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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT The Man of and An able Speech Op Derrick The Man of Color and His Rights. An able Speech Delivered by Bishop Derrick of Chicago. Doubtless Providence has had since the beginning of the world purpose that it was only per via crisis of slavery that the defendants of Ham, brother of Apet, should rise to become the vital equals of the descendants Apet. It is not so long ago, for a hundred years, when the most civilized nations were piles, or sympathizers with piles, who believed it right and power to steal black men from Africa and consign them to personal bondage, totally regardless of the enormous wrongs inflicted on their victims. One hundred years ago in bible reading England, in the shop windows along the quays of Liverpool and Bristol were exposed for sale the manacles and branding tons for binding the limbs of men, women and tender boys and girls, whose only fault consisted of their having a black skin—instruments to facilitate the conversion of free beings into the battles of despotic tyrants on american soil. The spread of education the world over converted the leading minds of the human race to the sea that slavery was a monsieur crime, not only against the war but against the slaveholder realizing his nature and ever losing him to the consequence of a struggle with a people led with truth and freedom. Island, wise in her generation ago threw slavery overboard in the southern states of Armenia persisted in nourishing this miserous crime, even after the existence of the North was fulfilled to its enormity, and so finally marched to their fate. The civil war had to be by reason southern injustice and fanatism. It was a foregone conclusion that slavery must be abolished, and it was abolished. But, unfortunately it was only physical slavery that was abolished the ex-slave and his descendants are today suffering from a moral slavery as galling as the physical slavery endured forty years ago. The colored man has been deprived of an inaleinable civil and social rights. He has been defrauded of his right to ride, his right to ride in the same public conveyances as white men, his right to equal justice in the courts of law, his right to work side by side with white men in the various trades and professions, and has been relegated to a debased social status by aignant race prejudice born of the institution of slavery and inked into the mind of every outherner from his cradle upward. to enumerate the catalogue of social and moral wrongs 6TH YEAR. that today exasperate the men of color would be an endless task Excommunicated and proscribed deprived of the very hope of holding political office under a government he has shed his blood and laid down his live to defend and uphold, he is an alien in his own country, an expatriated patriot. The south is to-day sufficiently civilized to know that slavery was a crime and a curse; but the south is not sufficiently civilized to know that the Negro has civil and social rights. The South says that it has accepted the emancipatism of her slaves as the legitimate result of war and this once accomplished, noting more is possible. Physically Free, the man of color is still a slave, enduring a moral slavery even more galling than than the wearing of his former fetters. His civil rights are denied him and as for social recognition ia the smallest degree, it is undreamed of. There are three great platforms upon which the Negro question stands, each higher than slavery and each having its own advocates: First, there is the platform of moral slavery, cau2ed by the abnegation of civil and social rights, which at present exists, the champion of which is Ben Tillman, who voices the opinions of those who believe in the arbitrary suppression of the Negro's impartial, impersonai civil rights, which belong to manhood the world over, but which are still denied to many races by their oppressors. The domination of one class by another without its consent is Asiatic, un-American and barbaric. Ben Tillman and his tribe believe that the laws should refuse to protect a civil right if said civil right is attempted to be exercised by the man of color. No matter how enlightened, how honest, he cannot exercise the common rights bestowed upon the most ignorant, the most vicious, the most pampered white man. The second platform is that strange namby-pampy differentiation of civil and social rights which allows the man of color civil caste. while sternly trampling on all his social aspirations. Mr. Geo. Cable, the author, is the mouthpiece of this doctrine. Mr. Cable so far as civil rights are concerned, rightly obliterates the color line and substitutes the line of character, intelligence and property therefor. For this concession much thanks. Mr. Cable rightly contends that a people who 15,000 preachers of righteousness, 40,000 teachers, and who are assessed for $900,-000,000 worth of taxable property WICHITA, KANSAS, JUNE 4, 1904. ought not to be arbitrarily deprived of their civil rights, their right to vote, their right to engage freely anywhere in honest labor, their right to participate in public office; in fact, to enjoy all the impersonal civil rights enjoyed by the white man in all his civil relations; but at the same time Mr. Cable very carefully panders to the prejudices of the south to which he belongs by derying all social equality to our race. He says; "Social equality is a fools dream. I want as little of it as the most fervent traditionist of the most fervent south." Strange how even so intelligent a man as Mr. Cable is on other questions, can be so mentally blind as to the social rights of the man of color. But the reason is that, in common with the present brain development of the entire south, his brain lacks the presence of those brain cells that would tolerate the possibility of social equality between the races—a concession not, of course, to be dreamed of in his present state of brain development. He reminds us of those reverend pastors and magistrates, of 200 years ago, in New England who burned at the stake innocent women under the delusion that they were witches and as witches they had no right to live. While thus pandering to the forocious prejudices of the South, he at the same time has a glimmer of the truth that even the social rights of the man of color may be sometimes respected when hesays that "the best men of the South are coming daily into convictions that condemn their own beliefs of yesterday as the antiquated artillery of an outgrown past." In spite of his prejudices, he contemplates the possibility of a still more liberal minded future as the solvent of the Negro's wrongs. The third platform is that which concedes to the man of color the possibility of social as well as civil rights—the same social rights as are accorded to every white man. Our present beloved President, Theodore Roosevelt, in offering the right hand of fellowship and the right of hospitality to a worthy man of our race, Mr. Booker Washington, is the exponent of the doctrine that the social rights of both races are the same. Thank God for so redoubtable a champion of the colored race in a country that believes that all men of color—no matter how honest, how highly educated, how wealthy, how benevolent—are to be considered ignomiously inferior to the meanest white men, in spite of the Divine announcement that God has made of one blood all the nations for the earth, and in spite of the Declaration of Independence, the charter of the colored man's liberty, as well as that of the white man, which asserts that all men are free and equal. So deep rooted is this murderous race prejudice that there are parts of the South today where a man's life would not be safe who preached the doctrine of social equality between the races The South firmly believes that the social intermingling of the race would infallibly lead to amalgamation, to miscegenation. The writer wishes it to be understood that he is no miscegenationist. Fusion of blood is like all other social relations, a matter of personal choice which no laws can hinder or control. It is outside of the domain of politics and law. On this question the south stands condemned for preaching one thing and practicing another. She south says that the fusion of bloods of the races "is not only impossible but unthinkable." If possibld, how is it that so much white blood flows in the veins of the man of color? Where did he get it that is the question. The phite man of the south is certainly a strong believer in what he calls miscegenation, as proved by the vast preponderance of colored men over those of pure African blood. While he prates on the impossibility of hybridity, or fusion of the races, good old mother Nature is laughing at his pretentions and verbal inanities and is at work, right along creating a fusion of the races on the grandest possible scale. The South affects to ignore this supreme fact while busily at work creating it. This reminds me of the story in Pilgrim's Progress of one who tried to put out a fire with water on one side, while his fellow supplied the fire with oil on the other side—a truly farcical situation. Is it not a fact that in the city of New Orleans to-day respectable fathers of white families are raising colored families in the Negro quarter, subrosa? Where is the truth, where is the honor, where is the consistency in infusing the veins of the Negro with white blood and then denying the possibility of such an admixture. The more white blood injected into the veins of the Negro, the more he thinks and feels as a white man, the more strongly he resents the ignomy of his civil and social enslavement. The South says it "will never adopt the suggestion of the social intermingling of the two races. It will by every means in its power so strengthen the race prejudice that it would do the work of keeping the races apart by instinct." This is the veriest rot. It simply proves the demoniacal, ferocious and brutish spirit that rules certain sections of the south. The only solution possible of the so-called Negro question is the solution arrived at in Cuba. There was a time when the white blood of the Spaniard refused to mingle with that of the Negro and between the races a great gulf was fixed. To-day but few people of unmixed white blood live on the island. It is almost impossible to distinguish between the swarthy Spaniard and the man with a slight mixture of Negro blood. The half-caste is no longer a Negro, he is a Cuban. He is a proud creature, tenacious of his rights and is, if of poised manners, received with open arms everywhere. He is admitted into the best society and marries the daughters of the proudest hidalgos When the tide of blood is but half way in everybody