Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT TIJIM CROW SLOGAN DOPTED IN RICMOND. ext of the New Street Rail- way Law - Action of Would- be Leaders Criticised. Richmond — Down "behind the sun," preju- and discrimination against Negro increase as the days go. Our Democratic friends never to tire of enacting that will humiliate and as as possible crush out every good impulse that rises in Negroe's bosom. Prejudice hatred to the race, bitter in- and false accusations are open sesame to political per- ment and lucrative office. Not sent with a separate car law row steamboat laws and aATIVE suffrage, it has just to light, that during the ith of January last, a meas- was stealthily slipped through legislature authorizing con- torns on all the street railway in the state to separate mate and colored passengers to designate the portions of car, or seats therein, which be occupied by white pass-ers and which may be occu- by colored passengers, and range such designation from to time, as to require any sender to change his or her as often as the conductor deem it proper or necessary, usual to obey the direction of conductor is made punishable fine of $25, and the pass-mer may also be ejected from the Conductors and motormen made special policemen by us. Under the arrange- perfected by the street management, white pass-ent to occupy seats near the of the car and colored pass-ers in the rear. say the colored people are unset by the law mildly. They would prefer sep-ears to such an arrangement for the class of men who conductors and motormen on the lines in Richmond are the trata element of society—door white trash—and are gys discourteous, even insult-colored patrons of the street Walk! Walk! Walk!!! has the slogan of the Negroes week. And it begins to as if when the law goes inflict on, the 15th instant, red travel will be considera- sesed. The street railway canies are not to be blamed the law and must obey its rabble demands under pain punishment for violation, so porcott of the colored popu- will not be made in a spir- retaliation, but as a matter if respect and to avoid court scrapes. notwithstanding the fact this is the law and it cannot be gotten around and the patrons of the lines will the mercy of the conduct- there are some fool peo- baptist ministers and others constituted themselves a nittee, waited upon the man- ager of the lines and presented a "memorial from the colored people of Bichmond" praying that the company see thgt the conductors treat the colored people courteously while on the cars. These self-constituted "keepers" of the Negroes of Richmond, the would-be leaders and "conservative" Negroes are being roundly scored by the great masses of Negroes in this city. It is just such pusilanimity puerility and asinine performance on the part of leading (?) Negroes which continually show the race up in a most compromising manner. Let it be said, to the credit, intelligence and self respect of the "press gang" that neither John Mitchell, editor of the planet; E. W. Brown, editor of the Reformer; Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, editor of the St. Luke Herald; Rev. Dr. J. E. Jones, editor of the Virginia Baptist; Nelson Williams, Jr., editor of Sunday School Era, ncr J. C. Carter, editor of the Negro Advocate, took any part in this notoriously stupid compromise of self-respect. Nor were there in the number such men as Rev. Dr. W L. Taylor, president of the True Reformers and executive committeemen of National Negro Business League, nor the heads of the Pythians, St. Luke Southern Aid Society, Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., Dr. R. E. Jones, president of the Richmond Business League, nor the representative of any other prosperous organizations among our people. TRY THE BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE It is not the punishment of the guilty which the Negro objects to, but it is the punishment of the innocent for crimes of the guilty. If the whites would use their rule indiscriminately there would be no complaint. A white man may commit murder, rob a bank, rob a train, commit rape, commit manslaughter, kill presidents, convicted of embezzlement, he is arrested, tried convicted, punished according to the law and even the closest member of his family is not even humiliated by the briefest attempt at charging him or them with any part or like of the crime. Why not apply the same rule which is universally applied to the Negro race and charge every white person with the crime of one. Confidence and cash is a man's best worldly assets. It is much easier to make a fool of a man than it is to make man of a fool. Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. ' WICHITA, KANSAS, APRIL 23, 1904. Fresh Pork Trimmings 2c Per Pound Remember the place-Market at the gate of DOLD'S Packing House. AWAY WITH THE VAGRANT. With the great amount of work now going on makes it impossible to find a reasonable excuse for an idler. There are times when there is a boom of work going on that only effects certain classes of laborers; then there is a little excuse for an idler that can truthfully show that his line of business is dull; but now all the avenues of avocations are open and the employer is begging for help. With all of this we are brought face to face with the fact that many of our young men are arrested charged with vagrancy. We admonish the young men to swear that no such charge as vagrancy or any other unbecominess shall be marked against them. Go work and gain an honest living and demand respect! If you cant get what you want here go elsewhere. Keep on the move. It is planting time and the country farms are waiting for the vagrant. Ex. BRETHREN GET TOGETHER. We call special attention to our brethren of every state in the Union. With the high handed prejudice against our people of members consisting of nearly every state, together with a few men in Congress, advocating lynching, and yet notwithstanding all that has been done, and all of that is being done, still it seems that we are not yet ready to come together and talk matters over, exchange ideas, etc., whereby our race could be benefitted. We sincerely believe that if the birds of the air or the cattle upon a thousand hills were treated as the Negro in this country, the cattle, all of them from every section of this broad land would come together and at least talk over their oppressions, their outrages and their sufferings. We may stand afar off wondering for the time being, yet we believe that God will permit the white man to afflict us until we are compelled to come come together, if for nothing else than to die together. — Guide Little Rock W. M. Dunson Painter The Only Colored Painter the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 936 IS 1T RIGHT? Is it right that the whites should condemn the whole colored race because, perhaps, one member of the colorep race may err and commit a crime? Is the white race so free from having persons of their race who commit crime that they can boast of their abstinence from crime? It is indeed a most deplorable state that r whole race must be punished for the misdeeds of a few. There has never been a time and there never will be a time when the colored people will applaud crime by one of its members, no people abhor crime and a criminal more than does the colored people, yet they are not given credit for this manly stand, but the good must suffer with the bad whom they help to apprehend and whom they condemn as much as do the whitas. The criminal record will positively show, that in proportion to population, the Negro commit many percent less crime than do the whites. It will also show that by far the greater percent of the crimes committed by the Negro are of a lesser and minor degree than those committed by whites. While the major part of the crimes committed by the Negro is among the ignorant classes as a whole, the crimes of the whites range from United States senator down. The Negro does not object to the punishment of the guilty—he himself will assist in the legal punishment of members of the race who commit crime, but the Negro does seriously object to illegal punishment for alleged and unproven charges, and he also objects to having the acts of one member of their race laid at the door and marked against every member of the race. $25.00 every day till April 30. Round Trip $45.00 April 23d to May 1st Rock Island System One fare plus $2.00 for round trip to all Texas points April 19, and May 3d 17th. C. E. BASCOM. C. P. A. 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Yucatan is enjoying a greater era of prosperity than ever before in its history. Well, buy gum! As Colombia has reduced her standing army from 11,000 men to 5,000 this country may breathe easier. It appears that two newspaper men have bought the Washington baseball club. But where on earth did they—? Tom Lawson of Boston tells of clearing $46,000,000 in one deal. Somebody must have forgotten to cut the cards. "Show me your garden, and I will show you what you are like," says Alfred Austin. By jingo, we'd like to see Alfred's. Prof. Langley says that with $25,000 more he could fly. Canada has harbored many an American citizen who flew with a less sum. Robertus Love, a St. Louis poet, thinks of running for Congress. If he can poll the poet vote he'll be able to ride Pegasus in on a walk. The estate of ex-Mayor Grace of New York is estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. And nobody asks disparagingly where he got it. If the people to whom John L. Sullivan, now sick and penniless, has given money would repay even 10 per cent the ex-champion would be fixed for life. Now the fashion editors say that no self-respecting woman will try to get along without a new hat for every month in the year. This is too, too much. A twelve-inch shell dropped into a city from a distance of seven and one-half miles may be ineffective in a military sense, but is apt to produce general insomnia. What a woman likes about buying a thing on the instalment plan is that if she died before it was paid up she would be that much money in. —New York Press. The horse is slowly but surely being deprived of his constitutional liberties. A court of justice has just decided that he has no right to get scared at an automobile. A man wants a woman to look like an angel, and yet if she really ran around clad in her wings and a little rag of cheesecloth he would put her in an insane asylum. Even the woman most anxious to trespass upon a man's preserves lets him enjoy his bald head in peace. The most advanced woman would never stand for a bald head. A Harvard professor says college students are singularly lacking in imagination. But some of the professors seem overstocked with it, so the supply is about normal, after all. Please where is the glory of living a century? An animated mummy is not pleasant to look upon, and the majority of us find it hard enough having to rub through half the time. Men with a system for beating the horse races are always present at each meeting, but they change from year to year. The same old faces are to be recognized among the bookmakers. For the protection of the masses, and in order that they may readily detect it on their $100 bills, we will state that the name of the particular bacillus which infests green backs is staphylococcus. A Chicago woman makes the assertion that "there are no good husbands but dead ones." The moral of that seems to be, when marrying, marry a dead one.