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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MON BIG LABOR DAY EVE GIVEN BY THE IMPERIAL SOCIAL CLUB Odd Fell Monday Night This will be the season's wait For It. The Time J.B.H.F Negro Revolut producing. - This will be the crowning event the season's numbers. ducing. - Greatest Ever invention of a Negro in St. Mc., will probably revoke the heating system of wild in a few years. Scientien who haqe seen it believe a few years the producheat by combustion will ring of the past, and that course of time, as improve are made upon the invental and wood will no longsed for heating purposes. invention is that of Chas. Baker, and it has been deated that it will produce enough to warm the largest age in St. Joe in the coldest air, without the use of coal. The heat is produced by Baker first told his friends months ago, that enough old did be produced by friction at the St. Joe court house coldest day of the winter, believed to be insane. he ends pitied him because of such mild fancies and it only a question of time he would have to be re-to an asylum. But Baker far from being insane. He been at work 20 years on a of his own that heat could be reduced by friction. He had a small machine and had used himself that it could Nobody else had been used at this time, however. He then Baker has built a one that produces enough friction to wafm one of greatest buildings in St. Joe. He has been installed in the center of the First National building and thousands of have witnessed its wonder life and have been forced with that Baker has solved problem of heating without question. s invention consists of a 6TH YEAR. ow Hall ight Sept. 5th crowning event numbers. Don't Miss It. of Times. ray, Manager Inventor ionize Heat Greatest Ever steel tube surrounded by a jacket and inside of the tube a wooden roller cut into four triangular sections and arranged about a steel shaft. The wooden roller is five inches in diameter, and the inside of the tube in which it run is six inches in diameter. The water chambers outside of the tube is ten inches in diameter, leaving four inches in the water cylinder The model is about 3 feet long. It is to be understood that the model will cot do the work that a larger machine will do, but Baker has demonstrated that the water in this boiler can be heated by friction sufficiently to produce as much steam as can be produced by any other heat. A two horse power motor is now used to operate the machine and the tests have shown that at a speed of 700 revolutions it will heat 990 gallons to a temperature of 160 degrees in 55 minutes. At the rate of 700 revolutions steam is produced in five minute from the instant the machine is started, and nuring the next 45 minutes steam is made at the rate of a pound a minute From teat time on there is a gain of ten pounds of steam every 3 minutes. It has been shown that the machine will produce the wonderful gain of 200 pounds of steam an hour. Many scientific men and expert machinist have seen Baker's invention and unite in saying it is one of the mott wonderful the world has ever seen. They predict that in the future it will be universally used to heat buildings, railroad and street cars. Although it has not been explained on a reasonable theory, yet it is a fact that the wooden roller by which this heat is produced is not burned in the least, and after nine month's use does showthe wear. Th on WICHITA, KANSAS, SEPT 3, 1904. ory advanced in explanation of this is that a cushion of air forms between the wooden roller and the tube prevents the heating of the roller and wear that would naturally follow wh'n it is turned at such a high rate of speed. Wonderful invention. Militia to Face Court-martial Savanah, Ga., Aug. 30-The court of enquiry investigating the conduct of the state troops at Statesboro will undoubtedly recommend to the Governor that Capt. Robt M. Hitch, Lieut. Geo A. Mell, and other officers shall be courtmartialed. Governor Terell, who is already about convinced that the officers neglected their duty, would certainly act on such a recommendation from the court of inquiry, so there is a rathr general feeling that there will be a court martial. I3 is also believed that sheriff Kendricks of Bulloch county will be removed frvm office by the Governor in view of the sheriff's cennivance with the mob. Officers Are Implicated It has been clearly shown by the evidence of several soldiers that the sheriff opened the door to the guard room, and, declaring that he acted upon the authority of Capt. Hitch, pointed out Cato and Reed to the lynchers and told them to take the cowering Negroes. Two sergeants on guard in the room asserts that the sheriff told them he had seen Capt. Hitch and that the later had said for them to give up the prisoners. Others corroborate the testimony of the sergeants. Some twenty witnesses have been examined up till now. It has been proeen that orders were issued to a squad here and there to come to the assistance of their struggling comrades, and that only two or three of the six or eight men so ordered responded. The men who led the mob, none of whom were masked, are uneasy as to what may be in store for them. The Governor has asked the grand jury and solicitor general to probe the lhching and punish the participants. The post office at Indianola, Miss., has been reduced from a Presidential office to the fourth class. It figured conspicuously in a race trouble last year when Mrs. Minnie Cox, the colored postmistress, was threatened with death by a mob of chivalrous Southern white bullies, if she did not resign. In fear of her life, she resigned and left Indianola and the post office was closed for several months, which resulted in the loss of much business that the post office department was oblidged to reduce it. Ex 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. DIAMONDS and HEARTS Presented To A Large Audience And Everyone Pronounced The Play As Good. Many Compliments For The Entire Company. The finest production ever produced by local Wichita talent was that presented by the company which produced "Diamonds and Hearts" at Garfield hall on Wednesday night, Aug. 24th. The company had produced the same play at a previous engagement, but all who witnessed the first play and also the second, declared the later production far superior to the first. The performance was carried off without a hitch, and it seemed more like reality than like a dramatic play. Bernice Halsteae, a young lady of 18, with an affection of the heart, and a love for fun and a hatred of arithmetic, was very charmingly played by Mrs. Ida B. Clark; while Amy Halstead, her sister, and two years younger, fond of frolic, was championed by Mrs. Lela Davis; the roll of Inez Gray, a young iady visitor, willing to share in the run, was idealized by Mrs. Mary Carr For the very important part of Mrs. Halstead, a widow, and step mother of the Halstead girls, was very dramatically played by Mrs Dudley Johnson, who proved that no better selection could have been made for this part. The part of Hannah Mary Barnes, or "sis", a maiden who keeps house for her brother, was the part of Mrs. J. W. Thompson and the ease with which she carried it out added splendor to the play. Next came the villian of the play, Dwight Bradley, a fortune hunter and Mrs. Halstead's son by a former marriage which was performed in true villian style by W. A. Wright. Dr. Burton was the part of Dr. Washington But say, there was Sammy, the darky bell boy in the Halstead house, which was the part of Geo Patton, who kept the audience in an uproar of laughter. Yes, Abraham Barnes, a yankee farmer, 40-still unmarried—a diamond in the rough, was there and was much in evidence, too. Of course this part was played by Edward Landrum and in a way distinctive of Edward's style with a vim and push which make things lively. The part of Attorney to the Halstead's was carried out without a hitch by J. W. Thompson. Sheriff was the part of Will Clark. Many Trace Ancestry to Queen. Mary, queen of Scots, although she left, but one child, has descendants in every court in Europe. Children Early Learn to Walk. Nearly ten per cent. of children learn to walk by the time they are 10 months old. New Reach Extreme Old Age. Insurance tables show that one German in 100,000 lives to be 100 years old. ```markdown ``` Fresh Pork Trimmings 2c Per Pound Buy your Fresh and salt Meats at the cacking House market and save money Remember the place-Market at the gate of DOLD Packing House. T. O. S. C. Club They Royally Entertain Visitors At Garfield Hall On Friday Night, Aug. 26th '04 The Season's Most Up-to-Date Affair - Much Credit Due There is no doubt that the reception given by the members of the T. O. S. Club at Garfield hall Friday night, Aug. 26th, was one of the swellest affairs of the season and undoubtedly was one of the most up to-date affairs that has ever been given in Wichita by any society or individual. The club which is composed of young people is one of the most elite of the city—and their reception on Friday night marks them as entertainers of the highest type. The doors were opened at 8 pm and Messers Frank Street, Thom Anderson, M. J. Staraes, Chas. Price and Sam Walker were at the door to welcome the guests as they arrived. The hall was beautifully and tastefully decorated, while each member wore long streamers of ribbons in three colors-the club colors-- When the guests had fairly arrived Miss Corine Miller took her place at the piano and filled the hall with charming music and those who delight in the light fantastic touch were at their best, while others engaged in cards, checkers and other games of amusement. For enjoyment and