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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Senator Bailey And The Negro Problem 6TH YEAR. YOU CAN Senator B And The Senator Bailey of Texas is re- tered as saying recently in one his Eastern speeches: "The race problem which now confronts the Southern people will tax their highest wisdom and their highest wisdom and their most unselfish patriotism its solution." Anp Senator Bailey is right as as he goes, but the trouble is don't go far enough. The race problem of to-day that now confronts the Southern people is an aggravated one as as they are concerned, and a national irritant as our perspective broadens out. It nob only "confronts the southern people" but those of every section of the land. In the matter of its seriousness, its entrenched and uncompromising seriousness, as compared to the view generally obtained of it a decade ago, the problem of to-day is a new one, the reasons are few but mani- and strong. The irresolution and timidity, gripping in the dark upon the hurt of the Negro himself, then, is now, the most threatened and concerned factor in the matter, linked to a vague hope upon the hurt of the moral sense of the nation that the South would eventually be moved by the erorr and injustice of its contention, as served to keep this intricate and festering question in abeyance, and the background of keep and serious discussion. That to say, while it has been discussed, it has been so in a sort of a spirit that the "family skelton" is occasionally reviewed in dated breath and apologetic manner, warranted not to hurt or make afraid. But the time has passed. The Negro of to-day is a different person from the Negro of yesterday. Not only is there a NEW NEGRO on the scene; knowing his rights under the constitution, daring and determined to conend for them, but a new and a stronger, truer national moral sense has supplanted the old insert and cowardly one of the past. Of these two facts, no one is more cognizant than the brilliant and able senator from Texas. he knows, as the South must eventually know, as the nation certainly knows, that the horrible, disgracefln, cruel and unjust conditions surroundir.g the Negro in the Southland must soon or later be done away with. He fears the holocaust of public sentiment that when once started into a flame will soon become a conflagration and cannot will not be stayed, and, like the wise counsellor he should be, he is preparing his clientage to flee the fallen ruins, to hedge in time before it is eternally too late. His plea was a subtle one, apparently a sincere one, and in selecting a Northern city to make it in, he displayed his long headednes and that finesse of political judgment to be expected from a senator of the United States, and a commanding political captain. Whatever angle you view this pronunciamento from, it is a sign, a promise of changing attitude toward the Negro in the South that is most encouraging. Anent this matter, the Chicago Chronicle of a few days since expressed some views, or rather reflections, on the matter of the Negro problem which we submit to our readers for their perusal. "The whites of the Southern states can best solve the race problem by ceasing to regard the blacks as a problem and by beginning to treat them like human beings with rights with a natural sense of justice and with a capacity on the one hand for friendliness and respect when well used and on the other hand for anger and resentment when ill-used. In the demoralizing slavery the whites never learned to use the blacks as men with rights. The problem they have to solve is to learn how to use them in that way—how to permit and encourage them to rise according to their merits instead of striving continually to keep them in the condition of abject menials. They might, if they would learn something about the real problem they have to solve from S. S. Henry, Jr., of Gulfport, Miss, who tells the Washington Post something about his experience with Negroes. He says that in southern Mississippi, where he lives, "there is no Negro problem, and, though the country has a dense black population, whites and blacksget on pleasantly, and there is no friction from racial prejudice." Mr. Henry continues thus: "I am in the lumber business and have a great deal to do with the Negro as an employer of labor, and I am free to assert that they are the best laborers in the world. I would rather have one black man in a saw mill than two white men, for he will perform just as much labor as two Anglo-Saxons, and do it willingly and even joyously. All he wants is three good meals a day and his wages paid to him every Saturday night, which is the rule of the lumber owners of our section." What the Negro will do as a lumberman in southern Missisippi he will do as a farm hand or a mechanic anywhere else in the South if he is as well used. In fact he has been doing a great dearl in spite of the ill treatment he receives when he is treated as a "problem," as the enormous increase in the output of southern products since the war abundantly attests. WICHITA, KANSAS. SEPT 10 1904. A Letter Which Explains Itself. WICHITA, KAS., Sept. 7 04 Editor Searchlight— Dear Sir—Allow me a short space in your valuable race paper to give expression to a few of my views. For the post two or three issues of your paper you have called attention to the true fact that the colored people of Sedgwick county ought to be given representation in the office of the probate judge and also in that of county clerk—in the event that the Republican nominees are elected. In both of these regards I most heartily agree with you and it is a very poor make-shift of a colored man who does or would not agree with you in these arguments for the race's interest and not only agree with you now, but who would not be willing to stand by you in your position if it takes all summer. I commend you for the very manly stand which you have taken at this time in pointing out to the race their needs and just rights and how to get them. Before going further I will say, I could write much on this line at this time but, as my letter will get to a little late this week, and not wishing to tax you kindness in publishing this note, I will only touch on county matters at this time, hoping and trusting that some other colored voter will take up where I left off and furnish you a letter for next week, giving his views so we can have a kind of heart review reading each others views on this very important question, that is, our part of the pie. I have been a resident of Kansas for more than a quarter of a century and have lived in more than one county in the state, but in no county in which I have ever lived have I ever noticed so much unconcern for the Negro on the part of Republicans as is manifest among them this fall, they seem to carry an air of utter unconcern and seem to take it as a matter of fact that they have the Negro voter by the coat tail with a downward pull, and why give him anything? But, is this true? Will the Negro of Sedgwick county permit his requests to be so scoffed and scorned at and not at least notice the scoffing? Your plea for a place for a member of the race in the office of the Probate Judge and that of the County Clerk is not only just fair and reasonable, but it is beyond question due them. But as you asked in one issue "will the gentlemen who aspire for these places—Probate Judge and County Clerk—grant them?" Of course that remains to be found out, and it will be in the near future. For my part I will stay by you in your position, because it is right and just, and I believe there are hundreds of other colored men in this county who will do the same. What reason as you asked can these gentlemen produce why they should not give the colored people a place in their offices? This also will be found out. If the colored voter expects anything, he must make his request known now, and push them, and hold up the arms of the men who are taking the lead in their behalf. The colored voters are not dead neither have they lost all their race pride, and there is no better time to show bote than now. Keep your good work up, do not cease the battle cry, and you will find friends coming to your rescue so long as you prove manly enough as you have, and as you are doing now to push the interest of the race. For want of time and not wishing to overdo a kindness on your part, I close by saying:—Every colored man in our county ought to become a stir and if the race is refused these places find out good and plenty the full and true reasons why. Publish them, and then leave the matter in the hands of the voter to decide. If we are men let us prove it, if we are only as tools to push some white man into office who would not give a pleasant smile after getting his certificate of election let us disprove this. I say to the colored voters let us be men, "we cannot die but once, boys, let's sell our lives dear." Yours for Success. TRY THE BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE KINGMAN ITEMS. Miss Lorena Sounders of Hrtehinson was the guest of Etta Foyd during the plenie. The male quartete of Wichita composed of Robt. Floyd, Arthur Nelson, Joe Bell, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Edgerton entertained the crowd at the Riverside park during the four days of our cattlemen's convention. Mr. Syl Griggs and Watt Morris of Wichita were table waiters at the Baltimore hotel during our picnic. Quite a number of young people drove out to the home of Mr. Joe Banks and spent the evening with music and games after a, short time, refreshments were served and all departed for their homes and reported a fine time. Mr. Ed Bunch of Medicine Lodge is the guest of his cousin Nelson Martin during the picnic. M. E. Weeds of Goffeyville came out to Kingman last week to look after business; while here he took in our big picnic. There was a large crowd of colored people in our city during our picnic, more than we have seen for quite awhile. The Sells & Downs show will be in our city the 15th of Sept. ```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 Content is something you think other people have when they haven't A negro recently fell seventy feet in New York and lost neither his life nor his religion. Some men find it more difficult to get divorced from their illusions than from their wives. Georgia has a town called Shake Rag, whose citizens, however, are said to be no great shakes. Viewed through the smoke of his hookah, all battleships look much alike to Sultan Abdul Hamid. Krupp's gun works are now working overtime, and peace is still looking in vain for the proverbial "balm." Holland's new airship may cost but $10, but it is likely to cost somebody his life before we hear the last of it. A man drank nine quarts of whisky and died. Even the temperance folks must admit that rum has some value. A New York society man has been fined for swearing. Still, the tailor may have given him great provocation. That Boston society leader who has taken up the blacksmith's trade is going to get on the black list if he isn't careful. A western expert on alcoholism claims that the reason so many men fail to walk straight is that they can't see straight. The czar's edict abolishing whipping in his domains will interest the heir apparent when he arrives at the spanking age. In Georgia the catfish have taken to swallowing rattlesnakes. The water must be almost as bad up there as it is in Kentucky. Squabs have advanced to $5 a dozen in New York, but the old familiar political squabble may still be had upon most any terms. Russia claims that flour is contraband of war, and will do all in her power to discourage the hot-biscuit habit within her borders. The reappearance of the kissing bug at the seaside resorts is taken to mean that the sea serpent story is not good form this year. In Philadelphia an actress killed herself sooner than marry. Death lasts a great deal longer, though, than the average theatrical marriage. If King Edward were to meet the emperor of the Hottentots would he wear the uniform of a Hottentot admiral as a mark of courtesy. Love is the greatest thing in the world, but it has its drawbacks when the loved one pawns your jewels without notifying you in advance. Marie Dressler, the actress, has adopted one of those "incubator babies;" and her press agent will now have something substantial to work on. The new Holland flying machine costs but $10. Glad to see these little modern conveniences gradually getting down to within $9.99 of their actual value. A suit against Armour for $1,200,000 is said to be a friendly action. The average man would take it as unfriendly, to say the least, to be sued for a million. Fresh Pork 2c Pe Buy your Tobacco is now said to make the hair come out. In the form of cigarettes it is liable to do almost any old thing. In Paris the women have taken to Panama hats. "Straws" evidently continue to show which way the wind blows. Mike Obuchowski has been put in jail at Pittsburg for highway robbery. He probably used his name to disable his victims. A Chicago man named Love has been ordered to pay his wife $50,000 alimony. But perhaps he loves money less than liberty. A Washington man advertises what he calls "bottled sunshine," but bottled moonshine will continue to hold its own in Kentucky. The Governor of Louisiana has eighty colonels on his staff. The consumption of mint over there must be something tremendous. A fellow in Massachusetts has been discovered who wears a tin shirt. Must be next to impossible for a girl to touch that man's heart. Count Kwamura is known in history as the "father of the Japanese navy." It might be said, also, that Commodore Perry was its grandfather. A Minnesota man has invented an automobile that is propelled by the wind. Eye-witnesses report that it goes—when the wind is right. It has been definitely decided that no one can collect the insurance on a man who has been hanged. It all depends on your standing in society. One of the most noted horse fanciers in the country has just been captured at Manchester, N. H. He is said to have stolen over 100 of them. "Always wash your hands after handling money," counsels a health authority. Ah, yes—and if the stain still seems to linger, hand some of it back. The Philadelphia police recently "pinched" ninety-four citizens in a poolroom raid. Have to pinch a true Philadelphia to satisfy him he is really awake. The Japanese private soldier receives 70 cents a month. A poor mathematician can figure the value of a good quality of patriotism to a country on this basis. The meaning of the term Lhassa, the chief city of Thibet, is "God's ground." This, however, does not deter the British from the effort to make it theirs. The Dowager Empress of China is reducing her household expenses. Many a professional man in this country would be glad to have her tell him how she is doing it. Somebody has discovered that the Flemish word for automobile is paardelooszoonderspoormegpetroolrijtiju. By any other name it would smell just as strongly of gasoline. Don't be alarmed. The man who accosts you without introduction or apparent excuse and begins talking wildly is not an escaped lunatic. He is canvassing for a straw vote. When his wife has gone to a summer resort, the husband, left alone in the midst of his housekeeping incapacity, ceases to indulge in that cynical inquiry of "Why did I ever marry?" W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. 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Write it plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Whitita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. First Publication July 30th 1904 SEMATE 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 concurring therein: SECTION 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas 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 lead 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 of ficers, and shall hold four two years and until his suec 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. I. R. BURKOW, secretary of state. HOT STUFF. In another column of this paper appears a letter from "A Reader" of the Searchlight, who, by his tone of writing takes sides with us in our plea for places for some member of the colored race in the office of Probate Judge and that of County Cerk. This brother is a "warm member" and is "hot stuff." That is the way we like to hear them talk. We wish to say right here that every column of this paper is now thrown wide open for the colored voters to give air to their feeling on this question of "Jobs" write all you want we will publish it. Send it in- From now till Nov. 8th, the paper is yours. We were only moved from a point of interest for the race in bringing this matter to the public and are more than glad to see the people take so much interest. Our motto—"We shall prosper together, or shall hang separate" Let us prosper. W. N. MILEER, Editor. The Finest. At last Wichita is to have an up-to-date barber shop with bath room connected. For many moons this has been a recognized necessity and now we have it. A first class barber shop with fine rooms fitted up witq porcelain bath tubs, plenty of sowels, hot and cold water and cold water and every other convenience of a stricly first class shop is the barber shop opened by Wm. A. Battis and John E. Lewis at 337 N Main. These gents have gone to much expense to fill a long felt want and throw open to the people one of the finest shops in Kansas. They solicit the patronage of all. School Opens Monday Morning, Sept. 12th. On Monday morning Sept. 12th, the public schools of Wichita will open for the fall term. We cannot too forcibly point out to f thers and mothers of co'ored children, especially, the great importance of seeing that each of their children of school age begin school Monday morning. And not only begin Monday morning, but that they are kept in school during the entire term. Parents owe it to their children to give them an education, when it costs so little, too, commits an unpardonable sin which they can never fully atone. Then again parents have no excuse to send their children to school and see to it that they attend. Under the Kansas school laws every person who is unable to buy books, etc., can secure them, and thanks to the generous heart of Kansas people, and especially those of Wichita, if any parent is unable to dress their children for school there is always glad to lend a helping hand—so there is no excuse. Send that boy or that girl to school. The Searchlight will watch the attendance more carefully this year than ever before, and from time to time we will publish the names of those whose children are permitted to lag out of school, play hookey and loiter about the streets. The test is education and every parent ought to sacrifice everything else to provide that boy or girl with the test. Stop that boy and send him to school, stop that girl and send her to school, if you do not you had better, tears for your neglect in the future. Let the enrollment of colored children this year surpass that of any previous year and let it be kept up during the entire year. Remember Monday morning September 12. The Searchlight acknowledges the receipt of thirty-two (32) new subscribers this week, and still they come. Keep it up, we're not mad, only smiling. ONLY TWO. There was only two special guests in Marion Thursday, they were Senator Chas. W. Fairbanks of Indiana and Gen. Wesley Barker of Sedgwick. Both were carried to Marion free, given all they wanted to smoke, eat, etc., free of cost. Both had taken their free rides and whatall, and the question new is which is which, the senator from Indiana or the General from Sedgwick? HEADQUARTERS OPENED Chairman Dan E. Boone and Sec Jas. A. Only have opened county Republican headquarters in the Reed building where they have fitted up two neat rooms for the ac- commodation of the politicians. Things are just now taking on an air of business and all are wel- comed. Locals