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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT THYEAR. ation Of Presen System that Disfranchises So Many Is Demanded. there is a big demand for a re the voting laws by the legislature. The last e taught lrssons which a change nessary. As peo they will will welcome any kind of a change that an improvement. ages will be asked for a to lines. One will be a that will enable a voter his vote and pallot for the he desires without the risk of having his ballot invalidated because the technicality, and the will be a change in either method of voting or the man- counting the ballots so judges and clerks on e will not have to wosk at and perhaps a day or two the pol's close to count the therecy delaying the re- the two reforms may be fed into one if demanded adoption of voting ma- The use of voting machine eliminate the danger of a saving his ballot thrown out would also make it possi- record the vote within half after the polls are closed estimaten that 20,000 per- re d'franchised in this this year through improp- prepared ballots. Sweet has been affected by the between Russia and England, anything left that Wall street been affected by? Peter of Servia has been wear-hip-pound crown for several owes and he isn't one of the hat. Good for Pete! will be no disputes next seven the new manager of the arts and the second baseman apoleon Lajole is on the field would be a fortune in the fly-line that could go up as eas as gracefully and on such provocation as can the price of Memphis Commercial-Appear responsibility. "Big sleeves burn this winter," it says, "in require the purchase of new Not Kipling is in a position to replaceply upon his critics. 600 copies of his new book more the sheets are off the press. Bridan says music is a great agent. As a remedy for de- feminism we imagine that "Bead "Hiawatha" would produce results. Roosevelt Is Just Says He Would Deal Rightly By Negro If It Cost Twelve Marylands AND HE MEANT IT, TOO President's Characteristic Comment On Early Election Returns From Maryland Here is a most interesting paragraph from the letter of the Wash ington correspondent of the New York evening post. under date of November 9. He is decscribing the scenes at the White House when the returns from the election came in Tuesday night. The first news unfavorably to the Republican Presidential ticket naturally—in view of the geographical situation of the district came from Maryland, which was reported at the start to have gone Democratic. It occasioned no surprise, as everycody had counted upon Mr. Roosevelt's losing Mary land since Senator Gorman had raised the Negro issue there. The President's only commenz was that he was ready to lose a dozen Marylands if this were to be the price of dealing justly with the black man. The strength of this utterance of Theodore Roosevelt lies in the fact that he meant evers word of it. He felt what he was saying, it was characteristic of the man so two express himself. The Negro of this country has had Presidents to speak for him before, but never as Roosevelt has spoken at the various times when occasions demanped it. In all of his words as well as his acts there have been hope and encouragement for the black man. Even when he knew his public career was in the balance he gave expression to the thought uppermost in his mind, "The black man must have justice." When the president of the United States speaks in behalf of a cause or a people the world will listen to him. Men argue that the Negro should not want to be mentioned in state papers and other state documents apart and separate from other elements in our comospolitan population. If he were treated as a man and a brother ii would be so an insult to him so to mention him. The conditions shat hedge him about, however, are such that it is nessary to make in their behalf a special plea. When men in high WICHITA, KANSAS NOV 26 1904 for him, the Negro is beulified by it. Back in 1885, when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated President of the United States, he took occasion to say a good word in his address for hif "brother in black" Frederic Douglass thanked him for it in all his public addresses. He was philosopher enough to see and appreciate the value of such an utterance from a culted a source. Theodore Roosevelt has spoken for the colored people of this country as no other man has,not because he loves them more than he does the men and women of other races' but because he sees them wronged and persecuted, and because he hates injustice. FATHER OF WHITES Christ Was Black; and There are No Inferior Raees. Bishop Turner insists that race is the father of the white races. So glad! And Dr. Hunter has proved that Christ was a black man. And Dr. John W. Hamilton has declaed that is no inferior races but races with inferior opportunities. Dr.Booker T. Washington says that the Negro "is a child race" and Prof Kelly Miller says he is a "he is a backward race." In a congress of Anthropology there should be possible some definite pronouncement of the Nero's alpha and omega. Opportunity is offered for every intelligent person to make good of it. THEIR NEEDS. There never was a time in all the history of the race more than now, when every Negro should see what he needs. In all his getting, let the Negro get an education. Educate yourself, educate your children; and insist upon it that your neigh bor educates his children. For in this lies the salvation and success of the Negro, as a race, Leave off some of your "hightimes" extravagant eating and fine clothes and get an education Educate the head, the heart and the hand. Organize night schools for those who may be un able to attend in the day or who may have neglected or were de- prived of the advantage of attending school. Remember a person canuot learn too much. Learn to read intelligently and to write legibly. Learn something of the history of the country in which you live. Read its constitution and the amendments thereof. Take your child ren off the street and send them to school—do not take that boy or that girl out of school—simply to earn money with which to buy fine clothes. Keep them in school. Then, again when you have the opportunity, give your boy or girl a chance to earn some useful trade or some profession. It won't hurt them—but will help them thru life. Let the Negro leaen all he can A SAD ACCIDENT Wade Rogers, the 17 years old son of Mrs Maggie Smith, accidently shot himself while out hunting Monday. The acideen- occurred about 7 miles north of the city near the Green farm With Alonzo Miller and Geo Estelle, young Rogers went hunting and on their return Wade got out the wagon and shot a bird he told the others of the party that his gun had kicked him very hard and after getting back in the wagon leaned the gun up against his body and was in the act of rolling up his sleeves to show young Estelle where the gun had kicked him when there was a sudden discharge of his gun and Wade fell over derd. His body was brought to the city where it was buried Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock. Funeral services were held at New Hope Baptist church and was conducted by Rev W H Tillma n the pastor Wade was born in Wlchita and was a very polite and mannerly young man and has hosts of friends wth both old and young Those Thaw children act very muc as if their father had been a great man. It isn't the coat that makes the man, of course, but the overcoat helps somewhat. A cow in St. Paul tried to get into a theater to see a show. A stock company must have been playing there. The open season for the man who rocks the boat is over, but the practical joker we always have with us. However, this sour milk elixir of life would probably be more popular if you could rub it on instead of drinking it. The United States has granted 3,500 patents to women, but as yet there is no device for keeping a hat on straight. Since West Point beat Yale at football the Yale professors are unalterably opposed to anything that savors of militarism. A University of Pennsylvania professor has discovered the germ of laziness, which appears to be about the busiest of the lot. Russell. Sage has placed the seal on his approval on the New York subway. This is rather strange, inasmuch as it cost so many millions. ON THE FIRING LINE DETAILS OF A SKIRMISH WITH THE MOROS. Very Little of the "Glorious Pump of War" in This Action—Men Kneel in Mud Hole to Return Shote of Enemy. There are some graphic touches in the report of Lieut. Fred S. Young in which he tells of a battle in Mindanao last summer. "About 4:30 this morning," he writes, "the enemy attacked us from across the river at our camp, just below the outpost near the Moro camp. The command turned out promptly and drove them off in less than fifteen minutes. As soon as the men could obtain breakfast I took thirty across the river to follow the trail if possible. We left camp at 6:20 and arrived in front of the enemy at about 10:30. As we approached the enemy's position the trail opened into one more distinct in appearance, through a slough 800 feet from the enemy's position. This is the trail we were in during the fight which followed. We had gone some 750 yards on this trail and were, I found later, within fifty yards of the river when the guide stopped and held up his hand. Gampor, the Moro interpreter, who was with him, said to me, "Mucho heinte." I kept the command quiet and sent the interpreter forward to reconnoiter. Our position was on the edge of the river and I could not find more than twenty feet of ground to operate on. Although I had the high grass broken on either side of our line nothing but water was found. "We were cooped on this spot for forty-five minutes, during which time we fired and were fired upon incessantly. So soon as the enemy returned our fire my men were ordered to lie down and I kept them down. It was a brave man who stood up, as the enemy knew our position and had firm ground up and down the river on their side. They had positions from behind which they fired and they kept their cover well. Four of our men were wounded. The enemy's casualties were unknown. We fired over 1,500 rounds, and fifty of the enemy killed is considered a conservative estimate. The men of our side were hit trying to get good aim over the high grass, and had to rise behind cover to do it. They all deserve great credit for their work. They were hit at various times, and not until the surgeon urgently recommended that they needed prompt attention did the command retire. "I spent thirty minutes trying to find a place from which I could flank the enemy, but found none; we could hardly get room to fire. The men were kneeling in a mud hole, half under water. We seemed to be on the only firm ground on our side. When the order was finally given to retire we had silenced the enemy's fire, and the command was ordered to fire volleys. "There seemed to be no way to cross the river, and as much as I desired to actually stand upon the enemy's ground, we had to console ourselves with a view from our position. Our return was slow. We put the wounded on litters, and they carried well. The men used bolos through the jungles and literally cut our way back to camp." MEANT TO LIVE LONG. Figures Seems to Show Man Should Exist for a Century. There has been very little, if any, change in the duration of man's life since the days of the patrarchs; that is, some four or five thousand years ago. Every one did not attain to great age in those days, any more than they do to-day, for various reasons stated in the Bible. Abraham lived to be 175 years old (but his two younger brothers appears to have died before him). Abraham's wife, Sarah, lived to be 127 years old; Isaac lived to be 180; Ishmael lived to be 137; Jacob lived to be 147; Joseph lived to be 110; Kohatt lived to be 133; his son, Amram, lived to be 137; his son, Moses, lived to be 120; Aaron was three years older than his brother, and died some years before him; Joshua lived to be 110. The number of persons reported in 1900 as centenarians and over was: England, 170; Ireland, 578; Scotland, 46; Sweden, 10; Norway, 23; Belgium, 5; Denmark, 2; Switzerland, none; Spain, 401; Servia, 575; France, 213. This is not by any means a complete list, as only some countries are given, but it helps to prove that we should live to be 120 years or over, and that we do not do so was not the plan or intention of the Almighty. NO 30 Games Help to Form Life to a Great Extent, Says Writer. Concerning the educational value of games there can be no question, but the points in their favor as influencing and benefiting national character and national spirit are rarely so strikingly set forth as by Dr. Warre, the headmaster of Eton, in C. B. Fry's Magazine. Dr. Warre lays stress on the superiority of games as opposed to the cultivation of mere athletics. A nation's sports help in tracing the development of the nation's life, serving as markers of progress. "Rowing," for instance, according to Dr. Warre, "has played, as a serious business, no inconsiderable part in the great events of human history, and yet as a mere pastime it is inferior to none," says Dr. Warre. "And then, again, games are invaluable in school Life as teaching mutual respect and self-restraint and endurance, along with quickness and observation and readiness of decision. These stand them in good stead in after life. Games help to form character to a wonderful extent and I do not know any means by which you can so quickly arrive at an estimate of human character, of individuality, of personality, as you can by watching people at games or engaged in any sport that calls for endurance, patience, celerity of mind and body. "If I had to lead a forlorn hope I should like best to have with me some of my old shipmates, some of the steady and trusty men who never failed in the supreme struggle of a university race. That is what is meant, of course, by the hackneyed old saying of the battles of England being fought on the playing fields of Eton. It is absolutely true. You get down to the bedrock of human character by means of games. Any substitution of technical gymnastics for games is inadvisable; the mental and moral being, quite as much as the physical, loses immensely by such substitution." An Awkward Situation. George Borgfeldt, head of a wholesale bric-a-brac firm, has had many an experience with his five hundred employees, some of which are amusing. It is the custom of the house that each buyer lunch with the especial salesman who has him in charge, at the expense of the house. One day Mr. Borgfeldt called an expert but always overdrawn and hard up salesman to him. "Shaefer," said he, "when was it you took Mr. So-and-so out to lunch? I see you have us charged up with a lunch for him." "Yesterday," replied the salesman readily "What time?" "In the middle of the day," asserted the salesman without hesitation. Mr. Borgfeldt shook his head uncomprehendingly. "That is remarkably strange," declared he, "because it was yesterday in the middle of the day that I took him out to lunch myself."—Philadelphia Ledger Dreams of You. (To Florenzina.) You'll live in the western sea, love, and Leagues will separate us, dear, but I'll be true to you. When I wake up, I am fire, on some dreamy winter's night. And the flicking of the blazing hearth is all I have for light, I call up my dog, that are gone, then, Days that have gone forever, dear, and live only in the blaze. To close my mind, dream, when And I were you. When brightness lighted up your eye, and love was on your tongue: That be my dream, dear, as I sit beside my hearth. While the snowflakes fall in feathery haze upon the darkened earth. I'll dream and I love, with and pray to God to keep you safe, if I be here or there. —Thomas Colin Evans in Los Angeles Time. Such Is Fame. Sir John Millais when at the height of his popularity chanced one day to meet an old schoolmate named Popherd whom he had known well in his days of poverty. He called to him by name. The stranger turned. "And who may you be?" asked Popherd, who looked at a tramp. "Don't you remember me? I am Millais," said the great artist. "Well, it's little Johnny Millais, sure enough!" said the tramp, noting the distinguished figure of the artist. "Well, to judge from your appearance. I suppose you gave up art long ago. What's your line, any way? Where did you get your money?" "I still paint," gronned Millais, "and you have never even heard of me." THE SEARCHLIGHT. OZOMITA, KANS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kausas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 150. Advertising Rates Made Known On Applica tion. 