a high class reception this one stands alone. At a proper time a dainty lunch was served to the many guests. There was about eighty invited guests and club members present during the evening. The millionaire may smoke only dollar cigars himself, but he has to smell the five-cent cigars that other men are smoking. Now, if King Edward would start a fad for wearing trousers bagged at the knees some men would consider him a real benefactor. A French scientist has given a learned and plausible explanation of kleptomania. Now will somebody discover that he plagiarized it? While it is a mean trick to rob a defenseless slot machine, a short-tempered man frequently is sorely tempted to throw things at one. A Kentucky business man has used the same steel pen continually for 14 years. That's the sort of pen that is mightier than Kuropatkin's sword. Being fined $17.60 for over-speeding his automobile bothers Reginald G. Vanderbilt a good deal less than another mosquito bite would bother you. Don't be too harsh in your judgment of the sultan. He has his troubles. How would you like to sleep in a bomb-proof room in the summer time? NO 18 Tressa's creased at the side will fill a long felt want for bandy-legged men. Because a woman is a nice wife is no sign she is going to be that kind of mother-in-law. Anybody can afford to buy an automobile, but few of us have money enough to pay the repair bills. The first wireless dispatch has been sent from Nome city in Alaska, and it isn't a hard-luck story, either. According to a feminine expert the average woman's idea of being real devilish is to order broiled live lobster. The wicked generally get what they deserve in this world, but not always what their contemporaries think they deserve. A Boston doctor states that common soda is "as good as whisky ter snake bites." Of course he meant "as effective." Russell is 88, and working harder than ever. Uncle Russell should learn to control that inordinate appetite of his. A New Jersey professor has resigned his position to go on the police force. Means to hitch his wagon to a star, evidently. There is said to be a shortage in the broomcorn crop this year. Evidently the broom handles will have to be made longer. That Washington goat that is "charged with swallowing two sticks of dynamite" should be able to make a strong rebutter. Doubtless the Harlem woman who soothes and sustains eight cats has a kind heart, but lacks neighbors prepared to swear to this. Edward Atkinson has not reached the summit of happiness unless he has learned to expel smoke through his nose and blow rings. News from the far East says Japan's mosquito fleet is busy. New Jersey's mosquito fleet is also in action, and invariably puts the enemy to rout. The prize monkey at the Philadelphia zoo is learning to write. It is expected to fit him eventually for a place as society reporter at Newport. The technical journals tell us that "alcohol made from sawdust is already a commercial success." It seems almost impossible to fail to sell alcohol. Somebody has discovered that there are no red-headed dolls. Like the taste for olives, the admiration for red hair seems to be the result of cultivation. "By the way," asks the Boston Globe, "what's the duty on Guatemala ants? Do they come under the head of farming utensils?" Wild animals, more likely. Harry Lehr overlooked the chance of a lifetime while the Igorrotes were visiting President Roosevelt in not securing their attendance at a "dog dinner" in Newport. American soda fountains are being introduced in England. Gradually that country is advancing. The time may even come when they will be eating corn on the cob in England. THE SEARCHLIGHT. OCHITA, KANS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15c Advertising Rates Made Known On Applica- tion. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for publici tion must be signed by the par- tier parties writing. 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First Publication July 30th 1904 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 20 Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Kansas, Relating to the Election of STATE PRINTER Be it resolved by the Legislature of the state of Kansas, two—third of the members elected to each house concerning therein: SECTION 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Kanas is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection. Section 4, article 15, of the constitution to be amended so as to read as follows; "All public printing to be done by the state printer who shall be elected by the people at the election held for state officers in November, 1906, and every two years thereafter, at the election held for state officers, and shall hold his office for two years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. Sec. 2. This proposition shall be submit—ted to the electors of the state at the general election of representatives to the Legislature in the year A. D. 1904, for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall be designated on the official ballot: "An amendment relating to the election of a state printer." And shall be voted for or against, as provided by law under state statutes, Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute—book. Pessed the Senate February 12, 1903. Passed the House February 19, 1903. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of original Senate concurrent resolution No. 20, now on file in my office. J. R. BURKOW, secretary of state. PUEBLO, COLO., NEWS C. Y. Payne of Albion, I. l., who has been visiting his aunt Mrs. J. T. Milton went to Kansas City lasti week. Prof. Carter of Topeka industrial institute is in the city. The memorial services of Miss Jennie Huddlestoe was held Sun day at the 8th st Baptist church, The annual reunion and three days feast in the wilderness given at St. Johns A. M. E. church was a grand success. Miss Gertrude North, of Winfield spent a few days in the city this week. GRAND RECEPTION On Thursday evening at the residence of Mrs. Bass—in honor of Miss Cassie Bass and Eugene Holingsworth of Langston Univeasity. The guests were grandly entertained. Through the efforts of Mr. J. J. Richardson, Supt. of School building, S. W. Lea has been appointed janitor of the Park school. This is a good appointment as S. W. Lea has always been faithful. Benjamin Wilson, one of the old est, most prominent and highly respected Masons in Wichita was striken with paralysis Thursday, Aug 25th. His whole left side from the base of the brain to the sole of his left foot was rendered helpless. After having been stricken he walked to his home 1926 S. Mead which showed his wonderful vitality. At last account he was resting as easy as could be expected. Mrs. H. F. Frazier spent several days in the city last week as the guest of Mrs. J. H. Van Leu. An excursion came down from K. C. Sunday and flooded the city with visitors. The time of times, the grandest time, the only time, at Odd Fellow hall Monday night, Sept. 5th. A lawn social was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Whitted, 509 N. Water, Friday eve Aug. 26th in honor of the visiting Masons. A large crowd attended. Come out Monday night and have an enjoyable time. I. J. Perler has retrained from Topeka where he cooked during the encampment of the state militia. What reason can be put forth why the colored people ought not have a place in the office of the Probate Judge and that of the County Clerk? Can it be truthfully said that there can be found no colored person, man or woman, boy or girl, who is competent to fill either or both of these places? We think not, for we have them by the score who are fully competent and capable to fill these places—it is not that—if the race is not given representation in the offices it will not be because there can be found no colored person to fill the bill—but it is because the gentlemen who aspire to be elected to the office of Probate Judge and that of County Clerk are not favorable to having a colored person in their offices. If the republican candidate for these two offices are elected—if they are—their only hope to slide in a fat salried position is through and by the colored man's vote. They agree that the colored man is good enough to vote for them—but will they say that the coiled man is good enough to be appointed to a ceremonial position. This political apportionment has too long been a one-sided affair—the politicians have too long expected that the colored man can feed his family, cloth and educate them off the political declaration of "friendship" - this has been tried and the colored man has found that it don't work and now he comes forth as a citizen and as a man and asks for a part of the spoils of the victor. Mesdames S. E. Patton and Jas. L. Hasper entertained a musicab Friday morning at 10 o'e complimentary to some of the visiting ladies to the grand session. Quite a nice program was rendered as follows:—Inst solo Miss Bertha Tipton Duett Mesdames Harper and Patton, Inst solo Miss Sallie Rawles, Remarks Mrs. Thos. Clover, music Miss Pearl McNeal. Dainty refreshments were served and each lady was presented with an aster. Those presen were: Misses Pearl McNeal, Topeka, Smothers, Ark. City, Jones Okla. B Tipton, Emporia, Sallie Rawles, cit. Mesdames J Wright, Topeka, I Gross, Rmey, Mason, Newton, Banks, Denver, J G Gain, T Glover, A Adams, H W James W H Jones, A T Glover, S Jones J T Chinneth, W Kennedy, E Lardrum, P Johnson, M E Cair, W A Bettis, L Anderson, E Hathman. Read the great Searchlight The Race's standard Bearer Joe Bowman is reported much worse. Rev. J. H. Van Leu arrived in the city Tuesday. Henry Buckner of Topeka attend ed the T. O. S. C. banquet. Miss Nicholson