Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT DISFRANC Will Never Settle Disfranchisement ed Not a Sol gro Pr DISFRANCHISEMENT Will Never Settle Negro Problem Disfranchisement of Negro Claimed Not a Solution of Negro Problem =HENCE IT IS BAD= either Negro, North or So EITHER Negro, North or South Is SATISFIED A. H. Grimke in ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Says South Ha Thrown Down Battle Gage and the North Will Pick It Up.—14th Amendment will be Enforced South Enraged Will Arouse Ire of North A. H. Grimke in ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Says South Has Thrown Down Battle Gage and the North Will Pick It Up.—14th Amendment will be Enforced South Enraged Will Arouse Ire of North If the disfranchisement of the Negro by the South could settle permanently the Negro question, think that the action of that action would find its justifica—in that achievement, accord to the juestitical principal that the end justifies the means. Can disfranchisement of the Negro settle the Negro question? Must Can it do so for the Negro? Sound: Can it do so for the South? Third: Ctn it do so for the question? I do not think that it can do for the Negro, or for the south, or for the nation. And undisfranchisement of the Negros this question in its one-fold aspect, it gill not set in such a way that it will stay settled. If the Negro uses to abide by such a settlement, the question will not be so used because the south has so added to settle it. Neither can south to-day settle the question of disfranchisement, if disfranchisement of the Negro be ended in operation to injure south of to-morrow more deep than it does the Negro. For that is bad for the Negro to-day be found to be still worse for the south to-morrow. The south, therefore, awake someone to this fact, unless she is in redriken with that hopeles unless by which the gods intend to destroy her. But even if the south and the Negro agree so settle the question, the question will not be permanently set if the horth, if the rest of the nation, refuses eventually to join a party to the compact. For rest of the nation, quite independent of the action of the south and the acquiescence of Negro, will have something, nothing very decisive to say ultimately about the settlement this question. The north has, reality, quite as much at stake this settlement as either the Negro or the south. Disfranchise will not, therefore, prove permanent settlement of the Negro question if it be found in nation to affect injuriously --- 6TH YEAR. North or South Is C MONTHLY, Says South Has and the North Will Pick It nt will be Enforced Arouse Ire of North northern and national interests, or to work badly in conduct of governmental affairs in respect to those interests. Can disfranchisement settle the question for the Negro? I do not think it can; I am sure that it will not, for the simple and sufficient reason that the Negro will not consent to such a settlement—a settlement which virtually decitizenizes him, and relegates him to a condition of practical servitude in the republic. He has tasted freedom, he has tasted manhood rights, he has tasted civil and political equality He knows that his freedom, his American citizenship, his right to vote, have been written in the constitution of the United States and written large there in three great amendments. He knows more; he knows that he himself has written his title to those rights with his blood in the history of the country in four wars, and he is the firm believer that his title to them is perfect. No party, no section, no state, can, therefore, deprive him of those rights without having in his mind a sense of bitter wrong of being cheated out of what rightfully belongs to him, cheated in defiance to law, of the supreme law of the land, and in spite of his just claim to fairer treatment at the hands of his countrymen. He will understnd that this enormity was committed against him on account of his race and color. He will see that it was done by the white race—a race that has ever whonged ed him, that has never failed to take from him, because it had the power, whatever he cared most for in the world. Nothing could possibly make him under such cruel circumstances, love such a race, such an enemy. He will learn to hate the white race therefore with all the strength and rancor of centuries of accumulated outrages and oppression. The relation of the two races in the south could not then be one --- WICHITA, KANSAS, JULY 16, 1904. of mutual respect, confidence and good will. It would become on the contrary one of actual fear, distrust and hatred. The whites would fear, distrust and hate the Negro and that decreasingly, because they had so deeply him; and the Negro would return this fear, distrust and hatred with a measure heaping up and running over, not openly like the whites to be sure but covertly, cunningly because of his weakness. He would live his life, his deeper life, more and more apart from the whites, live it in a underworld of which no white man would be able to get more than a glimpse and that at rare intervals. It would be an underworld in which his better sense of wrong, his brooding miseries, his repressed facultiss of mind, his crushed sensibilities his imprisoned aspirations to be and to do as other men, his elemental powers of resistance, his primitive passions, his savage instincts, his very despair would burn and rage beneath the thin crust of law and order which separates him from the upper world of the white race his implacable foe and oppressor. Through this thin crust of law and order there will perforce be at times some of that hidden fire some of that boiling lava of a race's agony and despair. There will be race feuds. race conflicts, as certainly as wind will blow, but no one will be deeply enough versed in the movements of these stormy, these fiery currents and visitations from the abysses of that under-world of the Negro to be able to discover their formation to foretell their coming or to forecast their extent or dnation. So far as the Negro is concerned, then to disfranchise him will not settle the Negro question. It will do anything else better than that. For it will make trouble and no end of it. Disfranchisement of the Negro is bad for the south. It is bad for her, on account of the harmful effect produced by it on her black labor. It makes a large proportion os laboring population restless and discontented with their civil and social condition, and it will keep them so it makes it well nigh impossible for this restless and discontented labor class to make the best of themselves with the limited opportunities afforded them, with the social and political restiction imposed by law upon them. It hinders employers of this labor the largest best results with it, for the same cause. For to obtain by means of this labor the largest and best results, employers of it ought to do the things, ought of seek to have the state which will tend to reduce the natural friction between capital and labor to its lowest terms to make labor contentd and happy, surely not the things which will have the opposite effect on labor. Every labor class has but a given amount of energy, I take it, to debate to production. How much of this energy may be available for productive purposes depends on its scial condition, whether it is contented or discontented, getting on in the world, gptting ahead in material, well being and well doing; on its economic condition, whether it is intelligent or ignorant, efficient or inefficient; on its civil condition, its legal status, whether it enjoys equal laws or equal opportunities with other labor classes in the struggle for existence, in the battle for bread, or whether it is crippled, obstructed instead, by unequal laws, by artificial restricions which are made to apply to its activity alone. ( concluded next week ) No Negro Problem. AN ARGUMENT ON THIS LINE BY HON, J. H, GUY, Is it not time to "pass up" the Negro question? Has there not been enough said pro and con with no visible sign of a betterment of conditions? Is it not potent to all good thinkers that this continual and distinct mention of the Negro is senseless? Is it not evideut to all sober and unbiased thinkers that the keen criticism so often made of him (the Negro) and the burning complaint equally so often made by him, accomplish nothing? Is it not time to let the Negro alone as a Negro? Is he not a part and parcel of this great commonwealth? Let the press and all the public speakers stop long enough to ask the question and then answer it. "Who is this man, the Negro, about whom we write and speak so much?" The answer is this—He was born on American soil; schooled in American civilization that he acknowledges but one God; that he is loyal to; and follows but one flag; that he is as industrious and as law abiding as other persons; that he is as brave in battle as any soldiers, and that too, whether he is fighting for freedom or the acquisition of territory. He is amendable to the same laws; bound by the same construction; tried in the same courts; subject to the same rules governing taxation. He is a man and a citizen—some good, some bad, as is true with every race or nationality on the globe With these answers it would seem that every rational being would say — the Negro has a chance—let him alone. I have always said and tried to maintain that there is no Negro problem—no race problem; that every man white and black alike has life's problem to solve—each for himself. By this proposition I am prepared to sfand If every Negro will lend his whole energy to making himself an industrious, honest, economical and law abiding citizen—devote his time to pursuing mental attainments and in the acquisition of af a financial competency the problem would be solved. If the press and public speakers would make the plea for individual successes rather than the fool and senseless "play to the galleries" (as they do when they would have you believe that they are in favor of that which never has been and never will be—a whole race a success)—the object aimed at would—in my judgement be more quickly a complish Remember the place-Market at the gate of DOLD acking House. ed. I am frank to admit that many discuss this question with the hope of bringing about a more favorsble state of affairs. They are sincere. I am equally sincere when I say that the condition now existing upon which so much argument is predicated cannot be changed by the writings of any man no matter how stilted. "Cut out" the distinct mention of the Negro. Speak of him, if you do so at all, in the same manner as any other citizen is mentioned. What matter is it whether the theft be white or black in mentioning that crime has been committed? Why say, "Jones Doe, a negro" Does color add to the crime or make the deed more commendable? Then the Negro must cease to mention himself. Enter no complaints, claim no rights as Negroes, but do both as men and citizens of one and the same commonwealth—as citizens amendable to, and protected by, the same laws. Be not boastful, be not daring, but courageous and persistent to the end. Mr. Douglas said, "Give the Negro a chance then let him alone. I say the Negro now has a chance let him alone. Any special mention of him in any connection is hurtful. This consinnal agitation agitation, agitation is conducive of evil, rather than good results. We must be conservative in all things, radical in nothing, see to it that by one unnanded expression and careless conduct we do not do more against ourselves than others by any other means do against us. Industry, economy, sobriety, honesty, courage, manhood and womanhood are essential to true citizenship. Without these man is deficient, with them he is full to overflowing. Public speakers and writers must choose some other subject upon which to express their views would they cease to longer do injury to this class of citizens. Prejudice is not suppressed by constantly calling attention to the fact that it exists, but rather by a failure to notice and