—Journal. The Japanese have not succeeded in getting a single Matanzas mule in all their bombardment of Port Arthur, one Russian lawyer, who was numbered as a victim, being as near as they could approximate. A St. Louis man has willed $2,000 a year to his pet horse. Now, if the horse has found out how to live on twenty cents a day he ought to be able to leave quite a neat little sum to his relatives when he dies. IN KANSAS. Things is slow in Kansas, Nothin' doin' there; Aint the same old country Uster buck and tear. Uster have the chinch bugs— Aint no sich these days, Hessian flies and hoppers Gone their devious ways Drouths and hot winds vauishe (Blamed if Iaint glad) Blasted every summar All the hopes wo had. Rain's now jst when needed— Sometimes git too much— Ain't no kick comin'! Gosk! It beat's the Datch. Carrie's gone to actin', Hatchet's buried deep, Ain't no resurrection— Everlastin' sleep. Jerry's gone to farmin' Raisin' hay and flocks, Jined the Southern boomers— Garters on his socks. Pop's a waarin' dimon'e Barns all burstin' out, Wheat an' corn a soarin' Crookers put to rout. Ain't no time for howlin', Busy as the bees, Hard times gone scootin' Hard luck on his knees. Plutocrats and nabobs Bankers, farmers, sich— Aint no other people, Only just the rich. Cant believe my sensea! Gol durne fne snurpse! God must live in Kansas. Aint it paradise. A Wyoming woman whose husband had been tarred and feathered was found weeping on her front doorstep the next morning. When asked her trouble said they took the only feather bed she had. Of her gardens and her grain; They're filled with a desire For the best in life, you'see, They're moving to Kansas, 'Cause it's God's country. The worth of a community depends largely on the individuals composing it. A New York man has invented an instrument with which the music of the stars can be heard. It is perhaps well to refrain from hailing such an instrument with joy until it is found out whether the stars are producing ragtime. A man who was arrested in New York the other day admitted that he had been married "about forty-seven times." Yet we keep hearing every little while of some fellow who shot himself because the girl wouldn't have him. Senator Dolliver announces that the sons of rich men are entitled to much sympathy. Yes, indeed. Look at poor Willie K. Vanderbilt. He's always in trouble because people whom he runs over with his automobile haws no more decency than to want to fight or sue for damages. The latest "cure" suggested for insomnia consists simply of reaching back of the head with both hands and holding on to one of the brass uprights at the head of the bed. But supposing you haven't a brass bed? A railway office cashier has committed suicide because he was so pestered by loan sharks who wished to levy upon the employees' wages. Think of the worries of the employes! A fashionable Chicago hostess has given a "beauty luncheon." Her social rival is now canvassing the field for material for a "brains luncheon." A teacher of physical culture says city life weakens the eyes. Is this because city dwellers have to keep such a sharp lookout all the time? THE SEARCHLIGHT, ——__ wemrra, - - . xaNe (ee ‘W. N. MILLER, Editer. EY STEER SNOT RE Batored at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. ee ee Published Every Saturday at No. 1 HO Noarz Matw 8s. 2 “RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION @@ STRICTLY IN ADVAKCE, i ce pene Ono Year [ by mail ] ....+ $100 Siz months [ by mail]... 75. Three months by mail}... 500 ! 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Th Any erroneous reflection upon the eberacter, standing or reputation of any per ea which may appear in this paper, will be Gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. “To Live and Let Live, is OUR Motto. —— (First Publication April 9th 1904) GUARDIAN’S NOTICE State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, ss. Qn the Probate Court inand for said county. In the matter of the estute of R. Hodges, <n insause person. NOTICE is hereby given that Letters of Guardianship hive been granted the under- signed on the estate of K. Hodges, an insane person, a resident of Sedgwick Connty, Kan sas, by the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid dated the 28nd day of March 1904, Now all persons having elaims against said estate are notified that they must present the same for allowance to the uudersigned within one year from he dats of said Letters or they may be precluded from any benefits of such estete, and if no exhibited within three years after the date of such letters they shall be forever waced. Jobn T. Chinneth, Guardian of the person and estate of R, Hodes, an insane porseey Attest: E, E, Enoch, Probate Judge. DO AWAY WITH MARCHING —TO THE— COLLECTION TABLE We would be proud to see all our churches do away with the custom of marching to the “‘ col- lection table ” and in its stead use the collection baskets. The baskets are more convenient and a larger collection can be raised in a much shorter time than by the old way of table collection. There are many people who would give in a collection was it not for crowding out and then into their seats again. Then why have people climbing over each other to the collection table when baskets passed among the con- gregation would answer thesame purpose with a far better result? The collection basket are used in many of our churchss to-day and in each instance gives far better results than the table. Improve- ments in church methods are as necessary as in anything else. Carney, ‘Tee young men not te strive to obtain more than a compe- tence. He will riot have to plead very hard with the majority of them to get their consent. An Iilinots girl wrote her name and address on an egg and put it in a crave with others to be shipped east. She is still waiting for a matrimonial proposition to hatch, ,out- ‘The prospect of having American college yells at Oxtord seems to dis- ‘woman and proved that though mar- |PRE VENTS NERO EDUCA- TION FHEN DIES. Reprerentative Carl Day of Brea- thitt county, Ky., died at Loxing- ton on April 12. ‘He was author and chief promot- or of the bill which passed the Ken. tneky legielatnre preventing the co-edaeatien of biseks and whites in Kentueby. Honesty is the best polioy, Then why nct bo honest, subroribe for the Searshlight and stop borrewing your neighbors. Why sot? When you want harness work done at rearonable pr'ces and guar- anieod workmrnship go to the shop of W. H. Davis 108 8, Lawrence, Be handles herness, collars, eaddles whips, blankets, rob sand every- thing in the barnessmakers line. For gond work he cannot be equal- ed. Remember the place 108 S. Laweence 20d dor south of Doug- Jas on the east side of Lawrence/ave. ‘Bry hiv, BOARD TO MEET. ‘Tie Baptist Wemsn’s Home anc Foreign Mission Board of Kansas will meet at New Hope Baptist church of Wichite, Kang., April 27. Send all money to Mrs. Al'ce Mur- rell aft r April 25th to 630 North Water o&, \Jiehita, Kans. Mrs. Alice Murrell eor. sec. Mre. Emma Gaines, Pees, ~’ BIG TIME SUNDAY, Rev. S. M. Hall, pastor of the 2ne Bapttsb church wilt fi!) bis pul— pit nem Sunday April 24th after an absence from the eity for two woeks, Rey. Hall is highly interested in theweifare of his people and is anxious to be with them egain, It will be a great encouragement to kim to meet a crowded house at all the services Sunday. He wth have something cf extreme mterest to say to bot saint and sinner. end he wishes all to be present to hear what he has tosay, Writing from Kanses City on Wennesday he says: Kansas Civy, Mo., April 19. Desy Editor Miller—Piease in- form the people through your pa- per that I am held in K. C. owing to business, Ifound ny sistersin. {aw much mixed in her businers. Inform the.many readers of your ‘payer that God witling I shall fill my pu'pit Sunday morning and evening. I have learned to love the people ‘of Wichita and don’: like to be away from them any sine, week of Sunday, I may vot ge} home un- til Saturday evering but be sure and state in your paper that I will be Lome, God helpiog, Sunday. Pleace say in your loud colamns to impress the public that I am not wiliing to be away from shem even ‘one day at a time, I hope to meet all the people poe- ‘sible Sunday morning and evening. 1 hope to be able to make alt things well when 1 come both with the editor and the chureb, I xm filled with a desire to bave a revival sox [after my returo, Urge tho Chris. tians to wake up and ask God shail the 2ad Baptist chureh havea suc- cessful revival, Askthem to meet the pastor Sunday and devide upon arevival. I have nvt been able to get the church off my mind one jour during the tims I have spent here. 8. M. Hall. ICE CREAM PARLOR. Mre. Jno. W, Hal) will open an ieo eream purior at her residence 518.N. Water. She will be open ready to serve her patrons Sunday April 24. Sue wil be pleased to have all who may wish ica cream to call at 518 N, Water, Mrs. W. H. Jones filled ber us- nal place in the A. M. E. choir after several days serious illness. Al were glad to see h-r ont again, The Merchants who ap- preciate the trade of he col ored people ADV&RTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZETY’23Y. Locals and Personals - ‘Phanks for the many coxpli- ‘monts on the Searchlight. Mrs, J. H. Phelps is still very sick ai her home 580 n Wichita et. ‘The Searchlight tollector is very much pleased with his success while out collecting this week, He is still collecting, look for him. Kev, J. W. Braxton was some- what indispesed Sunday afternoon and night, ‘The baby of Mr. and Mrs, H. W. Harding 624 north Main is still very seriously sick ,with an attack of preumonia, Mre. Sam Abernathy, Sr, who is in Colorado for her health, is re- ported to be improving nicely, She spent the winter in Pu ble and left this week for Denver. She will make a trip from Denver to Los Vogas N. M., the lattor part of the present month, Cooper -- Weyl Hardware Co Now Established at 352 N. Main Everything in the Hardware line. Pumps a Spocialty Satisfaction Guaranteed Phone 1337 Mrs. Mattie Turner and daugh- ter M ss Beatriee Turwer left Mon- day for Groom, Texas, where they will spend a few monchs and possi- bly make ther fature home. Their many Wichita friends regret to lose tem from their midst but wioh them a crowning suveess in their new heme. ‘The new sacramental robes intro- ductd by the A. M, EB. church choir last Sunday nignt made a very ap- propriate appearance, The waits robes and the white around the rostrunu present a nice appearauce. Bot what’s the master with the choir wearing -uch robes every Sunday night? They are nice, Rey. Hall will fill the pulpit al the 2ud Baptist chureh to-morrow, Sunday, He desires your pres. ence, Miss Verna Hall was eight 3eor old Wednesday, She received many presents, Sbehas now be- gun to take piano less0u8 aad prom ‘ises to become great pianoist ix the near future. MISSION BOARD ‘The meeting of the Baptist Wo- man's Home and Foreign ‘Mission Board of Kansas wheh will con- vene in this city next Wednesday morning April 27th at the New Hope Baptist cburch promises to be one of the most important and interesting moetinge hid by this society of church workers for some time. It ishoped that Wichitans wiil avail themselves of this oppor- tanity to again shower forth their hospitality and weleowe the visitors in trae Wichita style. MOVED TO &. C. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, formerty of 588 S. Market, left Thussday mern- ing for Independene, Mo,, where she will make her iuture home, Mre, Pollazd basa host of warm friends in this cily who will rogret very much to learn that she has left Wichita for good. Me, Pollard will follow bis family in tne near fature, Mr.L. 8. Nafteg-z, presidene of the Fourth Nations] Bunk, is egain at hie desk after quite an attack of la grippe. Mrs. J. H. Branson was tiken very s.ck lest Sunda: with la grip aud croup. Sne is merding slow- ly. She is ander ths care of a phy sician. Rey. Countee will deliver a lce- ture at the Tabernacle Bapt ehureh Lys aioadaminianhits | Rev, J. E. Fletcher is a close bi- ble student and will yet make his mark in his chosen calling. Hopkins Abernatby spent a day ‘in our city wacently. Presiding Elder J. W. Braxton Saturday, Sunday and Monday in Wichita and held quarterly meet- ing at the A. M. 8, church Sauday, and quarterly conf:rence Monday night. He delivered three eloquent sermons Sundar to good audiences. Wichitans are always glad to see Rev. Braxton and eager to hear his sermons, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Neal of Ft. Scott, were the guests of Mr, end Mrs. L. Carr, 617N. Wiohita last Saturaay and Sanday. ‘They had avery pleasant time while in our city: Mrs. Jno. W. Hall, vice president of the song service, had charge of the services iact Sundar, Mrs. ‘Thos. W. Fine as chairman of pro- gram commit ec. Tho services were very creditably conducted. | There is a certain lady in Wieb- ita who has a “orand new corn cure.” As she hus not a patent on bercure yet we wi'l not mension farther, Mrs. J. W. Hall is plantng a fine garden at her home on Nortn Water street. For bargains wonsult our adver= tising columas, The merchants who udvertise with us want your trade. Give it to them. We advise you to trade with | Cj G. ©. tieyr —DEALER IN— GENERAL MERCHANDISE Cor. 13th and Santa Fe Phone 1114 A SOCIAL OLUB. ‘ Quite a number of yonng peopie me? at the residence of Miss Sailie Rawls, 519 N. Wichita, last Mon- day aight for the purpose of organ- szing a social club. The organ.za- tioa was perfected with the follow- ing members: | Messrs, Sam Walker, Prank S. Street, Ches. Floyd, Thomas An. person, Chas. Price, ——- Smith. A, Fargoson; Misses Lizzie Under- wood, Witniv Ray, Lizzie Phelps. Sullis Rawles. The sub elected Mr, Samuel | Wa ker president and Prank Street reporur. The uame selected wa P.O, S. C. club. | The club adjourned after baving spent avery enjoyavle evening t oe next Monday night with Mis Lizzie Phelps 724 St, St. Prancis, Mr. J.B. H. Fray wil ive a Grand Masi Ball at the O2d Fel- lows hall 617 N, Main street next Phursday night Apri 28th, Every one is cordiaily invited to atte:.d, Remember the place 517 N. Main. Man wants but Jitile here below, Nor wants that fitl'e long With me tis cot exactly a0, Brt ‘tis so in the song. The G, L. A. club met Taesday sfiornoon with Mis, A. Fox. A number of questions and answers were given, the one giving the lar- gest number of correct answers was awarded a prize which was won by Mro. J. F. Sanford, They adjourn- ed to meet noxt Tuesday with Mrs J, T. Chinneth, | Rey. B. N, Countes is in the city and yreached at the Tabepnacie Baptist churen last Sundeys night. | He expects to epent quite a while in Wichita during which time he will have charge of that chureb. 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TRY IT OTTO WEISS --- --- B. F. McLEAN. LUMBER YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. We trade Ranches, Farms, J. F. Belle Real Estate & M Homes So Installment Pl Western Lands and Ranges A Oklahoma and Colorado M Patronage Office 110 N. Ma MYRON A Groceries, Fru and H 815 N.-M EVERY THIN Prescriptions F NUMBER - DEALERS OS AT Bearwater, Peck, ney, Kansas. 408 W. Trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Me F. Bellew & Co. Estate & Imigration Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Lands and Ranges A Specialty. Dealers in Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Largest atronage Solicited Office 110 N. Main, wichita, K MYRON A. DEALER veeties, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas We trade Ranches, Farms, City Property and Merchandise J. F. Bellew & Co., Real Estate & Imigration Agts Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Western Lands and RangesA Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lakes. Patronage Solicited Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kansas. MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. ERY THING IN DRU Prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman 228 North PONGE This Season's Ac We are showing a large line of Silks in all prices and wi tional merit for fineness 24 and 27 inches wide, at Salman Drug Co. 128 North Main Street PONGEE SILKS Season's Accepted Fash showing a large line of those Natural Colo s in all prices and widths. Here are two o al merit for fineness of weave, width an and 27 inches wide, at 85c and Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street. We are showing a large line of those Natural Color Pongee Silks in all prices and widths. Here are two of exceptional merit for fineness of weave, width and price; 24 and 27 inches wide, at 85c and 98c "Bajoh" Pongee Silk A New Pongee Silk with fine and coarse variations in the weave, giving a rich changeable finish; 30 inch wide in national blue, champagne and blk, yd $1.25 Striped Crgpe de Chinese made especially for waists similar to the old fashioned seersucker narrow stripes of crepe effect. All silk, light and dainty for waists, 30 inches wide in colors pink, light blue, Ni e green, lavender, cardinal, grey, black, white and cream. Three yards will make a waist, yard 69c Thirty Pieces Crystal Cord Silk Fifty Pieces Kai Ki Wash Silks Boston 103.105.107.105 WALLENST ces Crystal Cord Silks, this week, yard, es Kai Ki Wash Silks, on sale, yard. ..... oston Store 103.105.107 109 E. DOUGLAS AVE WALLENSTEIN & CO. Thirty Pieces Crystal Cord Silks, this week, yard. 39c Fifty Pieces Kai Ki Wash Silks, on sale, yard. 25o Boston Store 103.105.107 109 E. DOUGLAS AVE WALLENSTEIN & COMX. OTTO WEIES, Agent. DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas City Property and Merchandise New & Co., Immigration Agts Used On Easy Terms. Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Arms and Ranch Lands. Solicited- in, wichita, Kansas. A. DEAN Fats, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 G IN DRUGS Lled With Care Drug Co. Main Street. E SILKS Accepted Favorites of those Natural Color Pongee alths. Here are two of excep- of weave, width and price; 85c and 98c Poi de Levant Silks For de Levant Silks Rich, soft and lustrous Poi de Levant dress silks. A silk that will wash, 24 inches wide in black and all colors yard .....$1.00 Black Silk Taffeta 27 inch black Silk Taffiea guaran-anteed quality, splendid quality splendid finish. Weight and width unusually good yd$1.00 Black Poi de Soi Heavy All Silk Poi de Soi, rich deep b'ack, 27 inch wide, worth $1.25, this week.....$1.00 Large showings of pretty figured satin Foulards, newest of de- signs and colorings. Do not miss these, at yard ..... 75c s, this week, yard. ..... 39c on sale, yard. ..... 25c Store E. DOUGLAS AVE WICHITA ATOHIS ON KAL. LAWRENCE KAN. OTTWAIN KAN. CYPRESS KAN. PASSING KAN. EIN & CONN. KINGMAN ITEMS. The Misses Lula Wells and Jessie Gordon of Anthony spent Easter in the city the guests of Miss Etta Floyd. Joseph Banks 'has begun to list his field of corn. Mr. John Floyd, who is at Excelsior Springs, Mr., writes that he is getting along nicely. Miss Aura Poster entertained at 3 o'clock dinner Easter Sunday. School district 69 closed April 8. At the beginning of school the teacher awarded a prize to the best speller in the A class, at the close of school James Prier received first prize and Mable Banks received second prize, a story book entitled Edith's Burglar. Mr. C. E. Floyd had the misfortune to sprain his ankle Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Banks gave a party in honor of Misses Jessie Gordon and Lula Wells and a royal time was spent, those present were Misses Aura Porter, Nellie and Florence Banks, Elta and Minnie Floyd, Jessie Gordon, Lula Wells, Cora and Florence Martin, Robt and Ernest Porter, Fred and Pearl Banks and George Floyd after playing several games refreshments were served and all departed for their homes. They all report an enjoyable time. Mr. Robt Davis had the unisfortune to get his driving horse seriously injured while at the salt shaft the wound is thought to prove fatal, and how it happened no one knows Mr. and Mrs. Banks are very unesy. Pythin Temple One Donated That Will Cost Over $500,000.00 The Knights of Pythias officials are very highly plate over a gift of $500,000,00 donated by Prinbe Coelho of the Hiawlian Islands. The fabulous wealth of the Prince, which comes to him as a descendant of the royal household of the ancient Hawaiian king, Muchikshinit, was kept a secret while the Prince was attending the recent session of the Supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, held in St. Louis 1st September. The Prince owns 8,000,000 acres of orange groves, 500,000 acres of bananas. He owns two railroads, one of which crosses by a viaduct from the Island Hawaii to Maui a distance or sixty miles. He owns four steam hip lines, one of which brings his fruits to Vanceuver, N I. T. The vessels of the other lines are now rented to Japan as transports for ear troops at a contract price of $30,000 each for the first ten weeks and a raise of $5,000 additional after ten weeks, and a guarantee of $250,000 for each vessel lost or captured. Twenty three vessels are thus rented. He has his own telegraph and telephone lines, and keeps in touch with the markets of the world. But the object of this is not wholly to parade the Prince's wealth, but, rather to briefly mention only a few of the more important matters. Being present at the session in St. Louis and hearing the arguemen a for a Pythian Temple he was inspired tq do something, but k p u the matter a secret. Upon his return home, he immediately set 1, 000 mon to work id his granite and marble quaries and brick yards. The big steel mill at Waiku k u (which is also the Prince's summer palace) put out ali the skeleton steel work, and it was sent to Gen. Jos. L. Jones, Cincinnatti, Quio. Gen. Jones was surprised when he received a notice from the C, B. & Q. Ry. that a shipment of 25 trains of 30 cars each, loaded with building material awaited his order. He did not understand such a notice and went to the road's office and found that the material was for a Pythian Temple. Every piece of work for this magnificent structure will be of white granite and marble and will carved in Hawaii. Thus the colored pythians are to have a temple. Brutish Act A Colored Lady is Cowardly As saulted By a White Brute. Mrs. Riehard Heck who lives at 355 N Market street, was brutally assaulted by a cowardly white man last Tuesday morning in front of her home. Her attention was called to a white boy and a colored boy fighting almost in front of her home on Market. When she went where she could see the boys she recognized the colored boy as the child of a friend of her family. So she went to where the boys were fighting took the colored boy by the arm and led him away. She whispered to him to run along to school. Of course a large crowd had gathered and among the crowd was a large burly white man who had rode up in an automobile. He had got out of the automobile and was leading aid to the white boy to whip the "darn coon," as he said. So when Mrs. Heok took the colored boy away if spoiled the coward's fun and he became very angry and began to curse Mrs. Heck and to call her all manner of vile names. Mrs. Heck asked him if he was addressing her with those names, he said "yes," whereupon Mrs. Heck instructed her daughter to phone for the