of Gurthrie, visited Miss D. Hyder last week. Miss Maria Stevenson was a visitor last guest of the T O S C. Clarence and Ocran Riskman spent last week in the city. Rev. Organ Davis left Saturday night for his home in Kansas City. The Big Labor Day Event at the Odd Fellow Hall. Monday night Sept. 5th will be a hummer. Mr. Neil Pierce of Pittsburg, Kas left Sunday at noon for his home. He speaks in glowing terms of the hospitality of Wichita and the entertaining ability of her people. The Imperial Club desires your presence at Odd Fellow hall, Monday night, Sept 5th. Miss Helen Griffin of K O was down on the excursion Sunday. Miss Bertha TiPton is visiting with Miss Sallie Rawles. Miss Lucy Park, of Ponca City, was the guest of her cousin Lula E. Parks last week. Miss Maud Jones, of Kingfisher visited with her sister Mrs. W. Kennedy. Miss Cordelia Seymore of K. C. was the guest of Miss S. Rawles. The Second Baptist church gave a picnic Wednesday at Pindlay's grove. H. H. Buckner of Topeka has been visiting in the city. Prof. G. A. Cregg has been in the city several days in the interest of Western University Quindare, Kansas. Miss Mattie Lewis, formerly of this city, but now of Kansas City, was a visitor Sunday. Mrs. Taylor Reed of Topeka who has been visiting with Mrs. S. W. Jones returned to her home Monday. Mrs. M. Oldham and Miss Fannie Andrews of Arkansas City were visitors in the city last week. Jas. Gross, wife and son Carl of Newton were the guests of S. E. Patton and wife last week. Work has begun on the modern cottage being built by Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Fines in the 1800 block on South Mosley. They hope to occupy their new home Oct. 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson en- ttained at dinner Friday a party composed of J. M. Wright and wife, and Miss Pearl McNeal of Topeka, and Jas. Grees and wife Newton. Eight girls will contest for a si- ver medal at the Odd Fellows hall Tuesday night Sept. 6. Proceeds for the benefit of the A. M. H. church. Supt. Miss Martha V. Hath away. Mrs. A. Saundess entertained Mrs. Wilson and daughter Alice last Sunday. Those present were: Mesdames Geo, Orr, E. Thompson, O. Rambolt, A. Saunders, A Wilson Messrs Hencher and Orr, Misses Alice Thompson, Lula Thompson, Alice Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wright and Miss McNeal, of Topeka, spent the later part of last week in the city and were the guests of honor at a card party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mathman 909 North Water st. Saturday night. They departed Sunday night for home. The contest for the gold watch comes off Sept. 18th. It's pull for pull and it's hard to say who will be the winner. Some say Ben Pembleton will win for he is hurrying up things—but he would feel bad if Mrs. Robt Braden, Stewart Waters or Bud Hickerson would one of them wear the watch away. Rev. Organ Davis left Saturday night for his home in Kansas City. The Big Labor Day Event at the Odd Fellow Hall. Monday night, Sept. 5th will be a hammer. Mr. Neil Pierce of Pittsburg, Kas left Sunday at noon for his home. He speaks in glowing terms of the hospitality of Wichita and the entertaining ability of her people. The Imperial Club desires your presence at Odd Fellow hall, Monday night, Sept 5th. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson entertained for breakfast Sundy morning Mr. Neil Pierce of Pittsburg, and Miss Helen Griffin of K C. Mrs. Lee Anderson and sister, Lizzie Phelps left Monday morning on a camping party. Mrs. J. E. Lewis has returned from Chikasaka, I. T., where she spent several days visiting her parents. Miss S. Rowles entertained at dinner Sunday Miss B. Tipten and Miss Maude Jones and Miss Cordelia Seymore. Mrs. Lela Davis entertained on Monday evening in honor of Miss Maud Jones. Officer Jeff Thompson is causing his house at 539 N. Wichita to be remodeled, repaired and re-built. He will have a cozy home when completed. William Dunson expects to close a contract to do much painting and paper hanging in the Indian Territory. Should he close the deal it will take him from Wichita for at least two months. Offices Syl Anderson is having his house at 1218 N. Main street, remodeled, repaired and enlarged. When competed it will be one of the most modern cottages in the city and will make an ideal home. Benjamin Wilson who was swick en with paralysis last Thursday died at his home 1928 S. Mead. He was a member of Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, A. F.' & A. M. and leaves a wife end many warm frien s to mourn his departure. Mrs. S. E. Patton entertained at breakfast Friday morning of last week at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Harper in honor of Mrs. J. M. Wright of Topeka, Mrs. Jas Gross Newton, Misses Berth, Tipton Emporia, Eva Smothers, Arkansas City, McNeal Topeka, Maud Jones Kingfisher. With the rendition of several musical selections the dainty luncheen served was a most delightful affair. The favors were China asters. Among the invited guests were Mesdames Chinneth, Laudrum, S. W. Jones, L. Anderson, Kennedy, Barker, James Glover, Hathmon, Carr, Bettia, W. H. Jones, Gaines, Harper. Why Don't You RIDE Good Bicycles RUGBY and RAMBLER Are Such Schollenberger Bros. Phone 245 : : 230 N. Main ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` nthoff & M. Clees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE. ERY THING IN DRUGS prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 28 North Main Street. SECOND TO NONE Warnholt WHIT EVERY THIN Prescriptions Call and see us. 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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. B. F McLean. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED Wichita Kansas. The peek-a-boo walsts this year are simply peek-a-beauties. People at Port Arthur have almost forgotten what a quiet summer evening is like. There are better ways of taking vacation than getting sunstruck. Try some of the other ways. Successor to A. M. Richards, MONEY TO LOAN ON CHATTELS 151 N. MAIN WICHITA Southwestern Distributing Agent for Cribben & Sexton Co. Any style of stove at wholesale prices. OTTO WEIFS, Agent. In The Your wants need careful tention and our store is a place to get it. We have the best of Fancy and Star Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Dr. J. E. 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To the veteran every occurrence through which he passed is dear, especially so the little striking events of his early soldier days, writes an Eastern veteran. My regiment, the Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, was stationed at one time at Fort Jackson, on the Mississippi river, 40 miles above its mouth. I recall that fully one-third of our battalion were schoolboys like myself—all willing to grow beards and to become sturdy fighting men. Our officers, too, were new to the business of war—having been made such after a hasty study of the first seventy pages of the army regulations—making it plain that we must have training as well as pluck! that we were all supposed to have in order to escape the whipping and final annihilation said to be in store for us at the horny hands of our opponents, the Texas cowboys. A little later 1,000 of these cowboys were compelled to tether their mustangs and lay down their arms by us—but this is a digression. A little episode of camp life while at Fort Jackson will serve to show how promptly we took our first degree in riding the "goat," through casemate to parapet, when a genuine, soul-stirring cause for alarm came galloping into camp in the majestic form Gallant charge of the New York State Militia at the Battle of B of our surgeon, Dr. Carpenter, who brought the startling news that the rebel ram Isaac Webb was on the way down the river, having passed New Orleans flying the Confederate flag. The Isaac Webb was formerly one of New York's fastest ocean-going tugboats. Her speed was 17 knots an hour. We were mighty quickly formed into lines and marched double quick up to the big Parrots overlooking the river. We carried our Springfields which we loaded and stacked, then shotted the 11-inch guns and the Parrots, and trailed to point-blank range every well known ship course of the river within our view. Then we impatiently awaited the coming of the ram, and while we waited toyed with our Aaam's apple, screwed up our knock-kneed courage (that so woefully wabbled again) to the fighting pitch, and remained full of speechless wonder and surprise. But where was the Webb? We stood up, looked, listened, then looked again—but the calm and peaceful river gave no sign of her approach. The suspense was so great that it interfered with our breathing; we could hear nothing but the tap, tap, tap of an organ which seemed to have risen and to be lying near our tongues. But where was the ram that our doughty doctor had fold us was coming? At every successive point on that part of the broad river in our view we looked, fully expecting her to poke her nose around and come on defiant. As the day wore on the oppressing atmosphere became more clear. We stood erect, feeling quite jubilant, when suddenly a startling exclamation caused all eyes to turn. "Look! look! What is that coming out of the west?" Glancing backward we saw something, dust-hidden, riding swiftly, and to our imaginative minds suspiciously toward the fort. Could it be possible that our rear was to be the point of attack? One more gulp of the Adam's apple and a silent remembrance of the misdemeanors and shortcomings of our career, a hasty prayer—then, suddenly out of the clouds of dust came our relief, bringing intelligence that the ram had herself been rammed