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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. THYEAR. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, Washington, D. C., Gives His THE SEPERATION OF races is a decree of provi- working through nature, need of human help in- ing out that decree? The element of the laws of the city leads natuarlly to the tion that those who so eag- roffer this assistance are by a wish rather than a tion. The Negro is not with natural repugnance at associating with white. The charge that they must stricted in their eagerness with association ir the high- possible unwitting proof that version between the races be wholly accounted for natural antipathy. The lion the lam do not enjoy a com- ped, because such social in- is doubtless as distasteful lamb as two the lion. Nat- antipathy is a reciprocal attempt to base the seper- of the races upon psycho- grounds is equally voidof initiation. There is no clear- accomible psychological diffie- No reputable authority that pointed out any sharply used psychic discriminant. The of the Negro is of the same are that of the white' and bonds to the same nurture. he is not a single intellectual or spiritual excellence aided by the white race to the Negro mind, does not an appreciative response' would be shown that the Neas incapable of mastering intricacies of Aryan speech he could not possibly com- mand the intelectual basis of culture, that he could be made 'amenable to the man's ethical standards or his spiritual motive, thereibe need of uo further proof the line of psychic demar- cannot be made to coin- with race cleavage in a phase of intellectual, mor-spiritual aptitude. The diffie of attainment is readily counted for by what Benja-Kidd calls social efficiency, the discipline of civilization. cannot predicate superiorty or inferiority exceps af a trans- sient phase of human development. There is little room to doubt that the feeling against the Negro is of the nature inspired animosity rather than natural antiyathy, and can be accounted for, in large part, by the erstwhile status which he has occupied in the social scheme. A people who have yet made no considerable contribution to the general culture of human spirit and whose traditional relation with Euorpean civilization has been of a servile sort, are naturally enough not deemed eligible to the ennobling circle of Aryan fellowshiy. The violent severance of servile bonds, and the humiliation of the southern tough Teutonic spirit by outside compulsion, engendered deea and long abiding animositier. But the chief cause of race estrangement is of a political nature, if we be allowd to use that term, not merely in the technical sense of statecraft, but as comprehending the calculated policy of the ruling class toward the despised element. The cultivation of class consciousness is one of the most familiar phenom ena of history. The line of demarcation is drawn at any easily discernible difference, whether it be geographical, racial natural political, religious, or minor distinctions of a physical or psychological nature. History is largely concerned with the conflict of antithetid classes. The struggle between Greek and Barbarian, Jew and Gentile, Christian and Mohammedan, Catholic and Protestant, Norman and Saxon is but prototype of the conflict which now wages about thecolor line- Evil disposition combined with shrewdly calculated design cae always stir up class friction. Two friendly baseball teams can easily be wrought up to a pitch of murdeous fury rgainst each othha. The Yellow press of this country can, within a few months, involve the United States in war with a nation with whom we are now on the closest terms of international friendship A heterogeneous population, where the elements are, on any account, easily distinguishable, furnishes an easy prey for the promoter of strife. The fuse is already prepared for the spark. The peace and tranquility of such a community depends upon the highest enlightenment and moral restraint in the leadership of the seperable elements. That the dominant South is determined to foster artificial barriers between the races is clearly seen in utterances and action of its leaders. It was Henry W. Grady who laid down the platform: "We believe that there is an instinct ineradicable and positive which keeps the raees apart. We add in perfect frankness, however, that if the South had any reasonable doubt of its existence it would, by every means in its power, so strengthen the race prejudice that it would do the work and hold the stubbornness and strength of instinct." The more recent leadership of the South, without the clear discernment and consciencious restraint of the brilliant Georgian, has seized upon the suggestion for the sinister and selfish ends. They have harped upon the cord of race prejudice as a musician upon his favorite instrument. Seemingly dubious of the sufficiency of natural antipathy, they have sought to give it the requisite strength and stubbornness. WOMEN NOT WANTED. French West Africa is to be an Eveless Paradise. The governor general has intimated to the minister of the colonies that the number of stations and posts offering facilities for married officers or functionaries are very few, and that geat inconvenience is already cause by the difficulty of providing family quarters. The minister is requested to stop the further ingress of families, and an order has just been issued warning all whom it may concern that hencefcmfwypemf may concern that appointments in West Africa must henceforth be accepted on the basis of bachelorhood. Army officers will of course, leave families behind.—London Globe. SOUTH WILL BE FORCED TO ADOPT ROOSEVELT'S POSITION AS TO NEGRO. The president is safer and sounder as a preacher than as a chief executive. That is to say, generally speaking, and his attitude in relation to the arbitration treaties along with his address to the New York club this week, offers a case in point. He devotes his speech to the negro question, and it is rugged truth which the country hears from him. For example:— 'Neither I nor any other man can say that any given way of approaching that problem will present in our time even an approximately perfect solution but we can safely say that there can never be such solution at all unless we approach it with the effort to do fair and equal justice among all men, and to demand from them in return just and fair treatment for others. Our effort should be to se- cure to each man, whatever his color equality of opportunity, equality of treatmnt before the law.' The south can wrestle with the negro problem from now until it is worse entangled than it is, and in the end will be forced into the adoption of the position which is here outlined by Mr. Roosevelt, and which has before been presented with great force not only by the Southern bishop quoted by the president, but by Prof. John Spencer Bassett, of Trinity, college, North Carolina, and others of similar high standing in southern education circles. Well Said Wilbur E. Broadle, of the Southwest Kansas college gave a splendid oration of "The White Man's Burden." At the intercollegiate oratorial contest held at the Auditorium last week. We consider it such a well thought out delivery that we believe shrdul out delivery that we below produce it: He handled the race question from a logical standpoint. He said in part: "The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots." "But from the unlettered savage springs a race producing Shakespeare, and from the family of the serpent comes the silver-noted nightingale. Problems ther are which may be settled by war, others by peace, still othrs by legislation; but some are so involved and far reaching so bound up in the affairs and prejudices of men, that apparently neither blood nor treasure, education nor religion can unravel the skein and weave its notted threads into the woof of civilization. Such a problem is that of the American negro. When the smoke of the great civil war had rolled away and the victorious host, marching to the tread of martial music, was greeted on every hand by fluttering flags and ringing bells, the north flattered itself with the belief that the profoundest problem of our national history had at last been solved. The southern soldier, returning footsore and penniless to his ruined home and desolate fields, beheld the ominous form of the freed negro darkening the whole horizon and he realized that the race problem had only begun. The period of reconstruction followed. Lincoln's theory of state perpetuity was rejected by a radically partisan congress, which at once proceeded to humiliate the south. The negrow sa disfranchised; the southern white man disfranchised. The late seceded states were refused representation in congress unless they complied with certain exasperating conditions. Martial law was established in the south, co-ordinated with these terrible years of carpet-bag rule and negro domination. The extravagant misrule of the insolent ex-slave was too much for the pride of a cavalier, and in spite of federal armies and constitutional amendments his power was overthrown. Henceforth the political prerogative granted the negro by the constitution has been a name rather than a reality. "The negro system has recently experienced an awakening yet forty years have added little to its simplicity. We expect too much of the negro. If he has failed to appreciate continued on page four Statistics of Poverty Senator Hoar and Salem Booth Had Narrow Escape Willing to Swap Records "There are probably in fairly prosperous years no fewer than 10,000,000 persons in poverty in the United States; that is to say, underfed, underclothed and poorly housed," says Robert Hunter in "Poverty." "Of these about 4,000,000 persons are public paupers. Over 2,000,000 workingmen are employed from four to six months in the year. About 500,000 male immigrants arrive yearly and seek work in the very districts where unemployment is greatest. Nearly half the families in the country are propertiless. Over 1,700,000 little children are forced to become wage earners when they should still be in school. About 5,000,000 women find it necessary to work and about 2,000,000 are employed in the factories and mills. Probably no fewer than 1,000,000 workers are injured or killed each year while doing their work and about 10,000,000 of the persons now living will, if the present ratio is kept up, die of the preventable disease, tuberculosis." A few years ago Jacob A. Riis collected figures which showed that about one-third of the people of New York city were dependent upon charity at some time during the eight The late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts once told a pretty romance to explain his presence in the city of Salem, as well as on this mundane sphere. It was related to a group of friends as follows: "Friends, I love this region, and I'll tell you a little story that you may know why. One day prior to the revolution there rode out to the Salem-Woburn cross-roads two young men, Roger Sherman, afterward noted in politics, and his brother, whose home in Woburn he had been visiting. The brother and his wife in vain had pleaded with Roger to stay a few days longer, but he said he guessed he must be going, and his brother mounted his horse and rode part way home with him. "As the young men rested at the cross-roads to say their farewells a girl appeared riding on horseback up the Salem road. As she was coming There is a reminiscence of Otis Skinner's association with Edwin Booth that will bear repetition, having not been repeated for several seasons. It concerns an accident that came near resulting in the serious injury of Mr. Booth, and Mr. Skinner declares it to be the most dramatic moment in all his footlight career. "It was in the fall of 1889, and I was playing the 'leads' with Edwin Booth and Mme. Helena Modjeska," relates the actor. "We were playing 'Macbeth', Mr. Booth impersonating the King and I Macduff. You remember the scene in the last act, where Macduff rushes on, crying to the king, 'Turn, hell hound, turn!' and forces him to the combat. The great tragedian had been growing weaker and weaker that season, and, although an accomplished swordsman, had little strength in his guard. In the nervousness of the first performance I rushed on, crying the lines, and brought my blade down with a crashing blow A man with a wild look of hope in his eye entered a West Baltimore street phonograph establishment, says the Baltimore American. Stepping up to a salesman, he said: "I've got one I'll trade to anybody on sight or unseen. So trot out any of 'em and I'll swap mighty quick and glad of the chance." "One what?" asked the mystified salesman. The visitor put his hand to his ear and looked puzzled, proving that his hearing was slightly defective. Being not quite sure that the salesman had spoken, the visitor went on: "Yep, mine isn't a very good one, I'll admit, but it might suit some man with a tougher conscience than mine. Some fellow who has a longer life ahead of him in which to live it down might get along very well with mine, NO 46 years previous to 1890. The New York state board of charities reported that 29 per cent of the people of the state of New York in 1897 found it necessary to apply for relief. In the borough of Manhattan 60,403 families were evicted from their homes in 1903. This is about 14 per cent of the total number of families. During the year 1903 in Boston over 136,000 persons, or 20 per cent of the population, were aided by the public authorities alone. It is estimated that 336,000 persons were aided through private charities. And there are only about 606,000 persons in Boston. Mr. Hunter calls attention to certain facts in regard to the ownership of property based on the census. He shows that 34 per cent of the farmers in this country are renters and nearly 19 per cent of the farms are mortgaged. The census for 1900 shows that more than half the families in the United States do not own homes. The case is at its worst in the cities, in Boston 81 per cent and in New York (Manhattan) 94 per cent do not own their own homes. The property of the nation is so divided that one family in every 100 owns more property than is owned by all the remaining ninety-nine. from the direction of Salem, she was of course a pretty girl, and as she was a pretty girl it was natural that Roger Sherman should pause a moment. "When she arrived at the cross roads, Roger's brother greeted her gladly, and introduced her as his wife's sister. She said that she was on her way to spend a few days with her sister in Woburn. Then Roger didn't know but that he would change his mind and accept his brother's invitation to stay a few days longer. So the three rode back together to the Woburn home. "And here I am to-day!" exclaimed the senator with a genial but puzzling smile. "That pretty Salem girl was Rebecca Prescott, my grandmother, and the young man was Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and my grandfather—Boston Transcript." square at his head. He held up his sword, but as the two weapons struck mine broke through his guard and struck him with stunning force on the head. Had he not worn a very heavy wig and about his head a circle of iron, the blow would certainly have killed him on the spot before my terrified gaze. As it was, he was stunned for a moment, and after the act, when he took off his wig and heavy crown, there was a tremendous bump on his forehead where my sword had struck. "It makes my blood run chill even now at the very, thought of my emotions at that intensely dramatic moment, when the play ceased to be a mimic thing for me and real death stared me in/the face. The weapons, by the way, both of them are now in my possession. They are heavy combat swords and I have never dared to use them since in any of my stage duels, but I still treasure them as souvenirs of one of the most thrilling events in my stage life." while I'm willing to take his and ask no questions." Still more profoundly beaddled, the salesman called the proprietor and said: "Here's one that's nutty for keeps, I'm away off from understanding what he's driving at. Come and take a whirl at him and see if you can get next." The proprietor came forward briskly and said, with his lips close to the stranger's ear: "What is it you want?" "Why," said the stranger, "I want to patronize your place of business. I saw a sign out there on the window, 'Records Exchanged,' and I was telling your clerk I had an unenviable record that I would be willing to get rid of at any terms." And the proprietor of the phonography went out and changed the sign. THE SEARCHLIGHT. WOMITA, KANS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. 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Writeplain, and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. REPUBLICAN'S DUTY The republican primary has come and gone and the people have expressed their will. There remains now but one duty which every loyal republican has to perform and that is to stand by the decision of the people. It matters not what individual choices may have been, the republican will surrender his personal choice for choice of the majority. Factions may nominate, but it will take the solid and undivided party vote to elect. There is no time now for factional fighting or factional bitterness if the party is to be successful this spring, but to bring success every republican must put his shoulder to the wheel and work earnestly for the success of every man nominated by the republican convention. 1. THE OUTCOME. From latest returns as we go to press Thursday night show that Mr. Finlay Ross comes cmfwypshdrlucmf Finlay Ross carries the 2nd, 3rd and 4th wards which, if true, will give him enough votes in the convention to nominate him for the mayoralty. The Searchlight has no comments to offer. We fought manfully and we fought because we believed what we said. We wish, however, to state that we are still republican and will remain so. The Searchlight has no sore spots for any person and shall go on its way merrily. Braitsch's 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Up-to-the-Minute Miss Susie E. Kyle, who has been sick for the past year, died at the home of her mother, 239 N. Water street Thursday morning about 10 o'clock. Miss Kyle was one of Wichita's very promising young ladies and had hosts of warm friends in this city. Her death, while not unexpected, will be learned with sorrowful hearts by all who were acquainted with her. As we go to press no arrangements for the funeral had been made. A SAD DEATH. Mr. Alfred A. Fox Sr., one of the pioneer colored farmers of Pratt county, Kansas, died at his home near Pratt last Sunday night. Mr. Pratt came to Pratt county in 1884 and by hard work and thrifty ness he had accumulated a fine farm, well stocked and well cultivated. He learned cm.F;er? (SHRDLUU) He leaves a wife six boys and three girls to mourn his loss. Alfred A. Fox was born in Todd county, Kentucky 66 years ago and lived in his native state till 1883 when he came west stopping at Newton, Kansas, where he lived for one year. From Newton he moved with his family to Pratt county when he remained till his death. Besides his devoted wife he leaves the following children: A. A. Fox, Jr., Wichita; J. R. Fox, Topeka; Geo. W.; M. W.; Frank and Earl Fox, the latter four living in Pratt county. Mrs. Wm. Gossitt, of Pratt, and Miss Mattie Fox, of Pratt. Funeral was held in Pratt Tuesday attended by the family and hosts of warm friends. Floyd Bros Restaurant and Cafe MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cigars and Tobacco When Hungry Give Us A Call 408 North Main St. W. M. Dunson Painter and Paper Hanger Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 936 CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy during the recent illness and death of our beloved husband and father. MRS. MARY FOX. MRS. WM. GOSSITT. A. A. FOX, JR. J. R. FOX. M. W. FOX. EARL FOX. MATTIE FOX. In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 357 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an order is widely practiced. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 3618 Broadway. New York trade office, 666 E. St. Washington, D.C. Read the great Searchlight, —Pay for the Searchlight. Cut Rates I.1 BATHS at the Arcade 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. Mrs. M Watson is on the sick list. The revival at the A. M. E. church will close Smunday night. Wm Johnson is in the city from Topeka on political business. Miss Zola Heck lelt Tuesday for Oklahema to visit her parents. The Wichita political Japs and Russians met in battle royal Thurs day. Trade with the merchants who advertize in the SEARCHLIGHT... it pays. Wichita and vicinity was given a good rain Thursday. Officer Jeff Thompson is reported still improving. Rav W H Tillman and family are able to be omt among their friend again. Rev J H Van Leu arrived home Sunday and will spend several weeks in the city. Turner passed through the city Tuesday enroute to attend the beard meeting. W. H. Mayberry of Jeff. City Mo.'has beeu in the city for the past two weeks and may decide to locnt here. The ladies Sewing circle of the Second Baptist church met Monday with Mrs Wm. Bowers. Mrs V Covington who has been very sick for the past two weeks is slowly improving. Watch for further notice of the recital and story of a penny to be given April 10th. Mrs C. E Floyd of Kingman is a pleasant visitor in the city this week. While here she is the guest of Mrs W N Miller. The entertainment given by the daughter of Wichita Tabernacle No 34 at the home of Mrs H. Sherils on west Murdock ave Saturday night was a grand success. Mrs. Mary Parks is home again from Ft. Scott where she went about two weeks ago to wait at the bedside of her sick daughter, Miss Lula Parks. Sue reports her daughter as much improved, Henry Dilbett baliff of the United States Court was in Wichita this week attending the session of the United States Court. Mrs. M. W. Madison left Monday for Perry Kans. in answer to a summon stating that her mother Mrs Austin was quite sick. All hope that she may find her mother improving. Jas. Jackson one of Wiohita's prominent colored gents who has been in Topeka for the past few months arrived in the city Tuesday to mingle with his friends. All were proud to see him. Mr and Mrs Edward Grayson came up from Hutchinson briday morning and will spend a few days in the city making spring repairs at their home place in this city. The services at the Tabernacle Baptist church were well attended Sunday. The B. Y. P.U. had a nice attendance as well as the Sunday School. Rev Underwood filled the pulpi Sunday night. MOVED Mrs Chas Kiner has moved her restaurant from 409 N Maih to 346 N Main where she will be pleased to meet her many aquaintauaes. She will be opened ready to serve patrons Sunday March 19th Call at her new place 346 N. Main. Mrs Nannie Howard spread a fine six o'clock dinner at her home 223 W 3rd st last Friday in honor of Rev Rivers of Kans City who is engaged in the revival services at the A N E cherch. Those present were.-- Rev R N Rivers Rev and Mrs M W. King Mr. and Mrs Ed Grayson " " " " W. Gibbs " " " " W N Miller " " " " S. Waters Mesdames Mc Farland, Baker, enry Braden. The G. L. A. club met at the home of Mrs Lee Anderson Tuesday March 14th. After an hour on studious work the roll was called and each lady responded to her name with a nice quotation after... whsch the ladies repaired to the dining room where a round table talk was had on "women and their club work" of which every woman gave heir opinion and gave some splendidas The club adjourned to meet Tuesday March 21st with Mrs. J L Harper on N Water st. Mrs M. W Madison royallp enterained at her home 15th and Waco tin honor of Rev R M Rivers at 2 o'clock dinner Saturday Tnose present were:- Rev R M Rivers Rev and Mrs H W Kinsi Mr and Mrs W. N. Miller The dinner was fine. GO TO GRANT'S CIGAR and SHINE PAROR 334 North Main Street For Cigars, Tobacco and Shines Phone 658. W.H. H. 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To Hot Springs Hot Springs Special MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Passengers from Wichita, leaving at Yates Center with the Hot Spray THE HOT SPRINGS SPRAY SOLID VESTIBULE, I CARRIES DINING CAR AND SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRINGS. This new service is the quickest yet been offered to the great at Illustrated books, describing Hot undersigned on application. E. E. Bleckly, T. P. A. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11.30 A.M. train, connce at Yates Center with the Hot Springs Special at 2:55 P.M. THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A SOLID VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN CARRIES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT CHANGE. This new service is the quickets and most convenient that has yet been offered to the great st health resort in America. Illustrated books, describing Hot Springs, may be had from the undersigned on application. Wtchita, Kans. O. K. DYE AND DRY CLEANING WORKS The same old clothes, but, oh, what a difference since the O. K. Dye and Dry Cleaning Works fixed them. Second hand clothing good as new for One-Fourth Less than better goods. Good Pants from 75c up Suits from $2.50 up. Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and R C. G. Hans 330 North M T I Jones, SHOEMAKER, Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired Lodice' Work A Specialty All Kind of. Repair Work Neatly Done. Half Soles Nailed — — 75c. Half Soles Sewed — — $1.00 Only Colored Shoe-maker in Wichita 347 North Main St. East-Side RESTAURANT Lunch - At - All - Hours —Meals 15c— Fray & Wade, Props- 903 East Douglas Ave. HOLINESS MEETINGS. A series of meetings are being held at the Holiness Mission, 119 E Murdock, preaching every night in the week and on Sunday the following services are held. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. Bible Class 2 p. m. Preaching 7.30 p.m. The services are conducted by Elder W. H, Smith assisted by Mrs F. P. Bateman. --- Dr. J.E. Farmer Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St Gardner .....DEALER HARD CO Feed and Build Office and Yards 120 Gardner Coal Co., .....DEALERS IN..... HARD COAL SOFT Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. Old Phone 146 New Phone 1804 ing on 11. 30 A. M. taain, connex Springs Special at 2.55 P. M. SPECIAL IS A ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN EGSWISH OUT CHANGE. Its and most convenient that has at health resort in America. Not Springs, may be had from the I have been to the OK BYE JOE'S Repaired Ladies' Work A Specialty. son, Prop. Main Street Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transleat a Specialty Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 245 North Water St. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. A cents wanted everywhere. Coal Co., ERS IN..... ALSOFT Building Material 201 to 1245 N. Main St. I. R. 'Sherwin, 'P. & T. A. Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL =CIGARS= SOLD_EVERYWHERE H W Dean, Meat Markct DEALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and Oysters 813 North Main Street L. S. NAFTZGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE) Cashier THE Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, K. L. Holmes, S. B. Amardon, B. P. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naft- ger, E. H Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith, A General Banking Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS NEWTON NEWS Mrs. D. Hall has been reported quite ill. Misses. Alice Powell and Julia Johnson of Peabody were visitors in the city Sunday. The N. U. G. club met at the home of Mrs. S. Dickinson Monday afternoon os which a very interesting programme was rendered and an elaborate luncheon was served. The Trio club met Monday eve, an excellent programme was rendered and a very delicious luncheen was served consisting of fruit and bonbons. The club spent a very pleasant eve. The Butinsky club met with Miss ddie Garret and a nice programe was rendered and, a delicious luncheon was served. Miss Bell of Abeline Kansas has been in the city visiting friends. Miss Bell who has been visiting here left Monday night feather home in Abeline Kans after a pleasant trip and a royal good time. The B. T. W. Club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Massey. Quite a an entertaining and enjoyable meeting was held. The following officers were elected: Mrs. H. W. Harding, president; Mrs. B. Morris, vice president; Mrs. Fred Martin, secretary; Mrs. Bowers, asst. secretary; Mrs. Thomas, Fine, recording secretary; Mrs. Phelps, teasurer; Ms. Chas. Gordon, Critic; Mrs. Lawson.; Finis reporter. Elaborate refreshments were served. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. B. Morris, 1112 N. Wichita street. $25.00 C VI $25.00 California VIA RockIsland System March 1ft to May 15th will be to California. It is June there where—that's a reason for going. A land Tourist Sleeping Car service able and economical way to go this California visit is derived from the May of your neighbors and why not take your turn this spring sometime and it might as well be California book, Tourist fold March 1ft to May 15th will be a period of low ticket prices to California. It is June there when it's cold, raw March and April here—that's a reason for going. Another reason is that Rock Isl land Tourist Sleeping Car service is such an agreeable, comfortable and economical way to go that fully half the pleasure of your California visit is derived from the journey thither. Many of your neighbors and friends have made the trip—why not take your turn this spring? You surely want to go sometime and it might as well be NOW. California book. Tourist folder and full information. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY WANTED!! A good colored band master One to locate in Wichita. Write Searchlight 110 N Main st. Wichita Kans. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. EMANUEL NEWS The farmers of this locality made a rapid progress gathering in their cotten last week. The infant child of Mr. and Ms Frank Wright died Monday morning with pneumonia. Mrs. Ruswarm is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Swane who has been sick or the past two weeks is improving f There was meeting at the Macedonia Baptist church Sunday and an able sermon was preached by their pastor Rev. S. Ward. Mrs. J. J. B. Lockett of this city is visiting relatives in Elreno O. T. Wm. Hughes who owns and runs the grocery at this place has just finished a nice cottage. He came here from Memphis Tenn. two years ago and is now doing good business The fields here are white with cotton and there are hundreds of bales to be picked. CLEARWATER NEWS E. White was in the cith shopping last week. Mr L. Biggers returned home from Wichita but intends to make that city their future home. Miss Eva Wilfley of Chicago is visiting her mother in Oxford Kan. Mr and Mrs. Barton have been in Clearwater shopping and sold one of his fine horses. Mr and Mrs O. H. White while out driving Sunday in their new buggy called on the families of Mr. C. R. Wilfley and L. Biggers. Wheat is looking finer than the farmers were expecting during the long dry spell and cold weather. Little Glarence Wilfley who has quite ill somewhat better. A. A. Fox, Jr., of 423 N. Water st. this city, received the sad news Monday of the death of his father, A. A. Fox, Sr., in Pratt county, and left Monday with his wife for the home of his parents. He returned Thursday afternoon. bo a period of low ticket prices when it's cold, raw March and April Another reason is that Rock Isl e is such an agreeable, comfort- that fully half the pleasure of your the journey thither and friends have made the trip— ing? You surely want to go e NOW. der and full information. C. E. Bascam, C. P. A. WANN At the Well Peat the e ly ‘Touch love lightly at the brink if i Wheve the Runile poot is cleaver: I ZO rouch love ligntly at the brink AN GR ese huis deeper than we thinks OSes ay ; y ‘Take the sarhte: o not arin: } sp Eyes reflecting eves grow clearer, ~— Lest ‘tis deeper than we think. || reed A\ .CA\ Re “9 CONDUC TO Mu | . - Story Pub. Co.) “Accident on the elevated railroad. Conductor crushed to death by his own train.” ‘That was all the bulletin said. It did not strike the editorial mind as a big story. Why should it? There was no mystery about it. ‘The meager de- tails to hand did not even contain suggestions of blood-curdling — inci- dents, and the man who was killed “was only @ conductor, anyway. If he Shad been § passenger there might have been spme chance of writing a good roast okjhe.company, but only a conductor! Well, things were dull, news scarce, and Phil Space, one of our bright reporters, was sent out to see if he could not get a story of some sort out of zit. He did. He wrote about a quarter of a column of bare facts which nobody would care to read. It he had Pritten the story for what it was worth—but tlien. How could he? Z He told it to me afterwards and here it is. As I am using fictitious 4names and fet injuring Phil, who by the bye I have since ceased to re- gard as a friend, no harm can be done by relating a few facts, perhaps as strange as fiction, which go to prove that even conductors of elevated trains are sometimes just as heroic and werthy of admiration as news- paper men. “It was a little more than a year ago,” sald Phil, “that I was working on an evening newspaper, down town and traveled regularly by the same train to business, returning at about the same time each night. “Although buried in the perusal of my morning papers, on the down town jeurney, I began gradually to notice that seated in the same corner of the car, always that nearest the rear door, was a singularly beautiful girl. She was little more than a child, but in her person were developed all the ripe and mature attractions of womanhood fo such a ravishing extent that to look at her once was to find a magnet which the eyes of man could not after- wards resist. “But she was entirely unconscious (of her power. The armor of her inno: ‘cence was proof against the batteries ‘of admiration and her broadsides of lalmost brutal ogling with which she jwas assaulted from all classes and ages lof city men as she journeyed to her jwork each morning. I have seen jost- fing and struggling, almost fights to ecure the corner seat immediately ppogite her, in spite of the evident act that she sat there merely to be jnear the conductor, who found time ifor « hurried word to the beautiful igirl before closing the door after call- ling out the name of each station. “I discovered that she worked at a istore in Fourteenth street and, al- |though she left business fully half an "ee PRR RRA a Sl { wh oh x Ih In AN a ili NNT] Ha es Jp ip : i the insignificant little conductor ar- rived at that depot, she always waited on the platform until his train came along. “These things worried me. At first it was a mere matter of interest, but soon it became a mania with me tc win that lovely creature away from that uneducated, and as I believed un- appreciative boor of an elevated rail- road conductor, who seemed to have strangely fascinated her. “ obtained an introduction to the girl, no matter by what means, and ft ic useless to tell the wiles I worked to win her love. Suffice it is to say 24s that after a little while we rode to gether on surface cars when our work was done, and it was I who waited for her at the corner of Fourteenth street. “She loved me. She told me so, and I—I loved her with a passion which knew no limit. Then— “Well, then there was a ‘shake up’ in the office and I lost my position. It was a case of hustle then, and in the hustling which I was obliged to do, in such intervals as I was not seck- ing consolation for my supposed ill treatment at the hands of arbitrary editors, in too frequent libations, I for- | Petit (h ? as ; | | i ! | a Ry fi! nul a Me | Se nee siren got the little woman who waited for me at the accustomed corner night after night. “I forget the exact date she had fixed for our wedding, after my beg: ging it should not be long postponed, but I think it must have been just about the time I received an appoint ment to go to Washington as repre sentative of a morning paper. “I remember I thought at the time of how, after I had made money enough I would seek that sweet little woman again and honestly keep my ‘promise to marry her. But months sped by. I was very busy and con: gress held an usually long session. “At length I-returned to New York. ‘Then I looked for her. I seemed to need her, to love her more than ever. I remember—oh! God! What did 1 not remember then—and I wondered if the sin of being too late would be upon my soul, “I found her at last, She was in the same old corner of an elevated rail- road car, but at a glance I saw upon her finger a wedding ring. She saw me and turned deathly pale. I ap- proached her and said: “Jennie! Jennie, why, you are sure: ly not married!’ “Before she could reply that plucky little chap, the conductor whispered in my ear: “Yes, damn you! My wife for a month now, but she loves you, curse you. I’ve found that out, and she can be your wife for the rest of time, if there’s anything fit to be called a man about you.’ “Columbus avenue train! Change here for Fifty-eighth street,’ he yelled aloud as he bustled us both off on to the platform he hissed in my ear: “‘Her son has been christened Phil, after you, all right. Be good to her, or I'll make it extra hot for you in hell, when we meet there.’ “Half an hour later he was crushed to death beneath his own train, Accl- dental death! That's what they eaid. ‘That’s what I wrote. Perhaps it was, but—God! I often wish I could think a? Phil paused. We both were silent for a while. Then, with some hesita- tion, I asked: “And gre you—are you married now?” “You bet, my boy,” replied Phil, recovering his usual merry manner. “Come round and see us. The wife has been getting a good deal more cheer- fol lately, and 6s for little Phil, why, he’s a wonder. When will you come?” I did not fix a date. If thou art wise thou knowest thine own ignorance, and thou art ignorant if thou kmewest not thyself.—Luther. WAR MONOPOLY OF SKY. Nations Confer to Prevent Any One ‘of Them from Controlling. Law already controls not only the surface of the earth, but its depths, says a writer in the World's Work. And now civilization requires that law shall control the atmosphere. The ownership of the sky calls for regulat ing. So eight nations have been con- ferring and drawing up protocols to prevent the monopoly of the heavens. In the preliminary congress at Ber- lin the delegates from America, Ger- many, Austria, Spain, Italy, France, Hungary and Russia drew up a plan for an international convention, as fol lows: ‘The service of operating wire- less stations is to be organized so as not to interfere with the service of other nations. Coastwise stations are to receive and transmit telegrams from ships without distinction as tc systems employed by the ships. ‘The tolls for such international communi cation are to be fixed. Stations, where possible, must give priority to calls for help from ships at sea. Furthermore, there must be a unt versal code and universal tuning (ex. cept in special and secret cases), and the bickerings of rivals must be sil: enced for the common good. The world considers wireless its property. HOW TO TELL A FISHERMAN. Expert Declares Genuine One Always Drops His “G.” According to L. M. Miller, president of the Commercial club, says a Kan- sas City special to the Philadelphia Record, the true fisherman always drops his final “g” in talking. That is an infallible test, in his mind, and he says he has never known it to fail. He was discoursing in the Commercial club rooms recently with Secretary Glendenning, another ardent devotee of the rod. “I don’t know why this should be a true test,” said Mr. Miller, “except that a fisherman must have an ele- ment of laziness about him and the man who doesn’t take the trouble to pronounce the final ‘g’ to his words may be accused of the same thing. But you listen to the man who says he is ‘going fishing’ and the other fellow who says he is ‘goin’ fishin’ and you will see that the latter is the man who comes back with a good string of fish, while the former will be spending his time talking about how they got away from™him.” ‘eaakinn ot @ Mostion, A lady said recently: “I wish some body would make guests understand that the hostess is the only one with the right to run a party. Twice re. cently I have been at informal after. ‘noon companies where some guest has broken up the gathering by insist: ing that refreshments be served at an hour to suit herself. “On one such occasion we were in: vited for bridge and the lady who ask ed for refreshments early skipped out after she had eaten her luncheon to keep an appointment with a dress: maker. Of course we were left oné short. The hostess was annoyed and all the rest of us cross, so we put on our wraps and went home. “At another affair, where a guest in sisted on interfering with the arrange ment, the hostess finally exclaimed: “This is my party and I'll have it the way I want it!’ And she did, but al: hostesses have not the nerve to quell such disturbance."—Nebraska State Journal. ivantime Sth an Gane, A young man of the name of Peter Akers Corbridge, employed in a West Side real estate office, entered a res ‘taurant in a Madison street basement last Friday evening, hung his overcoat ‘on a hook, fastened to the wall, sat ‘down at a table, and ate a hearty meal. | When he rose from the table he went to get his coat. On the hook where he had hung it he found a disreputable old gar ment with a greasy collar, a hole in one elbow, @ torn place in the back and half the buttons missing. ‘Thrusting his hand into an outside pocket he found a couple of folded pa- pers. He took them ont and opened them. One was a notification that the own: er had been drawn on a jury, and the other was a dun for $3.50 from a shoe merchant. It was his overcoat, all right—Chi. cago Tribune. Wiraated. I am persuaded from mine unbelief, hae the Keeping of my faith am’ won, Because a litte shining of God's sun Clears me & pathway through a world of iets : T could not but accept the sweet relief, Sitce Thad learned how hard it was’ to Te ‘Where sin's wild tangle, in the shadows Denied my’ soul her rest, however brief. Where, in the crowd, hope cheers a droop- ‘ing mate, wnent Tiidhess, in the sunshine and rain, Gives {5 the casement of the common nm -And points one past the gates of fear and Where prays a penitent his inmost Lam persuaded that the light Is there. —Bigne: Waleott Hutt, in New Orleans ‘Times (Democrat. Make No Mistake. “My dear sir,” said the man who sat for fifteen minutes, listening to a story by the other man, “my candid opinion is that you are a liar and yet Tam not sure, Let me ask you a ques- tlon.” 5 “Pire away.” “If you have been lying and I call you a liar would you be indignant?” “Certainly, sir.” “And if you have been telling the truth, and I call you a liar, what then?” “foxactly the same, sir. The only thing for you to do is to sit tight ane make no comment. That's where s story-teller always has the best of it.” LE ES fete I FOk ena | ound Buy your Fresh Meat at th Packing House Meat Mark and Save Money. Remember the place--Market at the Ga| Fat Dold’s Packing House, FoF ho Goo fofofo aba fala FFoho bebe feb bie ieb continued from page one his privileges it is not because he is immune to civilization or incapable of progress, We forget that our race was once in chains and that it took us, not decades but centuries to rise above our state of Villianage. 0, Anglo-Saxon! toiling through tangled forests, and over illimitable prairies for the sake of conscience, shedding heroie blood upon a thou- sand battlefields in the cause of liber- ty, building at last a civilization more magnificent than any of which the ancients dreamed—let not mighty achievment cause you to abandon your high destiny. Forget not that self sacrifice is the corner stone of liberty. be not disheartened because in the black belt of the south there are mil- lions still living in ignorance and woe. ‘Their extremity is your opportunity and opportunity measures _responst- bility. Help them to help themselvts up the rugged road to manhood, for their burden at best is heavier than yours, Then in the golden dawn of a brighter morning, imbued with a spirit of sacrifice and love, the Amer- ican negro, taught by the Anglo-Sax- on, shall return to Ethiopia to waken his slumbering brethren with a mes- sage of hope. The long night of the Dark Continent shall end, and its ver- dant shores, kissed by the surging seas, shall greet the new-born day. Where now the wild beast finds a home and the uncouth savage roams at will, the fond mother may croon to her prattling babe unharmed, and pop- ‘ulous cities, teeming with industry ‘and wealth, will pour forth a flood of commerce into the markets of the world, To make such a condition possible through the instrumentality of the American black man, is the ex- alted mission of the American white man. It is his God-given privilege. It is his manifest duty. 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ARE AS LOW Our Prices AS THE LOWEST OUR Worlz 48 goop, 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 inportance of all who de- sire to vote at the spring election to be registered, You canmot vote at this election unless you have resis- tered since Jan. ist, 1905. At the spring election all women eighteen years old and over are per- mitted {6 vote and must be registered just the same as the men, Do not forget this as it is impor- tant. 0000000000000 00000000000 WIGHITA TABERNAGLE Mo. 24. ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARCHLIGHT? IF NOT, WHY NOT? IT Is ONLY Seema FORA | eee $1.00. WHOLE YEAR , ROE Seppe: Delivered —Sueecnipeto-oav Order of Twelve Neets First on Third Turdey pen All Daaghters In Good Standing Invited Mrs, Mattie Miller, H. P. Hall 517 North Main Scet FR OE ME EE EOE EE Searchlight $1. per yr. Complaint comes to us that meny Searchlights are not de- livered in Wichita. Should you fai ltoget your paper on Satur- dayin Wichita please notify this office at once. We mail our paper on time each week in ample time for every one to be delivered on Saturday. By doing so you assist us inour work. W. N.Miller Editor, ‘There ts popular distrust of tha proposition to monkey with the prune crop. President Stillman said any banker is likely to make an error. Aunt Cam sie Chadwick agrees. NERVOUS HEADACHE MARRED A YOUNG WOMAN'S HAP- PINESS FOR SEVEN YEARS. Interfered With Her Social Duties and Threatened to Cause Her Retire- ment—How She Was Cured. Every sufferer from nervous headache knows how completely it unfits one for the duties and pleasures of life. Any little excitement, or over-exertion, or irregularity brings it on. Sometimes the pain is over the whole head. Again it is like a nail driven into the brain, or a wedge splitting it open, or a band tight- ening about it. At one time it is all in the top of the head, at another it is all at the base of the skull. Most headaches can be traced to some faulty state of the blood. When the blood is scanty or charged with poison, and the nerves are imperfectly nourished and the digestion weak, one of the com- monest results is frequent and severe headaches. The important thing is to get rid of the diseased condition of the blood that causes the attack by the use of a remedy that will do the work quickly and thoroughly. What is that remedy? The experience of Miss Ellen McKenna furnishes the answer. She says: "For more than seven years I was a great sufferer from nervous headache and dizziness. My stomach was disordered, and I became so restless that I could not sit still any length of time. Dizziness interrupted my work greatly. At first the attacks were not so severe, but they gradually grew more violent, and finally became so acute that I was on the point of relinquishing my membership in the different organizations to which I belonged." "What saved you from that necessity?" "A very simple thing; the call of a member of one of the clubs, who strongly advised me to try Dr. Williams Pink Pills before giving up. I acted on her suggestion at once, and after steadily using this great blood and nerve remedy for two months, my headaches and my dizziness entirely disappeared. Miss McKenna is secretary of the Associated Ladies' Guild, and resides at No.48 Wait street, Roxbury, Mass. Dr. Williams Pink Pills have cured many hundreds of similar cases, and can be confidently recommended to drive all poisons from the blood and to give needed strength to the nerves. Every druggist keeps them. Widows know too much to let on they know anything. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out his duties from dam. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggles, Toledo, O. Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonial free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggles. Take Hail's Family Pills for constipation. Falling in love is getting exclusive 'n your affections. Important to Mothers. Examine 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 Bough A dead sure way to get poor is to try to get rich too fast. FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE THOUGHTFUL. A Tribute to Weather Conditions In Western Canada. During the early portion of February, of this year, the middle and Western States suffered severely with the intense cold and winter's storms. Trains were delayed, cattle suffered, and there was much general hardship. While this was the case, throughout Western Canada, now attracting so much attention, the weather was perfect. One correspondent writes, "We are enjoying most beautiful weather, the gentlemen are going to church without top coats, while the ladies require no heavier outer clothing than that afforded by light jackets. In contrast with this it is interesting to read in a St Paul paper of 13th February the following, in double head lines, and large bold-faced type: "CALGARY MUCH WARMER THAN ST. PAUL." "Balmy Breezes are Blowing in Northwestern Canada. While People are Frowning in Texas and Southern States." St Paul ..... 24 Omaha ..... 16 St. Joseph ..... 16 Fort Worth, Tex ..... Zero Burlington ..... 7 Moorhead ..... 10 Duluth ..... 6 Hayre, Mont. ..... 18 Williston, N. D. ..... 18 Miles City, Mont. ..... 2 Medicine Hat, Can. ..... Zero Calgary, Can. ..... 24 Edmonton, Can. ..... 20 Leadville, Colo. ..... 32 During the month of January of this year the number of settlers who went to Canada was greater than any previous January. The movement north- ward is increasing wonderfully. The vacant lands of Western Canada are rapidly filling with an excellent class of people. The Government Agents located at different points in the States, whose duty it is to direct settlers, are busier than ever. They have arranged for special excursions during the months of March and April, and will be pleased to give intending settlers any desired information. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday March 18, It's a good thing to make your money last as long as it will, but it's better to make it first. A man in Baltimore, John Healey, takes thirty hour naps. Orioles should ship him home to Philadelphia. If young Mr. Hyde had had to work his way up from a $12 a week job things might have been different. A Minneapolis paper refers to "the aroma of the cold wave." Watch for it the next time a cold wave comes. The alleged "Frenchman" who says that American women do not know how to walk is surely an imposter. Russian grand dukes will not be overburdened in the future with replies to their want ads for coacher You may do some close guessing, but you can't always swear to a man's politics by the button he wears. Because a woman weeps is no sign that she is unhappy. She may be enjoying herself making somebody else miserable. It is reported that the public is again buying in Wall street. How soon the public forgets after the blisters are gone. A Chicago woman has been granted damages of $1 for being hugged. Dave Hill will probably regard it as an exorbitant price. There is a man in Scofland whose beard is over eight feet long and is still growing. Other occupation, if any, not stated. Dorothy Russell says that the idea of a divorce is obnoxious to her, but she must have one. Cannot overcome the hereditary influence: A quiet, peaceable man, who happened to be living in Russia just now might be pardoned for wanting to move into another flat. An American consul says there are some rare business openings in Manchuria. There should be a big business there for enterprising undertakers. It is an unmistakable sign of progress that the women of China are making a vigorous kick for the right to wear their feet as nature made them. The man who has sued his physician for $30,000 damages on account of a pockmarked face would compromise, doubtless, for a smaller sum in spot cash. King Alfonso of Spain vows that the girl who becomes his queen must be beautiful. Evidently he has decided not to book for a wife among the princesses. The American woman ought to be particularly interested in Rider Haggard's visit over here. He wrote a book once with the title "She Who Must Be Obeyed." The movement in favor of knee breeches is reported to be making considerable progress in England. The bow-legged men can't have much influence over there. Two men have arrived at Monte Carlo with mechanical schemes designed to break the bank. If they are prudent, they also have return tickets to their respective homes. That New York practical joker who held up citizens 101 fun ought to be satisfied with the success of his joke. He has just been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. A well known writer observes that, once you know a woman's age, you know the woman. Which simply shows how careful most women are about extending the circle of their acquaintance. One of Rockefeller's college professors says women are not good mathematicians. Yet he will have to admit that women's figures are generally considered superior to those of college professors. The recrudescence of fiscalitis is reported from London. There is some apprehension that it may crowd out the religious revival there. The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain is reckoned the wicked devil in the case. There are four times as many words in the English language as in the French, but young writers always feel that it is necessary to work in a French phrase here and there in order to make their meaning clear. They say the circus managers are to "cut out" the chariots, the gilded chariots, this year on account of the cost of transporting them. Well, why not cut out the calliope and the elephants and call the parade off altogether? Two prizes have been offered in France, one of $1,000 and the other of $600, to be awarded for the best papers on rational food for man. These must be written in French and handed in before Jan. 1, 1906. Let's see, what's the French for pork and beans? HAD TO GIVE UP. Suffered Agonies from Kidney Diso ders Until Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. George W. Renoff, of 1953 North 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa., a man of good repu- tation and standing, writes: "Five years ago I was suffering so with my back and kidneys that I often had to lay off. The kidney secretions were unnatural, my delphia, Pa., a man of good reputation and standing, writes: "Five years ago I was suffering so with my back and kidneys that I often had to lay off. The kidney secretions were unnatural, my legs and stomach were swollen, and I had no appetite. When doctors failed to help me I began using Doan's Kidney Pills and improved until my back was strong and my appetite returned. During the four years since I stopped using them I have enjoyed excellent health. The cure was permanent." (Signed) George W. Renoff. A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Who substituted the word roast for criticism? USE THE FAMOUS USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. How bitterly a thief accuses another thief of dishonesty. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package. 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. Ambition is a thirst that gets drier the more you drink. FITS permanently no. Fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restor- er. Send for RHEA 100, 100th Street, DR. K. H. KLINE, Lek, 519 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Truth may be as clear as a bell, but it is not always toled. Macaroni Wheat. Salzer's strain of this Wheat is the kind which laughs at droughts and the elements and positively mocks Black Rust, that terrible scorch! It's sure of yielding 80 bushels of finest Wheat the sun shines on per acre on good Ill., Ia., Mich., Wis., O., Pa., Mo., Neb. lands and 40 to 60 bushels on and lands! No rust, no insects, no failure. Catalog tells all about it. JUST SEND 100 AND THIS NOTICE to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and they will send you free a sample of Wheat and other farm seeds, together with their great catalog, words $100.00 to any wide-awakefarmer. [W.N.U.] Half the good that is done in the world is done by not doing evil. COMMISSIONER GARFIELD'S REPORT ON BEEF INDUSTRY. The report of Commissoner Garfield on the beef industry has at last been published. It must be somewhat of a surprise to those who have been indulging in wholesale adverse criticism upon the methods of the Chicago packers, as it discloses facts and figures which clearly show that the great food producers have been innocent of the serious offenses with which they have been charged. They have been for a long time accused by newspapers all over the country of extortionate prices demanded, and obtained, of depression of values of cattle at the various stockyards where their business is conducted, of enormous profits wholly disproportionate to the capital employed, and, in general, of so carrying on their business that the public, under an organized system of spoliation, were being robbed for their exclusive benefit. We find now, however, that not a single one of these charges has been sustained but, on the contrary, that rigid and searching investigation, officially made, has resulted in complete acquittal. Instead of extortion it is shown that no industry can be found where so narrow a margin of profit prevails—the actual records and original entries, to which the commissioner had free access, showing that the highest net profit any of the packers made on their sales of beef was two and three-tenths per cent in 1902 and in one instance that the profit realized in 1904 was one and eight-tenths per cent. The variations in the market prices for cattle are exhaustively treated and no evidence of any kind was discovered, or even hinted at, tending to show that values of cattle are in the slightest degree improperly affected or controlled by packers at any of the chief centers of the industry. On the whole, the report completely dissipates the prevalent idea that great fortunes are being amassed by illegal and improper methods employed by western packers, showing that notwithstanding the high prices for beef prevailing in 1902 the business was less remunerative than in years characterized by normal values, both for cattle and product. He says "that the year 1902, instead of being one of exorbitant profits, as has been commonly supposed, was less profitable than usual. In fact, during the months when the prices of beef were the highest, some, at least, of the leading packers were losing money on every head of cattle slaughtered. It was not possible to advance the prices of beef in full proportion to the great advance in the prices of cattle at that time." After all that has been written reflecting upon the great business interest engaged in the marketing and distribution of the product of one of the greatest of our national industries, it is gratifying to all fair minded people that the prejudiced attacks upon it have failed of verification; and the great western packers may be congratulated for having passed through such a searching and thorough official investigation unsmirched. The results of this investigation, based as it is upon exhaustive data, officially obtained and verified by United States government experts, must be accepted without hesitation, as the investigation was made under circumstances that guaranteed complete accuracy with a possible disposition indeed, to arrive at entirely different results. LATE MARKET REPORT. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. George W. Wakefield, judge of the district court and member of the State Bar Association, is dead at Sioux City, Ia., aged 65 years. Dowager Empress Marie Feodorova of Russia will soon leave St. Petersburg for Denmark at the urgent request of King Christian, her father. General Kuropatkin has lost 300 guns and 60,000 prisoners, besides about the same number killed or wounded, according to a military club report. Henry Norcross Munn, editor of the Scientific American, is dead at his home in New York. He was a member of the firm which publishes that paper. Active trade in smuggled arms between Ostrowo, Prussia, and Kalisch, Russia, has been broken up by the combined efforts of the Russian and German police. E. E. Snyder, the Olin, Iowa, banker who assigned last December, has disappeared. A warrant for his arrest has been issued. Snyder's liabilities amount to $145,000, mostly bank deposits. Almost everybody says the battle of Mukden should end the war, but add that as soon as hostilities end the government must prepare to resume the struggle in the future. The general depression is very acute. The French geographical society has awarded to Henry Vignaud, secretary of the American embassy, the Jopard prize for historical and geographical researches. The prize consists of a collection of valuable old maps. Fire has broken out in the main hold of the British steamer Heathburn, which arrived at Manila January 31 from Barry, Wales, and is spreading. The cargo is being discharged and the holds are being flooded. The treasury officials in commenting on the decision of the United States court at New York in the case of the American Sugar Refining Company against the United States, stated that the government would take an appeal from this decision. The question at issue is as to the exact date when the Cuban reciprocity treaty went into effect. If yesterday's decision is sustained the government will be compelled to refund about $5,000,000 paid by the American Sugar Refining Company as customs duties on sugar imported from Cuba. According to Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador, the latest Russian reverses will have no effect in hastening the inauguration of peace measures. He said "After Liao Yang there was talk of peace. Russia's answer was to send reinforcements. Like Liao Yang, Mukden is another retreat and Russia will again answer with large reinforcements, but of peace not a word." Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has arrived here from London. He played the part of engine driver between Calais and Paris with great skill. Private advices say that 900 officers of the Manchurian army have signed a round robin demanding that General Kuropatkin conclude hostilities because of threatened famine. The troops are discouraged as a result of the chronic failure of their efforts. Minister of War Teraoutchi has telegraphed congratulations to Field Marshal Oyama and all officers and men of the army on their great victory. Oyama, replying, ascribed the victory to the Emperor and the bravery of his officers and men. The Japanese army under General Kuroki has broken through the Russian lines on the Hun river east of Mukden. A large part of General Kuroppatkin's army is trapped between the forces of Generals Kuroki and Nogl. A rumor is current that the Czar is considering summoning a special council to consider conditions for peace. The informant states that this does not necessarily mean that peace will follow, for after taking the opinion of his advisers, the Czar may decide to continue the struggle. This Pretty Girl Saved From Catarrh of the Lungs By Pe-ru-na. MISS FLORENCE KENAH. Miss Florence E. Kenah, 434 Maria street, Ottawa "A few months ago I caught a severe cold, while mained there so persistently that I became alarmed benefit, until my digestive organs became upset, to ache severely and frequently. "I was advised to try Peruna, and although I had I was ready to try anything. It brought me bleed that I had the right medicine at last. 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They make us feel like new beings. Under the inspiration of their presence we can say and do things which it would be impossible for us to say and do under different conditions. One stimulates my thought, quickens my faculties, sharpens my intellect, while another dampens my enthusiasm, closes the door of expansion, and chills me to the very center of my being. There emanates from him an atmosphere which paralyzes thought, dwarfs expression. DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. 3 yrs in civil, war, 15 adjudicating claims, atioe una." Florence E. Keen but have purchased several bottles to give to those without the means to drink and have noticed without exception that it has brought about a speedier wherever it has been used."—Bern Gerbing. Pe-ru-na Contains No Narcotics One reason why Peruna has found permanent use in so many homes is that it contains no narcotic of any kind. Peruna is perfectly harmless. It can be used any length of time without a quiring a drug habit. Peruna does not produce temporary results. It is permanent in its effect. It has no bad effect upon the system and gradually eliminates catarrh by moving the cause of catarrh. There is a multitude of homes where Peruna has been used off and on for twenty years. Such a thing could not be possible Peruna contained any drugs of a narcotic nature. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbia Ohio. All correspondence held strictly on confidential. LEFT THEIR WORK UNDONE. Many Authors Snatched From Usefulness by Death. They have in the British museum the manuscript of Lawrence Sierens incomplete "Journal to Eliza." Byrd died in the service of Greece before he could carry out his project of asking another series of cantos to "Dr Juan'" and of taking another down to Naples to study the countrys so as to write two additional canons to "Childe Harold." Hawthorne "Dolliver Romance" is a fragmentary masterpiece. Wilkie Collins was interrupted in the completion of "Blind Love," which was finished and published after his death. Helen Jackson took pains to write out of her deathbed a synopsis of the courses which she meant her novel, "Zeph," to follow. With the story of how "Edwin Drood," by Charles Dickens was wound up everybody is familiar. What a good memory some people have for mischief. A fool is a man who laughs at h own folly. SINGLE BINDER ALWAYS RELIABLE from Frank P. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. BOOK ON DEFORMITIES AND PARALYSIS This book is of a hundred pages, handsomely ill- titled thirty years in the treatment of Crooked Fe- disease, Deformed Limbs and Joints, etc. in this country devoted exclusively to the treat- ment surgical operations, plastic parts or other tests, mention character of the affliction and spe- ciies in Orthopedic Sanitarium, 3104 Pine St. St. Louis. W. L. 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