and Personals E. T. Summytt was on the sick list a few days the past week. If you want to find out about Marrion ask Syl Anderson. Miss M. Jones left for Kingfisher Mrs. H. W. Harding and baby left Monday for Newton to spend two weeks visiting. Mrs. M. W. Madison met with quite a painful accident in having a pin stuck in her hand. The swell reception tendered by Mr. and Mrs W. A. Wright, 909 N Msin to Miss Lula Morgan, Mrs. G. A. Nichols and Mr. Jesse Brown all of Winfield, during the session is still one of the topics of conversation. Miss Morgan is a sister of Mrs. Wright G. H. Young after spending several days in the city atteding to business matters left Wednesday night for Chicago He made a stop in K. C. Thursday to visit his daughter. The pic-nie given by the Tabernacle Baptist church at Linweed park Friday was a grand success. Messers Thomei and William Parks left Thursday for Washington D. O. Gus Tidwell left Thursday for Roswell, N. Mex LOST—Ladies gold watch Friday afternoon at Linwood Park. $5 reward if returned to Mrs D. H. Hicks 1247 N. Mead. Palestine Commandry No. 12 of this city has elected Past Master Jeff S. Fauves as Eminent Commauder and W. H. A. Clark secretary. Rev. Yochnm will have a big rally al the AM E church, Snuday night. The Uniform Rank, K of P, will give a sword drill at night The Ladies Educational Home and Forsign Mission met with Mrs. L. C. Carr Monday. Sixteen ladies present and a pleasant time spent. Lunch was served by the hostess. Miss Etta Pitts was taken quite ill at the lodge room Wednesday afternoon and was taken home in a buggy by Mrs. Davis. Rev. S. M. Hall left Wednesday afternoon for Arkansas City to attend the Southwestern Baptist association of which he is moderator. Mrs. J. L. Harper end Mrs. S. E. Patton left for Arkansas City Thursday morning as delegates to the Southwestern Baptist association. Miss S. E. Kyle left Tuesday for Denver and Colorado Springs for her health. Peter Kirk was up from Kingfisher Monday visiting his neices Mrs. Kyle and daughter. WANTED=A boy about 13 or 14 to go to school and do abores. H. H. Neely, 1447 S. River. YOU WORK ALI In order to get money to be this fall. Now don't be trick cheap Remember a Cheap W winner. If you want to get your mon We sell the RAMBLER, $4 They can't be beat. YOU WORKED ALL SUMMER In order to get money to buy a bicycle to ride to school this fall. Now don't be tricked into buying something cheap Remember a Cheap Wheel is the repairman's bread winner. If you want to get your money's worth come in and see us We sell the RAMBLER, $40; and the RUGBY, $35. They can't be beat. Schollenberger Bros Phone 545 "We'll Treat" Phone 545 "We'll Treat You Square" 230 N. Main The swell reception tendered by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wright, 909 N Msin to Miss Lula Morgan, Mrs. G. A. Nichols and Mr. Jesse Brown all of Winfield, during the session is still one of the topics of conversation. Miss Morgan is a sister of Mrs. Wright G. H. Young after spending several days in the city atteding to business matters left Wednesday night for Chicago He made a stop in K. C. Thursday to visit his daughter. Mrs. J, W. Hall tendered a swell reception at her home, 518 N. Water in honor of her two brothers Messers Thomas and William Parks who were here visiting from Washington, D. C. A large number of guests were present. Refreshments were servdd. The Eureka Club will open its season of 1904--5 with a Big Mask Ball, Monday night, Sept. 19th at Odd Fellow hall. This Club gained quite a reputation for giving swell affairs last year and an effort will be made this year to surpass the splen did record of last year. Their opening number on Sept. 19th promises to be grand in every way. WANTED HOME—For a baby about four years old, healthy. A good home in a Christian famly. Apply to Helen Gould Orphan Home, H. H. Neely, Supt. 1447 S. River. Miss Clotile Brown of Joplin, Mo., is here visiting her Auntie Mrs. Lee Andercon. Mrs. Lee Anderson and sister Lizzie Phelps arrived home Sunday from a camping trip in the southeastern part of the state, they report a del ghtful time. There is no two sides among the colored people in Sedgwick this year. Thanks, they are all for the race and the race interests good. Is political etiquett gleaned from a hymn book? Let's see. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER, PATRON IZE THEM. Mrs. Lee Anderson went to Wellington Monday in interest of the Court ef of Calantha of that place She reports the Court doing nicely. John Davis returned to the city Thursday morning. Lank Hilbert is home again after an absence of several months. Mrs. M. Mack was in the city last week. ARKED IN SUMMER (÷)—÷ buy a bicycle to ride to school used into buying something Wheel in the repairman's bread hey's worth come in and see us $0; and the RUGBY, $35. (÷) —÷ You Square" 230 N. Main CHEF'S OVEN Southwestern Distributing Agent for Cribben & Sexton Co. Any style of stove at wholesale prices. nnhoff & 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 Warnhoff WHIT EVERY THIN Prescriptions F Call and see us. On A CUST Salman 228 North SECOND Warnhoff & M. 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Once e Our store is Headquarters BOTH PHONES 497 H. H. TURNER -- 537 W. Douglas A. OLDEN'S DRUG STORE prescriptions Filled with Care —Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco. nage solicited. Once a customer, always a store is Headquarters for the Colored peo 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 Wishita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas MYRON A Groceries, Fruits and F 815 N. M MYRON A. DEAN veeties, Fruits, Vegeta and Feed. 315 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phone MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. W. M. Dunson, Painter Kinds of Fine ARTISTIC PRINTING Only Colored Painter the City. Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Main Phone 986 WICHITA TRUCK Carry a full Trunks and Trucks Just what you need on WORLD'S FAIR and S Give Us a SHITA TRUNK FACT Carry a full line of Banks and Traveling B Just what you need on your trip to the WORLD'S FAIR and SUMMER OUTING Give Us a trial 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 you SCHOOL For Boys, Girls All Kinds of G BUY YOUR S BRAIT 120 E. Dou We will send for your trunks for repair SCHOOL SHOP For Boys, Girls and Misc Kinds of Good Shoes JOY YOUR SHOES A BRAITSCH'S 120 E. Douglas Ave. Mrs E. J. Jefferson has leased our restaurant at 993 E. Douglas and will new enjoy a much needed rest. Those. Anderson, one of Wichita's up to the -minute young men made going trip to Kansas City Sunday take on a few hours of pleasure at that city. He returned Sunday night. A man working on a saw. ES 497 URNER, Douglas Ave. DRUG STORE illed with Care Cigars and Tobacco. ..... a customer, always a customer s for the Colored people DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas A. DEAN ats, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. INK FACTORY all line of traveling Bags on your trip to the SUMMER OUTING a trial our trunks for repair L SHOES Girls and Misses Good Shoes SHOES AT TSCH'S Douglas Ave. The anniversary in honor of Re P. D. Yoehum will be next held Wed. Sept. 14, at O d. Fellow hall All are requested to be present Rally at the A. M. E. church on Sunday Sept. 11. An invitation extended to all ministers and congregations to be present. Service 11 e'clock a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. 903 East Douglas Ave Meals 15c Hot and Cold Lunch Short - Orders CIGARS and TOBACCO Best of Service MRS. E. J, JEFFERSON, Prop. The following colored men from Wichita went to Marion on Thursday, Sept. 1st: Henry Massey, Theo. H. Yaney, B. Morris, Syl Anderson, Frank Gardenhire, Jeff Thompson, Frank Hill, Al Glover, J. H. McBride, W. N. Miller, C. G Coles, Dr. J. E. Farmer, Wesley Jno E. Lewis, Rev. W. H. Tillman. Messrs. Thos and Will Parks, of Washington, D. C., arrived in the city Friday of last week and spent a few days visiting their mother and relatives and left Thursday on their return to Washington. The Season Will Be Big Mass Given By The Odd Fell Monday Night This is the opening Club and every e to make this a gr Guess wh Grand This is the opening number of this Club and every effort will be made to make this a grand affair. Guess who leads the at 10 P.M.? NEWTON ITEMS. Misses Mabel Hall, Cecil Bush, Alice Powell of Peabody are visiting in this city. Mrs. John Anderson who has been very sick is some bett r. Miss Mamie Williams who has been visiting Miss Callie Anderson left Tuesday afternoon for her home in Wichita. Miss Stella Roy [who has been visiting two months with her aunt Mrs. Charles Robinson, will leave Saturday for her home in Atchinson. Mrs. Garret, son and daughter who have been visiting in Colorado for the past three weeks have returned home reporting a pleasant trip. Mt. and Mrs. Ramey swent a few days in Wichita last week attending the Grand Lodge, also Mr. and Mrs. Gross. WINFIELD ITEMS. Rev. Garaett of Arkansas City spent several days in Winfield last week. Mrs. John Reeves who spent several weeks in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fonst, has returned to her home in Hutchinson. Mrs. Pettit. Mrs. J. W. Wood, Messrs Sol North, James Nichos, Perry Waldon, John Jackson, Rev. S. S. Bandy went on the excursions on Indep ndace, Kas., last Sunday they were highly entertained by the people of that city. A few of the young people gave a pleasant ball at Burdett balls on Monday eve and report a pleasant Al Covington and wife and daughter left Tuesday eye for Los Vagas Cal., where they go to visit the mother of Mr. Covington who lives at that place. They will be gone about two weeks. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Davis, 1135 N. Washington, delegates W. M. Radford, Dos Thomas and J. W. McOy, each of Topeka, spent a royal week during the session. No pains were spared by their hostess to make them enjoyable. On Thursday evening a reception was teadered them at which the following were present: Mesdames L. H. White, I. H. Vance, W. Martin, P. Davis. F. Sones; Messrs L. H. White, J. H. Vance, W. Martin, J. R. White, P. Davis, Misses Jackson and Martin. A pleasant time was had. We are informed that Dr. J. E. Farmer will soon occupy the front rooms on the second floor of the building at 517 N. Main with his offices. The Searchlight is still doing all kinds of fancy job work, from a card to a poster. Call on us. n's Grandest Be The asked Ball Eureka Club at OW HALL nt, Sept. 19th ing number of this effort will be made and affair. to lead the March time. Those present from Ark. City were Misses Blanche Linox. Maud Pettit, Messrs Granderson, Whitfield, Dan Berch, Lee Allen, Will Harris. Mr. Walter Gray came down from Wichita last week and was the guest of hotel de Wood. Geo. Charles, J. W. Singleton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Feighbors returned from the camp meeting at Wichita Sunday. PUEBLO, COLO., NEWS The Vendome club gave a dancing party at Lake Minnequa last Wednesday night. Will Wadsworth is again in the city. Miss Fife is in the city visiting her brother and family Mr. Harry Fife, 1405 Vanburen. Mrs. O. W. Baker is suffering from a severe cold. Miss Ross Bowers is better after suffering from a severe cold. Lee Bowers is better, he got his back wrenched while at work at the mill last week. Mrs. A. Bright went to Kansas City last week. J. Hayes is better after a few days illness. Mrs. T. Going was from Colorado Springs last Sunday to attend the memorial services. The colored Roosevelt Repblicau club Mr. Dan Moore, prest. met at Bessemer City hall last Wednesday night and had a rousing meeting. Rev Helm of Denver was present and Hon. W. B. Townsend were speakers of the evening after which refreshments were served. A We have what you want EXCLUSIVE STYLES UNAPPROACABLE PRICES Strictly Up - to - the MINUTE Gauberg's 407 40 E. Dougl FOR CELEBRATE ICE CREAM Call up New P Factory located first block on S BISSANTZ ICE CREAM "THIS IS THE WAY OF FRISCO SYSTEM TO SAINT OF COURSE YOU Let us furnish you with literature related rates, train service, etc. Ask you C. W. STRAIN, DIVISION WICHITA, K The F Splendid Op To Buy Children's School My immense stock—the large cream of eastern manufactu searched the markets I am p ter the values quoted below FOR Bissant WICHITA, N. CELEBRATED ICE CREAM Call up New Phone 1893 Old Phone N located first block on South Rock Island BISSANTZ ICE CREAM CO., "THIS IS THE WAY OF THE WISE." FRISCO SYSTEM SAINT LOUIS OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING! In your with literature relative to the buildings, train service, etc. Ask your local agent or ad- vice C. W. STRAIN, DIVISION PASSENGER AGENT, WICHITA, KAN. The Fulton endid Opportun To Buy Children's School Cloth immense stock—the largest in the state, of eastern manufacture—having thou- ned the markets I am positive you can e values quoted below. 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. The Fulton Splendid Opportunity To Buy Children's School Clothes My immense stock—the largest in the state—is the cream of eastern manufacture—having thoroughly searched the markets I am positive you cannot better the values quoted below. Seven Hundred Boys' Suits, for boys, age 6 to 16 years made strictly all wool fabrics in Norfolk and double styles. Every Suit equal to any $5. garment anywhere $2.50 Here is a snap ane the best values we ever offered. Hundreds of Boys' Suits in Eton, Sailor, Oxford, or double breasted styles in fancy mixtures, today. $3.05 Big Boys' $7. and $8. L. Pants Suits for $4.95; many styles to se ect from neat fancy mixeures in simeres and Cheviots on plain black and blue. $4.95 Boys' Hats and Caps 15 Cases Boys' Sample Hats and Caps bought at 50c on the dollar, go at...$1. The greatest Bargain e by us in these goods. $1.50 THE FULTON good time was enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Barnet and daughter of Ottawa, Kas., are in the city the guest of her daughter Mrs. Brler en Currie ave. Mr. Sam McClure is in the city on a short visit from Portland, Col. Rev. South is in the city for a few days attending the M. E. conference which convened in this city last week. cor Cypress and Arroya, the Ode Fellows officiating. Mr. Eli Marten who has been on to Pratt came home last week. Miss Lula Morgan, of Winfield sister of Mrs. W. W. Wright of the city, speaks in the highest terms of the splendid time which she has while in Wichita attending the Masonic Grand Lodge as the guest of her sister. Wichita will always welcome her return. Mrs Stackard is in the city from Walsen, Celo., the guest of her daughter Mrs. T. Pierce. Mrs. Dovey Walls contemplates a trip to the world's fair. The corner stone laying of the Scotts Chapel, Rev. G. W. Holmes pastor, took place Sunday Sept. 4, Big Boys' $7. and $8. Long Pants Suits for $4.95; many styles to se ect from in neat fancy mixures in Cas simeres and Cheviots and plain black and blue. $4.95 Boys' Hats and Caps 15 Cases Boys' Sample Hats and Caps bought at 50c on on the dollar, go at...$1.50 The greatest Bargain ever by us in these goods. cor Cypress and Arroya, the Odd Fellows officiating. Mr. Eli Marten who has been out to Pratt came home last week. Miss Lula Morgan, of Winfield, sister of Mrs. W. A. Wright of this city, speaks in the highest terms of the splendid time which she had while in Wichita attending the Masonic Grand Lodge as the guest of her sister. Wichita will always welcome her return. Rev. J. J. Jefferson spent last Sunday Sept. 4 at Wellington where he prescheed two powerful sermons, one in the morning and one at night. Collection $7:40. Mrs. Mary Parks returned urduy from Ft. Scott where spent several weeks visiting. ```markdown ``` $1.50 DARY Forgetting the Salt. It is a very easy matter to forget to salt the cows, as every person that has had the care of dairy cows knows. Many a farmer realizes the need of the animals for salt and intends to give them salt at regular intervals. Frequently he does not awake to the fact that the cows are not getting enough salt till he notices a flat fresh taste in the milk, and he at once connects this with the absence of salt. This flatness is supposed to be the only detriment to the non-salting of the cows. But tests made at different times show that the volume of the milk is decreased by this withholding of the mineral that every animal craves. At the Mississippi Experiment station the experiment was tried of keeping cows without salt for a number of weeks. Three cows were deprived of salt for four weeks. The first two weeks the milk was not weighed, as it was likely that the cows would not at first notice the loss of the salt by decreasing their milk. During the two last weeks of the period, however, the milk was weighed and was found to be 454 pounds for the period. The salt was given to them again and the milk weighed for the ensuing two weeks, when it was found to amount to 564 pounds. This was a gain of 110 pounds of milk due to the salting. Doubtless the best way to give the salt is to place large lumps of rock salt where the animals can lick them at leisure. There will then be no danger of the animals eating too much at any one time or of poultry getting at it and eating enough to kill them. The love of all animals for salt is shown by the habit they have of frequenting places where salt is to be found. In the early history of the country, when hunting was a business as much as any other, the hunters used to lie in wait in the places where salt streams flowed from the mountains and left crystal deposits on the rocks, for the hunters knew that such places were frequented by animals from far and near for the purpose of licking the salty rocks. The processes of digestion require salts to assist them. They can be carried on without salt, but always at a disadvantage. Tricks in Selling Creamers. Agents of creamers of various kinds make a good living by going through the country and selling the creamers at high prices. Now some of the creamers are probably all right as far as they go, but most of them are not worth the high prices that are paid for them. The agents also go as far as possible in building up a case for the things they are selling. Reports from Canada say that three agents of these creamers have been arrested and sentenced to jail terms on account of having made fraudulent statements in the sale of the creamers. The statements were, of course, made to insure sales. The farmers in witnessing at the trial testified that the agents declared that the creamers would keep anything cool without the use of ice. Butter would be hard even in the hottest day of summer. The creamers were said to be packed with asbestos, which the agents represented as perfectly impervious to heat. The agents also declared that commission men would pay a higher price for butter from such creamers than that made in the ordinary way. The farmers had signed what they supposed to be trial orders, but which later turned out to be negotiable notes. The cost of each of these wonderful creamers was in excess of $50. Isn't it a little remarkable that some farmers are so suspicious of each other that they will not meet each other in any form of co-operation and yet will place such confidence in smooth-tongued strangers that they will pay out their money on almost any kind of representation? Butter Production This Year. Butter production this season is running along about the same as last year, certainly not ahead. The West is making a little more butter, due to the-good conditions of the pastures, but the Eastern states are making a little less. The surplus in the West does not more than offset the deficiency in the East. As butter moves readily from one great center to another there is no reason why prices this year should drop below those of last year. The conditions during the present month will tell greatly on the production of butter. If the month remains normal as to rainfall