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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER 6TH YEAR. Get Right Stay Right The Chronicle Kicker And The "Always Wrong" Color- ed Man Had Better Stop Kicking And ET RIGHT and STAY RIGHT HAS ONE MORE CHANCE Now is the time for all of the col- led voters to get into the "band wag- er." Hon. James H. Stewart is gooing be the Republican party's nominee and it is time to get right and keep it, if any of you were "ever" long. Mr. Stewart is a new clean candidate not affiliated with any of the soiled factions in the city and we would suggest that there is going to a chance for the colored man to be next two and possibly four years, he happens to start right and stays at way. There is nothing to be made to letting it be known that you started as a bolter for the past has seen a very dear teacher to some of colored people who have been misused by listening to kickers and disgruntled human beings. The man who gives there" is generally the man who has earned some recognition by his loyalty to the party and establishes his integrity. What can the colored people expect from the democratic parity? ONLY PROMISES, and that don't pay the bills or keep the wolf away from the door. There are only a few of the colored voters who have had reasons to feel that they were not treated right in times gone by. Let byegones be byegones and try it once more. There is a new clean straight citizen in the field now and it is a pretty good time to let it be known that you are right and intend to stay that way. The time is not far distant and it is dangerous to wait. WILL TRY AGAIN. The colored voters of the second ward will ask again for a candidate for membership of the school board. They are in earnest and will present the names of Mr. John T. Chinneh and Rev. J. H. Van Len and either gentleman will be satisfactory and both gentlemen are very nicely dressed for the place and will perform the duties in a most satisfactory manner. Give them this office and they will be satisfied. PROSPEROUS COLORED FARM Mr. John Fleming, a prosperous and well to do colored farmer, from Pratt county, Kansas, was in Wichita Wednesday Thursday and Friday to attend the big cattle horse, and hog sale of the Robison Bros. Mr. Fleming purchased a big Percheron stallion and sold the sum of $600 for him. The stallion is "Rouleau" and is full-blood. Mr. Fleming bought this fine animal for his stock farm in Pratt county. Mr. leming is one of the pioneers it county, having come to that county in 1884 and when he landed with his wife and two children he did not have a penny, but today he is the owner of 1,120 acres of good farm land and has it well stocked and fitted with the best and latest improved implements for farming. This is the most substantial solution of the much vexed race problem. While in Wichita he made our office a welcome visit and we write him to come again. Democrats Will Dine Will Be Invited To Break Bread With Them-And To Tell of the Many Lost Battles WILL "SAPP" IT ALONE "Democrats will hold a 'love' feast." Chairman Sapp says; It is to be A WHITE man's banquet. Kansas democrats will hold a feast or better named a democratic revival in Topeka, Feb. 22, the date of their second annual banquet. Billy Bryan is the principal attraction and the colored race is the topic. The dinner will be given under the management of the democratic State Central committee. So it it will be considered official and looked upon as it is intended. The annual gathering of the democratic moguls will be for mutual benefits so it is said. The committee met in Topeka Tuesday and decided there would be no negro precedent established. Chairman Sapp says he believes in giving the negro what education they can get, but to keep him where he belongs. He further says, according to the accounts published, that the negro should not expect to mingle with WHITE men on occasions like these. He objects to (what he terms it) the theory of social equality, except when the colored voter counts for what he does on election day. He says: I expect the democrats to profit by the mistakes made in the past 'adding insult to injury.' The democrats never did have any use for the negro, and it is small business to try and make political capital out of notoriety given prominence by advertising the fact that the Negro is not wanted only on election day. The Negro population throughout Kansas should remember this and resent the im tupioatnaatiucplr,ismdm m m m imputation, particularly when approached by the democratic ward heeler or the so-called tin-horn politician, who is seeking an election to office "for revenue only." The negro race are worthy of better treatment and can only expect it from those whom are willing to extend them justice and rights. The republicans have given them all they ever received and can be depended upon to do so in the future. There is "many a slip between the Cup and the Lip" and Sapp has made more of them than the democrats will be able to recover from. SEARCHLIGHT $1.00 per year Great Speech OF Prof. Vernon BEFORE THE Kansas Day Club Monday Night, Jan. 30 all people these new st which admixture by de through tortuous paths, i creed the glorious state common country. It is the tiny. Children of Him are The legacy of duty to t left with those who hav ties; and none can sit idly in vogue the law of str and sharpest claw for trul "The laws of changeless Oppressor with oppress Interest in the annual banquet of the Kansas Day club, which was held in the rotunda of the state house Monday night centered in the speech of Prof. W. T. Vernon, the negro orator. The invitation to Vernon to address the club not only established a precedent, but it aroused a storm of criticism. Divers and sundry persons made of it an occasion on which to expose the length of their ears. The nasty Mosier letter was inspired by it. The signal personal triumph achieved by Professor Vernon in his speech Monday night is, therefore, of more than passing interest. Vernon is black as midnight. The contour of his head and face are those of the pure blooded negro. He has none of that grace or charm of person that sometimes holds an audience. But Kansas has rarely, if ever, heard an orator of such power, Vernon's phraseology runs the gamut of good English. Behind a vocabulary which is as poetic as the dream of a lover and which swings full voiced and melodious from major to minor key with the ease and precision of a swiftly moving current he has sincerity of thought and that indefinable something which for want of a better name we call personal magnetism. No Kansas Day speaker in years has received such tremendous ovation at the end of his speech and no one has held the attention of his audience so closely. Vernon, with a colored skin hanging over him, won his spurs fairly Monday night and justified the placing of his name on the Kansas day program. DR. VERNON'S ADDRESS. The address of Dr. W. T. Vernon, of Quindaro, responding to the toast, "A Plea for the Suspension of Judgment" is in full as follows: It is a long way from the backwoods of Missouri where I was born to a speaker's place at a Kansas Day banquet; and were I to use all the time allotted me in efforts to express my gratitude for the opportunity given me by President Valantine and the officers and members of this club. I still could not utter my profound appreciation for this encouragement to my people whom my destiny is linked with forever. There is no personal honor; but rather the expression of cheer and helpfulness to a struggling race, a faithful part of the great struggling party represented by this great gathering tonight. I would not separate myself from my race. I am content to suffer affliction with them. Placed for a spell by His Almighty hand within this tenement of possibly less favored clay—the deathless soul which speaks through lips ofttimes derided shall not lament its presence there. The cause of my people is my cause their struggles my struggles. Why are we here? A destiny unseen brought Mayflower with freedom to Western wild, cavalier to old dominion and slaver's ship to Southland, to all people these new shores from which admixture by devious ways, through tortuous paths, fate has decreed the glorious state we call our common country. It is the way of destiny. Children of Him are we all. The legacy of duty to this world is left with those who have opportunities; and none can sit idly by and see in vogue the law of strongest beak and sharpest claw for truly, "The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed, And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast." CAUSE FOR HOPELESSNESS. To wall over unfortunate conditions or bemoan what at times seems an untoward fate is to display neither manhood nor gratitude toward friends. We have just cause for hopefulness. Remembering the sacrifice of benefactors whose memory is embalmed in history's urn, we mark the vast step from savagery of ancestor to the product of the school today, from chattering jargon and fetish adoration on native heath four centuries ago, we rung by rung have come to poets, painters, scholars of esthetic tastes and a reverence for the Christian's God. We too have heard the voice of duty and feel a higher Providence calling us onward. We see other personalities than our own, having rights we must respect, if we would in turn have ours respected and thus do deeds that lift man up to loftier heights. We realize that every idle hand, every vicious thought, every depraved soul, every breach of law, every desire to have the shadow rather than the real, mean ignoble failure and inharmony with the divine economy of creation. As the schools do their work we awake to obligations that bind us all and recognize responsibility to self, humanity and God. Though at times seen and unseen foes interpose, friends in a greater degree beckon and lead us on; and if at times we stumble, fail and fall, as in the past, despairing not we rise to progress. We are resolved to put aside regrets for doubting, failing yesterday and seeing these only as warnings against future mistakes, each day essay a nobler task. If we need examples of unconquerable courage we have but to trace your glorious career. You, too, have had your struggles. When England, proud, victorious mistress of the seas, sought to undo that at which your ancestors for near two centuries wrought, England failed. And why? Your bravery and love for God and home and native land, inspired by the spirit your race always knew to know no masters, made you free. Then by your side on Boston Commons our Attucks died, at Bunker Hill was Salem, at Yorktown, when to Washington was handed the sword of Cornwallis, negro slaves, too, stood at parade rest, believing that in some far o day their children's children would know the freedom which that day came to you and yours. With Perry at Lake Erie, with Jackson at New Orleans, my people died. And why? In them was stuff that heroes makes and they were led by heroes. SPIRIT SWEPT THE AIR. From American soil a spirit sprang which quickened all it touched. It swept the air even in cane brake, cotton patch and rice swamp. It made of slaves men who knew no fear if duty called. And what more shall I say? For time would fail to tell me of Wagner, Petersburg, and of our work on sea and land from '61 to '65 when we ceased to fight as serfs, but, fighting as only free men can, proved that the Providence which sent us here had for its purpose the preserving of a higher life of ipraETAOINETAOINA nation's life as well as the giving of a higher life to us. In peace the same devotion gave we to those whom we served. We delved in earth, we tunnelled mountains, we diked and stayed the wash-dashed set carrying all of nature's power, we felled the trees in forests primeval, we changed the course of winding river, we leveled hills and tilled the fields, we gathered stores in barn and bin, we wrought in mine and drew the load, the burden bearers were we. If aboriginee or wild beast attack were threatened, we watched at day or night, and still if wanted at toil men had but to look at spreading fields at either dawn or fading twilight and we were there. We broke no faith; we betrayed no trust. And since that earlier day men said "This bondage must not be—the bondman, must know freedom." And dispite fugitive slave law, Dred Scott decision, 'mid persecution, revilings, scourgings, yea death, some of your race risked all that black men might be free. Then came the Birneys, Lovejoys, Freemans, Beechers, Lundys, Garrisons, Phillips, Summers and others, the earthborn saviors of mankind, who from out the hushed past still utter forth the sentiments that baptize souls in the holy fire of martyr-like resolve these men were God's anointed for this task. But what of John Brown, old Osawatomic, he of Kansas, whom they hanged? 