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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Kelly Miller, of Howard University, Washington, D. C., Gives His Views. A institutions would be cut impressed by the seperate distinct social areas which two races occupy. Here are peoples, domiciled in the territory. invested with ecivil and political rights, using the same language, to the same institutions, slipping God after the same, and linked together in a unity; and yet in all purely normal and pleasurable inter-face, they are as far apart as operated by interstellar space. Social equality," is the shibbish which divides the race after. The slogan, like a savage whoop, arouses the deepest mum of race, which slumbers in skin deep beneath a thin power of civilizaion. This exscription cannot be defined according to the ordinary import of weight of words. Whoever used it possessed a genius feromonning the evil spirit. The man has no exact lexical status, but is surcharged with idicmatic meaning. We can no more determine its potency and power from the component words than can judge the emblematic sigrace of "Old Glory" by theeric and dye stuff that enter its composition. As the sight the flag evokes the patriotic val of its loyal beholder, or as the soldier makes frantic reuise to the alarum "to arms" the tocsin, "social equality," causes the pride of class and trach of race. "Social" and "equality" are two excellent, element words; but "social equality" must not be pronounced in good society, like two harmless chemical elements uniting to make a dangerous compound. This phrase has unbounded potency over the passion of the whiteman of the South. He religiously obeys behest, at what ever sacrifice cost of conscience. He bows down and worships befori a verid idol with fear and trembling, a heathen before his gsaven god. The sanction of its decree more binding than that of leode, religious creed, or the claims of humanity. Pope has given a poetic setting to the moral conviction of mankink that conscience is the rightful arbiter of conduct. "What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue." If in this elegant quatrain we substitute "social equality" for conscience, although we mar the meter, it adapts the meaning to the social creed of the South. The interpretation which that section places upon "social equality" constitutes the crux of the race problem, rnd conditions all modes of rights, privileges and opportunity, whether they be political, civil, educational or industrial. By reason of its exactions, the Negro is not desired by the white man to vote for the same candidate, work at the same handicraft, enjoy the same pub'ic and civic prtvileges, to worship at the same shrine, or to be buried in the same graveyard. It is indeed the ruling passion strong in death. Race prejudice which this phrase evokes is not amenable to the formulas of logic; it is impatient of fact, and intolerant of argument and demonstration. It does not reason, asserts and asservates. Its traditional method is a word and a blow. At one time it was the avowed policy of the dominant South to furnish the Negro equal public opportunity with the whites, while insisting on the seperation of the races in all purely social features- This was a gospel according to the late Henry W. Grady, who before his untimely death, bid fai to become not only the mouth piece but the oracle of the New South. Senator D. M. McEnery of Louisiana, in a notable speech in the United States several years ago, said: "There never has been ano disposition on the part of the people of Louisiana to deprive the Negro of his political and civil right There has been and will continue to be a determination, fixed and unalterable, to deny him social privelege on equality with the whites, and to prohibit him from aspering to any equality in social life. which nature forbids." Passing by the gracious proffer to assisi nature in carrying out inexorable decree, this deliverance shows plainly that the social policy of the South is regarded as the primary factor, and political and civil regulations are but corollaries of the leading proposition. In society as in science, the greater incldes the less. But of late we have heard a new voice from the South. It is louder and less considerats of the claims of humanity than the milder tones of the moredignied and decorous leadership which it seeks to snpplant. This is the voice of Tillman and Vardaman ann Baringer and Thomas Dixon These new oracles tell us that the Negao must be denied political. civil, educational and even industrial opportunity, lest, "social equality" should be the consummation of it all. The ten [Tabe continued] Graduated at 73 NEW HAVEN NEGREST at LAST LEARNED HOW TO New Haven, Conn., Feb.18th Kate Evans, colored, 73 years old, was one of the grnduates of the elementry grade of the New Haven High School. She is an ex-slave. Mrs. Evans completed her course "with honors." Of late she has had a thirst for knowledge psrticular a desire to know how to read and accordingly sought to gain the advantages offerdd in the public evening schools. She was an eager student, faithful in her attendance, and with the aid of a childs primer made good progress, so that now after several months of instructions, she is able to read her Bible and newspaper. Persons who have known of the woman's interest in her work have done much to aid her HAS NO WHITE OFFICERS or DEPOSITORS and PAYS New Orleans, La., Feb. 18. The first report of the American Trust and Savings Bank of Jackson has just been made public This bank was opened up last October. Every share of the stock is owned by negroes, and every one of the officers and employes are colored. Not a white man has anything to do with the bank, and the funds deposited therein are all the savings of Negroes in Jackson. In the three months which the bank has been operation funds to the amount of 864,000 have been handled The dividend for the first quarter amounts to 20 per cent of the capital. A Plain Duty In the impending city campaign the colored voters' of Wichita have a plain duty to perform. To consider well, before they cast their ballot in the foathcomiug pimary is a duty which they owe to themselves and a duty which they owe their race. Should they not well consider and make a mistake—they much suffer the result of their error. The past is the best judge for the future—in making up your mind take up the past history of the two men who are now asuiring for the mayorality and see which has proved the friend of the black man—and when you have the true facts consider them and decide. There is no occasion for any colored man to be ashamed or afraid to announce his choice. There is no use in votinf for a man to get the nomination of Mayor on a plea of what he is "going to do" for the black man when he had an opportunity for four years and "refused to do" anything for them. Why vote for a man for the nomination for Mayor when as Mayor of this city for four years he closed the colored hose house—turned colored men out of emyloyment and kept them out during the entire time of his official life. Why vote for a Man for Mayor—when as Mayor of this city for four years he reduced the wages of the laborers on the plea of reducing expenses—if exoeuses were to be reduced why start with the poor laboring man—why not begin high and come down the scale. No colored man should so for forget himself that he will find himself guilty of giving another man a stick to crack his headwith It's to late to howl when the excitement has passed. BOUGHT RESTAURANT. Messrs. Chas H. and Geo. A. Floyd have purchased the Smith restaurant at 408 North Main St., and will make many improvements and fit it up in first class style and offer to the people one of the most elegant restaurants and cafe among our people in the West. They will conduct it as the "Floyd Bros.' Restaurant and Cafe. Messrs. Chas. H. and Geo. A. Floyd are two young men whose home is in Kingman, but who have been in Wichita for the past few months and are very popular in Wichita social circles. All wish them a grand success. Few Good Reading Clerks Finding Warrant for War Senate Gavel Lasts Long A song of peace, and a day of strife; A day of strife, and a song of peace— And a thunder of battles that never cease. And this is the law of life! From the morning gray of the farthest day. Down the centuries there has come— To the clash of arms, and the mad alarms of Unarmed and life and drum— This eternal truth: That the War God's ruth Is so to the fiercest hate; That Man, in the game, is as flax to flame— And the pitiful fool of fate! From the days forgot—and when time was not, And the first man stood alone— To the old when barons bold Built their castles of rock, wild stone, Then to drink and fight in a wild delight Was the order of church and state; And Man in the game, was the moth in the flame— And the pitiful fool of fate! From the days of old—to the days of gold Few Good Re "The meeting of congress reminds me that it is one of the rarest things in the world to find a good reading clerk," said an old reporter, "and there is, I suppose, a very good reason for it. As a matter of fact, it takes a peculiar type of man to make a reading clerk. There are a great many men who can read well for a while. But the man wanted by the large deliberative bodies must be able to sustain himself, and in order to do this he must learn how to control his voice. In fact, he must be as careful of his voice as the artistic singer. "Reading clerks in legislative bodies often have a peculiar condition to deal with on account of the character of legislative halls. The men who read for Congress also read under difficulties. During the last national conventions of the Republican and Democratic parties I had occasion to appreciate the difficulties of finding good reading clerks. Each convention selected a number of reading On both sides of the great controversy which took such fearful shape in the middle of the seventeenth century, but especially on the Protestant side, the minds of men were devoted, not to seeking that peace which was breathed upon the world by the New Testament, but to finding warrant for war—and especially the methods of the chosen people in waging war against unbelievers—in the Old Testament. Did any legislator or professor of law yield to feelings of humanity, he was sure to meet with protests based upon authority of Holy Scripture. Plunder and pillage were supported by reference to the divinely approved "spoiling of the Egyptians" by the Israelites. The right to massacre unresisting enemies was based upon the command of the Almighty to Assistant Sergeant at Arms Stewart of the United States senate has ordered a silver band for the gavel that is used by Senator Frye in calling the senators to order. This gavel is unlike most of the symbols of authority wielded by presiding officers. It consists of a piece of ivory shaped like an hour glass. Nobody knows the origin or age of the gavel, save that it has been used in the senate for more than 100 years. It is yellow with age and is slick and smooth as the result of long handling. "The history of this gavel," said Mr. Stewart the other day, "is wrapped