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So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Winnia 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. LEGAL NOTICE First Publication Nov 26th '04 C. W. WINSLOW and ANGIE ALLEN, Defendants. The above named defendants are hereby notified that they have been sued in the district court in and for Sedgwick county, Kansas, to quiet title in the said plaintiff to the following lands, to wit: Lots 94 and 96 on Munnell Avenue; and Reserve E. All in Glendale addition to the city of Wichita, Sedgwick county, Kansas. Shown by the recorded plat thereof, and that unless the said defendants shall be and appear in said court on or before the fourth day of January, A. D. 1905 and then and there plead answer or demur to plaintiff's petition therein filed a decree pro confesso will be entered in said action against each of said defendants quieting the title in said above described land in the plaintig and forever barring and perpetually enjoining said defendant and each of them from setting up or attempting to set up any claim to or interest in said land or any part thereof and further decreeing the plaintig's title to be paramount to all other titles and perfect in law and equity. J. C. MILTON. Attorney for Plaintiff. POLICE JUDGE. Is an Important Office and a Man Can Only Become Through by Experience. No office in the whole municipal government of any city is of more importance than that of police judge. A good, conscientious, fair-minded and impartial police judge can do more to purify the morals of a town than any other officer, while a bad one will work the other way. In the selection of a man for this place every town ought to use the greatest care and when the right man has been found the voters ought to be slow to make a change. They cannot keep a good police judge too long for the longer he holds his office and becomes better acquainted with the whims of these who frequent his court, the better he is able to dispense justice in such a way as to do the most public good. It is a practice in many eastern cities to keep a good police judge on ther bench and easterners consider such a course a requisite to the better protection of their cities. The operations of all police courts are different from those of the courts of record—that is of the courts where a minute record is kept of matters of detail. In the police court the judge must act as attorney for both sides, as jury, as clerk and also as judge. He has no papers to guide him, he has the bare verbal statements to deal with and with the many curious persons whom that court has to deal with it takes a man of wide experience to separate the chaff from the wheat as it were and get at the real truth. He must be a man of affairs. Thus we say that it is better in all towns to hold on to a good police judge when they have one. DONE VERY WELL. For the past three weeks the editor of this paper has been visiting the homes of colored people on a collecting tour. He has always been met with a hearty welcome and at most of the places where he has called his patrons have paid their bill promptly and every place he has been he has received high praise for the Searchlight and words of encouragement. After six years of constant work among the people of this city it is indeed, something of which to feel proud to hear them praise his work so highly. It is a significant gratification to the editor and one which he cherishes fondly as an incentive for a continuation of his work. Everyone seems pleased and of course the editor is tickled. As we said, most of those whom we visited paid, yet there are some who are a little negligent; persons who could pay but don't. It has always been our policy to take into consideration our patron's condition and circumstances and we have never yet pressed our claim on anyone to the point of being boring yet to such as we above mentioned we wish to say we would like for them to pay. We keep our list correct and those whom we become convinced do not intend to pay we will be forced to publish. We trust, however, that we will not have to so resort. Our office is open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. and any who may desire can call there and pay and will be given due credit. We claim that our race is the greatest on earth, so let them carry out our claim by paying the small amount which they owe the paper. Do not delay this till tomorrow, but come up today and pay. To those who have paid we wish to thank them and we trust that our relations may continue. It is our policy to have our books clear at the beginning of each new year and so we begin now and give every one ample time to pay up within the limit. To those living outside of Wichita send your money to W. N. Miller, 110 N. Main street, Wichita, Kans., and get a receipt. Let the good work go INTERSTATE LITERARY ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION In view of the fact that the Intetstale Literary Association convenes in Topeka, Kan during the Christmas Holidays, the Chairman of the Executive Committee is desirous of a meeting of the Executive Committee early in November. All societies desiring representation on the program are requested to select their delegates early and forward their names to the corresponding secretary that the executive committee may have them in time to place their names on program-Membership fee for societies before represented $1. For new societies $1 50 For further information write e'ther of the following:— Miss Sallie Rawles, Cor Secretary 519 N Wichita st Wichita, Kan Jas H Guy, Chrm Ex Com Locals and Personals The Race's standard Bearer The Arcade 337 N. Main St. The Finest Equal Rights Shop In Kansas. High Class Barber Work In Every Detail Baths 15c For the next 30 Days BETTIS & LEWIS, Props. Mr. a d Mrs. A Groves have added two new rooms to tneir already cozy home 1809 N. Meade. They are doing nicely and with a new coat of paint which they have recently had put on their house--they have now an ideal home. ELECTS OFFICERS The B. T. W. club elected their officers at their last regular meeting for the ensuing club year.Toe officers elected were as following:— Mrs. Thoi W. Fine Pres. Mrs. H. W. HardingV. Pres. Mrs. Frod Martin Rec. Sec. Mrs. Sam Collins Cor. Sec. Mrs. A. M. Morris Asst. Sec. Mrs. Wm. Clark Treas. Mrs. Wm. Bowers Reporter. Mrs. Jno Rawles, Chaplin. The B. T. W. club did fine during the past year and has gained a state reputation as being one of the foremost clubs amoung the colored ladies clubs of Kansas. Te members all being highly pleased. The new officers chosen are all progressive club women and all look forward to a very interesting ysar among them. The ladies of Sowing Guild were entertained Tuesday evening by Mrs N. Howard and Mrs. G. M. Smith at the residence of Mrs. Howard's An excellent pregram rendered was apart of the features of the eve. The inst. Solo by Miss Chorene Miller; paper Mr. G. M. Smith; inst. duett piano and violin by Miss Grace Baker and Mr. W. H. A. Clark and a Guitar selection by Mr. Wm. Dunson was well received A bountine luncheon was served and a neat sum was realized. They will entertain next Tuesday evening with a shingle party at Miss L A. Covington assisted by Mrs. M. Glover and H. Pattershn. Mrs W. H. Jones of 522 N. Water st. has been ill for several days. Mary Mary Schellills who has been quite sick is improvting. The G. L. A. club met with Mrs. A. Fex. Rev. J. H. Van Leu arrived in the city Monday evening to spend a few days in the city after an absence of several weeks. Rev. Van Leu has two new course of construction in the fifth block on Wat r street opposite the A. M. E. church and when completed they will be modern palaces. Sand your news to the great Wichita Searchlight. Mr. and Mrs E. D. Rosch are keeping pace with the times. They have recently made an addition to their home at 1803 N. Meade. They are coming. Mrs. V. J. Foster is somewhat improved. She is now able to sit up at her home 899 N. Water. Turkey went down Thanksgiving day and night. Remember the Searchlight collect or. He will come to see you soon— save some money for him. This means you too. Still, the action of the czar in issuing the manifesto providing that in case of his death before the czar- vitch attains his majority, the Grand Duke Michael shall become regent, does not prove conclusively that the emperor is going to the front. NEW HOTEL. Nr T. S. Wade of Enid Okla, has opened a modern Hotel at 636 N. Water st where he will be proud to accommodate the traveling public and those who desire a nice clean lodging place — He has bid Hotel fitted in the most modern manner and is prepared to serve the wants of all. This is a long felt want in Wichita and now that Mr Wade has supplied the colored people with a commodious hotel is hoped that al will take advantage of this luxury. The hotel is known as the "Hotel Wade" and is on the European plan with Cafe in connection. Call at 636 N. and investigate and be convinced. Palace Restaurant, Meals Filled Best the Market Can Afford Open at All Hours of The Night Mrs. L. Freeman, Prop. 903 East Douglas Ave Great credit due Elder Harry of Bethlehem Baptist church and his co-workers in their effort given at the banquet given last Mondaynight at the Besimer city hall an excellent programme was rendered the supper was alegarr and was enjoyed by all who were present. HAVE NOTIME. Some people who can read have no time to read a news paper or any older matter of importance to get information either daily or weekly which they should know. As for their good for the race is concerned, it would have been better if such persons would have never been born, They are siffly filling spaces some goo person ought to be occupying. GO TO GRANT'S CIGAR and SHINE PARLOR 334 North Main Street For Cigars, Tobacco and Shines W. H. H. GRANT, Prop Mr and Mrs Dennis Saunders and Mrs Harriet Lewis were the guests of Mr and Mrs W N Miller for dinner Thanksgiving day The B T club met at the residence of Mrs A Morris on Wednesday after noon quite a number of lades were present and Mrs T H Yaney was a visitor of which a nice luncheon was served after the meeting they decided to meet with Mrs B Morris 1112 Wichita Thursday Dec 1st Robt Braden has returned Wednesday from a weeks trip with as special party over the Sante Fe for T xas routes—at Madigarda they spent last Sunday and at the colored church there. Gen Nelson A Mile and othe s took a prominent part in the service. Bob says do not give him any Texas—if you pleases—Kansai is good enough for him. Miss Daisy Bradford will leave Sunday for Kans City Mo I J Porter left Sunday ta spend a few days in St Louis seeing the Fair He is reported to be having a fine time Mrs. W. N Miller had six o'clock dinner with Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Smith Tuesday. Miss Henretta Stewart of Colo Springs who has been visiting Mrs Geo Cottwell was called to her home by the sudden death of her father W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Southwestern Distributing Agent for Cribben & Sexton Co. Any style of stove at wholesale prices. nhoff & 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 & M.Clees WHITE FRONT HARDWARE Warnhoff WHIT EVERY THING Prescriptions F Call and see us. Once A CUST Salman 228 North SECOND EVERY THING IN DRUGS Prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street. ```markdown ``` Plenses All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. A BIG DISCO We will for the next 30 day Summer Suitings and Trou cent less than the regular Call and see our line before Old Phone 620:—— The PEERL 508 East D G DISCOUNT for the next 30 days sell all your Spring and Suitings and Trousers at a discount of 20 per than the regular price. see our line before ordering your clothes. 1 Phone 620:-----------:New Phone 589 e PEERLESS TAILOR 508 East Douglas Ave --- A BIG DISCOUNT We will for the next 30 days sell all your Spring and Summer Suitings and Trousers at a discount of 20 per cent less than the regular price. Call and see our line before ordering your clothes. Old Phone 620:---------:---------:New Phone 589 The PEERLESS TAILOR 508 East Douglas Ave Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store. Sample Shoes We have just received a large in voice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and all kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES You'll find an excellent line of "Colonials" the proper thing and latest fad, in our regular stock, at $2 TAPP BROTHERS & HANSHAW Phone 257. 255-257 N. Main Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St WONDERFUL DISCOVERY SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mr. P. Heck, Prop. 24: North Water St. Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 628 N. Main St. Phone 530 CHEF'S OVEN PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY OTTO WEISS. Agent. In The Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We hand the best of Fancy and Star Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas 'Pone 2' HOUCK Insurance Gasoline Store Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose, etc. 116 East Douglas Ave. PROTON LIFE. This wonderful hair pomade is the only preparation in the world that makes it curly hair straight as shown. It is made out of hair from a hair dryer, out or breaking off, cans of soap, Soldering iron makes the hair grow long and dense. Soldering iron hardens. It was the first preparation sold for straightening Original Osmolite Ox Marrow as the genuine beautiful hair keep the hair straight too. It like appearance much desired. A toilet fee like appearance is gentlemen and children and lasting beauty is the best and most economical it is and possible for anybody to use it with a bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold directly to dealers or sold by a salon and express charges. Send point of sale money order. Send point of sale money order name of the order. Write your name and address plainly to address pliably to * OZONIZED OX MARROW CO.* 96 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois . . . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. SCHOOL SHOES For Boys, Girls and Misses All Kinds of Good Shoes BUY YOUR SHOES AT BRAITSCH,S 120 E. Douglas Ave. The Love Of Sport No greater than the unapeakable pleasure of a comfortable home. The best homes in Wichita were not con- stricted of inferior building material. If you are about to build write, call or tele- phone us. We can supply you with the best Building Material on short notice. Both Phones 496 J. H. TURNER, 535-537 West Douglas Ave. THE FULTON Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store High Grade Outfitters for All Mankind My Taste Satisfied Every Purse Sate Exhausted Stock To Select From NOOUS SHOWING OF GREAT COATS, MERCOATS, BELT OVERCOATS, FANCY COATS, RAINCOATS lengths, shapes and fashions. Strictly hailed this offer includes the swell 52-inch long, more conservative 46 and 48-inch long, wave patterns, tailored in the highest fashion every taste and fashion—equal to those anywhere for $20. and $22.50. Our Price... MOST EXCELLENT "HARVARD" Sizes for quality, tremendous assortment of sturds, fine black Thibets, black clay work,iese ges, fancy Scotches and cassimeres, double breasted; tailored to hold shape and fit perfectly. Priced..... 10. Our Bargain Zen men's heavy fleeced and Jersey ribs—blue and brown—a regular 50c vegarment. F. S. HUNT, Mgr. Highlight $1 .per y MYRON A. DEAR Vices, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 315 N. MAIN ST STUPENDOUS SHOWING OF GREAT COATS, KERSEY OVERCOATS, BELT OVERCOATS, FANCY OVER COATS, RAINCOATS In all lengths, shapes and fashions. Strictly hand-tailored. This offer includes the swell 52-inch long styles, also the more conservative 46 and 48-inch long fashions all exclusive patterns, tailored in the highest fashion—will suit every taste and fashion—equal to those sold elsewhere for $20. and $22.50. Our Price... $15. THE MOST EXCELLENT "HARVARD" SUIT Famous for quality, tremendous assortment of strictly pure Worsteds, fine black Thibets, black clay worsteds navy blue serges, fancy Scotches and cassimeres; single, and double breasted; tailored to hold their shape and fit perfectly. Priced..... 10.00 100 dozen men's heavy fleeced and Jersey ribbed natural—blue and brown—a regular 50c value for garment.....35c Don't Worry F. S. HUNT, Mgr. Watch Us Grow MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. A Paint and Varnish Manufacturers Of House Paints, Wagon, Bag Carriage Paint White Lead. Jobbers in Oils, Varnishes and licit your patronage. Every Article Guara Fa Ave Wich Wichita Paint and Varnish Co Manufacturers Of House Paints, Wagon, Buggy and Carriage Paints. Peerless White Lead. Jobbers in Oils, Varnishes and Dry Colors We solicit your patronage. Every Article Guaranteed. 130 North Santa Fe Ave. Wichita, Kansas SOLD ALSO BY J. H. TURNER, 541 West Douglas Ave A man in a top hat rides a horse. ULTON Satisfied Purse Satisfied To Select From OF GREAT COATS, KERSEY BERCOATS, FANCY OVER MAINCOATS fashions. Strictly hand-tail- e swell 52-inch long styles, 46 and 48-inch long fashions in the highest fashion— fashion—equal to those $15. $22.50. Our Price... T "HARVARD" SUIT us assortment of strictly ribets, black clay worsteds atches and cassimeres; sin- lored to hold y. Priced... 10.00 seced and Jersey ribbed —a regular 50c value ...35c UNT, Mgr. Watch Us Grow $1 .per year A. DEAN ats, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 and Varnish Co House Paints, Wagon, Buggy and Carriage Paints. Oils, Varnishes and Dry Color Every Article Guaranteed. Wichita, Kansas Christmas Is the time to give Photos to your friends— HAVETHEM MADE NOW We make all styles at the lowest possible price..... Our late and newest style ART DECKLE $3.50 PER Dozen Full sized cabinets on 7x9 mounts $2.00 PER Dozen Princess Panels 75c PER Dozen STUDERAKER 142 North Main St. Over Ozane's Drug Store NEWTON ITEMS Rov. Denton pastor of the second Baptisi church who wont to Ill last week has returned with his family. Mrs. Ella Underwood who has been visiting in Atchinson for the past week has returned reporting a pleasant time. Mr. Richard Wills who has been visiting in Wichita for a few days has returnedd. Misses Luta Slaughter, Florence Board, Hazel Rockman and Mrs. went to Valley Centre Saturday to attend a party. Thoy all returned Sunday reporting a fine time. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gross have been reported quite ill. Mr. Mc Mallery has went into business right. He has opened up a pool and lunch room at 218 S. Main st and is doing nicely, all with him much success. Mr. R. J. Anderson of the Georgia Minstrels spent Sunday with is uncleaJohn Anderson. Mrs. Lee Anderson of Wichita was a vititos in the city this week. SPRINGFIELD MO Mrs-Leonad Harness is the guest of her mother and many Spring--field friends this month After spending Thanksgiving with them she will to her home In Anthony Ks Her mother Mrs Mary Rohlenwill accompany her home. PEUBLO ITEMS. Rev. D A Jefferton is better after a few days illness. Rev. Edwards Pastar of Bethlem Baptist church of Denver Colo. was in the city last Sunday assisting Rev W. R. Hardy of Bethlehem Baptist church of Bessimer in his great rally. We hope for Elder Hardy success. Rev G D Olden of Topeka Ks. was in Denver Sunday and filled the pulpit at Zona Bapttet church the avent being the 39th anniversary of the church. Rev Ford as pastor. Mrs. Pennington of Colo. Spring spent Wednesday in Pueblo the guest of Mrs f. A. Jones. Mrs. Hall of Colo. Spring spent a few days in the cold last week. Last Sunday was Quarter meeting at St Pauls A. M. E. church Bessimer. Presiding Elder J.P. Watson was present. Bro. Royce filled the pulpit at 8th st Baptist church sunday night in the absence of Rev. J. ff rson. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rodgers are rejoicing over the arrival or a fine baby girl which came to them last Wednesday Nov.17. Mr. Hall has returned from St Fonis where he has been visiting the Fair. The Anthenian club met at Mrs. H W Groves last Monday night. Trunks and Traveling Bags Just what yox 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 Wichita's One Price Clothing Store 114 North Main Street The Best P Good SPECIAL S $1.98 Sport Guns for rent BICYCLE Scholler 230 Why No Have a good Dro when you can get for the same Con 220 NO e Best Place to Buy The Best Place to Buy Good Clothes SPECIAL SALE MEN PANTS $1.98 $2.98 and $3.50 porting Goods for rent, ammunition, et BICYCLE REPAIRS Schollenberger & Co. 230 North Main Street ny Not Have a good Drop Head Singer Sewing Machine when you can get one by paying $3.00 per month the same. Come as soon as you can to 220 North Main st SPECIAL SALE MEN PANTS $1.98 $2.98 and $3.50 Sporting Goods Guns for rent, ammunition, etc BICYCLE REPAIRS Schollenberger & Co. 230 North Main Street Have a good Drop Head Singer Sewing Machine when you can get one by paying $300 per month for the same Come as soon as you can to and talk it over with the Singer people Room M Sale Commencing Monday in the Millinery so Christmas Toys. All that remain until t into smailer quart here between now a ing will move them from Making Sale of Milliner encing Monday, we begin the price-cutting Millinery section, to make room for the mas Toys. Already we can count the few days main until this Millinery stock must move mailer quarters. Hundreds of Hats must leave between now and then. The prices we are mak- ll move them rapidly. Room Making Sale of Millinery Commencing Monday, we begin the price-cutting in the Millinery section, to make room for the Christmas Toys. Already we can count the few days that remain until this Millinery stock must move into smailer quarters. Hundreds of Hats must leave here between now and then. The prices we are making will move them rapidly. A ATE'S LARGEST MILLINERY DISPLAY BIG ROOM UPSTAIRS Aston Store 103.105.107.109 E. DOUGLAS AVE WALKENSTEIN & COMM. WICHITA ATENISON, KA. LAWRENCE, OCT. 1964, KA. CPRODIG, KA. PARSONS, KA. THE STATE'S LARGEST MILLINERY DISPLAY BIG ROOM UPSTAIRS THE STATE'S LAKE BIG Boston 103.105.1 Boston Store 103.105 107.109 E. DOUGLAS AVE. WALLENSTEIN & CORN. WICHITA. ATDUSSON KAM. CORNICE HAR. OTTWAIN KAM. CAPOULA KAM. PARKSIDE KAM. Trimmed Hats worth $2.00 and $2.59, now ..... $1.23 Trimmed Hats worth $3.50 and 4.00, now ..... $2.48 Trimmed Hats worth $5.00 and to $6.50, now ..... $3.98 One special lot of Street Hats ranging in value up to $2.00 each at ..... 43c. Please allow me space in the columns of your paper to insult a few words ar a warning to the colored readers of your paper against a man B, D. Gardeder by name a white man who calls him elf o docter and resides in Toyoka who is going about all over country selling mehici and defrauding colored There is a woman who is traveling with him whom he calls his wife and she co-op rates with him in cheating the people. She really does more talking than he doctor. She is a nice appearing woman and it is a pity she engaged in such a swindling business The man looks like a foolish boy but can put up a pretty good talk They claim that they can cure any disease and will talk until they get you interest and agree to let them take your case. You pay them so much down and they star your treatment by leaving you a lot of worthlets stuff and when you are cured you send the remainder of money to the Topeka Medicine Co. They claim they are working for this company. They only visit colored people, at least that is the way they did here. They beat a good many colored people out of their money around Dunlap and this place, bTt I have never heard of a single white person they visited. Your paper has a wide and general circulation in the themes of the colored people of Kansas and this article will serve to warn our people against these fakes. It seems that he is traveling all over the country; so be on the look out and have nothing to do with him for he is a fraud. If he beats you out of your money and with fraudulent intent, and you take him to law, and it is proven that he did, the case will be decided against you. This was the experience of some of us colored folks last week. We had Gardner and wife arrested and it was proven by the county attorney, plaintiff and witnesses that they were guilty, but the justice of the peace was while, they were white, we were Ne groes and the case was decided against us. They were released and not even fined. So I concluded to write to my people through the columns of your paper warning my people against these fakirs. Respectfully, Jaebb Welchez When you can have your old clothes cleaned, dyed and pressed and made just like new and very cheap too, at the Oak Street Dye Works 740 North Main St. Lyric Theatre Harry Lewis, Sole Prop. Week of Nov. 28th. The Lost Child The Home of Polite Vaudville Every Evening At 7:30 and 8:30 10c ANY SEAT 10c 256—North Main—256 The Moist Art club met with Mrs O W Baker 602 Jefferson st last Thursday afternoon. After work was put away and business tsasact ed a paints reast was served by the hoste The next meeting will be with Mrs Geo Cot-well the first Thursday in December. Mr J A Jones is better after a few days illness. Miss Nellie Baker was the hostess at a china shower given in honor of her sister Miss B Baker Tuee Nor 22nd whose marriage to Ms Wm White will aake place at an early date SITUATION IS HOPEFUL Murch Rejoicing in St. Petersburg Over General Stoessel's Bravery. REPORT WITHHELD FOR REASONS. The Wounding of General Stressel is Confirmed but Injury is Not Sufficient to Prevent Him From Directing Defense on Fortress. The Japanese army south of Mukden is reported to be concentrating on their left and center, presumably with the intention of attacking, and a renewal of fighting is expected. Statements given out at St. Petersburg regarding the situation at Port Arthur are more hopeful and represent that the garrisons may be expected to hold out until the arrival of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron. The report that General Stoessel had been wound-out is confirmed, but it is said his injury is not sufficient to prevent him from directing the defense of the fortress. St. Petersburg, Nov. 19.—Rejoicing over the undaunted spirit displayed by General Stoessel in his telegram of congratulation to Emperor Nicholas on the anniversary of his accession to the throne, and officially announcing the failure of General Nogi's attempt to present Port Arthuru to the Mikado as a birthday gift is tempered by private information that the gallant commander has been wounded. General Stoessel was struck in the head by a splinter from a shell while he was personally directing the repulse of a particularly desperate assault, but fortunately the wound is not serious and General Stoessel has not been required to relinquish command. General Stoessel is regarded as the heart and soul of the defense and his death or disability which would cause him to relinquish command would be regarded as an irremediable mishfortune. Other information sent by General Stoessel, which has not been divulged for strategic reasons, it is said by the war office, is by no means unfavorable. While the garrison is now encamped in the citadel itself not one of the main forts has been taken. The garrison has been provisioned, fresh ammunition has arrived, and General Stoessel expresses confidence that the defense can be successfully maintained until the arrival of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's second Pacific squadron. The report that the armored cruiser Grpmobi had been injured at Vladivostok is confirmed. The vessel grounded as she was returning to the harbor upon a trial trip after the repair of the injuries received in the fight with Admiral Kamimura's squadron, but at the admiralty the injuries are said to be slight. WILL OF D. B. ANTHONY. His Estate Estimated to be Valued at $300,000. Leavenworth, Kaa., Nov. 19—The will of the late Colonel D. R. Anthony was filed for probate today. The estate, valued at $200,000, is left with Mrs. Anthony, D. R. Anthony, Jr., and Mrs. Maude Anthony Koehler, Colonel Anthony's daughter, as trustees and executors, without bond or inventory, for the benefit of the grandchildren or any direct heirs of the testator's son and daughter. Mrs. Anthony, D. R. Anthony, Jr., and Mrs. Koehler are to share the profits of the estate equally. The Leavenworth Times is to remain under the control and ownership of the heirs and is to be under the personal control of D. R. Anthony, Jr., until his death, when it is to be held in trust until turned over to a grandson, D. R. Anthony, third. Susan B. Anthony and Mary S. Anthony, sisters, are each to have* $600 annually during their lifetime. The sum of $1,000 is set aside for the erection of a monument for Susan B. Anthony. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. President's Forthcoming Document is Under Consideration. Washington, Nov. 19.—Secretary of War Taft had a conference with the president today regarding some features of Mr. Roosevelt's forthcoming message to congress. It is likely that at the meeting tomorrow the president will be able to present a pretty careful draft of the document. It can be said authoritatively that he will not discuss the subject of tariff revision in his message. The consensus of opinion as expressed to the president is that if the tariff is to be revised the work should be taken up early, but thus far no decision has been reached. POSITION IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, Nov. 18—The official news agency handed out a statement regarding the peace conference. It reviewed the incidents leading up to the signing of the treaty between Spain and America. It stated that at the time of ignoring the preliminary peace treaty, Spain had already made known through France her desire for peace. It said further, that the conditions now in existence were altogether different and in no wise parallel to those governing the Spanish American settlement. ALL STAR HUNTERS O. T. The rabbits had lots of fun out near the Carter farm Tuesday. On that day a party of Wichita marksmen went out on a hunting trip. This party was composed of Messrs. W. A. Bettis, Captain Sam C. Collins, Assistant officers Syl Anderson and Jeff Thompson, Theodore Kennedy, Frank Gardenshire, I. D. Vance, Chas. Guyer and Jno. E. Lewis. It is useless to say tat such an aggregation of sharpshooters got the game, for the very personnel of the company amply proves this fact. Rabbit will be the thing now. AL. G. TEED'S MINSTRELS. "The evolution of Minstrelsy," is the title of the Al. G. Field Greater Minstrel first part this year, and in point of luxurious stage setting and lighting it quite surpasses any of the beautiful scenes for first parts that this organization has had in the past. The significance of he scene is that it introduces groups of wandering minstrels of centuries ago—the first of the players—as well as the minstrel of today, and traces the development from the minstrel of the days of Homer to the days of the black-faced comedian who delights the thousands who attend the Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels. It is the clasping of hands of the minstrel of dark ages with the minstrel of today. The setting is both massive and beautiful and is most appropriate. In the matter of electrical effects it is said to be nothing if not startling. Coming to the Crawford. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF TOPEKA. Whereas, The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair to be held at Portland, Oregon, June 1st to October 15th, 1905, is to be international in importance and will include among its attractions a complete United States Government exhibit; and Whereas, The State of Kansas, which furnishes a larger surplus of food products than any other state, is interested in the upbuilding of the Pacific Coast and increased trade with that section, Alaska and the Orient; and Whereas, This Exposition given in the Pacific Northwest will attract the attention of hundreds of thousands of travelers to Kansas and all the western states, and will for that reason be of benefit to the entire Trans-Mississippi region; Therefore Be it Resolver, That the Topeka Commercial club not only congratulates the people of Portland and Oregon upon their great enterprise, but urges the people of Kansas and other states to participate in exhibiting their resources and in attending the Exposition, for it is the firm belief of the members of the Topeka Commercial Club that a trip across the country to Portland will make every man and woman prouder of the great Republic in which they live and necessarily better Americans. PASSED CIGARS At the regular meeting of Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M., Wednesday night, Worshipful Master Joseph Fines passed a box of cigars among the members as a wedding treat. On October 26, the Worshipful Master absented himself from the lodge meeting and instead of presiding that night at the lodge he was guiltily married as was stated in the columns of the Searchlight at the time, so to make himself square with "the boys" he set aside last Wednesday night and presented a box of fine cigars to the craft and all joined in a merry wish that he and his wife may have a long and happy married life. Julius G. Gaines met with quite a painful, though not serious, accident the first of this week while at work at the Lehman-Higginson wholesale grocery house removing canned goods. A box fell on him wounding his back. He was forced to remain home a couple of days but is now at work again. TO ELECT OFFICERS. Arkansas Valley lodge will elect their officers for 1905 at their next regular meeting on Wednesday night Dec. 14th. The ball given by Messrs. Fowler and Maurice at Garfield hall Wednesday night was quite a success. HIS OLD PLACE. Jas. L. Harper has accepted his former place as head waiter at the Carey hotel. Mr. Harper was there for a number of years until recently and his many friends are proud to see him return to his former post. Remember our collector. Pay him something when he calls. COLOR ADOTCURIS 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 Lov Rats to World's Fair St. Louis, Mo. WORLD'S FAIR ROUTE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY ST.LOUIS 1904 SEASON EXCURSION TICKETS Dates of Sale—Daily from April Final limit—December 15, 18 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 s the World's Fair. Through Pull- ing chair cars: are operated from change for full information call E. E. BLECKLEY T. P. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. JOB WORK IS HOTEL 636 North W Wichita Cafe in connection. Strict RATES $1 Special rate for room Rooms large, plenty light and VIA— PENSION TICKETS—$21.45 Round Trip Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, in December 15, 1904 Pension Tickets—$17.90 Round Trip April 25 to Nov. 20, 1904 Final line save St. Louis within sixty days from Pension Tickets—$16.00 Reun! Trip Daily from April 27 to Nov. 30, in to be good to leave St. Louis w of sale, but not later than December PACIFIC RAILWAY now has and is the shortest and most di- Through Pullman sleepers and a operated from Wichita to St L information call on or address the I. R. SHER A. P. & T. Station Cor. Douglas ave and W WORK IS OUR HOME HOTEL WADE North Water St SEASON EXCURSION TICKETS—$21.45 Round Trip Dates of Sale—Daily from April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive Final limit—December 15, 1904 Sixty-Day Excursion Tickets—$17.90 Round Trip Dates of Sale—April 25 to Nov. 20, 1904 Final limit—Tickets to be good to leave St. Louis within sixty days from sale date Fifteen Day Excursion Tickets—$16.00 Reuil Trip. Date of Sale--Daily from April 27 to Nov. 30, incusive. Final Limit—Tickets to be good to leave St. Louis within fifteen days from date of sale, but not later than December 5th 1904. THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY now has three trains daily for St. Louis, and is the shortest and most direct route to the World's Fair. Through Pullman sleepers and elegant reclin- ing chair cars: are operated from Wichita to St Louis without change for full information call on or address the undersigned E E. BLECKLEY I. R. SHERWIN, T. P. A. P. & T. A. Missouri Pacific Station Cor. Douglas ave and Wichita street. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. Station. Stricily first-class in every RATES $1 00 Per Day ate for room and board by the v enty light and heat. Transient T. S. WADE, M Cafe in connection. Stricily first-class in every respect RATES $100 Per Day Special rate for room and board by the week Rooms large, plenty light and heat. Transient a Specialty. Oil Company Incorporated—Article of incorporation were filed with Clar O. Freeman, of the court of appeals, by the Bristow Oil and Gas Company, of Bristow, I. T., with an authorized capital of $500,000, with $100,000 paid in. Beat Chinese Labor—A Kiowa County farmer invited some dozen women out to his place the other day and offered a prize for the greatest amount of cotton picked by any one. It beat the Chinese for cheap labor. KANSAS STATE BUILDING Wo 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. ITS—$21.45 Round Trip April 15 to Nov. 15, inclusive 1904 $17.90 Round Trip July 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. ILWAY now has three trains shortest and most direct route to man sleepers and elegant reclin Wichita to St Louis without on or address the undersigned I. R. SHERWIN, P. & T. A. Douglas ave and Wichita street. OUR HOBBY. WADE Water Street Wichita, Kansas Strictly first-class in every respect DES $1 00 Per Day room and board by the week ht and heat. Transient a Specialty. T. S. WADE, Manager Article in a Clock als, by any, of ed cap aid in. A Coun Through an Oversight.—The county clerk at Lawton through an oversight failed to publish for the required num- ber of days the order passed by the county commissioners calling for an election to ascertain whether it is the desire of the county to have a county high school, so the question will have to go over. Teachers' Meeting.—The annual meeting of the Chickasaw Teachers' Association will be held at Ada, I. T. November 25th and 26th. WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS. -VIA- YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CURCULARS TRY US. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM We Are Now Prepared To Kinds Of Fancy, Up To Job Work. We Invite A Trif We Guarantee To Please You In Work And Price. You Will Us At The Old Reliable Sta 110 North Main St Bring Us Your Next Job WE INVITE YOU TO PRINTERS who Can PR rices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST UR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST 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 Beliable 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 ARE YOU? subscriber to IF NOT, WHY NOT? HAMS Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. Remember the place--Market at the Gate of Dold's Packing House. : SUPPLEMENT TO wan ¢ ’ THE SEAROHLIGAT. Wichita, Kans1s, Saturday Nov. 26,04 SS uring the fontba!l season the yeller 1 is ever present, whet is worse than the sting of a wasp?” asks 2a Ohio “editor. Two \ Milwaukee woman advertises for man to do ber housework. What's ye matter with her husband? Among otker agencies for the rapid ucsomination of news there are over 000 barbers In the United States When a man has to tend his own furaace the devil gains not only 2 per: manent residence, but an experienced orker. It est one gay New Yorker $500 to take Ls first ride in the new snb- way, A pickpocket got his shirt front ew daids Long Ife and continued success to Mrs, Gilbert, who made her debut as u star ma New York theater at the age of 83, A New York society woman said it took eight cloaks to keep her warm. \ cold stare from her would freeze blast furnace. : Two Atlanta lawyers found $1,000 » the trunk of a negro woman who ‘ied the other day—the exact amount roqnired for their fees, , One good thing about a runaway air vip 18 that it doesn't knock dewn abies and butt Into carriages contain- roe inoffensive old ladies. Tho village minister at Soath By- con, N. Y.,"gathered thirty barrels of pples this fall on the parsonage lot. That beats a donation party. The New York papers make big »eadlines on a woman sneering at a unt Whom she had stabbed. Did they spect her to indite a love sonnet to The California man who has been ont to jail for a kiss that he didn’t et may he able to add something in- teresting to the literature of unkissed hisses. The tailor who fails to keep his agreement to send his customers’ new irousers out in time for Sunday is plainly chargeable with breeches of promise. A Memphis man has gone bankrupt, with Habilities listed at $35,000 and assets at $49. ‘The chances are ten to. one, however, thit-ne’ eaa't auplieats that record. Relgium is considering an automo- bile expedition to the south pole. A movement should at once be begun to induce a certain class of American chauffeurs t6 join it, It is learned with surprise that the Smithsonian institution has thought it necessary to send a man all the way to South American to discover the microbe of laziness. A policeman who called a man a liar has been restored to duty in an eastern city. In some parts of the country the use of that term puts a nan beyond restoration. Alfred Austin has written a >oem about the Russian-Japanese war. We lake it from the swing of his verses that vodka and caviar do not set well on Alfred's laureated stomach. With all his money and superior in- telligence the English Astor could not marry off his daughter without. blun- Jers to mar the ceremony. They do things as well even in America. In addition to the fact that we have grown older and more dignified, so that we no longer do it ourselves, we find it is just about as much fun: to watch somebody else twist the lion’s tail, A thrifty Buffalo man wouldn't sue the city because if awarded anything he would have to pay back a part of it in taxes. So he thought, but he is not a finaneier, and suffers trom con- sciencitis, ¢ A saven-inch hatpin was removed from the esophagus of a New York women’s 15-inch terrier the other day. Which reminds us that there really are oceasions when it’s better to have dcgs than babies. The strongest argument yet heard against vegetarianism is the case of the young theatrical man who won a bride with a ham sandwich during tne great washout. Now can you possi- bly imagine a beautiful damsel flying to the arms of a man on the offer of a proteid cutlet pr a nutine stew? A Brooklyn horse has the habit of starting on a run for the stable the instant of the first tap of the big bell at the entrance to Greenwood ceme- tery at 6 o'clock every night. Appar- ently he knows as much as some men, Lou Dillon's mile in 2:01% is evi dence that she has fully recovered from her attack of thumps, but the betting men who backed her against Major Delmar at the rate of 100 to 40 and saw their money vanish haven't vet wot ever thelkk: AVOID SUN OF INDIA. White Men Return Frora That Coun try With Paller. The missionary was so paie that his friend exclaimed: “Have you had a spe” “{ sickness, Jake?” “No. I have been to 1:.’ia,” the other answered, “India? = That sunny. sizzling piace? How is it you are not brown, then?” “It is plain to be seen that you don’t know what you're talking about.” ‘said the missionary. “White people oat g0 to India don’t come back brown. They come back paler than ‘ghosts. India fades white people out I thought everybody xnew that.” “I didn’t know it, Jake. What is the philosophy of it?” “The philosophy is that the Indian sun is so deadly that we whites have to keep out of it. In the sun, in In dia, the thermometer will register 160 degrees. Well, with the thermometer at 160 can yon imagine a white man busting about in the giare? He is’ ly: ing on a dim piazza with an iced drink beside him and a fan stirring the air above his head. “Yes,” said the missionary, “white men in India avoid the sun as yaoging girls at home Avoid mice. White men return from India as pale as you see me. ‘The Indian pallor,’ we saat No-Tip Restaurants. Owing to the success of the “no-tip” resiaurant in Piccadilly, London, other restaurants are about to enforce the no-tip rule. The waiters receive wages and @ commission. “WHACKS” And What They Mean. }a “whack” remember “there's a rear json,” so try and say “thank you,” ‘then set about finding what you have }done to demand the rebuke, and try and get’back tuto line, for that’s the happy place aiter all. Curious how many highly organized people fail to appreciate and heed the first little, gentle “whacks” of the good old Dame, but go right along with the habit whatever itgmay be, that causes her disapproval. Whiskey, Tobacco, Coffee, Tea or other unnat- ural treatment of the body, until serl- ous illness sets in or some chronic disease. Some people, seem to get on very well with those things for a while, and Mother Nature appareatly cares but littlo what they do. Perhaps she has no particular plans for them and. thinks it little use to waste time in their training. ‘here are people, however, who seem to be selected by Nature to “do things.” The old Mother expects them to carry out some department of her great work. A portion of these select- ed ones oft and again seek to stimu: Inte and then deaden the tool (the body) by..gome one or. more, of the drugs—Whiskey, ‘Tobacco, Coffee, ‘Tea, Morphine, ete. You know all of these throw down the same class of alkaloids in Chem cal analysis. They stimulate and then depress. They take from man or wom- an the power to do his or her best work. ‘After these people have drugged for # time, they get a hint, or mild “whack” to remind. them that they have work to do, a mission to perform, and should be about the business, but are loafing along the wayside and be- come unfitted for the fame and for- tune that waits for them if they but stick to the course and keep the body clear of obstructions so it can carry out the behests of the mind. Sickness is a call to “come:up high- er.” These hints come in various forms. It may be stomach trouble or bowels, heart, eyes, kidneys or general nervous prostration. You may depend upon it when a “whack” comes it’s a warning to quit some abuse and do the right and fair thing with the body. Perhaps it is coffee drinking that offends. That is one of the greatest causes of human disorder among Americans, Now, then, if Mother Nature is gen- tle with you and only gives light, little “whacks” at first to attract attention, don’t abuse her consideration, or she will coon hit you Larder, sure. ‘And you may be sure She will hit you very, very hard if you insist on following the way you have been go ing. It seems hard work to give up a habit, and we try all sorts of plans to charge our ill feelings to some other cause than the real one. Coffee drinkers when ill will attri- bute the trouble to bad food, malaria, overwork and what not, but they keep on being sick and gradually getting worse until they are finally foreed to ‘quit entirely, even the “only one cup a day.” Then they begin to get bet- ter. and unless they have gone long enough to set up some fixed organic disease, they generally get entireiy well. It is easy to quit coffee at once and for aii, by having well made Postum, with its rich, deep seal brown color which comes to the beautiful golden brown when good cream is added, and the crisp snap of good, mild Java is there if the Postum has bean boiled long enough to cring it out. It pays to be well and happy for good old Mother Nature then sends us her blessings of many and various kinds and helps us to gain fame and fortune. Strip off the handicaps, leave out the deadening habits, heed Mother Nature's hints, quit being a loser and become a winner. She will help you sure if you cut out the things that keep you back. “There's a reason” and a profound one. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, “The Road to ‘Wellvilte.” IN THE SIMPLON TUNNEL. | 5 sical elt cphay potest Only 289 yards of the Simplon tun- nel remain to be excavated before the two headings which have been boree through the mountzin from the Italian and Swiss sides meot. The worker: in the Swiss boring have suffered se- verely from springs. The amount of water which had to be dealt with partly arising from natural infiltre tions and in part comprising that in- troduced artificially for refrigeration, rock boring and the itke—amounted at length to 3,672 gallons a minute. But even this would not have ‘suf ficed to stop work, as has now been found necessary, but for the abnor: majly hot springs which have been encpuntered at intervals. ‘Men can and do work in cold water. but hot water is another matter. Al though the issiing springs were cooled by jets of cold water directed into their midst, the temperature of the workings became unbesrable. This, combined with an impending landslip hes necessitated abandonment of the work for a time at least on the Swiss side, The tunnels are closed with two fron gates which weigh about eight tons .and are built to resist a pressure of 147 pounds to the square inch of surface. On the Italian side work still pro gresses In spite of encountering 2 spring hotter than any previously tap: ped, which discharges 900 gellons a minute, and the work will probably be completed from this side. It ts feared, though, that grave dificulties may be encountered when the Iajian heading has adyanced sufficiently; to blast an entrance into the submerged Swiss heading. 7 EDUCATOR IS SERIOUSLY ILU. Hartford Theological Seminary Ma} Lose Its President.. Dr. William Douglas Maclergie. who is seriously ill, has been presi dent of Hartford Theological Semina ry since 1903. and for a time pas professor in ifte Chicago ‘wheoloe|ee! Seminary. He was born in South rica in 1859, his father having been a BEEN Ve | if NN he Sa Bs wy j fete: NN pie NEY | SS MD) | hm Oi | een: UU WAN: i, i <gee Bill) Mh pM sl Sh yl ait ee | ia : j Hi a li JE NY Vy = ae. SGRIIN LEE a missionary. After being graduated from Edinburgh University, Prof. Mac- kenzie studied in the Congregational ‘Theological Hall at the Scottish cap: ital, and then went to the University of Gottingen. After a few years he was ordained a Congregational cler- gyman. Dr. Mackenzie has published several volumes, including a history of South Africa | HOTEL FOR WORKING GIRLS. | Model Institution to Be Established ‘ in New York. A hotel for working girls and work- ing women will be built soon in New York city if plans now under consid: eration are carried out. Plans have ‘been submitted by an architect involy- ing the expenditure of $300,000. As- sistance -has been offered by promi- nent financial men. Board at the ho- tel will be about $3 or $5 a week, Pa- trons will have the use of the hotel laundry. There will be a room with sewing machines at their service when they want to do mending. A number of sinall reception rooms will be on the first floor, where the girls may receive friends. Nothing will be said to the guests about religion or their family affairs. If the girls are cut of employment at any time the management will try to tide them over until they get work. eh sada etisied ea Shan Pierpont Morgan is not what might be called garrulous. In fact, he sel- dom speaks unless he has something to say. On one occasion he wanted to get a superintendent for a certain tew department that ke had established. He thought he knew the man for this superintendency—an assistant to one of his colleagues. He sent for the col- Teague and said: “I am setting up, you know, a certain new department. I shall want a new superintendent. I think Brown, in your office, would fill the place very well, indeed.” “I am sure he would,” said the other. “The only trouble is, Mr. Morgan, Brown can't be spared.” “I don’t want a man that you can spare,” replied Morgan. Brown was appointed. Punished Bibulous Juror. Judge Barratt of Philadelphia has decided that persons who are unable to keep sober for more than three or four days at a time have no business to become jurors. One citizen absented himeelf from Judge Barratt’s court on the fourth day of a trial and turned up next morning prepared to hear a reprimand more or less severe, ac- cording to kis honor’s frame of mind. ‘The rebuke, sharp and stinging, was administered, but that did not end the matter. The juror was fined $50 and sent to jail for five days. COL. W.C.P, BRECKINRIDGE DEAD Famous Southern Orator Succumbs to Attack of Paralysis. Col. Wililam Campbell Preston Breckinridge died at his home at Lex | iczton, Ky., Nov. 19, from a stroke of paralysis sustained two days before. ‘The end came peacefully, He had heen gradually sinking for twenty-four hours and for that length of time the case had been known to be hopeless. Col. Breckinridge was a famous ora- tor on the stump and in congress. where his eloquence brought him into great prominence. Ten years ago a woman known as Madeline Pollard snei him on a scandalous charge, and tiétf£, "™. Ba py BLUME - y hl 4 ke, MN, Nags eo, ae | eh to | (ity ay Me oe \\ NR 0 2 7 Sem | RRL //4, ja ‘G UN Oe oo i | 8 Seen “Nr ] \ re OU. WOR LZRECHINGAZE @ scusational trial followed, the young woman being awarded a ver @ict against him. Upon being defeated for congress by Major W. C. Owings in 1894, which was due largely to the Pollard scau- dal, Col. Breckinridge resumed the practice of law in Lexington, but ran ‘again for congress in 1896 as_ the ‘nominee of the sound money demo- crats and republicans. He was de- feated. Shortly after this defeat he took charge of the editorial depart. ment of the Lexington Heral2, and since that time he has devoted all of his time {o this work and his exten sive law practice. The verdict rendered against him in favor of Madeline Pollard was nev. er paid and so far as is known still stands against him. It was well known by the attorneys at the time of the sensational trial that no money would ever be paid, even if a verdict was found for her, as the financial condi: tion of Col. Breckinridge was at low ebb, and since that time every dolla1 made by bim has been used as living expenses for his family. His defeat by Maj. Owings for the democratic nomination for congress followed closely the famous breach o promise case, and his defeat was due in great measure to the women of th: district, who worked and fough’ agaiust his election. DOES THINKING FOR SOCIETY. West Virginia Woman Furnishes Ideas for Entertainment. Mrs. Robert Smythe Dillon, of Wheeling, is called by connoisseurs the most beautiful woman in West Virginia and is an acknowledged belle of Washington society. More than thet, however, she is the originator of more plans for the entertainment of those who find it hard to be amused by wornout fashionable pastimes than has any other seen recently through the lorgnetie. She has ample means witk which to promote her merry- making schemes, but she is too gener- ous to keep them to herself and shares liberally with her less invent- ive sisters. Her ideas are in great demand in the national capital as well as in that of her own state, and many of them have been adopted gratefully by hostesses in other cities. Duchess Rabid Analomaniac. Reports from London inulcate ‘he* the duchess of Manchester is becom: ing more and more of an Anglomaniac the longer she lives in the tight little island. Until Papa Zimmerman, of Cincinaati, had settled up the duke’s debts she maintained a fair show ot rezpect for her native land, but once the wolf was driven from the ducal door her grace began to show extrav- agant admiration for her unaccus- tomed surroundings. She showed profound respect for titles and has caused more than a few hearty laughs over her predilection for mentioning her titled acquaintances, carefully using all the name handles possible. Covered Up Their Mistakes. W. L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, was the sub- ject at a recent dinner of many jokes about the mistakes that the bureau was making just then in its predictions. He took it good-natured- ly, giving apt answers to all the chaff. ing, and scored in particular against a young physician. “Mr. Moore” said the doctor, “I'm glad of one thing— you chaps will at least admit that you make mistakes.” “Oh, as to that,” Tesponided Moore carelessly, “we must necessarily. Now, with the medical profession it’s quite different. You can bury yours, you know!” Collece Girls’ Walking Clubs. It is a move in the right directio® when college girls start of their own accord to organize walking clubs. At Wellesley such a union has been formed, with the appropriate name of Cross-Country club. It is the first of the kind there and the object pro- ciaimed is that a habit of taking long walks may be formed. Health is the first desideratum and it shows that the youmg women mean business when each member of the club is required to walk out of doors at least three hours a week.