objects to it but when the tide is at its full nobody is any longer surprised at it. Fresh Pork Trimmings 2c Per Pound Buy your Fresh and salt Meats at the cacking House Market and save money Remember the place-Market at the gate of DOLD' Packing House. I am no prophet, and, again I say, I am not the apostle of amalgamation, but I will venture on this prophecy. What has been the fate of Cuba will be the fate of the United States. A few generations ago, the white American dragged from Africa the dark sons Ham, and enslaved them. Today the men of color (think of it white men of the south) are your sons. A few generations more and men of color will sit in your drawing reoms, the husbands of your daughters. What! You say that this is a monstrous conception! Not at all. You are in arms against nature, and nature will fling you you into the dust every time. You have chosen the cup of your own drinking, and you will drink it to to the dregs. After all this is not so bad. The black man is not different from what the white man would be if subject for the same length to the same environment. His blood is not different chemically from that os the white races. He is one blood with all the nations of the earth. We men of color, while we are more highly developed physically, are as a race not so highly developed mentally, and our skins are of various shades of golden brown. But being your sons, men os the South, we will get there in time intellectually, if education be granted us. Being your sons in spite of the gibbering statements of your prejudice grazed orators and your editorial marionetts of public opinion that race amalgamation is an impossibility. we hope for a share of our heritage. We demand civil and social freedom. A son can ask no less than a share of the rights of the father. It is a foregone conclusion that the civil and social proscription of the man of color must be and will be abolished. W. M. Dunson Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 936 TRY THE BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. NO2 "Pilgrim's Progress" on the stage? Shade of John Bunyan! What is coming next! Philadelphia proposes to purify its water with chemicals. The Kentucky plan is surest. "Make money your slave," says Mr. Rockefeller—but unfortunately he doesn't give the recipe. Mrs. Bessie Nunzinsky of New York is convinced that eating is a fallacy. We are sorry for Mr. Nunzinsky. The crew of an American schooner is in trouble for fishing for sponges in Cuban waters. Never sponge sponges. An Illinois man put a lighted pipe in his pocket, set fire to his clothes, and is now in a hospital. Tobacco is injurious. The man who, observing your struggle for independence, warns you that money doesn't bring happiness, generally has a lot. Farming operations generally may be two weeks behind this spring, but the weeds seem to be about as far advanced as usual. Now that Gen. Kashtalinsky has reported a "grievous yet glorious battle," will somebody rise up and accuse him of plagiarism? An English railway expert is astonished to find that the "one idea of your railways is to 'get there.'" That's why we build them. When Dr. Rainsford says that five men can do more working together than ten men apart, he doesn't mean five writers in a newspaper office. There be three sorts of people—those with pulls, those that are pulled, and pullets. And the last are in the end always plucked for the other two. "This being 'up in arms' isn't what it is cracked up to be," the young father remarked, as he paced the floor at midnight with his roaring first-born. Friends and relatives of the American war correspondents needn't worry much about their personal safety until they can get considerably nearer to the front. "How many zones are there?" asked a teacher, and the bright boy answered: "Six—one torrid, two temperate, two frigid, and the Panama canal zone." One hundred girls employed in a Connecticut woolen mill have struck for the right to flirt. It will probably be pretty hard to get new girls to take their places. One war and six revolutions are now going on in South America and the West Indies. This being the hot season, things are naturally rather dull down there. London is going to try to decide now whether boiling lobsters alive is cruelty to animals or not. But London long ago accepted oysters, and swallows them alive. There is nothing remarkable about the Cleveland lad who is finishing his high school course by telephone. Almost any healthy boy would prefer that to going to school. After searching thirty-eight years for her relatives a woman has found a cousin who is a prisoner in Sing Sing. There are a good many things that are better not discovered. UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL. 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We publish it FREE OF CHARGE. Write it plain and on one side of the paper only. 2e. No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 2f. Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 2g. Thy any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. Our Sixth ear In beginning the publication of this paper for its sixth year we know of nothing new which we can say to our many friends. We feel that the unprecedented record which we have made in the past is a sufficient guarantee of what our effort shall be in the future. We have no new promise to make and feel that we have fulfilled every promise made to the people concerning our publication in the past. We do feel, however, a deep and lasting sense of gratitude to the good people who so loyally and willingly give us their support and patronage in the past and we shall always feel deeply indebted to them. We also wish to thank the good merchants and business men of our city for their loyalty and we trust that our relations in the future yeers to come may ever remain as cordial as they have in the people. Wit these few remarks we launch fort in our sixth year work feeling encouraged and gighly hopeful of success, We often wonder if Wichita ministers speak a good word for the Searchlight when they are out visiting? The spring floods are here and the city ha it any o vision to protect the residents of the north end as was promised after the flood of laet year. What shall these people expect in the future? Wichita Tabernacle No. 34, will meet Thursday afternoon, June 9th All the daughters are requested to be present. Business of importance. By order Mrs. W. N. Miller, C. P. Remember our prize offer for May June and July. The GEM Barber Shop. W. A. BETTIS, Prop, A Sanitary Shop, High Class Workmen Cleanliness and First Class Work Our Motto 332 N. Main St. GIVE US A TRIAL Plenty of Clean Towels always on hand. Rev. P. D. Yocum will conduct a baptism Sunday. Mrs. E. K. Knox and nephew returned Tuesday from Cherryvale. Mrs. Knox reports a fine time while in Cherryvale. Messrs. Robt Braden, Al Buford and Henry Sherrills concouts a skating rink at 517 N. Main St. on Tuesday and Friday nights of each week. Call around and have a good time. Mrs. Alice Brown of Kansas City Grand Royal Matron of the Eastern Star, Kansas jurisdiction, made her annual official visit to Princess Chapter No. 12 on Tuesday night. Quite a large number of the ladies of the Eastern Star Chapter were present meeting. Mrs. Brown left Wednesday morning. The Searchlight has no complaint to make about the colored people not paying their sscriptions to it. They get their paper regular each week and of course they are then willing to pay for it. Our collector is still out and is meeting with success. All those on whom he has not called may look for him at any time or you can pay W. N. Miller wherever you meet him. OUR EXERCISES. The Fifth Anniversary exercises of the Searchlight at Odd Fellow's hall on May 26 was indeed a most notable event. The program and the whole evening was one filled with pleasure. The hall proved far to accommodate all these present. The program was begun with a very able address by Hon. Henry W. James, master of ceremonies. In making the opening address Mr. James made a speech well fitted for the occasion. He then introduced Mr. P. D. Yocum, pastor of the A. M. E. church, who made a tellin opening address which was filled with good thought. Mrs. Sam C. Collins was then introduced and delivered her subject "The Negro and Lynching" in an able manner. She was roundly applaused as was the other speakers. The next was a piano and violin duett by Prof. Edwin L. Mason and wife which fully proved them to be masters of their instruments. Then Mr. James introduced Lieut. W. A. Bettis who spoke on subject "The True Mission of the Negro Press." Hon. Thos. Glover then in a neat, well worded and forifal address spoke on the subject "The N eds of the hour" which was filled with valuable advice Mrs. Robt. Braden then came forward and sang one of her choice solos By special request she sang "Soldier Boy" which was heartily received by the audience. The last number on the program was one by Hon. O. G. Eckstein on "Citizenship," but owing to having to be absent from the city Mr. Eckstein could not be present but was ably represented by Mr. Edward Dill who made a very appreciable address. Thus to 5th anniversary of the Wichita Serrchlight came to a very pleaseant close. We wish to thank all those who so willingiy took part in our proh am and who were present at that time. Locals and Personals Mrs. L. Carr is on the sick list this week. Rev. J. H. Vanleu spent this week in Wichita on business. Mr. Burford Crawford left Thursday for Ft. Scott where he will make his future home. Mrs. Stewart Waters has returned from a pleasant trip to Hutchinson. Mr. Edward Miller is erecting a neat cottage on his property on S. Mosley ave. Lieut. W. A. Bettis has a nice barbr shop at 332 N. Main where he will be pleased to meet all comers. The Blind Boone Concert Co. will be in the city on Monday and Tuerday of next week and will stop with Mrs. V. Covington. Ghief of Police Frank S. Burt is scheduled as on of the sargeants-at-arms during the big Republican national convention in Chicago, June 21. Decoration Day was observed in Wichita in a very appropriate manner. A large delegation went to Newton Sunday. Owing to being indisposed and the rain falling constantly we did not go up. Rev, Washington is doing a good work in Newton. Let every one help him. We know that those who have not paid their subscription to the Searchlight do not sleep well at night, so we are making our tour of collection so they can get a rest for awhile. Have your money ready when we call. Rev. M. S. Jones, pastor of the Baptist church in Atchison sent a week visiting with his mother Mrs. J. W. Newlin of Maize. Rev. Jones was accompanied by his wife. He left last week for his charge in Atchison. The Blind Boone Concert Co. will give one of their characteristic concerts at Peerlees Hall, Tuesday night, June 7th, under the auspices of the A. M. E. church. Blind Boone needs no introduction to the American people who love and admire him. He will appear at Peerless hall June 7. Watt Morris is home again after spending several months in St. Louis visiting the World's Fair. Watt is getting up a first class concert company among some of Wichita's young amateurs. It promises to be fine. After spending the week visiting as the guest of Mrs. V7. N. Miller, Mrf. Robt Davis left Saturday even for her home in Kingman. Mr. Jesse McCless is making a grand success in the hardware business as a member of the firm of Warnhoff & McClees. Call and seo them at 123 E. Douglas. Arkansas Valle lodge No. 21 will meet in regular session Wednesday night, June 8th. Every member is urged to be present as matters of vital importance will be discussed. THE FALL OF MAN Was probably from a bicycle oident insurance is a good thi you ride RUGBY Bicycles. vice ride Rugbys. Was probably from a bicycle, but it was a cheap bicycle. Accident insurance is a good thing, but you don't need it when you ride RUGBY Bicycles. People who give wheels hard service ride Rugbys. Price $35.00 Schollenberger Bros- We'll Treat You Square. 