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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CA WE HAVE UNUSUAL A That enables us to s grade for the lowest possi entire time and attention business in its various bran take care of all your want 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 D 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. Tillman Denounced. SHOTGUN POLICY NOT APPROVED OF IN THE SOUTH. It appears that the shotgun y of Senator Tillman does meet the approval of the con- vative whites of the south. ige Speer in giving his deci- sion the peonage cases pro- nced against this policy and Sayannah Press said edi- tority: "Such sentiments do not put the south in a very enviable position before the world. We may well say that the best and most conservative sentiment in the south is not on the side of mentor Tillman in this matter. 'The resort to the shotgun is not contemplated in the south. Just after the war when society is in an unsettled state, when Negroes were inclined to be trouble this kind of talk was and then heard. But if the shotgun ever had a place in the unquility of the south it has a place no longer. Men like in B. Gordon and Henry Watson and A. O. Bacon and Sense Morgan of Alabama, are not ten to this kind of threats. The best people of the south deserve them. We cannot permit mentor Tillman's lecture to pass without a protest. We have heard this sentiment endorses in any way. The people of cannah are not in sympathy with such policy. We rath-believe that the opinion ofige Speer is held to the exclusion of the other, teat it is the existian duty of every white man in the south to give the neo-a fair chance. Most of them are ignorant; many of them are graded. Some men talk wild and extravagantly about the shotgun policy, but they do not present the gentlemen of the earth." Value of Walking Exercise. Men who go in for out-ofdoor runs entirely ignore the physiologi- bic benefit of walking. Many of them ride for miles to enjoy an hour's ride at golf or tennis. They would accure more robust calves, longer lungs and fresher complexes if they would merely walk to the one of their accustomed activity if then walk back again without aching a golf stick or a racquet. 5TH YEAR. ADVANTAGES well Pianos of the highest stable price. We devote our to the Piano and Organ unches and are prepared to us in our line. exchange or rent a Piano figure with you. Department competent factory work guaranteed. opportunity to serve you. Music Co., Douglas Ave. A hotel for colored people at Evansville, Ind., bears the very appropriate name of the Black House. An industrial home for colored people, started by the colored women of Philadelphia, was opened to the public Nov. 5, 1903. The African Lodge of Boston was the first organized lodge of colored Free Masons in this country, securing a charter from the grand lodge of England 121 years ago. Prince Hall was the first grand master. All the pallbearsrs at the funeral of Jessica Ormand, an old colored "mammy" of Atlanta, Ga., who died the other day, were white men who had known her when she was a slave. Several of them had been nursed by her in tneir infancy. There is no doubt that the woman who loves you forgives you too much, while the woman whom you love forgives you too little. Tennessee negroes have organized a political party against the use of cocaine. It is to be hoped nobody will stuff the bailot box. Will that scientific organization which is going to fight New Jersey mosquitoes use magazine rifles or just ordinary shotguns? A Clyde Fitch play is to be abandoned on account of poor business. This leaves only eighty-seven Clyde Fitch plays on the boards. Senator Clark has had an operation performed on his ear. If it does not prove satisfactory the senator is amply able to buy a new one. Reading that thirteen brides of army officers have sailed for Manila on the transport Logan, who can believe that thirteen is an unlucky number? It is generally admitted among the humorists that President Wos Y Gil of San Domingo was a gilly to resign, and thus to take his unique name out of print. In the beauty contest at New York women are to judge of the physical charms of the male contestants. Let us hope that hissing of the judges may be barred. There is many a man who never heard of the late Herbert Spencer, whose whole life is the fruit of the philosophy with which Spencer seeded down the world. WICHITA, KANSAS, JAN. 2, 1904. HAMS MUCH VACANT PUBLIC LAND YET. The material development of the country is quietly progressing at a remarkable date in one direction which is not given much popular attheation. More than 22,824,299 acres of the public lands were turued over te private individuals last year. This means that an area almost equal to that of the state of Indiana has within that time been added to the productive regions of the United States. Most of these newly opened lands were homesteaded by farmers, as will be seen from the following figures: There were 54,365 issued within the year. Of this number, 47,654 were classed as agricultural, 4,904 as Indian allotments, 1,104 as mineral patents, 200 as coal patents, 276 as private land claim 187 as railroad patents and forty as swamp land patents. The total sum which the government got by way of fees and commissions for issuing these patents was $11,024,744. Under a recent law the most of the receipts from the sale of public lands will be set aside for reclaiming arid land by irrigation. In the public domain there are still unappropriated 380,979,307 acres of surveyed lands, and 591,976,169 acres of unsurveyed lands, or a total of more than 870,955 000 acres. A great many tracts of this immense area, of course, will always remain uncultivated and unsettled, but it has been estimated that when the contemplated system of irrigation shall be put into working order so much good land will be opened that a nation as large as the whole nation's population could find room there to thrive prosperously and contentedly. Rapid strides are now being made in the developing of the public domain. The excitement and uproar of former pioneer days are absent in this work, but the process is marked and very effective. The passenger traffic on western railroads is evidence of this fact. Agreeable reflections arise in contemplating that the United States still owns so much arible public land. The dangers of an overcrowded population by immigration or natural increase are still remote. The census for many years yet to come will not show an excess of people above what the west will need in settling up its vacant lands. A. F. & A. Masons of the State of New York Have Officially Recognized the Colored Masons of Illinois. Honors come to those that labor and wait. For the first time in the history of Masonry that the colored Masons in the state of Illinois have been officially recognized by any white Masonic Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. in the United States. On Friday, Dec. 11. 1903, John G. Jones, 33, the Grand Secretary of the Most Worshipful St. John Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons which is incorporated under the laws of the state of Illinois of which Bro. Wm. Gray 33. is Grand Master; that the Grand Lodge of white A. F. & A. Masods of the State of New York which has a membership of several thousand of the most highly cultured and wealthy white masons of the country had considered the application of the recognition and an exchange of representatives and that they had officially recognized the Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of colored A. F. & A. M. of the State of Illinois. This advanced legitimate step by the white masons of New York which the Grand Lodge of New York is in affiliation with nearly all the white grand lodges of A. F, & A. Masons of this country shows that prejudice among the white masons in some sections of the United States is rapidly dying outand that they will soon adhere to the fundamental principles of Masonry, believing in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of Ged. It will therefore make no difference whether Mr. Jones of Chicago has pleased all the masons] or not. His remarkable work in advancing and promoting the interest of masonry in the United States must be forever highly appreciated by all legitimate masons in the country and he must be acknowledged as the greatest mason in the world.—Broad Ax. 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. About the Race. Achievements of the Race Culled From Exchanges. The refusal of Trinity College to accept the resignation of Professor Bassett because of his broad article on the race question, is one of the most significant things that has happened in the southern states since 1876. The burning in effigy of Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer by the students of Trinity College for his attacks on Prof. Bassett should make that dangerous editorial firebrand "go way back and sit down" for a long time. If we can get free speech in the south, if the politicians who thrive upon fomenting race strife can be made to answer, in the forum of public opinion, for the consequences of their practices and incendiary utterances, we shall have a better condition of affairs in all of this race business, in which there is too much of passion and two little of reason and common sense. New York Age, It is claimed that Atlanta, Ga., is the center of Negro education. There are located there six large institutions for the higher education of the Negro. Twenty-one hundred students annually enter these institutions, and after a time go out to spread the learning they have received. They have added no small amount to the slow but distinctly recognizable upward movement of the negroes of the south. The question "Can the negro be highly trained?" appears to receive an affirmative answer in the following: A full-blooded African girl was brought from Africa and placed in Speilman Seminary where she became one of the most capable students in that institution. She is absolutely pure African; thick of skull, black of features, and outwardly in no