police, this coward then ran up to her and hit her several times in the face knocking her down in the street, got in his machine and rode off. There were several white men in the crowd but not one of them offered to aid Mrs. Heck, but all declared that the act was uncalled for, butish and cowardly. Now this is a fine come off. A warrant was sworn out for the arrest of this brute but he is reported to have "skipped out" The Sewing Circle met Thursday with Mrs. Thos. Glover. An entertainment was given at the 2nd Baptist church Wednesday evening. Mrr. J. L. Harper has been quite indisposed during the week. Wouldn't this weather jar your nerves? Here its almost May 1st freezing. An office sometimes swells a fellow so that he forgets himself. Edward Landrum and Bud Hickerson now have charge of the Carey range. Say, that's coming to the front Our Cuts Talk THE WILLIAMSON HAFFVEP ENGRAVING CO. 1632 39 ARAPANDE ST DENVER Strange Disappearance Mrs. Ann Wilson, mother of Mr. Sam Anderson who lives at 727 N. Wichita st. was missed from the home of her son Thursday morning early and at the hour of going to press no trace has been found of her Mrs. Wilson was more than 72 yrs. of age and for a number of years had made her home with her son. She disappeared between the hours of 3 oe and 6 oe Thursday morning. She was well cared for by her son and before retiring Wednesday night seemed to have been in the best of spirit and the family are at a loss for a reason for her disappearance. Every effort has been made to locate her but all in vain. The family is striken with grief. Notice To Masons—Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M. will meet in the lodge room on the 3rd Floor of the Gtte Bldg, cor 2nd a.d Mainsts., Wednesday night, April 27 h 1904. All Master Masons in good standing are welcome and all members are urfied to be present. Joe Fine. W. M, W. N. Miller, S. c. SHOES NICE Patent Leather For Men and Women Only $2.50 See Our Ladies' Slippers. Edwin Clapp Shoes for men$5.00 Boys Shoes $1, $1.50, and $2.. Coombs-Moore 110 North Main Street R BOTH PH J. H. TU 535 -- 537 W. THE Charles Young 114 N. Main St. Nobby Suits We have a great line of Suits in all the latest style Call at our store We give an Air Gun with o SEE OUR $3 B Geo. G. M. —DEALE Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, Lined Tinv are and The Chaapest H See our advertise the st OLDEN'S D Prescriptions Drugs of all kinds, Your patronage solicited. Once Our store is Headquarter BOTH PHONES 497 M. H. TURNER -- 537 w. Douglas THE - HUB Charles Youngheim, Prop. Main St. Wichita, I by Suits have a great line of Boys' and Childs in all the latest styles and grades. Call at our store and see them. Have an Air Gun with each suit of $3. or BOUR $3., $5, and Boys' and Children D. G. Matthews —DEALER IN— Furniture, Carpets, Lace Curtain Graperies, Lineoleum, Stove Tinware and Hardware. Chaapest Place in our advertising wagon the street. GOLDEN'S DRUG STO prescriptions Fill'd with C —Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco image solicited. Once a customer, always store is Headquarters for the Colored p Charles Youngheim, Prop. 114 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas. Nobby Suits We have a great line of Boys' and Children's Suits in all the latest styles and grades. Call at our store and see them. We give an Air Gun with each suit of $3. or more. SEE OUR $3., $5, and $6. Boys' and Children's Suits, Furniture, Carpets, Lace Curtains and Draperies, Lineoleum, Stoves, Tinvare and Hardware. The Chaapest Place in Town See our advertising wagon on the street. OLDEN'S DRUG STORE Prescriptions Filled with Care Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco. Your patronage solicited. Once a customer, always a customer Our store is Headquarters for the Colored people. 615 North Main st. W. H. D Harness Does all kinds of All Work Gu Turf Work A Specialty 108 South Lawrence W. H. DAVIS Harnessmaker Does all kinds of Harness work All Work Guaranteed. rf Work A Specialty. Prices Reasona South Lawrence Ave. W. H. DAVIS Harnessmaker Does all kinds of Harness work All Work Guaranteed. Turf Work A Specialty. Prices Reasonable 108 South Lawrence Ave. Wichita JOB WORK 1S OU Let us try you S OUR H O U T us try your next or --- Happy Is The Man who is on the road to success the most successful men today are those who know how to SAVE a little each week from their earnings. The fuel question is often troublesome and unless the fuel is bought right it generally costs too much money—We sell only reliable, clean coal at a reasonable price that is bound to save you money BURNER, W. Douglas Ave., HUB Bungheim, Prop. Wichita, Kansas. of Boys' and Children's styles and grades. store and see them. with each suit of $3. or more. $3., $5, and $6. Boys' and Children's Suits, Matthews, COLLER IN— S, Lace Curtains and Coeleum, Stoves, and Hardware. Place in Town tising wagon on street. DRUG STORE Filled with Care Beds, Cigars and Tobacco. ..... Since a customer, always a customer letters for the Colored people. DAVIS, smaker, of Harness work Guaranteed. HORTICULTURE Planting in Blocks. It is not advisable to plant any one variety of apples, pears or plums in blocks, even of a hundred, unless there are other varieties on all sides of the block. Within comparatively recent years it has been discovered that many of our varieties of the above mentioned fruit are largely infertile to their own pollen, some more so than others. This kind of planting has caused many a good orchard to be infertile, without the owner even suspecting the true cause. It was first found that plums required to be cross-pollenized to insure a harvest. Then some one discovered that the Keifer pear was a very uncertain quantity without some other varieties near it. The investigation was continued, with the result that several other varieties of pears were found to be in need of cross-fertilization. At last the scientists made some elaborate experiments to determine to what extent the apple came under the same laws as to pollination. To the surprise of almost every one it was proved that very few of our varieties of apples do as well fertilized by their own pollen as by the pollen of another variety, and some of the varieties are found to be almost sterile when fertilized by the pollen of that variety. It is, therefore, best to so set out apple, plum and pear trees that the pollen of one variety may be used on another variety. This will greatly increase the probability of a crop. Retopping Apple Trees This is the time of year when much of the grafting work is done. There are a good many trees in the orchard that may be made valuable by being entirely top-worked. The trees that proved not true to name and are bearing inferior apples in place of the good ones they were supposed to bear, can be made to bear the good kind in a very small number of years. It is surprising how many trees of an unsatisfactory nature are allowed to go on year after year producing fruit that is only fit for the hogs or for cider. A whole new top can be started on a tree in three years, cutting off one third of it each year, and inserting scions of the desired variety. If the whole top were cut off the first year, it would generally result in killing the tree. By cutting off only one third each year, the circulation of sap is kept up, and the scions of the first year start a good growth. On the second year, when the second third of the tree top is cut off, the first year scions have developed into fairly good-sized branches, and by the third year the new growth of wood made by the scions previously set is enough to keep up the circulation of sap in the body of the tree which would be the part of the tree to first fail in its function. If all the limbs were cut off and the stumps grafted in one year. Soil for Apple Growing. A good fertile soil, porous, loamy, with plenty of humus, good and lime, so as to give fair to good crops of grain or grass, is the most to be desired, while the nearest approach to these requirements would be my next choice—a soil that dries out quickly, so that it can be plowed soon after a rain, one that works easily, so as to get the best results with the least labor; a soil that will give a good crop of corn-while we are growing the trees; a soil that will not bake too easily, is the one that is always desirable. Now comes a rocky or gravelly soil, which is nearly always good, the only drawback being that it takes more work to get results. These soils are found in abundance in all our mountain districts, and nearly always they are good fruit soils.—L. A. Goodman. Cherry Growing in Iowa Iowa is making steady progress as a fruit growing state. The census of 1890 reported 3,140,588 apple trees growing within her borders. In 1900 the number had reached 6,869,588. In 1895 there were 707,506 plum trees in the state; in 1900, 1,302,217. In cherry trees the increase is even more striking, there being 200,000 trees in 1890, against 800,000 in 1900. While the climate of the northern part of the state is no doubt too severe for successful cherry growing with any except the hardiest varieties, this delicious fruit can easily be grown in the central and southern parts. The tree is handsome and ornamental and is appropriate for lawn and garden. Dairying in Colorado. Some of the figures recently published on Colorado dairying follow: 8,000 cows supply milk to Denver, and 42,000 daily supply milk to the rest of the state. It takes 25,000 cows to supply the cream used. About 45,000 cows are supplying milk to creameries and 7,000 are supplying milk to cheese factories. It is estimated that 12,000 cows are supplying butter to the ranches. The annual milk consumption for the entire state is put at $9,425,000 quarts, and the number of quarts of cream used is reported at 5,475,000. The value of all cows in the state is given as $5,119,500 and the wholesale value of the milk is placed at $2,906,312. As long as the gown isn't too small a woman can build herself up to fit it. al one way Second Class Rates to California and the Northwest Tickets on Sale March 1 to April 30 inclusive. VIA MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Sa Francisco ..... $25 Los Angeles ..... 25 00 San Diego ..... 25 00 salt Lake ..... 20 00 Ogden ..... 20 00 Butte ..... 20 00 Helena ..... 20 00 Also to many ether places in Ca For rates to points not quoted al entire routes, call on or address the E. E. BLECKLEY, T. P. A. W PRACTICAL JOKE T President Castro's Humiliation of tion That Nearly Sa Francisco ... $25 Portland ... $20 00 Los Angeles. ... 25 00 Tacema ... 25 00 San Diego ... 25 00 Seattle ... 25 00 Salt Lake ... 20 00 Spokane ... 22 50 Ogden ... 20 0 Wenathee ... 5 Butte ... 20 00 Ellensburg ... 22 50 Helena ... 20 00 Borsland, B. C ... 