'Phone 545 When preparing to pay off bills do not forget your Searchlight bill. If our collector does not call while you have the money bring it to our offices 110 N. Main St. Mrs. H. Frazier arrived in the city Saturday eve from McPherson and will spend a few days in the city attending some business matters and uisiting relatives and frind. Shess enjoying good health. Grand Master S. G. Watkins. of Topeka, Kans., will visit Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21 on Friday night June 10th. All Master Masons will look well to that night. The G. L. S. C. met at the residence of Bettie Mae, Hall 518 N. Water St. Tuesday May 31, and transacted business. It adjourned to meet at the residence of Minnie Morris 1112 N. Wichita St., Wednesday June 8. Officers were elected as follows Minnie Morris, pres. Bettie May Hall vice pres. Laura Rawles sect, Mary Yocum asst. sec, Leona Yocum, trees. If our readers will watch our columns closely and follow them carefully they will find some very saving bargains every week. We secure these bargains for the benefit of our readers and trust that they appreciate them. When wanting to buy consult the columns of the Searchlight at all times. NEW HOPERALLY Financial rally at the New Hope Baptist church fifth Sunday in May was a success, notwithstanding the inclement weather. The clouds attered in the afternoon and the sun came out the king of the situation. At 8 p.m. an appreciative and generous audience had assembled to listen to an interesting discourse from the pastor, subject "Lesson from the life of King Asa." After a forty minutes discourse the services were committed to sisters Alice Lewis and Laura Hickerson, presidents of the clubs. Money collected from members and generous friends on that night was $201. 81. The dollar money on the third Sunday in May was $28 total col. $229,81. The clubs reports and names of donors will appear in the next issue of the Searchlight. CLOSING OU LE. The $100,000 stock of fine clothing and gents furnishing goods of the big Fulton store is being closed out, as one of the partners Mr. L. J, Jacobs wishes to retire from business. The low prices which these goods have been marked down to is simply marvelous. Just think that pants that cost you this time last month $2,75 to $3 are being sold for $2. Shirts sold everywhere for $1 for 69e. This is a great time to get in your summer clothing. We advise our readers to take advantage of this savin' in cost of goods. Go to the Fulton Store. Rev. S. M. Hall pastor; of the 2d Baptist church preached in Yale, Kens., on Sunday May 29, and will fill his pulpit in Wichita Sunday. Do not forget the Blind Boone concert at Peerless Hall on Tuesday night June 7th. but it was a cheap bicycle. Ac- ing, but you don't need it when People who give wheels hard ser- vice $35.00 --- 230 N. Main hoff & M. Clees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE. Wainhoff Nainhoff & McClees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE. L. J. NAFTSGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier. The Ourth 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, O. Z. Smith, E. H. Middlekauff B. F. McLean. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED Wichita Kansas C. P. Wshington, M. D. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By Physician and Surgeon Your wants need careful attention 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 C. C. HOYT Read the great S The Race's WINTER TO THE SUNNY Tickets on sale daily until April Resorts of Mississippi, Georgia, Carolina, Louisiana and Texas. Return limit June 1. Great Searchlight Race's Standard Bearer INTER RATES TO THE JENNY SOUTH Friday until April 30th, 1904, to the principal Winter Appi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, South Texas, Limit June 1, 1904. For details apply to C.W. 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Main St. Phone 530 Ask for cash ships. Editor Wichita Searchlight. Dear Sir—P.reas permit me space in your valuable paper to say that the rally at the new A. M. E church in Newton last Sunday was very well attended by our many friends of Wichita. Despite the rain and disagreeableness of the weather there were 22 Wichitans who met me at the Santa Fe depot ready to go to Newton. There was not quite enough to get a reduced rate, but on the suggestion of Mr. J. W. Thompson and wife, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark and Mr. J. C. Coffee it was decided to ga anyway, so in we went, bught our tickes and were soon on our way to Newton having a jelly good time as we sped on our way, through the windows we viewed miles upon miles of the finest wheat man ever saw and some of Kansas streams flowing along its way. At 12 15 (noon) we arrived in Newton where Mr. Henry Reevely and Mr. Geo. Hall met us. After spending a few moments at the church we were escorted to the different home of some of Newton's best citizens where delightful meals awaited. Let me say right here to the credit of the good people of Newton, the meals which they served were all that hearts could wish. After having been refreshed with such wholesome meals we returned to the church where half an hour was spent in song and prayer, after which Wichita's famous orchestra and choir sounded the opening notes which was grand and which pierced the very soul of their hearers. After the introductory pieces Bro. W. M. Dancy led us to a throne of grace in a prayer which must have reached the very portals of glory. The choir sang another selection and the pastor then introduced Rev. John Mitchum of Wichita as the speaker of the afternoon. Rev. Mitchem took for his text; Isiaah X Lth chap, 8th vrs. "The grass withereth, the flowers fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever." His sermon was grand. After the sermon the choir chanted one of their favorite songs and a collection of $17.38 w's raisen. Church was then dismissed and our train being late we spent the time looking over the city and visiting. The people of Wichita made a lasting impression in Newton. With Mrs. J. W. Thompson at the organ, Mr. W. H. A. Clark and Mr Ed Landrum with their violins and the splen-id choir it charmed the angels of Glory. Yours S.S. washington, Pastor Keep your eye open for the Big Basket Dinnar and Raily in Newton in August. ABILENE NEWS. Mr. Fred Williams is home from the west on a visit. Miss Fannie Tollis is home from Hill City where she has been in charge of a school. Mr. Frank Taylor was called home from the railroad near Hoxie, on account of the death of his little brother. Rev W. F. Warder went to Falter Friday morning. Mr. Chas. Chas. Pation died Wednesday May 25, funeral was conduced by Rev, Alexander. The remains were buried in the Abilene cemetery. James Oliver Tyler, scn of Mr. and Mrs. T. Tyler died May 23rd at 8 30 at the age of 7. He leaves a kiud farther and mother, five sisters and three brothers to mourn their missed one. His death was caused by pneumonia and measles, his little place in Sabbath school is vacant. Get a Searchlight, if you want the new \ Chief Staani of Topeka cast aside his scruples long enough to raid a "joint" on Sunday. The old-tassioned robber who gets away with "ingotten gains" store some things in Chautauqua county last week. As nearly as the Coolidge Enterprise can understand the German situation, Herr Leber seems to be the Horace Greeley Jumper of the Reichenstag. From the programme of the Kansas Semi-Centennial in Topeka next week, it is interred that the modocs are going to sing almost incessantly. At one time in the very early days the whole of Southwestern Kansas was called "Peketon county" and the State historical society is trying to find out to eorigin of that name. Were it not for that one lone game which the Fort Scott team of the Missouri Valley league has won this season, it would be able to enter a general and sweeping plea of not guilty. There is danger that Oklahoma may intrude and make itself a third party to the Kansas-Colorado suit, and ask the supreme court to enjoin Kansas from draining the Arkansas river. Governor Bailey will address the Saturday Night club in Topeka this week on the subject, "A Glimpse Into the Future," which embraces, in the case of the governor, a fertile and well-stocked farm in Nemaha county. As proof that "a prophet is not without honor," etc., the Ottawa Herald cites the case of Charles M. Harger, who writes first class fiction for Eastern publications, but runs "boiler plate" stories in his own paper, the Ablene Reflector; and W. A. White, whose best stuff never appears in the Emporia Gazette. George A. Clark, the state printer, is having much difficulty in convincing his friends that he really caught a nine and one-half pound black bass at Lake view. It reminds them of the story of Bill Sterrett's elephant. Bill awoke one morning and saw an immense elephant in his room. He was badly frightened and while he was trying to think of some way to get rid of it, the elephant backed out through the keyhole. Senator F. Dumont Smith objects to the practice of some of the political writers of clipping his editorials in his paper, the Kinsley Mercury, and using them as interviews with himself. "There was a time," he confesses, "when the writer had the interview habit. It used to tickle him to be asked for his 'views' and he gave them freely, and it tickled him to have them printed. Now we have been in politics long enough not to have any views. They are dangerous. We have shed them." Millinery note in the Eldorado Republican: "Gwendolyn's new summer hat looks like a basket phaeton full of flowers." During the trial of a young man for theft in McPherson the other day the court ruled that "while it is not necessary for the prosecution to establish any fixed value in a larceny case, there must be some value fixed to the article stolen." What's the answer? "Tom" Charles of the Belleville Freeman has a way of blending his poetical and political flights of fancy. "The chrysalis," he says, "has flown out of the Populist cocoon, and the Populist voters have left the old hull and are now flying about the ethereal atmosphere." Mrs. "Ben" Clover, who died last week, was the wife of the late excongressman from the Third district, and some of the papers are giving her credit for inventing the name "Populist." The truth is that the name was brought into use by the newspaper correspondents in 1892, during the first Lewelling campaign, because they found "People's party" too cumbersome. In Japan, when a man gives a girl a present and she accepts it, it constitutes an engagement. Not knowing this until afterward, a Salina young woman who recently accepted a gift from a Jap is greatly worried. Abel Righter, the editor of the Coolidge Enterprise, refused to go to the St. Louis exposition last week because he is opposed to free editorial junkets. Instead, he sent his assistant, Reed Coppe, and the foreman, Mark Coppe, with the Frisco's special train. Philosophy from the Sedgwick Pantagraph: If you have a heavy load to carry, kicking will not lighten it. . . Some people are so unlucky that if it was raining silver dollars score finally hit upon a plan to keep their basket upside down. . . A man can't help but feel sorry for the barefoot youngster he sees these days limping around on heel or toe. The man has been there himself, and things learned in the school of experience are not easily forgotten. A man in Longton who was struck by lightning and escaped with a few blisters and a shock, expresses curiosity to know how the lightning rared. Instead of Mendelssohn's wedding march or the one from Lohengrin, the pianist at the marriage of a pretty Hiawatha girl played, "Are There Any More at Home Like You?" At a recent dance up in Troy a youth was slitting unnecessarily close to a young woman. "Of course," she said, "I like for a gentleman to be cordial, but don't get into my lap." 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 furn'shed. BOTH PHON 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 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 Av ```markdown ``` Does all kinds of Harness work All Work Guaranteed. Turf Work A Specialty. 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Prices Reasonable Ave. Wichita COPYRIGHT 306 East Douglas Ave. —Both Phones 98— Stop At The CENTROPOLIS HOTEL 605 N. Main Wi chita, 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. When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E. Donclair Ave. 'Phone 857. Prices -Have Been Cut Right and Left!! To stock up with brand new clothes the way things are selling here — Come next week-don't miss a single day until every want is filled. THE FULTON - Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store- Great Price Paid by the Tribesmen for their Adherence to Cause of Secession NEGROES GOT THEIR LAND. Muskogee, I. T.—The price that the Creek Indians must pay for joining the confederacy in the civil war is $12,000,000 worth of land. This page of Indian history is brought to mind by the rapid sale of land by the Creek freemen to the whites. It is an incident, too, in Indian history that will have its bearing on the future voting for the Indian. In the early days of the civil war both the Creek and Cherokee governments made alliances with the confederacy. As the slaveholders and Indians were southern sympathizers. When the war closed the government declared the old treaties abrogated by reason of the confederate alliance and new treaties were made. This was in 1886. One provision of these treaties was that the former slaves of the Indian should share equally with their former masters in the tribal lands and annuits'cs. This was bitterly opposed by a majority of the Indians, but they were forced to accept it by a few leaders who signed the treaty with the treaty commission. In this treaty the Negro inter pretors played an important part and but for them it is probable that the treaty would never have been made. They represented to the commissioners that the Indians were willing to agree to matters pertaining to the Negroes, always to the benefit of the latter, and on the other hand represented to the Indians that certain provisions were not so rigid as they afterward proved to be. Thus the treaty was signed. This treaty gave 160 acres to each freedman and there were 5,000 of these, making a total of 800,000 acres of land, worth $12,000,000. This land was taken from the Indians. They opposed it then and oppose it now. In politics they will oppose the Negro and the party party that receives the Negro vote will lose that of the Indian. The fact that the freedmen secured the best land is still an irritating subject to the Indian. In the ante-bellum days great plantations were scattered all over the Creek country. They were owned by educated nalfords who were wealthy and owned many slaves. They went with the confederacy and in the four years of war their plantations were ruined and their houses burned. This would not have deterred the autocratic landlords, but when they A limited time of 60 days in which to convert this Mammoth Stock Into Cash found their former slaves settled on the old plantations, claiming ownership and demanding equal rights and recognition, it was too mush. They refused to acknowledge equality and in nearly every instance left their old plantations and went into new country and began over again. The Negees remained, and as their homes were on these rich cultivated lands they received allotments there. The Stidkams, McIntoshes, Mar halls, Barnwalls, Grayons, Porters and hundreds of other Indian families lost fine land holdings in that way. The formar slaves of the Cherokees received rights in the same way and this too in spite of the fact that at the beginning of the war they were freed by their masters. CORNER STONE LAYING Yale, Kans., May 30, 1904. Dear Mr. Miller, Editor Searchlight Dear Mr. Miller, Editor Searchlight Sir—Please announce to the intelligent public through the columns of your valuable paper that the pastor of the 2nd Baptist church was called away to conduct a corner stone laying at Litchfield, Kans., on Sunday May 29. The services were elaborated and was witnessed by a mass of people. The sermon was delivered by Rev. S. M. Hall pastor of the 2nd Baptist church of Wichita. The many pastors and friends who were present said it was a masterful sermon. we ar gia , indeed, that all were pleased with our effort. We are always slow to d cite to leave our church and people in Wichita, because we believe that the people we serve there loves us and are willing to have us with them but we are compelled to ask to be away sometime. God bless the people of Wichita, we will hold services Sunday June 5, and hope to have a fine time as there are 16 to be fellow-shipped in the church. Everyone is asked to give 50c. Yours, S. M. Hall pastor 2nd Bap Church. A Banquet Atchison, Kan. June 1, 04 Editor of Searchlight: Dear Sir—P. ease insert enclosed item A motion prevailed during the banquet that the item be sent to your paper. Friday evening May 27, the members of Shiloh Baptist church of Atchison gave a banquet in honor of M. L. Copeland D. D., who has served the church as pastor ten months. Mr. P. W. Basnett was masters of ceremonies. An interesting musical and literary program was rendered. Each officer present and the masters of ceremonies spoke in the highest terms of Dr. Cope- --- Ocean as Motive Power In the Wrong Envelopes land and praised his conduct as a christian gentleman and minister of the gospel. Useful presents and silver offerings were presented. Rov. M.-S. Jones, the present pastor, who has been in western Kansas proving up his claim thus making a home for his family, joined in with the other brethren in commending the retiring pastor. Dr. Copeland contemplates visiting relatives in Georgia and going on on a business trip in the southwest. May success attend him wherever he goes. "Iota". W. G. N ( Successor to Pumps, Pipe, H When you need a new pairing, don't forget 118 South Main St. Ocean as M "Iota" A writer in the Paris Revue des Deux Mondes, M. Gaston Cadoux, has drawn a fancy picture of that happy time when London, Paris and Berlin will be lighted and warmed by electric energy derived from the sea. In those economic days, sea mills will skirt the shore; they will convert the rise and fall of the tides into electricity, which wires will conduct to the capital cities to do work, to illuminate and to warm. No more miners, we may suppose, pursuing their dangerous vocations under ground, and no more gas lights poluting the air we breathe, and smoke-laden London fogs will have ceased forever. As the moon does in a single tide, on but a short stretch of coast line, more work than all our steam engines, here is a limitless supply of energy. The idea is charming, not the least delightful part of it being the satisfaction of yoking the old satellite to our machinery and making her run our trains and drive our factories! Hitherto the least available natural source of electricity has been the sea. In the Wron "I disapprove of letters of introduction," said an elderly business man, "and I never give one under any circumstances. They are bad form and border close on downright impertinence. What right have I, for example, to thrust a perfect stranger on my friend John Smith of Philadelphia or Pittsburg, without at least having asked Mr. Smith's permission or ascertained whether the introduction would be mutually agreeable? Then, again, such letters always mean either too little or too much. Most of us give them almost as freely as we give good advice, without the least idea of incurring any responsibility. Yet a letter of introduction is, or ought to be, an absolute indorsement of the bearer, and the recipient would be justified in holding the writer strictly accountable for any abuse of his hospitality. I believe this view is unassailable, but I must confess I --- 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. McKee, O. A. N. West ) Mose, Windmills Pump, or your old one need re- to give me a call Phone 643 otive Power Engineers find more difficulties in the way that occur to dreamers. Lord Kelvin showed, three-and-twenty years ago, says the London Telegraph, how hard it would be to get any power economically out of the rise and fall of the tides on the seashore. Ten, or in some cases a hundred, times as much might be done with a tidal river. The rise and fall of the tides between Gravesend and London would represent an enormous amount of power; but it so happens that the Thames is required for other purposes. Mr. Sutherland, in that ingenious work "Twentieth Century Inventions," calculates that the waves of the sea would yield in a few seconds as much power as a tidal force elevating and depressing the water level, say, eight feet, would do in as as many hours. The infant born yesterday will be a very old man before he sees London lighted and warmed, to say nothing of other little requirements fulfilled by the power of marine tides, or currents or waves. ing Envelopes stopped writing such letters owing to a little contretemps that had nothing to do with the proprieties of the question. It happened in this way: "A certain friend asked me to give a letter to a young Englishman introducing him to a former business partner of mine now living in Philadelphia. I didn't want to do it, but lacked moral courage. So I wrote the letters—one the introduction requested and the other a brief note to my friend explaining the circumstances and saying that I didn't really know whether the Englishman was a gentleman or a horse thief. Two days later I got a dispatch from my old partner saying he had received a letter of introduction by mail and was at a loss to know what to make of it. 