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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT lavery, Peonage In The South --- vanah, Ga.,—Judge Emery in the United States court denied his charge to the grand almost exclusively to a disen of the peonage decision down by the Supreme of the United States in the of Clyatt against Florida. Judge Speer said it may be before that court will have opportunity to render anoth- pinion so vital to the future our country. He said: It is salutary to the black, but to the white man it is itely more so. As to the la- and liberty of every citizen it affies that vicious principle let him take who has the pow- and let him keep who can " It sure that it spoies members of " Negro race from a slavery to treeless and lawless, to the generate and the unscrupulous slavery compared with that of fathers differs as widely as conceptions of paradise after before the fall of our first events. But its emancipation of the white man is not less significant. The men guilty of peonage, like ser slave catchers, is not stopp by any principle of justice to fellow man, whether white black. "It is noticeably true that in number of cases of peonage and willing witnesses for the government are white men, to have been deprived of their right because the modern slaveacher, usually a man of influence, himself armed and with armed followers, would invade the domain of the small farmer, by violence, the most cruel intimidation most reckless, the theretrom the laborers who the witness had employed." Judge Speer expressed the opinion that petty municipal offenses like walking on the grass, sitting on the side-walk, or going to sleep in the depot or loitering on the streets, and multitude similar offenses, are not crimes for which involuntary servitude can be imposed. He held that for such an offense to sentence and hold a man or child for involuntary servitude is peonage and that the penalty of the statutes is applicable to the persons engaged in imposi- Judge Speer concluded: "For myself I do not hesitate to declare that enforced labor on local chain gangs for an offense not amounting to crime is involuntary servitude and peonage in the light of the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, no matter what the state law or municipal ordinance on the subject may be. "Should the Sultan of Morocco or Abdul Hamid at Constantinople consign to an Oriental chain-gang an American citizen for such trivalities as are thus daily punished here, before the sun went down the steel-clad battle ships of the Union would be speeding o'ermountain and waves of ocean to demand redress for the injury or to avenge the wrong. Let but peonage be ftstened on our system and all may soon realize, with Rienzi, and exblaim: "We are slaves, the bright sun rises to its course and lights a rce of slaves; it sets and its last beam fells on a slave." SPRINGTIME IS HERE Springtime has come, at last the long looked for and much cherished season, when hope, ambition, expectation and speculation inspires the soul of all, even tho the spring fever almost exhaust our feverish energy. The balmy air and sweet zephyr from the south, mingled with the melodious songs of the birds and the gentle fragrance that perfumes the air in the heat of the bright sunlight, bringing out the beautiful green flowers; all bespeak to man that life is not a dream. So let each of us go forth in this early Springtime to sow seeds of kindness, do good deeds, do more work; so that when the harvest comes the fruits we bare will be known. Let each of us strive to do more and do better than the previous year, and thus help to build up this human kingdom and make the world better by us having lived in it. Not Too Much Education The brisk and pungent Atlanta Independent expresses an opinion which enjoys great vogue at the present time, but which is, never-the-less, erroneous. "Negro graduates of Yale and Harvard" complains the Independent "as a rule present a case of too much education." It cannot be denied that Afro-American college graduates, like white college grhduates, are not always everything they should be But that the fault is 'too much education" is emphatically denied The first lesson usually impress upon the mind of the freshmen at colleges is that the world is divided into two classes, the college men and "muckers", or in other words, grandeur and dust. So flattening to the vanity is this discrimination that all undergraduates, except those miraculously level-headed, embrace with fervor. The certain result is that the college man, convinced that he is the salt of the earth, believes it a foolish waste of time to make any effort at improving himself. "Why attempt to paint the lily?" is his motto. With the aid of tutors, he gets his degrees by the skin of his teeth, and spends the remainder of his life in illustrating to the best of his ability Balzac's definition of a fool-one who does nothing to justify the good opinion which he has of himself. How many college graduates, white or black, have we seen whose sole accomplishments consisted of the college drawl, a profound knowledge of dandyism and athletics, a vocabulary of fifty unusual words, a pat quotation or so and a glib, flippant family with the name of Shakespeare Goeth and one or two other great men! Such creatures are justly regarded as despicable. But can it be said that their fault is too much education? Rather, it seems, it is too little education which is to blame. Superficiality, of scholarship and of thought, is characteristic of too many college graduates, white and black. There are, of course, splendid exceptions. A man cannot possibly have too much education. On the whole the noblest characters in the history of mankind has been men of thorough culture, of education to the utmost. The fact that some worthless men are college graduates no more vitiates the pecious value of a college educationok than the conduct of a hypocritical and vicious monk vitiates the truth of religion. To enforce our point we ask permission to quote a hackneyed, but true and apposite couplet: A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. South's Problem In an article in the Boston Transcript, under the heading "Is the South Degenerating?" Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of history in Harvard deals with new phase of an old problem. Prof. Hart mentions Frederick Law Olmstead's and other observers travels in the South just previous to the Civil War, and their picture of the Negro as he existed in slavery. Some of the things said by those writers have led many persons recently to think that the black man's condition was better then than it is now, and that mancipation, on its economic and social side, has been a failure. After several months of close study of this question in the South, Prof. Hart announces as his belief that the Negro's physical and moral condition is much better than it was in slavery days Economically and socially, too, he has made great improvements The death rate of the Negro in South, as well as in the North, is high. The blacks violate health rules more flagrantly and persistently than do the average white men. This keeps their rate of increase down, not with - standing their large propotions of births. This, too, will have a tendency to simplify the Southern problem by insuring a much larger increase of whites than blacks in Southern states. But even here, however, there is a most decided improvement on the part of the Negro, although there is no correct statistics of Negro mortality during slaqery extant. Berkley. (Cal.) savants are going to investigate the secrets of the life of the worm. That's enough to make it turn! A remarkable revival is taking place in Wales. Perhaps Wales will have an attack of spelling reform some day. "Browns are all the fashion," according to a dress authority, although some really fashionable folks appear in the blues. A ruling from the attorney general that the seeds distributed by congress are liable under the drawback regulation would be welcome. Chief Wilkie takes as much pains to point out the defects of that new counterfeit $10 bill as though $10 bills were in general circulation. Alfred Austin is out with a new poem. This man deserves a hero medal, for he must know what the critics say every time he does it. The orange-grove business in Florida would be much more satisfactory than it is if the gulf stream could only be chained up close to the peninsula. Perhaps the woman who put paris green in her husband's mince pie felt it was better for him to go quickly than to linger along with acute indigestion. Signaled to Jap Gunners Wouldn't Break His Promise Wouldn't Break His Promise An Englishman writes in the St. James Budget of St. Petersburg prisons: "Yet more horrible than the fate of the workers murdered