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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. 6TH YEAR. President's Policy z And The South—Not One Of Hostility—But As Chief Magistrate. great howl and conflicting hub is being raised by the press and a pre-eating Southern democrats Senator Ben Tillman, of South Africa, and Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, Jeff Davis, Bailey and others as to President Roosevelt's toward the South. After his partition the 4th of March, the former democratic papers believes his chief policy and aim will be overcome the prejudice against him at section. Alleged expressions union on social equality and his intentions are predicted, no counts agreeing. It seems rathbish, as well as strange that so many profs of his character manner in dealing with men and jons, anyone should misunderstand. The South need not fear, Mr. Roosevelt is the president of the people, and of course he will no especial policy with refer to the South or any section of country. It has been hinted at the contemplated visit of the debt to the South was to try and flavor with the South by apology as past persistent acts, by promo of special favors in the future. assured. All that would be con- to the man and a blot on his character. resent Roosevelt along with bands of Christian-hearted men, women of both North and South opposed to the inhuman treatment of the colored man in some second of this country by some of these Western Christians. But on the other hand the president has no hostility and the South and never did. He no revenge to gratify and the need not fear mistreatment at hands. But neither will he how ready to them, nor to anyone else. He too harve and independent to that. -The Advocate. thy thousand negroes in Missouri and the straight Republican ticket out of twenty-nine positions in house and four state offices, what they got to how for it? Not one double position.—St. Louis, Mo., over $200,000 will be spent by the man's Aid and Southern Educational Society which is an auxiliary the Methodist Episcopal church, the erection at Spalding, Alabama, miles from Birmingham, of a college for the education of the man. The first building was constructed about two weeks ago, and will be $200,000. Others will be erected. Missouri State Federation of Women, representing over 1.1 members, have petitioned Gov. to recommend to the legislature appropriation for the establish- ment of a reformatory for Negro girls. A petition has been endorsed by hunds of the best citizens of the state. Globe-Democrat Endorses President Roosevelt's Words 'In working out this destiny for the country all men must be placed on the same level before the law. Race purity must be maintained. Intermixture between white and black or between white and red must be prevented but men of every color must be allowed an equality of opportunity in advancing their condition and of contributing to the general aggregate of the country's wealth and prosperity. In these days, with the civil war 40 years in the background, it is time for the South and the North to recognize that the old tissues are obsolete, and that new questions are constantly arising on which men should divide according to their sentiment on them as issues of today. This is a lesson which the South has more need to learn than the has the north, for the South is far more under the sway of sectional feeling than is the region above the Potomac, the Ohio and Missouri's southerly line. In these Lincoln days of fraternization it will not do any harm to let all sections know that the issues of forty years ago are settled right and will never be disturbed. Great questions of national policy are coming to the front every year, which will have to be dealt with according to the best lights of the day, regardless of past prejudices and affiliations. In order to be in a position to deal freely and intelligently with those issues we must be prepared to recognize the quality of all races before the law and freely allow to all of them the privileges prescribed by the constitution or the statutes.' ERADICATES COLOR LINE Bill To Protect Negro Insurance Policy Holders Jefferson City, Mo.-A novelty in the way of class legislation was introduced in the legislature in the shape of a bill by Representative Spangler, to prevent the color line being drawn to prevent rebates in fire insurance, but as drawn it would put a stop to the practice of charging negroes three times the regular rate for life insurance on the grounds that they are a bad risk. We have been unofficially informed that the firm of Decatur & Long has closed a $30,000 contract to construct a fine brick building at Little Rock, Arkansas. This firm is composed of two of the brightest young men of the city. At present they are constructing a $10,000 building for Colonel Rucker, and have other contracts equally as large. They are good examples of the progressive young men of the race, and we feel assured that wherever they work they will leave monuments that will prove the richest legacy of a cultured race.—Atlanta Age WICHITA, KANSAS FEB 25 1905 Lies Again Vardaman, of Mississippi, Falsifies Facts In Order To Hit At The Negro The Post-Dispatch in Tuesday's issue publishes the following interview with Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi, on the 'Negro Question.' Although Gov. Vardaman had resolutely declined to discuss politics, the word 'negro' was the torch that set him afire. 'The negro,' said he sitting up and running nervous fingers through his hair, 'is an acute national question, that must be answered.' He heartily underscored 'must be.'' 'The negroes of Mississippi are progressing. There is not a laborer on earth so well fed and cared for as the negro. The negro question is acute in Mississippi because the proportion of negroes to whites in my state is greater than in any other. 'There is very little lynching of the negro in Mississippi now. Revolting crimes are now of rare occurrence I have had three negroes tried by the courts and sentenced to the penitentiary for crimes that formerly preceded lynchings. 'But the negro is becoming more criminal in his tendencies all the time. In spite of the fact that we have spent $200,000,000 and 40 years in educating him. 'The remarkable fact is that where you find the minimum of illiteracy among the negroes you find the maximum of criminality. 'In Massachusetts, where there has not been a slave in 100 years, there are three times the crimes among negroes that there is in the South. 'In the Northwest, where there never were slaves, there is three and a half times as much negro criminality. 'Seven-tenths of the negro criminals in the southern penitentiaries are under 30 years of age, the growth of conditions since the civil war. "I believe that the greater part of the trouble can be traced to the Fifteenth amendment. If this was repealed and the question of suffrage left to the state a long step would be made in the solution of the negro question. White Man Made to Rule. "I know that the white man is going to rule this country. He will rule Maine as he will rule Louisiana. He will rule Mississippi as he will rule Oregon. "God Almighty made the negro inferior to the white man, and nothing will make him the white man's equal. That fact has been demonstrated in the South. Notwithstanding the Fifteenth amendment the country is being governed by the white man. "It is not a question of the negro's educational qualifications either. The white man will not give sovereignty and dominion tothe negro, no matter what his learning may be. 'Some people think that the opposition in the South to the participation of the more intelligent negro in government is due to prejudice. That is true, and when you think about it, it is the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against anything that tends toward racial deterioration, to sharing sovereignty with inferiors, to menacing the purity of race that has made the Anglo-Saxon the virile, vigorous ruling race of the world, for which we are indebted for the system of government under which we live, for the literature, of the progress in science and invention. In a word, in a civilization that crowns and glorifies the English speakin peo-centur. 'The nation made a mistake in adopting the Fifteenth amendment. We are far enough away from the civil war now to see the error of it, and the nation should correct it. 'I believe the negro should be protected in his home life and encouraged to do right, but he should not be permitted to use the ballot. He is absolutely unfitted for it. 'We are now controlling the matter in Mississippi, under the constitution recently adopted, by strictly legal methods. But whether the methods are honest, or not the white man I going to rule, and the white man's civilization must survive. God grant New Orleans white stevedores have complained to the mayor because neethat it may.' Anti - Lynch Bill Sprinfield, Ill.—Edw. D. Green, the only colored member of the forty-fourth general assembly, has introduced in the house a 'mob violence' bill which probably will have strong support. The bill is aimed at mob law in Illinois and recalls the killing of a negro named Metcalf, who was beaten to death in Danville and burned by a mob at a lamp post. Mob violence has also been done within the last four years in Eldorado and Whitehall. The Green bill makes the assembly of five or more persons for purposes of ciolence 'a mob' and makes the county in which violence is done resulting in 'serious injury' liable in damages to thei njured jerson to an amount not exceeding $5,000. In case of the death of the mobbed person the county is made liable to his widow children or other dependents in an amount not to exceed $10,000. Persons covicted of participation in a mob intent upon doing violence upon conviction are made subject to a fine of from $100 to $1,000, or to imprisonment in the county jail, from thirty days to one year, while persons participating in a mob which accomplishes violence to persons or property are deemed felons and upon conviction may be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding five years. The cringing, compromising, hesitating and apologizing negro should find no company in our midst. We believe in being manly as well as gentlemanly.—N. Y. Age. —If you want to help increase the possibilities of the race pay a year's subscription to the Searchlight. WHERE IS THE WEST? Not According to Bible Not According to Bible Clever Shots With Rifle Harp's Melody No More An editorial in The World To-Day answers the above question thus: It would be easier to tell where is the East. That is always towards the Atlantic. Boston is East to Cleveland; Chicago is east to Cloroda, and everything this side of the Cascade mountains is east to the Pacific coast. It almost amounts to this. The West is where a man is; the East is where he or his father came from. So it comes to pass that the West has no fixed geographical limits like the South and New England. It is something more than a geographical term. Like Boston, it is a state of mind. There are mountains and rivers and oceans within the limits of which the state of mind is pre-eminently to be found, but it is to be recognized in other regions as well. You can tell a Westerner as you can tell a Southerner, sometimes by his "A few Sundays ago," said the superintendent of a New York Sunday school, "I went to visit a Sunday school in Brooklyn, of which a friend of mine is superintendent. I meet him at luncheon two or three times a week. Of late he has been full of a new scheme for teaching his Sunday school scholars to think quickly and be ready with rapid-fire answers to his questions about the scriptures. So I was very glad to go over and see how the plan worked. "During luncheon at my friend's house he expatiated upon it at length. He encourage his children, he said, to give some answer, no matter how far from correct it might be, to the questions put to them. He would rather have a wrong answer than none at all. When a boy or a girl knew that some reply was expected of them, he argued, they would take pains to acquire accurate information rather than expose themselves to ridicule by being wrong all the time. In awarding Every one is familiar with the "William Tell" act, which is so popular among men who do fancy shooting; but no feat comes up to one with which a Frenchman, M. Gaston Bordévery, has been amusing Paris. Taking several repeating carbines and standing ten yards from a piano, he plays, or, to be more correct, he "shoots" a