in mystery. We have traced it back far enough to know that it came to Washington from Philadelphia in 1801, and Judge Wade, Iowa congressman, is accounted a very bright man, and enjoys the most pleasant personal relations with his Republican colleagues. They fought him bitterly in the last campaign and encompassed his political downfall. But when the delegation had occasion recently to come together in one room these same Republicans were very complimentary in their remarks about him. NO 44 That we moderns so highly prize, Have the cries and groans and the sighs and the dying assailed the skies. And to slave and fight from morn till night— Is the rule of the wise and great; And Man in the game, is as flax to flame; And the pitiful fool of fate! Yea, the War god quaffs of our blood— and laughs At the mother who give us birth; For his skull-decked throne is the brawn and bone Of strenuous sons of earth! And the months roll on—and the year Yet his passion does not abate; And Man in the game, is the moth in the flame— And the pitiful fool of fate! For this is the law of life; A song of peace, and a day of strife; A day of strife, and a song of peace— And thunder of battles that never cease, And the fruit of love of Life! - Ohio State Journal clerks, but the service was not at all satisfactory. It was impossible to hear the clerks a short while after they began to read. They would pitch their voices in a key so high that collapse vocally was inevitable. The voices would soon become husky and the men could not be heard at all. Another man would be pressed into service with the same result. "On account of these difficulties it required the services of a number of men to get the platforms and resolutions before the conventions. And at that the reading was of a most unsatisfactory nature, for even the delegates who were required to vote on the various propositions involved could not hear and did not know what they were voting for. Good reading clerks are indeed rare and it would seem that young men with ambition might find it profitable to equip themselves along this line, where they are endowed with voices capable of being developed." the Jews in the twentieth chapter of Deuteronomy. The indiscriminate slaughter of whole populations was justified by a reference to the divine command to slaughter the nations round about Israel. Torture and mutilation of enemies was sanctioned by the conduct of Samuel against Agag, of King David against the Philistines, of the men of Judah against Adomibezek. Even the slaughter of babes in arms was supported by a passage from the Psalms. "Happy shall he be that taketh and* dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Treachery and assassination were supported by a reference to the divinely approved Phinehas, Ehud, Judith and Jael; murdering the ministers of unapproved religions by Elijah's slaughter of the priests of Baal.—Andrew D. White, in Atlantic. has been on the vice president's table ever since. I have just ordered a silver band with an inscription for the gavel. It will bear the date 1801. One hundred years after the arrival of this gavel in Washington we bought an inkstand for the use of the presiding officer of the senate. The stand and the gavel are the only pieces of furniture allowed permanently on his desk in the senate." The senate is such a decorous body that the vice president never breaks the boards in his desk pounding for order. Over in the house the carpenter has to put in a couple of new planks in the speaker's table every session. During Reed's regime the boards had to be renewed every month or so. "Those sayings are very nice," said Wade, after listening awhile, "but the situation is very much like that of a fellow who had been run out of a field by a great big bull. The animal, having driven him over the wall, stood near by gently nodding his horned head, as though the ejected citizen were not, after all, unwelcome. "Oh, yes; you stand there bowing and acting so politic," exclaimed the outraged man, 'but I know you meant it, all the same.'"—Washington Post. --- THE SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wishita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION- STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 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So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. fth Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if bought to the Editor. " To Live and Let Live. " is OUR Motto. NOT ASHAMED. The Searchlight has nothing of which to be ashamed and no apoligies to make for its bold and outspoken apposition to the nomination of Mr. Finlay Ross, as the republican nominee for mayor of Wichita. Our opposition is one based on Mr. Ross's treatment of the black man and laboring people during his term of office as mayor from 1897 to 1901. It is a record which Mr. Ross made himself and if it now works against him he should blame no one but himself. We wish, however, to be distinctly understood that the Searchlight is a republican organ and believes that the will of the convention whatever that may be, should be adhered to by all loyal republicans, and not because one fails of his chance in the convention or fails himself, he or they should bolt the nominee and stand independently. As the organ of the colored people we have tried honestly to place all issues, whether political or otherwise before them in the truelight and in this instance here's no exception as the events of the past plainly show. If the colored people would be wise and look for their best interests they will join with us in our opposition to the nomination of Mr. Finlay Ross. A. C. RACE IN THE RACE. The candidacy of Mr. A. C. Race for councilman from the 2nd ward is meeting with much favor from among the people of that ward. Mr. Race is a clean, upright gentleman and would make the 2nd ward a councilman of whom they would be proud. He has resided in the 2nd ward for nearly nineteen years and has always been identified with every movement that has been put forth for the bettirement of the 2nd ward, and of the city at large. Should Mr. Race receive the nomination as all indications now point that he will, he will add strength to the city council of Wichita. He is a man of wide experience and is most admirably qualified to fill the position to which he aspires. A good word for A. C. Race will be a good word well said. STEWART, CLUB ORGANIZED Members Will Hold Meeting Tuesday Night. A Stewart club has been organized and a meeting is called for Tuesday night. At a meeting of the club held Tuesday evening new members joined the club. Rev. B. Morris is president of the club. Members of the club are pledged to work in the interests of Mr. Stewart. A SUICIDE Despondent over what is considered to be a hopeless love for a girl in Hutchinson. Wallace Burnell, a young colored man of this city, commited suicide Tuesday night by taking two ounces of carbolic acid. Burnell had been in Hutchinson a short time working as waiter at the Baedwin hotel, better known as the old Burnswick hotel. He was deeply in love with Miss May North, a young colored girl in Hutchinson, and thinking that he would never be able to marry her, he grew despondent and took his own life. Burnell was boarding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Owens in Hutchinson. Yesterday afternoon he went to his room and when Mrs Owens sent her little boy to avaken him abo out six in the evening the little boy found him writhing with pain on the bed. He called to his mother who it once rotified a physician after see discovered Burnell's condition. When the physician arrived he said the case wgs hopeless Burnell died a few minuets after the arrival of the doctor. Near his side was fou a two ounce bottle which had contained carbolic acid, Mr. Owens stated Tuesday eve what in a conversation he had with tBurnell Monday, the young man talked strangely. He said that h thought he would come home to see his folks in Wichita as it might be the last time he would ever see them. He also said that he was setting himself up to be something that he was not, and he could not stand it. Burnell evidently purchased the act at Seldlinger's drug store sometime during the day. Mr. Owens stated that he thought that Burnell ad suicide in his mind for two or three days. After Burnell was dead an investi- tigation was made a note addressed to Miss North was found in his not- book. In it he said: "Dear Miss May; Will you kind y do me the favor of carrying out this last request I shall ever make o? Please notify the addresses on the following of my sad endi- g-"WALLACE" Uw to the time of the receipt of the message from Hutchinson, no other notes are letters have been found. The page referred to in his notebook contained the names of his mother in Wichita; also his son-in here and his sister in Nash- ville Tenn. He also asked that J.B. Lewis be notified. Officer G. M. Harrison of Hutchinson, sated last night that he noticed Burnell was not feeling right for two or three days but that he had any idea of taking his own life "He was ceartainly in love with the girl." said the officer. "Ho said to the last time I talked to him 'that love was to de p a game for him,' and that he was going to give it up I think that he thought he could never matry Miss North" Burnell's mother is Mrs. Elle Smu who is employed at the home of Dan Parks. She was prostrated when she recieved the news of her son's death. She said she never her son speak of suicide, and she did not think that he contemplated it for any lenght of time. He is a member of the Colored Odd Fellows of this city, a delegation of that order went to Hutchinson, Wednesday aft-r the body, He was 22 yrs, of age and had lived in Wiponia a long time. The Ohio State Journal of Columbus, Ohio, one of the papers of large circulation in the west, has in its employ, Ralph W. Tyler, a negro, as assistant editor and business manager. Mr. Tyler has worked on white daily newspapers nearly all his days and his services are very highly rated. The Race's standard Bearer Sunday was an ideal day. Pay up!! Pay up!! Pay up!! By unity of action only can 'the Negro ueer' Too much, is two much— that's all. Mrs. L. B. Smith has been on the sick list. Louis Clark who has been quite ill is slowly improving. Who will the 2nd ward have for councilman? Speak out. Don't Set, on the fence" —you are liable to take cold. DONT borrow your neighbor's Searchlight---let us send YOU one. Mrs. B. Morris who has been sick for the past few weeks is able to be out again. W. A. Bettis left Monday for To peka on a business trip. Frank West of St. Louis was in the city Friday. The services will be continued every evening during the coming week. Chas. H. Luling was among his friends in Wichita Sunday and Monday. Dan E. Boone county treasure, has returned srom Mexico where he has been on business. H. W. Marshall is one of the white wring. He is filling a place on N. Main. Mrs Geo. W. Wallace left Wed nosday for Chicago where she will be for the next two or three weeks. Mrs. R. E. Smith who has been ill at her home 422 Stevens is now able to be up. CONVERTED Thos. W. Fine was converted during the revival at the A. M. E. church Wednes ay night- The boys and girls should not be so noisy in front of the church on Sundays. The church is no place to come to play. Rev. Robt. M. Rivers of Knea City and is assisting Rev. H. W. King in conducting a series of revival meetingo at the A. M. E. church. All this week the church has been crowded and a lively time had. FALL IN LINE From present indications Senator James H. Stewart will be the overwhelming choice for the nomination as Meyer--Get in line for Stewart now so that you can be in on the first floor. Whooy it up for Stewart he is the winner. W. M. Dunson, Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 9 3 6 The people will have to learn to greet our reporter and solicitor. Give him a little news and we will publish it. 