in the streets of St. Petersburg is the doom of those hapless men whom the tender mercies of the triumphant bureaucracy have consigned to the dark fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the inferno of the Schlussenburg in Lake Ladoga. Well may the inhabitants of St. Petersburg shudder as they glance beyond the Neva at the dark fortress whence, each hour, the north wind brings across the river the discordant sound of its melancholy bells. Melancholy, indeed, for nothing but memories of suffering and oppression sit upon its granite walls. Here Peter I tortured and mutilated his enemies. Here he slew his own son, Alexis, and to this dungeon, during the reigns of the empresses, omnipotent favorites consigned aspiring rivals. And since then whole generations of men and women for no other crime than love of their oppressed country have entered these gates often to leave them no more. "A special refinement of the Russian prison system in the case of political prisoners and suspects is continued solitary confinement until, Russian officers of the ships that were lost in Port Arthur harbor tell an interesting story of the manner in which the Japanese gunners got the range on the vessels. Before the Japanese captured 203-Meter hill, the bits they made upon the ships were due to indirect or high-angle fire, in which the gunners could not see the ships. The aiming was largely guesswork, for the Japanese did not command any height from which they could see the vessels. Nevertheless, the fire for a while was so intelligently directed as to make it evident to the Russians that some system of signaling existed. It was ultimately found that some Chinese fishermen were in the habit of frequenting a certain spot in the harbor from which they could watch the Russian ships and be themselves clearly discerned by field-glasses from a distant hill that was occupied by the Japanese. Careful observation of these simple-minded Chinamen as they were engaged in their laudable effort to pick up some greatly needed food from the sea revealed the fact that when a shot fell beyond a particular ship one of I envy him, who, with a crust of bread, Surveys the highest firmament of hope. Who yet can lift his woe-benighted head And scorn the depths where kings in four groups Who, in his rags, aspires to honor's shrine, And worships there, in silence, with his soul Who still can say, "The fruits of life are mine." Tho' Time and Tide efface his every goal. I envy him. I envy him, who in the field of strife, Attains the halo of a sinless brow. Whose thoughts go Godward, from the moll of life. The soul his hand is fettered to the plow- Who, from the furrow of the common herd. Hath fixed his eye upon the astral plain- Whose soul is like the spirit of the bird. Whose heart is void of bitterness and pain. I envy him. I envy him, who with no gift of gold Buffers the favor of untwarrow Fate, Whose honor, truth and manhood are not sold. To gain the key of Fortune's magic gate- Who stands alone—above, apart, away Residents of Bangor, Me., and those living within a radius of twenty-five miles of the city have heard or seen Daniel Tompson, known as "Old Dan" Tompson, or Bangor's giant. He was the tallest man without a doubt in that city, and always walked with a huge cane. "Old Dan" was not supposed by most people to be very bright. He made himself a privileged character about the city, walking at will into stores and other places of business of any kind, school houses and private residences. Dan called at a grocery store one day. He sometimes bought small articles there, and had paid for them, NO 49 as in the case of that splendid intellectual reformer, Dimitri Passarell, they can be reported as 'harmless'. Some prisoners here were relieved of their senses quite gently and almost politely. They were shut up in comfortable cells well lit by electric light and for mental pabulum they were supplied with only religious and technical works. When insanity or suicide supervened the appointed end had been secured. But the doom of others presents even greater features of horror. Imagine a dark, damp cell, measuring about 10 by 6 feet, beneath the level of the surrounding waters, in which the chained man or woman is condemned to lie in absolute idleness, studiously isolated from any intercourse with human beings. "For ten minutes every second day the miserable wretch is allowed to see the light and breathe the air in the prison yard. For the rest intolerable leneliness, absolute silence, occupation of not the smallest kind; no books, no writing materials, no instruments of manual labor. Madness comes to such gradually with the passing years. In the majority of cases the mind rots slowly in the feeblebody. Suicide and madness are the two great weapons in which Russian autocracy puts its trust." these boats immediately moved out beyond the group in a corresponding direction, say to the right; that if the next shot fell to the left, John Chinaman would immediately conclude that he could find better fishing if he moved somewhat over to the left of the fleet of boats. These movements were duly noted from the Japanese observation station and the fire directed accordingly. After the Russians discovered the scheme there was no more fishing permitted in that particular section of the harbor. Not long afterward, however, the fire began again to grow remarkably accurate, and it was noticed that a Chinaman occasionally waded into the shallows with a couple of buckets, apparently in search of crabs, and that one bucket was white and the other black. If the Japanese shot fell beyond the mark the black bucket would be carried off a corresponding distance beyond the white bucket; or, if the shot fell short, or to the left or right, strange to relate, the black bucket would move in sympathy, and if a hit were made the industrious crab catcher would place his buckets together. From all the masses that would mock his aim, Who only fears his Maker, and the Day When God shall view the glory and the shame. I envy him. I envy him, what ever his lot may be, Who lives the part by Destiny assigned, Who does his given duty, spirit free, With cultious hand, brave soul and stain- mind; Who still can love when all but God be- tray. And when in death, goes smiling to his sleep. With sweet conviction of the Coming Day. I envy him. I envy him, who can be strong and true Despite the myriad forces that may have seized the Right, and does not fear to do— Whose mind and soul are from the ban seat? Who lives his life contented with his part, Nor seeks to solve the puzzles of the Plan. Who lives is blest with but an honest heart, And lives and dies a mere—contented man: I envy him. —T. Shelley Sutton. but this day he wanted a sack of flour, and he said, following his peculiar method of repeating: "I can't pay to-day; can't pay to-day; pay next time I come in; pay next time I come in." They let him have the flour, more as an experiment than for profit. One or two months went by and Dan did not come in. One day the man who sold him the flour met him on Main street. "Hullo, Dan," said he, "when are you going to pay for that flour? Didn't you say you'd pay next time you came in?" "Yes; yes," replied Dan, grinning, "next time I come in, but I hain't coming in; I hain't coming in." THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wishita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. 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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. Cost of Impatience. In the impatient mood we are apt to spend far more energy than is required in the doing of our work; and this excess is lost, says the Indianapolis News. We cannot estimate the value of the power thus misplaced. When the impatient mood becomes the habit of a life-time you can understand that failure, and perhaps loss of health and energy, are inevitable. What Is Shoddy "Shoddy" cloth is made from cheap yarn spun over cotton warp. This yarn is spun from old woolen rags chopped into waste collected from all quarters, and then carded and spun into threads of various strengths. The cloth at the finish is soft and gives a good appearance. An immense quantity is made for men's cheap suitings. London Charity Institutions It is said that there are in London about 2,000 charitable institutions and organizations to advance the cause of progressive and advanced civilization. The number includes large and small institutions, affording more or less relief to the afflicted and those in distress. They are supported almost entirely by personal contributions. Grain Deteriorates in Milling. All grain deteriorates gradually after milling; a medical expert says that at least 50 per cent of all milled products offered to the consumer in the ordinary state is unit for food. In Mexico this