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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Our County Our County Chairman M. B. Hon. Dan E. Boone; Firman Republican County Central they placed Mr. Boone at the conservative, clear, a good lea his guidance success is ahead his working abilities in the Marion, Kan., on Sept. 1st. Relic of Se en Is Burning of Negroes at the Washington, D. C. Star -- Slaves Who Ki led Their M Case at Baltimore 1820 -- 1835 Aroused Indignation After 1855. irman Republican County Central Committee a Republican County Central Committee made a wise selection they placed Mr. Boone at the head of the county organization, conservative, clear, a good leader and a close political student. this guidance success is ahead. Mr. Boone has already demonstrated his working abilities in the immense excursion which was taken Marion, Kan., on Sept. 1st, under his leadership. elic of South= ern Slavery Burning of Negroes at the Stake, says Historian in Washington, D. C. Star -- Punishment Meeted Out To Slaves Who Ki led Their Master In The South -- First Case at Baltimore 1820 -- Case By St. Louis Mob In 1836 Aroused Indignation In The East -- Cessation After 1855. The burning of Negroes for crimes as murder and asking women has been rather frequent of late years, and the final impression has been that has been a new and altogether new development of the thing mania—a thing unknown within the past 10 or 15 years" said an old citizen. "This never is very far from being case. If anything, the burnout Negroes for certain crimes revival of an old punishment in slavery times was occasionally meted out to slaves who felt their masters. It is true that it is much more common nowadays than formerly but this is no argument in favor of the notion that prior to such punishments were unknown in the South. The first instance of the burn of a Negro recorded in the city American press may be found in Niles' Register, published at Baltimore, of Feb. 3, 1831, namely: A Thomas Hancock of Edgedistrict, South Carolina was killed by two of his slaves of whom confessed the fact relieve his own conscience. He deceased was shot as he was going into bed. One of slaves condemned to be burned to death, the other to be burned to death. is impossible to say whether sentence was actually carried as there is no further men- of the affair in the southern sides of that beyond what ap- pars id Nile's Register. At any THYEAR. County Central Committee Committee made a wise selection the head of the county organization, leader and a close political student. d. Mr. Boone has already demon- imense excursion which was tak- under his leadership. South= in Slavery Stake, says Historian in Punishment Meeted Out To Master In The South -- First Case By St. Louis Mob In The East -- Cessation rate, the burning of Negroes for the crime of killing their master appears to have been known up to the time, and, for that matter long after the Edgfield, S. C., affair in the Atlantic seaboard states. The gang of runaway slaves that in 1823 terrorized the region about Nelson's Feary, S. C. killing a prominent planter of the name of Ford, were when captured shot; the slaves who killed Thomas Edwards in King William county, Va., in 1825, were hung, and even the Nat Turner insurrectionists were dealt with according to law. In fact it would appear that, like many other practices, customs and institutions of a character distinctively and peculiarly American, the burning of Negroes originated and received its greatest and earliest encouragement in the country west of the Appalachians. "During the latter part of May 1836, a deputy sheriff and several constables went to arrest a Negro, a freeman it apprens, employed on a Mississippi river steamboat, then lying at the wharf at St Louis. The Negro succeeded, however, in making his escape assisted by another Negro, who, in an altercation with one of he officers over the part he played in helping his comrade to escape, shot and killed the deputy sheriff and mortally wounded one of the constables. who died a few hours later. The remaining officers succeeded, however, in capturing the murderous roustabout and placing him in the St. Louis jail. He had been there barely two --- WICHITA, KANSAS, SEPT 171904. hours when a mob of excited white men appeared on the scene and demand possession of the murderer which the sheriff granted Securing their victim, they proceed to the outskirts of the city, where the Negro murder was tied to a tree and burnt to death in the most improved modern fashion. "The eastern newspapers had remained curiously silent on the subject of the Edgefield affair of 1820. but when the news of the St. Louis burning reached the Atlantic seaboard cities loud and long were the denunciations of the press. The St. Louis horror they stated was an example of barbarism unwor-hy of a free republic, and would forever remain an indellible blot upon our civilization. "Thus widely advertised, the St. Louis affair was not without its effect throughout the lower Mississippi valley. In December of the same year-1836-a Negro, known as William, who killed his master Mr. Husky near Hot Springs, Ark., was taken from the sherig by a mob of whites and burned to death. —TRY THE— BLUE SEAL CIGAR SOLD EVERYWHERE True As Steel In writing on the race question in the Mail and Breeze reently, Tom McNeal na the following to say: The census shows that there are 3,000 Negroes in the city of them have come there since the war, the other generation being ex-slaves. These Negroes pay taxes on 3 million dollars worth o' property or at the rate of about $60 a head. This seems pretty encouraging but the report goes on to say that the prejudice against the Negro seems to be on the increase It seems to be getting harder for the Negroes to get employment even at the things where they have formerly had something of a monopoly; for example, foreigners are taking the place of Negroes as waiters at the hotels and restaurants. Even the Negroes who have accumulated property are compelled to live in the poor and least desirable quarters of the city Those who have attempted to make a living in any one of the professions find it almost a hepless struggle. Instead of opening the doors of opportunity they seem to be closing against the Negro. We are no alarmist, but it seems to us that one of the most serious problems confronting the American people today is the Negro problem. Observation and reading seem to show that all over the country race prejudice is increasing instead of decreasing. That seems to be true in Topeka, and so far as we can learn it is true everywhere. The serious thing about it is that it seems to be an indiscriminating and unreasoning prejudice. It is largely directed against the race rather than against the worthless and various members of tee race. Lynching of Negroes started in the South, but it begins to look as if a mob in the North is just as ready to burn a Negro as a mob in the South. Negroes are advisid to accumulate property, wich is good advice, but it must be ackoweded that the Negro has not as equal show with white man even in the matter of accumulating property. It might be supposed if a Negro has the money he can buy desirable property at the same rate as any other man who has the mony, but the fact is he has not. A Negro in Topeka cannot buy property in a desirable lorality on the same terms as a white man. No matter how well he behaves himself, the average white man does not care to have him as a near neighbor. The white man object to having a Negro own residence lots near his own for the reason that it depreciates the value of his, the white man's property. If the door of hope is to be shut in the face of the Negro, what can be expected of him? What can be expected of any man, white or black, if he is given to undrsta. d that, no matter how he works or how he behaves, there is no chance for him to ever have the same rights and privileges that his neighbors can enjoy? The inevitable tendency of such an impression on his mind would be to make him an idle aagabond or a criminal. There are, in round numbers, eleven million Negroes in the United States. As a rage they will either advance or retrograde it is impossible that the race should stand still. If the white man shuts the door of hope in the face of the Negro, the average standing of the race is bound to be lowered. If the Negro is given to understand that he has no chance to succeed, then he will become either a loafer or a criminal, and either class is a menace to the country. Perhaps the Negroes of this country could be induced to colonize. If they could take up a territory and settle that exclusively with people of their own race and withdraw entirely from the neighborhood of the whites it might be be better for them, but there is no prospect ior such a move. In the first place there is no place for them to go, and in the second place they probably could not be induced to go if there were. We confess that we cannot see the solution of the problem. Race prejudice is unjust and wrong, but it cannot be allayed by any statute or by any newspaper editorials. This much, however is certain if any nation or people permit a great public wrong to exist that nation will, sooner or later, pay the penalty for the wrong. The United States must to the 11,000 000 people with African blood in their veins who live in this country or so sure as there is a God in heaven, sooner or later, we will pay for the injustice to the uttermost farthing. A goat in Delaware has partaken of dynamite free lunch and now no one dares to kick it. Here is a valuable hint for the much-abused hobo. Monument to a Lie Monument to a Lie A correspondent of the Straits Budget of the Straits Settlement says: "While other nations build monuments to the memory of men who have done great and noble deeds, the Dyaks heap up a pile of the branches of trees in memory of the man who has uttered a great lie, so that future generations may know of his wickedness and take warning from it. "The persons deceived start the tugong bula by heaping up a large number of branches in some conspicuous spot by the side of the main road. Every passerby contributes to it and at the same time curses the man in memory of whom it is. "The Dyaks consider the adding to any tugong bula they may pass a sacred duty, the omission of which will meet with supernatural punishment, and so, however pressed for time a Dyak may be, he stops to throw on the pile some branches or twigs. "This custom dates from very ancient times. It is interesting to notice that though the ethics of the Dyaks, even at the present day, do not agree in many points with the moral code of other and more ad- Great Woman Rules China When the time came for adieu, her majesty mingled with her guests, the emperor following closely; and as Mrs. Conger got beyond me I stepped aside for royalty. Imagine my astonishment when the empress dowager turned, took me by both hands, stroked my arm and inquired how I liked China and how long I would remain, concluding by asking me to come and see her again when I returned to visit Mrs. Conger! I did not lose my equanimity, but studied this most remarkable woman at closest range. Could she of dignified mien, deep-set unfinching eyes, rare smile and melodious voice be the most despotic female sovereign in the history of the world? Has she two distinctly opposite natures? Is this the secret of her marvelous power? Born in obscurity, the daughter of a minor officer, a favorite concubine of the harem, young and inexperienced, she reached Plain "Yes" or "No" "Lawyers, in their cross-examinations, have no right to browbeat innocent and well-intentioned witnesses," said Mayor Jones of Cleveiand. "When a lawyer, misconducting himself in this way, gets the worst of it, it is a good thing. It teaches him a lesson. "An honest old gentleman was being cross-examined the other day in an Ohio court. 'Was the defendant's tone, then, angry?' said the cross-examining lawyer to him. 'Well, if it were not—' he began, but the lawyer interrupted. 'Come, come. We have had enough of "wells" and "buts." Give me a plain answer. Was his voice angry? Yes or no. "Really,' said the witness, 'I can't, in justice to all concerned, reply 'yes' or "no" to such a question. Either 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. vanced races, still from the earliest ages the Dyaks seem to have agreed in considering a lie a most disgraceful crime, and a liar a man who deserves the curses not only of his own generation, but also of people yet unborn. "A few small branches, a few dry twigs and leaves—that is what the tugong bula is at first. But day by day it increases in size. Every passerby adds something to it, and in a few years' time it becomes a large and imposing monument raised to the memory of one who was a liar. "It has often been remarked by Dyaks that any other punishment would, if a man had his choice, be much preferred to having a tugong bula put up in his memory. Other punishments are soon forgotten, but a tugong remains as a testimony to a man's untruthfulness for succeeding generations to witness, and is a standing disgrace to his children's children. "Believing, as the Dyaks do, in the efficacy of curses—a curse among them being a finable offense—it is easy to understand how a Dyak would dread the accumulation of curses which would necessarily accompany the formation of a tugong bula." the pinnacle of authority by incredible ability, shrewdness and daring. Through all the intrigue of the Chinese court since she first usurped the throne she has borne a charmed life, and her enemies have arisen only to disappear with terrible swiftness, while her autocracy remains unchallenged. With relentless will she has stripped the emperor of the last vestige of the legitimate authority, which, for a brief period, he had exercised under the wise guidance of Kang Yu Wei, absolutely controlling his every word and act, as well as the earthly destiny of 400,000,000 of subjects. And this most fascinating hostess, urging us to "stay longer" and "come again," annihilating conventionality and precedent, was Tsi Au the Great, woman ruler in this land of Confucius, where to be a woman, according to the philosophy of the Great Sage, is to be despised among men!—The Century. answer would be misleading. You see, I— "'Do you mean to say,' shouted the lawyer, 'that there is any question in the world to which a plain yes or no could not be answered?' "I do,' said the old man quietly. "Could you put such a question to me?" "I could." "Do it, then. Do it at once, sir. I defy you to ask me a question that I cannot answer with a straightforward yes or no." "The old gentleman leaned forward and, smiling a little, he addressed the lawyer, slowly and deliberately, with these words: "Will you tell us look, in your own opinion—in your own opinion, mind you, for no one else can have any possible doubt upon the subject—will you tell us whether you are as big an idiot as you look?" NO 20 Lots of Men Are in The Same Position Use a little more forethought, brother, and keep out of the rut of "penny wise and pound foolish." Just a little more of an al- wanted for good, reliable plaster, current brick, paint, roofing, etc., would insure the very test and save tedious, expensive, going down - in - the - pocket expenditures to aintain that could have been avoided. Buy owner's and it's right. Estimates cheerfully furnished. BOTH PHONE J. H. TU 535 -- 537 W. I OLDEN'S D Prescriptions Fi ...—Drugs of all kinds, Your patronage solicited. Once Our store is Headquarters BOTH PHONES 497 H. H. TURNER -- 537 w. Douglas A. 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Maiu Phone 936 WICHITA TRUCK Carry a full Trunks and Tra 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 your trunks for repair Jimmy at Sunday School We will send for your trunks for repair mmy at Sunday Scho Jimmy at Sunday School Some one induced Jimmy to go to Sunday school. It was the first time he had been there. He was ill at ease at first and cast anxious glances at the door. Once he suggested to his nearest neighbor that they "make a sneak." The teacher observed that Jimmy needed attention, and she did the best she could to win his good will. In the simplest of language she told the story of the creation of the world. Her narration was so plain and her manner so earnest that the street Arab could not help but be impressed, although he tried to appear indifferent. "Do you understand, James?" she inquired. "She's talking to you," said Jimmy's companion, nudging him when he noticed that Jimmy didn't recognize the strange name of James. "Huh?" said Jimmy inquiringly of the teacher. "Do you understand the lesson?" 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 A. DEAN fats, 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 Sunday School the teacher asked in her sweetest manner. "Yeh," replied Jimmy. "That is good," said the teacher approvingly. "Now, remember God made the people of the world. He made all the animals, all the trees, all the flowers, everything!" Somewhere near Jimmy's hair roots an idea began to work. This took form soon in a look in Jimmy's eyes that the teacher, who was a student of children, was quick to interpret. "What is it, James?" she asked. Jimmy shied once more at "James," but managed to give utterance to the question that was bothering him. "Did he make der river?" he asked. "Yes," said the teacher, "God made the river." Jimmy looked puzzled. Then he said: "Did God make Jeffries?" The teacher was inclined to be shocked, but she answered "yes." Then Jimmy looked up into the teacher's face with a smile that was radiant with pleasure. sald the boy.—New York Press. "Gee! He must have been busy." 408 W. Douglas NEWTON NEWS. Miss Mary Gray who has b en visiting in Colorado for the past three weeks, has arrived home reporting a pleasant time. The N. U. G. club met with Mrs. Frank Childs, who served a delicious two course lunch. Miss Tallie Weston, who has been away from the city for some tim, is visiting her brother Frank Weston. Rev. S. S. Washington, pastor of A. M. E. church, preaches his last sermon Sunday for this conference year. Joh. Garduer, of Hatchinson, is visiting in this city. Jess Clements brother of J. M. Gross is in the city. WINFIELD ITEMS. Lutthur Monroe, of Wellington, is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Rev. S. S. Bandy attended the Baptist association in Ark. City last week. Abe Yaney of Pratt spent last Thursday eve with his niece Mrs J. W. Wood out to the association in Ark City. Master Carl Bandy who has been visiting his two cousins Bur Fox and Tremain Wood the past five weeks, left for his home in Pratt to begin school which opens there on the 12th. Miss Pearl Wilkins has returned from Anthony. Miss Luvina Walker was at the association last week at Arkansas City. Wm Hamilton who has been in Riverside, Cal., the past four month returned last Friday evening. Pete Coleman spent Friday in Wichita with his family. Rev. J, H. Vanlue, of Wichita, came up from Arkansas City association Monday and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wood. Arthue Nichols is in the Osage nation seeking for a hunting party of young men. Messrs. Harry Livingston, Jerry Taylor, Misses Ada Louie, Google Cogman was in Ark City last week on business. T. E. Work came up from Perry on business Monday. PUEBLO, COLO., ITEMS PUEBLO, COLO., ITEMS Mrs. Chas. Robinson of Bessemer gave a wedding reception to quote a number of friends last Wednesday. The many friends of Miss Willa Quinlan will be glad to learn that she is able to be out again after a seige of sickness Mrs. Bohaman and daughter, Mable; left for Texas Sunday after a few days visit with Mrs. Thompson Rev. W. R. Hardy and Rev. D. A. Jefferson left Thursday for Austin, Texas to attend the Baptist Nation al Convention. The home of Mrs. Nettie Washington was destroyed by fire last Sunday night. Mrs. Washington was in Colo. Springs, at the time. Mr. and Mrs. L. McKinney formerly of Fuoblo, arrived in the city Saturday. Mrs. McKinney left Sunday for Alabama to see her father who is reported to be very ill. They were the guests of Rev. and Mrs: W. B. Hardy during their stay. The Violet Art Club held its opening meeting at the rooms of Mr. J. Wilcox. Quite an enjoyable time was had. Visitors present: L. C. Manuel, Miss M. Manuel and Mrs. Merril New Officers: Miss Nelbe Baker, Vice Miss V. Frailer, R. T. Banks. Mrs. R. L. Butler spent Sunday in Colo, Spring visiting her husbnd R. T. Banks spent Sunday in Colorado Springs visiting friende. Harry Fife went to Curtis, Colo., Tuesday to remain awhile. Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Johnson have moved to east Pueble to live. The Sewing Circle of Bethlehem Baptist church met with Mrs. J. W Williams last Friday night. Miss Mattie Aldridge gave a Benefit Concert for the Industrial school in Topeka. The entertainment given at 8th street last Wednesday night for Rev. Jefferson was a success. Mrs. Bright, of 1524 Orman ave. has returned from Kansas City. That Georgia Mob Rev. Dr. Dean Richmend Babbitt of Brooklyn who has made a special study of mobs and lynchings has the following to say upon the recent lynching at Statesboro, Ga., on Aug. 16th. "This Georgio lynching makes a decided advance in the danger and audacity of what is now known the world over as the nationally unique 'American lynch mob' for it notes the first instance, be it said, with repobation of the shameful cowardice of the Georgia state militia, where American soldiers have been disarmed by a mob. The next step will be to invite the judge from the bench, install "Judge Lynch" and run the country in the interest of lynching murderers with burning at the stake as a prescriptial and harlowed custom. This Georgia lynching and burning of two Negroes who had been tried in an orderly way, found guilty by dne process and sentenced to be hanged Sept. 9 indicates the tremendous advance made by the mob in the past two years. To all thoughtful students of mob violence, these psychology of the mob, it is evidence that a still further advance will be made, and that, too, at no distant day, and as to the extend of the next violence what community, North or South, it will strike, and color or class of citizens, or what courts will be help less victims, no one can tell. Every one needs now to make up his mind on these mob issues, and to be prepared when the mob comes his way. There is no creature of the earth, the air, or the sea that breaths faster than popular violence. There is a profound psychological problem in all this lynching madness that the public seems only partially to have grasped, and which, if thoroughly understood, would arouse all our community to to their real danger. This Georgia lynching and burning in the way of gratuities murder after the courts have done their full duty, and the penalty of the aw is certain, the overriding of even the militia, and their capture and disarmment, stand out unique among our lynch heroes, and point a long index finger toward greater danger to come." In New Jersey a young woman is suing her guardian because he has not bought her a new hat in three years. It's certainly scandalous to keep a girl from going to church all that time. King Edward would doubtless feel flattered if he could know what wide attention his double-ceased trousers are attracting in the editorial columns of the newspapers of the United States. A man has been discovered in the south of France who remembers seeing Napoleon cross the Alps. Somebody will turn up some day who remembers seeing old Russell Sage "come across." Venezuela has entered suit against an asphalt company for 50,000,000 bolivars. 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"SOPUS" PARKER, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT 1904. PARKER'S ATTITUDE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. He Would Strike Down Protection, Cripple the Navy, Decimate the Army and Undo All That Has Been Accomplished by the Republican Party. In his speech of acceptance Judge Parker accepts the Democratic platform as "admirable." He approves of it in detail and as a whole. If elected he will carry it out. Of course, he will; he must. He will be the servant, not the master, of his party. And rightly so. Presidents are elected to carry out party doctrine, not to antagonize it. Grover Cleveland tried to boss things in 1894, and he came to grief. He refused to attach his signature to the Democratic tariff law of 1894, but he lacked the nerve to veto it. He simply held his nose during the interval necessary to enable the bill to become a law without his concurrence. Judge Parker is not another Cleveland. He will not attempt to boss or to fight his party, as Cleveland did. He is not built that way. He will be with his party in all things. The St. Louis platform, which would strike down protection, would cripple the navy, would decimate the army, would cut adrift seven millions of Filipinos totally incapable of self-government, and would in a general way undertake to turn back the wheels of progress and undo all that the Republican party has done toward making our country the greatest on earth—all this the Democratic candidate accepts as "admirable." Regarding the chief issue of the campaign he says: "The present tariff law is unjust in its operation, excessive in many of its rates and so framed in particular instances as to exact inordinate profits from the people. So well understood has this view become that many prominent members of the Republican party, and at least two of its State conventions, have dared to voice the general sentiment on that subject. That party seems, however, to be collectively able to harmonize only upon a plank that admits that revision may UNFAVORABLY IMPRESSED DEMOC HE "SOUP H CLEV PRESIDENT. "SOPUS" P DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT from time to time be necessary, but it is so phrased that it is expected to be satisfactory to those in favor of an increase of duty, to those who favor a reduction thereof and to those opposed to any change whatever. "Judged by the record of performance, rather than that of promise, on the part of that party in the past, it would seem as if the outcome, in the event of its success, would be to gratify the latter class. With absolute control of both the legislative and executive departments of the government since March 4, 1897, there has been neither reduction nor an attempt at reduction in tariff duties. It is not unreasonable to assume, in the light of that record, that a future Congress of that party will not undertake a revision of the tariff downward in the event that it shall receive an indorsement of its past course on that subject by the people. It is a fact and should be frankly conceded that though our party be successful in the coming contest we cannot hope to secure a majority in the Senate during the next four years, and hence we shall be unable to secure any modification in the tariff save that to which the Republican majority in the Senate may consent. While, therefore, we are unable to give assurances of relief to the people from such excessive duties as burden them, it is due to them that we state our position to be in favor of a reasonable reduction of the tariff; we believe that it is demanded by the best interests of both manufacturer and consumer, and that a wise and beneficient revision of the tariff can be accomplished as soon as both branches of Congress and an executive in favor of it are elected without creating that sense of uncertainty and instability that has on other occasions manifested itself. This can be achieved by providing that such a reasonable period shall intervene between the date of the enactment of the statute making a revision and the date of its enforcement as shall be deemed sufficient for the industry or business affected by such revision to adjust itself to the changes and new conditions imposed. So confident am I in the belief that the demand of the people for a reform of the tariff is just that I indulge the hope that should a Democratic House of Representatives and a Democratic executive be chosen by the people, even a Republican Senate may heed the warn- --- ing and consent to give at least some measure of relief to the people." Out of this mass of the vapid, the evasive, the trimming and the hedging qualities of expression it is possible to extract some inferences and deductions that are reasonably clear and positive: The present tariff is excessive, unjust and injurious. It should be repealed without delay, and in its place should come either a tariff of the Wilson-Gorman type, of the Mills type, or the Morrison type. The Republican party shows no inclination to meddle with the tariff at present, and still less to strip the tariff of its protective features. Therefore, the task of tariff making should be taken out of the hands of the Republican party and intrusted to the Democratic party. If intrusted with the responsibility of tariff making the Democratic party promises to be reasonable. It will not rip up everything all at once. It will go about it gradually, so that the producing interests may have ample time to discharge their workpeople and reduce the volume of production to correspond with the increased inflow of competitive products from abroad. In this way it is hoped to avoid the immediate advent of panic, paralysis, stagnation and