22 50 Also to many ether places in California and the Northwest. For rates to points not quoted above and full information in regard to entire routes, call on or address the undersigned. E. E. BLECKLEY, I. R. SHERWIN. T. P. A. Wichita Ks. P. and T. A. PRACTICAL JOKE THAT CAUSED A WAR. President Castro's Humiliation of Wealthy Citizen Resulted in Revolution That Nearly Ruined Venezuela. "The Matos revolution, lately ended in Venezuela by President Castro's great victory at Ciudad Bolivar, cost the lives of thousands of men, indirectly caused an international blockade of Venezuela, and nearly ruined the country," said an American who recently returned from Caracas. "And what do you think it was caused by? Simply a blanket. "Matos was the greatest capitalist in the country, the merchant prince of Caracas, a pompous old gentleman, to whom everybody bowed and scraped. He helped to make Castro president, but directly Castro was firmly seated in power, Matos, among other rich men, was faced with a demand for a heavy 'assessment' to pay the victorious soldiers. bring him through the streets at night clad only in a blanket. This order was carried out. The merchant prince offered thousands of bolivars for a pair of pants and a jacket, but in vain. The humiliation was terrible, for all the rabble of the town guyed him. "After he had languished in jail for a while, Matos wrote to Castro, saying that he now saw his duty to the nation in a clearer light, and would be glad to pay the assessment. Castro replied cordially, but regretted that the necesities of the government had increased in the meanwhile and he was now desolated by having to ask for double the amount. "Matos paid, and then promptly left the country and organized a revolution with the aid of his great wealth. He "He refused, and Castro promptly sent a file of soldiers to drag him to jail. Castro has a fondness for rough practical jokes, and he told the officer in command to seize Natos in bed and AGES UPON AGES O Conclusive Proof That Thousands of Savagery and Eve AGES UPON AGES OF HUMAN PROGRESS. Conclusive Proof That Thousands of Years Must Have Elapsed Between Savagery and Even Early Education. So far as the question of time is concerned, it deserves notice that not merely geology but almost every form of inquiry into the past throws further back the limits usually assigned. Egypt, for instance, is continually furnishing fresh proofs of the antiquity of civilization. Prof. Flinders Petrie expounded at Owens College, Manchester, England, a few days ago the result of recent explorations at Abydos, in upper Egypt, from which it appears that the ruins at that one spot tell a continuous story that carries us back to 5000 B. C. Abydos was the first capital of Egypt and remained for forty-five centuries the religious center of the land, and there the Egyptian exploration fund has unearthed the remains of "ten successive temples, one over the other." A part of a large glazed pottery vase of Mena, the first king of the first dynasty, about 4700 B. C., shows that even then they were making glaze on a considerable scale, and also inlaying it with a second color. The ivory carving was astonishingly fine a figure of a king showing a subtle and power of expression as good as any work of later ages." At about 4000 B. C. an ivory statuette of Cheops, the builder of the great pyramid, was found, the only portrait known of him. Making every possible allowance for the marvelous rapidity of art development, must not many thousand of years have rolled over between the pristine dwellers in the Nile valley and the men who carve ivory statuettes and manufacture glazed work inlaid with second col From the age of the first temple a group of about 200 objects has been found, which throw surprising light on the civilization of the first dynasty. HOW QUIET MAN SQU Bragging Member of the Commercial Even Greater HOW QUIET MAN SQUELCHED A BOASTER. Bragging Member of the Commercial Fraternity Disconcerted by a Bluff Even Greater Than His Own. The habitues of a certain suburban hostelry had long been weary of the boastful chatter of an intermittent guest of the commercial fraternity, and it was with rare satisfaction that they lately saw him annihilated, so to speak. "Had a splendid day," he opened up as usual; "spent an hour over in old Simons' store over in Rye and came out with a two-thousand-dollar order." He produced a notebook in substantiation, as "Old Simons'" attitude toward gentlemen of his ilk was well known, and the incredulity of his audience was not masked. The notebook was handed around for inspection and halted with a gray-haired stranger over in the corner. "Oh, yes—the entry's all right enough," he said, mildly, "but—it's very strangel!" ```markdown ``` bring him through the streets at night clad only in a blanket. This order was carried out. The merchant prince offered thousands of bolivars for a pair of pants and a jacket, but in vain. The humiliation was terrible, for all the rabble of the town guyed him. "After he had languished in jail for a while, Matos wrote to Castro, saying that he now saw his duty to the nation in a clearer light, and would be glad to pay the assessment. Castro replied cordially, but regretted that the necessities of the government had increased in the meanwhile and he was now desolated by having to ask for double the amount. "Matos paid, and then promptly left the country and organized a revolution with the aid of his great wealth. He has told his friends that he would have pardoned the 'hold-up,' for capitalists are used to that sort of thing in countries like Venezuela; but he could not forget the blanket." A part of a large glazed pottery vase of Mena, the first king of the first dynasty, about 4700 B. C., showed "that even then they were making glaze on a considerable scale, and also inlaying it with a second color. The ivory carving was astonishingly fine, a figure of a king showing a subtlety and work of expression as good as any work of later ages." At about 4000 B. C. an ivory statuette of Cheops, the builder of the great pyramid, was found, the only portrait known of him. Making every possible allowance for the marvelous rapidity of art development, must not many thousand of years have rolled over between the pristine dwellers in the Nile valley and the men who carved ivory statuettes and manufactured glazed work inlaid with second colors? It is a long, long march from flint implements to the sollen tempi, ivory statuettes and human portraits—London Telegraph. "What's strange?" demanded the commercial man of might. "Why, how it got there. I have no recollection of giving any such order, and if you will kindly tell me which or my employees authorized it you will be conferring a favor upon me. You evidently don't recognize me as Mr. Simons of the Rye firm, but—" But the erstwhile boaster had wilted out of sight. His quondam victims roared with delight. "I say, that's rich!" exclaimed one of them; "it's worth $50 to see you take him down like that, Mr. Simons!" "I didn't say I was Mr. Simons, sir." returned the meek-looking stranger: "in fact, I don't know the gentleman—any more than the young man himself!"—New York Times. 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. Downtown Ave. Phone 257 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. GO TO ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. P. H. Israel, 127 N. Market Wichita. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mrs. R. Hack, Prop. 244 North Water St. C. P. Johnson. W. R. Johnson Pres. Sec. & Treas. C P. Johnson Co., Live Stock Money Always On Hand To Loan To Responsible Parties Your Business Sollected Wichita Stock Yards Phone 406 Get a Searchlight, if you want the new \ YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL The PRINTERS who Can PRINT Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARCHLIGHT 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 re pairing, don't forget to give me a call 118 South Main St. Phone 643 JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday April 23, '94 Always put off until to-morrow all the mean things that you are tempted to do to-day. The law may not serve to make a man good, but it can make him furnish a good example. Be careful about asking your lady friends whether they remember the earthquake of August, 1884. Half the asparagus crop of California has been ruined. Perhaps beef will go up some more from sympathy. Mr. Ciechowicz has left Vladivostok for Alden Station, Pa. He sounds as if he'd feel more at home in the former place. The man who intends to roll to the north pole may be fairly classed as the highest roller in the business—if he gets there. A jealous Chicago man is going to Europe this summer just for the sake of getting as far as possible from the St. Louis exposition. Bob Fitzsimmons is to run a cafe on the Pike at the St. Louis fair, and there is no doubt that Bob's stomach pinches are the real thing. A new edition of Dickens' works has been issued. The price is $130,-000 a set. Send in your subscriptions quick, before they are all gone. New York club women are said to be planning to have a clubhouse where they may drink and smoke. What's the matter with the saloons? A trolley car broke up a minstrel parade at Keokuk, Iowa, the other day and disabled several of the minstrels. Even a trolley car has its good points. President Eliot modestly says the secret of his success is hard work. However, we shall keep on thinking that the personal factor counted for something. No woman can wear another woman's rubbers without pretending that she has to slide along on her feet to keep them from falling off.—New York Press. Princeton's new freshman dormitories, for which ground has been broken, will cost about $50,000 and accommodate fifty students. Isn't $1,000 a student pretty high? A German professor now in Chicago advises the people of that city to leave beer alone and read Goethe. Well, it would be a good deal of a change for Chicago. A Toledo cigar dealer is charged with fraudulent use of the mails. Perhaps he solicited women's trade at Christmas time. If so, he deserves the limit fixed by law. A Baltimore man and woman have been remarried after being divorced for ten days. The lawyers in that case appear to be about the only ones who got anything out of it. A doctor tells us now that the sensation of hunger can be modified by a mental effort, but we persist in thinking that the best way to modify it is by absorbing a good dinner. The son of Professor Wlener of Harvard, will at ten years of age be ready for college, so far as studies go. But what use would he be in the football eleven?—New York World. When you read aloud to your wife the news that Turkey is buying 1,000,000 Mansers, it is a reflection on the intelligence of your audience for you to add: "Guns, you know, not cats." Here is a maxim attributed to one of our biggest millionaires which may furnish amusement for logicians: "I believe it is a religious duty to get all you can, and to give away all you can." The United States cruiser Buffalo has arrived at Ceylon's isle, where every prospect pleases and only man is vile. The American jackies should be careful to associate only with the prospects. After a glance at the maharajah of Jeypore, with his $3,500,000 worth of diamonds, the crowd at the St. Louis world's fair will flock back to the "pike" to gaze at the more illustrious Bob Fitzsimmons. The Doctors announce that bedrooms are thronged to the doors with murderous microbes and baleful baeilli. It's now reached the point where no one can safely eat, drink sleep or have any money. The emperor of Austria has been childed by his physicians for working too hard. Pity the case of a poor, old, tired emperor who can't put a substitute on the throne for even a day or two for fear the sub won't give it back. Just because a man happened to beat the roulette wheel in New York he was threatened with murder and narrowly escaped it. You can't win even if you do. As we have said before, it's a poor roulette that won't work both ways. WHERE RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE ARMIES ARE APPROACHING EACH OTHER. SUNGARI RIVER KIAIN VLADIVOSTOK PASSEY RIVER TUMEN RIVER MANCHHI RIVER MUKDEN LIAO RIVER Liao-yang Hai-cheng New-chwang Kaiping FENGHUANCHI TAKUSAN AR-TYANG YONGARA KOREA BAY Chinnampo Hai-ju CHONG-OU Ping-yang WONGAN Dainy Port Arthur Chemulpo SEOUL WER-HAI-WEI Circles show Russian