mention the fact. I appeal to persons regardless of race, station or profession to cease the discussion or mention to what has be n commonly known as the "Negro Problem." JAS. H. GUY Mr. J. A. Martin and Mrs. Anna Ribbons were united in marriage Thursday night, July 7th. BORN--To Rev. and Mrs, J H. VanLeu a fine baby girl Monday night July 11th. Rev. has smiles all over his face at the new arrival. Both mother and daughter are doing well. NO 8 Cheer up! The Texas yield of watermelons will very soon be 3,000,000 a day. Perhaps some day the marriage ceremony will read: "Till death or divorce do you part." An automobile race in which no lives are lost is almost too tame to be designated as "sport." Two pests possibly might be abated if the gypsy moth and the boll weevil could be turned loose on each other. Haiti continues to furnish substantial ground for the theory that it is in for a spanking one of these fine days. Imprisonment having become a tame story, our war correspondents are now getting themselves shot as spies—almost. With 100,000 more men than women in Canada, the necessity for reciprocity with the United States needs no further argument. It is not true that the college motto is: Cast your honorary degrees upon the waters, and legacies shall return to you after many days. Three hundred more people have been hurt in toy pistol accidents. Sacrifices on the altar of foolishness never cease for a lack of victims. It is easy enough to understand how such an office as that of Governor General of Finland might have to do considerable searching for the man. Begin row to look in the New England papers for little items about unfortunate more or less seriously injured by falling out of cherry trees. The name of Betsy Ross, who made the model of the United States dag, is a good deal better known than the names of thousands who have died for it. It might be well also to teach everybody that nobody need drown who keeps his arms under water and his legs working as though he were going upstairs. Some scientist has discovered that the burring of incense will keep away mosquitoes. Most men will, however, cling to the idea that tobacco smoke is just as good. If the long-expected event now imminent in the imperial family at St. Petersburg gives the czar a son, he will have good reason to believe his luck has changed. Venezuela has a new constitution. Those South American "republics" feel that they are falling behind the fashion unless they get a new constitution every year. The straw vote promises to be unusually heavy this year. And the fool that rocks the boat will be found among those who vote early and as often as the hat is passed. It appears from Col. William F. Cody's autobiography, just published, that he killed an Indian at the tender age of eleven, and thus laid the foundation for his future career. Perhaps the cut-rate immigrants who are turned back have no reason to complain. Twice across the Atlantic for less than $10 is cheaper than staying at home, and the trip is restful. Nearly every day it is reported that a new bull movement is started in Wall street. But the Wall street bull has become a critter that merely looks around and then walks back and lies down. THE SEARCHLIGHT. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION -STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 150. 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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. The Result The di-franchisement of the Negro by the south is of far more reaching effect than mere the elimination of the Negro as a southern political factor. Primarily it is to rid the south of what the south terms the "illiterate vote", but of more import to the south is the removing of any danger of losing or breaching the solid south, and while the south has its waxed working population, yet she will have an aristocratical official holding. It has always been the dream of the south land to have two classes, one class to work and have no voice in government and the other class to boss, live in ease and run the government. Each class however must pay taxes and be alike amendable to the laws. In every instance when the south has tried most earnestly to put these views into execution, she has found that she has met with unconquerable opposition, the opposition was not solely on account of the Negro, as such, but it comes because such ideas are repugnant to the letter and the spirit of the American law and the principals of the American people. In America there is no such thing in law or principle as "taxation without representation," which seems the idea on which the south would stand. It was to rid themselves of this very idea which forced the Pilgrims to American shores and which later won for them the revolutionary war. After years of unsuccessful experience of equal taxation and equal representation which has proven as beneficial in the South as in the North, it is now too late and too much for the south to hope to successfully inaugurate. In the opposition will be far stronger than that of '60 to '64. Now the South in addition to the "white North" must stand face to face with the educated Negro. To hold their representation in the halls of congress just as the north, east or west, when in fact and law they are not entitled to only half what they have according to voting population, is entirely unreasonable for the South to ask and it is too much for the other part of the nation to permit. Negro Statistics The final census bulletin on the Negro population shows that there are 9,204,531 Negroes in the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rica. Half of this great number are under 10 years of age and from 11 to 16 per cent of them have white blood in their veins. The center of this black population is De Kalb county, Ala. It having moved from Dinwiddie county, Va. northeast 476 miles since 1790. Thus the Negro population constitutes about one-fifteenth of the city population and one-seventh of the country population of continental United States. This propotion, although still large, is the result of a steady decline during the nine- seventh century. The death rate of Negroes approximate 30 per cent, while that of the whites is 17 pr ct.4 At present fully 90 per cent of the Negroes live in the Southern states, and 77 per cent of them reside on farms. But the northern migration to the big cities has been noticeable for the last two decades and is in a large measure responsible for the excessive death rate among them Bad habits, poverty and diseases make terrible inroads upon Negroes living in the big cities. The largest number of Negroes living in compact masses are found in certain urburn counties, several of which lie out-side the great cotton groin states. The four each having 75, 00 Negroes are District of Columbia, co-extensive with Washington; Shelby county, Tenn, containing Memphis; Baltimore city, Md. and Orleans parish, La., co-extensive with New Orleans. The Negroes form one third the population of the entire sooth, and 48.0 per cent are reckoned among the bread winners as against 46.9 per cent of the southern whites. Among the femal 10 years of age, 47 per cent of the Negroes and only 11.8 per cent of southern whites report money getting occupations. .... Kansas City Journal White Man Rapes Girl. White Mon In Columbus, Ohio Is Being Hunted Down By A Large Posse With Bloodhounds. Columbus, O., July 15th—Twelve year old Rose Steker was the victim of an assault by a white man on the outskirts of town at high noon te-day. The little girl fought her assailant and screamed. He then fled. A large crowd quickly gathered and with bloodhounds started in hot pursuit and if caught may be lynched. The girl is in a bad condition. People up in arms over it. Mrs Washington Angry St. Louis, Mo.—The second annual session of the National Association of Negro Women, which was to have opened in the World's Fair grounds Thursday, met in a down town church instead. This action was the result of a resolution introduced by Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Washington opposed the meeting at the Fair on the grounds that the exposition had discriminated against colored women in the matter of employment on the grounds and against the race in general. The action was opposed by the St. Louis delegation, but after Mrs. Washington had spoke in support of her resolution it was adopted. There is no use in Tilman bucking against the 'Nigger' plank, it will yet be used to give him a much needed spanking. As a "water town" Wichita is entitled to the blue ribbon. What is the matter with voting $100,000 bonds to make Wichit flood proof. We need 'em sure. Everybody can sympathise with everybody else on the water question. The pot can't call the skillet black now, we all laugh together—sure Mike. ```markdown ``` THE First Annual Pic-nic AND Emanipation Celebration ÷÷ OF THE ÷÷ Odd Fellows AND K. OF Ps AT South Riverside Park THURSDAY, AUG. 4TH.'04 ÷÷ AT NIGHT ÷÷ Grand Jubilee Concert At Garfield Hall Under the Auspices of The Household Ruth and the Court of Calanthe THOS. GLOVER, Chairman JAS. L. HARPER, Secretary A. T. GLOVER, Treasurer. The common expression now is "excuse me." How funny. To have been in Wichita during the high water was fun, lots of it. Mrs. Maggie Smith has a fine trade at her restaurant 346 N. Main Mayor B. F. McLean spent the flood season in St. Louis and is at home again. C. H. Luling is home again, but he came a little late to witness a real "water town." There was no "high" and no "low" this time, all got their portion of water alike. Would like the Subscribers of the Searchlight to be ready when the collector comes. The county commissioners threw the court house open for the relief of the flood sufferers. Remember the Searchlight when you are figuring on paying your bills. Office 110 N, Main. The Searchlight collector will be out again Saturday and hopes that all will be ready for him.. Mr. and Mrs. W. Gibbs, 219 W. 8th entertained Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller at dinner Sunday. Shoes were a burden to Wichitan last week. Everybody went barefgoted with pants rolled up to the knees. Hose Compuny No. 1 on Market was flooded out and had to take up their place at the City Hall during the high water. The high water has created Mrs. Robt. Braden out of her extensively planned trip to visit her sisters in Missouri. She will not now take her contemplated visit. Thanks to the promptness and diligence of Chief Burt and his efficient men, no lives have been reported lost during the high water in Wichita. They deserve much praise and credit for their work. Mrs. Albert Huntec of Kansas City arrived in the city Wednesday and will spend several weeks visiting her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baker 428 N. Wa'er, Mrs. Hunter reports plenty of water there when she left. Mrs. Joseph Phillips who went to Kansas City last week to visit her aunt, Mrs. Rachel Evana, returned home Wednesday morning She had a fine time but was greatly surprised at the high water that had visited Wichita during her absence from the city. First Annu Emanipation ÷ OF T Mr. J. J. Bates was a pleasant visitor in the city last week the guest of his consin J. A. Jones. Mr. A. C. Williams has gone to St. Louis to visit the fair, also to Springfield, Onio, to see his people. Mrs. W. M. Dent returned home Thursday morning from Eureka Springs, Ark., where she conducted a series of meetings. Mrs. Lee Anderson left Tuesday for Fort Scott where she will attend the grand session of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. After a ending seven weeks visiting friends oud relatives in this city Mr. Joseph Whitted left Monday for Chicago. He made a stop in Kansas City on the way. The vacation sermon was preached to the ladi's home miss on circle Sunday morning, Rev. D. A. Jefferson officiating. He took his text The mortal woman, and was well delivered. The Violet Art club met at the residence of Mr. Jno. Bates last Thursday evening, despite the