coupled with their frank acceptance in our farm practice. Why should we not go earnestly about raising clover for a one-year crop, get the use of it that year for hay or pasture and then plow it down either that fall or in the following spring? Why should we not raise clover for a one-year crop as we do corn, barley and millet? A one-year crop of clover costs less and is far better than any of them, dollar for dollar, for renewing the soil. What a change it would make in this valley if one-tenth of our lands were every year in clover meadow or pasture and a like amount plowed down every year! By plowing down a one-year clover meadow or clover pasture we would get a large measure of the benefits derived from a two-year crop of clover. We would thus get a quicker rotation which might fully compensate us for losses in other directions. One-half less land would thus lie idle, if so reproachful a term as "idle" may be applied to land covered with clover. A dollar an acre would nearly pay for a full seeding alone of clover, but for the present I think we should seed the clover with timothy and that would cost less. Then, if the clover fails, as it sometimes will, we have the timothy left. It should not discourage us at all to recognize that clover will sometimes fail. It sometimes fails in the best clover countries. Whatever the theories may be as to the draught of timothy on the soil, we are coming to recognize pretty plainly that a timothy sod in quick rotation brings us back the nearest to prairie sod of anything we have, and every man of us knows that a sod of timothy and clover mixed would be far better than timothy alone. After a while we may confidently expect to get down to clean clover seeding without the timothy. Either red clover or alsike would. I think, answer for this one-year crop. Either would, as a rule, live through the first winter and each has its advantages. I prefer alsike clover because it is a better sheep feed, because it ripens more evenly with timothy and, above all, because it better endures in the land. However, it should be said that my experience has been mostly with alsike. It is my experience that where I have once sown alsike clover, there I always have a sprinkling of it. The clover bacteria is abundant with it, as it is in the red clover at the experiment station. For me, until I gain more wisdom, I shall mix some alsike clover with every quart of timothy seed hereafter sown. Grain in Western Canada. The annual report of the department of agriculture of the Northwest Territories is at hand with detailed reports of the grain crops for the last five years. The region embraced in the report covers Saskatchewan, Assiniboia and Alberta. It is interesting to note the steady increase in the size of the grain crops from year to year. This is largely due to the influx of settlers from the grain raising states of the American Union. The statistics of the yield of wheat are (1898) 5,542,578 bushels, acreage 307,580, yield per acre 18.01; (1899) 6,915,623 bushels, acreage 363,523, yield per acre 19.02; (1900) 4,028,234 bushels, acreage 412,864, yield per acre 9.75; (1901) 12,808,447 bushels, acreage 504,697, yield per acre 25.37; (1902) 13,956,850 bushels, acreage 625,758, yield per acre 22.30. The average yield for the five-year period is 19.53 bushels per acre, which is remarkably large for the western continent. It will be noted that the acreage showed a steady increase from year to year and more than doubled in the five years. The oat crop showed a still more remarkable advance, as follows: (1898) 3,040,307 bushels, acreage 105.077, yield per acre 28.93; (1899) 4,686,036 bushels, acreage 134,938, yield per acre 34.81; (1900) 4,226,152 bushels, acreage 175,439, yield per acre 24.08; (1901) 11,113,066 bushels, acreage 229,439, yield per acre 48.43; (1902) 10,661,295, acreage 310,367, yield per acre 34.35. The average yield for the five-year period was 35.30. A comparison shows that the acreage and total yield increased three-fold during the time stated. The acreage and total yield of barley doubled in that time, being in 1902 36,445 acres, on which was grown 870,417 bushels of barley. The average yield per acre during the five-year period was 25.60. Great is the Wichita Searchlight this week. Are You a Subscriber? Last Sunday, Nov. 22, was rally day at Rev. Hardy's church. A grand oratorical contest was given last Monday night 23d at Bessemer City under the auspices of Bethelem Baptist church: .r$104.65 was realized from the fair given by the missionary circle of the 8th street Baptist church which lasted three days, winding up with a grand concert Thanks giving night and Thanksgiving dinner, Rev. J. E. Ford of Denver occupied the pulpit at the 8th st church last Sunday and Sunday night. Mrs. W. A. Gatewood and daughter are in the city from Eastonville, Col., on a visit. They expect to remain until after Xmas