is thoroughly understood, and the corn is ground in each household as it may be needed for immediate use. Dwarfs of Ox Family. One of the greatest curiosities among the domesticated animals of Ceylon is a breed of cattle, known to the zoologist as the "sacred running oxen." They are the dwarfs of the whole ox family, the largest specimens of the species never exceeding 30 inches in height. Market for Yankee Notions. The Chinese are turning to small foreign novelties and notions, such as small hand mirrors, belt buckles, combs, hair brushes, beads of many varieties, and glass novelties generally. The goods of this sort they buy are cheap and generally gaudy and poor. Mad Dogs Held Sacred. Mud Dogs It is claimed that if a dog goes mad among the Mokls, a special house is built for him, and there he is kept and nursed in the greatest reverence until he dies. Land of Bad Snowdrifts. The worst snowdrifts experienced by any railroad are said to be those in Sweden. Although the cold is not so intense as in some of our western states, the snowfall is heavy and continuous. The snow plows of various kinds which are used on these roads are said to be the most powerful in the world. There are times, however, when even this machinery fails to clear the way, when hundreds of men must be employed to ding out the stalled trains The people will have to learn to greet our reporter and solicitor. Give him a little news and we will publish Lum Hellum is in town again. The high wind blew Joe Bass of Topeka to Wichit. E T. Summytt is still on the Panhandle route. Mrs. Chas Kiner has a neat restaurant at 346 N* Main. Things are so quite politically that you can almost hear yourself think. The matrimonial will has almost ceased in this town. What on earth the matter. Floyd Bros are doing nice business at their restaurant 408 N. Main Give them a call. Grant's Cigar Parlor is the center of meeting places—it is a favorita among all classes. Jno. E. Lewis and family have moved from 229 N. York ave to 307 N. Mead. Monday night April 24th will be the Big Easter Frolic - Good music pand a slendid time. You talk about a time come out Monday night. WmDenson and Phil Hyde great brass band enthusiasts. Both gents have enough brass for a full band. Thos W. Fine was on the sick list several days last week but is able to be out and at work again. Henry Hickm n has been installed in the Arcade Barber shop as one of the barbers. Eastar will come on April 23rd. it's a little late in the month but it will be here just the same. WATCH for Easter Monday night—April 24th at Odd Fellow hall. Mrs, Mary Collins of Newton Ks is in the city visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Burl Anderson. Mr. Lee Anderson who is working with a private car passed through the city Wednesday. Mrs. L. Tomas has been reported to be one of the finest missionaries in the city and we hope she will continue to do so. Mr. and Mrs Lee Anderson are preparing to move to Newt e where they will make their home for a while. Mrs. Sherrils who has been confined to her bed for the past week is slowly improving. W. N. Miller lost a fine 280 lb, Poland and china sow Friday nidht. The sow seemed to have choked to deak from some nuknown cause It was a most severe lost. Mrs. Lee Anderson rnp sister Miss El zabeth Phelos will leave Tu sday evening for Columbus Ks. to visit their mother. April 24th— Oh-- My— What A Time. ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDEC WE FALL. ' The Race's standard Bearer Pay for the Searchlight. Paris City Cleaning Works Kid Gloves and Fine Fabrics Cleaned and Repaired. —All Work Guaranteed— 247 North Main st. J. A. Jackson, Prop. The total eclipse of the sun which was sheduled for Wedue day did not show up-- it must to got side tracked at some side station. Talk about "duds—well—just keep your eye on Wichita colored folks Easter and you will see duds from "Dudsville" and they'll be "red-hot." An effort is on foot to buy a new organ for the A. M. E. a church and to have it in church for the Easter day services. Every one is asking "will we have high water this year?" No one has been found who is capable of correctly answering this pointed quizz. Mrs. Lee Anderson who has been quite ill for the past few weeks is reported to be improving fast and now able to be out. She had quite an attack of la grippe. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Young are expected home from Chicago soon. Their many friends will be proud to greet them. Edward Dill, deputy county attorney surprised his many friends and was united in marriage last Thursday to Miss Ethel Breese. His many friends wishes him success in his new role as a married man. Mrs. A. Paul has moved from 636 N. Water into one of the new houses of Rev VanLeus across from the A. M. E. church. It is a beautiful place and when Mrs. Paul gets her lovely flowers out in the front it will make an ideal place. The ladies of the G. L, A. club spent a very enjoyable afternoon spent a very young life interested esday with Mrs Ido B. Frazier as hostess at the residence of Mrs. T. H. Cox. The ladies rendered an interesting programme after which a dainty lunch was served and a round table talk was had afterwhich the escub adfounded to meet with Mrsr A Fox 428 N. Water st April 11th. Rev. S. S. Washington pastor of the A. M. E. church of, Newton Kans. fill d the pulpit of the A. M. E. church of this city Sunday night He took for his subject 'Son R mmb r,' and preach d a sermon fun of logic and reasoning. Rev. Washington is coming to the front in the ministry. A CORRECTION By some means the names of Rev. W. H. Tillman and Mr. Bud Lee were left from those present at the birthday party given by Mrs. W. E. Whitted in honor of the 57th birthday of her husband Mr. W. E. Whitted—and as soon as this came to our knowledge we hasten to make the correction. Both of the named gentlemen were present and helped to make the occasion lively and pleasant. W. L. Herman left Tuesday eve for Kiowa Kr. where he will assist in the erection of a large building He will be in that city for about three months and will go to Anthony from that place. He will be absent from the city the better part of the summer. Mrs I J. Porter presented Mrs. W. N. Miller a silver plated lamp It was a gift highly appreciated by Mrs. Miller. Mr. Hattie Frazier who has been confid to her room for a pst at few weeks is slowly recovering. The Tabernaise Baptist church held their usual meetings Sunday At 11 a.m. covenant meeting was held Rev howard was with the congregation Sunday of which we the church were glad to see him the church welcomes Rev Howard back again Sunday School met at p m with their Supt Mrs J A Martin assisted by Mrs A Me Bride with Miss Francis Williams as Secretary The B·Y. P. U. met at 7 p m and was conducted by Mias Suzie Price in the absence of their president Mrs Blanche Givens. The Vice President Mrs Hattie Love was sick and was not able to out alf day Mrs Josephine Millir Secretary was present Rev Underwood preached a good sermon at eight o'clock afterwhich the Lords Supper was administered The public at large is cordially invited to attend these services each Sabbath day. DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 No th Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop. Mis W M Deut left Thursday morning for Chanute Kans where she will attend G-neral Assembly meeting of the Hoiness church that place. From there she wili go to Guthrie Okla where she will hold a series of meeting for four weeks. Mr. Geo H Young arrived in the city from Chicago where he has been for the past few months. Mr Young has come home stay Mrs Young will not be home until July 1st 1905 They will take up their residence at their home place 526 N Water st AN AMUSING The East End club of the Second Bopti euren will entertain you next Fridry eve with masquerades and hard time soc.al. A peck of potatoes will be given to the one best representing hard times a cake to the one masked the most striking and a pie to the boy that eats ten crackers in ten minuets without drinking Admission 5c. for every body Captains Mr. and Mrs J. L Harper saying that they had v fine t me. The next grand affair will be the Easter Frolic at the same hall o Easter Monday night April 24th when all will be guardedte a fine time again Get ready for the big Easter Grand March 9 p.m. Woonpour Easter March and some Wear your Easter suits and come out. WESTERN UNIVERSIT The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. 