inclement weather many were present and enjoyed the dainty refreshments served. Mrs. Richard Heck did not make her contemplated trip to Leavenworth on account of the high water but expects to start Saturday if the water conditions are favorsble. Bi-santz the popular ice cream maker can be found by calling up over old phone No. 3 or over new phone 1893. He is prepared to deliver cream in any quantity from one gallon up. No wonder the flood came so rushing—Will Wright, Fred Martin and Dr. Farmer head a fishing party on the Fourth. Did they catch fish, well I guess, ask Wright anyway. Mrs. W. N. Miller left Monday afternoon at 3.30 via Mo. Pacific for Ft. Scott, Kas. where she went as a delegate from Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 to the grand session of the Knights and Daughters of Taber which convened in Ft. Scott Tuesday morning. On third Sunday in July the last quarterly conference for the present conference year will be held at the A. M. E. church. Presiding Elder J. W. Braxton and Presiding Elder J. R. Ransom of the Ft. Scott district will be preset. An effort will be made to make this a grand time. ual Pic-nic n Celebration THE+÷ ```markdown ``` Half & Mr. Clees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE. THING IN DRUGS Ions Filled With Care us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER man Drug Co. rth Main Street. ND TO NONE Pleases All BREAD MAKERS Is White As Snow. TRY IT Warnhoff & M.Clees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE. EVERY THING IN DRUGS Prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street. DISCOUNT at 30 days sell all our Spring and and Trousers at a discount of 20 per regular price. e before ordering your clothes. : : : : : : New Phone 589 ERLESS TAILOR East Douglas Ave UL Y In The Grocery Line --- 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. Call and see our line before ordering your clothes Call and see our line before ordering your clothes. Old Phone 620:-------:-------:New Phone 589 The PEERLESS TAILOR 508 East Douglas Ave Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas 'Pone 357 W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST ladies and furnished, it is not prepared h every mugger, one bot- tle and express of this mo and Co., Illinois. TRY THE BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE --- MILITARY CAFE Warnhoff EVERY THING Prescriptions Call and see us, Or A CUST Salman 228 North SECOND Please GOOD BRE It Is Wh TR A BIG D We will for the next 30 da Summer Sittings and Trou cent less than the regular Call and see our line before Old Phone 620: The PEERL 508 East D WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. S. NAFTSGER, W. R. TUCKER, Presideat Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier. The Fourth National Bank, Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY DIRECTORS: W. R. Tucker, J. M. Moore, S. B. Amidon, R. L. Holmes, W. E. Jett, L. S. Naftsger, O. Z. Smith, E. H. Middlekauff B. F. McLean. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED Wichita Kansas. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the coloured people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRONIZE THEM. Southwestern Distributing Agent for Cribben & Sexton Co. Any style of stove at wholesale prices. OTTO WEIFS, Agent. Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staples Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. W. M. Dunson, Painter All Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PAINTING The Only Colored Painter the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 936 FOR SALE—A first-class Singer Sewing Machine, all in good order. Call at 1102 N. Santa Fe ave. 2t Any kind of Second Hand Goods bought, sold exchanged or sold on commission. W. C. Neely, 406 N. Main St., 4w The Same Position Use a little more forethought, brother, and keep out of the rut of "penny wise and foolish." Just a little more of an allowance for good, reliable plaster, cement, paint, roofing, etc., would insure the very best and save tedious, expensee, going down-in- the pocket expenditures for possits that could have been avoided. Buy Turner's and it's right. Estimates cheerfully furnished. BOTH PHONE J. H. TU 535 -- 537 W. I OLDEN'S D OLDEN'S DRUG STORE Prescriptions Filled with Care .....Drugs of all kinds, Our patronage solicited. Once Our store is Headquarters Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco. ..... Your patronage solicited. Once a customer, always a customer Our store is Headquarters for the Colored people. 615 North Main St. B. F. McLEAN. LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 dita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas MYRON A Groceries, Fruits and Fo 815 N. M Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. HOUCK Hardware Store Insurance Gasoline Stoves Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose, etc. 116 East Douglas Ave. ERLESS TEAM UNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 345-247 North Market St ice Furnished ROOMS- by the night or week Transit a Specialty Mrs. P. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. T. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon of Women and Furn a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 938. banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ... A Specialty ..... KINDS OF COAL & FEED FROENISCH BROS, PROPS. N. Main St. Phone 530 A man chopping wood. JRNER, Douglas Ave. Cigars and Tobacco. ..... be a customer, always a customer ers for the Colored people. = DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas A. DEAN its, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Elite Cafe' 408 North Main St Best Short Order House In the City. OPEN ALL NIGHT Short Orders At All Hours Meals 20cts Cigars and Tobacco Chas. L. Kiner, Prop. The GEM Barber Shop. W. A. BETTIS, Prop, A Sanitary Shop, High Class Workmen Cleanliness and First Class Work Our Motto 332 N. Main St. GIVE US A TRIAL Plenty of Clean Towels always on hand. 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 Fine 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 attest fad, in our regular stock, at $2 TAPP BROTHERS & HANSHAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main We advise you to trade with DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE Cor. 13th and Santa Fe Phone 1114 Ask for cash ships. People's Restaurant, 346 N. Main St. First Class Meals÷ Quick Service Short Orders. a specialty Mr. Jno. W. Hall and two daughters Betty May and Vema left over the Mo. Pae. Monday aft-eaoon for Ft. Scott to visit relatives and friends and incidentally to take in the session of the Tabors this week. Mrs. Lawson Fines after spending about two weeks visiting in her former home in Sherman, Texas returned to this city Friday morning She arrived in time to witness the city engulfed in water. GOOD WEIGHTS. Three Wichita ladies thought they were losing much weight so they went to the scales to see how much they did weigh The result was Mrs. Robt. Braden tipped the beam at 240 pounds, Mrs. Nannie Howard at 210 pounds, and Mrs. Maggie Smith at 199 pounds, which is pretty good weight you see. BANK POSITION. Mr. H.-W. Harding, who has for the past two years been with the Morseman, Innes Co. on North Main street, resigned his position with that company and accepted the position as private secretary, stenographer and typewriter in the State Saving Bank on North Market street. Mr. Harding is a de-seving young man and we are proud of his continual rise. FAITH IN WICHITA Mr. John C. McNaghten has purchased the stock of shoes at 110 N, Main street from the firm of Coomb & Moore and will continue business there. Mr. McNaghten is not a new man in Wichita, but for 15 years he conducted a shoe store at the location which he now re-enters. He sold his stock to H. J. Roy and for the past five years has been a traveling saleman. After traveling all over the country he is convinced that Wichita is the best and casts his lot here again. He invites you to call at 110 N. Main street. NO MEETINGS. On account of the unprecedented high water there was no services in any of the colored churches in the city last Sunday except tha Tabernacle, and services were held there under difficulties. The water was almost entirely around the church. At the A. M. E. church the water was so high at this point that it ran freely in the church and surrounded the parsonage. At the 2nd Baptist the water was so high on Wichita street that it was impossible to reach the church except in a boat. At the New Hope Bapsiat the same conitions existed. Thus Wichita colored people had to go one Sabbath without hearing the word only in one church. Mrs. Eliza Delano spent Sunday in Winfield. Mrs. Langston and Miss Lee of Topeka are visiting in our city the guests of Mrs. Belle Smothers. A number of ladies met Monday night for the purpose of organizing a lady band, the members are: Misses Fannie Andrews, Birdie Jones, Cora Carpenter, Kittle Jones, Lula White, Amy Wright, Cappie Jones, Addie Jones Jennie Hopper, Alice White. Mesdames Eva Johnson, Will Graves. We wish them much success. Rev. Garnett preached in Winfield Sunay. Mrs. Auetin is in the city visiting her daughter Mrs. Miller. WICHITA FLOOD. It is impossible to fully describe the extensiveness of the flood that visited Wichita July 6th to 10th, 1904. According to the testimony of the oldest settlers this was the worse since 1877, and some even go so far as to say that this one was worse. To give a slight idea—there was not a street within the city limits that was not water bound. The street cars were forced to stop and in order to get from place to place one had to resort to either horseback, wagon or boat, and in most of the places the water was so deep and swift that horses could not travel and boats were in danger. Everybdy waded, men and women alike. Business was demoralized. All hope that such a condition will not be repeated. There was so many who were washed out or damaged that it would be folly to attempt to enumerate them. PUEBLO, COLO., NEWS Miss Neely, of Denver, is in the city visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr, and Mrs. H. Neely. Mr, Kites and Mrs. Owens were in the city Monday from Canon City. The Knights of Pythias gave a grand entertainment at Bessomer City hall Monday night. Madam Silver and Mr. Kennedy gave a concert at Board of Trade hall Monday night. Mrs. W. A. Gatewood stopped in Pueblo a f.w days while enroute to the World's Fair in St. Louis. A good many attended the picnic given by Bethlehem Baptist church on July 4th at St. Charles. Mrs McCoy formerly of Pneblo, was in the city last week visiting. Miss Rosa Spencer, of Butte, Mon was the guest of Mrs. L, A. Hargrove last week while enroute to Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. W. B. Townserd is suffering from asthma. Mr. D. Mullens in the city last Thursday. Mr. Craig, brother of Mrs. W. B. Townsend was in the city Tuesday. Mrs. Harry Fife has returnud to the city after a three months at her home in Kansas. Mr. Geo. McDow Friend was in the city Sunday from Colorado Springs. Mr. Penny has returned from a few weeks visit in Kansas. Miss Meta DoNeal went to Colorado Springs to spend a few days. Rev. W. W. Stewart has returned from a few days stay in Denv r. Pr. f E. Scruggs of the Western College was in the city last Sunday and filled the pulpit at 8th Baptist church Sunday night. The inclement weather prevented many from being present. The prettiest wedding of the season was that of Miss B. O. Phillips and Mr. O. W. Baker which took place at St. John A. M. E. church Tuesday, June 28 at 8:30 o'clock. The church was crowded with relatives and friends of the contra ting parties. At 8:30 sharp the wedding march was played and every eve was strained to catch a glimpse of the bride. Little Nora Townsend came first carrying the ring on a white satin pillow; next the bride's maids Misses Nella and Bertha Baker sisters of the groom. Then came the bride resting on the arm