Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT 6TH YEAR. oes the White Man Really Believe the Jo is an Inferior Animal Or He Playing for Cheap Notoriety. the recent meeting of the origin Sociological Society a entity of the poor white mem- took the position that God at the Negro an animal of a order than the white man, what God had done no man undo. denying the correctness of proposition. The Independ- takes the position that the man either recognizes the true equality of his brother dark, or he does not believe the says. is the common father of people. He created out of one of the human family to dwell in the face of the earth. And in a condition of a people their primary status with- considering the causes re- sible for the condition show in the prejudice and ignorance the reasoner. shows an intellect too stupid differentiate between the cause effect. Jim Jefferson, the inspira- tion of American liberty, recog- the equality of mankind in the enunciated this great All men are created equal, are endowed with certain valuable rights, among which life liberty and happiness, upon this declaration of an army of rights for all men, the nation was fought and won, american independence escribed. reasoning from the Christ kept and the spirit of man-permeating Jefferson's imal document, we logically conclude that the Negro's condit the result of circumstances which he had no control, and the result of any original inertity. the white man's proscriptive flavors to set u bound by law limit Negro effort and devel- lent belies his logic and des- his case. If he believes gave him advantage over his other in black, why does he content himself with his di- Why does he continue to make and discriminate against inferior people. If the seal of inferiority was used upon the Negro by God itself, and the white man be- it, why does he find it necessary to amend this divine tree by constitutional amend- ment? are the laws of God so defect that man must amend them make them effective? are white man's strenuous and obstine efforts to discrimin against the Negro and deny the rights of a man is the best evidence that he does believe his superior doctrine. white man's unwillingness give an inferior an equal show at struggles for bread ar gues badly for his boasted superiority. Is his superiority of such a nature that he must pass unfair and cowardly legislation to maintain it? We want no higher evidence of our equality and the white man's insincerity and hypocrisy than his downright cowardice Can the inferior Negro do more than the seas? The bible declares that God has set their bounds, and they cannot surpass them. Can the Ethiopian change his skin and the leopard his spots? Well, then, how can the black man change his inferiority? Why not give the inferior being a chance to do what he can? If in the beginning we were incapacitated as a factor in the world's affairs, we cannot acquire it, and the white man is losing time hedging against us. A has s horse that can make a mile in 2:04; B one that can make it in 10 minutes—would it be fair of A to demand 500 yards advantage in the race for the goal? The white man's position is just as foolish and untenable. Was there ever more cowardice and hypocrisy exhibited by a race than the whites who possess all the wealth and intelligence of the country made possible by 250 years of our unpaid labor. The white man does not believe the Negro innately inferior. -The Sun, Columbia, S. C. --- A Kentucky man is said to have died of rattlesnake bite. How the unfortunate colonel happened to allow his jug to become empty is not stated. THE COLORED PRESS. The colored press shapes and molds public sentiment in the Negroes behalf and every family should consider it indispensable. Better do without some of the necessaries of life than be without a colored paper. It is paving the way for the future of our race. We should support a colored paper in order that the good deeds of our race may be published, that our girls and boys may have first class employment. We believe in the doctrine that "God helps those alone who help themselves." We believe that so long as the color of a man's skin prevents his getting employment in white print shops, leading colored people should spend their money with Negro shops, which will give colored men and women of character and ability employment on their merit. We must try to help ourselves as we see the white man doing. Mr. Knox gave up a $70,000 aw practice to accept an $8,000 cabinet portfolio, and now gives up the $8,000 portfolio for a $5,000 senatorship. If he keeps on at this rate Mr. Knox will soon be one of us. The union miners were not allowed to remain in Colorado, and if the tarry until the harvest opens they will not be allowed to get away from Kansas. WICHITA, KANSAS, JUNE 18, 1904. ```markdown ``` WILL BE SHOWN From the recent happenings in this community the Colored people wtll yet learn the necessity of UNITY. For five years this has always been the burden of our cry. It will yet be demonstrated. -Ed. Lessons for The Negro Lessons for The Negro FROM THE RUSSIO-JAPANESE WAR. Some one may think it strange that we are to learn some lessons of vital importance from a war which is being carried on 10,000 miles from our shores. It is a fact, however, that we, as a race learn the lessons for our betterment very, very slowly, and it may be said of us as the prophet of the Lord said unto Israel in the days long ago "My people do not consider." The Japanese are demanding and receiving the plaudits and admiration of the civilized world because of their courage, their intrepidity and love of country. The Negro has no country to love; he is here in the land of his nativity almost a stranger with the 'Dred Scott' decision of the supreme court of America as poetent today practically as it was in the anti-bellum days of yore. The only unrestricted right the Negro enjoys in these United States of America is the right to enlist in the U. S. army and stand up as a target to be shot at in the time of war. As a humblcitizen he is denied comfortable accommodation at the time of travel in some parts of the land and equal opportunity to prepare himself for the battles and achievements of life as a bread winner thru the avenues of skillful labor the truth of these assertions may be assailed but tha remain. Since the Negro has virtually nothing to inspire him to love of country, he ought to love himself and endeavor to build up enterprises of his own, this the Negro south of the Mason and Dixon line is doing and it should be done here. In Wichita we should have a grocery store or some business of repute, for our young men to be employed in when she shall have struggles thru the grammar and WILL BE From the recent this community the ple wtll yet learn UNITY. For five ways been the but It will yet be den high schools of the city. Our young men and women finish a course of study here, and if they want employment commensurate with their ability, tha must of necessity go south to find it. The Negro must love himself, patronize his own industry. We have in this city a Negro drug ftore known as Olden's drug store, with an accomplished lady pharmacist and she ought to be supported by every Negro in Wichita, and that drug store should be made a success in every way, should it fail it will do so to the eternal shame of every Negro doctor in Wichita who --- make their money out of the Negroes, and second, to the shame of every Negro in this city, for it will show on the part of all doctors and people's lack of love for the race with which he is identified, No excuse whatever ought to be or will be accepted by any intelligent Negro man or woman for their prescriptions not being filled at Olden's drug store that gives employment to a Negro pharmacist. Every Negro doctor in this city can go to the Negro'drug store and see that his prescriptions are faithfully compounded, all and any excuses for the non-patronage of Olden's Negro drug store should work against the employment of a Negro doctor. Our leaders, be the lawyers, editors, doctors or preachers should speak out fearlessly on all questions and matters which in any way affect the Negro. The Negro can be as formidable as the Japanese who 50 years ago were scarcely looked upon as a power of any importance either by land or sea, and we must learn lessons from the events passing before our view daily. "Lives of all great men remind us, W can make our lives sublime. And departing leaves behind us We leafin by imitation. The Negro is to be and will be a great people, there is much yet for him to learn, and all of the lessons are not in the books, and it is time our leading men were noting these things and practicing them, keeping them before the people. As a minister I shall surely do my duty in the way I see it along these lines and urge my people to follow my example. God's word is true, our believing or our disbelieving it will in no way alter it or affect it, and he says "If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." Gal. 5:15. We do too much of this kind of business, devouring one another. We are too cowardly and do too much whining, fearing apparently to attack evil, but compromise for fear of loosing a few pennies. Rev. R N. Countee, D. D. SHOWN nt happenings in the Colored peo- the necessity of years this has al- rden of our cry. monstrated. -Ed. The demand for a safe and sane Fourth of July will soon be drowned out by the roar of cannon crackers and the fusilade of toy pistols. Mrs. Hannah Elias deeply regrets that she is a negress, but seems to be unconcerned about the things she ought to regret most keenly. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. ```markdown ``` 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. The Negro is Coming The colored people themselves can hardly fail to see that their political preferment must not proceed but follow their advancement in the other walk of life. Think forty years ago where the southern Negro was and his lonely condition. The thought of itself ought to be encouraging to every one whose rank is with the Negro. See now what you are. A goodly number of Negroes are achieving distinction as lawyers or as physicians, or as minister of educators as business men do by the impression produced upon public opinion. The effect more for citizenship than forty years ago, it is true that southern Negro who had just leaped out from under bondage, enjoying the liberty of freedom his leap from his masters control to legislate, and to sheriff and judges from there to congress at that time was more than the Negro could control. This then was the lack of education and political training Now with the great progress he has developed in the last forty years, give rise to his future. That should inspire the Negro to never stop and think and lament over the prejudice that now exists, that causes him to be discouraged because those that have, knowing that the Negro fails to have but owing for the lack of time. The Jim Crow car on railroads and streets, the soda water saloons, where the Negro is forbidden to go on account of his color is only an inspiration to give rise to his ambition to prepare himself for the environment of life. The law that makes these abjections is a help and a great advantage, for it makes him to see that he must remain in the house of wisdom until he is inspired, with all the qualities and ability of other nationalities. Here is one thing a fact of itself. The proud and great race and hospitality of the American man will not admit no one nor two of an inferior race to compete and be equal with them. The Negro's mistake is one or two of them or a few of them want to put themselves on equality with the white man and use his brother to be his footstool. But it cannot be done. The rejections of socialties will stand in this country against all negroes and they will be apportioned Jim Crow cars and the back seats in opera houses and be ejected from all public resorts until the Negro will learn the lesson of unity and NO 4 the perfection of his own race and by his influence. He that is ahead will bring others with him with education and intelligence the bar of rejection will be let down on him and not until then. Reporter, Jackson, Miss. READ AND CONSIDER. The Searchlight is a friend to the preacher, the teacher, the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant the mechanic, the farmer, the hod carrier, the wood chopper, the washer woman and the house maid. It believes that the humblest of any of these has as much right to life, liberty and property as the highest representative of the Rothschilds or the lords of England. The Searchlight stands for pure homes which means the highest standard of citizenship. If you desire to know the true sentiments of the thoughtful, progressive colored people read the Searchlight. This paper is a self-constituted organ of every religious and educational movement started among the colored people. It is published from its own shop. The best men and women of both races are helping in its circulation. It reaches all of our governors, leading lawyers, eminent judges and distinguished educators. If you appreciate this send in your subscription now. WAS SHE THE OLDEST WOMAN? The Ralls County Times claims that Rebecca Taylor, a Negro woman who died at New London last week, was the oldest woman in the world. "Her relatives in this county," the Times says, "wrote to the descendants of her former owners in Kentucky regarding her age, and from the best information they could obtain she was close to 140 years of age. She said she was present when General Washington was made president the first time and saw the people put leaves on the ground for him to walk on. Her second sight had come to her and she could sew and thread a needle without the aid of glasae. At the time of her death she had cut an entire new set of teeth. It is said she was the mother of nineteen children, the youngest being over eighty years of age. W. S. HENRION 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. --- THE SEARCHLIGHT W. N. 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Write plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. THE REAL TROUBLE It is not from tee rank and file of the race that the Negro newspapers have the trouble in getting proper support—but it is from those who call themselves the "big Negroes" "the leaders" and the "up-to-date Negroes" These would be "big-guns" expect to see their names in every issue of the Negro papers and always look for the Negro papers to have some glowing words of praise for them and their interests. They expect the Negro papers to advocate for men and measures that will result in them getting some big, fat, easy office or in holding one down. The whoop it up for the Negro papers till they 'get what they want' then they have excuse after excuse and the Negro newspapers have a hard time to even get one year's subscription paid by these "great big" would-be "leading lights"(?) and some even go so far when the Negro paper insists upon being paid thrt some have the gall to say "just stop my paper." No doubt such self-important, high-minded gentlemen of color think when they say this that they are saying 'something big' but they "have not said a thing' Is it not as easy for the Negro papers to run with the names of these "great light" off their books as it is for the Negro papers to run with their names on the books and then the Negro papers must wait two or three years to collect one year's subscription and stand chances of never collecting the balance. Nine out of every ten of these big men pay for their papers published by white men promptly and without question The Negro press must help weed such ungrateful men from their positions of ease and self-importance and help to install grateful men. COLORED WOMAN LYNCHED From Lebanan Junction, Ky. comes the newe of the lynching of a colored woman on June 15. The woman, Mrs. Maria Thompson, had killed a white man for whipping her boy over some trifle which had angered the white man. A mob of white men took Mrs. Thompson from jail) and lynched her. Remember our prize offer for May June and July. BIRTHDAY PARTY. A very pleasant birthday party was tender d Miss Etta Pitts by Mrs. Cannie Barker at the Barker home on Wichita and Elm. The party marked the 25th birthday of Miss Pitts. Those invised were: Misses Mora Hyder, Lula Hyder, Amelia Thompson, Lula Thompson Blanche Alexander, Grace Baker, Winnie Ray, Sallie Rawles, Etta Pitts; Messrs. E. T. Summytt, Robt Floyd, Ohas. H. Floyd, Artry Neely, G. L. Scott, Ed Starnes Sam Walker, Dr J. E. Farmer, Pete J. Coleman. Every one had a pleasant time and after partaking of a fine luncheon which was served all retired feeling highly pleased with the evening and pronouncing Mrs. Barker an ideal entertainer. SONG SERVICE. Mrs. Thos. W. Fine has prepared the following program for next Sunday evening at the song service. Everyone is asked to be present at 7 o'clock sharp: PRCGRAM 1. Tenor Solo.....Stewart Waters 2. Rec .....Susie Wilkins 3. Duett ..... ... Misses Zela Radly, Midge Allen. Remember the musical concert at Odd Fellow's hall Thursday night, June 23. Miss Lula Bradford manager. A fine fishing party is being gotten up to get all the fish on July 4. Everyone anticipates a fine time. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Walker of Stafford county, Kans, passed the city last week on their way to Dover Okla., to witness the graduation of their daughter Miss Lizzie Walker. They were the gues- ts of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Dent 1053 N. Main while in the cit. The G. L. A. club entertained Mrs Fannie Stewart of Pueblo, Colo., at the residence of Mrs Lee Anderson Tuesday. After roll call every member responded to the quotations. Invocation by Mrs. Alice Lewis. Nice program was rendered after which they had guessing on watch. Miss Blanche Alexander won the prize which was a cut glass sherbert cup. The club then repaired to the dining room where lunch was served. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. S. E. Patton next Tuesday afternoon. The GEM Barber Shop. Cleanliness and First-Class Work Our Motto 332 N. Main St. GIVE US A TRIAL Plenty of Clean Towels always on hand. The Tabernacle Baptist church had a very entertaining program Sunday. New Hope joiaed with them and assisted in making the occasion the grander. Negro Will Make Speech Seconding Nomination of —ROOSEVELT— It is announced that Hon. Harry S. Cummings, a delegate-at-large from the state of Maryland, has been selected by the speaker's committee to second the nomination of Roosevelt on behalf of the Negro Republicans of the country. This is a wise act on the part of the committee and a good selection The Daughters of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 will have their annual sermon preached at the A, M. E. church Sunday afternoon at 3pm The sermon will be p ached by Rev. W. H Tillman, pastor of New Hope Baptist church. Our Second Great Not only Mill Remnants, but hundreds of articles at Bargain Prices will be offered at the sale, that are seasoable, timely, to fill your present and future wants AND YOU WILL COME EVERY DAY AFTERWARDS Look For The Green Tickets- JUVINILE MUSICAL CONCERT! Mrs. J. H. McCune has bought a horse. Who is going to put up the $75 this year? The Little river was raising a little this week. Rev. M. J. Lee of Baxter Springs was in the city Saturday. The A. M. E. Sewing Circle met Monday with Mrs. Ida B. Clark. Mrs. Pearl Simpson of Anthony is visiting her sister Mrs. B. Pembleton. Attend the musical concert at Odd Fellow's Hall, Thursday night June 23d. Mr. Ed Miller and family have moved to their new home on South Mosley ave. Be true to your friends and they will prove true to you, at least they ought to do so. Messrs. Wm. Johnson and Walter Evans of Topeka were in the city during the week. I. M. Gaston, of Ellsworth, Kas., was a visitor in the city last week and returned home Sunday. 