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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT The American Church Morally Dead When It Comes To The Race Problem uke By Chief Justice Harlan American Church in dealing the Afro-American does not and never has known what real unity is. Before the war and instruction of slavery, the Abo- ts indicted it as the bulwark man slavery. The indictment died and impartial history has led a verdict of guilty against church. has the bulwark of chattel slave it is today the bulwark of race race, the forerunner of castle wars and distinctions in the United States. Were it to do its duty to live up for a single year to principles of Jesus to the Golden and His Sermon on the Mount, would be the end of that time to race question, no more Negro men to vex the country in general the Afro-American people in America. The Church of Christ, actuated by the spirit of the church could bring peace on earth, make the white man's lion and black man's lamb lie down to all parts of the country, and shall Jesus would lead them to the Mlowship, to Christian brotherhood in his Republic, which is now tainted by the devils of oppression and race oppression. These devils are in possession of news. They are also in possesses of the pulpits of the land. They are makers of public sentiment against the Afro-American, North and East and West allike. Nowhere is Church is the Afro-American and Everywhere he is openly enmured and rejected. Let a collage enter one of its houses of help on the Lord's day, and see will happen. The cold stare, contemptuous treatment which him on the threshold strike him face like sleet, and drive him in spirit and bleeding with from its doors. Jesus, the Good Lord, gathers his lambs into his hands. Not so the American Church lambs happen to be black. The African Church draws the color line here, not between the goats the sheep, but between the sheep devils. Alas, poor lambs, if they black. The rest of the flock at them, driving them from the waters and the green pastures, the men who are supposed to be shepherds join in the attack and with their crooks the poor, lambs because they happen of a different color from the rest of the flock. this is American Christianity, other American Churchianity, for Christianity it surely is not, judged the standard which Jesus set up he was on earth. For He was bound of Publicans and sinners. of Jews and Gentiles. Before Him the despised Samaritan was the equal of the proudest descendant of the House of David, and dis divine scheme of salvation embraced the whole human family on equal footing, whether rich or poor, high or low, learned or ignorant, white or black. They wee then all one in Christ Jesus. This is emphatically not so today in the American Church, which divides mankind into believers, unbelievers and Negroes. Indeed, were Jesus to come into America in this year of grace with a dark skin, with a trace of Negro blood in his veins, the Church would reject him, slam all of its doors in his face. This corrosive acid of race prejudice, of color distinction, has eaten deep into the body of the American Church. It has bitten through all denominational differences and tissues into the false soul of all sects of so-called believers. Not even the Salvation Army people have escaped the envenomed teeth of color-probia. Some time ago a physician was in attendance upon a poor patient when a member of the Salvation Army entered. This woman, with more zeal than discretion, proceeded to question the physician. "Do you know Jesus?" To which he promptly replied "Yes." "What do you know about him?" was the nevt searching question of the Salvation inquisitor. And the physician answered: "I know him to be a very fine colored gentleman!" Whereupon the inquisitor evclaimed: "Blasphemy, blasphemy!" The physician, who is a wit, then turned inquisitor. "What is blasphemy," he asked, "is it that I said that Jesus was a gentleman?" "No," answered the excited Salvation agent, "but you said that he was a colored gentleman." Comment is needless. American color-prejudice, not genuine Christianity, spoke through that woman and revealed as in a flash her foolish and nonchristian contempt of some men because of their race and color. A short while ago the Christianity of the interdenominational clergy of Washington was put to the test on this question and proved wanting. They were too full of race prejudice to have Afro-American members of the clergy meet with them in conference to consider the subject of moral and religious insurrection in the public schools, although these same Afro-American ministers represented a third of the school population of the capital. The Presbyterian Church has been put to a similar test in the Presbytery of Washington, and it, too, failed to make good. It fell down before this idol of the Nation. American color-prejudice, and showed in the fall the horns, the cloven feet, and even the caudal appendage of its real lord and master. Not even this last and sorry proof of its obsession could be tucked out of sight under its long sanctimonious garments of pretence and insincerity. Below the longest robe of deceitful words and hollow professions showed the tail of the serpent of colorprobia, whose trail, alas! was upon all. No, not upon all, as shall presently appear. The overture for separate Presbyteries for white and Afro-American chuches, and the overture for union with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church with the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America came up for action on April 11 before the Presbytery f Washington. And the rPresbytery of Washington has put itself on record in favor of both overtures by an overwhelming majority. The Afro-American has been turned down and shut out on account of his race and color by a body of men professing to be believers in the religion of Him in Whom there is neither Jew, Greek nor Gentile, neither circumcised nor uncircumcised. But the infamy was not consummated before Jesus appeared in the midst of the recreant body of professed followers, and spoke to them memorials of rebuke from the mouths of His announced servants in that assembly. It was something to witness and to remember, too, the countenances of that gathering of Presbyterian ministers and elders when the Savonarola-like figure and face of the veteran pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church rose in the pulpit of the Westminster Church, and poured forth on his brethren the hot torrent of his Christian protest and denunciation. For nearly an hour the Divine Master fulmined from this good man's lips. The righteous wrath of the preacher burnt through the spiritual bubble of the Presbytery, through its meanness, its narrowness, its base betrayal of the Master, touched with tongue of flame the conscience of that body and for one fleeting moment quickened it with life. Dr. Grimke spoke long and earnestly, and said: "It may not be popular, but we must stand up for principle, and there is no option left to us as Christians. Christ was not ashamed to eat with publicans and sinners, and He drew no distinction among men on account of their color. Christ died for all races. Who are we, that we should say to any race, "Be ye separate; stand off by yourselves." It would be a change in our form of government. The success of the work in our church has been because the colored men have not been segregated. It is not the spirit of Christ to mumiliate a race and ignore their manhood. The great progress among the colored people in the South has been owing to the aid given by the Board for Work Among the Freedmen, while in the North there is no help from any church board. This complevion of Presbyteries has nothing whatever to do with the growth of Presbyterianism among either white or black; it depends on the amount of push and energy put into the work. "The Presbyterian General Assembly worked itself up into a frenzy against exhibiting the Liberty Bell on the Sabbath but it was willing to set up the color line. Verily, this is tithing mint and anise and cumin and omitting the weightier matters of the law. Our duty is to face the issue squarely, and we must hold up the standard Christ set up or sever our connection with Him. It would be positively wrong to set up separate Presbyteries within the same bounds. It is simply a movement to cater to Southern sentiment, which holds that the white man disgraces himself by any sort of affiliation with the black man. Up until even the present time white men and women who go South to work among the colored men are ostracised. An eminent Englishman recently said: 'I have worked hard for thirty years among colored people, and there are not today five white men in the city of Atlanta who would invite me into their houses.' It is a base surrender to such sentiment as that for the great Presbyterian Church to adopt such an overture as that proposed. I sometimes wonder how God can sit still and see such things going on in the Presbyterian Church; it must be an abomination, unto God. It would be shameful to approve union with the Cumberland Presbyterian thus diluting Calvinism and sacrificing twenty or thirty, thousand faithful old members of the colored race. Dr. Grimke's address extorted applause from his audience, and his last burning words were still ringing in the church when several men were on their feet, seeking to gain the floor, and among them, towering tall above the tallest, stood the venerable form of the famous Supreme Court Judge and grand old friend of the Afro-Americans, Mr. Justice Harlan. After saying that he considered it a privilege to nave heard Dr. Grimke's address, Judge Harlan proceeded to put himself on record against the principle involved in the overture, saying that he was against separate Presbyteries for whites and blacks even if the whites and the blacks were to agree mutually to have them. For Christianity has nothing to do with race, but only with men. "Let us," he concluded in weighty words, "stand in the way of the fathers, and say to the world that as far as our church is concerned, we are race blind and color blind." And again for a fleeting moment the worldly heart of the Presbytery burst into fitful flame in the long continued applause which followed those noble words. The address of Dr. John Gordon, president of Howard University, was hardly less satisfactory. For he opposed the overture on high grounds. He had found that the color line, whether on railroads or in the church, which shuts one race out shuts the other race out also. As an American citizen he considered that 'Jim Crow' laws infringed his personal liberty as well as that of the colored race, and he foresaw that 'Jim Crow' Presbyteries would do the same, that is, encroach upon his own personal liberty as a Presbyterian minister. 'I will be forever opposed to the organization of any Presbytery in which I could not become a member, where the door could be shut in my face,' declared him firmly and boldly. Dr. Gordon Continued on page three SCORPION BITE NOT FATAL In Haunts of Elephants In Haunts of Elephants The Fortunate Isles The Fortunate Isles Life in Russian Village Life in Russian Village "Between the spiders and scorpions, those grayish, lobsterlike foes of every living thing, which lurk in old walls and beneath the debris of ruins, silent, patient, giving the sting that kills and then sucking the victim's blood, there are points in common," writes F. G. Aftalo, the traveler and writer of London. "This very habit of sucking blood is shared by them, for the scorpion does not tear its victim's flesh with pinchers, like a crayfish, but sucks the juices through a small and tubular mouth not unlike that of spiders. Both of them breathe through lung-openings in the abdomen and in each the number of legs is eight, not six, as in insects. The latter class, which form the food of the smaller spiders, are erroneously regarded as safe if they have wings to fly. Even in England there are spiders which run so swiftly and leap with such precision that, apart from the aid of webs, few but the largest insects are secure from their attacks. In Australia there are parachuting spiders which sail obliquely down from the tree tops, and these must be deadly to encounter. Let us give the spider its due. Even those who willingly concede its diligence grudge it the undeniable attribute of cleanliness. "Few created animals are more loathsome than the scorpion. There "In certain regions of Africa," writes an old hunter, "elephants are still numerous. This is particularly the case in the country lying between the Victoria and Albert lakes, which is very hilly and covered by much forest. Their tracks are visible everywhere, although they themselves are but rarely seen. The damage done by elephants to these forests is incredible. I