complicated selection from "Cavalleria rusticana." A quartet sings the accompanying words and the music is concluded in excellent time, with scarcely a wrong note. The piano has, of course, been especially armored to stand this unusual thumping. Capt. Hardy, a six-foot cowboy, recently gave a remarkable exhibition of his skill in shooting before the Lincoln (Neb.) Gun club. Giving one of the state celebrities a handful of hick- The harp, forgotten, hung Neglected by the wall. For many a year unstrung. No more it tuned the hall. The hand it once had known, That touched its sweetest chord. Was long departed, gone. Forgotten was the bard. The bard returned, one day, His step no longer that His books are scant and gray. That once were dark as night. With dull and listless eye He glances round the hall And breathes a weary sigh; His gods are scattered, all. But here one friend remains. One friend that's still his own; The harp yields gentle strains. There's welcome in its tone. With old and shaking hand, The harp again he strings; Ouound a tomp of sweetness. His low, sweet music rings. Voluntarily Gives Up Fees. State Insurance Commissioner Thos. D. O'Brien of Minnesota, has refused to accept the fees of his office, which in the past have amounted to over $15,000 a year. Mr. O'Brien has informed Gov. Johnson that he does not believe the law which allows the com- NO 43 speech, always by his attitude toward life. The West means Americans who are controlled by certain ideas and motives. But American does not mean Anglo-Saxon beyond the Alleghenies. It is never, strictly speaking, a matter of descent, but this is doubly true of that great region where blood and ideas and habits of every people under the sun are fusing into a new race. Inevitably the West is cosmopolitan. With such an origin it could not be otherwise. Provincialism in any arrogant sense of the term you will not find outside of the thirteen original states of the union. On the prairies too many men have succeeded where according to all precedent they ought to have failed, for any one to claim a proprietary right in omniscience. Lacking that, however convinced it may be of its own superiority, the West is tolerant and the Westerner is at home everywhere. quarterly prizes as much consideration was given to the promptness with which questions were answered as to the accuracy of the answers. I watched the ten minutes' quizzing after the lesson of the day with much interest. "Wat is an epistle? my friend asked a lad about twelve years old." "He started as though he had been hit by a snowball, but was on his feet in an instant. "An epistle is an apostle's wife! he shouted. "We all laughed. But my friend told the boy not to be discouraged. Then he singled out a pretty young miss who was in his wife's Bible class. "What proof have we that the Disciple Peter was sorry he denied his Master?" asked the superintendent. "The girl did not hesitate an instant. With the utmost confidence she replied: "'Because he went out and crowed three times.'" ory nuts, Hardy asked him to throw them into the air as fast as he could. Not a single nut escaped the bullets. Five-cent pieces thrown fifteen feet into the air never came back. Through a card held at arm's length the cowboy sent five bullets as fast as they could be fired. Every shot had passed through a ring the size of a quarter drawn on the card. But the most thrilling feat followed. Half a dozen hazel nuts were stuck on skewers and placed in the form of a half circle around a man's head. Then, at a distance of twenty paces, in the space of only ten seconds, six shots were fired. Every nut had been removed in succession, and when the skewers were examined it was found that they were the same length, showing that Hardy had hit each nut squarely in the middle. The harper's young again. His touch is nimble, strong; Awakens now the strain Of laughter, love, and song. The harp seems strung with hair, With strumes of glancing gold. That decked a midden fair; Its song's of days of old. Familiar strains recall Stern deeds and heroes dread; Once more the ancient hall Stands people with the dead. The harp resounds as strung With bars of ringing steel. It voices mighty song. It rolls the thunder's peal. The harp's beyond its power. Its joints asunder start. The end has come, its soch is oer. The harp strings fly apart. The harper pales, turns ashen. Now age reclaims its own. No more his touch to bague. Shall rouse the harp's deep tone. -Chicago Tribune missioner salary and clerk hire contemplated his taking fees. He is of the opinion that the fees belong to the state and will turn them into the state treasury. Last year the attorney general ruled that the fees in question belonged to the insurance commissioner, but the incumbent takes issue with the decision. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wishita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. 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So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wits's Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. Th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live." is OUR Motto. RACE INCONSISTENCY Thoughtful students of the race problem must admit that one of the greatest barriers to the negro's advancement along all lines is a woeful lack of consistency. And until this barrier is removed racial advancement will be very seriously retarded. It might not be amiss to state a few of the many examples that demand the most earnest attention. Forinstance the Negro who bitterly assails "Jim Crow" cars and then in his own business draws the color line against his brother in black skin or himself at every opportunity to the "buzzard roost" at the theater is not consistent. The negro who refuses to support one particlar white man who is an enemy to his race and at the same time gives his patronage to another equally hostile, is not consistent. The Negro who gives his support to a white man in a small business, sticking to him throughout all of his reverses until he "gets on his feet" and then withholds his patronage from one of his own race in precisely the same circumstances, is inconsistent. The negro who sacrifices sentiment for business to deal with a white man he dislikes and at the same time yields up business for sentiment by refusing to patronize one of his own race against whom he has a grievance, is not consistent. The Negro who deals by cash with a white man and on credit with a negro in the same business, is not consistent. The Negro who clamors for the support of his race in a business in which he is engaged and then dodge around the corner to patronize a white rival of a colored man who can supply his needs is inconsistent. The Negro who commands that his leadership shall be blindly followed in any movement he may undertake and then stubbornly sulks when another carries the banner is not consistent. The Negro who hold up his hands in holy horror at the defamation of his own reputation, and, at the same time avails himself of every possible chance to despoil that of his brother inblack, is not consistent. The Negro who is continually coming out before the footlights to receive popular applause for his own acts, and yet In justice to the race it is high time that the weight which besets be laid aside,—that a closer bond of racial unity be welded, that we believe in our own possibilities, trust in the strength of our own arms, accept the star of our own destiny,—and move forward, with one common tread, to the heights of victory. WICHITA TABERNAGLE No. 34. Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Beatrice Miller. See. Hall 517 North Main Street --- WHEREIN WE FAIL It is a pity to boast of our many eminently creditable mercantile enterprises conducted by negroes and almost in the same breath to enter complaint on account of their lack of proper support by our people. The negro who patronizes a negro business establishment improves his own chances and helps to keep open a doorway in time to come for his sons and daughters and grandsons and grand-daughters. There are negroes unfortunately who delight in spending their money with firms that would not give them employment in any capacity today, and which make no promises for their children in the future. We must learn today above all things to back up with our patronage all worthy negro business enterprises. --- IN ORDER to make room the O. K. Dye Works, 330 N. Main, offers for the next 30 days Special Bargains in Ladies and Gents Clothing, Hats and Caps. YOU will find New Life dian Salve at my office over 206 North Main. Cheap Homes to sell D. A. Williams --- The magnates of steel manufactures in Illinois have decided to employ 4,000 negroes in place of foreigners. This is because the foreigners do not understand instructions given them toward preventing accidental injuries and deaths. The Masonic lodges of Mississippi have a membership of 6,000 and have a fund approximating $70,000. The death benefit is $600 and efforts are making to raise it to $1,000. Pay for the Searchlight. Send us your news notes. GO TO GRANT'S I. J. Portar is mending slowly The infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bufork died Monday. Nobody cares if the zero weather never comes back. These are days when the politi can gets in his works. Do not forget our collector--pay him what you owe. The revival at the A. M. E. church is still in progress. John Neal says that Ft. Scott has a gas boom--natural gas--he means J B. H. Fray will give a bal at Odd Fellow hall Tuesday night Feb. 27th. The colored mon held a meeting last Tuesday night. Ben Ross and Dr. J. E. Farmer gave a dall Tuesday night at Odd Fellow hall. The Searchlight has no wi gs at all-- but it gets there just the same. Not less-- but greater opportunities is what the Negro asks. We will soon be saying "Shoo fly don't bother me" Then thats the time. If there is any ONE thing we DO like—it's our warm days. Mr Spring will be welcomed with opened arms—and freely given the glad hand. There has been a lull in marriage business. Caused by Mr. Cupid being snow bound. We kindly thank those who are so nicely paying their account with us. That's right—pay up. The Kansas House has killed the Alaman bill preventing marriage between whites and and blacks in Kansas CAUGHT reading: his neighbors Searchlight. Why not pay for a Searchlight of your own? It's only $1,00 per year. The Dailey Searchlight published at Muskogee Indian Territory has found it's way to our office. Mrs. J. J. W. Thompson arrived in the city Saturday from Salt Lake City Utah. The colored men of the fourth ward are prepaed f.r good battling. And so is the bloody Second Wardess. A large crowd attuded the ball at Odd Fellow hall Wednesday night and everyone had a splendid time. John E Lewis proprieter of the Arcade Barber Shop is moving his shop and bath room from 339 to 341 N Main Samuel Walker who has been in Nashville Teen, attending Mahara Medical College arrived in the city Wednesday to spend his vacation --- GO TO GRANT'S CIGAR and SHINE PAROR 334 North Main Street For Cigars, Tobacco and Shines Phone 658. W.H. H. GRANT. Prop L. S. NAFTZGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE) Cashier THE Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Holmes, S. E. Amidon, B. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nafziger, E. H. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith, A General Banking Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS Pete Coleman has changep from the Manhatten to the Cary as train run. Pete is good on the run anywhere. He is "O K" Miss Etta Pitts is at home after spenning several weeks visiting in Springfield on Kans. City Mo. She had avery ehjoyable trip to be sure. Mr. G. M. Smith is foreman in the Arcade Barber shop 3;9 N. Main st. He will be pleased to meet you there at any time. MASS MEFTING A Mass Meeting of the Colored Votero of Wichita has been called for Tuesday night. Feb. 28 at 517 N. Main. It is evidently hoped that as many as possible will be present. Meeting opens at 8 prompt. Wichitans will regret to learn of the death of Rev H. V. Plummer formerly pastor of the 2nd Baptist church of this city. Rev. Plummer die at his home in Khns. City Kas Charles Tidwell one of the Mo. P c boys—was telling about his fine Southern trip during the holidays. Thece were many features of his trip which he admired in the South—for an instance the worm climate. Mrs. Geo Brown has been removed from the Wichita hospital, where an operation was preformed to the home of her mother-in-law Mrs. A. Paul 623 N. Main. At this writing she is resting as easy as possible. Riv. R. M. Rivers the evangelist who is to assist in the revival at the A. M. E. church has been detained in Kans. City on account of business and is expected to be present for Sunday Services - at that church. Next Sunday has been specially set aside for the election of officers at the Sung Service at the A.M.E church. Everyone is so well pleased with the past management of that branch of the church that it will only require a few minutes for them to stamp their approval. Come out at 6.30 next Sunday eve Jas Jackson one of the Wichita "Big 400" was married in Topeka last week. The boys said when they heard the news "What do ye think o' that?" Jim has got to pass through the lites yet--- the boys have already begun storing away tin cans, tin buckets, whistles and other rubbish preparing for the home coming of big Jim after the legislature adjourns. WESTERN UNIVERSIT The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: Theoiological, O and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Normal, Musical, [ Instrum piano, oagan and harmony, Mechanical], Carpentry, F Business Course, Stenograp ing, Dressmaking and Plain ing, Farming and Gardenin ADVANTAGES: Splendid Locati Influences and Thorough Te INFORMATION: For terms, pri fered, write to William T. Ver MENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal ate Industrial. Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub- Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including agan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and ical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding. Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailor- nessmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Launder- ming and Gardening. 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From information it is learned that the mother was weaning the baby on bottle milk and the milk out she purchased some milk at a way station and it seems that the baby died from the effects of drinking this purchase milk. The many friends of the family regret very much to lean of this sad occurrence The Tabernacle Baptist church held very interesting services last Sunday Rev Underwood filled the pulpit Sunday morning and preached an elequent sermon In the afteanoon at 1 o'clock the Sunday School was held under the direction of the very able superintendant Mrs J A Martin This Sunday School is one of best in the city and has a large attendance The B Y P U met at 7 p.m with their president Mrs Blanche Givens and a splendid exercise was held Mrs Hattie Love-Vice Prominent part in the execuses. Gardner .....DEAL HARD CO Feed and Bu Office and Yards Old Phone 146 Gardner Coal Co., DEALERS IN GARD COAL SOFT ed land Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. 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Both Phones 496 L we are the ones to see find our prices right both Phones 496 That when you want CO A L we are the ones to see. We handle all kinds and you will find our prices right. Phone your order. Both Phones 496 BOTH PHONES 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 to 547 WEST DOUGLAS Second To None SECOND TO NONE Plenses All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS. Agent. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBB MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST OUR HOBBY A. DEAN s, Vegetable ed. AIN ST --- JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 101-Both Phones - 101 OLDEN'S DRUG STOR DEN'S DRUG STOR Prescriptions Filled with Care ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, alway customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored pe 615 North Main st. igars and Tobacco . once a customer, always waters for Colored people Main st. ... 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, leaving on 11. 30 at Yates Center with the Hot Springs Special THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A SOLID VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC CARRIES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT. This new service is the quickets and most yet been offered to the greatest health resort Illustrated books, describing Hot Springs, ma undersigned on application. E. E. Bleckly, T. P. A. wing on 11. 30 A. M. taain, connect Springs Special at 255 P. M. SPECIAL IS A ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN INGSWISH OUT CHANGE. sets and most convenient that has best health resort in America. Hot Springs, may be had from the I. R. Sherwin, P. & T. A. Kans. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11.30 A.M. train, connexe at Yates Center 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 quickets 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. E. E. Bleckly, T. P. A. I. R. Sherwin, P. & T. A. Wtchita, Kans. I have been to the OKEYE LAMBERS I am going to the Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 24: North Water St. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By FROM THE BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St just as good—but the genuine a- giving skill ance so much des- tress is perfumed. Owing qualities is the lea- ve possible preparation equal to good quality and dealers or ser- postal guide. We pay all Send postal or ex- motion name or Write your name OZONIZED Chart 76 Wabash A. Agents Charles Ford Best 76 Wabush Ave., Chicago, Illinois. 516-622-2222. New York,—Hannah Elias, the notorious colored woman, won her suit against John R. Platt, the millionaire, He charged her with taking $600,000 from him. She had been his mistress for 20 years. The colored press, is our pillar of cloud by day and by night our pillar of fire. --- O. K. DYE O. K. DYE The same old clothes, but, oh, what a difference since the O. K. Dye and Dry Cleaning Works fixed them. Good Pants from 75c up Suits from $2.50 up. T I Jones, SHOEMAKER, All Kind of Repair Work Neatly Done. Half Soles Nailed — — 75c. Half Soles Sewed — — $1.00 East-Side RESTAURANT Lunch - At - All - Hours —Meals 15c— Fray & Wade, Props. 903 East Douglas Ave HOLINESS MEETINGS. A series of meetings are being held at the Holiness Mission,119 E Murdock, 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.J.H, Smith assisted by Mrs F. P. Bateman. Everybody is cordially invited to attend all of these meeting. --- KANSAS OIL SITUATION. Congress Resolves to Investigate It and the Doings of Standard Oil. Washington. The house passed a resolution introduced by Mr. Campbell of Kansas instructing the secretary of commerce and labor to investigate the Kansas oil situation, particularly with reference to the affairs of the Standard Oil company and its control of the market. Transient a Specialty HANNAH WINS SUIT. CLEARWATER NEWS Mr. Geo, Barton was on the sick list last week but is better at present. Mr. Geo Barton says the wheat is alright, but is hauling his last years crop to Viola Kans for $1.00 per bushel. Little Clarence Wilfley who has been very sick is slowy improving. C. R. Wilfley has recieved more word from his latest design horse-shoe which much interest is looked for. Mrs. O. H. White is up again after a very sick spell. A Sumuer county couple who drove twenty-three miles through the blizzard to wed will probaly be wondering in a few years why they did it. The family of C. R. Wilfley and L. Biggers are all up again. The family of Mr. E White were in the city of Clearwater Sunday visiting their aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. O, H. White. Mrs. Sarah Wilfley has bought four lots in Oxford Kan. and has built her a house for her future home. A little family matter. A lady and a gentleman met, the nentleman says I think I know you and the lady says I think you ought to as your mother was my mother only daughter. What was the relation? NEWTON NEWS Mrs. Aquilla Coleman has been reported ill. The Chapter members had their ernmon preached at the C. M. E. church Sunpay by Rev. Brown pastor of that church. Mrs. Reevely has been reported ill. A few friends spent afternoon with Mrs. Reevely entertaining Mrs. A. Goree of Lawrence Kans. Mrs. Reevely served a very delicious lunch and the guest departed declaring Mrs. Reevely an ideal hostess. Those presont were.— Mesdames A. Goree, J Anderson A. Ford, S. Dickerson, M. Childs Wm. Coleman and Miss Callle Anderson. Music was furnished by Mrr. Goree and Miss Anderson. Miss Addie Garnett who has been very ill for the past few is reported much better. many friends. The Trio Clud met Misses Ranice and Cornelia Coleman an excellent programe was rendered an elaborate luncheon was then served consisting of the following menu. Oyster Paddies Olives Hot Rolls Rice croquets Brussel Sprouts French Salad Hard sage Cake Hard sauce Cake Coca. The club spent a very pleasant evening. Mrs A. L Ford entertained nineteen of her friends at her home at 525 W. 5th st Friday Feb 17. A very pleasant time was spent in conversation, Float the Feather and a guessing contest of which Mrs. Geo Payne won first prize and Mrs. W. S Riekman won the second afterwhish a three course luncheon was served which was very dianty. Mrs Ford proud herself to be a royal entertainer They party was given in honor of Mrs. J. A. Goree of Lawrence Kans. Those present were:— Mesdames Goree, Childs, Helm, Brockway, Ridley, Williams, Dickinson, Anderson Scott, Mason, Payne, Frame, Paige, Petree, and Rickman. All report a pleasant time. ```markdown ``` NOTICE Rev. S. M. Hall, pastor of the Second Baptist church Wichita is up and able to fill his puipit at his church after a hard spell of of sickness. He comes forth with the same zeal and heart for the Lords work He extends his heartfelt gratitude to all who in any way contributed to him while ill. NOTE- He will preach two special sermons Sunday Feb.26th On Sunday morning at 11.a.m. there will be a sermon for Christ ians and Church members, Sunday night at 8 p.m. a sermon on Love. To these special services every one is invited no one debared. Come and hear for yourself. Respectfully yours. Second Baptist Church Wiahita. CLUB MEETING The colored repvblicans met Tuesday night at 517 N. Main st. and many other matters that was discussed and decided upon was the selection of a colored man in the 2nd and 4th ward as a candidate for member of the school board. The name of J. T. Chinneth was mentioned for the 2nd ward and several remarks were made by 2nd ward colored men and it was learned that the colored men of the 2np ward would not vote for Mr. J. T. Chinneth and the club by a unammous vote decided not to submit his name as the gentleman was not popular enough with the colored voters of his ward—A committee on nominations submitted the name of J. L. Harper for the 2nd ward and Thos Glover for the 4th ward The club will meet again Tues day night at the same place. The B. T. W. club held a very pleasant meeting at the home of Mrs. H. W, Harding 724 N. Main Wednesday afternoon. A large number of ladies were present and a very enjoyable time The president Mrs. T. W. Fine presided. NEGRO AT HEAD OF G. A. R. Massachusetts Grand Army Elects a Colored Man Department Commander. Boston.—Massachusetts, G. A. R. elected James H. Wolff department commander. He is the first negro that ever held such a position in the country. He was elected junior vice- commander in 1903 and senior vice- commander in 1904. The election means Wolff will lead the parade at the national encampment in Denver in August, as Commander-in-Chief Blackmer is a Massachusetts man. Wolff is a lawyer in Boston, a native of New Hampshire and served in the navy in the civil war. He is a graduate of Harvard law school. According to the report of the health Department, the longest livers in the District of Columbia are Negroes. In area of 40,000 square miles of cotton acreage 32,000 square miles are cultivated by Negro labor. There are 164 clergy women, 262 black actresses and 10 Afro-American female lawyers. She sawd the little caps and frocks, And bought the cradle-bed; "Though I may die, he shall not want For anything," she said. One morn within her arms they laid The long awaited guest; The mother lived; but, ab, the child Was cold upon her breast! And sadly in that With tiny clothes They left the fair w All save the wi All save a little do Fetched forth wi The silent stranger Until eternity. —Frederick L. Kn Christian Advo OUTGROWN BY HAYS BLACKMAN The woman sat before the mirror at her dressing table and looked at the face reflected there. It was neither a young face nor a happy one though it was beautiful. There were delicate lines about the mouth, lines which would have developed into wrinkles save for the careful massage that kept them in an incipient stage. There were other lines about the eyes, and to-night weariness had painted violet shadows beneath the brown eyes and the face was pale even beneath its stage makeup. For the woman was very tired. That night she had walked to and fro before a crowded house that went mad with the thrill of her acting, but it was over now and she was alone. The reaction was upon her. The man came an drew a step fur heel crushed the upon the floor. "The man said, 'm pent and amend a Beatrice. I love to give up all of his arms with a the room and incl an's life. The woman sat chair before the late, Hedley," she why should I give only you, you wif of right and wrong. A box of flowers was on her dressing table, along with many rare blossoms that had come to her. She opened it and found it full of field flowers, wood violet and buttercups and some sprays of crab apple blossoms with their exquisite fragrance, and a sheltering of green fern fronds. The flowers were fresh as though they had just been plucked. The sweetness of the crab apple blossoms brought a pang to the woman's heart. And the damp tang of the fern, how well she remembered it. She could see again the rocky hill pasture where the crab apples grew and herself a child again, picking the pink and white blossoms and reveling in their sweetness. She remembered how she had used to put the crab apple blossoms and the wood violets together and how the blending of color brought a keen sense of joy. She had always loved the beautiful things of life. and the fern! Down where the little spring branch emptied into the creek there was a high bluff of gray stone. Moss covered its sides and along the foot, in every crevice of the rock the wild ferns grew. How often she had plucked the green fronds, insuiating in their bittersweet tang. While she held the flowers and dreamed over them, someone knocked at the door and a man entered the room without further ceremony. He was a country preacher, a circuit rider. The woman knew him at once as he knew her. She stood up, the flowers spilling on the floor about her. "Hedley," she said, "you here." The man came forward. He was young and tall and spare. His near sighted eyes were shielded by glasses and his face was the face of a man who has practiced stern self denial. "Beatrice," he said, "I have thought of you for a long, long time. I have come to save you. I want you to leave the life that you are living and to come back home with me. I have tried to forget you, but"—he hesitated and stammered over the word, a blush suffusing his face—"but I love you, Beatrice. I can't forget you. I want you to marry me." The woman facing him had grown as pale as he. All of the soft light C. H. SON Sat before the mirror. had died from her face, and the lines showed plainly. "Go back with you?" she said curiously. "To what, Hedley?" "To our work," the man answered earnestly. "We will work together, Beatrice. The work is waiting and it needs us both." For a long minute the woman looked deep into his eyes. She came closer and laid her hand upon his arm. Once she moved as though to put her hand in his. Then she drew back with a quick drawn sigh like a sob. "I can't," she said sadly. "It's too late." careful drawer, replete, like things untouched, ling-sheet— slike robe, h tears to be its only dress wies, in Northwestern rate. GROWN BY HAYS BLACKMAN The man came nearer and the woman an drew a step further from him. Her heel crushed the field flowers strewn upon the floor. "It is never too late," the man said, "never too late to repent and amend our lives. Come back, Beatrice. I love you. I will help you to give up all of this." He flung out his arms with a gesture that swept the room and included all of the woman's life. The woman sank down again in the chair before the mirror. "It is too late, Hedley," she said again. "And why should I give up this life. It is only you, with your narrow ideas of right and wrong, with your net: M. M. "Go home, Hedley. You irritate me." ty creed that would cramp the divine Love into the confines of your own church and never see that God meant men and women to know and love all the beauty of the world, who holds all of this in contempt. "Oh, don't think that I never wanted what you offer me," she cried passionately. "Ten years ago if you had come to me and told me that you loved me, I would have been the happiest woman in all the world. I would have asked nothing more than to have helped you in your work. I would have cooked for you and mended for you and have led the sewing society and played the organ for the Sunday service. But now it is too late. We live in different worlds, you and I, and my world is wider than yours. I could not go back contentedly to the old life. I would not if I could. Your love would not satisfy me now. I would die of loneliness in that little town. I would go mad if I had to listen to you while you preached two sermons every Sunday, to listen to all the petty bickering and fault finding, to set myself back into the old narrow groove. Your life is narrow and hard and skimped. I love beautiful things, light and music and color in life, and jewels and fine clothes. I cannot live out of the sunshine and away from the crowd. And above all I have outgrown you. I do not love you any more. The little girl* who loved you in the old days is dead and you helped to kill her. You do not know the woman who is in her stead. You are not capable of knowing her. The language of my world would be Greek to your ears. Go home, Hedley. Go away. You irritate me." The man's face was stern and hard. But his eyes were pitiful and he looked as though he had set himself a task and had been foiled. "Beatrice, you know that you are not a happy woman," he said. "I can look at you and tell that. Your work does not satisfy you. And you are fading. What will you do when your beauty is gone and your voice broken with age and your power to sway the multitude forsakes you? You want love. Come back!" "No," the woman said sadly, "you are right; I am not happy. But what you offer does not mean happiness to a woman like myself. I have my work. Some times I weary of it, that is true. But discontent with ourselves is one of the penalties we pay for success. So far as anything can satisfy me, my work fills my life. And I don't want your love. Don't you suppose that other men, men infinitely more brilliant than you, have loved me in these years? I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth, and if marrying you would save my immortal soul. There, you have your answer! That little girl whom I used to be, loved you. Oh, you thought yourself so much better than --- she. And now she is revenged. I hope you'll suffer. I hope you will suffer as that child suffered. Now go." But when the door had closed behind him, the woman bowed her head upon her hands and wept. She did not know why. Perhaps it was for the little girl who was herself ten years before. Perhaps it was for her present loneliness. Perhaps it was a little for the dread of the future when she would be old and broken and no more the idol of the public. Perhaps it was for the man whom she had sent away. Perhaps it was a little of all. Who knows? Remains of a Norwegian Fisherman Is Found on Sehring Sea Island. Had Ole Sjostron's tomb of ice on an arctic island in the Behring sea remained undisturbed 100,000 years, at the end of that ponderous stretch of time the face and form of Ole would have looked as natural and life-like as at the moment of the fisherman's death. Five years ago this young Norwegian, Sjostron, disappeared from Baranoff station. Nobody knew what became of him, and finally people ceased to wonder. A few weeks ago the body was found completely imbedded in the ice and so thoroughly preserved that not even the slightest indication of change had set in. The barkentine City of Papeete has arrived from Baranoff and the news of this remarkable discovery was brought by her first mate, Knute Peterson. "Five years in the ice," said Peterson, "has not made a bit of difference in his appearance. When they found him he looked as if asleep, but, sure enough, he was cold in death—even more so than the ordinary dead man. They suppose that he lay down on the glacier while intoxicated and fell asleep and that after he had frozen to death the ice formed over him." Strange as this story may seem, the incident is not strange to those who know the arctic icefields. Bodies of the mammoth have been found similarly imbedded in the ice. The sailor's information about the finding of Sjostron's body is meager, but it is presumable that, instead of being caught and imprisoned in the glacial ice, the fisherman died on the soft soil of the tundra and that his body became covered up and frozen with it—San Francisco Chronicle. Beauty. O you who gaze on fading sunset skies With dream enkindled eyes Aglow with cestasy, Do not not those crystal deeps reveal to you The secret of eternity— That in their perishing, frail glory lies The one truth wholly true— Though all things perish, Beauty never dies? For Beauty fades not with the fading hour, Nor with the flowers. Nor passes with the dream; Though death should take the whole earth in his net, He must weave the starry gleam Nor hold the soul of Beauty in his power. Yea, though time's sun should set, And all things perish, Beauty never dies. Imperishable Beauty trembles through the frailness of the dew; In flickering white foam, And in the rise of the durny bow And all things and hath her home Beneath our earthly skies of mortal blue. They fade; yet this we know— Though all things perish, Beauty never dies. For ever fugitive, before our eyes From form to form she dies. With other she dies, Doth flash again upon our mazed sight In some new living cestasy Of bloom, or love lit face, or sunset skies, Or star enchanted night. Though all things perish, Beauty never dies. With her alone is immortality; For yet men reverently Adore within her shrine. The sole immortal time hath not cast doe. She wilds a power yet more divine Than when of old she rose from out the sea. Though all things appear Beauty never dies. —London Daily News. Myths for Moderns. Jove looked down ruefully upon the slaughterer of the Titans. Olympus was really a sight, but Juno cheered him up a bit. "Brace up, old man; it's all right. Remember Port Arthur," and Jove's brow cleared as he whistled down the tube for the junior to come and mop up the debris. Venus was doing her best to persuade the bashful Adonis to let her have just one kiss. The goddess looked entrancing, but Adonis was adamant. "No," he answered sorrowfully to her pleadings. "Don't you know there are microbes in kisses?" It was Charon's busy day on the Styx. Several souls grumbled because of the crowd, and having to wait while the ghostly ferry made a second trip. Charon glared at them with fiery disgust. "No ads in this subway, anyhow!" he roared.—New York Times. "Finest Fighters in the World?" There is no state in existence whose soldiers would encounter the victors of Port Arthur in equal numbers with any certainty of victory. Indeed there have been incidents in the siege, like the storm of Nanshan or of 203-Metre Hill, which have compelled experienced soldiers to doubt whether the Japanese are not the finest soldiers in the world, and whether Kuropatkin is not right in demanding a grand superiority in numbers as the first, indeed the essential, condition for any victory by the troops under his command—Spectator. New Yorkers will be surprised in a month or so by the appearance upon Broadway of a battalion of Chinese soldiers, headed by a Chinese band. They will be armed with the latest Krag-Jorgensen rifles and will be uniformed in the latest western style for infantrymen, even down to the so-called "monkey caps." The entire battalion is, to be recruited from Chinamen living in New York. We have just received a large invoice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and kinds AT WHOLESALE, PRICES Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N Main Take Notice!!! FreddMadison is collecting for The Searchlight for a few weeks We ask for him your kind attention and ask you to pay to him whatever you may owe and you will be duly credited. Please do not wait to see the Editor but pay Mr Madison and we stand good for his reposipt to you. Pay prompt and prevent a second trip as he has a long route to cover and this will aid him in his work. --- There are many negroes who have not respect enough to subscribe and pay for a negro paper although it defends their cause and gives them representation. There are many homes in which Negro papers are unknown, ye these same negroes are always whining, sitting around shedding crocodile tears as to how they are being treated. They will pay from 10 to 15 cents per week for papers that call them 'coons' and negro cats,' papers that think they are not fit for anything but to hew wood and draw water, papers that boldly declare in thunder tones that they are not published for the negro, papers that will give whole columns to a negro rapist and scarcely one line to a negro author or negro social affair. When will the negro learn to discriminate? Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. Complaint comes to us that many Searchlights are not delivered in Wichita. Should you fail to get your paper on Saturday in Wichita please notify this office at once We mail our paper on time each week in ample time for every one to be delivered on Saturday. By doing so you assist us inour work. W. N.Miller Editor. 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. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 357 Searchlight $1. per yr. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. White Georgia farmers by the thousands are being tempted by land agents to sell out and move to Oklahoma or Texas. The movement has obtained such headway as to excite alarm and efforts are being made to counteract it. Let's see. If the Negroes are driven off by mistreatment and the whites toled away by glibtalking agents, what is to become of old Georgia? Will they be satisfied to replace their natives of both colors with Dagoes or Poles? We should say that the "old reliables" were the best and that their departure in numebrs would spell calamity.—The Freeman. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. We Want YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CURULARS TRY US FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Foney, 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 10 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL The PRINTERS who Can PRINT Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARCHLIGHT? IF NOT, WHY NOT? IT IS ONLY $1.00. FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. SUBSCRIBETO·DAY ngressman Meekison Gives Praise to Pe-ru-na For His Recovery. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON PRAISES PE-RU-NA. Hon. David Meekison, Napoleon, Ohio, ex-member of Congress, Fifty-fifth district, writes: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited hereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that if use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing." - David Meekison. ANOTHER SENSATIONAL CURE: Mr. Jacob L. Davis, Galena. Stone county, writes: "I have been in bad health for thirty-seven years, and after taking five bottles of your Peruna I am cured." - Jacob L. Davis. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, be at once Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. Some men spend their money as Never judge a man's brilliancy by usily as others spend their time, his shining nose. does not have Defiance Starch, you be sure he is afraid to keep it un- stock of 12 oz. packages are Defiance Starch is not only但但 any other Cold Water Starch, contains 16 oz. to the package and for same money as 12 oz. brands. is mere contrast that makes the men seem great. NEW PENSION LAWS SENT FREE TO NATHAN BECKFORD, 014 N. F. Washington, D. C. ORGANS $10 to $40 Highest grade Ester, Mason & Hamlin, Story & Chicago, Chicago粘度, slightly used like new; special descriptions and for the asking. Write to-day. ANNS MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Wan writes this mention. GOOD SEEDS CHEAP BEST Ever Grown. None better and none so beautiful to purchase in and up, postpaid. Finesse illustrated catalogue over and under the market. Nings of every variety. A great lot of extra plugs of seeds, new orders, presented free with every order. Some attractive, only 40 per litre. Other seed equally low. 40 years a seed grower and dealer and neighbor. Seed. Send yours and neighbor's names for illustrated free catalogue. R. H. SHUWAY, FREEDOM FILLS, ILL. WHAT'S THE USE OF SAYING "GIVE ME A 5 CENT CIGAR," WHEN ASKING BY AKSING FOR A : YOU GET THE BEST $ 5 CENT CIGAR IN AMERICA "The World's Largest Seller" Salzer's National Oats Greatest out of the century. Tied in Ohio 187, in Mich. Estate in Mo. 288, in N. Dakota. 80 bus. per acre. You can beat that record in 1905. For 10c and this notice we mail you free lots of farm seed samples and our big catalog, tei- ling all about this oat wonder and thousands of other seeds. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. La Crossse. Wis. PISO'S CURE FOR OURE WARE NONE ELSE FAILS. Bat Cage trap, Taste Good, Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION --- Never judge a man's brilliancy by his shining nose. Millions in Oats Salzer's New National Oats yielded in Mich., 240 bu., in Mo., 255 bu., in N. D., 310 bu., and in 30 other states from 150 to 300 bu. per acre. Now this Oat if generally grown in 1905, will add millions of bushels to the yield and millions of dollars to the farmer's purse! Homebuilder Yellow Dent Corn grows like a weed and yields from 157 to 260 bushels and more per acre! It's the biggest yield on earth! Salzer's Spelt, Bearless Barley, Macaroni Wheat, Pea Oat, Billion Dollar Grass and Earliest Cane are money makers for you, Mr. Farmer. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 100 in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. [W. N. U.] The fellow who makes a fortune in eggs is apt to crow about it. *Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy is* 15 years old. *Is Peppermint Affecting Your Survival?* Don't wear a base ball suit unless you can play. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Begin with the spice of life and you may end with the vice of it. 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. A good appetite is rather a handicap to a man who is penniless. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. A cheerful lass makes a courageous lad. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar. Price to dealers $36.00 per M. They cost some more than other brands, but no more than a good 5c cigar should cost. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. It's the lucky man who tells you there is no such thing as luck. Feet Comfortable Ever Since. Feet Comfort "I suffered for years with my feet. A friend recommended ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. I used two boxes of the powder, and my feet have been entirely comfortable ever since. ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE is certainly a godsend to me. Wm. L. Swornstedt, Washington, D.C." Sold by all Draggists, 25c. The average man can see where fame makes some mighty poor selections. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things or what is in the market and what is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs. of the other products contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. Even a swindle-proof man can sometimes be taken in by inviting him to drink. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. AGRICULTURE Rich Land and Poor Farming. The writer recently heard President Jesse, of the University of Missouri, remark that the land in Missouri was so rich that it did not produce the best quality of farmers. A great truth is expressed in this statement. This fact tends to put the nations with poor soils on a level with those whose soil is exceptionally rich. It is a trait of human character to let well enough alone. The New England farmer on his hard soil, and with as much rock in some cases as dirt, digs out a living and becomes prosperous. His son emigrates to the fertile west, where the soil is a yard deep and where a stone as big as a robin's egg cannot be found, and he finds it is no trick to make the soil produce crops. All he has to do is to keep the weeds down and keep his crop from growing too thick. In the course of years his habits of carelessness become fixed. The land is meanwhile deteriorating in fertility and friability and the children that he has raised are not acquainted with the more strenuous methods of farming in vogue in the land whence came their father. It so happens that the western farmers that is an old resident is poorly equipped to meet the problems of decreased soil productivity, which now confront him. His rich land has made poor farmers out of himself and children. The latter must begin at the bottom to learn the most effective methods of agriculture. It takes considerable stamina on the part of the farmer to resist the tendency to become negligent in his methods of farming. It is not absolutely necessary that the farmer on rich land become a poor farmer, for the condition produces only the tendency. If the owner of rich soil sets out with the determination to keep his soil rich and transmit it to his children in as rich a condition as it was when he took it out of nature's hand, all will be well. Of late many of the old farmers have cast aside their old methods and have adopted the new ones. They have said to themselves that while the intensive methods of culture may not be necessary in their day, yet it is apparently necessary to establish such methods and get them to working before the evil day come. This is the part of wsdom. One should not wait till bankruptcy is upon him before taking steps to avoid bankruptcy. The man whose farm is running down has been drawing on his bank so heavily that its collapse is only a question of time. A proper kind of agriculture will keep the land fertile. Buy Unmixed Fertilizers. In bulletin 88, of the Illinois station, Professor C. G. Hopkins says: For general farming in Illinois, there is absolutely no need of a ready mixed fertilizer. It costs the manufacturer from $4 to $8 a ton for mixing bone meal with potassium chlorid (or at least the mixed goods cost the consumer that much more than the raw materials. The manufacturer is frequently obliged to grind up rock or stones or some other worthless waste material and mix it with the plant food material which he puts in, in order to be able to put the price per ton down so that foolish, farmers will buy it. Of course, if the farmer says he will buy "fertilizer," but he "won't pay more than $20 a ton for it," the dealer is bound to get him goods that he can sell for $20, or even for $15 a ton if necessary. Sometimes plaster or gypsum (calcium sulfate) is used as the "filler," or "make weight." This material acts as a stimulant to the soil, causing it to give up some plant food and sometimes for a year or two to yield somewhat better crops, but it contains none of the valuable elements of plant food, and its action is simply more completely to exhaust the soil of its remaining stock of native fertility, finally to leave the land in even worse condition than before it was used. Acid phosphate such as acidulated bone meal, acidulated rock phosphate, and so-called superphosphates, all contain about 50 per cent or more of gypsum, produced in the regular process of manufacture, besides the gypsum which is sometimes added as "make weight." No general farmer in Illinois needs to purchase more than two elements of fertility. These are phosphorus and potassium. Bone meal will furnish the phosphorus and potassium chlorid and potassium, in the cheapest forms which are known to be available and without injurious effects on Illinois soils. Yet there are sold every year to general farmers in the United States more than a thousand different brands of fertilizers. Try Lime. If the soil on some parts of the farm persistently refuses to grow clovers and other leguminous crops, try some lime. It may be that the soil is too acid to give the best results or any results at all with the legumes. The more the matter is investigated the more numerous are the areas found to be on which lime is needed to neutralize the acids that have developed in the soils. This is the case in lands that are too rich in humus, and is also true on lands to which large quantities of commercial fertilizers have been applied from year to year, when the latter have contained acid in the form of sulphuric acid. A Marvel of Relief ST. JACOBS OIL For Lumbago and Sciatica Preserves Corks. A device to prevent the drying out of corks in liquor and wine bottles, which has the effect of making the contents of the bottle flat and stale, is to be seen at St. Louis wholesaler's establishments. It consists of a cork which is supplied with a cell into which some moisture-saturated material is placed before the corking operation is performed, and it is said that this will keep the cork in the proper condition indefinitely. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Deliance Starch. The fast young man who lengthens his nights also shortens his days. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Mitchell. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. It is not fair to be hit by a man when you are down. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. It takes the office boy to set the versifier's verse afire. Now and Then Some thorough and careful physician invents, in his practice, some special medicine, that proves so universally successful whenever prescribed, that he proceeds to place it before the public to be reached through the newspapers. This is the history of Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. For years, prescribed by Dr. W. B. Caldwell for constipation, and all disorders of liver, stomach, and bowels, it was at last manufactured on a large scale, and is now the most successful medicine in the world for these diseases. A pure, scientific tonic, laxative syrup, pleasant to take and perfect in results. Please it. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it falls. Bridle your tongue and you saddle your temper. SALT RHEUM ON HANDS. Suffered Agony and Had to Wear Bandages All the Time—Another Cure by Cuticura. Another cure by Cuticura is told of by Mrs. Caroline Cable, of Waupaca, Wis., in the following grateful letter: "My husband suffered agony salt rheum on his hands, and I had to keep them bandaged all the time. We tried everything we could get, but nothing helped him until he used Cuticura. One set of Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills cured him entirely, and his hands have been as smooth as possible ever since. I do hope this letter will be the means of helping some other sufferer." Figures may not lie, but statisticians occasionally get their dates mixed. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to tie a tie in the car. You can tie a tie in the Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rupture in the case of Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored its normal condition, the car will be destroyed. Deafness is out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflammation of the surfaces. One Hundred Dollars can be caused by One Hundred Dollars can be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cars. Send for circuitars, free. Sold by Drugstores. NEMEY & TOO, Toileo, Sold by Drugstores. Take Hall's Family Plims for constitution. So many people try to begin at the top, instead of the bottom. Millions of Vegetables. When the Editor read 10,000 plants for 16c, he could hardly believe it, but upon second reading finds that the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., than whom there are no more reliable and extensive seed growers in the word, makes this offer which is made to get you to test Salzer's Warranted Vegetable Seeds. They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 2,000 rich, juicy Turnips, 2,000 khaki, eating Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce, 1,000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers, ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 20c in postage, they will add to the above a package of famous Berliner Cauliflower. [W. N. U.] A white vest and an empty pocket book are a mighty poor combination. A Marvel of Relief Health of American Women A Subject Much Discussed at Women's Clubs The Future of a Country Depends on the Health of Its Women. Mrs. T. C. Willadsen Miss Mattie Henry Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where Others Fall NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 232-page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Reum; also 108-aggetture on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our mild method, we含含 a conti cured—we furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 1300 Olive Street, St. Louis. Mo. 1200 Oak St. Kanea City, Mo. Truths that Strike Home Your grocer is honest and—if he cares to do so—can tell you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he sells. How can he know, where it originally came from, In each package of LION COFFEE you get one full pound of Pure Coffee. Insist upon getting the genuine. (Lion head on every package.) At the New York State Assembly of Mothers, a prominent New York doctor told the 500 women present that healthy American women were so rare as to be almost extinct. This seems to be a sweeping statement of the condition of American women. Yet how many do you know who are perfectly well and do not have some trouble arising from a derangement of the female organism which manifests itself in headaches, backaches, nervousness, that bearing-down feeling, painful or irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, displacement of the uterus, ovarian trouble, indigestion or sleeplessness? There is a tried and true remedy for all these ailments. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has restored more American women to health than all other remedies in the world. It regulates, strengthens and cures diseases of the female organism as nothing else can. For thirty years it has been curing the worst forms of female complaints. Such testimony as the following should be convincing. Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning, Ia., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "I can truly say that you have saved my life and I cannot express my gratitude to you in words. For two years I spent lots of money in doctoring without any benefit for menstrual irregularities and I had given up all hopes of ever being well again, but I was persuaded to try Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore him to perfect health. Had it not been for you I would have been in my grave to day." Misery is about the only real enjoyment a pessimist has. It's often hard work to collect a debt of gratitude. Positive, Comparative, Superlative "I have used one of your Fish Brand Bulkers for five years. Just now we new one for a friend. I would not be without one for twice the cost. They are just as far ahead of common cause a common one is ahead of nothing." (NAME ON APPLICATION) Be sure you don't get one of the common kind—this is the mark of excellence. A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, U. S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. LIMITED TORONTO, CANADA PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and postpaid Rectum; also 108-page illus our mild method, none paid DRS. THORNTON Truths that Your grocer is honest and--you that he knows very littelsells you. How can he know,how FREEDOM In each package of LION pound of Pure Coffee. Insist (Lion head on every package.) (Save the Lion-heads f SOLD BY GROCER ST. Miss Mattie Henry, Vice-President of Danville Art Club, 439 Green St., Danville, Va., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "Many years' suffering with female weakness, inflammation and a broken down system made me more anxious to die than to live, by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has restored my health. I am suffering from the suffering woman to know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will do for her." When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulency), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all-gone" and "want-to-be-leaf-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. No other medicine in the world has received such unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Alight heart, a cheerful countenance, and all the enarms of grace and beauty are dependent upon proper action of the bodily organs. You cannot look well unless you feel well. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. Her advice and medicine have restored thousands to health. Address: Lynn. Mass. FARMS For Sale on crop purchases J. MULHALL, Siex City, lewis 100ACRE FARMS IN TERN THE FARMERS on the Free Homeshed Lands of FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada Carry the banner for other grains for 1904. 100,000 FARMERS receive $55,000,000 as a result of their Wheat Crop alone. He returns from Oats, Barley and other grains, as well as cattle and horses, add considerably to this. Secure a Free Homeestead at once, or purchase from some reliable dealer while lands are selling al- present low prices. Apply for information to Superintendent of Fundamental Government Agent, Agent Crawford, Graweford, 102. W. S. W. When Answering Advertisements Kindy Mention This Paper. MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. and postpaid a 322-page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the page illness. Treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by none paid a cent till cured—we furnish their names on application. BENTON & MINOR 301 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1000 Oak St, Kansas City, Mo. At Strike Home and—if he cares to do so—can tell my little about the bulk coffee he know, where it originally came from, how it was blended—or with what —or when roasted? If you buy your coffee loose by the pound, how can you expect purity and uniform quality? LION COFFEE LION COFFEE, the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, is of necessity uniform in quality, strength and flavor. For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE has been the standard coffee in millions of homes. LION COFFEE is carefully packed at our factories, and until opened in your home, has no chance of being adulterated, or of coming in contact with dust, dirt, germs, or unclean hands. LION COFFEE you get one full Insist upon getting the genuine. age.) heads for valuable premiums.) OCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Feb. 25, 2013 KANSAS COMMENT Oppose Bill to Issue Bonds.—A second meeting of Leavenworth county taxpayers was held at the court house and it was decided to oppose a bill pending in the legislature to authorize the issuing of $87,000 in bonds to pay a county indebtedness. This is directly opposite to the plan favored by a taxpayers' meeting two weeks ago. Jerome at Ottawa. — The Ottawa Chautauqua assembly received a telegram announcing the acceptance of its invitation by District Attorney Jerome, of New York, to address the assembly July 7. The invitation to Mr. Jerome was presented by W. A. Deford, of Ottawa, who is now in New York in the employ of W. R. Heart's legal department. Burlington Wants Gas.—Burlington again has hopes for gas. The city has granted a franchise to the Ohio-Kansas Oil and Gas Company. The council vote was a tie and it required the vote of the mayor to pass the ordinance. This company has oil and gas wells about 12 miles southeast of here and will pipe gas in if it accepts the franchise as amended by the council. Arranged For School Contest.—Representatives of the senior class of the Wichita high school and the Lewis Academy are arranging for an oratorical and dramatic contest to be held during the latter part of April between the two schools. Final agreement was made between the two schools at a meeting of the committees in the high school and the proposition will be submitted to the board of education at their next meeting. Patent on Typewriter.—George W. Winters, a student in the Wichita Business College, has secured a patent on a typewriter that in many respects is a great improvement over any others. In size it is very small and can be doubled up so as to be laced in the pocket. The letters are situated on a typewheel, which is operated by gripping a lever. The speed is not as fast as the ordinary typewriter, but the inventor is positive that the work will be as good. Baseball For Wichita. — About fifteen leading business men of Wichita purchased the Pittsburg franchise in the Western Association and turned the management of the club over to Frank Isbell, who will have full control. Isbell has been a pitcher on the staff of Charley Comiskey's Chicago American League team for the past four years. He is engaged in the plumbing business in Wichita, but spends his summer playing professional bell. Manager Isbell has already begun arrangements for securing his players for 1905. Learning to Make Bread. — The school for bakers recently authorized by the war department was inaugurated at Fort Riley. The first class consists of eighteen pupils representing the infantry, coast artillery, cavalry and field artillery. Thirteen of this number will represent the first two branches of the service, and come from Columbus barracks, O. The remaining five are from Jefferson barracks, Mo., and will represent the cavalry and field artillery. The purpose of the school is to turn out competent bakers. Favor the Standard.—A meeting of the most prominent oil men of the Miami county field was held at Paola, Resolutions favoring the Standard were adopted and signed by those present. It was unanimously decided not to take part in the fight on the Standard. None of the operators is in favor of a state refinery, as they think they will in time receive fair treatment at the hands of the Standard, and that it will soon resume taking oil here. Today oil was pumped from the Standard tanks into the pipe line. Troops For Philippines.—The Sixth Infantry, consisting of forty-three officers and 875 enlisted men, left Leavenworth on three special trains for San Francisco. They will go directly from the cars to a transport and are to land at Samar Island in the Philippines where the natives are making trouble. The Sixth came here nearly three years ago. Before starting discharges were granted to over 400 soldiers of the regiment. So many came here and enlisted, most of them with a view of going to the Philippines, 'that all could not be taken along. The regiment will be in the Philippines two years. Coal Is Scarse.—At Arkansas City coal dealers received two carloads of coal, the first for over a week, and divided it among the customers who needed it the worst. All dealers have been promised that their orders will be filled at the mines without delay and will be received in a few days. Some business houses are buying wood. Father of Triplets.—John Baxter, who died at his home south of Horton at the age of 95 years, was the father of two sets of triplets, less than half of his entire family. Coin With 13 Stars—Bankers and jewelers at Winfield are mixed over the identification of a gold coin the size of a $10 gold piece, which T. I. Crabtree owns, and which he claims was sent him forty years ago from Old Mexico by an uncle. It has the markings of a United States gold coin, but is not denominated. It was weighed today and tested as to its quality. It weighed five and one-half pennyweights and stood the gold test. The date of the coin is 1800 and it has thirteen stars. Crabtree does not say what he has been doing all these years with the coin, but would like to know how much it is worth. Would Raise Flash Test.—Senator Brewer has introduced another bill which will have a tendency to make the Standard Oil Company sit up and take notice. It provides that the flash test of kerosene shall be raised to 120 degrees. The law now fixes the test at 110. "The Standard not only robs us on the price of oil," said Brewer, "but it gives us a quality that smokes up lamp chimneys. My bill will not stop the robbers, but it will stop the sale of chimney smoking oil." Monument For Tom Allen.—At a meeting of the Commercial Club at Junction City a movement was started toward the erection of a monument over the tomb of a pioneer Kansan and the late city marshal, T. A. Cullinan, who died in Kansas City last summer. T. A. Cullinan was better known in the state as "Tom Allen." He was one of the few border town city marshals to die a natural death. He was marshal in Junction City for over thirty years. Summer Bible Class. — A meeting of ministers of Eastern Kansas together with representatives of the Ottawa Chautauqua assembly, was held at Ottawa, and plans were agreed upon for a summer Bible school to be held at Forest Park, July 15 to 23. Dr. G. Johnston Ross, of London; Dr. John Robertson, of Scotland, and a number of prominent Bible authorities in this country have been invited to take part in the program. New Trolley Line. — The Spring River Power Company, which has just finished a large concrete dam on Spring river, three miles from Baxter Springs, has submitted to the council a franchise providing for the building of an electric road from Galena to this place. The road is to be finished in time to handle the crowds which come yearly to the big Baxter Springs reunion, and will be pine miles long. Oldest Kansan a Pauper.—The oldest man in Kansas is an inmate of the Cherokee county poorhouse. His name is Patrick Herrington, and if he lives until March 7 he will be 108 years of age. He was born in Ireland, and was a peddler for forty years out of St. Louis, finally drifting to Cherokee county. He is in fair health and talks freely of his life. Withdrawn His Name.—The candidate of the Good Government league for mayor at Salina announced his withdrawal. The Good Government league is an organization for the purpose of enforcing the prohibitory laws and 1,000 voters had pledged themselves to support the ticket. The man chosen to lead the ticket was Frank L. Little, a backman. Coal Near Robinson.—E. A. Black, a farmer, noticed coal cropping out of the ground on the farm of Mrs. Mary Ellis, near Robinson, and dug a shaft about twenty feet deep. He struck a 16-inch vein of coal which burns as well as any that is shipped in here. The vein was under water and Black had to build a drain to carry the water away. Rats Mutilate Man's Body.—James Johnson, sixty years old, was found dead at his home in the suburbs of Ottawa, where he had fallen in an attack of apoplexy. The discovery was made by a little neighbor girl who went to take the old man a valentine. Johnson lived alone in a small house. The rats had attacked his body during the night and had horribly mutilated it. Telephone Merger.—The Bell Telephone company which sometime ago secured a controlling interest in the Mutual Telephone company of Fort Scott, has arranged a settlement with the minority stockholders of that company and will consolidate the two plants. A new exchange will be put in at a cost of $75,000 and connections will be arranged with local rural lines. Will Hunt Wolves. — A big wolf hunt has been arranged for Washington's birthday at Reading, near the border line of Lyon and Osage counties. Several hundred men will participate and sixteen square miles of territory is to be covered. Abandon Work on Well.—Work on the prospect well at Herington has been abandoned until spring. The drill reached a depth of 600 feet when the tool was broken off and lost. After several weeks of unsuccessful fishing the company has decided to abandon the well and start a fresh one when the weather opens in the spring. Must Be Conceded.—It will have to be conceded by every one that Kansas $200,000 for an oil refinery is put to almost as good use as the government's $35,000 for an investigation Officer to Prison.—Paul H. McDonald, a second lieutenant in the Tenth infantry, was placed in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth to serve a two year's sentence for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. McDonald was brought from Fort Lawton, Wash., in charge of Lieutenant H. F. McFeely and two sergeants. McDonald was tried by court martial in Seattle and found guilty of duplicating his pay accounts, obtaining money under false pretenses, giving mortgages on furniture that did not belong to him and with making false statements. Telephone Quarrel.-Gee, W. Murble, a stockholder in the local telephone company at Fort Scott, brought suit in the district court to enjoin the officers of the company from transferring the assets of the company to the Bell Telephone company that lately bought all but a few shares of the stock of the local company. The Bell company was preparing to consolidate the two concerns. The court is asked to appoint a receiver for the local company. Fire at Sabetha. — Fire broke out in the rear end of Haman's shoe store about 8 o'clock this evening, and before it could be controlled had completely destroyed the stocks of the Haman shoe store, Roberts & Clothier, general merchandise, and destroyed the building occupied by them, the Citizens' State Bank and a building occupied by Kepner & Kinney, furniture. The buildings were insured. The loss is about $30,000. Heavy Cattle Losses. — Reports of cattle losses during the severe weather are coming in and range from one to one hundred head, varying with the size of the herds. The loss is not caused by lack of feed only. Some animals actually froze with their noses at the feeding racks. One man lost five fat Hereford bulls, well fed. A report from Dodge City says 900 head of 2,000 cattle just shipped in from Mexico died. Want Grand Jury. — Six hundred and thirty-five taxpayers of Leavenworth city and county have petitioned Judge J. H. Gilpatrick, of the district court, to call a grand jury to investigate violations of law in the city and county. Among the signers to the petition are some of the wealthiest and most influential business men of the city and the largest property owners in the county. Gift to Fairmount.—Andrew Carnegie has given Fairmount College at Wichita $40,000 with which to build a library building. Word was received to this effect in a special telegram from President Morrison, of Fairmount College, who is in Hartford, Conn., looking after the interests of the college at that place. Died From Heart Failure. — William Daugherty, an unmarried man about 35 years old, living by himself on a farm near Ottumwa, was found dead in his wagon at his home of heart failure. His body was burned and his hair and mustache singed off by his clothing catching fire from his pipe. Aged Woman Burned. — At Ashland Mrs. Susan Dewey, an aged woman, was probably fatally burned while lighting a fire. She used kerosene and an explosion resulted. She was lately from Greenville, Ill., and has been proving up a claim. Pure Food Bill Killed.—The senate killed the pure food and pure drug bill. Some of the members thought it was an alum bill slipped in by the baking powder trusts. In reality it was a measure to prevent the use of preservatives in fresh meats. Representative to Task. — One western county is taking its representative to task for not being present to vote for the refinery bill. There seems to have been good market for oil stock in the short grass country. Accidentally Shoots Mother. — Roy Pruitt, 12 years old, accidentally shot his mother, Mrs. J. F. Pruitt, at Winfield while fooling with a shotgun. The wound is in the abdomen and may cause death. Anxious About Job.—The Standard Oil office boy at Wichita desires to know of the state legislature if it will be necessary for him to commit murder in order to retain his steady job. Blair For Mayor.—B. W. Blair, assistant general attorney of the Union Pacific, has been nominated for mayor of Topeka by the Democrats. Watch For Flood.—The amount of snow piled up in the mountains, moreover, convinces us that Kansas will need that $200,000 for an ark. Very Few Lost. — Very few were lost in western Kansas. The stockmen learned long ago what governed the profit and loss column. Muskrats Cut Canal Banks.—Muskrats, working in the north bank of the canal which supplies water power to the mills and factories at Arkansas City, caused a large hole to be opened up, through which the water from the canal poured and flooded a field nearby, besides flooding the work on the extension of the city's water mains. Warm Friendship. — A half-grown kitten at Oskaloosa is chumming these cold nights with a box of half grown chickens. And no fuss or feathers about it. Simple Device Saves Strength. Simple Device Servers Guide A woman who knows how to save her strength in her daily work has invented these simple devices, which she uses on ironing days. She has made a little floor pad three inches thick, big enough to stand comfortably upon. It is used when she stands in front of the ironing board, with the result that she is far less tired at the end of the day. Another labor-saving device is a little board, which can be held on the lap, so that she can sit down while she is ironing all the small pieces, mapkins, collars, stockings and handkerchiefs. Beauty and Matrimony. Judging from the homely married couples we see every day, no. A man may rave over beauty and grace and all that, but when he meets the real girl, one that has a sense of restfulness about her—one that understands him and that he understands—he's not going to hesitate long on account of her appearance, be she ever so homely. Nor will she hesitate to whisper "yes," though he is positively ugly. Though we may love beauty—most of us do—there are many other things we love equally well.—Era Magazine. THE NEIGHBORS ALL USE THEM NOW. Quick Cure of Rheumatism by Dodd's Kidney Pills. How They Saved the Shop of a Kansas Blacksmith—Cure was Permanent too. Goodland, Kan., Feb. 20th.—(Special)—So quick and complete was the cure of N. E. Albertson, a local blacksmith, that it almost seems like a miracle. He had Rheumatism so bad he feared he would have to give up his shop. One box of Dodd's Kidney Pills drove away all the pains and they have never returned. Speaking of his cure Mr. Albertson says: "I had Rheumatism in my shoulders and arms for years. Part of the time it was so bad I could not sleep at night. My arm hurt so that it seemed I would have to give up my blacksmith shop. I went to the drug store and bought one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and took them. I have not had the Rheumatism since. A great many of the neighbors are using Dodd's Kidney Pills since they saw how they cured me." Even the forger appreciates a good name. A combination lock makes a good chest protector. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Ioching, Bleeding, or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund money if FAOY OINTMENT falls to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 300. Herd your troubles; don't let them run wild. Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new catalogue to day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. On Being Cheerful. A sunny disposition is a work of art rather than a gift of nature. The raw material for cheerfulness lies all around us like the colors the artist combines in his painting. It is for us to recombine them. To achieve a serene point of view is just a matter of selection. One becomes a proficient optimist in the same way that one becomes a proficient story teller. He selects and works over the things that produce the effect he designs; what conflicts with the effect he ignores or treats only a shading. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN HOW THEY MAINTAIN THE CHARMS OF THEIR SEX. The Importance that Attaches to the Care of the Blood If One Wants Bright Eyes and a Clear Complexion. Every sensible woman naturally wishes to appear attractive. She knows the value of bright eyes, delicate complexion and lively spirits. She knows also that good health is at the basis of her charms, and that good blood is the source of good health. Miss Mamie Conway has a complexion which is the admiration of all who know her. Asked if she could make any suggestions that would be helpful to others less fortunate, she said: "My complexion would not have pleased you, if you had seen it two years ago. It was then about as bad as it could be, and it gave me a great deal of dissatisfaction. If you want a good complexion you must take care of your health, especially of the condition of your blood. My health was at that time completely broken down. I was nervous, had frequent headaches, a torpid liver and a great deal of pain in that region. I suffered also from indigestion. It was clear that my blood was in bad condition, for pimples broke out all over my face." "It is hard to realize that, for there isn't the slightest trace of such blemishes now." "It was unfortunately quite otherwise then, and a long time passed before I found anything that gave me any relief. I became very weak and listless. The doctor's medicine did me no good, and I took a number of highly recommended tonics with no better result. As soon, however, as I began to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People my complexion cleared up, and after I had taken two boxes there was not a sign of a pimple left on my face. My cheeks became rosy, I gained flesh and have had perfect health ever since." Rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes are merely signs of healthy blood. They have come not only in the case of Miss Conway, whose home is at 1241 Eighth street, Canton, Ohio, but to thousands of women for whom Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have made new blood. There is no surer way for you to obtain them, than to buy a box of these pills from any drugist and try them for yourself. They correct irregularities and banish weakness. FARM MISCELLSANM The Plum Curculio and the Apple. Prof. S. A. Forbes, in a recent ad dress, said: In 1889 I showed by experiment with curculios taken April 14 on their first emergence from their winter quarters that they fed at that early season sometimes on dead fallen leaves, on green leaves and fresh blossoms of the peach, and on the blossoms of roses, honeysuckle and snowball. They evidently ate dead leaves only when living vegetation could not be found, as when confined with both they chose only the latter. Poison experiments were made on these beetles in confinement by spraying both leaves and fruit with Paris green, with the result that a single treatment of their food killed, within eight days, all but one beetle of eight lots of specimens poisoned. In 1892 Professor John B. Smith published in the Bulletin of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station the statement that the curculio could be controlled only by poisoning the adult beetle, spraying first before the trees come into bloom, and at least three times afterward, as for the coddling moth. In 1901, my attention having been particularly called to the importance of preventing small surface injuries to the apple, which lowered its market grade and diminished its price, I sent an assistant, Mr. E. S. G. Titus, through southern Illinois in June and July to observe and collect examples of these injuries, and such insects as might be held responsible for them. Quantities of blemished fruit were sent to the office for careful study, and as a means of rearing any insects which it might contain. From this investigation it appeared that much the greater part of the injury complained of was due to the plum-curculio, and that the control of this insect would virtually protect the apple. Pursuing the subject further, in 1902 an article prepared by Mr. Titus was read by me at your meeting for that year on "Insects, Other Than the Codling Moth, Injurious to the Fruit of the Apple." The greater part of this paper was given to the work of the plum-curculio in the apple orchard. In addition to many close and careful observations, an important point was made in this paper that injury to the fruit was least in well-cultivated orchards, and the suggestion was made that orchard cultivation at a time when the bulk of the curculios are in the ground passing through their transformations might have the effect to diminish their number by killing them in the pupa state. For this purpose, it was said, a midsummer plowing would be necessary, following by harrowing to break up the clods and expose the pupae more thoroughly to the weather. The prompt destruction of the fallen fruit and spraying of the trees with Paris green were also prominently mentioned. Nitrogen. Nitrogen is a colorless, tasteless, odorless gas, a chemical element. About four-fifths of the air is nitrogen and it is a principal ingredient of flesh, milk, etc. It is useful in agriculture when in a combined state, that is to say, it must be united with other materials, or elements as the chemist calls them, in order as it were to bind it. When in the gaseous state only a few forms of plant life, the legumes or pod-bearing plants, can make use of it. When it is combined with other elements in mineral (nitrate or ammonia) or organic (dead vegetable or animal matter) materials it is more or less available to all plants. It is present in these mineral or organic compounds in amounts varying all the way from a small fraction of 1 per cent to 20 per cent. Nitrogen is used in the fertilizer trade in three forms, as nitrates, as ammonia salts and in organic matter—Vermont Station. Iron Bacteria A well-known scientist says: Iron compounds in the soil are also changed by the activity of micro-organisms, certain bacteria making use of these compounds as sources of energy just as another group makes use of the sulphur compounds. The iron is found originally in the soil, and is also formed in the destruction of organic matter, the liberated iron combining with carbon dioxide gas present to form carbonates. The carbonates are oxidized by the bacteria, forming iron hydroxide, which is an active chemical agent, and readily unites with phosphorus or silica which may be in the soil, to form phosphates or silicates of iron. These salts are important soil ingredients and contribute to the mineral food of plants. --- It will pay well to give more attention than is done on the average farm to the preservation of barnyard manure, first by guarding it from the sources of loss that occur in the ordinary open barnyard, and, second, by treating it with materials calculated to reduce the losses from escaping ammonia on the one hand, and to increase its content of phosphoric acid on the other.-Ohio Station. --- Some men seem to have no capacity for planning before hand. They do the work of the day in the day and without plan. Now and then much time is lost because of lack of what we call forthought, but which is really lack of planning. Half This Man's Sufferings We Have Killed Many a Person Doan's Cured Him. A. C. Sprague, stock dealer, of mal, ill., writes: "For two whole I was doing nothing but buying clines to my kidne do not that ever suffer I did not The pain back was bad that not sleep night. clines to my kid's do not that any ever surer I did not The palm back was bad that not step night. I not ride A. C. SPRAGUE. not rides and sometimes was unable even in a car. My condition was so when I sent for Doan's Kidney I used three boxes and they came Now I can go anywhere and a much as anybody. I sleep well feel no discomfort at all." A TRIAL FREE.—Address Pe Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. For by all dealers. Price, 50 cis. The physiogomist and the big size up a man by his mug. DONT FORGET A large 2-ox. package Red Queen Ball 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Belfast. The oarsman never has a harp to hoe. Mrs. Winstow's Soothing Spry For children teething, softens the gums fumination, allays pain, cure wind cold. Smoke sometimes comes in umes as well as books. 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It is claimed the acre of land in clover will provide 800 pounds of pork; peas, 375 per corn, 650 pounds of oats, 320 per barley, 420 pounds, and wheat pounds. The value of each crop one acre when converted into peas as follows: Clover, $32; oats, $15; $15; barley, $16.80; oats and wheat, $9, estimating the per four cents per pound. Of course, thing depends on the prices ruled the crops. The amount of produce acre required to give the portioned on an acre is 900 peas wheat, 1,680 pounds of barley, pounds of oats, 2,240 pounds of 15,000 pounds of peas, and pounds of green clover. READS THE BOOK "The Road to Wellville" Pointer Way. Down at Hot Springs, Ark., theitors have all sorts of complaints it is a subject of remark that the majority of them have some use with stomach and bowels. This be partly attributed to the heavy icines. Naturally, under the conditions question of food is very promising. A young man states that he has feared for nine years from stomach and bowel trouble, had two operas which did not cure, and was all threatened with appendicitis. He went to Hot Springs for a matism and his stomach trouble worse. One day at breakfast, waiter, knowing his condition, gested he try Grape-Nuts and cut which he did, and found the agreed with him perfectly. After the second day he began sleep peacefully at night, differ than he had for years. The perfect gestion of the food quieted his ous system and made sleep possible. He says: "The next morning I astonished to find my condition of stipation had disappeared. I could believe it true after suffering for many years; then I took more into the food, read the little book 'Road to Wellville,' and started for ing the simple directions. "I have met with such results in the last five weeks I have eight pounds in spite of not be which take away the flesh from one "A friend of mine has been enriched of a bad case of indigestion stomach trouble by using Grape Food and cream alone for breakfast. "There is one thing in particular have noticed a great change in mental condition. Formerly it hardly remember anything, and the mind seems unusually acute retentive. I can memorize anything I desire." Name given, Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.