and squares Japanese forces. Square with arrow indicates position of Japanese transports reported to be approaching the mouth of the Yalu river with additional troops. Small circle at upper right-hand corner of map shows points said to have been seized by Russians along the Tumen river and fortified. Circles show Russian and squares Japanese forces. Square with arrow indicates position of Japanese transports reported to be approaching the mouth of the Yalu river with additional troops. Small circle at upper right-hand corner of map shows points said to have been seized by Russians along the Tumen river and fortified. THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Statehood Bill Passed by House by Party Vote. 9TH DAY. The senate began work upon the bill providing for the government of the Panama canal zone. Senator Morgan attacked the new Panama canal company. Senator Fairbanks the senate ordered the printing of the late President McKinley's last speech at Buffalo as a senate ordered the presenting the request. Fairbanks stated that there are many inquiries for the bills. The bill was passed providing for the opening of Fort Abraham Lincoln military reservoir in Morton county, North Dakota, to settlement under the homestead laws. The governor Teller (Cole.) presented a resolution for an investigating committee composed of senators only, to act upon the charges in the Bristow report. The house, under a special rule, spent most of the day over a proposed amendment in reference to granting of railroad franchises in the Philippine, Mr. Jones (Va.) alleged that British and German, as being the last it was received with ample 99TH DAY. The senate spent another day on the bill for the government of the Panama canal zone. Some consideration was given to Senator Hale's ships in taking supplies to the canal. Senator Bacon declared the giving of authority to grant pardons to the commission was unconventional and agreed to give the secretary of the treasury authority to protect public monies in the zone. The house passed the Philippine bill. It provided to carry on internal improvements in the island. When the general deficiency bill was taken up, a substitute bill was passed by Mr. Hale, chairman of the Mocha, Mr. Cochran (Mo), criticized "the usurpation of legislative power by the executive." And these are not all of the matters mentioned, while the deficiency bill was not mentioned. Mr. Little (Ark.) introduced a bill granting permission to any body of Indians of not less than 38 any mankind to the State to displace the Indians for the purposes of acquiring in other countries on which to settle. 100TH DAY. The senate devoted some time to routine business. The Panama canal bill was passed without division. Work was begun upon the sourier civil appropriation bill. Senators Bailey and Hale condemned the civil service system but expressed the belief that congress will not Senator Frye introduced a bill for the appointment of a merchant marine committee with five members from each house. The genesis of the bill was the number of minor bills had been passed. The senate has passed the bill giving $25,000 for the care and support of insured Indians in Indian Territory. Ten thousand copies of the report have been mailed to the commission ordered printed. Mr. Foster (III) vigorously opposed a bill directing that the tunnels under the Chicago river in Chicago, be so altered as not to obstruct navigation. The bill was passed, however. The general deficiency bill was taken up for further consideration and an agreement was reached limiting general debate to four hours. The house agreed to a session on Sunday, April 16, 1995, at 10 a.m. life and character of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna and Representative Skiles, of Ohio. 101ST DAY Appropriation bills are at the front in the senate. The senate leaders aim to prevent bills being passed. The senate passed a joint resolution ordering the printing of 10,000 copies of the report on the anthracite coal strike commission. Senate Bill 10 was a commission of three to revise the pension laws, to report at the next session. A petition from Alaska was presented asking that 10,000 for the commission be passed by exhibiting the transmission by express in utility possessions, of obscene matter. Statehood and subsidy will be features in the house for the week. A rule was brought in from committee for consideration of the statehood and subsidy; with debate limited to four hours with the hope of disposing of the bill on that day. The political plan of the leaders is final adoration of the document which was accepted without discussion was made to the general deficiency bill providing for the proper disposition of the remainder of the exploitation of the explosion on the relationship Mercury. House bills were passed providing for another circuit court judge in the first judicial district: for enlarging the federal building site at Los Angeles. 102ND DAY. In the senate the conference report on the army appropriation bill was read, discussed and laid over. The senate roads in Alaska. Senator Nixon predicted within the next generation Alaska would have a population of one million. "The bill was passed authorizing the further sequestration of the land," Senator Nixon said. A bill was passed interpreting the ex sting law relative to the exportation of lead ores. The house passed the last of the supply bills, the general deficiency bill. Mr. Hitt's Chinese expedition bill as a rider was passed the expedition after a political debate. The amendment appropriating $40,000 to carry out the executive order concerning the "age pension" was adopted, after president Obama had two turned down, and after a call of the house to secure a quotation the bill was passed. No Submarine Boats. London, April 21.—Captain Kaboraki, the new Japanese naval attache, who has arrived in London from Japan, denies positively that there are any submarine vessels in the Japanese navy. Killed By Avalanche. Brieg Switzerland, April 21. — An avalanche from the Spitzhorn at 2 o'clock this morning swept the hamlet of Muehelback. The inhabitants were asleep at the time and thirteen were killed 103RD DAY. The senate discussed at length proposed provisions for additional office and committee positions. Among amendments adopted to the sundry civil bill was $2,000 for a railroad map of the state, $1,000 for a railroad map of Louis with no appropriation; $8,000 for an exhibit in the Belgium exposition in 1905. . The senate passed the house bill providing for more indigents for Indian Territory. for more judges for Indian Territory. For the house was amended by the house was amended by the senate by increasing the limit of cost for a single improvement from $5,000 to $10,000, with another $100,000 for additional surveys. The house passed by a party vote of 147 to 100, for compiling together Oklahoma with Indian Territory, and also New Mexico with Arizona. The house passed a bill repealing the tax on local tobacco of six cents a pound, and all sales. STATEHOOD BILL PASSES. By a Strict Party Vote of 147 to 104. Goes to Senate. Washington, April 21.—After a debate extending through the entire session the house passed the bill providing for joint statehood of Oklahoma and Indian Territory under the name of Oklahoma, and of Arizona and New Mexico under the name of Arizona. Delegate Wilson, of Arizona, opposed the bill. It was favored by Delegate Rodey of New Mexico and McGuire of Oklahoma. In a brief speech in support of the bill Mr. Curtis, of Kansas, insisted that the Indians of the five civilized tribes, and the whites of Indian Territory were ready for statehood and that 90 per cent of the Indians were in favor of joint statehood with Oklahoma. While stating that the bill did not exactly conform to his idea of what was wanted by the people of Oklahoma, Mr. McGuire, of Oklahoma, declared that should it pass there would not be a vote against it either in Oklahoma Indian Territory. The bill was passed, 147 to 104, a strict party vote. Decision In Contest Cases Topeka, April 20.—The state contest board has decided that Charles Curtis is the republican nominee for congress in the First district, and that J. D. Bowersock is the nominee in the Second district. The board was unanimous in the Curtis case, but, in the other, Auditor Weils dissented, holding that H. J. Allen was entitled to the delegates from Miami and Wyandotte. Order Was "Hang." Paris, April 21.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Parisien says that when it was asserted that one of the two Japanese caught in an attempt to blow up the railway near the Mongolian frontier was a member of the imperial family, instructions were asked from St. Petersburg. The reply, according to the correspondent, was "hang" and the order was promptly e'ried out. Delaware Decree Modified. Washington, April 21.—The supreme court has made a modification of its decision in the case of the Deleware Indians against the Cherokee Indians, making the decree apply to living registered Delawares. It was claimed that without modification the Delawares would have received 58,000 acres less land that they purchased in 1867. Jobes Sells to New Yorkers. New York, April 21.-The $3,000,000 of Philippine temporary certificates which C. S. Jobs, president of the American National Bank of Kansas City, recently purchased from the government has been sold to Blair & Co., of this city. Mining Commenced. Dawson, Alas., April 21.—The Klondike will produce at least ten millions this season. Nome has done more work this winter than ever before and will swell the totals several millions more. The first sluicing of the year in the Klondike has begun. The cleanup will be in full blast in three weeks. Missouri Unusually High Leavenworth, April 19. - The Missouri river is anusually high at this point and is doing considerable damage in the bottoms opposite the fort. What We Forget. We have been told on good authority that we must forget ourselves if we would be happy, but we are so apt to forget that we ought to forget ourselves.—Judge. Those Who Have Tried It will use this other Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. Fortunate is the man who can borrow enough money to pay his debts. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children: tettling, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curbs wind colds. 25c a bottle. Pawning an engagement ring is a pledge of love. Old Sofas, Backs of Chairs, etc., can be dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. A half-hearted kick generally acts as a boomerang. Pisa's cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure—I, W. 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Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Advantages of Postal Parcels Law. The farmer to-day, when he wishes to buy, hitches up a pair of horses, drives four or five miles and makes few purchases. If the United States had the postal parcels law of Austro-Hungary the farmer would draw a postal check, mail it free, the merchant would deliver the goods to the postoffice, and a few hours later they would be in the hands of the farmer. Saving by Metric System. The United States Statistician says two-thirds of a school year would be saved to American boys and girls by putting the metric system in place of the other twelve or thirteen systems. Carry the enormous saving of time into the counting-houses of the country, into all kinds of calculations from the farm to the factory, and a fairly good idea is obtained of what the metric system would save.