the production will be as great as last year. Up to the present time the season has been a normal one. In some parts of Illinois and Wisconsin it has been several degrees cooler than ordinarily, and this has been in favor of the increased production of milk and consequently of butter. Prices show a tendency to be steady, and are now likely to remain so, gradually rising during the next six weeks. Experiments at the Wisconsin station showed that constantly changing milkers increased very slightly the amount of milk yielded, but that the difference was not great enough to become an object worth attention. Pasteurization of skimmilk has greatly increased during recent years, as this results in keeping the milk sweet for a longer period than it would otherwise. POULTRY Temperature of Sitting Hens. A close observer of poultry says that hens differ greatly as to the temperature of their bodies at brooding time. Some hens have a high temperature, and such are good producers of chicks; as the heat is very necessary for the work of developing the chicks. A hen with a high temperature will leave her nest for a considerable time each day, and still the results of her brooding be of the best. There are other hens that have a low temperature and are very poor producers of chicks, whether they stick to the nest all the time or not. We have not made a study of this matter and do not know how much truth there is in the opinions of the so-called close observer. Testing a number of hens by means of a reliable thermometer should shed some light on the problem. More Yard Room. Where fowls are kept yarded they do not often have the amount of yard room that should be given them. On our farms restrictions of this kind are not necessary, as land is worth too small a price to make it necessary to lessen the amount the fowls should have. The small amount allotted to the poultry is often due to the cost of fencing. But the larger the yard the less the cost of fencing. If no top rail is used, four feet will be found high enough for a wire fence, if the yard is of good size. The smaller the yard the higher will the fence have to be, as the smaller the yard the more strenuously will the fowls try to get out of it. Turkey House. In the accompanying cuts are shown two views of a turkey house, illustrated by the United States Department TURKEY HOUSE (FRONT VIEW). of Agriculture. In the front, near the top, is seen a ventilator, which should always be open except in exceptionally cold weather. The roosts are placed near the front of the house and are on the level. The back view shows the slide door, which should be left TURKEY HOUSE (BACK VIEW). open during the day, that the turkeys may go and come at pleasure.—Farmers' Review. Geese. The last census reported 5,600,000 geese in the country, and about forty times as many chickens. This shows the relative importance of the goose raising industry to that of the chicken raising industry. It is, doubtless, true that it would pay our farmers to raise more geese than they do. Goose raising has not largely passed into the hands of specialists, as has the industry of raising ducks. The goose requires a great deal of room to do well, and for that reason the farmer has the advantage over the specialist. Most of the geese in the country are raised on farms, but generally in small flocks. They use a large amount of pasture and this is one thing in their favor, as fields of clover and alfalfa can be turned into goose meat at little cost. The goose feeds very largely on grass, but needs water to swim in to do the best. The fact that the goose does not lay a large number of eggs, and that it requires a good deal of room, have conspired to render the goose popular with American farmers. In spite of this, however, the statistics show that there are more geese in the country than ducks. The goose could be used much more advantageously on some farms than any other domestic bird. There are on a good many farms marshy fields that are too wet for cattle or other farm stock that would make acceptable pasturage for geese. Some of these fields could not be drained without great expense and some of them lie so low that it is doubtful if drainage would ever be effective. This is just the place for a goose run, the frequent pools of water giving them the places necessary for swimming and hunting. Geese raisers declare that geese do not thrive so well in large flocks as do ducks. The "why" is not explained. There may be no "why" except lack of care and crowding in too close quarters. It is probable that it is due to decreased opportunity to find food, especially where the birds have to hunt much of it themselves. 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 heretofore. THREE TRAINS DAILY "The Colorado Flyer", ( in service June 19, ) connecting with through sleeper leaves Wichita 10:20 p. m. "The Colorado Express" connecting train leaves Wichita 2:55 p. m. and No. 7, connecting train leaves 5:10 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 15, final limit—December 15, Sixty-Day Excursion Tickets—Dates of Sale—April 25 to No to be good to leave St. Louis, Fifteen Day Excursion Tickets—Date of Sale—Daily from April limit—Tickets to be good to days from date of sale, but not THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAIL daily for St. Louis, and is the sole of the World's Fair. Through Public chair cars: are operated from change For full information call E. E. BLECKLEY T. P. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. SION TICKETS—$21.45 Round Trip Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, in December 15, 1904 ission Tickets—$17.90 Round Trip April 25 to Nov. 20, 1904 Final life leave St. Louis within sixty days for mission Tickets—$16.00 Round Trip daily from April 27 to Nov. 30, in to be good to leave St. Louis of sale, but not later than December. PACIFIC RAILWAY now has trains, and is the shortest and most direct Through Pullman sleepers and operated from Wichita to St. L. information call on or address the Y. I. R. SHER A. P. & T. Station Cor. Douglas ave and W. WORK IS OUR HOME To A SEASON EXCURSION TICKETS—$21,45 Round Trip Dates of Sale—Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive Final limit—December 15, 1904 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 It's all there but Russia A good line to use is the Rock Island their new line runs along the entire length of the exposition ground and all trains stop at main entrance station before reaching Union Depot. C. E. BASCOM, C. P.A. Our Cuts Mark THE WILLIAMSON HAFFNER ENGRAVING CO. 1633 39 ARAPHGE ST DENVER ROWLEE Hardware Store S23 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses — SEE!!! "UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL." It's a good deal easier to sit up straight in church than it is to walk upright in the world. The Lord would be pleased if a lot of people would take the padlocks off their purses and put them on their lines. It's all there but Russia WIA— ETS—$21.45 Round Trip April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive 1904 $17.90 Round Trip v. 20, 1904 Final limit—Tickets within sixty days from sale date $16.00 Reun! Trip. April 27 to Nov. 30, inclusive. Final leave St. Louis within fifteen t later than December 5th 1904. BILWAY now has three trains shortest and most direct route to man sleepers and elegant reclin Wichita to St Louis without on or address the undersgned I. R. SHERWIN, P. & T. A. Douglas ave and Wichita street. OUR HOBBY. When in need of Groceries to not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S (102 E. Douglas Ave.) Phone 857 Now cometh the summer days when the maiden carries her bathing suit in an opera-glass bag, when the kidlet in a tomato salad negligee escorts her to the beach. It's queer that girls nowadays prefer the busy-buzz-saw-buggy. In the old-fashioned horse affair a man could have one arm free anyhow if the good old horse were the only thing in sight.—Kate Thyson Marr. OG CABIN PHILOSOPHY. Take de gold crowns out of heaven, long wid de milk en honey, en folks would say it’s too fu off te be enticin’. Sometimes Satan is sich good company we dunno what road we travelin’ till we runs squar’ agin de brimstone factory. Folks is all time cryin’ out fer justice, but if ever’ man had justice done bim dar’d be many vacant lots in de real estate of dis worl’.—Atlanta Constitution. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman like to go away from home so as to be able to wish she was back again. A woman considers that she would be a great success in business when she finds a dollar left in an old suit of clothes by her husband. A fat woman makes more fuss about losing twenty once than a thin one does about gaining twenty pounds. A woman's temper is very decrative when she is only engaged. A girl can get more fun out of imagining how proud she will be when she is the mother of seven children than a man out of thinking how surprised his wife would be if he were nominated for some office.—New York Press. We Want YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY UR 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 ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARGHLIGHT IF NOT, WHY NOT? SUBSCRIBE TO - DAY Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. Wiggle-Stick WASH BLUE Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other kind of bluing. Won't Freeze, Spill, Break Nor Spot Clothes DIRECTIONS FOR USES: Wiggle=Stick around in the water. At all wise Grocers. SHE DIDN'T GET A KITTEN. Young Woman's Disappointment No Fault of the Butcher. She is such a sweet little thing, a bride of only four months, that the Harlem butcher with whom she was taking her first lesson in marketing was delighted to see her come into the shop. He waited on her himself and never, so he says, took advantage of her inexperience. If he was busy she stroked the fine Maltese cat stretched lazily in the window and waited for him. "When this cat has kittens," she said to him one morning, "will you be kind enough to let me have one of them. I am so fond of cats." "When that cat has kittens," said the butcher, "you certainly shall have your pick of them." She waited a few weeks and then mentioned the subject to him again. "Nothing doing yet, lady," he replied. A week or two afterward she expressed some impatience to the cashier. "I shall be gone from the neighborhood," she said, "before I get that kitten he promised me." "If you wait until that cat has kittens," said the cashier, with a smile, "you'll wait until sausages grow in strawberry beds." The bride started, and her face grew scarlet. She left the shop in a hurry and has not been back since.