ruin. These, it is calculated, will come less swiftly than they did in 1893. But, in any event, says the Esopus trimmer, not much mischief could be done by a Democratic President and House of Representatives until the present Republican majority in the Senate shall have disappeared. This would take two years at the least; it might take three or four years to bring about. In the meantime, says the candidate, the country would be safe. Astonishing admission! Certainty and safety lie only in the Republican control of the Senate. "We would like to do a whole lot of mischief, and we will do it as soon as we can, but we can't do it for two or three years. Therefore, elect a Democratic president this year." That, in substance, is the attitude of Parker on the tariff question. We are invited to sow the seed of free trade in November of 1904, on the assurance that a full free trade crop cannot be harvested much before 1906 or 1907. BY THE SIMILARITY. DOCRATIC HISTORY. HOUSE" CHELAND, 1885-9=1893-7. ARKER, NOMINEE FOR 1904. It may be, however, that we should not have to wait so long as that for the free trade crop. Events of the past year or two distinctly suggest the possibility that with a Democratic House and a Democratic President, having patronage to distribute, a tariff reduction bill and a "genuine reciprocity" bill could be passed by the aid of votes in the Senate that are now classed as Republican. Things no stranger than this have happened, and may happen again. Summed up in the light of all the facts and all the evidence, the acceptance speech of Judge Parker contains not one solitary reason why any Republican should take the risk of voting the Democratic ticket this year. On the contrary, all the facts, all the evidence, all the common sense of the situation, should impel every Republican to vote the Republican ticket, and many Democrats besides. There never was a time when the country was in greater danger of a lapse backward to free trade than in the campaign of 1904. That is the actual truth. Democratic Imbecilities. We do not wonder that the wise men of the Democratic party are becoming disgusted with the quarrels, feuds and acrimonious disputes that have been threatening the harmony and, therefore, the efficiency of the organization. It is hardly necessary to say that the Democracy cannot win without New York and it is equally obvious that, if the local bosses—Murphy and McCarren—persist in exploiting their respective animosities at this particular time, the Republican elections will be nothing more or less than a Republican procession. What the American people see and, without much difficulty, understand, is that the Democracy can hardly be in a position to govern the country until it is able to govern itself. And if that consummation has been achieved up to latest accounts the fact is still a secret for the outside world.—Washington Post. Would Bring Calamity. A victory for Parker in 1904 would bring calamity quicker than it came in the Cleveland case, for Parker lacks Cleveland's ability, independence and sanity on the money issue, and he shares Cleveland's errors on the tariff. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 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. Low Rates to World's Fair St. Louis, Mo. 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MASKED BALL ODD FELLOW HALL Monday night Sept.19th.1904 OFFICIAL DANCING PROGRAM. 1. BIG GRAND MARCH at 10 y. m. Guess who leads this march Waltz.....“Passing through the Rye Schottische.....“Kansas Maiden's Dream Two Step.....“Play in your own back yard Spanish Waltz, “Eureka opening numb Lancers.....“My girl is a country lady Two Step.....“My Zulu bal Schottische.....“What is life without you Waltz.....“He is a rambling beau 0. Quadrille 'In the land of cotton is my la 1. Two Step.....“Masquerades Delight 2. Cuban Waltz, “E'ning shades are falli 2. Waltz, ..... "Passing through the Rye." 3. Schottische ..... "Kansas Maiden's Dream" 4. Two Step .."Play in your own back yard" 5. Spanish Waltz, "Eureka opening number" 6. Lancers..... "My girl is a country lady" 7. Two Step..... "My Zulu babe" 8. Schottische .."What is life without you" 9. Waltz..... "He is a rambling beauty" 10. Quadrille 'In the land of cotton is my lady' 11. Two Step..... "Masquerades Delight." 12. Cuban Waltz. "E'ning shades are falling" 13. Lancers .."Over the fence is out" 14. Waltz..... "No place like Home" 15 Two Step "More to follow" 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 US. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL The PRINTERS who Can PRINT Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT, WHY NOT? SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Sept. 17, '04 What an opportunity for another set of war paintings Verestchagin has missed! With Japan and Russia holding a gun at each ear, how can China help being neutral? If you want to retain your faith in a critic you ought never to see the things he criticises. Judging from the way the czar is acting, there is nothing in that story of its being a borrowed boy. There is a shortage of 40,000 servant girls in New York. Verily the policeman's lot is an unhappy one. Now that he has a son and heir, the czar will be affectionately referred to by his faithful subjects as the old Nick. The New York World says that "the poor consumer can never strike." Down this way he strikes many a snag. How these flying machine inventors must wish that they could hitch their aerial wagons to the soaring price of wheat. The man who is fool enough to hunt trouble is scarcely man enough to face it after his search has been rewarded. One of the leaders of Newport society has just given a "bal blanc." It is now up to her hated rival to give a colored dance. It is quite evident that there is no meat strike in China, for we read that the dowager empress is reducing her household expenses. The prehistoric animal whose tracks have been found leading out of New Jersey was probably trekking away from the mosquitoes. During a fire in a New York hotel a woman dressed herself in less than fifteen minutes. The record will doubtless stand for eternity. If the report that credits the sultan of Turkey with the ambition to outlive all his predecessors is justified, it may explain some things. And now Mr. Charles M. Schwab comes forward with a declaration that he wants to die poor with significant and emphatic emphasis upon the "poor." Realizing that a woman climber set upon a mountain top cannot be hid, Miss Peck of Boston shows no disposition to hide her light beneath a bushel. Now that he has taken up smoking, it is up to Edward Atkinson to invent a tobacco consumer that will give three times the smoke with half the material. It was kind of the kaiser to give his American-built yacht Meteor, of which he is tired, to the crown prince; but will she be fast enough for such a speedy youth? Venezuela has entered suit against an asphalt company for 50,000,000 bolivars. The exact value of a "bolivar" is unknown to us, but we are always willing to learn. A deaf and dumb man wants to be Mayor of St. Paul. It might be a good thing for St. Paul to have such a mayor. The grafters would have to put their demands in writing. In New Jersey a young woman is suing her guardian because he has not bought her a new hat in three years. It's certainly scandalous to keep a girl from going to church all that time. King Edward would doubtless feel flattered if he could know what wide attention his double-creased trousers are attracting in the editorial columns of the newspapers of the United States. A man has been discovered in the south of France who remembers seeing Napoleon cross the Alps. Somebody will turn up some day who remembers seeing old Russell Sage "come across." Hazel Belle Melvin of Hudson, N. H., boasts of a hydrangea which was planted the day she was born and which now has 129 blossoms. But that doesn't give away the secret of Miss Hazel's age. The Newport society leaders who are setting the fashion of short skirts for fall suits are probably indifferent to the fact that at last they are doing something that will meet with general popular approval. The young Count von Arnim, just killed in battle with the natives of South Africa, once threatened Bismarck with a challenge to a duel, but as Bismarck was sensible the young man lived to die in the battle with the Hamakarl. Still, the action of the czar in issuing the manifesto providing that in case of his death before the czarevitch attains his majority, the Grand Duke Michael shall become regent, does not prove conclusively that the emperor is going to the front. PRESIDENT WRITES LETTER. Policy of the Republican Party Defended by Its Leader. Says Democrats Are Lacking in Settled Convictions. National Welfare Demands Continuance of Party in Power. Long Document Addressed to Speaker Cannon Deals Exhaustively With the Great Questions Before the Country—Public Duties Ably Performed by Republicans—Democrats Not Worthy to Be Placed in Charge. Oyster Bay, Sept. 12—President Eosevelt this morning issued his letter accepting the nomination for the Presidency tendered him by the Republican National Convection. In part the document is as follows: Oyster Bay N. Y. September 12, 1904. Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee. My Dear Sir: I accept the nomination for president, tendered me by the Republican National Convention, and dially approve the platform adopted by it. The principles which we profess are those in which we believe with heart and seethought we should be ours; but they cannot accuse us of shiftness or insincerity. The policies we have pursued are those which we earnestly hold as essential to the national welfare and are more louder than our words for the faith that is in us. We base our appeal upon what have done and are doing, upon our second act of government during the last seven years, in which we have had complete control of the government. We intend in the future to carry on the government in the same way that we have carried it on in the past. The acts of the Administration in connection with the war with Spain, the Isthmian canal and the upholding of the Monroe doctrine the President defends at length, and declares the party is prepared fully to accept the issue on these questions. He continues: In addition to those acts of the administration which they venture to assail after misrepresenting them, there are others which they dare not overtly or of-harmily attack on the party, which will be either, bring forward, as reason for the overthrow of the party. In certain great centers and with certain great interests our opponent will take every effort to show the case of the settlement of the anthracite coal strike by the individual act of the president and the successful suit against the Northern Securities Company—the non-government undermined by the part of the part of the justice were acts because of which the present administration should be thrown from power. Yet they dare not have even either either the "no care not in any authoritative or formal manner say that in either case wrong was done or error committed in the methods of the action of the government for putting that action into effect. But what they dare not manfully assert in open day, they seek to use furtively and through speed against the interests of the participants' compliance under the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws suits were undertaken which have been successful; others, because suits were not made when which is the most successful. The Democratic state convention in New York dealt with the anthracite coal strike by demanding in deliberate and unfeasible way the law would not be so眼看, of the government should take possession of the coal fields; yet champions of that convention's cause now condemn the fact that the party may not be so unfeasible. But at last—thought they must know that it was only this action by the president which prevented the movement for national ownership of the law. The law was not a form of weight well have been an irresistible impetus. Such mutually destructive criticisms furnish an adequate measure of the chance of the different act of the government to consider the regulations should be given power. So much for what our opponents openly or covertly advance in the way of an attack on the acts of the administration, then, in the case of a position to perform for which they profess to stand, we are met with the difficulty always arising when statements of policy are so made that they can be interpreted in different ways, and they are not to be so much as to be so much that have confronted the American people in the last decade our opponents take the position that silence is the best possible way to convey the views of the individual. But the更新 of a partial acquisition in what others have accomplished entitles they will to be made the custodians of the financial honor and commercial service which are so much as to agree, sought to ruin. Being unable to agree among themselves as to whether the gold standard is a curse or a blessing, and as to whether the gold standard is a loss of the money from the fixed and unlimited sillage of silver, they have apparently thought it expedient to avoid any commitment on these subjects, and individually each to follow his part of the law. The men who are in the course of a process to be to be majority judgments seems to be that it is now inexpedient to assert their convictions one way or the other, and that the establishment of the gold standard by the government is not a problem. But, in the interest of the policy, there is an alteration in the relative quantity of production of silver and gold. Men who hold sincere convictions that questions the species they sincere offer; and men may confess a change of faith without compromising their honor or their self-respect. But it is difficult to represent the mode of the service when fairly described above; and where there is no respect there can be no trust. A policy with so slender a basis of principle would not stand the strain of a single year of business adversely. Undoubtedly, the multiplication of trusts and their increase in power has been largely due to the failure of offenders to comply with the law and the law to take the necessary procedure. Such stricture upon the failure of the officials of the national government to do their duty in this matter is not only because of the lack of as the administration preceding President McKinley's is concerned; but it has no application at all to Republican administration. It is also undoubtedly true that the need for the police having both the disposition and the courage to enforce existing law. This is precisely the need that has been met by the consistent and steadily continued effort of the police to enforce under the present administration. So far as the rights of the individual wage-worker and the individual capitalist are concerned, both as regards one another, as regards the public, and as regards the capital capital. In this position of the administration has been so clear that there is no excuse for misrepresenting it, and no ground for opposing it unless misrepresented. Within the limits defined by the national constitution the national administration has sought to be the right to have all the payment of the payment of his income and a disposition of his property and his labor as he deems best, so long as he wrongs no one else. It has shown in effective fashion that in endeavor to make good this guarantee, it treats it as the good to be the best to the need for their birthplace, as standing alike before the law. Under our form of government the sphere in which the nation as distinguished from the state can act is narrowly circumscribed, but within that point the law could be done to be been done. All thinking men are aware of the restriction upon the power of action of the national government in such matters. Being ourselves mindful of them, we have been scrupulously careful on the one hand he may do, and we have to be a firm promise, and on the other hand to keep these promises in letter and in spirit. When we take up the great question of the tariff we are at once confronted by the doubt as to whether our opponents will accept it, and by the promise that "protection is robbery," and promise to carry themselves accordingly if they are given power. Yet prominent persons among them seem to agree that if they come into power they will adopt our policy as regards the tariff; while others seem anxious to prove that it is safe to give power to them, and that if they would be only partial, and therefore they would not be able to do mischief. The last is certainly a curious plan to advance on behalf of a party seeking to obtain control of the government. At the outset it is worth while to say a word as to the attempt to identify the question, and to give power with a solution of the trust question. This is always a sign of desire to avoid any real effort to deal adequately with the trust question. In speaking at Minneapolis, April 1963, I said: "The question of tariff revision, speaking broadly, stands wholly apart from the question of dealing with the trusts, which are not substantial effect in solving the so-called trust problem. Certain great trusts or great corporations are wholly unaffected by the tariff, and are of any importance have as a matter of fact numbers of smaller American competitors; and of course a change in the tariff would not affect the corporation would work not merely injury but destruction to its smaller competitors; and equally of course such a change would mean dissatisfaction with the large or the small corporations. From the standpoint of those interested in the solution of the trust problem the tariff would mean that the trust was relieved of the competition of its weaker American competitors, and thrown only into competition with foreign competitors; and moreover the competition would be made by cutting down wages, and would therefore be primarily at the cost of labor. In the case of a change might confer upon them a positive benefit. Speaking broadly, it is evident that the changes in the tariff will affect the trust for weal or for woe similitude. The tariff affects trusts only as it affects all other interests. It makes all these interests, large or small, profitable; and its benefit makes from it an under penalty of taking them from the small also." There is little for me to add to this. It is but ten years since the last attempt was made, by means of lowering the prosperity of people under prospering too much. The attempt was entirely successful. The tariff law of that year was among the causes which in that year and in the past prevented anybody from prospering too much, and labor from prospering at all. Undoubtedly it would be possible at the present time to prevent prospering by the simple expedient of making such a sweeping change in the tariff as to paralyze the industries of the country. The trusts would cease to prosper; but their smaller competitors would starve, while it would not pay the farmer to haul his produce to market. The evils connected with the trusts can be reached only by rational effort, step by step, and the executive during the past three years. If a tariff law is passed under which the country prospers, as the country has prospered under the present tariff, and the executive during the past three years. If a tariff law is passed under which the country prospers, as the country has prospered under the present tariff, and the executive during the past three years. If a tariff law is passed at preventing the prosperity