—Exchange Smallest Monarchy. The sovereign who reigns over the smallest monarchy in the world is the king of the Cocos, a group of islands near Sumatra. These islands were discovered about 300 years ago by the captain of the Keeling, but were comparatively little known till 1825, when Mr. Ross, an Englishman, visited them, was struck by their beauty, and took up his abode there. It is his grandson, M. George Reiss, who now holds sway over the Cocos. CAME FROM COFFEE. A Case Where the Taking of Morphine Began With Coffee. "For 15 years," says a young Ohio woman, "I was a great sufferer from stomach, heart and fiver trouble. For the last 10 years the suffering was terrible; it would be impossible to describe it. During the last three years I had convulsions from which the only relief was the use of morphine. "I had several physicians, nearly all of whom advised me to stop drinking tea and coffee, but as I could take only liquid foods I felt I could not live without coffee. 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THE TONIC OF ALL TONICS THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER THE STRENGTH BUILDER THE NERVE TONER THE HEALTH GIVER THE LIFE SAVER FLOODED WITH RUMORS FLOODED WITH RUMORS Russians Unable Longer To Menace Japanese Transport. R. R. AROUND LAKE BAIKAL. Immense Superiority Enables The Japanese to Hold Russian Squadron in Port Arthur While Their Own Transports Can Safely Pass. St. Petersburg, April 20.—St. Petersburg is flooded with rumors from all directions regarding the plans of the Japanese, now that the Russian fleet at Port Arthur is unable longer to menace their troop transports. The Associated Press, in a dispatch from Port Arthur, gave twenty as the number of Japanese transports reported as having been sighted steaming in the direction of Yinkow, the seaport of Newchwang. Officials of the general staff, while having no information in this respect, would not be surprised if the number should turn out to be correct or even that a larger number is steaming there. They anticipated this movement at the time of the breaking out of the war, but the activity of Vice Admiral Makaroff's fleet, and the large army in the vicinity of Newchwang imposed caution, and, it is believed, made the Japanese abandon, or at least postpone it, and caused them to continue their advance toward Manchuria through Korea and consider disembarkation and a flank movement at Takushan. Vice Admiral Topo's immense superiority enables him to hold the Russian squadron in Port Arthur, and Japanese transports therefore can safely pass through the Straits of Pe Chi Liand attempt to land at the head of the Gulf of Liao-Tung, under the guns of the warships, as did General Shafter's army at Daiquiri, Cuba. If this should succeed, the Japanese will be in an excellent position to execute a flank movement on Liao-Yank, or cut off Port Arthur. General Kuroputkin recently inspected Newchwang. He is familiar with the strategic position there and disposed a strong force to contest a Japanese move at that point, and if such a move is made, it is believed he will be able to check it. Prince Hinkoff, minister of railroads, left St. Petersburg for Irkutsh, where he will supervise the completion of the railroad around Lake Baikal and expedite the dispatch of troops and supplies to Manchuria. To Kansas In Early Days. Lawrence, April 21. -James G. Finch, aged 95 years, died at the home of his son, C. S. Finch. The cause of the death was old age. Mr. Finch removed with his parents to the frontier of Indiana in 1818. He had only Indian boys for playmates and learned to speak many of the Indian languages. He came to Kansas in the early days and was one of the pioneers of the state. He left three children. They are: C. S. Finch, editor of the Lawrence Gazette; H. C. Finch, of Galena, and Mrs. C. C. Converse, of Ottawa. The remains will be buried at Louisburg, Kans., his old home. Strikers Capture a Town. Somerset, Pa., April 21.—The striking coal miners at Garrett have taken possession of the town. Armed men are said to be patrolling the streets and a mob armed with rifles and shotguns are reported to have surrounded the works of the Garrett Coal company. An outbreak is momentarily expected between the strikers and the miners in the company's barricade. The miners are nearly all Italians and are said to be armed and prepared to resist any attack. Died From Brooding. St. Louis, April 21.—Physicians who attended Major Hugh C. Dennis, president of the Rialto Grain and Securities company, when sudden death ended his connection with the case in which United Stated Senator J. R. Burton of Kansas who was recently convicted, stated that Major Dennis' death resulted from continuous brooding over the conviction and sentence of Senator Burton. Russians Fortifying. Seoul, Korea, April 21.—The Russians are strengthening their fortifications at Chien Tien Cheng with all possible haste, and are sending in reinforcements of artillery and infantry with the intention of stubbornly contesting the expected attempt of the Japanese to Cross the Yalu river. In Grasp of Blizzard Gleas Falls, April 19.—The whole Adirondacks country is in the grasp of a blizzard which for severity has not been equalled this winter. From ten to fifteen inches of snow fell during the night. An Arbitration Treaty. Washington, April 16.—The senate committee on foreign relation reported favorably a treaty for the arbitration of pecuniary claims arising between the United States and Central and South American republics. DANGEROUS NEGLECT. It's the neglect of backache, sideache, pain in the hips or loins that finally prostrates the strongest body. 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Mass, 50,000 AMERICANS WERE WELCOMED TO rye Ss 18 p Berea Western DURING LAST YEAR. ‘They are setiled and settling oa the Grain and Sheree" Send and aro prosperous and aatlsGed. Se Waleed Lnsries recent said "A new stat has Fsen on the horizon and itis toward it that Srery imonizrent who leaves the land of his ances Gig" come asd. scok a home for bimsell now forts 'bis gaze"™Canada,” There is Room for Millions. FREE Komestends given away, Schools, Churches, Railways, Markets, Climate, everything to be desired. For a descriptive Atlas and other information, applt to Sepertntcadent Immigration, Ottawa, Can Sele ethorized Canadian Coverninent Agent $8 Sattord No. us W. Ninth Suet anans bg." When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. ve PISO'S CURE’ FOR 1 Sererohs 3-101 Lk alolx mira KANSAS NOTES FSi hea cs enh a mana Peg c ER ETS purchase by the local band of » lot of new instruments of torture. The trading stamp evil has reached @ point in Hutchinson where every- body gives them except the Harvey “eating house.” “It is amusing,” says the Syracuse News, “to see’ the passengers get off No. 8 while she hesitates fifteen min- utes for lunch, and hike up town 100k- ing for a booze parlor, They pay no attention to the first native who tells them ‘we are a dry town,’ but rash along to the next, and the next, ‘itil they find they are in ‘Carrie Nation's state.” : “The News does job work” is a par- agraph kept standing in the Hutehin- son News. That's what the Reno county Boss Busters have persistently claimed. A Macksville firm is preparing to move its business to Wichita. and the Argus makes this meek comment: “While this firm has ever joined forces against the perpetuity and prosperity of the Argus, yet we congratulate them upon having accumulated sufficient wealth to branch ont Into larger enter- prise.” Down in the southern part of the state a couple of men are working a swindling scheme on some of the farm- ers. A stranger appears on the road diligently searching for a lost diamond ring and offers a reward of $100 for its recovery. He goes away without find ing the ring and shortly afterward a tramp picks up 2 ring. ‘The farmer who is to be the victim offers the tramp $25 for the ring, expecting to get the $100 reward. The tramp ac- cepts it and leaves. When the farmer cannot find the stranger he grows sus- picious and has a jeweler examine the ring. It is generally pronounced to be worth about fifteen cents. A lawyer in Macksville advertises: “If your neighbor tries to do you, come to me and Til do him.” ‘The Ottawa Herald comes right out and accuses the snow shovel of linger- ing in the lap of the lawnmower. It is taken for granted that the new- ly organized boat elub of the Univer- sity of Kansas is also being instructed in the gentle art of life-saving. The Troy. Chief, which has lately formed the habit of changing owners on the slightest provocation, should re- member the Atchison Champion.“ A clothing dealer in Iola arises ana turns so as to reveal his profile, lifts his left hand solemnly, and adopts the advertising catch-line, “I Am For Men.” General Fred Funston will be in Kansas next month. He will attend the marriage of his sister, Miss Hila Funston, to Dr, Frank Eekdall, of Eat poria, Last week’s most sensational de- velopment in Concordia was the dis- covery of a young woman who receives a bunch of American Beauty roses by express about three times a week. Many of Mike Thompson's patrons in Topeka are willing to testify that he does not run what is commonly called a gambling resort. Deacon House declares it is little more thap a “snecessfe! collection agency.” Replying to the accusation that Wil Ham Allen White pads luis calves with wet elm sawdust, the Eldorado Re- publican says, “BIll’s calves are all right. He was fed on Butler county corn bread and buttermilk; and be- sides, he inherited a substantial pair of shanks. We have known Bill Allen for many years and are ready to 4e- clare that he is ail right in head, heart. gizzard and stanks.” An awning company is fola’s recent acquisition, and it expects to put all the other industries in the shade A little girl in Lindsborg got told of her mother’s box of liver pills and planted them, mistaking them for sweet peas, ‘The youn woman in Pratt who poked her finger in a double-action cigar cutter “to see how it worked,” Is prepared to write a treaties on the subject. At Senator Burton's request most of the letters which he wrote to the Rial to Grain Company were destroyed. Perhaps they were also “toa sacred for any eyes Init yours.” George Weyler, of Emporia, has heen notified of his appointment to the naval academy as the result of a re- cent competitive examination. The “middies” at Annapolis will not do much to a neweomer with a name !ike Weyler. Southeastern Kansas has no desire to appear boastful, or to exaggerate its capabilities, but it claims it will be able to astonish the world with its oil wells just as soon as the Standard Oil Company grows to be big enough to handle the output. g A Fort Scott girl who has spent sev: Immense Irrigation Canal. An irrigation canal, nearly forty- seven miles in length, will be the first step in the plans to reclaim 25,000 ‘acres of land west of Grand Junction, Colo., and reaching to the Utah line. ‘The work laid out will cost over half @ million dollars. Seeks Aid for Huguenots. | The committee for the extension of the Protestant faith in France and Belgium has sent a delegate to this country to solicit aid for the needy Huguenot and Walloon churches of those countries, the membership of which numbers about two million. Largest Burial Mound. ‘The largest of the burial mounds buiit by the aborigines in America is the Cahokia, situated eight miles west of the Mississippi river, between the mouth of the Missouri and St. Louis, which 1s 100 fect high, 1,080 feet long and 710 feet wide. To Relieve Toothache. To relieve toothache, make a flannel bag about four