way differing from hundreds of other negro children in, his country. Zeto, or Flora, as she is called, expects to return as a missionary to Africa when she has completed her education. The city of Berlin, the capital of the German Empire, has a colored colony of about 200 persons. There are two American colored students attending the University of Berlin, namely, Richard A. Wright, Jr., professor of Hebrew in Wilberforce University, Ohio, and T. D. Lillard, pastor of the Colored Congregational church. Harry Neale, colored, has been appointed messenger to Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the House of Representatives. He has employed in this capacity for nearly thirty years, having served under Speakers Randall, Keizer, Carlisle, Reed, Crisp and Henderson. John Washington, a brother of Booker T. Washington, has just been appointed postmaster of the newly erected postoffice of the Tuskegee Normal school. There is a man in Missouri named Sassback. But he's married, and he doesn't. Rita's new novel is to be entitled "The Silent Woman." Rita has a very vivid imagination. Is the fact that the son of Millionaire Spreckles is working for a living worth telegraph tolls? Now and then a self-made man proceeds to show that he can unmake himself with equal facility. France is planning another world's fair for 1911. Now is the time to begin to save up money for it. Italian mobs are also something on the conspuez order; but they are much worse. They shoot firecrackers. England will establish balloon stations along the Mediterranean. A balloon station is a hot air depot. If it comes to a show of naval strength near Korea, Japan will crowd Russia very hard for the blue ribbon. Some people drink cider just because it is good for rheumatism and gout, and others just because it is good. Herbert Spencer was the "last of the great thinkers of the Victorian age." Who are those of the Edwardian age? A fire was discovered recently in the apartments of Queen Alexandra. is the queen cooking with gasoline this season? King Pete has been on his throne so long now without an accident that he is beginning to think of himself as a record-breaker. It is telegraphed that an alleged plot to rebel against the local government has been discovered at Panama. What—so soon? Our idea of self-control is a man who can walk past a gang of snowballing youngsters on the street without marring his dignity. After all Prof. Langley may be trying to invent a new kind of submarine boat, merely using the word "aerodrome" as a subterfuge. China is to reorganize its army and improve its equipment. Probably each soldier will be armed with a paper kite and a brass dinner bell. When London has decided whether or not it eats too much it will find it equally profitable to ask itself if it doesn't drink a little too much. Mark Twain ate his Thanksgiving dinner in Italy, and perhaps he will tell us in the course of time how he likes macaroni as a substitute for turkey. The London Times states that in thirty-four years "40,000 English children have been sent to Canada"—en route to the United States, many of them. It is asserted by one of the scientists that the sun is gradually losing its heat. That is always a pretty safe statement to make at this season of the year. The hunter who shot a hole through his boat and got instead of ducks a ducking deserves rank with the man who sawed the limb off between himself and the tree. Now that the football season is over the rest of the year in the universities can be devoted to various trifling pastimes—mathematics, science, languages, and the like. A Missouri man has discovered a process whereby he can make cigars out of straw. If he tries to use it he is likely to find himself buried under suits for infringement. Apropos of Mr. Carnegie's praise of the blessings of poverty, it is to be noted that the men who describe these in the most roseate terms are usually conspicuous for their success in dodging them. There is a suspicion that some of the alarming reports of the danger that threatens from the cotton boll weevil originated in the minds of the cotton speculators. Shame be to him who weevil thinks! Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. 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Write it plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. A HAPPY NEW YEAR With this issue we plunge forward in our work for the ye a r 1904. Our work for the year 1903 has been very satisfactory to us and we tvust that it has been equally as pleasing to those with whom we nave come in contact. While our pathway has not at all times been strewn with sweet-scented roses—yet we feel that we have been wonderfully blessed. Our business has prospered, our health and that of our family is preserved, we have made many friends in both business and social circles all in the year 1903. We are aware, however, that in 1903 we may not have pleased all—what manner of human could? neither will we seek to please all seek to please all in the year 1904 but our effort shall be as in the past to do the greatest good for the greatest number. We shall continue our work in the interest of our race and we most sincerely ask our people and our friend for a continuation of their hearty sup port and co-operation which they have see freely extended to us in the past. We wish all a Happy, and Prosperous New Year. W. E. Whitted received word from his wife who is now in Roswell New Mexico, for her health, stating that she is improvi. 'A SWELL AFFAIR. The waltzing contest given by the Manhattan club, Dec 28 h; was indeed a very swell affair. The boys of the Manhattan led by their princely leader, Mr Wm. M. Phillips have won for themselves the respect of all. In the waltzing contest Mr. Gec. Ross and Miss Nina Lynch won the first prize--a big fat goose and Mr. Cieie and Miss Mabe W on he second prz a big fat turkey. Everyone had a fine time and all were well pleased. The Manhattan boys are alright. Remember about the big Cake Walk Monday night at Dunbar hall. Come up and have a fine time. Lot of fun for 15c. Everybody can enter onr World's Fair. (n.) A NICE NUMBER The Christmas number of the Topo ler was a very nice one. It reflects much credit on Me-ars Nick Chiles and Jasper H. Childers. We only noticed one mistake and that ocurred in referring to the work of our friend Simeon layton, of Parsone, Ks, wherein Mr. Clayton is given credit for having once edited the Wichisa Searchlight. This is an error as Mr. Clayton has never edited the Searchlight. At one time Mr. Clayton was a typesetter on the Searchlight force of typos, but he never edited the paper. As this is Christmas and the Plaindealer wishes to "jilly" the boys a little and as Mr. Cl o n is a personal friend of the editor of the Searchlight we pass it up in good cheer and in turn issue a compiment to the Plaindealer for Xmas. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE THEN. PERSONAL MENTION What did Santa Claus bring you? This is the main quiz. Murphy Scales received $10 in money from his employer H. E. Case and two ckies costing $1 each from Mrs. Case as an Xmas present. Dr. Farmer received many compliments as a good physician, a box of cigars and a tie as a Christmas present. Joe F. Phillips, steward at the Elk hall on East Douglas received a $20 overcoat, a $5 vest and a $2 tie from the Elks as a Christmas sent. John Frazier, janitor of the city court room, at the court house was given a big fat turkey for Christmas by Judge Alexander and the officials of the court. Mr. Geo. Brown is among Wichita's most prominent young colored men. Highly cultured and strictly up to-date. He has a nice home 1623 N. Topeka ave. Go by the Bon Ton Bakery and look at that big fine cake and then get ready to win it next Monday night at Dunbar Hall. It's fine. Worth $5 00. It pains us to announce that as we go to press Jno. W. Hall lies very low at the Wichita Hospital. As we go to press on Thursday this week there is much news which we are unable to publish this week, but will publish next week. Miss Birdie Alexander left for Joplin, Mo., "Thursday." Christmas eve, to spend the Christmas and New Year with her grandmother, Mrs. Lottie Murphy. She is expected home today. 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. 804 N. Water. 11 am Preaching, 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev. A. H. Mayo, Pastor. Locals and Personals Locals and Personals Miss Etta Pitts, of Springfield, Mo., who has been in our city for the past seven months and who has made many friends in Wishita best society circles, left Sunday for her home via Santa. Fo at 8:15. During her stay here Mrs. Pitts became a member of Household Ruth lodge. Having spent an enjoyably Christmas here Miss Pit's will spend New Year with her parents in Springfield. She contemplates returning to our city in a few wee s. She carries with her many nice presents which she received Christmas from her many friends and acquaintances in this city. All wish her success. Mr. T. T. Holden and sister Miss Emma Holden of Alaeratta, Okla. came to the city Christmas eve and spent a very enjoyable Christmas as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Dent 1053 North Main st. In company of Mr. Dent, Mr. Holden made our sanctum a welcomed and very much appreciated call on Tuesday morning. They express themselves as highly pleased with Wichita and her hospitable people. They left Tuesday for their home. -TRY THE- BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE G. L. Scott left Thursday night to spend a few weeks visiting n s relativee and friends in Little Rock Ark. Mr. Scott came with him the best wishes of his many Wichita friends that he may have a very enjoyable time and soon return among her friends feeling much refreshed by his journey. Under the skillful care of Dr. J. E. Farmer Mrs. W. N. Miller is slowly improving from the severe burns which she rece ved on Dec. 20th. Her arms are healing as well as could be expected. COLORED ENGINEER. Marion Fowler, a colored man, is the engineer and general electric and gas repairer at the Manhattan hotel in this city. Mr. Fowler has had many years experience as an engineer and electrician in that line. As engineer at the Manhattan he does all the repair work in that hotel. One of the times of the times will be the BIG CAKE WALK at Dunbar Hall Monday night Jan. 4, 1904 See the fine cake on exhibition in the window of the Bon Ton Bakery 140 Nort Main. It is worth anyone walking to get. It cost $5 at retail. Be on land and sure Monday night. Cake walk at 10:30 p. m. Why spend your money to see he big World's Fair when you can go Free of charge at our expense if you win in our World's Fair contest. Somebody must go and we would just as soon send you as your neighbor. The Excelsior L. M. A. Club presented Mr. ahd Mrs. Ben Pembleton with a nice antique oak rocker last Monday night. J. E. ALLEN, Successor to A. M. Richards, MONEY TO LOAN ON CHATTELS 151 N. MAIN WICHITA J. F. Kirker and A. R. Marsh have purchased the undertaking establishment of J. J. Bleitz, 235 N. Main, and will conduct it as the Kirker & Marsn Undertaking Parlors Mr. Kirker is well known in business circles in our city and has a host of warm friends, while Mr. Marsh is no less well known and favored. The members of the L. M. A. club met Wednesday eve at thhome of Miss M Yochum. After an interesting meeting refreshments were served. They adourned to mee. next Wednesday eve w.th Miss Susie Kyle. Mrs. Ceo. D. Johnson and son Geo. D. Jr, spent the holidays in Guthrie, Ok a, visiting with relatives and friends. Both had a lively time. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. The Searchlight has just got to send some one to the World's Fair. Will you be the one? If so, alright, now is your chance. Christmas trees were had at had at all the churches on Christmas eve. A fine time is reported by all. Read the Searchlight's world's Fair prize offer. Enter the contest now. You have plenty time and a good opportunity to win. Mrs. Richard Heck is improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Fines entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pembleton Thursday eve for tea, By a little work you can secure a golden prize by winning one—World's Fair prize. Read it. Read it. Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21 A F. & A. M. will meet Tuesday night. The Christmas dinner which was set by Chas. L. Kiner at his restaurant 408 N. Main St. was simply immense. Are you going to the World's Fair? if so, we offer you a chance to go Free of costs to you. Miss Alma Allen, of Colorado Springs, Colo., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Edward Grayson, 1021 Cherry st. Mr. L. W. Wells is the chef at the Manhattan hotel. Mr. Wells is well equipped in the culinary art. M. J. Winn returned Monday from an extended trip to Salina where he visited his mother and to Topeka where he spent a few days with friends. He reports a fine time. The boys say that they will fight shy of Mr. Lunber Neely so could Mr. Neely enter the contest Monday night. Miss Susie Kyle left Wednesday morning Dec. 30, to attend a reunion of the Alumni of the Douglas High school of Kingfisher, Okla. heid in that city this week. She will be absent from the city only a few days. Miss Mamie Coleman left Monday eve for Arkansas City where she is to spend a few days visiting friends. Mr. L. Works was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cnas. Coleman last week. Mrs. Chas. Pettit of Wellington Kau., spent Friday in Wichita. She was the guest of Mrs. Lulan Colemen. St. Louis, Mo. 1904 Beginning with this issue of T SEARCHLIGHT, January 2nd 1904, we open a S cription Contest and to the Winner in the Contest we will furnish FREE TRANSPO TATION to St. Louis, Mo., and return, FRE ADMISSION to the Big World's Fair and (2) days Board and Lodging-ABSOLUTELY FRE with this issue of THE 1904, we open a Sub the Winner in this FREE TRANSPOR- and return, FREE World's Fair and two ABSOLUTELY FREE!! Beginning with this issue of THE SEARCHLIGHT, January 2nd 1904, we open a Subcription Contest and to the Winner in this Contest we will furnish FREE TRANSPORTATION to St. Louis, Mo., and return, FREE ADMISSION to the Big World's Fair and two (2) days Board and Lodging-ABSOLUTELY FREE!! -The Chance Of A Lifetime- --- The conditions of this Contest are easy and everyone Contest. A positive GO. Number of Paid Up Sub-Great Wichita Searchlight may offer. 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McLean, AGENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: TRANSACTED Wichita . » - - Kansas, ? Thompson’s Barber Shop First Class Hair Gut and Shave Your Patronage Solicited, Jeff Thompson, Prop. 243% North Main St. Oooceoosooesovocooesooorr® Miss M. C. Hannibal, +FINE+ MILLINERY We solicit canaion ith basis ot Quality at the Lowest Prices. 135 N. Main St Wichita, Ks $OOOO66046400640006060006006 CAKE WALK —GIVEN BY THE— - BURERACLUB : ar BPUNBAR HALL, MONDAY NIGHT January 4th. 1904 SS LT CI ERE ay ie ENS It 1as been a long time since a Cake-Walk has been witnessed in this city and the boys who are in- terested in this wish to let every- one have a fine time at this WALK. ia The cake that will be given to the winner is a very Tapae tine ode paltiadl a SA TuC eae ts Gal ern: : bition in front window of the Bon Ton Bakery, 140 North Main street. Go by and see it, its hs GOOD MUSIC CAKE WALK at 10:30 sharp. Admission Onty I5ce., Come TS ey ee OR RE PT ee a eS tS ee eT ee WE WISH YOU A Happy New Year And invite you to make our store your headquarters during the year 1904. We carry a full and complete line of Men and Boy’s, Suits, Overcoats and Fur- nishings, Hats, Caps, Shoes and Underwear. AT THE HES \ Wichita s New One Price Clothing Store 114 North Main Street, JOB WORK S OUR HOBBY IS OUR HOBBY. Let us try your next order a One of the swe'le-tevents :f ' Monday ewning Mr. Ben Pom. ‘Season was a reception given by Mr. | bleton and bride were presented wi h and Mra, Lawson Fines at heir! handsvms rocking chair by the residence 780 E. 13th st. " uesday/L, M. A. club of which he isa mem eve in honor of Mr. and Ms, Brn/b-r, Mr, Rob rt Floyd, president, Pembleton. Those prevent were:| presented the chair in behalf of the Mr, and Mas, Ben P: mile'on, Sam|c'ub as a toker: of esteem. Mr- Pem: Col’ins, J, W. Thompson, Julv'| vle on responded thanking the club Roberson, Chas, Gordon, Lawrence: | Simpsun, Pete C:emens, Mi-ses Sa]. | << liv Rawjos Alice Thompeou, Lilian] _Carnesic says the offspring of the Webb, Jackson,M ssrs Juhn Thom-| 7@, 120k @ reat deal. So do the o son, Tim Anderson. Dr. Famer, ga ee Ea et 4 A New Jersey factory has gone into ' pe hat Tetons ome the enlaes of making steel dolls. re Se eae if ee oe . fay da e lili OB ate | Hi pee EO Go| fia leee \ eS | LHe v5) 4 i 3 oie. a] fe iB gal de Gls 2: Je eal eee KWo trade Ranches, Far-ne, City Property and Merchandise ae Bern Gite Proper ann Mea J. F. Dellewé toy Real Estate & Imigration agts | SH TE AS EE : Homes Seid On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. : Wena uaswana RangesA Specialty, Dealtsin Kase, : Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch aris: ; ; Patronage Solicited- Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kansas, ieee aide hike oe SESS SESS SESS SUTTER EEE ETE ETT TTE TTT TT TTT TTT ERTS IVVS . ‘ ; ? : ‘ ; a ‘ ; f : Good Things to Eat | : 5 : md f=} ~—s Homemade Broad, Pies, Cakes | > &\ I Kk», 5 and all kinds of Pastries. ; : \ Nic ee Our Home made Candies eannet | : Wiki ee be equalled anywhere. é : Fa Wl a ‘They are made fresh every day. | - € hye (A> ' ai : ; Sb yp : e - ort Bae . 306East Douglas Phone 98 : a ae: : FESS SS STTTETSS TS TETTTEETSEE TETTOSTT TTT ST SS SSS HSS HOOD’ ; Phone 196 J.W. METZ 2 Lumber Company ( Suecessors to Deal & Trent ) : : GENERAL LUMBER DEALERS : $421 North Main Street Wichita, Kansas : PTT TTT rrrrrrrrirrrrrrrirryy tit Special Rates on Account of Christmas and New Year Holidays , cs ‘Tickets will be on sale December 24, 25, and 31 1903, and January 1 1904, gcod to return up toa.d including January 4 1904, at the follow ng rates FOR THE ROUND FRIP An open rate of fare and a third for the round trip, with minimam selling rate of 50 cente ond roaxium selling rate of $8 50, between pointe within a distance of 100 miles. Rate of one fare plus 50c, for the sound tip outside of the 100 miles radius and within 200 miles radius. E. E, BLECKLEY, T. P. A. I, R, SHERWIN, P. & T, A- Wichita, Kansas; M>, Pac, Passenger Station, Douglas and Wichits St# Monday evning Mr. Bon P-m- bleton and bride were presented wi h a handsome rocking chair by the L, M. A. club of which he is a wem ber, Mr, Rob rt Floyd, president, presented the chair in bebaif of the club as a toker: of esteem, Mr- Pem: ble on responded thanking the club ——E——— ‘Carnesie says the offspring of the righ lack a great deal. So do the off- spring of the poor. : COAL | ALL KINGS } : Low Frices : ; Good Weights — | J.H. TURNER, 7 : 533-543 W. Douglas : : Phone 496 : 2 A New Jersey factory has gone into the business of making steel dolls. Yhat’s a mean trick. What 4 saving of human life it would resuit in if football games could be played by telegraph. If the sultan of Turkey had anything to fear it was from an enemy within. He has cancer of the stomach. | Refreshing to read that a European princess is to be married according to social rules and regulations. A national anti-mosquito association is the latest. “Bizz2” is the pass- word and “swat” the countersign. The lawyers intrusted with the set- tlement of the Fair estate find that where there's a will there's a way. Anger is useful sometimes in that it gives a man something to be sorry for agd thus reduces danger of swelled head. If one must die of overdrinking how pleasant it must be to have the coro- ner’s physician call it “reflned alco- holism.” A woman always has great conf- dence in the doctor who says he relies on her intelligent care more than on medicines. \ i i sill CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BYRON WILLIAMS Where Home Is. I am weary of back-outs and coal smoke, Of railways and cobbles and noise; I long to go back to the country I want to go to the country "boys"; To