of some of our people, it is as certain as anything can be that this aim will be achieved down the prosperity of all of our people. From time to time schedules must undoubtedly be rearranged and readjusted to meet the shifting needs of the country; but this can with safety be done by the use of a system that causes of the protective system. To uproot and destroy that system would be to insure the prostration of business, the closing of factories, the impoverishment of the farmer, the ruin of the capital, and the arrest of the government, or if a protection is indeed "unobeyed" and if our opponents really believe what they say, then it is precisely to the de struction and uprooting of the tariff, and therefore of our business and industry, that they are pledged. When our opposition to the tariff is platform declaring a protective tariff "unconstitutional;" and the effort to put this declaration into practice was one of the causes of the general national protest against the protective tariff is either "unconstitutional" or "robbery," then it is just as unconstitutional, just as much robbery, to revise it down, still leaving it protective, and the words our opponents have committed themselves to the destruction of the protective principle in the tariff, using words which if honestly used forbid them from obtaining the tariff to obtain in even the smallest degree. Every class of our people is benefited by the protective tariff. During the last export trade war the merchant has seen the export trade rise more than ever in our previous history. The manufacturer could not keep his factory running, and the merchant would be protected. The wage-worker would well to remember that if protection is "robbery," and is to be punished accordingly, the bureau of labor, the purchasing power, for either he will be turnedadrifly, or his wages will be cut down to the starvation point. As conclusively shown in the table, the bureau of labor, the purchasing power, wage received by the wage-worker has grown faster than the cost of living, and the continual shortening of working hours, the continuousings of the workingmen of the country, as shown by the deposits in the savings bank has increased by leaps and bumps. At no other country has there been an era so productive of material benefit as the workingman and employer, as during the seven years that have just passed. The farmer has benefited quite as much as the manufacturer, the merchant, and the wage earner, and the wage earner has impressed fact established by the last census is the wide and even distribution with among chief classes of our countrymen. This distribution is shown by the census to be the development of man-made this distribution are shown by the census to be the development of man-made inventions to universal application of new inventions to universal application. In the forty years ending in 1900 the total value of farm property increased by 100 percent in the years the farmer gaining even more during the riod than the manufacturer. Long ago over-production would have checked the development of our national agriculture, but it has already led to the demand of American manufacturers for products required as raw materials for Conditions change and the laws must be modified from time to time to fit new exigencies. But the genuine underlying conditions, as it has been embodied in all but one of the tariff laws for the last forty years, has worked out results so beneficent, so even advantageous, so spread, so advantageous alike to farmers and spindle, so lawmen to commerce and trade of every kind, that the American people, if they show their usual practical business sense, and that the laws are modified to care and trade of the most care and conservatism, and by the friends and not the enemies of the system of promoting American industry let me add a word of mercantile marine. It is not creditable to merchant marine that our great export and import trade should be well nigh exclusively foreigners. Our opponents think that the government is now administered extravagant and that whereas there was a "surplus of $0,000,000 in 1900" there is "a deficit of $0,000,000 in 1900" in the year that has just closed. This deficit is imaginary, and is obtained by including in the ordinary currency of fifty millions, which was paid for the year by the Panama canal out of the accumulated surplus in the treasury. Comparing the current or ordinary expenditures for the year with the surplus of nearly eighty millions for the year 1900, and of only a little more than eight millions for the year that has just been depleted in elimination of the annual surplus was based directly by the abolition of the war taxes in the interval between the two dates, March 20 of March 2, 1901, and April 12, 1902. But an amount of revenue taxes to an amount estimated at about five and five millions a year. In other words, a reduction of taxation has been considered in the rate of reduction in the annual surplus. Since the war with Spain there has been no substantial change in the rate of annual surplus, with the fiscal year ending in June 1903, the fiscal year that has just closed showed a relatively small increase in ex- The expenditures of the nation have been the spirit of economy as far removed from the material liness; and in the future every effort will be made to increase economy as strict as is consistent with the Our opponents promise independence to the Philippine Islands. Here again we are confronted by the fact that their intrusion among themselves, the powers of ophion to create a constructive policy when in power, and their readiness, for the sake of momentary political expediency, to abandon the principles upon which they had been built, to puzzle us as to whether they do or do not intend in good faith to carry out this promise if they are given control of the government. Their actions came into power and attempted to carry out their promises to the Filipinos by giving them independence, and withdrawing American control from the islands, the result would be a full rebellion against themselves, and in its larger aspect would amount to an international crime. Anarchy would follow; and the most violent anarchic forces would be directed against themselves, partly against all forms of religious national civilization. Bloody conflicts would inevitably ensue in the archipelago, and just as inevitably the islands would be divided among which in its own selfish interest took up the task we had cravenly abandoned. During the last five years more has been done for the material and moral benefit of the islands than before since the islands faded within the ken of civilized man. We have opened before them a vista of orderly development in their own interest, and not being made to fit the islanders for self-government, and they have already in large measure received it, while for the rights and civil liberties have been guaranteed. They are being educated; they have been given schools; they have been given libraries; roads are being built for them; they have been given courts in which they receive justice as absolute as it is in our power to guarantee. Their inward pursuit of happiness are now by act of congress feasibly safeguarded under the American flag; and if the protection of the flag were withdrawn their rights under the islands would plunged back under some form of vicious tyranny. The letter concludes: Alike as lawmakers and as administrators of the law we have endeavored to do our duty in the interest of the people as a whole. We make our appeal to all good citizens, in whatever part of the land they dwell, and whatever may be their occupation or worldly condition. We have striven both for civic rightness and for justice and peace, and we have faith to believe that our hands will be upheld by all who feel love of country and trust in the uplifting of mankind. We stand for enforcement of the law and for the government is a government of orderly liberty equally alient to tyranny and to anarchy; and its foundation stone is the observance of the law, alike by the people. We hold ever before us as the all-important end of policy and administration the reign of peace at home and throughout the world; of peace, which comes only by doing just what we believe. Faithfully yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Liberal-minded women can't keep secrets. It's an easy matter to be honest on a good income. Truth is stranger than fiction—to the chronic liar. Two are needed to start a quarrel, but one can stop it. A blooming idiot isn't necessary the flower of the family. Many an ill-feeling has been acquired by drinking well water. The man who thinks twice before speaking seldom says anything. The man who is satisfied he made a mistake in marrying not satisfied. A hobo dentist is touring Ohio. His specialty is inserting teeth in pies. There are more cases of indifference at first sight than there are of love. The quickest way to enumerate your friends is to count your dollars. If there is one thing thinner than water it is the blood of your rich relations. Wise men sell good advice, while fools pay for the privilege of giving it away. Even if a woman thinks her husband wise she doesn't consider a word sufficient. The family that has occasion to move six times a year seldom m ves in good society. After a woman has managed to secure a position in society she imagines she doesn't need it. It's a mean automobilist who will run over an innocent child—unless he is in an awful hurry. A man never realizes the true worth of his wife until she gets sick and he has to cook his own meals. Nothing but a large dose of practical experience will induce a man to appreciate a deaf and dumb wife. The small boy may be late at Sunday school occasionally, but he never misses the first act when a circus