Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT 6TH YEAR. The Falsified Element of the Race "Where ignorance is bliss it is only to be wise," Ignorance is the break that holds fast the driving wheels of progress of any race in community or nation. Ignorant men and women almost always take the back track, and are usually found "barking up the wrong tree" in all matter where intelligence need be exercised. In the South it is held that the masses are illiterate; in the North the masses of the blacks are supposed to be intelligent. But it is like a supposition. In most Southern States the Negro has very limited educational advantages, is compelled to work for low wages, and, in most cases, is compelled to take latter for pay. They are discriminated against in various ways for many reasons because of their color, their poverty and their illiteracy. As humiliating and hurtful and painful and penetrating as those unjust discriminations to the intelligent blacks of those states are, they seem to be an excellent medicine for the masses of the race. They make the race hang together more than they would otherwise do, and create more ambition in it to become intelligent men and women and a more useful lot of citizens in general. They make know the necessity of helping each other up instead of lending so much aid in helping each other down, and consequently the race in those states can give their black brothers in the North cards and spades when it comes to the ladder of fame, fortune and success The Negro's troubles in the North are many and varied. He has been free so long, and has suffered so little of the pangs of bondage, that he has nevea learn ed exactly how to behave himself. He has not yet learned why men should do more than oome into the world and stay their alotted time and depart to the region of the dead. "A good time" is the Northern Negro's watchword. In the public schools he has the same chances of obtaining an educacion that the sons and daughters of the wealthiest men in the nation have. He has the advantages of over ten months free schooling in each year, with books of every class furnished him free. It simply doesn't him anything to get an education in the North. But the Negro in these states, the masses of the race, don't want any education. Nor do many of them like those who HAVE an education or insist that THEY should have some educational training. In many places there are exceptions to this rule. Take your own city, for an instance, one can easily find this rule to be true The number of colored children of school age who attended school regularly in most of the North is limited and ridiculously low, while large numbers are seen daily naming the streets and learning to shoot craps and roll dice. It is the absence of common sense on the part of those who have a smattering of an education, which causes them to take sides with the most ignorant and aid in fostering in their ignorance, instead of being frank and honest and telling them their faults. The Negro who poses as the unanimous factor among the illiterate and insists that they are right when he KNOWS they are wrong and who insists that nothing should be said of their faults when they are committing grave sins every day, isn't of a great deal of good to either race in his neighborhood This sort of Negro is treachorons and is an enemy to the well-being of the race. He is generally one of the biggest liars and hypocrits that adorn the falsified element of the race, and travels around with pretty smiles on his face and with the sef-recommended fact that he is good. In the North, men of this kind are to be found in every town of any consequence, and especially if some of the race in that place is trying to reach a higher plane in morality or business. This is why in the sections of this state surrounding our home the black man is seemingly doing nothing towards the advancement of himself or his race, while in fact he is working harder than any one els—DOING HIS LEVEL BEST—to pull some one down, or to prevent someone going up. The first Georgia peaches have arrived. Get out your jamaica ginger bottle. Henry Irving says he will retire in 1906, but Joe Jefferson is making no rash promises. As a preliminary to going broke the gentleman who has sporting blood buys an automobile. College athletics are deadly. This is proved by the fact that most men who play croquet are old. Nobody, so far, has indorsed Uncle Rusell Sage's ideas about vacations. But Satan is still to be heard from. "To be successful, a man must have blue eyes," says Arthur Brisbane. Successful women all have gray eyes. Boston physicians are using the pi ano as an instrument to cure nerve diseases. This must be "a painful operation." The standard of the graduation essays so far this season is quite as high as usual. P. S.—This isn't saying much. One thing is certain, and that is that Russell Sage did not get the idea that there should be no vacations from his parson. Whenever you see a poem headed "June" get ready to see moon, soon, noon, boon, croon, tune, and sometimes loon and spoon. The census bureau people say that we shall have a population of 89,000,000 in 1910, and they aren't depending entirely on immigration. Brazil has started in to build a big navy, and in five or ten years from now may be able to have outside trou ble as well as the home brand. Howard Gould, who is having a house built with 200 rooms, must think there will come times when he will want to get away from himself. Isn't it about time that the matri monial shows of the ultra-rich were presented in the cheap vaudeville houses instead of in the churches? Mr. Rockefeller does not want to own the earth. All he asks is possession of the oils and ores and other things of value that may be inside of it WICHITA, KANSAS.JULY 9,1904. To Solve the Negro Problem So far as the presence of ten million men of African descent in this country forms a "Negro" problem it can only be settled in one way—by treating every individual according to his deserts with absolute impartiality, if he is seer, heed him; if he is an artisan, work with him, if he is a criminal reform him. Treat these men with unwavering justice—neither wheedle nor curse them, open the doors of opportunity and cheer them through giving them sympathy, encouragement, punishment, correction and inspiration as they need, Justice then will settle the problem of race and caste today as it did in the world's yesterday. So far as the presence of ten million freedmen and their children in this land forms a problem of ignorance, idleness and crime, apply to these social diseases the very remedies which the world is using on all submerged classes. What is ignorance? It is wrong and narrow estimate of life and its possibilities, and its cure is the public school, which puts the keys to knowledge into the hands of all. What is idleness and shiftlessness, inefficiency? It is ignorance of the satisfaction of work and doing, and is cured by pure home life and by the training of head and hand. What is crime? It is the careless or vicious deed of the unsocial creature who refuses to bow to the common good. We cure it by all the ways in which the goodness and beauty and truth creep into the human heart—by inspiation, by the letting-in of the light. So these black men must be lifted, they must have common schools; to-dy not one in three of their children have them. They must have thrift and skill which which come from industrial, training in home and school life. But above all they must have inspiration, the uplift from above, the voices of preachers and leaders, the guiding hands of teachers and writers, the light that streams from such human institutions as men have invented to conserve and hand down the civilization of the present and past -call them what you will, churches, libraries and social settlements, colleges, these are what men need who are climbing heights they have not known before. They that walk in darkness need the light. Light is justice. Justice will cure caste- Collier's. 