'Twas then a hero slept, a martyr whose blood became the seed of the church of human liberty and freedom. He died, but dying won, for he gave impetus to the Kansas spirit and the things for which the Kansas Day club stands. But there is still another—one standing to himself—who like his Christ died for a race who toiled up his Golgotha at times almost alone, whose life can be explained as being one of the ways of an inscrutable Providence to do his work—Abraham Lincoln. A MILLION MEN RESPONDED. At his call a million men went south In hedges, highways, swamp and bog they found us lost. Many of them still sleep there. They were your fathers brothers and friends and you felt and feel the sacrifice today, and my poor feeble words can never tell you how grateful we are. But way down there where wrong still is, where peonag$, scourgings, burnings yet go on, there are black lips mute with suffering, and anguished souls with outstretched arms appealing, grateful for what the past has been and praying relief from burdens that still oppress. We again look to the Republican party for relief, and I do not believe that we look in vain. I know no other party nor should my people, for through it justice will finally be ours. When for us skies show ominous we turn with confidence to the Re- publican party and to Kansas. All honor to both. They stand inparable in what for us, at least, must forever remain time's greatest drama. With backward glance above the smoke of battle our eyes forever behold the gleaming sword whose upward swing preserved Kansas, and whose downward stroke freed the world from the stain of human slavery. Though veiled by battle smoke WE KNOW WHAT HAND IS AT THE HILT. Yes, the Republican party was an immaculate conception and Kansas was born in heaven. Through its mighty leader, Lincoln, it said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and the action block, slave pen and rattle of chains were all no more. This party enfranchised us and through as yet illly prepared for so vast a step, of two evils this was by far the less. For until the leaders of the Republican party legislated otherwise, the ex-masters were passing laws making our condition more intolerable than that of slavery. Your party would not leave the negro, who at all times had been faithful to his country, to the mercy of his oppressors who conspired to destroy the nation in peace and fought to destroy it in war. In this the republican party was right. The contention that the negro, no matter how intelligent, or worthy shall not vote, but must be counted and therefore represented in congress by political opponents, is a political heresy which the Republican party, if loyal to the lofty principles which gave it birth, can never tolerate. MANY STRIVE SUCCESSFULLY. We have not all succeeded, many have failed, as must necessarily obain in the case of a once enslaved ace, but there are so many who have striven and successfully so. The emancipation proclamation could not suddenly rid us of all that centuries of barbarism and slavery had left. Ours must be a growth. And by patient toil and continued effort on our part with your sympathy and aid, this country will finally see a rightful solution of the difficulties which confront us. Moved by enlightened self-interest, laboring for country's weal, realizing the duty of man to man, the best of your race will not sit idly by and leave this task to those who care not whether that which is righteous or unrighteous shall prevail; and Kansas, as before, is prepared to lead out for that "righteousness which exalteth a nation." To you, our friends, I promise as a race we will not fail to respond to every ennobling call, every uplifting appeal that you can make. This problem is the problem of our whole country since the citizenship of all sections determines our national character. We have no chiding for critics who having eyes see only our worst; who having ears, hear only of our ignoble deeds; who having hearts never feel that sympathy which man should feel for fellow man. Conditions over which the present generation had no control gave birth to feelings the outgrowth of ancestral days. Nor do we cherish resentment for those who harm or strive to harm us now. Omniscience (continued on page four) THE SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION- STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M.ONTH ..... 15a. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appl cation. NOTICE!!- All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for publication must be signed by the part or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 2st. All Subscriptions must be paid in advance strictly. Agents take notice 3rd. 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Right Road to Prison A certain receet happening in Oregon, Mo. has incited the editor of the Holt County Sentinel to the following outburst: "If you are the father of a boy whom you want to land in the penitentiary or reform school, observe the followine rules; When he doesen't want to go to school, let him loaf; when he gets into mischief and your neigh bor reyorts it to you, curse your neighbor in the presence of your boy. When he gets a little larger and purloins something of value and you find it out, just leugh and let it go. When he gets into something that calls him into justices court, and is found guilty, pay the fine, curse the court, the jury and eveay one that is connected with the matter, and pity the boy, and you will soon have a spleudid candidate for the pen." AtchisonGlobe. NEGRO SOLDIER "I know of the bravery and character of the Negro soldier, He saved my life at Santiago, and I have had accasion to say so in many articles and speeches. The Rough Riders were in a bad condition when the Ninth and Tenth cavalary came rushing up the hill carring everything before them. The Negro soldier has the falcuty of coming to the front when needed most. In the Civil war he came 4000,000 strong and I believe he saved the Union "President Roosevelt" After a man gets converted, his neighbors speculate every time they see him as to how soon he will pay what he owes them.— First Publication Jan. 28th, State of Kansas, Sedgwick Co., S. S. In the District Court, Eighteenth Judicial district. S. A. BOTTS, Plaintiff, Versus C. S. WINSLOW and ANGIE SALEN, Defendants. The above named defendants, are hereby notified that they have been sued in the district court in and for Sedgwick county, Kan., to quiet the 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, as shown by the recorded plat thereof. And that unless the said defendants shall be and appear in said court on or before the 13th day of March, A. D., 1906, and then and there plead answer or demurm to plaintiff's petition therein filed a decree will be entered pro confesso in said action against each of said defendants quieting the title in said above described lands in the plaintiff and forever barring and perpetually enjoining said defendants and each of them from setting up or attempting to set up any claim to or interest in said lands or any part of thereof and further decreeing the plaintiff's title to be paramount to all other titles and perfect in law and equity. J. C. MILTON, Attorney for Plaintiff WIGRITA TABERNACLE No. 34. Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Mouth All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Beatrice Miller. See. Hall 517 North Main Street ```markdown ``` HOLINESS MEETINGS. A series of meetings are being held at the Holiness Mission,119 E Murdoch, preaching every night in the week and on Sunday the following services are held. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. Bible Class 2 p. m. Preaching 7.30p. m The services are conducted by Elder W. H. Smith assisted by Mrs F. P. Bateman. Everybody is cordially invited to attend all of these meeting. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon --Diseases of-- Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St DIDN.T KNOW THIS DOCTOR WAS A NEGRO Boonville, Mo.,— Owing to the appointment of Dr. R. Leon Hill a Negro of this city, to a place on the local pensiop medical board, Dr. J. T. Mc Clanahan and Dr. F. R. Smiley resigned as members of this board. When making the appointment the pension commissioner at Washington was unaware that Hill was a Negro. HOMES DRAW NO COLOR Hotels Refuse Negro Singers and Residences Take Them In. The color line was drawn in Waukesha, Wis. on last Saturday when every hotel and boarding house in the city refused to admit the five coloreb members of the Maryland Jubilee company which gave a concert at the Congregational church under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. The situation was explained at the concert, and the men were entered over night at the best homes in the city, President S. B Harding, of the modern Steel Structural Company, and R. P. Reese, cashier of the Exchange bank, being amoug those who opened their homes to the company. --- Read the great Searchlight, ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Givee whizz!!! How cold Ohq My Mrs A Bradford is improving fast. What is the matter nobody is getting married among the colored people. Louis C. Clark is quite ill at his home 1101 So. Mosley. He has a severe attack of la grippe. Visit him. Rev J H Aan Leu left Saturday on his mission work. The A M E church are holding a series of cottage prayer meetings The ladies sewing Guild entertained Tuesday eve at the home of Mrs L Gibbs. M's MStewart or Topeka is in the city visiting her mother M's Maria Miller who has been slick The thomameter has got stuck down to about 7 to 8 below zero and seemingly can't turn loose. Officer Jeff Thompson is improving as rapid as possible and hopes soon to be out among his friends. All the coloured people are for Jas H Stewart for Mayor He is the man for the place. The O, K. Dye Works at 330 N. Main st has some fine bargains in good second hand clothing shoes and caps. Call and see them. Mr. John Fleming of Pratt Co. was the guest of Mr and Mrs A A Fox 423 N. Water st during his stay in our city this week. O. K. DYE The same old clothes, but, oh, what a difference since the O. K. Dye and Dry Cleaning Works fixed them. Second hand clothing good as new for One-Fourth Less than better good. Good Pants from 75c up Suits from $2.50 up. Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and R D. D. Duncan 330 North M The G L A Club met ot the residence of Mrs Allens' on Blaine ave Tuesday Jan. 31st Quite an number were present. After the usual hour of needle work the roll was called Mrs L. C.Carr acting as critic for the afternoon. The critic spoke very highly of the ladies and the niced improvement they were making. After business an elegant juncheon was served and the club adjourned to meet next week with Mrs. T. H. Cox 904 N. Wichita. LITTLE LAT& Mr Mulee Parker reports to us of a fine repast which the members of the Tabernacle Baptist church sprend for Mrs. R. N. Countee before her departure for Kansas City a week or so ago. The supper was spread at the home of Mrs. Vina Demon 915 N. Wichita st and was one of the most elaborate of the season. Those present were;— 334 North Main Street For Cigars, Tobacco and Shines W.H. H. GRANT, Prop See'Danie.s began his duties as janitor at the Court House on Feb-1st. Mrs. E. D' Grayson returned to the city Sunday from Hutchiuson She reports her husband able to look after his business again. C. R Willley of Clearwater Kas was in the city Wednesday to attend the cattle sale. He is buying thorough bred cattle for his farm- NEW CLUB The F. D and C U.-G. Club a newly organized social body held its meeting Tresay evening at the home of Miss Daisy Bradford 908 N Water st. Joseph Bell is president and Miss A Bradford is secretary. Jes J Olden returnep Wednesday from Topeka where he has been attending the legislative session Jim got his which he always does Miss Marie gteveson left Monday for her home in Valley Center The ladies Sewing Circle of the Second Baptist church entertained a number of their friends and their husbands as their guest on Monday at the home of Mr E J. Alexander It is as easy to pleasd an enemy as it is to please a friend.—Aitchisen Globe. OKYE LOOKERS Ed Repaired Ladies' Work A Specialty. Can, Prop. h Main Street Mesdames R. N. Countee, Josephine Miller, Bell Todd, Bottey, M. Parker, B. J. Topp, Sarah Walden Messer, Miles Parker, B. J. Topp Has Price, Batty Mrs Countee went to Kans. City o attend at the bed side of her sick husband. All hope for the early recovery of Rev Countee. Though Mr Parker is a little late in his items-- he promises to do better next time and therefore it is much appreciated. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FAIL! PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, SubNormal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including piano, oagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. D D PRESIDENT QUINDAFO, - - - - KANS. Phones Office--Bell "White" 4302 Residence--Bell "West" 15 USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR Editor Searchlight. Hardware store Insurance Gasoline Stoves Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose, etc. 116 East Douglas Ave. He does not advertise in you paper. I have requested him to Please call on him. WHERE DO YOU TRABR! My Name- Where do you buy your greeseries, meat, furniture, millinery shees drugs clothing and other necessaries 105? Does the dealer with whom your trade advertise in the Searchlight? Look at your prper and see. My Address Fill this blank out if your manchant does not advertise with it Search right—and we will call him and publish his reply. If you do not find his "ad" in our columns the next time you go to buy anything at his store ask him why him why he does not place an "ad" with us—as does not cost much and shows that he appreciates your trade. PEOPLE WILL BECOME ON RACE. By Byshop Jno. w.Hamilton. It is undeniable that the race was once one Within sfw generations it will be one again. This statement may shock some prejudices, but it is true nevertheless. All races are in progress of amalgamation, one with the other. There were four great epochal mouements during the last century, which were almost evenly divided into four periods. These correspond with the verse in the New Testament which says: "There is neither Jew ar Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Jesus Christ." The first twenty-five years of the last century saw the finding of the great missionary cities which when analyzed, really showed the unity of the race. Ask your dealer if he wouldn't like to place his "ad" id the Search light—the Wichita paper published by colored people in the interest of the colored race. Anh if he does not advertise with us and would like to do so—notify us. Just think of the thousands of dollars which the colored people spend in the various stores—don't you think it is little enough for your dealer to place an "ad" in your race paper—why of course. If the dealer srom whom you buy vous goods does not and will not advertise in your race paper—you car. find the name of dealers in our colmns who oo—and want your trade and will treat you right—too Potroniz the merchants who show that they want your trade by ad- vertize in the race paper for it. If your merchant does not advertize in our columns fill out the following blank and send it to us;— Gardner Coal Co., .....DEALERS IN..... HARD COAL SOFT Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. Old Phone 146 New Phone 1804 Phonographs Columbia, Victor Edison "MIR MASTER'S VOICE." X P Records 25c Edison Gold M Songs, Band, Orchestra, Talking. Anything You Would Care To Listen To Sold On Easy Payments Eberhardt & Hays —Corner Douglas and Emporia Avenues— Tata Paint and Varnish Co. Manufacturers Of House Paints, Wagon, Buggy, Carriage Paints, White Lead. Jobbers in Oils, Varnishes and D solicit your patronage. Every Article Guarantee Santa Fe Ave, ... Wichita ALSO BY J. H. TURNER, 541 West Douglas Edison Gold Mol- tra, Talking. And Care To Listen To- Payments Art & Hays Emporia Avenues— Varnish Co. Case Paints, Wagon, Buggy and Carriage Paints, His, Varnishes and Dry Every Article Guaranteee Wichita, I ER, 541 West Douglas A X P Records 25c Edison Gold Mold 35c Songs, Band, Orchestra, Talking. Anything You Would Care To Listen To Sold On Easy Payments Eberhardt & Hays Corner Douglas and Emporia Avenues- Ichita Paint and Varnish Co Manufacturers Of House Paints, Wagon, Buggy and Carriage Paints, Pearless White Lead. Jobbers in Oils, Varnishes and Dry Colors We solicit your patronage. Every Article Guaranteed. North Santa Fe Ave, ..... Wichita, Kansas SOLD ALSO BY J. H. TURNER, 541 West Douglas Ave A man with a rifle is being attacked by a bear. Bear In Mind t when you want COAL we are the ones to handle all kinds and you will find our prices Phone your order. Both Phones 496 L we are the ones to s find our prices' rig Both Phones 496 That when you want COAL we are the ones to see. We handle all kinds and you will find our prices right. Phone your order. Both Phones 496 NOVEL PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 TO 542 WEST DOUGLAS SECOND TO NONE NONE --- Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS. Agent. B WORK IS OUR HOBBIE MYRON A. DEAN oeries, Fruits, Vegetab and Feed. 815 N- MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - OLDEN'S DRUG STO OUR HOBBY R. DEAN s, Vegetable ed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 UC STOR --- JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. Prescriptions Filled with Care . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco patronage solicited. + Once a customer, alw mer. Our store is Headquaters for Colored pe gars and Tobacco . Since a customer, always waters for Colored people ... 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. --- To Hot Springs Hot Springs Special MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Passengers from Wichita, leave at Yates Cent x with the Hotel THE HOT SPRINGS SOLID VESTIBULA CARRIES DINING CARRIES SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRING This new service is the quick yet been offered to the great Illustrated books, describing undersigned on application E. E. Bleckly, T. P. A. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11.30 A.M. train, connect at Yates Cent r with the Hot Springs Special at 2:55 P.M. THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A SOLID VESTIBULE. ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN CARRIES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT CHANGE. This new service is the quickest and most convenient that has yet been offered to the greatest health resort in America. Illustrated books, describing Hot Springs, may be had from the undersigned on application Wtchita, Kans. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 242 North Water St. CHANGED; HANDS. Schollenberger Bros have sold their bicycle repair shop at 230 N. Main st. to the Wichita Bicycle and Sporting Goods Co. under the management of Mr. E. E. Campbell. The new firm guarantees its patrons the same courteous treatment which was extended by Schollenberger Bros. In addition to all kinds bicycles and bicycle repairs the new firm carries a full line of guns and ammunition. Call and see them. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Wichita Bicycling Sporting (Successors to Sch 230 N. Main WICHITA, Bicycles are Anything in the Sporting Wichita Bicycle and Sporting Goods Co Anything in the Sporting Goods line you want Mrs. J. R. Kelly of Springfield Mo. will arrive in the city to spend a few days with her sister Mrs. V. J. Foster 809 N. Water st Mrs. Kelly has an invalid husband which prevents her moking an extended visit. Mrs. Henry Branson and her mother Mrs. M. Mc Bride have returned from Texas where thsy spent six weeks the guest of brother and son Edward Mc Bride at his farm near Huntsville Texas. The ladies report having an enjoyable time on their trip. They were the recipients or many lavish and elaborate social feasts and were kept busy during their entire stay answering the many invitation extended them to dinners teas and parties. Mrs. Branson was presented with a solid gold bracelet by her un Mrs. Rachel Sikes. One half of the bracelet is solid gold horse shoes—while the other half is of solid gold mule shoes and is a beauty. The two ladies will long cherish a fond and pleasant remember nee often eir recent Texas trip. --- aving on 11.30 A.M. train, connect S Springs Special at 2:55 P.M. S SPECIAL IS A THE ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN INGSWISH OUT CHANGE. kets and most convenient that has best health resort in Americas. Hot Springs, may be had from the Kans. =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL =CIGARS= SOLD EVERYWHERE --- HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue Bear Among Shoppers. Tree men were bitten and several thousand shoppers were thrown into a panic at Cleveland, Ohio, when a recently captured bear, brought here for sale, broke away from its captors and ran through the heart of the shopping district. Men and women scattered in every direction, fighting for entrance to the various nearby buildings. The animal sought refuge in an alley. It was tackled by a Negro wrestler who threw the animal and put a leg (v) its head. cycle and Goods Co (Collenberger & Co.) Phone 545 KANSAS and Repairs ing Goods line you want Mrs. I J. Porter returned home from Chetopa where she had to attend the bedside of her sick mother. She was called home on the account of her husband meeting with the misfortune of getting his leg broken. SAD ACCIDENT While delivering ice at the Wichita Hospital Saturday afternoon Mr. Ike J. Porter accidently slipped on a slippery stool step leading to the basement of the hospital and fell and a piece of office weighing 150 bounds fell on his leg and broke it at the ankle. The injury is a very a very painful one and it will be several weeks before Mr. Porter will be able to leave the hospital as the bone at the ankle will be slow to mend. The many friends of Mr. Porter regret very much to learn of this sac accident. Sunbay night about 9 o'c eck the house belonging to Mrs. Swan atch &St. Francis was burned almost to I. R Sherwin, P. & T. A. SAD ACCIDENT Renewed Clothing Sensation Wichita's Most Sensational Overcoat Sale will be Continued this week - - 700 Men's. Boys' and Children's Overcoats, in heavy weights, must be closed out, as I have always made it a rule never to carry any Overcoats from one season to another. Therefore, These Overcoats are manufactured by the finest "Good Clothes" makers-Hait, Sochaffner & Marx, and Brokaw Bros., in men's and youth's; Sykes Kirshbaum, and Eclipse makes of boys' and children's. THE FULTON Don't Worry F. S. HUNT, MGR. Watch Us Grow All Overcoats Go These Overcoats are manufactu Clothes' makers—Hait, Sohaffner Bros., in men's and youth's; Sykes F makes of boys' and children's. THE FUL Don't Worry F. S. HUNT WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TASEN FROM LIFE, BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. 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It is not possible for anybody to produce a prepon to the full size of theழு. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers, or send us 50 cents for one bottle, postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, express, faid-pay and free-price. See also: Postpaid, Post-paid, and post-paid or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. H W Dean, H W Dean, DEALER IN..... Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and Oysters Meat Market 813 North Main Street Banner Mills CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PROKINSON BROS, PROPS. 922 N. Main St. Phone 580 In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernal & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 357 the ground. No one was at home at the time the fire stared and the cause unknown. Mrs. W. N. Miller has been very seventy ill for the past week. The Eureka Club will givek a big Ball at Odd Fell W hall Monday night Feb. 6th Every one invited. Thing a sacri --- At Half-Price manufactured by the finest "Good offner & Marx, and Brokaw ykes Kirshbaum, and Eclipse ULTON NT, MGR. Watch Us Grow NEWTON NEWS Mrs. Aquilla Coleman and little daughter Thelma have returned from Topeka. Mrs. D. Hall who has been very ill for the past few weeks is slowly recovering. There will be a cocial given at Odd Fellows hall next Thursday night for the benifit of C. M. E. church. Rev. Denton pastor of the Second Baptist Church is carring on revival this week. Mr. Ed Lawson is reported quite ill. Mrs. Goreeland son of Lawsen o Kans. are the guest of her mother Mrs. M. Childe. Mr and Mrs. Recovery have been reported ill. Rev. Branegan who has been sick or some time taken suddenly with another paralytic strock. He is reported very ill. CLEARWATER NEWS Mr. Geo. Barton a prosperous of Sumner was in the city Saturday on business, all were reported well at home. Mr. E. White one of Sedgwick Countys' prosperous farmers was in the city of Clearwater Saturday on business. Mr. C. R. Wilfler a resident of Clearwater has purchased an 80 acre farm in Blaine county Okla and expects to rent it out, he paid the sum of $300. Boru to Mr and Mrs C B Will fley abright eyed baby boy who weighs about $7 \frac{1}{2} lbs. Mother anp son are doing nicely. Clearwater is visited with a medi ioine show and is selling quite a bit of medicine but better for it to come before the Christian Meeting: Now that pepper is $3 a pound in the Klondike, what do they use to sprinkle on their watermelons? A Chicago woman who stuck a hatpin in a policeman eleven times was fined $7. Virtue is still its own reward. Some banks now disinfect all the money they handle. It is such things as this that give us that tired feeling. A new play, entitled "An Honest Politician," was produced in New York. Realism on the stage is more bund. More than 500 students worked their way through Columbia university last year, without going out on a single strike. There was an explosion in a powder mill at Goes, Ohio, the other day. Things are reported to have gone at a sacrifice. MUST TOE THE MARK Beef Trust Will be Forced to Obey Injunction. PRESIDENT VERY DETERMINED. Members of the Cabinet Agree That Further "'Dilly Dallying'" Cannot Be Permitted If Criminal Prosecutions Have to be Begun. Washington, Feb. 2.