comes to town. Of course it was some vinegar-visaged old bachelor who said that all women were eligible for membership in the painters' union—Chicago news. WIT AND WISDOM. Hate is love with the lever reversed. Uneasy lies the head that is done up in curling papers. There is so much satisfaction in being able to fool the real wise guy. If some people got all that was coming to them, it would not be diamond ti-ra-ras. A congressman to whom a coat of whitewash will not stick lacks sticking qualities. It looks as if the sassy little Japs would make a junk shop way off there Russhin old iron sales. You never can tell what a mother-in-law or an auto-be-busy will do until they set out to get busy. The Korean girls always hide their faces when they appear on the streets. There are no chorus girls in Korea. When a fellow recklessly signs his name to a choice and elaborate assortment of kisses, its dollars to doughnuts the woman wants the dollars. Kisses in breach-of-promise suits are veritable gold spoon holders. -Kate Thyson Marr. A BUDGET OF MAXIMS. Rather than say nothing, men are content to speak ill of themselves. A proud man can never be a loser; no, not even when he renounces his pride. It is much less for a man's honor to distrust his friends than to be deceived by them. Few people have the wisdom to like reproofs that would do them good better than praises that do them hurt. It is with true love, as with ghosts and apparitions, a thing that everybody talks of and scarce anybody hath seen. The most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain in which the dear love of our own selves always proposes to be the gainer some way or other—Rochefoucauld. LEFT-HANDED PHILOSOPHY. Leisure is the time we get between the times we are doing something we ought to do. After all, there is little difference between being left at the post and making a bad finish. One trouble with folks who are always "standing by their colors" is that they are color-blind, and can't tell which is their own particular shade. A friend of the home A foe of the Trust Calumet Baking Powder Compiles with the Pure Food Laws of all States. The Vacant Lot. Caleb Strong was a cross old bachelor who lived in a house that had the benefit of the light and air that came over an adjoining vacant corner lot, which he, in his extreme selfishness, desired might remain vacant. It was with extreme regret that he learned that a man from an adjoining city had come to town to look at the vacant lot, with a view of buying it and building a house on it. Mr. Strong at once made the acquaintance of seven noisy children who lived in the neighborhood. Then he kept a sharp lookout for the stranger. When he saw him coming up the street he hurriedly invited the seven children to play in his front yard and told them to play as much as they pleased. They at once took him at his word, and rushed into some games that apparently required the full strength of their voices. The stranger approached, looked at the vacant lot, then at the children, and then at the house he supposed they lived in. He turned on his heel, walked away, and never appeared in the neighborhood again. Man and Wife. Buxton, N. Dak, Sept. 12 (Special). —Mr. B. L. Skrivseth of this place has been added to the steadily growing following that Dodd's Kidney Pills have in this part of the country. Mr. Skrivseth gives two reasons for his faith in the Great American Kidney Cure. The first is that they cured his wife and the second is that they cured himself. "I must say," says Mr. Skrivseth, "that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best remedy for Kidney Trouble I ever knew. My wife had Kidney Disease for years and she tried all kinds of medicine from doctors but it did not help her any. An advertisement led her to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. The first box helped her so much that she took eight boxes more and now she is cured. "I also took three boxes myself and they made me feel better and stronger in every way." Dodd's Kidney Pills have never yet failed to cure any kidney disease from Backache to Rheumatism, Diabetes or Bright's Disease. "LARNIN'" OF LESSER VALUE. Irishman's Story Showed it is the Brains That Count. "When I was in Cork last," said Chaucey Olcott. "I got acquainted with one of those really good story tellers who helped to make Ireland famous. Some incident came up in the local courts which brought out the following: "Ah, it isn't always the larnin' that counts in a man. If the brains are in him they'll work without trainin', though maybe a little touching up doesn't hurt. "Now, there was me ould fri'nd Tom Sullivan who med piles iv money on horse dealin' in Cork's own town, 'an' he was Magistrate all, though he couldn't tell his own name if he saw it in writin'. Well, I mind the day Sergt. Darcy brought Pete Garvey up before Tom for being drunk and disorderly in the public streets"—as they say. Now Darcy was a bit of a bog Latin scholar, and, thinkin' to illustrate Tom, he put the case this way: "Pete Garvey in hoc signum staggerum your Worshippum." "Tom looked bothered for a minit and scratched his poll. Then, with one of thim sudden jerks of his, he pointed to Garvey, and thundered out: "'In hoc finum bobissimum peelerum," and I declare he had to explain to thim reporter fellows who write books every day that Garvey was fined a bob, or a shillin' if ye like, for being drunk and disorderly. Oh, its brains, not the larnin' that counts.'"—New York Times WHAT'S THE USE To Keep a "Coffee Complexion." A lady says: "Postum has helped my complexion so much that my friends say I am growing young again. My complexion used to be coffee colored, muddy and yellow but it is now clear and rosy as when I was a girl. I was induced to try Postum by a friend who had suffered just as I had suffered from terrible indigestion, palpitation of the heart and sinking spells. "After I had used Postum a week I was so much better that I was afraid it would not last. But now two years have passed and I am a well woman. I owe it all to leaving off coffee and drinking Postum in its place. 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The famous wedding of Tom Thumb was celebrated in Grace church, New York, in 1844, and the photograph of "The Fairy Wedding Group" is doubtless still cherished in hundreds of plush albums or parlor center tables. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. A spoiled child is almost as bad as one that is too fresh. Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Shark has no equal in Quantity or Quality. oz. of 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. After buying experience a man self-fom boasts of his bargain. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teethching, the guns, reduces inflammation, alips痛, curse wind colic. See a bottle. In the race of life it isn't the fast man who comes out ahead. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F. BOTHER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Money talks—but during the holidays it is apt to go without saying. 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In some parts of Russia the husband pays a certain sum of money to the bride's brother, after which the agreement is made, and they sing: "The brother has sold his sister for a crown." Tibetan Earth Dwellers Earth dwellers are common in Tibet. Strangely clad men and women, who since childhood have rarely looked upon the sun, are found living in roomy clay apartments in a mode as stringent as any monastic order. They are supplied with food and other necessaries by their children, who alone leave the caverns; and much of their time is occupied in extending their curious residences. Black Absorbs Heat A French authority had two thermometers—one of ordinary glass, the other painted black—placed in the sun. In the white glass the mercury rose to 144. Under the black paint it went up to 157 in the same position. The inference is that people who wear black coats are warmer in the sunshine than those who dress in white. Belated Weddings. The love of independence and the freedom and pleasure of to-day make girls less and less anxious to marry before they are past five and twenty. Perhaps it is better that there should be that disinclination, for our modern life may fit a woman better to marry late than early.—Lady Jeune in London Opinion. A New York Salad Abroad. This summer there seems rather a set against ices at the smart dinners. We are now slaves to health and diet cures. At a well-known house there was a curious dish of fruit mixed with watercress, a cross between a compote and a salad. The result was very satisfactory.—London Onlooker. Tribute to a Dutch Smoker To pay due reverence to the memory of an ardent smoker named Ondersmans, who had died in Rotterdam, all his old cronies came to the funeral smoking long clay pipes. Ondersmans left a sum of money to pay the expenses of a yearly smoking concert to keep his memory green. Large English Families. The four prizes annually offered by the Lincolnshire (Eng.) Agricultural society for the largest families have this year produced some remarkable records. Ten men who entered had between them 150 children, one having twenty, another nineteen and others fifteen. True Yankee Woman "Your wife is somewhat strong-minded, isn't she, LittleJohn?" "Strong-minded! Well, a furniture polish peddler came here yesterday; and in five minutes' talk she sold him some polish she had made herself."