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. TRY THE BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE NEGRO MILITARY -EDUCATION- When one stops for a moment and trinks of the part which the Negro has played in the wars of our country, the policy of withholding military instruction from the Negro is one of the most short-sighted things of which the states and national government is guilty. A few years back, Negro militia flourished in nearly every state, especially the southern states, but when the Spanish-American war closed, prejudice caused the governors to refuse to enlist the Negro land enroll him as a militiaman The Negro has a record, a noble record made upod every field of battle on which this country has contended, He has actually rushed to serve the flag, both upon land and sea, and yet there is not so much as an opportunity given him to acquire the simplest rudiments of military training. It is within the range of possibility that this country will yet have to fight some first-class European power. With the Philippine islands under the flag, no one can tell when the government will be called to defend the same—and yet with a people numbering one-seventh of the entire population, whose men have fought the nation's battles from Jamestown to San Juan hill, there is not the slightest notice given to even so much as the training of these black men in the manual of arms. Will the time ever come when the government, both state and national, will rue the shortsighted policy, the outcome of race prejudice? Will the time not come when it will be the Negroes turn to refuse to volunteer to serve a country which seeks in every way to discourage and humiliate him? Will the time not soon come, when the Negro will case voluntarily to lay his life upon the altar of a country that appreciate him only as a bullet stopper? If the states are blended by prejudice somebody in the national government ought to give this matter thought.—Herald. Richmond. POTATO KING The "potato king" of America is Junius G, Groves, of Kansas, a colored man and whose credit is good for $190,000.00 at the banks any day. Booker T. Washington tells an interesting story of the success of this man and his wife, for they began the triumphant march together with out a dollar. Last year Groves produced 172,000 bushels of the finest of potatoes—more than any other one man who is known to own his own land. NEGRO RECOGNITION In our opinion the Negro race and those who have its truest interest at heart have no reason to be dissatisfied or disgrunted at the recognition which the race received at the hands of the Republican National convention in Chicago, but rather the reverse. That they did not receive more is, no doubt, due to their own 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. short-sightedness in attempting at the last moment to force by threats their "plank" upon the members of the committee on resolutions. They ought to have had sufficient political foresight to know that the introduction of such a plank at the present time would not only be inimical to the interest of the Republican party as a whole, but also to their own. They must surely recognize the fact that such a course would be suicidical. Impulsiveness and impetuosity are never safe motives to be ruled by. The time is surely coming when due recognition will be given in this country in all our rights and privileges as American citizens, but that time can only be delayed by such a course of procedure as was attempted by some hot-headed and misguided members of the race. TELLS OF NEGRO'S ADVANCE In a generation since the civil war reading and writing among the Negroes hos increased from 20 to 50 per cent, de-lared President C. F. Messerve of Shaw University, North Carolina He was addressing the Baptist Minister's association in Chicago recently. "The colored people now own millions of dollars worth of property. Since the wor their population has increased from 4,000,000 to more than 11,000,000 You see, the Negroes are doing something and are worth working for They are a true and faithful race," STILL AT IT Down in Mississippi the "good white people" (?) are still lynch ing Negroes despite the fact the Negroes protest their innocence to the last. In the latest instance the dispatches say the mob is to be congratulated for the "orderly manner" with which it went about and accomplished its work. We do not stand for crime, wheth er it is committed by white or black, but we do hold that a man should be given an opportunity to prove whether he is innocent or not. This can be done, if at all only by trying him in courts legally constituted, and by laws made and executed by white men Can anything unfair be in this? Then why not pursue this plan? NO 7 UNLOADING The tendancy of all mixed religious bodies is to unload the black membership, and the job is being done as neatly and speedily as decency will permit. Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalians, Catholics and all the rest are moving for separation on the color basis, and it is only a question of time when race issues will cease to vex the general conferences and 'waste' valuable time, to say nothing about warping their religion. If we are to have segregation or seperation, let us be sure that we get: the full benefit of the same in the largest force of self-government.—Advocate, Charleston Premier Ross of Ontario calls Dr. Harper "Midas of the golden touch." As to the accuracy of the allusion to the "golden touch" see John D. Rockefeller. A Chicago barkeeper has been fined $10 for impersonating a newspaper reporter. The question naturally arises, where did the barkeeper ever see a reporter? The leap of an archangel from heaven to earth is nothing compared to the mighty spring of a small woman jumping at conclusions.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Chicago woman seeks a divorce because her husband has not smiled in ten years. Popular judgment should be suspended until the husband tells why he has not smiled. Three men of the name of Mudd are running for Congress in one Maryland district. If they get along without slinging any it ought to be made a matter of record. A book entitled "How to Get Rich" is being advertised for sale at the price of $1. A good tip to one wishing to get rich would be to save his dollar and not buy the book. Trout and salmon are said to be biting voraciously down in Maine. Probably the black flies and mosquitoes are, too, but we don't see any references to them in our Maine exchanges. Was there ever a distinguished humorist who wasn't devoted to a loving and sympathetic wife to whom he owed much of his inspiration and happiness? Mark Twain's case was largely typical. Hetty Green has taken the trouble to deny another report that she has given away a lot of her money. Hetty must believe there is somebody somewhere who thinks she would really do such a thing. A prisoner in the McDonough county jail tarried to write a farewell letter to the jailer and was nabbed just as he was crawling out through an opening in his cell door. Politeness doesn't always pay. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Up-to-the-Minute King Peter is preparing for his coronation by taking a five-mile sprint every day. J. Pierpont Morgan is another sufferer from the malady known as millionaire's stomach. A woman is willing to take the benefit of the doubt and let man have the doubt of the benefit. Port Arthur seems to fall as easy and as often as a man who is trying to quit smoking cigarettes. Millions have laughed at Mark Twain's quaint humor. Millions grieve with him in his present sorrow. There's no use crying over spilt milk. The better way is to seek the nearest pump and repair the damage. A new Galveston greets the eye of the traveler. On the stepping stone of its dead self it has risen to higher things. The war has, after all, its bright side. So far neither Rudyard Kipling nor Alfred Austin has written a poem about it. Oxford university is going to confer the degree of doctor of letters on W. D. Howells. "Who reads an American book?" No wonder the railway engineer who saw his lifelong friend ground to pieces under his locomotive has wholly lost his nerve. Jack White has won the British open golf championship. One of the strange things about the case is that he is an Englishman. When that $2,500,000,000 ore trust is formed it will be something'more than an airy joke to say that Mr. Rockefeller owns the earth. The four-leaf clover is a favorite design with the younger ladies for embroidering their silk hosiery. We learn this from one of our exchanges. He laughs best who laughs last. According to this, the best laugher is the man who has to be trepanned in order to make him see the point of a joke. A new York paper is offering a prize for the best vacation suggestion. We have heard that it is a good plan to remain quietly at home and take a rest. King Peter of Servia