or five inches square, fill it three-quarters full of common ralt; sew up and heat the bag in the cven, and apply to the side of the face. The salt retains heat for a con- siderable time and gives much relief. Mite Mawent teawhs: M. Dubols, {n a paper before the Academy of Science, Paris, shows that it 1s possible, by means of the Roentgen rays, to examine the living oyster without in any way injuring it, and to ascertain whether or not it contains a pearl. If it contains only a tiny pearl the oyster is returned, and fs allowed to live until the disease has developed a large pearl. When Your Grocer Says he does not have Deflance Starch, you may be rure ho is afraid to keop it’ until hie stock of 12 or. packages are sold. Deflance Starch is not only better than any other Gold Water Starch, bye containa 18 ox. to ° mi the package for same money as Had tc Belleve Her. Judge Parry of the Engilsh Judict ery tells of a feeblelooking man who was rebuked for supporting a ridicu- lous claim made by his wife. “I tell you candidly I don’t believe a word of your wife's story,” said Judge Parry. “Yer may do as yer like,” replied the man, mournfully, “but I've got to.” Hits Aw Avil Diceana: An American physician has dis- eovered that the blues are only a form of splanchnic neurasthenia due to in- tra-abdominal venous congestion. Now if that doesn’t make a patient with the blues bluer than he was before he could be jolly with hyperpyrexia, or with metaplasia of the epithellum. Odd Names for Locomotives. ‘When large-sized freight engines were first put out, a few years ago, the railroad men called them “hogs,” and the man who could “fire a hog and keep her hot” was fit for almost any trying work. Then came a still larger class, soon styled “whales.” ‘They were at once dubbed “battle ships.” Instruction for Fishermen. There are now in Belgium four schools for the instruction of fisher- men. The pupils are taught how to read weather charts, how to make the best use of currents, what the bottom of the sea is like, how to maxe their own nets, how to manage a boat in a storm, how to use the latest inventions in the line of fish- ing apparatus, ete. There are about 250 pupils now in these schools, A Nurservman’s Exoerience. | _ Tarlton, Tenn., April 18th.—Mr. B. J. Morton, proprietor of the Tarlton Nurseries, has given for publication some of his experiences which, no doubt will interest a great many peo- ple who are trying to overcome simt. lar difficulties. Among other things, he says: “I will answer all enquirers whe enclose a stamp for reply and will be ‘pleased to tell them just how I cured ‘myself of a serious case of Kidney, ‘Urinary and Bladder trouble, which “had tortured me for over three years. I had a fearful burning sensation when urinating and was in very bad shape till I commenced to use a medi cine called Dodd’s Kidney Pills. “In a very short time I found I was getting better and I kept on till I was completely cured. Every symptom of my old trouble is gone and besides be ing cured of this particular trouble my general health {s better than it has been for years. I feel like a new man and am ready at all times to testify to the wonderful curing pow: ers of Dodd's Kidney Pills.” Fashion Note for Men. The London Tailor and Cutter gives this valuable advice to lovers of sport: For cricket, boating, tennis and football, jewelry must be eschew: ed, but for motoring, fishing and golf Jewelry is indispensable. Free to Twenty-Five Ladies. The Defiance Starch Co. will give 25 ladies @ round trip ticket to the St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in each of the followingstates: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri who willsend in the largest number of trade marks cut from a ten cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. ‘This means from your own home, anywhere in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and reeeived by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before Sept- ember Ist, 1904. October and Novem- ber will be the best months to visit the ee Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up in 16 02 (a full pound) to the package. You get one- third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The, tiekets to the Exposition will be sent {nterod mail September sth, Btarch ‘for sale by all dealers. WELL WITHOUT SLEEP, This is really a very serious and dangerous condition to be in. Perfect rest is sleep. Do not take medicines. Any remedy for insomnia may bridge you over for a time, but in the end will wreck the nervous system and shorten life. Only useful in emergency cases in the hands of an intelligent phy- sician, Take plenty of outdoor exercise, avoid excitement, be regular in habitsand take a saucer of oy wa ky #4 @ a a at bedtime, in its natural state or with cream, milk and sigar, which will make a refreshing sleep a possibility and regulate the bowels. Palatable—Nutritious—Easy of Digestion and Ready to Eat TS cibsatiwes Q, Y Op ‘every pac! fe. ~~ reed 7. O.Sacees Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts Pog OE me attired lain Senna espe west ary PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO. . =e - = CHICAGO. Fine Gift. to. University. . Gustav Kobn of New Orleans, has Presented to Tulane University his priceless natural history collection, which comprises every living creature native to Louisiana, besides a scien- tific brary of one thousand volumes. c Don’t. ‘A correspondent asks: “In writing to my pastor how should I address him: Dear Dr. Smith, ot the Rey. Dr. ‘Smith, or Dear Sir?” We have not a chaperone department, but if we had we would instruct the department to say: “My dear woman, do not write to your pastor.”—Atchison Globe. Japanese Soldiers Well Trained. The Japanese soldier is taugh to >reathe properly, with as much care as if he were a professional tenor, and at the least sign of palpitation of the heart he is ordered to cease his exercises and lle on his back to re- cover. In course of time ‘his heart and lungs become so strengthened that no amount of exertion injuriously affects them. Directs Book Exhibits. Emile Terduem has a unique record in the French book trade, in that he has been chosen by the Cercle de la Librairie to direct every large exhibit of French books at the international expositions for the last thirty years. He 1s credited with the success of the French exhibits at the Centennial and in Chicago; and he was in charge at tho Paris world’s fairs in 1878, 1889 and 1900, and he is coming to St. Louis. All Depends On Character, Obtaining an education or winning success in any figld is a question of internal energy, of enthusiasm, or of unfoldment of power, and fs the de- velopment of push and determination rather than the result of any external {nfluences. The people who attribute their want of success to lack of irtends to help them on, or their lack ot education to absence of opportuni. tles, ere simply exposing their weak- ness of character.—Success. Analvala of Radium, At the Paris academy of science re- cently Mr. Darboux read a communi- cation from M. Curie as to the disap- pearance of the radio activity induced by radium in solid bodies, For ex- plaining this phenomenon and the law which governs it, Mr. Curie ad- vances the hypothesis of radium transforming itself into a substance that may give rise to a second body, and thus bring about a diminution in the intensity of the radio-activity. Black Teeth. Emigrants from southern Italy are, many of them, disfigured by what is known as “black teeth.” ‘Tho teeth of these persons are affected during the period of growth by some gaseous con- stituent of drinking water, probably from impregnation with yoleanic va- pors. Tho defect often gives a sinis- ‘ter look to an otherwise handsome face, but fortunately does not, it seems, offect the strength or durabil- ity of the teeth. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Deflance Starch you obtain better results thon possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. ‘The man who makes a fool of him- self only saves someone else the trouble. (Gniae ie Onrd. Gace os See) Lvcas County. i Fras Ju Cumwny taies oath that eitn senior paruersof the drm of F."Ghutey @ Coy ln aainess fa the City of Tolede, County sud Stat “aforena(a, sad: that ald firm svi pay the ruin ONE HUNDHED DOLLAHS fur cach and every "Gane of Caramnit that cant De cured by the sus of “AU's Chranam Cone: FRANK J, CHENEY, |_Swor to before me and afoserioed in iy Dree "ence, tia gah day of December, A. D886 ae "A. W. GLEASON, Hall's Catarth Cure ts taken internably and acts airectiy on the blood and mucous aurtaces of the “Syuten, Bend for teaumoniate free, FF ITCHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0 Sold bal Drugeits oy ‘Take fall's Fausiy Pills for constipation. Enthusiasm and lying are synony- mous with some people. Why It Is the Best fs because made by an entirely different process. Doflance Starch {s unlike any other, better and one-third moro for 10 conte. : Travel may broaden a man’s mind but it doesn’t have that effect on his ‘pocketbauk. |“PE-RU-NA TONES UP THE SYSTEM - IF TAKEN IN THE SPRING.” SAYS THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL Zo ; oe ERS : a [fe a Meee ~ Ff ae ‘ er. Ne ce A wee : . oe oo Se | ee. 6 7 oo Se — . . See MISS MARJORY HAMPTON, OF NEW YORK. ‘Miss Marjory Hampton, 2616 Third Avenue, New York City, writes: «Peruna is a fine medicine to take any season of the year, Taken in the spring it tones up the system and acts as a tonic, strengthening me more than a vacation. In the fall and winter 1 have found that it cures colds and catarrh and also find that it is invaluable to keep the bowels regular, acting as a gentle stimu- Jant‘on the system. In fact, I consider it a whole medicine chest.—Miss Marjory Hampton. ; FREDERICK @. 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The doctor said in substance that every spring the blood is loaded with the effete accurnulations o? winter, de- ranging the digestion, producing slug: gishness of the liver, overtaxing the kidneys, interfering with the action of the bowels and the proper circulation of the blood, This condition of things produces what is popularly known as spring fever, spring malaria, nervous exhans- tion, that tired fecling, blood thicken. ing and many other names. Sometimes the victim fs bilious, dys peptic and constiprted; sometimes he is weak, nervous and depressed; and again he may have eruptions, swelk ings and other blood humors, Whicty ever it is, the cause is the same—ob fete accumulations in the blood, Nothing is more certain within the whole range of medical science than that a course of Peruna in early spring time will perfectly and effectually pre vent or cure this almost universal at fection. Everybody feels it in some degree A ercat majority are disturbed com siderably, while a large per cent of the human family are made very miserw bie by this condition every spring. Peruna will prevent it if taken tn time. Peruna will cure it if taken as ab rected. Perana is the {deal spring medicine of «se medical profession. i you do not derive prompt and sat- isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Hart: man, 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, hin omer “ht Thompson’s Eye Water SENT? FREB NEW PENSION LAWS APEIY to NA hing ec ee ‘MAYFIELD TANK and FLOAT VALVES, thea rovemnconrwatwey gud cise veeeeeace eee ESs sip hag a tet rah) 2) 2 Ra asarne BEFTLER BRASS MOG. CO,,Dullan Tem W. N. U.—WICHITA.—NO. 17, 1906 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. L E E P, fect rest is sleep, Do not take