Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. HYEAR. alroad man," whose thin, disceptibilities on the race detracts his habitat, complains uncleville Courier-Journal, that among a grave question in the law to keep Negroes out of sleepers. "They have the aid are willing to spend it," Bourbon. "They are intellied-dressed and orderly, an it is easy difficult to find a tenable or denying them accommodating against the rules of the law to say anything about color for violation of the law would follow a plain statement that are not wanted." The shrewd employed by colored travelers in places in the Pullman cars a fruitful source of worry to broad man" and the class of sum fossils that he represents, in his bill of grievances to atterson's paper: use the telephone bell rings in ticket office and J. M. Brown in a berth be reserved for him. It would run a great risk in whether or not Mr. Brown is and all he can do is to re-berth. In cases where money he deposited to reserve berths have sent messengers to us with the money. When they are the ticket it is a hard matter them out." much of the black man's in- born of oppression, for a gift that nature has inva- dered upon the weak and af- But what a travesty upon when a full-fledged citizen could free government is com- sentent to a humiliating strat- obtains that which is his by problem of transportation services to cause our white friends so much an awful lot of fret and pain. The Northerner, however, distaste for Negro equality is, as strong as that of his own brother, seldom manifests lying on the subject. Because f culture, self-straint, humane emotion, or because his mind is held in important business materially contents himself with social enjoyment of the acquaintance he has paid for, and makes exempt to dictate to companies still or shall not be permitted toweise. A man whose social posi assured has little time to the blantant assertions touching sensitivity to others. The presence relative being is not lively to de-aything from the dignity or one of the gentleman of recognising, influence and worth. contrary, these qualities are used by the contrast. The true fact is always generous. The most pretender is without excep-ter error, jealous and mean. Watch when traveling. every now has a fine drug store was recently opened by Messrs. Wools and Dr. J. T. Whittaker and city. We wish the two gents success in their new business RACE NAME NEGRO, COLORED PEOPLE AND AFRO-AMERICAN. A few of our race newspapers are filing vigorous protests against the term "Negress" applied to colored females by many white newspapers. The term is an odious one and is just as repulsive to a colored woman as the term "Jewess" is to a Hebrew woman; but as long as certain white newspapers employ the terms "Negro" and "Jew" just so long will they use the insulting term "Negress" and "Jewess." Regarding a general name for the race in this country, many race journals favor the term "Afro-American," applied in the same manner as German-American, Irish-American, etc., while other race journals prefer both "Negro" and "colored." There is a growing opposition to the use of hyphenated terms, as they are too cumbersome and take up needless space. As a rule the metropolitan newspapers use the terms "white" and "colored." as applied to the races in the country, and a greater portion of the race in this country seem to prefer the general term "colored" to that of "Negro," on account of the varying tints among the race here. In private many Negroes describe each other as being "dark brown, seal brown, mulatto, and yellow," and some time use the term "black," but in public nine-tenths of them will use the term "colored" man or woman. Among the whites the general designation of the race is "colored," since the Indian, Japanese, Chinese and other dark skin races of Europe and Asia are treated as "white" in this country by the dominant race Of course the true American is the Indian, who was thus named because Christopher Columbus in 1492 believed these unknown shores to be that rf India, consequently he named the natives Indians. The descendants of the Negro colony at Jamestown are as much Americans as are the descendants of the English colony in Massachusetts. The general term "American" is applied to the people of the United States, because the foreigner who lands upon these shores and is naturalized at once becomes an American citizen and ceases to be sub- ject to England, Germany, or any other foreign country. This is the general use of the term "American", since the residents of South America are known as either a Brazilian, Peruvian, Chilean Bolivian, etc. The general term for the inhabitants of the United States being "American," why not drop the cumberson prefixes Irish, German, Scotch, Anglo and Afro and use plain "American" with the subdivision "White" and "Colored", if hyphenated terms are to prevail, why not call a colord man whose father is an African and whose mother is a German, an "Afro-German-American?". Superority Of Col There is a vast difference between the ignorant Negro the ignorant white man white man no matter how ant, is born of a trained race that has been go itself from the beginning distinction between the race and the Negro race always be kept well in considering the question of rage. In Virginia we are ing the Negro youth, and show themselves qualified the Constitution to vote, lot will be given to them out discrimination on acc race--Times Dispatch Ap Here is a race doctrine The greater portion of the white people of the United States use the term "colored" when applied to a person of African descent, and the greater portion of the Negroes of this country prefer the term "colored" since it embraces all tints. When the white journals of this country adopt the term "colored" we shall hear no more of "Negress". When our race journals adopt the term "colored" we shall no longer be confronted with the use of both the capital N or a small n in "Negro". Don't Growl Some Negroes are always complaining about Negro newspapers not having anything in them, and if those who do the howling were put at the Negro editor's desk just for one month, they would have less in the paper than the man who is running it, or they would soon have no paper to put anything in. They do that big talk, when they know full well that the Negro Editors do well to run any paper at all. Nine and a half times out of every ten times these blab-mouth Negroes who take delight in trying to run down Negro papers never did an act in their whole lives to help maintain a Negro paper or to help the Negro race in any way—they are like a knot on a log—good for nothing, and hardly good for that. The Negro Editors in this country are to be congratulated and should have the undivided support of every Negro in the race, be he big or little, because you see the white man running big daily with telegraphic connection all over the world, don't go crazy and down all of your papers because they cannot do this. You should remember that the white man has been 400 building building up these great plants while the Negro has had only about 40 years. Support what you have and help us strive to get more and stop losing so much time growling. Growling does not build up these great institutions. Hard labor, economy, and all together pull is what we need. Superority Of Color. There is a vast difference between the ignorant Negro and the ignorant white man. The white man no matter how ignorant, is born of a trained race, a race that has been governing itself from the beginning. This distinction between the white race and the Negro race must always be kept well in mind, in considering the question of suffrage. In Virginia we are training the Negro youth, and as they show themselves qualified under the Constitution to vote, the ballot will be given to them, without discrimination on account of race--Times Dispatch April 27th. Here is a race doctrine that is very amusing. We have been a long time trying to find out the difference between the ignorant white man who has had more than a thousand years to educate himself out of the mire of ignorance, and the ignorant Negro, just forty years a free man. The statement that the white race has been governing itself from the beginning is laughable. When mas the beginning? Where was the beginning? Anybody who knows anything, knows that the black race at one time was the intelligent and educated and refined race. Anybody who knows anything, knows that the most pitiable object of today is the IGNORANT white man depending on his color—rather than his brain and his manhood. To us, ignorance is ignorance, whether under a white skin, a brown or black skin. The Negro of today can plead an excuse for ignorance, but the white man cannot. If the white race is so inherent ly superioa to the Negro, why is it that fraud, robbery and all kinds of subterfuse are used to keep the Negro down, and take from him his citizen rights Why can't the white man give the Negro a man's chance? Is it possible that the white man fear the Negro? Our people should support the few enterprises established by our energetic men. "Chewing the rag" gets nothing-use a little push and energy Always think of the friend who stands by you - he will at least expect this of you. It is reported that a Kentucky man has succeeded in making ma ple syrup out of old cobs. Good. The Story of a Little Game and a Sad Stranger The Story of a Little Game and a Sad Stranger I don't believe I heard his name; I hardly think I can Recall to mind exactly how our little chat began; But I am certain that he was a perfect gentleman. Twas on a fast Chicago train that he fell in with me, And we engaged in friendly talk, discussing casually The trusts, the Japs, new breakfast foods and battles on the sea. Extremely well informed he was on topics and events, He held my views on everything of any consequence, Which proved that he was well supplied with sterling common sense. I knew he must be very rich, for he was grandly dressed— A peacock's plumage could not match the colors of his vest; His spats and shirt and tie were tan, and of the very best. He presently suggested that a quiet little game— The one called poker—might contrive to make the trip less tame. He called me Mr. Robinson—although that's not my name. When I had won a five or two, he rose, and with a smile Observed that, if I'd pardon him, small games were not his style, And wondered idly if I'd care to make the stakes worth while. I know he was a gentleman, and so I hate to think I saw aright when he sat up and listened to the clink Of silver in my pantaloons, and seemed, I thought, to wink. Three aces fell among the cards that he dealt out to me; I drew two nines, and though he beamed with affability, And kept his hand, I simply grinned in rather childish glee. I do not know how much we'd bet when I saw fit to call. But it was clear that he who won would make a golden haul; I'm very sure that on my hand I'd risked my little all. I said that I admired him; before the game began I'd noticed by his courtly air and clothes of costly tan That he was, past all questioning, a perfect gentleman. And yet somehow he rather lost that gentle, kindly smile, And did not think that further play was really worth his while; He held four kings, I palmed an ace and calmly took his pile. Making the War Balloons The utility of war balloons was early made manifest to the British, and accordingly the factory at Aldershot, which we are about to describe, was established under the supervision of Lieut.-Col. Templer, an officer of engineers, who is recognized in all the armies of the world as one of the foremost authorities on military aerostatics. Col. Templer is always pleased to have an opportunity of showing his splendidly equipped factory; and the very first department into which he ushers the visitor is that in which long lines of girls are sewing together sections of gold beaters' skin, out of which the envelopes of the balloons are made. The workshops are all wonderfully interesting. There is one for the weaving and testing of the vast network of cordage that confines the envelope of the balloon; another for the construction of the wicker cars of all Congressman Kyle of Ohio tells of an army officer who never was known to have "cold feet," but he was tender-footed, albeit not a "tenderfoot" in any sense of the word. He couldn't even wear socks which, had been washed, because they rubbed and chafed his delicate cuticle. Wearing new socks all the time was exceedingly expensive; and he kept looking for cheaper socks all the time. Finally, he found place where he could buy a dozen for $1.50, and he bought two dozen to begin with. Two days afterward, he limped into the place and threw down the bundle, saying: "I've worn two pairs of those socks, NO 2 sizes; a third brass turning, and so on. When all the departments of the balloon factories have done their part toward forming one of these monsters these parts are rapidly put together in a shed or barn of great height and spaciousness. The enormous cover is laid on the floor, the bewildering area of cordage laid over it, and then the center of the envelope is hoisted to the roof and work begun on the lower part of the huge machine. Usually at this stage a wagonload of tubes of gas arrives from the chemical department and a preliminary filling is begun to see whether the skins leak at all at the joinings. Wagonloads of these tubes accompany every military balloon in the field, whether it be of the "free" or "captive" variety. In connection with the factory, too, there are schools of military photography and cartography, and in these branches of military science young officers qualify themselves for special service.