Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Billy Miller, of Howard versity, Washington. D. C., Gives His Views. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, the Golden Rule, on the Mount, the Nation of Independence, institution of the United and the genius and tradition american institutions are open defiance by a narrow vincial spirit. The ethic political foundations of order are ruthlessly over the fiat of a silly phraseation is of vital concern loyal American citizen this spirit is allowed to and the Negro is, of set suppressed below the American manhood, in place to an absurd theory, as statue will inevitably into a servile caste as rigid exorable as that which oriental civilization. The need patriotism that rose righteous wrath against slavery cannot view with pure the establishment on an soil of an inquitous which is even more repugged the genius of free institution. The silent South. the wars and descendants of the type of the slave holding the men and women in breasts even the blighting face of slavery could not the milk of human kindess held, as in a vise, by arrow and intolerant spirit. have no frantic dread of social affiliation of the races according to their traditional code, intimate person association with the uncouth uncultivated whites is always distasteful contemplation set the cry of social equality been so persistently and seriously dinned in their ears, an imaginary evil assumed bluish of real danger. This has been hushed; they have been toungetied, are as com- divested of freedom, elth action or utterance, as the Negro who bears the burnt will. If liberal-minded south-white men like George W. Er John Spencer Bassett, Andrew Sledd, though still ing allegiance to the pre- ing social dogma, dare lift their voice even in faintest whis per, in protest against the evil perpetrated in its name, they are forthwith lashed into silence by popular fury and scorn. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It chills the higher faculties of the soul. The restiveness of the high-souled sons of the South under restriction imposed by the less enlightened og their own race is the hopeful rift that we can see in the dard and lowering cloud. Every system of opression seeks to justify itself. This intutions of slavory ransacked science, history, literature and religion in quest of fact and argument to uphold the iniquitous system. There is almost an exact parallel between the methods employed in support of human slavery and those that are now being resorted to in justification of the decrees of "sociae equality." We are told that the seperation of the races is ordained of God just as slavery used to be called a "divine institution." It is strange indeed that those who breathe hatred and slaughter against their fellow men are ever prone to claim prerogative in acrying out their iniquitous scheme- The al,iance of Providence with the type of men who are now leading the propaganda of race hatred would reverse all of all of our recieved notions of the divine attributes. Phiysical dissimilarity is seiged upon as a badge of distinction and a hasty judgement easily confuses the index with the indicated potency. But as is well known, difference of race and color has never prevented the closest intimacy of personal association. The gent.eman who drives to the station "cheek by jowl" with his black coachman but who becomes furious on being made occupant with a black seatfellow in a railway coach, is actuated by an impulse other than purely physical repugnance If race friction rested sole lp upon physical basis, who should expect its rigor to be uniform wherever such distinction prevail. But, as a matter of fact, we find that it is subject to the widest latitude of variability, and is almost indefinely modifiable by circumstances and conditions. It presents little of the fixity and inflexible character of natural law. The Teuton mani- WICHITA, KANSAS MARCH 11 1905 fests it in a different degree from the Latin races, with whom ethnic peculiarties count for little against moral and spiritual homogeneity. Rio de Janeiro and Richmond, Virginia, are typical illustrations of the two spirits as respects the entente of dissimilar races. Prejudice is more pronounced, or at least assumes a different aspect, in the southern than in the northern state, being stimulated by the relative number and erstwhile status of the two elnments. It becomes mild or virulent, according to incentive or occasion. In individual instances, it almost or wholly disappears, and can be aroused only by playing upon his class interests, prejudice price. Grant Allen tell us somewhere that the same Englishman who seems to ignore race difference at home, becomes the most intolerant of men when he takes residence in the colonies. If the seperation of SPEAK THE GOOD WORD. It isn't the thinking how grateful we are For the kindness of friends come to bless Our sorrow or loss 'Neath the weight of the cross; It is telling our gratefulness. It isn't the love that they have in their hearts And neglect or forget to reveal. That brightens the lives Of husbands and wives; It is telling the love that they fell. It isn't the thinking of good to mankind, That comes as a cooling drink To the famishing ones Of earth's daughters and sons; It is telling the good that we think. It isn't the music, asleep in the strings Of the lute that entrances the ear, And brings to the breast The spirit of rest; It is only the music we hear. It isn't the lilies we hide from the world, Nor the roses we keep as our own, That are strewn at our feet By the angels we meet; On our way to the Great White Throne It isn't the silence of hope unexpressed, That heartens and strengthens the weak To triumph through strife For the great things of life; It's the words of good cheer that wt speak. —William J. Lampton. Texas Guide. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Up-to-the-Minute Industrial Education Everywhere today we are talking education. "It is the burden of our song North, East, South and West." The hills an dales resound with an universal cry for "more light, more soul, more skill." We are saying that the unlettered immigrant who comes to our shores from foreign lands must be educated up to American standards; the sections which too proudly boast of their peculiar institutions and traditions and arrogantly insist upon being reckoned with as an entity must be educated up to a true conception of the national spirit. The plain citizen must be educated up to a knowledge of h's rights and duties and the responsibilities of the ballot, labor and capital disordant commercial interests and the heterogenous races must be harmonized through finely-graduated intellectual processes. The productive callings, professional, mechanical and agricultural must be brought up to the fullest measure of efficiency through steady and systematic training of head, heart and hand. Then we are laying extraordinary stress upon the kind of education. The white man requires for the proper development of his faculties and the particular brand of learning the negro is capable of grasping without injury to himself or the body politic. However we may differ on the minor points, we are all agreed that education in some form coupled with industry, character and aptriotism, is essential to the well-being of masses and classer, and to the preservation of the unique government we are building. We can easily dismiss the racial aspect of the problem by asserting the demonstrated fact that the kind of education that is needed by any finite element of the nation's populace is needed in an equal degree by the negro, under similar condition amid similar environments and of similar opportunities. The chief concern should be not to adopt the training to the individual and his immediate circumstances leaving the future to be worked out along natural lines and permitting opportunity to develop without artificial restriction. So diverse is humanity that no hard and fast limitation can or ought to be set upon any nation or race as a whole. Education, to be a most effective, must tend to round out a people—to draw out the best that is within them for the enlargement of the world's resources. No sane thinker urges any one form of training for any considerable group of individuals, separated from the mass by purely physical or racial dissimilarities. Jews and negroes are familiar examples of races more or less tabooed by public sentiment. Jews find it necessary to the progress of their various undertakings to be educated to know, to reason and to do—to be able if set apart to sustain themselves independently of the mass. The Jews have their doctorsfi lawyers, preachers, teachers, business men, poets, painters, actors and they have their farmers, mechanics, architects, trades-workres and common laborers. All of these have their part in the moral, mental and material uplift of their people. All assist in balancing the spiritual and ethical forces—home, church and school—with the substantial economic and militant strength represented by money, houses lands and commerce. They correctly believe in the highest of education for those who can get it, but hold it as an obligation due the humblest of their kindred that he be given some retaining that will guarantee a decent living and offer a fair opportunity for reaching the more exalted sphere by superior capacity and industry. This final test of education is what enables its possessor to do for the betterment of his day and generation. This is the note sounded for us with like vigor sweetness and per continued on page four Knew All About Bible Justice in Old France Song of True Humanity Knows Secrets of Nature "Down in Tennessee, where I was living a few years ago, a colored blacksmith conceived the idea that he had a call to preach," said a local business man recently. "Sam could barely read, but he had floundered through the Bible and considered that he was qualified to teach men the way to salvation. One day a convention of methodist preachers was held in the town and to them Sam made known his ambition. Two or three of them took him in hand and examined him as to his qualifications. "Sam knew nothing at all about theology and the interrogators soon discovered the fact and took up the Bible. The examination ran about like this: "Why did Joseph's 'brethren put him in the pit?'" "Joseph he wouldn't work 'cause he war a pet wid de ole man, an' he alius go 'round wid his fine coat on what de ole man give 'im, an' when he wouldn't help husk cawn husbenders take he coat away 'an' put him in de cellar an' two she bears cum an' eat 'im up.'" Judge William L. Putnam, of Portland, Maine, said recently, anent an unjust punishment: "This case brings to my mind a quaint old story that I came upon the other day in a history of the kings of France. "There was a certain rich man, who said an unkind and unchivalrous thing about a poor man's daughter. The poor man waited upon the rich man and took him to task, whereupon the latter, overcome with rage, seized a heavy club, and at one stroke put the poor man to death. "For this crime the rich man was tried. His wealth—this happened, you must remmeber, centuries ago—worked in his favor, and the sentence imposed on him was that he must not sell fruit in his shop for the space of three years. Had he been a fruiterer in this punishment there would have been some hardship. But he was not a fruiterer at all. He was a baker. "The murdered poor man had a son, a young soldier in the king's army. When the young soldier heard of his father's killing and of the ridiculous sentence given to his slayer, he has Song of Tru Upon my shelf of letters lies, This dark December morning, A picture of Italian skies, The morning in mind; A vision of a purple bay, A town all red and yellow. How dreary is our winter gray Beside that sunshine mellow! But though your southern paradise A moment sets us longing. We treasure more than in soul; The good to us belonging. When you to the Campanian shore Fled with the fledwallow. You left some neighbors at our door, Like us, who could not follow. As round us to receive their dole They crowd and flock together, When we shall be our winter flowers. And almost of one feather. Yeah! in the barren, roseless hours When frost the ground doth harden. The birds shall be our winter flowers. And blossom in our garden. There tits and blue-caps, startlings too, When we shall winter wages; The place would be just like the "Zoo." Only it has no cages. Knows Secre It is curious how the untutored savage often gets an inkling of scientific phenomena long before the savants of the civilized community attain an insight into the same natural causes and effects. True, the savage in such cases can assign no definite reason for his belief, but relied apparently on his intuition, or, more accurately, his keen observance of sequence in effect. In Egypt there are a few petroleum wells and the natives make a rude attempt at distilling the product to produce illuminating oils to be burned in lamps that are marvels of simplicity and inefficiency, as measured by modern standards. The oil made by the native smokes dreadfully under any circumstances and in the rude lamps he employs it is, simply insufferable to the European. The native, however, is wise beyond NO 45 "What did Ananias do?" "Ananias he take up de collection in de church an' he take a piece of money fum de basket an' giv' it to hes wife an' de Lcrd turn him over to de Poplists an' dey put out his eyes an' make him work in de mill. "San became suspicious that he was not giving details enough, so when he was asked for an account of Jezebel he replied: "Jezebel she wuz que Queen. She wuz lookin' out of de upstairs winder of de house and Gen. Jehu he come along an' she tells her 'G'long, yo' old baldhead," and two or three black fellows look out de window and Jehu tole 'em to tow her down, an' dey frow her down; an' he tole 'em to frow her down again, an' dey frow 'er down again; an' he tole 'em to frow 'er down seven times, an' dey frow 'er down seven times; an' he tole 'em to frow 'er down seventy times seven, an' dey frow 'er down seventy times seven, an' de dogs licked 'er sores and dey took up ob de fragments airt remained twelve baskets full."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. tened home, mad with rage. He went straight to the rich man's house, bace him defend himself as best he could, and after a brief struggle avenged his father's death with the death of the rich baker. "Now there was a great to do. The youth was thrown into a black, cold dungeon. It would have been hard with him had he not contrived, somehow or other, to lodge an appeal with the king. "The king investigated the case and saw much of it that was unfair. He summoned before him the prisoner and his accusers. He heard the whole story, from the rich baker's insult at the beginning to the rich baker's death at the end. "I understand,' the king said finally, 'that the baker killed the young man's father. What punishment was meted out to him for that crime?' "He was condemned, sir, said a witness, 'to refrain from fruit selling for three years.'" "Well, then,' said the king, 'since this young soldier of mine has killed the baker I condemn him to for three years not to cobble shoes.'" **The Humanity** "Outdoor relief" for all is spread. But robins, when they're able, will come into the home" instead. And breakfast on the table. And off, when heavy with the snow the laurel boughs are drooping. Gret wagging his mouths bow cook or or the banquet swooping. Here one and all, this truce of God their wilder nature taming. Tread fearless as through Eden trod the beasts for Adam's naming. Enjoy who will the cruel South the wildness goes wild. Where larks sing for the mouth, and thrushes snared and spitted! Our weather may be somewhat hard, But surely men are harder When they swoop their regard As booty for the larder. Come rain or snow, come bail or rime, We, tethered here by duty. Envy you not your softer clime Nor all its garrish beauty. But in our our friends The way that Winter taught us, And nobly shall he make amends For any lilies he brought us, And nocturnal spectator. reputation, for if closely questioned he will reply that he prefers the smoky native oil to the imported article, as the smoke "drives away the mosquitoes and malaria." Ten years ago such a statement would have been ridiculed, but to-day, in the flush of the discovery of the transmitting agency of the malarial parasite, the association of the mosquito and malaria by the native is remarkable, to say the least. Another case in point of recent discovery is the finding in Africa by a traveler of a tribe of natives who devote their entire time to the smelting of ore and, curiously enough, the native process is not essentially different from the modern furnace practice, and yields iron that is superior to the Sheffield product. Solomon's declaration that "There is nothing new, under the sun" finds daily fresh confirmation. THE SEARCHLIGHT. ORBITA. KANS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. - RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION - STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15a. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appl cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for publici tion must be signed by the part or parties writing. 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The primary to select delegates to the republican city convention is close at hand and we take this opportunity to speak a friendly word to the colored men of Wichita who will take part in this primary. We trust that the colored men will not have a reptition of some of the epast scenes on these occasions. There is no necessity for savage boisterousness and loud yells and personal abuses among colored men on these election days. Remember that every man, white or black, has a right to his opinion in these matters and is entitled to cast his ballot according to the dictates of his own conscience. Because a man may vary from your opinion does not warrant you in abusing him. Then again we trust that the colored men will see to it that whiskey is kept out on this day. We have so often noticed this state of affairs and we trust that on this occasion the colored men will put forth their best efforts. Let us be men and above all let us be friendly one to the other regardless to our political choice. Support Stewart Support Stewart On Thursday, March 16th, it will be decided whether the laboring man shall continue to receive a fair price for his labor or whether a man will be chosen for the mayoralty whose past record has been to reduce the wages of the laboring classes to such a point that the laboring man and his family will be reduced to the very verge of want, misery and distress. On Thursday, March 16, it will be decided whether the colored man shall cease to remain on the city payroll. The colored people generally speaking, are laboring people and any reduction in the wages paid to the laboring class, will therefore most vitally concern them. It is then, of more than passing interest to them that they should be very careful in casting their vote at the fourthcoming primary and not vote against their own interests. There are two men in the field who aspire for the mayoralty on the Republican ticket to be voted on next Thursday. The one is Senator James Stewart a life-long Republican, a friend of the colored man and a man who believes that the laboring classes should receive the highest wage possible. Senator Stewart is one of Wichita's most substantial business men and for years has been identified with every movement which had for its object to make Wichita a good place to live in, and no man today stands better among his fellow citizens than does Senator James H. Stewart. He is not a factional candidate and is not a candidate of any man or clique of men, but aspires for the nomination as a straight Republican, unpledged and unbiased to any man. If nominated next Thursday and elected he will be the mayor of all the people of Wichita regardless to nationality race or color. He will not seek to reduce any class of citizens to the door of want, but will use the office of mayor to the best advantage of all, whether poor or rich, black or white. Senator Stewart justly deserves the name 'the great commoner,' for he believes most forcibly in the interests of the common people. On the other hand Mr. Finlay Ross aspires for the mayoralty. It cannot justly be said that Mr. Ross is an out-and-out Republican, for two years ago he deserted the republican party which had honored him twice as city terasurer and twice as mayor of Wichita and two years ago he permitted himself to be the democratic and populist nominee for the mayoralty against the regular republican nominee. Not only that, but when he was mayor he returned the colored men out of employment reduced the wages of th laboring classes. No man could have in the same space of time so plainly shown his enmity to the laboring people and the colored people than did Mr. Finlay Ross during the four years he served as mayor. And now to come forth and ask the nomination at the hands of the very party which he tried hard two years ago to disband and disrupt and ask the support of the same people whom he drove to want and misery during the two terms he served as mayor is a frightful insult to the loyal party followers and the laborers. The question has been justly asked "To what party does Mr. Finlay Ross belong?" Then the safe thing for the laboring man and colored man to do is to vote for Senator Jas. H. Stewart, the man of the hour, the laboring man's friend and the tried and true friend to the colored man. Floyd Bros Restaurant and Cafe MEALS15c Cigars and Tobacco When Hungry Give Us A Call 408 North Main St. The Fourteenth Annual Session of the Tuskegee Negro Conference was held at Tuskegee, Alabama, Feb. 22, 1905. An unusually large attendance of negroes from Alabama and whites from North and East was present. The Mississippi Knights of Pythias pay a higher death benefit than any other state. The amount is not graded as in many states, and amounts to about $550.00 Young man go into business and be your own boss. It may come a little hard at the outset, but you will be fully rewarded in the end if you stick to it—Ex. W. M. Dunson, Painter and Paper Hanger Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 9 3 6 Read the great Searchlight, ```markdown ``` Cut Rates I.1 BATHS at the Aroade Bath Rooms and Barber Shop, 339 North Main St. 10 Baths For $1.00 Only 25 tickets to be sold at this price. GET YOUR TICKETS AT ONCE John E. Lewis, Prop. 339 North Main St The people will have to learn to greet our reporter and solicitor. Give him a little news and we will publish it. HAVE YOU REGISTERED J. H. Snowden is in the city for a while. Louis Clark is able to be aut a gain. Mr Jno Collins of Newton is in the city. Fred Madison has returned from Coffeyville Kana. Officer Jeff Thompson was able to be out for a while this week. Mrs. I. J Porter has returned from Ohetopa where she has been at the bedside of sick relatives. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J C Parish is suffering with o poil on his neck. Mrs Etta Pitts who is at her home in Springfield Mo is reported sick at that place Officer Syl Anderson returned from Topeka and Kan. City where spent his vacation among the boys He reports a fine trip. Messers Simi, Reed and Anderson were in the city a few hours Wednesday with the private car of Supt Herley. The ladies of the Wichita Tabernacle No 34 will have a fish fry at the residence of Mrs Sherrilla 311 west Murdock Saturday night. all are invited to come out. Mr and Mrs A Paul and family have moved from 623 N Main to 686 N Water temporarily to await the completion of the house of Rev Van Leu et 528 N Water which they will then occupy. Mrs Lee Andeasan of this city went to Wellington Ka Noonday in the interest of the Court of Ca. anthe and installing officers. She reports the Court doing nicely for new one. Mrs. L. B. Smith spread a very tooths, me dinner to a few guests at her home Thursday afternoon. Those present were:---- LRev H. W. King and wife Rev R. M Rivers. Mrs Lawson Finis Mrs. W N Miller C. H. Floyd was the guest of Mr. Frank Street at 6 o'clock dine- nce Thursday at the home of Mr. Street 934 N Lawrence. A deliciou- sious dinner was servek. " UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL." BAND STARTED The colored men who interested in a colored band are beginning to get together and all hope Wichita will soon have a good band. They have had several good meetings and have called another meeting for next Tuesday night over 517 N Main st. Benrd Brooks son of Mrs L. C. Carr met with a painiul accident last week and has been confined to his bed most of the time since. He was riding on a wagon of coal and having lost his balance he fell beneath the wheels, while no bones were broken yet the bruses were quite painful. At this wriet-ing he is able to be out. Mrs. W. N. Miller entertained at her home 335 W. 15th for dinner last Saturday March 4th. Those present were:— Rev. and Mrs. H. W. King. Mr. and Mrs. Tosos Fine Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gibbs Mrs. M. W. Madison Everyone seemed to have had a fine time—and enjoyed themselves. The G. L. A. Club met at the residence of Mrs J T Samford Tresday afternoon 14 ladies were present. The first Tuesday of each month the club suspend all work for that day a d then rendered a nice programme the two recitation by Mrs Anderson and Harpes were of a humorous character. After the programme the aoll was called and a dainty lunch was served by the hostess and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs Lee Anderson 724 St Francis ave next Tuesday aftereen March 14th, IS IT TRUE It is rumored that in the event Mr Finlay Ross fails to recieve the nomination at the hands of the republican he will be an independent candidate as he was two years ago supported by the democrats and populists. What do you think of that. Miss Lizzie Phelps and her brother Clifford Phelps were the guests of Mr. Frank Street at 1 oclock dinner Sunday at the Floyd Bros. Restaurant 408 N. Main. The party was more than well pleased with the wholesome dinner which had been prepared. A CORRECTION In our issue a week or so ago, we gave an account of the su den death of the infant of Mrs. Stone while enroute to hea home in Texas. We stated that we had been informed that the babys death was due to poisoned milk" We noE learn howeyer from Mrs. Samuel Brazil that the statement was erroneous, and that the baby died from chills brought on by being forced from a warm coach to a "jim (20W car)" at Gainsville Texas which was cold as ice. Although she pleaded with the trainmen to either heat the cold "jim grow car" or let her remain in warm car with her young baby but her pleadings were all in vain—and the result was as now stated. This is another evidence of the unhumanity of the Southern white people. GO TO GRANT'S CIGAR and SHINE PAROR 334 North Main Street For Cigars, Tobacco and Shines Phone 658. W.H. H. GRANT, Prop WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEFARTMENTS: Theiological, and State Industrial. 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This new service is;the quickets and most convenient that has yet been offered to te greatest health resort in America, Tilustroted bovks, describing Hot Springs, may§be had $from the undersigned on application E. EsBleckly, 1, R {Sherwin, TP. A. P&T A. Wtchita, Kans, ee ee ee ee ee ee ea ee x —_— « : O.K. DYE | sie : bat ee we . AND DRY a WN i) : ; CLEANING WORKS | [)\f_ D i b ‘The same old clothes, but, ob, what “2 d Vey ae ; Aifference since the O. K, Dye and Dry} 2 St 23 § Cleaning Works fixed them, : '§ i 4B, 2 3 Second hand clothi das new for/= g = j ogcitcarn ioe sails VF OP 33 b goods. a WHY 24 : Good Pants from 75c up wy f 2 ; Suits from $2.50 up. g 3 ; * ; Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired 3 Ladies’ Work A Specialty. » ze % ; C. G. Hanson, Prop. : : 330 Nor th Main Street 7 - ' y 2000000000090 9 00S OOOO eee ft’ Gardner Coal Co.,: ; wsesDEALERS IN...... masoG@ALsert | Feed and Building Material ; Office andzYards 1201 to 1245 N. 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Both Phones 496 ies, sen) ‘ : Fs TOOT ry : : : JIS ro 5497 WEST DOUGLAS ‘ i | e ‘ ae ial alll lll tle tinal T 1 Jones, SHOEMAKER, All Kind of Repair Work Neatly Done. Half Soles Nailed — — ‘5c. Half Soles Sewed — — $1.00 Only Cotored Shoe-maker in Wichita 347 North Main St. barbados eofestongordeedoed ofeegendoneedeedordo Ponder oedoofedengonge a i] 4 Secono To None GooD Ea Sas ERS —— It Is White As Snow. ——— TRYIT OTTO WEISS. Agent hep LReR.. LR, Mo Me Me Mo Me M MoMeMoMleMe QeekordeoLorder Looks 5.5m ees | East-Side | RESTAURANT Lunch - At- All - Hours —Meals 15c~> Fray & Wade, Props: 903 East Douglas Ave. — | HOLINESS MEETINGS.. A series of meetings are being held at the Holiness Mission,119 E Murdock, p:eaching every night in the weck and on Sunday the follow ing services are held, Sunday School 10 8, m. Preaching 11am, Bible Class 2p.m Preaching 7 80p, m The services are conducted ds Elder W- H, Svith assisted by Mrs F, P. Ba’eman. Everybody is cordially ivited to attend all of these meetingt. 0B WORK IS CUR HOBBY. PAPITATA HH A AAAS RAMS ASAD ALAR : % : % ‘ Myron A, DEAN } : % J we . . : Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables $ 5 and Feed. : te ; G16 N MAIN ST ‘ : eo ‘ "rere ce Freee rer rere errr juaewenwer ee Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physicianand Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children ‘A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St Mtreereeeneenenceneee ec saasEEUESTETEVINTTETT STOTT : ‘ ‘ . ° : Qcecws Pave Grose } t . | 3 P = : Prescriptions Filled with Care ; t ‘ +++ Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco... : & Your yatronage solicited. + Once a customer, always@, g ‘ustcmer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. i 7 : i 615 North Main st. ‘ - : Miueecerrerccecccccccees cccnencenceecoeqeoeeeeees STTSTTSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT Nice Furnished By the night or week ——— Mr B. Heck, Prop. 24: North Water St. HK KL KOK SLL KK ST Curly Hair Made Straight By : jee je = =F GP Lia AL By EBA eee ete FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW Beetle teahy as shown abores ie moar gue ortrenting Ba coren dandrad and makes Syentn rat aod Ey SWNousande Warranted EOE or seetigioning kiuty bates Beware of Taito Reeats Muyo aGataal tpoenioey te geetee ee Sh oe Brest otis os tara see Peyote ee TE SSR dhel ae nd Renate Enee'so mach desired." tollet neceastty for iis sevice ant ner satan pepe ey Beery bottle. Oaly See bane ceeeas tnd doniors.or noad ws BO cents for one bottle. stlerer ies teense elon ees Fee itis eeeramer tae ples Wegearaeaseat abies Salto OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., Charbss Ford ast 976 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. earn ueeeetee : : $25.00 California VIA pTLA March ft (o May 15th will bo a period of low ticket prices to California, It is June there when it’s eald, raw March end Apri here—that’s a reason for going, Another reason Is that Rock Zsl yand Tonrist Sleeping Car service is such an agreeable, comfort able and economical way to go that faily half the plessare of your Calitornia visis is derived frem the journey thither = = Maay of your neighbors and friends have made the trip— why not take your turn this spring? You surely want to go cometime and st might as well be NOW. i Californie book, Tourist folder and fall information, ‘ C.iB. Bascam, C.F. a | PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City . aie Phone 233 SELOVER & SONS, Props. ; =SMOKE= rE) a ‘(BeveGear | =CIGARS= | SOLD EVERYWHERE ~-H WDean yi Meat Markct seeeDEALER [Neve Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and Oysters 813 North Main Street L. 3. NAFTZGER, W. R, TUCKRR, President Vice President | J. M, MOORE) Cashier 3 Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Directors—W. BR, Tucker, W. £. Jott, KR. L, Holmes, S. B. Amrion, B. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, LS. Nafte ger, E.H Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith, A Gencral Banking Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS CLEARY ATER NEWS MrO. H. White bas bought more realestate in Clearwater and is building an addition to bis cottage. ‘The wheat is looking somewhat better and farm work is rapidly opening up and it soon be the time to prepue for a rainy day. ©. RB Wilfley ‘recieved word from his father Fenton Wilfley that he was going to his farm near Cleo Okla about Mareb 8th. Mesdames Sarah Wilfiey aud sister Florence Wilson were the guests of Mvs. O, H, White Sunday ©. R, Wilfley is expecting to make a trip to Wellington with the Seareblight and to vieit his mother in Oxtord Kans. Mr and Mrs. Barton and femily and their nephew from Ohio were lin this city shopping last week. Mr. Bartons nephew expects to make Clearwater his future home, Mr. Leonard Biggers and his stepbauzhter Miss For nee Wilson Jeft for Wichita Monday on busi- nefs, i C, R. Wilfley made 2 very nice and successfal trip to Okla and found every one trying to make a living on their farms and kindly weleomrd bim. Mr 0 H White has finished the well for the New Hot:1 of Clear -- water as Mr White is a shore wate getter. . | WATONGA NE'WS [Sessseies tains | | Rev. Perkins isup from Y¥exas i © locate in Watunge, He expects to make this his future home as he F pastor of the ©. M. EB, eburch he likes the country vary much. | The First Baptist chureh held mecting for Sunpay forthe pur— pose of electing a pastor, The Odd Fellows had six new members installed in their lodge ie makes 47 in number which has made a grand lodge in Waton= | ga now, Rev Simpson preaches 7 miles north of Watonga Sunday at the Wright Sehoot house, Miss Mattie Cristesler started for Memphis Tenn, last week, She has been texching sehoo! 7 miles nortis of Watonga. When 1m Watonga stopsat the Simpson bons, There ig where you can get nice clean roums and meals at all hours. When in the city give us a call, First Baptist church of Watongr has ‘elected Rev, Earl ae pastor and bave organized a Sunday School. Mrs Woods has returnen from a short visit to Gearry Okja. Mrs. McGee will finish the term of echoot at the Wright school, The cotten is standing in the fields und the corn is still ungather - ed, ‘The colored people of Emanuel Okfs are vary industrious people They baye a cetten jin and a color ed man for postmaster who has his wife as an assistanae, WANTED! A good colored band master One to locate in Wichita. Write Searchlight 110 N Main st. Wichita Kans. ee W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST s01 X. Main St. Wichita, Kans. In The Grocery J.ine Your wants need careful ate tention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices arg right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 357 Secretary Shaw Has 425 Joke and Calls Their Legs "Dressed Poultry." The recent increase of the import duty on frogs' legs has already stimulated a languid but pleasing industry. Although Secretary Shaw has no direct authority to revise the tariff, he may change the classification of an article so as to effect the rate of duty. Thus, by taking frogs' legs out of the category of "unmanufactured articles" and classing them as "dressed poultry," he extracts more money from those who import the delicacy from the Canadian marshes. In the same way the duty on wooden legs has been raised by rating them as "household supplies" instead of "manufactures of wood." An early result of the added protection to frog culture is the propagation, by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, of millions of pollywogs—the spawn of the deep-voiced Western bullfrog. These are offered without charge to farmers in the State who have marsh lands. Partly because of the high prices of ordinary meats the demand for frog's legs in the city is large and growing. Owing to the small cost and little trouble of the business it should be profitable. Probably no productive enterprise offers more pleasure and instruction than does the rearing of the frog. Not only is he a curious mystery to the man of science, but he has many personal qualities which attract the interest and often the friendship of the intelligent farmer. Long ago the poet affirmed that Of all the funny things that live in woodland, marsh or bog. That grass the ground for the air. That creep the ground or fly the air, the 2 milest is the frog. This estimate rests mainly on the fact that he neither runs nor walks, but "goes it with a jerk." However, he is not merely funny, but among his characteristics is a strong sense of duty. Although "daniel Webster," the champion jumping frog, was surreptitiously filled with birdshot, still he humped and heaved and displayed an honest desire o win the wager. From the earliest polywog state the frog is ever the source of surprise, information and pleasure. The sudden disappearance of the fishlike gills, then of the tail, and the equally startling and mysterious acquisition of a tongue (attached at the anterior extremity) and of agile, edible legs, must satisfy any taste for the wonderful. In every way frog culture beats the Belgian bare fad all hollow.-Philadelphia Ledger. WISE WORDS. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself—Montaigne. Fair and softly goes far. Sing away sorrow, cast away care. Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone? Tell me thy company and I will tell, thee what thou art—Cervantes. Look sharp and keep the cobwebs out of your eyes. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. Help thyself and God will help thee. A merry heart dooth good like medicine. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. The tree is known by his fruit. Remarkable Tars These. In a recent address before the Royal Sailors' Rest, in Devonport, Vice-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford touched on the subject of "shore leave." He said: "With regard to leave in the fleet which I command, I let the men go ashore on every available opportunity. The result is that the men loyalty back me up, and I have no breaking leave. That is very creditable to the men and most satisfactory to me. The men see that I wish to give them all the value possible in consideration of the service, and they amply reward me by coming off to their ships and not letting other men do their work. Authority has been doing a great deal for the lower deck, and will do more as time goes on." Poverty of British Bishop. If proof were needed of the accuracy of the Bishop of London's statement that the members of the Episcopal Bench, notwithstanding their large salaries, often find it difficult to make both ends meet, is furnished by the will of the late Bishop of Worcester, which has just been proved. Dr. Peroyne, who died at the advanced age of eighty-one, was Bishop of Worcester for ten years, and during that time he drew £50,000 by way of stipend, and yet the most the Bishop seems to have been able to do was to live up to Micawber's ideal of keeping his expenditure just within his income, for the gross value of his estate is returned at no more than £1120, which very probably represents little more than his life insurance.—London Chronicle. Under the Austrian poor law every man sixty years old is entitled to a pension equal to one-third the amount which he earned each day during his working days. Going to Extremes. The craze for old furniture has reached such a height that Lord — has turned his wife out of doors to make room for a Louis XVI. cabinet. —London Truth. A statistician says that France has about 4000 duels a year and Italy 2800. Primary Called Primary Called G W GALLEY ONE The Republican city primaries will be held Thursday March 16, and the Republican city convention for the purpose of nominating a city ticket, will be held on the following Saturday, March 18. This matter was decided on at the meeting of the city Republican central committee held at the headquarters over the Fourth National bank Tuseday afternoon. The meeting was largely attended and was harmonious in every particular. All of the members of the committee were present at the meeting. Both candidates for nomination as mayor on the Republican ticket were represented in the committee meetin. The principal work of the committee was to decie on a day for the holding of the primaries and also a day for the holding of the city convention. The primaries will be held on the 16 th and the convention on th 18th. Resolutions governing the holding of the primaries were also adopted. These resolutions stipulate that each candidate for mayor may select one judge and one clerk from each ward, and that the members of the committee from each ward select the other judge from that ward. These three judges and two clerks will constitute the primary election board. The committee was called to order at 2 o'clock. In the absence of Chairman J. H. Stewart, Secretary James A. Conley called the meeting to order. Dan E. Boone was chosen as chairman of the meeting. The following motions and resolutions were adopted: RESOLUTIONS. "Moved, that the chairman and secretary of the Republican city central committee be instructed to call a primary election for the selection of delegates, March 16, between the hours of 4 and 7 p. m., at such polling places as the chairman may be able to secure, and that the convention be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, March 18, 1905. "Resolved; that each ward be allowed representation as follows: One delegate at large from each ward, and one delegate for every 25 votes or major portion thereof, cast for congressman at large last November. "This will make the rtpresentation as follows: First ward ..... 29 Second ward ..... 30 Third ward ..... 31 Fourth ward ..... 34 Fifth ward ..... 17 Sixth ward ..... 16 "Resolved; That each candidate for mayor select one judge and one clerk for tach ward, and that the members of te city central committee from each ward select the third judge. The three judges and two clerks shall constitute the board of the primary election to be held March 16, 1905. "Resolved; that the judges be instructed to allow no votes to be cast in the Republican primary election to be held on March 16, 1905, except by such voters as are marked Republicans in the poll books used last fall in the presidential campaign, and such as are Republicans to be determined by such poll books and also street lists. Said books for the different wards and precincts to be furnished by the chairman or the Republican central committee to the judges. "Whereas; the ladies of Wichita are adverse to voting in primary election contests, and whereas, the attorney general of the state has ruled that the Republican city committee has full power to regulate such matters, therefore, be it "Resolved; that the respective primary election boards be instructed to the effect that no ladies shall participate in the coming primary election." The following are the committeemen who were in attendance at the meeting yesterday afternoon: First Ward—First precinct, George W. Adams; second precinct, George Knorr; third precinct, A. C. Rice. Second Ward—First precinct, Geo. Cossitt; second precinct, J. L. Harper; third precinct, A. C. Race. Third Ward—First precinct, George W. Adams; second precinct, A. M. Denny; third precinct, A. C. Richards. Forth Ward—First precinct, J. S. Shepard; second precinct, W. B. Throckmorton; third precinct, C. S. Smith. Fifth Ward—First precinct, Fred Bell; second precinct, E. L. Foulke. Sixth Ward—First precinct, Gus Miller; second precinct, J. H. Mercer. Palace Restaurant, Meals Filled Best the Market Can Afford Open at All Hours of The Night Mrs. L Freeman, Prop. 903 East Douglas Ave 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. Sale Price. $275 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. $600 Hoey Publishing Co. Wichita Kans. Searchlight $1. per yr. HYGITA TABLEROULE NO. 64, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Batrice Miller. Sec. Senator James H. Stewart arrived in the city Wednesday from Topeka where he has been attending the legislature. Senator Stewart is the republicau candidate for the nomination as Mayor of Wichita. Have You Registered? The members of the New Hope Baptist church meet together Tuesday and organized a sewing circle and the first meeting was held at the residence of Mrs. Abe Alexander last Thursday ev. The next meeting will be held Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. E. Lewis at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. A. Alexander President Mrs. J. E. Lewis VicePres. Mrs. Jefferson Secretary NEWTON NEWS Mrs Goree of Lawrence who has been visiting her mother Mrs M. Childs left for her home at Lawrence having spent the most enjoyable time of her life while in the city. The Trio club entertained a few of their Friday evening at the home of Miss Calie Anderson 915 Pine. An excellent programe was rendered which was as following Music by Hostess, Rec Cornelia Coleman, Solo Ophelia Brown, Paper on club work Fleta Coleman, Music, by Ocran Rickman Address to club Isaiah Coleman Solo Eunice Coleman. After the programme was rendered an elaborate lunch was served consisting of Fruit, cream and cake. Many games were played and the guests spent an enjoyable evening reporting the Trio club royal entertainers. The N. U. G. club celebrated its anniversary at the home of Mrs. Reevely. After an excellent programme was rendered an elaborate three course luncheon was then served the guest spent a very pleas ant afternoon indeed. Mrs. E. Underwood entertained twelve of her lady friends at her home Thursday afternoon in honor of Mr Goree of Lawrence Kans. An elegant lunbh was served and the music was furnished by the Rickman Bros. and the guest spent a pleasant afternoon There is popular distrust of the proposition to monkey with the prune crop. President Stillman said any banker is likely to make an error. Aunt Cassie Chadwick agrees. sistent by Howard University, and Tuskegee—and it ought to reach the soul of every Negro, man, woman and child. The case of the Jew is the case of the Negro-except that our situation in its mental and material phrases is far more deplorable and every method and suggestion through which the Jew is escaping the blighting thrall of ignorance, vice and poverty should be promptly adopted and emphasized by the negro. We require both systems of education regulated by conditions as they present themselves. Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes 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 Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N Main Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. We wish to place special stress on the great importance of all who desire to vote at the spring election to be registered. You cannot vote at this election unless you have registered since Jan. 1st, 1905. At the spring election all women eighteen years old and over are permitted to vote and must be registered just the same as the men. Do not forget this as it is important. SMART SET CLUB. Several gentlemen have organized a club for their mutual pleasure known as the "Smart Set Club." This club meets from house to house and each week and passes the time away in amusements, etc. Their last meeting was Thursday night at the home of E. T. Thomas at which time the following officers were elected: They have a jolly good time each week among themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gibbs served a most delicious dinner at their cozy home 219 W. 8th st. Wednesday afternoon at 2. colock. Every article was gotten up in wholesome and tasteful manner and when their guest had finished all agress that something had happened -- to the estables. Those present were:— Rev. and Mrs. H. W. King. Rev. R. M. Rivers of Kan. City Mrs. Addie Adams Mrs. Julius Gaines. Miss Winnie Ray. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller Mr. and Mrs. W. Gibbs After having eaten to their hearts content a l went to the sitting room where a lively conversation took place. All left at a reasonable hour declaring Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs very tasteful diners and hoping to meet them again soon in the same capacity. Services at the Tabernacle Baptist church Sunday was well attended. At 11 a.m. covenant meeting was held with Rev. Underwood preiding. After the meeting baptism took place and two souls were fellowshipped in the church. The Sunday school was held at 1 p. m. with Mrs. Anna Martin, Supt. and Mrs. A. McBride, Secretary. The B. Y. P. U. met with their President absent and Mrs Susie Price conducted the services. The church turns a vote of thanks to Fire Chief Walden for his kindness in having the pool in the church filled for the baptising Sunday. Rev. Underwood gave a short sermon aftera the B. Y. P. U. and administered the Lords Supper. ```markdown ``` 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. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT, WHY NOT? IT IS ONLY $1.00. FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. SUBSCRIBETO·DAY ————— ae ee « i oO eee py Persons Have Catarrh of Kidneys, Or Gatarrh of Bladder and Don’t Know It. Say Plainly to Your Grocer ‘That you want LION COFFEE always, and he, being @ square man, will not try to sell you any- thing else. You may not care for our opinion, but What About the United Judgment of Millions ‘of housekeepers who have used LION COFFEE for over a quarter of a century? Is there any stronger proof of merit, than the 2 Confidence of the People By ae and ever increasing popularity 2 IN Aa LION COFFEE 1s carefully se- Ah San lected at the plantation, shipped fii \\ i u Se direct to our various factories, Hh \ RESIN where it is skillfully roasted and Wy it it NN carefully packed in sealed pack- Mas y Hep SY aages—unlike loose coffee, which ROSS is exposed to germs, dust, in- ai Sig p ~=—s sects, etc. LION COFFEEreaches Veoh: ibe you as pure and clean as when o nnioekene . ‘it left the factory. Sold only in ee OY ose 1 Ib, packages. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums, SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. aa NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. ILES Bee Meee nt guetpid a 202ans train on Py, Fala ané isan ofthe esd FREE a pete a ree ea ican of Went, ot te tocando Neca alg pata Chant etd et free eleanor usta: DAS, THORNTON & MINOR, S23 {Usa Be, sneer City, Mot ey 2YEARS SELLING DIRECT "eare the largest manufacturers of vehicles and harness in the world sell- er eDENR ing to consumers exclusively. \/ Nl ceefied We Have No Agents sS:mnayearaanaeansy 1 ge waccnecee al it 1 tea aD mination, end aperoval fn _ BORDA) rss Fouare out notte Ee Sago ead ing ifnet satistiedasto ZX Wa) 4 N a a eee a Diteaeaies na CASA) SCR “Sha ciatargas age cle of harnees LAY RAY tyne SEM emeae, SPCR ae Mole tisne + ) Carriage @ Harness Mfg. Co., Elkhart, Indians. resident Newhof and War arrespondent Richards Were romptly Cured By Pe-ru-na, wry, Newhof, 10 Delamare street, nC ly Y., President Montefiore rine my advanced age t find that SiMreon trequently troubled with prevaliments. The bladder seemed vod, end my physician said thet it ‘qisrrh caused by # protracted ach would be ditticult to over riieccountof my advanced years, peruna, hardly daring to believe H would be helped, but {found to pliet wat 1 soon began to mend. ‘ntstion gradually subsided and ary difficulties passed away. ‘eqyed excellent health now for wateven months. I enjoy my wip soundly, and am as well aasiwenty years ago. I give all ie Peruna.””—C, B. Newhot. red From Catarrh of Kidneys, tweatened With Nervous Collapse, Cured by Pe-ru-na. F B, Richards, 609 ss. Street, N. Washington, D. C., War Corres- si, writes: “Exactly six years ago ordered to Cuba as staff corres- of the New York Sun. Iwas in ‘ofa Sun Dispatch boat through jpsnish American war. ‘The effect fsstropical climate and the nervous, showed plainly on my return to pates. Lassitude, depression to the of melancholia, and incessant trouble made me practically an “This undesirable condition Hiued despite the best of treatment. sllya brother newspaper man,tho myself hud served in the war, in- ime to give a faithful trial to a. 1didso. Inashort time the tude left me, my kidneys resumed jalthy condition, and complete was effected. I cannot too strong- ommed Peruna to those suffering fs kidney trouble. ‘To-day I am able ork as hard as abany time in my and the examiner for a leading in- ‘nee company pronounced me an risk.” oor Health Over Four Years. -ru-na Only Remedy of Real Benefit. f.John Nimmo. 215 Lippincott, St. suto, Cam. a prominent merchant of city and also a inember of the onie order. writes: I have been in poor health generally ever four yeurs. When T eaught & “cold last winter it settled in the fer and kidneys, eansing: serious bie. T took two greatly advertixed ey remedies without getting the SEST BY TEST Sve ted all kinds of waterproof 8 and have never found anything 2 Prise 10 compare with your Fish rca PeeI0n from all kinds of SEs | sre oo ose ST NsAN Laelia! - "Ca Fist BRO Gs BLOOD PURIFIER * cetarrh of the stomach, SS SSSR eee eee a as a og 8 oe a me _ . 2 Ea foo E PRES. C. B. NEWHOF, ‘Suffered From Catarch of Bladder. desired results. Peruna is the only remedy which was really of any benefit to me. I have not had a trace of kidney trouble nor a cold in my system.” Pe-ru-na Contains No Narcotics. One reason why Peruna has found permanent use in So many homes is that it contains no nareotie of any lind. Peruna is perfectly harmless. It ean be used any length of time without acqnir- ing adrug habit. Peruna does not pro- duce temporary results. It is perman- ent in its effect Tt has no bad effect upon the system, and gradunlly eliminates eatarrh by removing the cause of catarrh. ‘There area multitude of homes where Peruna has been used off and on for twenty years. Such a thing could not be pos- sible if Peruna contained any drugs of aasnaiia manu Why It Is the Best fs because made by an entirely aifter- ent process. Defiance Starch is un: like “any other, better and one-thiré more for 10 cents. ‘There are all sorts of opinions; all that you say doesn’t go. ‘Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new cata- logue to-day. JENKINS’ BIUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. It tt wasn’t for your troubles, you couldn't keep awake half the time. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Deflance Starch. ‘This 13 because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 ox in a package, which they won't be able to sell first. because Deflance contains 16 oz. for the same money. ‘Do you want 16 oz. Instead of 12 ox for same money? Thén buy Defiance Starca. Requires no cooking. cpl a aa ta il RUSSIANS = WHIPPED THEY RACE NOW FOR TIE PASS. Kuropatkin to Be Deposed as Result of Defeat—Czar Wants a Com- mander Whose Forte Ip Not Lead: ing a Retreat, St. Petersburg, March 10.—The bat. tle of Mukden has resulted in a Rus- sian defeat. Field Marshal Oyama has once more proved. himself one of the great- est masters of offensive strategy since Napoleon, while General Kuropatkin is now engaged in endeavoring to de- fend his title as a master of success- ful retreats and bring off his army, with its immense train, safely to Tie pass, where a position was long ago prepared with this contingency in view. ‘The problem before the Russian commander-in-chief is much more difficult than the one he met success- fully at Liao Yang, since now he is threatened on both flanks, his left wing being entangled in a moun- tainous region, far from the railroad. Nevertheless, Russian military men here express a fair degree of conii- dence in General Kuropatkin’s ability once more to extricate his army and avoid a Russian Sedan. Besides his skill in rear-guard action, they base their hopes on the physical condition of the Japanese soldiers, who, though “they are conceded to be the greatest ‘marchers in the world, are well nigh exhausted by their strenuous, endeay- ors of the last fortnight. If the Japanese succeed in reaching the railroad and interrupt traffic, if only for a few hours, it may have the greatest consequence, for General Kuropatkin, who is now engaged in a literal race with the Japanese to reach @ naturally defensible position forty miles northward. ‘Thus far he has stood off all attacks directly against the flanks of his army and holds the way of retreat open. # After this action General Kuropat- kin’s deposition may be regarded as certain, War Minister Sakharoff is picked as his probable successor, though Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholae- vich, of the board of strategists, may be intrusted with the direction of af: fairs, A strong faction of the army “those high in influence about the ent- peror, opposed General Kuropaikin from the first, and although his early defeats were condoned because it was realized that General Kuropatkin was doing all that man could with the tools at bis command, it is now felt that, after twice having had the eppor- tunity to show what he could do with a powerful army, and having failed to accomplish victory either time, his re. moval is advisable. A high military official said last vight that the e:aperor had had enough of a general whose’ inter- pretation of a victory was a success: fal retreat Friends of General Kuropatkin, however, say that no other gener! is apt to do as well as he has done, and declare that bis removal may mean, as in the American civil war, the ex change of a Hood for a Johnston. Only a Few Men at Work, Poriland, Ore., March 7.—Between 200 and 400 men, laborers, tradesmen, union men and non-union mea, were at work on the Lewis and Clarke ex- position grounds today, about one: third the regular working foree, High House Warming. London, March 6, — King Edward and Queen Alexandra dined with the Duke and Duchess of Martborough in their new home, Sunderland House. It was a house warming, The queen wore beautiful jewels. There were a score of guests, Two Killed in Collision. Missoula, Mont, March 7. -— ‘Twa persons aro dead aud six injured as the resuit of a collision of a freighi train and the west-bound Twin Citles express on the Northera Pacifie at Bearmouth, St. Petersburg, March 8. — The extraordinary session of the council of war, which was to have teen held today, did not take place. It is suid Fmperor Nicholas himself has de: cided the question arising from the dispute between Grippenberg and General Kuropathin. Killed by Rioters. Byeloatok, Poland, March §,--Dis- trict Chief ef Police Jeletsekin was shot and killed while attempting to disperso a crowd of workmen who had met inside the sown First Public Reception. Manila, Marea 4--Coversor Wright fn his capacity held his first public reception at a lawn fete which was notably brilliant, rivaling in pietures- queness and attendance the ever: memorable farewell fete in honor of former Governor Taft. Present New Demands. St. -Fetersburg, March 4, — The printers of all the newspapers with out warning presented new demands, and none of the papers may appear sohierrow. *. Are You Bilious ? Hard Lesson to Learn. He is good that does good to oth- ers. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and, if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he has arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an in- crease of his suffering can add to it. If it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit; it is heroism complete— Bruyere. Deer Freeze in the Open. I the experience of hunters the deer does better in an inclosure than it does in the wilds when the stress of a hard winter comes. In the Adiron- dacks men have counted dozens of deer, dead from the deep snows and the intense cold. In such sections of the country as tend to deer culture, no such exigencies of climate exist. How This Smith Got a Name. A negro who was sent to prison here, charged by his bride with non- support, gave his name as Extra Smith. He explained that there were so many Smith’s in Virginia that when he appeared no name was left for him, so he was christened ‘‘ Ex- tra.'’ — Pottstown Correspondence Philadelphia Record. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, bee cause it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for'tame money Keep your mouth shut today and you won't have to square yourself to- iorrow. iso's Cure cannot be vo bly spe o a a cough eared. W. 'btuas, 3a lsd ave ‘eSGtinentin oan 680, If love were contagious a spinster would work overtime trying to catch it. catch of he inapeagapidony mots sone tay eeeaese caeveseea ee Sees sao You can’t get divorced from a crop of wild oats without paying alimony. eee staal eat Bed Cross Ball Biuo. Large 2-07, package 5 Gents. Tho Kuss Company, South Bend, tnd, No woman is a heroine in the eyes of her cook. Brother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children’s Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, ‘Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Judge a man’s success by the methods he used in succeeding. YELLOW CRUST ON BABY Would Crack Open and Scab Causing Terrible Itching—Cured by Cuticura. “Our baby had a yellow crust on his head which I could not keep away. When I thought I had succeeded in getting his head clear, it. would start again by the crown of his head, crack and scale, and cause terrible itching. I then got Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment, washing the scalp with the soap and then applying the Ointment. A few treatments made a complete cure. I have advised a number of mothers to use Cuticura, when I have been asked about the same ailment of their babies. Mrs, John Boyce, Pine Bush, N.Y” If you fool people even a part of the time, you are going to be kept busy. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the diseaxe. Catarrh {8 a blood or conatt ‘tutfoual disease. end fn order to cure ft you must take Joterual remedies. Hall's Catarrh Curo 1 taken 1o- ternaliy, and acts directiy on the blood and mucous Surfaces, Iall's Catarrh Cure fs not a quack medi- ine. ‘Itwas prescribed by one of the best plystclans Ju this country for years aid isa regular prescription, Ht Js compose of the best tonles known, combined ‘with the beat biol purifiers, acting discetiy on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re- sults fa curing catarrh. » Send for testimonials, free, ¥. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Tolede, O Bord by Druxzists, price 7c. ‘Take Hall's Fainiiy Pulls for constipation. ‘The loftiest Impulse most men have is a hich ball. If 60, you wiil have more or less of the following SYMPTOMS: Not unfrequently the complexion be- comes pale and sallow, there may be frequent attacks of bilious or sick head- ache, bitter taste in the mouth, tongue coated white or covered with a brown fur, unnatural, dry, harsh, or scaly condition of the skin, or branny erup- tions and pimples. “Phere is likely to bo ‘‘backache,”” with tired feelings, lassitude and a sense of debility. There Js depression of spirits with,» decided tendency to be discouraged and de- spondent. There is loss oF irregularity ‘of appetite, uneasiness in region of the stomach, oPpee en sometimes sour stomach, ‘“‘heart-burn,” nausea and “‘water-brash,”” flatulency, and acrid eructations; the bowels become irregu- lar, usually constipated, and occasion- ally gubject to diarrhea, attended with colicky pains. The foregoing symp- toms ‘are not all present in any one ease, nor are any two cases alike in every respect. The only way to help’ disordered liver and cure biliousness is to treat it ag it is—the great, organic, human filter of the human’ system.” Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cleanses and clears it; invigorates and revitalizes this most important organ by its wonderful aiterative power. [A Terrible Case of, Suffering Caused by Liver Complaint: Dn BY. Pimrce, Buffalo, N. ¥.: ‘Dear Sir—I will toll you how I regained my bealth, though I core to have written long £5. Tiavo Boon well two years, Beven yoary Heo Thad the Bist atlack of = Gripe and {Grmany months afworward Lcould only say Thever felt well. ‘The dgetor said the trouble ‘was liver compiaint. After being sick for Hato Jears dno and bladder uabe sot {ny which pot mo in # worse condition than ever was before, Did not take a step but it frouid burt my stomach oo that tt would fil with gas rr ‘would throw up my food to Sy Sie a aadly. “coc there beamed. Bo TO re. Woman's Kidney Troubles Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is Espe+ cially Successful in .Curing This Fatel Disease. kien) (Gate Beg Soret Ie ee REe RU AS nase senate BOD NY) eso $Ki0s.1.uc Lang and frre. $.Frate Y — ae RIFLE @ PISTOL CARTRIDGES. : Oj “It’s the shots that hit that count.” Winchester F Geert] Rifle and Pistol Cartridges in all calibers hit, thatis, | they shoot accurately and strike a good, hard, pene- § Hf trating blow. This is the kind of cartridges you will get, pM if you insist on having the time-tried Winchester make. ae : me ALL DEALERS SELL WINCHESTER MAKE OF CARTRIDGES, Of all the diseases known, with which women are afflicted, kidney dis- ease is the most fatal. In fact, unless early and correct treatment is applied, the weary patient seldom survives. Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pink- ham, early in her career, gave exhaust- ive study to the subject, and in pro- ducing her great remedy for woman's ills—Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound—was careful to see that it contained the correct combination of herbs which was sure to control that fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles. The Vegetable Compound acts in har- mony with the laws that govern the entire female system, and while there fare many so called remedies Sor kidney troubles, Lydia F. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound is the only one espe- cially prepared for women, and thou- sands have been cured of serious kidney derangements by it. Derangements of the feminine organs quickly affect the kidneys, and when a woman has suah symptoms as pain or weight in the loins, backache, bearing down pains, urine too frequent, seanty or high coi- ored, producing scalding or burning, or deposits like brick dust in it; un- usual thirst, swelling of hands and feet, swelling under the eyes or sharp pains im the back running down the inside of her groin, she may be sure her kid- neys are affected and should lose no time in combating the disease with Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound, the woman's remedy for wo- man’s ills. The following letters show how marvelously successful it is. $20 to $40 Biche iinnnsts JENKINS’ MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Tore room left in my body to hold tt. My Tongue became coated end the inside of my Inout so sore that, although It did not atect Iny volee Itself very mueb, it caused pat tn the Yousils when talking. In addition to all this ‘tie urine became #0 scalding that the During seusetion caused mo to scream when Dassing It Oh! the suffering and the anguish Bt thet week Iwill never forget. I could not Re down nor st up strateht, nor walk nor do anything, Was ah doubled up ard had toe Ied from place, to place: but here I ar to- Gay, sound and welly al the thanks due to ‘De Plomo's medicines. I used eighteen bots Hes of "Golden Medical Discovers.” three of SPavorite Prescription ” and eighteen vials of “Pellets” May you live long to drag Bang snow poor taierers from the slough of despairsuch as 1 had fallen into. Gratetaily yours, Miss Avovsea Rarrun, 9 Findlay Ave. Ble Keplds, Michizan. “Golden Medical Discovery '’ con- tains no alcohol, syrup, or sugar, yet keeps perfectly in any climate. Do Nor Be Dgcerven.—It is an in- sult to your intelligence for a dealer to attempt to palm off upon you a subst tute for this world-iamed medicine. You know what you want. It’s his busi- ness to meet that want. When he urges some substitute he’s thinking of the larger profit bell make—not of your welfare. ‘Turn your back on any dealer who offers you such treatment. In obstinate constipation the ‘ Dis- somry should be used in conjunction with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the most natural and Sey, scientific laxative ever devised. The “Pellets”? regulate and invigorate the stomach, liver and bowels. One is a. gentle laxative; two act as a mild cathartic. If_you require medical advice write Dr. E. V. Pierce who will give you the best advice possible, free. Dr. Pierce's 1,000-page ‘‘ Medical Ad- viser,”” is the’ most useful ‘' doctor book’? published. A copy in stiff pa- per covers sent on receipt of 21. onc: stamps to pa} nBe 01 iling only fine cloth Tinding ten stamps extra. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Bul- falo, N. ¥. |_ Mrs. Samuel Frake, of Prospect | Plains, N. J., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— cannot thank you enough for what Lydia FB, Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound hae forme. When I first wrote to you I had maf. fered for sears with what the doctor called [kidney trouble and congestion of the womb, My back ached dreatfuy all the time, and suiterad swith that Brating-down feeling cout hardly walk across the room, 1 did hot Ket any better, so decided to stop doctoring with my physician and take ihe ‘Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and I am thanks ful to say it has entirely cuted me. 140 all my own work, have no more backache and al! tho bad syniptoms have disappeared, J cannot praise your medicine enough, and "would advise all women suffering with trouble to try it. Mrs. J. W. Lang, of 626 Third Ave nue, New York, writes: Pethave been a great sufferer with Maney ave been a great sufferer trouble. My back ached all the time and was discouraged. I heard that Lydia EB Pinkbam's Vegetable Compounc would enre Kidney disease, and began to take it; and {8 has ctired me whien everything else had failed, Thave recommended it to lots of people and they all praiso it very highly. Mrs. Pinkham’s Standing In- vitation. Women suffering from kidney trouble, or any form of female weake Jess are invited to promptly comaranie cate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, | Mass. Out of the great volume of ex- perience which she has to draw from, li is more than likely she has the very knowledge that will help your case. | Her advico is free and always help- | ful. 1; a Woman's Remedy for Woman's Mis. Ni Fs SHORTHAND: 2. me INSTITUTE. Write F. A. HIGHBARGER for catalog 114-116 N. Market St. Wichita, Kane. Cy Salzer’s \ oe ee Yisidea to Obio Ist, tm Mich, a feiss a te iets [f) Ssktesn nee: { | k For 10c and thisnotice §/1 wenail you ie iett arm sad Sonera treice eta fence: coed raieg faucet otiet cee pecaeeate : way Ga SB Beery an | MixeD Fann pes WHEAT RAISING WE ANE aq RaNcuina Er erase Lente af Wena SR coat ici hinds Apply fe tntormation ie Sereeceet tame Gisieet date re aa W. N. U.—Wichita—No, 10—1903 When Answering Advertisements Kindy Mention This Paper, a Eee ol Tate) ae os CONSUMPTION a SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday March 11. Economy is a virtue, but its practice ought not to be reflected in laundry bills. New York uses 1,388,000 quarts of milk a day. No statistics about other beverages available. Now a Philadelphia expose is threatened by Mayor Weaver. Can it be that the Quaker City is stirring in its sleep? The published statement that the milk trust is thinking of watering its stock makes the New York Herald simply cachinate. A writer in the Chicago Record-Herald gives a formula for beautifying the tress locks. This is Chicagoese for washing the hair. If you don't believe that a woman can keep a secret, ask her her age.—New York Herald. But don't look at her. The cable says the duel between Count Czaykowski and M. Villette "was well attended." It was quite a social function, in fact. The kaiser will permit army officers to drink to his health in water, feeling, no doubt, that the custom is not likely to become dangerously prevalent. It is not true that activity in building South American railroads is so that defaulters may make the trip through to Buenos Ayres without change. The first woman typewriter is still thumping the keys. However, she was married before she entered the business and was not a real typewriter, after all. The society for psychical research wants $100,000 to find the way to the hereafter. This might be encouraged if we had discovered any royal road to the here. The Emperor of Japan has written another poem, which consists of six lines. He gets $3,000,000 a year, and is undoubtedly the highest salaried poet on earth. Those who claim that onions as a diet sharpen the intellect will point with pride to the assertion that Mrs. Chadwick is addicted to the tear-compelling vegetable. The Parisian hostess who entertained her guests with a "moving picture" representation of a surgical operation evidently expected to make them happy by contrast. Even the sly fox will admit that the friends who are opposed to putting a bounty on his skin hope to preserve him that they may get a chance to hunt him down as a sport. The man who has bought his on the installment plan is not always sure that Cicero was right when he spoke of the possession of books as a perennial source of solace and joy. Susan B. Anthony is 85 years old and admits it. Alice Roosevelt is 21 and makes no secret of the fact. But between Susan and Alice are many women who would rather not tell. King Edward read his address at the opening of parliament. He got along very nicely, as the man who wrote it was careful not to put in any words the king could not pronounce. A court of law has decided that if a wife exceeds a liberal allowance for dress her husband cannot be held for her bills. Now will some court of law kindly decide what is a liberal allowance? A Chicago woman sued for $50,000 for breach of promise, and got 50 cents. It should have been 20 cents, to have adequately represented her mental condition when she heard the verdict. A negro woman 73 years of age has graduated from a New Haven, Conn., school. She has one big advantage. Nobody will be likely to make flippant references to her as a "sweet girl graduate." A dispatch from Carson City, Ney., says that of fifty-five children whose births were recorded there last year only one was a boy—but it doesn't say that there were only fifty-five births last year in Carson City. The attempt to discipline automobile owners by fining the chauffeurs has not proved the success that was hoped for. Being arrested merely comes to be regarded as a part of the chauffeur's regular duty. A well meaning person declares that the use of tobacco shortens life greatly and also that the habit, once formed in youth, is invariably kept up to extreme old age. This good reformer seems to operate under a blanket franchise. An unknown young man 25 years of age has won $5,000 in a prize story contest. It would be well worth the price of all of Carnegie's millions to have a ten-year lease on the feelings which are that young man's at the present time. The beauty about diplomacy is that it enables both sides to claim a victory. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Did anyone ever have a really good time on an excursion or picnic? Talking machines—Victor and Edison are the best; cash or payments, $1 weekly. Write to-day. JENKIN'S MUSIC CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 30,000 records in stock. Mention this paper. We have noticed that prices always go up rapidly and decline very slowly. Gallops for Aid. When your stomach is all upset, your liver in bad shape, your bowels out of whack, your head like to split, and /every nerve in your body on edge. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin gallops for aid and you get it. It clears out your poisoned system, brings fresh, clean blood supply to all your digestive organs, and restores to you that comfortable feeling of perfect health. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. When some men offer to bet the only thing they put up is a bluff. Important to Mothers. Important to Mothers. Bemine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. The fellow who turns up his nose at wages isn't worth a salary. Earliest Green Options. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., always have something new, something valuable. This year they offer among their new money making vegetables, an Earliest Green Eating Onion. It is a winner, Mr. Farmer and Gardener! JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 160. and they will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages. 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 10,400 gloriously brilliant Flowers. In all over 10,000 plants—this great offer is made to get you to test their warranted vegetable seeds and ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 28c in postage, they will add to the above a big package of Salzer's Fourth of July Sweet Corn—the earliest on earth—10 days earlier than Cory, Pepo'o Day, First of all, etc. [W.N.U.] The Mind Needs Diversity. Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns. No matter if you are strong and rugged and able to work every day in the year, your body does not. Ruskin's love of the beautiful gave his whole life an indescribable charm and loftiness. It kept him looking upward as well as outward. It purified and exalted, while it held him spellbound. Put beauty into your life. It is the twin of love. The union of the two in their highest form would make earth a paradise, and man, indeed, only "a little lower than the angels." DERANGED NERVES DISTRESSING TROUBLES LEFT BY ST. VITUS AND GRIP. Woman Afflicted for Years by Strange Spells of Numbness and Weakness Recovers Perfect Health. When she was fourteen years old, Mrs. Ida L. Brown had St. Vitus' dance. She finally got over the most noticeable features of the strange ailment, but was still troubled by very uncomfortable sensations, which she recently described as follows: "One hand, half of my face, and half of my tongue would get cold and numb. These feelings would come on, last for about ten minutes, and then go away, several times a day. Besides I would have palpation of the heart, and my strength would get so low that I could hardly breathe. As time went on these spells kept coming offener and growing worse. The numbness would sometimes extend over half my body." "How did you get rid of them?" "It seemed for a long time as if I never could get rid of them. It was not until about six years ago that I found a remedy that had virtue enough in it to reach my case. That was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and they have since entirely cured me." "Did it take long to effect a cure?" Did I take big risks the whole of the first box before I saw a great improvement. So I kept on using them, growing better all the time, until I had taken eight boxes and then I was perfectly well, and I have remained in good health ever since with que exception." "What was that?" "Oh! that was when I had the grip. I was in bed, under the doctor's care, for two weeks. When I got up I had dreadful attacks of dizziness. I had to grasp hold of something or I would fall right down. I was just miserable, and when I saw the doctor was not helping me, I began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills again. In a short time they cured me of that trouble too, and I have never had any dizzy spells since." Mrs. Brown lives at No. 1705 DeWitt street, Mattoon, Illinois. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are without an equal for the rapid and thorough cure of nervous prostration. They expel the poison left in the system by such diseases as grip and are the best of tonics in all cases of weakness. They are sold by every druggist. COTTON OR SHODDY IN A FABRIC How the Percentage of the Adulterants is Determined. Worsted cloths are less often adulterated than woolens and are more easily detected. A cotton worsted is a lie on the face of it, for the cotton stands out with prominence. But often a cotton thread is twisted with a worsted thread, and to determine its presence it is only necessary to take the twist out of the thread and then examine its component parts. Cotton, having a long staple, can be carded and combed with wool to be spun into worsted yarn. This is done to cheapen the cost of production. Cotton is carded and spun with wool and shoddy, not so much to cheapen the yarn, for cotton is generally as expensive as some shoddies, but is introduced to give strength or spinning qualities to the stock. In many cases the shoddy is of such short staple that it would not stand the drawing in spinning, and as it would make the cost of the yarn too high to put in enough wool to give that lacking strength, cotton is put in for this purpose. The percentage of cotton in a fabric can be determined in this manner: Take a small piece of cloth and weigh it. Now boll it for five minutes in a five per cent. solution of caustic soda. Take out what is left and, if any, it is all cotton. The wool will all be dissolved. The percentage of shoddy cannot be determined except by experience. A cloth of yarn with shoddy in it is easily detected by its feel. Cloth made of all new wool is softer feeling than one containing shoddy, for the latter has lost that new, soft, springy feel peculiar to wool.—American Wool and Cotton Reporter. Authors Every Man Should Know. "If you were asked to choose ten authors, a partial knowledge of whose works you regarded as essential to the equipment of a successful modern man, what authors would you name?" This question, recently put to five representative men in New York, chosen at random, produced the following results: 1. Homer, Plato, Dante, Goethe, Voltaire, Balzac, Shakespeare, Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and Emerson. 2. James Bryce, "American Commonwealth," Dickens, Kipling, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Woodrow Wilson, "Popular History," Jules Verne, Howells, H. G. Wells, "Anticipations," and Ridpati's "History of the World." 3. Plato, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere, Gibbon, Goethe, Emerson, Motley, Thackeray, Tolstol. 4. Shakespeare, Boswell "Johnson," Plutarch's Lives, Esquemling "History of the Bucanneers," Hamilton "Memoirs of Gramont," Pepy's Diary, Bourienne's Napoleon, Gibbon's Rome, Green's History of England, John Fiske's United States Histories. 5. Shakespeare, Kipling, Howells, Dumas (senior), Mark Twain, Ruskin, John Fiske, Darwin, Tyndal, Tennyson or Robert Browning. As what to have been expected, Shakespeare figures in most of the lists, only one leaving him out. Plato, Goethe, Emerson, Gibbon and John Fiske are the choice in two lists, and Howells, Kipling and Mark Twain, among living writers, each has two adherents. Allogether, thirty-eight authors are mentioned in the five lists.—New York World. The Open-Air Treatment. The advantages of the open-air treatment for consumptives may be thus briefly summarized: The patient exposed continuously to fresh air gains in appetite, assimilates his food better, sleeps more soundly and awakens more refreshed. Free exposure to air is the best antipyretic. S-eating at night, formerly so common a symptom, usually causes. Colds are practically unknown among patients leading an open-air life. Secondary infection, on account of the comparative freedom of the air from micro-organisms, is much less likely to occur. Tolerance of outside air is very quickly established, and no one who has tried the open-air life will willingly go back to the former conditions of stuffiness. I have never seen any one made worse by exposure to fresh air. Even during a thick London fog patients get on better lying in a bed on a balcony or in rooms with windows wide open and a good fire burning than when attempts are made to shut out the fog by keeping the windows shut—Dr. H. W. G. Mackenzie, in the London Lancet. Force of Habit. Ex-Senator Shoup, of Idaho, who died recently, clung close through all his residence in Washington to one old frontier precaution that seemed ingrained. He would never sit with his back to a door or an open window, but always took a seat where he could command the entrance and where no one could come up behind him. In his early days in the West he had got mixed up in one or two feuds, but being a man of the world and quick on his feet, had contrived to come through unhurt. During those busy and trouble-filled years he learned the necessity of caution. He had seen too many men snuffed out from behind not to recognize the potential danger that lay in an unwatched door or window. The habits of a lifetime are not easily shaken off, so that even in the seclusion of the Senate restaurant Mr. Shoup always sat where he could keep a wary eye on all who entered the room.—Kansas City Star. His Audience. A lecture by the eloquent pastor of Tremont Temple Church, Boston, is thus referred to: "A very interesting lecture was given by Dr. Henson. His subject was 'Fools.' A large number came."—The Boston Watchman. FROM MISERY TO HEALTH. A Prominent Club Woman, of Kanaas City, Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney Pills for a Quick Cure Miss Nellie Davis, of 1216 Michigan Avenue, Kansas City, Mo., society leader and club woman, writes: "I cannot say too much in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills, for they effected a complete cure in a very short time City, Mo., society leader and club woman, writes: "I cannot say too much in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills, for they effected a complete cure in a very short time when I was suffering from kidney troubles brought on by a cold. I had severe pains in the back and sick headaches, and felt miserable all over. A few boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills made me a well woman, without an ache or pain, and I feel compelled to recommend this reliable remedy." (Signed) Nellie Davis. A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Some people think work is terribly hard. But it isn't as hard as loafing. DON'T FORGET DONT FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Some false teeth look so natural that they ought to ache. Shake In Your Shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder, cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all druggists. 25c. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Derivation of Connecticut. The name Connecticut is an attempt to relieve the Indian word Quonektacat of some of its uncouthness. The Indian word means long river. The state took possession of the name which the early settlers found when they reached the mouth of the river. HIS BUST IN GOLD. Curious Engagement Present Displayed by Prospective Bride. A pretty, blond young woman caused considerable excitement at a dinner party given recently by showing off her engagement present from her fliance. "We did not like the old-fashioned idea of giving rings," she calmly announced, to the horror of a couple of sentimental girls present, "so each of us had a gold bust of our head and shoulders made, which we presented to each other. Harold wears his as a watch charm, and I am wearing mine, as you see, on the gold chain around my neck. Would you like to look at it?" And the prospective bride passed around the chiselled features of "Harold" done in gold. There was something of a thrill of disapproval at the sight of the bust, and some criticism at this bold display of the features of the lover. "I've heard about wearing your heart on your sleeve," said one old lady in a lace cap, "but it's the first time I've ever seen anyone bold enough to wear her sweetheart around her neck." THE TRICKS. Coffee Plays on Some. It hardly pays to laugh before you are certain of facts, for it is sometimes humiliating to think of afterwards. "When I was a young girl I was a lover of coffee but was sick so much the doctor told me to quit and I did but after my marriage my husband begged me to drink it again as he did not think it was the coffee caused the troubles. "So I commenced it again and continued about 6 months until my stomach commenced acting bad and choking as if I had swallowed something the size of an egg. One doctor said it was neuralgia and indigestion. "One day I took a drive with my husband three miles in the country and I drank a cup of coffee for dinner. I thought sure I would die before I got back to town to a doctor. I was drawn double in the buggy and when my husband hitched the horse to get me out into the doctor's office, misery came up in my throat and seemed to shut my breath off entirely, then left all in a flash and went to my heart. The doctor pronounced it nervous heart trouble and when I got home I was so weak I could not sit up. "My husband brought my supper to my bedside with a nice cup of hot coffee but I said: 'Take that back, dear. I will never drink another cup of coffee if you gave me everything you are worth, for it is just killing me.' He and the others laughed at me and said: "The idea of coffee killing anybody." 'Well,' I said, 'it is nothing else but coffee that is doing it.' "In the grocery one day my husband was persuaded to buy a box of Postum which he brought home and I made it for dinner and we both thought how good it was but said nothing to the hired men and they thought they had drunk coffee until we laughed and told them. Well we kept on with Postum and it was not long before the color came back to my cheeks and I got stout and felt as good as I ever did in my life. I have no more stomach trouble and I know I owe it all to Postum in place of coffee. "My husband has gained good health on Postum, as well as baby and I, and we all think nothing is too good to say about it." Name given by Postum Go. Battle Creek, Mich. LATE MARKET REPORT. Open High Low Close T'dy Close T'dy WHEAT- May. 114% 115% 112% 119% 114% July. 96% 96% 93% 94% 96% Sep. 8% 89% 87% 87% 89% O'RIN- 8% 47% 48% 47% 48 47% July. 48% 48% 48% 48% 48% Season. — 49% 48% 48% 48% 48% OATS- 31% 32 31% 31% 31% 31% May. 31% 31% 31% 31% 31% July. 31% 31% 31% 31% 31% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS. $ 4 80 $\textcircled{2}$ $ 4 85 COWS. 3 01 $\textcircled{2}$ $ 3 40 STEWERS. — — — $ 3 40 HEIFERS. — — — $ 3 40 STEWERS. 3 00 $\textcircled{2}$ $ 3 40 CALVES. — — — $ 3 50 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. A report from the front says the Japanese are steadily gaining. They have defeated the Russians at Sinmingin. The day passed quietly at St. Petersburg without disorders of any kind being reported. Telephone reports from Moscow say perfect quiet prevails there. General Oku has captured nine miles of Russian positions, eight of which are on the banks of the Hun river. The battle was continued along the whole front. The Swedish steamer Vegga, from Barry, December 10, for Hong Kong, was selzed by a Japanese warship March 3. The place where she was captured is withheld. A telegram to the newspaper Standard announces that the Antarctic ship Lee Francais, with the entire Charcot expedition, has arrived at Puerto Madrine, Argentina. Grand jury investigation of the "beef trust" will go ahead regardless of the report made by commissioner Garfield to President Roosevelt and transmitted to congress. The German battleships Mecklenburg and Wittelsbach grounded off Hatten reef east of Samsoe island. The Wittelsbach was refloated but the Mecklenbach was refloated but is leaking and her bottom is damaged. By direction of the president the war department has issued an order relieving Brigadier General Frederick Funston from the command of the Department of the Lakes, with headquarters at Chicago, to take effect March 31. Japanese smallboats tried to sink the British steamer Carlisle, chartered by the Russians to carry supplies to Vladivostok. The Carlisle was recently disabled and towed into the harbor at San Miguel, at the southern end of Luzon. The customs guards aboard the Carlisle repulsed the Japanese. The feeling at St. Petersburg is universal that the rescript of the Czar promising to call a representative assembly, indicates the dawn of liberalism. This feeling is a great relief after the early manifesto. The new development will not influence the strike movement one way or the other, however. General Kuropatkin reports that the Russians have completely evacuated Jachtoolin. The Japanese have sustained enormous losses as a result of the fighting on the left flank. Unofficial telegrams from the front state that the Japanese made six successive attempts to storm the Russian central position. Each time they advanced to within 200 yards of the Russian position but were repelled with great losses. The British steamer Easby Abbey, carrying coal to Vladivostok, has been seized. James Moran of Superior was killed and three men sustained injuries in the collapse of a section of an extension to the Duluth. Masabe & Northern ore docks at Duluth, Minn. The section which fell was in course of construction. The dock is the second largest in the world. At Warsaw a bomb was exploded in the residence of M. Pomaski, a prominent manufacturer, killing one of the servants. Pomaski's employees, who are involved in the strike, are suspected. Pomaski is said to have been a hard master. The latest reports from Norway cause anxiety in Berlin, as it is recognized that the present ministerial crisis is only the transitional stage of a national crisis which may end in civil war between Norway and Sweden. There seems to be no doubt that the Norwegians are determined to bring about complete separation. Chancellor H. L. Muldrow, who served as first assistant secretary of the interior during Grover Cleveland's second term, is dead at his home at Starkville, Miss.. aged 63 years. Prolific Squirrels A couple of old antagonists meet a Scotch golf course every Saturday afternoon. They were all "again at the seventeenth and the loser last week had just played his hit in the shape of a nice approach to the green. Last week's winner came up to his ball with grim purpose, had an easy pitch to the green, a number of young sheep were unseasonally browsing along the green 'Rin forrard, laddie!', said last week winner to his caddie, 'and drive the lambs!' 'Na, na,' vigorously protested his opponent, 'bide ye be, laddie! Ye canna' move in growin' thing! That's the rule, gowff.' Unflattering Recommendation, An Odessa (Mo.) man found necessary a few days ago to lay as his good clothes and put on a dragged suit and help clean up a machinery in his place of business. Then he went home, and as he entered the front gate he met a trump mistook for one of his kind, and, if reports true, said: 'There's no use to go there, pard; that's the meanest whisk woman living.' Doing Great Work Ward, Ark., March 6th.—(Special- From all over the West report come of cures of different forms Kidney Disease by Dodd's Kidney Pills, and this place is not without evidence of the great work the American Kidney Remedy is due. Among the cured here is M.M. Waggoner, a well known citizen, in an interview, says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills have done wonders for me. My kidneys and bladder were badly out of order. I used many medicines, but got nothing to cure me till I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. Two boxes of them fixed me up so that I have been well ever since. "Tell the poor kidney and bladder diseased people to take Dodd's Kidney Pills and get well." No case of kidney complaint is far gone for Dodd's Kidney Pills cure. They are the only remedy to has ever cured Bright's Disease. The man who not trust him always thinks other people ought trust him. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the guts, reduces damnation, allays pain, curbs wind colloe. See If church pews were like sleep car berths more men would go. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use the will save not only time, because never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one of pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell 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 is printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand his finance and save much time and more and the annoyance of the iron sting. Defiance never sticks. Conversation by the wily drummer savors of trade winds. TRADE MARK For Cupboard Corner St. Jacobs Oil Straight, strong, sure, is the best household remedy for Rheumatism Neuralgia Sprains Lumbago Bruises Backache Soreness Sciatica Stiffness Price, 25c, and 50c. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water WANTED Four Salesmen in this and adjoining territory represent and advertise the Wholesale Department of an old established commercial house of our financial standing. Staple line. Salary $2.50 per day paid weekly, with expenses advanced direct headquarters. Horse and buggy furnished and necessary. We furnish everything. Position permanent. Address O. E. BLEW. Secretary, 630 Monon Building, Chicago, Ill. VERY FEW, IF ANY, CIGARS SOLD AT 5 CENTS, COST AS MUCH TO MANUFACTURE, OR COST THE DEALER AS MUCH AS "CREMO" IF THE DEALER TRIES TO SELL YOU SOME OTHER ASK YOURSELF WHY?