of her maid of honor Mrs. H. Nelson. She was met at the altar by the groom and best man Mr. J. W. Luttrell, Rev. J. C. Owens officiating. The altar was beautifully Has Bought The COOMBS & MOORE stock of SHOES 110 N. Main st Visi Boston 103.105.107 WALLENS Seventeen NINE CENT For Ba Every WICHITA TRUCK Carry a f Trunks and T Just what you need WORLD'S FAIR and Give us 507 E. Do We will send for you FOR CELEBRI ICE CR Call up Ne Factory located first block BISSANTZ ICE "THIS IS THE WA FRI SYS TO SAINT OF COURSE YOU Let us furnish you with literature e rates, train service, etc. As C. W. STRAIN, DIV WICHI Visit The Baton Store WALLENSTEIN & COMN. Twelveenth Anniversary E CENTS S for Bargain -- OF -- every Kind A TRUNK F Carry a full line of and Traveling what you need on your trip. ITS FAIR and SUMMER O Give us a trial E. Douglas, send for your trunks for R Bide CELEBRATED ICE CREAM Call up New Phone 18 Old Phone and first block on South Rock SANTZ ICE CREAM CO THIS IS THE WAY OF THE W FRISCO SYSTEM INT LOC COURSE YOU ARE GOING with literature relative to the b service, etc. Ask your local agen STRAIN, DIVISION PASSENGER AG WICHITA, KAN. Visit The Boston Store 103.105.107.109 E. DOUGLAS AVE WALLENSTEIN & COMM. WICHITA ATOMS DANIEL, LAWRENCE MAN, UTTAWA, KAN. EMPERIA, KAN. PARSINS, KAN. Seventeenth Annual NINE CENTS SALE For Bargains OF Every Kind Trunks and Traveling Bags Just what you need on your trip to the WORLD'S FAIR and SUMMER OUTING Give us a trial 507 E. Douglas, Phone 267 We will send for your trunks for repair ICE CREAM Call up New Phone 1893 Old Phone No.3 Factory located first block on South Rock Island ave. BISSANTZ ICE CREAM CO., KANSAS STATE BUILDING WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS. "THIS IS THE WAY OF THE WISE." FRISCO SYSTEM TO SAINT LOUIS. OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING! Let us furnish you with literature relative to the buildings, hotels, low rates, train service, etc. Ask your local agent or address C. W. STRAIN, DIVISION PASSENGER AGENT, WICHITA, KAN. decorat d with potted plants; white silk ribbons were stretched from the rear of the door to the altar being held by the four ushers Messrs. White, Gomez, Bell and Foster. Out of town girls present were Misses Mable and Daisy Weir, Lucy Whitener, Mrs. Buckner, H. Berkus. Miss Bumford. After the ceremony the party retired, to the home of the groom where a recep- --- at The Store E. DOUGLAS AVE. WEIN & CORN. WICHITA, ATDHISON, KAN. LAWRENCE, KAN. OTTWAR, KAN. CROBINA, KAN. PARSONS, KAN. sixth Annual ENTS SALE argains OF New Kind INK FACTORY full line of traveling Bags on your trip to the SUMMER OUTING a trial Douglas, Phone 267 our trunks for repair Bissant WICHITA, KANSAS. GATED REAM New Phone 1893 Old Phone No. 3 on South Rock Island ave. CREAM CO., WORLD'S FAIR St. Louis. Y OF THE WISE." LOUIS. YOU ARE GOING! relative to the buildings, hotels, low your local agent or address PASSENGER AGENT, A, KAN. tion was held for the friends after which a supper was enjoyed by the family. Wr. and Mrs. O. W. Baker has the best wishes of their many friends for their success through lif. They are at home to their friends at 1101 Palmer ave. Many handsom presents were received by them. Fiction A DAY-TIME TUNG. The sun sings into in a dawn-dappled sky; And a fleeting moon croons a pale reply; While the star-crowded chorus Bloomed over, and o'er me; Muffled, unceetin, Through the day's draw curtain; And the waking world lifts a workday cry To mate with the martialing music on high. Right good for the soul it is: drifting through dreams; But it's braver to plow where the fat earth teems. "The earth is better." -Rupert Hughes, in the Criterion, OVERBOARD. BY O. P. EAVY chains were about his ankles, hand cuffs upon his wrists and the brand of crime was on his forehead, on his dark features, and in his fierce. EAVY chains were about his ankles, hand cuffs upon his wrists and the brand of crime was on his forehead, on his dark features, and in his fierce wolfish eyes. There he stood, an outcast from the pale of human kindness, the convict, Mark Mold, on the deck of the passenger ship Briton, the captain of which for a certain sum paid by the law officers, had consented to take him, with several others of his stamp, to Botany Bay, as room could not be found for these criminals aboard the transport vessel anchored a mile below and which had been packed to overflowing ere the prisoners were brought to it. While Mark still waited on the deck for the officers to stow him in the dark hold with his fellows a boat from the Liverpool dock came alongside with several passengers, among them a handsome lady of thirty, Mrs. Howland, wife of Colonel Howland, quartered with his regiment near Port Jackson, Australia, where she was going to join him, and her little daughter Grace, a beautiful child of six years. As Mrs. Howland was assisted up the gangplank she noticed Mark's Mold and shuddered. "You need not be afraid, ma'am," said the captain. "The criminals will be kept in the hold, chained; they can do you harm." "Can you not send them away from here? I wish you would." "I regret that I cannot, as I have agreed to take them." Descending into the cabin, the lady sat, unable to rid herself of the feeling of alarm excited by the presence of the convicts aboard the vessel. She at length concluded to go ashore and endeavor to persuade the ship-owners to have the criminals taken off the craft; but ere she could proceed to execute her plan the Briton was under weigh. As day after day passed the bright little cherub, Grace, spread light and joy throughout the vessel. The rough sailors would smile, their brown faces softening when she ventured among them. They always had a pleasant word for her, for her winning little ways had made her a favorite with all, from the cabin boy up to Ben Hayes, the oldest seaman aboard. She would walk forward the first thing of a morning and shake hands with each one, her mother smilingly permitting such freedom on the part of her child. One day, having heard that the crew did not fare as sumptuously as the passengers, little Grace, instead of eating her piece of pound cake at the cabin table, took it forward among the sailors and make each of them take a big bite, saying she would tell the captain to send them a basket full. So soon she noticed on deck the convict, Mark Mold, who, having been taken ill in the confined air below, had been relieved of his chains and led up to breathe the fresh air. A pleased look crossed his haggard face as he inhaled the pure breeze, and looking out on the broad, blue, rolling ocean, he seemed at once to get stronger and better. "Won't you have some? Here, take it; you may have it all," fell a childish voice on his ear, and, looking down, he saw Grace at his knee, holding up her piece of cake. He seemed about to put his hand on her head when Mrs. Howland gently, but quickly drew the child away. The man showed no emotion at this action of the lady. It was natural the mother should deem there was contamination — poison — in his touch; that she should not have permitted him even to lay his hand on the golden hair of the child. "You must never go near that bad man again," said Mrs. Howland. "Why, mamma, isn't he a little good? I've heard uncle—and he is a minister, mamma—say that everyone is a little good." "You have heard him say that the worst person has some good quality, but I differ with him. I don't believe that convict, who, I have learned from the captain, was a thief, housebreaker and drunkard for years, hiss a shingle good trait." Just as she spoke a heavy squall struck the ship, hurling her down almost on her beam ends and driving her through the water with everything humming. The wind blew with terrific force, and the vast ocean was veiled for miles by the whirling, driving spray, which flew like snow-flakes all round the vessel, shrouding her in a white mist. Suddenly there was a wild shriek from Mrs. Howland as little Grace, who had attempted to run into the cabin, was literally blown to leeward into the sea. "My child! O God, save my child!" screamed the distracted mother, whose voice, however, was nearly drowned by the booming thunder of wind and ocean, the rattling of canvas, the slating of sheets and ropes and the swashing, hissing noise of the sweeping spray. The sailors looked with appalled faces on the form of Grace as she was borne along by the merciless waves. Not one of them dared to venture overboard in that tempest, and as to lowering a boat, it was simply impossible, as no boat could live in such a storm. "Save her! Will no one save my child?" screamed Mrs. Howland, confronting the seamen with clasped hands and freazied, beseeching eyes. They looked at each other and not one moved, for all felt that certain death awaited the man who should plunge in that wrathful ocean; but Mark Mold plunged overboard, and the mother cing to a backstay, eager watching for his reappearance; but, seeing nothing of him, she bowed her head on the rail, moaning and raving like a maniac. Still raged the storm and on tore the ship further and further from the place where the man and child had gone overboard. The seamen exchanged ominous glances and shook shook their heads. Soon the squall swept far away to leeward, the ship righted and the sun gleamed from a clear sky upon a clearing sea. From the captain, who, having now brought his ship to, with main topsail aback, had run aloft, a wild cry went ringing to the heavens, sending an electric thrill of joy to the hearts of all on deck. "I see something two miles off the lee quarter. God grant it be the man and child!" His boat was soon down with good oarsmen in it, with Mrs. Howland, full of wild, anxious hope, in the stern sheets. Nearer to that distant speck drew the boat. "There he is!" cried the watchful captain, at last. "I think—I believe—but am not certain—he—yes, yes, thank God—hooray! hooray! he has the child." Yes, there was the convict in the water, holding up the child that the mother might see it. Such a scream of joy as burst from that mother's lips it would have done you good to hear. A few minutes later Grace nestled on her bosom, weak and faint, but showing signs of rapid recovery, as the happy woman strained her to her breast, showering kiss after kiss upon her face. Almost exhausted to unconsciousness, Mark Mold lay in the bottom of the boat, scarcely hearing the mother, hardly feeling the pressure of her lips upon his hands, when, at length, she turned to him, warmly expressing her gratitude. Now she recognized the truth of the saying that the worst person is not without some good trait, and very glad she was that she had not succeeded in having the convicts removed from the ship when she first discovered they were aboard. Of course, had they been taken away Mark Mold would have gone with them and her child would have been lost. On arriving at Fort Jackson Mrs. Howland related to her husband, the colonel, the gallant conduct of Mark Mold, who thereafter was constantly befriended during his hard prison life by the grateful officer. This kind treatment, the first he had ever received from a human being since he became an outlaw, had a softening effect on Mark's character, and he conducted himself so well that the colonel at length succeeded in obtaining for him a commutation of his penalty, which had been for twenty years, to half that time. When at last, the prisoner was discharged the colonel procured his employment and the liberated convict became a steady, honest man. Victims of Celluloid Combs. A trio of accidents of the same kind in three different towns a few days ago resulted in the soiling of the girls who were the unfortunate victims. Miss Gallie Vanmeter, a charming daughter of Judge Vanmeter, of Chiliicothe, Ohio, had her hair all burned off, while leaning over a grate, by her celluloid comb catching fire. She is terribly burned. At Zanesville, Ohio, Miss Lulu Moore, a society girl, got too near the grate; her celluloid comb ignited and she was scaled before help could reach her. At Wheeling, W. Va., Miss Mary Conner, while raking in the grate, got too near the fire, and her celluloid comb was ignited, burning her terribly. It was the second accident of the kind at Wheeling in a week.