—Harper's Weekly. and they are the worst ever. They have seams down the soles, and almost kill me." "But, they are not intended to be worn, as I supposed you knew very well," was the reply of the dealer. "What, then, were they made for?" inquired the captain. "Aln't you an undertaker?" was the serious inquiry. "Certainly not," was the indignant reply. "I am an army officer." "Then I was mistaken in my customer," blandly answered the dealer. "I supposed you were an undertaker. All dead people are buried with socks on; and the undertakers buy that brand." W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION- STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M.ONTH ..... 15c. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed to THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the part or parties writing. 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In Our Seventh Year. It is with much pleasure and a degree of satisfaction of work well done, that we, at this time, that we have the opportunity to announce to our host and readers that THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT is now entered upon its seventh year of uninterrupted and regular publication. We have never, at any time, made glaring and barn storm promises for future work and we have no inclination nor shall we to do so now. During the seven years publication of this paper we have had an eye singled only to give our readers and patrons a paper published in the interest of our people once each week and how well we have done so we will leave for our past record to speak for itself. For our future we have to say that we will put forth the same amount of energy and untiring effort in our publication which has been the Stock-in-trade of of its past unparralled success. During the time of our existence in the field of journalism our lot as publishers has not been unlike that of hundreds of others who have entered a field of labor where the work is great and the reward small. In common with many others who have cast, at divers times and in sundry manners, their lot lot in this field of herculean toil, untold vexation and multitudious worry, we have, as we think had our full share of "ups and downs" which seemingly, is part of the journalists life. But, in spite of all we can, after seven years of unceasing work and strenuous toil now say "thru many dangers, toils and snares we have already come" and depending for our guidance in the same Omnipotent hand which has ever led us-we shall endeaver to continue on our way rejoicing merrily. At this juncture and for the seventh time, we wish to extend to our many colored and white friends our unspeakable words of never dying thanks and unexpressable appreciation for their many kindly acts and ever ready patronage. To one and all we say that they shall have their reward. Words are entirely inadequate for us to ever begin to express our high appreciation. And in most, profoundly soliciting your aid, your patronage and your friendship in the future as in the past, we have only to offer as our return our past and present high appreciation of the same-promising that we shall ever endeaver to cherish your aid, your patronage and your friendship in the future as in the past and this done we will feel that our mission has been well performed. LEGAL NOTICE First Published in The Wichita Seareight Saturday, May. 12th 1995. The above named defenhant is hereby notified that she has been sued in the District Court, 18th Judicial District in the state of Kansas by the hbove named Plaintiff, and that unless she shall be and apacar in said Court on or before the 24th day of June 1905 and then and there pleud, answer demur to the plaintiff's petition therein filed decree for divorce pro confesso will be entered against her according to the prayer of said petition. J. C. Milton. Atty for Plaintiff DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop, Will You Help? Editor Seareblight, Wichita, Kansas. Dear Sir:—Will you permit me to make a short state- ment through your paper TO THE MASONS OF KANSAS; At the last session of Prince Hall Grand Court which met in Atchison, Kansas in 1904, it was found that we were in need of a home for decrept members of the Order that come to our knowledge every year for Charity, and as the court was not able to push such a big work alone it was decided to ask every M. Mason in Kansas Jurrsdiction to come to our relief. We trust that every lodge will respond. Send all donations to Mrs. Mollie Williams, 547 Lydia, Ave., Kansas City, Mo. A. R. Johnson has purchased eight lots and a nice five-room cottage on West 15th. Street across the Little River. He and his family will move in the new home in the near future. Do not forget Monday night May 15th. at Old Fellow Hall. The Race's standard Bearer ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. ' Paris City Cleaning Works Kid Gloves and Fine Fabries 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. Deann Sanders has been very ill for the past week. Mrs. M. Luvert is fast improving. She is now able to be up and about her home. Mrs. Sherzills is still sick Rev, J. H. Van. Leu left Saturday on his missionary work. On the 3rd. Sunday in May— (May 21st.) the Tabernacle Church will hold a big rally. The church is doing nicely and all are cordially invited to attend each and all of these meetings. An interesting debate, Subject— "Education is not all in books" was ably debated at the Tabernacle Baptist literary Wednesday evening. J. H. Vandine of South Mc Alester, Oklahoma, was in the city last week. Thomas Mason who has been in the city for several weeks, left Sunday for Pueblo, Colorado. M. F. Fowler left Wednesday morning for Winfield, in response to a te egram announcing the death of his brother. The Annual Sermon of the Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth will be preached Sunday afternoon at 3 e'clock p. m. at the A. M. E. Church. Supreme Chancellor Sumuel W. Stark was tendered a royal reception by the Pythians at Garfield Hall Friday night. A large crowd was present. U. W. Gaines, a member of the 25th, infantry stationed at Ft. Reno, Okla., spent a few days in Wiebita. The members of Princess Chapter No. 12. had a fine supper at the home of Mrs. Mary Mussy, 607 N. Water, Wednesday night. May B A Odd Fe Monday Ni Mr. Lee Anderson left Saturday for her home in Newton, Kansas. Big Ball at Odd Fellow Mall Monday night May 15th. Come out and have a fine time. Good Music—Best of Order. The children of Golden Rod Tent gave a very successful lawn social at the residence of Mrs. Sherrill 311 West Murdoch Thursday evening. Quite a large crowd was present. Mrs. B. Morris is quite critically ill at her home 112 N. Wichita Street. Her condition is reported critical. Mrs. D. J. Brown has returned to this city after a two months visit in Council Bluff, Iowa Odd Fellow Hall Monday night May 15th. Mr. and Mr. A. Groves have a very sick child at their home. Mrs. Maggie Matley of Topeka, Grand Worthy Councillor of the Court of Calantau, will be in Wichita, Monday May 15th, 1905. on her annual visit to the court. While here she will be the guest of Mrs A Paul 538 N Water St. The Odd Fellows will hold their annual Sermon at the A. M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon, May 14th. at 3 p. m. The services will be grand and everyone is invited to come out at 3 p. m. and hear it prescheduled. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Fine entertained Mrs. Sarah Cox, and Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller at dinner Sunday at their pleasant home 1054 N. 5th. St. The table was laured with all the choosiest catables the market afforded. All declared them royal entertainers. Rev. Jue. J. Jefferson is having quite a siege of sickness. He is confined at his home 1124 N. 5th. St., suffering from a much swollen face caused from ulcerated teeth and he is otherwise in much pain. While his sickness is not serious it is extremely painful. Mr. Walter Gibbs presented the Song Service with a nice, large silver plated stand bell. It is a nice present and President Glover of the Song Service accepted it with many appreciations. The service extended a vote of thanks to Mr. Gibbs for his gift. At the A. M. E. Church Rev. B. W. King, pastor, filled the pulpit at 11 a.m. and delivered a masterly sermon to a good audience. The Sunday School was held at 3 p. m. At 7 p. m. the Song Service was he'd with their president Thes. G. over, presiding. A very interesting meeting was he'd. The evening service began at 8:15 with Rev. King in the pulpil. Rev. King preached a splendid sermon. Day LL L allow Hall ght, MAY 15th. WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEFARTMENTS: Theiological, O and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Normal, Musical, [ Instrum piano, oagan and harmony, Mechanical], Carpentry, N Business Course, Stenogra ing, Dressmaking and Pla ing, Farming and Gardeni ing. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Locati Influences and Thorough T INFORMATION: For terms, pri fered, write to William T. Ver PRESI QUINDAPO, - - Phones Office Resid USE IMBODE IMPE FLOUR BREAKFA and you will L AT YOUR GROCFRS Gardner .....DEAL [HARD CO Feed and Bu Office and Yards Old Phone 146 Spring and S =Footw -To Suit the PCOR o BRAIT 120 East ARTS: Theoigical, College, Normal, Sub-Norman Industrial. Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub- Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including can and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and al], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailor- making and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laund- ing and Gardening. : Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Go and Thorough Teachers. : For terms, prices and all inducements of te to Am T. Vernon, A. M. D. PRESIDENT DAPO, KANS. DEFARTMENTS: Theoiological, College, Normal, Sub-Norm and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub Normal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including piano, oagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. QUINDAFO, - - - - KANS. IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL COLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating GROCERS IMBODEN MILLING CO. Gardner Coal Co., DEALERS IN..... RD COAL SOFT Fil and Building Material ce and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St.] Phone 146 New Phone 1804 Spring and Summer -Footwear= to Suit the Purchaser- PCOR or RICH RAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas --- Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St.] Spring and Summer =Footwear= -To Suit the Purchaser- PCOR or RICH BRAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas New Sleeping Car Line On Mo. Pac, Ry Commencing May 1st., the Mo. Pac. will put in operation a new sleeping 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 ``` Office—Bell "White" 4302 Residence—Bell "West" 1 Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue W. M. Dunson 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 3 RELOVER & SOHS, Props. NOTICE To The Public Having purchased the sting and the O. K. DYE WORK some time ago I have concluded on all Second-Hand Clothing I have marked down the goods bought by myself will be sold the regular price for Cleaning My motto is "Live and Let Be If your Clothes needs Dye bring them to the O. K. Dye Special Attention Gift C. G. Han 330 North M SECOND T baving purchased the stock of Second-Hand Clothing to the O. K. DYE WORKS from D. D. Dur. One ago I have concluded to cut down his pr. Second-Hand Clothing about One - Third. Worked down the goods accordingly. And all my myself will be sold at first cost, adding a dear price for Cleaning, Pressing and Repair. So is " Live and Let Live " Your Clothes needs Dyeing, Cleaning or Prep them to the O. K. Dye Works and get good work Special Attention Given To Ladies' Work C. G. Hanson, Proprietor Manage 330 North Main Street SECOND TO NONE 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 Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. MYRON A Groceries, Fruits and F 815 N- M OLDEN'S D MYRON A. DEAN veeties, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - DEN'S DRUG STO --- MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Prescriptions Filled with Care ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, alw customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored pe Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco patronage solicited. + Onee a customer, alwer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored pe Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. To Hot Springs Hot Springs Speci Hot Springs Hot Springs Spe Hot Springs Hot Springs Special MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Passengers from Wichita, leaving at Yale Center with the Hot S THE HOT SPRINGS S SOLID VESTIBULE, CARRIES DINING CAR A SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRING This new service is the quickest yet been offered to the greatest illustrated books describing Hot undesigned on application E. E. Weckly, T. P. A. ers from Wichita leaving on 11. 