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. E. Hashmon left Friday last for Kansas City where she was summoned on account of the serious illness of hnr sister Mrs. Bessie Evans. J. R. Dandridge, Earl Dunn and a number of other fishermen wen cut on a fishing tour. Of course the city will be overrun with when they return. Our Seco EMORY MILL Begins Monda Continues F Not only Mill Remnants, at Bargain Prices will be are seasoable, timely, to wants Doors Ope Come The AND YOU WILL COME E —Look For The Boston 103.105.107.105 WALLENST JUVINILE MUSICAL CONCERT Several young ladies have formed a Musical Concert company under the management of Miss Lula Bradford and will render a classical pro gram at Odd Fellow's hall on next Thursday night, June 23rd. They have made out a splendid program for the occasion. —: PROGRAM :— 1 Inst. Solo.....Miss Lula Bradford 2 Vocal Solo.....Miss Zela Rattey 3 Duett Piano.....Violin Miss Lula Bradford Mr. Fay Anderson 4 Inst. Solo.....Miss Eula James 5 Inst. Solo.....Miss Myrtle Fleming 6 Duett...Mandolin...Guitar Misses Ella Roach, B. M. Hall 7 Inst. Solo ..... Miss Lula Paul 8 Duett...Misses Sallie Bartlett Ethel Patten 9 Inst. Solo.....Miss Pansy Cox 10 Inst. Solo.....Miss Carrie Foster 11 Pantomime .....Miss Pansy Cox 12 Inst. Solo...Miss Lula Bradford Admission 10c The children's day exercises at the A. M. E. eburch Sunday were grand in every way. Mrs. Lawson Fines leaves Saturday for Sherman, Texas, where she will spend about two weeks on business and visiting friends. Lincoln said—"You can fool some of the people all the time. all the people some time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Chief F. S. Burt and J. H. !Stewart will leave Tuesday for Chicago to attend the Republican national convention as assistant sergeants-at-arms. 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 ea J. The Searchlight believes that the law makers so separate the state government for the county affairs and the county affairs from the city affairs, because they believed that a mixture of thh any two would be dangerous to the welfare of the people, and we believe that any effort on the part of the one to swallow the other is disastrous to the best interest of the community. Quite a nice reception was tendered at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller 15th and Rochester in honor of Mrs. Lee Anderson who recently returned from California, and in honor of Mrs. Lawson Fines who left Saturday to spend a short while visiting at her former home Dallas, Texas. A splendid time was had. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Fines, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. W. Fine, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Waters, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. Ike J. Porter Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller. and Great REMNANT SALE day, June 20th for Ten Days but hundreds of articles offered at the sale, that will your present and future Nine O'clock Monday Morning the First Day EVERY DAY AFTERWARDS Green Tickets— Store E. DOUGLAS AVE. PEIN & COOK WICHITA ATOHISON KAN. LAWRENCE KAN. OTTWAK KAN. ERDONA KAN. PASSONS KAN. This Large Bank Is Managed By Negroes Muskogee, I. T. June 16—An evidence of what the Negro, known in the territory as a freedman, is doing to better his condition, is shown the incorporation of the Creek Citizens Realty Bank and Trust Co which was formed on the 14th inst. The capital stock is $50,000.00. All the officers and stock-holders are Negroes. Every freeman gets 16 acres of good land and most of them sell it which makes plenty of ready money. The officers are:—A. G. W. Sangy', president; P. R. Ceasar, vice president; G. K. Davidson, secretary; W. A. Rentle, cashier and treasurer. The company will build a brick building for the bank. Get a Searchlight, if you want the new \ Southwestern Distributing Agent for Cribben & Sexton Co. Any style of stove at wholesale prices. H & M. Clees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE. Warnhoff & McClees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By at Searchlight ce's Standard Bearer Read the great Searchlight The Race's Standard Bearer GREAT REDUCTION Pants and Suits Children's Suits. Too many items to mention -- but it will pay you to inspect. The Hub Charles Youngheim, Prop. 114 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. ```markdown ``` Warnhoff WHIT L. S. NAFTSGER, Presideat W. R. TUCKER, Vice President L. 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. Physician and Surgeon 605 N. Main 6. In The Grocery Line 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 DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE Cor. 13th and Santa Fe Phone 1114 Read the great S The Race's Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large in- voice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies and Misses Pink Dress Shoes, Oxfords and Slippers, all styles and all kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES You'll find an excellent line of "Colonials" the proper thing and latest fad, in our regular stock, at 82 TAPP BROTHERS & HANSAH Phone 257. 255-257 N. Min TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only one that can be used that makes hair curly hair straight as it should. It shines the scap, prevents the hair from curling, makes the hair grow long and silky. Solvent, forty years old, it was the first preparation ever sold for straightening hair. Original Ozized Ox Marrow as the gummie never talks to you. It is the best hair conditioner it has to treat it that is much desired. A toilet tissue for hair, it is to its superior and lasting qualities it owes to its superior quality. It is possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every step, and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bag of express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name on the plain OZONIZED OX MARROW CO, 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. 1 Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS --- B. F. McLEAN. LUMBER YARDS AT Nishita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. We trade Ranches, Farms, J. F. Belle Real Estate & M Homes So Installment Pla Western Lands and Ranges A Oklahoma and Colorado Patronage Office 110 N. 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Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street. Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SLOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St HOUCK Insurance Gasoline Stoves Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose, etc. 116 East Douglas Ave. HARDING'S RESTAURANT Orders Soft Drinks Lunch Ice Cream G. W. Harding, Prop. East Douglas Wichita. --- First-Class MEALS OTTO WEISS, Agent. DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas City Property and Merchandise New & Co., Immigration Agts Used On Easy Terms. Specialty. Dealers in Kansas, Arms and Ranch Lakes. Solicited- in, wichita, Kansas. A. DEAN Fats, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 G IN DRUGS Milled With Care a customer always OMER Drug Co. Main Street. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISOH BROS, PROPS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 Ask for eash ships. 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 Scarchlight at all times. NARROW ESCAPE. Mrs, Dandridge and daughter m t with a painful accident Saturday night about 8:30 o'clock while on their way home from town. As they got off the Emporia ave car to transfer to north Main street car, the street was very crowded and aome person driving very fast in a buggy ran over Mrs. Dandridge She was pieked up in an unconscious condition. Her daughier, Miss Bessie Dandridge made a bold attempt to rescue her mother from under the horse and came near meeting death nerself and as it was her waist was almost entirely torn off, two gentlemen standing near came to the relief of the two ladies and saved them both from almost death. The ladies were taken to their home where our skillful physician Dr.-J. E. Farmer was called and dressed their wounds and they are now on the road to recovery. All effort to find who the reckless driver was has proved of no avail. The big ax of Fire Marshal A. G. Walden fell Wednesday, June 15, and the heads of two members of the colored fire department No. 3 fell in the chief's waste bucket. The men to meet fate this time were Fireren Chas. H. Gordon and Will Horton. Mr. Gordon has been on the department about a year and Mr. Horton about 15 months. The chief's action in dismissing these two men caused a great sensation among the colored people and at once a speculation began whether the men remaining who had been on the d partiment longer would be promoted and whether colored men would be placed in the sieud of the men discharged. This was soon settled when a white fireman was sent up to No. 3 to take the place of one of the deposed men and it is said that a colored man will be appointed to fill the other place. Thus by the sudden falling of the chief's guillotine there will be five colored me and two white men in No. 3 now instead of six colored men and one white man as heretofore. We make no comment on the dismissal of the two men at this time, but it does seem as though two colored men ought to have been appointed to fill the places made vacant by deposing two colored men. It is learned, however, that a place had been promised by the city force to certain men and of course the time growing short some steps had to be taken to make room to make this promise good, so there you are. What strange things do happen when the other man has the gun. More later. —TRY THE— BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE W. M. Dunson Painter The Only Colored Painter the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 996 The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER, PATRON