—Louisville Evening Post. Rice as a Detector of Thieves. Not being able to trace anything in connection with the loss of the 2000 rupees from the cash safe of the Surati Bazaar Company, the directors have resorted to astrology and finally sorcery. Every employee of the bazaar was given a mouthful of rice to eat, which had been previously pat through some magic preparation, the belief being that if the person - who had taken the money ate the rice some very great misfortune would befall him. It is not recorded that any of the employees have yet met with a disaster.—Rangoon Gazette. 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, inclusive. Limit October 31st, 1904. Stop-overs in Colorado will be allowed as Reretofore. 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, 19 Sixty-Day Excursion Tickets— Dates of Sale—April 25 to No 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 Pall ing chair cars; are operated from change For full information call E. E. BLECKLEY T. P. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. 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 dat e FifteenDay Excursion Tickets—$16.00 Renni Trip. Date of Sale--Daily from April 27 to Nov. 30, inclusive. Final Limit—Tickets to be good to leave St. Louis within fifteen days from date of sale, but not later than December 5th 1904. 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 undersigned E. E. BLECKLEY I. R. SHERWIN, T. P. A. P. & T. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. Douglas ave and Wichita street. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. Almost Equal To A Trip Around The World will be a visit to the ST. LOUIS FAIR 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. Our Cuts Talk THE WILLIAMSON HAFFNER ENGRAVING CO. 1623 39 ARAPAHCE ST DENVER ROWLEE Hardware Store 823 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses SEE!! " UNITED WE STAND, DIVISED WE FALL. " $100 for a Pen. 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. T. P. A. Rock Island System It's all there but Russia TS—$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 Round Trip. April 27 to Nov. 30, inclusive. Final leave St. Louis within fifteen not later than December 5th 1904. AILWAY now has three trains shortest and most direct route 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. OUR HOBBY. Again Mr. Schwab has got home from Europe—this time without creating any general excitement. A woman often believes in her husband because he proved his sound sense and good judgment in marrying her. King Edward of England made no descent from his royal dignity when he received General Booth of the Salvation Army. Ramon Corral, elected vice president in New Mexico, hopes to corral the presidency also when President Diaz gets through. The speculator who announces that he owes $1,000,000 and is sorry he cannot pay must not imagine he has a monopoly of the grief. Advocates of a Saturday half holiday believe that half a loaf is better than none. Some persons, of course, would like to loaf all the time. About half the couples divorced in England have no children. Children may not make marriage happy, but they tend to make it indissoluble. A Milwaukee man has invented a system of card playing by telephone. He probably wanted to counteract the growing system of telephone sermons. Georgia hastens to assure the world that the peach crop in that state is simply enormous, in spite of the fact that this is a presidential year. When in need of Groceries to not forget that you, can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 B. Dowle Ave. Phone 357. 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. -VIA--- S YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT. WHY NOT? Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday July 16, '04 KANSAS COMMENT Property Greatly Damaged.—Much property in towns all over the state has been damaged by the flood. Hold Convention.—The interstate miners' convention held a meeting in Pittsburg, Kansas, for the purpose of making a new mining scale. A Record Breaker.—Lizzie Howard of Atchison county picked 170 boxes of strawberries in one day of nine hours, not counting what she ate. Railroads Tied Up.—With the exception of the Santa Fe, practically all five railroads entering Wichita were tied up, and there were no trains in operation in scarcely any direction. Released on Bond.—Chase Catlin, who has been bound over to the district court of Cowley county on a charge of murder in the first degree, for the killing of O. O. Blackford, has been released on a $4,000 bond. Much Vegetables Ruined.—During the flooding of the Arkansas rivers and Chisholm' creek, many acres of vegetables were ruined. Fine gardens of cabbage and tomatoes were washed out. Many old timers say the flood was equal to that of 1877. Put in Guages.—The United States department of agriculture will place new stations and guages at various points along the Kaw river. After these guages are in there will no longer be any difficulty in securing reliable and authentic information regarding the height of the river—as has been the case during the recent high water. Insane Immigrant Deported.—August Meill, a German of Reno county, who has been found insane, will be taken to Chicago immediately, where he will be turned over to the immigration office for deportation to Hamburg, Germany, which country he left ten months ago. The state asylum would not receive him because he had not gained a residence here, and County Attorney Brown took the matter up with the government agent, who will have him sent home. Harvest Greatly Retarded.—Wheat harvest has been greatly retarded in the south by the wet weather. The wheat is rusting some in Atchison and Marshall. The oat harvest had begun in the southern counties, but was stopped by the rains and in Montgomery much of the crop has fallen. The oats are turning in the central counties, but have rusted some in Atchison and Marshall. Corn has made a good growth in most counties the ground is too wet to cultivate. Glory Outlook.—The flood conditions at Manhattan are proving disastrous to many farmers in the valleys of the Blue and the Kaw rivers. Water is three feet higher than last months raise. Corn fields and other growing crops are submerged in locations. Farmers are leaving their homes and are moving their stock to high land. Cedar creek was higher than ever before. Farmers left their homes in the night and sought refuge in a schoolhouse. Union Pacific trains are running on the Rock Island track between Manhattan and Topeka. Much Damage to Wheat—McPherson was visited by a terrific rain storm, accompanied with the most startling lightning. The government station of July 6 registered over an inch of rainfall. This makes a total rainfall for this section from May to date of 18.24 inches. The farmers all over the county are discouraged over the prospects. The wheat is ripe and it is utterly impossible to get into the fields with a machine. There is probably not a hundred acres of wheat cut in the entire county and it is impossible to move a machine. Caution About Well Water.—I think it would be well to caution the people," said a well known physician, "concerning the use of well water during the flooded condition of Wichita. City water should be used exclusively. Persons not having access to that kind of water should boll that taken from wells fully twenty minutes before using. It will prevent all kinds of disease.' In Spite of Mud.—A McPherson county farmer is harvesting in spite of the mud. He wraps the wheels of his binder with canvas. Much High Water.—Reports from Williamstown, Kan., stated that a small stream which flows into the kaw at that point was out of its banks and had overflowed the surrounding country. The Union Pacific tracks were reported to be under water and the train service was cut off. Citizens Surprised.—The people of Winfield were very much surprised when the surveyors of the interurban line, which will enter the city from Arkansas City, reached there. This line will be the only electric line in Cowley county. $30,000 For His Arms.—Word has been received that at Lima, O., court has allowed Alvin Hicks, a Hiawatha young man. $30,000 for the loss of his arms. Hicks was a lineman and was working for an electric lighting company in Lima. While on a high pole a current of electricity was turned through the wires he was repairing, and he was so badly burned that both arms had to be amputated. Higher Water Than Last Year.—The people in central and southern Kansas experienced higher water this year than last. To Close. Stock Yards.—The stock yards at Davidson, Kan., are to be closed if the county attorney can do so. The yards, have been used to unload Texas cattle for the Osage and Kaw country pastures for years. After the cattle fatten upon the grass in the reservation they are shipped to market from the same point. The farmers have had much trouble caused by southern cattle breaking into native pastures and are demanding that the yards be closed. The Missouri Pacific has been operating the yards and will lose much business if they are closed. Negro Mistreats Children—While the 11-year-old daughter of John Fronke, with her 8-year-old brother, were picking berries near Atchison, a negro compelled the girl at the point of a shotgun to walk to a remote place in the woods, where he attempted to mistreat her. He compelled the boy to go along, so he would not raise the alarm. Both of the children screamed, and the negro finally ran. A few hours later a negro named John Mitchell was arrested, and he confessed to the crime. He is now in the county fail. Around Conway Springs.—A report from Conway Springs declares it difficult to make a close estimate, but it is presumed that probably not more than one-third of the wheat in that locality remains uncut, and some of that will probably never be cut, as much of it is down and it will be impossible to get in some parts of the fields with a machine in less than a week, even if it should quit raining now. Ran Prices Up.—The merchants in some of the flooded towns of Kansas took advantage of the people and tried to hold them up for higher prices on vegetables, and in fact, everything to eat. However, this only lasted for a few days until the farmers could get to town. Big Damage Suit.—L. B. Quigley, a traveling man of Concordia, who was badly injured in a wreck on the Missouri Pacific railroad, near Cawker City, several months ago, has entered suit against the company for $10,000 damages. Good Chance For Wheat.—Heavy rains at Woodston, Kans., have damaged the crops. Wheat is not ripe enough to be damaged much, and harvest will begin in a few days. The prospects are favorable for a large yield. To Prospect For Gas.—A complete drilling outfit has been unloaded at Neal, twelve miles of Eureka, and as soon as the machinery can be set up the work of prospecting for gas and oil will be begun at that place. Held Up By Railroads.—During the flood much water was held back by the Frisco and by the Wichita & Western, making it very disagreeable for residents living above these roads in Wichita. No News From Outside.—During the flood no news reached Lincoln Center from the outside world for three days. Farmers are unable to get into their fields, and wheat is suffering badly. Corn Looks Well.—The upland corn over the entire state is looking well, and the prospect is fair for a big crop. Potatoes that were not overflowed are said to be in a fine condition. Not Enough Harvesters.—Western farmers complain that so many harvest hands have gone to eastern fields that there are hardly enough left to take care of the Lane county crop. Cutting Wheat—Many upland farmers in western Kansas are trying to cut wheat, and are using headers instead of binders where possible. Bottom lands can not be entered for some days. Appointed to West Point.