and sunk, after having been driven ashore by the Union gunboat Richmond, which had passed up the river the preceding night; thus putting an end to the fearful risk that the Webb took when attempting to pass our fort, and blotting from our record a part of the glory that tradition would have added to the gallantry and valor afterward accorded the Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, and which we are proud to write, stopped forever the juggling with the guns that was said must be used to goad us into action. In those historic '60s we never en countered another such memorable test of courage and bewildering suspense as on that doubtful day in the time of our noviate. On the Field of Bull Run. On the field or Bull Run. The autumn maneuvers of the army will be held on the battle field of Bull Run, that bloody square marked by Centerville on the east, Groveton and Gainesville on the west, Sudley Springs on the north and Manassas on the south. The changes that have come over that historic ground since the Civil War are few. The troops—and there will be, according to Gen. Corbin, 30,000—that go down into that part of Virginia might be guided through the pines, woods, cornfields and pastures of the Bull Run field by the topographic maps used by Beauregard, Johnston and McDowell in July, 1861, or by the field maps used by Jackson, Longstreet, Lee an Pope in August, 1862. Bull Run rolls sluggishly from Bull Run mountains to Aqua Creek, and Catharpin Creek, Young's Branch, Cub Run—all strategic streams—pour into it at various points in the fighting ground. A majority of the farms are owned by the same folk, or the children of the same folk, who tilted them in '61 and '62. Daring Wartime Deeds. "By the way," said the Captain, "Sergeant Sam Grimshaw received the medal of honor for seizing an unex- Sixteenth Regiment upon a rebel battery full Run. ploded shell and throwing it to a distance before it exploded. In this way he saved the lives of several men. George Hunt prevented a fuse shell from exploding by crushing a handful of mud into the hole where the fuse was sputtering. He received no medal. Patrick Gimley, a private in Company G, First New York light artillery, in 1864 was caught between the lines when his command retreated. He crept back to the abandoned works, put three charges of canister in one of the guns, and blazed away at the enemy on the point of entering the works. This led to the reoccupation of the works by the Union troops, and twenty-six years later Gimley received a medal of honor for that exploit. "Samuel E. Eddy, Company D. Thirty-seventh Massachusetts, went beyond the firing line to bring in the regimental adjutant, who had been wounded. Eddy was run through the body with a bayonet and pinned to the ground, but he shot his assailant and saved the adjutant. He received a medal of honor. Two of our boys who went into the zone of fire after the charge at Kenesaw and brought in a wounded comrade did not receive medals. Orion P. Howe, a 14-year-old drummer of the Fifty-fifth Illinois, went under heavy fire at Vicksburg to report to Gen. Sherman the need of more ammunition, and was given a medal of honor. Lieut. S. G. Grubb and Dan R. Anderson, who put out the fire in Sherman's great pile of reserve ammunition at Resaca, when it was struck by lightning, have no medals. "Nathaniel Gwynne, a 15-year-old recruit of the Thirteenth Ohio cavalry, had not been mustered when the charge at Petersburg was ordered, but he went in and lost an arm. He was given a medal of honor in 1865. Gen. Adelbert Ames received a medal of honor for remaining on the field at Bull Run. He was then a lieutenant of the Fifth artillery, and although severely wounded, directed to the last fire of a section of Griffin's battery. In all, about 2,500 medals of honor have been issued, 864 of these going to officers and men of the Thirty-seventh Maine, who volunteered, when their time had expired, to remain in service until after the battle of Gettysburg."—Chicago Inter Ocean. --- COLORADOTOURIS The Santa Fe will sell round-trip tickets to Pueblo Colorado Springs, and Denver for $17,50, daily June 1st to September 30, 1904, inelusive. 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A baseball umpire at Williamsport, Pa., announced, at the close of the game, that he could lick the whole crowd in the grand stand. He has since told the attending physicians that he is convinced that he spoke too hastily. Charles M. Schwab has returned from Europe with the biggest automobile that money would buy. Perhaps he intends to get even with some of the people who said hard things about him in connection with that ship-building trust. THE ISSUE DEFINED SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT AND SPEAKER CANNON. Alike in the Address of Notification and in the Response Thereto, the Predominance of the Tariff Question is Distinctly Recognized. The two speeches delivered at Oyster Bay on the 27th of July, 1904, first by Speaker Cannon as chairman of the committee appointed by the Republican national convention to notify Theodore Roosevelt of his nomination for President of the United States; and, second, the speech of President Roosevelt, giving notice of his acceptance of that nomination—have settled the question as to what is the dominant issue in this year's campaign. If any doubt remained concerning the chief issue, almost the only issue, which divides the two great parties in the civic battle of 1904, such doubt has been completely removed. The tariff is the issue. It has been made the issue by the plain words alike of the authorized spokesman of the Republican party and of the candidate chosen by the unanimous action of the Republican party. In his address of notification Speaker Cannon devoted his attention to the tariff more largely than to all other subjects combined. After dwelling briefly upon the splendid history of the Republican party in its relation to the shaping of events and policies, Mr. Cannon said: "Under the lead of the Republican party for over forty years the United States, from being a third-class power among the nations has become in every respect first. The people rule. The people ruling, it is necessary that they should be competent to rule. Competency requires not only patriotism, but material well-being, education and statecraft. "The people, under the lead of the Republican party, wrote upon the statute books revenue laws, levying taxes upon the products of foreign countries seeking our markets, which replenished our treasury, but were so adjusted as to encourage our people in developing, diversifying and maintaining our industries, at the same time protecting our citizens laboring in production against the competition of foreign labor. Under this policy our manufactured product to-day is one-third of the product of the civilized world. FREE TR FREE SILV DEMO FREE TRADE FREE SILVER DEMOCRACY and our people receive almost double the pay for their labor that similar labor receives elsewhere in the world, thereby enabling us to bear the burden of citizenship. protection as plicity comp proposition t vise the tariff to the necess "Liberal compensation for labor makes liberal customers for our products. Under this policy of protection our home markets afford all our people a better market than has any other people on earth, and this, too, even if we did not sell any of our products broad. In addition to this, we have come to be the greatest exporting nation in the world. For the year ending the 30th of June, 1904, our exports to foreign countries were valued at $1,400,000,000, of which $450,000,000 were products of the factory. The world fell in our debt last year $470,000,000, an increase of $75,000,000 over the preceding year. "This policy of protection has always been opposed by the opponents of the Republican party, and is opposed by them to-day. In their last national platform, adopted at St. Louis, they denounce protection as robbery. They never have been given power, but they proceeded by word and act to destroy the policy of protection. Their platform is as silent as the grave touching the gold standard and our currency system. Their chosen leader, after his nomination, having been as silent as the sphinx to that time, sent his telegram saying, in substance that the gold standard is established, and that he will govern himself accordingly if he should be elected." Later on in his speech Mr. Cannon returned to the subject uppermost in his mind, as follows: "Correct revenue laws, protection or free trade, the gold standard and our currency system, all depend upon the sentiment of the majority of our people as voiced at the ballot box. A majority may change our revenue laws, a majority may change our currency laws; a majority may destroy the gold standard and establish the silver standard, or, in lieu of either or both, make the treasury note, non-interest bearing and irredeemable, the sole standard of value. "Sir, let us turn from the region of doubt and double-dealing, the debatable land, to the region of assured certainty. The Republican party, stands for protection. It stands for the gold standard and our currency system. All these dwell in legislation enacted under the lead of the Republican party and against the most determined opposition of the Democratic party, including its leader and candidate. These being our policies, and having been most useful to the country, we have confidence in and love them. If it be necessary from time to time that they should be strengthened here and controlled there, the Republican party stands ready, with loving, competent hands, to apply the proper remedy. I say 'remedy.' Being our policies, we will not willingly subject them to their enemies for slow starvation on the one hand or to sudden destruction on the other. "Since the Republican party was restored to power, in 1897, under the lead of McKinley, our country has prospered in production and in commerce as it has never prospered before. In wealth we stand first among all the nations." Not less plain and positive on the subject of vital importance of the protective tariff as an issue was President Roosevelt in reply. He did not hesitate to declare himself in harmony with the proposition that protection is and must continue to be the settled, permanent policy of the Republican party when he said: "We have enacted a tariff law under which, during the past few years, the country has attained a height of material well being before reached. Wages are higher than ever before. That, whenever the need arises there should be a readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubted; but such changes can with safety be made only by those whose devotion to the principle of a protective tariff is beyond question; for otherwise the changes would amount not to readjustment, but to repeal. The readjustment when made must maintain and not destroy the protective principle. To the farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer, this is vital; but perhaps no other man is so much interested as the wage worker in the maintenance of our present economic system, both as regards the finances and the tariff. The standard of living of our wage workers is higher than that of any other country, and it can not so remain unless we have a protective tariff which shall always keep as a minimum a rate of duty sufficient to cover the difference between the labor cost here and abroad. Those who, like our opponents, 'denounce DE R CRACY protection as a robbery,' thereby explicitly commit themselves to the proposition that if they were to revise the tariff no heed would be paid to the necessity of meeting this difference between the standards of living for wage workers here and in other countries; and therefore on this point their antagonism to our position is fundamental. "Here again we ask that their promises and ours be judged by what has been done in the immediate past. We ask that sober and sensible men compare the workings of the present tariff law, and the conditions which obtain under it, with the workings of the preceding tariff law of 1894 and the conditions which that tariff of 1894 helped to bring about." The fundamental difference in the attitudes of the two parties on the subject of protection is herein stated with great force. The Republican party stands committed to the doctrine that only through the operation of the protective policy is it possible to maintain the American standard of living, while the Democratic party, caring nothing for the American standard of living, but intent, now as always, upon cheapening and degrading American labor, brazenly antagonizes protection both as to principle and policy by denouncing it as "robbery" of the many for the benefit of the few. No matter if protection does maintain high wages and a high standard of living. Being "robbery," of course, protection must go. That is the Democratic attitude. Upon the general subject of reck-procice President Roosevelt said: "We believe in reciprocity with foreign nations on the terms outlined in President McKinley's last speech, which urged the extension of our foreign markets by reciprocal agreements whenever they could be made without injury to American industry and labor." By this rule there can be no reciprocity in products which compete with American industry and labor. It is a safe rule. It is the only Republican rule as laid down by the national Republican convention of 1904. It was what President McKinley meant at Buffalo in 1901. It is what President Roosevelt means now. It is also what the Republican party means all the time. SUNDAY SCHOOLS LESSON LESSON TEN—SEPTEMBER 4. GOLDEN TEXT.—Fear thou not, for I am with thee.—Isa. 41: 10. I. Elijah Gets Courage from a new View of God.—Vs. 9-12. 9. "And he came thither." To Horeb, Mount Sinai, about 200 miles south of Beersheba, between the two arms of the Red Sea. Elijah reached Sinai after forty days of desert wanderings, sustained by the angel's food received under the juniper. "Unto a cave." It may be that the cave was the very "cleft of the rock" where Moses is said to have been hid while Jehovah passed by when he proclaimed his glorious name."—Cheyne. "And lodged there." Literally, "passed the night there." "The word of the Lord came to him." "Probably in vision as he slept."—Cook. "What doest thou here, Elijah?!" What doest thou? Is there no more work to be done? What doest thou? It was a question full of tender reproof. Practical. "Life is the time for doing. The world is a great workshop, in which there is no room for drones. God himself worketh as the great Master-builder. There is plenty to do. Evil to put down; good to build up; doubters to be directed; prodigals to be won back; sinners to be sought. 'What doesst thou here?' Up, Christians, leave your caves, and do!"—Rev. F. B. Meyer. 10: "I have been very jealous." Unwilling that any other god should have the honor and worship that belonged to Jehovah, who had himself declared that he was a jealous God (Ex. 20: 5). Does Elijah imply a reproach, that God has forgotten to be jealous for himself? "For the Lord" (Jehovah) "God of hosts." "That title Jehovah Eloi Sabaoth is here first used, to mark the contrast with Baal and Astarte, the pretended sun and moon deities, and others of the host of heaven."—Wood. "The children of Israel." Implying that the people had joined willingly with Jezebel. "Have forsaken thy covenant." The command against idolatry, Ex. 20: 3, first promulgated near that very spot. "I only, am left." Elijah's reply is a justification: "I am here in hiding because I could accomplish nothing elsewhere." It is almost a reproach: "Why didst thou leave me alone and unsupported?" Jehovah's reply is to exhibit the real workings of his providence, so different from what Elijah had been expecting. 11. And he said. Perhaps the next day. "It is hardly likely that the stupendous vision would follow instantly and without a moment's preparation."—Farrar. "Go forth." From the cave. The traditional cave is very small, described by Robinson as "a hole just large enough for a man's body." "A great and strong wind." "A rushing hurricane, which burst through the mountain wall and rolled down the granite rocks in massive fragments round him."—Stanley. "The Lord was not in the wind." The hurricane was "before the Lord," his submissive servant, but it was not the Lord. "After the wind an earthquake." No manifestation of nature is more terrifying than when the wonted solid earth sinks beneath us. "But the Lord was not in the earthquake." It was but the very slightest manifestation of his almighty power. 12. After the earthquake a fire. "In Sinai the lightning seems like falling masses of fire."—Sheyne. "After the fire a still small voice." At once Elijah recognized the presence of Jehovah, "wrapped his face in his mantle" in reverent awe, "went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave" to receive God's further teachings. The Lessons for Elijah. That he did not understand God, and needed to learn more about him. That God's ways are not man's ways—nor even the ways of a mighty prophet. That the world is in God's hands, and safe. II. Elijah Gets Courage from a New Start in Work.—Vs. 13-21. Elijah was left to ponder over the lesson of Jehovah's gentle manifestation, which seems to have transformed his character, making him milder, more hopeful, and more trusting. 13. "What doesest thou here?" Elijah a day had elapsed since Jehovah asked the same question (see v. 11, note). At any rate, after the fearful portents of hurricane, earthquake, and lightning it was natural that the question should be repeated, as if to ask whether Elijah had learned his lesson from this acted sermon. The prophet answered precisely as before. He was confused. It was all so different from what he had expected. Time and thought were needed to bring out the teachings. 15. "Return on thy way" back to Israel "to the wilderness of Damascus." His appointed route through Abel-melohal would carry him, in his new and peaceful sense of God's protection, through the midst of the land from which he had just fled in terror. "And when thou comest." To Damascus, the capital of Syria. "Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria." Hazael became a powerful king, and his wars against Israel were God's instrument of punishment for their sins, helping them to repentance an amendment. Something of this future may have been disclosed to Elijah. 16. "Jehu the son" (grandson) "of Nimshi." He was the commanding general over the army of Israel, who, in the days of Jehomar, Ahab's son, slew him, his mother Jezebel, and all Ahab's descendants, restoring the worship of Jehovah. "And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah." Abel-meholah (the modern Ain Helwe) was west of the Jordan near Tirzah, not far from Elijah's native Gilead. "To be prophet in thy room." Thus Elijah was assured by Jehovah of the permanency of his work, which, though not immediately successful, was ultimately to triumph. "God's workmen die, but the work goes on." How Did Elijah Obey? He went at once to Elisha, and threw his mantle over him—a sign equivalent to anointing, and promptly understood. In God's time, though long afterward, on Elisha's instigation and at the hands of an unknown prophet, Jehu was anointed; and Elisha, doubtless on Elijah's instruction, told Hazael that he was to be king. 17. "The sword of Hazael." For the record of the punishment inflicted upon Israel by Hazael see 2 Kings 8: 28, 29; 10: 32, 33; 13: 3. "The sword of Jehu." For the bloody deeds of Jehu see 2 Kings 9: 24, 27, 33; 10: 17, 18-25. "Shall Elisha slay." There is no record that Elisha, like Elijah, slew with his own hand. Elisha slew God's enemies "by the words of his mouth" (Hos. 6: 5), as the judge may be said to slay the criminal when he pronounces sentence of death. Elijah Lonely no Longer. 18. "Yet I have left me." Spared from the terrible doom that will fall upon Israel. "Seven thousand in Israel." "These figures are obviously symbolical, a sacred, a rounded, a covenant, an ideal number; it indicates in all probability a larger number of persons than the figures naturally denote."—Milligan. "Every mouth which hath not kissed Baal." "Kissing images was a sign of idolatry then as it is now."—Farrar. This was God's answer to Elijah's complaint, "I, even I only, am left." The answer comforted the prophet, and gave him new courage, while at the same time it humbled him, showing him that not everything depended on him alone. The choice of Elisha (vs. 19-21) had the same double effect, encouraging with companionship, humbling with a reminder that God could manage without him. The young man was found ploughing, with eleven servants guiding eleven other yokes—evidently the son of a wealthy farmer. Elijah's hairy mantle, perhaps of untanned sheepskin—a token of his prophetical office—he threw over Elisha's shoulders, and the young man at once understood the sign and gladly obeyed. He asked permission to say farewell to father and mother. "Yes," said Elijah, "but do not tarry long; remember what I have done to thee." Elisha thereupon celebrated a family feast of rejoicing, speedily found Elijah, and became his servant and pupil. The great prophet, so lonely hitherto, had found a friend. IHL. Elijah the Avenger of Naboth.—1 Kings 21: 1-29. Five or six years after these events Elijah emerged from the retirement into which he seems to have gone, quietly instructing Elisha and other young prophets. Naboth was a bold and consistent follower of Jehovah (v. 3). He owned a vineyard next to Ahab's palace at Jezreel, and when the king wished to buy it to add to the palace grounds, he refused, remembering the Mosaic law which forbade the alienation of inheritance (Num. 36: 7, 8; Lev. 25: 27, 28). Ahab acted like a spoiled child, and sulked upon his bed. Jezebel, however, like Lady Macbeth, cried, "Infirm of purpose, give me the dagger!" Using the king's seal as authority, she sent orders to the magistrates of Jezreel, bidding them carry out a diabolical plot. A fast was 'appointed, to mourn over some great wrong and impiety committed by the city against the king and God; and while Naboth was occupying the conspicuous place in the assembly to which he was entitled, hired informers were openly to accuse him of cursing God and the king. The program was servielly followed. With scarce the pretense of a trial Naboth was condemned, taken outside the city walls, and stoned to death, as the law provided in cases of blasphemy (Lev. 24: 14-16). His sons also were slain (2 Kings 9: 26), and his property was confiscated to the king. While Ahab with indecent haste was in the coveted vineyard taking possession and arranging for his garden, Elijah appeared with terrifying suddenness, and pronounced an awful doom upon him, his cruel wife, and his posterity. The king's swift and profound repentance procured a postponement of the sentence, but ultimately it was all accomplished. See 1 Kings 22: 37, 38; 2 Kings 9: 25, 30-37. V. Ahab, a Contrast to Elijah—1 Kings 20, 22. These two chapters, completing First Kings, relate the remainder of Ahab's life, his wars and his death. In the Septuagint the two chapters come together. Calumet Baking Powder complies with the pure food laws of all states. Food prepared with it is free from Rochelle salts. lime, alum and ammonia. Trust Baking Powders for sell for 45 or 50 cents per pound and may be identified by this exchibitant price. They are a measure to public health, as food prepared from them contains large quantities of Rochelle salts, a dangerous cathartic drug. Berlin Funeral Pile When Frau Clara Hahn, the wife of a prominent Berlin gentleman, from whom she was separated, committed suicide, she left instructions in her will that everything she possessed should be burned on a funeral pile. The police carried out these orders the letter, burning no fewer than eleven chests filled with dresses, some packages of linen, ten boxes containing hats, three dozen veils, and hundreds of love letters. Same Idea Vigorously Expressed. It is curious to trace how similar ideas have taken root in different languages and the various modes of illustrating the same thought. To take for instance, one or two familiar proverbs in our language. We say "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." The same idea is expressed by Italians when they say, "Better an egg today than a pullet tomorrow," and the French proverb is still more significant. "One here-it is no better than two you-shall-have-its." WITH THE RUSSIAN TROOPS. Soldier Writes of Amusing Adventures in Manchuria. Letters published in Russian newspapers from soldiers in Manchuria give some vivid pictures of life in the Russian ranks. A private named Veruinan writes from Port Arthur: "Two Poles, Catholics from Warsaw, got white all over when the yellow-faces began to shoot. Our Jew, Yanko, sold them amulets made of leather of a dead man's boot to keep off the Jap shells. Thank God, we orthodox believers are not afraid of shells. The Poles asked Yanko why he did not wear a charm himself, but he put their money in his pocket and said: 'This is charm enough for me.' There are hundreds of fellows here trying to do us soldiers, but one fellow got left badly by Yanko. Yanko had a 10-ruble note which he said the 'Makak' (Japanese) forged; he bought it as a curiosity. A man tried to sell him a gold ring made of brass for a ruble and Yanko pretended not to know the difference and paid him with the Jap note, getting nine rubles in change. Next day the man came back and asked for his money, but Yanko threatened to get him flogged for trying to swindle poor ignorant soldiers, and we all laughed. Afterward Yanko exchanged the gold ring with the major's cook for a bottle of vodka and treated us all, which is quite decent, considering he is a Jew." LEARNING THINGS We Are All in the Apprentice Class. When a simple change of diet brings back health and happiness the story is briefly told. A lady of Springfield, Ill., says: "After being afflicted for years with nervousness and heart trouble, I received a shock four years ago that left me in such a condition that my life was despaired of. I could get no relief from doctors nor from the numberless heart and nerve medicines I tried because I didn't know that the coffee was daily putting me back more than the Dr. could put me ahead. "Finally at the request of a friend I left off coffee and began the use of Postum and against my convictions I gradually improved in health until for the past 6 or 8 months I have been entirely free from nervousness and those terrible sinking, weakening spells of heart trouble. "My troubles all came from the use of coffee which I had drunk from childhood and yet they disappeared when I quit coffee and took up the use of Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Many people marvel at the effects of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum but there is nothing marvelous about it—only common sense. Coffee is a destroyer—Postum is a rebuilder. That's the reason. Look in each pkg for the famous little book "The Road to Wellville." Philanthropy is Rewarded. A stock broker who was on his way to the city observed that one of his fellow-passengers in the car was closely regarding him. After a time the man looked over and asked: "Didn't I see you in Frisco in 1890?" The broker wasn't in Frisco in that year, but thinking to humor the stranger, replied in the affirmative. "Well, I'm the chap, was hard up, out of work, and about to cimmit suicide. That money made a new man of me. By one lucky speculation and another I am now worth $25,000." "Ah! Glad to hear it." "And now I want you to take $5 in place of that dollar. I cannot feel easy until that debt is paid." The broker protested and objected but finally just to humor the man he took the $10 bill offered him and returned the $5 change. The stranger soon left the car, and everything might have ended then and there if the broker, on reaching the office, hadn't ascertained that the $10 was a counterfeit and that he was $5 out of pocket. Most Spoken Languages. There are 382,000,000 Chinese speaking the same language, making Chinese the most spoken language. There are so many dialects which are entirely different that they seem scarcely to belong to the same tongue. The inhabitants of Mongolia and Thibet can barely understand the dialect of the people in Pekin. Putting Chinese aside, the most spoken languages are as follows, in millions: English 120; German, 70; Russian, 68; Spanish, 44; Portuguese, 32. Kentucky Man's Duty. Jamboree, Ky., August 29 (Special). After suffering for years with pain in the back Mr. J. M. Coleman, a well known citizen of this place, has found a complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Knowing how general this disease is all over the country, Mr. Coleman feels it is his duty to make his experience public for the benefit of other sufferers. "I want to recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to everybody who has pain in the back," Mr. Coleman says. "I suffered for years with my back. I used Dodd's Kidney Pills and I have not felt a pain since. My little girl too complained of her back and she used about half a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and she is sound and well." Barkache is Kidney Ache. Dodd's Kidney Pills are a sure cure for all Kidney Aches, including Rheumatism. Two heads are said to be better than one, yet we are told that too many cooks spoil the broth. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Some men would never see their names in the paper if their wives didn't win prizes at whist clubs. A. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson, of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy Wise Templar, and Member of W.C.T.U., tells how she recovered by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I am one of the many of your grateful friends who have been cured through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and who can to-day thank you for the fine health I enjoy. When I was thirty-five years old, I suffered severe backache and frequent bearing-down pains; in fact, I had womb trouble I was very anxious to get well, and reading of the cures your Compound had made, I decided to try it. I took only six bottles, but it built me up and cured entirely of my troubles. "My family and relatives were naturally as gratified as I was. My niece had heart trouble and nervous prostration, and was considered incurable. She took your Vegetable Compound and it cured her in a short time, and she became well and strong, and her home to her great joy and her husband's delight was blessed with a baby. I know of a number of others who have been cured of different kinds of female trouble, and am satisfied that your Compound is the best medicine for sick women." — MRS. ELIZABETH H. Tweed, Box 105, Lilydale, N.Y. — $8000 forrest if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Ripans Tabules are the best dry preparations of all, hundred millions of them have been sold in the United States in a single year. Constipation, heartburn, sick headache, dizziness, bad breath, and very illness arising from a disorder Ripans Tables are the best dry pepsia medicine ever made. A hundred millions of them have been sold in the United States in a single year. Constipation, heartburn, stick headache, dizziness, bad breath, sore throat, and every ill condition have been treated with Ripans Tables stomach are relier or cured by Ripans Tables. One will generally give relief within twenty minutes. The five-count package is enough for ordinary occasions. All druggists sell them. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAIL. Best poured powder. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION WEEDS USED IN MEDICINE. Pests of the Farm May Be Turned to Some Account. The extent to which weeds are used in medicine is indicated in a recent bulletin (No. 188) of the United States Department of Agriculture. Most of those used are gathered in Europe, but many of them are only too common in this country, and while it is not likely that the farmer may succeed in getting rid of them, it is possible that he may turn some of them to account. The prices paid, on the other hand, are not so large as to induce a man to go into the business as a vocation; it is distinctly as by-products that the weeds may return something to him who raises them. Among root drugs the bulletin names these: Burdock, dandelion, the various docks, couchgrass and pokeweed. Wormseed and black and white mustards yield their seeds for medical uses, and these weeds are named as supplying leaves, flowers or seeds: Foxglove, mullein, lobelia, tansy, gum plant, scaly grindelia, boneset, catnip, hoarhound, yarrow, bleabane, blessed thistle, jimson weed and poison hemlock. The bulletin gives suggestions as to the packing and handling the weeds and the prices recently paid for them in the drug market. As some of the plants are known to be poisonous, the farmer who gathers them for profit should not use them without the advice of a physician. ONE USE FOR IT. Rejected Melodrama That Was Not Entirely Without Worth. George Ade at a recent banquet was asked to speak on success. "I suppose that failure is more familiar than success to all of us," he said. "We work away. Four things fail. The fifth thing succeeds. The hardest workers have the most failures, but then they have the most successes, too. "One of my early failures was a melodrama that I traveled all the way from Chicago to New York to sell to a manager. This was in my youth, when I had confidence in myself. The manager returned my melodrama. He said he didn't care for it. "I pointed out the merits in it which he had overlooked. I proved that he would make a great mistake if he should not accept this work. But he chook his head. "Can't you use it at all?" I asked desperately. "Well,' said he, 'I might grind it up and use it as a snow-storm.'"—Success. Sunply Not Greatly Lessened "The Australian aborigine," said a traveler, "is the most fearsome savage that there is in the world. Scientists say that he is lower than a good many kinds of monkeys, and this I can readily believe. "It would be necessary for you to have seen one of the Australian savages in order to appreciate the perfect innocence and food faith of the consolatory remark that a Scottish servant made to his employer, a recent immigrant. "Col. Sir George Clarke of the Victoria government, told me about this remark. He said the immigrant had killed an aborigine by accident, and was grieving a good deal at having taken human life. "His servant a day or two after the affair, got hold of some information that, he thought, would cure his employer's grief completely." "Man,' he said, 'ye needna fret my mair, about the creature you killed, for I have been credibly informed by trustworthy eyewitnesses that there's hundreds mair of them in the interior." How He Felt The Rev. Sam Jones used to tell of a man he noticed several times around a camp meeting in a Southern state. He seemed to take considerable interest in the services, but never went forward to the mourners' bench. Finally Mr. Jones went to him one day and said: "Isn't it about time for you to get religion?" "I don't feel fittin," replied the man. "Well," said Mr. Jones, "isn't it time you were fittin?" The man shook his head sadly and mournfully answered: "I don't feel fittin' to think about gittin' fittin." Move for Public's Welfare. Dr. Henry Beates, president of the Pennsylvania state board of medical examiners, is endeavoring to secure the passage of a law which will provide for imprisonment as well as a fine for anyone who practices medicine illegally. He has secured the support of several influential legislators. Twins Have Odd Names. Odd names have been given to bouncing boy twins born to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Conley of York, Penn. The first born was named Enough by the apprehensive father. Enough's brother will have to answer the somewhat humiliating appellation of Last Sleepy Philadelphia. Patience—A large party of Philadelphiaans are coming over to New York to see Dreamland. Patrice—Why, I shouldn't think they would have to leave Philadelphia for that. A Wise Choice. "How does Punchum's second wife get along with his seven small boys?" "Oh, beautifully; she used to be a teacher in a reform school."—Detroit/ Free Press. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed Clever Sparrows. A gentleman, who, from a casual inspection had no other visible means of support than the bench he sat on in Franklin square, was seen feeding the sparrows the other day with little pieces of bread. The fat and greedy birds came promptly and ate voraciously while the feast lasted and still hung around when it was over. Then the host fished in a pocket of his scant clothing and pulled out a handful of a powder composed of about equal parts of tobacco dust and bread crumbs. When he threw this down it was immediately surrounded by the winged gluttons, but they did not at once eat. They eyed the stuff with little sidewise turns of their heads, and when they saw that nothing better was forthcoming all but two few away without as much as a peck at it. The two that remained, however, began finally to fan the powder with their wings, and in this way effected a separation of a few crumbs, which they ate.—Philadelphia Record. A Duel That Never Came Off. Senator J. C. S. Blackburn is never at a loss for a word, and is ready to talk at a minute's notice. His friends like to joke him about his garrulity, and recently a colleague told this story at a dinner at which Senator Blackburn was to give a toast. "In his younger days my colleague, Mr. Blackburn was very chivalrous. Asked by a friend to be a second in a duel, Mr. Blackburn readily consented, At sunrise the parties met at the appointed place. It was Mr. Blackburn's duty to say the last words about the terms of the duel. And, gentlemen," continued the speaker, "do you know that duel never took place?" A murmur of "Why not?" went around the table. "For a very simple reason," continued the speaker. "When Joe finished speaking it was too dark for a duel." COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS. Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer, Making Him Feel Twenty-Five Years Younger. J. B. Corton, farmer and lumberman, of Deppe, N. C., says: "I suffered for years with my back. It was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor ever ride in easy hurry. I do J. B. Corton, farmer and lumberman, of Deppe, N. C. says: "I suffered for years with my back. It was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor even ride in easy buggy. I do not believe I could have raised ten pounds of weight from the ground, the pain was so severe. This was my condition when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They quickly relieved me and now I am never troubled as I was. My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long distance and feel just as strong as I did twenty-five years ago. I think so much of Doan's Kidney Pills that I have given a supply of the remedy to some of my neighbors and they have also found good results. If you can sift anything from this rambling note that will be of any service to you, or to any one suffering from kidney trouble, you are at liberty to do so." A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers; price, 50 cts. Goggles for Chickens. Among the recent inventions which poultry fanciers find interesting at the world's fair is a pair of goggles to be placed on chickens to prevent them from picking out the eys of one another. Pugnaciously-inclined birds on a farm can do a great deal of harm to the others, and, as a protection against damage being sustained to the eyes, it is proposed to equip the members of the flocks with goggles. Uncle Allen. "You never know how much can be said on both sides of a question," reflected Uncle Allen Sparks, 'until you hear two women trying to tell each other how to make currant jelly. More Flexible and Lasting. won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re- sults than possible with any other and one-third more for same money. Force of Blue Whale. A blue whale harpooned by a Newfoundland whaler in Placentia bay in March, 1903, towed the steam whaler Puma 122 miles, the screw being reversed, at full speed the whole time, and not until twenty-six hours had elapsed was exhausted and killed. Best Kind of Scrub Cloth. Nothing makes a better scrub cloth than old stockings or socks. When too far gone to mend cut them open, lay two seams together and run by hand or machine till you have made a square. Cut off all loose ends They are excellent for use also with mop-handle, taking up the water thoroughly and with little exertion. Why Mails Went Wrong In 1807 According to the statement of an honorable member of the house of commons the regulations of the Dublin general postoffice are of a very singular kind. The letter sorters vow that "they every now and then open the letters and take out the contents" in order to compensate for the inadequacy of their salaries—St. James' Chronicle, July 9, 1807. Oklahoma State Military Institute. A High Grade Preparatory Military School Under Government Supervision. Only military school in both Territories; thoroughness in everything; slow, backward students receive special attention; high standard of study and morals; firm and wholesome discipline; character building combined with intellectual training; army officer, graduate of West Point, detailed by war department; moderate expense; begins Sept. 7, '04 For application blank and illustrated catalogue address Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, diy pain, cures wind colic. No bottle. The world has more respect for a man who cries than for one who whines. The Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago, send Home Eye Book free. Write them about your eyes Some men would dodge around a corner to avoid meeting their obligations. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, the Great Kidney and Liver Curve. World Famous. Write Dr. Kennedy's Sons, Rondout, N.Y. for free sample bottles. Nearly every city in the interior of Egypt is now lighted by electricity. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. In winter one in eleven of Rome's population are visitors. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs — WM. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900 The men are so scarce that boys under ten are beginning to get square envelopes in the mail. **FITS** permanently cured. No fist or nervousness after. Send for FREE $2.00 trial kit, creation. Dr. R. HOLMEN, Llnd., 831 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa Women, like poor poker players, raise the blind to see what their neighbors have got. Home at the World's Fair. D. C. Kolp, ex. Chief Clerk of Iowa House of Representatives, is manager Hotel Alta Vista, near Agricultural entrance and is prepared to entertain guests with rooms at $1.00 and cots 50 cents. Electric lights, toilet and bath rooms. cafe. Market street cars direct from Union Station. Highest and coolest point around St. Louis. Official maps of Fair and other information sent on application. Make reservations now. A willful waist is a woeful want to the fellow who would like to squeeze it. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. You can't always make a boy rise in the world by giving him a blowing up. Oklahoma State A High Grade Preparatory Military School Under Government Supervision. Only military school slow, backward study, study and morale; first combined with inculcation. Point detailed by very For application blank and COLONEL JAMES E. DUNN, Supervisor SMOKER LEWIS' SING 5¢ Cigar better Quality Dealers supplied by their jobber or director WADASH "BANNER BLUE" BETTER ST. LOUIS and THE FINEST DAY THE Leaves St. Louis Union St Leaves World's Fair Station Arrives Chicago Leaves Chicago Arrives World's Fair Station Arrives St. Louis Union St Early Rising. "To be forced to get up early,"says an English physician, "grinds the soul, curdles the blood, swells the spleen, destroys all good intentions and disturbs all day the mental activities. Crimnals are always recruited from the early-rising class." Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz in a package, which they won't be able to sell for. The cheese defiance contains 18 oz for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Lancashire County for Twins. Lancashire holds the record of any English county for twins. The average is 668 twins yearly. "Heretofore I have been wearing $7.00 shoes. I purchased a pair of W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes, which I have worn for forty-five months. For a factory I do not intend to return to the more expensive shoes." UM. GRAY KNOWLES, Asst. City Solicitor, phila. Brockton Leads the Men's Shoe Fashions of the World. His $3.50 shoes, Coronis Colt is conceded to be the finest Patent leather made. Instructions to order by mail to be the finest Patent leather made. W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stonachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion.Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alk Sparne - Rockelle Salve - Azalee Seed - Lemon Seed - Litchi Carambola Salve - Wine Seed - Charified Sugar Mintygran Flavor A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Gustaf H. Pitcher NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CINES EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. WET WEATHER WISDOM! THE ORIGINAL 132 TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEE YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A. J. TOWER CO., BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LTD., TORONTO, CANADA. When Answering, Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Military Institute. both Territories; thoroughness in everything; a receive special attention; high standard of and wholesome discipline; character building; natural training; array office; graduate of West department; moderate expense; begins Sept. 7, '04 illustrated catalogue address Intendent, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. RS FIND EAGLE BINDER more than most 10¢ Cigars from Frank P. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. BASH LINE QUE LIMITED" BRAIN IN THE WORLD. Station . . . 11:00 A. M. Station . . . 11:14 A. M. Station . . . 7:00 P. M. Station . . . 11:03 A. M. Station . . . 6:49 P. M. Station . . . 7:03 P. M. W. UNION MADE $3 $5.00 "P shoe shoe four mo intend to return WM. GRA Brookton Leads the W.M. Dressmaker to his $5.00 shoes. Foron to be the finest Patent ure is Gu merchant, so why not try CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hitchcock. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully! Prosecutee Claims. 3 yrs in war, 15 adjudicating claims, alys sneeze BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS CURED AT HOME If you have weak eyes, failing hair, gritted teeth, acorns over the ears, care eyes may kind, cataract or have a scription of your case and a trial treatment will be sent you JOHN H. BURKE This trial treatment is mild and harmless and has no side effects. The treatment was appointed by two Governors, Chief Eye and Ear Surgeon to the Mitsui State Institution for the Blind, and was also two Governors appointed by the Mitsui State Institution. Cross eyes strained by the painless method, Institute, Suite 82, Odd Fellows Bldg., St Louis. ```markdown ``` Early in the morning, late at night, or whenever used, Defiance Starch will be found always the same, always the best. 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. Manufactured by THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO. Omaha, Neb. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. 2.50 POLICE, THREE SOLES, $2.50 AND 2.00 WORKING MEN'S, BEST IN THE WORLD, $2.50, $2.00 AND $1.75 BOYS, FOR DRESS AND SCHOOL WEAR. W. L. Douglas guarantees the men's $3.50 and $3.00 shoes than any other man- ufacturer in the world. The reason they are the greatest sellers is they are made of the best materials. They are the best, the biggest, and have more valued than any other shoes. W. L. Douglas guarantees their value by stamp- ing his name and price on the bottom. No shoes are sold on the dealer everywhere. "AS GOOD AS ZOOS SHOES."