have more than once come upon spots where these huge beasts would appear to have held a kind of elephant carnival, apparently for no other purpose than that of wanton destruction. A large area covering many acres would be completely stripped of trees, nothing but jagged stumps sticking up a few feet from the ground, remaining of what had once been thick forest. Masses of large trees would be uprooted and hurled about in every direction, many of them being tossed bodily to a long distance from their original position. In many cases the entire foliage would remain intact, showing plainly that food could not have been the primary object of this wholesale destruction. You sail and you seek for the Fortunate Isles, The old Greek Isles of the yellow-bird's song? Then steer straight on through the watery miles, Straight on, straight on, and you can't go wrong. Nay, not to the left, nay, not to the right. But on, straight on, and the isles are in sight. The Fortunate Isles where the yellow-birds sing And life lies gift with a golden ring. These Fortunate Isles they are not so far, They lie within the reach of the low-lying door. You can see them gleam by the twilight star; You can hear them sing by the moon's white shore— A party of English visitors was recently given an interesting view of Russian village life. The host was a man of title, and not a mere title of nobility. He had responsibilities with his honors and drew from an official appointment. All the village acknowledged his authority, for he was the head of the community. His house was the biggest, his beard the redest, his skirts the most velumulous of any in the neighborhood. No trickery with a ticket office and a railway carriage will bring the visitor to this village. It reserves itself for those who are servant enough in their explorations to face a country road and by-track most aggressively NO1 is a graceful beauty in the deadliest snake, in the fierce tiger, even in the banded wasps and hornets, but in the scorpion there is nothing but fominess. The creature's bite varies in its results, possibly according to the condition of the scorpion itself, but more probably according to that of the person bitten. I know of one case of a man, an American, who was repeatedly bitten by scorpions without on any occasion suffering more than a few hours of discomfort. In Morocco I have seen lads handle scorpions without a sign of fear, letting them crawl on their palms of their hands, even laying them on their eyes, and all for a quarter of a dollar! I was told at the time that the skin of the open hand, stretched tight, gave the scorpion no purchase with which to get its weapons in play. "What was, however, far more remarkable was the patent indifference with which a gang of Moorish masons went to work barefooted to pull down an old building in the full knowledge that every blow of their picks on the falling walls set fresh scorpions free to writhe over their feet and legs, for they were buried in the accumulating rubbish almost up to the knees. To their way of thinking the creature's reputation was more evil than its bite." "Elephants are but rarely seen in the forest, however numerous they may be. This is due to many causes. In the first place, they are naturally extremely shy animals and detest the neighborhood of man. In the second place they are largely nocturnal feeders, and rarely drink or bathe except at night. They often travel immense distances to and from the water and retire during the day to the remotest portions of the forest, where they doze away the long, hot hours under the shadiest trees that they can find. Lastly, their scent is extremely keen. "This sense is so largely developed that they can recognize danger at a very long distance and as soon as the alarm is given they move quickly but noiselessly away. As an elephant disturbed or frightened will frequently travel twenty or thirty miles without a stop, and as his pace under such circumstances is a good five miles an hour, it is easy to understand that travelers in the forest, although often coming upon absolutely fresh tracks, but seldom see the herd that has caused them." Nay, never look back! Those leveled grave-stones They were landing steps; they were steps unto thrones Of glory for souls that have sailed before And have got white feet on the fortunate shore. And what are the names of the Fortunate Isles? Why, Duty and Love and a large Content. Lo! these are the isles of the watery miles. That God let down from the firmament. Lo! Duty and Love and a true man's Trust; Your forehead to God, though your feet in the dust; Lo! Duty and Love, and a sweet babe's smiles. And these, O friend, are the Fortunate Isles. Russian. At the journey's end, however, the real Russia is revealed—the tax-ridden, ignorant, verminous Russia of the moujik, where all the tales come true and the impressions gathered from picture books in the nursery justify themselves. It was not an industrial village the English party found, such as are found further south, where the people own their homes. It depended on the land, and the people were all farmers or laborers, with the necessary sprinkling of shopkeepers. A naive set with nothing in reserve, very poor, very narrow, very honest. The men were all of the blonde type of Russian with empty light blue eyes. 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. 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"To Live and Let Live." is OUR Motto LEADERS In these days when so much is being said of "leadership ", it may not be out of place to inquire of what true leadership consists There may be as many kinds of leaderships as there are ideals and men of courage and power to bespeak them. There may be political leaders, social leaders, moral leaders and religious leaders men who have the hardihood to venturo from the worn and beat en paths of custom and convention, and who either through the gift of genins or through the endowment of extraordinary power of intuition, have been enabled to see into the darkness of the future and to set their hands and heads to work to educate the blinded multitudes. It will be remarked that we have excluded the popular physical leader from this category in which he truly has no place. Men who command by mere force of personality or by reason of exalted positions are not within the conception of leaders. Philanthrophists, reformers and leaders are three words that differ only in degree and to be a leader one must be all three. No man can be a reformer who is not a philanthrophist and no man can be a leader who is not both are former and a philanthrophist. It will be readily seen that leadership is not ones own choosing. It is not to be had by appointment. It is of Fate and it falls up on the shoulders of him who is predestined and prepared. Out, then with those who proclaim who make a profession of "leading" Out, then with those who have no sincerity of interest in the race but in eye-thhse who are not willing to sacrifice a dollar or a day for the race, without some earnest reward; those who seek their own enrichment in the fortunes and favors of time! Away with all these and still abide the coming of the likeness of the "the great stone face" DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 No th Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop, Rev W H Tillman has resigned the pastorate of New Hope Baptist church. His plans for the future have not yet been announced. Rev. Tillman had been pastor of New Hope about one year and came to this city from Knoxville, Tenn. He drawn about him a large circle of warm friends. He is a gentleman of high educational, religious and mor al standing; and is a thorough race man. Mayor Ross has appointed Chas. Shoots and Sam W Jones as members of No 3 Hose company. Shoots goes on as a 2nd class fireman and Jones goes on as a 3rd class fireman These two men take the places of Firemen Walker Robinson and Will H Jones, two of the best men of the department. Robinson and Jones were left out solely in order that the administration might have two places with which to pay a political debt. At the New Hall J B H Fray has rented the New Hartman Hall at 215 East Dingle and will give a swell ball there next Monday night, May 8th. This is the first ball ever given in that hall by colored people and it promises to be a fine affair. Mr Gus Tidwell, Wichita's favorite pianist, will play a few choice wallzes and two-steps. Mr Fray will leave nothing undone for the pleasure of his guests. Everybody is cordially invited. A Merry Time A merry time was had at 425 N Santa Fe ave., Wednesday evening, day 3rd 1905. The occasion was a surprise party gvewn on Miss Ila Webster, daughter of Mr and Mrs A Webster, by a number of her friends who arrived about 8 30 latened with taskets and bundles gaors; the contents of which when pread made a sumptuous repast, of which all part ok freely. Miss Ila has been recently presented with a nine upright piano, of whico she is justly proud. The instrument came a useful place for there were solos tuettes, both vocal and instrumental ecitations, games and dancing. Those present were:— Misses—Rosa and Gertrude Norwood, Irene and Corinne Bettis, Suhola Knox, Vera James, Elina Hammond, Mary Buford, Ruth Harvey, Geneva Rambo, Anna Ross, and Bertie Vernon. Gents—Clement Featherston Eddie Buford, Charley and Frank Johnson, Clay and Willie Mitell, Harry James, and Jas Humphry. The guests departed about 11:30 well pleased with the time so plausently spent with Miss Ila who said he never had so much fun before auber life. Clearwater suggests the Kan sas idea-prohibition. The Race's standard Bearer ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FAIL. ' Paris City Cleaning Works Kid Gloves and Fine Fabrics Cleaned and Repaired. —All Work Guaranteed— 332 North Main st. J. A. Jackson, Prop. Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. Mrs H W King left Wednesday morning for Lawrence. Ike Patton has been selected as one of the white wings. Willis Bartlett has been appointed City Dog Catcher. Geo Starnes is reported to be doing nicely in Shawne, Okla. Floyd Bv. has closed thir restaurant at 498 N Main street. Mrs Millie Luvert is dangerously ill at her home 419 N Wichita st. Jas L Harper and family have moved acro s to 524 N Water st. Mrs Mary Berton is visiting in the city from Millerton this week. Rv John Mi chem was a visitor at St Paul church Sunday night. Golden Rod Teet will meet Saturday at Odd Fellow hall, at 3 p.m. The children of Golden Red Test will give a Social at Mrs Sherill, Thursday night, Ceme out. The Reception given by the High binders at Garfield hall Tuesday night was a well affair. Mrs Lee Anderson same down from Newton Tue day and attendd the reception Tuesday night. The ladies Mission Circle met at the residence of Mrs M E Carr last Monday afternoon. Because he was in the habit of "taking things easy" the judge gave him seven years. Mrs Lizzie Madison and Mrs Ida Gordon east their lot with the A M E church Sunday afternoon. Mrs Cox and her daughter. Miss Mabel Cox, are visiting friends in this city for a few day. An entertainment was given Wednesday evening at the 2nd Baptist church. A nice crowd present. James Olden, proprietor of Olden Drug Store, 615 N Maiu, has installed a soda Fountain in his store. Mr and Mrs Arnold and Luther Matthews of Kingman spent Sunday in the city the guest of Miss Irma Clark, 626 N Water street. Mrs Lucy Clark of Valey Center was in the city Sunday visiting with friends and attended the quarterly meeting at the A M E church. The Holiness are conducting very interesting meetings each night at their hall, 119 E. st Murdock and invites every one to come. Mrs Kima Johnson, of Kingfisher Okla is visiting her husband in this city. They are the gues s of Mr. Ela Kyle, 239 N Water street. J J Maloney, of Kingman, arrived in the city Thursday morning and will sped three or four days visiting among friends. The daughters of Wichita Tabernacle No 24 had a splendid meeting Thursday. Mrs Cex, H P of Leaven worth Tabernacle made an address. The B T W club met with Mrs H W Harding Wedne-day afternoon and adjourned to meet with Mrs Rowles, 519 N Wichita next Wednesday afternoon. J A Jackson, proprietor of the Paris Cleaning Works, has moved his plate of business from 247 N Main to 332 N Main where he very cordially invites you to call. Quarterly meeting was held at the A.M.E church Synday. Presd ing Eldr Griffith preached both morning and evening to an appreciative audience. John Smith is the proud possessor of a fine colt. The colt is the offspring of their fine mare. It is useless to say that both of the Smitha felt proud of the new-comer. Presiding Elder Griffith held quatuorally conference Monday evening at the A. M. E. church. All of the departments of the church mad good reports. The ladies of the Stewardess board raised $30 50 Rev Silas S Washington, pastor of the AME church in Nwon spent Sunday in Wichita attending the services at the AME church. Rey Washington is the founder of the AME church in Newton and the church is successfully growing. Joe McAfee has been appointed police man at the city dump station. This is a good position for our friend McAfee and he is the right man for the place. FINE DINNER Mr and Mrs L C Smith entertained at dinner last Sunday, Mrs Fannie Baker, Mrs Cauie Barker, Mrs Birdie Watters, Mrs Ida B Clark and Miss Grace Baker. A fine, three course dinner was served and every one had a delightful time. Lee Anderson who is on the superintendent's car on the Santa Fe and who had recently moved his family to Newton—the division—has again been transfer d—this time to La Junta, Cole. He will move his family there in the near future. Their many Wichita friends will regret to learn that they are to go so far away and wishes them success. Will Dunson is making quite a reputation as a painter and paper hanger His last job of painting at 623 N Main is fine. WESTERN UNIVERSIT The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: Theoiological, C and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Normal, Musical, [ Instrum piano, oagan and harmony, Mechanical], Carpentry, H Business Course, Stenograp ing, Dressmaking and Plain ing, Farming and Gardenin ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location Influences and Thorough Tec INFORMATION: For terms, pric ered, write to William T. Ver PRESID QUINDAFO, Phones Office Resid USE IMBODE IMPE FLOUR MENTS: Theoiological, College, Normal, Sub- state Industrial. Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], in- spagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Art- ical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-B- sis Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Pressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, L forming and Gardening. DES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate- ses and Thorough Teachers. NION: For terms, prices and all induceme- nate write to Sam T. Vernon, A. M. 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Phones Office—Bell "White" 4302 Residence—Bell "West" 15 BREAKFAST FOOD and you will L AT YOUR GROCERS Gardner DEAD HARD CO Feed and Bu Office and Yards Old Phone 146 Spring and S =Footw o S u t the POOR o BRAIT 120 East and you will Love good eating MER GROCFERS IMBODEN MILLER Gardner Coal Co DEALERS IN GARD COAL SOR ed and Building Ma Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main Phone 146 New Pho Spring and Summer =Footwear= to Suit the Purchase POOR or RICH BRAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas New Sleeping Car Line On Mo. Pac. Ry Commencing May 1st., the MoPac will put in operation a new sleeper g car line between Denver, Colo., and Little Rock, Ark. The Through car for Denver will leave Wichita every day at 8:15 p. m., arriving at 12:00 Noon, next day. The car for Little Rock will leave Wichita at 11 25 a. m., and arrive at Little Rock at 6.15 a. m., next day. The last mentioned car will connect at Little Rock, immediately, with train at Hot Springs, arriving there at 8 00 a. m. This is the best sleeping car service, operated through Wichita, to Denver and Little Rock, making the most comfortable connection for Hot Springs. It will especially accommodate invalids and convalesents who desire to go either to Colorado or Arkansas. ```markdown ``` College, Normal, Sub-Normal Preparatory, Normal, Sub- mental and Vocal ], including Drawing [ Fine Arts and Printing and Book-Binding, Hy and Typewriting, Tailor- Sewing, Cooking, Launder- ing, Healthful Climate, Good Teachers, and all inducements of Mon, A. M. D D DENT -- KANS. -Bell "White" 4302 ence—Bell "West' 15 N'S RIAL Coal Co., ERS IN.... DAL SOFT Building Material 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. New Phone 1804 Summer wear= Purchaser- RICH 'SCH'S Douglas HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue W. M. Dunsor Painter and Paper Hanger Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 9 3 6 PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone BELOVER & SONS, Props. Having purchased the stock of Second-Hand Clothing and the O. K. DYE WORKS from D. D. Duncan some time ago I have concluded to cut down his prices on all Second-Hand Clothing about One - Third, and have marked down the goods accordingly. And all goods bought by myself will be sold at first cost, adding only the regular price for Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing My motto is "Live and Let Live " If your Clothes needs Dyeing, Cleaning or Pressing bring them to the O. K. Dye Works and get good work. Special Attention Given To Ladies' Work C. G. Hanson, Proprietor and Manager 330 North Main Street BYRON A. DEAN series, Fruits, Vegeta and Feed. 115 N. MAIN ST. 101-Both Pho EN'S DRUCK ST. Prescriptions Filled with C ings of all kinds, Cigars and Tob age solicited. + Once a customer Our store is Headquaters for Color --- Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 615 North Main st. To Hot Springs Hot Springs S Hot Springs Hot Springs S Hot Springs Hot Springs Special MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Passengers from Wichita, lea at Yates Center with the Hot THE HCT SPRINGS SOLID VESTIBULE CARRIES DINING CAR SLEEPKRT TO HOT SPRIN This new service is the quick yet been offered to the greate Illustrated books describing H undersigned on application. E. E. Bleskly, T. P. A. from Wichita, leaving on 11 30 A.M. in inter with the Hot Springs Special at THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A LID VESTIBULE. ELECSRIC LIGHTS DINING CAR AND ELEGANT TOTO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT CUB service is the quickets and most conv fered to the greatest health resort in books describing Hot Springs, may be d on application. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11 30 A. M. train, connect at Yale 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 G. Stebbins Stebbins & G. Stebbins Stebbins & Raffe Vehicles, Farm Implements Light Harness, Robes, Etc. 211-213 West Douglas New Phone 1787 JOB WORK Let us try you S OUR HOU us try your next or Let us try your next order T. P. A. OTTO WEISS. Agent DEAN Vegetables ed. AIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 UE STORE lled with Care gars and Tobacco ... once a customer, always a maters for Colored people. ings ings Special g on 11 30 A. M. tain, connect Springs Special at 2.55 P. M. SPECIAL IS A ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN SWISH OUT CHANGE. and most convenient that has health resort in America. Springs, may be had from the Rafferty Wichita Kan. HOBBY next order I. R. Sherwin, P. & T. A. W. O. Rafferty Wichita Kan, RockIsland System March 1st to May 15th will be to California. It is June there when here—th it's a reason for going. A land Tonrist Sleeping Car service abe and economical way to go th California visit is derived from the Mazy of your neighbors and why not take your turn this spring sometime and it might as well be California book, Tourist fold March 1st to May 15th will be a period of low ticket prices to California. It is June there when it's cool, raw March and April here—th it's a reason for going. Another reason is hat Rock Isl land Tonrist Sleeping Car service is such an agreeable, comfortable and economical way to go th at fully half shepleasure 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. --- Nice Furnished ROOMS By the night or week Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 24th North Water St. Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 357 R and his mouey are soon parted. The mau who pays out his good money for inferior building material is foolish. Buy the BEST. We sell it. Have you seen the latest building material? It is our Cement Building Stone. The longer it wears, the harder it gets. J. H. TURNER, 537-547 West Douglas Ave. FRISCO SYSTEM And there's pure air, pure water and sun shine on the hill Just the plao for a rest after the long Winter. Its the Crescent Hotel Eureka Springs, Ark. OPERATED BY THE FRISCO SYSTEM Round-trip tickets to Eureka springs on sale eurely day in the year. Ask C. W. STRAIN, D. P. A. Wichita, Kan. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. It is the sassy correspondent of a New York paper who suggests that when Sir Edward shall persuade his countrymen to call themselves "Britishibernians" we may be willing to call ourselves "Usonians." Transleat a Specialty In The A FOOL to a period of low ticket prices in it is good, raw March and April another reason is hat Rock lel this such an agreeable, comfort- fully half shepler sure of your journey thither frends have made the trip ing? You surely want to go NOW. or and full information. C. E. Baseam, C. P. A. The American Church Concluded from page one deserves all the greater credit for his independent and Christian stand in the Presbytery, since his brother-in-la, Rev. Dr. Tennis S. Hamland, president of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, was one of the leaders in the General Assembly last May for union with the Cumberland Church at the expense of the Afro-American, and was of course one of the leaders in favor of the overtures in the Washington Presbytery last week. The overtures for 'Jim Crow' Presbyteries was finally adopted by a vote of 1 to 23. The Washington Presbyteries has thus put itself on record in favor of this ecclesiastical infamy. And the great Presbyterian has thus put itself on record in favor of this ecclesiastical infamy. For the sake of union with the Cumberland Church it has consented to humiliate 20,000 of its Afro-American members, to part with its noble heritage of Christian brotherhood and equality for a mess of Southern pottate, to betray its Lord and Master for less than thirty pieces of silver, to deliver him again, in the persons of his little ones, to the agonies of another Gethsemene and the tortures of another cross. It has committed this great crime against Christianity, against humanity, in deference to race prejudice, in order to square itself with American caste feelings, founded not upon character but upon color only. Whittier's awful lament over Webster in that terrible poem called 'Ichabod' may today issue from the lips of the 20,000 colored members over the fall of their church: So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once she wore! The glory from her gray hairs gone For evermore! * * * Then, pay the reverence of old days To her dead fame; Walk backward with averted gaze, And hide her shame! A church which once stood on the coast of North Wales now stands on a tiny island, having been cut off from the mainland by the rea. Some time ago, during a gale, the sea burst open the graves at the rear of the church, strewing the island with broken coffins and human bones. I Shall Have Lived. You smile upon your friend to-day. To-day his fills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never; I shall have lived a little while Before I die forever. —McClure's. Racial Degeneration. The British Army and Navy Gazette asks: "Is it not a sign of racial degeneration when our soldiers feel pride in wearing upon their breasts, in the recognized place for war decorations, medals gained through attending processions?" A woman in Sydney, Australia, thinking to make a sure thing of it, injected into her veins three poisons—atrophine, morphine and strychrine. The drugs counteracted one another and her attempt at suicide was not a success. Too Much Poison. NOTES OF WESTERN UNIVERSITY The past week has been a busy one. The university baseball team played the Kansas City, Kan., high school team Friday afternoon at Kerr's park, the score being 24 to 9 in favor of Western University. The Annual Easter Social was held Friday evening in Stanley Hall. A number of visitors from both Kansas Cities were present. Rev. J. R. Ransom, Presiding Elder of the Topeka District, was a visitor on the grounds. Rev. Ransom is a member of both boards and an able supporter of the school. The agricultural department is being successfully conducted by Mr. John Walker, of Quindaro, Kansas, a man who is both industrious and ambitious, and has made quite a record as an agriculturist. The stone quarry, part of the school property, is also under the supervision of Mr. Walker. From this quarry quantities of stone have been hauled to the city, thereby furnishing material for the erection of buildings. Some of the students of the university are now at work getting out stone which is to be used for the enlargement of our old buildings and the erection of the new. Hon. A. W. Lloyd, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the state of Missouri, spent a few hours on the grounds last week. The Easter services conducted by the Rev. J. S. Johnson, Dean of the Theological department, were very interesting. The recitations and papers presented by various ones showed careful study and preparation. Prof. T. B. Stewart, of Philadelphia, Penn, who has been visiting his father, Chaplain Stewart of the 25th Infantry, stationed at Ft. Niabraro, Neb., visited the institution and was very favorably impressed with the work that is being done in the various departments. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Harris, of Hudson, Kan., after an extended trip through the South are spending a few days with their daughters, Misses Mary and Margaret. Miss Mary is a candidate for graduation. The commencement programs proper will soon be issued and plans are being made for a most successful closing. President Vernon has received a number of communications from different sections of the country, asking him to deliver lectures, addresses, etc., to the closing institutions, together with a number of High School commencements, but because of the fact that our commencement is so near at hand, and with other pressing duties demanding his presence, he has declined all invitations. Among the schools desiring his presence were the Sango Babtist and Industrial Institute, Muskogee, I. T.; also Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina. American Negroes There are 9,204,531 Negroes in the United States, including Porto Rico and Hawaii Nine-tenths of them live in the South - one-third of its population. Seventy-seven per cent work on 749,000 farms, of which 21 per cent are partially owned by Negroes. There are 21,000 Negro carpenters, 20,000 bartenders, 16,000 ministers, 15,000 masons, 13,000 dressmakers, 10,000 engineers and firemen, 5,000 shoemakers, 4,000 musicians, 2,000 actors and showmen, and 1,000 lawyers. Since 1890 Negro illiteracy has sunken from 57 to 44.5 per cent. Statistics are rather stupid fellows, bnt these look bright and hopeful. How can you keep such people down? They rise-like Shakespear says of truth. With all the capabilities they have, all of the rights of any other American. X NEWTON NEWS Mrs Henry Reevley who has been quite sick is improving fast. The exercises at the A M E church Sunday were grand. There was a good attire dance all day. Our pastor Rev S S Washington was visiting in Wichita and was not present Sunday, but we hope he will be with us next Sunday. Mrs S Dickinson is quite ill. Will Morow of Wichita was a visitor in the city Sunday. Rev Rivers, presiding elder of the C M E church was in the city this week and preached Sunday. CLEARWATER NEWS Mr and Mrs Ernest White were Clearwater shoppers Saturday. CR Wilfrey was in Wiebita Saturday looking after the real estate of Mrs Mary Gorin of Kan City. The first ball game of the season was played Saturday between Clear water and Conway Spring. The Conway Springs team won the game. Little Clarence Wilfrey is on the sick list, but is improving fast. KINGMAN ITEMS Little Miss Mable Banks, of Pretty Prarie, is visiting with the family of her uncle, Mr Louis Banks. Manson Martin went to Hutchinson Sunday to visit friends. Miss Minnie Floyd was the guest of Mrs Robt Davis for dinner Sundy. Chester Floyd has accepted a position in the new bank. Abe Yaney and Arthur Thurmon of Pratt were in the city Saturday. Mrs Cr Porter is much improved After a pleasant stay of 4 months in Muskogee, i T and thru Southern Kansas, Mrs Leonard Harness has returned to her home in Anthony. Her many friends are glad to see her at home again. Mrs Harness is the mother of Mre Mary Rolen of Springfield, Mo. Especially Their Rivals. A generally ignored point in assessing the many reasons why American girls are so popular is the very captivating shade of deference with which they treat those older than themselves.—Lady's Pictorial. Where It Goes. Some $50,000,000 a year, it is said is spent in golf. Of this $20,000,000 goes for Scotch. $10,000,000 for rye, $5,000,000 for limes and lemons, $8, 000,000 for ice and $7,000,000 for incidentals.—Puck. His. One Complaint. Husbands have many complaints, some of which are never voiced. One Atchison husband has but one. He says that his wife looks at him as if he were a burglar.—Atchison Globe China's Coal Fields. The extent of China's coal fields has been put at 400,000 square miles more than seventy times the aggregate extent of all the coal fields of Great Britain. Door Time to Be Wise. Paw says if there's one time more than another when ignorance is bliss it's when a trustin' man eats hash in a cheap restaurant.—Detroit Tribune. Boyhood Pleasures. Little bits o' fellers. Feelin' plump an' prime— Splashin' in a river That's flowin' fast as time! —Atlanta Constitution. Alaska. The area of the territory of Alaska is 577,330 square miles. It is 356 miles long with an average width of twenty-five miles. Action of the Eyelids. An eminent scientist has estimated that the average man's eyelids open and shut 4,000,000 times during the year. Renewed Effort. "The sinner grows toward the samb as he tries and fails and tries again from day to day."—W. C. Gannett. FARM ORCHARD AND GARDEN CONDUCTED BY M. J. WRAGG [Mr. Wragg invites contributions of any new ideas that readers of this department may wish to present, and would be pleased to answer correspondent with desiring information on subjects discussed. Address M. J. Wragg, 300 Good Block, Des Moines, Iowa.] PUDDLING TREES BEFORE SETTING. One of the most helpful things I ever learned in horticulture was about DEEP OR SHALLOW. It is almost useless to prescribe whether plowing shall be deep or shallow through any very large section. CUTTING BACK PEACH TREES. Of all orchard trees, the peach stands in greatest need of regular and severe pruning. If left unpruned, the tree makes a good growth while young and produces a few crops of fruit. Each year, however, the fruit is farther removed from the trunk of the tree the wood becomes weaker, the twigs near the body of the tree die, leaving long, straggling weak limbs, which bear fruit only at their very extremities, are liable to break when heavily loaded, and do not shade and protect the trunk of the tree. The gathering of the fruit from these high limbs is expensive and the fruit itself is of inferior quality. The object in pruning is to keep the tree low, compact in form, with new fruit wood as near the trunk of the tree as possible. Under normal conditions when peach trees have passed the winter safely and promise to produce a crop of fruit, they should be pruned each winter by cutting back the main limbs so as to leave one half to two-thirds of the new growth which contains the fruit buds. When the fruit buds have been winter-killed, the opportunity may be seized to cut back the main limbs more severely, thus securing more compact trees, and avoiding the formation of long, straggling limbs, which the trees have a tendency to form if they are not cut back. The amount of cutting depends upon the extent to which the trees have been injured. Strawberries are gross feeders and feed plenty of manure. If you neglected mulching them with straw in the fall cover them now with fresh, coarse horse manure. The spring rains will carry the fertilizing elements down to the roots of the plants, thus nourishing them and removing all the objectionable features of such a covering, and leave a better spring mulch than if light straw had been applied alone in the fall. STARTING THE TURKEY. Hold the turkey eggs back and set as many as possible at one time. We find eggs will hatch well and produce strong young turks after keeping six weeks. Put the eggs in a box in clean dry chaff and turn the box every day and keep at a temperature of 50 or 60 degrees. The weather in early spring is hard on young turkeys. They die if cooped up during a cold, rainy spell of weather. If the April-hatched turkey survives he does not seem to grow and thrive as well as those hatched, say, the first of May, when the days begin to get warm. At this season he requires little coddling and with plain living, good care and clean quarters, he ought to make a valuable fowl later on. There are many disadvantages in hatching a few turkeys early and the rest at different times. The younger ones become stunted by the older ones tramping over them. When selling time comes an uneven bunch of turkeys is not as valuable as a flock of uniform size. Knowing this, why not set the eggs so that they will hatch as near one time as possible? We will take more pride and pleasure in a nice even lot, all near the same age. A man may as well try to sidetrack a cyclone as to try to obtain a good stand of corn without a sufficient examination of the seed corn. This will hold good any year and this year it will behoove the farmer to give it especial attention. From everywhere comes reports of poor seed. WOMEN AND BEE CULTURE. Honey on the farm is a luxury that can easily be obtained by every family. The care of bees by the housewife and daughters is a pleasure. It requires some reading as to the management as well as what kinds of plants produce the pollen and honey substances. White clover is the first plant to bloom in the early spring, and it produces the whitest and purest honey. This plant should be on every farm, as it not only feeds bees, but it is enjoyed by all kinds of stock. We also recommend the sowing of Japanese buckwheat as a feed for bees in making honey. It is a crop that should be found on most of the farms in the South. Seed should be sown in July and it produces from thirty to forty bushels of grain per acre. It blooms for a long period, and after the bees have filled their homes with delicious honey, the buckwheat can be ground on a common water mill, bolted and make first-class cakes for the family. Get out of your ruts and do something this year you never did before-grow your pancakes and honey at home. The women will take care of the bees and make the cakes if the husband will furnish the bees and sow the buckwheat. One of the most helpful things I ever learned in horticulture was about pudding trees and all sorts of plants before setting them. The first thing every transplanted tree or plant must do before it can grow in its new location, is to heal the wounds made upon its roots and start new rootlets through which to absorb the moisture and food from the soil. The closer and more firmly the earth is pressed to them the more readily they can do this. It takes time for the particles of the soil to get into contact with the roots as it was before transplanting no matter how well the work is done. This is where pudding comes in. The cost is nothing, except a very little work. It is done thus: Near where the trees or plants are heeled in, or the place where they are to be planted, dig a hole about two feet in diameter and one foot deep. Fill it nearly full of water. Into this put mellow earth that is partly composed of clay and stir it until it is a mass of thin, sticky mud. As soon as the roots are trimmed ready for planting, dip them into it bodily. If there is any delay about planting and the mud dries so that it is not sticky, puddle them again. When the mellow soil comes in contact with these muddy roots it will stick to them closely. Those who have never tried this plan can have no knowledge of the good that follows. I puddle almost every plant that I set and find that it always pays. Cabbage and sweet potato plants will start into new growth almost, without wilting, no matter what the weather may be at the time. As editor of this department, we are receiving letters every few days from parties in the west wanting to know what steps to take to get a canning factory. There seems to be at the present time a feeling prevalent that as agricultural communities we are not living up to our opportunities or possibilities. We are glad to know that this feeling is commencing to be rife with our people. We even here at the little town of Waukee, situated as it is in one of the great agricultural centers of Iowa, want a canning factory. We have the proper soil and climate for growing to perfection such crops as sweet corn, tomatoes, peas, etc. We are confident that the people at this place and other places are ready to offer substantial aid to the right party, with some money and lots of energy, who will come in and put up a plant so as to utilize the surplus of the country, besides giving employment to laborers. WHAT IS SUCCESSFUL FARMING? Too many farmers are "land poor." Their ambition is to own a large territory. Successful farms are not measured that way. Five acres care fully managed will give a greater income than ten acres with ordinary care. Concentration seems to be the order. We believe in elbow room—are opposed to crowding; but this gives no excuse for waste of territory. Of what value