announces that he is going to have a coronation in August. It will be a good thing for innocent bystanders to stay away from. Czar Nicholas has begun to find infernal machines under his bed. There's a boy who doesn't need a microscope when he goes hunting for trouble. The New York Herald urges the establishment of a school for writers of fiction, but what is really needed is an institution to teach people not to try to write fiction. An Iowa man after firing five shots at his wife' was shot at seventeen times by policemen. Owing to the fact that there were no innocent bystanders nobody was hurt. The duke and duchess of Marlborough are reported to be living apart. Nobody can blame any married couple from doing everything in their power to be happy. The Boston Globe prints a roll of 89 G. A. R. veterans who are 80 or over, which demonstrates what kind of constitution the boys of other days were endowed with. The arrival of Boozena Sokup, an emigrant from the old world, was duly recorded at New York the other day. We venture to predict a bright political future in this country for Mr. Sokup. F. W. Giles is said to be the name of the man who introduced the English sparrow into the Mississippi valley. The charitable supposition is that Mr. Giles didn't know what he was doing. The Chicago girl who tried to commit suicide by drowning and was saved because her skirts floated her, has good reason to be glad that she never followed the example of Dr. Mary Walker. J. E. ALLEN, Successor to A. M. Richards, MONEY TO LOAN ON CHATTELS 151 N. MAIN WICHITA When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E. Donlan Ave. 'Phone 357 COLORADO TOURIS The Santa Fe will sell round-trip tickets to Pueblo Colorado Springs, and Denver for $17.50, daily June 1st to September 30, 1904, inlusive. 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, 1918 Sixty-Day Excursion Tickets— Dates of Sale—April 25 to N to be good to leave St. Louis FifteenDay 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 s the World's Fair. Through Pull- ing chair cars; are operated from change For ful. information call E. E. BLECKLEY P. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. VIA RESIGN TICKETS—$21.45 Round Trip Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, in December 15, 1904 Resign Tickets—$17.90 Round Trip April 25 to Nov. 20, 1904 Final Leave St. Louis within sixty days Resign Tickets—$16.00 Round Trip Daily from April 27 to Nov. 30, in order to be good to leave St. Louis of sale, but not later than December. PACIFIC RAILWAY now has, and is the shortest and most direct Through Pullman sleepers and coaches operated from Wichita to St. Louis information call on or address the Y. I. R. SHERWY 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 THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY now has three trains daily for St. Louis, and is the shortest and most direct route to the World's Fair. Through Pullman sleepers and elegant reclining chair cars; are operated from Wichita to St. Louis without change For ful. information call on or address the und ersgne E. E. BLECKLEY I. R. SHERWIN, P. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. Douglas ave and Wichita street. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. 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. One hundred and sixty dollars was paid recently for the pen used by the emperors of Prussia, Austria and Russia in signing the holy alliance treaty. Land Can Support Millions. Australia is capable of supporting at least 100,000,000 inhabitants. WE H UNUSUAL A That enables us to s grade for the lowest possi entire time and attention WE HAVE QUAL ADVANTA ables us to sell Pianos of the lowest possible price. We devel attention to the Piano and UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES That enables us to sell Pianos of the highest grade for the lowest possible price. We devote our entire time and attention to the Piano and Organ business in its various branches and are prepared to take care of all your wants in our line. If you want to buy, sell, exchange or rent a Piano it will pay you to let us figure with you. Is in the hands of competent factory workmen. All work guaranteed. We solicit an opportunity to serve you. 411 East Douglas Ave. Took Man With House. $160 for a Pen. MIA— RTS—$21.45 Round Trip April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive 1904 $17.90 Round Trip Nov. 20, 1904 Final limit—Tickets within sixty days from sale date $16.00 Reun 1 Trip. April 27 to Nov. 30, inclusive. Final leave St. Louis within fifteen not later than December 5th 1904. MILWAY now has three trains shortest and most direct route to man sleepers and elegant reclin Wichita to St. Louis without on or address the undergne I. R. SHERWIN, Douglas ave and Wichita street. OUR HOBBY. Mounds in Tennessee. At the foot of the high bluffs of the Mississippi river bottoms, seven miles west of Launderdale, 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. The Boers resent an attempt to take a Transvaal census. They consider it an intrusion into their private affairs. Profit on a Whale. Last year some fishermen on the Azores caught a whale from which $3,475 worth of ambergis was taken. HAVE ADVANTAGES ell Pianos of the highest sale price. We devote our so the Piano and Orgon 823 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses ---- SEE!! (First Publication June 18th 1904) LEGAL NOTICE. State of Kansas, Sedgwick eoun.y ss. In the District court 18th Judicial District Wm. Tuders, Plaintiff vs Ellen J. Rank, Defendant 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 Judicial district of the state of Kansas, by the above named plaintiff to quiet the title in said plaintiff to the following designed land to wit: Lots 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 ap pear in said court on or before the 30th day of July 1004 and then and there plead, an answer or demur to plaintiff's petition therein filed 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 hlaim, 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 CHERRYVALE, KAS. 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 W. M. 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When you see a portrait of Mrs. Ellias, that octooroon adventures of New York City, you wonder still more. If space is scarce they can designate just as well by printing the names of the two opposing generals, Patkin and Kl. Another trouble about educating the girls is that they get too wise to put up with man's rules for the regulation of wives. Sea serpents come in striped effects this summer. Proprietors of resorts will have to repaint their old serpents or lose trade. Georgia farmer cured of rheumatism by a stroke of lightning. Physicians are now trying to cure him of the stroke of lightning. If King Edward does attend the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale games, the Yankee college boys will win or snap a tondon trying. Never mind if it is an old joke. When anybody asks you: "Do you think it is going to clear up?" reply languidly: "It always has." A western man committed suicide because he could not guide his automobile. Most men guiding automobiles prefer to commit homicide. Troubles never come singly. On the contrary, they come in packages, and the bigger the package a man tries to carry the more trouble he has. Did it require an appalling catastrophe to teach inspectors that a few pounds of rotten cork tied up in rotten canvas do not make a "life preserve"? The emperor of Korea still has his crown on reasonably straight, but his fears intensify that the rough-house proceedings all around him will jar it loose. The Boston Globe reminds us that "Dammet" is Swedish for dust. It may relieve your feelings some of these windy, dusty days to speak Swedish. The suggestion that families ought to keep goats should be enthusiastically received. With a goat in the house every man could be his own secret society. The decision of the treasury department that pigeons are birds and not poultry seems to be in line with a decision promulgated some time ago by the late Noah Webster. The next time a member of the Goetle family gets married it might be well to avoid the mob by having the ceremony in a submarine boat or on a coral reef somewhere. "Quite frequently this year's June bride is last year's sweet girl graduate," says the Boston Globe. But alas for poor mama! The same frock will never do for both events. The Italian