—Brooklyn Eag!e. THE EXPENSE OF NAVIES Immense Battleships Certainly Doomed i to Extinction. The battleship, with its seven or eight hundred men to die when dis- jaster comes, is an expensive Invest ment, says the World’s Work. Those who advocate iis continuance do net advocate its development. No ont ar- gues for the building of bettleships twice as long and broad and deep as those that now exist, with twice the thickness of armor and weight of guns. Yet, if the big battleship be not developed still further, it will cease to exist. For a time-its work can be done by the armoréd craiser: then, as the speed and vision of the submarine are increased and perfected. by the fast protected cruiser and fast- er destroyer; and if the specd and vision of this deadly, unseen enemy that strikes out of the unknown iv time and place finally encompasses the destroyer, these, too, must give way, as is probable, and adopt the subma rine features of their vanquishers, and become submergible suface boats. WANTS SCHOOLS AND MISSIONS | University President Decries Expend Hause) Sor Waeehine and. Srwles. Dr. Charles William Dabney, who fa- vors public expenditures for schools and missions instead of for warships and armies, is the new president of the University of Cincinnati, :nto which office he was inducted lest ga \ SS e Si a = SS ay WS i \ Van E\ NAN Nh \\\\\\ eset ANN i" / fi hy, Tf i by oe qf if We WZ ANE Wi IL week, For seventeen years Dr, Dab- ney had been president of the Univer: sity of Tennessee. A Virginisa by birth, he has devoted his entire ca- reer to the educational and industrial development of the South. His in terest is in the field of industrial chemistry and the promotion of scien: tifie agriculture. Dr. Dabney is 49 years of age. PRESS GALLERY WON VICTORY. pe Cee ne ee | sulted in His Defeat. ‘The Washington colony of newspa: per correspondents heard with inter est the news that ex-Speaker Keifer was coming back to Congress from the Ohio district which be represcnt ed twenty years ago. While he wat speaker, Mr. Keifer undertook to re form the press gallery of the House One experience was enough for him He took the control of the gallers away from the standing committee o! correspondents and on interesting oc casions would fill it with his particu Jar friends, excluding the newspaper men completely from watching the proceedings of the House. The press committee took the matter in its owx hands, locked the gallery deors and excluded those holding cards from the speaker. This brought on a clash and the upshot of it all was that Speaker Keifer was soon relegated te gbseurity. Vhaman Mound te Succeed. Miss Helene Preda of Buda-resta, Hungary, though not blessed with a fortune, made her way through col- lege and earned a degree more than a year ago. Armed with this, she fancied she would have no difficulty in getting employment as a teacher. She spent several weeks in search of a place, but was unsuccessful. It was then she determined to try a trade. She set about to learn the trade of a stone mason and within a few months had mastered it. Starting out to find employment in her new field, she went first to the village mayor and secured a permit. An hour later she was boss- ing the construction of a stone wall around a large private park and had twenty men under her. Cars on English Railroads. We learn that the Great Centra} Railway company, which has already several thirty-ton wagons (cars) in use, has given orders for the manu- facture of wagons capable of carrying forty tons, and the first of these, man- ufactured by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon company, is now ready for use. This colossal wagon is far and away the largest ever seen on a railway system in Great Britain. It measures 40 fect 2% inches in Iength, 8 feet 3 inches in width and § feet 8 inches in height—London En- Pa Miss Astor’s Splendid Jewets. For a-week before the wedding of ‘Miss Astor in London detectives were employed night and day, guarding the presents in her father’s house in Carlton House terrace. They are still talking in the British capital about the splendor of the jewels displayed. One table was reserved exclusively for pearls, among which was a neck- lace, the gift of Mr. Astor, consisting of seven rows of magnificent black pearls. A single row of these gems worn by the bride at her marriage, is said to have been worth $200,000. STRESS ee Ai Liat fees Qa By A) SESE Ah, Aa ae Bi RES os Aneel Ny se) Ny ps yas —— is the only HIGH GRADE POWDER offered to the consumerata . Moderate Price It should not be confused with the cheap, low grade powder: on the one hand, nor the high priced trust powders on the other, Teo Busy to Gossip. a Your neighbor never says as much’ bout you as you fancy. She is busy worrying about those who say things) about her. aoe eee Bipeundas' 'SWardell, turveviiie, 8 Jc bowen! Would Buy a Lot of Shirt Waists. ‘An exchange wants to know if a 80 ciety girl can get along with $25,000 worth of clothes a year. Don't know, but we could—Atianta Journal, [errr “Por eniared feetbings eoftens the gua, ture tae | EIRSALGSSSel, Ser and Sts Se OR | Ever remark that those who become ‘noted in the world ere usually hard- | working people. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest. }and best or money refunded. 16 | Cuniees 10 cents: try tt now. Eyplanations Later. ‘An elderly clergyman was, recently seeing his wife off from Euston Sta tion, London, He handed her into @ carriage and a porter followed her with baggage. Then the clergyman gave his wife twopence, kissed the porter and departed: — In Old Enaland: ‘Three centuries ago the great stat ute o: James J. came into operation. It made felons, without benefit of clergy all who “shall use, practice oF exercise any injuration or conjara- tion of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, enter- tertainemploy, feed or rewerd any evil son shall be killed, destroyed, wated, and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose or take up any dead man, woman or child, out of bis, her oF their grave or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin bone or any part of any dead person, to be employed or used. in any man- ner of witchcraft, enchantment, charm or sorcery, whereby any per- son shall be killed, destroyed, wasted, consumed, pined or lamed in bis OF her body or any part thereof.” Un der this act witches were executed for more than a century. ; > Gent Maw too A. Bradford. Tenn. Nov. 21.—(Speqj cial.) —Seientific research shows Kid ney Trouble to be the father of 60 many diseases that news of a dis covery of a sure cure for it cannot fail to he welcomed ail over the coun= try. And according to Mr. J. A. Day of this place just such a cure, is found in Dodd's Kigney Pills. Mr. Davis) says: “Dodd's Kidney Pills are all that slaimed for them. They have me more good then anything I hav ever taken. I had Kidney Trouble very bad, and after taking a few of Dodd’s Kidney Pills 1 am pletely cured. I cannot praise th too much.” 4 Kidney Complaint develops into Bright's Disease, Dropsy, Diabetes, Rheumatism, and other painful fatal diseases. The safeguard is cure your kidneys with Dodd's ney Pilis when they show the first) symptom of disease. 4 | More Valuable Than Diamonds. Oriental rubies are worth, wi tor weight, about twelve umes much as diamonds. 4 Every housekeeper should know tbat if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because if never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 0z—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound pack ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Deflance Starch is free from all injurious chem icals. If your grocer tries to sell you ® 120m, package it is because he has 2 stock on hand which he wishes te dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Deflance Starch ag printed on every package in large ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand Defiance and save much thme and money and the annoyance of the sticking. Defiance never sticks. ae Cie aim Bee ah ea yee Sa (Co. yc aaagie BS) tm, ene ak es Roar ae EE as RR Ea ee]? Sue / ‘ Yj A prominent club woman, ts. Danforth, of St. Joseph, fich., tells how she was cured Malling cf the womb and its icon oe es and misery é E. Pinkham’s Vegetable mpound. Dean Mus. Prreram:— Life looks indeed when a woman fecls that festrength is fading away and she has Ehopes of ever being restored. Such Miimy feeling a few months ago when Was advised that my poor health was fied by prolapsus or falling of the pmb, The words sounded like a fll to me, I felt that my sun had set ; Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- ible Compound came to me as an iir of life ; it restored the lost forces a built me up until my good health turned to me. For four months I Bk the medicine daily, and each dose Med health and strength. I am so nkful for thehelp I obtained through muse.” — Mrs. Florence Daxrorrn, h7 Miles Ave., St. Joseph, Mich. — 200 forfelt If srigina! of above letter proving ender otnnot be rodce!. FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN.” Women would save time and uch sickness If they would ite to Mrs, Pinkham foradvice ‘soon as any distressing symp- hus appear. It is free, and has it thousands of women on the tht road to recovery. Not Likely. tt is reported that a Highland \cher who was vigorously denounc- ‘the sin of slothfulness reached an pected climax by demanding of ‘congregation: “Do you think Adam Eve went about the Garden of with their bands in their pock- "Chicago Record-Herald. Use Imperial Stamps. four countries—Bavaria, Austria, wrtemburg and Switzerland—border e lake of Constance. Passengers the boats have heretofore had jch trouble in finding out what ype to use on their letters. It has been decided that Ietters mailed ¢ boats may bear the stamps of one of the four countries named ‘well as German imperial stamps. THE PILLS THAT Mrs. Henry Story, of No. Site Obie a fatond says: “My husban from rheumatism so hat hecould hardly stand. 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BURMARDT: Inter: "war iterchaut, CINCINNATI, O- MEXICAN ustang Liniment cures Cuts, Burns, Bruises. GS’ CHERRY COUGH IP cures coughs and colds, French Customs Officiats. Nothing scems to escape the viel lance of tie Brench customs adminis- tration. There appears to have sprung up a trade in foreign illustrated post cards which were sent blank in pack- ets through the post as priated mat- ter. The customs have now interdict ed the transmissién of\ the picture post cards, and require that they be sent as post parcels, which have te pass throvgh the customs and pay duty as prints. Use of Electricity Will Purify Air. ‘When the transformation of cities by electric power and light is com- pleted, we may expect the air to be practically as pure as that of the country. It is estimated that the ear- bonic acid gas exhaled yearly by the people of a city of 2,000,000 is about 450,000 tons, but that this is Jess than 2 per cent of that from fuel combusé tion. Sesid Ones Oran: Ton, An American sight-seeing in the Fi}! islands came upon @ young savage en- gaged in tattooing the picture of a fish ‘on his father’s back. His eyes filled witli tears, “What moves you 20?” in- quired his companion. “It remin-is me of the time when my old maa would let me draw on him also,” was his reply. A Warning. 1t is not often that poetic retribution overtakes people in this life, but a case in point is that of a New York man who dropped dead from heart failure brought on by the excitement of beating his wife. The mora} of which is that husbands witk weak hearts should abstain from this mar: tal amusement. Not Likely. It is reported that a #Tighlana preacher who was vigorously denoutc- ing the sin of slothfulness reached an unexpected climax by demanding of his congregation: “Do you think Adam and Eve went about the garden of Eden with their hands in thelr pock- ete?”—Chicago Record-Herald. back eet aii Great occasions do not make heroes or cownrds. ‘They simply unveil them to the eves of men. Silently and im- perce}thly, as wo wake and sleep, we grow and wax strong or we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become. Largest Peanut Fields. ‘The lergest peanut fields in the world are in Guiana, on the uorth coast of Africa. Peanuts are grown there by hundreds of tons, but the quality is inferior to those grown in this country. Most of the African pea- nuts are shipped to France. Cigarettes at Course Dinner. It is sometimes the custom in Rus- sia for each lady at a big dinner to smoke a tiny cigarette between each course. This is supposed to assist digestion, besides removing the flavor of the previous course from the pab ate. Wanted To Grind the Water. Grandpa has a chain pump that turns with a crank, Little May was visiting at the farm, and seeing granc- pa pumping, rushed out, exclaiming, “Oh, grandpa, grandpa! Let me grind the water!”—Youth’s Companion. But Is He? ‘The London Graphic laments “the decay of seriousness in England.” This is a negative way of asserting that John Bull is now able to see a joke without being puuched.—New York Herald. No Daylight Weddings. A Russian bride is not submitted to the trying ordeal of appearing in white satin and lace in cold, broad daylight. ‘The wedding takes place by candle light in a drawing room. No-Tip Restaurants. Owing to the success of the “no+ip” restaurant in Piccadilly, London, other restaurants are about to enforce the no-tip rule. The waiters receive wages and a commission. Georgia Climate. “Great thing—this Georgia climate,” says a Billville exchange. “Even in winter we never have enough snow to bury our best enemies!”—Atlanta Constitution. Would Buy a Lot of Shirt Waists. ‘An exchange wants to know if 2 society girl can get along with $25, 000 worth of clothes a year. Don't know, but we could—Atlanta Jour- ‘wnt. By Our Own Exertions. As Beecher said wittily, “God's promises were never -neant to terry our laziness like a boat; they are to be rowed by our oars.” Too Busy to Gossip. Your neighbor never says as mucl. about you as you fancy. She is busy worrying about those who say things about her. When Women Marry. The average age at which women marry in civilized countries is twenty- thvee and a half years. More Valuable Than Diamonds. Oriental rubies are worth, weight for weight, about twelve times as ‘much as diamonds. : Georgia © imate. ‘Great thing—this Georgia cltmate,” ‘ys a DBillville exchange. “Even in winter we never have cnongh snow to umry our best encinies!"—Atlanta Constitution. Largest Peanut Field. The largest peanut fields in the world are in Guiana on the north coast of Africa, Pennuts ere grown there by hundreds of tons, but tre quality is inferior to those grown in this country. Most of the African pea- outs are shipped to France. Seeing Something Comic. A waitress in a restaurant in a nerthern town is known to the mem- hers of the establishment for ber ready wit. An occasiénal customer went in the other day for dinner. After receiving bis order the waitress handed him a newspaper to while away the time that woul delapse be- fore dinner as served. He leoked up after a few minutes and said: “T say miss, have you nothing comic to Took at?” “Well, sir,” replied the waitress, without a smile, “there's a looking giass straight in front of you, sir.”"— Comic Cuts, More Flexible and Lasting, won't shoke outyor blow out; by neing are ce! wit any our prend and one-third more for samo Rare Zanzibar Appies.