is a lot of wild land if left in that condition? Its cost would help maintain the amount you are able to handle. Begin with a small farm—enlarge it if your experience, ability and purse will allow, but do not in the start put all your money in land. You must have working capital. You must be so situated that you can master the situation. It is far better to have a reserve force than it is to overtax your capacity. We have in mind a five-acre farm on which the owner raises fruits and vegetables, milk, butter, poultry and eggs, and has an average income of one thousand dollars, not counting the living of the family. During the summer and autumn he sells considerable quantities of fruit and vegetables; in winter and spring the mainstay is eggs, broilers and roasters—and the year round there is milk and butter to sell. How many large farmers can beat that? The need for a strict inspection by the government of all seeds and plants imported into the country was shown by a little incident related the other day by the senator from California. Some years ago the senator imported some wheat from Odessa, Russia, for its rust-proof qualities. The seed was extremely foul, containing all manner of weed seeds, among them a certain seed unknown at the time, which has since secured a foothold and distributed itself, and has become one of the worst weed pests of Southern California. It has cost that section thousands of dollars in efforts to exterminate and control it. COMPLACENCY. "A lucky man his wealth displays And tells you how he made it. The hen admires the china egg And really thinks she laid it." Be on the lookout when the gossip stops in for a short chat. Such people delight in running down others. "A dog that brings a bone will take one." They may get you into trouble. DEEP OR SHALLOW. It is almost useless to prescribe whether plowing shall be deep or shallow through any very large section. Local conditions, soils and subsoils, have much to do with the depth land should be plowed for best results. We are a little surprised, however, to see the large number who defend shallow plowing, and personally we think it a mistake. There may be, doubtless are, soils which produce better crops when not plowed very deeply, but few indeed are the soils which are not radically benefited by being plowed deep at least once in three or four years. The kind of a crop to be grown should be considered as well as the depth of the subsoil from the surface, and whether it is clay, sand or gravel. We do not like to see horsehssh thrown away on deep plowing where shallow plowing would do as well, but we have noticed that nearly all forehanded, well-to-do farmers generally get their plowing done early and deep. Did any of our readers ever walk across the fields back of immense red barns filled to the doors and surrounded by great ricks of grain, that were not plowed till nearly freezing up time, and then plowed but two or three inches deep? No, these two things seldom go together, and if together, coon part company. The craze for orchard-planting is on the increase. Many thousands of trees will be planted this spring. The nurseryman need not wry over the future demand for more trees. They have a powerful ally in the San Jose scale. No one need expect to realize any profit if the old methods of orcharding are to be followed. No one should set out an orchard that they do not expect to care for and combat the scale, the codling-moth, the borer, the canker-worm and other destructive insects. The most approved scientific methods are requisite. The money-making methods of the best orchardists in California and other leading fruit-growing states should be followed. Heuresfort constant vigilance and an uniting warfare against noxious insects and a fixed determination to grade and do the square thing in packing orchard products, constitute the only safe ways to deserved success. POULTRY NOTES. A hen's useful period will end in three years, while a turkey is good for five years. When chickens have droopy wings it is a sign that they have vermin and need attention. Remember that little ducks need twice as much feed as little chickens, so don't starve your ducklings. Don't use duck eggs over a week old for setting, as after that time they are apt to be unfertile. The guinea fowl is the best insect destroyer among fowls as it eats many insects that other fowls will not touch. Milk, when fed to hens, is more profitable than when fed to pigs; they never tire of it and it is relished by them in any form. It is a mistake to think that ducks cannot be raised without a swimming pool, as they need only enough water for drinking purposes. Ground mixed feed is all right for poultry, but it should never be sloppy nor so soft that it will all fly to pieces and scatter when it is thrown on the ground. Five hundred hens properly managed on a farm will support a good-sized family, leaving the proceeds of the farm to pay off the mortgage or to invest in more land. Can you get at the horseradish roots now? Dig a bit and grate it for dinner. You may shed a few tears while you are doing it, but you will shed more if you get sick, and horseradish will help to keep you well at this time of the year. HOW TO SET STRAWBERRY PLANTS. I find the spade to be the best tool for setting strawberry, raspberry, dewberry and blackberry. By using this implement a man and boy can set about 2,500 plants in a day, and set them better than by any other method I have ever tried. A line is stretched across the field to mark the place for the row. The man inserts the spade at a slight angle at the right hand side of the line and pushes the handle forward, while the boy, who walks on the left side of the line, places a plant in the space just behind the spade. Then when the spade is drawn out the dirt drops back on the roots of the plant. All the "firming" necessary is for the operator to step on the roots of the plant and "firm" them. We think it a good plan for field culture to plant in double rows, planting two rows 12 inches apart, one on each side of the line. Then plant these double rows 3 or $3 \frac{1}{2}$ feet apart. This gives ample room for cultivation with horse hoe or Planet Junior. 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The digestion must be good, the circulation perfect, sleep regular and enough of it. If the slightest catarral condition of lungs or stomach is allowed to remain, neither digestion nor sleep will be strength-sustaining. Those who lead very active lives, like athletes, with good muscular development, find the spring months especially trying. Athletes everywhere praise Peruna because they, of all men, appreciate the value of a tonic that dispels physical depression. The vocation of some men may allow them to endure the depressing feelings incident to spring weather, but the athlete must never allow himself to get "under the weather." He must keep in the "pink of condition" all the time. In order to do this he must avail himself of a spring tonic upon which he can rely. Therefore athletes are especially friendly toward Peruna. MEN'S PATRIOT $3.25 SHOE WOMEN'S MAYFLOWER $2.50 These Shoes were Awarded Grand Prize at St. Louis World! The PATRIOT SHOE for Men is made for over 40 years and is versatile. It has a flat, Goodyear weals, which means flexible soles, with to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWER SHOE is made in wolls and hand turns. Is stylish, durable. Ask your dealer for them. If he does not have us direct. They will please you and you will cents to $1.50 per pair in prices usually charged this character. STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BY ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAND S ST. LOUIS 'NEW RIVAL' BLACK P It's the thoroughly modern and ing and the use of only the best Winchester Factory Loaded "New ter pattern, penetration and more ally than any other shells. The sp chester patent corrugated head u Rival" shells give them strength BE SURE TO GET WINCHESTER Reflected with womens eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water NEW PENSION LAWS SENT FREE Apply to NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F St., Washington, D. C. OR $20 to $ Clark, Kimba guarded ill WOMEN'S MAYFLOWER $2.29 SHOE Here Awarded Louis World's Fair Men is made from all leather, must be fit to any foot. They are stable soles, with no wax or tasks MAYFLOWER SHOE for women slight, durable and comfortable. He does not handle these shoes, so you and you will save from $9 a usually charged for shoes of HOES ARE BETTER RAND SHOE CO. U.S.A. BLACK POWDER SHELLS. A modern and scientific system of load- of only the best materials which make loaded "New Rival" Shells give bet- on and more uniform results gener- shells. The special paper and the Wing- gated head used in making "New them strength to withstand reloading. WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. ORGANS The PATRIOT SHOE for Men is made from all leathers, over stylelly yet comfortable lasts, to fit any foot. They are made with thick, durable leather, with no or very small frill to irritate the foot. The MAXFLOWER SHOE for Women is made in waists and hand turns. Is stylish, durable and comfortable. Ask your dealer for them. If he does not handle these shoes, write back to us. They are made with 60% cotton to $1.50 per pair in prices usually charged for shoes of this character. **STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER** ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO. 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. $20 to $40 Highest grade Estey, Clark Kimbala, Chicago Cottage, slightly used, guaranteed like new; special descriptions and prices for the asking. Write to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. When writing mention this paper. LEAVES NO SCAR Cures— Cuts, Sprains, Bruises, Rheumatism, And All Hurts of Man or Beast DEAN'S KING CACTUS OIL The World's Greatest Healer FREE Trial Bottles for 100c. postage OLNEY & McDAID, Mfrs., Clinton, Ia. At druggists in 50c, $1, $3 and $5 Sizes THE BEST OF THE BEST THE BEST OF THE BEST Quick Meal (Evaporator) Gasoline Stoves WOULD YOU LIKE A PRESENT? We will send you something useful something you simply tell us if your family tells us and my husband or my wife carries Oles Bake your name please so the present will help you to reach MERCY STATE CO. DIT. LORD S. ST. LOUIS, MO. Highest Award World's Fair, 1904. A. J. TOWER CO. The Sign of the Fish Boston, U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN Co. Limited Toronto, Canada FISH BRAND Makers of Warranted Wet Weather Clothing 107 System Depot John W. Glenister, of Providence, R. l., champion long distance swimmer of America, has performed notable feats in this country and England. He has used Peruna as a tonic and gives his opinion of it in the following letter: New York. The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen—"This spring for the first time I have taken two bottles of Peruna, and, as it has done me a great deal of good, I feel as if I ought to say a good word for its worth. "During the springtime for the last few years, I have taken several kinds of spring tonics, and have never received any benefit whatever. This year, through the advice of a friend, I have tried Peruna and it has given satisfaction. "I advise all athletes who are about to go in training to try a bottle, for it certainly gets the system in good shape." Yours truly. JOHN W. GLENISTER. Wichita Business College PRO SHORTHAND INSTITUTE. Write F. A. HIGHBARGER for catalog 114-116 N. Market St., Wichita, Kans. mostly motivate you—the Insurance people have to take care of them to their full satisfaction. You take no care of them. You simply hire them—turn a valve—strike a valve. You turn a valve that way without hurriability. You turn a valve that way without hurriability. You can't do the wrong thing—its impossible. You can't do the wrong thing—it is quick, clean and convenient. intentio, even heat means quick, work done because you can eat. No utensils for work done because you come up," while the bread dress in the oven. Only 46 oz a day for fuel - think of kiddiagee - no coal - no ashes - no soak - no oven - no heat. The oven still a cool, comfortable kitchen. Under the kettles, and the bake- ware, and the oven, see the dealer today. If he A PRESENT will send you what you'll tell us you desire to tell us your desire to tell us whether or not to sign your name will no present will be ready to reach "All Signs Fail in a Dry Time" THE SIGN OF THE FISH NEVER FAILS IN A WET TIME In ordering Tower's Slickers, a customer writes: "I know they will be all 'right' if they have the 'FISH' on them." The customer is the out- growth of sixty-nine years of careful manufacturing. VIOLENCE REPORTED Olssension Appears in the Ranks of Employers. ALLIES ARE NOW IN REVOLT. Many Team Owners Will Not Yield to Merchants—Men Not Connected With Strike Are Victims And Many Heads Are Breken. Chicago, May 4.—The death of one man and the injury of scores of others was the immediate result of today's fighting between the striking teamsters and their sympathizers, on the one side, and the police and nonunion men, on the other. There were riots in all parts or the city. Men were clubbed and stoned almost to death within a square of police headquarters, and five miles away men were shot down in the streets. At a hundred places between these two extremes of instances there were assaults and fights in the streets. Blood was shed on State street, in the heart of the fashionable shopping districts, and furious riots took place almost in the doorways of the leading hotels. Non-union men were pelted with stones, bricks and every other conceivable sort of missiles. They were dragged from their wagons, beaten, clubbed and stamped upon. The mobs that followed the wagons on which they rode were ugly in the extreme, and but for the splendid sacrifice rescued by the police, the list of dead would be twenty instead of one. In return, the non-union men, although hopelessly outnumbered in every struggle, fought desperately. The colored drivers, especially, were quick with their weapons. Large numbers of the non-union drivers carried heavy clubs and they swung them with terrific effect throughout the day. As far as can be ascertained tonight the list of injured numbers in the neighborhood of forty, but it is far short of being accurate. Many men who were in the mobs who attacked the wagons went down before the clubs of the police and the wagon guards, but they were carted away by their friends, and there is no chance of learning their names or even of guessing at their number. The outlook for tomorrow is not very hopeful as there is not the slightest indication of the approach of the end of the strike. Nine Warships Sighted. Paris, April 27.—News from Saigon to the Petit Journal states that nine warships supposed to be Vice-Admiral Nebogatoff's detachment of the second Pacific squadron, doubled Cape Bake, fifty miles northeast of Saigon, the night of April 25. American Boat Safe. Paris, May 1.—The American autoboy Gregory, owned by Lewis Nixon, is reported safe at Ponta Del Gada, Azores Islands, awaiting the arrival of a supply of gasoline. YEMEN PROVINCE REVOLT. Capital Has Capitulated to the Insurgents. Hodai, Yemen Province, Arabia, May 1.—Sanaa, the capital city of Yemen province, capitulated to the insurgents during the night of April 20. The revolutionists are now proceeding to besiege Manakha. The latter has a garrison of 5,000, but the troops are mutinous. Jews who left Sanaa before the surrender, and who have arrived at Hodeida, say the town was subjected to constant night attacks, the garrison was hard pressed and the provisions were exhausted. The scene of the fight of March 30 southward of Sanaa, when the Syrian reserves went to the relief of Sanaa and were crushingly defeated, was strewn with dead soldiers and animals. BY CHANGE IN DIPLOMATS. Washington, May 1.—A change is contemplated in the near future in the ministries of Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile, with the purpose of relieving the tension which now exists at the capitals of some of these countries. It is believed that the proper rearrangement of this kind and transfer of officials the relations between the Washington government and the governments of some of the countries named can be made closer and the conduct of business be facilitated. County High School. — There were seven entries in the county High school oratorical contest held at Lawrence in connection with the interscholastic track meet and the conference of superintendents and principals of accredited High schools. Creates Good Impression. Santiago, May 3. — The announcement that the Peruvian government proposes to send a legation to Chile, restoring the entente between the two countries, has created a very good impression here. American Art Bought. Venice, May 3. — The painting of "The Man of the Mantle" by Garl Melchers, the American artist, has been purchased by the Italian government for the modern art gallery at Rome. What is Castoria. CASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Parégoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhœa and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. His One Complaint. Husbands have many complaints, some of which are never voiced. One Atchison husband has but one. He says that his wife looks at him as if he were a burglar. -Atchison Globe. More Buildings for Poor. To the sum of $2,000,000 left by Mr. Peabody, between 1862 and 1873, out of which the Peabody buildings for the poor were erected in London, there has since been added $4,973,255, received for rent and interest, making the total fund, according to a report just issued, $7,293,255. As more money comes in, more buildings are erected. Criminals Help Each Other. New York's criminals have a benevolent society, which lends small sums on the security of housebreaking implements and bank note forgers' presses. A list of unredeemed pledges is printed every six months, and circulated among the criminal classes. Men who have just "done time" are furnished with new implements, which they pay for on the hire-purchase system. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Little words of praise are not always aimed as they are meant. DON'T FORGET Large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The path to glory is not paved with brick. Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. Atall Druggists' 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Elevating unrealities make the realities more pleasurable. 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. Be a friend of yourself and you will be respected. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. It is hard for friends to like characteristics that are selfish. CASTORIA is a harmless Soothing Syrups. I other Narcotic substance. I Feverishness. It cures Dian cures Constipation and Flat and Bowels, giving health Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have 30 years, has borne the sign his personal supervision since All Counterfeits, Imitations and endanger the health of 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion.Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL POTTER Pumpkin Seed Rice Seed Burdock Salicin Anise Seed Peppermint di Daucus Salicin Witch Hazel Clarified Sugar Walnutsmear Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charl H. Vetter. NEW YORK. At 6 months of 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. Many who formerly smoked 10¢ Cigars now smoke LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Your jobber or direct from Factory, Peoria, IL ALL ALONE NO MONEY TILL CURED. 28 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 320-page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 108-page ilius, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cared by our mild method, none paid a cent till cured—on furnish their names on application. DR. THORNTON & MINOR. RACES! RACES! Kansas City Jockey Club Elm Ridge—Spring Meeting, 25 Days 6 Races Daily, Rain or Shine 6 APRIL 22 TO MAY 20 Derby Day, Saturday, April 22 VALUE DERBY. $6,500.00 Letters from Prominent Physicians addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher. Dr. N. B. Sizer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "I object to what are called patent medicines, where maker alone knows what ingredients are put in them, but I know the formula of your Castoria and advise its use." Stand Dr. Pierce's Family Medicines in a class by themselves, being the only proprietary medicines manufactured and preserved without the use of alcohol. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis "ALL ALONE" covery do not contain opium or other harmful drugs. They are compounds of medicinal principles, scientifically extracted from indigenous roots that cure the diseases for which they are recommended. They are medicines which have enjoyed the public confidence for over a third of a century. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures women's ills when all other remedies fail. This is what Mrs. H. Harrison, a prominent woman, living at No. 112 West 2nd Street, Sioux City, Iowa, says about it: PILES NO MONEY WE We send FREE and postage Rectime; also 108-page life our mild method, nonc paired DR. THORNTON RACES! Kansas City Elm Ridge—Spring 6 Races Daily, N APRIL 22 Derby Day, Saturday What is Castor? less substitute for Castor Ole It is pleasant. It contains nane Its age is its guarantee. It can arrhhea and Wind Colic. It nen stultency. It assimilates the F phy and natural sleep. The Always Bought, and which signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, since its infancy. Allow no uses and "Just-as-good" are but L of Infants and Children—Exper Letters from Prom addressed to Chas. Dr. F. Gerald Blattner, of Buffalo, M children and 1 frequently prescribe it, alwa Dr. Gustave A. Elsengraber, of St. Castoria repeatedly in my practice with g excellent, mild and harmless remedy for c Dr. E. J. Dennis, of St. Louis, Mo. Castoria in my sanitarium and outside pra be an excellent remedy for children." Dr. S. A. Buchanan, of Philadelphia, the case of my own baby and find it plea results from its use." Dr. J. E. Simpson, of Chicago, Ill., sas of colic in children and have found it the b Dr. R. E. Eskildson, of Omaha, Neb standard family remedy. It is the best t known and 1 recommend it. Dr. J. E. Robinson, of Kansas City, merit. Is not its age, it is required use by many attempts to limit it, sufficient reco Leave it to the mothers." Dr. Albert J. Weston, of Cleveland, my practice for the past eighteen years w Dr. Edwin F. Pardee, of New York, recommended your Castoria and shall alwa produced beneficial results." Dr. N. B. Sizer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., s medicines, where maker alone knows what the formula of your Castoria and advise it. GENUINE CASTOR Bears the The Kind You Have In Use For O THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 W. N. U.—Wichita—No. 18—1903 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. I suffered for more than seven years with a very complicated form of fema-tle trouble accompanying a facial injury after practicing with six physicians (all bearing excellent reputations) was informed that unless an operation was performed I would have a cure or almost all aliment, determine what a wonderful cure effected by Dr. R. V. Pierce, and I will never forget his kindly advice, telling me to follow his instructions. I told my method of treatment to Dr. Pierce, and I will never forget his kindly advice, telling me to follow his instructions. In five months my improvement was so noticeable to friends that they began to inquire about my method of treatment, and I was amazed by the wonderful means of cure that I had most fortunately found, and, as so many ladies applied to me for my experience, so old. I was famed medicines and his plans of treatment, I felt in duty bound to give them the benefit of my experience, so old. I was familiar with positive cures effected by Dr. Pierce's remedies alone, used by my recommendation, seemed, in one year's time, nothing but a miracle. I couldn't have seen it had not seen the parties and known the facts." Weak women are made strong and sick women well by the use of Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is the one reliable regulator. It dries enfeebling drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. It nourishes the nerves, invigorates and regulates the entire womanly organism. It makes the baby's advent practically painless, and gives strength to nursing mothers. Accept no substitute. If you want to know about your body, read Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, which can be had for the cost of mailing, 31 cents in one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound book, or 21 stamps for the paper-covered volume. 1008 pages, Address Doctor R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Peels clear the complexion and sweeten the breath, they cleanse and regulate the stomach, liver and bowels and produce permanent benefit and do not re-act on the system. One is a gentle laxative. RACES! Jockey Club Meeting, 25 Days Rain or Shine 6 TO MAY 20 April 22 VALUE DERBY. $6,500.00 Oria. Oil, Parégoric, Drops and either Opium, Morphine nor destroys Worms and allays relieves Teething Troubles, Food, regulates the Stomach of children's Panacea—The has been in use for over and has been made under one to deceive you in this. Experiments that trifle with experience against Experiment,inent Physicians as. H. Fletcher. N. Y., says: "Your Castoria is good forays obtaining the desired results." Paul, Minn., says: "I have used your good results, and can recommend it as an children." says: "I have used and prescribed your practice for a number of years and find it to Pa., says: "I have used your Castoria inasant to take, and have obtained excellent says: "I have used your Castoria in cases best medicine of its kind on the market." o., says: "I find your Castoria to be a thing for infants and children I have ever Mo., says: "Your Castoria certainly has mothers through all these years, and the recommendation? What can a physician add? o., says: "I have used your Castoria inwith the utmost success." City, says: "For several years I have continue to do so, as it has invariably says: "I object to what are called patent ingredients are put in them, but I know us use." TORIA ALWAYS Signature of Hitchier. We Always Bought Over 30 Years. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WAERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugstore. CONSUMPTION A VOICE FROM THE PULPIT. Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 87 Sixth street, Fond Du Lac, Wis., Pres- byterlan clergyman. says: “I had at- tacks of kidnisy disor- ders which kept me in “ the house for days at 3 a time, unable to do fey anything. What I sut- ae Bq fered can hardly be I Regge ¥ told. Complications J] set im, the particulars i 4 ] of which I will be Eee | pleased to give in a =F] Personal interview to 4 [4 any one who requires a Ee information. This 1 =e 4 can conscientiously = say, Doan’s Kidney . >= Pills caused a general Sa Th aia ae a a eR ders which kept me in the house for days at i a time, unable to do fey anything. What I suf- ie Bq fered can hardly be I Rae 4 told. Complications J] set im, the particulars i 4 ] of which I will be cae MaMe\ | pleased to give in a =F] Personal interview to is any one who requires a E information. ‘This 1 = =e = say, Doan's Kidney LJ Pills caused a general —— improvement in my health. They brought great relief by lessening the pain and correcting the action of the kidney secretions.” Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale by all Gealers. Price, 50 cents. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. If we could feel all we see intelll- gence would be a marked monstros- ity. Don’t you know that Deflance Starch desides ‘being absolutely superior to any other, {s put up 16 ounces in pack- age and sells at same price as 12 ounce packages of other kinds? ‘The little opportunities that slip by 4n youth grow bigger as we grow old- er. * Let Everybody Work And the world would be more happy and contented. Just consider how much pain and trouble results in your ‘body when your liver or stomach stop working. Happily, you can soon set them to work again, cure your pains, and restore yourself to health and contentment, with Dr, Caldwell’s (lax- ative) Syrup Pepsin, ‘Try it. Sold by all druggists at 60c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. ‘ Some people try to bull-doze others fust like they bull-doze themselves. Protesting Against Rate Reduction. Atlanta, Ga—The recent proposi- tion of J. Pope Brown, Chairman of the Georgia Railroad commission, to teduce the passenger rate in Georgia from three to two cents per mile was protested against by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors, and unions of the blacksmiths, machinists and teles- raphers, boilermakers, railway train- men, carpenters and joiners, clerks ‘and car men. These organizations em- ployed an attorney especially to rep- resent them, who urged that such a reduction would work against the Erosperity of the state and lead to a reduction in the number of railroad employes, as well as of their wages. The Travelers’ Protective Association piso protested that a reduction, as Proposed, would result in fewer trains and poorer service, = Action of the Eyelids. _ An eminent scientist has estimated ‘that the average man’s eyelids open ‘and shut 4,000,000 times during the year. Not Confined to One Tree. Many people think that rubber is a product which it is possible to get from only one particular species of tree. This impression {s erroneous. It has been estimated that one thou- sand different species of trees con- tain rubber, though commercial quan: tities have been obtained from only forty or fifty. REAGHED AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF OOMPLIOATED TROUBLES. Disorder, Palpitation of Heartand Debility Overcome at Last. Mr. Newman certainly had a very tough time with tho grip, aud it is no wonder that he thinks that the remedy that cnred him can’t be beat. His case shows how profoundly grip poisons the systom and how obstinately it resists all ordinary efforts to eradicate it. Few casos can be worse than 3fr, New- man’s for he had head, heart and stom- ach troubles combined with great weak- ness. He recently said : “The attack of grip which Thad eight years ago left me in a very bad fix. I became nearly deaf and imy head ached continually and was filled with hissing aud roaring sounds. My heart fluttered aud had regular ruuning-away spells. ‘My stomach was so sore that I could hardly beara touch on that part of my body. I hada great deal of pain in the region of my liver and the doctor said that organ was enlarged. My kidneys ached so at times that I could hardly stand,” “Didn't yon give up and go to bed?” ho was asked. : “No, I simply wouldn't. My head ‘and my back ached dreadfully, but I obstinately dragged myself abont, kept growing worse and finally ran down to ‘almost nothing.” | “What did you do to get relief?” “First I tried a doctor, but he did me ‘no good. Then I took all kinds of ad- -yertised preparations but nothing proved Shelpfal until [began to use Dr. Williams’ ‘Pink Pills. As soon as I got them I \kmew that I had at last hit the right ‘remedy for my case. ‘The very first box did more for me than anything else I had ever taken. They gavo me relief right away and in three months they positively cured me. I think I was searcely ever in bettor health in my life than Lam at present.” ‘Mr, William A. Nowman is a well- Inown Camden county farmer, living at Sagends, Missouri. His case was s e0- yare test for any remedy, bat Dr. Wil- Jiams’ Pink Pills met: eerie ‘ ‘remedies merely drive i Stet rar to biding. but Dr. Wiliams “Pin drive it out of the system. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday May 6, 05 ‘The busiest thing In the world Is a dollar. < Sir Thomas Lipton declines to let the cup stand pat. King Alfonso has not gone so far, however, as to give his bachelor din- ner. The work of cornering the entire supply of electricity, visible and invisi- ble, goes on apace. Sir Henry Irving’s son is playing Hamlet in London and winning a great triumph. ‘Ow’s ‘is legs?” The Atlanta Journal speaks a word for the red-headed girl. Generally, she is able to speak for herself. A Boston authority says that “men are far more beautiful than women.” Perhaps so; but they don't look it. Dr. Lyman Abbott adjures us to “hate the sin, but love the sinner.” Not unless the latter is lovely, though. “The thing to do with great wealth Is to spiritualize it,” we are to’l. Trouble in this office is to mater‘s!- lee it. It will be noticed that Edward At- Kinson was too wise to say that every woman could be made to dress on $05 a year. After all, it won't do to make tco much fun of Castro's threatened Ir vasion. Look what the boll weevil has dope. A young married man has just ‘Aown himself up with dynamite. Per- haps he was tired of being blown up by his wife. An English visitor who says tat there is no humor in American polities tas been accustomed all his life to reading Punch. it ts announced that ball playing is a cure for insanity. It has always seemed to have the opposite effect— om the spectators. There are said to be 400,000 mules tn this country—an estimate which by nO means includes all the native-born kickers. ‘The fact that a West Virginia edi- tor has refused a position in the. con- sular service just shows how wise a jaar can be and yet fail to achieve hereian i A woman’s club up in New Jersos is to discuss the question: “Why are we poor?” Principally for the lack of a bank account, many of us will as- swer. Connecticut judze has decided that women can't tell whether a man fy drunk or not. Don't try it on your wife or this decision will be promptly reversed. We don’t observe any indication tw the news from Philadelphia that all those fervent prayers for the amelior~ ation of the mayor have been an- swered yet. The Savannah Press considers thy political situation in Georgia “promis- ing enough.” The politician who will not “promise enough” is the rarest thing on earth. “Men's hearts,” says Dr. Hillis, “axe filled with a longing for something better and finer,” but why call atten- tion to it unless you can suggest a way to get salaries raised? ‘A New York man is suing two Wor en for wagers which they lost. He ought to have known that a woman is vever in earnest when she bets, ex: cent when she wins. An official report on desertions m the American navy says that of an en- listed force of 30,065 men only 10% per cent deserted. “Only” 10.7 per cent seems rather large. A German court has decided that poker ‘should not be ranked among the gambling games. Perhaps the judge had played a game once with ‘some American and discovered that be hadn’t any chance. ‘A college professor his just been held up by two dashing girl “highway- men.” It was a novel experience, no doubt, but how much more satisfac- tory if he could have held up at least one of the dainty bandits! Secretary Taft has approved a rec- commendation made by Gen. Chaffee for a new hayonet which is six inches longer than the old weapon. With the new bayonet it will be possible to ‘stick an enemy six inches sooner than | heretofore. ‘The fact that only sixty-five stories out of 12,000 were found to be wortn rurehaging by a periodical that made a Uberal prize offer is evidence that lit- erary genius isn't universal, even in these days when everybody writes for publication. Word comes from London that the new countess of Rosslyn, who was Miss Anna Robincon,.an American actress, has’ settled $10,000 a year on her husband, withont conditions. Which has the better reason to feel eatiefaction with the bargain? WHY CALLED “BUCKET SHOPS.” Small Trading Places Were Thus Referred to in Derision. ‘Bucket shops’? were called “*bucket shops’” because when they were first started in Chicago the only article dealt in by the small specula tors to any extent was wheat. The legitimate brokers would not handle an order for not less than 6,000 bush: els, and a lot of places sprung up where men could speculate on as small capital as $1, and this class of speculators were spoken of com temptuously as buying and selling wheat by the bucketful. Hence shops where a small business was conduct- ed in grain on a margin became known as ‘‘bucket shops,’’ and the term was eventually applied to all brokerage in stock and grain where the amounts dealt in were smaller than legitimate dealers or brokers would handle, and more particularly to places where there were really no legitimate transactions, but the pro- prietor and his customers simply bet on the market, the proprietor allow. ing the customer to take either end of the bet in consideration of a com- mission, which was in reality his per- centage in the game. 5 telah Bi beeiae- Clayton, Tex., May 1st—(Special) —That a’ genuine cure for Diabetes has been discovered is the opinion of Mr. J. H. Bailey of this place. Speak- ing of the matter, Mr Bailey says: “L believe Dodd’s Kidney Pills ts the best remedy for Diabetes and the only one that has ever been discever- ed that will cure Diabetes. “I have a genuine case of Diabetes. I have taken seven boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and am still taking them. They have helped me so much that I ‘am now up and able to work some. 1 believe that if I had conformed strict- ly toa Diabetes diet I would now have been completely cured.” Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured hun- dreds of cases of Diabetes and never once failed. It is an old saying that what will cure Diabetes will cure any form of Kidney Disease and that’s just exactly what Dodd’s Kidney Pifls do. They cure all kidney diseases from Backache to Bright's Disease. Secret of Happiness. T have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate—Adam Clarke If you don't get the biggest and best it’s your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in qual- ity or quantity. The best way to fool the people is ‘Sh eesath ethane: ‘Piso's Cure for. Consumption isan infaliiile imlicny for eos and colts -¥- W- Sant Govan Grove, Nea Pe 1 10 Every little thought takes action in some form to reveal our character Mrs, Winstows Soothing Srrap, roc eshte Talat ha arco TIGGER See Character of dignity is never appar ent under influence. “pe, Davia Kepnedy’s, Fanorite, Remedy gerea ing Met! pad duongia an Ko dena SISK HheA Manne Mie ee Endeavor to be master of your own mind instead of a slave of habit. $100 Reward, $100. The roars epee led te Sie, Mae Ge tec tatemtay Sa SPM? ie ren eat is ea Tt Ga rei ae eal eee Som te bind anda Sena etary aetna te Hiatt ihe, Sad eet Oe pau EAT, Sulla ie onalen ad'ace Se es Ce peed se dt at Gatspoved a Wey a SPURS Balasore ane ee | aeit eF CHINES ES ras, 0 ERASER sr contnaten How vainly some trying to hide trifleness with pride. ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS. Little Girl's Awful Suffering With Ter rible Skin Humor—Sleepless Nights for Mother—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. “My little girl had been suffering for two years from eczema, and dur- ing that time I could not get @ night’s sleep, as her ailment was very severe. I had tried so many remedies, deriv- ing no benefit, I had given up all hope. But as a last resort I was persuaded to try Cuticura, and one box of the Ointment and two bottles of the Re- solvent, together with the Soap, ef- fected a permanent cure.—Mrs. I. B. Jones, Addington, Ind. T.” There is not so much In being any thing as there is in making others feel that they are something. Double-Trackina the Santa Fe. It would be a colossal undertaking to double track the Santa Fe all the way from Chicago to California and the Gulf of Mexico. To seriously suggest it now would provoke a smile from men who know the cost of such a project. Yet it may happen some day, if bust ness continues to increase as rapidly as in the last decade. ‘This plan of two tracks from the Great Lakes to Pacific Ocean does not necessarily imply that the tracks will be laid side by side. In many cases cutoffs will be used, thus saving in mileage as well as train operation. Using the term in its restricted sense, by the end of 1905 the Santa Fe will have more than 300 miles of dou: ble track in operation. Second tracks are now being built as follows: To fin- ish the gap between Chicago and Joli. et; between several points in Missourl, aggregating 40 miles; to complete the Emporia cut-off; east, west and south of Newton, in Kansas, and on doth sides of Raton Mountain, in Colorado aud New Mexico. — i At ee DOFF’S STRIPES TO PRAY. Scriptures in Peculiar Way. ‘A certain and favorite junior officer in the United States navy had for a ‘considerable time observed that the ‘admiral always removed his uniform ‘eoat and danned one of less proten- ‘sions when he read his Bible on Sun- day ‘mornings. He often wondered why the commander of the ‘flagship should do so strange a thing, and so one day, when the good humor of the admiral permitted the great amount of freedom such a question would re- ‘quire, he asked: + Admiral, will you tell me why you always remove your uniform coat be fore you open your Bible for Sunday morning's reading?" "The Admiral lifted his eyes and gravely stared the young officer in the face. His smile was more beatific than forbidding. ‘*Lieutenant, I remove my uni- form coat before reading the Bible because I can never give the Lord of Hosts the proper amoynt of respect and adoration with the’ stripes of an admiral embracing the arms that sup: port the Bible. ’* It was a question of the pride of iis hheart—which was in his admiral's stripes—overcoming the love he held for his Maker when he would render his devotion to hiw.—Lippincott’s Magazine. Private and Government Property. ‘There is a difference between gov- ernment and public property. While all property owned by a nation or municipality is government property, still there is a part of that which is public property, as, for instance, parks and libraries, which may be used by the general public. Forts belonging to the army and ships to the navy are government property but are not for the use of the general public. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality ot De- flanee Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they ean- not sell any other starch, Form your own opinions and lead the procession, 2 USE THE FAMOUS Rod Cross Hall Blue. Large 202, package 5 ents, "Pho Huss Company, South Bend, tod, Self-denial is the only lotion for contentment, Ina Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE ‘A powder. It cures painful, smarting, nerv- ous fect and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure fot sweating feet, Sold by all druggists, 25c. Trial package FREE, Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. ¥. Any one that wants sympathy ought to have it, but they ought to have a kick with it. “The Adirondacks and How to Reach Them” is a nice folder with maps and references to localities, ho- tels, boarding houses, mountains and rivers in the great wilderness of Northern New York known as the Adirondack Mountains. If you visit this region once, you will be sure to go again. A copy of “The Adiron- dack Mountains and How to Reach Them" will be mailed free, postpaid, to any address, on receipt of a two- cent stamp, by George H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Grand Cen- tral Station, New York. Intelligence and success are equally free and you are your only real help- er, Indian Head, N. W. T., Immigration Branch, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada: Am sending you the return of two fields of wheat grown on my home farm yast year. ‘These returns are perfectly accurate, and not over-esti- mated. I summer-fallow about onethird of my farm every year, and afterward take off two crops and summer-fallow again, The summer-fallow is ploughed twice during the summer, first shal- low, afterwards deep and no weed al- ‘lowed to grow. The stubble is left as long as possible when cutting the first crop, and is burned the following spring, drilled directly afterwards, and harrowed after drilling. This gives much better result than fall-plough- ing. Field No. 1. Quarter-section fal: lowed 1903, yield 37 bushels per acre. ‘This wheat is netting at present time 88e per bushel. For 37 bushels, per acre...... $32.66 Per acre, Cost of summer-fallow- ing in 1903............$4.20 Seed wheat and seeding. 1.°) Harvesting .......--..-. 69 ‘Threshing (owner's ma- chine), 2¢ per bush... .74 Hauling to elevators at 2e per DUSH....-+0000. 14 Bie ee Ne $7.63 Profit from one plowing.... $48.75 I am sending you the yield of these two fields which are béth in my home farm. I thought they might be inter. esting reading for you. Had 19,500 bushels of wheat on my different farms, and between 5,000 and 6,000 of oats and barley. I remain, Yours very truly, (Sea) Alfred Wilson. Agents of the Government of Cana- da will be pleased to furnish full im formation as to rates. A TRAINED, NURSE After Years of Experience, Advises ; Women jy » Regard to Their Health. Se ee ee DS we -_ ae 8 Ga 8 fo 2. = ae Rey» Peed Po Beg.) Bee US DW EZ ee | . O\ Re Martha © eh | eo Pohl man fe falas ed (SY CC oe ay Do you honestly believe, that coffee sold loose (in bull:), exposed to dust, germs and insects, passing through many hands (some «i them jot over-clean), “blended,” sm you don't know how or by whom, : St js fit for your use? Of course you Z ih CS don't. But MW Aich | LION COFFEE / AEN fs another story. The green i) KON. NN berries, selected by keen HUI OY N fudges at the plantation, are SEZ. skillfally roasted at our fac- Sig tories, where precactions yoo ooo SE ee ‘would not dream of are taken See to secure perfect cleanliness, ry S854 flavor,strength and uniformity. PR J From the time the coffee iewes the factory no hand touches it til it i opened in your kitchen bi ‘This has made LION COFFEE the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES. Millions of American Homes welcome LION COFFEE dai. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and incre ing popularity. “Quality survives all opposition.” (Gold only in 1 1b. packages. Lion-head on every package.) (Save your Lion-heads for valuable premiums.) SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE ‘WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Obi The most selfish and ignoble races that ever flew through the air or swam in the sea never availed themselves of the accidental possession of power to establish orders of patrician and plebian, or of lord and commoner, and thus to doom one portion of their number to perform all the toil and bear all the burdens of the tribe, while they themselves monopolized all its leisure and its luxuries.—Horace Mann, So far as wit is concerned one can't be a ‘‘rapid-fire’’ and use dry pow- der. ‘Much valuable information free about tec ac Se KANSAS. cit, mo. ‘The help we are to others proves a venerable help to ourselves. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Deflance 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 %-pound pack ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch Is free from all injurious chem feals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-02. package it is becguse he has ‘a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiarce. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package In large let ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand. De fiance and save much time and mohey and the annoyance of the iron stick ng. Defiance never sticks. Mrs. Martha Pohlman cf 55 Chester Avenue, Newark, N. J., who is 3 graduate Nurse from the Blockley Training School, at Philadelphia, and for six years Chief Clinic Nurse at the Philadelphia Hospital, writes theletter printed below. She has the advantage of personal experience, besides her professional education, Bnd what she has to sa may be absolutely relied ‘upon. ‘Many other women are afflicted as she was. ‘They can regain health in the same way. Itis prudent to heed such advice from auch a source. ‘Mrs, Pohlman writes: “Tam. firm aterelzht rat oes oe a lo Com fs the safest and best medicine for any suffering woman to te, “Immediately after my marriage I found that my health began to fail me, Tbo- ceame weak and pale, with se- Fambeacinglown pains foar- Ful backachoy and frequent “dizzy a we doctors pre- scribed for me, yet 1 did moe finprove.T wad boat after eating and frequently become auseated, “Thad an acrid Ppaisg down. through min iy walk, Ie was as ad a troublo ‘as I have ever. knox Finkham's Vegetabio’ Compo cured me within four. month fimne I have had oceasion to.re« number of. patients. saffor forms of female difficulties, ar while itis considered unprofes ‘ommend a patent medicine, T recommend Lydia E. Pinkba Compound, for I have found female tls, where all other med 4s'a grand molicino for sick w Money cannot buy such this—merit alone ean prod sults, and the ablest’ spe agree that Lydia B. Pink table Compound is the 1 sally successful remedy fc diseases known to medic When women are trou! regular, suppressed oF pi Struation, wealmess, Teue Placement or ulecration 0 That bearing-down. feelin tion of the ovaries, back ing (or flatulence), general digestion, and nervous pr are beset with such sympt Lydia E. Pinkham's Ye Heiahts and Depths of Man. ness, faintness, lassitude, excitsiilty, irritability, mervousness, slepiat ness, melancholy, “all-gone™ ast “want-to-be-left-alone” feelings, blow and hopelessness, they should rare. ber there is one tried and true remeip Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegctatie Gs pound at once removes such trouble No other female medicine in the world has received such wilespreat and unqualified endorsement. Nove medicine has such @ record of curesd female troubles. ‘The needless suffering of women fra aiseases peculiar to their sex nteris tosee. ‘The money which they yor doctors who do not help them ss enormous waste. The pain is cand and the money is saved by Lydia b Pinkham’s Veretabie Compoul. Ex perience has proved this. It is well for women who are ill write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mas In her great experience, which coves many years, she has probably hai deal with dozens of cses just lie yours. Her advice is free aud coui dential. mound Succeeds Where Others Fol ro | WELL DRILLIN neil MACHINERY. PORTABLE ant 60) a2 DIFFEREN? Sto We challenge © gest er op eee Coane KELLY a TANEyuiil & Es Ccutanat Sts Waterton om ape | FAnMens ren FreeHomestest BSN AD Western canaét FA Gary vcr WEAN ead eee feos: 100,000 FARMERS ‘Fecetve 55,000,000 as © resalt of thelr FP ” Sect ee ‘The recares from Oats, Barley ant elt wanDSUSRtIe Sa omen aed soontoerh To, Secure a Free Hamesicad at cose. ZG erste reise outer whe ines 0 = Penppty forfaformation vo Supersteat! 'Se ec hialy Gar eters ‘er gs entered Oe, Srrernneat Abenind. 8, Grantees: 3 Sian Breet, eames Cy. 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