IZE TUEM.' TICKLE GRASS BY BYRON WILLIAMS Shoo! Now doth the little housewife Go out to gather greens! Within her hand a case-knife That in the sunlight sheens! She searcheth on the hill sides And cutteth or, the lea— But homeward doth our wife slide When chaseth by a bee! Her Whole Duty. The member-in-good-standing of the Women's Christian Booze Fighters' Union heard the hesitating knock of the tramp at her kitchen door, and proceeded toward the aperture hurriedly. When she had hooked the door on the inside, she looked through the screen at him. "Please, ma'am, I'm hungry!" in apologetic voice. "Hungry? Of course you're hungry! What have you been doing with your money? Spending it for drink?" "Please, ma'am, I—" "Don't interrupt me! And you chew tobacco, too, don't you? And smoke?" "If you please—" "And like as not you won't work when you get a chance! I'll try you! As a rule I don't believe in feeding tramps! They are worthless, good for nothing, debauched lichens of humanity, but I'm going to give you a trial. Do you see that woodpile out by the barn," pointing. "Well, sir, there's a cord and a half of wood in that pile. You'll find the saw in the woodhouse and the ax in the block back of the barn. Now you cut that wood and I'll feed you well and give you fifty cents beside!" She paused, haughtily waiting a reply. "But, madam, I'm hungry. If I could have a bite before—" "No you don't! None of that. The last lazy, shiftless genus homo that came along here played that on me and after sawing one stick of wood, sneaked out through the plum trees and ran away. If you—" "Worth $2 to saw that wood? Well, mercy goodness, you said you was hungry, didn't you? You—oh, dear, such lazy, good for nothing—I told you so! Of course you wouldn't saw that wood! No, sir! Not one bite to eat from this house! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! What is this world coming to, anyhow? "Now, sir, you move right along away from here. Go to work, quit drinking, quit smoking, take a bath and be a man!" And the member of the Women's Christian Booze Fighters' Union, having done her whole duty, slammed the kitchen door and locked it! Moral—Advice is plenty good enough fodder for a hungry tramp's breadbasket! Wing! A Jersey City couple played a great joke on the old folks. As the pair entered the parlor to the strains of the wedding march, the man, holding the woman by the hand, advanced to the center of the room and said, "I desire to announce that my wife and I to-day celebrate the fifth anniversary of our marriage!" Then he brought out the documents to prove it. By the time they got the close relatives pried out of their fainting spells, things were ready to proceed "as merry as a marriage bell." Sucker Time. The ships that pass at night Are stalwart ships I know, But those that pass by day Bear hope within their bow! A small and anxious lad Rowed by another boy. And loudly do they shout: "Say, Jimmie, ship ahoy!" And out across the deep In shrill, beseeching terms, There falls upon the ear: "Has house get any worms?" A mob threw fifteen bad eggs at a North Carolina man. He recovered by law $300 damages for every egg that hit him. Half the mob was composed of women. How much money did the man get? The robins are building their nests as usual this spring. Perhaps if the attention of the builders' union is called to this, the strikers will make 'em stop it. A New Hampshire man courted a girl twenty-six years and died on their wedding night. These basty marriages are responsible for many a sudden shock! AT COST Dissolving Partners and must reduce the stock. Patent Leathes S and OXFORDS. FOR MEN, WOMEN and CHI ---AND THEY ARE CHEAP-- Ladies' Slippers ..... $1.00 Men' Canvas Shoes ..... $1.00 Boy's Canvas Shoes ..... .80 solving Partners and must reduce the stock. Patent Leathes S OXFORDS. FOR MEN, WOMEN and CHI ---AND THEY ARE CHEAP--- Ladies' Slippers ..... $1.00 Men' Canvas Shoes ..... $1.00 Boy's Canvas Shoes ..... .80 Dissolving Partnership and must reduce the stock. Patent Leathes Shoes and OXFORDS. FOR MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN ---AND THEY ARE CHEAP--- Ladies' Slippers ..... $1.00 Men' Canvas Shoes ..... $1.00 Boy's Canvas Shoes ..... .80 Lots of Men Are in The Same Position Use a little more forethought, brother, and keep out of the rut of "penny wise and poud 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, expense, going-down in the pocket expenditures to 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 .....Drugs of all kinds, C Your patronage solicited. Once a Our store is Headquarters f BOTH PHONES 497 J. H. TURNER 55 -- 537 w. Douglas A. OLDEN'S DRUG STORE Prescriptions led with Car ...—Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco. stronage solicited. Once a customer, always a our store is Headquarters for the Colored peo Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco. 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Bissant WICHITA-KANSAS A BIG DIS We will for the next 30 days Summer Suitings and Trousers cent less than the regular price Call and see our line before o A BIG DISCOUN will for the next 30 days sell all our Sprin mer Suitings and Trousers at a discount of less than the regular price. and see our line before ordering your slot A BIG DISCOUNT We will for the next 30 days sell all our Spring and Summer Suitings and Trousers at a discount of 20 per cent less than the regular price. The PEERLESS TAILOR 508 East Douglas Ave Partnership k. Patent Leathes Shoes WOMEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN ARE CHEAP--- $1.00 shoes.....$1.00 shoes......80 A man chopping wood. ES 497 URNER, Douglas Ave. DRUG STORE led with Care Cigars and Tobacco. ..... a customer, always a customer for the Colored people. DAVIS, smaker, Harness work guaranteed. Prices Reasonable Ave. Wichita COPYRIGHT 06 East Douglas 1V3. —Both Phones 98— ISCOUNT s sell all our Spring and ers at a discount of 20 per price. ordering your clothes. VEXATIOUS FAIR QUESTION Colored Visitors Complain to World Fair Management. The race question has been presented to the management of the World's Fair in St. Louis, and bids fair to vex them till the close of the Exposition period. Every effort has been made to avoid raising the issue, but in the next few days it seems as though the company will be obliged to take a stand. With a view to meeting some unpleasant features, a proposition is under advisement to employ Mrs. A. M. Curtis, a colored lady of education and refinement to head an Afro-American bureau. Her duty will be to meet and greet the colored people and preside over a small building which will be in a measure a house for general comfort of the colored people. It is the hope of the Exposition people that such an arrangement will tend to solve some of the vexations which have already arisen in connection with the reception of colored people. Complaint was made that the Pike restaurants have signs in a conspicuous place "No colored people served in this restaurant." The complaint was referred to the general counsel of the Exposition company. It is understood to be his opinion that no action can be taken by the company, because the restaurants are only liable to the Exposition in a general way, and patrons have the same recourse as with restaurants on the outside of the grounds. Another complaint came from the colored people that the company that has the fresh water concession refuse to serve the colored people. When a colored person offers to drop a penny in the slot, as do the whites, the young girls who preside over the water boothes refuse to set glasses out for them. When questioned the water company officers said that if they served colored people with the water as they do the whites it would ruin their trade. This difficulty has been obviated it is believed, by the suggestion that special tanks of water shall be set aside for colored people at each of the water tanks. Special goblets, of the same design, but distinctly marked, will be secured for what will be known as "The colored people's water stand". The opening of the Afro-American bureau is hoped to settle this vexatious race question. Rain may keep people away from church sometimes, but from the circus—never. The California orange trust is about to dissolve. What good does that do at this time of year? Speaking of fish, there must be some redeeming feature about the German carp. What is it? "The man that bets on the races is an idiot," says Charles T. Yerkes. Mr. Yerkes seems to be a hard loser. Just to satisfy plain curiosity, will somebody kindly report how work is progressing on The Hague palace of peace? The discovery that the empress' crown jewels are bogus is about the worst blow yet to Japanese national confidence. Those Boston girls who broke the record as high jumpers will cause some of us to revise our notions of Boston dignity. The General Federation of Women's Clubs has officially thanked Gov. Odell for saving Niagara falls. We stand right beside the ladies. Richard Strauss says Boston stands as high in musical taste as any city of Europe. Boston will call that damning with faint praise. A Zion City dentist claims that he and his wife can live on $1.68 a week. It is to be understood, of course, that he doesn't use an automobile. The government is going to try to reclaim 100,000 acres of arid land in Washington. Determination will do almost anything, and we have the sand. The New Jersey judge who has ruled that a boy's life is worth twice as much as a girl's has probably changed his opinion since he was twenty. A St. Louis preacher now declares that Santa Claus is a myth. Some clerical iconoclast will be calling satan a figment of the popular fancy before long. Our Cuts Talk THE WILLIAMSON HAFFNER ENGRAVING CO. 1623 39 ARAPAHDE ST. DENVER CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant AT - TE taurant When You Want AG OOD MEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well -- MEALS 15cts -- C. L. KINER, Prop. 408 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. Almost Equal To A Trip Around The World will be a visit to the ST.LOUIS FAIR Don't Del 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. J.C. E. BASCOM, C. P.A. COLORADO The Santa Fe will sell routes Colorado Springs, and D. June 1st to September 30, October 31st, 1904. Stop-u- allowed as heretofore. THREE TRAITS "The Colorado Flyer", (in necting with through sleeper, "The Colorado Express" co- ita 2:55 p. m. and No. 7, co- p. m. provide the means of r and comfortably. Illustrated Literature L. R. DLLANE Atchison, To Low Rates to World's CARRADO TOUR A Fe will sell round-trip tickets to Springs, and Denver for $17.50 to September 30, 1904, inclusive. 1st, 1904. Stop-overs in Colorado heretofore. THE TRAINS DAILY Carrado Flyer", (in service June 1 through sleeper leaves Wichita Trade Express" connecting train lo- m, and No. 7, connecting train lo- m, the means of reaching the resor- sibility. United Literature of route R. DLLANEY, Agent, Atchison, Topeka and Santa L. Wi Auto World's Fair St. L. COLORADO TOURIST The Santa Fe will sell round-trip tickets to Pueblo Colorado Springs, and Denver for $17,50, daily June 1st to September 30, 1904, inclusive. Limit October 31st, 1904. Stop-overs in Colorado will be allowed as heretofore. THREE TRAINS DAILY "The Colorado Flyer", ( in service June 19, ) connecting with through sleeper leaves Wichita 10:20 p. m. "The Colorado Express" connecting train leaves Wichita 2:55 p. m. and No. 7, connecting train leaves 5:15 p. m. provide the means of reaching the resorts quickly and comfortably. Illustrated Literature of route FREE Low Rates to World's Fair St. Louis, Mo. WORLD'S FAIR ROUTE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY ST.LOUIS 1904 SEASON EXCURSION TICKETS Dates of Sale—Daily from April Final limit—December 15, 1900 Sixty-Day Excursion Tickets—$ Dates of Sale—April 25 to Nov to be good to leave St. Louis w Fifteen Day Excursion Tickets—$ Date of Sale—Daily from April Limit—Tickets to be good to days from date of sale, but not THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAIL daily for St. Louis, and is the show the World's Fair. Through Pulling chair cars; are operated from change For full information call E. E. BLECKLEY. T. P. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. Do VERSION TICKETS—$21.45 Round Trip Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, to December 15, 1904 Version Tickets—$17.90 Round Trip April 25 to Nov. 20, 1904 Final Leave St. Louis within sixty days of version Tickets—$16.00 Reunion Trip Daily from April 27 to Nov. 30, it is to be good to leave St. Louis of sale, but not later than December. I PACIFIC RAILWAY now has this, and is the shortest and most of Through Pullman sleepers and operated from Wichita to St. Louis information call on or address the KEY. I. R. SHÉRÉ P. A. Station Cor. Douglas ave and W SEASON EXCURSION TICKETS—$21.45 Round Trip Dates of Sale—Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive Final limit—December 15, 1904 Sixty-Day Excursion Tickets—$17.90 Round Trip Dates of Sale—April 25 to Nov. 20, 1904 Final limit—Tickets to be good to leave St. Louis within sixty days from sale date Missouri Pacific Station Cor. Douglas ave and Wicobita street. Took Man With House. The man who stole a red hot stove has been outdone. News comes from a little town in South Dakota that a man named Elrud went to bed the other night only to awake later with his home ten miles from his land, thieves having six horses hitched to the building and moving it west. The owner stepped out with two guns and ordered the volunteer house movers to return his house to its original foundation, which they did, apologizing by saying that they didn't know it was his home. --- Rock Island System Is creating consternation throughout Wichita and vicinity when buyers see what is really being sold for such marvelously low prices they are awe struck they expected bargains but little did they dream of such phenomenal inducements. This coming Saturday we place on sale all excellent in make, fabric and style-broken sizes-sell regularly at $10.00 $12.00 your choice for This Great Stock. Must Be Turned Into Cash THE FULTON ETS—$21,45 Round Trip April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive 1904 $17.90 Round Trip May. 20, 1904 Final limit—Tickets within sixty days from sale date -$16,00 Reunts Trip. April 27 to Nov. 30, inclusive. Final leave St. Louis within fifteen it later than December 5th 1904. ILWAY now has three trains shortest and most direct routes to man sleepers and elegant reclin Wichita to St. Louis without on or address the undersigned I. R. SHERWIN, P. & T. A. Douglas ave and Wichita street. At the foot of the high bluffs of the Mississippi river bottoms, seven miles west of Lauderdale, Tenn.. are several mounds which the old residents have always called graves of the Indians who inhabited this section many years ago. These mounds have always been the source of much speculation and wonder. It is believed that the mounds hold bodies of the prehistoric race known as the Mound Builders, which tradition says inhabited this country centuries ago. 1000 Men's Suits $5,75 Stock . Be Turne me Now - Sha FUL $ T Han Y --- 823 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses SEE!! LEGAL NOTICE. State of Kansas, Sedgwick county, ss. In the District court 18th Judicial District Wm. Tadee, Plaintiff Ellen J. Rank, and her unknown heirs, as defendants, are hereby notified that they have been sued in the District court in and for the 18th Judicinii district of the state of Kansas, by the above named plaintiff to quiet the title in said plaintiff to the following described land to wit: Lois Fifty eight (58) and Sixty (60) on Walnut street in Neiderlander's addition to West Wichita now City of Wichita in the county of Sedgwick and state of Kansas. And that said defendants must be and appear in said court on or before the 30th day of July 1904 and then and there plead, an answer or demur to plaintiff's petition therein nled or a decree pro confesso will be entered against said defendants and each of them forever barring and perpetually enjoining them, and each of them, from setting up or attempting to set up any alim, right in, or title to said premises or any part thereof, and quieting the title and possession to said premises in the plaintiff forever. J. C. Milton, Atty for Pliff attest: Geo. A. Clark • Clerk of District Court (seal) Of course it is more or less annoying to the emperor of Korea to have the Japanese take possession of his country, but then, he's used to trouble. He has 100 wives. "Chicago presents no immoralities to the visitor," says Anthony Comstock, who is spending a few days in the Windy City. Certainly not. She charges an admission fee. It is to be hoped that, when the Japanese get hold of Port Arthur, they won't feel it necessary to change the name. It's about the only one of the lot that's at all pronounceable. We wonder whether the Vale waiter who, although he carried a rabbit's foot, refused to wait on thirteen students at his table, is superstitious enough to refuse a tip of 13 cents. We doubt the authenticity of this story that Gen. Kuropatkin is carrying his coffin around with him. His martial cloak would answer all practical purposes and sound much better in the poems. A London court has held that a man is not liable for his wife's dress-making bills. Doubtless some soulless creature will now stamp himself with the mark of the beast by bringing a test case over here. A pitcher that is 2,000 years old is being exhibited at the St. Louis exposition. We know of several ladies who would like to obtain the address of the girl who worked for the family that owned the pitcher. 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Australia is capable of supporting at least 100,000,000 inhabitants. --- $160 for a Pen. OB ROOM. We Now Prepared To Do All Us Of Fancy, Up to Date k. We Invite A Trial. Guarantee To Please You, Both And Price. You Will Find The Old Reliable Stand At North Main St. G Us Your Next Job. INVITE YOU TO CALL S who Can PRINT AS LOW AS THE LOWEST IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST YOU? ber to the HLIGHTS WHY NOT? ONLY FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. BETO·DAY A young lady, visiting for the time in the country, was alarmed the approach of a cow. She was frightened to run, and, shaking parasol at the animal, she said, very stern tone; Increased Use of Asphalt Asphalt was first used for soil pavements in Paris in 1838, and so then the demand for this purpose warranted an annual product throughout the world of 500,000 metric tons of asphalt and a minous rock. The Boers resent an attempt take a Transvaal census. They sider it an intrusion into their vate affairs. Profit on a Whale. Last year some fishermen on Azores caught a whale from $3.475 worth of ambergs was taken --- SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday June 18, '04 Most torpedoes fail to hit anything, but those that do amply make up for the defect. Men who join the New York Mothers' club will be expected to act like perfect ladies. When the Japanese meet with disaster they don't seem to try to keep it out of the papers. An analysis of the Yellow sea at this juncture might show equal parts salt water and explosive mines. Even the latest of the big dictionaries doesn't define a trust as a small body of capital completely surrounded by water. In Korea widows are not permitted to remarry. Homely widows needn't feel that they ought to offer excuses over there. King Alfonso is going to marry, but, unfortunately for him, reasons of state prevent him from taking an American girl for a wife. A British scientist claims that the earth is kept hot by radium. Perhaps the great rush for radium was what made last winter so cold. Having been on the stage for half a century, lacking two years, Henry