30 A. M. tae Center with the Hot Springs Special at 2.55 P. H. THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A COLD VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC LIGHTER RIES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT NEW ENTRY TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT CHANGE. Our service is the quickets and most convenient offered to the greatest health resort in Ameri ed books describing Hot Springs, may be had on application weekly, I.R. Sher P. A. P. & T. Passengers from Wichita, leaving on 11. 30 A. M. tain, connected at Yates Center with the Hot Springs Special at 2:55 P. M. THE HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL IS A SOLID VESTIBULE, ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN CARRIES DINING CAR AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN SLEEPERT TO HOT SPRINGSWISH OUT CHANGE. This new service is the quickets and most convenient that has yet been offered to the greatest health resort in America. Illustrated books describing Hot Springs, may be had from the undersigned on application Wtchita, Kans. Stebbins Stebbins & R S. Stebbins W. O. Stebbins & Rafferty Vehicles, Farm Implements Light Harness, Robes, Etc. 211-213-West Douglas W. New Phone 1787 JOB WORK IS OUT Let us try you WORK IS OUR HOBB t us try your next order Let us try your next order OTTO WEISS. Agent DEAN Vegetables ed. AIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 UG STORE gars and Tobacco . . . nee a customer, always a aters for Colored people. ingsings Special G on 11. 30 A. M. tain, connec rings Special at 2.55 P. M. SPECIAL IS A ELECSRIC LIGHTED TRAIN AND ELEGANT NEW PULMAN WISH OUT CHANGE. and most convenient that has health resort in America. Springs, may be had from the I. R. Sherwin, P. & T. A. Rafferty Wichita Kan. HOBBY next order W. O. Rafferty Wichita Kan, RockIsland System March 1st to May 15th will to California. It is June there wh here—th it's a reason for going. land Tonrist Sleeping Car service able and economical way to go the California visit is derived from t Many of your neighbors are why not take your turn this spring sometime and it might as well be California book. Tourist follo Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week March 1st to May 15th will be a period of low ticket prices to California. It is June there when it's cold, raw March and April here—th it's a reason for going. Another reason is that Rock Isl land Tonistir Sleeping Car service is such an agreeable, comfortable and economical way to go that fully half the pleasure of your California visit is derived from the journey thither. Many of your neighbors and friends have made the trip—why not take your turn this spring? You surely want to go sometime and it might as well be NOW. California book. Tourist folder and full information. M. R. Heck, Prop. 242 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 man 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. And there's pure air, pure water and sun shine on the hill. Just the place 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 euey day in the year. Ask C. W. STRAIN, D. P. A. Wichita, Kan. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the noted Southern General is dead. Translate a Specialty In The A FOOL FRISCO SYSTEM FROM HERE TO THERE bo a period of low ticket prices when it is cold, raw March and April Another reason is that Rock Isl he is such an agreeable, comfort- at fully half the pleasure of your the journey thither and friends have made the trip— ing? You surely want to go e NOW. der and full information. C. E. Bascam, C. P. A. NOTES OF WESTERN UNIVERSITY The student-body attended Rev. Ward's church Sunday. They reported excellent services. Mrs. Manley and Mrs. Rone personal friends of President Vernon, and also friends of the institution, were pleasant callers Wednesday. Both ladies are very much pleased at the progress which the institution has made during the last few years. Miss Katie Gay and Miss Jessie Jennings, students of the university, spent Sunday at their homes Sedalia, Missouri. The picnic given by the faculty and students of Western University was a most enjoyable feature of the season. The young ladies played croquet and tennis, while the young men played base ball. Captains were chosen and the side that was victorious won the balls. The captains were Mr. Hugh Shelby of Paola, Kansas and Mr. Guy Anderson, of Omaha, Nebraska. The former being the lucky captain who won the ball. Lunches were spread and everyone enjoyed himself to the highest. Mrs. Davis of Kansas City, Kansas, formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas, made a short visit over the grounds, accompanied by her cousin, Miss Jaunita Adams. The building committee, composed of Hon. Green Keith, of North Lawrence Kansas, and Hon. Corvine Patterson, of Kansas City. Kansas, and President Vernon, accompanied by Mr. John Stanton, state architect, were inspecting the grounds and buildings. The plans and specifications produced by Mr. Stanton, favorably impressed the committee. Rev. Griffith accompanied by Mr. William Boone, of Kansas City, Kansas, visited the school. Rev. Griffith is well known in this section is always a welcome visitor. The young ladies of Western University were presented with a croquet set; the young men were also fuenished with a croquet set and two pairs of boxing gloves. This only just a starting for the atheletic department. The Kansas City High School is determined to play Western University, and Western University is determined to be victorious; and hence the results are 14 to 5 in favor of Western University. The team is quite willing to give them a few pointers in ball playing. At almost any time the thundering voices of different students can be heard over the campus rehearsing and preparing their produc- Monday Night, May 22nd. In honor of the Grand Chief Mentor of the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction of ..the Knights and Daughters of Tabor... You Are Invited Admission - Adults 15c Children 10c 777 36 222 tions for the Commencement and also the oratorial contest which will be held in June. NEWTON NEWS Miss Zella Ratley of Wiehita was the guest of Miss Callie Anderson last Friday. Mrs. Henry Seevley who has been sick for the past five weeks is able to be up now. Miss S. Dickinson who has been sick for the past two weeks is improving. Mr. E. B. Kennedy one of Newton's best young men left the city Friday to make his future home in Hutchinson Kansas, all regret to see him leave, and wish him much success while out of this city. Mr. Loe Frame made a flying trip to Peabody Sunday. Miss Ophelia Brown and mother left the city Saturday for a short visit in Wichita they returned Sunday evening reporting a delightful time. Mr. Cass Wilson made a flying trip to Wichita Sunday. Miss Zella Ratley of Wichita who has been visiting Miss Cassie Anderson let for her home Monday morning, reporting a lovely time while in the city, her many friends wish her to return sometime soon. Mr. Isaiah Coleman left the city Friday to make his home for a while at Hutchinson Kansas, all regreted to see him leave. CLEARWATER NEWS C. R. Wilfley was in Wichita last week on business looking after the real-estate of Mrs. Mary C. Gorin. Clearwater is having another dog scare in which several dogs are getting their share of poison. O. H. White came home last a little bit mad and got into trouble which cost him $5.00. The Marshal of Clearwater is having all kinds of trouble this week looking after home trouble and dog taxes. Little Clarence is some better. Some white people are quick to think colored people will steal, as a man in Clearwater told that C. R. Wiley had M. P. engine and two box ears and a caboose at his house and never said a word about stealing a U. S. Mail sack and robbing it just two weeks ago. Is he stealing coal from the M. P. depot to burn? Harnest White has a fine crop of what and oats and is making a fine drospect in life, he has a family of ten children and they are little workers. Mrs. G. R. Wilfley is making a nice showing in raising young chickens, she has about fifty young ones. Remember the Big Time to be had at Odd Fellow Hall Monday night, May 15th. Come out early. Adults 15c Children 10c 333 333 KINGMAN ITEMS Mrs. Joe Banks and daughter Florence of Pretty Prairie were in our city shopping Saturday. R. L. Biggs is visiting in Wichita. George Floyd who is home from Wichita visiting relatives and friends is suffering with the tooth ache. Too much sweetness. Minnie Floyd, Aura Porter, Manson Martin and R. L. Biggs who went to Pretty Prairie Sunday report a fine time. J. J. Maloney has returned from his trip to Chicago. J. J. Maloney and E. E. Porter were visitors in Wichita last week: Lewis Banke was in our city Saturday. WANTED: Every one to know that the SEARCHLIGHT has a new installment of type and is now ready to do all kinds of fancy up-to-date job work. Give us a call. Ball Monday night, Odd Fellow Hall, May 15th. The Tabernacle Baptist Church, held a splendid series of meetings all day Sunday. At 11 a.m. Rev. H. M. Underwood filled the pulpit and preached a good sermon to a large audience. At 1 o'clock the Sunday School convened with their officers present; Mrs. J. A. Martin, Supt., Mrs. A. McBride, Assistant Supt., and Miss Frances William, Sec. A goodly number were present and the school took a great interest in the lesson for the day. The B. Y. P. U.