—New York Press. Old Man's Secret Alpena, Mich., Sept. 5 (Special).—Seventy-five years of age but hale and hearty is Mr. Jerome K. Fournier of this place, and to those who ask the secret of his splendid health he gives the good advice "Use Dodd's Kidney Pills." When asked for his reason for so strongly recommending the Great American Kidney Remedy, Mr. Fournier related the following experience: "I recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills because they cured me of Diabetes. I suffered with my kidneys for a long time and suffered terribly from those Urinary Troubles that are so general among aged people. "Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney. Pills and eight boxes of them cured my kidneys, regulated my water and made me feel like a hearty young man." Dodd's Kidney Pills make the old feel young because they make sound kidneys. Sound kidneys mean health and health is the other name for youth. A White Robin in Colorado. A white robin was seen in one of the parks of Denver recently and captured by a city employee. A wealthy man purchased it for a handsome sum. When captured the bird was not over six weeks old. It was first seen in a spot near a nest wherein the mother bird was a perfectly natural red-breasted robin, and it is supposed that the white creature came from that nest. The little bird could not be made to eat and it died the other day. It has since been given to a taxidermist, who will mount it, after which, it is to be presented to the Colorado state museum. Within the last two years two other white robins have been seen in Colorado, but they eluded capture. So far as is known, these three are the only white robins that have ever been reported. Naturalists are much puzzled to account for them, or explain why the peculiarity of color should make its appearance. 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 grocery 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. A Great Organization. Here is a summary of the Salvation army operations on the social side: There are 180 food shelter depots, with accommodations for 13,504 and no fewer then 4,537,00 beds have been provided during the last year. There are seventeen prison gate homes with accommodations for 526, and 2,000 satisfactory cases have been passed through them during the last twelve months. There are 116 rescue homes accommodating 2,719, and 5,700 satisfactory cases have been passed through, while the eighteen land colonies contain 29,252 acres, and give temporary employment to 67,000 men. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Sept. 10, '04 Are you following on the map the Japanese maneuvers? It beats chess. None of the millionaires who want to die poor has developed a hobby for living that way. The czar is reported to be holding his own. But the nurse does not permit him to do it long. O. J. de Jong van Beek en Donk is not a trunk falling down stairs, but the governor of Curacao. Anything Miss Lillian Russell says about marriage and divorce will be regarded as expert evidence. Whatever else he may do, Mr. Kipling will certainly never make a hit as a writer of campaign songs. It must be inconvenient to have so many jewels that you can forget what became of $200,000 worth of them. The stork will now have time to devote a little attention to the queen of Italy and young Queen Wilhelmina. Tobacco is now said to make the hair come out. In the form of cigarettes it is liable to do almost any old thing. In Paris the women have taken to Panama hats. "Straws" evidently continue to show which way the wind blows. Mike Obuchowski has been put in jail at Pittsburg for highway robbery. He probably used his name to disable his victims. A Chicago man named Love has been ordered to pay his wife $50,000 alimony. But perhaps he loves money less than liberty. A Washington man advertises what he calls "bottled sunshine," but bottled moonshine will continue to hold its own in Kentucky. The Governor of Louisiana has eighty colonels on his staff. The consumption of mint over there must be something tremendous. A fellow in Massachusetts has been discovered who wears a tin shirt. Must be next to impossible for a girl to touch that man's heart. Count Kwamura is known in history as the "father of the Japanese navy." It might be said, also, that Commodore Perry was its grandfather. A Minnesota man has invented an automobile that is propelled by the wind. Eye-witnesses report that it goes—when the wind is right. It has been definitely decided that no one can collect the insurance on a man who has been hanged. It all depends on your standing in society. One of the most noted horse fanciers in the country has just been captured at Manchester, N. H. He is said to have stolen over 100 of them. "Always wash your hands after handling money," counsels a health authority. Ah, yes—and if the stain still seems to linger, hand some of it back. The Philadelphia police recently "pinched" ninety-four citizens in a poolroom raid. Have to pinch a true Philadelphia to satisfy him he is really awake. The Japanese private soldier receives 70 cents a month. A poor mathematician can figure the value of a good quality of patriotism to a country on this basis. The meaning of the term Lhassa, the chief city of Thibet, is "God's ground." This, however, does not deter the British from the effort to make it theirs. The Dowager Empress of China is reducing her household expenses. Many a professional man in this country would be glad to have her tell him how she is doing it. Somebody has discovered that the Flemish word for automobile is paardelooszoonderspoormegpetroolijtug. By any other name it would smell just as strongly of gasoline. Don't be alarmed. The man who accosts you without introduction or apparent excuse and begins talking wildly is not an escaped lunatic. He is canvassing for a straw vote. When his wife has gone to a summer resort, the husband, left alone in the midst of his housekeeping incapacity, ceases to indulge in that cynical inquiry of "Why did I ever marry?" Are we to understand from Henry Labouchere's new idea that titles should be conferred only on those who are worthy of them by reason of their big bank accounts that "Labby" is at last willing to accept a title for himself? President Elliot's suggestion that education should not cease with youth, but should be prolonged into adult life, is worthy of general attention. Doubtless President Eliot himself, although he knows so much, still learns something every day. PROTECTION IS ROBBERY. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. W.J. BRYAN MANUETTHUR FRANCE TRADE LAW JUDGE DEMOCRACY EVIDENCE OF WEIGHT. EVIDENCE OF WEIGHT. REASONS WHY PROTECTION SHOULD BE UPHELD. Government Report Shows that While the Cost of Living Has Increased, the Income from Wages Has Increased in Much Greater Proportion. The report of the Department of Commerce and Labor shows that if the cost of provisions has increased during American prosperity the average income has increased still further, so that the general public is that much better off on those two comparisons, not to speak of its further benefits in shorter hours of employment for more money and the fact that clothing and other articles entering into the cost of living have not increased. But the American people have not needed any tables of expert calculations to prove to them how much better circumstanced they are now than they ever were before. They have a monthly and weekly and daily reminder of the fact in something that is the very simplest yet the most impressive proof—their surplus of earnings above their expenses, their savings from their incomes after they have met all their expenses and put away a fund for a "rainy day." Take the savings banks depositors of the United States for example. What need have they of government reports to advise them how their bank accounts compare with those which they had when the "cost of living was cheaper" in the Wilson law days? What heed will they give to the Democratic calamity cries when they look over their bank books and find their deposits have been climbing steadily? From 1897, when the Republican party was restored to power, the total savings banks deposits went from $1,939,376,035 to $2,065,631,298 in 1898; to $2,230,366,954 in 1899; to $2,449,547,885 in 1900; to $2,597,094,580 in 1901; to $2,750,177,290 in 1902; to $2,955,204,845 in 1903. In the era of Democratic "low cost of living" the total savings banks de- THE DEMOCRATIC DANIEL W.J.BRYAN MANHATTAN LAW The Court: "The testimony shews that these defendants have committed the crime of receiving the be benefits of protection in connection with their respective avocations. The law says 'Protection is robbery' [Dem. platform, 1904], hence it follows that these defendants stand convicted of robbery. The sentence of this court posits of the country were reduced from $1,785,150,957 in 1893 to $1,747,961,280 in 1894! Take a look at the savings banks deposits in the great Democratic year of 1894 and the present, after two Republican administrations: 1894 ..... $1,747,961,280 1903 ..... 