eat much-and-milk with the natives And swap stories down at the store; To sleep on the fat feather bed-lock That's built away up from the floor! I am weary of dogging and crowding, To long to go back to the country Where "show" is not overly much. To eat mother's doughnuts and flapjes And mother's our best bacon And neighbor's our coyote--a neighbor's of thrift and of brawn. I am weary of toiling and hoping, Of toiling and hoping again; I long to go back to the country And sit in the old-fashioned parlor And rest with all trouble discharged. Just rest in the old patch-work cushion And gaze at the pictures enlarged. There's father and mother and William, And poor little Fox who is dead-- And me—a fat little shaver I With hair plastered close to my head; At skirted and slashed Sissy; All singing black oval frames; Suspended from nails in the plaster; And under the pictures the names! Yes, I are weary of holding and striving, Of slaving all day in the din; I long to go back to the country To get a new grip on the throttle. Get steam for the mountainous land, To gain inspiration and courage That comes from the firm, horny hand! So at nightfall it's off to the sleeper, That stands in the heart of the noise, But the world is quiet, Where once I was "one of the boys." 9 9 9 Over in Rome (New York) history repeats itself! General Caesar is janitor in a twelve-flat building in the Prosperium de Publicusco, across the court from the Tiberius Bastillo. It is a cold and marrow-chilling morning in Rome. Calius Pompayus, in his slumbering toga, and with great gaze pimples on his legs, is tiptoping engrilly about his apartment. "A bas!" big cries. "A bas! Here it is sun-up in Rome, and the thermometer bulb at only 37 degrees above freezing!" Rushing wildly to the court bedroom he shouts up the area-way: "Citizens, neighbors, boarders, roomers, jays who are visiting and avoiding hotel bills!" "Sie semper tyrannus!" With low mutterings that grew from infinitesimal grumbling into a mighty din of discord, the populace of the vicinity of the Proscenium de Publicusco rushed into the Areno des Alteyo, Marcus Junius Brutus in the lead. "Pro bono publico!" he bellowed. "Portico de front porchio! Down with Caesar!" At this juncture Caesar himself issued from the boiler region and stood agast, pale and trembling. Slowly the menacing mob drew nearer and nearer! "S'death! S'death to the janitorio!" they cried in chorus. Hardly the angry echoes died in the area-way, than Marcus Junius Brutus, armed with a frozen weiner-wurst, sprang with uplifted hand toward Geneva, Caesar. With one stifling gasp the janitorio weiled: "Et tu, Brute!" and fell back into the garbage can, DEAD! "Pro justiciol!" murmured the crowd. "Nux vomica, ripe tomatio yabananio! Rushthocancio! S'death!" Then they elected Marcus Junius Brutus janitor, and dispersed forth with ```markdown ``` Sowing the Seed. It is better to smile than to grieve, dear heart; Better to grym than to weep! Better to dream of the resue fair, That a freewell and troubled sleep! It is better to praise than to scoff, dear heart; Better the nectar than rue. Better to love and be loved in turn Than to hate and be pitted, too! It is better to give than to take, dear heart; Better to succer than ask! Better to do with a cheerful heart Than to gall at the daily task! It is better to trust than to doubt, dear heart; Better is peace at the last! Better to feel that your life was good Than regret for a solilish past! It is sweetest in faith to sleep, dear heart; Sweetest to know His smile— Sweeter than all of the earthly joys— Will sustain thee and tine meanwhile! It is better to be thine own self, my dear heart; True to myself apart! Then thou canst be naught but pure and good! Oh my own, just my own, dear heart! IN MEMORY. Wichita, Kan. Dec: 19, 1903. In loving remembrance of our departed husband, son and pastor, Rev. H. F. Frazier, who departed this life, Tuesday, Dec. 15 1903, about ten minutes of four o'clock. Composed By MISS BIRDIE ALEXANDER Wichita, Kansas. Dearest pastor thou hast left us, And our loss we deeply feel, But'tis God that has bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal Yet again we hope to meet thee When the day of life is fled, When in Heaven with joy to greet thee. Where no farewell tears are shed. *Thy gentle voice is now hushed* *Thy warm, true heart is still.* And on thou young and innocent brow, Is resting death's cold chill. *Thy hands are clasp upon thy breast, We have kissed thy lovely brow.* And in our aching hearts we know We have no pastor now. A precious one from us have gone, A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in our church Which never can be filled. God in His wisdom has recalled The boon his love had given. And though the body slumbers now The Soul is safe in Heaven. We miss thee from our church, dear pastor We miss thee from thy place; A shadow o'er ovr life is cast We miss the sunshine of thy face We miss thy kind and willing hand Thy fond and earnest care, Our dome is dark without thee, We miss thee everywhere. We lay thee in thy silent tomb, Sweet blossom of a day We just began to view thy bloom, When thou wast called away. At length relesed from all thy pain Gur pastor sweetly sleeps. How calm and peaceful thy repose, When Christ thy soul doth keep, Had He asked us well we know We should say, "spare the blow!" Yes, with streaming tears should pray. "Lord we love him, let him stay" In love he lived, in peace he died His life was asked, but God denied. Farewell, but not forever, There will be a glorious dawn, We shall ueet to part, no ueves, Ou the reserection morn. Although our pastor lies sleeping, In the cold and silent tomb Thou shalt have a glorious wakening When the blessed Lord doth come. Peaceful, be thy silent slumber, Brother in thy grave so low No mote wilt thou join our number No more our sorrows know, Yet again we hope to meet thee, When the day of life has fled. And in Heaven with joy to greet thee, Where no farewell tears are shed. We loved him, yes we loved him, But the angels loved him best And they have sweetly called him, To yonder shinning shore Yes, the Golden Gates were opened, A gentle veeie said "come!" And with farewells unspoken He calmly entered home. Life's duty done, as sink the day, Light from its load the spirit flies, While Heaven and earth combine to say: "How blessed the righteous who die" Aimable, he won all Intelligent, he charmed all Fervent, he loved all He death saddened all HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS RATES The Rock-Ialand will make a rate of One Fare, plus 50c, to all points between 100 and 200 miles distant. And one and one - third fare to points under 100 miles. Tickets sold Dec. 24, 25, and 31 and Jan. 1. Return limit Jan. 4 C. E. BASCOME, C. P. A. SEARCHLIGHT $1. Per Year Send in your subscription today. W. M. Dunson Painter W. M. Dunson Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 936 NEWTON ITEMS. Rev. J. W. Gordon is still on the sick list but is improving slowly. The Xmas tre s at both churches were largely attended and quite a number of ha deome presents were given. The concerts were both grend. Mr. and Mrs. A. R-evely mother and sister are spending the holidays with them. Mr. Donie of Wichita is here visiting his family. Cora Stevenson and Bertha Rickman are visiting Miss Hanyel this week. Mrs, W. H. Brown left last night for Denver, Col, where she goes to remain, The N. U. G. wishes Mrs Brown good luck. Mrs. Ramey has been confined to her bed the past week very ill. PUEBLO ITEMS Miss Julia Townseud who has been visiting in Paeblo for the last few months return d to her home Texas Tuesday afternoon. O. H. Holmes went to Walsenburg Saturday. The oyster supper given by the King's Daughters last Monday night at Odd Fellow's hall was a grand success. Mrs. Low is some better at this report. The ladies of the St. Johns A. M. E. church are planning for a grand fair. The moth rs club met at the 8th st. Baptist church last Wednesday. Dr J., P. Williams lectured to the mothers on Hygiene and Physiology. Dr. O. C. H. Speller will lecture at the next meeting to be held at Rev. Hardy's church, his subject will be 'The care in the sick room.' Mrs. Stewart is suffering from an atack of rheumatism. Miss Ernestine Denson nied last week at her home in Bessemer. Her remains were shipped to Fort Worth, Texas, for burial. Read our World's Fair contest offer. KINGMAN ITEMS. Mr. Works and Mrs. Hattie Pettet of Wellington arrived in the city. They will be the guests of C. E. Floyd. Miss Ns'lie and Florenco Banks went to Wichita Thursday to spend a few days in that city. Mrs. Eli Marten and three daughters went out to Pratt to visit relatives a few days. M. E. W. ods 'made a business tsip to Wichita this week. Master Pearl and Fred Banks have been on the sick list for a few days. C. P. Johnsou, W. R. Johnson Pres. Sec. & Treas. C P. Johnson Co., Live Stock Commission Merchants Money Always On Hand To Loan To Responsible Parties Your Business Solicited Wichita Stock Yards Phone 466 Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mrs. P. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. The place to buy Good Cook Stoves and Heat ing Stoves at the Lowest Cash Prices 116 East Douglas Ave. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 When in need of Groceries to not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S (102 E Dover 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!! CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant When You Want AGOOD MEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS 15cts — C. L. KINER, Prop. 408 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases 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. J. B. H. I GIVE My whole attention to Pignos, Organs, Sewing Machines, Music Boxes, Gramaphones, Piano players supplies, etc., etc. I can make better prices than ordinary dealers on anything. WHOLESALE or RETAIL THOS. SHAW, 132 North Main Street Get a Searchlight, if you want the news. YOUR JOB PRINTING 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? IT IS ONLY $1.00. FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. SUBSCRIBETO - DAY W. G. McKee, ( Successor to A. N. West ) Pumps, Pipe, Hose, Windmills When you need a new Pump, or your old one need repairing, don't forget to give me a call 118 South Main St. Phone 643 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGAT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Jan, 2,’04 ———————— The heiress of the future will be known, perhaps, as a rare and radium maiden. ‘There's @ whole bunch of vs willing te be generous at the exseuse of somevody else. A bill has been introduced at Wash- ington providing for clean”money. No more filthy luere, If it 4s true that erinoline is going to be revived, it must be that golf fs going out of fashion. At 40 one’s wish to grow old grace- filly is chiefly made up of an carn- est desire not to grow fat. One means of checking the spread of the divorce mania would be to put a carb on the hasty marriage craze. Some men display a total lack of interest in a eat show who often have at up all night feeding the kitty. At least Japan must be credited with a resolute effort to keep looking ot the silver lining of its war cloud. it was not James Lane Allen, the novelist, who struck the $1,750.000 iil well in Texas. Teo good to be true J, D. Rockefeller Jr., says that if you live long enough you are bound to win, a remarkably profound state- mont. ‘The doings in Cripple Creek remind one of old times. But poor Bret Harte isn't here to write them up properly. It is indignantly dented that Colom- bia is eager to possess the pen with which the Panama junta signed that canal treaty. When Dr. Hillis predicts that in fifty years the women “will be” smarter than the men, doesn’t he know that it is no compliment? A Washingion paper believes that Adam owned the first talking machine. but Adam never said a word until Eve errived and began it. Africa is being raveged by the “sleep- ing sickness,” the malady being even more acute there than it is in the United States senate. Mrs. Langtry found herself fascinat- ed by the “splendid vice” and “un- couth masculinity” of Chicago, Think of that for a Jersey lily! The author of the song, “The Last Farewell,” says he can’t understand how Patti came to accept and sing it. Perhaps the title pleased her. A bald-headed man in Missouri is wing for a divoree because his wife compelled him to sit on the front stoop all summer to keep the files out of the house. As usual at this time of year, the more one looks at the literature in the Christmas magazines the more one is «isposed to admire the truly beautiful pictures, The whole number of pieces of stamped paper sold by the postoffice ‘ast year was 7,024,902,795. This coun- try pays a big stamp tax now without complaint. A New York preacher became the father of triplets a few days ago. If he can go on preaching peace on earth now it will have to be admitted that he's a wonder. There is renewed talk of shortening the college course. But how can an expert football player succeed in doing in three years what he is expected to do in four years? It is with a sense of regret we note that Lady Constance Mackenzie has come to hunt the Mexican wild hog instead of the American species, which We could spare so easily. Mrs. Ogden Goelet says she is dis- susted with America, and will in fu- ture make her home in Europe. She has not decided, however, to refuse to touch any more filthy American luere, Commander Robert E, Peary, who in June next begins his farewell tour to the north pole, says: “I shall not fake my wife with me.” Now, per haps Mrs. Peary wouldn't put it in just that way. The New York artist who left diree- tions in his will that one of his friends should look over his paintings and de- Stroy all the bad ones evidently picked out the right man, The friend says that all of them are good. It has been practically decided that those wind shields and paced records Wil not be admitted as regular, but will have to go into a class by them- selves. ‘That's right, give Father Time & square deal, just as he gives every- body else. . Possibly the teachers who advocate Phonetic spelling are inspired by their failure to turn out good spellers with the present fad methods of teaching that branch, In the old days of “spell- ing down” and “leaving off head” there- were few complaints. A BREAK THAT THREATENS THE ENTIRE DYKE. Lie, [a tpg LL a Ly LIE ny ee £ | age) Ci i, Ste SOP: “)), Dit « i i a Sd EAA oN Se By Var G Mee ACT IS NOT POPULAR RELUCTANT REPUBLICAN SUP- PORT OF THE CUBAN BILL. President McKinley Quoted by Con- gressman Hepburn to Prove That the Only Sound Reciprocity Is That Which Excludes Competitive Prod- ucts. The number and the names of the Republican representatives who voted reluctantly and under protest for the Cuban reciprocity bill will never be Known. It is, however, perfectly well known that a large number, probably 4 majority, voted for the bill under Pressure of one sort or another and against their better judgment. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa, like the most of his associates, lacked the courage to Vote according to his convictions and Against the bill, but he had the cour. 2ge to say that he voted for it under constraint and unwillingly. In his speech of November 19 Mr. Hepburn confessed that he was yielding to co- ercion when he said: “Mr. Chairman, I have Intimated that I intend to vote for this bill, and ‘Yet I confess I do it with reluctance. I Go it because a large majority of my associatés seem to think that it is necessary, because the administration very heartily approves of it, because the last Republican state convention 0: the State of Iowa declared in favor of it. Therefore I intend to vote for it, but I am not satisfied with the reasoning indulged in by gentlemen in support of it.” Under ordinary circumstances peo- rle who disapprove of a measure vote against it. It would seem, however, that extraordinary circumstances must have impelled Mr. Hepburn and a hun- dred or more just like him to stifle their convictions and help enact into law a bill which they know to be bad in principle and vicious. in practice. Like the gentleman from Iowa, all of these unwilling supporters of the Cu- ban bill did the wrong thing with their eyes wide open. All of them in so doing confessed that they surrendered to influences stronger than their con- sciences, more potent than their con- victions. Mr, Hepburn was neither worse nor better than his associates, so far as his vote was concerned. They were all in the same boat. ‘The speech of the Iowa congressman was full of good reasons for sticking to his principles. He denied that we owe anything to Cuba and rightly ar- -gued that in sacrificing many lives and three or four hundred millions of treasure we incurred no moral obliga- tion to assassinate any of our own industries for Cuba's benefit. He de- clared his belief in Republican reci- ‘procity—namely, non-competitive reci- procity, the reciprocity that McKinley advocated in the last speech he ever uttered: | “We should take from our custom- ers such of their products as we can “use without harm to our industries and labor.” “That,” said Congressman Hepburn, “is what William McKinley said.” And then he asked: “What is there in that that gives encouragement to men who claim that the competitive article, the article that does harm to our industries or @oes harm to our labor, is to be the subject of reciprocal agreement?” ‘And yet Congressman Hepburn vot- ea for the Cuban bill, But so did scmething over a hundred Republicans in the House. There was applause and approval on the Republican side when the eloquent speaker deprecated the democratic free trade polic}" which “Jooks to the support of people be- yond the seas rather than to the inter- ‘est and happiness of our own people.” It was a fine sentiment finely express- ed. And yet Mr. Hepburn and more than a hundred others of his party ‘voted to do that identical thing; voted in the interest of “people beyond the seas, rather than to the interest and happiness of our own people.” Like the reluctant dame deseribed by By- ron: Ana whispering ‘I will ne'er consent'— Bashan ge Philippine Tariff Reductions. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill placing all Philippine products on the free list, except sugar and tobacco, and on these a duty of only 50 per cent of the tariff imposed on like products from other foreign countries will be imposed if the bill becomes a law. This would mean a reduction of one- half in the duty on sugar, and it would be a more injurious blow to the sugar- beet industry than the proposed reduc- tion of 20 per cent in the duty on sugar from Cuba. There is no foundation for a claim that this reduction should be made on Philippine sugar. , It would be made at the expense of an American indus- try which needs protection. If there is any merit in the protective tariff theory at all it applies in the case of the beet sugar industry. As a result of the proposed reduc- tion of 50 per cent in,the tariff on Philippine sugar, great sugar planta- tions would be started in those islands and it is altogether possible that leg- islation would be crowded through permitting the importation of Chinese labor into the archipelago for the purpose of working such plantations. The Philippines are costing the peo- ple of this country millions of dollars every year, and it inures to the bene- fit of the inhabitants of those islands rather than to the people of the Unit- ed States. Certainly we should not be asked to go farther and destroy one of our industries in order to make the sugar plantations of the Philip- pines more profitabie-—Denver Repub- lican. To Attack the Tariff. The majority of those who are con- stantly sounding the praises of reci- procity have no other purpose except to attack the tariff by the only means at hand. Of course there are a few who honestly believe that reciprocity in competitive products is consistent with a protective tariff. But there are not many of that kind. Reciprocity re- minds one of the men who used to call themselves “bimetallists.” Men used to stand around and say, “We are in favor of the use of gold and silver both; we are bimetallists.” They would proceed to say that there was not gold enough in the country to make a currency, therefore silver must be used. Time demonstrated that all such men were silver standard ‘men. In this instance time will dem- onstrate that the radical advocates of reciprocity will necessarily land in the Democratic party.