living has reason to congratulate himself that he is not a woman. A Philadelphia preacher says women's extravagance is the cause of bachelorhood. How about the extravagance of the bachelors? The woman suffrage movement is gaining strength in Boston. If it keeps on a number of husbands may be able to secure employment doing kitchen work. A Henderson (Ky.) woman eloped from her watchful son and got married. A reconciliation, it is presumed, ended with a "Bless you, my parents!" Two nines from an insane asylum played a matched game of ball. And the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune asks: "How would you like to be the impire?" D'Annunzio, the Italian dramatist and author, declares that his newest work is the result of an inspiration. Perhaps that's as good a way as any to advertise it. Wellesley College girls now carry robbers to protect themselves against male flirts. Of course most of the Wellesley girls are comparatively young yet. The Rev. M. J. Savage, in a recent sermon, undertakes to tell "why more people do not go to church." He ends the principal reason to be that "they don't have to." Uncle Sam has paid Panama the $100,000,000, but he has wisely put it in a New York bank, so that the young republic cannot shake pennies but for spending money. Mr. Rockefeller is just like other magicians about explaining his tricks. When he talked to his son's Bible class on his success he stopped just where the true secret began. We can account for the action of the countess of Ravensworth, who has just married her coachman, only on the theory that she was behind the times and didn't have a chauffeur. Actor Louis James has been awarded $10,000 damages because a Texas hotel man accused him of purloining pillowslips. Won't some well-to-do Texan kindly accuse us of stealing pillowslips? Sir Hiram Maxim figures it out that the Monte Carlo bank gets 90 per cent of the money played on its tables. Still there will always be shoals of suckers hoping to win 100 per cent of the bank's money. A New Jersey court has held that one boy is worth as much as two girls. The czar of Russia and the king of Italy will probably hold that the New Jersey judge's estimate on boys is entirely too low. At a public meeting in Tokio a resolution was adopted to the effect that the Russians are yellow men with white faces, while the Japanese are white men with yellow faces. Thus Japan draws the color line. Tolstoi's wife speaks French, English and German, besides her native Russian. But, after all, a woman who can speak in four languages is sometimes not so much appreciated as the woman who can keep still in one. The young lady who graduated from Bates college last summer and who during the winter and spring has fitted for the stove seven cords of wood beaches doing housework and chores, should have no trouble at all in getting married. "Walter," said the lady, taking a seat in a restaurant after attending a meeting of the league for the amelioration of the condition of deserted summer cats, "bring me a broiled live lobster, and be sure to select a real live one please." Japan's Determination. Japan is, under ordinary conditions, the Land of To-morrow. When the time comes to act quickly, she is the Land of Instant Movement. She strikes quickly, and as an American naval officer said the other day, "that is why Japan has made it understood that she is going to carry on this war as mistress of the Eastern Seas." Humbug's Career Cut Short. Dr. Katterfelto's was a name to conjure with in the latter years of the eighteenth century. He used to travel all over England in an enormous caravan, which he shared with a small army of black cats, and he was regarded everywhere as a wizard with superhuman powers until the mayor of Shrewsbury sent him to prison as a rogue and a vagabond. Trees That Whistle. The species of acacia which grows very abundantly in Nubia and the Soudan is called the "whistling tree" by the natives. Its shoots are frequently distorted in shape by the agency of larvae of insects, and swollen into globular bladder from one to two inches in diameter. After the insect has emerged from the circular hole in the side of the swelling, the opening, played upon by the wind, becomes a musical instrument suggested of a sweet-toned flute. Old Soldier's Story. Sonoma, Mich, June 13—That even in actual warfare disease is more terrible than bullets is the experience of Delos Hutchins of this place. Mr. Hutchins as a Union soldier saw three years of service under Butler Barke in the Louisiana swamps, and as a result got crippled with rheumatism so that his hands and feet got all twisted out of shape, and how he suffered only a rheumatic will ever know. For twenty-five years he was in misery, then one lucky day his drug-gist advised him to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Of the result Mr. Hutchins says: "The first two boxes did not help me much, but I got two more, and before I got them used up I was a great deal better. I kept on taking them and now my pains are all gone and I feel better than I have in years. I know Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure rheumatism." A woman doesn't enjoy a trip half as much as she enjoys telling about it afterwards. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes. Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 23c. Sample sent FREE. 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Send for circulators and testimonial. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Drugsatz, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. In the Dark Ages there must have been more nights than days. 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. Nothing ahnoys the chronic kicker like the refusal of things to go wrong. 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 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 sticks to the from. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th Starch for sale by all dealers. LOOKING FOR NEW ISSUES. LOOKING FOR NEW ISSUES. HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF DEMOCRATIC ISSUES FOR HALF A CENTURY. "REST IN PEACE." FIAT MONEY, FREE SILVER. IMPERIALISM. MILITARISM. BRYANISM, POPULISM AND OTHER ISMS, TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. FREE TRADE RECIPROCITY IN COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS. DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY LEON HARRITT --- A TYPICAL DEMOCRAT A TYPICAL DEMOCRAT JUDGE PARKER'S VIEWS, AS EX PRESSED BY PROXY. He Is In Complete Harmony With His Party as Regards Hatred of Protection and the Intention to Smash the Tariff at the First Opportunity. Through his friend, Elliot Danforth, formerly State Treasurer of New York, Judge Parker has authorized a statement of his views concerning questions that are to enter into the national campaign of 1904. Restrained by his judicial dignity from the expression of his political sentiments in public speeches or in open letters, Judge Parker has maintained a reserve that by some people—notably his opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination—has been construed to indicate a neutral state of mind and a lack of the positive assertion which is regarded as essential in an aspirant for the Presidency. Grounds for this criticism disappear in the light of the Danforth declaration. Certainly no fault can be found, on the score of vagueness, with the candidate's position regarding the tariff. He is a Democrat and he would therefore lend his aid in the ripping up of the Dingley tariff. That much is clear from Mr. Danforth's authorized exposition: "In a conversation recently had with him at Esopus, Judge Parker made it clear to me that the question of taxation, now, as always, is of vital importance to the people, and that the great mass of American producers and consumers demand a revision of the tariff that will equalize the burden of taxation and distribute equitably its benefits. "He assured me that he is in favor of reducing customs duties wherever they shelter the trusts and wherever they enable lawless capital to wring extortionate prices from the consumer. Judge Parker told me that he regard- LOOKING FOR HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF DEMOCRATIC ISSUES FOR HALF A CENTURY. "REST IN PEACE" FREE TRADE DEMOCRACY ed that feature of our tariff system as little less than criminal. "Nor would he stop there. He insists that wherever American manufacturers are, by means of a monopolistic tariff, enabled to sell their articles abroad more cheaply than at home, or, rather, are permitted to charge at home prices higher than those accepted abroad, then the duties on all such articles should be reduced so as to correct that injustice to the American consumer." Being a Democrat, Judge Parker looks upon the tariff as a tax. All Democrats so consider it. Nearly all Democrats, while recognizing in the tariff a necessary means of providing revenue, contend that it should have no other function. Most of them would prefer an income tax. Practically the entire body of the Democratic party is antagonistic to the protective function of a tariff. A considerable majority of Democrats are avowed free traders, while a minority seem to favor some sort of protection, provided it is not the sort that protects. To the latter class Judge Parker apparently belongs. He would revise the tariff and "distribute equitably its benefits." How? We presume he does not know. The Democratic record of distribution of tariff benefits has invariably been anything but an equal distribution. In the Democratic scheme of tariff making foreign producers have never failed to reap the lion's share of the benefits, while domestic producers and domestic labor have never failed to get the worst end of the distribution. Judge Parker feels himself on safe ground when committing himself to the reduction of tariff duties on commodities competing with trust products. To smash the trusts he would smash the