now in the Connecticut state's prison on a life sentence who prefers to remain there to being pardoned and sent back to Italy must have left his country for his country's good. No Vacation Russell Sage should write a letter of appreciation of Judge Miller of Mississippi, who says that high wages cause idleness, because man do not have to work all the time for a living. A New York woman who was worth $75,000 died the other day and left her husband only $5 because he hadn't kissed her for nearly seven years. Permitting the heart to grow old doesn't always pay. According to a new encyclopedia, poverty is caused by four things—drink, inefficiency and shiftlessness, crime and a fondness for roving. One other cause that might be mentioned is a lack of money. A Los Angeles woman wants a divorce from her husband because he brought snakes into the house. If the divorce is granted on this ground, it will constitute a sweeping and unexpected victory for the W. C. T. U. A Philadelphia chemist claims to have discovered a process whereby he can reduce the price of radium from $16,000,000 to less than $500,000 a pound. With meat and almost everything else soaring skyward this must be welcome news to the struggling door THE TERRIBLE INFANT. TARIFF REFORMERS PROTECTION WATER --- AS TO STANDING PAT WHY NOT, IF IT IS THE BEST THING TO DO? The Main Point to Be Kept in Mind Is That There Shall Continue to Be a Sure Market for All Products of American Labor and Industry. --- A lowering of import duties on manufactured goods means a surrender of an American market, or a large part of it, to the people of other lands. The surrender of the American market would mean less employment and lower wages and that the workingman would not have sufficient wages to enable him to buy the best products of the farm. With low wages he would cease to be a consumer of beef. With lower wages he could not purchase chickens, butter and eggs. Lower schedules in the American Tariff would be disastrous—whether the lower schedule were introduced by the Republican party or the Democratic party. There is nothing the American manufacturer so much needs as a customer. He can manufacture all he pleases, and if he does not have some one to buy his product he will go into bankruptcy. The beauty of the Dingley Tariff is that it assures the American manufacturer of a consumer. Manufacturers do not have sufficient capital to take the risk of making goods without knowing in advance that somebody is going to have the means with which to buy. The Dingley law has made the stock and corn growers of Iowa rich. It has furnished these producers with a thrifty class of workingmen, in the manufacturing centers, to buy the surplus products of the farm. The workingman out of a job is of no sort of help to the farmer. This was illustrated during the last Cleveland administration. There were plenty of men to work, but no work to do. Cleveland had been in office nearly a year before the evil effects of Free THE TERRI TAR REFO PROTECT Trade got around to the farmer. Finally the lack of employment reduced the farmers' market and farm products went down in price because the American farmer was depending entirely upon the foreign market for the sale of his largely increased surplus. For a time the farmer smiled at the manufacturer under the Cleveland administration. Everything he bought went down in price and the effect not having reached him, he concluded that the ideal condition of trade for the Free Trader had arrived. He concluded that his life was to be one long sweet song. But finally the paralysis of business in manufacturing industries reached him and he concluded that it was not all that had been painted. He began to study the question. He finally decided that his home market was best, and that his home market depended on the full employment of the workingman. And he concluded that the full employment of the workingman depended on a Tariff high enough to keep out foreign made goods. During the last Cleveland administration everything was prostrate. Since that time every railway bridge, every railway track, every railway station, every viaduct, nearly every public building, nearly every college and church, nearly every court house, nearly every school house, has been rebuilt. The rotten ties have been taken out of the railway tracks. Grades have been lowered, long lines have been straightened. The farms have been equipped with new houses and barns, new scales and new elevators. Every city has had new sewers and new sidewalks. Practically, during the past eight years, everything in the United States has been rebuilt. Yet there are people who want to change all this. They want to stop it all. They want to rip everything up. They want lower prices. They are revengeful. They want to strike the steel trust and to hit the Standard Oil monopoly. Many of them do not know what they want, but they simply want to destroy. They want to stop the saw mills and the rolling mills. They want to turn the workingmen out on the streets for the lack of some- thing to do. They cannot give a solitary reason for any of these except they want to be doing something—create some sort of sensation. They want to talk loudly and receive applause from unthinking men. Why not let well enough alone? Business has been so good that Wall Street could not throw the country into a panic. The land never experienced anything like it before. Iowa was never so prosperous. Her farms are glowing. Her factories are running. Her railroads are busy. Her schools and colleges are booming. Why stop it all by new policies and uncertainties? Give old Iowa a chance. We ought to have as much sense in prosperity as we had in adversity. When our people were in adversity they all knew what was the matter. They know that they simply needed somebody to buy in order to put men to work. Why struggle for a change?—Des Moines Capital. The Farmer's Prosperity For the American farmer to continue his prosperity by continuing the market at home, where he must sell his products if they are to be sold at his advantage, the American factories, which take 80 per cent. of their raw material from the American farm, must be kept open and the 6,000,000 operatives in those factories the American farmer feeds must be kept employed. So for all the American people to continue their prosperity the American home market must be maintained. It can be maintained and always will be, when we keep our own wage earners at work, giving them the money with which to buy American articles of commerce in the home market. It cannot be maintained if this country takes the product of foreign wage earners, the tariff barrier being leveled, in place of that of our own wage earners, who must quit their employment when the cheaper made output of the foreigners may come here to undersell the American-made output of our own mills and factories and shops. The American people will determine this choice for themselves when they LE INFANT. IFF ARMERS ION WATCH LEON DARNITT vote as between the Republican party of protection, with Mr. Roosevelt its candidate for President, and the Democratic party, with Judge Parker or any other man it may nominate.—New York Press. Useless Contention. It is a waste of words for Edward Atkinson, the New York Journal of Commerce, and other worshipers at the shrine of Richard Cobden to enforce the contention that unrestricted commercial intercourse between the States and Territories of the American Union has been of great advantage to the people of the United States. Of course it has. Nobody disputes the proposition. But does it follow that because free trade among our own people has been a good thing, therefore free trade with all the world would be as good a thing for Americans? Far from it. Production in any part of the United States necessitates the employment of American labor, the payment of wages to Americans and the distribution of these wages among Americans. When free trade opens the gate and admits to our market competitive productions from abroad, precisely the reverse is true. Foreign labor is employed, wages are paid to foreigners, and the money of Americans goes abroad instead of being kept at home. That is the difference between free trade between our own people and free trade with foreigners. The International Trust Under the free trade policy, which Democrats favor, the only survivors among our American industries would be those powerful would-be monopolists which usually control the most profitable plants. These would then be in a position to safely unite with their brethren in other lands in the creation of a universal trust to dominate the affairs of mankind. That this is no idle dream is shown by the fact the wires transmitted a synopsis of the speech of Senator Dolliver they brought also the news of a secret meeting in London of the great steel manufacturers of the world to form, in the steel trade, a new trust of exactly that kind.