—Des Moines ‘Capital. Would Injure Eighty Per Cent, Senator Allison is an acknowledgea authority on economics, He always knows what he is talking about, He says that only 20 per cent of goods are made by trusts in this country, and he deals in facts because he knows. In other words the tariff has nothing to do with the formation of trusts. The tariff is intended to keep countries where labor and material are cheap from flooding our country with arti- cles which will bankrupt our produc- ers and force labor into idleness. To remove the tarift, he says, from trust made goods would remove protection from 80 per cent of goods made by in- dependent manufacturers. Free trad- ers should give this subject serious thought—Davenport Republican. Hanas. to Calamity. The Waterloo Times-Tribune is a truly Democratic newspaper, Under a block head entitled “Hot shot for the prosperity makers,” it publishes a col- umn or so calamity items. Since the miserable failure of the last Cleveland administration it is wonderful with what tenacity the Democratic party hangs to calamity.—Vinton (Iowa) Eagle. ‘The Better Way. The case is clear. It is better to protect your own and take chances on other nations buying of you than tc throw open your industries to foreign campetition, with the possibility of not producing any manufactures which they want to purchase—Troy Times. x Which? The Democrats claim that free trade will capture the trade of the world for the United States. To do so it will be necessary to cut the incomes of Amer- fean wage-earners on a level with un- derpaid foreign labor. Which do you prefer, gentlemen? Davenport (Iowa) ‘Republican, = x * x * x tLatest Kansas News: FERRI ab So DEI AIF IAAI IIIA III IIIA TIEN A KANSAS REFORMATORY i LOSE MILITIA COMPANIES. An Attempt to Evade the Parole Law| Concordia and Ottawa Lose, Clyde anc By Habeas Corpus. | ‘Gintemiatt Cine Mat TOPEKA.—(Special.) John Nolan, an inmate of the Hutchinson reform- atory has filed a petition with the supreme court asking for his release on a writ of habeas corpus. Nolan's petition attacks the validity of the law giving the board of managers of the institution power to bring back to the institution inmates who have once been paroled. He was sentenced to the institution in 1898 by the district court of Wyandotte county. He was convicted of burglary. In April, 1901, he was paroled by the board of man- agers of the institution under the pro- visions of the law giving them that power. Early in this month word was brought to the managers of the institution that Nolan ha dviolated his parole. He was returned to the insti- tution on a warrant issued by the board and served by EB. E. Marshall, superintendent of the institution. The petition declares that Nolan has been reinearcerated without due formality of the law and that the board is not vested with the power to bring back to the institution a prisoner who has once been reelased. TO SEE THE INGALLS STATUE a | Be oN: Rn: Sen ae Statesmen Going to New York. TOPEKA—(Special.) Mrs. John J. Ingalls of Atchison has been delegat- ed by the executive council to go to New York and inspect the cley model of the statue of the late Senator In- galls, which has been compicted by Charles Henry Nichaus, the artist. ‘The executive council made a contract with Mr. Nichaus, whereby he was to mpke a statue of the late senator to be placed in a niche in the national Capitol. The artist agreed to make a clay model of the statue which should be accepted by the executive council or its agent. The members of the ex- ecutive council are unable to go to New York and have commissioned Mrs. Ingalls to decide. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) A com- mittee from the Kansas delegation in Congress, consisting of Senator Long and Mr. Curtis, Mr. Scott, Mr. Miller, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Murdock, will go to New York to inspect the clay model of the Ingalls statue, which is to by placed in statuary hall at the Capitol. The committee probably will leave Tuesday. HIS WIFE WAS HIS CLERK. Explanations Due From Another Kan- as Legistator. TOPEKA.—(Special.) A discovery has been made in the state auditor's office which threatens to make trou- ble for another member of the legisla- ture. It has been found that C. D. Jones, speaker pro tem of the house of representatives, had his wife on the legislative pay rol las his clerk, The records in the auditor's office show that Mrs. Jones drew $174 for her work during the winter. The first three vouchers amounting to $90 were signed by Mrs. Jones and the last three were signed for by C. D. Jones, the speaker pro tem. Inquiries made among residents of tho Sixth Congressional district. re- veal the fact that Mrs. Jones was in Topeka last winter long enough to have a silk dress made. ‘TO DEVELOP OIL AND GAS. Company Is Boomed at Oswego—Oil Discovered. OSWEGO.—(Special.) A company was formed here Monday to develop oll and gas Interests in this neighbor- hood. The board of directors is com- posed of C. M. Condon, F. M. Brady, W.H. Condon, T. M. Brady, and 0. W. Ball. Oil was discovered last week ‘on the Silkett farm six miles west of here at a depth of ninety-three fect. While the flow of oil was not strong at this depth experienced oil men say that where # good grade of oil is dis- covered as in this case at a short depth, oil in paying quantities is sure to be found. The company wil charter under the name of the Oswego Oiland Gas company and bore for oil immedi ately. Miners Re-Elect Bousefield. _ PITTSBURG. — (Special.) Returns from al the local unions of the United Mine Workers, which voted in the re- cent election for a national board member, show that Harry Bousfield, the present representative of the na- tional board from this district, has been re-elected by a small majority. ‘The official returns will be canvassed by the execifve board at a called meeting, probably this week. | ‘When one woman says that another ‘8 clever she means that she is either plemels oF unamiable. ; Minlatera Oppose the Sale. WINFIELD.—-(Special.) The Min- fsterial Alliance of this city has pass- ed resolutions protesting against the sale of the Winfield hospital to the Catholic church on the grounds that the institution was called into being three years ago for the purpose of pre- venting the erection of a Catholic in- stitution of the same kind. The hos: pital was not a paying proposition and the directors, who were the principal stock Lovers, sold to satisfy their own claims. ‘The result is the breach between ithe Catholic and Protestant LOSE MILITIA COMPANIES. Concordia and Ottawa Lose, Clyde and Council Grove Gain. TOPEKA—(Special.) Concordia and Ottawa each have lost their mili- tia companies. Clyde and Council Grove are the gainers. This action was decided on to-day at a meeting of the state military board. The Concor- dia company is Company 1, Second regiment. Clyde, which will be given the letter and equipment of the Con- cordia company, is only fifteen miles from Concordia, and is in the same county. The Ottawa company is Com- pany EB, First regiment, The new Council Grove company will take this letter and belong to the First regi- ment. “The reason for making these changes,” said Adjutant General Kel- sey to-day, “is because some om the officers have moved away from Con- cordia and Ottawa, and it is diffi- cult to fill their places with men of experience, and otherwise it is diffi- cult to keep a company up to the re- quired standard of efficiency. Both Clyde and Council Grove have had ap- plications in for companies for a long time ,and there is every prospect for good organizations at both points.” County Gets Estate. WICHITA.—(Special.) The Price Foster estate, in litigation for five years, will go to the county nnder the law, because there is no legitimate heir or legatce, the last sult having been dismissed to-day. Foster, a ne- gro, owned a farm in this county. He died in 1899 and H. D. Heiserman, white, sought to establish a will in which the property wag bequeathed to him. The probate court ruled against him and be appealed, the ap- peal being dismissed. John Harwell, colored; claimed the property as a nephew, but he failed to prove rela- tionship. Originally the estate was worth about $1,700, but litigation hay cut it down to less than one-third. ee be fetid inate Tain Rane WINFIELD. — (Special) Judge Swarts passed sentence on eight crim- inals Monday as follows: John Bell- chamber, felonious assault, not less than one year nor more than five in state penitentiary, at discretion of warden; Ray Wasson, assault, six months in county jail; William Aus- tin, assault, six months in county jail; William Austin, grand larceny, one to seven years in penitentiary; Buck Hebron, robbery, ten to twenty years in penitentiary; C. Thora, grand lar- ceny, one to seven years in peniten- tiary; George Lane, forgery, six months in county jail; Frank ‘Thur- man, grand larceny, one to five years in the penitentiary; Alfred Thompson, forgery, six months in county jail. ‘An Elopement in Kansas. OSKALOOSA.—(Special.) L.A. Shendorf, a farmer living nine miles south of here, end Hattie Rumbaugh, the 20-year-old daughter of a neighbor, secured a carriage belonging to a son of T. EB. Everett and lett for parts unknown. The mother locked the girl up to keep her from going, but the girl's brother helped her to get away. Shendorf is trustee of Rural township. He got a divorce from his wife very re- cently, giving her the farm, while he took the personal property. An Emporia Normal School Debate. Er easels resin eBags iM ah Op open z debate between the Lyceum and the Literati societies of the Normal school here resuited in a victory for the Ly- ceum. The winners were Newton Williams and 8. H. Howard. Ira H. Masters and Virgil H. Moon represent- ed the Literati society. The question was whether cr not labor unions are inimical to the public welfare. The Lyceum had the negative. in the an- nual piano contest Miss Selene Rob- erts of this city won the gold medal. 