- Of ail fruits Zanzibar apples are perhaps the rarest. Dozens of trees together wil! only bear a few, and the time of picking them has to be carefully scloeted, They must be gathered just a month before they ripen, otherwise they will very quickly Tt! ‘here appies Pave reacted the enormous price of $160 each. They ere not large, probably containing about ten bites, at $10 bite. Treslaideeateaiae Mendrayehie Animated Stee! Girder. A steel girder feil while being hoist- ed to the top of a San Francisco building and struck 4 house mover's wooden roller, which ricochetted across the treet passed through the window of a crockery store and swept a fifty-feot coynter clear of the bric-a-brac, cut ok dinner sets, waves, cy that were upon 1 ITS pease tesarat Enceraeerearornctae Su PERSE Sh cece nasa Heroes and Cowards. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and im- perceptibly, as we wake and sleep, we grow and wax strong or we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become. ‘You never hear any «ne complain about “Defiance Starch.” ‘There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents, ‘Try it now-and save your money. ‘When Women Marry. The average age at which women marry in civilized countries is twenty- three and x half years. No Daylight Weddings. A Russian bride is not submitted to the trying ordeal of appearing in white satin and lace in cold, broad daylight. The wedidng takes place by candle light in a drawing room. How's This ? We oer Ove Hundred Dollars Reward for eny ence ct catarrh that eaozot be cured by Hall Gitar coe F. 3. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, bave Ragwn Ff. cheney tor dielast 14 years and belleve him pevieetly how ‘Srable nel! tuningee tranenetions and. Aoanctally able to cary oncany cileationesmade by ern Wanpins Rinwen € MARES, ‘Wiese bruggiste, Toledo, 0. Faire Catarrh Cure, fe taken foternaily, actiog airectiy upon the hicod and toucgus eurtacde af the Spiess “Pettimunate nen freee Detee 15 cooks Der Bette. cola ty ail Drupstotes “Take Hall's family Pile for conetipfition, eiuak ac AP baie abi: The queer shapes of watches pre- vented their finding a place in the pocket. When was the fob first used in the dress of man. The German of feb is “fuppe,” and it is believed that it came from England through — the puritans, “whese dislike of display may have induced them to conceal their timekeepers from the public gaze.” Important to Mothers. ‘Bxmmine carefully every bottle of CASTORTA, ‘Beate and sure remedy for infante and children, eed oan that tb bo piace cai Beers the In Use For Over 30 Years, ‘Toe Kind You Have Always Bought. How to Test a Diamond. To test a diamond rub vigorously with a bit of silk for a moment and the stone, if a diamond, will attract bits of wool, cotton or paper. Expose the stone to the direct rays of the sun for 2 few moments and remove to a darkened room. If it is a diamond it will glow. An imitation diamond shows a number of images when one looks through it. The diamond shows but ene. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz In a package, which they won't be able to gell first. Decause Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. ‘Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 02. for same money? Then buy Deflance Starch. Requires no cooking. Wanted too Grind the Water. Grandpa has a chain pump that turns with a erank. Little May was visiting at the farm, and seeing grand- pa pumping rushed out, exclaiming, "Oh, grandpa, grandpa! Let me grind the water!”—Youth’s Companion: SUNSHINE AND SHADE ove PROPORTICN OF 80TH IN | MARRIED LIFE. Weiter in New York Weekly Tells Some Wholesome Truths and Gives . Good Advice—Ditferences in the Household Best Kept From Friends. Married life is not all made up of sunshine and peace. Shadows will sometimes darken the domestic hori- zon; the sun will often hide behind a cloud which apparently bas no silver lining. But don’t fret over it. Make up your mind to begin anew. Take a clean, new leaf in your book of expe- rience, and try to forget the blots ard erasures on the last one. Above ali things, preserve sacredly the priva- cies of your house. heart and married lite, No good is gained by imparting to ‘relatives or friends the sorrows and “disappointments yon endure, because, “sooner or later, you are sure to Te- gret making such a confidence. “There are fow friends who can be / ‘There are few who can be trusted with the secrets of your daily fet there are few who will not whisper “the story of your marital diffieuities to some “dear, confidential friend,” and soon your private affairs will be free- ly discussed by alt your acquaintances an‘l commented upon without stint, “furnishing food for gossip over many 2 ‘ea table. Build your own quiet werld, not allowing your dearest cacthly friend to be the confidant of eyght that concerns your domestic peace. Let moments of alienation, if they eeur—and they often do—be heeded at once. Never let the sun go down seeing yeu at variance with each oth- er. Women cling to men, lean upon them for protection, care and love. It a men would have a woman do him homage, he must be manly in every sense; a true gentleman, ready at all times to treat his wife’s wishes with doference and respect, beeause she is a woman. Such deportment, with no- ble pris"plos, @ good mind, energy ané iudictey, will win any woman in the Ian’ sho is worth winning. Womc: ail have their faults, and sometimes they are very provoking ones. But with certain virtues are al- ways coupled certain disagreeable characteristics, and we must make up our minds to accept the bitter with the sweet. For instance, every hus- band in the land desires a cieaniy, comfortable, well arranged abode, but he seldom thinks to praise his wife for her excellent regulation of the household machinery; and if she re- quests him, on entering, to use the doormat or footscraper, he is apt to give vent to an impatient expression. But what a mortification it would be to him if his house were in, such a state of dust and disorder as to cause unkind remarks from the neighbors! It Is a poor return when a wife has made everything bright and fresh, to see her husband unwilling to take a little pains to keep it so, or hear him object with forcible language to being reminded of those small points which all men are apt to forget occasionally. Don't worry about feminine extray- agance and feminine untruth, young man. Be true to your wife, love her sincerely and frequently declare your affection, and gratification will surely tend to keep her a loyal, devoted wife. —Florence H. Birney, in New York Weekly. Tearful Subjects. ‘Taking an illustration out of his own calling, Dr. Gunsaulus delivered by im plication a stinging rebuke to a kind of histrionism of which Mrs. Lestie Carter, Miss Olga Nethersole and Miss Clara Morris are leading exemplars and to a kind of player who is es teemed by some people to be doing sound emotional work when he pumps up real tears. “['ye known,” he said dryly, “preach ers who cried so much that nobody else wanted to cry. A good man I will call John Biggs was one of these. When one of the elders heard of his assignment to a certain circuit he said musingly, ‘Well, we'll be having a long wet spell soon.’ “and that would be all. “John Biggs conldn't risk the expe rience with his hearers. So he had it himself, There are such actors. They can let nothing go by intimation. “ney must have it themselves. This leaves no responsive effort for the audience Simplicity in music and in dramatic art belongs on the same high grade of character that makes for self-restraint in man.” a a a ia a Dorald’s ten-year-old idea of what may properly be offered one’s guests was well formed. He knew exactl: what he bad a right to expect. Sc at the first party which bis youthful eyes had looked upon save under the watchful gaze of the maternal chp: eron, he never hesitated a moment when they passed him some sliced dolled ham. “Naw,” said he, with more of sin cerity than polish. “I can get that to hum.” The World Is Mine. For me the jasmine buds unfold nd silver daisies star ,the lea, rhe crocus hoards the suiset gold, ixnd the wild rose breathes for me T feel we sap through the bough return: ng, Z share the skylark’s transport fine; 1 imow the fountain’s wayward yearning Pdve! and the world is mine! I love, and thoughts that sometime ‘grieved sun well remembered, grieve not me; From all the darkened and deceived ‘Upsoars my. spirit free, For soft the hours repeat one story, ane ‘sea one strain divine; uy ‘arise ail flushed with glory— {over ‘and the world's mine! Ae ete Marie Canton, GOVERNOR OF OREGOT: Uses Pe-ru-na @ In His Family Z| \% . For Colds and fi» Finds It an Excellent i Remedy. ‘So aes | Be Feo fe (hice feel | Nice Peete bed d tae a a The Magnificent State Capitol Building at Salem, Oregon. PRAISE FROM THE EX-GOVERNOR OF OREGON. JEWIS’S! 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Dougls more « z L ee ee SZ eee pacer ears nie anes a ‘SUPERIOR IN FIT, COMF 7 Ame WEAR : Sin cal | wn eee oe orem vd si Ft aa cae sae | Pine Pacis Letiors of: Atlantic tothe Pacific. Letters of congrat- ulation and commendation testity- Ingfte the meriteof Peruna as a catarsh remedy are pouring in from every State of the Union. Dr. Hartman is receiving hundreds of sch letters daily. All classes write these letters, from the highest to the lowest. ‘Phe outdoor laborer, the indoor arti- san, the clerk, the editor. the statesinan, the preacher—all agree that Peruna is the catarrh remedy of the age. ‘The stage and rostrum, recognizing catarrh as their greatest enemy, are es- pecially enthusiastic in their praise and testimony. Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from cata:rh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Peruna is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds. is to cheat eatarrh of its victims. Peruna not only cures catarrh, but prevents it. Every household should be supplied with this great remedy for caughs, colds and so forth. ‘The 'Ex-Governor of Oregon is an ardent admirer of Peruna. He keeps it continually in the house. ————___—_ If you are dissatistied T can offer you a splendid position with rapid sdvancement. 6. E. BARBER, Manager, Topeka, Kans. CHRISTMAS | DIAMONDS You can buy no better sift then a DIAMOND, Our catalogue contaio- ing iMustraiions and prices of Dis- monds, Watches, Silverware end Art Goods will be sent FREE on request. Boy of the Importers and SAVE MONEY, JACCARD vv 1030 Main St, KANSAS CITY eee ae ay All Signs Fail in a Dry Time” TUE SIGN OF THE FISH EVER FAILS IN A WET TIME Yn ordering Tower's Bickers, @ customer writes: “I know tay eeitt de att vighe of they Ihave the ‘Fish? on them? (This conadence ts the ont- growth of sixty-nine years of \eareful manufacturing, ‘A. J. TOWER CO, Tsien ot the Pith Becton, U8 An eg OWERS ‘Tower Canadian Co. SeafiGQO<t aed a J Toranto, Canada 79RD ~ Makers of Warranted Wet Weather Clothing esr W. N. U—WICHITA—No. 48, 1904 ‘When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Sa Re ae Sa €o., he says: Srarz or Ourcox, Re eed ‘The Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus, 0. Dear Sira:—1 have bad octasion to use your Peruna medicine in my far ily for colds, and it proved to be anex- cellent remedy. have not bad vce ‘casion to use it for other ajlareats. Yours very traly, W. M. Lord. It will be noticed that the Ex-Gor- ernor says he kas not had oceasion to vse Peruna for other aihnents. The reason for this is. most other ailnenta begin with a cole Using Peruna to premptiy ene cold, he protects his family against other ailnents. ‘This is exactly what every other family in the Un‘ied States should do— keep Peruna in the honse, Use it for conghs, colds. Ia grippe and other climatic affections of winter, and there will be no other ailments in the honse. Such families should provide theme selves with a copy of Dr. Harlinan's free book, entitled. “Chronic Catarrh.” Address Dr. 8. B. Hartman, Presiden’ of The Hartinan Sanitarium, Colum: wns, Ohio. AN correspondence held Peete enneaeatial. ge 29 Dr I 3 | We would teach the lety ff who buys. ; Lesson number omb, ; Starch isanextraction | of wheat used tostif? fen clothes when 5 DL taundered, Most starches in time ‘wil rot the f goods they ‘aro used to ‘stiffen. ‘They —— i Defianco Starch’ in absolutely pare. It gives new life to Jinen. It gives eatistie- tion or mouey back. It sells 16 ounces for 10 cents, at all grocers. It is the ‘very beet. MuNUrACTERED OF The DEFIANE STARGI (2, | OMAHA =- - NEB SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Nov. 19, '04 People can't eat books. — I've cut out the red stuff. — Learn to think on your legs. — All the world hates a quitter. — Cut out being too good a good fellow. — Save yourself for the last rounds of life. — I get my ideas from the newspapers. — My rakeoff here's fifty a day, anyhow. Comedy is not my graft on the stage. Football does up more men than boxing. Don't knock too hard. It's a waste of energy. A graceful loser's a diplomat—and a hypocrite. The water wagon can knock out the band wagon. The older you get the grayer and wiser you get. I learned to play baseball and to think in Boston. This is a kid glove age, and they've put mits on me. The mistake of my life was to cut out school at 13. You learn something every time you make a mistake. I often wish I had taken a slant toward the drama. They promised me a palace and gave me a morgue. GREAT MINDS ON MUSIC. The most affecting music is generally the most simple—Mitford. All good music is sacred, if it is heard sacredly; and all poor music is execrably unsacred.—Beecher. It is an art that God has given us, in which the voices of all nations may unite their prayers in one harmonious rhythm.—Halevy. Music is a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and which lets us for moments gaze into that!—Carlyle. Music gives us a new life, and to be without that life is the same as to be blind. Music is a language of the soul, but it defies interpretation.—Max Muller. If music softens the mind so as to prepare it for the reception of salutary feelings, it may be good; but inasmuch as it is melancholy, per se it is bad.—Johnson. FROM THE CYNIC'S NOTEBOOK. There is a peculiar variety of girls whose preference for a man is always manifested by extreme ill usage. The best part of a man's manliness is his boyishness; the best part of a girl's girlishness is her womanliness. Tell a girl she is pretty, you may win her approval; tell her her rival is ugly you will win her eternal gratitude To win a girl, a man must excite her curiosity, command her admiration, arouse her interest and then—make her cry. A man's capacity for falling in love is like the phenomena of electrical discharge in a thunderstorm: it accumulates until it reaches a certain degree and then strikes the nearest available object—Pacific Monthly. DRIFTS OF WISDOM The man who never worries throws a vast amount of responsibility on someone else. Women generally believe their own family is a few grades above the family of a husband. A man's ideas of personal liberty is to keep his business to himself and find out all he can about the concerns or others. Women tell their troubles in confidence to their friends and then wonder why so many persons know of their affairs. A WOMAN'S AGE. The woman who constantly scans the mirror for wrinkles will be certain to discover them soon. On the shady side of thirty-five a woman can do lots of things she wouldn't dare do before. Many a woman who can make men tremble is tyrannized over by a little piece of glass with quicksilver behind it. Wiggle-Slick WASH BLUE Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other kind of bluing. Won't Freeze, Spill, Break WAS BOUND TO FIND OUT. Incident Proves Women are Not the Only Curious Creatures. We had been married just a month and my inquiries as to all his doings during the day had begun to draw forth remarks about woman's proverbial curiosity, when one evening after tea was on the table, I picked up the evening paper and found a recipe for "prune whip," which I cut out and laid away for future use. After the head of the house had changed his coat, donned his slippers, eaten and made himself comfortable, he asked, "What did you cut out of my paper?" "Oh, something that would not be at all proper for you to read," I replied. "Well, I guess I'll read what I choose. Please get it." I refused and things grew uncomfortable, and when I returned from the kitchen I found an empty chair, empty slippers and a discarded paper. About an hour after the head of the house returned and with a particularly jubilant air opened a brand new newspaper. He scanned column after column eagerly until he found a recipe for "prune whip." Now when the head of the house becomes any way domineering I feed him on "prune whip."—Elizabeth Ogilvie in Good Housekeeping. An Honest Opinion. Mineral, Idaho, Nov. 14th.—(Special.)—That a sure cure has been discovered for those sciatic pains that make so many lives miserable, is the firm opinion of Mr. D. S. Colson, a well known resident of this place, and he does not hesitate to say that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. The reason Mr. Colson is so firm in his opinion is that he had those terrible pains and is cured. Speaking of the matter he says: "I am only too happy to say Dodd's Kidney Pills have done me lots of good. I had awful pains in my hip so I could hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney Pills stopped it entirely. I think they are a grand medicine." All sciatic and Rheumatic pains are caused by Uric Acid in the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy Kidneys, and healthy Kidneys strain all the Uric Acid out of the blood. With the cause removed there can be no Rheumatism or Sciatica. Censor Theater Posters. No pictorial theater posters are to be posted in Oldham, England, in future, without first being submitted to a censorship appointed by the local watch committee. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces namination, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2oz bottle. Drink Only Home-Made Wine. Perisa has no distilleries, breweries or saloons, only home-made wine, and it is hard to get drunk there. Women who want more rights don't need any legislation to get them: all they've got to do is take them. Mrs. J. H. Giles, Everett, Pa. Suffered David K. Ramsay, a former trouble. Cured by Dr. David K. Ramsay's favorite remedy, Rondout, N. Y. 11-22. Division of Year in Korea. In Korea two years of every three have twelve months each, of twenty-nine or thirty days. The third year has thirteen months, with 385 days. It is sometimes better to pose than to suppose. Write MURINE EYE BEMEDY Co. Chicago. If your eyes are sore or inflamed, and get certain advice and free sample MURINE. It cures all eye-like A Nice New "Problem." Some unemployed mathematician physicist has figured out that the rivers of the world pour eighty-six cubic miles of water into the various oceans every day. It would be nice to have some disengaged chemist explain where all the salt to go with it comes from. Don't you know that Deflance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? About the Sweet Potato. The so-called "sweet potato" is no potato at all, but belongs to an entirely different family, having truly an enlarged root of a creeping, twining vine, which has a blossom something like a morning glory. Sweet potatoes are richer in starch and sugar than the common potato. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all Drugsists, 25c. Sample FREE Address A. S.Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Effect of Bee Stings. Two bee stings suffice to kill a sparrow in two or three hours. Analysis of the bee poison has shown that it contains three principals—one convulsive, one stupifying and one which gives rise to acute inflammation. FIGHT FOR POSSESSION FIGHT FOR POSSESSION Japanese are Continuing Assaults Upon Port Arthur. GENERAL STOESSEL DISABLED. Japanese Show Scrupulous Care, After a Battle in Forwarding all Russian Effects to St. Petersburg—Practice Highly Commended by Leaders. The Japanese are pressing the fighting for possession of Port Arthur, assaults being made almost continuously upon the eastern line of defenses. Reports from Japanese sources intimate that ammunition and supplies of the garrison are running short. It is asserted that General Stoessel, the Russian commander at Port Arthur, has been disabled by wounds. There was some sharp fighting on the night of November 10 for the possession of the fortified village Endowunpulu, near Shakhe, the Russians being first driven out, then retaking the place, and finally retiring. Mukden, Nov. 14, via Tientsin, Nov. 17.—The Manchurian army Vestnik, published under the sanction of the Russian officials, and the only newspaper printed at the theater of war, gives details of the scrupulous care shown by the Japanese for the supplies and other effects of the dead found on the battle field, and tells how the Japanese have forwarded such effects to St. Petersburg. The paper highly recommends this action and announces that General Kuropatkin recommends that all commanders shall observe a similar practice regarding the Japanese dead. This humane practice, which was initiated by Japanese, and which apparently was calculated to secure consideration for the dead, has met with applause from the Russian army, and will undoubtedly be imitated whenever the Russians are in possession of the field over which a battle has been fought. The homogeneity and discipline of the Japanese as well as their success, have furnished them with facilities for the exercise of this humane conduct, the practice of which by the Russians has been rendered difficult owing to the heterogeneous elements which compose the Russian army, taken in connection with their constant retreats. Owing to the fact that the Japanese have been left in possession of nearly all the battlefields, the humane and benevolent offices have entirely involved upon them. This may have given the impression that the Russians have been considerate in their treatment of the dead warriors, but such an impression would be obviously unfair. In the widely separated and distant parts of the battlefield where opportunities presented themselves for the exercise of humanity, the result has been, of course, no means of knowing exactly what may have happened. This recognition by both sides, however, of the benevolent care of the dead still further marks the abandonment of primitive practices in warfare. The Vestnik, in each issue, announces new plans for the organization of the army, indicating elaborate and thorough re-construction and re-enforcements. FRENCH MINISTER RESIGNS. Culmination of Fierce Assaults Upon Administration. Paris, Nov. 17.—Gen. Andre resigned the portfolio of minister of war, and Henry Berteaux, a member of the chamber of deputies and successful broker on the bourse was nominated as his successor. This change in the ministry is the culmination of fierce assaults upon the administration of war in the course of which the chamber was the scene of frequent wild disorders, including the recent personal attack on General Andre. These events stirred the public to a high pitch of excitement and particularly army and parliamentary circles where a succession of duels evidenced the bitterness. General Andre made the decision to resign only yesterday morning and despatched a letter to Premier Combes. The text of this letter which was given out asserts that the attacks against the war office were merely a device of the enemies of the government to undermine the republic. "Will, proud of my work to which I have devoted my best energies." General Andre wrote, "I have too much love for my country, and the republic to accept for one moment the hypothesis that I am the cause of disunion. It is by the united action of this majority that Ministers Waldeck-Rousseau and Combes have saved the republic from the perils confronting them and it is due to this continued union that the republic will achieve the great task before it." Very Cold at the Front. Rome, Nov. 18.—The Mukden correspondent of the Italia Militaire reports that the cold at the front is something terrible. He says it acts as an aid to the Japanese as it provides a ready means of advance. Skirmishing Continues. St. Petersburg, Nov. 18.—A dispatch rfom Mukden tates that an exchange of shots continued all day Sunday along the banks of the Shakhe river, each trying to prevent the other completing its fortifications. 9.00 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral, NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alc. Sweet Rockellia Salt Amine Seed Tangerine Dill Cinnamon Salt Worm Seed Clarified Sugar Wintergreen Flavor A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. For Simile Signature of Charles H. Flitchner NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. PISD'S CURE FOR CURSE WHERE ALL EAST FILMS. Best Cough Syrup, Tastes Good, Use in time. Sold by drugstores. W. N. U.—WICHITA—No. 47, 1904 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. EVARTS SCORED ON HOAR. Had Pat Answer Ready for Wrathful Statesman. He and Evarts were implacable enemies when it came to a passage of words, and the honors were about even. One day, however, toward the end of the New York senator's career Evarts came off with flying colors. He was chairman of the library committee and Hoar was a minor member. Evarts was lazy, and would not call his committee together from beginning to end of a session. A measure which Hoar was anxious to have brought up had been referred to the library committee, and there seemed doomed to sleep forever. Evarts when pleaded with would promise to call the committee to consider the measure and then forget all about it. At last one day toward the end of the session Hoar, annoyed and irascible, met Evarts in the cloak room. "Whenever you are ready to call a meeting of the library committee," he said, with biting sarcasm, "I wish you would notify my executors." "I shall be most happy to notify your executors," said Evarts, with a mile. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or bottled. Puts Out Oil Fire. When the oil in a big tank in Fresho county, California, was fired by lightning, a cannon ball was shot into the tank and the oil ran out through trenches that had been dug for the purpose. Kabo Corsets Get Grand Prize. St. Louis, Oct. 16.—It has been announced that Kabo Corsets, made by the Kabo Corset Co., Chicago, have been given the Grand Prize and highest award by the board of judges at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. American Stops Swiss Train. Losing his new hat out of a window of a Swiss express, an American passenger pulled the alarm cord, and the train was stopped. He recovered his hat and cheerfully paid a $10 fine. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Recipe for Contentment. If you want anything, earn it. And if you can't get it after you earn it, be happy without it. $100 Reward. $100. Uninteresting Objects. A pug dog and a really consistent woman are the two most uninteresting things in the world. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. Cheapest Municipal Tenements. The cheapest municipal tenements are those owned by Dublin, where two rooms can be rented for 50 cents a week. A prominent Southern lady. Mrs. A prominent Southern lady, Mrs. Blanchard, of Nashville, Tenn., tells how she was cured of backache, dizziness, painful and irregular periods by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Gratitude compels me to acknowledge the great merit of your Vegetable Compound. I have suffered for four years with irregular and painful menstruation, also dizziness, pains in the back and lower limbs, and fitful sleep. I dreaded the time to come which would only mean suffering to me. "Better health is all I wanted, and cure if possible. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brought me health and happiness in a few short months. I feel like another person now. My aches and pains have left me. Life seems new and sweet to me, and everything seems pleasant and easy. "Six bottles brought me health, and was worth more than months under the doctor's care, which really did not benefit me at all. I am satisfied there is no medicine so good for sick women as your Vegetable Compound, and I advocate it to my lady friends in need of medical help."—Mrs. B. A. BLANCHARD, 422 Broad St., Nashville, Tenn. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or fatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset good that I purchased another, and the result was so satisfactory that I bought six more bottles, and am now feeling like a new woman. I shall never be without it. I hope that my testimonial will convince women that your Vegetable Compound is the greatest medicine in the world for falling of the womb or any other female complaints."—Mrs. May Cody, 2660 Birch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Remember, every woman is cordially invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about her symptoms she does not understand. Her address is Lynn, Mass., her advice is free and cheerfully given to every ailing woman who asks for it. with n situde sleepe "war hope tried Vege trouble you n AS your of v good that I purchased another, a bought six more bottles, and am never be without it. I hope that that your Vegetable Compound for falling of the womb or any of Cody, 2660 Birch St., Philadelphia Remember, every woman Pinkham if there is anything understand. Her address is I cheerfully given to every ailing When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. with such symptoms as dizziness, tinnness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, nausea, malaise, malcoly, all gone" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. A Severe Case of Womb Trouble Cured in Philadelphia. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — I have been cured of severe female troubles by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I was nearly ready to give up, but seeing your advertisement I purchased one bottle of your medicine, and it did me so much Wichita Business College SHORTHAND INSTITUTE Write F. A. HIGHBARGER for catalog 114-116 N. Market St., Wichita, Kana, WE DEMAND YOUR ATTENTION. If anyone offered you a good dollar for an imperfect one would you take it? If anyone offered you one good dollar for 75 cents of bad money would you take it? We offer you 10 ounces of the very best starch made for 10c. No other brand is so good, yet all others cost 10c. for 12 ounces. Ours is a business proposition. DEFIANCE STARCH is the best and cheapest. We guarantee it satisfactory. Ask your grocer. The DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury, Md., wife of G. W. Fooks, Sheriff of Wicomico County, says: "I suffered with kidney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradually. I felt tired and weak, was short of breath and was troubled with bloating after eating, and my mico County, says: "I suffered with kidney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradually. I felt tired and weak, was short of breath and was troubled with bloating after eating, and my limbs were badly swollen. One doctor told me it would finally turn to Bright's disease. I was laid up at one time for three weeks. I had not taken Doan's Kidney Pills more than three days when the distressing aching across my back disappeared, and I was soon entirely cured." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,N.Y. Founder of German East Africa. At an international geographical congress meeting Dr. Joachim Graf von Pfeil un Klein Ellguth, a noted German explorer, stated that he and two companions, while traveling in East Africa in 1884, seized all that territory in the name of Germany. They had borrowed $10,000 to finance the enterprise, struck across Zanzibar to the African coast, signing treaties of cession with the native chiefs as they went along, and when they reached the coast the doctor's companions went to Germany to negotiate, leaving him alone, the only white man within 1,000 miles, to await their return. The proposition submitted by his companions was eagerly accepted by the German government, warships were sent to the scene, the region, equal to Germany in area, was seized, and thus, according to the story, German East Africa came into being. He Figured it Out. "I've got an 8-year-old-boy at home that will make either a metaphysiician or a detective—I'm not sure which," remarked a lawyer, as he entered his office the other morning. "The kid's just getting over an attack of measles, and has hard work amusing himself. Yesterday his mother and the nurse were in the room, and he spoke up all of a sudden much to the embarassment of his mother." "Say, ma; I know how old nurse is" "His mother thought the nurse might be confused; but she wasn't. "How do you know so much, Willie?" she asked. "Well, I asked you once how many years you've been nursing, and you said five. Then when you forgot that I asked you how old you was when you went to the training school and you said eighteen. Then, by and by, I asked you how long you was in school, and you said four years. Now eighteen and four and five are twenty-seven—eee?" Cancer and Crabs At the recent meeting of the British association Dr. Adamkiewics read a paper upon "ist der Krebs erblich?" ("Is Cancer Hereditary?" Unfortunately, the programme had it "erditch" (earthly). So the London Times next day announced that the doctor had read a paper upon "Is the Crab a Land or Sea Animal?" TILL NOON. The Simple Dish That Keeps Cne Vig erous and Well Fed. When the doctor takes his own medicine and the grocer eats the food he recommends some confidence comes to the observer. A Grocer of Ossian, Ind., had a practical experience with food worth anyone's attention. He says: "Six years ago I became so weak from stomach and bowel trouble that I was finally compelled to give up all work in my store, and in fact all sorts of work, for about four years. The last year I was confined to the bed nearly all of the time, and much of the time unable to retain food of any sort on my stomach. My bowels were badly constipated continually and I lost in weight from 165 pounds down to 88 pounds. "When at the bottom of the ladder I changed treatment entirely and started in on Grape-Nuts and cream for nourishment. I used absolutely nothing but this for about three months. I slowly improved until I got out of bed and began to move about. "I have been improving regularly and now in the past two years have been working about fifteen hours a day in the store and never felt better in my life. "During these two years I have never missed a breakfast of Grape-Nuts and cream, and often have it two meals a day, but the entire breakfast is always made of Grape-Nuts and cream alone." "Since commencing the use of Grape-Nuts I have never used anything to stimulate the action of the bowels, a thing I had to do for years, but this food keeps me regular and in fine shape, and I am growing stronger and heavier every day. "My customers, naturally, have been interested and I am compelled to answer a great many questions about Grape-Nuts. "Some people would think that a simple dish of Grape-Nuts and cream would not carry one through to the noonday meal, but it will and in the most vigorous fashion." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellyville." LATE MARKET REPORT. Kansas City..... $ 3 50 @ $ 6 25 NATIVE STEERS..... $ 4 60 @ 4 81 HOGS—Heavy..... 140 @ 1 08 WHEAT—No 2 hard..... 1 08 @ 1 11 No 2 red.班..... 1 08 @ 1 11 CORN—No 2 mixed. — — @ 47 OATS—No 2 mixed. — — @ 30 HAY—No 2 Timothy..... 9 0) @ 8 00 Prairie..... 7 50 @ 8 00 BUTTER..... 20 @ 32 EGGS..... — @ 24 Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEERS $ 5 8) @ 6 85 WHEATERS & FEEDERS..... 2 00 @ 4 00 HEIFERS..... 