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ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to QUINDAFO, KANS. Phones Office—Bell "White" 4302 Residence—Bell "West' 15 USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating AT YOUR GROCERS IMBODEN MILLING CO. Gardner Coal Co., DEALERS IN..... HARD GOAL 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 O.K. KORES 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, C. G. Hanson, Prop. 330 North Main Street All Kind of Repair Work Neatly Done. MEALS 15e Lunch at All Hours Cigars and Tobacco When Hungry Give Us A Call 408 North Main St. Half Soles Nailed -- 78 Half Soles Sewed -- $1.49 347 North Main St. HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Price 116 East Douglas Avenue W. M. Dunson, Painter and Paper Hanger Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 936 PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY 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. SELOVER & SONS, Props. FORETE BOOK THE GK HHT NEAR TO ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS. NOT GOOD MEETING PLACE. Numbered replies to question: To what extent is a clear head dependent on food and the way we eat? 1. For an especially clear head, and plenty of energy to handle an extra hard day's work to morrow. I would eat my regular meals to-day and what my stomach called for in the morning. My stomach is my best guide on what to eat, but it may be that very few people can truly say this. 2. Eat light but eat very nutritious food which you know by experience is your best friend, when in need of your best ability. We should be acquainted with best foods for our own stomach for biggest days of work. The most nutritious foods are generally the least expensive. 3. Some people think too much about their food. Some do not think enough. Some think just right. It helped me in my work to get the idea into my head that when I wanted to eat the most I should be most cautious about not eating too much. 4. Ask the most successful fireman if he would want to throw a keg of nails into the firebox of his engine when trying to make up time. The human firebox frequently gets some things worse than a keg of nails for Carborundum, Produced by New Method, Rivals Jewel in Hardness. Utilization of waste products has taken a long step forward, according to the inventors of a new furnace, as by their methods of combustion the well known abrasive, in its present chemical combination of silicon and carbon is simply a byproduct and until its identity with the commercial product was established was given away for ornaments, valued because of their attractive crystalline formation and peculiar coloring. Since its value was indicated, the waste has been subject to all sorts of tests, and in some instances has shown a slightly greater degree of hardness than the carborundum produced by means of the electric current applied at enormous voltage for a number of hours, which is slightly less than that of the diamond. This fact has started investigations which lead to the hope, based, it is said, on good foundation, that the silicon may be entirely eliminated from the product, leaving it pure carbon, chemically the counterpart of the diamond. It is asserted that with a proper selection of materials for combustion in the furnace this result can be obtained, and while the carborundum at present produced has a high commercial value, the inventors are not inclined to rest content with that if anything more valuable is in sight.—New York Tribune. Lost. "What I would like to know," said Mr. Glimmerton, 'is what becomes of all the yokes that at one time and another have been cast off by people and by individuals. In fact, we are forever and all the time casting off yokes of some sort, and I would like to know what becomes of them all. "Take, for instance, the yoke that the American people cast off in 1776 and the years immediately following, the said yoke being the one that bound us to the mother country. That was certainly a large and hefty yoke, so large and heavy that it took us some years to get it off our necks, and you wouldn't think that a yoke of that size and weight could get lost anywhere, but it has disappeared completely and never has been seen since. "Since the world began, for that matter, people have been rising and casting off the yoke of bondage that bound them to some tyrant's wheel, and there must be now some hundreds of these yokes, big yokes, lying around somewhere. "So that, taking them altogether, you would think the world must be full of cast off yokes, but where are they? Nobody has ever seen one. I think myself that the greatest problem of the world to-day is the mystery of the cast off yokes." As to English Clothes. In a 'chop house near Herald square can be found at lunch every day a little coterie consisting of Frederick Latham, Bruce Edwards, Nat Roth and Louis Nethersole. The latter was bemoaning the fact that it would be necessary to have some clothes made in New York, as his wardrobe was getting in such a condition that he could not wait until he got to England to renilenish it. "English clothes!" exclaimed Mr. Roth, with something very like a snort. "English clothes, indeed. Why, those English tailors cut out clothes with a knife and fork. They take a bag, cut it up the middle, sew it up again and call it a pair of trousers. That's the way they make clothes over there." "Well, why is it, then, that so many Americans come back from London with their trunks charged with English clothes?" demanded Mr. Nethersole. "To wear fishing, my boy. That's what they get them for, and because they are as you say—charged. Men who can pay for their clothes get them in New York."—New York Herald a locomotive's stomach. Why wonder why some people do better work than other people? 5.—A good many of us would like to eat better food, but where can we get it? People are made sick every day in high and low priced places by carelessly prepared food. Yet it may be that more people are injured every day by carelessly eaten food. Fast eating and swallowing unchewed foods lower our energy as much as anything. 6.—People have gained in weight and endurance and cheerfulness by going without their noonday lunch. Food and eating are about the whole things when it comes to a clear head. When we begin to eat to live we may find that our food costs us about one-half what it has to live to eat. A half of a meal well eaten is better than a whole meal boiled. 7—Here is an item from the Chicago Tribune for your Forethought Library: "The best kind of food if not wisely used may be and often is harmful. Eating to excess is a source of disease. By bad cooking, by unwise choice of food, by eating at wrong times, or by neglecting the proper proportions of food principles we may make good food unwholesome." Tennessee Legislator Against Adjournment to Heaven. It is a South Carolina Representative who tells this story on the old lawmakers of the sister state of Tennessee: When Fort Donnelson fell the Legislature was in session at Nashville. They knew that the federals would come in and occupy the city. A great noise was heard in the office of the Governor below stairs, and a committee was sent to see what was going on, and they found his excellency packing up, preparatory to leaving. He handed the committee a dispatch announcing the fall of the fort. When the committee returned to the hall a Mr. Welch was in the chair, and just on the point of adjourning. Addressing the House, he said: "And now, gentlemen, God will take care of us, and if we do not meet again here we shall meet in heaven." A member from East Tennessee, who had been dozing off the effects of the fluid to which he was addicted, hearing the last words of the Speaker's remarks, jumped to his feet and said: "Mr. Chairman, don't adjourn us to that place. If you do, we shall never get a quorum." Secretary Learned Secret. The duties of a private secretary to a man in public life include, in addition to official work, such domestic odds and ends as house hunting, engaging servants, packing and shipping furniture, and seeing off members of the family and meeting them on their return to town. The Secretary of the Interior has a thoroughly domesticated private secretary. Taking up his mail a few mornings ago, Mr. Hitchcock found among his letters one intended for his private secretary. The handwriting was familiar, and Mr. Hitecock did not observe that the letter was not addressed to him. As he read, however, he discovered his error. It was from Mrs. Hitchcock to the private secretary, asking him to attend to having her watch repaired. Mr. Hitchcock, the letter explained, had had the watch repaired such a short time before that she did not wish him to know it was again out of order. Mr. Hitchcock discreetly put the letter on his private secretary's desk and said nothing. Truth Was Unwelcome. "How did you rest last night?" As she spoke the hostess glanced with a non-expectant look at her guest and a show of assumed interest. The guest smiled grimly: "I never slept worse in my life he replied. "The bed was poor, the sheets were sticky, the room was poorly