-met at 7 p. m. with their president Miss Blanche Graevle, Miss Hattie Love, Vice and Mrs. Josephine Miller, Sec. At 8 p. m. the pulpit again filled by the pastor Rev. Underwood who delivered a wonderful sermon. The church received a letter from Rev. R. N. Countel, who is now in Kansas City and he will be with the church the first Sunday in June. The O. T. S. C. met Monday May 8th, at the home of Miss Winefield Ray 917 North Water Street at 8:30 p.m. Business was begun at 8:40 and closed at 9:10. The remainder of the evening was spent in chatting and music. The Club adjourned at 9:50 p.m. to meet at the home of Miss Sarah Rowles 519 North Wichita, St., on the evening of Saturday May 13th. 1905. When a man and his wife start to go anywhere, says a Missouri paper, he tells her to get out his good suit, fix the buttons in his shirt, get his cuffs, good shoes, tie his necktie, brush his hat, perfume his handkerchief and a few other little jobs. Then he puts on his hat and says, "Great Scott! Am't you ready get? And his wife sweetly replies, "This is no lightening transportation act, dearie, just give yourself a rest." --- Home of Bluebeard ‘The dass when Henry Morgan was a most enterprising bandit upon the hich seas, two powerful pirates held sway inthe waters of the Atlantic and Carib- bean east of Porto Rico and now and Again sailed to the westward as far as San Domingo. They operated toze:h- er, these buccaneers, and having jn terests in common, formed an alliance both offensive and defensive. Indeed, it is said that on occasion their fleets were sufficiently powerful to meet and vanquish any of the great frigates which the nations sent against them. ‘As a snug harbor these merry gentle- men chose Charlotte Amalia, a bit of a settlement on the Island of St. Thom- as. It still exists, capital of the Danish West Indies, the red-roofed houses clustered upon the hills reminding the traveler of to-day of the pictures upon the cards displayed at Christmas time. The castle of Blackbeard still stants, quite a respectable place, being ‘the headquarters of the chief of police of the town. The castle of Bluebeard is also a well-preserved structure, and from bis old stronghold comes the story. ‘The Bluebeard whose history has been so interestingly written by that fmaginative Frenchman, Charles Per- rault, is familiar to the litte ones and grown-ups alike, for who is there who does not know of Fatima and Sister ‘Ann and the brothers who came to the rescue at the critical moment? And everybody, who is anybody, believes the story, for did not its author also tell of Little Red Ridinghood. the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood and ‘Toads and Diamonds? But this is the story of the Blue- beard of the West Indies. This proto- type of the grim old oriental tyrant commanded a schooner, whose beanti- fal lines and rakish look betokened her unlawful calling. Bluebeard was ‘ostensibly a trader, but he really traf- ficked in slaves while carrying on @ successful piratical business in order to increase his revenue. He was pop- ular because of his good looks, bis money, generosity and daring, and the fair inhabitants of the settlement fair- Jy adored him, although the men who were not in his confidence scowled and ) aispered that he was a pirate. 7 Courted Spanish Maiden. fm the island there lived a courtly ad high spirited gentleman, a de scendant of the grandees of Spain. Don Geronimo Cordoban had one daughter, acreole of the island, and she, Merce dita, was so superior in all that consti- tuted beauty and excellence that Blue beard fell in love with her at first sight and swore to make her his wife. He courted Mercedita, and it was not long ere she began to love the olly- tongued pirate, who knew so well how to hide his wickedness under a smooth exterior, aided by handsome presents ‘and most affable manner. Soon they were married and she was installed as mistress of the castle. One day Bluebeard bid his wife adieu and sailed away in his schooner. Before leaving be placed a locked cas- ket in her possession, along with the key, but with the injunction not to ‘open it unless he should not return for six months. Every day for two months Mercedita went to the top of the castle and looked seaward, hoping to catch a glimpse of her husband's vessel. Then ‘she became lonely, and one evening, ‘overcome by the demon of curiosity, took up the casket, inserted the key, ‘and, turning the lock, exposed the con- itents to view. She saw a packet of letters tied with a ribbon. Read the Missives. , Conquering her scruples, Mercedita ‘opened and read the missives. They were love letters addressed to her has- ‘pang, and she knew the woman who penned them. Blind with rage and fury she determined to be revenged upon ‘all of them, to make an example of a co) ee Z a so Ei sae AN Bis a Ml EE aa Le ES = ao “of ae ea = i "IACKBEARDS TOWER. them for the sake of society. When her anger subsided she became frightened and then sat down and had a good ery. This quieted her nerves, and she gave thought to a method of revenge. ‘Half an hour after she was closeted with Mimmy Lafourche, the Obeah woman from Martinique, who drove flourishing trade with the credulous. Leaving the hut of the sorceress, she ‘held in her hand a small bottle of liquid which she was assured would ‘cure the writers of the letters of their affection for Bluebeard and make bim her slave fer life. On the following Cc From the West indies Comes Story of Ro- mance and Tragedy of the Buccaneers. afternoon, Sunday, she invited the seven women to take tea with her. In the cup of each of her guests Mercedita poured some of the liquid made from a native plant, the proper ties of which were unknown to ber The result was tragic, for the next morning news reached the jealous woman that all of her guests were dead. In agony of mind she sent for the police master, acknowledged het crime and was taken to prison At the trial, which soon followed her incarceration, she was found guilty, and the judge passed the sentence of | éeath in these words: ‘To Be Burned to Death. “You shall be conducted to the sands of the sea, near to a place which is 5 = 50 i: ee a ees | ee ee =Ss Fan or ae cs xo SS known as the King’s Wharf, and there, with a pile of fagots around you. shal! be burnt unto death as an ex: ample to those who, like you, dare to dabble in witchcraft.” Halffainting, poor Mercedits was led back to prison, and a few days after preparations were made to exe- cute the sentence pronounced against her. : On the day that Mercedita was led to the stake the schooner of Bluebeard came into the harbor. Landing, he was told the news, and almost instant- ly had ordered his crew ashore. At the head of fifty desperate followers he charged the soldiers on guard, rescued his wife and was aboard his schooner before the townspeople knew what had happened. As he sailed away he fired a broadside, holsted the black flag with his own hands and steered for Havana, from which place he is said to have operated in conjunction with the wreckers along the Florida keys. However that may be, he was never heard of again in St. Thomas. The castle he occupied with Merce- dita is still standing in the grounds of the Italian consul. His children use it as a playhouse, and the great guns are mounted-as ornaments in the park — Chicago Record-Herald. is ieee “Sir,” be began, after climbing four flights of stairs to the lawyer's office, “{ called here one day during the panic of 1893.” “Yes, I think you did,” was the reply. “At that time you could not spare me ten cents, but you said that in the course of ten or twelve years yor hoped to make a financial recovery and be on your feet again. The ten or twelye years have elapsed. May I hope that the recovery has taken place” “Sorry to say that ft hasn't. Io fact I am even more bard up ‘than he fore. No, there has been no recov: ery.” “And how about the future?” “Why, it's hard to tell, but if you happen around this way ten years from now drop in and see me. There might be something ‘doing then.” “All right, sir—all right,” said the caller, as he took out an old envelope and the stub of a pencil. “I'll jot it down here that I'm to call about the year 1915, and if you can make « raise of ten cents Iam to get It. Good afternoon, sir. Rather fine weather we've been having.” Rebuke Well Deserved. A young bride was recently invitee to a bridge luncheon, and after spend- ing a delightful afternoon was told by her hostess that she was in debt $75. Mrs. —, unaware that she had been playing for money, was horrified at the idea of Having to ask her husband for the necessary amount. She mournfully confided her woes to him, and he immediately wrote a check for $76.50 and sent it to the hostess. 3 s ‘The hostess, believing that a mis take had been made, informed him that he had sent $1.50 too much. ‘Mr. —, however, returned it with the curt statement that $75 settled the bridge score, and the balance was for his wife's luncheon—New York ‘Times. Rare Insight. Jobson—“Miss Blank looks awfully frivolous to me; what makes you think she has so much hard sense?” Robson—“I just heard her refuse an invitation to a card party because she couldn't play cards.” L W Wolis, chef at the Manhst tan contemplates a trip to his home in Texas in toe near fature, Joe Bell gave a splendid ball Thursday night st Odd Fellow Hall, es Miss Sara Whorter and Mr Tom Whotter were visitors in Wichita Tuesday. Mrs Willie And-rzon eame down from Newton, t» spead Wedaesday in our city visiting with relatives and friends. Mrs W A Betts left over the Mo. Pac.fic Wedaesday ai 5 p m for her home where she will v.sit with ber parents aud friends. Miss Zella Ratley made a short trip to Newton last week, she re- ports the Newton renng jeople as splendid entertainers, _ Mr Alex Clark Jr, gave a birth. day party at Valley Center Tuerdsy May 16th to whie2 a large number of bis Wichita friends have been in- vited. | Wichita Tubernaele No 34 will give a grand eotertainment at Od Fellow Hall Monday night May 22ad. Splendid Program, Come ont, : The ladies of Princess Chapter No, 12 0. EB. 8. will give a social at Mrs Fannie Bakers 428 N Water St, Wednesday evening May 17th 1905. Came ont and enjoy your- sell. | Bud Honderson night chef at the Maabattan hotel went off watch Wednesday morning $5,00 worse off thar wyen he went to werk Tues- day night, In shori—be lost that much out of his posket sometime Tuesday night, The ladies of the Y L A Club was entertained by Mrs LC Carr Tuesday May Yth at her residence 617 North Wichita St. quite a num- ber were present to respond to the roll call after an hour of needie work a dainty lunch-was served by the hostest. The club then ad- journed to meet with Mrs S W Jon. es 501 North Water Street, Puesday es Tent Officers. Gulden Rod Pens elected their officers for the ensuing year at their meeting Thursday afternoon, OFFICERS. Mrs Thos W, Fine, Q M. Mre W N Miller, Viee Q M Mies Amelia Thompson, Pecsider FH arrison, Vice Presider Miss Beatrice Miller, Secre-ary Ed Gray, Assistant Seeretary Mies St lis Slater, Breasurer The Tent is doing nicely and is growing fast, 6a “Forty Years ” | Of Freedom. Asd-signated by its name, the drama which the ladies of the Book= erT Washington €lub will pro- duee at Garfield Hall, next Thars day night, ander the management of Mrs Thes W Fine, will be ene of the most characteristic soul stir ring and pleasing which bas ever been witnessed in Wicbita. The cast is made especially with every aetcr fitted for his or her partond are amply able and will most admizably support their lead ing charactet Mrs TW Fice whe has the principal role. Do mot miss going te Garfield Hall Thurs Jday night May sb und see, hear and be pleased. Dr. J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of — Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St ——————— TS. NAFIZGER, W.R TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE) Cashier + Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Directors—W. B. Tucker, W. E. Jett, K. L, Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S, Nafts- ger, E.H Middlekanf, 0. Z. 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Our Prices oT re LOWEST OUR Work *** 97x nest ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARCHLIGHT IF NOT, WHY NOT? IT Is ONLY SE FORA etd $1.00. WHOLE YEA ae . Delivered —eupecnipeTo-aT All laws reguiating the speed of automobiles in Holland have been abolished. Somebody must have been furnishing Holland’s legislators with motor cars. New York millionaires have organ- ized a company for cleaning houses by an air process. Or else they are trying the process on the public, with the air heated. Attacks have been made lately upon the character of the garden seeds dis- tributed among the people by Uncle Sam. Somebody must have planted a few of the seeds. It ts not true that Andrew cicada has proposed to give Harvard a $5, | 000,000 endowment on condition that It shall be called the Harvard-Carnegie university hereafter. Each representative and senator in congress has more than 60,000 pack- ages of garden seeds to send out to ‘his constituents. Have you sent a postal card for yours? A Mrs. Pare, wife of C. B. Pare, a prominent resident of Olsasgow, Ky, says: "I was suffering from a complication of kidney troubles. Besides it bad back, I had a great deal of trouble with the secretions, which were exceedingly variable, sometimes excessive and at other times scanty. The color was high, and passages were accompanied with a scalding sensation. Doan's Kidney Pills soon regulated the kidney secretions, making their color normal and banished the inflammation which caused the scalding sensation. I can rest well, my back is strong and sound and feel much better in every way." For sale by all dealers, price 50 cents per box. FOSTER-MILBURN 50 Buffalo, N. Y. Speed of Wild Duck. The speed of a wild duck is about piety miles an hour. CAPT. GRAHAM'S CURE. Series on Face and Back—Tried Many Doctors Without Success— Captain W. S. Graham, 1321 Eoff St. Wheeling, W. Va., writing under date of June 14, '04, says: "I am so grateful I want to thank God that a friend recommended Cuticura Soap and Ointment to me. I suffered for a long time with sores on my face and back. Some doctors said I had blood poison, and others that I had barbers' fisch. None of them did me any good, but they all took my money. My friends tell me my skin now looks as clear as a baby's, and I tell them all that Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment did it." Colosseum is Expensive. The government of Italy has to spend $20,000 a year in keeping the Colosseum in repair. THIS DOCTOR WAS OUT. Incident in a Night Practitioner's Experience Told by Himself. A prominent physician in Balti more recently perpetrated a wittiness at his own expense. It was late at night. The doctor had lost his night key; the door was locked; he was cold from a long ride, and the more he rang the bell the more the suspicion grew in his mind that someone had chloroformed the entire household. Finally, however, his sister was aroused by a long ring of the bell. Naturally she thought that there was someone at the door who wished to see the doctor, and that, as the doctor was out, she would herself have to answer the summons, else the caller would keep her awake for a long time. So, hastily throwing a loose gown over her nightdress, she hurried to the door. Opening the door the least bit, in order not to present her dishabille to a intruding eye, she shouted through the crack in a tone of sleepy impatience. 