Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT lucated Negro is An Asset LARES BOOKER T. WASH INGTON. passes in a business sense to create the Negroes and increase material wants, according baker T. Washington, who Monday at a joint meeting the Congregational club and Chicago Theological Semin- the Union Park Congrega church. had been intimated, declara- speaker, by persons hold- high official positions that it in error in economics to edu- cate the Negro. The southern as which out of their pover- contributing liberally for education of all the people, gives individual and organi- nationalthropy throughout the try. the speaker said, have not to know whether the Ne- s responding to the efforts to place him upon a higher degree of civilization. in the southern part of the United States there are more 8,000,000 of my race who, contact with the whites, and education in the home, in school, in church, have had their is awakened and strengthened, have, thus have had their is increased and multiplied times, said Mr. Washing-idence, instead of a peopleiness, we have in the South are anzious to work because want education for their men; they want land and land and churches, and books owners. In a word they want highest and best in our civic. Looked at then from most material and selfish view, it has paid to open the Negroes mind, and should be no limit placed in the development of that with all his disadvantages the man, according to official rechars blotted out 655 per cent of his illiteracy since he be a free man, while practice 65 per cent of the native men are illiterate. After years of civilization and opportunism, Spain, 68 per cent of the nation are illiterate; in Italy per cent. In the average American country about per cent are illiterate, while for 40 years the American Negro only 445 per cet of illiteracy to his debit. in moral and religious uss of view, what measure of nation the Negro has received paid, and there has been no backward in any state. Not single graduate of the Hampi institute or of the Tuskegee state can be found to-day in jail or state penitentiary or making careful inquiry I can find a half a dozen cases men or women who had comed a full course of education may of our reputable institu who are in prisons. The records of the south show 50 per cent of the colored sons in prisons are without knowledge of trades, and 61 per cent are illiterate. This statement also disproves that the Negro grows in crime as education increases. If the Negro at the north is more criminal than his brother at the south, it is because the north withholds from him the opportunity for employment which the south gives. While the Negro may succeed in getting into the state prison faster the white man in some inexplicable manner has a way of getting out faster than the Negro. The records of Virginia for a year show that one out of every three add one-half white men was freed from prison by executive clemency and that only one out of every fourteen Negroes received such clemency. In Louisiana it is one to every four and one-half white men to every forty-nine Negroes The speaner quoted Joel Chandler Harris of the Atlanta Constitution to prove the improvement of the Negro. Then he turned to figures and told of the replies he received to letters sent to representative southern men covering each former slave state asking them, judging by their observation in their own communities, what effect education had upon the race. Whites Near Birmingham, Ala. Order All Blacks to Leave Following Murder of White Man. Birmingham, Ala.—A race riot is iminent at Altoona, a railroad construction camp twenty miles south of here, where the white residents are driving all the Negroes from the vicinity. The trouble began with the shooting of Thomas Waldron, a white man by Tom Wilson a Negro. Waldron died of his wounds and the whites gathered in force and riddled the house where Wilson lived. They then served notice on all Negroes living in the vicinity to leave within an hour on penalty of being killed. Some of them left, but the others are reported to arming to resist an attack. The supreme court of Illinois has declared in effect that an Afro-American can go to school nearest to his residence and is not obliged to go out of his way to a separate school. The decision reversed the opinion of the lower court that refused to issue an order on the common council at Alton, Ill, compelling it to allow a colored pupil to enter the school nearest his home. At a large and representative gathering of colored citizens of Richmond, Va., formal protest was made against the law providing for the separation of the races on street cars, which was put into effect April 20, and resolutions were adopted, the gist of which is that the Negrces of the community will walk in future as evidence of the reality of their protests. WICHITA, KANSAS, MAY 21, 1904. The SEARCHLIGHT offers $5.00 Cash, in Prizes to the Colored persons who buy the largest amount of goods from the merchants who advertise in this paper during May June and July, 1904. Read below: 1st. Prize $3.00 CASH To the colored person who brings the largest in Cash Slips or Receipts for goods bought from firms who advertise in this paper during May, June or July 1904, we will give $3.00 in cash, To the colored person holding the Second Largest Amount in Cash Slips or Receipts, as above we will give $2.00 in cash. TRADE WITH the merchants who advertise in the Searchlight IT PAYS No Cash Slips will be credited from any firm that does not advertise in the this paper during May, une or July,1904 and must be dated also have the firm name theren. NO EXCUSE FOR MOB VIO LENCE. The Daughters of the American Revolution have adopted unanimously a set of resolutions condemning mob law and calling upon the members of the Texas legislature to enact a law that will mete out speedy justice to all persons guilty of criminal assault, with a view of removing the excuse for mob violence. The resolutions request that the new law shall require that identification or confession shall be the only necessary evidence to justify speedy legal capital punishment. ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. ' $5.00 CASH The SEARCHL Cash, in Prizes to sons who buy the of goods from the advertise in this p June and July, 19 1st. Prize $3.00 CASH 2nd Prize. $2.00 CASH To the colored person holding Cash Slips or Receipts, as above TRADE WITH in the Sea IT F No Cash Slips will any firm that does in the this paper or July, 1904 and so have the firm A large number of Americans were astonished when they discovered that our minister to San Domingo, Mr. Powell, is a Negro. His acts and prompt decisions were so wise, conservative and in consonance with international observance that they have commanded the utmost respect. Many others will be equally surprised to know the American consul at Vladivostok, Richard T. Greener, is also a Negro. Still more do not know that Lieut. Pushkin, who was recently wounded in an engagement with the Japanese, is a grandson of an American Negro. Miss F. J. Elliott was elected as delegate to the woman's confederation which convenes in St. Louis some time next month from the Womans Excelsior club of Pueblo. Mrs. L. A. Hargrove was elected to represent the Athenian club at St. Louis at the same meeting. THE REGULAR LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS. The regular republicans of Louisiana, wildly cheering every reference to the recent overwhelming defeat of the "lily whites" in the state election, met at New Orleans. They endorsed President Roosevelt and his administration and sent a mixed delegation to the national convention. Thirty-nine parishes and sixteen wards of New Orleans were represented. Three fourths of the convention comprised Negro delegates, but there were many old-line white republican leaders present. Four delegates at large were elected as follows: Walter Cohen, H.B. N. Brown, Emile Kuntz and Girart Farrer. The two former RIGHT offers $5.00 to the Colored per- largest amount of merchants who paper during May 04. Read below: ings the largest in Cash Slips or arms who advertise in this paper we will give $3.00 in cash, or the Second Largest Amount in we will give $2.00 in cash. If the merchants who advertise Marchlight PAYS will be credited from does not advertise during May, une must be dated al-name theren. are representative Negroes. The resolutions adopted denounce the suffrage laws of Louisiana and the separate car laws of all the southern states; appeal to congress to pass laws against lynchings; declare the "lily whites" knocked the Negro down in the state campaign only to embrace him in the hope of holding on to the federal offices, and pledge unfaltering support to President Roosevelt.—Springfield Repub- TRY THE BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Remember the place-Market at the gate of DOLD'S Packing House. Negro Enter- Education is a powerful factor in the development of any race or people. The masses of no race enjoy, or understand what is really meant by the term Education, in contradistinction to the general idea; education means the drawing out of the latent forces of a race, a people or an individual, the application of these forces is what we call enterprise. The Negro boy and girl has three forces or powers within them and that must be drawn out. It is when men or, we may say communities see what there is such a one, and they will be in demand. The salvation of our race or the mooted race problem, will be solved by Negro enterprises more rapidly than by any other process. This world is a business world, and the man be he black, white] or brown, that has to do with the commercial affairs of the same with a fat bank account, will have no problem to contend with. The Japanese who are daring and doing business with the Russian government, would be stigmatized because of their color were it not for the fact that are cprrying on race enterprises. Wichita is a growing city, I have been passingly identified with some of its citizens for the last 12 years and I am often caused to wonder why have we no Negro letter carriers? What becomes of our Negro high school graduates? Would they rather be Pullman porters, hotel waiters than serve the government? The civil service examinations are open to all, why not try for a position then couted for it when having passed the examination go to Washington if need be and lay your case before the postoffice department, if you are treated unfairly Uncle Sam. through his mouthpiece President Roosevelt has said, "The door of hope shall not be shut in the face of a worthy man white or black. Negro