—Ernest E. Fisher of Leavenworth has been appointed to West Point on the recommendation of Congressman Chas. Scott. Fisher is 18 years old. Bailey at Girard.—W. J. Bailey delivered the Fourth of July address at this place. Harvest Held in Check.—The wheat harvest, now generally under way, is held in check by too much rain. During the last few days much water has fallen and cloudy weather prevailed. Fields are too soft for machines, and much of the best wheat is down or badly tangled. Black rust is doing much as a result. Much Fruit Destroyed.—During the flood of central and southern Kansas much fruit has been destroyed. Berries and grapes suffered particularly from being soaked, and much of it has been destroyed. Changed Conditions.—Only a few years ago a man would have been called on to show cause why he should longer remain on the outside, for even hinting at it, but now some papers are advocating that Kansas schools should teach the use of life savers like are used on the ocean. Growing Alarming.—Harvey county received another soaking rain. The farmers are alarmed. Rain has fallen almost every day for two weeks, and the farmers cannot get into their fields to cut the wheat, which is now rine and ready for the binder. Will Bore at Horton.—The business men of Horton have circulated a petition and raised $5,000 for the purpose or boring a prospect hole for oil, and an organization will be effected in a few days. The state geologist will visit Horton and recommend a place for the boring. Oil Field Connected.—The Chautauqua county oil field was connected this week with the Bartlesville pipe line. The district will now be able to dispease of the daily production as well as 20,000 barrels that have to be stored in tanks. Tear Out Embankments—An orderly mob of about twenty-five reputable citizens of North Topeka took a Union Pacific work train, went four miles west of town and with picks and shovels dug a ditch three feet wide and seventy-five feet long through the railroad embankment. This was done to allow the stored flood water to escape to the river instead of running through town. The "mob" then returned quietly to their homes. Another expedition was made in a similar manner against the Santa Fe tracks east of town. A gang of section men were working there, but they made no opposition to the tearing out of a section of the embankment. No Payment on Taxes.—It has been discovered by the state auditor's books that seven counties are not credited with having made any payments on their 1903 state taxes. These counties are Bourbon, Geary, Johnson, Labette, Lyon Miami and Smith. The law states that remittance must be made in January and July, but these counties made none last January. The county treasurer of Lyon county says he remitted 73 per cent of Lyon county's state taxes in January, but it does not show on the auditor's books. The state accountant is investigating the matter. Kaw Valley Potatoes Ruined—The Kaw valley potato crop will be almost a complete loss. Most of the potatoes not destroyed by the flood are rotting in the ground as a result of the heavy rains and the extremely hot weather of the past few days. Many farmers, in hopes of realizing something, have been digging during the past few days. The markets have been flooded, and potatoes are now selling for 50 cents a bushel. 13 Years County Commissioner.—B. F. Hoskinson, for thirteen years a member of the board of county commissioners, of Douglas county, resigned on account of ill health, and the board at once appointed Gus H. Brune to fill the vacancy. Potmaine Poison.—The three-year-old daughter of Albert Keran, a farmer, living near Wellsville, is dead, as the result of potmaine poisoning. The child ate a raw potato and in a short time went into spasms, from which it never recovered. Local Market Glutted.—The crop of early apples, peaches and plums in the vicinity of Sterling is very large and the market is glutted. It is estimated that thousands of bushels of these fruits will go to waste unless handled quickly. Grasshoppers in Kansas.—Grasshoppers are doing much damage to crops in Kearney and adjoining counties. The cantaloupes and sugar beet fields are damaged most, but the alfalfa seed crop will likewise be damaged. Honored Requisition.—Governor Bailey has honored a requisition issued by the governor of Nebraska for the return of Page J. Bowman and John J. Oliver, wanted at Hastings, Neb., for obtaining money under false pretenses. Reports From Sterling.—The last few days of warm dry weather have improved harvesting conditions and the farmers are busy cutting the grain. There will be 25 per cent loss on account of the wet weather. Hutchinson's First Fatality.—J. L. Rider, a husband and father of three children, was drowned while in swimming. This is Hutchinson's first flood fatality. Body Recovered.—The body of Ray Moffatt was found at Arkansas City in the water near the Arkansas City mill. The boy was drowned while swimming. Fruit Going to Waste.—Fruit is said to be going to waste in Rice county because of the lack of a market. Just Recovering.—The state of Kansas is just beginning to recover from the severest flood since 1877. In some instances it even rivaled that flood. Cut His Throat.—Joe Sematter, who has been an employee of the Missouri Pacific shops in Fort Scott for the past fifteen years, committed suicide almost severing his head from his body with a razor. For the past three weeks he has been managing the affairs of a local society and he imagined that he was suspected of misplacing nearly a hundred dollars of the society's funds. Bottom Lands Under.—The creeks about McPherson are the highest that they have been this year. The bottom lands are all under water. Outlook Never Better.—John Keifner, a resident of Garden Plain, said in Wichita that wheat will make 25 bushels per acre in the vicinity of Garden Plain, and that the general outlook was never better for all of the crops, adding that in all of the twenty years that he has lived in this part of Kansas he has never seen the wheat and corn better. Stopped by High Waters.—Work has been stopped on the Kan-Okla well at Arkansas City. The drillers have been cut off from the well by high waters. Adopted New System—The Burlington railroad has just adopted a system which the patrons of all the railroads would be glad to see generally adopted. It is the custom of all the railroads to haul private cars at the rear of trains, this shuts off the view from the observation compartments of the rear cars and has been the source of many complaints from passengers. Run Over by Cars.—R. R. McFarland, 60 years old, was killed at Bucyrus by a westbound Missouri Pacific passenger train at a crossing. HEAVY FIRING HEARD Fierce Battle May Be In Progress At Port Arthur. THE CZAR IN SOUTH RUSSIA Bids Departing Troops God-Speed,— Confers Blessing of Himself and Empress Upon Them—Journey Attended by Demonstrations. Che Foo, July 13.—There was heavy firing at Port Arthur from midnight until 3 o'clock in the morning. Moscow.—The Emperor's second journey to South Russia to speed the departing troops, has thus far been attended by demonstrations, similar to those made during his first tour. At Colomna, after holding a review, the Emperor addressed the troops, expressing his assurance that they would maintain the honor of the Russian arms. An impressive scene followed. The Emperor, who was mounted, raised aloft an ikon and the officers and men sank to their knees, while his majesty made the sign of the cross with the ikon above their bowed heads and conferred the blessing of himself and the Empress upon them. A deputy of workmen from the Mechanical works, through their spokesman, addressed the Emperor thus: "Little Father: We are happy to see you take such a personal interest in the soldiers, and we workingmen are ready to enter the ranks and shed our blood for the Emperor and the fatherland. "Graciously accept bread and salt on behalf of your loyal subjects, the workingmen." Russians Turned Back. Liao Yang, July 12-Japanese have badly cut up two companies of Russian troops. Japanese surrounded and destroyed the Russian outposts, The rest of the Russians at the posts, after a desperate struggle, cut their way through the Japanese lines, losing eighty of their men. The Japanese also lost heavily. Meat Supply For a Year. San Francisco, July 15.—The strike of eastern packing house employees will not affect the price of cured meats here, unless it should be of long duration, the supply on hand being considered equal to the demand for a year. Kaiser Will Visit Lonsdowne Berlin, July 15. It is said Emperor William will visit King Edward at the end of October, when it is expected he will pay a visit to the Earl of Lansdowne. Shrouded in Mystery. Tokio, July 13.—The Russian cruisers, Bayan, Novik and Pallada, two gunboats and seven torpedo boat destroyers came out of the harbor of Port Arthur on Saturday morning, July 9, preceded by a number of steamers engaged in clearing away mines. The Russian vessels reached a point between Sensikat and Lun Wan Tang, where they were attacked by a Japanese flotilla of torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers. Fire was exchanged with the Bayan. The Russian vessels retreated to the harbor. Admiral Togo reports that the Japanese vessels had one cabin boy slightly wounded. The vessels themselves sustained no damage. Resulted in Increase. Bloomington, Ill., July 14.—The joint meeting of Chicago and Alton officers and committees of firemen and engineers ended in the granting of an increase of $10 a month to the firemen, and improved conditions. A day's work on a switch engine was cut from twelve to ten hours. Nineteen More Found. Leith, Scotland, July 12.—Nineteen more survivors of the wrecked Danish steamer Norge, picked up from a boat by a sailing ship, have landed at Thorshavn, Faroe Islands. To Leave for the Front. Tokio, July 13.—The foreign attaches assigned to the second Japanese army have been informed that they are about to leave for the front on er about July 20. It is believed that the newspaper correspondents with the second army will leave about July 23. THE TAKING OF KAI CHOU. This Cinohes Japanese Control of the Peninsula. St. Petersburg, July 12.—The capture of Kai Cheu by the Japanese, announced from Tokyo, is not officially confirmed at the war office, but there is no disposition to question the probable correctness of the report, as the latest advices received made it plain that the Japanese were advancing in force along the railroad against the Russian position. The Emperor and his military suite who left St. Petersburg for the Volga region to bid farewell to the Fifth and Sixth army corps, may have already received General Kuropatkin's report, but the general staff has not yet received General Sakharoff's report, which usually follows Kuropatkin's at a short interval. The occupation of Kai Chou, while it is not believed that it will exercise material influence on Kuropatkin's strategy, is of importance to the Japanese, as it brings them within reach of Newchwang, facilitating General Oku's juncture with General Kuroki, who may already be in touch. The capture of Kai Chou (Kai Ping) throws the Japanese line clear across the Liao Tung peninsula and from the Yalu river to the Laio Tung gulf. Kai Chou is about twenty-five miles south of Yin Kow, the port of Newchwang, which is on the railway, and about twelve miles to the southeast of Newchwang. Golden Rule Mayor Dead. Toledo, O., July 15.—Samuel M. Jones, the "golden rule mayor," is dead, as the result of a complication of diseases. The immediate cause of his death was an abscess on his lungs. When this abscess broke, the mayor was not strong enough to throw off the poison from his system and death resulted. The mayor had suffered for years with asthma, and this was the primary cause of his fatal illness. As Recognized by Dawes Commission. Muskogee, I. T., July 15—The United States interior department has instructed the Indian agency to recognize as freedmen all citizens of the Creek nation who are enrolled as such by the Dawes commission. The fact that they have Indian blood in their veins is not to be considered when they are also descendants of freedmen. Terrible Japanese Disaster. * Both steamers were boarded * * and all their papers and mani- *ests overhauled. The vessels * were detained four hours, after * which the St. Petersburg steamed * off to the northward. Texas Fever in Oklahoma. Perry, July 13.—Texas fever is playing havoc with the cattle in the Otoe reservation and the adjoining section of Noble county, five miles north of Perry. Some time ago Texas cattle were brought in and the pasture became infested with ticks. The fever broke out a few days ago, and the cattle of a dozen farmers are dying by scores. Several farmers adjoining the reservation have been using the reservation pasture. One pasture leased and used by James Walker has 1,600 head effected, and the sheriff has them quarantined through the order of the territorial sanitary board. T. H. Province, a farmer joining the reservation, had twenty-five head in the infected pasture and when they commenced dying he drove them back home, across the line, scattering the ticks among all his neighbors. He will be prosecuted for violating the quarantine laws. The reservation line is also the quarantine line, and cattle crossing are required to be inspected. Stock Inspector Hahn is investigating the matter. Union Miner Not Guilty. Central City, Colo., July 12.—The jury in the case of Foster Milburn, a member of the Idaho Springs Miners' union, who has been on trial on the charge of complicity in the dynamiting of the Sun and Moon mine, rendered a verdict of not guilty. Sent to Reform School. Atchison, Kan., July 12—Samuel Marshall, the 15-year-old negro who assaulted the 11-year-old daughter of John Fronke, was tried, sentenced and sent to the reform school at Tonek Work and Prayer. Praying for things and working for them brings results. Work brings results which are at least satisfactory, for prayer may be answered in a way that is unexpected. Y. M. C. A.'s Deserved Success. When the Y. M. C. A. was started on June 6, 1844, it had twelve members and its weekly expenditure amounted to sixty cents. Now it owns buildings valued at over $30,000,000, and has a membership well over 500,000. Leather From Fish Skln. An extremely fine quality of green leather, made in Turkey, is manufactured from the skin of an angel fish Protects Nests From Floods. In the Bahama islands the flamingo builds their nests of mud so high that the rising tide will not flood the eggs. Make Yourself Felt. Let your education be so broad and thorough that, whether you paint pictures, write books, sell merchandise, make contracts, or cultivate land, you will make yourself felt in your community as an all-around man of broad ideas and general culture.-Success. Well Answered. "What's that you have in your hand, Henry?" asked Mrs. Pry, as he brought home a roll of manuscript. "Brains, my dear," replied Mr. Pry, pompously. "Are you surprised at the fact?" "Not in the least," she retorted; "I knew you didn't carry them in your head." Horsemen's Kindergarten "The men who are training the horses must be strict, and at the same time, kind to them, and under no circumstances must they be played with. It is also not advisable to encourage the horse with sugar, carrots, etc." is an order issued to the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Cane Sugar is in Demand. While the production of beet sugar has decreased about 13 per cent during the last two years, or from 6,760,900 metric tons to 5,900,000 metric tons, that of cane sugar has increased during the same period from 4,063,000 metric tons to 4,437,800 metric tons, or about 9½ per cent. Many Rubber Producers. Most Americans have an idea that rubber is a product like wheat or corn, to be obtained from a given tree. The idea is quite erroneous. It has been estimated that 1,000 different species contain rubber, though commercial qualities have been obtained from only forty or fifty. Leprosy Among Fish Eaters Statistics are quoted showing that while in India the average occurrence of leprosy is three of four cases per 10,000 of population, in the island of Minicoy, in the Indian ocean, whose inhabitants are devoted to fishing, it rises to 150; and at Kallgoan, a fish-curing center, it amounts to 500.→ Harper's Weekly. Danced for Joy. Not many famous persons have the faculty for friendship in old age as Lord Beaconsfield had it. His passion for mastery, his addiction to mystery were rivaled by his immense faithfulness. While he was at Glasgow to be inaugurated lord rector of the university he heard good tidings of an old associate. "Mrs. Disraeli and I," he wrote, "were overjoyed and we danced a highland fling in our nightgowns." WRONG TRACK Had To Switch. Even the most careful person is apt to get on the wrong track regarding food sometimes and has to switch over. When the right food is selected the host of alls that come from improper food and drink disappear, even where the trouble has been of lifelong standing. "From a child I was never strong and had a capricious appetite and I was allowed to eat whatever I fancied—rich cake, highly seasoned food, hot biscuit, etc.—so it was not surprising that my digestion was soon out of order and at the age of twenty-three I was on the verge of nervous prostration. I had no appetite and as I had been losing strength (because I didn't get nourishment in my daily food to repair the wear and tear on body and brain) I had no reserve force to fall back on, lost flesh rapidly and no medicine helped me. "Then it was a wise physician ordered Grape-Nuts and cream and saw to it that I gave this food (new to me) a proper trial and it showed he knew what he was about, because I got better by bounds from the very first. That was in the summer and by winter I was in better health than ever before in my life, had gained in flesh and weight and felt like a new person altogether in mind as well as body, all due to nourishing and completely digestible food, Grape-Nuts. "This happened three years ago and never since then have I had any but perfect health, for I stek to my Grape-Nuts food and cream and still think it delicious. I eat it every day. I never tire of this food and I can enjoy a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream when nothing else satisfies my appetite and it's surprising how sustained and strong a small saucerful will make one feel for hours." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. True food that carries one along and "there's a reason." Grape-Nuts 10 days proves big things. Get the little book, "The Road to Welville," in any pkg. WHEN you visit the World's Fair app at St. Gettys City—hotel or furnished cabochage—Coop and Cory Rooms—Capacity 600—First class hotel accommodations—One block from Olive St. World's Fair Car and main entrance—Beautiful view of the grounds and its grand illumination. $1.00 per day and up. Address. MERCHANT'S COFFEE CO. 5689 Waterman Ave., St. Louis. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 232-page enclosure on Piles, Fribell and Diseases of the Nectum; also 100-page illus. treaties on Diseases of Nectum. Of the Nectum provided by our mild method, anna paid a cent tilt-cured to furnish their names on an application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 3000 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1000 Oak St, Kanaa City, Mo. Pauper's Unique Complaint. "Ever since I have been washed I have not been warm," complained a pauper to a member of an English board of guardians the other day. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. Record for Railway Crowding. Twenty-five persons recently traveled in a single carriage in the London, Tilbury and South End railroad. WELL WORTH SEEING One of the most interesting exhibits among the many of all kinds at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis is that of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn., manufacturers of repeating rifles and shotguns and all kinds of ammunition. The exhibit was in readiness and was opened on the first day of the fair, a fact that clearly demonstrates the methods of the company behind it. It is the aim of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to show at their exhibit the high development which they have reached in the making of guns and ammunition, and one needs only to see the exhibit to realize show near to perfection that development has come. There can be seen the new automatic repeating rifle, all kinds of shotguns, the modern smokeless powder shotgun and the modern rifle, all of which is fact that that can interest the devotees of hunting and trap and target shooting. Don't fail to see the exhibit at the Manufacturers and Fish and Game Buildings. It's well worth your while. Keynote to Success Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Be anything else, and failure is certain. 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 iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. Peculiar Species of Bean. A certain species of bean in China and Japan grows a yard long. Efforts to introduce it into this country have failed. NEW PENSION LAWS GENT FREE Apply to NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F St., Washington, D. C. WHERRETT'S CHIGGER CURE CURES CHIGGER & MOSQUITO BITES At Drugstores or Mail 25s. The O. E. WHERRETT CO., Ackison, Kans. Early in the morning, late at night, or whenever used, Defiance Starch will be found always the same, always the best. Insist on having it, the most for your money. Satisfaction or money back guaranteed. It is manufactured under the latest improved conditions. It is up-to-date. It is the best. We give no premiums. We sell 16 ounces of the best starch made for 10 cents. Other brands are 12 ounces for 10 cents with a tin whistle. Manufactured by THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. Cottage City World's Fair St. Louis PATENTS PATENT $14.99 NO MONEY We send FREE and peepaj Receipt; also 400-page ili our mild method, none pa DRS. THORNTON When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarh of the stomach. Man Should be Vegetarian. Man's structure, compared with that of other animals, indicates that fruits and esculent vegetables are his natural food. The man-like apes live exclusively upon fruits, nuts and green leaves. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bear the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Prefer to Risk Lives. Only one person in five uses the tunnel built in London for crossing the street near the Bank of England. The others prefer to take their chances among the horses and other vehicles. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Floating Theater the Latest: A floating theater, with restaurant, refreshment bars and seats for 2,000 persons, is being built in Amsterdam. It will be towed up by the Rhine and Italian operas performed in it at river-side towns. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. THOS. ROBBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Police to Rescue of Dog. Some malicious person threw a dog worth about $25, into a disused coat pit, 120 feet deep, at Sparrow's Forge, Wednesbury, England. It was rescued by the police, who lowered a basket to the animal. The well earned reputation and increasing popularity of the Lewis' "Simple Binder," straight 56 cigar, is due to the maintained high quality and appreciation of the smoker. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Equalization of Railroads. If the world's railroads were equally distributed over the eaarth's surface no one would be more than seven miles from some line. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Man's Highest Virtue. Man's highest virtue is always as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.—Goethe. This Will Interest Mothers Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the bowels and destroy Worms, Seld by all Drummists, 25c. Sample FREE Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy N.Y. Advocates Frugal Dinner. Dr. Robertson Wallace says that a little soup, a morsel of meat and vegetables, or a piece of fish, a sweet, and a bit of cheese is dinner enough to keep a man in health. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 88. FRANK J. CHENEY makes out that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the 'City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of $100,000 for each case of CATARRN that it cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRN CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY Sworn to before me and submitted in my presence, this 6th day of December. A. D. BEAL BEAL A. W. GLEASON, NOTARY PUBLIC Hall's Catarch Care is taken internally and acts as a conduit to numerous surfaces of the system. Send for testimony. F. J. CHEY 'W' & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Dr. Chesley. Take Hall's Family Plans for constipation. Sunflowers Make Good Fuel. Sunflowers make good fuel. The stalks when dry are as hard as wood, and make a good fire, and the seed-heads with the seeds in them, burn better than coal. Is It Not Worth While If you travel, on business or pleasure, 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 Chautauqua Lake Region; also Cambridge Springs. Would Gamble With Mayor. On being sentenced to seven days' hard labor at the workhouse for being drunk, a Lowestoff (England) man took a coin from his pocket and offered to toss, the mayor whether it should be fourteen days or nothing. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? Ribbon for Life Savers. The ribbon of the French Legion of Honor was recently bestowed by Admiral Duperre on a sailor who, in connection with the lifeboat service, had saved 348 lives in thirty-five years. you visit the World's Fair shop at St. Gettysburg City Hotel or Admiral Duperre on a sailor who, in connection with the lifeboat service, had saved 348 lives in thirty-five years. FREDERICK G. FISCHER PATENT LAWYER & SOLICITOR OF U.S. & FOREIGN PATENTS. FREE BOOK ON PATENTS, TRADE-MARKS, ETC. 314 to 317 Junction Bld., Kansas City, Mo. HEY TILL CURED. 27 TEARS ESTABLISHED. postpaid at 232-page treatise on Piles, Fibres and Diseases of the lungs and heart. the prices are for the year and are paid a sentil lirrued. you furnish their names on application. INTON & MINOR. 2000 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1050 Oak St, Kansas City, Mo. PISO S. CURE FOR CHICKEN WHENE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best for Chicken Meat. Use in time. Sold by drugrate CONSUMPTION TICKLE GRASS BY BYRON WILLIAMS June. A burst of blue, your eyes and you; The sunlight and a cloud or two; The birds, the bees the waving trees; The shadows racing o'er the leas— And you! Money. Money was made to be subservient to man. To-day man is subservient to money. The love of money has lost man honor and woman virtue. It has instigated murder and propagated living deaths. There are no depths so deep that greed will not sink to their levels for gain. Let us beware, then, lest our love of Mammon lead us away from our better and truer spenders into ignominy and disgrace. Money, once upon a time, made the mare go, but modern spenders exchange it for gasoline. Every man that has much money scoffs at its value—but he keeps the money. A New York scientist says the human body completely returns to dust and is renewed, atom by atom, once every year. That accounts for the divorces. A man marries an angel and finds, in a year, she has changed to a Xantippe. Can anything be plainer? According to a Missouri paper, a young man of that vicinity recently asked a girl to marry him. She replied: "I will ask you to wait a few days for my answer; but don't you make any other arrangements until you see me again." GOT A HATE ON MOTHER! Zilson If Time were a man would it wait for woman? Macomb (Ill.) Bystander—A Russian nobleman has married a Chicago girl whose pictures look like one of the Bystander girls. Every once in a while some handsome and worthy young fellow comes along and takes one of the Bystander girls and goes to housekeeping with her, but we draw the line on foreign noblemen. If ever one comes fooling around this office we will have the office boy kick him clear across the public square. This is too good to get away, and besides we cannot write all the jokes and run a kitten-britches factory, too: In New York the other day some boys espied this sign in the window of a tailor shop: : Twenty-five Dollars Reward : : Will Be Paid for any Dam- : age to This Property. They promptly broke all the glass in sight. Make a kow-tow to Johnny Murphy, the Chicago newsboy. Recently in Chicago John became the "champeen" "poiper" seller in "de ento'e wold," hawking 1,160 "uxtries" in two and half hours at the corner of State and Madison streets. He defeated "Noodles," the record breaker of New York, by almost 300 papers. Johnny Murphy is a product of Chicago's newsboys' Alley. Hall to the king! It is needless to say that this is from a Kansas exchange: "The Wiehita Eagle tells of a tuberculosis young man who had but one lung, but who now has three. He married the other two. One can acquire almost any desired quantity of anything by living in Kansas." An editor, a country editor, of course, came home the other night and told his wife he had seen a butterfly with a garter-snake in its mouth! This was the first inking the wife had ever received that he was "hitting" the gasoline can. The editor has since signed the pledge. The theater managers of New York City have abolished all window lithographs, banners and "snipie" posters. New York is therefore a much neater looking city. There is plenty of room in the newspapers for advertising. "Why is a hen unlike an editor?" asks an exchange. We give it up, unless it's because she has wings while the editor has to get along in his shirt sleeves! What's the joke? A cheering smile from the woman he loves will do more of a morning to bolster a man against the knocks of business than quarts of spring tonic. 1000 Dyspeptics to 1 Drunkard In civilized society there are one thousand dyspeptics to one drunkard. This host would be cut off at once if only pure, cleanly, nourishing food were eaten. Dyspeptics are made by the use of impure, uncooked, improperly prepared foods. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE GELERY FOOD is absolutely pure, clean and contains only the necessary substances that the system demands for strength, health and comfort. Carefully and conscientiously prepared by a physician and chemist of forty years' experience. Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO., Food Mills, BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Main Offices, CHICAGO. Imitation Furs. The skin of the muskrat or musquash makes a much more durable and richer looking fur, and from it imitation Alaska sable coats frequently are made. Rabbit skins also are used after a complicated treatment in the manufacture of imitation chinchilla. No wonder there is such a difference in the chinchilla furs. Hardy Japanese Soldiers. According to M. Pichon, the Japanese soldier has muscles like whippercord, is a sure shot, has an eye for landmarks and a memory for locality. He can do with three hours' sleep out of the twenty-four, is cleanly, attends to sanitary instructions and is ardently patriotic. He costs the state about nine cents a day, and thinks himself well off. Up-to-Date Bricks. Bricks are now being made of clean sand and ground quicklime that are said to be as substantial as granite. They cost $2.50 a thousand. The mixed ingredients are forced into a strong steel cylinder mold by means of a screw. After the air has been sucked from the cylinder, hot water is admitted, the rock being formed by the resulting pressure and heat.—Country Life in America. SAVED CHILD'S LIFE. Remarkable Cure of Dropy by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Sedgwick, Ark., July 11.-The case of W. S. Taylor's little son is looked upon by those interested in medical matters as one of the most wonderful on record. In this connection his father makes the following statement: "Last September, my little boy had Dropys; his feet and limbs were swollen to such an extent that he could not walk nor put his shoes on. The treatment that the doctors were giving him seemed to do him no good and two or three people said his days were short, even the doctors, two of the best in the country told me he would not get better. I stopped their medicine and at once sent for Dodd's Kidney Pills. I gave him three Pills a day, one morning, noon and night for eight days; at the end of the eighth day the swelling was all gone, but to give the medicine justice, I gave him eleven more Pills." I used thirty-five Pills in all and he was entirely cured. I consider your medicine saved my child's life. When the thirty-five Pills were given him, he could run, dance and sing, whereas before he was an invalid in his mother's arms from morning until night." No Thought of Wrong. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong—Emerson. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Do Your Feet Aile 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, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Health and Hope. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.—Arabian Proverbs. Do You Want the Lowest Rates either one-way or round-trip excursion, to any point east of Chicago or St. Louis? Ask the Erie Railroad Company, 555 Railway Exchange, Chicago, for complete information. Three fast trains daily from Chicago and St. Louis through to New York, Boston Buffalo, Pittsburgh and other eastern points. Stop-over without charge at Niagara Falls, Cambridge Springs and Beautiful Chauauqua Lake. A man is in luck if he doesn't get turned down while waiting for something to turn up. Saloona fer Women. In some parts of Berlin there are special saloons for women. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. The cucumber is of tropical origin. This may explain why it usually hits people in the vicinity of the equator. The World's Famous Catarrh Remedy Should Be in Every Home. Peru-na Contains No Narcotics. One reason why Peru-na has found permanent use in so many homes is that it contains no narcotics of any kind. Peru-na is perfectly harmless. It can be used any length of time without acquiring the drug habit. DEFIANCE STARCH 16 OZ. 10CTS. It is the purest, cleanest starch made. It is free of injurious chemicals. It can be used where ordinarily you would be afraid to use starch of any kind. That's Defiance. Your grocer sells it. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO. OMAHA, NEB. Ask your dealer for the Marbleid Tank and Flood Valves, the valve that opens all the way around. If your dealer cannot supply you write a letter to his name and address and we will send you sample. Kettler Brass Mfg. Co. Dallas, Texas. Wiggle-Stick Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot cleathes. Costs 10c, and equals 20c, worth of any other bluing. THE BAISY FLY KILLER destroys all the files and affords comfort to every home in dining-room, sleeping-room, and file areas are trouble-free. Clean, neat, and safe in jars anything. Try them once and you will never have without them. Floor without them. Foot without them. Sent prepaid for $5. HAROLD SOMERES, 111 W. 10th St. Brooklyn, N. Y. COWHIDE OVERALLS UNION THE MADE STANDARD PANTS BRAND OVERALLS WEAR LIKE LEATHER Ask Your Dealer for Cowhide Overalls. Made by Standard Mfg. Co. Kansas City, Mo. W. N. U.-WICHITA-No. 29, 1904. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. 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 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, number and mineral resources, towns schools and churches, opportunities for business openings, railway rates, etc., free on application. W. D. KNISKERR, Passenger Traffic Manager, CHICAGO, ILL. NW205