—Clinton (Ind.) Clintonian. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON TWO—JULY 10 Golden Text.—Keep yourselves from ido ls.—1 John 15:2a. God's people, sundered by Rehoboam's pride and selfishness into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, had a double history till the exile. We follow first the story of Israel under Jeroboam. pure worship of Jehovah was often carried on at these local shrines (Kings 3:2-4), but after the temple we built they became wholly identify with idolatry. "And made priests of the lowest of the people." The literal rendering 1. The Temptation to Idoltery.-Vs. 25-27. Jeroboam began his reign energetically and wisely, taking measures for the security and defense of his kingdom. 25. "Then Jeroboam built Shechem." The city, destroyed by Abimelech (Judg. 9: 45), had been restored, and served as the meeting-place of the council described in the last lesson. "In mount Ephraim" (R. V., "the hill country of Ephraim"). "And dwelt therein." removing afterward (1 Kings 14: 17; 15: 21, 53) to Tirzah. "And went out from theace." Having established his capital, he transferred his workmen to another scene of operations. "And built." Strengthened and enlarged; Gideon had destroyed its fort (Judg. 8: 17). "Penuel." The name, which means "face of God," was given it because here Jacob wrestled with the angel of 'Iod (Gen. 32: 24-22). Jeroboam's Great Opportunity. He was inspired by the knowledge that God had chosen him to rule (1 Kings 11: 29-21). He was the free choice of his people, and thoroughly understood their needs and character. He was a man of ability and energy, proved under Solomon and now. He was ruler of a large and rich nation, whose people were strong and active, though somewhat turbulent. He had made a good beginning of his reign. But all of these advantages he threw away by scoring the one condition of permanence on which God had given him the kingdom, that he should walk in God's ways (1 Kings 11: 38). 26. "And Jeroboam said in his heart." He recognized the real reason for his advocacy of idolatry, but he was ashamed to give it to the people (v. 28). 27. "If this people go up" (to Jerusalem) "to do sacrifice." The law (Deut. 16; 16) commanded this journey thrice a year for all males—at the Passover (April), Pentecost (June), and the Feast of Tabernacles (October). "Then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord." To Rehooboam, whom, as Jeroboam feared, they would soon come to regard as "their lord," their legitimate king. "And they shall kill me." To get him out of the way so that the two kingdoms might be more readily united, and also to win favor with his enemy, Rehooboam. II. The Pretexts for Idolatry.—Vs. 28, 29. So Jeroboam proceeded to establish idolatry, but without giving the real reason, his fear for himself and his authority. 28. "Whereupon the king took counsel." With men like-minded with himself, the tribal leaders who had helped him to his throne. "And made two calves of gold." The ox-symbol of God was most natural for an agricultural people, for whom the great animal, so powerful yet so docile, was the breadwinner, a material embodiment of the divine strength and beneficence. "Of gold." Not solid, but "a wooden core overlaid with gold."—Hastings' Bible Dictionary. First Pretext:—"It is too much for you to up to Jerusalem." The probable meaning is, as given in R. V. margin. "Ye have gone up long enough." Second Pretext.—"Behold thy gods . . . which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." "That the Israelites originally regarded these images as symbols of Jehovah can scarcely be questioned."—Kent. "Gods," therefore, might be translated "God." Third Pretext.—"And he set the one in Beth-el." Beth-el ("house of El"—of God) was regarded as a sacred city. It would be a convenient sanctuary for Jeroboam's southern tribes, and would intercept any who might be on their way to Jerusalem. "And the other put he in Dan." This was the most northern point in the kingdom; hence, the proverbial phase, "from Dan to Beersheba." III. Downward in Idolatry.—Vs. 30-33. Build the wall slightly aslant at the base, and it will be ruinously aslant a few yards higher. Jeroboam soon found that breaking one commandment led to the breaking of others. 30. "And this thing became a sin." It was a sin because (1) in itself, it broke the second commandment, against graven images; (2) it led to idolatry, breaking the first commandment; (3) the idolatry involved obscene rites, breaking the spirit of the seventh commandment; (4) sometimes, as in Moloch-worship, it involved murder, human sacrifice, breaking the sixth commandment; (5)) it perpetuated the division of the kingdoms, thus weakening God's people; (6) it degraded the service of God, the pure worship which God had introduced for an example to the nations. "For the people," following the lead of their sinful king, "went to worship before the one (R. V. margin, "before each of them") "even unto Dan." 31. "He made an house" (R. V., "houses"), a sanctuary, one "at each of the cities where the calves were set up."—Cook. "Of high places." Before the building of the temple the pure worship of Jehovah was often carried on at these local shrines (I. Kings 3:2-4), but after the temple was built they became wholly identified with idolatry. "And made priests of the lowest of the people." The literal rendering of the Hebrew is, "from the end of the people," that is, "from all ranks of the people" (R. V., "from among all the people"), and not, as heretofore, from the Levites alone. "Which were not the sons of Levi," the priestly tribe. Doubtless Jeroboam would gladly have retained their services, but they refused to celebrate idolatrous rites, and went south to Rehoboam (II. Chron. 11:13-15). The next step downward in idolatry, the establishment of new feast days, was speedily taken. Josephus (Ant. VIII., 8, 4) says this whole idea of a new religion was suggested to Jerobo by the approach of the Feast of Tabernacles, the joyous harvest festival, to attend which great numbers of the people went yearly to Jerusalem. Jeroboam felt it necessary to hold his subjects by a counter attraction. Therefore, (32) "Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eight month" (November). The law expressly fixed the Feast of Tabernacles in the seventh month (Lev. 23: 34). On the fifteenth day of the month." "The day was retained because, the months being lunar, the fifteenth was the day of the full moon."—Pulpit Commentary. "He offered upon the altar." R. V., "He went up onto the altar"; ascended by steps or by an inclined plane (Ex. 20: 26). Like Solomon at the dedication of the temple, the king himself officiated at the inauguration of the new worship. "So did he in Beth-el." "The more distant Dan, perhaps, was inaugurated by some of the newly made priests."—Cambridge Bible. "And he placed in Beth-el." Dan already having its priesthood—descendants of Moses (Judg. 18: 30). 33. "So he offered," etc. This verse recapitulates what has gone before. "Which he had devised of his own heart." "The entire system of Jeroboam receives its condemnation in these words. His main fault was that he left a ritual and a worship where all was divinely authorized for ceremonies and services which were wholly of his own devising."—Cook. IV. Warnings Against Idolatry—1 Kings 13: 1-34. Of this chapter Maurice says: "There is none which a timid, distrustful reader of the Bible would be more ready to pass over, and few throw more real light upon its moral and method." It is the story of how Jeroboam, while sacrificing upon his altar at Beth-eil, was solemnly warned by a "man of God" whom Jehovah had sent out of Judah. "The altar shall be rent," he cried, "and its ashes poured out." Then, as the enraged king called on his guards to seize the prophet, and put out his own hand to lay hold on him, the hand was withered, and an earthquake rent the altar. Jeroboam entreated the man of God to restore his hand, and this was done through the prophet's prayer. The honest historian goes on to relate how the heroic man of God himself fell on his way home, being tempted to disobedience by one of the unfaithful prophets of Beth-eil. But "apparently the witness which the man of God bore, and the death which he died, were in vain."