holidays. Miss Florence Glass and Mr. Burdette Jones were married at the home of the bride's parents Thursday night, Nov. 120, at 8:30, Rev. Hardy officiating. Mrs. Finly, Mrs. Turner and Miss Greenlaa spent Thanksgiving week in Puoblo the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Townsend. Mr. Henry Turner was in the city last Wednesday night, from Denver on a short visit to his cousin Mrs. Lawrence. Messrs. Banks and Baker have gone to Chandler Creek for an indefinite period. The choir of the Baptist church is practicing a cantata for Xmas. Arthur Maloney of Pueblo and Miss Lillian Huddleston of Topeka, Kansas, were quietly married Nov. 24, Rev. Jefferson officiating. Miss Jessie Smith has gone on a visit to her sister Miss Ada Morgan at St. Paul, Minn. The Athenian club met at Mrs. Green's 1119 Arroya ave. Monday eve., a paper was written by R. T. Banks subjeos the nature of enthusiasm. Mrs. Rogers gave a grand reception at her cosy little home on w. 17th street last Tuesday Nov. 24 in honor of Elder Taylor and wife. Mrs. James enttained Dr. J. C. Wright and wife and Dr. J. K. Williams and wife at an elegant dinner Thanksgiving day. A neat sum was raised at the rally at the fifth st. Baptist church last Sunday. A grand entertainment was given at the home of Mrs. Walls last Monday night. The mission circle was entertained last week at the home of Mrs. Wadsworth. Mr. Gatewood went to Eastonville last Wednesday on a visit to his family. Mrs. Williams is able to be up and around again. Union services were held at the Methodist church Thanksgiving day, Rev. J. F. C. Taylor preached an impressive sermon. NEWTON. KANS. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Paige left Wednesday for Hot Springs, Ark. to spend the winter. Rev. J. W. Gordon has returned home. John L. Frame, of Colo. Springs, spent Thanksgiving here with his mother. Miss Lulu Slaughter entertained a number of her friends at her home. Mrs. Ridley is able to be out again afte a short illness. The Thanksgiving dinner given by the ladies of the 2nd Baptist Church was a grand success. Mrs. Palmer and daughter have returned to their home in Hutchinson. Miss Maud Harvey and brother left Wednesday for Ratoon, N. Mex. where they will make their future home. 'The C. M. E. Church has been conducting a series of meetings, which have proved very successful. Mrs. H. R.evely Anderson and daughter went to Peabody to take Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs Hall The N. U. G. Club met at the handsome home of Mrs. A. R.evely last Monday afternoon, where an excellent program was rendered, after which the ladies were served to a dainty lunch by the hostess. CluS adjourned to meet at Mrs. Dickerson's on E. 8th st. Monday. The ordination of Rev. I. H. Hughes took place at the 2nd Baptist church Sunday. Rev. Bandy, of Winfield, spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. W. Keller and daughter are visiting friends in Iola and Ft. Scott. Rev. James, of Ponce City, spent bunday in the city. The R. A. E. Club will give a grand concert Monday night- By invitation of the 2nd Baptist Church, a council composed of the following brethren: J. C. M. Donald, D. D., Revs, W. H. Garnett, Wm. Jones, Deacons W. D. Hall, Guy, W. M. Hooker, W. E. Jones, R. Greer and J. illiams met with the church on north A street Sunday, Nov. 29th, 1903 at 3 p.m. for the purpose of ordaining Brother I. H. Hughes to the full work of the gospel ministry. The council was organized by eecting W. W. H. Garnett chairman and W. D. Hall clerk. Rev. J. C. McDonald was chosen to examine the candidate as to his Christian experience, call to the ministry, and views of Bible doctrines as held by Baptist. After a searching examination by Brother McDonald, assisted bp other members of the council, the candidate was unanimously recommended to the church as a fit subject for ordination. Upon the recommendation of the council the church voted to proceed with the ordination. Dr. J. C. McDonald preached the sermon; Rev. W. H. Garnett offered the ordaining prayer. Mbe hand of fellowship in behalf of the church and charge to the candidate Wm. Jonos, charge to the church by J. C. McDonald, benekictin by the candidate. Rev. Hughes is in charge of the 2nd Baptist Church in Wellington, Kans. It was from this church the application was made to his home church for ordination. Pastor, W. H. G. KINGMAN, KANS, Dave Jacobs was in the city one day last week: Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Davis spent Thanksgiving in Wichita. There was not very much enjoyment in our city Thanksgiving. ODDS AND ENDS. More than 90 per cent of the vessels using the Suez canal navigate by flight. Toronto got $12,754.25 for its share of the street railway earnings for September. The potato forms nearly 14 per cent of the total food of the people of this country. 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