tariff. Evidently he does not consider it worth while to calculate the effect of that sovereign specific upon 60 per cent or more of producers that are wholly outside of trusts. While lowering the tariff bars for the smashing of the few trusts that are guilty of wringing extortion ate prices from the consumer, what would happen to the non-trust producers? How would they escape the consequences of competition in the inflow of lower-priced commodities from foreign mills and factories? They would not, of course, escape it; any schoolboy can see that, provided he wishes to see it. Judge Parker, being a Democrat, does not want to see it. He wants to smash the tariff; that is all he sees. Exactly the same blind adherence to a partisan idea is shown in the proposition to withhold all tariff benefits from manufacturers who sell to foreign consumers at lower prices than those maintained in the domestic market. It is a characteristic Democritic proposition to smash the tariff and abolish protection because an amount not exceeding one per cent of the total of manufactured products, not four per cent of the manufactured exports of the United States, is disposed of in foreign markets at reduced prices. In order to deprive a few manufacturers of the privilege of disposing of their surplus production abroad at the best prices obtainable—a bargain counter privilege which is exercised more or less in every known branch of trade—it is seriously proposed to take away all tariff protection from the thousands of industrial producers whose yearly output reaches the enormous total of $16,000,000,000. That is the Democratic idea of a valid excuse for attacking the tariff. That is Judge Parker's idea. We think him sufficiently explicit alike to satisfy Democrats and to warn Republicans. Concrete Facts. One of the most fragrant misrepresentations of the free traders in their attacks upon the protective system is their persistent assumption that protectionists underestimate the value or ignore the importance of foreign trade. One of the favorite illustrations used by the opponents of protection is that the advocates of the protective system propose to build a Chinese wall about the country to shut out foreign trade NEW ISSUES. 1904 FIAT MONEY, FREE SILVER, IMPERIALISM, MILITARISM, BRYANISM, POPULISM AND OTHER ISMS? TOO NUMEROUS TO MEINTION RECIPROCITY IN COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS. DEMOCRACY KEVIN BARNITT Of course, the protectionists have denied this from the outset, and they have shown that this assumption is contrary to reason. Every additional year under protection, however, has given additional concrete facts to show that there is absolutely nothing in this theory of the free traders. The exports have increased at an incredible rate, notwithstanding the protests of the theorists.—Marion (Ind.) Chronicle. Simple Platform for Democrats Some Democrats, recalling what happened to their party with the long-drawn-out declarations of Chicaging and Kansas City, are calling for a short platform this year. It should be easy to comply with such a demand. The Democratic party would correctly define its position with regard to every important public policy by simply adopting this plank: "Whatever it is we're agin it. —Troy Times. Suits Entire Country "We are in favor of the retention of the Philippine islands," says the Illinois Republican platform, "and of maintaining the open-door policy of trade in eastern Asia." That plank suits an immense majority of the American people. Even the southern states believe in it, though most of them will vote against their convictions. The Old Story The dissatisfaction of Democratic organs with the attitude of the Republicans on the tariff, however, is not a new development. It has been on exhibition during all the years in which the country has been building up and growing under beneficent Republican rule.-Kansas City Journal. Bound to Be Against It. The surest way to make the Democratic party insist on a protective tariff would be to put free trade plank in the Chicago platform—Philadelphia Inquirer. WEAKNESS OF STRONG MEN. No One Absolutely Free from All Man- ner of Defect. Those who are seeking through study of superior men to make themselves at least less inferior are often puzzled and baffled by the discovery of characteristics that seem absolutely incompatible with greatness. There is hardly a great man whose life is at all accurately known in whom there was not a weakness that would destroy an ordinary man—sometimes mental weakness, as utter lack of judgment; sometimes moral weakness; again, physical weakness. But is there on record a single case of a great man who had not through his character a certain toughness of fiber which made him free from the common weakness of whining and rushing about for refuge at the first black lift of adversity? Is not that fundamental sense of insecurity, or inability to stand alone, the great enemy we all have to fight? Is it not the enemy that drives some to the false courage of drink, others to slink and crawl along the byways of indirection and crime, many, many others to resign the guidance of their destinies to some master or masters with hardly an effort to thing or do for themselves?-Saturday Evening Post. WHY HE WAS NOT DISTURBED Clergyman's Explanation Disconcerted Would-Be Joker A clergyman who was traveling stopped at a hotel much frequented by wags and jokers. The host, not being used to having a clergyman at his table, looked at him with surprise; the guests used all their railway of wit upon him without eliciting a remark. The clergyman ate his dinner quietly, apparently without observing the gibes and sneers of his neighbors. One of them at last, in despair of his forbearance, said to him: "Well, I wonder at your patience! Have you not heard all that has been said to you?" "Oh, yes; but I am used to it. Do you know who I am?" "No, sir." "Well, I will inform you. I am chapain of a lunatic asylum. Such remarks have no effect upon me."—Short Stories. One Secret of Carnegie's Success. One Secret of Carnegie's Success. Business rivals of Andrew Carnegie were at one time helpless to account for his ability to undersell them in whatever market they turned to. They sent experts quietly to look over his work and report. Mr. Carnegie, it is said, heard of their presence. He invited them to an inspection, with himself as guide, and at last offered to show them the secret of his success. He took them into a room lined with books and reports, where a dozen clerks were at work on documents and figures. This room represented an expenditure of $80,000 a year. "It is worth that," said Mr. Carnegie, "for a business man to know at any moment all the details of his business."—World's Work. "Stumped" the Head Waiter Jesse Lewisohn was dining at the most fashionable restaurant in the metropolis with a western millionaire who is very fond of joking. The latter summoned the head waiter and said: "I presume everything in this place is the best that money can buy?" "Most assuredly, sir," replied the waiter, with a dignity that might have aroused the envy of a United States senator. "Well, that's all right, but when you run short, what substitute do you use for terrapin?" For once in his life that head waiter was "left at the post" and never tried for an answer—New York Times. The End of All Armies. We may really be on the verge of the millennium, for M. Emile Guarini has come to the conclusion that it will soon be possible to destroy armies by lightning. Receiving a shock from a wireless telegraph apparatus through an umbrella, he experimented with a Ruhmkorff coil, and found that shocks could be transmitted through the air with moderate currents. He concludes that the energy of 1,000 horsepower, at 100,000 volts, could be concentrated by antennae so as to destroy life at a distance of twelve miles. The present difficulty, which he believes will be soon overcome, is that of controlling and directing the electric waves. Speak No Words of Love When a Dyak of Borneo makes love he helps the girl in the hardest portion of her daily toil. If she smiles upon him, no matter how sweetly, he does not immediately respond, but waits until the next dark night. Then he steals to her house and wakens her as she lies asleep beside her parents. The parents, if they approve, make no sign, but sleep on—or pretend to. If the girl accepts she rises and takes from her lover the betel and sweetmeats he has brought her. That seals their betrothal and he departs as he came, neither speaking nor being spoken to. Not Alone. When our dear ones leave us One by one. Never on the strange path Do they go alone. Swift as light from heaven, Swift as love. Comes the Lord to meet them, Having taken above. Little child or pilgrim Worn and old. Do not have to wander Looking for the fold. For the Christ who brought us Heaven's grace. Taken and laid guides them To his dwelling place. Margaret E. Sangster, in Every Where, Helping the kidneys is helping the whole body, for it is the kidneys that remove the poisons and waste from the body. Learning this simple lesson has made many sick men and women well. A Judge A. J. Feltor of 318 S. E. St., San Bernardino, Calif., says: "For 18 years my kidneys were not performing their functions properly. There was some backache, and the kidney secretions were profuse, containing also considerable sediment. Finally the doctors said I had diabetes. Dean's Kidney Pills wrought a great change in my condition and now I sleep and feel well again." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Judge Feltor will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. Dynamite for Sharks In the British navy the engineers have a curious way of killing sharks. They seal up a dynamite cartridge in an empty can, and put the can inside a lump of pork. The pork is thrown over on a wire which has been connected with an electric battery. When the shark takes the bait the engineer presses a button which explodes the cartridge and kills the fish. The Anemone Classified. The anemone belongs to the democratic family of crowfeots. Among its relatives are the climbers, the clematic and virgin's bower, the hepatica, meadow rue, bugbane, buttercup, goldthread, columbine, helleboro, marsh marigold and larkspur, monkhead, yellow puccoon and baneberry. To the uninitiated in systems of classification the threads of association are almost invisible. Origin of the Cossacks. The word Cossack is derived from a Tartar word signifying bandit, and up to 1814 the Kazak lived up to his name. The first Cossacks took boat on the Dnieper, the Volga and the Don and settled on the banks of these great rivers, living by plunder and by the proceeds of their fishing, fighting generally on foot, but always remaining near their boats, which secured them a safe retreat in case of a reverse. Raises Plumcots The plumcot is a hybrid of the plum and apricot produced on the California ranch of Luther Burbank, who has raised stoneless plums and prunes, white blackberries, daisies four inches across, and amaryllis blossoms ten inches in diameter. The plumcot has the general appearance of the apricot and the same outside appearance, but is more highly colored than either a plum or an apricot. It has a soft skin and an indescribably delicous flavor. Cause of Indian Famines. Famines in India are caused by the failure of the monsoon, an agency beyond the control of man. 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Ask your Grocer for Libby's. Libby, McNeill & Libby ... Chicago BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE NEW HOMES IN THE WEST Almost a half million acres of the fertile and well-watered lands of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, will be thrown open to settlement by the Government in July. These lands are best reached by the Chicago & North-Western Railway's direct through lines from Chicago to Bonesteel, S. D. All agents sell tickets via this line. Special low rates. HOW TO GET A HOME Bend for a copy of pamphlet giving full information as to dates of opening and how to secure 100 acres off and at nominal cost, with full description of the soil, climate, timber and mineral resources, towns, schools and churches, opportunities for business openings, railway rates, etc., free on application. W. B. KNISKERN, Passenger Traffic Manager, CHICAGO, ILL. 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At Drastiggs, Price $25 cents. knows how important it is to use a good starch. Defiance Starch is the best starch made. It doesn't stick to the iron. It gives a beautiful soft glossy stiffness to the clothes. It will not blister or crack the goods. It sells for less, goes farther, does more. Ask the lady who irons. Defiance Starch at all grocers. 16 oz. for 10 cents. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Designs for Precious Gems The leaf of the geranium, the fruit of the vine, or the flower of the poppy may serve as models to be carried out in precious gems. It is by these things that the jewels of this age will be recognized by future generations. One is glad to notice that artists are not confined entirely to copying designs of the periods of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, but that some scope is given to their original genius. Proves Consumption Theory. Prof. Cornet, long assistant to Prof. Koch of Berlin, spilled the sputum of a consiptive on the carpet of a room in which he kept forty-eight guinea pigs. He allowed it two days in which to dry. Then the room was violently swept, so as to raise a dust. The guinea pigs breathed in the dusty air. All but two of them contracted consumption. Gorilla a Fierce Fighter. The gorilla is a most formidable opponent in battle, its great strength lying in its powerful arms. Few animals of the forest have the slightest chance of overcoming a gorilla; but a python has been known to encircle its coils round the gorilla's body, only, however, to have its own body torn open by its adversary's hands. Traveling in India. Every one who goes to India to travel or live at hotels, says Mr. W. E. Curtis, must have a personal servant, a native who performs the duties of valet, waiter and errand boy, and whatever else may be required of him. This is a fixed custom of the country, to resist which brings endless trouble to the traveler. Girl That Is Popular. There is great charm about the girl who agrees with you, all argument to the contrary notwithstanding. The girl who argues with you may be the girl who keeps you up to the mark mentally. But there is a *certain soothing something about the girl who agrees with you that is delightful. Holiday of Russian Servants Holiday or Russian Servants. Every other Sunday the servants in a Russian household are entirely free. Their work stops Saturday night after supper, when the servants leave the house, not to return until the next Monday morning. The employers never ask where or how the free time is spent. Has Narrow Financial Margin. Has Narrow Financial Margm. The laws of Russia pertaining to banking are very severe. A merchant in Russia can be declared bankrupt if his liabilities exceed $772 and he has not the ready cash to meet them. He can be arrested, and his retention depends on the good will of his creditors. War and Peace. Herbert Spencer said: "In efforts toward ethical culture there is constantly overlooked the one effort more important than all others—the effort to suppress militancy. Abundant proof exists that with war comes all the vices and with peace comes all the virtues." The Lady and the Cow. A young lady, visiting for the first time in the country, was alarmed at the approach of a cow. She was too frightened to run, and, shaking her parasol at the animal, she said, in a very stern tone: "Lie down, sir; lie down." Increased Use of Asphalt. Asphalt was first used for street pavements in Paris in 1838, and since then the demand for this purpose has warranted an annual production throughout the world of 450,000 to 500,000 metric tons of asphalt and bituminous rock. The Parisians are considering whether they ought to postpone the dinner hour still further from 9 to 10 o'clock or give up dinner altogether in favor of a substantial 5 o'clock tea and an after-theater supper. Business Women of Chicago There are more than a dozen business women in Chicago enjoying incomes of from $3,000 to $10,000 a year resulting from their own enterprise, prompted and managed by themselves. A Translation. Do not borrow time from your own duties to lend to others to use in their business until you have attended to your own business.—Earl M. Pratt. Street Clocks Must Be Correct. The city of London has made a rule that all street clocks must correspond with Greenwich time or the permits for them will be canceled. Too Many Brains a Detriment. Too many brains are liable to bring effects which are worse than those which result from the use of too few. Self-Lighting Cigars. An Austrian inventor has applied for a patent for self-lighting cigars and cigarettes. These are tipped with a chemical mixture, and on being struck against anything ignite like matches. Lumber Trade in South Of the four great. lumber districts of the United States, the Southern pine region stands first. In it are 43 per cent of the sawmills and half of the lumbermen CATARRH IS THE CAUSE OF MOST KIDNEY DISEASES. PE-RU-NA CURES CATARRH. SAMUEL R. SPRECHER. Samuel R. Sprecher, Junior Beadle Court Angelina, 3.422 O. O. F., 205 New High St., Los Angeles, Cal., writes: "I came here a few years ago suffering with catarrh of the kidneys, in search of health. I thought the climate would cure me, but found I was mis-taken. But what the climate could not do Peruna could and did do. Seven weeks' trial convinced me that I had the right medicine, and I was then a well man. I know of at least twenty friends and members of the lodge to which I belong who have been cured of catarrh, bladder and kidney trouble through the use of Peruna, and it has a host of friends in this city." SAMUEL R. SPRECHER. Catarrh of the Kidneys a Common Disease — Kidney Trouble Often Fails to Be Regarded as Catarrh by Physicians. Catarrh of the kidneys is very common indeed. It is a pity this fact is not better known to the physicians as well as the people. People have kidney disease. They take some diuretic, hoping to get better. They never once think of catarrh. Kidney disease and catarrh are seldom associated in the minds of the people, and, alas, it is not very often associated in the minds of the physicians. Too few physicians recognize catarrh of the kidneys. They doctor for something else They try this remedy and that Australia the Country of Churches. Australia has 210 churches to every 100,000 people—a larger number per capita than any other country. England has 141, and Russia only about fifty-five.—Church Eclectic. Pearls a Chinese Medicine. Pearls are still a potent medicine in China. Seeds of plants have magic properties, the banana seed being especially prized in Uganda. Claws of lions are such important amulets in Africa that they are quite generally counterfeited. Sand for Cut Glass. The sand used in making glass for cut glass articles is quarried rock that has been crushed. The cutting operation consists of three stages. The article is first roughed with sand, and a steel grinding wheel. It is then smoothed by a stone cutting wheel, and is lastly finished by a wooden polishing wheel. Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10c, and equals 29c, worth of any other bling THE DAISY FLY KILLER destroys all the flies and ants comfort to every home—in dining room, sleeping-room and places where trays are stored. Clean rust and will not soiler in jure anything. To them move and you will never be with rust-flood kept/dealers sent prepaid for 29c. HANDLE SHELL 149 Oakhill Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 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