'The doctor's out,' and was about to close the door when the physician thrust one foot through, at the same time exclaiming: 'Yes, I know the doctor's out, but he wants to get in!'—Harper's Writty COFFEE HEART Very Plain in Some People. A great many people go on suffering from annoying ailments for a long time before they can get their own consent to give up the indulgence from which their trouble arises. A gentleman in Brooklyn describes his experience as follows: "I became satisfied some months ago that I owed the palpitation of the heart, from which I suffered almost daily, to the use of coffee (I had been a coffee drinker for 30 years), but I found it very hard to give up the beverage. "I realized that I must give up the harmful indulgence in coffee but I felt the necessity for a hot table drink, and as tea is not to my liking, I was at a loss for awhile what to do. "One day I ran across a very sensible and straightforward presentation of the claims of Postum Food Coffee, and was so impressed thereby that I concluded to give it a trial. My experience with it was unsatisfactory till I learned how it ought to be prepared-by thorough boiling for not less than 15 or 20 minutes. After I learned that lesson there was no trouble. Postum Food Coffee proved to be a most palatable and satisfactory hot beverage, and I have used it ever since. The effect on my health has been most salutary. It has completely curred the heart palpitation from which I used to suffer so much, particularly after breakfast, and I never have a return of it except when I dine or lunch away from home and am compelled to drink the old kind of coffee because Postum is not served. I find that Postum Food Coffee cheers and invigorates while it produces no harmful stimulation." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Ten days' trial proves an eye opener to many. Read the little book, "The Road to Welville" in every pkg. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT King Alfonso, we are confident, could get a wife of the right kind by advertising. Let the presses be stopped to announce the glad news from New York. The shad are running. The sculptor who swallowed his false teeth had to submit finally to being carved by the surgeons. From the way it is talking war just now, Peru must be getting jealous of the attention Venezuela is receiving. Newspaper mention is about all the profit that comes to the average poor man who falls heir to a fabulous fortune. That new antitoxin of laziness will have to be produced in enormous quantities if everybody is going to be cured. If we did all the things that we intend to do, we'd soon find that we shouldn't have time to intend to do so many.—Puck. We respectfully suggest that the baseball reporters ought to be a little more polite and refer to it in future as the "saliva" ball. The prayer of a condemned murderer in Pennsylvania is that he may be permitted to return as a spook and haunt his enemies. Bernard Shaw would better refrain from any sarcastic comment on Jim Corbett's ability as an actor of Shaw's or any one else's plays. A woman who married a poet applied for a divorce asserting that there was enough dirt on his person to make ground for the action. J. G. Phelps Stokes says his engagement to Miss Pastor was "inevitable. Own up, benedicts, all engagements are the same, aren't they, now? Says the sarcastic Philadelphia Press: "It is easy to see that Philadelphia is going to win both of the big baseball championships this year." A Croatian emigrant with a mustache a yard in length has settled down in Washington, D. C. He'll find Washington a town for his whiskers. "Taste buds" have been discovered in the larynx like those on the tongue. A long neck is no beauty in a man, but it may add considerably to life's pleasures. The Cinclinati Enquirer asks: "Was Hamlet really mad?" Probably not. He hadn't seen the performances of any of the people who were to try to play him. There are fears that the frost may have hurt young tobacco plants in Kentucky. Did you ever have a friend who smoked what appeared to be frost-bitten cigars? Parisians who wish to score a century of life now breakfast on "yaghart" exclusively. Yaghurt tastes like cream cheese "gone bad." Allow us to die young, please. Alfred Austin is reported to be at work on a poem dealing with the Russo-Japanese war. That ought to make them agree to have peace without haggling over terms. Of New York's 16,000 babies born in the last four months, less than ten came to the wealthiest section of Fifth avenue. Storks don't like to scrape their toenails on brownstone. "Will you take the chair once occupied by Immanuel Kant?" said the German government to Prof. Munsterburg of Harvard, and Prof. Munsterburg responded promptly: "Can't." Dr. Gladden says lawyers should not defend people whom they know to be guilty of wrongdoing. But did a lawyer for the defense ever believe it was possible for anybody to be guilty? There ought to be joy among the college girls, now that the U. S. circuit court of appeals, considering the question of duty on pickled limes, has decided that they shall be admitted free. John L. Sullivan now blesses the language with a new word. "Williwallapus" is intended to indicate the look of the man who boxes in the modern crouching position. And it goes. It is not true that the revival of interest in suits of plate armor is due to the opening of the baseball season. It is merely a coincidence that it is synchronous with the beginning of the umpires' work. The theatrical trust gentleman's statement that $20,000 is too slim a season's profit on one production isn't very cheering to those of us who had hoped to be able to afford to attend the theater a little more frequently next year. M. Vignaud, secretary of the American embassy at Paris, announces, after forty years of study on the subject, that Columbus was a humbug. Luckily, America is now at a point where her feelings won't be hurt by the discovery. British Foxes Made Abroad. The purchase of foreign fox cubs from importers of wild animals is attended with serious dangers. Wolves, jackals and such like creatures are easily mistaken, in the cub stage, for foxes, and now and then have been sold in England as veritable children of Br'er ox. This is the true explanation of those sensational outbreaks of sheep worrying during the past few years.—London Daily Mall. Diamonds in Canada. Dr. Ami, of the geological survey, says an Ottawa dispatch, believes that diamonds are hidden in that part of Canada between the great lakes and Hudson bay, and he warns surveying parties and explorers to be on the lookout for anything that will show traces of diamonds in that territory. Aids to Longevity. A man, 103 years of age, who has used tobacco and alcoholic drinks since boyhood and is still robust, says he has always carefully avoided danger—he has never ridden on a trolley car or elevated train, and never consulted a physician.—New York Times. A Tale or Suffering. Oakley, Mich., May 8th.—(Special)—"I could not sleep or rest in any place," says Florence Capen of this place in a recent interview, "I had a pain in my back and hips. If I sat down I could not get up out of my chair. I was in pain all the time. I got poor for I did not eat enough to keep a small child. I could not rest nights. "Then I sent for a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and went to taking them and what do you think, that very night I went to bed and I slept till morning. I got up and thanked God for the night's rest and Dodd's Kidney Pills. I know that Dodd's Kidney Pills are all that is claimed for them." This is only one of the numerous experiences that show the way to build up run down people is to cure the kidneys. Thousands of people in every state bear witness to the fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to cure the kidneys. The stumbling stones thoroughly ground make the best ballast to walk upon. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz, package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Most everything good is learned from what we should be rather than what we are. Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new catalogue to-day. JENKINS* MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. English Idea of Humor. When two well-to-do Englishmen or women laugh, it is obvious that a misfortune has happened to a third. Plea for Light in Houses. Another mistake is to have too little light. Why darkness and gloom should be sought in any portion of a house where people must live, has always been to me an unsolvable problem. Mysterious corners are in order in a cobwebbed attic or an underground cellar, but they are seriously-out of place in a pleasant room into which visitors are ushered, and which is supposed to be a rallying spot for the family.—Exchange. NO MORE HEADACHE NO MORE HEADACHE GENERAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER DISAPPEAR TOO. How a Woman Was Freed from Troubles That Had Made Life Wretched for Many Years. The immediate causes of headaches vary, but most of them come from poor or poisoned blood. In anemia the blood is scanty or thin; the nerves are imperfectly nourished and pain is the way in which they express their weakness. In colds the blood absorbs poison from the mucous surfaces, and the poison irritates the nerves and produces pain. In rheumatism, malaria and the grip, the poison in the blood produces like discomfort. In indigestion the gases from the impure matter kept in the system affect the blood in the same way. The ordinary headache-cures at best give only temporary relief. They deaden the pain but do not drive the poison out of the blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills on the contrary thoroughly renew the blood and the pain disappears permanently. Women in particular have found these pills an unfailing relief in headaches caused by anemia. Miss Stella Blocker recently said: "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did me a great deal of good. I had headache nearly all the time. After I had taken three boxes of these pills I became entirely well." "How long had you suffered?" she was asked. "For several years. I can't tell the exact date when my illness began for it came on by slow degrees. I had been going down hill for many years." "Did you have any other ailments?" "I was very weak and sometimes I had fever. My liver and kidneys were affected as well as my head." "How did you come to take the remedy that cured you?" "I saw in a southern newspaper a statement of some person who was cured of a like trouble by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. My physician hadn't done me any good, so I bought a box of these pills. After I had taken one box I felt so much better that I kept on until I became entirely well." Miss Blocker's home is at Leander, Louisiana. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists. Besides headache they cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous prostration, neural paralysis and rheumatism. Cheese Fatal to Many. An English coroner remarked recently at an inquest that it was strange what a large number of people died suddenly after eating cheese. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Free access to money would only increase your foolish desires. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nerveness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restore. No pain or bloat, and creatine. Dr. B. H. KINER, Ltd., 911 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. The beginning of advancement is the realization of truth. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Most all sweetness is embittered by imagination. 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. The enormity of ignorance is seldom realized. Watch for It. It will pay you to watch for the very first symptom of indigestion or liver trouble and to prevent the trouble from gaining headway, by quickly taking Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. Nothing is more weakening to the system than chronic dyspepsia, and all its complications. Nothing will cure it so quickly, pleasantly and surely as Syrup Pepsin. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it falls. The fellow that ignores gratitude is always needing help. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. The toppling of the air-castle often shatters the system. How's This? We offer One Caterhird Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's treatment. F J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney of Toledo, Ohio, who is a licensed orable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALLEY, K. of Toledo, O. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the brain. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Character is better than a check so long as you don't cash it. Investigation of the Packers. Very general interest has been manifested in the government investigation now in progress into the mode of conducting business by the large packers located in Chicago and elsewhere. Much has been written upon the alleged illegal and improper modes of business procedure connected with the packing industry; but it seems that so far no definite charge of any kind has been sustained and no proof of illegal or inequitable methods has been disclosed to the public. While a wave of severe criticism of this great industrial interest is now passing over the country it might be well to remember that the packers have had as yet no opportunity to make specific denial, the many indefinite charges of wrongdoing having never been formulated so that a categorical answer could be made. The recent report of Commissioner Garfield, which embodied the results of an official investigation undertaken by the Department of Commerce and Labor of the United States, was a vindication of the Western packers, but this result having been unexpected attempts in many quarters to discredit it were made. In view of the situation as it now stands, however, attention may properly be called to a few facts that owing to popular clamor are now being apparently overlooked. Fair treatment in this country has heretofore been accorded to all citizens whose affairs assume prominence in the public eye and some of the facts that bear upon the relation of the packers to the commerce of the country may at this time be briefly alluded to. It would be difficult to estimate the benefits gained by the farmers of the country resulting from the energetic enterprise of the packers, for whatever is of benefit to the farmer is a gain to the entire commerce of the country. And connected with their continuous aggressive work no feature perhaps has been more important than their efforts in seeking outlets all over the world for the surplus products of the farmer. Our total exports of agricultural products have gained but little in the past twenty years, and leaving out corn, the total of all other farm products was far less in 1903 than in 1891. But in packing house products there was considerable gain during this period because an organized and powerful force has been behind them seeking new and broader markets. Besides the benefits reaped by farmers on account of the enterprise and energy exercised by the packers in attaining commercial results by foreign trade, the great development in the manufacture of packing house by-products has added enormously to the value of all live stock raised in the United States. The waste material of twenty years ago, then an expense to the packer, is now converted into articles of great value, and, as an economic fact, this must correspondingly increase the value to the farmer of every head of cattle marketed at the numerous stockyards of the country. Let these facts be remembered while now it is so popular to regard the great packing industry as deserving of condemnation. At least it must be admitted that, so far, there is no adequate reason for the almost unanimous howl that may be heard everywhere in the face of the Garfield report above alluded to which practically exonerates the packers from the obscure and indefinite charges that have been for some time past made the subject of popular comment. — American Homestead. LATE MARKET REPORT. Kansas City. NATIVE STEERERS. $ 4 00 @ $ 6 50 HOGS—Heavy. $ 5 81 @ $ 5 45 WHEAT—No. 2 hard. $ 1 02 @ $ 1 05 WHEAT—No. 3 hard. $ 1 04 @ $ 1 05 CORN—No. 2 mixe. $ 31 @ $ 49 DATS—No. 2 mixe. $ 31 @ $ 39 DAY—Choice Timothy $ 9 51 @ 10 01 France. $ 7 73 @ 8 03 BUTTER. $ — @ 18 EGGS. $ — @ 18 Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEERERS $ 4 05 @ $ 6 55 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. $ 2 75 @ $ 5 00 HEIFERS. $ 3 00 @ $ 5 00 HOGS. $ 5 43 @ $ 5 55 Chicago Cash Grain. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. $ 96 @ $ 97 No. 2 Hard. $ 91 @ $ 94 OARN—No. $ 94 @ $ 94 OATS—No. 2 $ 83 @ $ 83 St. Louis Live Stock. BEEF STEERERS. $ 4 50 @ $ 6 50 COWS & HEIFERS. $ 2 90 @ $ 5 05 TEXAS STEERERS. $ 3 5) @ $ 5 25 Cotton. LIVERPOOL. 4.814 NEW YORK. 8.10c GALVESTON. 7%c Chicago Futures. Open High Low Close T'd y Close Y'd y WHEAT— May. $ 91% $ 91% $ 91% July. $ 83% $ 84% $ 84%% Sep. $ 75% $ 79% $ 78% $ 79% $ 75 OARN— May. $ 48% $ 49% $ 48% $ 49% July. $ 44% $ 47% $ 46% $ 47% Sept. $ 41% $ 41% $ 41% $ 47% OATS— May. $ 31% $ 31% $ 30% $ 30% July. $ 29% $ 29% $ 29% $ 29% $ 29% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS. $ 4 81 @ $ 4 90 COWS. $ 2 8) @ $ 3 25 STOCKERS. — @ $ 3 14 HEIFERS. — @ $ 2 51 STEERS. $ 3 0) @ $ 3 85 CALVES. $ 7 5) @ $ 4 4) LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. Emil Lefebure, Sr., a noted importer of Belgian horses, is dead at Cedar Rapids, la., aged 70 years. A vienna newspaper says that Kubelik, the violinist, will soon become the owner of a string of race horses. At Constadt two naval officers, who recently at a ball were singing revolutionary songs, have been sentenced to two years in prison. By a judgment of the supreme court of Pretoria the old Boer law forbidding natives in the Transvaal to acquire land has been annulled. In Rome the Osservatoire, organ of the Vatican, denied the report that negotiations are on foot with the view of Emperor Francis Joseph making a visit to Rome. At Constantinople the Sultan has conferred on J. Pierpont Morgan the grand cordon of the Osmanli Order and presented him a vase from the imperial porcelain factory. Vittorio Jaffwl, an Italian anarchist, who was recently arrested in Cairo, charged with being an accomplice of Bresci, the Italian anarchist, who killed King Humbert, has started in custody for Italy. At Tokio the complete tabulation shows that the fifth internal loan of $50,000,000 was over-subscribed more than four times. The rate of issue was smaller than the early indications promised. Dr. Wm. Hammond, a pioneer of San Francisco, is dead, aged 80 years. He was the uncle of John Hays Hammond and Wm. Hammond Hall. At the time of the Broderick duel he officiated as one of the surgeons. Telegrams from Karlsruhe, where Emperor William arrived, describe him as much benefited from his Mediterranean trip. His naturally pale face has become really browned by exposure to the southern sun. In London William A. Bass, nephew and heir of Lord Burton, has purchased C. D. Rose's stallion Cyllene for $150,000. Cyllene is the sire of a Derby favorite, Cicero. Mr. Bass gave $125,000 for R. S. Siever's Scepter in 1903. Major General Shuvaloff, hitherto attached to the ministry of the interior, has been appointed prefect of police of Moscow in place of General Volkoff, who has been transferred to the governorship of Taurida, southern Russia. On the request of the San Francisco police, Edward J. Smith, a San Francisco collector who is said to be wanted to answer a charge of embezzling some $62,000, was arrested at Union station in St. Louis. Night Chief of Police Gillespie stated that Smith admits his identity and announces his willingness to return to San Francisco without requisition papers. Dr. Washington Gladden, moderator of the general council of Congregational churches of America, will leave Columbus, O., for the west on a two weeks trip during which he will visit a number of cities and address state Congregational meetings. In his talks Dr. Gladden will refrain from discussing the controversy of the Rockefeller gift to the board of missoinaries. In the Swedish chamber on April 5 a government bill was introduced fixing penalties for the declaration of strikes. At Baltimore the British steamer Ormonde which went ashore near Watkins Point, was floated and towed to a safe harbor. The New York Cash store at 116-118 South Tejon street, in Colorado Springs, was damaged $60,000 by fire and the building, a three story brick structure, was damaged about $10,000. The loss is covered by insurance. About 35 clerks fled from the store in a panic when smoke began pouring up from the basement but there were no casualties. In Philadelphia a freight train on the Reading and Philadelphia road crashed into a trolley car, killing an unknown woman and injuring three men, one seriously. Calumet Baking Powder complies with the pure food laws of all states. Food prepared with it is free from Rochelle salts, lime, alum and ammonia. Trust Baking Powders sell for 45 or 50 cents per pound and may be identified by this exhorbitant price. They are a menace to public health, as food prepared from them contains large quantities of Rochelle salts, a dangerous cathartic drug Thought and imaginations that won't enlighten will not advance us. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound packages, and the price is the same, 16 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Nature resembles a stream of water, according to its purity and depth. THE GRAND PRIZE TOWER'S FISH BRAND THE GRAND PRIZE WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING RECEIVED THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE AWARD AT THE ST. LOUIS WORLD'S PAIR. Send us the names of dealers in your town who do not sell our goods, and we will send you a collection of pictures, in colors, of famous towers of the world. m A.J. TOWER CO. E. ESTABLISHED 1836 BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. TOWER CANADIAN CO. LIMITED TORONTO CAN. $50 POSITION PAY TUITION AFTER POSITION IS SECURED The first eight who clip this notice and send it Ft. Scott, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Muskegee, St. Louis or Pt. Worth, may, without giving notes, pay EVERY CENT of tuition out of salary after course is completed. If good position is not secured no pay required. MAIL COURSE FREE. If not ready to enter college now you may take lessons by mail FREEL until ready, which will save cost of board, etc. Draughon's P. B. C. Co. has $800,000,000 capital, equipment and TWENTY-Colleges in THIRTEEN states to back every claim it makes. Established 16 year. Clip and send this notice to day. Are made of heavy Kid, Box Calf or Mule Skin. Extra heavy unbleached drills are used for linings, and vamps are double lined. Counters, innersoles and outersoles are made of the best solid sole leather. Heavy eyelets, are used and three rows of stitching on vamps. Bottoms are sewed with heavy Irish fax thread. This means that "Hoosier School Shoes" are made honestly. That they are made to look right, to feel right and to wear. The price is low. Ask your dealer to show them to you. He can if he will. These shoes have become so popular that they are now made in women's sizes. PISO'S CURE FOR CREEKS WHENE ALL ELSE FANS, Best Cough Syrup, Better Good, Use Consumption by Adults bers increase with health or decrease with illness or malnutrition. The best tonic for increasing the red blood corpuscles and building up healthy tissue is no doubt Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. This medicine has been on the market for over a third of a century and numbers its cures by the thousand. The Secret of Good Coffee Even the best housekeepers cannot make a good cup of coffee without good material. Dirty, adulterated and queerly blended coffee such as unscrumpulous dealers shovel over their counters won't do. But take the pure, clean, natural flavored LION COFFEE, the leader of all package coffees-- the coffee that for over a quarter of a century has been daily welcomed in millions of homes—and you will make a drink fit for a king in this way: Use LION COFFEE because to get best results, use a "tablepoonful to each cup, and one extra for each." Fill mix it with a little cold water, enough to make a thick paste, and add half of an egg (if egg is to be used as a settler), then follow one of the following rules: 1. WITH BOILING WATER. Add boiling water, and let it boil THREE MINUTES ONLY. Add a little cold water and set aside five minutes to settle. Serve promptly. 