1 75 @ 5 30 HOGS..... 4 60 @ 4 80 Chicago Cash Grain. WHEAT—No 2 Red..... $ 1 16 @ 1 17 No 2 Hard..... 1 11 @ 1 14 CORN—No 2..... 50% @ 57% OATS—No 2..... 29 St. Louis Live Stock. BEEF STEERS..... $ 3 75 @ 6 50 COWS & HEIFERS..... 2 25 @ 4 85 TEXAS STEERS..... 2 50 @ 4 25 Cotton. LIVERPOOL..... 5.44d NEW YORK..... 10.10e ..... 10.19e GALVESTON..... 9% Chicago Futures. Open High Low Close T'd y Close Y'd y WHEAT— Dec..... 110% 112% 110% 112% 121% Mav..... 111% 112% 110% 112% 121% CORN— Dec..... 49% 51% 49% 51% 111% Mav..... 46% 46% 45% 46% 111% OATS— Dec..... 28% 29 28% 28% 23% 23% Mav..... 31% 31% 31% 31% 31% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS..... $ 4 52) @ $ 4 55 COWS..... 1 80 @ 2 50 STOCKERS..... — — @ 2 10 HEIFERS..... — — @ 2 10 STEERS..... 2 10 @ 3 00 CALVES..... — — @ 2 85 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. At Westerville, O., Dr. Lewis Bookwalter, was inaugurated president of Otterbein university. Fire has destroyed one side of the town of Marion, in Tuscola county, Michigan. Loss $200,000. The cruiser, Tacoma, arrived from San Juan, P. R. She will go to the navy yard to undergo necessary repairs. Commissisoner Wright will leave Manila November 12 for a 20 days' tour of inspection of the province of Mindanao and Jolo. The Russian volunteer steamer Voronej, loaded with coal and provision, passed through the Bosphorus bound for the Mediterranean. Kogoro Takahira, Japanese minister to the United Sates, was reported to be much improved. Dr. Shrady said he thought all danger was passed. The trial of Nan Patterson, who has been in the Tombs since last June charged with the murder of Saesar Young, will begin November 15, in New York. The German ambassador and the Baroness Speck von Sternberg left Washington for White Plains, N. Y., where they will be the guests of Mr. Whitclair Reid. The North German-Lloyd steamer Lahn, which was sold to Russia several months ago, has under gone reconstruction and will serve as a captive balloon shin. The remains of Arthur C. King, a millionaire tea importer, who died at Berkley, Call., were shipped to Detroit, Michigan. He came to this country five months ago. At Chicago, Martin W. Burke, for seventeen months manager of the Brevort hotel, was found dead in bed at the hotel. It is believed that he died of Bright's disease. Baron Taube, who is connected with the foreign office, has been designated as Russian judicial adviser to the international commission which is to inquire into the North Sea incident. The Japanese legation has received a cablegram from Honolulu saying that Prince Fushima, the Mikado's adopted brother, sailed from Honolulu for San Francisco where he is expected to arrive on the evening of November 9 or the morning of November 10. The idle plant of the Carnegie Tube company has been leased by A. M. Byers, independent manufacturer, and the works will be placed in operation at once. The plant has been closed down for two years, owing to poor business and sharp competition. The resumption will give employment to 500 men. At Dallas, Texas, fire destroyed the dry goods establishment of W A. Green & Co. The fire is believed to have been started by burglaries. There are evidences that the place had been ransacked. Loss, $65,000. The interstate commerce commission which is investigating mining and transportation conditions in the anthracite region in connection with the suit of W. R. Hearst against the coal carrying railways, inspected the colliers in the western end of Schuylkill county, Pa. A dispatch from Valparaiso says that severe earthquakes have been felt in the Northern Provinces. Many houses were damaged in Tacna and Arica. In Negeriers several houses were thrown down. Four men were injured by falling walls. The Right Rev. Henry Gabriels, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Ogdensburg, has received from King Leopold of Belgium, the decoration of the order of Leopold, founded by the first king of Belgium, in recognition of his service to the state and immigrants in America. Five Japanese, the advance guard of a colony of forty or fifty families, have arrived at San Francisco on their way to Florida, where they intend to cultivate land. The colony will raise silk, cotton, tobacco, and pine apples, and experiment with them. TERRIBLE SUFFERING THIS YOUNG WOMAN APPEALED IN VAIN FOR HELP. When Hope had Almost Settled Into Utter Despair Relief Came from an Unexpected Source. Mrs. Emma Heidebreder, of No. 1833 Joy street, Burlington, Iowa, whose husband is an employee of the Rand Lumber Co., tells a story of pitiable suffering: "For about five years," she says, "I had a host of physical ill that kept me an invalid and puzzled the doctors. Some of them thought I was going into consumption. At times I was so weak that I could not comb my hair or even wash my face. Then excruciating pains ran suddenly up my thigh and I had to be carried to bed screaming in my agony. I could no longer do my work and the drain upon my husband's purse was very heavy. I craved food but what I ate only gave me discomfort. My liver was torpid, and often I had to be carried to the door for air to save me from suffocating. "The worst was the pain which seemed as if my thigh were being pushed out of my body. The best doctors could do was to deaden it by narcotics. Once they thought I could not live for more than two days. In one of my worst attacks, a friend said: 'Why don't you try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills? They are the only thing that ever helped my rheumatism.' "I took his advice. After using one box I felt better, and I continued to use the pills for three or four months with steady improvement until I was well. For four years I have been able to do all my household work, and no longer have to take medicine for any serious trouble. I gave one box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to a man on crutches because of rheumatism and advised my market woman to buy a box when she was complaining of the same trouble. I heard that he was soon able to throw his crutches away, and she told me she had got rid of the rheumatism by the use of one box and could not thank me too much." Testimony multiplies as to the magnificent curative powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in cases of rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous headache, palpitation of the heart and all forms of weakness in either male or female. They are sold by all druggists throughout the world. Hospital Erected in One Hour. In Austria a few years ago a complete hospital was built and was made ready to receive patients with in an hour, a feat which seems almost impossible even when we know that all the component parts of the building were at hand. Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE recently, and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be without it now.—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J." Sold by all Druggists, 250. A woman's favorite writer is a husband who is capable of writing checks. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. It's a good thing for some people that the necessities of life do not include brains. TRADE MARK A Marvel of Relief St.Jacobs Oil Safe and sure for Lumbago and Sciatica It is the specific virtue of penetration in this remedy that carries it right to the pain spot and effects a prompt cure. FOR SALE. Horses, Mules, Harness; One and Two-Horse Baggage Wagons; Landaus, Berlins, Hansom and Four-Wheel Cabs, Victorias, Ten-Seated Passenger Coaches, at reasonable prices for cash. This is surplus equipment purchased on account of the World's Fair. Address D. Jamison, Superintendent Passenger and Baggage Department, St. Louis Transfer Company, Broadway and Spruce street, St. Louis, Mo. FOR THE ASKING Our grand catalogue containing over 2,000 illustrations of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware and Art Goods will assist you to select your Christmas Gifts. We import our Diamonds Direct and sell at IMPORT PRICES. CONTENTMENT. Somebody tells me that we cannot be both contented and energetic. That contentment means idleness and do-nothingness, drowsiness of mind and body. That contented people, being contented, are willing to let things slip along as best they may and do nothing to better themselves or their conditions. While the people who are discontented, being discontented, exert themselves to attain greater things, press forward, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forward to what is ahead. Or, again, says this somebody. people who call themselves contented may be only resigned. They are wishing matters to be different, but since matters are as they are they resign themselves meekly to their hard fate. Of course, there can be quibbling of words over the same idea, and much arguing over terms. But the terms and the words are unimportant. It is the spirit that counts. And there is a spirit of contentment that is neither slothfully sleepy nor stoically, meekly resigned. It is a contentment that knows the difference between a June apple and an October apple. It is contented with a June apple in June, but it is not contented with a June apple in October. In June it is contented with the pale green tiny fruit, but it expects large, mellow, ruddy fruit by October. It is not contented with Juneness in October. In October it wants Octoberness, three months of progress. So to-day our contentment is satisfied with to-dayness, but to-morrow it expects to-morrowness, twenty-four hours of progress. I am contented with to-day as to-day, but I expect to make to-morrow better by to-day's experience—"Fadette" in Chicago Tribune. HAVE YOU GOT THEM? Do you feel anxious and preoccupied when the gas man goes by? Do you sleep badly? Do you go to bed hungry? Does your heart palpitate when you see a steak? Is there an all-gone feeling in your pocket? Do you have nightmares? Do you do mental arithmetic every time you contemplate the purchase of "ccoffee-and"? Have you a hunted look? Do you walk down dark alleys when you go downtown. Beware! Those are the symptoms You're busted.—San Francisco Bulletin. SUNDAY THOUGHTS. Be just and fear not. Religion is goodness. To love God and to love man is Christianity; all else is only husk and shell. There is no other way to the kingdom of God but by the way of the cross, and it will be easier for you to take it now than it will be afterwards. Set more and more store by the Bible. Then troubles in your Christian life will pass away like a morning cloud. You will feel and live in the word of God, and it will become the joy of your soul. The beginning of all temptations to wickedness is the fickleness of our own mind and want of trust in God. An irresolute and inconsistent man is like a ship without a pilot, driven to and fro at the mercy of every gust of wind—Christian. TABLOID, PHILOSOPHY. The thermometer doesn't respond to a call down. The match that doesn't strike isn't to be made light of. Some fellows never foot the bill without kicking about it. It's a good thing to know enough about law to keep out of its clutches. The human sponge is misnamed, for, as a rule, he refuses to take water. No, Maud, dear; in taking lessons on the cornet it isn't necessary to engage the services of a private tutor. The mother of the expert accountant little knew that she was nursing an adder at her breast. Some people are so mean they would steal copper's from a dead man's eyes. Or apples from a blind woman's fruit stand. Or milk from a dumb waiter.—Newark News. THOUSANDS HAVE KIDNEY TROUBLE AND DON'T KNOW IT COPYRIGHT 1831 DR. KILMER 800. To Prove what Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney Remedy, Will Do for YOU. Every Reader of this paper May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for more sickness and suffering than any other disease, therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble is permitted to continue, fatal results are sure to follow. Your other organs may need attention—but your kidneys most, because they do most and need attention first. If you are sick or "feel badly," begin taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, because as soon as your kidneys begin to get better they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root the great kidney and bladder remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root will set your whole system right, and the best proof of this is a trial liver and bladder troubles, the symptoms of which are—obliged to pass your water frequently night and day, smart or irritation in passing, brickdust or sediment in the urine, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nervousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney 53 COTTAGE ST., MELROSE, MASS. DEAR SIR: JAN. 11th, 1904. "Ever since I was in the Army, I had more or less kidney trouble, and within the past year it became so severe and complicated that I suffered even more and power was fast leaving me. I saw an advertisement of Swamp-Root and wrote asking for advice. I began the use of the medicine and noted the improvement. I continued its use and I am thankful to say that I am entirely cured and strong. In order to be very sure about this, I had a doctor exam and I was announced it all right and in splendid condition. I know that your Swamp-Root is purely vegetable and does not contain any harmful drugs. Thanking you for my complete recovery and recommending Swamp-Root to all sufferers I am. Very truly yours. I.C.RICHARDSON. Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything but it promptly cures kidney, EDITORIAL NOTE.—In order to prove the wonderful merits of Swamp-Root you may have a sample bottle and a book of valuable information, both sent absolutely free by mail. The book contains many of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men and women cured. The value and success of Swamp-Root are so well known that our readers are advised to send for a sample bottle. In sending your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure to say you read this generous offer in this WE WANT YOUR NAIL SUCCESSFUL COLD, SILVER, O Mining Companies. If you will send ARBUCKLE-GOODE COMMIS WE WANT YOUR NAME and will send you prospectus and full particulars of NINE SUCCESSFUL COLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, ZINC AND QUICKSILVER Mining Companies, if you will send us your name and address. Mining Maps Free ARBUCKLE-GOODE COMMISSION CO., 325 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 323-page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100-pageILL treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our mild method, none paid a cent cured - we furnish their name on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. and 1000 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. KAW VALLEY KAW VALLEY MINCE MEAT MAKES DELICIOUS PIES. Strictly pure and healthful. We use only apples, sweet cider, fresh beef and seedless NOT THE CHEAPEST BUY THE BEST CHAS. WOLFF PACKING TOPEKA. Strictly pure and healthful. We use only sound apples, sweet cider, fresh beef and seedless raisins. NOT THE CHEAPEST BUY THE BEST. Antiseptic Flanellette. An English inventor claims to have found a process for making flanellette garments non-inflamable and at the same time antiseptic. Piso's Cure cannot be too nighly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 6, 1900. The trouble is, in feeling the public pulse, most people never let go their own hands. 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. --- PILES liver and bladder troubles, the symptoms of which are—obliged to pass your water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation in passing, brickduck or sediment in the urine, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nervousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney trouble, skin eruptions from bad blood, neuralgia, rheumatism, diabetes, bloating, irritability, wormout feeling, lack of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complexion, or Bright's disease. If your water, when allowed to remain undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twenty-four hours, forms a sediment or settling or has a closely appearance, it is evidence that your kidneys and bladder need immediate attention. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is for sale at drug stores the world over in bottles of two sizes and two prices—fifty cents and one dollar. Remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilner's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. paper. The genuineness of this offer is guaranteed. COUPON. Please write or ill in this coupon with your name and address and Dr. Kilmer & Co. will accept it. The title of Swamp-Koal the Great Kidney Remedy. Name St. and No. City or Town State Mention this paper. ME and will send you prospectus and full particulars of NINE OPPER, LEAD, ZINC and QUICKSILVER your name and address. Mining Maps Free. SION CO., 325 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. FILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. a 232-page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by a cent till cured—we furnish their names on application. & MINOR. and 1000 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. MINCE MEAT ful. We use only sound beef and seedless raisins. ST BU THE BEST. PACKING CO.. EKA. LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER THE BEST QUALITY STRAIGHT 5'CIGAR ALWAYS RELIABLE Your Jobber or direct from Factory, Poorls, Ill MEXICAN Mustang Liniment is a positive cure for Piles. "ALL SIGNS FAIL IN A DRY TIME THE SIGN OF THE FISH NEVER FAILS IN A WET TIME! WHY DON'T YOU WEAR TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW AND KEEP DRY! BEWARE OF INITATIONS, LOOK FOR ABOVE! TRADE MARK A. J. TOWER CO. Boston, Mass. U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. Ltd. Toronto, Can. --- TOPEKA.