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INVITE YOU TO CALL S who Can PRINT AS LOW AS THE LOWEST IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST YOU? ber to the H L I G H T S WHY NOT? ONLY FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. BETO·DAY Outrane Hospitality. National undertakers will come next summer. Undertakers proverbially cheerful folk, and we be prepared to die in the attempt provide them with suitable ente- ment.—Milwaukee Sentinel. To Aid Norwegian Farmers. A law prevails in Norway to aid able in securing land. The gov- t provides a sum of $900,000 want to industrial farmers to them to buy its. Example a Powerful Teacher. When we set a good example, are doing something more helpful others than we would be in lay- down a good rule. Example, the silent, is one of the most pow- teachers. ```markdown ``` SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday June 4, '04 KANSAS COMMENT. STATE TO FURNISH TENTS.—The state will furnish 300 tents free of charge for the next state reunion, to be held at Paola. Preparations are already commenced to give the Grand Army all due comforts. WEDDING BELLS.—Dr. Frank A. Eckdall, of Emporia, Kas., and Miss Ella Funston, sister of General Funston, were married at Iola, May 28. General Funston came from Vancouver to attend the wedding. RAIN AT PAOLA.—One of the heaviest rains ever known fell at Paola. Over an inch of water fell in about twenty minutes. The excessive rains of the last few weeks have hindered planting. All the streams are rising rapidly. IN OAGE COUNTY.—The Dragoon and 110 creeks cover several farms. Crops are practically ruined in the bottoms and nearly all the bridges are gone. It is considered the worst flood since 1844. Hogs, cattle and bee hives were lost in considerable numbers. GEN. STONE SPEAKS.—Among the addresses delivered at the dedication of the Grant statue in the rotunda of the capitol was one by General Israel N. Stone, of Lawrence. General Stone spoke of the personal characteristics of General Grant under whom he had served. THE FIGHT IS ON.—Missouri river towns have asked the state railroad commissioners to compel the railroads to make a showing of their freight tariffs made in favor of Central Kansas towns. This brings the fight directly between the jobbing houses of the two sections. KAW RIVER.—The water in the Kansas river at Topeka was 18 feet above low water mark on May 30 when it came to a standstill. The Rock Island bridge was made unsafe by driftwood; the street railway bridge was made impossible to be used. A few dwellings on the north side were surrounded by water. TRAINS DELAYED.—The floods in parts of Wabaunsee, Lyon and Osage counties made it necessary for Santa Fe trains between Topeka and Wichita and Hutchinson to run over Rock Island tracks. The Santa Fe bridge at Burlingame was washed away and a bridge on the Rock Island in Wabaunsee county was damaged. APPLES IN KAW VALLEY.—The bright outlook, when the trees were in bloom a few weeks ago, for a heavy apple crop about Perry this year failed to hold out and farmers now say the yield will not amount to more than a fourth of a crop. Blight has attacked the trees in some localities and is doing great damage. Peaches and smaller fruits, however, promise a heavy yield. School. LAND LEASES.—While the state is getting some money for school land leases, the new law is not working as well as its author expected. The minimum rental is entirely too low. The law fixes the minimum at $25 per section. Most of the land leased goes for the minimum rental. The leasing interferes with the sale of the land. The leases run for five years and the land is sold subject to the leases. Not many people will buy the leased land because they cannot get hold of it at once. The state gets more out of the land in the way of taxes and interest by selling it than it gets by leasing it. CADET INSPECTION.—The annual inspection of state agricultural college took place at Manhattan with Captain Herman C. Schumm, of the Twenty-ninth battery of Fort Leavenworth, as the inspecting officer. There are 204 young men now taking drill, but in the fall and winter terms the number increases to nearly 450. The cadets use Springfield rifles. WILD GRAPE VINE.—A section of a wild grape vine 18 inches in diameter has been sent to the world's fair from Butler county. AN ALFALFA FARM.—J. T. Giles has sold his farm of 1,522 acres six miles north of Wichita, between the two rivers, to A. J. Dadisman, of Denver Colorado, for $16,000. The farm is all bottom land, is well improved and is sowed with alfalfa. CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY.—The town of Moline recently celebrated the one hundredth birthday of Grandma Boicourt. The event took place in a crowded church, and the entire audience arose and sang the doxology as the old lady entered. TWENTY-THREE GRADUATES.—The annual commencement of the Sumner county high school was held at the auditorium in Wellington. There was a class of twenty-three graduates. The address to the class was delivered by President J. N. Wilkerson, of the Kansas State Normal. MORE DOUBLE TRACKS.—The Santa Fe will double track its line from Emporia east to Kansas City over the cutoff. Work will be commenced at once and for the present men will be stationed at Emporia. KANSAS LETTER CARRIERS.—The fifth annual convention met at Wichita where they were given an elaborate banquet at which Congressman Murdock made a pointed address. James E. Keller, president of the national association, was present and also spoke. Officers for the year were elected as follows: President, E. P. Pollard, of Topeka; vice president, F. P. Tanner, of Iola; secretary and treasurer, C. H. Baker, of Wichita. It was unanimously noted to hold the next meeting on May 30, 1905, in Topeka. STUDENT BOOTLEGGERS.—For several months the people of Baldwin have been at a loss to know who has been selling liquor in that town. There are no joints and the drug stores do not do a rushing business. Some one was supplying beer and whisky for those who desired it and among those who wanted it were some of the students of the university. Six of these are colored. COLLISION IN WICHITA.—A street car coming from Fairmount college into town, in a rainstorm of a very dark night, was pushed from the track by a backing freight train and the caboose of the freight train tumbled over on the street car. The car was well filled and it seems strange that only three persons were much hurt. SEMI-CENTENNIAL.—At the opening of the Kansas semi-centennial celebration at Topeka there was a large attendance. The features of the opening day were a memorial parade, an address by Secretary of War Taft, and an evening concert at the auditorium. IN RECRUITING SERVICE.—Private Edward M. Caldwell, of the Sixth battery, field artillery, stationed at Fort Riley, has been transferred to the general recruiting service and will be stationed at Wichita. FIVE IN A DAY.—Five deaths were reported in Salina an Memorial day. Among them is that of C. R. Underwood, one of the oldest inhabitants, who was mayor of the city in its early history. HAS THREE ELEVATORS.—The W. M. Chelf Elevator company is building a 20,000 capacity elevator at Dana. This company has just finished an elevator at Dresden and one at Dellvale also. FIRST VOTE ILLEGAL.—The election to revote the bonds for waterworks, light plant and natural gas investigations at Winfield, has been called for June 28. The first vote was illegal. INTERFERES WITH MAILS.—Most of the rural route carriers in the flooded district along the Cottonwood and Neosho rivers were unable to make their routes for a while. PASSENGERS STRANDED.—Two Santa Fe trains and a train of the Missouri Pacific, with hundreds of passengers, were stranded between two washouts east of Malvern. OLD RELIC TORN DOWN.—The old Lyon county court house at Emporia is being torn down. Some of the material is being used in the new Christian church. JUST A YEAR AGO.—The Hutchinson Bee recalls that just a year ago Decoration day occurred the flood that covered the streets of that city for a week. EVERYWHERE.—Memorial services were held in every town in Kansas, it would appear, from the multitude of notices published. STEAM PLOW TRIAL.—A farmer near Dighton invited, through local papers, his neighbors to come and see the trial of a steam plow. WAS FALSE REPORT.—It is now stated that the report that Caldwell is to have two new flour milss was not based upon fact. THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL.—The Kansas university is out with its invitations for the thirty-second annual commencement, which occurs on June 8. A fare and one-third has been made by the railroads to Lawrence and return, providing a ticket for one way is purchased and a receipt taken for the money stating the kind of ticket paid for. Go to MANILA.—Mr, and Mrs. B. O. Peterson, of Salina, go to the Philippines, on missionary work. They will be stationed near Manila. TROOPS AT TOPEKA.—Two troops of cavalry and a battery of light artillery were sent to Topeka from Fort Leavenworth to participate in the semi-centennial celebration. The troops were secured after Governor Bailey had sent the request for them to President Roosevelt. A LIGHTNING STROKE.—Lightning set fire to a large barn of Joseph Larreau, near Jewell City. The barn and its entire contents were totally destroyed. The loss is estimated at $1,500. CHANUTE'S POPULATION.