1 Almost Drowns in Tank. HIAWATHA.—(Special.) A Mor- rill man narrowly escaped drowning in a peculiar manner recently. C. R. Gaston was standing near a big water tank, when a fractious horse kicked him into it, The horse then got his front hoofs in the tank and kicked Mr. Gaston again, breaking his ribs. ‘There was only a little over a foot of water in the tank, but because of his injuries and the struggling horse, Gas- ton was almost drowned before friends fished him out. : Wichita Wants Convention. WICHITA, — (Special.) Wichita wants the next Republican state con- vention, and her commercial organiza- tions are going after it. The Com- mercial Club voted to appoint a com- mittee to go to Topeka with a similar committee to be appointed by the Chamber of Commerce and lay the city’s claims before the state commit- teee. Cattle Give the Alarm, OTTAWA.—(Special.) Neighbors of Bruce Deskins found him dead in b's home six miles east of Ottawa Sunday. Attention was called to the place by ‘he behavior of the cattle in the feed yard, which were showing signs of hunger. It was necessary to break in the door of the house. Deskins was found dead with a lamp tightly gripped in-his hand. A mateh lay on the tloor beside him, where he had gripped it Heart failure is tne supposed: cause of death. Deskins had not been seen Largest Photograph. The largest photographic picture tm existence is being exibited in Berlin. It is about 40 feet by 5 ret, and rep- resents a view of the Bay of Naples, The World's Toy Center. Every civilized country in the world Feceives its quota of toys trom Sonne- berg, and this year even such far off places as South Africa, India, Russia, Australia and Egypt are included. Dolls will sell where the product of everything else but the bakeshop goes begging. Rain Makers in Australta. ‘The rain-making hoax, which has run its course in this country, is being worked extensively by “drought-bust- ers” in Australia. Mongolia’s Area. Mongolia is more than three-fourths as large as Russia and nearly four times as large as Manchuria, while Mongolia and Manchuria together are more than half as large as the United States, exclusive of Alaska and out- side possessions. ‘Ghiissh Sow Gowan In Taranaki, Australia, is a church labeled in large letters on its outside walls with the names and trades of a grocer, a draper, a painter, and a mil- ler. ‘These tradesmen built the church im return for the advertisement they obtain. Wealthiest Royal Family. The Russian imperial family enjoys the distinction of being the wealthiest family in Europe. ‘The civil list of the Czar amounts to $12,500,000 a year. In addition to this enormous revenue, he draws an income of an additional $5,000,000 a year from his exclusive es- tates and mines, Little Corrosion in Steet. The demolition of a steel building three years old in New York City was watched by the experts of the bureau of buildings with reference to deter joration. They report “that no other corrosion of consequence coul¢ be dis: covered then had obviously begun and gained measurable headway before the building was covered fa, Olive Oi! for Croup. A threatening of croup often ends in the threatening only if olive oil and camphor are applied to the child’s chest and well rubbed in. Another method is to saturate a piece of flannel with the oil, sprinkle It with powdered camphor, and apply it to the chest and neck as warm as the little one can stand it. Cover it with a piece of dry flannel, and change it as soon as it gets cold. Mr. Grovets Gass. Frederika, Ia., Dec. 28.—Mr. A. 8. Grover is now 74 years of age. For the last 30 years he has suffered a great deal of sickness and, although he is a temperate man and never used spir- its of any kind, his kidneys had trou- bled him very much. He said: “I was told I had Diabetes and ry symptoms corresponded exactly to those of a young man who died of Dia- betes in this neighborhood. My feet and limbs were bloated quite a little. “[ heard of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and at last determined to try them. I took im all ten boxes before I was well and now I can truthfully say that I am all right. The bloating is gone from my feet and legs. I have gained eight pounds in weight and can sleep well at night and every symptom of my trou- ble is gone. “It is come time now since I was sured and I have not the slightest, return of any symptom of the old trouble.” ‘When a note goes to protest the hold- er does a little protesting on his own sanouuk: Clie a ee ; oe a pee u es % ayy Eset ee # if SE PLA SO a Bn A ES a” ite AAAS BOIS Isa Miss Alice Bailey, of Atlanta, Ga., escaped the sur geon’s knife, by using Lydia EB. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Dear Mrs. Prvxnaw:—I wish to express my gratitude for the restored health and happiness Lydia E, Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound has brought into my life. “Thad suffered for three years with terrible pains at the time of menstrua- tion, and did not know what the trouble was until the doctor pronounced it in= flammation of the ovaries, and proposed an operation. “T felt so weak and sick that I felt sure that I could not survive the ordeal, end so I told him that I would not un~ dergo it. The following week I read an advertisement in the paper of your Vegetable Compound in ach an exer gency, and so I decided to try it. Great ‘was my joy to find that I actually im- 5 proved ator taking two bottles, so I eet eT of that time I wes cet I pen gain yhteen poun was aaa eek, deserve coe suas ve my very best wishes.” — Far areas aoe ‘i — at Fre ee roa pomloooel conned be pe: jan sick women would be wise e a ree Pink- beavell. ya A German medical paper reports that at a school inspection in Brandenburg an eight-year-old boy was presented who weighs 9 stone and stands 5 feet $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches. The young prodigy is physically and mentally well developed. PILE CURE There are remedies and remedies on the market for Piles, most of which are injurious rather than helpful. Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin There are probably more people in the world to-day who believe with Prof. Lowell that Mars is inhabited, and also that it will be reached someday by some kind of wireless telegraphy than there were a hundred years ago who believed that men would ever travel at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Waste of Millions. Dalnay harbor, near Port Arthur, built by Russia for an ice-free terminal port for the Siberian railway at a cost of 17,000,000 rubles, is a disappointment, for since the breakwater has been built it freezes over as did Vladivostok. The nearest possible ice-free bay is in Korean territory. London's social condition is distressing. Inside the so-called outer belt it has a pauper population of 107,600 souls, and this figure does not include vagrants or the insane poor. Twenty-one per cent of the entire population over sixty-five years of age, exclusive again of vagrants or insane, are paupers. Interesting Derivations. The name damask is an abbreviation of Damascus; satin is a corruption of Zaytown, in China. Velvet is the Italian "vellute," woolly, and is traceable back to the Latin vellus, a hide or pelt. Shawl is from the Sankirt sala, which means floor, shawls having first been used as carpet tapestry. Sir Benjamin Baker, who built the Nile dam, has just given out some new figures concerning the dam and its consequences. During the critical periods for the crops—March to June—the supply of water for irrigation was doubled by the dam. The irrigation of rice, prohibited in previous years, was allowed, and the increase in value of land now converted to irrigation is calculated at over $25,000,000. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. Lots of people are willing to pay freight on worthless articles. Put your finger on our trade mark. Tell your dealer you want the best starch your money can buy. 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Price 12 cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by milk. No article should be sent to you without a bottle of carrier's label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. 17 State Street, NEW YORK CITY Looking for a Home? Then why not keep in view the fact that the farming lands of 16 ACRES IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada are sufficient to support a population of 50,000,000 or over? The immigration for the past six years has been phenomenal. FREE Homestead Lands easily accessible, while other lands may be purchased from Railway and Land Companies. The grain and grazing lands of Western Canada are the best on the continent, producing the best grain, and are the most valuable for market. Markets, Schools, Railways and all other conditions make Western Canada an enviable spot for the settler. Write to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, for a descriptive Atlas, and other information. Received Canadian Government Agent—I.S. Crawford, 12 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. It is 16 ounces for 10 cents. No premiums, but one pound of the very best starch made. We put all our money in the starch. it gives satisfaction or money back. Monster Eight-Year-Old. What Some People Believe Waste of Millions London's Paupers. Interesting Derivations Effects of Nile Dam. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Says the Washington Post: The Census Bureau announces that 570,000 persons in the United States depend upon the trolley lines for support. This is exclusive of the straphangers. The will of a man in New York, which provided for a monument over his grave so expensive as to absorb the estate he left and make his widow peniless, was upheld by the courts, comments the Baltimore American. Perhaps, in Utopia, law will run along lines of common sense, and such decisions as these prove that Utopia is not yet on the map. A Paris paper informed its readers that "M. MacClellan, the newly-elected Mayor of New York," is "a son of the famous Confederate general of that name." Such a nice derangement of history, says the Boston Transcript, suggests that the spirit of Victor Hugo is abroad in Paris editorial rooms. Victor Hugo never forgave General Grant for hanging John Brown, having mixed up Lee and Grant in his impressions of the Harper's Ferry affair. "The Maine log cabin on the World's Fair grounds will be the most unique and picturesque of the group of State buildings," says the St. Louis Star. "The walls will be of logs from the Maine forests, while all lumber used will be drawn from the same source. If it is a possible thing the State should also give an example of sugar making. This might be accomplished through the storage of sugar water, which is taken from the trees in February and March. Very few people of the present day have ever tasted of genuine maple sugar, much less witnessed the process of its manufacture." Viscount Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador to London, is one of the most remarkable diplomats ever credited to the Court of St. James. The British Foreign Office is much disconcerted by the frankness with which the Viscount, in talking to newspaper men, discusses the relations between his own country and Russia. He traveled extensively in this country some years ago, and on his return to Japan introduced many industrial reforms. Since then he has served Japan in most of the European capitals. Dapper, well dressed and having perfect command of English, he is one of the most popular men in diplomatic and Government circles. From a rustic village—not yet deserted—comes a qualit tale of an eccentric hermit who shut himself up for twenty-five years in an upper room of his house, having cunningly circulated reports in the first place that he had gone far away, and late rumors that he had drawn his last breath in a distant region. Thereafter he stealthily avoided the gaze of his fellow men. Evidently he was as averse to mingling freely with the classes or the masses as was St. Simeon Stylites himself. It may be said, however, in extenuation of the isolation of the solitary St. Simeon on his column, that he did not avoid the gaze of humanity. Any one who cared to look at him perched on the top of his pillar could do so at any moment. Professor Sanford Bell, a fellow in Clark University, declared recently, after a scientific investigation of the love question covering a period of fifteen years and embracing 1700 cases, that the love period extends from three years to old age, and that no one is safe from the fever during that time. Men reach their maturity in affairs of the heart at twenty-four, and women at twenty-two, he says, and adds that the masculine stages of love are from three to eight years, eight to fourteen, fourteen to twenty-six (maturity), twenty-six to old age, and extending through old age. For women in love he fixes the stages at three to eight, eight to twelve, twelve to twenty-two (maturity), twenty-three to old age and through old age. An English paper comments on the terrible sentence recently pronounced by a French judge. Five year's solitary confinement is not only a rigorous penalty, but it is usually the forerunner of insanity. The solitude of the prisoner en reclusion is all but absolute. The strictest silence is enforced. Presumably the consolations of religion—whatever they may amount to in so dreadful a situation—are not entirely withheld; otherwise the prisoner is forbidden to speak, even to his guardian. Books are denied, and (which must be almost the worst affliction of all) the most complete idleness is enforced; no employment of any description may mitigate the appalling vacancy of days, weeks and years. Half an hour's exercise is allowed daily in a hood which covers everything except the eyes. This horrible life in death may end in the tomb, but it is more likely to end in the padded cell of the maniac." PRELIMINARY DIGESTION is baked twice at a high temperature to render the starch easy of digestion; contains no caramel, maple, fruit juices or other sweetenings to cause fermentation and indigestion; made from the whole grain of the wheat, celery infused, and so prevents constipation, creates nerve force and furnishes wholesome nourishment to the whole body. Served hot or cold. A delicious breakfast food. Aristocratic Tramcar Drivers. Among 6,000 tramcar drivers in Vienna a recent census showed that there are 400 knights, about fifty barons, and four counts. Origin of Pin-Money. Morgangife (morning gift) was the Anglo-Saxon term for pin money. It was bestowed on the wife on the day after the marriage. When pins were scarce and articles dear pin money was given on New Year's day, and on Jan. 1 and 2 the court ladies repaired to the pin makers' shops to replenish their stock for the next year. Presence of Arsenic. M. Bernard reports in Annales de l'Institute Pasteur that he finds that arsenic is a constant constituent of the organism and that all parts of a hen's egg contain appreciable quantities of arsenic, the yolk containing the greater part. In the 1-200 of a milligram found in one egg, from one-half to two-thirds is found in the yolk. Absence of Mind. A devout and worthy man is the clergyman of a parish not twenty miles south of Chicago. His congregation was somewhat amused at the singularity of one of his announcements one evening recently, which was as follows: "Remember our Communion service next Sunday forenoon; the Lord will be with us during the morning services, and the Bishop in the evening." Virus Is Fatal to Rats. A new virus called "danysg" is made in France and is claimed to be harmless to domestic animals, but fatal to rats. Bread impregnated with it was scattered in docks, vessels, railway stations and schools, in Marseilles, and over a thousand rats were destroyed in a single night. The final results of the experiments will be eagerly awaited. Perfectly simple and simply perfect is dyeing with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Few men can afford to wait unless they have nothing else to do. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. No man can give anything and keep it—except a promise. Pise's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. It's much easier to live within your income than it is to live without it. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. The difference between a cook and a chef is but a matter of salary. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Don't growl at what you can help or what you can't help. Rhenmatism's Killing Paln. Left in quick order after taking 10 doses of Dr. Skirvin's Rhematic Cure, in tablet form. 25 doses 25c, postpaid. DR. SKIRVIN CO., LA CROSSE, WIS. (W. N. U.) _____ When a man is his own worst enemy he is apt to love his enemies. 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 Holtwort, Providence, R. I." Sold by all Druggists, 28c. Ask to-day. Many a man is so cool in the hour of danger that he actually shivers. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new thing of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. SISTERS OF CHARITY Use Pe-ru-na for Coughs, Colds, Grip and Catarrh-A Congressman's Letter. 17 Ask Your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904. In every country of the civilized world Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir: "The young girl who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngitis, and loss of voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory, She found great relief, and after further use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured." —Sisters of Charity. The young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat with good results as the above letter testifies. Send to the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for a free book written by Dr. Hartman. U.M.C. Millions of U.M.C. Shot Shells are sold each year. They are made in the largest cartridge factory in the world. The UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Your dealer sells them. Catalog sent upon request. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. The following letter is from Congressman Meekison, of Napoleon, Ohio: The Peruana Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head, and feel encouraged to believe that its continued use will fully eradicate a disease of thirty David Meekison. have used several bottles of Peruna and feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head, and feel encouraged to believe that its continued use will fully eradicate a disease of thirty years' standing."—David Meekison. Dr. Hartman, one of the best known physicians and surgeons in the United States, was the first man to formulate Peruna. It was through his genius and perseverance that it was introduced to the medical profession of this country. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. FOR WOMEN A Boston physician's discovery which cleanses and heals all inflammation of the mucous membrane wherever located. In local treatment of female lilys Paxtine is invaluable. Used as a douche it is a revelation in cleansing and healing power; it kills all disease germs which cause inflammation and discharges. The thousands of letters from women prove that it is the greatest cure for leucorrhoea ever discovered. Paxtine never fails to cure pelvic catarrh, nasal catarrh, throat sore, mouth and sore eyes, because these diseases are all caused by inflammation of the mucous membrane. For cleansing, whitening and preserving the teeth we challenge the world to produce its equal. Physicians and specialists everywhere prescribe and endorse Paxtine, and thousands of testimonial letters prove values. At drugists, or sent postpaid so cis. A large trial package and book of instructions absolutely free. Write The R. Paxton Co., Dept. 5. Boston, Mass. 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.