—Maurice. Jeroboam "returned not from his evil way." V. Idolatry Punished.—1 Kings 14: 1-20. The disasters and ruin that all idolatry causes came soon upon Jeroboam and his kingdom. His son Abijah fell sick and died, though the queen made a pilgrimage to Shiloh and begged the old prophet Abijah to intercede with God on her boy's behalf. Jeroboam won for himself an evil regue in history. Twenty-three times in the books of Kings he is pilloried as the one "who made Israel to sin." Jeroboam's kingly line was short, ending with his son. With the Levites, the most God-fearing inhabitants of the northern kingdom, left it (2 Chron. 11. 13-17)), and greatly strengthened the kingdom of Reboam, both in material resources and in character, while Jeroboam's kingdom was correspondingly reduced. Illustration.—It is said that a number of the best German officers of the army which conquered France were the descendants of the Huguenots, the best and most Christian Blood of France, who were driven from their country by the Roman Catholic leaders on account of their religion. Saint Bartholomew's day was avenged. Irreligion and idolatry and immorality prevailed in the northern kingdom, and sowed the seed for the harvest of ruin. The final result was the destruction of the nation one hundred years before the captivity of Judah. See 2 Kings 17: 6-23. All this was foretold long before, and Jeroboam might have studied it if he would. See Lev. 26: 1-45; Deut. 8: 1-20; 28: 15-48. Labor is the world's legal tender. "The gods sell everything for toil" is true as the copybook excerpt, "Labor conquers all things." Power, fame, the wealth of the earth, the stored wisdom of the ages, and, greater than all, Christian character, are in the market, and the coinage of the price is free to all Necessity of Labor. French Custom a Good One. Frozen Custom a Good One. In France, when a funeral passes, every man raises his hat to salute it. The deceased person may have been a child, a pauper, a beggar; it is no matter; the cortege is saluted by every man, whether he be prince, millionaire or mendicant. It is a good and lovely custom. Cinematograph in Surgery. The cinematogragram is being put to novel use by Paris surgeons in teaching students how to perform various surgical operations. Steel-Tired Wheela. Steel-tired wheels for railroad and trolley purposes have made their appearance, backed by guarantees that they will give an increased mileage fully proportionate to the increased cost over chilled wheels. It is also maintained that they produce less rail wear, necessitate fewer truck repairs and afford greater safety. Russian Soldier's Rations. A Russian soldier's daily rations in the field are two and one-half pounds of bread, or one and three-quarters of biscuit; one pound of meat, and, for making soup, four ounces of barley groats; three-quarters ounce of dried vegetables, and three ounces of flour. Also salt, pepper, tea and sugar. Beautiful Asiatic Lake. In central Asia, near the Caspian sea, is a lake of beautiful rose color, while the bank is covered with salt crystals as white as snow. From the waters of this lake there arises a flowerlike odor. The color and the odor are supposed to be caused by vegetable matter in the depths. It Pays to Read Newspapers. Cox, Wis., July 4.—Frank M. Russell of this place, had Kidney Disease so bad that he could not walk. He tried Doctors' treatment and many different remedies, but was getting worse. He was very low. 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Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is to constitutional remedy with the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect ear ax, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness can be caused by this tube restored to its normal condition taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, so that no out of ten are caused by Cataract, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollar for any case of Rhinosis (caused by cataract) that cannot be cured by Hall's Cataract. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tocoleo, Sold by Drugset, 75c. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. Misery may love company, but the company seldom reciprocates. COLORADO SUMMER SERVICE. On the Santa Fe Railway. The Santa Fe has announced resumption of its luxurious Colorado Flyer, leaving Kansas City Union Depot 6:55 p. m. daily through the summer season. The equipment consists of library-smoking car, free reclining chair car and twelve-section Pullman sleeper, Kansas City to Colorado Springs; twelve-section Pullman sleeper, Oklahoma City to Colorado Springs via Newton; ten-section Pullman observation sleeper, Kansas City to Colorado Springs. Excellent library in observation car; also, current weekly and monthly illustrated publications for use of Pullman passengers only. Current weeklies, months and daily newspapers in library-smoking car for use of all train patrons. East-bound, this train is known as the Missouri River Flyer. The equipment is the same as that west-bound. Departure from Denver at 12:15 p. m., Colorado Springs 2:50 p. m., Pueblo 4:05 p. m., reaching Kansas City at 9:05 a. m. Oklahoma City is reached at 12:55 p. m., next day, and Galveston at 9:55 a. m., the day following, by connecting train from Newton. Whisky and the police get a lot of men into trouble. 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 Bonestee, S. D. All agents sell tickets via this line. Special low rates. HOW TO GET A HOME Send 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. R. B. 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Gray, it seems, was on the ground early at a "joint" kept by at. old man named Hilton, where crapshooting and beer drinking runs full blast. The Simpson woman went to the place and mixed with the miscellaneous crowd, and it is said "rolled" an Austrian for $30, and had it on her person when shot by Gray. After the shooting Gray remained in the building only long enough to move the woman from the bed to the floor and take the $20 she had gotten from the foreigner. Gray was seen to come out of the house and walk east on the section line, pass under the Frisco bridge near Cambría and then through an oat field into a forty-acre apple orchard. This was the last seen of him. He and the Simpson woman came to Cambría about five weeks ago from Coalgate, I. T., where the murdered woman had a husband living. Burglars at Salina. SALINA.—(Special.) During the past two weeks this town has been visited almost nightly by burglar. Private houses by the score have been entered and in some instances goods of considerable value have been taken. One or two attempts to enter business houses have been made, but none has been successful. Friday night one of these petty thieves was caught at the Union Pacific yards, just as he left a car from which he had taken a few bottles of beer and some meat. He was apprehended by Union Pacific Detective William Fessler. The thief is a negro and gives his name as James Wallace. He is held in the county jail. Will Have a Receiver. TOPEKA.-Judge Pollock of the United States district court, Monday granted the application for a receiver for the Iola Electric Railway company. The application was made by George W. Baumhoff of St. Louis, representing a minority of the stockholders. He claimed that George V. Crouch, president of the company, refused to allow him to examine the books. The company is prosperous, but there is a row among the directors. Judge Pollock will urge the receiver this week. $20,000 for Meriwether. TOPEKA.—Judge Pollock of the federal court has decided that the sum of $20,000 must be paid by Wyandotte county to H. M. Meriwether for the condemned island in the Missouri river which is now in possession of the Armour Packing Company, Kansas City. Originally under the act of condemnation $25,000 was paid for the property. Five thousand dollars will be held in litigation for other claimants. The claim of Attorney General Coleman, that the island belonged to Kansas is disallowed. Miami County Needs Teachers PAOLA.