2. WITH COLD WATER. Add your cold water to the paste and bring it to a boil inside, add a little cold water, and in five minutes it’s ready to serve. 3. {Don't boil it too long. {Don't let it stand more than ten minutes before serving. DON'T use water that has been boiled before. TWO WAYS TO SETTLE COFFEE. 1st. With Eggs. Use part of the white of an egg, mixing it with the ground LION COFFEE before boiling. 2nd. With Cold Water instead of eggs. After boiling add a dash of cold water, and set aside for eight or ten minutes, then serve through a strainer. Insist on getting a package of genuine LION COFFEE, prepare it according to this recipe and you will only use LION COFFEE in future. (Sold only in 1 lb. scaled packages.) (Lion-head on every package.) 'Air in Vein Causes Death. Air getting into a vein while he was undergoing an operation in St. Thomas' Hospital, London, was the cause of the death of Frederick Thomas Kennedy the other day. A verdict of "accidental death" was returned. DON'T FORGET A large 2-ey, package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. It is not the impressions we make, but the ones we leave that are credited to our reward. Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2ce bottle. Contentment is the only essential thing in happiness. Piceo's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all afections of the throat and lungs — W.M. O. ENDERLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900 Some people become nervous wrecks by cultivating sensitiveness. More Flexible and Lasting. won't shake out or blow out; by using DeFiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. In the hedge there may be thorns but learn to fence. Alabastine..... Your Walls Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria, Small Pox — the germs of these deadly diseases multiply in the decaying glue present in all kalsomines, and the decaying paste under wall paper. ALABASTINE is a disinfectant; it destroys disease germs and vermin; is manufactured from a stone cement base, hardens on the walls, and is as enduring as the wall itself. ALABASTINE is mixed with cold water, and any one can apply it. Ask for sample card of beautiful tints and information about decorating. Take no cheap substitute. Buy only In 5 pound packages properly labeled. ALABASTINE COMPANY Grant Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. New York Office, 105 Water St. bers increase with nutrition. The best puscles and buildi Pierce's Golden Me on the market for its cures by the tho Blood THOMAS A. EDISON, the inventor, in ma- ping out the prob- lems of the future, gives first place to the necessity of fighting the bacteria which give us our diseases. Next to the actual bacteria of disease, the mosquitos and flies are the most dangerous enemies of man. The mosquito with its bite injects into our veins malaria, yellow fever, and other fatal troubles. The fly, with spongy feet, collects the invisible germs of diseases, spreads them over our food and poisons us with typhoid, cholera and other plagues of the human race. GOOD RED BLOOD OUR AMMUNITION. The blood which flows through our veins and arteries should contain healthy red blood corpuscles which are capable of warding off the attack of the disease germs if they get into the system. ```markdown ``` Dr. Pierce, the eminent physician of Buffalo, N. Y., says, "if each person will consider his system as an army of men which he controls as a general, and will see to its proper provisioning and that it has plenty of ammunition in the shape of good red blood, he will be able to overcome the enemy in the shape of the germs of disease." Every healthy person has five million red blood cells or corpuscles to every square millimeter of blood. The number of red blood corpuscles in the average human being is so great that it is almost incomprehensible. However, their num- The Secret of Even the best housekeeper coffee without good material. blended coffee such as unscrup counters won't do. But take the LION COFFEE, the lea the coffee that for over a qua welcome in millions of homes for a king in this way: MADE NEST IN BEARD. Mouse Took Great Liberty With Miner in Alaska. A mouse may naturally be a "timid beastie," but at times it shows an audacity which borders on the impertinent. A traveler in Alaska brings home this experience of his Klondike wanderings. The teller of the story passed a long, cold winter at Cape Nome. He and his companions had for a year or more, let their beards grow, as a protection for their throats and chests. One night when all were asleep the man in question was awakened by a light patting on his face. The cold as intense, and not caring to move unless it was necessary, he lay still. Again the light touches on his cheek. He put up his hand, and his fingers closed on a tiny mouse tangled in the meshes of his beard. A companion, roused by the involuntary exclamation, lighted a candle and investigated. The mouse had selected the beard as a warm and eligible site for a residence. It had burrowed out a nice, round nest and when caught was engaged in dropping beans, purloined from the scanty larder, into the receptacle thus made. -Youth's Companion, First Trade in the World. Two blacksmiths were once conversing as to which was the first trade in the world. One insisted that it must have been gardening, and quoted from Genesis: "Adam was put into the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it." "Ay, John," retorted the other, who had stood up for his own trade, "but what made the spades?" Old Castle is Ruined. Rossbriin Castle, once a stronghold of the O'Mahony clan, on the coast of West Cork, near Schull, having withstood many a storm, was almost completely demolished in a recent gale. A breach made in the walls during a siege by Sir George Carew in Queen Elizabeth's time proved the weak point during the late gale. Dog's Birth Certificate. In support of her contention that an unlicensed dog, on account of which she had been summoned, was not six months old, a woman in East Grinstead, England, produced in court the dog's birth certificate, signed by a veterinary surgeon. A tonic made up largely of alcohol will shrink the corpuscles of the blood and make them weaker for resistance. A cod liver oil makes the stomach groan because it is irritating. What is needed is an alternative extract made of roots and herbs, without the use of alcohol, that will assist the stomach in assimilating or taking up from the food such elements as are required for the blood, also an alternative that will assist the activity of the liver and cause it to throw off the poisons in the blood. When we have accomplished this we have put the system in a fortified condition so strong that it can repel the germs of disease which we find everywhere—in the street-cars, the shops, the factories, the bedrooms, wherever many people congregate, or where sunlight and good air does not penetrate. Accept no substitute for "Golden Medical Discovery." There is nothing "just as good" for diseases of the stomach, blood and lungs. Many Spaniards Seriously Object to Their King's Visit. THINK IT IS A GERMAN PLOT. Kaiser Said to Have Offered a Tempting Bait to the Spanish Nation—Affair Handled Carefully to Avert a Storm. Paris, May 9.—A cloud has arisen over the coming Anglo-French-Spanish celebrations attending King Alfonzo's visit to France owing to the hostile attitude of a large element of the Spanish press against the king's giving this significant adhesion to France's policy in Morocco. The affair appears to be taking all the diplomatic sagacity of Jules Cambon, the French ambassador to Spain, to avert a storm. Both the Republican and liberal elements in Spain contest the right of the premier and minister for foreign affairs to accompany the king on his mission, which they declare would-commit the nation irreparably to the support of the French-Moroccan policy. They further assert that the court has nothing approved of the king nor the ministers can cast Spain's influence either way in the conflict now agitating Berlin, Paris and Fez. The French view the agitation as being part of Germany's diplomatic maneuvering. They declare that the German campaign has for its object the revival of Spain's dream of restoring her ancient authority over the Moors and the houses giving Spain, instead of France, paramount influence in Morocco under the aegis of Germany's support. But notwithstanding the press campaign favorable to Germany, King Alfonso, the Spain premier, and other ministers are resolutely determined to carry out the visit and participate in its significant assurances of Spain's standing with France and Great Britain. Despite official denials the feeling prevails in high quarters that M. Del Casse will not wish to retain the foreign office portfolio much longer. The cabinet situation is no longer attributed to Morocco, but to a divergence of views concerning who should control France's foreign policy. M. Del Casse's prestige throughout Europe naturally leads him to want a free hand, and M. Rouver evidently desires to occupy a position analogous to that of Count Von Buelow, the German chancellor, in laying down foreign policies. The personal relations between the premier and the foreign minister remain most cordial, yet the diplomatic corps would not be surprised to see M. Del Casse step down before long. The suggestion in Japanese press that Japan place an embargo on French merchant traffic in Indo-Chinese waters is not taken seriously here. IS IGNORING DEPARTMENT. Lenapah Oil and Gas Company Dealing Directly With Indians. Muskogee, I. T. May 9.—The Lenapah Oil and Gas Company, of Lenapah, I. T., is leasing Cherokee lands for oil and gas purposes, direct from the allottees and filing the same in the United States court at Nowata. The company is going ahead on the assumption that, in accordance with the recent ruling of the United States supreme court, where an Indian receives a patent to his land, he then becomes a citizen of the United States and is no longer a ward of the nation. The company has had but one lease approved by the department and is now proceeding to execute leases without the approval of Secretary Hitchcock. It is understood that a representation of the government will be sent to Lenapah to arrest any person who attempts to drill on a lease not regularly approved by the department. TO COMPLETE ORGANIZATION. Members of American Stock Growers' Association to Meet. Denver, Col., May 9. — Today the leading stockmen from all parts of the country will assemble in this city to take up the work of concluding the organization of the American Stock Growers' Association. This association was partially formed during the annual convention of the National Live Stock Association held here in January last, when a split occurred over the question of limiting the membership of that association. Those who went into the new association were displeased with the admission to membership in the old association of packers, railroad representatives and persons of that class. Special Dispensation Given. Rome, May 10.