papers must be patronized so that we can get a glimpse of the good Negro and learn what he is doing. Negro grocery stores, cry goods and enterprises of every kind established by the Negro must be maintained in order that the High school boy will have a place of business to enter when he comes out of schools. All over the south we have Negro enterprises of every kind and of every character. Negro postmasters and, in every NO 52 city in the South wherever the carrier system prenails from one-half to seven-tenths of the carriers are Negroes, and they are not high school graduates either, in some cities they are all Negroes Patronize Negro doctors and give them a chance to make their reputations. Finally I would say keep out of labor unions and under no circumstan e have anything to do with them, they are a menace to any clim, and by no means are they the friend of the black man, but simp'y desire to use as the monkey did the cat. Mr. Editor, this subject is inexhaustible, but I must not infringe on your space and patience, as I may wish to use your columns again and may find myself debarred because of the length of my articles. Yours for the ra e, Rev. R. N. Countee, D, D Almost Equal To A Trip Around The World will be a visit to the ST. LOUIS FAIR Rock Island System It's all there but Russia A good line to use is the Rock Island their new line runs along the entire length of the exposition ground and all trains stop at main entrance station before reaching Union Depot. C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. KINGMAN ITEMS. A heavy rain visited this county Sunday evening. Mr. Eli Martin is masing me improvements on his property on Sherman street. Geo. Wilbur who is cooking at a hotel at Furn stopped over in the city for a few days as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Davis. Miss Lelia Sunderr of Hutchinson who has been in the city several weeks expects to return home in the near future. Geo Floyd expects to go to Wichita next week on a short visit and to attend the big Anniversary exercises of the Searchlight on the 26th. W. M. Dunson, Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 886 Trimmings Pound fresh and salt cacking House THE SEARCHLIGHT, ee a weerra, - - - KANS ees ‘WN. MILLER, Editer. Eatered at the Post Offiee at Wiehite, Kansas, as Second - Class Mai) Matter, Pablished Every Saturday at No. 110 Norra Marx St. “RATES OF SUBSGRIPTION- @® STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ...... $1.06 Six months [ by mail ]....... 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So agents will send th money with sabscriber’s name. @th Address all communications to “ Th Wie_'ta Searchlight ” Wichita, Kansas. th Any erroneous reflection upon th eharacter, standing or reputation of any per een which may appear in this paper, will b Gladly corrected if brought to the Editor, “To Live and Let Live,” is QUR Motte, ———______ CNRS TEREST EET T UTTER TITES EVERYPHING READY (88950996585 98089509000990"% Everything is now ready for the Orowaing Event of the season al the Odd Fellow’s ball next Thurs day night, May 26th At this time and place The Fifth Aoniversary Exercires of Phe Wich ita Seareh ight will take place. The program is sbout completed and all stands in readiness. The program will be in charge of Mr. Henry W. James, who will be Mrster of Cere: monies, The progrem will be very appropriately began with opening address by Rev. P. D. Yooum, pat. tor of the A. M. E. ehurch; follew- ing thik eumber will be a recitatéor by Mss. Sam ©. Collins, sabject “The Negro and Lynching” Mrs, Collins recites this Pies by spceial vequeat. After this number will be an adress by Mavor B. F, MoLear subject,“ My Views” Mr. Gav. W. White will snen read s paper on “ Negro Journalism as I soo it”. Prof, Bd-in L. Mason and wife of Springfield, Ill,, will then rendo: one of 4: cir class cal piano and vio. jin duet 8. Prof. Mason is a vielin- iat of high elass cal standing while his wile is av-zy highly accomplish ed pianist, They are in our o:ty fe awhiie and will appesr Vbursday night “ The Puture of the Colurec Raee” is the subjecton wiici Judg Claude ©, Stan ey will speak, A the next number Lieus W, A. Bet tis will read a payer on “ The Tra: Missin of the N gre Pres ” Fo lov ing this wil be an address by Mr ‘Thomas Gl ver from the subje.t “Phe Needs of the Hour ”. Mrs Robt. Braden will then favo? al with a yoca svio “IfI could onl) Recall t e Past,” Mr, Otw G. Kek stion «ur «bie eousty attorney wil - EBERHARDT & HAYS GENERAL MUSIC DEALERS ——Pianos and Organs— Watch our windows for the latest Sheet Music ‘Tuning and Repairing a Specially Phone 981 S. W. Cor. Douglas & Emporia ‘respond to the subject “ Citizen- ship ”. Dbe doors will be open at 7:30 and the pregram will begia at 8:30, all are urged to come early in order to get good seats; ushers will be on hand to receiv. the guests ag they come and find seats for them, gererrereecccececceceneees TO INITIATE, TSVETTTTTTTTTTVSTIITTTTTTS The daughters of Wichita Tab- ernacle No, 84 will hold ab g init- jation at Odd Fellow’s hat 517 , Main next Wednesday night May 25, There are about twelve ladies to ride the big goat. The initiation wiil take plage at 8 p, m. Wichita Pabernacle is coming to the front again, 1) seem3 that? all are much inter: sted. RUPE REVERE REREEPEERETEEPEY, MIMBAL—YOCUM Mr Jobn Kimbal and Miss Madge Yooum were quietly marriea at the residence of the bride’s parents Rov aud Mrs. P. D. Yecum, luet Lues- day night. Tho br de is eldest daugbter ef the pastor of the A. M, B, church whsts the groom ie a prsminent young man around town. The wedding was sery qniet and only members of the family and close intimate friends were present All wish them success. RE RE MRS, SMITH DEAD Mrs. Rachel Smith, wife of Mr, Jobn Smich, 1520 Sherwood died at late reeidence last Monday eve, May 16th of heart failure. Mrs, Smith was an.old settler in Wichita baving resided hrre for more than 20 years She was a Ken‘ackian by birth and was 52 years old at the time of hes death. Sneleavee a husband, two son and three sisters. Funeral ser- vices were held at the A, M. E. church Tuesday at 2:30 p m con- ducteh by Rey. Yoeum, $90$006460460000 090090000 A CHANCE | ‘The Searchiight has decided to give some colored bey or girl an op. portunity to Jearn the Printer’s ‘Frade in our office, We will leam the bor or girl the,trade aad then give the party who learas regular ‘mployment. Here is a cbance for some boy or girl A tryde will be useful te any boy or girl sn days to come. Learn a trade and grow up independent, KKK KKK EEK KE EEE - Fined $100.00 In the police ceurt Wednesday morning the ease City of Wichita ys Ridh-y eame on for trial, It will be remembered that this is the white fellow who so brutalty assanit ed beat Mrs, R chard Hee in Aprib 'The trouble, ascosding to the evt- \donce ab the trial, arose over a fight .betwe wa hittle colored boy and a little white bey im frome of Mrs, ‘Heck’s house 355 N Market st. When Mrs. Heok’s attention was called to the boya fighting she weat out and stopped the fight by taking the little eolored boy awap and ad. vsing the litte colered boy to go on to schuel. ‘Puis seemed to have angered Kiehy who was ene of the peetators and he set in to curse and abuse Mrs. Heck and when Mrs Heck madean effort to hold bim tilt the police eame he beat her and knoeked her down in a very eruel an biatied manner After having cot mi ted the de a he skipped eut ana wens to Oklaboma whore he re main:d (hree weeks waiting fer the excitement to die out, In all the cases which tue writer has heard tried in kis time no case has ever s¢ wrought bim up as this one did, From the eviience ib ws a most brutal act and Judge Stamty wor the uppiuvse of every oue in the court room when he announce “ Ii is the j.dgemeut of the court that you b- fined in the samof $100.00" wancaanaaanansancannaaana Ges yaur ticket early fur the big event arat Thursday night at Oud Feilow’s all, 517 N. Main. Tickets only 250 on -ule now. wannanaaanaaanaanaasaaaans ‘The ludias sowing airele of the A. M.E. church mes Tuursday with Mrs, Ida Mart.n. Locals and Personals Monday } Tuesday ONLY Untrimmed Straw’ Hats THE TRIMMING DONE FREE Here’s an opportunity you can’t afford tomiss— Hats at half price and ifyou buy the material of us we will trim the hatin a stylish and be- coming manner—FREE of CHARGE. 407 EAST DOUGLAS AVE. 1 PROGRAM For Thursday Night, May 26th a Opp FE:Low HALL, Hon Henry W. James, Master of Ceremonies 1 Opening Address ..........eceerrereres oe cere w.Rev P D Yocum 2“ The Negro and Lynching ” ...se.:+ 1 sseseedns 8 C Collins Bt My Views ” ...c.s--cesseose cecserersstesescemmerseceennnce Mayor B F McLean 4“ Negro Journalism as T Bee £t ?...seos0-sss04000s,0Hom Geo W White 5 Duett........ Violin and Piano.....-.... "prof Edwin L Mason and wif 6* she Future of the Colored Race”........ Judge Claude C Stanley 7“The True Mission of the Negro Press” ........ Lieut. W A Betti, 8 “The Needs of the liour Ba rsisici ene cat asst eosieseeOno UNOS: Glover 9 “ If 1 Could Only Recall the Past’ Solo..... ....--- Mra RB Braden 40% Oikinenibhip ns cto < sveeenrsilioesectsineeem ton OG; Rokation Remember May 26th, 1904, Remember May 26 at 517 North Main St. Do not forget our prizes offered duvicg May, June and July, Samuel Walkcs bas relurned from Vicxebnrg, Miss., where he went te the bedside of his sick mother. , The ball giyen by Mr, J, B.H. Feay Doussday uisbt last week was well attended, J.B. iso k. Remember the $5,00 prizs whie> we offer during May, Juae and July. It's wosth working to win. Glanberg the milliner at 407 B. Douglas continues bis closing out sale of fine ladies skirts. These are burgains, From the interest manifested in the big demonstration sot for Thursday night May 26, they prom- ise to be grand, ‘The Babernacle Baptist church negotiating to earpet its building and to put in sew pows durisg the summer Rev. Nr. Countee is also contemplating a new pipe organ. ‘the time is at head tha’ the col- ored boy ov girl without # trade that itis hard to get along in this old world, Hvery parent owes it to their son er daugter to encourage them to learm aome trade, We be- lieve in practicing what wo preach so we will show our good faith by offerimg to learn some eolored bey or girl the p intes’s trade. Miss M, C. Hannibal is prepared to accommodate the ladies in the latest milinezy styles at her store 185 N. Main st. A visit there will convince you, Princess Cnapter No. 12 0. E. 6. will meet the Ind and 4th™ Wednes- duys of each menth at 3 p.m, The mort ngs will be held in the Getto block Second and Maia. Misa Daisy Bradford bas retna- ed trom Kansas City where the spent several. wreks visiting wiib hex sister Mre, F. W. Phelps. Mre J. H. Phelps is able to be out again after a four weeks il ness. Mrs. W. N. Miller was the guest of Mrs J. G. Gaines Thursday af- ternvon. | Mire, J. W. Halt otill serves ice cream on Sundays. ‘Bho revival is still in progress at the Zad Baptist ehurch. J. W. Wells, of Kanoss City was tho guest of My and Ms, Edward Bathman Wednesday eve. ° Mre. Richard Heck reeoived the cad news of the death ef ker aunt Mrs, Guinn of Colorade Springs. Frank Stree is somewnat ill this week from @ covere cub whieh he sustained Men@ay on the left band. Lieut. W. A. Bettis expects his wife in the eity in the near fatuve. ‘She is ay present im Bl Paso, Toxes, Joo Whitthd of Chicago is expect- ed in the city Monday to visit bis parents, Me, and Mrs. W. E. Whit- ted, 509 N. Water et. | Weare informed that, the mom bers of the T.O 8. C. club will attond tho exoreices on May 26th in a body. Seats are reserved for them. | Be sure and trade with our ad- epirerns Chas. H. Luling, world’s Fair Commissioner, has notified Officer Syt Andersen of the appointment of Mr. Anderson aa guard of the Kanass building at the Pair, but, owing to otber mattess it was im- possiqle for Mr. Anderson to aceept the position and he has so notified Mo. Luling. ereeeer verse reese | Rev. R.N. Conntso left Priday ter Kansas City on business. He will retarn about June Ist, Miss Sallie Rowlee the very ae- eemplished eop;ist in the register of deed’ s foffee continues to give gent satisfaction there. Mas, Sam W. Jonas and Miss L. ‘A. Covington have reeesved invita- ‘tions to attend a grand banques to ‘be given on the 25th inst at Newton by the M. U, G, clab of that city, | Miss Lena Siaten left Wednes. day fora few days visit with her brother in Eldorado, From there she will go to Florencs tu attend the graduati g oxercises at which Mr. Henry Asbernt will graduate, She will retura by way of Newton and will spend a few dzys there, ne ARAER ERR Rt, —s ; Hee y SA FPA O SOAS Key, ele] Southwestern Distributing 4 Fey] Agent for Cribben & Sexton Ges Hea [al Any style of stove at wholesale ase at) prices. MEN OA | FERRER ER FEES ES EES, iy : YY) : : f, : 6 : g : <3 : CMAN o : Sa SSCCCTTTTTTTATTTSTTTTTE Aeeeceeceecveveceess,,.. Read the great Searchlight , The Race’s Standard Bea SAALLAALBALSLARLLALLALA AA AAR AAKISH WINTER RATES tora — SUNNY SOUTH Tickets on sale daily until April 80th, 1904, tothe principal W intel Wesortes of Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florila, Tennessee, 5 Cavstion, Lobiame snd Sexes, Return limit Jane 1, 1904, Fur deta‘ls epply tof y 1.W.STRALN \ FRISCO ( CSA J (GEGEN) Viv. Pes. Axt., Wichita, Ku Ee) pribbbbbbobobobb0066060066666¢ £00046 0090000000004 BIG DISCOUNT A BIG DISCOUN We will for the next 30 days sell all our Spring an! Summer Suitings and Trousers at a discount of 20 Pe” cent less than the regular price. Call and see our line before ordering your clothes. Old Phone 620:———:——:New Phone 589 The PEERLESS TAILOR 508 East Douglas Ave! a Eas eek mea Bee Sear hlight’s Annivers#! J MAY 26TH [1904 L, 8. NAFTSGER; —_W, R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier. vve Fourth National Bank, Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY DIRECTORS: W. R. Tucker, J. M. Moore, S.B, Amidon, R. L. Holmes, W.E. Jett, L. S, Naftsger, 0. Z. Smith, E, H. Middlekauff B, F. McLean, A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED Wichita <5 + - Kansas. C. P. Wshington, M.D. Physician and Surgeon 605 N. Main st. In The Grocery J.ine Your wants need careful at- tention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas *Pone 357 We advise you to trade with 0 G. ©. theyt —DEALER IN— GENERAL MERCHANDISE Cor. 13th and Santa Fe Phone 1114 > / Red Front Raceg The People’s Economy g Sample Sho We have just recoived « jy voice of Men’s Work Shoes, Dress Shoes, Ladies aud Mice Drees Shoes, Oxford: and gj alistyles and all kinds AT WHOLESALE prigg You'll find an excellent ji “ Colonials ” the proper thin satest fad, in our regular eto TAPP BROTHERS & HAyy Phone 257. 255.257 N) OKO WONDERFI Curly Hair Made Straight saa ; Sa =a iH 4 AMD» AAs ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW trata wonderta baleqmaiein® : Bel faites tects feeverhas puteles tess i @ barnes io bee spat B eirierei teas te iy hat hee g eee a ie Sn eg Best atta e Mea © Bing to is superior aid isting dona © fiom easal vo he” Full icenoy si B Betset a eon Si by B teieegiea gratis Wie Ne B Beratcesaedite’ Water OZONIZED OX MARROW C0.) 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Tis [it aaananeeeil Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS, Agent. --- B. F. McLEAN, NUMBER = DEALER AT Norwater, Peck, Mary, Kansas. F. Bellew & Co. Estate & Imigration Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Lands and Ranges A Specialty. Dealers in Omaha and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lagos. Atronage Solicited Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kane MYRON A. DEAN Vegetables, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 115 N. MAIN ST. 101-Both Phones EVERY THING IN DRUG Prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street E FULTO All The On Advertising In the next few weeks or better yet on greet store and see what unusual th are to be had for a low price. Bits for Men made in the latest styles of material at DEALER Phone 1 408 W. Doug Property and Merchandise W & Co., Imigration Agents On Easy Terms. Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Illinois and Ranch Lakes. Solicited- wichita, Kansas A. DEAN Foods, Vegetable ed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 IN DRUGS Used With Care Customer always Drug Co. Grain Street. LTON g Ks or better yet come what unusual things price. The latest styles of all LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas Real Estate & Imigration Agts Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Western Lands and Ranges A Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lagis. Patronage Solicited- Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kansas. MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. EVERY THING IN DRUGS Prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street. You can in the next few weeks or better yet come to this greet store and see what unusual things there are to be had for a low price. Our Suits for Men made in the latest styles of all wool material at $5.00 to $12.50 are unequalled—Come and see them. --TRADE AT— THE FULTON —IT PAYS— hita's Greatest Clothing Sto WORK IS OUR HOB HILTON Clothing Store OUR HOBBY THE FULTON IT PAYS Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. Stop At The CENTROPOLIS HOTEL 605 N. Main Wichita, Kansas. Room and Board $3.50 Per week Newly refurnished and now Under the Management of C. K. SMITH First-Class Meals and Lodging. C. K. Smith, Prop. Ask for cash ships. THE INSTALLATION. Of Rev Tillman of Chattanooga, Tenn., as pastor of New Hope Baptist church took place on Sunday May 15th. Rev. Phelps, of the 1st Baptist church (white) preached the installation sermon which was full of us ful hints and practical suggestions to both the pastor and people. Rev. Vanlue, state missionary, followed with some terse remarks which seemed to have been enjoined by all present. Rev. H. Hill of the 2nd Baptist eunch had a few things to impress which he did in his own way which heartily enjoyed. Rev. Vocum of the A. M. B. church was the only speaker who had his matter in hand and every sentence was food for thought. Deacon James made a very nice talk and he was listened to with marked attentio ; he was followed by Rev. Dr. Countee who in a peculiar manner made a very pointed address touching all the subjects of the speaker who preceded him. The singing was con by the 2nd Baptist church choir under the musical direction of Miss Branch Alexander. They acquired themselves very well indeed. The day was a very unfavorable one, a cold, chill rain fell all the afternoon, so what was intended to have a financial success fell far short of expectations, as there were scores of friends and well wishers of the church who could not attend the service owing to the inclemency of the weather. New Hope Baptist church is to be congratulated on securing the services of Rev. Tillman who is a ripe scholar and we trust under his care the New Hope Baptist church will build up intellectually and thus be spiritually strong. - R.N.C. Tae T. O. S. C. club was royally entertained by Messers Robt. and Chas Floyd at 437 N. Water soh Monday night at which peace a number of the members were present. Refreshments, ice cream and cake were served after which the club adjourned to meet next Thursday eve May 26th. The members all report having had a delightful time and departed proclaiming the Messers Floyds successu entertainers. The club is preparing for a swell event watch for date. —F S. Street, Reporter Some time ago we wrote u about the fine singing of Mrs. Robt Braden, as a result f which Mrs. Braden on Tuesdy y received an off r from Holden and Williams, an up to date th atrica company, to accept an engag ment wite them for the season of 1904.5 Tey offer her $15 per week. Mrs. Braden has their off r und r consideration H. W. Harding, TEACHER OF SHORT-HAND and TYPEWRITING Lessons Given At A Very Low C. Nelyl as erected a fine dwelling on Cleveland av. Rev. J, H. Van Len is in the city this week taking a much needed rest. Rev. Robinson, of Arkansas City is spending a few days in the city visiting. Mrs. Jane Mayes is quite sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. Clark, 430 N. Wichita st. Wednesday was "circus day" of cousins were no boys who played "hooky" from school? Mrs. Jas. L. Harper who has been quite sick at her home, 529 N. Water is on the road to recovery. Dr. J. E. Farmer has a splendid practice in Wichita. For a young man with only two years' residence in our city he is doing fine. Invitations are out announcing the forthcoming marriage of Mr. Joe Bell and Miss Carrie Bradford. The wedding will take place at the 2nd Baptist church, Tuesday eve., May 24th. Do not forget about our Anniversary Exercises next Thursday eve., at Odd Fellow's hall. That day is May 26th. Be on hand. F E. Rutt r, of St. Joe, Mo., son of Mr. J. H. Rutt r, custodian of the court house, is in the city visiting his parents. Judge Tues. C Wilson left Tuesday night for Battle Creek, Mich, to accompany his wife home. They will spend a few days visiting in the East ann will return about the 1st of June. The exhibition given by the Novelty Amusement Co., at the A. M. E church Tuesday night was fine. They repeated at New Haps Baptist church Friday night. Six deates and funerals among the storied people of Wichita in one week is a pretty starting, but true record of last week's happenings. :PERSONAL MENTION:: Frank W. Butford is giving general satisfaction as headwaiter at the Manhattan hotel. There seems to be a matrimonial manita s ruek Wichita at the present time—on every hand you can hear of some happy couple who are soon to be made one- Mr. E. Thddeus Summytt is now a maschark over the Missouri Pacific from Wichita west. Every one looks forward for a big time on May 26th. Be on hand. Thy say that the Searchlight is about to lose one of its best lady city reporters. Of course Mr. Cupid, as usual, has been hard at work—and the result is—or soon will be so we are told—a marriage. Now you can't guess—and we're not goin' to tell. No, not now. Frank Street has developed into one of our very popular young men-the question now is "which is which" Mr. Tom Anderssn or Mr. Frank Street and the answer is found to be "both". That of course settles it. J A. Martin is erecting a cosy four room cottage on his lots on N. Water st. It's a nice place. The popular thing the days is to meet at Odee's Drug Store. Meet your friends at Odd Fellow's hall. Thursday night They will be the e, will you. The revival at the Second Baptist churc is still in progress and Rev. Hall, is sited by Rev. Jamison is making much headway. They have in mind for baptism and are much encouraged. The exercises at Odd Fellow's hall Thursday night will be highly elevatim and intellectual. You will wear and learn something about the Colored race if you are present. Come early so you can get a good eat where you can hear all. The Mammals who ap preciate the trade of the colo ored people ADVERTISE IN THE PAPER PATRON IZE THEY. THE NEW 5c and 10c Store 319 East Douglas Look At These Bargains 5c and 10c Imported China Glassware Tinware Pillow Tops Hose of all kinds. Some Dress Gin This is the place to buy your Choice Candies a Coatos & SHC NICE Patent For Men an Only $2.5 Edwin Clapp Shoes for Boys Shoes $1, $ Coombs- Red China Ware Tops Minds. Some Dress Ginghams 8c pence the place to buy your Waist Sets Buckles e Candies at Low Coatos & Co. SHOES Patent Leather for Men and Women Only $2.50 See Ladies dwin Clapp Shoes for men$5.00 Boys Shoes $1, $1.50, and $2.. Coombs-Moore Imported China Handkerchiefs Glassware Tinware All Silk Ribbons Pillow Tops Hose Cooking Utensils of all kinds. Some Dress Ginghams 8c per yard. This is the place to buy your Waist Sets Pins Buckles Rings Choice Candies at Low Prices Coatos & Co. 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 Lots of Men Are in The Same Position Use a little more forethought, brother, and keep out of the rut of "penny wise and pound foolish." Just a little more of an allowance for good, reliable plaster, cement, brick, paint, roofing, etc., would insure the very best and save tedious, expensee, going down in the pocket expenditures for repairs that could have been avoided. Buy at Turner's and it's right. Estimates cheerfully furnished. BOTH PHONES J. H. TU 535 -- 537 W. D. OLDEN'S DR Prescriptions Fil .....—Drugs of all kinds, C Your patronage solicited. Once a Our store is Headquarters BOTH PHONES 497 H. H. TURNER -- 537 w. Douglas OLDEN'S DRUG STO prescriptions Filled with C —Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco nage solicited. Once a customer, always store is Headquarters for the Colored p J. H. TURNER, 535--537 w. Douglas Ave., 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 H All Work Guar Turf Work A Specialty. 108 South Lawrence A W. H. DAVIS Harnessmaker Does all kinds of Harness work All Work Guaranteed. Arf Work A Specialty. Prices Reasona South Lawrence Ave. --- Does all kinds of Harness work All Work Guaranteed. Turf Work A Specialty. Prices Reasonable 108 South Lawrence Ave. Wichita Our Ice Cream Story Our ice cream tells it's own story of purity and perfection—the most important points about good cream. Once tasted you'll need no other inducement to make you buy. Always fresh and ready for delivery, in any quantities. No party or reception is complete without it. Bissant WICHITA KANSAS --- --- Handkerchiefs All Silk Ribbons Cooking Utensils Bingham's 8c per yard. Waist Sets Pins Buckles Rings at Low Prices & Co. DOES Leather and Women 50 See Our Ladies' Slippers. for men$5.00 $1.50, and $2.. Moore n Street A man is running while cutting a board with a saw. ONES 497 URNER, Doulas Ave., DRUG STORE illed with Care Cigars and Tobacco. ..... a customer, always a customer for the Colored people. DAVIS, maker, Harness work guaranteed. Prices Reasonable Ave. Wichita COPYRIGHT 306 East Douglas Ave. —Both Phones 98— 306 East Douglas Ave. —Both Phones 98— CEC Ae : SSS ‘The land should be cultivated for two or three years and freed of all wild sod and weeds before it is set to orchard, says O. M. Morris, of the Oklahoma station. The land should b+ plowed deep so as to give as deep soil as possible, Most of the prairie s9il in Oklahoma is very poor in hu- mus or decaying vegetable matter. Suen lands should be well manured before the orchard is set. The ma- nurs should be scattered evenly over the field and turned under with the turning plow. The practice of apply- ing large quantit‘es of manure in places where the tree is to stand can not be recommended. This practice of uneven manuring is usually car- ried out in one of ‘wo ways. The manure is applied very thickly in the immediate vicinity of the tree and worked into the soil or it is thrown in dead furrows that are made in the row where the trees are to be set, and then covered. The manure will decay faster if evenly distributed over the land. The trees will gather food from all directions and form a bett.r root system. Where the fer- tilizer fs unevenly distributed, the roots seek the most fertile soil and are developed there in greatest num- bers. As a result the water is taken out of such places very fast and in dry weather these spots dry out and the greater part of the root system is left without water. ‘Trees set on such land will always suffer more for water than on soil evenly fertilized. Sub- soiling is beneficial on soil that has @ hard clay subsoil. ‘Throwing out a deep dead furrow where the row of trees is to stand and then filling again after the trees are set is often of value both to loosen the subsoil and to help drain the land. These fur- rows should run up and down the hill and be as deep as is possible to make them with the tools at hand. ‘The water that stands on the ground seldom does any harm to the trees, but the soil becomes packed and in a little dry spell bakes and dries out very rapidly. A short time before the trees are set the land should be stirred deep and the soil well pulver- ized and left in a smootn, level condi- tion free from dead furrows and ridges. In Growing Native Plume Frederic Cranefield, in a paper on the growing of native plums, read be- fore the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, said: iu the propagation of the natives, ‘vany difficulties have been encounter- «d. Rootgrafting is but rarely suc- cessful; crown-grafting on one year seedlings is better, but expensive. Top- working on two year seedlings is all right for the amateur, but impractfc- able where a large number of trees is wanted. The relief probably lies in fell budding on stocks of the current season's growth. The next difficulty encountered, after the trees have been planted a year, is the matter of prun- ing. Nearly all of the natives are of straggling habit and strong growers, avd if allowed to go unchecked, pro- duce bad forks that commonly break down as the head becomes developed. On the other band, if we practice re- peated cutting back, 2 compact, dense hoad is formed, which necessitates staking the tree in early life and hin- ders the development of fruit spurs ag the tree develops. While I am not prepared to give definite directions for pruning, 1 am imztined to believe that a compromise af the two methods would prove best. I would prune a two-year tree to a whip when setting in the orchard and head back severely. A little judicious summer pruning the first year will ald in forming the head. The follow- ing spring the longest shoots may be suortened somewhat; this to be fol- lowed by a careful summer pruning. Alter this it is probable that as little pruning as possible should be done. ‘There is a very wide difference in the habits of the different varieties, re- «airing a close study of their peculiar- ities. ‘Trees of the Surprise and Ham- wer will often make straight and vhapely specimens without pruning sfter the first year, while Rockford and Quaker remain straggling and forked in spite of the best efforts. Blushing Maid Crab. The tree of this variety 1s a very vigorous growe-, but limbs and trunk are comparatively slender. Size of trunk at base 20% inches in circum- ference, at head 18% inches; upright grower with fairly well rounded head. ‘Thus far this variety has not shown much susceptibility to disease, either ‘or foliage or fruit, says a bulletin of the Virginia station. First bloom noted in 1892, three years from plant- ing, and a few fruits were produced the same season. In 1895 and again in 1897, 1899 and 1901 this variety vore full crops of fruit. The crops in o® years were much lighter. In 1899 we picked ten and onehalf bushels fruit from the two trees, and in 1901 the trees were loaded with showy fruit. It is generally very productive. Fruit of medium size, striped and washed with deep red and very showy on tres. Flesh white and crisp, not very rich, mild flavor, with slight as- tringeney. The quality of fruit of this variety is hardly equal to varie- ties like Transcendant, but the pro- ductiveness of tree and beauty of the fruit commend it for more general planting oes ee ee eee ECR eS fowls of the jungle he had no thought ef the wonderful things that were to develop from them through the sel ence of breeding. It is altogether likely that the first distinct breeds came into existence gradually and as @ result of the differing conditicns of the countries in which they were raised. It is believed the first fowls do- mesticated were those of India, From that point they were taken east, north and west. In the beginning they had all one general set of characteristics. But in the course of time the fowls of China developed in one way, the fowls of India in another and the fowls of the various countries of Eu- Tope in other ways. At first no at- tempt was made by man to direct this development, that Leing a result of place and conditions. So at the be- ginning of poultry history we find a few distinct breeds that have since been named after the locality from which each came. Thus, from the north of Asia we have obtained the Langshan, from the south of Asia the Brahma, and from Europe the.Leg- horn and the Dorking. These were pretty good breeds, when we remem- ber they were the result of breeding without an object. During the last 70 years a great many new breeds have been created by fanciers, who appreciated the possibilities locked up in the fowls and which might be brought out by selection and breed- ing. ‘Doubtless the coming hundred years will see an enormous increase in the number of distinct breeds of poultry and a general improvement in the special points for which each is bred. Every farmer should be a breeder to a considerable extent. He may not originate new varieties, in fact should not waste his time in trying to de- velop these, but he can do the same thing, in fact, that is, develop a strain of birds of more than the common value. Many of the breeds we now have are no better than the ones out of which they have been developed, their distinctive markings in color and form being about the only quali- ties their parents did not possess. But the farmer may well develop strains that will prove earlier matur- ing, better laying, healthier birds than were their immediate ancestors. The laws of breeding are to be studied to advantage and when understood will open the way to both pleasure and profit, The neglect of the laws of improved breeding is responsible for much of the poor stuff now to be found on our farms. We have to say, however, that there has been a great improvement in the last ten years, at least in the matter of meat producing birds. The farmer that has a flock of 10 hens can well afford to adopt some regular system for his breeding oper- ations. If he has eggs in view he can adopt a system of culling out all of the poorest egg producers from year to year. By so doing he would in a course of years have at hand a flock that would be a paying investment. Yet there are farms on which the hens have not improved for half a century, principally because there has been no care taken at all in the breeding. The eggs for sitting have uever been selected, and the result has been a reproduction of the average quality of the flock. Attention to the matter of breeding will pay every person that expects to raise fowls. Grading Up the Fiock. __ There are several ways by which a farm flock can be kept up to a very ‘good standard of excellence for prac- tical purposes, by just a little effort of the keeper, said J. H. Robinson in an address before the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Thus, where it is the practice to take the eggs used for hatchtag from the gen- eral flock if, besides reserving his best pullets, the keeper weeds out all the decidedly inferior ones, and uses only well developed males, any one of /which would be considered a desira- ble breeder, the stock cannot go back very rapidly, even though, as we have seen there might not be enough of the Product in any year from the best birds to strongly impress their quality on the flock. It is such selection as this, accom- ‘panied by selection of the largest eggs for hatching, that is practical on most farms where some specia! atten- tion is given the matter of making poultry profitable. It is doubtful whether any marked progress was ever made by such methods, but they are a long way in advance of leaving it all to nature. At best, these meth- ods are crude; their use under the condition described is illogical, The logic of such a situation re- quires that a poultry keeper who real- izes the importance of reserving his best fowls to breed from, should make sure that it is only the eggs of his best hens, fertilized by his best males, that are used for incubation. The logic of the situation requires that a poul- try keeper who thinks it worth while to select the best eggs for incubation should, sooner or later, come to con- sider it necessary to know that these eggs were from hens possessing the other qualities prized, and fertilized by males most suitable for mating with these particular hens. Selection is not complete if it stops short of the separation of the fowl selected— unless the whole flock is select— a thing which does not oftex hanzen. we ¢ “0% & A! 12 ‘ es * BK ao! Mp tte 2B tse eee Fe ha CSS em SRS CELEANY When to Water the Horse. The effects of watering horses be- fore, during and after feeding have been studied by a good many horse- men, but the conclusions arrived at have not been always uniform. In a general way it may be said that the time of watering does not have any appreciable effect on the digestion of a ration of hay and grain. When hay is fed alone there is a slight gain in digestibility in watering after feeding, and it is believed that when grain is fed the watering should be done before feeding. ‘The time of watering bas, however, a marked ef- fect on the amount of water drank and the amount excreted. The amount is greatest when horscs are watered after feeding and smallest when they are watered before feeding, under normal conditions of exercise and temperature. When water is offered before feeding, horses frequently re- fuse it. The manner of watering does not appear to change the composition of the faeces. In the case of heavy exercise preceding the feeding, water should be supplied before that feed- ing, apparently for the reason that a good deal of moisture has passed out of the aminal’s body in the exercise and a certain amount is needed in helping the stomach perform its func- tions. If an animal has become ac- customed to one way of watering it should be continued, as the animal does not readily take to a change in this regard. Profit in Young Animals. ‘The profit in beef and mutton pro: duction lies in the young animals. ‘There was a time, but that was many years ago, when the big bgned steer that weighed 1,800 to. 2,080 pounds was looked for by the buyers of deeves, but now the animal that is sought by the butchers is one that weirhs from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds. We have long since found out that the cheapest meat is made on young animals, and the money thus invested is soonest ready to be turned over. Not only is the money tied up long. est in old animals but the cost of producing meat on them is so great that our best beef feeders are no longer attempting to do that. The method advocated now is to keep the animals growing right along from birth to the period when they weigh what the market demands. Steers are now ready for the market at two years old or under. If all the animals shipped to the stockyards were of this kind there would not be much complaint about poor returns in stock breeding and beet making. A good many farmers are still trying to make profitable beef on old steers. ~But the young steer is the only animal that gives us any promise of a profit. fiéote Vereus Silace, In Europe the use of roots in stock feeding is quite universal especiaily in those countries that are too far north to permit of the extensive growing of Indian corn. But in the United States root raising for cattle has never been very popular, for the obvious reason that it is very much easier to grow corn than roots. We have talked this matter over with stockmen in the West and their ver. dict is uniformly that roots cost too much, except when grown and fed in a small way, in which their use {s justified as a laxative rather than a food. Careful experimenters have shown that roots cost about three times as much as corn to grow, bas- ing the comparison on the dry matter. Corn {n the form of silage is one of the best and cheapest foods for stock. It has been regarded as a dairy food par excellence and as a milk maker. But it is equally good for beef mak- ing, and some of our leading cattle raisers are now building silos to en- able them to make the best use of the Soe. ioe. Corn a Too Carbonaccous Food. Corn is by no means a_ balanced ration, though it is considered by many men the best single stock food known. ‘This opinion ts erroneous. The nearer a grain comes to be- ing balanced the more nearly is it a perfect food. Corn contains a very large amount of carbonaceous matter and a small amount of protein. Corn to be used to the best of advantage must be combined with some protein that will act as a balance to the elements that make up th? starch, fat, sugars, and digestible nutrients. It has been demonstrated cver and over again that by combining corn with some food that will increase the total amount of protein to a point where it will be @ fair balance for the carbohydrates, the steer will be more smoothly finished and. his coat will be more glossy than where corn is the single grain food. Funds for lewa Dairy Commission. ‘The Iowa legislature has passed a bill appropriating an additional $1,200 for the salary of an assistant diary and food commissioner. For a long time there has been but one man to do the great amcunt of inspection re quired in this, one of the largest dairy states of the Union. But the work has been well done, and the dairy in: terests of the state have profited greatly thereby. The additional help will enable the cammissioner to carry out much ef the work he has planned, but which could not before be done on actount of the many duties pressing upon the commissioner. x Hardware Store Insurance Gasoline Stoves Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose, ete, 16 East Douglas Ave. rearececevevcccocooooeeces HARDING § RESTAURANT First-Class - MEALS Short Orders — “Soft Drinks Lunch Ice Cream G. W. Harding, Prop. 903 East Douglas Wichita. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City ~~ ase Phone 232 SELGVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St Banner Mills anner MULS + CUSTOM GRINDING + sessseers A Spooialty ...co00es ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISON BROS, PROPS. 622 N. Main St, Phone 580 Hardware Store BL3 N. Main St. Cheapest Hsrdware sud Stove hou-e in Wichita; because we pey no rent and have light expenses ——— SEEM! sar — CALL AT — The ELITE Restaurant When You Want AGOODMEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS licts — C. L. KINER, Prop. 198 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. 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Us At The Old Reliable Stand At BY US NO North Main St, ener Bring Us Your Next Job. RIGHT {7 WE INVITE YOU TO CALL ee, The PRINTERS who Can PRINT ; ARE AS LOW Our Prices AS THE LOWEST IS AS GOOD OUR Work AS THE BEST ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARGHLICHT “IF NOT, WHY NOT? Ip is Oniy an FORA eae $1.00. WHOLE YEAR a Delivered. SUBSCHISETO-DAY PUEBLO ITEMS. SLALAKSAL LARK AA AS The Odd Fellows’ annual sermon wos preached in Bessee Sunday afternoon by Rey. C. M. Nellun. His subject was “ The Arrow went Beyou:”” Quite a crowd turned ont, Elder J: fferson acted as mae- tea of ceremonies. Miss Lulu Henderson of Waco, Texas, is v sit- ing her cousin Mrs. Tannyhill ,o! Bessemer. Elder Gardner while preying in Bethlehem chureb Sunday vight fell uncopsious on the floor and jasted in that state until 3 ’clock the next moraing, He says sines he come to himself that he is al- most useless. ‘The infant deughtor of lev’ Hardy is ill with tho a:b. Mrs, Estell Patton of | Vi# Kas.,earonte to ber howe * Ca ifornia, while stopping ! spent a few minutes with Me H. Haxdy, Tho Jorophine court hell " fneta!lation ui Gi stree! ball day night. Mra, WE: Mathews las ed to her home ia Alba president cf the Art club we be greatly missed ard be? ® friend+ regres. much (0 lost whom they had leurned to ls SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday May 21, 04 Typographical Errors. The typographical error is as old as the invention of printing, and it is safe to say that it will cause amusement and chagrin as long as movable types are in use, unless compositors and proof-readers become infallible by some process now unknown. To begin with, merely as a starter, we recall three oft-cited cases, being typographical assurances, which have become historical. On one occasion in printing Scott's lines— Oh, Caledo nia, stern and wild, Just needs a foot in child. the printer succeeded in getting the second line to read: "We'r nurse for a poetic child." "Wet nurse for a poetic child. Perhaps it was the same compositor who rendered Wordsworth's couplet—A perfect woman, nobly plumed, To warn, to comfort, and command—in the following matter-of-fact way, suggestive of unforgotten maternal corrections: A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warm, to comfort, and command—People who have examined the hand-writing of Horace Greeley can readily believe that when he quoted Shakespeare's "Tis true 'tis pity; and pity 'tis true 'tis, on one occasion, in an editorial, the effect was somewhat marred by its appearing in this revised form; "Tis five, 'tis fifty, yes, 'tis fifty-two." But these three are the only old specimens which shall be quoted in this article. Those that follow are strictly fresh, having been culled within a month or two from the prolific American press. In a lecture at Tremont Temple, Boston, Rev. Joseph Cook asked his audience, "Was St. Paul a dupe?" In a report of the lecture Mr. Cook was made to propound this startling conundrum: "Was St. Paul a dude?" It was a Boston newspaper, too, which made its dramatic critic say: "The toast for Irving, like the toast for olives, must be cut elevated." What the critic wrote was: "The taste for Irving, like the taste for olives, must be cultivated." Not long ago a Western Union Telegraph operator found the words "orates raters" in a special dispatch about the "praying brothers." It is not definitely known whether the telegrapher or the composer attempted to translate the words, but it is certain that they appeared in a Minneapolis paper as: "O rats, father." A clergyman in a Western town sent a notice to the local paper that he would deliver a sermon on "The Relations of Ministers to Their Parishes," and he was somewhat surprised next day to learn that the composer had changed the subject to "The Relations of Ministers to Their Pharisees." A New Brighton editor wrote a notice about the Fort Wayne Road, but it appeared "Fish Wagon Road." An Atlanta editor discussed the political situation in a comprehensive editorial and headed it, "Let Us Explore." He neglected to read the proof, and it appeared under the caption, "Let Us Explore." An Indiana paper found it necessary to publish the following correction: "For 'burglar meeting,' in the head of the article in our last issue relating to the Town Council, read 'regular meeting.' We are sorry the mistake occurred, and guess the Councilmen are sorry too." A resident of Worcester, Mass., tried to advertise for a fawn-colored bullterrier pup, which had straved from home, and learned by the next day's paper that it was a "fire-alarm bell-tower key" that he had lost. Another New England paper told about "a drove of hogs floating down the Connecticut River," instead of "a drive of logs." Still another daily in that section of the country had occasion not long ago to say: In the letter in last Friday's issue about ticket speculation in Berlin, in speaking of the Schauspiel Haus, or theater proper, the copyist tried to write, as the author did, that it was devoted to "non-musical" dramatic performances, but the types-made it "non-sensical." The types usually make their errors "nonsensical," as was the case when a St. Louis paper said: "The stay in Indianapolis proved a relief from the monetary which is inimitable on a thirty-hour cautionary journey." The writer, who was doubtless in a hurry when he wrote the sentence, wanted to say: "The stay at Indianapolis proved a relief from the monotony which is inevitable on a thirty-hour continuous journey." Whittier's "Brewing of Soma" figured in a Cincinnati paper as "Burning of Laurai," and another paper of that city, wishing to bestow "a word of compliment" on a local performance, managed to give publicity to "a word of complaint." A noted Chicago divine preached a sermon in which he used the quotation: "And he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." The printer, who was evidently not a Biblical student, set it: "And he saw Abraham afar off, and a horse's car in Boston." The readers of a Missouri paper were astonished to hear, in a vigorous leader, that "this war-ery is the key-bale of victory." More French Needed. Where does all the precocity come from? Madame has just had a letter from a friend in Paris, which is lamenting over the ingenious depravity of her beloved son, *atat* three and a half. He came sailing in to his mother the other day, evidently in a state of suppressed emotion over some Gallic indigency, and demanded with the greatest earnestness: “P'ease, mamma, what is French for damnonsense?” — *Boston Beacon.* NEXT to having her young man come to see her Thursday evenings, a girl likes best to stand on the sidewalk and look at the engagement rings shown in a first-class jeweler's window. Complete Repose is Necessary. A scientist says it is not true that intellectual work is a relief from physical work, or vice versa. Fatigue, of whatever nature it is, accumulates during any kind of labor, and disappears only on complete repose. Picture Postal Cards Frans Borich, a Nuremberg artist, is dead. The German papers say he was the inventor of the picture postal card. His first cards appeared in 1872, but as early as 1868 German brewers were advertising their beer by pictures and mottoes on cards, which they sent to prospective customers. Those are the earliest known specimens. Improvement in Cables A striking fact about copper is that a cable of to-day for submarine telegraphy will transmit twice as many messages as one made in 1858, due to the greater purity of the copper now employed. Many metals are most susceptible to minute additions of various alloying elements—being without them, and crumbling easily when a slight trace is incorporated. Sir Edwin and a Poem. The late Sir Edwin Arnold had one very painful experience as a poet, writes a correspondent. He wrote a poem and sold the copyright to a stranger, whom he too hastily assumed to be the editor of an American magazine. When he next saw his work it was being used as the advertisement of a proprietary medicament. — Fall Mall Gazette Birds Foretell Storms Birds are endowed with a remarkable instinct which enables them to measure up their responsibilities in connection with their nests. Birds never fail to return home long before it rains or a storm approaches. The common sparrow comes first. From his nest he chirps warnings to his feather brethren of larger species than his own. To Cure the Habit It is said that every bachelor in Korea, no matter what his age, is regarded as a child, dressed as a child, and treated as a child. Even if he be 70, he may not knot up his hair in mainly fashion or assume the garb of a man. Here is a suggestion for the solution of the great bachelor problem in this country. It is better than taxing. Excuses a Bookmaker. At the Central Criminal Court sittings in Sydney a bookmaker was summoned to act on a jury to try a case of manslaughter, and, before taking his seat, asked to be excused. The judge Inquired the reason. "I have a very heavy book on the Nemarket Handlecap," he replied, "and my partner does not understand how to run it." The excuse was accepted. Cratera of the Moon. It is estimated from recent photographs of the craters of the moon that they are over 200,000 in number. Prof. Pickering thinks that the white patches in some craters and the numerous bright radiating lines are due to snow and the less conspicuous lunar canals, which gradually appear, increase and fade away, in the lunar day, are attributable by the same authority to vegetation. Dangerous Complexion Improver. Two young girls of Berlin found their eye sight failing and their parents sent them to a doctor, where they had to undergo a cure lasting for some weeks. Questioned by their parents as to what they had been doing to bring their eyes to such a condition the girls confessed that they had washed their faces in water mixed with frogs' eggs in order to secure a delicate complexion. Tuberoses from North Carolina. Tuberoses are produced in the United States on a large scale, the market being chiefly supplied from a small area in Duplin county, North Carolina, which produces many millions of them annually for sale and for export. The bulbs are plowed out of the ground in autumn, gathered by colored women, hung up in bunches to dry for a month or two, and finally packed in paper-lined barrels. West Virginia Aroused. Roberts, W. Va., May 16.—Many interesting discoveries are being made and many wonderful cures reported recently, but nothing has been seen or heard of in this state to equal the wonderful work of a remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills. The people are very enthusiastic about it for it seems that there is no case that this wonderful medicine cannot cure. Among many cases reported that of Mr. John J. Ash of this place is conspicuous for its completeness. Mr. Ash was a great sufferer with Kidney trouble. He was gradually growing worse till at the last he was forced to get up three or four times every night. He had tried many medicines without any good result, but at last he found the right one in Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says: "The very first box of Dodd's Kidney Pills did me more good than anything I took in my life." Now Mr. Ash is well and can sleep all night as comfortably as he ever Cannon for Ornaments Four of the cannon taken from the French off Finisterre in 1747 by Admiral Boscawen now fill the lowly if useful roles of curbposts and lampposts in front of the house, No. 2 St. James's square, London, of Boscawen's descendant, Lord Falmouth; while on Tower Hill there is a row of posts on the curbstones, every one of which is a cannon which has done service, or has been ready to do it, against England's enemies. IS EASY TO FORGET IS EASY TO FORGET HINTS TO EDITORS AS TO THEIR OPPORTUNITIES. President of the New York State Republican Editorial Association Tells His Brethren of the Press That They Must Keep Vital Issues in the Foreground. Due appreciation of the importance of the issue to be decided in the campaign of 1904 was shown in the annual address of William A. Smyth, of the Owego Times, as president of the New York State Republican Editorial association, at the meeting of April 13. Rightly President Smyth admonishes his brother editors of the grave and far-reaching consequences of the questions to be decided this year; rightly he warns them that Republican editors of the state must be prepared to do their share of the fighting if we are to keep in power "the party of protection, honest money and prosperous times." There is no question of honest money involved in this year's struggle. The Democratic party will not again overload itself to the sinking point with any "16 to 1" foolishness. That issue is dead, forever dead. But the issue that is alive to-day, as much alive as at any previous period in the country's history, is protection and prosperous times. in his address President Smyth said; "This year, the fifty-four anniversary of the founding of the Republican party, promises to be a memorable one. During the past year, an off year in politics, there has been but little work for this association to do. We are now on the threshold of a very important campaign, and probably none that have preceded it have been so important and far-reaching to WHATWOULD SURELY HAPPEN. Uncle Sam—"Are we to have that kind doors of American facto the American people as this promises to be. TACTORY Uncle Sam—"Are we to have that kind of cobwebs once more spread over the doors of American factories? Heaven forbid!" the American people as this promises to be. "You can always trust the Democratic party to have a 'paramount' issue. When this association was formed the Democratic issue was free trade, eight years ago it was free silver, and four years ago militarism and imperialism, with free silver as a side issue. This year the paramount issue has not been sharply defined as yet, but you can rest assured that our Democratic friends will have one. 000. Last year the bank clearings of these two cities amounted to $106,000,000, an increase of nearly 70 per cent. As the Republican well knows, the bank clearings of the whole country have more than doubled since a protective tariff displaced the free trade measure of the last Democratic administration. The Republican seems to get madder and madder every day simply because its long predicted and hoped for persis does not come. That editorial "It looks now as if the brunt of the fight will be in the state of New York; that the two opposing candidates will be sons of the Empire State, and that we are to meet a united Democracy, though not united on principle, but simply for the spoils of office. It will be no easy campaign; the battle will be fast and furious, and the Republican editors of this state will have to do their share of the fighting. The voters, especially those in the country districts, will have to be educated and aroused to the necessity of keeping the grand old party in power, the party of protection, honest money and prosperous times. Our people forget easily. Many of them have already forgotten the condition in which the Republican party found the country seven years ago, when they returned to power. Soup houses were popular then, but they soon gave way to the march of good times. The merchant, the farmer, the manufacturer took on new courage; the closed manufactories were opened and running on full time; the promises of the martyrred McKinley were quickly fulfilled, and prosperity was again an actual." True it is that "our people forget easily." They forget past ills escaped from; they forget alike the cause of those ills and the means whereby escape was made possible. Republican editors, not alone in New York, but in all the states of the Union, are exceedingly prone to forget. What wonder, then, that their readers should forget? How many of the members of the New York State Republican Editorial association are blameless in this regard? How many of them have in the past four years, for example, steadily, persistently, faithfully kept in the plain view of their readers the principles, the facts, the conditions, the underlying causes of our prosperous times? How many have constantly made plain the reasons for our prosperity and the dangers attendant upon any departure from safe, sound Republican policies? Not 10 per cent, we venture to say. They have had other things to think of, and they have thought and written of other things far more than they have thought or written about the elements and causes of prosperous times. "Our people forget easily." Undoubtedly they do. They forget "between elections," because they are permitted to forget. It is up to Republican editors to remember all the time, and not merely for a short three months once in every four years. If they will do this our people will not so easily forget, and disastrous lapses of memory like that of 1892 will not be so liable to occur. A Most Pitiable Journal. Says the Springfield Republican, referring to Controller Grout's proposed bond sale: "But it is quite possible that he (Controller Grout) should look for a slump in the money market because of the conditions of business, which give no assurance of maintaining the level of the so-called prosperity under which the country is suffering. That slump is as much to be expected if Mr. Roosevelt is elected as if the Democrats by some fluke of fortune should defeat him." "This so-called prosperity under which the country is suffering"—this, of course, is a concentration of pessimism, sarcasm and a gangrenous condition of gray matter. Let us see under what "so-called prosperity" Springfield is suffering. In 1894, ten years ago, the bank clearings of Springfield and Holyoke were $63,000. of cobwebs once more spread over the ries? Heaven forbid!" 000. Last year the bank clearings of these two cities amounted to $106,000,000, an increase of nearly 70 percent. As the Republican well knows, the bank clearings of the whole country have more than doubled since a protective tariff displaced the free trade measure of the last Democratic administration. The Republican seems to get madder and madder every day simply because its long predicted and hoped for panic does not come. That editorial under the caption "We Told You So" has been standing so long, and yet there are no signs that it can be used for months or perhaps years to come. What a comment upon pretended intelligence that a once great American newspaper will not be happy and satisfied till adversity takes the place of prosperity. That Tariff Plank. It becomes more and more evident that the ingenuity of Democratic platform builders will be taxed to the utmost when it comes to fixing up the tariff plank at St. Louis. The people are rather used to free trade straddles, they have even been deceived two or three times, but not again so soon after the experience under the last free trade law. The best thing the Democratic party can do is to skip the tariff plank this time. By the way is Parker a Cleveland and Bryan free trader or a Hill and Murphy protectionist? In Spite of AIX. In spite of the free soup houses of 1893 to 1896, the smokeless chimneys, the closed factories, the idle workmen, the want and suffering of that period of depression, and in spite of the prosperity we are now enjoying, there is still a cry in the Democratic party for free trade. By what trick of logic or oratory the Democrats will attempt to persuade the people to adopt an anti-protection measure is at present not very clear, but there is no doubt that an effort will be made in that direction—Kansas City Journal. Could You Use Any Kind of a Sewing Machine at Any Price? 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"All dogs must have their daze," growled a policeman as he knocked a curly silly with his club. — *New York Morning Journal*. A BALD-HEADED scientist says that "flies will not light on a damp spot." He wants to go and soak his head right away. — *Yonkers State man*. CURIOUS, ain't it? Instead of the vinegar being the offspring of the mother, the mother is the offspring of the vinegar. — *Boston Courier* "Ah, I see you have the stamp of a gentleman," sarcastically remarked a young lady to a clumsy fellow who trod on her pet corn.—Hotel Mail. ARDENT but aged wooer—Darling, I adore you. Can you return my love? Loved one—Certainly, with pleasure; I have no use for it.—Town Topics. An exchange speaks of "a man intoxicated with a wooden leg."—Prohibitionists must put wooden legs on their list if that be true.—Texas Sittings. TAILOR—Want a "check" suit. Mr. Wiggins? Wiggins—Well, I don't care; plain cloth will do, it is something that will be "noted" during the season. 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Doctor — What's the matter with your wife? Blobson — Insu mnia. Doctor — Can't she sleep? Blobson — Yes, she can, but she won't. — Burlington Free Press. "A THREE in the palm region of the Amazon cradles the young in palm leaves." In this country a palm also ters largely in the work of bringing up the young, but it is used more in thrashing than cradling.—Norristown Herald. MRS. FOGG—But David, while you have told about the disgraceful manner in which the rest of the party behaved, how intoxicated they were and how noisy, you don't say a word about yourself. Fogg.—My dear, I am no egotist.—Boston Transcript. SHE was decorating her room with pictures, and she perched her husband's picture on the topmost nail. Then she sat down to admire her work, and remarked, quietly: "Now every thing is lovely, and the goosso hangs high."—Otago Witness. At the sside. Casual acquaintances enter into conversation. "What is your business, if I may ask?" "I am a magazine editor." "That is an occupation, which must have many changing features. What par. of it do you like best?" (Wearily)—Getting away—Burlington Free Press. MR. HACKLEY—Ah, Miss Doubleday, absorbed in thought? Were you thinking of the beauties of the intellect, or contemplating the wonders of nature? Miss Stokes—Contemplating the wonders of nature, Mr. Hackley. I was trying to determine what made the curl in the tail of a puppy. —Time. DAUGHTER—Papa, dear, Mr. Sampson is coming to-night, and I wish when you go to bed that you would close the transom over your door. Father (humbly)—Do I sweep so loud as all that? "Yes, papa; and I don't want Mr. Sampson to think that that sort of thing runs in the family."—Texas Sifting. HAPPY BAGGAGE-SMASHIERS. The trunks are lcow'r in piles of baggage. The baggage is the baggage-smother snacks and smiles. As many a one he wc he wc. Wrote in the notes. "You say you heard both shots fired?" asked a lawyer, cross-examining a colored witness in a murder case. "Yes, sah, heard bofe shots. Dey was fired simultaneously." "But you said on the direct examination that the shots were fired one after the other, and now you say they were fired simultaneously." "Jes' what I said, sah. Befe shots were simultaneous like, one aftah aundder." "Youth's Companion." She Bought a New One. Mrs. Gorham Ware—I must run now, dear. We're going to have a dreadful shower. I hope your dress won't spot. Why did you come out today without an umbrella? Miss Korton—Oh, I don't know; I suppose because you borrowed it yesterday. Mrs. Gorham Ware—How stupid of me to forget! This is your umbrella, isn't it? Well, I'll send it around just as soon as I get home.—Puck. A New Life. Magistrate—You have been arrested a good many times Uncle Rastus. Uncle Rastus—Not lately, yo' honah Yo' see I 'sperienced religion 'bout a yeah an, an' I don' spose I be rested mo'n three or fo' times sence. lea leadin' a difrunt life, rain—New York State. Food Is the Only Natural Medicine Half the unhappiness of mankind arises from little stoppages, from a duct checked up, from indigestible food pressing in the wrong place. For the prevention of this throw physic to the dogs—eat foods, the only natural medicines, that will regulate the bowels—keep the outlets open. Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts. A cook book containing 76 excellent receipts for using the Food malled free to any address. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO., Food Mills, BATTLE CREEK, MIGH., Main Offices, CHICAGO. PLEASE TELL YOUR READERS Our Big 50-Cent Catalogue Is Now Free. For years the price of our big General Merchandise Catalogue has been 50 cents, but we have reduced our selling prices on all kinds of goods so far below all other houses as to insure almost every catalogue bringing orders and making new customers, and by the introduction of new paper-making machinery, new automatic rotary printing, folding, binding and covering machinery we have so reduced the cost of making this big book that we will now send it by mail, post paid, free to any address on application. The big book, which heretofore was sold at 50 cents each, and which is now free for the asking, is $8\frac{1}{2}\times11\frac{1}{2}$ inches in size, contains thousands of illustrations, descriptions and prices, is thoroughly complete in nearly every kind of merchandise, including dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, furnishing goods, notions, millinery, carpets, upholstering, hardware, tools, electrical goods, guns, sporting goods, sewing machines, musical instruments, organs, pianos, furniture, baby carriages, crockery, cutlery, stoves, drugs, photographic goods, optical goods, talking machines, moving picture apparatus, buggies, harness, saddles, daddlery, watches, jewelry, silverware, clocks, safes, refrigerators, tinware, everything used in the home, in the shop, in the factory and on the farm, and all priced at prices much lower than were ever offered by any other house. If you have one of our big catalogues or have ever seen one you know what it is, the most complete, most up to date and lowest-priced catalogue ever published. If you haven't our big catalogue don't fail to send for one at once. If you have the big book please tell your friends and neighbors that the book is now free and they can get one for the asking. Simply on a postal card or in a letter say, "Send me your Big Catalogue," and the big new book, our regular 50-cent catalogue, will go to you by return mail, postpaid, free with our compliments. Please don't forget to tell your neighbor who hasn't the big book that the big 50-cent book is now free to anyone for the asking. Address SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago. The average young girl prefers quantity to quality in the matter of beaux. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children, teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 20c a bottle. A necessary evil must be the kind that money is the root of. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar. The highest price 5c cigar to the dealer and the highest quality for the smoker. Lewis' Factory, Peoris, III. A man's will is a sort of dead giveaway. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. The fellow who gives away cheap cigars would give away his friends. Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocery does not keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. It is often a man's backing that enables him to put on a bold front. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishism, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggies. 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. It doesn't take a strong man to break a $10 gold piece. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs. while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. A married man can always afford anything he requires for his own use. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Dissections of the Restaurant since 100 years, plus a bill on dissection of cattle, on demand by our mild method, some pals a coat till cured—we furnish their name on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR 1030 Oak St., Manana City, Mo. Lincoln Paints ABSOLUTELY PURE PLUCK WINS—It ALWAYS wins. We had pluck enough 15 years ago to put an abso- tutely fine house paint on the house canvas we use. It stands this western climate, and we have pluck enough to guarantee it. Ask your dealer for it, and write us for special color design for your house. Free. Lincoln Paint & Color Co., Lincoln, Mohr. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion.Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Fletcher. NEW YORK. DON'T GET BLUE P You may feel out of sorts, all run down, cross,irritable, headache,back ache, nervous, discouraged, blue—but you need not. Eat what you want. keep regular hours, get plenty of sleep and take a small dose of Dr.Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Dr.Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin after each meal. If constipated, take a tablespoonful before going to bed. Mrs. Sarah A. McCracken, of Corning, Ohio, writes as follows: "While visiting in Taylor- ville, I, I came across your Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. I have used two and one-half bottles, and it has done me more good than all others." I will use it for two years. Please let me know if you will send me three or four bottles and what it will cost to send it to Corning, Perry County, Ohio, and oblige." Your druggist sells this remedy if he is a good druggist. 50c and $1.00 bottles. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hitchcock In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE OENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. No More Blind Horses For Specie Optimalism moon Blindness and other sore eyes, Bary Co. Iowa City, IA. In have a care store Ask your dealer for the Mayfield Tank and Float Vases, the valve that opens all the way round. If your dealer has a name and address and we will his name and address and we will send you an envelope from Korkin Mfg. Co. Dallas, Texas. FARMERS Many high esteemed managers of our company were formerly farmers. I want a right to township in Kansas. Bright men will be rapidly vanced. "You can make money from the start. S. B. Berger, Mgr., Etn. Life Insurance Co., Topalka, Kaz FREE to WOMEN A Large Trial Box and book of instructions absolutely Free and, Post-paid, enough to prove the value of Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Paxtine is in powder form to dissolve in water, non-poisonous and for sensitive antiseptics containing alcohol which irritates irritated surfaces, and hard surfaces. The contents of every box, makes more Antiseptic Solution. Use it goes further--has more uses in the family and does more good than antiseptic preparation you can buy. Paxtine is in powder form to dissolve in water and for superior to liquid antiseptic containing alcohols which irritates and lifescuces and have no cleansing properties. The contents be made more antiseptic Solution—lasts longer—goes further—has more and does more good than antiseptic preparation you can buy. The formula of a noted Boston physician, and used with great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhea, Pelvic Catarrh, Nasal Catarrh, Sore Throat, Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. In local treatment of female illis Paxtine is invaluable. Used as a Vaginal Wash we challenge the world to produce its equal for thoroughness. It is a revolution in cleaning and healing power which cause inflammation and discharges. All leading druggists keep Paxine; price, a box; if yours does not, send to us for it. Don't take a substitute — there is nothing like Paxine. Write for the Free Box of Paxine to day R. PAXTON CO., 5 Pope Eldg. Boston, Mass. W. N. U. WICHITA — NO. 31, 1904 WILL CURED 26 YEARS ESTABLISHED 200 page treatise on Piles, Flatults and Dissures of the treatise on diseases of Women. Of its 8 thousands a coat tilt cured — we furnish their name in an application TON & MINOR 1030 Oak St., Nanaas City, Mo. PLUCK WINS—It ALWAYS wins. We had pluck enough 15 years ago to put an absolutely pure house paint on the market, and it won. It stands this western climate, and we have pinck enough to guarantee it. Ask your dealer for it, and write us for special color design for your house—free.