—It can be said by authority that, unless the corporations constituting the alleged "beef trust" shall heed the injunction made permanent by the decision of the supreme court of the United States, the government will institute proceedings against the individual members of the corporations to enforce the decision of the court. The proceedings will be under the criminal law, if such can be instituted. The minds of the president and members of his cabinet are made up fully on the question. They have determined that the "beef trust" shall obey the law, and, now that the highest court in the land has upheld the hands of the administration, it is said they will permit no further "dilly-dallying" with the subject. At today's cabinet meeting the president and Attorney General Moody shared in the congratulations of the members of the cabinet on the result of the 'beef trust' case before the supreme court. The president, who made no attempt to conceal his satisfaction at the decision of the court, united with the members of the cabinet in congratulating the attorney general. The subject was considered briefly at the meeting, but no definite conclusion was reached as to what action, if any, the government would take in the future, except the general determination to enforce the law as it has been construed by the courts. The president and the members of the cabinet regard the decision of the supreme court as a signal triumph of law as they have viewed it and are prepared to carry it into effect absolutely. Washington, Feb. 1.—It is by no means certain how many new states will be admitted to the Union under agreement reached today to vote on the joint statehood bill, and its numerous amendments on February 7. There are prospects, however, that Oklahoma and Indian Territory will come in as one state and that New Mexico will come in as another, leaving Arizona as a territory. Senator Beveridge, chairman of the committee on territories, who has charge of the bill, says that in its present form there is no hope for its passage. He says that his desire now is to give statehood to the million and a half of people of Oklahoma and Indian territory at this time and that later Arizona and New Mexico will be admitted as one state. It is said that several members of the committee on territories intend if they fall to defeat amendments to the bill, to support the Foraker amendment, which they believe would have an effect contrary to that planned by its author. The Foraker amendment provides that either New Mexico or Arizona, by a majority vote could defeat the calling of a constitutional convention of the territories to provide for their admission, instead of requiring a majority of all the votes of both territories combined. Members of the territories committee are of the opinion that the people of the territories, even Arizona, when face to face with a chance to come in jointly as one state or remain as territories for an indefinite period, would vote to come in as one state. The senate agreed to vote on the joint statehood bill before adjournment on Tuesday, February 7, the amendments to be considered on that date under the ten-minute rule. Mr. Teller spoke during the day in opposition to the bill and several minor bills were passed. When Mr. Teller concluded Mr. Beveridge obtained unanimous consent to vote on the statehood bill on February 7. The agreement provides that general debate shall close on Monday, the 6th; that immediately after the reading of the journal Tuesday the senate shall proceed to consideration of the amendments to the bill under the ten-minute rule and that the bill and amendments shall be voted on before adjournment that day. At Riga, Russia, the strike is general. Demonstrations are in progress and the newspapers are not publishing. Home For Consumptives. Jefferson City, Jan. 30.—A bill will be reported favorably in the house to provide for the creation of a state home for consumptives, at a cost of $50,000. The committee cut the proposed appropriation down from $100,000. Paris Exposition in 1920. Paris, Jan. 30.—In the chamber of deputies today the commerce committee reported the government proposition to create a universal exposition in Paris in 1920 to commemorate the foundation of the French republic. Eli Martin sold his property on Sherman ave last week. They will move to Ipeka in the Spring. Mrs. Robt Davis spect the day Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Banks. Miss Florence Banks is on the ick out this week. Robt Bggs has taken charge of the one Baltimore as head coo- te is said to be one of the best cokes in the city. Mrs. I J. Porte. of Wibhita and Mrs. Henry t. Sullivan of Kaus. C. wer visiting relatives last week. Mr Arthur C. of Parsons attended the Old Fellows Installation here the 27th. Misses Anna and Coa Allen and Mr Andy Rider were in the city last week. A concert will be given at the M. E. chicc by U R. Smith next Friday night. P. H. Bass t r d ed a noble address at the Odd Floors Insta-lation. Miss Amy Bradley of Cofeville in int 1 city this week. PLANS COLONY FOR THE CITY NEGROES SOUTH DAKOTAN WOULD HFLP THE RACE to FRUIT- FUL FARMS. Salem, S. D. Feb. 2. Paul L. Scott, a restaurant keeper, is promulgating a scheme to establish a colony of Negroes in South Dakota, land to be purchased in large tracts for that purpose. Scott was o former resident of Chicago and was vice president of the first organization that favored the electism for Charles S. Deneen for governor of Illinois. While in Chicago some time ago Mr. Scott agitated the organization of a company to give a relief to the thousands of colored people in the cities. It is purpose to organize a company of South Dakota capitalist sto procure the control of large tracts and then subdivide it into 50-acre tracts 3hes in time to be given out to colored men. Mr. Scott believes he can interest one or two hundred thousand colored people in the scheme who would be glad to give up their hands to mouth existence in the cities for an independent home on the farm. He expresses the conviction that his farming project offers a frictionless solution of the rooe problem. He expects to go to Chicago within the next thirty days to set his plan in motion, and is confident that the plad will prove success. Mr. Scott has shown good business tact and judgment since he has been in business in Mitchel. Wanted;= An energetic young colored man or woman to travel in the interest of the Wiehita Searchlight. No dreams need apply Call or address. The Wichita Searchlight 110 N. Mainst Wichita Kans. to those of us who are worthy, to allow us to rise in business, trades and professions, to protect us before the law, in jury box, and courts, to allow us comforts in public places if we are clean, decent and honorable, is justice—and is nearer God's design than any prejudice claiming God's sanction. The eternal principles of justice, whereof the Republican party is the visible utterance and expression, pertain to a realm which knows no color line. And justice will settle the problem though all else should fail. We aspire as you do. The loftier things of soul, the upward stress which has upborne the Aryan race to the place it so proudly hold among the people of the earth, we also feel. Wound us and we bleed; fatally so and we die; crush our spirits, and our hearts ache and with anguished souls we suffer on. We are not strangers to natural affection. It is not as mere imitators that we also stand for a tearful interval where earth opes briefly that it may close forever above the forms of those we love. We, as do you, with anxious eyes and straining ears, look and list toward the awesome mystery which lies beyond, and as do you, claim sonship with God and brotherhood with the Savior of mankind. And with such evidence of good cheer and helpfulness before me I dare to claim for Afric's sons the loftiest destiny which anywhere waits other souls. Finally I may say-I have more faith in the American people than ever before. I know that on her soil right will finally triumph. SUSPENSION OF JUDGMENT. Among other great principles at issue in the campaign of 1904 was this one—not by any means the least—demanding a suspension of judgment in the case of these people who have had but forty years in which to work. Centuries must pass before the world can decide the right of a race to live and enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Your mighty civilization the product of your versatility, genius and heroic endeavor which no words can describe, is the product of a thousand years; and you stand unrivaled, alone, like a city on a hill which cannot be hidden. As a race we have been asking that the views of our enemies be not accepted, as well as that of us guilty of vain-glorious boasting be not believed, but we ask for time in which to show the mettle in us. And you men fought out the issue when your opponents threw down the gauntlet in the last campaign. And as in the past, God gave us a leader. As were Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln born to hasten the fruition of Runnymede, that liberty and justice might some day come to all men regardless of color or creed, as were Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington born to lead out their bondaged people, so was this man born to carry out the true American idea, the Republican party, the Kansas Day club idea of fair play to all American citizens. Men who forty years ago fought for the freedom of the black men and their sons who fought that Cuba might be free, men, even of other parties, who believe in right, followed the lead of this man of mighty purpose, mighty heart and mighty brain, whose Christlike doctrine is not black men down and white men up, but rather no man down and all men up, and who closes the door of hope in the face of no man, and would have all rise. This man, statesman, scholar, reformer, writer, soldier, diplomat, statesman, leader of men, lust, humane, best of his kind, the property of the oppressed on earth, the hope of the future, the one dreamed of by those who have died in a martyr cause, invincible because right, invulnerable because sent of God, the latter day savior of my people for whom black heroes died in Cuba that he might live and save their race, this man—Theodore Roosevelt—spoke out, and America, indorsing Roosevelt, this organization and our party says to the world, "We will suspend judgment and give these people time." And this was and is all we ask. And I pledge you we will not disappoint you. In the flight of years we will be vindicators of a race and part burden bearers of a world. The tide has turned. The nobler sons of America have said to the waves of persecution and racial strife "Thus far and no farther." Humanity returning to first principles where man will bow, the sable son of earth will be called brother, and the story of how he rose to higher estate will be the theme of dreamers and of all those who write the truths that outdo fiction by their strangeness. Searchlight $1.00 per year. alone may dare to visit the mistakes of buried sires on breathing sons or adjust accounts between the living and the dead. Time, public sentiment and God will finally reward this patient courage and make allthings right. When censured and misunderstood in senate, forum or Chautauqua debate or criticised in public press, as the weakness of our weakest ones are heralded abroad, we remember that these are bad because they are human rather than because they are negroes, and though disappointed we do not despair. But to those of our critics who would forget justice I would say, forget not that each upward struggling soul, go stumbling though it may, goes clinging to the skirts of the invisible God, and for your own sakes I adjure you not to cast obstacles before His face in the way of a weaker though upward struggling race. But this is no apology for our worst elements or an upholding of the vicious. Yes, we have them in numbers far too great for their good or racial weal. They are the real weights upon us, but they are ours. We will tell them of their faults and teach them that by honest labor, thrift, energy, education and by amassing realty holdings worth the name are we to rise. SOULS are AWAKENING. Our souls art awakening; we see the light. You have indexed the way we grow as we behold and travel it. This growth means progress, and herein is the law of the life of a race. With education symmetrical and true, we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them into life. This beauteous angel which has always done its work for those of earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race and my people will come forth to their glory and to the amazement of the world. And you men of Kansas will welcome this. The day this thing is done will be to your children a holy day, for they will set accomplished that for which their Kansas forbears wrought and for which many died. Onposition spurs us onward, you pointed the way and led in the darker daws and undaunted and determined even with torn hands, bleeding feet and anguished souls to the heights we are going. For near three hundred years we've sung the sorrow songs. We shall yet sing the songs of rejoicing and triumph. As the Danes destroyed the hearing of their war horses that they might not be affrighted in battle so will we turn a deaf ear to all that would discourage us. In the darkest hours we hear the voice of the best of that which makes American life, glorious saying, "Onward, freedmen! Onward! Onward struggling race, we are with you!" And with braver hearts and firmer tread we gird ourselves for the journey and press on our way. We realize that honest labor, whether in the lowly walks or in the higher ways of life, duty done every day, everywhere, can have but one result—sure and lasting success. Though weighted with the frailties, a necessary consequence of the past,, though far from what we desire, we point to some things accomplished since freedom. From nothing we could call our own in forty years we own 550,000 farms, nine banks, two street railways, and pay taxes on $700,000,000 in property. With education for our watchword in this same time we have reduced our illiteracy to 54 per cent. Thirty-seven thousand negro teachers are training our youth and twenty-three negro college presidents join with many other educational leaders in striving heroclyly to lift the load. And our youth are going forth to attain proficiency along all lines of true education. While this was being accomplished we had your help. You paid millions of dollars in taxes and your philanthropists gave millions with bountiful hand, realizing that in a free country intelligent citizenship which is guaranteed rights and which in turn gives to its country duty, patriotism, uplifting character and progressive development is best for all, whether viewed from the standpoint of self interest or from that broader altruistic spirit the guiding star of the preservers of the rights and liberties of mankind. ABOUT RACE PREJUDICE. And today the wisest and best argue and rightfully so, that he who denies education to any class of citizens in such measure inveighs against public safety, gives us a dangerous element places a millstone around the neck of all, and jeopardizes the welfare of our common country. True, there is race prejudice. To say that none exists is to deny the truth before our eyes. This prejudice, as some argue, may be natural and God is nature's author; but God's justice is of loftier rank than man's prejudice. To give work Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Marke and Save Money. Remember the place--Market at the Gra of Dold's Packing House. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. 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We will mail until full, free, postpaid, or Catalogue LATEST SPECIAL CREAM BASKETBAG CATALOGUE Our big offer contains ice cream and you will receive an offer over one hear of. Address: ROS, ROEBUCH & CO., CHICAGO. ACTOR TOLD UNKIND TRUTH. Gruel Speech That Brought Actress to Earth With a Jerk. May Irwin is a round personage of middle years and more than middle weight; to look at her would not make one think of willows or slimly bending pines. She is, withal, of a frugal genius, and economical to a degree that would evoke plaudits from Hetty Green or Russell Sage. She told me this herself. It was when she came from her dressing room ready to go on for the second act; I chanced to be on the stage. Miss Irwin was gorgeous in a red dress—arterial red. She swung around with the remark: "Do you see this dress? Cost $180—and I hate parting with money. The first night I had it on Jim Ford spoiled it." Thereat I expressed surprise and sympathy. "It was like this," she observed. "I" donned this dress, red being my weakness; I thought I'd never looked so well. Of course, I'm fat; but still I felt that for once I was beautiful. Jim Ford was back of the scenes; I confided to him that I expected to make the hit of my life. I pirouetted, even if I am the size of a load of hay. "Don't I look like a peach? I asked. "No,' said Ford, 'you don't—you look like a tomato."—A. H. Lewis in Saturday Evening Post. Man Who Did Too Well. "A man may sell too much of the article which he is displaying to his customers, and I know of a case in point which happened to a friend of mine," said Hite Bowman. "My friend had a fine place offered him with an organ factory, and he accepted it, the salary being up in the four figures. He went out, and to his first customer sold the entire output of the plant. The customer agreed to take all that the factory could make. Having nothing more to sell, my friend returned to the house well pleased with his success, and for several days sat around smoking good cigars, while the firm patted him on the back. One day he came in and the boss called him over, saving in this fashion: "I will have to give you the usual thirty days' notice. You have done so well that we have no further use for you or any traveling man. We are sorry to lose you, but you sold too much at the first crack."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Manicured Newsboys. The nails of nearly every newsboy on Park row were neatly trimmed and clean at least one day last week, a phenomenon many noted with surprise. A vender with a patent manicuring tool, clippers, file and pick, three in one, and one for three cents, took up his stand on the surb. He demonstrated the ease with which the tool could be handled on the first newsboy who came along. The boy marched down the row, showing off his hands proudly. "I've been manicured," he declared. "Did it hurt?" "Was she a blond beaut?" "How much, Snickers?" were some of the questions. "Naw, it didn't hurt, an' she ain't a blonde, an' it didn't cost nothing," he answered. They made a 5 cent pool as the price of the secret, and the newsboys' manicuring shop, the first in history, was soon in operation.—New York Tribune. Ask Me No More. Ask me no more; what answer should I give? I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye; Yet my friend, I will not have the die! Ask me no more, lest I shall bid thee thee live; Ask me no more. Ask me no more; thy fate and mine are sealed. I strain against the stream, and all in rain. Let the great river take to the main. No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; Ask me no more. —Alfred Tennyson. A Few Instances. "Has it ever happened in your professional experience that an innocent man was sent to prison?" was asked of a Boston criminal lawyer. "It has," was the prompt reply. "I was just figuring on that yesterday. Of the 400 criminal cases I have defended about fifty of my clients were convicted and sent up." "And they were innocent?" "They must have been. When I have appealed a case to the last court, wept while addressing the jury, talked of the man's dear old mother and as good as proved an alibi in his case, the jury must have rendered a verdict of guilty simply through ignorance or stupidity." Getting Things Mixed. When Walter Williams, from Columbus, Miss., was in Spain a year ago he called upon a provincial editor in the interest of the St. Louis exposition. The next day the paper had the following: "Walter Williams of the United States purchased the state of Louisiana, and next year will give a celebration, to which he has invited his fellow-journalists of Europe." Mr. Williams again called upon the editor and thoroughly explained matters. The editor apologized and printed this correction: "Gov. Francis of Missouri has purchased a large tract of land in the great American desert, and Walter Williams is here to invite the journalists of Spain to a show which the governor will give." MR. HAYDEN'S VIEWS MR. HAYDEN'S VIEWS GIVES HIS OPINION OF THE BEST TREATMENT FOR PARALYSIS. Declares That Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Restored the Use of His Limbs When All Other Remedies Failed. The premonitory symptoms of paralysis are: trembling of the hands; sudden loss of power in arms or legs, frequently affecting one whole side of the body; staggering; partial or entire inability to use the fingers; distortion of the features, sometimes an uncontrollable quivering of the chin; severe pains; difficulty in speech. Frequently the first warning is a vague feeling of headache, vertigo and muscular weakness. In a recent interview Mr. W. J. L. Hayden said: "I truly think that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a great medicine for they cured me when physicians and other remedies had failed to give me the slightest relief. Too close attention to business, brought on an attack of nervousness which finally developed into paralysis. There were times when it was impossible for me to move my hands or to get up from a chair. At other times I had partial control of my limbs, but I was afraid to go far from the house for fear I might suddenly become helpless and have to be carried home. "While I was in this miserable condition, I was stricken with malarial fever and confined to bed for four months. I had the best physicians, but while they relieved my fever, their treatment did not entirely drive the malaria from my system, and they did not help my paralysis in the least. "I was well nigh despairing when a friend persuaded me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. When I had finished one box I could see results that encouraged me. My condition kept steadily improving, and when I had taken seven boxes I was cured of paralysis and the malaria was completely driven out of my system. For two years now I have enjoyed the best of health and have attended to business without any interruption." Mr. Hayden's home is at No. 252 West 39th street, New York. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured many similar cases of paralysis, also locomotor ataxia. They are sold by all druggists. A treatment so simple, inexpensive and successful should be tried by every sufferer from partial paralysis in any of its stages. The man who doesn't owe some of his success to some woman hasn't had any. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. Ingratitude of Republics. The American hen lays enough eggs in one month to pay the interest on the national debt in that time. And yet an old eagle which has seen more than a century of service and was never known to lay an egg is retained as our national bird. It is simply unjust—Denver Post. THE HOME TO COME TO. Ideal Refuge From the Stress of Life Well Described The ideal home is one in which the inmates think more of their duties than their rights, and recognize that they are responsible for each other's happiness. To be admitted to such a hearth, warmed by the crimson flame of charity and household affection; bright with the sparkle of gayety and rarer flash of wit; illuminated by the glow of thought and clear light of sincerity; beautiful with courtesy, forbearance and refinement; its atmosphere vital and with the oxygen of moral purity and open to currents of fresh ideas; adorned by culture and social amenity, and securely built upon righteousness and faith, is moral regeneration as well as happiness and rest. Whether rich or poor, with many or few inmates or only one, any hearth may breathe this home spirit while to come home to somebody in such a heaven is the best and most lasting of earthly joys.—Maxwell Gray in Black and White. Piso's Cure cannot be too high spoken of as a cough cure—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. A woman always agrees with a man when he lets her have her own way. Frankness sometimes wins more friends than flattery. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. You can't tell a child's father by the color of his hair. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Iching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your drugstrict will refund money if FAZO OINTMENT falls to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. Any fellow who owns a camera may take a house in the country. GRATEFUL TO CUTICURA For Instant Relief and Speedy Cure of Raw and Scaly Humour, Itching Day and Night—Suffered Months. "I wish you would publish this letter so that others suffering as I have may be helped. For months awful sores covered my face and neck, scabs forming, itching terribly day and night, breaking open, and running blood and matter. I had tried many remedies, but was growing worse, when I started with Cuticura. The first application gave me instant relief, and when I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, I was completely cured. (signed) Miss Nellie Vander Wiele, Lakeside, N. Y." Some people's idea of generosity is to give advice. FreeBook paris or other severe treatment. Send for this book, and if directly interested, mention character of the affliction and special literature bearing on the subject will be sent with the book. THE L. C. MCAIN ORTHOPEDIC SANITARIUM. 3104 PINE STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Laugh and Grow Fat. Dyspepsia is claimed to be systematically cured by laughter. It is stated that a Paris doctor, in return for a large fee, admits patients into his private institution, where the mirth treatment is administered. A few dyspeptics sit around a room and begin to smile at each other. This smile, once begun, must never be allowed to fade away. On the contrary, it must be developed by will power into a grin, and the grin must become a guffaw. Then the patients must go on laughing until their sides ache. A course of a week or two of the treatment at the rate of a couple of hours' giggling a day is said to be sufficient to cure the worst cases of dyspepsia. To Dry the Umbrella. To preserve an umbrella so that it will last long enough and not look shabby it should be carefully dried each time it is carried in the rain. To do this it should never be stood on the point, thus permitting the water to trickle down, spoiling the silk and making the wires rusty, says the Gentlewoman. Neither should an umbrella be opened to dry, for in this way the silk is stretched, and later it becomes baggy, and it is impossible to furl it smoothly. The correct way to dry an umbrella is to shake it well to get as much water out as possible and then stand it on its handle to drain. Burden of War Debt. The debts of nations given in the World Almanac exceed $30,000,000. These do not nearly represent the cost of a century's wars, but only that portion of the cost which remains unpaid and a charge upon the people. Only in a few cases, like Canada and New Zealand, does public debt represent other than war expenditure, and these sums are more than balanced by "left-over" debts from the eighteenth century. The earth has 1,487,900,000 inhabitants, or 297,580,000 families. Its permanent load of war debts is $1,000 for every family—New York World. Lead Pencil Writing. Upon the subject of signing a document a standard law book says: "When a statute or usage requires 'a writing' it must be on paper or parchment, but it is not essential that it be in ink. It may be in pencil. This rule applies to promissory notes, book accounts, a will or a signature thereto." There is a decision in Colorado upholding the idea that a pencil signature is valid. A WOMAN'S MISERY. Mrs. John LaRue, of 115 Paterson avenue, Paterson, N. J., says: "I was troubled for about nine years, and what I suffered no one will ever know. I used about every known remedy that is said to be good for kidney complaint, but without deriving permanent relief. Often when A Woman alone in the house the backache has been so bad that it brought tears to my eyes. The pain at times was so intense that I was compelled to give up my household duties and lie down. There were headaches, dizziness and blood rushing to my head to cause bleeding at the nose. The first box of Doan's Kidney Pills benefited me so much that I continued the treatment. The stinging pain in the small of my back, the rushes of blood to the head and other symptoms disappeared." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Ants Build Gardens. Brazilian ants make little gardens in the treetops and sow them with pineapple and other seeds. The gardens are found of all sizes, some containing a single sprout and others a densely grown ball as large as a man's head. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Friends seldom desert a man while his money holds out. FREE THE OREAL KINCHEY AND LINER CURE DEVICES REMEDY WORK. Write for free sample bottle to A. KENNETH'S SONS DONNOLU, N.Y. BUY A HOME IN FLORIDA, lost place, in the State. Rich vegetable lands and orange groves are selling below their value. Write for booklet, map and prices of properties. E. J. M. Fadget, Lecburg, Fin. $10.00 FOR ALL That's all it will cost to cover our 120-egg laundry complete, down floor in your railroad station, all freight charges are paid. No other expense necessary. FOR ALL That's all it will cost to get one cubicles complete, land down at your home, and charge fresh charges prepaid. No other ex- penses. No more ready to leave. SURE HATCH INCUBATORS are the world's standard incubators. Three walks California are the world's standard lines through the San Francisco housing system. 150 machines are used to water a water system. All machines can run 60 Days Free Trial, giving you every opportunity to be a sure you are right. Every machine is tested. The machine that has tested the test of SURE HATCH is the machine that has tested the test of SURE HATCH in Indianapolis. If west, Oclay center, SURE HATCH INCUBATORS COMPANY is the center. COL. BECKWITH SAYS: SIR JOHN HENRY BURTON COL. PAUL E. BECKWITH. Colonel Paul E. Beckwith, Lt. Col letter from 1503 Vermont avenue, N. "From the unqualified endor take pleasure in commending colds."—Paul E. Beckwith. with, Lt. Col., retired, 1st Reg. Minute Men, in a at avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., writes: lilied endorsement of many of my friends, I recommending your remedies for coughs and kwith. Colonel Paul E. Beckwith, Lt. Col., retired, 1st Reg. Minute Men, in a letter from 1503 Vermont avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., writes: "From the unqualified endorsement of many of my friends, I take pleasure in commending your remedies for coughs and colds."—Paul E. Beckwith. PE-RU-NA IS EFFICACIOUS. The constant exposure to the elements experienced in an out-door life is not so apt to cause coughs and colds as sedentary habits. Those who are brought face to face with the weather every day in active life are much less liable to catarrh diseases than those who are housed up in illly ventilated rooms. And yet both of these classes are more or less subject to catarrh and catarrh diseases. The soldier as well as the civilian finds it frequently necessary to use Peruna on account of coughs and colds. No one is exempt. The strong and healthy are less liable than the weak and ill, but none entirely escape. Austrian motorists are up in arms against a bill which has just been laid before the reichsrath. By this bill the motorist is held to be responsible for all accidents in which he is concerned, unless he can prove that they are directly caused by the fault of another party. Cars which cannot be driven at more than twelve and a half miles an hour are exempt. One ingenious woman hangs pretty china plates on the wall by the following method: Three or four large dress hooks were slipped over the edge of each plate; wrapping cord was then run across the back of the plate from hook to hook, fastened securely in the center, with a loop to hang the plate up by. White hooks being used they were scarcely noticeable when the plates were hung. 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 %-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 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Some people gossip on such slight excuse, that they are almost criminals. Deformities and Paralysis nt free postpaid upon request. This book is of a hundred pages, illustrated throughout and tells of an experience of over thirty years in cases of Crooked Eyes, spinal Deformities, Intantile Paralysis, case, Deformed Limbs and Joints. Etc. it tells of the only equipped Sanitarium in this country devoted exclusively to the treatment additions and how they can be cured without surgical operations, pliner and surgical adduction and special literature bearing on the SANITARIUM, 3104 PINE STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. TWENTY BUSHELS OF WHEAT On Deform will be sent free postpaid handsome illustrated through the treatment of Treoledl Hip Disease, Deformed thoroughly equipped Santarium of these conditions and how to assess and treat them. C. McLAIN ORTHOPEDIC SANITARIUM On Deformities and Paralysis will be sent free postpaid upon request. This book is of a hundred pages, handsomely illustrated throughout and tells of an experience of over thirty years in the treatment of Crookel Feet, Spinal Permetis, and Analgesia. It includes a chapter on Joint Injuries. It tells of a thoroughly equipped Santarium in this country devoted exclusively to the treatment of these conditions and how they may be cured without surgical operations, plastered, mention character of the affliction and special literature bearing on the treatment. 10,000 Plants for 16c. More gardens and farms are planted to Saizer's Seeds than any other in America. There is reason for this, which over the years have been the production of our warranted seeds. In order to induce you to try them, we For 16 Cents Postpaid 1000 Early, Medium and Late Cabages 2000 Fine July Turrips 2000 Biamthing Federers for the production of our warranted seeds. In order to induce you to try them, we 1000 Early, Medium and Late Cabages 1000 Early, Medium and Late Cabages 2000 Fine July Turrips 2000 Biamthing Federers for the production of our warranted seeds. In order to induce you to try them, we Above seven packages contain sum- cellent seed to grow 10000 for planning, but not for flowers and lots and lots of choice vegetables, together with our great catering, telling all about Flowers, Roses, Small Fruits, etc., all for 160 in stamps and this notice. Big 100-page catalogs are, 4c. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., w.s.u. La Crosse, Wis. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. --- IN FIELD OR BARRACKS Stringent Rules for Motors Good Way to Hang China. Peruna has always been a great favorite with the military men, both in the army and navy. The strongest kind of testimonials are received from officers of high rank concerning the virtues of Peruna for all catarral ailments. Only a small per cent. of these can be used for publication for want of space. Mr. Harrison L. Deam, Buriside Post No. 8, Department of the Potomac, Colonel encampment No. 69, Union Veterans Legion, Colonel Green Clay Smith Regiment No. 17, U. V. U., Department of the Potomac, Military Order Loyal Legion, Department of Columbia, Major 34th Indian Veteran Volunteer Infantry, writes: "There is no longer any question as to the curative qualities of Peruna in all catarral troubles. Its successful ability by many of its friends entitle it to confidence and endorsement." If you are poor you don't know what a fool you would be with money. Many men think the world is envious of them when it is only indifferent. GREGORY'S SEEDS are seeds that you can depend on. Can fortuneal J. J. H. GREGORY & SONS, Haribased, Kens. SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE HARD ON SHOES. Most parents know this to their cost. Buying shoes for a large family is a serious drain on the purse. This makes it necessary to insure getting the best value for your money. "HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOES" are made with three objects in view To look well—to wear well—to be comfortable at all times. "Hoosier School Shoes" are made under the personal supervision of our Mr. Tappan, a practical shoe manufacturer of 25 years' experience. They are made of heavy Kid, Box Calf or Mule Skin, and they are made to wear. Insist on your dealer showing you "Hoosier School Shoes." TAPPAN SHOE MFG., CO. COLDWATER, MICH. W. N. U.-Wichita-No. 5-1905 When Answering Advertisements Kindy Mention This Paper. WESTERN CANADA Is the record on the Free Homestead Lands of Western Canada for 1904. The 150,000 farmers from the United States, who danced this summer last year have gone to Canada participate in this prosperity. The United States will soon become an importer of wheat + Gess a free homestead or purchase a farm in Western Canada, and become one of those who will help produce it. Apply for information to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Please say where you saw this advertisement. PISO'S CURE FOR CHINESE WHEAT IN A CASE OF BOSS Dough Syrup. Taste Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION The only high grade Baking Powder made at a moderate price. Calumet Baking Powder WHERE WOULD SHE GO? Professor's tone Indicated Banishment Was Proper Course. The wife of a newly rich man who went to Washington for the purpose of pursuing the social honors craved by the female branch of the establishment, soon after her arrival determined to place her eldest daughter under the tuition of Doctor Bischoff, the blind organist and instructor in music. After an interval of a few weeks the wife hied herself to the professor and complained that her daughter was not making progress. Whereupon the doctor said he was glad she had referred to the matter for he himself had intended to do so. "I regret to say, madam," observed the teacher, "that your daughter will never be able to sing. She is quite tone deaf and has not the slightest notion of time. Furthermore, I fear that she will never acquire the musical temperament." At this the lady grew exceedingly wrothy and intimated that Bischoff was incompetent. "I shall send her to Paris," the lady concluded. "Madam," replied the blind man, who had grown restive under the verbal lashes, "Madam, I should send her at least that far!" SPREADING THE NEWS BROADCAST. That Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his Diabetes. After long suffering Mr. G. Cleghorn found a permanent relief in the Great American Kidney Remedy. Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 30th.—(Special)—Tortured with Diabetes and Bladder Disease from which he could apparently get no relief, Mr. G. Cleghorn, a bricklayer, living at 119 Butter St. this city, has found a complete and permanent cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills and in his gratitude he is spreading the news broadcast. "Dodd's Kidney Pills made a man of me," Mr. Cleghorn says. "I was a sufferer from Diabetes and Bladder Disease. I was so bad I could do no work and the pain was something terrible. I could not get anything to help me till I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. They helped me right from the first and now I am completely cured. I have recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to all my friends and they have found them all that is claimed for them." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney IIs from Backache to Bright's Disease. They never fail to cure Rheumatism. It is possible for a man to have more gold in his teeth than in the bank. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. It's a case of minority rule in a house where there's a baby. Some men seem to be under the impression that lungs are brains. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugs refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 22c. Reform is often but the off-shot of remorse. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restoration. For 90 days, oral trial bottle and practice. Dr E. H. KINNE, LLL, 381 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Being silly may not be advisable, but it keeps worry at a distance. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, causes wind cold. See's bottle. A rich wife may not agree with a man any more than rich food. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Deflance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. The proof of a novel depends upon the proofreceiver. Among those who have received the highest award—the Grand Prize—at St. Louis World's Fair, was the *A.J. Tower Co., the maker of the WIIH* software. Many of our readers who went to the Fair, will recall their dwell in which waterproof garments were shown adapted to so many uses that almost every department of the World's Fair was suggested. The Grand Prize was a deserved tribute to one of the oldest manufacturing concerns in the country. A man hates to stand idly by and see his dog whipped. 80 Rg. Macaroni Wheat Per Acre, 80 Bu. Macaroni Wheat Per Acre. introduced by the U. S. Dept. of Agr. It is a tremendous cropper, yielding in good land in Wis., Ill., Ia., Mish., Ind., O, Pa., N. Y., 80 bu. per acre, and on dry, arid lands, such as are found in Mont., Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo., etc., it will yield from 40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and Speltz and Hanna Barley and Bromus Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass, makes it possible to grow and store sheep, sheep and cattle winerace soil is found. JUNE SEND 50 AND THIS NOTICE to the John La Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wichita will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other farm seeds, together with their great catalog, alone worth $100.00 to any wide-awake farmer. [W. N. U.] There are no despicisms out of the reasons of the cocks. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Feb. 4, '05 Jupiter, with his six moons, if the planet is inhabited, must be a lovely place for lovers. Was there ever a woman who ever forgot a compliment? Or a man who was impervious to flattery? What should the young man say to the girl who slyly remarks: "You know it isn't leap year any more? Cancer is said to be most frequently found in beer-drinking countries. Consumption of beer is also quite prevalent. A Salem (Mass.) woman was married one day, eloped the next, and was arrested on the third. O, the witch! When it comes to producing feverish sensations America's Dukes seem to be right in it with the English nobility. Doctors say that gout is becoming a rare ailment. Here is something for which the meat trust may claim undisputed credit. The gap in the Alaskan-Canadian boundary has been surveyed and the polar bears thereabout can determine their allegiance. King Alfonso wants a rich wife. Rich American mothers should not put a queen's title beyond the effort of money as a matchmaker. The New York Herald gives the timely information to a correspondent that while he does not write it O'Yama, he fights as if he did. If the dowager empress of China has been converted to Christianity, there will be a speedy improvement in the treatment of the "foreign devils." Italy's foreign minister, Tittoni, has a "phenomenal form" of influenza. If it is any worse than the ordinary kind the description certainly fits it. A matinee idol's wife has sued him for a divorce. The matinee idol, because of this tribute to his popularity, will at once ask for an increase of salary. Mr. G. D. Pappageorglan and Mr. M. N. Sakelylarios are soon to begin the publication of a newspaper in Boston. Possibly they wish to make names for themselves. Crime is reported to be decreasing in New York. If that is the case a large percentage of the population will be likely to find that town uninteresting hereafter. If embezzlers are to be let off because they say they are sorry there are colonies of boarders in state institutions who could qualify for liberation at any moment. The president had 7,718 callers at his New Year's reception. Every once in a while a man hears something that convinces him that he wouldn't care much for the job, anyhow. A millionaire cut off his son in his will with an annual allowance of $5,000. The young man, by strict economy and an occasional lift in the bread line, can worry along. Admirers of the Prince and Princess of Wales have presented them with nineteen pianos. It's lucky for the neighbors of the prince and princess that they have a big yard around their place. Employees of the French government have been ordered to shave off their whiskers. Think of the rasping there would be if the czar should some day order his subjects to shed their vitches. An Indian chief has become the president of a bank at Skiatook, I. T. He is earnestly advised to keep his tomahawk ready for use upon old ladies who desire to raise money on Carnegie notes. Now the creditors of young Mr. Tiffany of New York join him in declaring that he can't live on $18,000 a year. It may be, however, that they are merely endeavoring to push a good thing along. The discovery of a Berlin oculist that radium is a cure for ophthalmia is a reminder that the magazines and newspapers haven't been printing many articles lately about the wonderful properties of radium. Two of the Russian generals who were at Port Arthur have decided to go to Japan as prisoners of war rather than to be paroled. They may have private reasons for not wishing to meet their czar—or their wives. An English educator says that vests are dangerous garments and expose the wearer to influenza. In this country about the worst that can be said of walstcoats is that some of them are exceedingly dangerous to the eyesight. The New York city improvement commission has presented an elaborate plan to make beautiful the entire city of New York. Perhaps some day some commission will be appointed to present a comprehensive plan—price no object—by which to make the city good. Result of Boycott. Endurance of Locomotive. A locomotive owned and operated by the London & Northwestern since 1882 had up to 1902 made 2,000,000 working miles. The time out of service for repairs averaged 12 per cent of the working time credited the locomotive. Beauty is only skin deep, and a lot of people are pretty thin-skinned at that. The smallest hotels often look the largest on the hotel stationery. The only place in the United States that guarantees freedom from strikes, lockouts and labor warfare is Battle Creek, Mich. The story? The work people, merchants, lawyers, doctors and other citizens became aroused and indignant at the efforts of the labor unions throughout the country to destroy the business of one of our largest industries—the Postum Cereal Co., Lt'd, and at the open threats in the official union papers that the entire power of the National and State Federations of Labor was being brought to bear to "punish" the industries of Battle Creek, and particularly the Postum Co. This sprung from the refusal of C. W. Post to obey the "orders" of the unions to take the Postum advertising away from various papers that refused to purchase labor of the labor trust—the unions. Mr. Post was ordered to join the unions in their conspiracy to "ruin" and "put out of business" these publishers who had worked faithfully for him for years and helped build up his business. They had done no wrong, but had found it inconvenient and against their best judgment to buy labor of the labor trust. It seems a rule of the unions to conspire to ruin anyone who does not purchase from them upon their own terms. An inkmaker or papermaker who failed to sell ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin the publishers. So the pedler in the street might stone you if you refused to buy his apples; the cabman to run over you if you refused to ride with him; the grocer order the manufacturer to discharge certain people because they did not patronize him, and so on to the ridiculous and villainous limit of all this boycott nonsense, in trying to force people to buy what they do not want. If a man has labor to sell let him sell it at the best price he can get just as he would sell wheat, but he has no right to even intimate that he will obstruct the business, or attempt its ruin because the owner will not purchase of him. The unions have become so tyrannous and arrogant with their despotism that a common citizen who has some time to spare and innocently thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have that paint taken off and put on again by "the union" or all sorts of dire things happen to him, his employer is ordered to discharge him, his grocer is boycotted if he furnishes him supplies, his family followed and insulted and his life made more miserable than that of a black slave before the war. If he drives a nail to repair the house or barn the carpenters' "union" hounds him. He takes a pipe wrench to stop a leaking pipe and prevent damage to his property and the plumbers' "union" does things to him. He cannot put a little mortar to a loose brick on his chimney or the bricklayers', plasterers' or hod carriers' "union" is up in arms, and if he carelessly eats a loaf of bread that has no "union" label on it the bakers' "union" proceeds to make life miserable for him. So the white slave is tied hand and foot, unable to lift a hand to better himself or do the needful things, without first obtaining permission from some haughty, ignorant and abusive tyrant of some labor union. It would all seem rather like a comic opera if it did not rob people of their freedom; that kind of work will not be permitted long in America. Some smooth managers have built up the labor trust in the last few years, to bring themselves money and power and by managing workmen, have succeeded in making it possible for them to lay down the law in some cities and force workmen and citizens to "obey" implicitly, stripping them right and left of their liberties. They have used boycotting, picketing, assaults, dynamiting of property and murder to enforce their orders and rule the people. They have gone far enough to order the President to remove certain citizens from office because the "unions" weren't pleased. That means they propose to make the law of the unions replace the law of this government and the union leaders dominate even the chief Executive. This is a government of and for the people and no organization or trust shall displace it. But the unions try it every now and then, led by desperate men as shown in their defiance of law and support of lawbreakers. The "union" record of assaults, crippling of men and even women and children, destruction of property and murder of American citizens during the past two years is perhaps ten times the volume of crime and abuse perpetrated by slave owners during any two years previous to the civil war. We are in a horrible period of lethargy, which permits us to stand idly by while our American citizens are abused, crippled and murdered in dozens and hundreds by an organization or trust, having for its purpose, Origin of the Maxim Gun. Vanity Fair, in the letterpress accompanying its cartoons of Sir Hiram Maxim, says that he first thought of the Maxim gun by receiving a jar on the shoulder at the firing of an old rifle. "It seemed a pity that the kick should be wasted. Therefore he put the recoil to work in automatic loading and firing at the rate of a thousand shots a minute." One young man wants to know how long girls should be courted. Same as short girls, of course. thrusting what it has to sell (labor) upon us whether or no. Suppose an American in a foreign city should be chased by a mob, caught and beaten unconscious, then his mouth pried open and carbolic acid poured down his throat, then his ribs kicked in and his face well stamped with iron nailed shoes, murdered because he tried to earn bread for his children. By the Eternal, sir, a fleet of American men of war would assemble there, clear for action and blow something off the face of the earth, if reparation were not made for the blood of one of our citizens. And what answer do we make to the appeals of the hundreds of widows and orphans of those Americans murdered by labor unions? How do we try to protect the thousands of intelligent citizens who, with reason, prefer not to join any labor union and be subject to the tyranny of the heavily paid rulers of the labor trusts? Upon a firm refusal by Mr. Post to join this criminal conspiracy a general boycott was ordered on Grape Nuts and Postum all over the country, which set the good red blood of our ancestors in motion, bringing forth the reply that has now passed into history: "We refuse to join any conspiracy of organized labor to ruin publishers, nor will we discharge any of our trusted employees upon the orders of any labor union. If they can make their boycott effective and sink our ship, we will go down with the captain on the bridge and in command." This set the writers in labor papers crazy and they redoubled their abuse. Finally one of their official organs came out with a large double column in denunciation of Battle Creek, calling it "a running sore on the face of Michigan," because it would not become "organized" and pay in dues to their labor leaders. The usual coarse, villainous epithets common to labor union writers were indulged in. The result was to weld public sentiment in Battle Creek for protection. A citizens' association was started, and mass meetings held. Good citizens who happened to be members of local unions, in some cases quit the unions entirely for there is small need of them there. The working people of Battle Creek are of the highest order of American mechanics. The majority are not union members, for practically all of the manufacturers have for years declined to employ union men because of disturbances about eleven years age, and the union men now in the city are among the best citizens. No city in the state of Michigan pays as high average wages as Battle Creek, no city of its size is as prosperous, and no city has so large a proportion of the best grade of mechanics who own their own homes. So the work people massed together with the other citizens of the organization of the Citizens' Ass'n with the following preamble and constitution: Whereas, From 1891 to 1894 the strikes instigated by labor unions in Battle Creek resulted in the destruction of property and loss of large sums of money in wages that would have been expended here; and, Whereas, These acts caused serious damage to the city and in a market way delayed its progress at that time; and. Whereas, Since the year 1894 the citizens have been enabled, by public sentiment, to prevent the recurrence of strikes and labor union disturbances which have been prevalent elsewhere; and. Whereas, The employers of this city have steadfastly refused to place the management of their business under the control of labor unions, but have maintained the highest standard of wages paid under like conditions anywhere in the United States, and hereby unanimously declared their intent to continue such policy; and the employees of this city, a large percentage of whom own homes and have families reared and educated under conditions of peace and the well-earned prosperity of steady employment, have steadfastly maintained their right as free American citizens to work without the dictation and tyranny of labor union leaders, the bitter experience of the past offering sufficient reason for a determined stand for freedom; and, Whereas, The attitude of the citizens on this subject has been the means of preserving peaceful conditions and continuous prosperity, in marked contrast to the conditions existing in other cities suffering from the dictation of trades unionism; it is therefore Resolved, That the continuance of peace and prosperity in Battle Creek can be maintained, and the destructive work of outside interference avoided under the combined effort and action of all our people, by the formation of a Citizens' Association. CONSTITUTION. Article 1.—Name. Article 2.—Objects. First—To insure, so far as possible Respect Your Own Ideas. On the firm foundation of solid reliability originality must erect a structure. To this end you must respect your own ideas as fully as those of another. You must accept the ideas that come into your own mind with as much sincerity as you do those of an Edison or a Rockefeller. Do not be limited by the achievements of others. Use their knowledge merely to push your own. You may thing you are all right, but some people can't tolerate you. a permanent condition of peace, prosperity and steady employment to the people of Battle Creek. Second—To energetically assist in maintaining law and order at all times and under all conditions. Third—To protect its members in their rights to manage their property and to dispose of their labor in a legal, lawful manner without restraint or interference. Fourth—To insure and permanently maintain fair, just treatment, one with another, in all the relations of life. Fifth—To preserve the existing right of any capable person to obtain employment and sell his labor, without being obliged to join any particular church, secret society, labor union or any other organization, and to support all such persons in their efforts to resist compulsory methods on the part of any organized body whatsoever. Sixth—To promote among employers a spirit of fairness, friendship and desire for the best interests of their employees, and to promote among workmen the spirit of industry, thrift, faithfulness to their employers and good citizenship. Seventh—To so amalgamate the public sentiment of all of the best citizens of Battle Creek, that a guarantee can be given to the world of a continuance of peaceful conditions, and that under such guarantee and protection manufacturers and capitalists can be induced to locate their business enterprises in Battle Creek. Then follows articles relating to membership, officers, duties, etc., etc., etc. This constitution has been signed by the great majority of representative citizens, including our workpeople. A number of manufacturers from other cities, where they have been suffering all sorts of indignities, inconvenience and losses from the general hell of labor union strikes, picketing, assaults and other interference, proposed to move, providing they could be guaranteed protection. The subject grew in importance until it has reached a place where absolute protection can be guaranteed by the citizens of Battle Creek on the following broad and evenly balanced terms which guarantees to the workman and to the manufacturer fairness, justice, steady work and regularity, of output. The newcoming manufacturer agrees to maintain the standard rate of wage paid elsewhere for like service, under similar conditions, the rate to be determined from time to time from well authenticated reports from competing cities. The tabulated wage reports issued by the Government Department of Commerce and Labor can also be used to show the standard rate, and it is expected later on that this government bureau will furnish weekly reports of the labor market from different centers, so that the workman when he is ready to sell his labor and the employer when he is ready to buy, may each have reliable information as to the market or ruling price. The newcoming manufacturer also agrees to maintain the sanitary and hygienic conditions provided for by the state laws and to refrain from any lockouts to reduce wages below the standard, reserving to himself the right to discharge any employee for cause. The Citizens' Association on its part agrees to furnish, in such numbers as it is possible to obtain, first-class workmen who will contract to sell their labor at the standard price for such period as may be fixed upon, agreeing not to strike, picket, assault other workmen, destroy property, or do any of the criminal acts common to labor unionism. Each workman reserving to himself the right to quit work for cause, and the Citizens' Association further pledges its members to use its associated power to enforce the contracts between employer and employee, and to act en masse to uphold the law at all times. The new industries locating in Battle Creek will not start under any sort of labor union domination whatsoever, but will make individual contracts with each employe, those contracts being fair and equitable and guaranteed on both sides. Thus from the abuses of labor unions and their insane efforts to ruin everyone who does not "obey" has evolved this plan which replaces the old conditions of injustice, lockouts, strikes, violence, loss of money and property, and general industrial warfare, and inaugurates an era of perfect balance and fairness between employer and employe, a steady continuance of industry and consequent prosperity. The entire community pledged by public sentiment and private act to restore to each man his ancient right to "peace, freedom and the pursuit of happiness." Other cities will be driven to protect their workpeople, merchants and citizens as well as their industries from the blight of strikes, violence and the losses brought on by labor unionism Benefit In Two Meals a day. Persons who are the victims of chronic complaints, and whose digestion is slow and feeble, are often greatly benefited by taking but two meals a day, if they are careful to eat as much in the two meals as would ordinarily be comprised in three. The neuralgic, in particular, will do well to adopt this course, but the first meal should be somewhat late and the second reasonably early. Everybody thinks he has a dog that the dog show ought to have. run amuck, by adopting the "Battle Creek plan," but this city offers in ductrial peace now, with cheap coal and good water, first-class railroad facilities and the best grade of fair, capable and peaceable mechanics known. Details given upon inquiry of the "Secy. of the Citizens' Assn." Identification. The public should remember that there are a few labor unions conducted on peaceful lines and in proportion as they are worthy, they have won asteem, for we, as a people, are strongly in sympathy with any right act that has for its purpose better conditions for wage workers. But we do not forget that we seek the good of all and not those alone who belong to some organization, whereas even the law abiding unions show undeniable evidences of tyranny and oppression when they are strong enough, while many of the unions harbor and encourage criminals in their efforts to force a yoke of slavery upon the American people. As a public speaker lately said: "The arrogance of the English King that roused the fiery eloquence of Otis, that inspired the immortal declaration of Jefferson, that left Warren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill, was not more outrageous than the conditions that a closed shop would force upon the community. These men burst into rebellion 'when the king did but touch their pockets. Imagine if you can their indignant protest had he sought to prohibit or restrict their occupation or determine the conditions under which they should earn their livelihood," and to assault, beat and murder them, blow up their houses and poison their food if they did not submit. The public should also remember that good, true American citizens can be found in the unions and that they deprecate the criminal acts of their fellow members, but they are often in bad company. Salt only hurts sore spots. So, the honest, law-abiding union man is not hurt when the criminals are denounced, but when you hear a union man "holier" because the facts are made public, he has branded himself as either one of the lawbreakers or a sympathizer, and therefore with the mind of the lawbreaker, and likely to become one when opportunity offers. That is one reason employers decline to hire such men. --- A short time ago inquiry came from the union forces to know if Mr. Post would "keep still" if they would call off the boycott on Postum and Grape Nuts. This is the reply: "The labor trust has seen fit to try to ruin our business because we would not join its criminal conspiracy. We are plain American citizens and differ from the labor union plan in that we do not force people to strike, picket, boycott, assault, blow up property or commit murder. We do not pay thugs $20 to break in the ribs of any man who tries to support his family nor $30 for an eye knocked out. We try to show our plain, honest regard for sturdy and independent workmen by paying the highest wages in the state. We have a steady, unvarying respect for the law-abiding, peaceable union man and a most earnest desire to see him gain power enough to purge the unions of their criminal practices, that have brought down upon them the righteous denunciation of a long-suffering and outraged public, but we will not fawn, truckle, bend the knee, wear the hated collar of white slavery, the union label, nor prostitute our American citizenship under "orders" of any labor trust. You offer to remove the restriction on our business and with "union" gold choke the throat and still the voice raised in stern denunciation of the despotism which tramples beneath an iron-shot heel the freedom of our brothers. You would gag us with a silver hat and muffle the appeal to the American people to harken to the cries for bread of the little children whose faithful fathers were beaten to death while striving to earn food for them. Your boycott may perhaps succeed in throwing our people out of work and driving us from business, but you cannot wrench from us that priceless jewel our fathers fought for and which every true son guards with his life. Therefore, speaking for our work people and ourselves, the infamous offer is declined." POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Note by Publisher. Note by Publisher. The Postum Company have a yearly contract for space in this paper which they have a right to use for announcements of facts and princeple. Such use does not necessarily carry with it any editorial opinion.