—The small salaries paid district school teachers have caused a shortage of competent teachers in Miami county. Unless some appear before the next term, several districts will be without teachers. From twenty-five to thirty experienced teachers are needed. The average salary paid male teachers last year was $45', while the women received an average of $37. Many teachers have taken up other work. Coal Fields Busy Developing BURLINGAME—Considerable development work is being done in the coal fields adjacent to Burlingame this summer, and the output next winter will be materially increased. Two new shafts are being sunk close to town, and new mines that were opened last year are getting in shape to accommodate a large number of men when the fall work opens up. Fall Causes a Death ARKANSAS CITY. — William J. Stewart fell from the top of a 20-foot windmill at his home, southeast of Arkansas City. Monday morning and received injuries which caused his death Monday afternoon. Stewart was repairing the windmill when he lost his balance. He was 50 years of age and had lived here since the early days. KANSAS NOTES. Representative J. Bunyan Adams of Butler county is being referred to as Abou Bun Adams. 3 The Fulton, Kan., Gazette tells of three farms in Callaway county on which 768 rats were killed in one week. At the Second District Republican Editorial association meeting, held at Pleasanton last week, J. Frank Smith if Pleasanton was elected president and A. P. Harris of Iola secretary. The next meeting will be at Iola. KANSAS RAINS CONTINUE. Wheat Harvest in Lowlands Delayed by Wet Weather. JUNCTION CITY.—Nearly an inch of rain fell here Wednesday morning and the Smoky Hill has commenced to rise again. It has gone up a foot and is now a half foot above low water. The Republican is falling fast, but is still three feet above its normal level. Another rain of more than a half inch fell here this evening. ARKANSAS CITY.—Two inches of rain fell in this vicinity Wednesday morning. The corn will be benefited some on the high ground, but the rain will delay the cutting of wheat in the lowlands. ABILENE.—A hard rain fell here at an early hour Wednesday morning. It was accompanied by a little hall, but no damage has been reported. The rain was general throughout the county. Mud creek came up six feet, but is stationary now. Smoky Hill river was not affected by the downpour, and has fallen about two feet. STERLING.—A heavy rain fell here Tuesday night, which has caused a delay of a day or so in harvest with headers, but the farmers will be able to get in their binders again this week. They report that the wheat is rather green yet, and say it can go until the middle of next week, if they are unable to get in before. It was clear Wednesday, with the sun shining very hot, which will dry the fields up in a very short time. There are no indications for more rain. LACROSSE.—During the heavy rain, hall, wind and thunder storm that swept over this portion of Rush county Tuesday night, the house of F. H. Davis, in this city, was struck by lightning and Frank McKricklan, a farmer living three miles south of Timken, was killed. The hail in some portions of the county was very destructive, and much wheat, corn, oats and gardens were destroyed. The high wind twisted off small trees and branches of larger ones, while the rain fell in torrents. BABY DESERTED ON TRAIN. Mother Left It in a Basket With a Note by it. WELLINGTON.—The conductor on the Santa Fe express, from the west Tuesday morning, discovered a passenger that gave him some anxiety. It was a 5-months-old boy who had been stowed away in a basket in the chair car and had evidently been deserted by its mother. In the basket was a note requesting anyone into whose hands the baby should fall to take care of it until a home could be found. A kind hearted lady passenger volunteered to take charge of the waif until the officers could place it in an orphans' home. To Handle Kansas Oil. TOPEKA.—The state charter board has admitted to Kansas the Katherine Lee Oil company of Kansas City, Mo. The object of the company is to "acquire, refine, transport, pipe and dispose of coal oil or petroleum and gas produced by other corporations or persons, at and for such consideration as may be deemed advisable." The company also proposes to acquire lands and bore for oil and gas, but the part quoted will be of most interest to those in the gas field, who are talking about "Kansas gas for Kansas." The capital of the company is $12,000. Willis Wood is president. Caught Between Cars. SALINA.—Joseph Rocker, a brakeman on the McPherson branch, was killed here Tuesday by being caught between two cars while making a coupling. Rocker has been a brakeman on the McPherson branch since the road was built. His home was in McPherson, where his family live. Pocker's foot slipped and he fell just as he was making the coupling and the cars caught him on the right shoulder. He lived about an hour. Drowned in Walnut River. WINFIELD—Homer Moran, aged 18 years, was drowned in the Walnut river here Sunday, while boat riding. Esley Hall, who was with him in the boat, narrowly escaped, and clung to a limb for four hours before he was rescued. The boat was capsized by driftwood striking it. Moran's body has not been found. He was the son of N. M. Moran, a carpenter. Kansas Boy to China. WELLINGTON.—A. A. Richards received official news here Tuesday that his son, Midshipman C. A. Richards, who graduated from Annapolis February 1, has been assigned to the battleship Wisconsin, at Woosung, China. The Wisconsin is the flagship of Rear Admiral P. H. Cooper, commander of the Asiatic squadron. To Sink Two Prospect Wells. JUNCTION CITY.—The Junction City Oil and Mining Company Tuesday let the contract to the digging of two prospect wells here. The wells will be sunk to the depth of 1,500 to 2,000 feet, and the work of digging will be commenced in about two weeks. The company was organized several weeks ago, and has been incorporated with 560 shares of stock at $25 per share. Local people have bought all the shares. Goat Milk for Children. In Paris a Swiss brings a herd of goats in summer and parades through the streets selling the milk, which is beneficial to children. He plays a little air on a mouth organ, and is always followed by his goats and a crowd of little folks. Irish Hospital for Consumptives. All the local authorities in the county of Cork, Ireland, have united to establish a sanitarium for consumptives on the banks of the Lee, several miles above the city of Cork. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Even foreigners have domestic troubles. The people who think they are always in the right occasionally get left. The social scale shows that lots of people are weighed and found wanting. World's Fair Accommodations. Reliable and reasonable accommodations; adjoins World's Fair grounds on the south side, with private gate; direct from Union Station by Nunley Street car. Write for reservations. Grand View Fraternal Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. Girls, remember that a husband worth having is worth taking care of. You can't always tell from the size of a woman's shoe how big her foot is. Try One Package If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Bookkeepers and washerwomen always know where to draw the line. Sometimes it serves the wire puller right when he gets hold of a live wire. BIG DROP IN BINDER TWINE. We are selling the highest grade standard binder twine made, shipping it to any address in any quantity and any lower price than the manufacturer. In carload order, we special inside price, our warranty and our money insurance price, our insurance proposition against a stock or sale for our most liberal binder twine offer that will be available. Cut this notice out and mail to us to day and we will hear from us by return mail. Address. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago, Ill. Easily Made Scarecrows. Mr. Alfred Robinson of Annapolis county, Nova Scotia, contributes his method of protecting young corn plants from crows. He says: Stick bean poles with black bottles on the end here and there over the cornfield. The birds, being cunning and suspicious, will regard the glittering bottles as dangerous and keep away from the field. Yukon's Yield of Gold. The annual report of the Department of the Interior of the Dominion of Canada for 1903, says: "The gold production in the Yukon Territory for the year ending June 30, 1903, amounted to $12,113,015.34, as compared with $9,566,340.52 in the previous year. The value of gold produced there last year, the next best having been in 1899-1900, when the production amounted to $9,809,464.64." Pronunciation Was Poor. There is an amusing story of Lord John Russell, who once sat, at a large city dinner, next to a civic magnate. The latter took from his pocket a beautiful snuffbox and said: "This was given to my father by the first Napoleon; there is a hen on the top of it." "Surely," said Lord John, "it cannot be a hen, it must be an eagle." "No. no," said the magnate, "it's a hen." pointing as he did so to the "N" on the lid. TWO STEPS The Last One Helps the First. A sick coffee drinker must take two steps to be rid of his troubles and get strong and well again. The first step is to cut off coffee absolutely. That removes the destroying element. The next step is to take liquid food (and that is Postom Food Coffee) that has in it the elements nature requires to change the blood corpuscles from pale pink or white to rich red, and good red blood builds good strong and healthy cells in place of the broken down cells destroyed by coffee. With well boiled Postum Food Coffee to shift to, both these steps are easy and pleasant. The experience of a Georgian proves how important both are. "From 1872 to the year 1900 my wife and I had both been afflicted with sick or nervous headache and at times we suffered untold agony. We were coffee drinkers and did not know how to get away from it for the habit is hard to quit. "But in 1900 I read of a case similar to ours where Postum Coffee was used in place of the old coffee and a complete cure resulted, so I concluded to get some and try it. "The result was, after three days' use of Postum in place of the coffee I never had a symptom of the old trouble and in five months I had gained from 145 pounds to 163 pounds. "My friends asked me almost daily what wrought the change. My answer always is, leaving off coffee and drinking Postum in its place. "We have many friends who have been benefited by Postum. "As to whether or not I have stated the facts truthfully I refer you to the Bank of Carrollton or any business firm in that city where I have lived for many years and am well known." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville." LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR ANNUAL SALE OVER 5,600,000 Dealers supplied by their jobber or direct from Frank P. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. GET A GRASP ON OUR TRADE MARK. GET TO KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT AND THEN NEVER BUY STARCH WITHOUT IT. DEFIANCE STARCH IS WITHOUT EQUAL. IT IS GOOD. IT IS BETTER. IT IS THE BEST AND MORE OF IT FOR TEN CENTS THAN ANY OTHER STARCH. IT WILL NOT ROT THE CLOTHES. YOUR GROCER HAS IT OR WILL GET IT IF YOU ASK FOR IT. SATISFACTION OR MONEY BACK. MANUFACTURED BY The DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. WINCHESTER RIFLE @ PISTOL CARTRIDGES. “It’s the shots that hit that count.” Winchester Rifle and Pistol Cartridges in all calibers hit, that is, they shoot accurately and strike a good, hard, penetrating blow. This is the kind of cartridges you will get, if you insist on having the time-tried Winchester make. ALL DEALERS SELL WINCHESTER MAKE OF CARTRIDGES. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. A successful method of making wood proof against both fire and decay is being introduced in Germany. The cells of the timber are emptied of air in a vacuum and filled with sulphate and borate of ammonia. Gave Name to Port Arthur. Port Arthur was named after Lieutenant Commander Arthur of the British navy, who anchored his ship in the bay one day about fifty years ago. His was the first foreign ship that had visited the bay. A stumbling block to one man may be a stepping stone to another. If brevity is the soul of wit the bathing suit should be extremely funny. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Any man who lives within himself is apt to be troubled with indigestion. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind. Feb. 15, 1900. Despite the fact that a piano has a lot of keys, it is seldom locked. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. When Dame Fortune goes calling she utterly disregards "at home" days. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. Many a plausible tongue is operat- ed by a deceptive brain. Important to Mothers. 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 Castoria H. Hutchison In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. You can interest any man by say- ing to him: "You work too hard." 50 CENTS FOR YOU. "Snow us" whether this paper pays to advertise in by mailing us this adv. and the date line within ten days, and we will send you a certificate worth 50 cents to any one who visits the greatest of all World's Fairs. It may save them $0 or even more. We will also send a free map of the World's Fair. We give clean clothes for 50 cents and up if reserved at once. No fire-traps, but substantial brick and stone homes. No party too large, none too small. One to ten thousand accommodated. Our references are Hon. W. B. Stevens, Secretary World's Fair; Hon. Lon V. Stephens, ex-Governor of Missouri; Vice President Missouri Trust Company; W. J. Atkinson, ex-Governor of Missouri; Trust Company; Gen. B. G. Furrar, ex-Assistant Treasurer of the United States. Write to ST. LOUIS ROOM CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. It is sometimes easier to write a check than to right a wrong. LEWIS'S SINGLE STRAIGHT ANNUAL SALE OVER 5,600 Dealers supplied by their jobber or direct GET A ON OUR T GET TO KNOW IT AND THEN NEVER BE DEFIANCE STARCH IS IT IS BETTER. IT IS THE BEN CENTS THAN ANY OTHER STOCK CLOTHES. YOUR GROCER ASK FOR IT. SATISFACTION MANUFACTURE The DEFIANCE OMAH WINCH RIFLE & PISTLE "It's the shots that Rifle and Pistol Carry they shoot accurately trating blow. This is the if you insist on having ALL DEALERS SELL WINCH When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. Cost of Engines. The passenger engines formerly cost more on account of the embellishment. Now the freight engines are more expensive because they are heavier. Worn by German Bride The German bride wears myrtle, the girl of the Black Forest takes the flower of the hawthorn when she can get it. The brides of Italy and the French provinces of Switzerland use white roses, Spanish brides go in for pinks, carnations and red roses. Is It Not Worth While if you travel, on business or pleasures, to get the best service for the lowest rates? Ask the Erie Railroad Company, 555 Railway Exchange, Chicago, for full information. Booklets free describing Summer Tours and the beautiful Chantauqua Lake Region; also Cambridge Springs. A stylish coat on a man's back enables him to put on a bold front. DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. 39 years in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since FAULTLESS STARCH FOR CHRIS COLLINS CITYS AND THEM FREE to WOMEN A Large Trial Box and book of instructions absolutely Free and Postpaid, enough to prove the value of Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Paxtide is in powder form to dissolve in water, non-poisonous and acid-free antiseptics containing alcohol which irritates hair, and have no cleaning or sterile. The contents of every box makes more antiseptic Solution-lasting-aging processes further--has more uses in the family end uses good than any antiseptic preparation you can buy. Pantide is in powder form to dislose in water, not in water and/or superior to liquid antiseptics, containing an antiseptics containing infiltrated surfaces and have no cleaning properties. The contents of the antiseptic solution lasts longer because further has more acid and does more good than antiseptic preparation you can buy. The formula of a noted Boston physician, and used with great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhea, Pelvic Catarrh, Nasal Catarrh, Sore Throat, Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. In local treatment of female fills Pantide is invaluable. Used as a Vaginal Wash we challenge the world to produce its equal for thoroughness. It is used for cleansing and healing power; it kills all forms which cause inflammation and discharges. All leading druggists keep Paxine; price $20. All leading druggists keep Paxine; price $20. take a substitute — there is nothing like Paxine. Write for the Free Box of Paxine to-day. PAXTON CO., 5 Pope Bldg., Boston, Mass When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper.