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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. 6TH YEAR. KEYNOTE Founded By President Roosevelt In His Recent Speech to President in the history of country ever spoke more clear upon good citizenship than did resident Rosevelt in his address the Friendly Sons of St. Patton March 17th. His defini of Americanism ought to be enriched by every patriotic cit in the country. He said: Americanism is not a matter need, or birthplace or descent man is the best American has in him the American, the American soul. Such a fears not the strong and as not the weak. He scorns it is base or cruel or dishonor. He looks beyond the accident occupation or social condition, hails each of his fellow citizens as his brother, asking him save that each each shall at the other on his worth as a, and that they shall join toer to no all that in them lies the uplifting of this mighty vigorous people. e words are as true as truth. thinks a real American, a free indee, and in truth is too to be mean, fearing not the ing and harming not the weak these wards express the creed the common brotherhood of the ideal toward which kind has been always striv- yet never fully attaining. every secret organization is guided on the thought so terely given by the President, every inch is praying for the world'siment of this long hoped for ease of perfection. Mr. Roosevoices the universal prayer "God our father, Christ our or, man our brother." which ushered into the millineum. His hope is not divorced from liberty, but is the very esse and spirit of the Decleraof Independence. It breathes spirit of ideal Americanism, wish that drove a nation across the sea to transform, as if magic, the wilderness into the minets of civilization. If this prime announced bo the third oast that has occupied the if magistrates chair could be critically realized, the Negro problem would be solved. If our entry could but see that what of every class most need is treated upon their worth as soon then the complicated questions that now vex and annoy us could be easily settled. Strife and contention would be forgotten, the army, known as the working class, would not be compelled to be constantly on the alert with the cry in their hearts "Eternal vengeance is the price of economic iiberty." But get the to practice the ideas of our President and most of the sorrows of life would melt away like the frost before the sun. Ex. APPOINTS COLORED MAN Washington, D. C., - The president has appointed Sergeant George S. Thompson of the 25th infantry to be a second lieutenant in the Phillippine scouts, thus adding one more Negro to the list of commissioned officers of the army. Lieutenant Thompson was appointed on his merits, having an enviable record in the Phillippines. Negro World's Fair To Be Held In New York In 1906 Government and State To Aid Exposition Company Composed Of Negroes With Cash Capital Of ONE MILLION DOLLARS On A Grand Seale A Negro World's Fair is to be held in New York in 1906, remaining open for three months. It is to be conducted by a company incorporated with one million dollars and composed entirely of Negroes. Liberal government and State aid will be given the enterprise, beside the held of the railroads of the country. The purpose of the Fair is to show the progress of the Negro race from the earliest time down to the present date in industry, art, literature and science. James A. Ross, the well known Negro publisher, has just been appointed director of exhibits and member of the advisory board of this Negro World's Fair. The position carries with it a salary of $3,000, and much authority. Prof. T. A. Green, of Los Angeles, Cal., has been appointed assistant journal olerk of the senate of California. He is the first Negro to be appointed to a clerical position in the legislature of that state. "EQUAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE" Vice-President Fairbanks Says In A Speech In North Carolina. Greensboro, N. C., Three hundred guests, including Republicans of prominence from North Carllina and other states, attended the banquet of the Tarheel club at which Vice-President Fair banks and Revenue Commissioner Yerkes were the guests of honor. Vice-President Fairbanks received an ovation when he arose to speak. He told of the elimination of the sectional lines, and when he referred to Gen. Joseph Wheeler's part in the Spanish-American war. "Republican governmeut," he said. "was ordained to promote justice; to secure each and all in the fullest possible enjoyment of equal rights and privileges under the law. Every American must stand before the law upon a plan of perfect equality with his fellow American. Ex. The Average Girl The average girl of the present day is of a few ideas and full of nonsense. She appeareth on the street clad in much fine raiment, and hunteth up a beau at whose expense she drinketh soda water until the setting of the Sun She cheweth her gum in the morning, and when the evening approaches, lo, she is still chewing! She getteth the notion in her head that she can sing, and she wableth until her father becomes an habitual drunkard and the neighbors get out an injunction. She goeth forth to a party gowned in a dress that is entirely too short at the top and too long at the bottom, and giggleth till the night waxeth old. She lieth abed in the morning until the eleventh hour, while her mother jumps around and does the house work. She sigheth for a husband with a long mustach and plenty of money, but finally marries some fellow who smoketh cigaretts and holdeth up two fingers to the barber when he getteth a shave. -x Hon. S. W. Starks has been reappointed West Virginia State Librarian for a term of four years Kansas does not hang her mur derers. Instead of making them pull hemp she has them to convert it into binding twine. W F. SCHELL Councilman Second Ward Mr. W. F. Schell is the republican candidate for Councilman from the 2nd ward and ought to receive your vote Tuesday. He is one of Wichita's heavy tax payers and most prominent business men and is vitally interested in the promotion of the best interests of Wichita. Cast your vote for him for Councilman. Geo' E. Harris' For City Treasurer Most every ono who has lived in Wichita any length of time knows Capt. Geo. E. Harris, the kind natured and gentlemanly City Treasurer of our city. Well, the republicans have renominated Capt. Harris for City Treasurer and you will do yourself a compliant by casting your vote for him for that office and we feel sure that he will highly appreciate your vote. The easy-going fellow may be hard to stop. It's the first step that counts in the long run. Life is like a poker game; that is, a good deal. Many a big heart is concealed behind a narrow chest. Success sometimes depends upon how much you can borrow. It takes constant use to keep good intentions from getting rusty. A clear conscience is a luxury that even some rich people can't afford. The people who are looking for trouble generally want it sugar coated. A girl can always wring her hands when she can't get any fellow to do it for her. Away down in her heart every married woman feels that she might have done worse. Those who complain that they don't get all they deserve may be lucky that they don't. A woman can stand more pain than a man, provided she isn't obliged to suffer in silence. A woman may be a perfect angel or a little goose; it's only a difference in the matter of wings. To look for trouble is a feminine instinct. It's the hen that does all the brooding for the family. IN THE NONSENSE SCHOOL. Which tense does an army in camp prefer to use? Perfect tents. Give an example of the imperfect tense. Pretense. Give another. Impotence. Of the future tense. The expected circus. In the sentence, "The officer who orders the men to storm the breastworks," in what mood is "The officer who orders the men"? The indicative. Wrong. In the imperative mood. How many parts of speech are there? Depends on how broken it is when spoken. How many parts in the female gender? Only one. The part she takes. A Little About Interest A Little About Interest America's Men of Letters America's Men of Letters Told of Yankee Skippers Saving the Small Sums Insurance premiums, simple interest and compound interest have received unwonted attention since the spot light of public notice was focused on the possibilities of the vast capital held by a life insurance company controlled by one man. A mathematician has calculated that if one English penny, or two cents American, were put out at 5 per cent compound interest at the birth of Christ it would have amounted by the year 1810, to more money than could be expressed by 357,000,000 globes each equal to the earth in magnitude, all of solid gold of standard quality. But if the penny had been put out at simple interest the amount in the same time would have only a little over $1.70. Carrying the compound interest figures on the same amount up to the year 1846 gives as a result 2,107,530,864 worlds of solid gold. Some other compound interest figures are as follows: Every man at fifty years of age who has saved $1.25 a day since he was twenty-one years There is much of what Matthew Arnold styled "excessive Hebraizing" among the Americans; there is much of Phoenician money-making and Philistine materialism. But they have Hellenic affinities, too, in their love of freedom and novelty, in their open-minded inventive resourcefulness, their boundless curiosity and their equally boundless good nature. America has hardly yet begun to produce great art or great literature of her own on her own soil. In literature she achieved more when her population was scant and sparse than she has done since she has attained her present vast dimensions. She has produced no later writers so good as Fenimore Cooper and Poe and the early Boston group, Emerson and Hawthorne, Longfellow and Holmes and Lowell. In them, as a subtle critic of her own, Dr. Van Dyke, says, "the small New England nation flowered." The great American nation has not yet reached, perhaps could hardly yet have reached, her flowering day. That she will do so ultimate A Machias brig once came on the Irish coast in thick weather, looking for Cape Clear. The captain kept along till noon, when he heard a bell ringing, which rather puzzled him, for it sounded very heavy for a ship's bell, and could hardly be a church bell on shore. Just then the cutter shot out of the fog and asked if he wanted a pilot. "Pilot?" said the skipper. "What do I want a pilot for? I can find my way up St. George's channel without any pilot. What bell that?" "You'll want a pilot where you are, captain. That bell is on the floating light off Liverpool!" "By ginger!" ejaculated the downeaster, "I've been looking for Cape Clear ever since daybreak and here I've overrun my reckoning 300 miles!" Curious tales are told of the extent to which the Nantucket and New Bedford whaling skippers kept their minds on their business, regardless of distractions. One of these, who was Individuals who save and accumulate sums of money for lucrative investment are individuals who form the habit of saving. To be prodigal of your resource is natural. It is a survival of the primal nature. Saving is an acquired trait. It is necessary, therefore, to form habits that are conducive to economy. Many men and women who work for wages or salaries find it difficult to save, unless some circumstance forces them to it. The fact that this indulgence only means a dollar or a dime, as the case may be, is regarded as a sufficient excuse to spend the money. It will take long to acquire a fortune by laying up the odd pieces of change. Yet many great institutions derive their entire patronage from dimes, nickels and even pennies. The habit of saving means the saving of the little denominations. It is to curb the inclination to spend money simply because 'the denomination is insignificant. Anyone can save the dollars, big bills and gold pieces. NO 48 old and compounded it annually at 4 per cent is worth $25,000. Every man at the age of fifty-five who has saved $1.51 a day since he was twenty-one years old and compounded it annually at 4 per cent is worth $40,000. Every man at the age of sixty years who has saved $1.75 a day since he was twenty-one years old and compounded it annually at 4 per cent is worth $60,000. In ancient Athens the lowest rate of interest was 10 per cent and the highest 36 per cent. In Rome similarly exorbitant rates were allowed. About the year 346 B. C., however, the rate in Rome was limited to 5 per cent later the practice of taking interest for money was forbidden. In England an act was put in force in 1197 forbidding Christians to take interest for money. During the reign of King Henry VIII, there was an enactment making 10 per cent the legal rate, but it was repealed. From 1552 to 1624 the rate was 10 per cent. In the latter year it was reduced to 8 per cent and the word interest was first used instead of usury. ly there can be little doubt. ly there can be little doubt. Meanwhile, let her bethink her of what her first, and still her most inspired, singer calls in his exquisite little poem, "The glory that was Greece." For that day she may well prepare herself by the aid of such teaching as Dr. Butcher conveys in his "Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects." But, indeed, the eloquent words with which these lectures conclude have a lesson for our race on both sides of the Atlantic, a word at once of warning and of encouragement. "It is the glory of Greek literature that of all literatures it is at once the most artistic and the most popular. And our hope, our best hope for the literature of the future is, that as the democratic movement extends and calls forth enlarged intellectual sympathies, the old Hellenic harmony may be re-established between that eternal love*of beauty on which all art and literature rest, and that love of scientific truth which is the dominant mark of our own age." —The Spectator. caught in a whale's mouth and seriously injured, being asked what he thought when the whale seized him, said he "thought she'd turn out about forty barrels." Another was rowing off from shore on the coast of South America in company with five other whale ship captains. Of course, the boat crews began racing and the captains, growing excited, cheered on their men, shouting bets and chaffing each other. Our skipper, however, kept mumbling to his crew to take it easy and let the others lead. "It's the race who shall see Palmer's island first that I'm bound to win," said he, pointing to a little bight in the shore line. "Did you ever see that rock on the beach before? Guess not. That's a cow whale, up there, with her calf. It's her nursery." He got the whale and got the calf. Little was said by the other ships about the race he didn't win, but he won the race to Palmer's island. That the prodigal side of man is understood is found in the devices for catching the pennies and the dimes. To offset this and to encourage him to lay by a portion of his earnings, savings banks and the monthly payment plan for real estate, property assurance, etc., are in existence. Our wealth is our property. In the possession of property is centered our material well-being, our prosperity. The habit of saving, if persisted in, will make all men possessors of property. The value of that property and the measure of our well-being will depend upon the amount of our accumulations and the measure of our desires. A thrifty people is a contented people. Improvidence results in want and suffering. Habits of saving will contribute to individual happiness and to general prosperity in proportion as the habit of saving, thriftiness, becomes a habit common to all the people—Seattle Post-Intelli-encer. 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. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15c. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appli cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed TO THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the part or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication in the current issue. 1st. All Subscriptions must be paid in advance strictly. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will appear in that week. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one office or one address to another always give both, the old and new. 4th Send Us all the news from your section of the City, County, State or County We publish it FREE OF CHARGE. Writplain, 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. Bad Condition The north end of the second ward is in a most deplorable condition. With every little rain that comes there is not a street in the whole ward north of ninth street that is not a mud puddle. For the past two or three years the residents of that end of the ward have tried harb to get some thing done, but all their efforts have been in vain, and the residents of that end of the ward are justly indignant. Take any of the streets—on Waco from 9th to 17th, and especially from 12th to 14th, it is simply awful the whole year roudd, and whenever a little rain comes it is worse than horrible; Wichita st is just as bad and Jackson from 13th to 18th is something fierce, then why should the people in that part of the ward not kick? Then again the crossings which were washed out in that part of the ward by the flood of last year are most of them in the same condition in which the flood left them, and whenever it rains the crossings are almost impassable. The people of north end of the second ward are all jolly, good-natured people, but the little attention which has been paid to the needs of that end of the ward has been enough to make them feel sore. It is devoutly hoped by all the councilman chosen Tuesday will remember the needs of the citizens of the north end of the second ward. What Schooling Is Worth For the benefit of the boy who gets tired of going to school at this season of the year and the parents who show no concern in the matter, the Shawnee County News quote these figures from a Kansas educator: "The average educated man gets a salary of $1,000 a year. He works forty years, making a total of $40,000 in a lifetime. The average day laborer gets $1,50 a day, 300 days in a year, $450 a year. In forty years he earns $18 000. The difference or $22,000 equals the value of an education. To acquire this earning capacity requires twelve years at school of 180 days each, or 2,160 days. Divide $22,000, the value of an education by 2,160, number of days required in getting it, we find that each day at school is worth a little more than $10 to the pupil. Can you afford to keep your boy or girl out of school? Wichita was visited by one of the most severe rain and hail storms in her history. Hail fell almost as large as a marble. Judge R. C. Wilson County Atty O. G. Eckstien and a party of fishermen went out fishing this week. Miss Fossie Miller is quite sick at her home. Mrs. Margueritt Watson is out again after quite a spell of sickness Send in your church news in every week. Mrs. Fannie Baker is still on the sick list. Big Spring Ball at Odd Fellow hall next Monday night. Come out Mrs J. S. Anderson 1218 N. Main who has be nook for the past few days is able to be cut again. Messers Best Fine and P. Bass arrived in the city from Pleaston Ks and will make this their future home. Mrs. C. E. Floyd returned from Winfield Saturday whee she sbent a few days visiting friends and eft Monday eve for her home fu Kingman. Everybody is plowing, cleaning and building and tt really looks like the good old summer time for awhile. Ike J. Porter is out again and will be well stocked with hogs as he was before he met with the accident which broke his leg. Rev. J. J. Jefferson spont Saturday n Parsons and last Sunday with his congregation in Wellingoo. The Searchlight collector will start out again Saturday. Pay up. The Eareka Club will give a Swell Ball Monday night April 3rd at the Odd Fellow hall. You are invited to come out. Best of order Guaranteed. Monday nights Ball at Odd Fellows hall is the talk of the town all look forward to have a swell time. Be on hand Monday night April 3rd. Ike Miskel contemp'a'es moving his home place a few feet north on the dividing line and expects to erect a handsome cottage between the two houses which he alreadyp has there. Preparations are being made for a fine programe by the Senior choir at the A. M. E. church of which special music will be rendered for the occasion. NEW PLATFORM. The new platform upon which all political parties now stand reads as as follows: 'White man is a white man, Negro is a Negro. All for the white man, Nothing for the Negro.' Watch and see if this platform is not carried out to the letter. ```markdown ``` ==Spring Ball== ODD FELLOW HALL Monday Night —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 Rev. W. H. Tillman filled the pulpit at the New Hope Baptist church Sunday both morning and evening with a splendid sermon each time. There was a large attendance all day the collection being $12.30. There were several visitors of which we invite them back again. Come again my friends you are welcome. At 1 p.m. Sunday School met under the direction of Mrs James Tipp Supt and Miss Rosa Tillman Secretary. Our gunday School is progressing nicely and we are preparing for some fine Easter Exercises to be rendered Sunday eve. The Philiswheatly Sewing Circle enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon Thursday their regular meeting day with Miss Rosa Dunn. Fifteen minuets were spent in needle work after which a few favorites quotations was rendered and all enjoyed a pleasant evening. At a reasonable hour a three course lunchon was served and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Frank Jones 1125 N. Washington March 30th. The Services at the A. M. E. church were well attended last Sunday. Rev. King pastor occupied the the pulpit both morning and evening and preached to a large congregation, At 6:30 p.m. the Song Service was held and a large attendance was present. The air is alive in the A. M. E. church circles getting ready to hear the "story of the penny" on April 10th and also preparing for Easter Services. From all Indications the Easter this yeae will eclipse any of the previous years. The Highbinners will open the season after Easter with the most brilliant dancing party that has ever been given in Wichita or prehaps the whole South west. It will be an invitational affair and will be attended by the most prominent social people of the State and it is safe to say that under the management of "Cholly" Summytt the expence will be a secondary consideration in making this the osial fete of the Season. Cholley will be assisted by Thora Anderson, Marion Fowler and N. Gentry starns who are three of the most prominent society gens of Wichita. == Sprin ODD FELLO Monday APRIL BEST OF ORDER USUAL ADMISSION ONLY We overlooked to mention in our lasr issue about the swell dinner served by Mrs Sherrils at her home 311 W, Murdock in honor of Rev. Rivers during his stay in our city The dinner was delicious and every one enjoyed it immense. These fortunate enough to be present were:— Rev. and Mrs. H. W. King Rev. R. M. Rivers Mrs W. N. Miller Mrs. Henry Hale All pronounced Mrs Sherrils an ideal entertainer. The Tabernacle Baptist church held their usual meetings Sunday and Rev. Underwood filled the pulpit at 1 a.m. and 8 p.m. The Sunday School was well atte ded at 1 p.m. and wrs presided over by their very able Supt. Mrs. J. A. Martin assisted by Mrs Asberry Ma Bride with Miss Francis Williams Secretary, One of the important meetings was that of the B. Y. P. U. at 7 p.m which met with their president Miss Blanche Givins aided by Mrs Hattie Love Vice President Mrs. Josephine Miller Secretary. Owing to the electric lights falling to burn the services were somewhat delayed at 8 p.m. Every one is cordial invited to attend of these services. Remember Monday night April 3rd at Old Fello we hall. DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 16c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop. Rev. J. H. Van Leen nas his two houses on N. Water almost completed and will soon be ready for tenants. To enjoy the fun at the Spring Ball next Monday night come out early. Do not wait so late—but be on hand early. Good music has been engaged for the occasion and the best of order is guaranteed. Come out and have a fine time. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Millow went about 30 milee out in the country last Sunday. They report some fine farms well taken care of by Sdgwick Countys busy farmers Unfortunately they did not meet a single colored farmer among the many whom they oame in contact. Don't forget April 10th the story of the talents to be told at the A. M. E. church. Au interesting programme will also be rendered in connection and promises to be a highly entertaining affair. All are cordially invited to attend g Ball= OW HALL Night 3rd '05 MUST PREVAIL 25c The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West...... DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including piano, oagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. D D DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, SubNormal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including piano, oagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. D D PRESIDENT Phones Office—Bell " White" 4302 Residence—Bell " West ' 15 USE USE IMBODEN'S FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating AT YOUR GROCFRS IMBODEN MILLING CO. 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 Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. Old Phone 146 New Phone 1804 Old Phone 146 I have been to the OYE MODELS O. K. DYE The same old clothes, but, oh, what a difference since the O. K. Dye and Dry Cleaning Works fixed them, Second hand clothing good as new for One-Fourth Less than better good. Good Pants from 75c up Suits from $2.50 up. Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired Ladies' Work A Specialty C. G. Hanson, Prop. 330 North Main Street Floyd Bros, Restaurant and Cafe T I Jones, SHOEMAKER, ```markdown ``` All Kind of Repair Work Neatly Done. Lunch at All Hours Cigars and Tobacco When Hungry Give Us A Call 408 North Main St. HOUCK W. M. Dunson, Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Office 517 N. Main St Phone 9 3 6 There is popular distrust of the proposition to monkey with the prune crop. Best Laundry In The City Phone President Stillman said any banker is likely to make an error. Aunt Cassie Chadwick agrees. Phonographs Columbia, Victor Edison "HIS MASTER'S VOICE" Columbia X P Records 25c Songs, Band, Orch Almost Anything You Won Sold On East Eberhard —Corner Douglas an SECOND 1 K P Records 25c Edison G Songs, Band, Orchestra, Talking. At Anything You Would Care To Listen Old On Easy Paymen Eberhardt & Hay -Corner Douglas and Emporia Avenue SECOND TO NONE Columbia X P Records 25c Edison Gold Mold 35c Songs, Band, Orchestra, Talking. Almost Anything You Would Care To Listen To— Sold On Easy Payments Eberhardt & Hays -Corner Douglas and Emporia Avenues- --- Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. MYRON A. Groceries, Fruits and F. 815 N- M OLDEN'S D Prescriptions ... Drugs of all kinds, Your patronage solicited. + customer. Our store is Head MYRON A. DEAN Vegeties, Fruits, Vegeta and Feed. 115 N. MAIN ST. 101-Both Ph DEN'S DRUG ST Prescriptions Filled with C drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tob stronage solicited. + Once a customer er. Our store is Headquaters for Colo --- Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Prescriptions Filled with Care ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. A BIG FIGURE If you want to save money on building material you can never do it by buying inferior stock; because it will not give long wear. When building you build for serice. You wouldn't want to repair the house every year would you? Take our advice and pay a little more for the best material to be had. We sell the best. BROTHERS 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 633 to 547 WEST DOUGLAS TO GRANT'S CIGAR and SHINE PAROR 334 North Main Street or Cigars, Tobacco and Shines Phone 658. W.H. H. GRANTPROP, procery Line Our 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., 02 E. Douglas Pone 357 Edison Gold Mold 35c Orchestra, Talking. Would Care To Listen To— Easy Payments rdt & Hays and Emporia Avenues— TO NONE OTTO WEISS. Agent. A. DEAN its, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101. RUG STORE Filled with Care s, Cigars and Tobacco ... + Once a customer, always a adquaters for Colored people. $ TWO STANDARDS There seems to be two standards by which Wichita republicans are judged: One standard applies to the black republicans and the other is the white republicans standard. According to the one which applies to the black man he must be a republican from the cradle to the grave—and if by any chance or on any pretence he alleys himself with the apposition he is at once placed on the dead lust—ann when ever he sticks his head up he is reminded that he was 'once off' which settles his aspiration and he has "no chance'. But not so with the stand ard by which the white man is judged—he may be a populist one year, a socialist the next, r democrat next and then he is received with open arms by his white brethern—and his sins are at once forgiven and he is given the principle seat at the banquet table. This is not right. If it means MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Passengers from Wichita, let at Yates Center with the Hot THE HOT SPRINGS SOLID VESTIBUL CARRIES DINING CAR SLEEPERT TO HOT SPR This new service is the quick yet been offered to the great Illustrated books describing undersigned on application E. E. Bleckly, T. P. A. Wtchita $25.00 C from Wiebita, leaving on 11. 30 A inter with the Hot Springs Special HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A LID VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC L ES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT T TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT service is the quickets and most co ffered to the greatest health resort i books describing Hot Springs, may don application kly, I. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11. 30 A. M. taain, connect at Yates Center with the Hot Springs Special at 2. 55 P. M. THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A SOLID VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN CARRIES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT CHANGE. This new service is the quickets and most convenient that has yet been offered to the greatest health resort in America. Illustrated books describing Hot Springs, may be had from the undersigned on application Wtchita, Kans. OO Califo VIA $25.00 California VIA RockIsland System March 1st to May 15th will be to California. It is June there where here—th it's a reason for going. Land Tourist Sleeping Car service able and economical way to go the California visit is derived from the Many of your neighbors are why not take your turn this spring sometime and it might as well be California book, Tourist follo No May 15th will be a period of low is June there when it's cold, raw M reason for going. Another reason is keeping Car service is such an agree ical way to go that fully half the p is derived from the journey thither your neighbors and friends have m your turn this spring? You surely it might as well be NOW. book, Tourist folder and full info C. E. Bascar March 1st 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—th t'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. C. E. Baseam, C. P. A. political death to a black man to desert his party—why should it not mean so with a white republican. as to whom they want and choice of the majority will be olar d the duly elected officers. The Searchlight has no comm And if it is alright for a white man to take a slice of all the politi calism—how much more wreng is it for a black man to do so? We believe in republicanism from a stand point of principle and we believe that all republicans black or white should be measured from the same standard—and not have one standard for the blacks and one for the whites—as is now the case ELECTION : TUESDAY On next Tuesday April 4th the people will go to the polls and select their choice of officers for the city of Wichita for the coming two years. By this time every one has had ample time to make up their minds SHOES Follow the crow Over, Florshier at manufacture HOES SHOE the crowd to the Florsheim and oth ufacturer's cost. Positively going o $10,000. Florsheim $5.00 and $6 Fine Patent Leather, $4 Walk-Over $3.50 Shoes, Arnold $3. and $3.50 Sho John Mitchell $2.50 Sho Boys' Shoes in all sizes, $1.25 to THE FU Follow the crowd to the great Shoe sale. WalkOver. Florshiem and other High Grade Shoes at manufacturer's cost. Positively going out of the Shoe business. Florsheim $5.00 and $6.00 Shoes, at ..... $3.95 Fine Patent Leather, $4 and $5 Shoes at ..... 3.25 Walk-Over $3.50 Shoes, all styles, ..... 2.95 Arnold $3. and $3.50 Shoes, for ..... 2.45 John Mitchell $2.50 Shoes for ..... 1.95 Boys' Shoes in all sizes, $1.50 to $3 regular at $1.25 to ..... 1.95 --- Don't Worry leaving on 11. 30 A. M. taain, connect Hot Springs Special at 2:55 P. M. GGS SPECIAL IS A LE, ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN CAR AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN RINGSWISH OUT CHANGE. tickets and most convenient that has greatest health resort in America. ng Hot Springs, may be had from the California VIA will be a period of low ticket prices when it's cold, raw March and April. Another reason is that Rock Isl price is such an agreeable, comfort- that fully half the pleasure of your in the journey thither and friends have made the trip— spring? You surely want to go be NOW.OLDER and full information. C. E. Baseam, C. P. A. to it as to whom they want and the choice of the majority will be de- dared the duly elected officers. The Searchlight has no comment to make on this election and only says to its readers vote for those whom you to believe to be most likely to favor your brother in black and do his duty toward the city. There are thaee tickets in the field—the socialists, the democratic and the republican and from the three it will be easy to select a choice. Every voter should avail him self of the opportunity to vote—Vote for somebody. Talk about nerve—why the government mule is not in it with some people we know. The colored band is getting ready to blow loud and srong. SHOES blowd to the great Shoe dem and other High- er's cost. ply going out of the 0,000. Stock To Be Ou- —Out at On Sheim $5.00 and $6.00 Shoes, at Patent Leather, $4 and $5 Shoes at -Over $3.50 Shoes, all styles, Old $3, and $3.50 Shoes, for Mitchell $2.50 Shoes for "Shoes in all sizes, $1.50 to $3 regula- to E FULT F. S. HUNT, Mgr I. R. Sherwin, 'P. & T. A. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE BEFORE THE DEVELOPMENT. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world this makes kinky or so, and the best to make the hair from falling in the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair strong long. It is not a good way to keep a 5 years and used by thousands who wanted harmless. It was the first preparation ever so for straightening the hair. It is aware of custodians of the Fossil St. John's and Ozonized Ox Marrow to put up only in fifty cent size, made only in Chicago and by us. The U.S. A. is printed on the package. Do not be misled by substitutes that claim to be just as good—it always is not the same thing going to be the genuine, as it never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. Since so much desired. A toilet necessary for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perplexed. The best to make the quality of the hair is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a person who has a good time to do it every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druglists and dealers, or send us 50 cents for one bottle. We pay all postage and express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention us of this paper. Write your name and address plainly to: OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., Charles Ford Post 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois QUITE A MUDDLE There are going to be some of the worst dissapointed colored men in Wiehita at the close of the May orality contest that has ever been witnessed in any two towns. In order to carry their points politicians have made promises upon top of promises to the colored men and the colored men have "bit", at the old promise "bait" and lots of them are going to get left. They forget that this is to be a "cutting down expense" aggritation and hiw in the world do they expect to get more jobs or hold what they have when expenses are to be cut." It's funny to us how some people can be fooled on this old promised racket. It's ever now-- and the colored men with jobs in their minds will find themselves up against a stone wall. Somebody ought to have a kicking machine so that some of our colored men can kick themselves for being so easy tapped at another man's game. HAVE DONE WELL It does not take an expert to see that the colored people of Wiehita have made a very noticeable stride in getting homes and making improvements on their property in the past two or three years. It seems than a very commedable era of home getting out home improvement has struck the colored population of Wiehita and each one is contesting with the other in beating their home. The one and two room houses are fast giving way to the modern cottage and the yards that were once the scene of ash heaps and old refuse is fast being down to grass and all this is being done in order to SHOES shoe sale. Walk- n Grade Shoes Shoe business. Closed ance— .....$3.95 .....3.25 .....2.95 .....2.45 .....1.95 ear at .....1.95 ON Watch Us Grow make home the ideal place. As we have said on many occasions the money spent foolishly on foolish and needless things could be placed in a home and make it indeed a home. As we travel over Wichita it does our v y soul good to see colored men and women on every hand getting a home and beautifying what they have. Let the good work go on—keep on getting homes—every spare penny you get bny some little arti le for the home and take it there. Try and make your home the most beautiful inside and out in your neighborhood and you will realize as never before the real good of a home. TOPEKA NEWS Excelsior Lodge of Topeka and Western Star lodge No 1. K. of P held their annual Thanksgiving sermon in Lawrence Sund y. A nice time was had. H. I. Monroe of Excelsior lodge made a good talk on Phythianian. G. H. Guy spoke on Friendship. Guy made a good talk we regret very much that Bro. Guy don't practice what he preaches. W. W. Evans and W. W. Plumb assisted in taking up collection which amount was 18.00. The Court of C. paid one of their endowments $125.00. The receiver of the money smited all over his face when the large sum was paid him and said he wished some more of the family would join the C. C. and pass out and that would be $135.00 more for him. They found the Western Star Lodge of Lawrence in good standing with fine Uniform Rank. New members are being added every week. Service was held at the A. M. E. eurch, and the sermon was preached by Rev. Sage who is an able man and we all were made to rejoice while he delivered the message 7th st. A. M. E. church have been holding a series of revival meetings for the past four weeks coducted by the Evangelist Rev. Howard of Colorado. Many souls have been added to the church or in other words, many persons have joined the church since the beginning of servides some thing like 80 have said that they have had their sins forgiven. Rev Howard is an abe speaker and when he closes the meeting herr he will go to Lawrence where he will conduct a series of meetings at that place. B. Pope a porter on the SantaHe was married on Friday March 17th All wish them much success in their happy married life. CLEARWATER NEWS On Monday afternoon Clearwater was visited with one of the largest hail and rain storms the city was experienced or qvite a while. Mrs. Sarah Wilfley of Oxford is on the sick list. While Mrs Geo. Barton war cut driving last week her horse became frightened and ran away. Leonard Biggers who came home to visit his family Saturday retuored to Wichita Sunday evening. O. H. White and family were in Clearwater Sunday and Monday on business with the Clearwater State Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Biggers left Sunday for Wichita on business. Mrs. O. H. White is planning to have an ideal front yard at their new home this spring they have all ready sent for some of the new roses to plant. Wheat is looking finch and if it has a half of chance it will be a fine crop. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. According to the census report women live longer than men. They do this in order to have the last word. Secretary Shaw is in favor of an elastic currency. So are we. We should like to be able to stretch a dollar so it would go as far as ten, says the Florida Times-Union. The railway lobbyists at Washington should have no difficulty in getting positions on football teams, on account of their great interference work, the New York American thinks. The increase in the number of deaths of passengers on trains in 1904 was sixty-four and one-half per cent. over 1903. The railroad presidents who say that they alone can run the American roads will see in these figures a tribute to their increasing efficiency, the San Francisco Examiner remarks. The chemist of the South Dakota food commission extracted enough coal tar dye from a bottle of port wine taken from an original package in the presence of members of the legislature to dye a brilliant wine color nine square feet of heavy woolen cloth. From a bottle of tomato catsup he took enough dye to color a like amount of woolen cloth: A single bottle of pop produced coloring matter of still greater power. These facts seem to give considerable color to the charges of food adulteration, says the Minneapolis Journal. Worrying over future possibilities and a fearful anticipation of the tomorrow are but the borrowing of trouble. It is impossible to lift a ton weight at que time, but lesser parts of it may be easily carried, until the whole load has been conveyed to its destination. So the burdens of a lifetime cannot be borne if crowded into a single day. A merciful Providence has hidden the future from man, that its accumulation of ill may not dwarf human efforts. Anticipated difficulty only tends to make life the more grievous. Agriculture is still King in America, declares Town Topics. The value of the farm products of 1904 reaches the inconceivable sum of $4,900,000,000; exceeds by two-thirds the gross earnings of all the railroads; by three-fourths the market price of all the gold, silver, copper and other minerals; by five-sixths capital of all the National Banks. Besides this, the American farmer owns $1,150,000,000 worth of horses and expends every year $100,000,000 for machinery. Here is food for thought for the statesman and the politician, the professional and the business man, the inventor and the manufacturer, the editor and the publisher. Now, as in colonial times, the embattled farmers are omnipotent. Champ Clark looked over a publication recently issued by the Agricultural Department, entitled, "Soil Inoculation for Legumes." He found this simple sentence: "The primary object in undertaking an investigation of the fixation of nitrogen by the root nodules of legumes was to devise, if possible, some method of bringing about the artificial introduction of the necessary organisms into a soil which was naturally devoid of them, and at the same time to attempt as far as possible to correlate and reconcile the vast amount of conflicting evidence that has been accumulated by various investigators in regard to the exact nature of the organism, where the nitrogen is fixed, the effect upon the host, and similar problems." After wading through the wonderful composition the Missourian exclaimed: "Fine, splendid. And now we ought to print a glossary to go with every copy of the report." The announcement was recently made that the censorship of the Russian press would be uniformly administered. That was before the outbreak of the rebellion. But the promised reform would certainly be the best possible, short of outright abolition of the censorship. Indeed, uniformity is a great thing to expect, when we consider the capricious character of the censorship in recent years, and even in the last few months, under an ostensibly liberal administration, remarks the New York Tribune. According to the Birzhevya Viedomosti provincial papers have not been permitted to print things which are published freely in the St. Petersburg papers, nor even to quote articles from the latter, the censor declaring that what might be good in the capital might be mischievous in the provinces! One article thus prohibited in the country was a purely scientific statement of recent discoveries concerning the sun, and it was rejected by the censor on the ground that it was at variance with popular superstitions. OUR GIRLS AND BOYS "THE ORANGE-AID COMMITTEE AT WORK. "FOR DOGS AND CATS." Around the new, low fountains The P. C. autocrat Have placed a sign of wisdom That reads: "For Dogs and Cats." Will it catch the eye of puppies Or kittens, do you think, And lure them from destruction To a strictly harmless drink? Or will the knowing sparrow, In thankful attitude, Spy this and fit, remarking, "Beg pardon, I intrude." Do they expect the bison, The sprightly kangaroo, The graceful boa-constrictor. Will want to drink there, too. Or must the yak and emu, On little city bats. Be barred from this refreshment Designed "For Dogs and Cats?" —Katherine L. Mead, in Life. GIVING AN ORANGE PARTY. Have you ever given an orange party? It is curious and amusing from the very start, as each guest is requested to bring an orange—which request being accompanied by no explanation is quite puzzling, and therefore gives an added interest right at the beginning. Usher each arrival into the dining room, where they are received by the Orange Aid Committee, whose first duty is to aid you in registering your orange and tying a ribbon marked by a letter around it so you may identify it later. Then all the guests assemble in the dining room, while the committee continues with its work, which is to count the seeds. Each orange is cut in half, "THE ORANGE-AID CO the seeds are extracted, and, after being counted and duly credited to the owner as entered on the register, they are put into a transparent glass bowl. Now the guests partake of a repast composed of every conceivable form of orange you can think of—sliced oranges, orange ice, orangeade, orange-flavored candy, etc.—after which you announce that a prize will be offered to the one who guesses nearest to the number of seeds in the bowl, and a booby prize given to the poorest guesser. Also, two prizes will be awarded to the two guests having the most number of seeds and the least number in their respective oranges. Appropriate prizes are in order for a dozen orange sodas at a good soda fountain for the grand prize, and a small jar of orange marmalade will provoke a good deal of mirth when it is given to the winner of the booby prize. And by the time the party winds up you will find the bowful of orange seeds have sprung up into a splendid crop of fun. Yet, if you prefer other fruit, you may call the party after almost any variety containing a moderate amount of seeds, although we would not advise a watermelon party, as then the committee would have to spend a week or so counting the seeds.—New York Evening Mall. Cut two slips of paper long enough for each to encircle the outside of a bottle, leaving an uncovered space be- ```markdown ``` HOW PAPER AND STRING ARE PLACED tween the slips. Fasten them in place by a thread and then wrap a piece of twine around the uncovered glass between the strips. To one end of the twine tie a nail or some convenient hook. Hold the other end with one hand and with the other move the bottle quickly backward and forward. This is done in order that the twine my rub upon the exposed glass between the paper bands. This action will shortly cause the surface of the glass to heat. After it is well heated drop some cold water on it. Now, by a short stop, you may break the bottle in half so evenly that there will not be one jigged place in the entire circle of the break. But of what use is this bit of apparently superfluous knowledge? Well, suppose, for instance, the glass stopper in your cologne bottle (if you are a girl) got stuck and refused to budge. All you have to do to dislodge the stopper is to wind a heavy cord around the neck, get some one to pull one end taut, take hold of the other end yourself and work the neck mildly to and fro in the string, just as you did in the first experiment. This continued friction will cause the neck of the bottle to become so hot that it will expand, and the glass stopper will be loosened enough to allow it to be pulled out without further trouble.—New York Evening Mail. NURTURING A CHEERFUL SPIRIT Lucky was the patient in Cedarville who could secure the services of "Aunty" Bond as his nurse, but he must make up his mind that while all his wants would receive due attention and he would have a fair amount of coddling, there were some things in which he could not count on having his own way. "Now you just take that look off your face, won't you?" she half-coaxed, half-commanded a man who was recovering from pneumonia. "You MITTEE AT WORK. aren't half as sick as you/were a month ago; let your thoughts dwell on that, and let 'em dwell on this: There's lots o' folks outdoors a-falling from the tops o' buildings and a-getting run into and over by automobiles and contraptions of all sorts, besides those that are yielding to temptation o' various kinds and being sent to jail, and then to State prison. And while all these dreadful things are going on outside, what is happening to you? You are getting well at home, in peace and plenty, and what's more, in as handsome a walnut bedstead as there is in all Cedarville! "You let your mind dwell on these things a minute, and then you turn over and go to sleep."—Youth's Companion. COMING DOWN THE NILE. Some years ago an Englishman was coming down the River Nile, in Egypt, on a large boat loaded with grain, and the birds came off from every village and ate the grain piled on the deck. The Englishman asked the Egyptian captain of the boat, "Who owns this grain?" The Egyptian captain said, "I own it." Then the Englishman asked, "Why let the birds eat up the grain?" The Egyptian asked the Englishman, "Who made the birds?" The Englishman answered, "God." The Egyptian asked, "Whether grain was a food which God intended birds to eat?" The Englishman said it was. The Egyptian said, "Can the birds sow and raise the grain for themselves?" The Englishman said, "They cannot." Then said the Egyptian, "Let them eat; God has provided enough for both them and us."-Our Dumb Animals. Two players are blindfolded and sit down back to back. Another player creeps to them and taps one of them gently on the head. The child that is so touched asks the other blindfolded one: "Brother, who knocks?" If it guesses who it was, the "knocker" must take its place. About Colds. If annoyed by an attack of catarrh, the fumes of a tablespoonful of tincture of benzoin compound in the room at night will help to relieve it. If the throat is affected by a smarting and rasping, wet the end of a towel in cold water, blind it against the throat and wind around the wet end the dry, warm end of the towel. In the morning the soreness will be relieved. To alleviate a cold, go to bed with a little eucalyptus oil upon an old handkerchief, or with a saucerful of the same on a table by the bed. Unconsciously inhale this during the night and it will ward off a cold or effect a cure when the cold is developed.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. J.E. Farmer Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. L. S. NAFTZGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President L. M. MOORE) Cashier 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. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftager, E. H. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith, A General Banking Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS 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 AT WHOLESALE PRICES 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. WIGHITA TABERNACLE No. 34, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Beatrice Miller, Sec. Hall 517 North Main Soet --- Complaint comes to us that many Searchlights are not delivered in Wichita. Should you fail to get your paper on Saturday in Wichita please notify this office at once We mail our paper on time each week in ample time for every oneto be delivered on Saturday. By doing so you assist us inour work. W. N.Miller Editor. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. H W Dean, Meat Market DEALER IN..... Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and Oysters 813 North Main Street =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL =CIGARS= SOLD, EVERYWHERE Banner Mills Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. Remember the place--Market at the G of Dold's Packing House. YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY U FINE WORK Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT, WHY NOT? BAD STOMACH ITS MERIT IS PROVED A Prominent Cincinnati Woman Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Completely Cured Her. The great good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading scientists, and thinking people generally. Mrs Sara Wilson The following letter is only one of many thousands which are on file in the Pinkham office, and go to prove beyond question that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound must be a result of great merit, otherwise it would not produce such marvelous results among skel and ailing women. Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "About nine months ago I was a great sufferer with pain extreme nervousness and frequent headaches, from which the doctor relieved to relieve me. I tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and within a short time felt better, and after taking five bottles of it I was entirely cured. I therefore highly recommend your Compound as a glidus uterine tonic. It makes the monthly periods regular and without pain; and what a blessing it is to find such a remedy after I recommend it to all suffering women." Sara Sara Wilson, 31 East 3d Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 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Nothing will more speedily or permanently invigorate and tone into action, liver and bowels than Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is compounded with the powerful extract from native medicinal plants, without the use of alcohol, not a drop of which enters into its composition. The benefit felt from its use is not, therefore, due to alcoholic exhilation, and consequence, but is ensuring and permanent. The great majority of diseases have their inception in a bad stomach, indigestion, billiousness and impure blood. Among these diseases are deadly consumption, nerve-racking, brain-wrecking nervous prostration and exhaustion, torturing malaria, malaria-breaking malaria, emaciating malaria and all manner of disfiguring blood and skin diseases. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is a cure for all these diseases. It is not a cure-all, but cures the diseases mentioned for the reason they are caused and aggravated by them. 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Cigarettes were heretofore imported almost exclusively from Japan, made partially at least of American tobacco. 'Glorious Uncertainty of Law.' It is said this phrase originated with a London lawyer named Wilbraham, at a dinner of judges and counsel held at Serjanez' hall, London, in 1756, shortly after the elevation of William Murray—Lord Mansfield—to the lord chief justiceship and a baron. The toast of the 'Glorious Memory of King William' having been honored according to the then prevailing manner, Mr. Wilbraham proposed, amid great laughter, 'The Glorious Uncertainty of the Law,' in inarcastic allusion to Lord Mansfield's frequent reversals of former decisions. ```markdown ``` You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. A man never poses as a hypocrite when he is alone. The woman who lies about her age doesn't prolong her life. DON'T FORGET DONT FORGET A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The bookkeeper, like the tight-rope walker, shouldn't lose his balance. Many a man turns up his toes while waiting for his fortune to turn up. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re- sults than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. Everything moves faster on a down- grade; especially a fast young man. The cream of society is often frigid enough to be ice cream. Talking machines—Victor and Edison are the best; cash or payments, $1 weekly. Write to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 30,000 records in stock, Mention this paper. If a woman couldn't cry her brain would soon become submerged. Too much corn juice is apt to make a man's voice busky. New Equipment on the Santa Fe. An order for some new equipment was placed the other day by the Santa Fe. It comprises 75 locomotives, 5,300 freight cars and 60 passenger coaches, and postal cars, all to be delivered within the next four months. Fifteen of the new engines are Atlantic type balanced compounds, thirty Pacific type balanced compounds, and thirty Santa Fe type. This big expense, aggregating more than $5,000,000, is incurred in order that growing traffic may be promptly handled. Present facilities are ample for to-day's travel and shipments; to morrow they may not be sufficient. The Santa Fe looks ahead; that is why it gets the business. The ''Good Old Summer Time'' you have been singing about has arrived. of gratitude. I was for several years, troubled with severe stomach trouble, sick headache and nervousness. Could not eat anything without experiencing the most agonizing. I was very much so that I was so friendly to me, so much so as to be very nausented. My sick headaches were most violent and I could not rest night or day. 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You may count on me for a staunch friend to the Golden Medical Discovery," also to your Sanitarium, which I know to be one of the 308 Riley Street. ASA M. WILLIAMS, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's 1000-page illustrated book, "The Common Sense Medical Adviser", is sent free in paper coyers, on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing stamps the cloth-bound volume will be sent. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. laxative enough, as in obstinate constipation, the little, pleasant, sugar-coated "Pellets" should be taken to aid the "Discovery." One or two for a laxative, two to four for a cathartic. They alone have been known to cure many bad cases of stomach trouble, dyspepsia and indigestion. They act on the liver and regulate the bowels. Put up in glass vials, corked, therefore, always fresh and re-liable. Pleasant Pellets. Certain Weather Indications. Distant sound heard distinctly forebodes no good weather. If the sun 'draws up water' it will rain. The pitcher sweating and the teakettle boiling dry also indicate rain. Cobwebs thickly spread upon the grass are an indication of fair weather. Animal life seems, according to the popular notion, to have peculiar warnings regarding the weather changes. Some of these are explainable by natural causes. It is a fact recognized by all intelligent stockmen that cattle have an intimation of an approaching storm some hours before it is visible to the human eye. There is a certain restlessness which the cowboy has learned to interpret at once. Use Abandoned Coal Mines. It appears that there is always a brisk demand for used-up coal mines in England. Some are utilized by shotmakers, who find them cheaper than towers. Many of the shallower pits are used for growing rhubarb, mushrooms and similar vegetables. The breezy girl is the popular hot-weather belle. 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This, no doubt, makes the Lewis factory the largest holder in the United States of *tobacco of so high a grading.—Herald-Transcript, Peoria. The fool says many wise things that he gets no credit for. Generally the family skeleton is the liveliest thing in the family. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in $ \frac{3}{4} $ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. ONE OF LIFE'S PERPLEXITIES. Why People Admire Something Producer Thinks Little Of. He had two lectures. One was dignified, noble, grand, well-pleasing to himself. The other was common, simple, earnest, popular, but thought little of by himself. One of the perplexities of his life was this: Why should the people admire something that he thought little of, and think little of something which he thought so much of? Some thoughts and sermons are for those who create them and should be kept in a sealed case in the owner's private laboratory.—Earl M. Pratt in "Short Talks." Vast Forests in Northern Belt. The northern belt of forests is perhaps greater in extent than all the other timber belts and reserves of Canada combined. It extends from the eastern part of Labrador, north of the fiftieth parallel in a northwesterly direction to Alaska a distance of some 3,000 miles, with an average width of perhaps 5,000 miles. A donkey knows when he has enough—unless he is a two-legged one. What the Dentist Says. Toledo, Ohio, March 27th—(Special). —Harry T. Lewis, the well known dentist of 607 Sumit street, this city, is telling of his remarkable cure of Kidney Disease by using Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I was flat on my back and must say I had almost given up all hope of ever getting any help," says Dr. Lewis. "My kidneys had troubled me for years. The pains in my back were severe and I had to get up several times at night. I tried different medicines but kept on getting worse till I was laid up. "Then a friend advised me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills and in about two weeks I started to improve. Now I am glad to admit I am cured and I cannot praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too highly." If you take Dodd's Kidney Pills when your kidneys first show signs of being out of order you will never have Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Gravel or Rheumatism. Paradoxical though it may seem, it's the idle tongue that works overtime. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, the Ginger Lily Liquid Care, World Pamache, Write Dr Kennedy's Soma, Rondout N. Y. for free sample bottle. High price of eggs doesn't seem to worry the one night barnstormer. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because they contain 18 oz. for same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. Defiance Siraphr. Requires no cooking. Siraphr. LATE MARKET REPORT. Kansas City. 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HOGS. $ 4 85 @ $ 4 90 COWS. 2 60 @ $ 3 25 STOCKERS. — — — 3 27 HEIFERS. — — — 3 59 STEERS. 3 50 @ 4 20 CALVES. 3 75 @ 4 00 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. General Peter J. Osterhaus sailed on the steamer Faderland from New York for Europe. William Marconi and his bride are passengers on the steamer Campania, which sailed from Liverpool port for New York. The German government has indefinitely postponed the International world's electrical conference which was to have been held in Berlin next month. The division of the Russian second Pacific squadron commanded by Admiral Nebogatoff, which arrived at Port Said, from Suda Bay, Island of Crete, entered the canal. At Rockledge, Ga., a rowboat containing a party of five returning from Oceanus Beach to Georgiana was overturned by a squall and four of the occupants were drowned. In Chicago two persons were badly hurt and a dozen others were slightly injured when a State street cable car ran into a Thirty-first street electric car. Both cars were crowded. Minister Dawson cabled from Santo Domingo that the receipt of the news of the failure to ratify the treaty had caused a great deal of excitement and disappointment in Santo Domingo. Acting premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tittoni announced to parliament that the whole cabinet had resigned, leaving the king free to form a new ministry and that his majesty had reserved his decision. In the meanwhile Signor Tittoni and his colleagues will remain in office to the transaction of ordinary business. Colonel M. C, Green passed through Kansas City in his private car over the Rock Island system on his way to El Paso and Old Mexico. Colonel Green said that his trip was in connection with the Green Consolidated Company. He said that the railroad which he is building from El Paso to the Pacific coast would be completed within five years. James Monahan, a Searchlight mining man, who was a passenger on one of the storm-bound Santa Fe trains held at Cajon Pass., Cali., for several days, wandered away from the train and became lost. For days he has been trudging aimlessly among the mountains. His shoes were worn and his feet torn and bleeding. It is believed he will recover. The legislative committee appointed to investigate the alleged collection of a $5,000 boodle fund to influence legislation to extend the tenure of county officials began its sessions in Omaha. The sessions are secret, but former Congressman Hitchcock and E. C. Hunt were permitted to be present at the hearing. Premier Rouvier strongly approved the project to establish a Franco-American financial institution in Paris during a recent conversation with James Speyer of Speyer & Company, New York. A survey has been made by the Chicago Great Western for a line from Arispe, Ia., to Carroll, Ia., and right of way and property for terminals have already been bought. The survey runs through Creston, Greenfield and Guthrie Center, all good towns. It is the intention to build the line on to Sioux City. The United States transport Sumner, carrying the congressional party of fourteen, arrived at Santiago and sailed for Havana. During the stop here the congressmen visited the battlefields in this vicinity. Allen Ephriam, an Omaha negro, entered a room occupied by his wife and a negro named James Stevenson, killed the woman by shooting and slashing her throat with a knife, and then shot himself, dying instantly, Stevenson, who took refuge in a closet, was the only witness to the tragedy. A report is in circulation at St. Petersburg to the effect that J. P. Morgan has intimated that he can secure a loan for Russia by the hypothecation of valuable forest lands. 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SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday April 1.05 Sometimes as a woman grows older she becomes less dressy and more bossy.—Puck. Dr. Loeb predicts an era of "machine made bables." Why not? Look at our statesmen. If Napoleon were alive to-day, he might remark: "Through the Simplon tunnel lies Italy!" Wall street has had another slump, but the visible supply of lams' wool has not been materially reduced. The report that John L. Sullivan has lost his voice probably originated in the old proverb that "money talks." Through some strange oversight no college professor has taken a fall out of the wicked bachelors for a whole week. Incidentally, would it not be a good idea for the Philadelphiaians to put in a few minutes praying for themselves? According to old records found in Genoa, it cost $7,000 to discover America. And the money was certainly well spent. Flowers will not be allowed in the senate chamber any more, the senators doubtless feeling they are sweet-scented enough as it is. Some recent portraits of John D. Rockefeller bear out the general impression that personal comeliness is not the octopus' strong point. A New York business man has had his tongue removed in order to save his life. But suppose, in addition to everything else, he had been a woman! David Wark, though 100 years of age, is serving as a member of the Canadian senate. Mr. Wark thinks Dr. Osler may know more when he gets older. A class of Wellesley girls has set out to "jar the professor's sense of the aesthetic as far as possible." Need it be announced in advance that they will succeed? He is an unreasonable bachelor who kicks against the proposed tax when he thinks of the tax which the milliners' convention is preparing to levy on the married men. We can't help sort of wishing that Oxford university would cut down its new professor's salary, in view of his advanced age and consequent inability to do full work. A fashionable New York club ate roast rhinoceros at a banquet the other evening. This shows to what desperate straits the beef trust has driven even the well-to-do. Dr. Woodrow Wilson suggests the advisability of looking at the souls of the directors of a trust before buying any of the stock. This ought to make business for the oculists. One woman in a thousand has appeared. She received an eatable present from an unknown source and took the precaution to have it analyzed. It contained poison, of course. Dr. Chadwick's daughter has gone to work as a stenographer, in spite of the fact that there are plenty of managers who would have been glad to give her a chance on the stage. The New York man who beat his wife because she suggested that he should go to work had probably been reading Prof. Patten's argument that all married women should be wage earners. The New York woman who agreed to give $1,000 a volume for the works of the late Charles Dickens must have overlooked the fact that the novelist wrote several, of them after he was 40 years old. The Dowager Empress of China has sent the president a photograph which makes her appear about twenty years younger than she is. Every American woman will appreciate her feeling in the matter. A Boston man has proved, so he declares, that the earth is flat. We notice, however, that the automobile makers continue to emphasize the hill-climbing powers of their respective machines. Russell Sage characterizes the purchase of an automobile by John D. Rockefeller as "a piece of foolish extravagance." "Uncle Russ" probably forgot that Mr. Rockefeller can get his gasoline at a discount. After reading a novel called "Cold as the Grave," a woman in St. Louis took her life. One may imagine the state of mind produced by a novel with that name would smooth the way to any sort of place where reading matter was no longer in request. A machine for grinding corn has been set up on the site of Napoleon's former grave on the island of St. Helena. We might be inclined to feel indignant over this if it were not for the probability that the corn grinder was shipped across America. A 480-ACRE FARM YIELDS 25 PER CENT PROFIT IN A YEAR What a Mercer County (Ohio) Farmer Received from One Year's Crop. Extracts from an interesting letter from P. H. Rynhard, of Starbuck, Manitoba, Canada, gives an excellent idea of the prosperity of those who have gone from the United States to Canada. He says: "I bought, August, 1903, 480 acres of land, paying $12,000 for it. We threshed 2,973 bushels of wheat and between 1,200 and 1,300 bushels of oats and barley from 200 acres. But part of the wheat went down before filling and was not harvested except for hay. The crop was worth at threshing time, $3,000. Besides 120 acres laying idle except a timothy meadow, which is not included in this estimate. Counting the value of the product and the increase of value of land will pay me more than 25 percent on the investment. Two brothers in the same neighborhood bought 160 acres each six years ago. They have not done a single thing to this land except to fence it and break and cultivate about one-half of it. Harvested last year 28 bushels wheat per acre. This year 27 bushels per acre. They can get any day $25 per acre. These are only a few of many hundreds of such chances. It looks like boasting, but truth is justifiable and the world ought to know it, especially the home-seeker. I know of quite a few farmers that have made fortunes in from 10 to 20 years, retired with from $20,000 to $100,000. Writing concerning another district in the Canadian West, S. L. Short says: "Dear Sir—I have to inform you that I have just returned from the Carrot River Country in Saskatchewan, where I located land of the very finest black vegetable loam, which I am proud of, and will move in the spring. Farmers are still plowing there. A mild climate and beautiful country to behold. Cattle are fat and running outside. Wood and water good. Saw oats weighing 42 pounds to bushel. Potatoes large and well ripened; also wheat that brought there 82 cents. The country exceeded my expectations. Saw oats in stock, thicker on the ground than appears in many of the illustrations sent out in descriptive pamphlets. I have been in many western states, but the soil excels any I ever saw." The Canadian Government Agents at different points report that the enquiries for literature and railroad rates, &c., to Western Canada are the greatest in the history of their work. Vice always dresses in the latest fashion. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take a relaxing Bromo Quiltables. All drugs relax the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 256. How Brown Bears Catch Salmon. How Brown Bear's Catch Salmon. Alaska's brown bears near the Bering sea live largely on salmon and are extraordinary fishers. Before beginning to fish they always place themselves on the downward side of the river. "They seem to smell the salmon by some extraordinary means," says a hunter, "and then begin dashing in and out of the river at some shallow place, rarely failing to catch a fish. They bring it out on the bank and devour it, if possible selecting some thick patches of bushes and grass in which to make their meal which does not take them long." MISS BULL RECOVERS MISS BULL RECOVERS FEARFUL DEGLINE OF STRENGTH COMPLETELY ARRESTED. Medical Skill Had Almost Exhausted Itself in Vain Attempts to Relieve Her-A Remarkable Result. The recovery of Miss Gertrude L. Bull is of great interest to the medical world. A very bad cough followed a severe attack of pneumonia. It seemed impossible to break it up or to restore her strength, which had been sadly undermined. In spite of the best efforts of the doctors and the use of several advertised modes of treatment her condition daily grew more serious. She finally discontinued all medicine and gave herself up to despair. "What was your condition at this time?" she was asked. "My stomach was so weak I could not keep food down. I suffered from constant nausea. My kidneys were in terrible condition. My feet and ankles were swollen so badly that it pained me even to stand on them. I was very bilious. My heart was in bad shape so I could not go up and down stairs or stand any exertion or sleep in a natural position." "It itse a wonder that you should ever have recovered. How did it happen?" "You may well call it a marvel, but Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wrought it. None of my friends thought I could live many months longer. My parents had no hope. Just then a pamphlet advertising Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People was thrown in our door. It was a great event for me. These pills saved me from the grave. Within a week from the time I began to take them I felt better, and in three months I was entirely well. I cannot praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills too highly and I dearly hope that my experience may bring good to some other sufferers." Miss Bull, who was so remarkably cured, resides at Union Grove, Illinois. Dr.Williams' Pink Pills act immediately on the blood, purifying and enriching it. In all debilitating diseases, such as lung troubles, grip, fevers, and in all cases in which the system is thoroughly run down, these pills perform wonders. They are sold by all drugstores throughout the world. A valuable booklet on diseases of the blood, will be sent free to any one who applies for it to Dr.Williams Medicine Co., Schenected, N.Y. TO VLADIVOSTOK NEXT HAVE WITHDRAWN TO SOUTH. Russian Government, Although Considering Peace, Is Pushing Preparations For Continuing the War-Five Troops to be Mobilized. Gunshu Pass, March 28.—The Japanese have apparently withdrawn to the region south of the Russian front. Cossack patrols which have been making extensive reconnaissances southward found no Japanese within thirty-five miles. General Linevitch is dispatching scouting parties east and west, to guard against a possible turning movement. A number of Chinese bandits have been captured, some of whom are Mongolians. St. Petersburg. — The impression prevails in some military circles that the Japanese, having removed the possibility of the main army in Manchuria assuming the initiative, will now turn their attention to the next objective of the war. Vladivostok, is strengthened by the Associated Press dispatch from Gunshu Pass announcing the withdrawal of the Japanese from the immediate front of the Russian army for a distance of thirty-five miles south. It is realized, of course, that this may be merely a blind to cover flanking operations, but it is not improbable that the Japanese, having cleared Southern Manchuria of Russian troops and secured a position from whence expulsion would be a long and difficult process, may be satisfied to hold the Tie Pass line without further extension of communication. While the voice of the emperor's advisers is for peace if honorable terms are obtainable, the government, as is the part of wisdom, is going forward with all provisions for the continuance of the war. Preparations are reported to be making for the mobilization of five corps. It had been understood that the guards would be retained at St. Petersburg, but some of the officers of this crack organization believe their services have been requisitioned and are making preparations to that end. There has been a recrudescence of reports of a change in the head of the war office. It was stated last night in an usually well-informed source that Lieutenant General Sakharoff will leave very shortly and be succeeded by General Ridiger, now chief of the chancellery of the waroffice. It is also reported that General Polilvanoff will be appointed chief of the general staff. Both Polilvanoff and Ridiger are of the younger school of generals, but have high repute as the theoreticians and administrators. General Ridiger is the author of a number of text books on tactics. The government is advised that Chinese bandits are appearing in great numbers along the Siberian railroad and causing interference with the train service. The internal situation is causing great anxiety, though it is said that the "intellectuals" and the educated classes generally disapprove of the revolutionary spirit which is permeating the peasantry and laborers in Poland. 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