—The assessor's enumeration shows that Chanute has 10,116 population, a gain of 2,994 over last year. In addition to this there are 400 living in suburbs not incorporated in the city, which places the real population of the city over 10,500, a gain of 50 per cent over last year. The county returns show a 25,322, or a gain of 3,069 over last year. HAIL AT CHENEY.—By telephone comes the news of the destruction of thousands of acres of wheat in that vicinity by a hail storm. To FIND JUST BASIS.—The board of assessors and county commissioners of Shawnee county visited the large manufacturing institutions and the flouring mills to decide upon the assessed valuation which shall be placed on them. The commissioners do not go with the assessors as a rule to look into the matter as they sit as a board of equalization after the work of the assessors is completed but they believe they can save time and do better work by accompanying the assessors. The manner of assessing the big manufacturing plants has not been satisfactory, there being no basis on which the assessments were made. The assessments have not been equal. The assessors will try to adopt a just basis. HISTORY OF COUNTIES.—Secretary George W. Martin, of the Kansas Historical society has just issued a pamphlet on the establishment of counties in Kansas. The story was prepared by Helen G. Gill, of Vinland, Kansas. It is accompanied by sixteen different maps, showing the various county formations of the territory and state from 1855 to the present time. The maps exhibit the effect upon county organizations of each successive wave of immigration and the organization of population. ANNUAL INSPECTION.—The following codets, all members of the senior class at the Kansas agricultural college, have been selected after the annual inspection, as showing special aptitude in military service and will be so reported to the war department: T. E. Dial, T. L. Pitman, C. J. Axtell, W. P. Terrell (colored) R. A. Seaton, G. E. Edgerton and P. M. Biddison. These names do not appear in the same order as recommended to the department. LESS FARMERS, MORE CASH.—The Kansas Farmer quotes from Secretary Coburn's report showing that more persons were engaged in agriculture in Kansas in 1803 than in 1903, while the products of agriculture have increased in the same period ?2 per cent. This, the Farmer says, has resulted from improved methods, the introduction of crops adapted to Kansas conditions, and advance in price of food staples. RAIN AND HAIL.—Great Bend has had another heavy rain which continued for several hours. It is thought that no damage has been done by the hail as no wind accompanied it. DEATH OF ATTORNEY.—Judge S. B. Isenhart, a local attorney and politician of Topeka died of congestion of the brain. The funeral was under the auspices of the Masonic lodge. HIGHEST MORTALITY.—Six veterans have died in Kingman during the year between Decoration days. This is the highest mortality since the cemetery was opened. MARRIED ON WHEEL.—The first wedding in the Ferris wheel at the world's fair grounds was that of Eddy Rogers and Miss Florence Benton, of Wamego, Kansas. BOYS ARE AAEAD.—An unusual division of graduating classes in high schools occurred in Dickinson county. Nine of the thirteen graduates are boys. AT EMPORIA.—The Cottonwood and Neosho rivers were out of their banks, covering the entire bottoms. It was the worst flood recorded in 60 years. THE ARKANSAS GETS WET.—The Arkansas river was a running stream for a day or two, the water coming largely down the Little River. FIVE POUNDS EACH.—W. H. Hollister, of Mulvane, weighed his wool from 320 sheep and it amounted to 1,600 pounds. QUICK PLANTING.—Two Atchison girls have made a record. They planted 550 sweet potato plants in twenty minutes. FOR GOOD ROADS.—At the international Good Roads congress held at St. Leuis during the week ending May 21, the Kansas delegation, which was the largest in attendance with one exception, effected a temporary organization for the purpose of calling a state convention to form a Kansas Good Roads association, to be held at Topeka on August 2. HOSPITAL DEDICATED.—A Catholic hospital at Winfield has been dedicated. Bishop Hennessy, of Wichita, had charge of the ceremonies. MYSTIC SHRINERS.—The nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Isis Temple beld a ceremonial session at Salina, and 30 novices from Wichita, Concordia, Hutchinson and other Kansas towns were initiated. The session was attended by nobles from all parts of the state, many of whom were accompanied by their wives. By ACCLAMATION.—At Chanute Judge Leander Stillwell was renominated for district judge by acclamation for the sixth time. He will have no opponent at the noles. OIL IN MIAMI.—That oil exists in quantities in the Miami county field is now an assured fact. The best well in this field has been brought in. It will average seventy-five barrels a day, natural flow. This well was struck at a depth of 306 feet in 21 feet of oil sand. It is located four miles south-west of Paola. GAS AT VERNON.—A good gas well was brought in at that place at a depth of 1,018 feet. This is a new field. Other wells are going down now with promise of good success. PLEASE TELL YOUR READERS Cur 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, saddlery, 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 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 fall 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. Some men are about as superfluous as a tin can tied to a yellow dog's tail. When You Buy Starch Buy Diflance and get the best, 16 oz. for 16 cents. Once used, always used. If you could have your way what a lot of changes you would make. Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. When a man's dog goes back on him the case must be hopeless. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Postman Steals Stamps. A London postman stole stamps from the letters he collected from boxes. Finally stamps marked with invisible, sensitive ink were posted for his benefit. He was caught with some of them upon him, and they were "developed" in his presence. Eats. Flesh of Cats. Apropos of the case of an obnoxious lodger who ate cats until his landlord appealed to the law, a correspondent of the London Express says: "The flesh of the domestic cat in taste and texture comes between that of the Ostend and the wild rabbit—firmer than that of the Ostend rabbit and not so hard as that of the wild rabbit." Precious Stones Imitated Many precious stones are imitated in the form of what the trade calls "doublets." A thin layer, a mere shaving, of the real stone is cunningly cemented on to an artificial base having all the outward characteristics of the genuine article. Few jewelers, if any at all, would pass this off on anyone as a real, solid, genuine article; but when once it is donned it plays the part of the real thing to perfection. Beware the Traveling Doctor. St. John, Kansas, May 30—A very peculiar case is that of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McBride of this place, as reported by Dr. Jesse L. Limes, the attending physician. "The little boy had a severe case of malignant scarletina which left him semi-paralyzed in the right leg and right arm. He also lost the hearing in the right ear. "I treated him and he gained slowly and had begun to try to use his limbs some when a traveling doctor came along and persuaded the child's parents that he could cure their boy in a short time. They used his medicines, but the boy grew worse and began having spells very like epilepsy. "Mr. McBride came to me again and I proposed giving him a course of Dodd's Kidney Pills, which was commenced at once. The improvement was instant and in a week's time the epileptic seizures ceased altogether." Famous English Clocks. At Buckingham palace the Augsburg clock on the equeries' stairs is among the earliest examples of the clock-makers' art, and very beautiful is the clock in the state dining room. Hampton Court is also rich in historically interesting clocks, such as the old astronomical one made for Henry VIII., 1540, said always to stop when any one who has long resided in the palace dies. STUDY WAR AND PEACE Japan Not Willing At This Time To Make Overtures. THIS WAR IS ONE FOR PEACE. Has Heard Much Talk Of Mediation. But Never Anything Of It Officially. From America Or Any Other Government. St. Louis, June 1.—Kogoro Takahira, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the Japanese government to the United States is attending the World's Fair. He has given out the following interview: "The people of Japan, as well as its rulers, believe we are fighting for the integrity and existence of our nation," said the ambassador in reply to a question. "The belief is as firmly planted in the heart of the private soldier as in the highest official and it may be that that alone has done much for the success of our armies. "Japan has grown in many ways, it is true. We have taken great pains in the last few decades to educate our people as far as possible, not in war alone, but in the arts of peace. This war we believe is a fight for peace. War, however, seemed the only way to obtain it." It was suggested that there had already been made reports of proposals for mediation by friendly powers, and especially by this government. "War," he said, "is like trying a case before the supreme court. Japan and Russia are now in the midst of this contest. They are each trying to make out the best case possible, because, after all, the final question must be left to the will of God. I have heard much talk about arbitration and mediation—in the newspapers. I have never heard anything of it officially, either from the American government or any other. "I do not believe Japan will be at this time willing to make any overtures. As I have said, this war is one for peace. Japan would no doubt welcome that outcome, but the initiative, I judge, would have to come from the other side. If Russia would agree to withdraw from Manchuria and would consent to the things that we asked before the outbreak of hostilities, Japan would undoubtedly listen. But I do not think that anything of that kind is likely to occur just now. Burned Sacred Shrines. Seoul, Korea, May 28.—A telegram has been received from Gen San, on the east coast of Korea, saying that Russians, after the engagements with Korean troops at Ham Heung, burned the shrines and the royal mausoleum which were erected there by the founder of the present Korean dynasty in 1364 and which were regarded by the Koreans as sacred. This apparent wanton desecration of tombs in a land imbued with the spirit of ancestor worship has caused excited denunciations of the Russians on the part of the Seoul officials. Patents Issued to Santa Fe. Chicago, May 30.—Thirty-three patients, running to the Santa Fe road and segregating approximately 3,000 acres of land in Lake county, Minnesota, have been issued by the department in Washington. This land is given to the railroad company in lieu of like holdings it relinquished, as a portion of the "Arizona forest reserve." Much of the tract is heavily timbered with pulp wood and pine, and it will be valuable as soon as a railroad has been built into that locality. What Fools These Mortals Be. St. Louis, June 1.—A detachment of police was needed at the First Presbyterian church to control the curious crowd that assembled to see Miss Alice Roosevelt pass to in Sunday service. So unostentatious was Miss Roosevelt's departure after the service that few recognized her and nearly 100 women stood for half an hour in the rain thinking she was still in the church. No Powder on Fourth. Cleveland, June 2.—The city council has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to use, give away, or sell a toy pistol or blank cartridge in this city on the Fourth of July. Plague is Over. Washington, June 2.—The United States consul at Aden has cabled the state department that the plague which has prevailed is over. Smallpox at Vancouver. Washington, May 28.—United States Consul Dudley at Vancouver has cabled the state department that an epidemic of smallpox is feared, that several deaths from that disease have occurred there and that conditions require the severest sanitary supervision. The Difficulty Settled. Lima, Peru, May 31.—According to dispatches received here from Rio Janeiro, the difficulties between Peru and Brazil over the Acre territory have been settled. When the back aches and you are always tired out, depressed and nervous — when sleep is disturbed by pain and by urinary ills, it's time to act. The kidneys are sick. Doan's Kidney Pills When the back aches and you are always tired out, depressed and nervous — when sleep is disturbed by pain and by urinary ills, it's time to act. The kidneys are sick. Doan's Kidney Fills cure sick kidneys quickly and permanently. Here's proof. Mrs. W. S. Marshall, R. F. D. No. 1, Dawson, Ga., says: "My husband's back and hips were so stiff and sore that he could not get up from a chair without help. I got him a box of 'Doan's Kidney Pills. He felt relief in three days. One box cured him." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Marshall will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. Color-Blindness. Among civilized nations 4 per cent of the men and 1 per cent of the women are color-blind. The Chinese are the only people free from color-blindness. Alcohol Vs. Oil Lamp An alcohol lamp gives off but half the heat and vitiates the atmosphere but half as much as a kerosene lamp of the same illuminating power. Thought Vehicle. That thought must have some definite vehicle, even when unexpressed, most psychologists agree. That this vehicle is the mental image of speech has been asserted by some, while others believe that it may be also the image of written language or some special combination of images that is neither of these. Armor Piercing Shells. The fuse in an armor-piercing shell is so constructed that when the projectile strikes a ship's armor-plate, the delay in action is just enough to let it pass though the plate. Should the shell strike a thin plate like the shell of a torpedo-boat, or strike a glancing blow it will always burst within ten feet. Long-Lived Trio. There died in Paris recently Count Emile de Keratry, who could boast that his grandfather, born in 1699, was a page in the household of Louis XIV. The former page married his second wife at 70 years of age and had a son, who was Emile's father. He was born in 1767 and lived till 1852. Three lives bridged 205 years. Ambidextrous Society. A society for the promotion of ambidexterity has been formed in London. That the left hands of the majority of adults have grown up in a state of very limited usefulness and of comparative weakness and awkwardness, while the motor centers of the brain supplying them have been left partially developed, must be admitted. Smoking Match. A smoking match recently amused the public at Lille, France. Fifty of the hardest smokers of the district sat down together to consume two ounces of the strongest tobacco in the shortest possible time. They used clay pipes, and were helped by a big jug of beer. The winner finished in a quarter of an hour. All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. It doesn't bother the golfer to get in a hole. Under the caption, "The Union Pacific Railroad and Louisiana Territory," the new World's Fair folder issued by the advertising department of the Union Pacific, which has attracted such general attention, recites these interesting facts: "While the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, its trials and triumphs, are a part of the history of the United States, the important part played by this railroad in the development of the Louisiana Purchase can hardly be estimated. In the building up of this vast domain it has been one of the chief factors. One hundred years ago the population of the region was estimated at 20,000. Up to the inception of the Union Pacific (in 1860) it had increased to 3,233,529. In 1900 it numbered over 13,000,000 of inhabitants. In this wonderful growth, with its stupendous increase in all the many-sided phases of commercial, material and intellectual prosperity, the Union Pacific—as a glance at the map will show—has had a conspicuous share. It has opened vast regions of fertile country to settlers, and brought great areas of an unknown and unproductive wilderness into close communion with metropolitan centers and markets. Thriving cities, towns and hamlets, through its efforts, have sprung up in every direction. It may be of interest to know that the total number of manufacturing plants, and the value of their outputs, combined with that of the national products as reported in the census of 1909, give an aggregate production for the Louisiana region of $3,500,000,000 annually, or 223 times the original purchase price. The same census reports (1900) also show the total population to be 13,343,255, of which 8,303,096 inhabitants are living in the states and territories reached by the Union Pacific. On the 1900 census figures, it is estimated that the true wealth of the Louisiana purchase can be stated at about $13,051,868,359, of which $3,360,621,387 is represented in the states reached by this great railroad." NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page files, treatise on diseases of Women. + Of the thousands cured by our mild method, none paid a cent till cured—we furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR, 1030 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. A. A prominent club woman, Mrs. Danforth, of St. Joseph, Mich., tells how she was cured of falling of the womb and its accompanying pains and misery by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: —Life looks dark indeed when a woman feels that her strength is fading away and she has no hopes of ever being restored. 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Many who formerly smoked 10 Cigars now smoke LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Your Jobber or direct from Factory, Peoria, Ill. # Wasp Wheretit's CHIGGER Cure For CHIGGER, SPIDER, MOSQUITO and other INSECT BITES. and other INSECT BITES. PIMPLES, RASH, PRICKLY HEAT, POISON HEY, FOEBA and ERUPTIVE SKIN DISEASES yield quickly to its soothing influence. At Druggists, Price 25 cents. The O.E.Whorrett Co., Atchison, Kans. EUPARILLA Euparilla TONIC STIMULANT ALTERATIVE APERIENT ANTI-LITHIC DIURETIC A BENEFIT FOR DYSPEPSIA, CATARRH AND RHEUMATISM EUPARELLA Made in France and Brazil MANUFACTURED BY THE MCPIKE DRUG CO. ATCHISON, KANESA. THE TONIC OF ALL TONICS THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER THE STRENGTH BUILDER THE NERVE TONER THE HEALTH GIVER THE LIFE SAVER It is Karmless It is Safe It is Pleasant It is Sure AT YOUR DRUGGIST'S PILES NO MONEY TO We send FREE and postpaid Receipts on loan, 100 per share. by our mild method, some paid DRS. THORN Lincoln Daint's ABSOLUTELY PURE PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. TactoGood. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Cuts Off English Novelists. The British Weekly, London, says: "Only a very few among the foremost of our novelists can have their stories published in serial form in America. Eight or ten years ago the English novelist of standing could count on receiving more than half his income from America, and now he can count on practically no returns at all." Gila Monsters Increase Since the Indians have been thinned out the gila (heela) monster is overrunning the Southwestern territory. The only antidote known for the gila's poison, which is fatal in about thirty minutes, is a secret of the Hualipis Indians, in Mexico, who think it godgiven, and never have divulged it, although government officials and scientists have lived among them for the purpose of discovering it. Harden Metals by Alr. The latest proposals for intensifying the oxidizing action of air on metals is that of M. Harmet, and has for its object the treatment of cast iron, producing a refined iron or steel. Molten iron is caused to flow through a fine channel surrounded by an annular air-blast, which thus forms a turpure, driving the metal forward in a fine spray. This spray is collected and allowed to flow together again in a receiving chamber, from which the molten steel can be tapped. Hand-to-Hand Eight With a Tiger. HANDCU-HAND FIGHT With a Tiger. On Monday last a villager pluckily attacked a tiger that was lying on the railway line near the Mosul station. It was a life and death struggle; the villager was only armed with a cudgel, with which he made a desperate attack on the tiger, but was eventually overpowered by the infuriated brute, which tore and bit him all over and then retired. The unfortunate man has since succumbed to his injuries at Arkonam.—From the Hindu. Could You Use Any Kind of a Sewing Machine at Any Price? If there is any price so low, any offer so liberal that you would think of accepting on trial a new high-grade, drop cabinet or upright Minnesota, Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, Standard, White or New Home Sewing Machine, cut out and return this notice, and you will receive by return mail, postpaid, free of cost, the handsomest sewing machine catalogue ever published. It will name you prices on the Minnesota, Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, White, Standard and New Home sewing machines that will surprise you; we will make you a new and attractive proposition, a sewing machine offer that will astonish you. If you can make any use of any sewing machine at any price, if any kind of an offer would interest you, don't fail to write us at once (be sure to cut out and return this special notice) and get our latest book, our latest offers, our new and most surprising proposition. Address SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago, One must occasionally be miserable to appreciate happiness. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. Few men would care to be done by as they try to do others. OVERHEARD ON THE PIKE. Mr. Easy—"Why should people visit The Exposition at night, use more Alen's Foot-Ease than in daytime?" As Foote says—"Because under the brilliant illumination the grounds, every foot becomes an acre." Mr. Easy—"Fair, Only fair! Fray, conduct me to the nearest drug store and I promise never to accept a substitute for you or for Alen's Foot-Ease." FOOT NOTE—The train will be made one in June. It is difficult for the talkative man to find willing listeners. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Care F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney a doctor who has been able to make it possible in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALLACE Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Care is taken internally, acting directly with the hospital system. Testimonials sent free. Price 35 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Floating capital is a good thing when attached to a solid anchor. Free to Twenty-Five Ladies. The Defiance Starch Co. will give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri who will send 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 received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September 1st, 1904. October and November will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up in 16 oz (a full pound) to the package. You get one-third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never stalks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. After a man leaves the marriage altar it’s a case of boss or be bossed. FILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. 250 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treatise on diseases of the skin. The treatise is cited in a court letter furnishing their name a application. LONDON & MINOR, 1030 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. THE ONLY PAINTS made solely for this Western climate. They stand it like the tie that won't compress the skin and beautify the hair while they protect it from the weather. Write us for name of nearest agent, and get a special color design without cost. LINCOLN PAINT & COLOR CO. Lincoln, Nebr. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. --- Many precious stones are imitated in the form of what the trade calls "doublets." A thin layer, a mere shaving, of the real stone is cunningly cemented on to an artificial base having all the outward characteristics of the genuine article. Few jewelers, if any at all, would pass this off on anyone as a real, solid, genuine article; but when once it is donned it plays the part of the real thing to perfection. Smoking Match. A smoking match recently amused the public at Lille, France. Fifty of the hardest smokers of the district sat down together to consume two ounces of the strongest tobacco in the shortest possible time. They used clay pipes, and were helped by a big jug of beer. The winner finished in a quarter of an hour. Thought Vehicle: That thought must have some definite vehicle, even when unexpressed, most psychologists agree. That this vehicle is the mental image of speech has been asserted by some, while others believe that it may be also the image of written language or some special combination of images that is neither of these. Walnut in France. Walnut is only employed in France in cabinet and carpenter's work. In 1902 the imports of walnut were 2,452 tons and exports 5,623 tons. During the last four years the imports have steadily declined, while exports have increased from 3,660 tons in 1899 to 5,623 tons in 1902. Milk Stops Flames Kerosene or gasoline blazes can readily be extinguished by the milk which is convenient in almost every kitchen. While water only quickens the flames of petroleum or gasoline, says Le Journal de Petrol, milk immediately extinguishes it and prevents all danger. Freak Walking Match. A remarkable walking match was recently witnessed in England by an immense crowd of spectators. The contestants were a man with one leg and a crutch and a man with a cork leg. The distance was one mile and the wager £10 a side. The cork leg easily won. Chromophone. The "chromophone" was exhibited recently to an invited audience in a London theater. It combines the cinematograph and gramophone. Conversations and vocal and instrumental music. synchronized with the movements of the figures, accompany the pictures. Natural Gas. Natural gas is used for cooking in more than half a million homes and more than four and a half million persons use it as an illuminant, according to the report of the Geological Survey. It is the fuel in 8,000 factories and supplies the world with lamp black. Good Remedy for Sprains For sprains take olive oil two ounces, of camphor, rubbed well with a little oil and then added to the whole, one dram. Very little of this should be used at a time, and it should be gently rubbed on the sprained part before the fire. Stunted Dogs a Fad Stunted dogs are very much admired by Parisian ladies. The demand for them is met by at least forty professional "dog dwarfers," who bring up the pups on alcoholic diet, which has the effect of checking their growth. Honesty in Iceland. In llandear there are no prisons, and the inhabitants are so honest in their habits that such material defenses to property as locks, bolts and bars are not required. Yet its history for the past 1,000 years records no more than two thefts. Discover Fine Glass Land. Immense quantities of sand equal to that imported from Turkey especially for glass-making, have, according to the Westminster Gazette, been discovered not far from London. ```markdown ``` Long Term in Domestic Service. At an inquest held at White chapel, England, on an elderly woman it was stated that the deceased had been in the employ of one family as a domestic servant for fifty-nine years. Praises Japanese Physicians: A Russian medical journal pays a high tribute to the skill of the Japanese physicians, whom it declares to be almost invariably well educated and conscientious. A child born in London may expect to live about forty-one years, but a Glasgow baby has only a little over thirty-five years' expectation of life. Dora Kill Burglars. A burial skr and his son were killed by bulldogs while attempting to break into the house of a Hungarian farmer. First Qnium Smokers. Ophim was first smoked by the natives of Java, from whom the Chinese learned the habit. In Japan state soci-ism is favored by the government and taught in the colleges. Melancholy Begins with the Stomach We may talk sentiment as much as we like, but the stomach is the chief seat of happiness in this world. Above all we should know what foods to eat so as to get the most enjoyment from them and, consequently, the best digestion possible. DR PRICE'S possesses properties which are especially suited for persons who suffer from impaired digestive organs—where the system is lacking in muscular, nerve and brain force—food that can be eaten the year round, meeting the system's needs in sickness and in health. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO., Food Mills, BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Main Offices, CHICAGO. Ex-Senator M. C. Butler. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. FARMERS, MERCHANTS, MECHANICS can make from one to five thousand dollars per year, with promotions to managers for those who are S. E. BARBER. MR. *Eta Life Inns*. Co. Toekee, Kap Small Chinese Oak Trees. The smallest oak trees are to be found in China. They are not one and one-half inches high, and will take root in thimbles. 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Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. The hippopotamus rejoices in the fact that beauty is only skin deep. I do not believe Ploo's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F Boyen, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Marriage is not what it is engaged up to be. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 13 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. The wise man parades his little vices to conceal his great ones. Catarrh of the Stomach is Generally Called Dyspepsia—Something to Produce Artificial Digestion is Generally Taken. Hence, Pepsin, Pancreatin and a Host of Other Digestive Remedies Has Been Invented. These Remedies Do Not Reach the Seat of the Difficulty, Which is Really Catarrh. E. X. U. S. Senator M. C. Butler from South Carolina, was Senator from that State for two terms. In a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co. from Washington, D. C., says: "I can recommend Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I have been using your medicine for a short period and I feel very much relieved. It is indeed a wonderful medicine besides a good tonic."—M. C. Butler. The only national way to cure dyspepsia is to remove the catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna does not produce artificial digestion. It cures catarrh and leaves the stomach to perform digestion in a natural way. This is vastly better and safer than resorting to artificial methods or narcotics. Peruna has cured more cases of dyspepsia than all other remedies combined, simply because it cures catarrh wherever located. If catarrh is located in the head, Peruna cures it. If catarrh has fastened itself in the throat or bronchial tubes, Peruna cures it. When catarrh becomes settled in the stomach, Peruna cures it, as well in this location as in any other. Peruna is not simply a remedy for dyspepsia. Peruna is a catarrh remedy. Peruna cures dyspepsia because it is generally dependent upon catarrh. Ripans Tabules are the best dyspepsia medicine ever made. A handful of them have been sold in the United States in a single year. Constipation, heartburn, sick headache, dizziness, bad breath, sore throat, and every illness is cured with Ripans Tabules. Ripans Tabules are the best dyes. Apis mellifera medicine ever made. A woman who has been sold in the United States in a single year. Constitution, heart disease, breath, sore throat, and every ill disorder stomach are relieved or cured by Ripans Tabules. One will generally give relief within twenty minutes. All drills require for ordinary occasions. 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