—Boston Congregationalist. Prohibits Sorcery. In the Rhodesian Government Gazette is published a proclamation prohibiting the practice of sorcery throughout the territory, including the throwing of bones, the use of charms, any manner of conjuration and trial by ordeal. Steals Little Boys' Shoes. An English thief was arrested whose method was to induce little boys to take off their shoes in order to run a race, and leave him in charge of the shoes. When they returned, breathless, he and the shoes were gone. Annoving to the Judges. An English magistrate remarked on the bench: "I have known some judges, when they have formed a theory in a case too early, to be very much annoyed when the evidence has not fitted with it." Philanthropical It should be a compensating thought to a man who dies and leaves insurance money that he is benefiting his own sex, for some other man will come along and get it.—Atchison Globe. Result of Fool Wager. English newspapers tell of a laborer named Samuel Wellington who attempted for a wager to kiss his toe. In doing so he broke his thigh and had to be conveyed to a hospital. While carrying a keg of beer intended for a picnic in Reading, Pa., Elmer Kerchoff stumbled over a wire. The keg slipped so suddenly that the jar dislocated his neck. Behind in Sanitation. A doctor writes in the London Lancet that as regards sanitation and ventilation the English churches retain the custom of the middle ages. 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"I think I can explain it," gasped Courtney after he had laughed to his heart's content. "You see, Lewis was married the other day. He was the last one of his set to get married, and his friends desired to have a little fun with him. When Lewis received an invitation to a wedding, he invariably sent a mantel clock as a wedding present. Lewis and his mantel clock got to be a standing joke among his friends, and it was always looked forward to, and he never disappointed them. They were all alike, and the idea got about that he bought them by the gross and kept them on hand for an emergency. "Well, when Lewis's cards were sent out we got together and decided to get even with him by each one of us sending him a mantel clock of the same pattern. I don't know how many he received, as the returns are not all in yet, but as near as I can gather he has about four to each room. 'what is why it isn't safe to say anything about time to Lewis.' Husbands. Note This. There are few right thinking persons who would deny that business men ought to confide in their wives, says the Pittsburgh Press. First of all, a woman cannot feel that her husband has given her his whole heart when he keeps from her the whole course of his business life. No doubt, it is generally done from a good motive. The husband thinks he is saving his wife worry and trouble, but in most cases he is doing the exact opposite, for every wife with right feeling would gladly lessen her husband's burdens by sharing them. Nor does a sensible woman care for the left-handed compliment that her pretty head was not meant to bother with figures. True marriage is a true union in everything where all is open, and the griefs and the sorrows of each are shared by both, and comfort drawn from the mutual sympathy. A man who does not confide in his wife deliberately shuts himself out from his chief consolation. They Bathe in Starched Collars. They Battle in Starched Colars. At one of the exclusive reports on the Sound there is just now a rage for high-necked bathing suits, says the New York Press. The ordinary sailor blouse is worn, but inside the low V-shaped neck the wearers insert a "dicky" with a high collar, finished with a lawn or embroidered turn-over. The sight of this prim array of women bathers in laundered turn-overs—a fresh one each morning, if you please—is worth a walk to the bathing grounds any day. Fugitive Persian Princes. Two imperial princes, one the brother and the other the second son of the shah of Persia—uncle and nephew being about the same age—are in flight and have sought refuge at Constantinople, where their extradition is being demanded by the Persian envoy. They are, it is said, implicated in a plot upon the life of the king of kings. Author's Change of Name Joseph Conrad, who has made such a reputation as a writer of sea stories, is well known to be a Pole by birth, but few of his many readers are aware that his real name is Korzeniowski. This was such an awkward mouthful to the world in general that he adopted the more simple name by which he is generally known. New York city waitresses are about to organize into unions. Smallest Scrws Made The smallest jewels made are for the fourth jewel wheel of a watch. A lady's thimble will hold 100,000 of them. Suffered Agonies from Kidney Disorders Until Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. George W. Renoff, of 1953 North 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa., a man of good reputation and standing, writes: "Five years ago I was suffering so with my back and kidneys that I often had to lay off. 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The valet in charge was generous with his information, and as a climax to the series of interesting rooms opened a door and disclosed a large number of bottles, placed in perfect symmetry, and reaching to the lofty ceiling. "A pyramid of empty bottles?" exclaimed the New Yorker. "What does it mean?" "My master comes in here occasionally," said the guide softly, "to realize what a gigantic ass he has made of himself."—Portland Oregonian. Chinese Words. There are words in the Chinese language which have as many as forty different meanings. The Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago, send Home Eye Book Lice. Write them about your eyes. "Pen Stammering." "Pen stammering" is the name given by Dr. Bertillon of Paris to a difficulty in writing analogous to stammering in speech. Many persons, he says, are incapable of writing even one of the letters of a word as long as any one is looking at them. Hypnotic suggestion, he thinks, will cure this nervous trouble, as well as the writers' cramp. 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In India only about 3 per cent of the girls attend public schools, but the government of India in its educational resolution states that in trying to promote the education of girls a far greater proportional impulse is imparted to the educational and moral tone of the people than by the education of the men. THE WORLD'S FAIR—ST THE WORLD'S FAIR—ST. LOUIS. Hotel Epworth, three blocks from the Administration and Convention entrances, is a safe, permanent brick building of over 500 rooms. It costs no more to stop at Hotel Epworth than at St. Louis. It is $1,000 a day and up. European plan. First-class dining hall—reasonable prices. Every convenience. Headquarters Farmers National Garden. Hotel, Reserved. (Delmar Garden car on Quiet, St. Louis, MO. Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO.) Put on Tan at Seashore. The New York Browning society takes its outing at Manhattan Beach this summer. Its chief purpose is to enable its members to get as sunburnt as possible. 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More than one-half of the students of the universities of Germany last winter (19,908 out of 37,881) were Prussians; 3,093 came from outside of Germany. Why They Do Not Speak. "Good morning, Miss Sweetleigh!" cried Cholly Sparkers to the fair damsel of his acquaintance whom he had just met; "pray what brings you out so early in the day?" "Oh, I've just been to the photographer's with my pet pug Pansy, and we have had our portraits taken together, haven't we, dear? Beauty and the beast, you know, she added, with a saucy little laugh. "And what a little beauty he is, to be sure," replied Johnson, as he tenderly stroked poor Pansy's cranium. Then he suddenly coughed, went red, and tried to explain. But she turned away, leaving him to become hot and cold in turn; and thus they parted—strangers for evermore. More Flexible and Lasting. won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other and one-third more for same money. Seldom Take a Bath. The Meriontheshire (Wales) officer of health, says the quarrymen seldom if ever, bathe themselves all over. In fact, this was a weakness in the district, and there are thousands of grown-up people in Festingo who had never had a proper bath in their lives. Oklahoma State A High Grade Preparatory Military School Under Government Supervision. Only military school in slow, backward student study and morals; firmly combined with intellectual Point, detailed by war. For application blank and the COLONEL JAMES E. DUNN, Superintendent. W. UNION MADE $3.00 $5.00 "He shoots $3.50 four more intend to return to Brookton Loads the W. J. Douglas uses Corona to be the finest Patent." WADASH "BANNER BLUE" BETWEEN ST. LOUIS and THE FINEST DAY TRIP Leaves St. Louis Union Station Leaves World's Fair Station Arrives Chicago Leaves Chicago Arrives World's Fair Station Arrives St. Louis Union Station Every tidy housekeeper and clothes and linens. 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The reason they are the largest shoes made of the best leathers, hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and have more value than any other shoes. W. L. Douglas guarantees their value by stamping his name and price on the bottom, look for it in the back of the book or in the back everywhere. Fast Color Ephelys used exclusively. "AS COOLED $7.20 SHOES." Heretofore I have been wearing $1.00 shoes. I purchased a pair of W. L. Douglas 30 shoes, which I have worn every day for months. They are so satisfactory I do not want to the more expensive shoes.** LAY KNOULES, Asst. City Solicitor, Phila. the Men's Shoe Fashions of the World. Corona Coltskin in a Colt is conceded at Leather made. BASH LINE BLUE LIMITED" BETWEEN and CHICAGO RAIN IN THE WORLD. Station - - 11:00 A. M. Station - - 11:14 A. M. - - - - 7:00 P. M. - - - - 11:03 A. M. Station - - 6:49 P. M. Station - - 7:03 P. M. appreciates nicely starched starch under the sun gives face Starch. 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