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. B. Amidon, E. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftzger, E. H. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith, A General Banking Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS Alonza Miller janitor at the city building was tken so severly sick Saturday that he had to be removed to his home. He had been ailing for several days. Ail hope that he will soon be able to be out again. The ladies sewing circle of the Second Baptist church was entertained Monday afternoon by Mrs. J. L. Harper. Rev. Williamson of Newton was in the city during the week and preachrd at the Methodist church Monday evening. The B. T. W. club met with Mrs Henry James with a large crowd present. After business was transacted the hostess served a delicious luncheon and the club adjourned to meet March 8-1905 with Mrs H. Massey 501 N. Water. st. FINE EXHIBIT The Worlds Fair exhibit of the Wichita Nursery is on display in the windows of Greenfield Bros. It is a fine display of some of the choicest of fruits and show Floyd Bros Restaurant and Cafe MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cigars and Tobacco When Hungry Give Us A Call 408 North Main St. the high quality of the fruit grown from the trees of Wichitas ideal nursery. When in need of good trees that are true to name, robust and healthy go to the Wichita Nursery 21st. and Lawrence and mrke your own selection. The members of the Song Service elected officers for the ensuing year The following were chosen:--- Thos. Glover President Miss Sallie Rawles Vice Pres. Miss Lizzie Phelps Secretary W. H. A. Clark Treasurer The election was conucted by Rev. H. W. King pastor of that church. Installation of the officers elect will take place next Sunday eve. The daughters of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 gave Miss Susie Kyle an offering this week. Mrs. Margurite Watson is much improved and able to be out again. 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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 HOME OUR HOBBY --- JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 615 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 ... 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. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Passengers from Wicbita, leaving at Yates Center with the Hot Spray THE HOT SPRINGS SP SOLID VESTIBULE, I CARRIES DINING CAR AND SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRING This new service is the quickets yet been offered to the greatest Illustrated books, describing Hot undersigned on application E. E Bleckly, T. P. A. from Wichita, leaving on 11. 30 A. F. car with the Hot Springs Special at HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A TO VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC LIGHT, DINING CAR AND ELEGANT TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT OF price is the quickest and most con- tended to the greatest health resort in- kks, describing Hot Springs, may be an application 1. H. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11. 30 A. M. taain, connect 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. Wtchita, Kans. O. K. DYE The same old clothes, but, oh, what a difference since the O. K. Dye and Dry Cleaning Works fixed them. Second hand clothing good as new for One-Fourth Less than better good? Good Pants from 75c up Suits from $2.50 up. Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and R C. G. Hans Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired Ladies' Work C. G. Hanson, Pro 330 North Main Street T I Jones, SHOEMAKER, ones, Nice Fu KER, .ROC 1. All Kind of Repair Work Neatly Done. Half Soles Nailed — — 75c. Half Soles Sewed — — $1.00 Only Colored Shoe-maker in Wichita 347 North Main St. 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. H, Smith assisted by Mrs F. P. Bateman. Everybody is cordially invited to attend all of these meeting. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physiciana nd Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St Gardner ....DEALER HARD CO Feed and Build Office and Yards 120 rdner Coal C DEALERS IN... D COAL s and Building M and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Gardner Coal Co., .....DEALERS IN..... HARD COAL SOFT Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. Old Phone 146 New Phone 1804 being on 11. 30 A. M. taain, connect- tion Springs Special at 2.55 P. M. SPECIAL IS A ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAINING 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. OK BYE MORRIS I have been to the I am going to the I Repaired Ladies' Work A Specialty. son, Prop. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 24: North Water St. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE DEPOSITMENT ELEGANT AND AFTERTHREAD FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation for hair that makes kinky or early hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over years, and our customers trust us. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of Ozonized OX Marrow is put up only in fifty cent size, made only in Chicago and byus. U.S.A. is printed on the package. Do not be misled by substitutes that claim to be Ozonized OX Marrow, the genuine, as it never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, because so much desired. A toilet necessity for Boston Store 103.105.107 109 E. DOUCLAS AVE WALLENSTEIN & COMM. PER YARD On Monday, commencing a we place on sale in the up stairs s ment, One Thousand Yards of fin tain Swiss in combination pattern Dots and Figures. These Swiss ual 18c quality, and the reason w offer them to you at this price i patterns are nearly all alike, but will be sure to like. They are a width—45 inches wide. Buy no curtains made before Spring hour Remember, Monday, y See Window Disp PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 Miss has sp her sise Monday On Monday, commencing at Nine O'clock we place on sale in the up-stairs Carpet Department, One Thousand Yards of fine White Curtain Swiss in combination patterns of Polka Dots and Figures. These Swisses are the usual 18c quality, and the reason we are able to offer them to you at this price is because the patterns are nearly all alike, but a pattern you will be sure to like. They are all the same width—45 inches wide. Buy now and get your curtains made before Spring house cleaning time Remember, Monday, yard 11c See Window Display Now =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL H W Dean, Milk Banks games the pro served --- SELOVER & SONS, Props. =CIGARS= SOLD EVERYWHERE Meat Market DEALER IN..... Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and Oysters 813 North Main Street SUNDAY DINNER at the Floyd Bros. Restaurant. Soup Cream of Potatoes ReastPork Au Jus Escalloped Salmon Corn Gems Snowflake Potatoes Carumeled Sweet Potatoes Cream Peas Tapioca Pmdaing Mince Pie Tea Coffee I now have on hand some be utiful club Albums, wishing to fill many orders as possible by March 15th. We are making great reduction on prices, as the club albums are all the rage. Let all the colored clubs join in. Any club wishing an album have your order in by the 15th. address Estella Vann P. O.Gen. Deliv Wjchita. Mrs. Walter Gibbs spent Tuesday with Mrs. W. N. Miller. Fred Madison left Wednesday for Coffeyville in the interest of the Scarchlight. Alonzo Miller, who has been quite sick is able to be out Thursday for the first time this week. His great desire to work in the interest of James H. Stewart for mayor caused him to get out soon. He is a Stewart man for true. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. KINGMAN NEWS Miss Eva Wilfley of chicago who has spent several weeks visiting her sister returned to her home Monday eye. Mr. Joseph Banks one of Kingmans prosperous farmers for fifteen years has moved on a ranch of 800 acres in Reno Co near Hutchinson where he has a crop of growing wheatof nearly 200 acres. He and his two sons will tend the ranch. Mr. Banks expects to farm on a much larger scale than he ever has as his bays are large enough to do the same work as he does as they have plenty of goop tending land He will also engage in the dairing business. Mr. Banks is a man that believes in the coloren people getting out and doing for themselves. The many Kingman people regret to see them depart and we all wish them much success in the future and for him not to forget we that are left in Kingman. Mr. Bradford of Anthony was in the city a few days this week visiting friends. Mr. Eli Martin and family have moved to their new home at Todeka They will move on a farm four miles from town where Mr. Martin expects to spend most of his time in gardening. We all wish them much success in their new home. Quite a number of young people drove out to the home of Mr. Louis Banks and spent the evening in games and other amusements. At the proper noun refreshments were served and all departed reporting a pleasant time. Those present were:— Misses Henryetta and Ara Martin Aura Porter, Nellie and Florence Banks and Etta and Minnie Floyd Messers Robt and Earnest Porter Nelson Martin a. d J. Malorie. Mr. Earnest Porter ariqed home last week after spending several months in Paris Mo, visiting his sister. Etta Floyd came home from last week from Wichita to visit her parents. CITY COURT BILL IS PASSED Word Recieved Yestesday Af- ter noon From Topeka Word was recieved from Topeka that the city court bill had passed the senate. It has already passed the house. This bill provides for the transfer of the election of the officers of the city court until the fall electious. A great many Wichita- tans were interested in the out- come of the bill. BOY HAD AN EXPLANATION. Example of the Original View of Things a Child May Take. In their efforts to teach children, writes Edwin J. Prindle, in St. Nicholas, parents are often surprised by the original views which the youngsters take, and by their presentation of views which, while they may be but partial, are at least correct and discriminating so far as they go. It occurred to a father, who noticed a carpenter hammering upon the roof of a distant house, that he would give his little son (8 years old) a lesson in physics by calling attention to the fact that the blows of the hammer could be seen before the sound made by them could be heard, and explaining that the difference in time between the seeing of the blows and the hearing of the noise was due to the fact that light travels much faster than sound. He sought to introduce the subject by asking the boy if he understood why it was that he could see the hammer fall before he could hear the noise of the stroke. He was astonished to receive the reply. "Yes; it's because my eyes are nearer to the hammer than my ears." HOW TO TELL A BOILED EGG. Betting Man Made Money on It, but of Course No One Else Will. The betting man said to the waiter: "Boll one egg. Cool it and put it among half a dozen raw ones. Then bring all the eggs together in to me on a plate." The eggs, in ten or fifteen minutes, came in. They were examined carefully by everyone in the room. "I will bet ten dollars," said the betting man, "that no one here can pick out the one cooked from the six raw eggs." This bet was taken. Thereupon the man spun the eggs, toplike, on the table, one by one. All spoon poorly, with a wabbling motion, save a dark egg, which spun as steadily and truly as a top. "This dark egg is the cooked one," said the betting man. He opened it, and so it proved. "A boiled egg," he explained, "spins beautifully. An uncooked, liquid one spins in a poor, unsteady way. The difference is plain, and anyone can tell it." Mule and Rule At one of the Western army posts in the days of the Indian fights there was a young lieutenant who was careful to see that the regulations relating to saluting were faithfully observed. One day a soldier who was leading an obstreperous mule to water and had both hands fully employed in the task was met by the lieutenant. The soldier, who had an occupation which demanded his undivided attention, failed to salute the martinet, who immediately called him to account for his remissness. "Why do you not salute an officer when you see him?" he demanded. "You hold this mule and I will." "You hold this mule and I will," calmly returned the man. But the lieutenant did not insist, and the regulations were broken. The Doubly Cursed. Two souls arrived in heaven, one day, And stood before the great, white dragon. throne, And one of them looked up to say: "My name and work to few are known; Born where the gloom of want was thick. And, gripped by poverty, I tried To be of use, to cheer the war Of the dead I died." Birds' Preference in Colors. Birds' Preference in Colors. Red will annoy a turkey cock as much as a bull, but a sparrow will not let it disturb its mind. But if one flirts a blue rag in front of a caged sparrow's eyes he will go frantic with disgust. Sparrows and linnets, too, will refuse food offered them on a piece of blue paper and dislike the appearance of any one wearing a blue dress. Medium light blue affects them most and blue serge they scarcely mind at all. Thrushes and blackbirds object to yellow, but will use red or blue dried grasses left about their haunts to build the outlayers of their nests. Yellow grasses they will not use. First Knowledge of Galvanism. Galvani, a natural philosopher of Italy, was dissecting a dead frog one day while a pupil was making experiments in electricity by his side. He observed that the muscles of the frog, being exposed, gave signs of motion whenever the nerves came in contact with the scalpel. Galvani discovered the existence of a new principle in this phenomenon, and originated the fertile branch of physics known by the name of galvanism. He Got Even. "Yes, I used to be in the insurance business. I once got a man to take out a $50,000 policy only about a week before he happened to be killed. He was a mighty hard chap to land, too. I had to talk to him for nearly six months before I got him." "That was tough on the company. I suppose you . gretted, after it was all over, that your persuasive powers were so good." "Um—no. I never felt sorry about it. I married the widow." The colored voters of Wichita have much at stake in the renomination of the right man for the mayoralty on the republican ticket for the spring election. It would be political suicide on the part of the colored voters to support the candidacy of a man for that office who in four years as mayor did every thing in his power to prove that he is no friend to the black people. If in four years a man showed the most utter contempt for the black man what can they expect at his hands now? We refer to the aspirations of Mr. Finlay Ross for the mayoralty. Mr. Ross served four years as mayor of Wichita from 1897 to 1901 and in every way which lay in his power as mayor he proved that he had no use for the black man. He closed hose house No. 3 composed of colored men, and discharged them from other city works and in many other ways and in actions which speak louder than words, he proved most conclusively his dislike for the colored men. Now he comes forth asking that the colored men give him their support for the office of mayor again, and no sooner should he assume his office he would begin to make things warm for the very colored men who now assist him. This is the time that the colored men should say to him in the words of the imortal Lincoln: "You can fool all the people some time, some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Let us march up in one solid phalanx of black voters and cast our ballot at the primary against the candidacy of Mr. Finlay Ross. In the candidacy of Mr. James H. Stewart the colored people will find a friend, a man who knows men and affairs and a man who believes in giving the laboring man a chance. A Texas Letter A Texas Letter Groom, Texas, Feb. 28, 1905. Editor: It just occurred to me that some of your readers might take an interest in reading a brief outline of the Panhandle of Texas—the pros and cons of the climate, agricultural conditions, cattle, etc. Needless to say the cattle raising is the industry par excellence and this is especially so about steers as the climate is particularly suited to them and this vicinity cannot be surpassed anywhere as a grazing country, cattle being able to graze almost the all year; I imagine the winters are a little too severe to ever make it successful as a cow country. Agriculture has not been followed toany great extent as yet, but the country is fast filling up with settlers from Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and other Northern and Eastern states, all taking sections of land and utilizing it as farms. Broom corn, kaffir corn, alfalfa oats, wheat, millet, sugar beets, all kinds of vegetables, fruits, such as apples, peaches, pears and grapes grow in great abundance. I might add that the small grains and smaller fruits have not been grown here yet with any great degree of success. The climate here is superlative and one never suffers from extremes of temperature. I will be on this land and cattle ranch a year in April 1st, coming here first with my daughter Beatrice. She married early in December and is now residing in Kentucky with her husband and his relatives. My daughter Georgie took her place here as my assistant. I do not know how much longer I shall stay here as I often long to get back to Wichita, the metropolis of the Sunflower state, and once more hobnob with my friends. Last Sunday some of the men from the town of Groom went out to catch a dog wolf that had been prowling around for some time. After a hot chase of several miles on swift horses a young man by the name of Mr. Burke Hodges closed in on him, roped him and choked him to death. He measured five and one-half feet from tip to tip. 20 inches around the neck 31 inches in height, 28 inches chest and tipped the scales at 83 pounds. I understand the county allows a reward of Ten dollars for the killing and the participants in the hunt, about eight in number, will devote this amount towards an oyster supper for themselves in a few days. Hoping that I have not intruded upon your valuable time or paper space, I am yours very truly, MRS. MATTIE TURNER, Groom Texas. Carson County. CLUB ALBUMS Is your Club up to date? Has it the "Club Album"'? Have you a photo of every member? If not, now is the time to get your album and your photos. Beautiful Quarto Album No.2 Celluloid front and back with floral design wood Album is mebassed in gold, plush back, opening for 20 cabinets and 16 card photos also have a gold edge extension clasp. Veerless Album No. 5 New patent Ox-Yoke Easel Album Mottled Silk Plush and a Celluloid front. The colors are Red or green with Gold edges and a secret draw for odd photos Sale Price. $6.00 Hoey Publishing Co. Wichita Kans. Rev Rivers of Kans. City arrived in the city Tuesday and will assist Rev King in his revival meetings at the A. M. E. church, The Tabeinacle Baptist church held services all day Sunday. Rev Underwood reached at 11 a.m. to a large congregation after which Sunday School was led by their Superintendant Mrs. Anna Martin with Mrs A McBride as Assistant. The Sunday School is improving. At 7 p.m. the B. Y. P. U. met and was conducted by their Pres. Mrs Blanche Givens and Mrs Hatie Love Vice Pres. The meeting adjourned and Rev. Underwood preached to a large congregation and two was added to the church one for baptism next Sunday. Mrs. Carr and Litt Gardner will be baptised at the church Sunday after Sunday School. Rev. Countee pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church has left Kas City for Cuba and will be gon about two months. CLEARWATERE NEWS C. R. Wilfley will leave for a town in Okla with the Searchlight and looking after his farm and will return about Saturday. The Racket store had a car of irish potatoes of 60 bu. to freeze during the recent cold weather. The wheot is reported as being alright and the stock is doing fine. To the readers of the Searchlight What was one of the inventions of the modern times. The anguHe was hergon. Miss Florence, Wilson of Okla. City is in the city visiting her moth er and sister Mrs Leonard Biggers and Mrs. Serah Wulfley. Mr. Wiltleys latest design house shoe was like the little boy who went to school was too late but I had a $5.00 experience. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Biggers and daughter Miss Florence Wilson went to wichita Monday. David White was visiting Mr. E. White and family Saturday. Mississippi has 300,000 more negroes than white people. In the last election only 1,500 votes were recorded for Roosevelt. --- 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!!! FredMadison 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 repcsipt 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. W N Miller Editor. 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 in our 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. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST SOI N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. WICHITA TABERNAGLE No. 34. WESTMARK STREET Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Beatrice Miller Sec. Hall 517 North Main Street --- HAVE ISSUED THE CALL. Republican Central Committee to Meet March 7th. The Republican central committee has issued a call for a meeting of the committee to be held next Tuesday, March 7. This meeting is called for the purpose of fixing a date for the holding of the thesqring primaries. The meeting will be held in the Republican headquarters over the Fourth National bank. The headquarters have just been recently opened and Dan Boone will be found in charge. The primaries will probably be held some time during the following week. PROF. W. H. ISELY, COUNCILMAN FOURTH WARD. The attention of the voters of the Fourth ward is called to the candidacy of Prof. W. H. Isely, who asks for the re-nomination at their hands. Prof. Isely has made a most creditable member of the city council and has ever been wedded to the interests of the Fourth ward in particular and the city in general. He is entitled to the re-nomination and should receive it by acclamation. HAMS Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. Remember the place--Market at the Gate of Dold's Packing House. LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. M Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST New Flexible and Lasting More Possible Use: won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. It isn't the golden rule that won't work both ways. Mrs. Winnlow's Soothing Syrup. For chinless teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wounds. See a bottle. The cup that cheers is a hollow A HEALTHY OLD AGE OFTENTHE BESTPART OFLIFE Help for Women Passing Through Change of Life Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill commission in life, and it is generally our own fault if we die prematurely. Mrs.MaryKoehne Nervous exhaustion invites disease. This statement is the positive truth. When everything becomes a burden and you cannot walk a few blocks without excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspiration easily, and your face flushes, and you grow excited and shaky at the least provocation, and you cannot bear to be crossed in anything, you are in danger; your nerves have given out; you need building up at once! To build up your nervous system and during the period of change of life we know of no better medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Here is an illustration. Mrs Mary L. Koehne, 371 Garfield Avenue, Chicago, Ill., writes: "I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for years in my family and it never disappars; so when I felt that I was nearing the change of life in all about six bottles and it did me a great deal of good. It stopped my dizzy spells, pains in my back and the headaches with which I had suffered for months before taking the Compound. I feel that if it had not been for this great medicine for women that I should not have been alive to day. It is splendid for women, old or young, and will surely cure all female disorder." Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., invites all sick and sick women to write her for advice. Her great experience is at their service, free of cost. HIGH GRade TELEPHONES For long distance and exchange service. Construction material and supplies. FARMERS' LINES A SPECIALTY. Catalogue and Instruction Book Free. Central Telephone & Electric Co. 2135 Lucas Ave. St. Louis, U.S.A. HIGH GRADE TELEPHONES HIGH GRADE TELEPHONES For long distance and ex- change service. Construction material and supplies. FARMERS' LINES A SPECIALTY. Catalogue and Instruction Book Free. Central Telephone & Electric Co. 2135 Lucas Ave. St. Louis, U.S.A. OROANS $20 to $40 Highest grade Estey, Mason & Hamlin, Story & Lombard, Childress, special guaranteed like now; special descriptions and prices for the asking. Write to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. When writing mention this paper. WHY GET SOAKED WHEN 143 TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE MARBLE STORM! LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK DEARNE OF IMITATIONS CERTIFICATE THEY ARE THE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A J. TOWER CO., BOSTON, MAES, U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LTD. TORONTO, CANADA. "HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOES" Should be on every girls feet. No other school shoe has ever given the satisfaction or has such a reputation for fit, style and wearing qualities. "Hoosier School Shoes" look well at all times, feel comfortable on the feet and take a long time to wear out. This is the kind of shoe parents want for their children. The price is low but the material and workmanship in them is of the best. The name "Tappan" is stamped on the lining of every shoe. Ask your dealer to show you the "Hoosier School Shoe" and insist on getting it. These shoes are also made in women's sizes. TAPPAN SHOE MFG. CO. COLDWATER, MICH. When Answering Advertisements Kindy Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR SORES WONDER ALL ELSE FAILS Best cough group. Tattoo used. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION SOY HAD AN EXPLANATION. Example of the Original View of Things a Child May Take. In their efforts to teach children, writes Edwin J. Prindle, in St. Nicholas, parents are often surprised by the original views which the youngsters take, and by their presentation of views which, while they may be but partial, are at least correct and discriminating so far as they go. It occurred to a father, who noticed a carpenter hammering upon the roof of a distant house, that he would give his little son (8 years old) a lesson in physics by calling attention to the fact that the blows of the hammer could be seen before the sound made by them could be heard, and explaining that the difference in time between the seeing of the blows and the hearing of the noise was due to the fact that light travels much faster than sound. He sought to introduce the subject by asking the boy if he understood why it was that he could see the hammer fall before he could hear the noise of the stroke. He was astonished to receive the reply. "Yes; it's because my eyes are nearer to the hammer than my ears." HOW TO TELL A BOILED EGG. Betting Man Made Money on It, but of Course No One Else Will. The betting man said to the waiter: "Boll one egg. Cool it and put it among half a dozen raw ones. Then bring all the eggs together in to me on a plate." The eggs, in ten or fifteen minutes, came in. They were examined carefully by everyone in the room. "I will bet ten dollars," said the betting man, "that no one here can pick out the one cooked from the six raw eggs." This bet was taken. Thereupon the man spun the eggs, toplike, on the table, one by one. All spun poorly, with a wabbling motion, save a dark egg, which spun as steadily and truly as a top. "This dark egg is the cooked one," said the bottling man. He opened it, and so it proved. "A boiled egg," he explained, "spins beautifully. An uncooked, liquid one spins in a poor, unsteady way. The difference is plain, and anyone can tell it." Mule and Rule. At one of the Western army posts in the days of the Indian fights there was a young lieutenant who was careful to see that the regulations relating to saluting were faithfully observed. One day a soldier who was leading an obstreperous mule to water and had both hands fully employed in the task was met by the lieutenant. The soldier, who had an occupation which demanded his undivided attention, failed to salute the martinet, who immediately called him to account for his remissness. "Why do you not salute an officer when you see him?" he demanded. "You hold this mule and I will," calmly returned the man. But the lieutenant did not insist, and the regulations were broken. The Doubly Cursed. Two souls arrived in heaven, one day, And stood before the great, white And one of them looked up to say: "My name and work to few are known; Begins to be as thick, Gripped by poverty, I tried To be of use, to cheer the sick— And three men wept the day I died." "Go yonder," said the master, "where The proudest spirits congregate; Be one of the enmiled there; To greet the great." The art enrolled among the great." The other spirit, bowing low, As king for many years; and reigned As king for many years; and the woe Existing when my crown was gained I did not by a jot increase. My just joy died Had just as much of joy and peace As when my sire was thrust aside. Cast out, with bitter murmurings, He shrank away beneath the curse They merit who might better things And merely do not make them worse. Birds' Preference in Colors. Red will annoy a turkey cock as much as a bull, but a sparrow will not let it disturb its mind. But if one flirts a blue flag in front of a caged sparrow's eyes he will go frantic with disgust. Sparrows and linets, too, will refuse food offered them on a piece of blue paper and dislike the appearance of any one wearing a blue dress. Medium light blue affects them most and blue serge they scarcely mind at all. Thrushes and blackbirds object to yellow, but will use red or blue dried grasses left about their haunts to build the outlayers of their nests. Yellow grasses they will not use. First Knowledge of Galvanism Galvani, a natural philosopher of Italy, was dissecting a dead frog one day while a pupil was making experiments in electricity by his side. He observed that the muscles of the frog, being exposed, gave signs of motion whenever the nerves came in contact with the scalpel. Galvani discovered the existence of a new principle in this phenomenon, and originated the fertile branch of physics known by the name of galvanism. He Got Even "Yes, I used to be in the insurance business. I once got a man to take out a $50,000 policy only about a week before he happened to be killed. He was a mighty hard chap to land, too. I had to talk to him for nearly six months before I got him." "That was tough on the company. I suppose you regretted, after it was all over, that your persuasive powers were so good." "Um—no. I never felt sorry about it. I married the widow." Since the reorganization of the Vanderbilt roads cast of Chicago, a short time ago, several changes have been made in the operating department. The most important is the promotion of Mr. C. F. Daily from the position of Assistant General Passenger Agent of C. F. DALY the Lake Shore, to that of Passenger Traffic Manager of the Lake Shore, Michigan Central and Lake Erie and Western. The General Passenger Agents of these lines retain their positions. Mr. Daly came to Chicago three years ago from the Lake Erie & Western, where he had been General Passenger Agent. His promotion to so responsible a position is a deserved tribute to Mr. Daly's ability as a railroad operator. Some further changes in the Vanderbilt lines are expected in the near future but have not yet been announced. In all the changes so far made no one has been displaced. The promotions being to newly created offices. Musical Fish. Lake Batticalo, Ceylon, has the probably unique distinction of being the home of a musical fish. The sounds emitted by these are said to be as sweet and melodious as those which can be produced by a series of Acouliar harps. Crossing the lake in a boat one can plainly distinguish the pleasant sounds. If an oar is dipped in the water the melody becomes louder and more distinct. Brilliant Surgeons Not Wanted. Genius is some sort of neuresis, an uncalculated nervous disease. The few men of genius I have met were exceedingly impossible persons. They are certainly entirely out of place in the medical profession, where even cleverness is not to be encouraged, indeed, of all desperately dangerous persons the brilliant surgeon is the most lamentable. — Sir Frederick Trevys in the Young man. Ferocious Bravery. In the naval battle between the English and the French off Dominica in April, 1782, an English gunner was standing by his gun when the ship sheered abreast of the French flagship. The gun was all ready and just going to fire when a shot came in at the port and took his leg off at the knee. As quick as thought the man pulled off his neckcloth and tied his leg above the stump. The next instant he seized his shot-off limb and thrust it into the muzzle of his gun, which went off two seconds later. "My foot," shouted the man, exultantly, "is the first to board the Ville de Paris!" Log Tells of Nelson's Death There is still in existence the log of Nelson's flagship, the Victory, on the day of Trafalgar. A clerkly hand, clear and distinct, wrote amid the echoes of French and Spanish guns: 'The Right Honorable Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B., commander-in-chief, was wounded in the shoulder 1h. 30min.' Later, on the other page: 'Partial firing continued until 4h 30min, when a victory having been reported to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B., and commander-in-chief, he then died of his wound.' And all the time in the margin the variations of the wind are calmly noticed. Good Prices for Chippendale. A suite of Chippendale furniture belonging to an old Essex family has been sold privately at Saffron, Walden, England, for 1,800 pounds. It comprises a settee on six legs, twelve chairs and five stools, eighteen pieces in all. The frames were of walnut, elaborately carved, with cabriole legs and claw feet. The fellow who doesn't care what turns up may also not care how often he is turned down. Poet's Love of Birds. The poems of Lowell are filled with references to nature in her many forms, and very often he wrote of birds, revealing the fact that he was familiar with many different species. In his essay entitled "My Garden Acquaintance," he mentions over forty kinds of birds with which he seemed to have been on close terms of friendship. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS. CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Mix Brown Rockellia Salm Jasmine Seed Peppermint Dill Lemonade Worm Seed Classified Sugar Watergreen Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Char. H. Hitchter. NEW YORK. A REGULARLY OLD 35 DOSES - 35 CLINICS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Hitchter. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Indians are occasionally troubled with red ants. DON'T FORGET A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The man who has no enemies may also have no friends. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cured me of Bright Disease and Gravel. Able physicians failed." Mrs. E. P. Minzer, Burgill, O. $1.00 a bottle. Exceedingly proper people are seldom interesting. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—Wm. O. ENDLEY, Vaubren Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Truly great men never remind you of their greatness. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The man who broods over his troubles only increases the brood. FITS permanently cured. No bite or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restore. Dr. Kline, Lafayette, La. Arch Street, Philadelphia, Fla. Praise a man's wit and, he will ad mire your judgment. Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. A lack of appreciation is generally due to a lack of merit. School Children's Dyspepsia. The common form of dyspepsia, or indigestion, which stops the growth, pales the cheeks, weakens the system of so many school children, is often due to improper or too quickly eaten lunches. While seeing to a correction of the cause, it is also important to cure the disordered conditions of stomach and bowels. This can be done by no medicine so safely and surely as Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. Try it. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00 Money back if it fails. Old saws contain wisdom, but they often grate upon the nerves. FRANK J. CHEENY makes out that he is his senior partner of the firm of E. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, County and State of Ohio, and that said firm will have the sum of $100,000 in its assets in the case of CATARNEY that cannot be curbed by the use of HALL'S CATARNEY CURSE. FRANK J. CHENYE Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. W. GLEASON, SEAL NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarch Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. CHENYE & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Dr. Griggs, 100. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Some women reign, and others positively storm. CUTICURA GROWS HAIR. Scalp Cleared of Dandruff and Hair Restored by One Box of Cuticura and One Cake of Cuticura Soap. A. W. Taft of Independence, Va., writing under date of Sept. 15, 1904, says: "I have had falling hair and dandruff for twelve years and could get nothing to help me. Finally I bought one box of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap, and they cleared my scalp of the dandruff and stopped the hair falling. Now my hair is growing as well as ever. I am highly pleased with Cuticura Soap as a toilet soap. (Signed) A. W. Taft, Independence, Va." An entertainment for charity generally covers a multitude of sins. 900 DROPS CASTORIA WOMAN NEEDS Conviction Follows Trial When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, how do you know what you are getting? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out. Could any amount of more talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? For the relief and cure of the many delicate, intricate and obstinate ailments peculiar to her sex, a remedy carefully devised and adapted to her delicate organization by an experienced and skilled physician. Such a remedy is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The treatment of many thousands of those chronic weaknesses and distressing ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapting and thoroughly testing remedies for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and valuable experience. Thousands of testimonials received from patients and from physicians who have tested it in the more aggravated and obstinate cases which had baffled their skill, prove it to be a superior remedy for the relief and cure of suffering women. It is not recommended as a "cure-all," but as a most perfect specific for woman's peculiar ailments. As a powerful invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system and to the womb and its appendages in particular. For over-worked, "worn-out," debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shopgirls," house-keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally. "Favorite Prescription" is the greatest earthy boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nervine, "Favorite Prescription" is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, or St. Vitus's dance, and other distressing, nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. Conviction Folly When buying loose coffee or anything to have in his bin, how do you getting? Some queer stories about could be told, if the people who have speak out. Could any amount of mere talk housekeepers to use Lion Coffee the leader of all package co of a century, if they had not found it Purity, Strength, Flavor This popular success of LION COFFEE can be due only to inherent merit. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. If the verdict of MILLIONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince you of the merits of LION COFFEE, it costs you but a trifle to buy a package. It is the easiest way to convince yourself, and to make you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEE is sold only in 1 lb. sealed packages, and reaches you as pure and clean as when it left our factory. Lionhead or every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. LEARN THE MILLINERY TRADE and earn from $10 to $500 a week at your own home while learning. For full particulars write at once to NATIONAL MILLINERY SCHOOL, .72 Washington Street, Dept. I, Chicago. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have A prospective mother cannot begin too early to look after her own health and physical condition. This is sure to be reflected in the baby. Any weakness or nervous depression, or lack of vigor on the mother's part should be overcome early during the expectant time by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which promotes the perfect health and strength of the organism specially concerned in motherhood. It makes the coming of baby absolutely and comparatively free from pain; renders the mother strong and cheerful, and transmits healthy constitutional vigor to the child. Dr. P. V. Pirce Buffalo. N. V. : Dear Sir--Some eight years ago, after the birth of our first baby, I was left in a weak, run-down condition and seen a few days later. Sir Dear Sir suffer much pain, but believe I suffered everything that anyone could suffer with nervousness. Life was tough, and I suffered much physician several years but obtained no relief. Then I took almost all kinds of patent medicines and almost all kinds of painkiller, but got no relief, but grew worse all the time. Finally chanced to get hold of one of your pamphlets and thought I would write a letter to you, where there could be no cure, but great was my joy, when I received your answer that I could be curtied. I was so grateful that prescription, two of "Golden Medical Discovery" and four vials of Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pellets. I am never without these little pellets. I be the house of my dreams, those three strange houses. I would advise all sufferers to go to Doctor Pierre of Buffalo, N. Y., for relief. I don't know how to thank you enough for all the good your medicine has done for me. All women should read Dr. Pierce's thousand-page illustrated book, "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." It contains more clear and comprehensive advice on medical subjects than any other book ever published. A paper-bound copy sent free for twenty-one one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mailing only. Or cloth-bound for thirty-one stamps. Follows Trial for anything your grocer happens you know what you are about coffee that is sold in bulk, no handle it (grocers), cared to talk have persuaded millions of Coffee, age coffees for over a quarter it superior to all other brands in vior and Uniformity? LION LION ANY MALT COFFEE WOLFSBERG SINCE 1870 FARMS WESTERN CANADA FARMER WESTERN CANADA FREE Is the record on the Free Homestead Lands of Western Canada for 1904. The 150,000 farmers from the United States, who during the past seven years have gone to Canada participate in this property. The United States will become an Importer of wine from Western Canada or purchase a Form of Western Canada, and become one of those who will help produce it. Apply for information to Superintendent of Imigation, Ottawa Canada or to authorized Canada, Government, about...1. S. Crawford, No. TE W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. SOUTHERN CONDITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES. In no part of the United States has there been such wonderful Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural development as along the lines of the Illinois Central and the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad, the Mississippi and Louisiana, within the past ten years. Cities and towns have doubled their population. Splendid business blocks have been erected. Farm lands have more than doubled in size and industries have been built and as a result there is an unprecedented demand for Parties with small capital, seeking an opportunity to purchase a farm home; farmers who need a farm home; farmers who purchase; and day laborer in fields or factories should address a postal card to Mr. J. P. Merry, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Dubuque, Iowa, who can simply print materials in the text box above described, and give specific replies to all inquiries. 10,000 Plants for 160. More gardens and farms are planned to Salzer's Foods than any other farm in Dubuque. We can cover 40,000 acres for this. We own over 40,000 acres for the production of our food. In order to address our try we, make you the following unprepared. For 16 Genes Postpals 1000 Early, Medium and Labs Cabinets 2000 Blue Huey Cabinets 2000 Blue Huey Cabinets 2000 Rich Huey Launches 2000 Rich Huey Launches 2000 Rare Locusts Radishes 1000 Grizzly Brilliant Flowers 1000 Business Center sufficient seed to grow 10,000 plants, furnishing Business Center and lotion choice vegetables, together with our great catalog of allabore Plants. 1000 Small, Lush and this notice. 100 in stamps and this notice. A friend of the home A foe of the Trust Calumet Baking Powder Compiles with the Pure Food Laws of all States. Forgot One's Self. If one will but try to forget one's self and think only of the comfort, the pleasure and the happiness of others, there can be no self-consciousness. If in the company of the opposite sex, do not be always thinking of whether you are producing a good impression or otherwise; be constantly on the alert to find what your companion or companions Honesty That Irritated. "Once, when I had occasion to withdraw $25 from my bank," remarked the conscientious man, "something happened which almost tempted me to think that honesty may at times be not so very commendable. By a curious mistake, considering the small amount of money, the cashier handed out six five-dollar gold pieces. Without thinking what it meant to him I shoved one of the coins back, saying: 'You have given me too much.' The look that man gave me I have never forgotten, although even at this day I cannot describe it. But I can assure you it was not a grateful glance." Cured Her Diabetes. Halo, Ind., Feb. 27th.—(Special.)—If what will cure Diabetes will cure any form of Kidney Disease, as so many physicians say, then Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure any form of Kidney Disease. For Mrs. L. C. Bowers of this place has proved that Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Diabetes. "I had Diabetes," Mrs. Bowers says, "my teeth all became loose and part of them came out. I passed a great deal of water with such burning sensations I could hardly bear it. I lost about 40 pounds in weight. I used many medicines and doctored with two local doctors but never got any better till I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. They cured me so completely that in three years I have had no return of the disease. I am a well woman now, thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all kidney ailments from Backache to Bright's Disease. Cure your Backache with them and you will never have Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Rheumatism. It's a cheap counterfeiter that would start the detectives on a false scent. Talking machines—Victor and Edison are the best to day; cash or payments, SI weekly. • Write to day; JENKINS' MUSIC CO. KANSAS CITY, MO. 30.000 records in stock. Mention this paper. Nothing tires one more than to hear o one boast of their honesty. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. CENTURY OF GREAT MEN. Six Immortal Characters in Modern History's Pages. From 1730 to 1820 is the most memorable period in modern history. Six great men made their marks—Napoleon, whose chief feature was ambition; Nelson, courage; Pitt, statesmanship; and George Stephenson, ingenuity. Washington and Nelson have seceded the affection of posterity, Washington and Stephenson have done the most for mankind. Wellington enjoys the respect of all. Pitt has our admiration and Napoleon will forever excite the wonder of the world. Napoleon endowed to remodel Europe; George Stephenson succeeded in doing so! Washington and Stephenson, together had independence, observation and ingenuity—the three qualities which are of the most service to humanity.—London Truth. Days of Prosaic Courtship In Shakespeare's England courtship was not the prolonged and romantic affair it is now. The young folks did not make and unmake engagements as they pleased without consulting their parents. The etiquette of a betrothal was almost as formal and as rigid as that of marriage is today. It consisted of three observances—the joining of hands, a kiss and interchange of rings, all in the presence of witnesses and usually in church. The man had to promise under oath to 'take this woman whose name is N. to wife within forty days.' It is needless to say that under such circumstances—engagements never lasting as much as six weeks, partners usually chosen by their parents, marriages at age of 14 and honey moon trips unknown—there was much less opportunity than there is now for the development of romantic love. Feminine Confessions. Whether we are doing the London season or a round of country house visits, the enjoyment of most women is largely dependent on the amount of opportunities accorded to them for filtration. No matter how indignantly some of my sex may deny it, we all thrive on admiration.—Ladies' Field. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday March 3. A glass famine is reported. Great suffering among the goats and the ostriches. Perhaps the farmers are buying automobiles so that they can scorch after the scorchers. An arena for bull fights is being built at Cannes. After the bulls are killed there, will they be canned? At least that big South African diamond ought to be exhibited all over the world before it is cut up. In Thibet when a pupil falls in his lessons they flog the teacher. Say! Isn't there some sense in that? The Yaqui Indians of Mexico are doing their best to take their proper place among international problems. A Louisville minister swallowed a steel drill and even the X-ray can't find a trace of it. What a digestion! Prof. Craig says that civilization is over 9,000 years old. And mighty small for its age it sees sometimes, too. We will soon know whether J. P. Morgan or "Pat" Sheedy will get that $4,000,000 diamond just found near Pretoria. "Is there any redeeming feature about a red nose?" asks the Denver Post. Well, as a danger signal to the bibulous it has its uses. Americans eat more sugar than any other people on earth. It is no wonder, therefore, that they do the most scolding at the sugar trust. King Edward has quit wearing a white vest. This will, of course, mean a dead loss of $4 or $5 to the American who has just bought one. Sir Frederick Treves, the eminent English physician, thinks "genius is some sort of neurosis." Perhaps that accounts for its eccentricities. The coast of Borneo has more mosquitoes to the square inch than any other place in the world. Doubtless this accounts for Borneo's crop of wild men. The Springfield, Mass., Republican refers to Alfred Austin's sonnet on Shakespeare as "Alfred Austin's Best." Sounds like an advertisement of ham. The Sultan of Turkey is trying to borrow money from German bankers. He must think the German have seen too busy to read about Cassie Chadwick. The young lady who wants to know "how a girl ought to salute the American flag" probably wouldn't displease the color-bearer if she should throw kisses at it. The schedule of Mrs. Chadwick's debts indicates that most of her dupes have decided to "chuck the whole business" and mark it up to profit and loss. Owing to circumstances over which he has no control, J. Pierpont Morgan will not be able to add the sun spot to his large and magnificent collection of curiosities. If Mrs. Chadwick could only get to a bank, she could easily prove that a rich relative several years ago gave her the 3,022-carat diamond just discovered near Pretoria. According to a Philadelphia tobac conist, his best cigars are sold for $5 apiece. They are not the kind that Gov. Pennypacker hands out to newspaper reporters when they call. The naval cadets can't quite agree with the president that the fear of militarism is a baseless alarm when they remember that very few of the West Point football players quit school this year. Lack of proper food or an insufficient amount of food may be one of the causes of truancy, but many a gray head can recall how he played hookey on a full and perfectly satisfied stomach. A boy died in a New York schoolroom after being taunted on his failure to pass an examination. The doctor said the lad had a weak heart. And it may be added that his taunters had weak heads. The four sovereigns of England, Austria, Germany and Italy draw $13,000,000 per year in the way of salaries. That is to say four kings take the table stakes in Europe. Much the same way in this country. A fashion writer says that Easter bonnets will be costlier than ever this year, but as Easter comes later than usual this year, the mere men who have to pay the bills will have a longer time than usual to save up for them. Up to 1889 green peas were used only as missiles or counters, says the New York Sun. We have seen some even since then which seem to have been divinely ordained for these purposes. They had been cooked that way, too. COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS. Doaz's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer, Making Him Feel Twenty-five Years Younger. J. B. Corton, farmer and lumber man, or Doppe N. C. says: 'I suffered for years with my back. It was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor even ride in easy buggy. I do not believe I could have raised ten pounds of J. B. CORTON weight from the ground, the pain was so severe. This was my condition when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They quickly relieved me and now I am never troubled as I was. My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long distance and feel just as strong as I did twenty-five years ago. I think so much of Doan's Kidney Pills that I have given a supply of the remedy to some of my neighbors and they have also found good results. If you can sift anything from this rambling note that will be of any service to you, or to anyone suffering from kidney trouble, you are at liberty to do so." A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. are most interested in, and turn the conversation in that direction. Billion Dollar Grass When the John A. Salzer Seed Co., of La Crosse, Wis., introduced this remarkable grass three years ago, little did they dream it would be the most talked of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth, but this has come to pass. **BILLION $ GRASS** Agricultural Editors wrote about it, Agr. College Professors lectured about it, Agr. Institute Orators talked about it, while in the farm home by the quiet fire we had been building in the village post-office, at the cremery, at the depot, in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, that marvelous grass, good for 5 to 14 tons hay per acre and lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farmer's voice. Then comes Bromus Inermis, then which there is no better grass or better permanent hay producer on earth. Grows wherever soil is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer's Teosinte, which produces 14 inches of corn grown on the hill, in 100 days rich in nutrition and greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc., and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, the luxuriant food for hogs and sheep, which can be grown at 29c a aoy and Spelt at 29c b both for hogs and sheep, and cattle, come in for their share in the discussion. JUST SEND 10C IN STAMPS and this notice to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for their big catalog and many farm seed samples. [W. N. U.] In London's "Alien" Districts. As illustrating the way the people live in the "alien" districts of London's East End, a member of parliament told this as a postman's common experience: "He knocks at the door with the first delivery; a head is put out of the first door window and the question is asked. Is that letter for So-and-So?" Yes, replies the postman. "Well, says the lodger, 'please leave it on the window sill; I can't get down until the people who are sleeping in the passageway have moved their beds.'" IT IS IN THE BLOOD IT IS IN THE BLOOD Neither Liniments nor Ointments Will Reach Rheumatism—How Mr. Stephenson Was Cured. People with inflamed and aching joints, or painful muscles; people who shuffle about with the aid of a cane or a crutch and cry, Oh! at every slight jar, are constantly asking, "What is the best thing for rheumatism?" To attempt to cure rheumatism by external applications is a foolish waste of time. The seat of the disease is in the blood, and while the sufferer is rubbing lotions and grease on the skin the poison in the circulation is increasing. Delays in adopting a sensible treatment are dangerous because rheumatism may at any moment reach the heart and prove fatal. The only safe course for rheumatic sufferers is to get the best possible blood remedy at once. Mr. Stephenson's experience with this obstinate and distressing affliction is that of hundreds. He says: "About a year ago I was attacked by severe rheumatic pains in my left shoulder. The pains were worse in wet weather, and at these periods caused me the greatest suffering. I tried a number of treatments and ointments, but they failed to alleviate the pains." Then he realized that the cause must be deeper and the pain only a surface indication. He adds: "1 had heard Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palde People recommended as a care for rheumatism, and when I found that I was getting no relief from applications, I made up my mind that I would try them. Before the first box was gone I noticed that the pains were becoming less frequent, and that they were not so severe as before. After the second box had been used up I was entirely free from discomfort, and I have had no traces of rheumatism since." The change in treatment proved by almost immediate results that Mr. Thomas Stephenson, who lives at No.115 Greenwood street, Springfield, Mass., had found the true means for the purification and enrichment of his blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are without doubt the best of all blood remedies. They effect genuine and lasting cures in rheumatism. They do not merely deaden the ache, but they expel the poison from the blood. These pills are sold by all druggists HOW MARTHA GOT RELIGION. "Mammy's" Efforts or Great Assist ance in the Case." I was seated one evening in the warehouse of a friend in the quaint old town of Newberne, North Carolina. On the opposite side of the street was an African church in which a revival meeting was being held. From the partly opened windows came the sound of shouts and the usual melodies of the colored race. Suddenly the door opened and three young colored women emerged therefrom. The one in the middle was being supported by her companions on either side and her arms were swinging in the air, and as they walked along the street she shouted in wild emotion something that sounded like "Got salvation! Foun' my Savior! Hol' onto my Lawd!" and was led away by her friends. Cleaning up the office in the corner of the warehouse was an old colored women. Turning to her I said: "Auntie, what is the matter with that girl?" "Why, bless your soul, chile!" Auntie responded quickly, "don't you know what's the matter with her? Why, she's got it 'liglon! But she ain't got it half as bad as some people has. Had to hol' my Marfa down for 'n hour and a half when she got it." I said: "Is that so Auntie? Did Martha keep it?" "Oh, yes, she's kept it; lost it once; but she got it again." "How did she get it again?" "Webl, sir, I just done licked it into acr."—"The Sunday Magazine." SHOWS FOLLY OF WORRY Short Talk About Perplexities Met With in Life. Never climb a hill until you get to it, advises a writer in Medical Talk for the Home. We remember as children that in riding through the country we had a dread of high hills. How often we saw far ahead of us, on the road, a formidable looking hill. How high and rough and steep it looked, and how we feared it. How hard it would be for the horse to carry us up such a hill. We were sure he would slip and fall and maybe upset the carriage and so, with the greatest apprehension, we would approach the dreadful hill. But how surprised we were as we came nearer to find the hill receding, growing flatter, and really no hill at all when we reached the point that seemed so high and craggy and dangerous. So it is with many of life's perplexities. How darkly they loom up before us, what a black pall they spread around us. But when we get close up to them they have vanished entirely. We spoil so much of life in fear and foreboding. We let slip the beautiful moments that are curs and spoil them by dreading the moments of the future with which we have nothing to do. We ride over the nice, level country, forgetting its beauty, unmindful of its delight, dreading the hill that never comes. Pleasant Ship's Company. We have received a communication from a Scottish physician stating that it is proposed to attempt a new departure in the treatment of tuberculosis by sea voyage. A large sailing vessel will leave this country about the end of January for a long voyage in warm latitudes and will be prepared to convey a "number of consumptives, limited to fifty, of inebriates and of other invalids." It is intended that the patients suffering from tuberculosis shall live on deck day and night whenever the conditions of weather permit, so that they may have the advantage of constantly breathing absolutely pure air containing much ozone. During the voyage the vessel will call at, among other places, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro, River La Plata, Pernambuco and the West Indian Islands, and opportunities will be given for the patients to land and see a little of the countries thus visited. Such is the prospect put before a limited number of invalids whose circumstances, physical and social, permit them to avail themselves of it.-The Lancet The Older Folks. The Older Folks. God's blessing on the older folks! Youth is not all life. Neither the forms are strong To meet the daily strife. There's living yet for older folks— Fine, loving work to do. Faint hearts to cheer uncertain feet To guide in pathways true. God's blessing on the older folks. Their strength have spent. Their strength on life's strenuous battlefields, And walked the generous length Of years in splendid loyalty To that which seemed the right, Undaunted by decreed Or by the foeman's might. God's blessing on the older folks! Some have clear drops start When, looking backward, old-time joys Come tugging at the heart. But age has compensations and Its own peculiar bliss. Peace presses aged brow Its softest, tenderest kiss! God's blessing on the older folks Beautiful, upward, see The larger life not far ahead, Clear of all mystery. Come, winds of heaven, while earnest souls Are bovied in solemn prayer, Search out the older hearts, and drop Thy benedictions there! —William Norris Burr. A Pointed Question. 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DOUCLAS, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS Remarkable Cures Effected By Pearlina Under date of January 10, 1897, Dr. Hartman received the following letter: "My wife has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases for the past twenty-five years. Her case has baffled the skill of some of the most noted physicians. One of her worst troubles was chronic constipation of several years' standing. She was also passing through that most critical period in the life of a woman—change of life. "In June, 1895, I wrote to you about her case. You advised a course of Peruna and Manalin, which we at once commenced, and have to say it completely cured her. "About the same time I wrote you about my own case of catarrh, which had been of twenty-five years' standing. At times I was almost past going. "I commenced to use Peruna according to your instructions and continued its use for about a year, and it has completely cured me."—John O. Atkinson. 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Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money Bad habits grow rapidly without much cultivation. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. 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The inventor of a substitute would soon become a multimillionaire. Atkinson says, after five years' experience with Peruna, "I will ever continue to speak the word for Peruna. I am still catarrh." - John O. Atkinson and pendence, Mo., Box 272. Mrs. Alla Schwandt, Sanbana writes: "I have been troubled with thirst and catarrh for twenty-five. Could not sleep day or night. I have used Peruna I can sleep without nothing bothers me now. If I ever affected with any kind of sick Peruna will be the medicine I use. My son was cured of catarrh the larynx by Peruna." - Mrs. Schwandt. When old age comes, catarrh cases come also. Systemic catarrh almost universal in old people. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman,护 of the Hartman Sanitarium, Cali Ohio, who will be pleased to give the benefit of his medical advice. W. L. Douglas makes and so more Men's $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. $10,000. 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