ventilated, and between the servants moving around overhead and the dog barking underneath my window, I scarcely closed my eyes." The hostess in a rage left the room and presently returned with her husband. "Put that man out of the house al once!" she gasped. "What!" exclaimed her astonished husband. "Has he insulted you?" "He has indeed," replied his indigant wife. "Here I have been keeping house for years and he is the only one who has dared to tell me the truth"—Collier's Weekly. His 18-inch Mustache Burned Up. While burning brush on his farm here to-day William Wainwright discovered the fire was threatening his home, and in attempting to check the flames was badly burned, losing his mustache, measuring eleighteen inches from tip to tip. Dewey, his pet dog, seemed to realize the danger, and worked heroically to extinguish the fire by beating it with his paws. Wainwright's mustache has been his pride for thirty years, and he had trained it wonderfully. He could easily c-aw it to the back of his neck and tie a knot in it—Seaford correspondent Philadelphia Record. NEWTON NEWS Mr. Thos. Mc Worter was a visitor in the city last week. Mr. Floyd Rickman spent last week in Wiebita and Valley Center visiting relatives and friends. The Knights and Ladies of Protection gave a social Wednesday eve and had a very good crowd and a jolly good time. A birthday party was given Wednesday eve in honor of Miss Hazel Rickman it was largely attended and the gues port a lovely time. Mrs. Henry Reevely who has been ill for the past week is slowly improving. There will be a social given at the Masonic hall Wednesday eve for the benefit of the A. M. E. church and all are invited to attend Miss Ophalia Coleman is preparing to leave the city Sunday for a few weeks visit to Kans. City and Leavenworth. All wish her a merry time. There was a birthday party given Thursday night in honor of Miss Willie Slaught r—a delicious fun cheon was served and the guest spent a very pleasant evening. The N. U. G. club met with Mrs F. Childs Monday afternoon of which they spent a very pleasant afternoon. Mr. C. R' Raimey is reported quid ill. CLEARWATER NEWS Mr and Mrs. Barton were in Clearwater shopping one day last week. C. R. Wilfley was in Wichita last Friday on business. The bank of Anson was robbed last week of $1,000 and the robbers escaped by the aid of a hand car. Mr. O. H. White was in Sunday to see his family and taken them out for a nice drive. Mrs Sarah Wilfley is much pleased with the business of Cle r water and would like to buy here. Mr and Mrs. Leonard Biggers was down from Wichita Saturday to visit the family of C. R. Willey and returned Sunday. Miss Eva Wilfley of Chicago left Oxford Wednesday for her name and stopped over in Wichita to visit an old friend. C. R. Wilfley and little Clarence Dixon was over to Oxford Kus. to visit M s. Sarah Wilfley and si ter Miss Eva Wilfley. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By NEW FROM LONDON BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. Charles Ford Press 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. 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. Our Prices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST A Subscriber to the IF NOT, WHY NOT? 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. Hock, Prop. 241 North Water St. L. S. NAFIZGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE) Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Translate a Specialty Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftiger, 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 F'ne Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. WIGHIT 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 NOTICE TO THE CHURCHES The Searchlight will publish the Easter programmes of all the churches and their auxillaries free of charge if the churches and their auxillaries will furnish us a copy of their programe not later than Monday eve April 17th 1905. We publish this notice in ample time to allow the churches and their auxillaries plenty time to make up their programe by the time here mentioned. Send your programme here on time W. N. Miller Editor April 8th 1905. H W Dean, Meat Market April 8th 1905. DEALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and Oysters 813 North Main Street =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL =CIGARS= SOLD EVERYWHERE Banner Mills We Want FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is D O N E BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Reliable Stand At 110 North Main St Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL PRINTERS who Can PRINT rices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST UR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST ARE YOU? subscriber to th TOP! WOMEN, along it they natural using them- nations of necessary. a woman is great. ction: male weak- with Mrs. received, only. A access to a external women Out you women suffer in silence and drift along badly to worse, knowing full well that they have immediate assistance, but a natural impels them to shrink from exposing them to the questions and probably examinations of their family physician. It is unnecessary. not money or price you can consult a woman knowledge from actual experience is great. Pinkham's Standing Invitation: am suffering from any form of female weakness invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. am at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, am read and answered by women only. A woman freely talk of her private illness to a man thus has been established the eternal peace between Mrs. Pinkham and the women which has never been broken. Out of vast volume of experience which she draw from, it is more than possible she has gained the very knowledge will help your case. She asks not-return except your good-will, and her has relieved thousands. Surely any rich or poor, is very foolish if she not take advantage of this generous of assistance. — Lydia E. Pinkham in Co. Lynn, Mass. "As you know, I wrote you that my doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live. I then wrote you, telling you my ailments. I followed your advice and an entirely well. I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and I love my life to you and to Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I loved my wife, and would read this testimonial and realize the value of writing to you and your remedy."—Mrs. Mary Dinnick, 5th and 6th, Capital Street, Benning P. O., Washington, D. C. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women whose testimony is so unquestionable, you cannot well say, without trying it. "I do not believe it will help me." If you are ill, don't hesitate to get a bottle of Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn. Mass., for special advice—it is free and always helpful. Bed with eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W PENSION LAWS SENT FREE to NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F St. Washington, D. C. RGANS Zulus The rate run in an Some will c in six hour common. Piso's Cure The rate at which the Zulus can run in an emergency is astonishing. Some will cover as much as fifty miles in six hours. Eight miles an hour is common. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—W.M. O. ENDSLEY, Vauburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900 Quicksand. Quicksand is sand readily moved; generally it is a mixture of sand and water. Tunnels have been pushed through quicksand by first freezing the mass of quicksand. DON'T FORGET A large 2-oz. package, Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Dictionary for Directory. A city man has to watch or he will say dictionary for directory, because he was raised in the country and read the dictionary for years before he ever saw a directory.—Paul Point. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children A little girl 9 years old, having attended a soiree, being asked by her mother on returning how she enjoyed herself, answered: "I am full of happiness. I couldn't be any happier unless I could grow." LEAVES NO SCAR Cures— Cuts, Sprains, Bruises, Rheumatism, And All Hurts of Man or Beast EAN'S KING CACTUS OIL The World's Greatest Healer To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs, while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. Nature's Electric Lights. Not only is the sun like a great arc light, but all the stars in the sky are nature's electric lights, illuminating immeasurable space. On the Trail with a Fish Brand Pummel Slicker won whitly, a palm coat when it rained, for a cover at night it might be bad, will say that I have gotten more cars to your sliker than any other article this year. I own owned. The name and address of the writer of this notebook may be had on application. Weather Garmments for Riding, Walk- ing, Working or Sporting. NORTHWEST AWARD WORLD'S FAIR, 1904. A.J. TOWER CO. BROOKLYN, U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., Limited BUREAU, CANADA. N. U.-Wichita-No. 14-1905 The evils indigestion, tion will give them to a (laxative) weapon again eases, while lief and pen druggists a back if it f There is an anil thing we do—Exc light, but a nature's el immensal The sign of the Fish TOWER'S FISH BRAND The evils which always follow after indigestion, billiousness or constipation will give no quarter. Better fight them to a finish with Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It is a weapon against these dangerous diseases, which will give you quick relief and permanent cure. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. Said by a Cynic. There is nothing more enjoyable than an animated discussion of something we don't know anything about with somebody that knows less than we do.—Exchange. Lazy Germ an invited Guest. The scientist who announced not long since that he had discovered the germ which produces the disease of laziness may not have been wholly in error. But doubtless the symptoms often come first, and the microbes afterward—by invitation. --- like addressing Mrs. Pinkham you ask your private illies to a woman whose experience with woo- loises covers a great many years. can talk freely to a woman when it talks to relate your private troubles -besides a man does not under- ly because he is a man. flowing we publish two let- from a woman who accept- this invitation. Note the st letter Nrs Pinkham night years I have suffered something every month with my periods. The one excurciating and I can hardly stand. My doctor says I have ovarian and trouble, and I must go through an appointment I want to get well. I do not want to think to it if I can possibly help it, to tell me want to do. I hope you can come."Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 55th and E Sts., Beming P.O., Washington,D.C. send letter. Mrs. Pinkham: After following carefully your advice, I am very anxious to E. Pinkham's Vegetable盘, I am very anxious to send your testimonial, that others may know their and what you have done for me. to $40 Highest grade Estey Kinball, Caithe Cottage, slightly used like new; special descriptions and for the asking. Write to day. MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Whea writing mention this paper. Wichita Business College SHORTHAND INSTITUTE. M.F.A. HIGHBARGER for catalog M.N. Market St., Wichita, Kans. EXCURSIONS Free Grant Lands 9F Western Canada During the months of March and April, there are excursions on the various lines of railway in the Canadian West. Attendance of thousands of acres of the best land and Grazing Lands on the Continent on the latter. Grazing lands may be purchased from railroad companies at reasonable prices. Information as to route, cost of transport, location, ownership of land, Canada, or to authorized Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. N.W. Street, Kansas City, Missouri. FREE Trial Bottle for 100c. postage LNEY & MCAID, Mirea, Clinton, In- duggers in 50c, S1, S3 and S5 Sizes When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL, ELSE FAILS. Dear customer, try syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time, sold by drugrista. CONSUMPTION Zulus Are Great Runners. Quicksand. Dictionary for Directory. Limit to Happiness. Nature's Electric Lights. No Quarter. Said by a Cynic. Lazy Germ an invited Guest. A Good Retort. "An American quarter of a dollar," says the Crozier, "with the figure of Liberty on it, is said to have looked down contemptuously on a copper cent, with the head of a red Indian on it, and to have said, 'Oh, you dark-skinned, feather-trimmed barbarian, do you call yourself a coin?' 'Well, whatever I am,' said the copper cent, 'I am oftener found in missionary meetings than you are!'" Peculiarity of the Zambesi. During the rainy season at Victoria falls in the Zambesi river in Africa the smallest quantity of water of the year is passing. And when the falls are in flood the country around them is dry as a bone. This phenomenon is caused by the great length of the Zambesi river. By the time the flood waters of the upper river get down to the falls the rainy season has ended in the latter region. Would Make a Big Difference "The girls that sold kisses at the church social so's to get a new velvet carpet for the preacher's house is bein' much praised for their cleverness," remarked Uncle Silas, "but if poor old crippled up Gil Burdick's girls 'ud sell some so's the old man could raise the mortgage on the farm, wouldn't there be an awful howl raised?"—Detroit Tribune. Church in Lonely Situation. Church in Lonely Strait Over the most costly log church edifice in the world, erected in Fairbanks, Alaska, hangs a bell with the inscription: "O, ye frost and cold, bless the Lord! Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever!" The material and labor cost $2,500, and the church is the only one of any kind in more than 20,000 square miles. Pockets for Women. Some day a great reformer, in whose aspirations sense is duly blended with enthusiasm, will make and win a great fight for adequate pockets in women's street clothes. Why woman does not have more and better pockets in her clothes is one of the mysteries of civilization. England a "Soupless" Country. An authority upon cooking asserts that England is a souple country, meaning that English cooks cannot make soup and that soup does not appear upon the menu of an English dinner. Which is a fact, though soup is about the first form that English charity takes. Appearances and Animation. We are products of things we see and hear and think. Our appearance is able to increase our own animation provided our appearance brightens those before us, and we forget ourselves in admiring their brightness.—Earl M. Pratt in "Short Talks." For Hasty Preparation of Meals. An "emergency" cupboard is an admirable thing to have in every kitchen. It should be stored with tinned or bottled goods—vegetables, soup, tongue, etc.—so that at any moment a hot or cold meal may be speedily prepared. For Healthful Existence. A sunny, cheerful view of life—resting on truth and fact, co-existing with practical aspirations ever to make things, self and men better than they are—that, I believe, is the true heathful poetry of existence. Curiosities of Amber. Files are not the only things found in amber. In a big mass of clear amber dredged up out of the Baltic sea recently there was visible in its interior a small squirrel—fur, teeth and claws intact. Heat from Arc Lights. A temperature of 4,000 degrees or 5,000 degrees can be produced only between the carbon points of an electric are light. The next hottest place in the world is the crucible of an electric furnace. Idleness Is Unhappiness. The will of Mr. Val Princep, R. A., contained a passage in which he expresses the opinion that a man with nothing to do is necessarily dissatisfied and consequently unhappy. Small Things That Count Many people fail because they refuse to do the small things, and these mount up in the final reckoning, forming a barrier between them and their happiness. Love's Test. Absence is not love's true test, Nor is the fail of adverse fate; That the child is not best Is that whose ardors ne'er abate Thro' all the petty, jarring strife Of daily comradship in life. —Susie M. Best, in Good Housekeeping. London's Charities Well Supported. It is estimated that the 724 charitable institutions in and around London last year received $35,000,000 from the benevolent public. Libraries Are Old Institutions Libraries are our institutions. There were Chaldean libraries before 1700 B. C. The first private library we read of was Aristotle's, 334 B. C. Remember This. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Harvest by Electric Light. Harvesting by electric light has been introduced in Australia. HOW TWO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ESCAPED PELVIC CATARRH BY AID OF PE-RU-NA. Female Weakness Is Usually Pelvic Catarrh. Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh Wherever Located. St. Jacobs Oil Known the world over as the Rheumatism and Neuralgia Mrs. Mable Bradford, 13 Church street, Burlington, Vt., Secretary Whittier Oratorio Society, writes: "Peruna is certainly a wonderful medicine for the ills of women. I have heard it spoken of in the highest praise by many, and certainly my experience is well worthy of a good word. "I began to have severe pains across my back about a year ago, brought on by a cold, and each subsequent month brought me pain and distress. "Your remedy was prescribed, and the way it acted upon my system was almost too good to be true. I certainly have regained my health and strength, and I no longer suffer periodical pains and extreme lassitude."-Mable Bradford. Women who suffer should read the evidences presented here. We have thousands of letters from grateful friends who tell the same story. Half the ills that are peculiarly woman's own are of a catarral character. Female weakness was not understood for many years. Dr Hartman deserves the credit of having determined its real character. He has made catarral and catarral Cheese From Soy Beans. The municipal laboratory of Paris has been examining the experiments made by Dr. Vogel, who has manufactured a very succulent cheese from the small Chinese beans known as "soy beans." The doctor finds that the pulp of these beans contains many of the casine qualities, and that the resulting composition is both nourishing and pleasant to the taste. "I had Inflammatory Rheumatism, but I am well now, thanks to Dr. David Kennedy's favorite Remedy. It's my best friend." Garrett Lansing, Troy, N. Y. Length of Letters. Some letters are long, but you know what the writer means and one letter is enough. Some other letters are just as long and never understood. Some short letters are also understood. Brevity and clearness to one person is a string of words without meaning to another person.—Earl M. Pratt. 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. Deep Shaft Is Suggested. A suggestion that a shaft be sunk twelve miles for scientific exploration has recently been made, but it has been calculated that at that depth the pressure must be about forty tons to the square inch, which would prohibit shaft-sinking by any known method. 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{4}{3} $ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. It is perhaps better to be in the soup than to be merely in hot water. Mrs. Lizzie Redding, 3134 B Clifton Place, St. Louis, Mo., writes: "I found after trying many different medicines to restore me to health, that Peruna was the only thing which could be depended upon. I began taking it when I was in a decline, induced by female weakness and overwrought nerves. "I began to feel stronger during the first week I took Peruna and my health improved daily until now I am in perfect health and enjoy life as I never did before."—Lizzie Redding. MRS. LIZZIE REDDING. It's the thoroughly modern and scientific system of loading and the use of only the best materials which make Winchester Factory Loaded "New Rival" Shells give better pattern, penetration and more uniform results generally than any other shells. The special paper and the Winchester patent corrugated head used in making "New Rival" shells give them strength to withstand reloading. BE SURE TO GET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. 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If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. All correspondence held strictly confidential. NIVAL" BLACK POWDER SHELLS. Boroughly modern and scientific system of load- e use of only the best materials which make factory Loaded "New Rival" Shells give bet- netration and more uniform results gener- other shells. The special paper and the Win- t corrugated head used in making "New give them strength to withstand reloading. GET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. at Strike Home and—if he cares to do so—can tell y little about the bulk coffee he know, where it originally came from, how it was blended, or with what how it was blended—or when roasted? If you buy your coffee loose by the pound, how can you expect purity and uniform quality? LION COFFEE, the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, is of necessity uniform in quality, strength and flavor. For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE has been the standard coffee in millions of homes. LION COFFEE is carefully packed at our factories, and until opened in your home, has no chance of being adulterated, or of coming in contact with dust, dirt, germs, or unclean hands. MILLION COFFEE you get one full Insist upon getting the genuine. range.) needs for valuable premiums. OCCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday April 8, 05 Blouses that cost more than one hundred dollars are called "blooses." Oyama's wife was educated at Vassar. Is any other explanation necessary? King Peter of Servia wants some rapid-fire guns. Evidently fixing to get fired. One brewery owns 183 saloons in Kansas City. Nearly two dozen "octopuses" rolled into one. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman condemns man's clothing vigorously—but has she ever tried it? It might be mentioned that it is the salt water lobster and not the land variety that has gone on strike. The fact that a $10 bill will accumulate 73,000 microbes in a month does not seem to jar Russell Sage a little bit. Adam should have been a very happy man. He never had to pay a dress maker's bill or discharge the cook. Say, wouldn't it be fun to see Oyama, Nogi, Oku, Nodzu and Kuroki sitting in together at a little game of poker? It would seem that one of Uncle Sam's "banana ships" would be dangerous to any enemy that might slip up on it. The people of the United States consume 75 pounds of sugar per head a year. No wonder the dentists have good pickings. The tobacco trust has the honor to report that its net profits last year were over $22,000,000. Smoke up with the tobacco trust. The conscience stricken person who returned $12,000 to the government will be surprised to see how few will follow his example. Supt. Maxwell recommends a course of planting seeds and growing plants for moral instruction. That leaves out all knowledge of grafting. The modern woman who expects to have a statue in the hall of fame ought to wear Grecian robes. "Gowns" do not show up in stone. If we saw ourselves as others see us, we would at least have the privilege of insisting that we were laboring under an optical illusion.—Puck. A Harvard professor declares that the solar system is tipping over. Now it's about time for people to get together and abolish the tipping custom. The world do move. The Chinese, after having cleansed every nation but their own, have established a soap factory and a towel supply house at home. It appears that the butlers and lady secretaries employed in the households of the rich have acquired the "graft" habit. Only heaven is left to hope for. The kind newspaper lady who tells her readers "how a woman can look quite smart on $400" doesn't do much to help the woman who has only $40 for a limit. Another man having lost his tongue from excessive smoking, it is now up to some unregenerate bachelor to remark that it is a pity that more women do not smoke. Bloch, the military expert, was wrong in thinking that "war is impossible," but recent events have made it plain to most persons that it ought to be impossible. Prof. Starr of the University of Chicago announces that a substance that he terms hamiurumaha is a perfect substitute for tobacco. And echo answers: "Ha! Ha!" "The ball toserer who is thought to be a wonder" is prominent in the papers all over the country now. As a rule, he won't be nearly so conspicuous two months later on. In Berlin young men have formed a society whose members pledge themselves to snatch birds from the hats of women. There are likely to be important developments in the German capital. A searcity in small silver coins is predicted, congress having failed to provide for the purchase of the necessary bullion. You may have to fall back on your children's ten cent savings banks. The Binghamton Herald notices the conviction of nearly every man, who never tried to do it, that he can run a newspaper. It is a business which confident outsiders assume with courage and abandon with enthusiasm and experience. This world, saith the preacher, is filled with men who are like a watch, well made and wound, but whose faces and dial hands point to 3:30 at 10 a.m. They were made right and wound right and keep going, but they have never been set right The Effect of Emperor William's Visit to Tangler. DEL CASSE POSTPONES QUESTION It Is Shown by a Conference. That It Is the Purpose to Adopt a Passive Attitude and Await the Development of Events. Paris, April 5.—The Morocco incident is making a deeper impression and while calmness continues to prevail there is a growing sense of rudeness of the shock which Emperor William's visit to Tangier and his declarations give to French policy. However for the present it is evident that the purpose is to adopt a passive attitude and await the development of events. This was shown by a conference at the foreign office between Foreign Minister Del Casse and several deputies who wished to question him in the chamber concerning Morocco. The foreign minister asked for an adjournment of the questions, saying there was nothing to add to what he had already in the senate. Accordingly the questions were indefinitely postponed. The Temps says the authorities version of Emperor William's remarks at Tangier makes it useless to defy the disobliging character of such words, which "constitute almost the maximum sport of openly quarrelling with France that William III could attempt in order to be disagreeable." However, the general tone of the press is singularly free from belligerent or menacing talk. St. Petersburg.-The developments resulting from Emperor William's speech at Tangier continues to attract great attention in the press and in diplomatic circles. The sober view is that the German emperor seized on a favorable opportunity to read France a lesson for leaving Germany out of consideration in the French-British understanding regarding Morocco, with the view, possibly of compelling France to make a permanent renunciation of her aspirations regarding Metz and Loraine, also with the practical purpose of securing a vote in the rechstag next fall for a large naval program. There is no serious idea that the incident may lead to a conflict. With Russia enfeebled, France will have to look to Great Britain to play the role of protector assumed by Russia when Germany threatened hef in 1875, and there is a good deal of speculation on the subject of the new grouping of the powers. The home papers, however, declare that while the British press may bluster, Great Britain has secured her quid pro quo in Egypt and will leave France to take care of herself. KAISER THEIR PROTECTOR. Emperor William Made Deep Impression with German Colonny. Berlin, April 4.—The Lokal Anzeiger, in a dispatch from Tangier, says that in replying to the members of the German colony, Emperor William said he was glad to make the acquaintance of the pioneers of Germany in Morocco and to tell them that they had done their duty. They must remain united and continue to fulfill their duty under the emperor's protection. Germany had great commercial interests in Morocco. Her trade was advancing gratifyingly. He, the emperor, would make it his business to promote this trade, which was only possible on the assumption of the equality of all the powers and the sovereignty of the sultan and the independence of the land. His visit was a recognition of this independence. The speech, the Lokal Anzeiger adds, created an immense impression in the foreign colony at Tangier, especially among the natives who now refer to the emperor as the protector of the independence of Morocco. Great political significance, it is further asserted, is attached to the fact that the German charge d'affaires accompanied the German emperor to Gibraltar. KANSAS MAN BUYS LAND. Spends $100,000 in Getting Hold of an Illinois Tract. Duquoin, Ill., April 4.—The entire holdings of the Big Muddy Colliery Company of Benton have been sold to Charles J. Devlin, the multimillionaire coal operator of Topeka, Kan. The deal includes a mine, together with 1,200 acres of rich coal land, heretofore untouched. The purchase price is thought to be about $100,000. Mr. Devlin is said to own the controlling interest in twenty-two mines in the Central states. A modern shaft will probably be sunk on the tract of land at once. The Prince Arrested. Rome, April 6-While Prince and Princess Broglie were riding in a motor car at the speed of 45 miles an hour their car ran over and killed a woman. The prince was arrested. Wants to Know. Rome, April 6.—In the chamber of deputies Signor Remussi, editor of the Secolo, interrogated the government as to whether the opportune moment had not arrived to propose intervention in the conflict between Russia and Japan A GREAT MEDICINE BRINGS HEALTH TO THREE MEMBERS OF SAME FAMILY. Cures a Wife's Debtility After Malaria, a Husband's Rheumatism, a Daughter's Nervous Prostration. 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They have cured anaemia, and all forms of weakness, also the most stubborn cases of dyspepsia and rheumatism. They are indispensable for growing girls. Big Bill For Toys. The children of the United States each year consume toys that cost at retail $45,000,000. WONDERS OF THE OCEAN. Nature's Perfect Arrangement for Preservation of Fish Life. 'Naturally the fish of the deep portions are carnivorous, no vetetable life being found below 200 fathoms,' writes W. S. Harwood, in Harper's Magazine. 'In the Atlantic Ocean the vast Sargasso sea, containing three millions of square miles of surface—a great marine prairie as large as the whole of the United States exclusive of Alaska and independent islands—affords vegetable food for uncountable animals, which, in their due time, die and are precipitated to the depths, their bodies in turn to be eaten by the animals which live far below all vegetation. So it is throughout the whole ocean; animal life is constantly falling from the surface waters for the support of the animal life of the abyss. A very large number of the deep sea animals are exceedingly tenuous or translucent in form—so to put it—having no special forms of nutrition, but taking in their nourishment through the walls of their bodies, appropriating from the water food that suits them. Some of them have a bony structure, a skeleton, which they form also from the water, silica and carbonate of lime being the chief skeleton-forming materials.' CHILDREN AFFECTED. By Mother's Food and Drink. Many babies have been launched into life with constitutions weakened by disease taken in with their mother's milk. Mothers cannot be too careful as to the food they use while nursing their babes. The experience of a Kansas City mother is a case in point: "I was a great coffee drinker from a child, and thought I could not eat a meal without it. But I found at last it was doing me harm. For years I had been troubled with dizziness, spots before my eyes and pain in my heart, to which was added two years ago, a chronic sour stomach. The baby was born 7 months ago, and almost from the beginning, it, too, suffered from sour stomach. She was taking it from me! "In my distress I consulted a friend of more experience than mine, and she told me to quit coffee, that coffee did not make good milk, I have since ascertained that it really dries up the milk." "So, I quit coffee, and tried tea and at last cocoa. But they did not agree with me. Then I turned to Postum Coffee with the happiest results. It proved to be the very thing I needed. It not only agreed perfectly with baby and myself, but it increased the flow of my milk. My husband then quit coffee and used Postum, quickly got well of the dyspepsia with which he had been troubled. I no longer suffer from the dizziness, blind spells, pain in my heart or sour stomach. Postum has cured them. 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Through a misunderstanding William Barkley shot two of the dancers, but as neither was fatally wounded nothing occurred to mar the pleasure of the occasion.—Portland Oregonian. Sahara Sands Shifting. Along the northern edge of the Sahara ruins of the old Roman villas and temples half buried in the sand are found. They prove that within the last twenty centuries the Sahara sands shifted to the north, blotting out the verdure and narrowing the zone of green that skirts the northern edge of Africa. What Everybody Says. Jamboree, Ky., April, 3rd.—(Special.)—"I suffered for years with my back," says Mr. J. M. Coleman, a well known resident of this place. "Then I used Dodd's Kidney Pills and I have not felt a pain since. My little girl complained of her back. She used about one-half box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and she is sound and well." It is thousands of statements like the above that show Dodd's Kidney Pills to be the one cure for Backache or any other symptom of deranged kidneys. 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All these were products of the farmer and stockman who profited more than any other class of the community by these advances. The miner benefited 42.1 per cent by that advance in the average price of metals. The only decrease in the average prices of commodities in that period was in railway freight rates which decreased from .738 per tonile in 1897 to .763 in 1903, a loss of 4.4 per cent. The report of the Interstate Commerce Commission shows that the average increase in the pay of railroad employees in the period was a trifle above 8.5 per cent. Women's Poetic Yearnings. A woman takes the sort of wooing that is offered her, because it is the best she can get, but her heart and soul yearn for something far different —something romantic, poetic, ideal, and she never quite forgives the man who might have made beautiful love to her and didn't.—Cosmopolitan Review. Mounted Army Nurses. India has a staff of mounted army nurses. 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