2,935,204,845 In those figures there are a billion and a quarter reasons, each one a dollar of gold standard value, why the savings banks depositors of the United States know their incomes of the present give them not only a better living, but a larger surplus of money left over. If their cost of living had outstripped their increased savings they would not be adding to their savings, as their deposits prove they are. They would be drawing upon them, cutting them down, just as in 1894, when their incomes were falling more heavily than the cost of living; they knew, without any averages or percentages or expert statistics, that they had to call on their savings banks accounts to help out their incomes. No one need have any apprehension that the American people will get fooled by the Democratic talk of the cost of living eating up their increased earnings as long as the American people's bank books show them increased balances, just as they were not fooled in 1894 by the Democratic talk of their cheap cost of living, for they were pulling out their savings every week to pay bills that their earnings could not pay. Furthermore, as we have remarked before, the savings banks depositors of the United States may be relied upon not to get fooled on another phase of this Democratic appeal for their votes. They know that the Democratic platform adopted at St. Louis makes no mention of maintaining those savings banks deposits on a gold standard basis. They know Judge Parker himself, the Democratic party's candidate for President, twice voted to put those savings --- banks deposits on a silver basis, when he gave his ballot in 1896 and 1900 to Mr. William J. Bryan. The savings banks depositors of the country (there are more than 7,000,000 accounts) are no more likely to "take stock" in the Belmont-Parker argument that having more savings in the bank they are worse off than when they had less, than they are to vote for the candidate, Judge Parker, who twice assisted in the attempt to put the savings banks deposits on a silver basis, though he now says, for political effect on the Eastern Democrats, that he "regards" the gold standard as firmly established!—New York Press. Canada's Idea of Reciprocity. Canada's Idea of Reciprocity. The Canadians, it is now settled, do not favor such reciprocity as that demanded by the Massachusetts friends of reciprocity in the Democratic party. The Canadians would be perfectly willing to have free exchange of all raw materials, but they have given England a preferential tariff and will not consent to admit American manufactures to Canada on fair terms. The Canadians are doing well as they are, and are not as eager as formerly for American business. The Americans, on their part, are pretty sure to get a large dose of Canadian trade, and are shy of any such reciprocity as the Canadians will assent to, since such reciprocity would be death to the agricultural and other important New England industries.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Two Facts. The tariff reformers at various times have been agitated by what they call the copper trust. Finally they discovered that copper ore is on the free list and most of them ceased to use this particular illustration, though they still proclaim that the tariff is the mother of trusts, thus conveniently forgetting, of course, that if this is true, then in this case of the copper trust we have a creature that comes into the world without a mother. At the same time they might explain the window glass business. It is true that there is a company that the newspapers speak of as the window glass trust, but this com- EL COME TO JUDGMENT. PROTECTION IS ROBBERY. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUDGE DEMOCRACY Is that these defendants shall forthwith enter upon a 'gradual revision' [Dem. platform, 1904] of their nefarious conduct, and shall persist in such h 'gradual revision' until they shall have wholly ceased to enjoy any profit or advantage whatsoever by, through or from the aforesaid robry, otherwise known as protection. You may go." pany lacks so much of being a monopoly that the competition has been of the keenest sort for years. And yet in the McKinley law and in the Wilson-Gorman law and in the Dingley law the duty on window glass has been very high. Notwithstanding this it has been impossible to form a trust or a combination of any sort that would prevent the livestell of competition. Here are two cold facts of more than ordinary importance in the business world that ought to be known to everybody—two facts that, standing alone, are sufficient to take the pith out of the theory that the tariff is the mother of trusts. And these are but two of numerous facts, all giving the direct lie to this tariff theory. But what has the tariff reformer to do with facts?—Greenfield (Ind.) Tribune. To Kill a Snake. Senator Lodge is perfectly correct in saying that the Massachusetts reciprocity movement is a covert scheme to divide and weaken the Republican party. The scheme is being engineered with that purpose distinctly in view. And it will succeed unless Republicans take it promptly by the neck and shut off its wind. That is what the Iowa Republicans did, with the result that reciprocity squeaks are few and far between in that fine Republican commonwealth. It will be found in Massachusetts, as elsewhere, that you cannot kill a snake by codling it. Trust Busters to the Fore. When Mr. Taggart of Indiana was elected chairman of the Democratic national committee it was supposed that he would be in charge of the canvass. Now it is reported that Mr. Sheehan of New York, chairman of the executive committee is to be in active control. Apparently Judge Parker desired some man with an intimate knowledge of corporations, acquired by service on numerous boards of directors, to manage the great fight against corporate aggression. Kansai City Star. Oklahoma State Military Institute. Oklahoma State Military Institute. 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To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and in the kitchen, only familiar with old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs, while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. Young Jap Has to Study. The young Japanese who wishes to enter the public service, a profession, or even rank as educated, has practically to learn four languages—pure Japanese, Japano-Chinese, epistolary Japanese and colloquial dialect. CAMP ON LONELY ISLAND. United States Marines Must Rely on Themselves for Company. American marines under the command of Lieut. Clarence S. Owen, formed a camp last May on Sand island, one of the Midway islands, which are mere specks in the Pacific but are important as a cable station, and for other reasons. Lieut. Owen, a naval surgeon, three non-commissioned officers and sixteen privates form the camp. By digging eight feet in a valley near the camp excellent drinking water was obtained. A cellar was constructed for the storage of provisions. The temperature in the cellar is regularly about 70 degrees, while the external temperature varies from 70 to 100 degrees. Other stores were placed in a large tent provided for the purpose. On the island thousands of eggs can be found a short distance from the camp, provided by the gray backed tern, and a large number were gathered. Fish are also in abundance and easily caught. The detachment is supplied with a library and the comfort of the men has been provided for as much as possible. The men can have the luxury of a fresh shower bath, as a well has been dug from which water is drawn and placed in a barrel at such a height that by crude attachment the shower is easily turned on. There is a 600-yard rifle range and a rifle butt. Besides the numberless gray-backed terns, the albatross abound in great numbers. Then there are wedge-tailed shear-water man-of-war birds, red tailed swallows sickle-billed curfew and snipe. BUILDING FOOD. To Bring the Babies Around. When a little human machine (or large one) goes wrong, nothing is so important as the selection of food which will always bring it around again. "My little baby boy fifteen months old had pneumonia, then came brain fever, and no sooner had he got over these than he began to cut teeth and, being so weak, he was frequently thrown into convulsions," says a Colorado mother. "I decided a change might help, so took him to Kansas City for a visit. When we got there he was so very weak when he would cry he would sink away and seemed like he would die. "When I reached my sister's home she said immediately that we must feed him Grape-Nuts and, although I had never used the food, we got some and for a few days gave him just the juice of Grape-Nuts and milk. He got stronger so quickly we were soon feeding him the Grape-Nuts itself and in a wonderfully short time he fattened right up and became strong and well. "That showed me something worth knowing and, when later on my girl came, I raised her on Grape-Nuts and she is a strong healthy baby and has been. You will see from the little photograph I send you what a strong, chubby youngster the boy is now, but he didn't look anything like that before we found this nourishing food. Grape-Nuts nourished him back to strength when he was so weak he couldn't keep any other food on his stomach." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. All children can be built to a more sturdy and healthy condition upon Grape-Nuts and cream. The food contains the elements nature demands, from which to make the soft gray filling in the nerve centers and brain. A well fed brain and strong, sturdy nerves absolutely insure a healthy body. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." SENTENCE SERMONS. Prayer is the parent of perseverance. It is easy to mistake gas works for good works. Sacrifice determines the value of any service. No man is so rich he can afford to lose a friend. Only those who face their sins find their forgiveness. The religion that makes good will make people good. God's love was not meant as a cushion for our laziness. The Master never dwells in the same heart with malice. Men who expect to die like dogs are likely to live like hogs. The pessimist always bites the spots on the apple first. We are all willing to admit the de- pravity of our neighbors. One does have to wait to be fleeced to prove that he is not a wolf. It is hard to be popular with pigs and to keep out of the trough. Many a man would be rich if he did not try so hard to appear to be. The man who puts his head into a barrel does not eclipse the sun. A little smile to-day may be worth the most eloquent funeral sermon to- morrow. The value of a man's principles depends on what it costs him to cash them in practice. It's a good deal easier to sit up straight in church than it is to walk upright in the world. The Lord would be pleased if a lot of people would take the padlocks off their purses and put them on their lips. Where the feathers of vanity fly there is always a good mark for the gun, but never enough bird to pay for the shot.—Chicago Tribune. WIT AND WISDOM. The check book is mightier than the alimony clause. Some political "booms" need noth- ing so much as a coroner's inquest. It would take more than a skyscraper elevator to elevate some people. Now cometh the dog star days, when the thrifty housewife may live on the delicatessen plan. Ambition is the fidgerty bumptious- ness of a man who wants to step over his own head. Some men go through life pretty much as a dorg with a chain to his collar and a woman yanking at the business end. If a negro adventures could wheedle a cool million out of a New York millionaire how much could a hard-working deserving white woman get? Now cometh the summer days when the maiden carries her bathing suit in an opera-glass bag, when the kidlet in a tomato salad negligee escorts her to the beach. It's queer that girls nowadays prefer the busy-buzz-saw-buggy. In the old-fashioned horse affair a man could have one arm free anyhow if the good old horse were the only thing in sight—Kate Thyson Marr. LOG CABIN PHILOSOPHY. Take de gold crowns out of heaven, 'long wid de milk en honey, en folks would say it's too fu off te be enticin'. Sometimes Satan is sich good company we dunno what road we travelin' till we runs squar' ag'in de brimstone factory. Folks is all time cryin' out fer justice, but if ever' man had justice done him dar'd be many vacant lots in de real estate of dis worl'.-Atlanta Constitution. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman like to go away from home so as to be able to wish she was back again. A woman considers that she would be a great success in business when she finds a dollar left in an old suit of clothes by her husband. A fat woman makes more fuss about losing twenty oncees than a thin one does about gaining twenty pounds. A woman's temper is very deceptive when she is only engaged. A girl can get more fun out of imagining how proud she will be when she is the mother of several children than a man out of thinking how surprised his wife would be if he were nominated for some office.—New York Press. --- Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price 50c. AUSTRIAN GIRLS WELL TAUGHT. Careful! Education in All Branches Accorded Them. Austrian girls are often taught in school until they are 15 years old. They are not during this time kept entirely out of society, but are dressed with the greatest simplicity, never wearing a silk gown until they have left school and attended their first ball. On leaving the schoolroom they have one or two years' training in the kitchen and pantry, either by some member of their own family or under a trained cook in another's house. Though they may never be required to cook for themselves, they know exactly how everything should be done, and long before they set up housekeeping on their own account are competent to take charge of a household. They make most affectionate wives and mothers, says Woman's Life. An Austrian lady is said to be as accomplished and learned as an English governess, as good a cook and housekeeper as a German, as bright and witty in society as a Parisian, and as handsome as an American. In Vienna are found some of the most beautiful women in Europe. Austrian girls are brought up in habits of industry, and are rarely seen without some kind of work in hand. The are famous for their great piles of linen, a certain number of yards of which are every year from a girl's birth woven and laid aside for her marriage portion. The grandmothers spend much of their time in knitting for their grandchildren, not only supplying their present need, but laying by dozens of stockings of every kind for the young girl's trousseau. Some of these woven ones. stockings are as fine as the finest Their First Falsehood. "It is said there should be implicit confidence between married folk," said a Fifth avenue clergyman whose church is not far from Fortieth street. "I am a believer in this little injunction, but I am also certain that I once married a couple who tried to deceive not only one another, but even themselves, at the altar. I knew them both. He was a bachelor of seventy; she was a spinster of about sixty. But you would not have thought so when they came to get me to marry them. She was attired like a shopgirl out for her first ball, and his raiment bespoke the youthful dude of twenty-two or twenty-three. His snow white mustache had been dyed black and waxed until the ends looked like knitting needles. "I asked them their ages. "Thirty-five," he said gravely. "Thirty," she simmered. "Now each was aware of deceiving the other, but I want to tell you both looked positively happy and untroubled over the conscienceless falsehoods with which they had begun their married life."—New York Herold. The Market Price of Titles. A dealer in foreign titles and decorations, in response to an inquisitive inquirer, gives the price of the commodities he offers. The title of count costs 30,000 francs; viscount, 25,000; baron, 15,000. These are Spanish. "Chevalier" is naturally much less expensive, the highest order being for sale at 8,000 francs. The red, black and white rosette of the Red Cross, given for aid to the wounded on land and sea, can actually be purchased for 1,500 francs; no further qualification being necessary than the payment of this sum. One month suffices the intermediary to secure this decoration to the candidate who desires it. The higher titles necessitate a delay of five or six months. Half the purchase money has to be sent to the dealer in titles on application. I have seen the worst of the world, and I care no more When the laboring ship strains on through an ocean of weed Our captain takes good heed. But better heed takes he who steers without chart the storm, Who hath bidden the north blow cold and the south breathe warm; That, though splinters the ship on the dread marge He hath her crew in charge. From the peril of fire and flow, from the roof and rock He hath gathered them man by man—a weary flock— He will bring them home to the haven where they woul be. Over a jasper sea. -Black and White. Deepest Sounding Ever Made. The deepest sounding ever made by any vessel was the United States ship Nero while on the Honolulu-Manila cable survey. When near Guam the Nero got 5,269 fathoms, or 31,614 feet, only 66 feet less than six miles. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth, were set down in this hole, it would have above its summit a depth of 2,612 feet, or nearly half a mile of water. Few Physicians in Cuba. Physicians are scarce in Cuba; $316,000 worth of patent medicines were imported during the fiscal year 1902-'03, mostly from France. Large Meat Eating Shortens Life This is true, for the reason that men lived to a great age during the centuries of a vegetable dietary. The causes of the rapid falling off of the allotted time of man's existence is no doubt traceable to meat eating. From the Creation to the Deluge animals were used for sacrifice, but not for food. Man is made for a long life and certainly can attain it if he uses the wisdom given him by his Creator. Let his diet consist of foods which will maintain health and prolong life and free from all injurious substances. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD is made from the whole grain of the wheat—the brain, muscle and nerve not bolted out of it. Palatable—Nutritious—Easy of Digestion and Ready to Eat My signature on every package. Dr. V. C. Price Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts. A cook book containing 76 excellent receipts for using the Food mailed free to any address. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO., Food Mills, BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Main Offices, CHICAGO. HEWOULD TAKE NO RISKS. Cowboy Wanted to Have Decent Chance of Spending His Money. "In the West," said Mr. William Sturgis, of Cheyenne, Wyo., "the people take very slowly to the notion that government should busy itself in the endeavor to regulate public morals. "For that reason, although we have a pretty stiff state anti-gambling law, the statute is of little potency, and the boys gather in the old familiar centers to bet their coin against faro, roulette, hazard or poker. "Not long ago, one of my clients, of the cowboy tribe, who had deposited $1,000 with me, made a trip to town and for several days got me to let him have about $100 per diem. I thought he was trying his luck at faro and finally, when he had spent just half his capital, I advised him that the writing of checks was getting monotonous, and that if he meant to keep on playing to withdraw the remaining $500 in a lump, so that he need not 'bother to hunt for me.' At the same time I advised him in strong terms to stop then and there and take no chances in losing the money he had acquired through months of patient toil on the plains. He heard me through with the utmost patience,taking no apparent heed of my rebuke and then said: "I know what you say is true, Judge, but supposing I should die right sudden and get no chance to spend that other $500.—Washington Pest. try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. 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