—Father Martin of the General Order of Jesus, is recovering from the recent amputation of his arm. Pope Pius gave him a special dispensation to celebrate mass without his right arm. Mayor Dunning Dead. Early, New York, May 8. — Major gineering department of the United Ralph Dunning, who entered the en-States army when Andrew Jackson was president, is dead in Brooklyn at the age of 94. A JUDGE'S WIFE PAIN IN THE BACK AND SIDE MRS. MINNIE McALLISTER Mrs. Carrie King, Darlington, Mo., writes: "I have suffered for years with biliousness, and kidney and liver trouble. "If I caught a little cold, the pains were increased and backache and headache were of frequent occurrence. "However, Peruna cured me—twelve bottles made me a healthy woman." MEN'S PATRIOT $3.20 SHOE These Shoes w Grand Prize at St.' The PATRIOT SHOE for over stylish yet comfortable Glorious heel which makes it fair to irritate the foot. The MA- KER is made in wells and hand turns. It is made in leather and can be written as direct. They will please centes to $1.50 per pair in price this character. STAR BRAND SHOE ROBERTS JOHNSON ST. LOUIS Many who formerly smok LEWIS'S SING STRAIGHT Dealers supplied by their jobber or direct. W. L. DOUG UNION MADE. $3.50 & $3.00 SHOE W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the great world because of their excellent, clear, cawler wearing qualities. They are just cost from $5.00 to $7.00. The only diffie- tive value by stamping this name shape better, wear longer, and are of great other $3.50 shoe on the market to-day. W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are sold through the department store, by shoe dealer, where you live. W. L. Douglas shoes are BETTER THAN OTHER MAKES AT "For lace shoes we have worn L. Douglas only as good but better than ours that Chas. L. Farrell, Ast. Caskner The Capital National Boys wear W. L. Douglas $2.50 and $2.00 sho better, hold their shape, and wear longer W. L. DOUGLAS $4.00 SHOES CANNOT BE EQUA- tioned with our shoes in his $3. Fast Color Eyelets WILL NOT W. L. Douglas has the largest shoe mail order No trouble to get a kit by mail. $2c, extra propag- ation in mail. W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MA $20 to $40 Highest grade Estey, Mason & Hamilin, Story & Clark, Kumbali, Chicheon or neat for high guaranteed like new; special descriptions and prices for the asking. Write to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Write writing mention this paper. A CLEAR, HEALTHY SKIN Sandholm's Eczema and Skin Remedy Purifies, Then Heals Potassium, Magnesium, Eruptions, Insect Bites and all diseases of the skin. An absolute cure for Skin or Scaly Disease Ask Drugstor or Scaly FREE SAMPLE and BOOKLET. Write to-dept. 6, SANDHOLM DRUG CO., Des Moines, Ia. GRAPHITE BEARINGS NEED NO OILING Made of the Best Material, Strong, Plain and Powerful. Runs light wind and quiet. The gears are made from cut gear patterns, will not ruffle if not oiled for weeks. Send for special description. DEMPSTER MFG. CO. Des Moines, Iowa. NOT THE CHEAPEST BUT The Best Steel Mill W. N.—Wichita—No. 19—1905 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. FADELE her dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask dealer or we will送 post nast at 10c a package. Write for free booklet: How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unicornite, Missouri Dog's Kisses Caused Tumor. The danger of kissing dogs is illustrated by the experience of a young lady which is told in the London Lancet. She had been in the habit of fondling and kissing a pet dog, and when she developed a tumorous growth it was discovered that her trouble was due to the presence of a number of worms which had been transferred from the dog to the tissues of her cheek. Getting Closer to Heaven. Once in the Pacific coast forests, the writer came upon a magnificent sugar pine, the only tree of its kind for miles around and a landmark even in that region of giant trees. My guide, as he looked up at the top, which lifted itself almost into the clouds, remarked: 'If a man could climb that tree on a Christmas morning he could hear the church bells ringing in heaven.'--Exchange. Find Buried Treasure. In the Immediate neighborhood of the little town of Klingman, in Switzerland, a case was found containing an assortment of 829 gold coins. Most of the coins are of the years from 1602 to 1704. It is thought that the gold was buried at the time of the Spanish war of succession. The gold value of the coins is estimated at 35,000, and the numismatic value at over 100,000 francs. Modern Hunting. In shooting as in other sports, thorough luxuriousness is now regarded by modern shooters as a prime necessity of enjoyment. They have their loading done for them, their birds are driven to them and in greatly increased numbers, their luncheon hours are devoted to the best in many courses of food and wine and they get home by motor as quickly as possible after shooting is over.—London Country Gentleman. "Dyspepsia Tormented Me for Years, Dr. David Connery, a favorite homely cured meat, K. Dougherty, Millville, N.J. Used over 20 years. 8.10. If you can get along without help you don't need sympathy. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. There is little peace for those who won't try to be peaceable. Cannot Reduce a Rate. It is stated in Washington, that under the Townsend rate bill, if a rate is fixed by the Commission it cannot be lowered by a railroad. Should an emergency arise calling for a decreased rate, the railroads or shippers would have to appeal again to the Commission, there being no latitude allowed, whatever the circumstances. Hitherto a maximum rate has been the rule, but no such concession is made under the proposed legislation. Those who wait to be pushed ahead are frequently pushed behind. "IT SAVED MY LIFE" PRAISE FOR A FAMOUS MEDICINE Mrs. Willadsen Tells How She Tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Just In Time. Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning, Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "I can truly say that you have saved my life, and I cannot express my gratitude to you in words. Mrs T.C.Willadsen "Before I wrote to you, telling you how I felt, I had doctored for over two years steady and spent all of money on medicines besides, but it all failed to help me. My monthly periods had ceased and I suffered much pain, with paint spells, headache, backache and bearing-down pains, and I was so weak I decided to write you and try Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I am so thankful that I did, for after following your instructions, which you sent me free of all charge, my monthly periods started: I am regular and in perfect health. Had it not been for you I would be in my grave to day. "I sincerely trust that this letter may lead every suffering woman in the country to write you for help as I did." When women are troubled with irregular or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, flatulence, general debility, indigestion and nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lyda E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. Refuse all substitutes. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. The PATRIOT SHOE for Men is made from all leathers, over stylish yet comfortable laces, to fit any foot. They are designed with will dazzle fabric that is no or frail to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWER SHOE for Women is made in welted and hand turns. Is stylish, durable and comfortable. Ask your dealer for them, you can do it yourself. Write your message to the dealer you and you will save from 60 cents to $1.50 per pair in prices usually charged for shoes of this character. **STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER** **ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO.** Many who formerly smoked 10¢ Cigars now smoke LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Dealers supplied by their jobber or direct from Frank P. Lewis' Factory, Pearls, Ill W. L. DOUGLAS UNION MADE. $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN. W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the greatest sellers in the world because of their excellent style, easy fitting and superb cost from $5.00 to $7.00. The only difference in the price, shape better, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other $3.50 shoe on the market to-day. W. L. Douglas guard-bottom of each shoe. Look for it. Take no substitute. W. L. Douglas shoes are sold through own retail store, the principal retailer where you live. W. L. Douglas shoes are within your reach. BETTER THAN OTHER MAKES AT ANY PRICE. "For a good pair of shoes, but better than any shoe that I ever had, requisition of price." Chas. L. Farrell, Ast. Cashier The Capital National Bank, Indianapolis, Ind. Boys wear W. L. Douglas $2.50 and $2.00 shoes because they fit better, hold their shape, and wear longer than other makes. W. L. DOUGLAS $4.00 SHOES CANNOT BE EQUALLED AT ANY PRICE. Col. Cousin is considered the best patient leather producer. FAST COLOR EYELETS WILL NOT WEAR BRASSY. W. L. Douglas has the largest shoe mail order business in the world. You may buy mail or extra products for further information, write for illustration. Catalogue of Spring Eyes. W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. 37hr in city, war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since. BENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. When writing mention this paper. A CLEAR, HEALTHY SKIN Sandhole's Eczema and Skin Remedy Pictures, When Heids Positively cure Eczema, Simples Eruptions, Insect Bites and all diseases of the skin. An absolute cure Quickly Cured by a Short Course of Pe-ru-na. MRS. MINNIE E. MALLISTER wife of judge McAlister, writer from 1217 West 33rd street, Minneapolis, Minn., as follows: "I suffered for years with a pain in the small of my back and right side. I interfered often with my domestic and social duties and I never supposed that I would be cured, as the doctor's medicine did not seem to help me any. "Fortunately a member of our Order advisen me to try Peruna and gave such high praise that I decided to be it. Although I started in with little faith, I felt so much better in a week that I felt encouraged. "I took it faithfully for seven weeks and am happy indeed to be able to say that I am entirely cured. "Words fail to express my gratitude. Perfect health once more is the best thing I could wish for, and thanks to Peruna, I enjoy that now." Pain in the back, or on the right side. How often a physician hears this complaint! Over and over we hear women say "I have a paid in the small of my back. I have a pain in my right side, just be low the ribs." These symptoms indicate pelvic or abdominal catarrh. They indicate that the bowels are not acting properly—that the liver is out of order—that the pelvic organs are congested. Pelvic catarrh—that is the name for *Peruna cures pelvic catarrh*, who all of these symptoms disappear. The catarrh may be all in the abdomen organs, when it would be properly called abdominal catarrh. At any rate, it is one of those cases of internal catarrh which can be reached only by a course of treatment with Peruna. We have on file thousands of technologists similar to the above. It is impossible here to give our readers more than one or two specimens of the number of grateful and commendatory letters Dr. Hartman is constantly receiving in behalf of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna. WOMEN'S MAYFLOWER $2 30 SHOE Were Awarded Louis World's Fair Men is made from all leather, laces, to fit any foot. They are flexible soles, to make them WALLOWER SHOE for Women stylish, durable and comfortable. If he does not handle these shoes, you and you will save from 50 as usually charged for shoes of DOES ARE BETTER RAND SHOE CO. U.S.A. Kicked 10¢ Cigars now smoke GLE BINDER 5¢ CIGAR Set from Frank P. Lewis' Factory, Poorin, Ill. W. L. Douglas makes and sells more Men's $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. $10,000 REWARD to any one who can disprove this statement FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE FARMER WESTERN CANADA FREE Is the record on the Free Homestead Lands of Western Canada for 1904. The 150,000 farmers from the United States who during the past seven years have gone to Canada participate in this prosperity. The United States will soon become an Imperator wheat. Get a free homestead or purchase a farm and become one of those also who help produce it. Apply for information to Superintendent of Im- migration, Ottawa, Canada, or authorized agent, Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. MOST PROFITABLE FARM INVESTMENT This is what the Cream Separator has proved to be. Twenty years of experience upon the part of hundreds of thousands of users in every country of the world best witness to the fact. No one disputes it. A WOMAN IN A WORKSHOP There never was a better time to make this all-important farm investment than the present. Butter is unprecedentedly high in price. It is most desirable that none be left go to wheat, and that the quality be such as to command top prices. If you have cream to separate you cannot afford to delay this investment a single day. If you haven't the ready cash the machine will earn its cost while you are paying for it. THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. Randolph & Canal Sts. 74 Cortlandt Street NEW YORK in equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri