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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER KNIGHTS of TABOR And Progress of The Taborian Order May, May 23rd, was a banner in the Order of Twelve in Wichita that night was organized and in being a Taborian Temple of good, solid men, determ-push the work of the order to set. The Club, which was trans-into a Temple, Tuesday night, organized about three weks ago are been holding meetings at in-uring that time and every de-organization of the Temple thoroughly completed and the from a Club to a Temple was without any hitch. Temple was initiated by Rev. Wilson, of Kansas iCty, Kan., and Mentor of the Kansas-Jurisdiction, who arrived on Monday morning from Salina, he had been on business con-duct the order. The Temple level in the Odd Fellows' hall, Main street, Tuesday night, with eighteen men. Temple was completed by the following officers for the year: Chief Mentor Vice-Mentor Chief Scribe Assistant Scribe Chief Treasurer Chief Orator Drill Master Outer Sentinel Chief Judge Chief Judge Chief Judge Chief Attendant Chief Attendant Chief Attendant Chief Guard Chief Guard Color Bearer THE KNIGHTS CF TABOR. Not be miss at this point new words about the Knights known as the Order of been founded during the dark mavery by that great race face lover, Father Moses whose great desire in those people to do something which when the liberation of his kins- sage people from the curse of natural slavery led him to or- of TABOR plendid Temple er of Twelve chita About the Origin ganize the Knights of Liberty. This ante-bellum organization of slaves began what was, in later years known as the "Underground Railway," which did so much in planting thousands of task-ridden slaves on "free soil." Just at a time when the Knights of Liberty were prepared to strike a blow for "liberty or death" the great civil war broke out and the Knights of Liberty became, as fast as possible, Union soldiers. After the close of the war, the declaration of peace and freedom of the slaves—the object for which the Knights of Liberty were organized, having been accomplished, the need of its further work was vanquished. But the founder of the Knights of Liberty saw the great need of some organization among the freed slaves—and he foresaw much work for an organization among them. The emancipation proclamation threw four millions of slaves upon their own resources, without one dollar, without homes, and without food—and there were schools to be estabished, houses to be got, food secured, clothing obtained and last—but not least—minds to be trained in the American form of civilization. So the founder of the Knights of Liberty placed in existence the Knights of Tabor or the Order of Twelve. This order took the slaves up where the emancipation proclamation proclamation had left them. Father Dickson and this order secured homes and clothing and much work was accomplished in the interest of the race. Today thousands of monuments of good work done stand forth as a perpetual memorial of the accomplishments of this noble order. As time progressed and as the race acquired education and learning the Order of Twelve or the Knights of Tabor has been modified to conform to the improved conditions and have year by year kept pace with the constantly growing Americanism—until today in every village, in every valley and on every hill top the banner of this grand order floats in the breezeas a symbol of the toil and forethought of its founders in the interest of a struggling race of humanity. And wherever this Taborian banner floats there stands the signal of higher, more noble and grander progress of the American negro. This is no pauper organization tho it was founded, nursed and is ever cherished by Afro-Americans. In money—they have done their part—in real property they are doing most remarkably well. Among the cardinal purposes of 777 WICHITA, KANSAS MAY 27 1905 the order are to encourage its members to buy homes—support race enterprises, and to engage in legitimate business pursuits, and be good citizens. To show what the order is doing in this line we will cite thir work in the Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction from which the Temple organized Tuesday night secures their authority. THEIR WORK. Since July, 1904, when the Grand Temple and Tabernacle met in Ft. Scott, the order has paid out the following: Endowment ..... $1,965.00 Funeral Expenses ..... 1,035.00 For Sick Dues ..... 1,005.00 These are the official figures from July 15th, 1904 to May 15th, 1905, which show that the order is, indeed, doing much to help humanity, and besides having paid out this large sum of money there is still the neat sum of $1,200.00 in their treasury with no debts outstanding. We think that this is a record of which the rder of Twelve may justly feel proud. In the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction there are 2,500 members in the three departments—the Temples, Tabernacles and Tents, and in the national order there is a membership of 95,000 in the three departments. So it can be seen that the order is here and here to stay, and is making substantial strides in every way. As was stated, among the cardinal principles of the order is to encourage the accumulation of property. The order in the Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction has made a very creditable start in that direction under the leadership of their able leader, Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor of the Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction. The Knights of Tabor own the following real estate in Kansas: One 3-story hall, Atchison, at $3,500.00 One 2-story hall, Salina, at... 2,750.00 One 2-story hall, So, Topeka, at 2,000.00 One 2-story hall, N.Topeka, at 1,500.00 One 2-story hall, K. C., Ks., at 3,200.00 One lot in Coffeyville, at... 400.00 One lot in Parsons, at... 600.00 Total property value...$13,950.00 Beyond all question all will readily admit that this is a very pleasing and substantial showing for a race organization and one which owes its foundation to men of our race. What is true of the Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction is true of every jurisdiction in America. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor are a progressive race organization and one which no member of the race can feel ashamed. The work of the order is so conducted that the members have at all times a most substantial backing. Much credit is due Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor of the Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction, for his untiring efforts in guiding the affairs of the order in his territory until today the Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction stands in the fore ranks of the great jurisdictions of the order and is still making rapid progress. The order has opened its doors in Wichita and invites all good and true race men to come. The order knows no denomination and all race men are measured by their individual worth. Connected with the order is the Tabernacle for the women, the Tent for the children and the Uniform Rank, all of which are in a flourishing condition both numerically and financially. As time glides away this noble order of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor are massing up and preparing to aid the needy, help the sick, bury the dead, care for the widow and orphan, and assist its members in securing homes. If you would like to cast your lot with them and go on to progress and prosperity, hand your application to some of the officers of Taborian Temple and it will receive prompt attention. COLORED GRADUATES. The eighth grade graduating exercises of the public schools were held Thursday night at the Auditorium before a large crowd of enthusiastic parents and friends. The graduating class was a large one and among them was the following colored pupils who graduated and are now ready for the High School: From Emerson School—Elizabeth Whitted, Irma Clark, Laura Rawles, Robt. Mallory, Claud Clark. Park School—Fay Anderson. Ingalls School—Bessie Starnes, Myrtle Crouch. Washington School—Nora Hyder. Never Mind The Negro Is The Wholesome Advice A Baptist Clergy In Kans. City "God Will Take Care Of The Negro" He Said Kansas City. "It is no affair of this convention to solve the so-called negro problem. It is our duty to find our duty and recognize and discharge it. God will take care of the problem." Dr. L. O. Dawson, of Alabama, chairman of a commission appointed at the Nashville convention, a year ago, to investigate work among the negroes, delivered his report before the annual Southern Baptist convention, in this city. The above declaration, in which Dr. Dawson opened his report, caused something of a surprise. Continuing, the report said: "No fixed policy can with wisdom be adopted by a convention dealing with a shifting problem. A plan preeminently wise today might be foolish tomorrow. In all our policies there should be an elasticity that would render readjustment or entire change not only possible, but easy. "By far the greatest force in leading the negro up from savagery has been his varied contact with Christian white men and women. In this daily personal contact with the negro, necessary to our Southern life, lies our greatest opportunity to help, and herein is found our chief duty. "The Southern Baptist convention should stand, as it has always stood, for the application of every possible uplifting agency to the negro situation and therefore should welcome every contribution from whatever source for the proper education of the negroes. Chief among these contributions is the $130,000,000 paid by the Southern States through taxation for this purpose." The Negro Graduate What will He StandFor? The bent of the national heart is set upon development, the tangibale and the visible; the development of man. The college or university cuts little if the stuff is not inherently in the man. University training is not without its importance in the national equation. It is the developer and propeller of whatever talents that may lie dormant in the individual. It is the medium through which the highest civilization is attained; therefore it is not to be decried. Yet the individual must not mistake his learning for the man. He must understand that college training simply draws out whatever character that may lie latent in the individual. That whatever the man may be inately is brought out and developed by this mechanical process. Education cannot give character, but san shape, direct and develop whatever qualities that may lie dormant in the individual. The fundamental error of Negro leadership has been our misconception of university training or political performent. We We have too often mistaken our education or job as a license to lead the race. We have left the moral and mental equipment entirely out of the solution, and decided that I have a job, or am educated I am a leader of men. The Negro has largely believed that the college stood for what he ought to live. That is, if "I graduated from Yale, I stand for far more than the normalite," who hails from Hampton without regard to either's contribution to the moral and material wealth of the community where they live. The young man who leaves school with his diploma is more a man in the world of affairs than the raw recruit is a soldier when equipped with a gun before he reaches the firing line and proves his steel. The university process through which the individual passes should effect the man about as much as a machine effects a piece of hickory selected for an an axe handle. If the piece of timber is not hickory before you put it in the machine, it will not be hickory when you take it out. Just as the machine shapes and gives the piece of NO 4 timber commercial value, so these schools develops our character and trains us to fill our places in the cummunity creditably. You can graduate from Yale, and then stand for far less constructively than the boy from Tuskegee. You can graduate from Fisk and then stand for much less tangible than an upright illiterate man in the community. There are only two totent factors constituting the highest ideals of our natural life—moral character and material wealth. And if you do not stand for these elements, you count for naught in the galaxy of true greatness, it matters not what college you hail from. Education of itself does not necessarily bestow either of these essentials of citizenship and manhood. If you cannot stand for both, you can stand for the basic principle, morality. Morality without education is the rock, but education without morals is the sea. Morals without education than education without morals. It is the visible element which counts, and the man stands for most, who standsmost substantially for uplift of his neighbors. We cannot enjoy the highest benefits of university training if we do not have a moral stratum in which to plant our civilization. Harvard will not count any more in the life of an individual than Tuskegee if he sits down upon the pleasant recollection that he graduated from Harvard. It all depends upon what you turn up and stand for after you leave Harvard. If you can't leave a fortune in wealth, each of us can leave an enduring monument in moral character as an imperishable heritage of posterity. This will covnt for far more in the summary of, the world's results than a diploma without morals or wealth to our credit. From Dallas, Tex., Express: Among the things that the average young Negro clerk should learn is politeness. It goes a long way toward building up trade and sustaining the reputation of the house. Don't ever think that you run the only hotel, barbershop or grocery store. Chief Grand Mentor Rev. Sir Frank Wilson left Friday for his home in Kansas City. Jas. J. Olden, the druggist, has a fine soda fountain in his place and is prepared to serve you to any flavor of the best soda water you may wish. THE SEARCHLIGHT, 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 Siz months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 150. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appl cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed TO THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the part parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All Subscriptions must be paid in advance strictly. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will appear in that week. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one office or one address to another always give both, the old and new. 4th Send Us all the news from your section of the City, County, State or County. We publish it FREE OF CHARGE. Write plain, and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Ary erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. " To Live and Let Live. " is OUR Motto. A Business Error Close observation of the average colored man who aspires to enter into the business or professional world has shown to us a most serious error which guides him in selecting his field of labor. When he fines himself persuaded so cast his labor in these avenues he hunts up locations where there are men of his own color engaged in the same field, and he never stops to think nor does he hunt for fields where there many people of his own color and none engaged in the business which he seeks and fields where there is much need of such, but in nine out of every ten cases he seeks to plant his banner in a field where the ban of other colored men in the same line is floating, and the natural consequences are that in course of time they add another failure to the long list of failures among our people in business or professions. This does not speak well for our people from a business point of view. The Negro who desires to go into business should seek the unexplored and unoccupied fields to find success. This idea of "running in opposition" is not a wholesome one—either to the race or race individual. We must learn not to crowd each other in business. If a colored man wishes to open a restaurant no place will suit him but right side by side with some other colorek restaurant no matter if there are other localities where the outlook for success are greater and no restaurant for miles around; if a colored man wishes to enr any other business the same rule applies regardless to the fact that there are other localities where the opportunities are great and only require a little labor to make them successful. Because one Negro may locate in same barren field and by hard work, much privation, many sleepless nights, and unknown trials, tenderly muse and establish some kind of business-every Negro who sees him envies him and is anxious to enter the same field at the same place. He does not consider the fact that when the man who is now engaged began the conditions existed that had to be eraticated—and that a second enterprise in the same field will have doubly the same work to do. If the Negro would be successful let him plant his banner in the new fields and grow up his industry. There are thousands of places where the opportunity for a live, energetic and wideawake Negro in any and every avenue of life stands beckoning and bidding him to come—and if the Negro who desires to enter into business would make a success he must accept these invitations extended. The trouble with the average Negro is that he wishes to make a success in a day and on the second day stand on the highest round of the ladder. This is a serious error—because you see one Negro who is partially successful in a certain line does not mean that you can be so in the same line in the same place. Let our business inclined young men scatter in every hamlet, every village every town where there are none and thus help to plant on "a thousand hills" the doctrines and progress of the new "Twentieth Century Negro." LEGAL NOTICE First Published in The Wichita Seareight Saturday, Max. 12th, 1995 Ella J. Weygandt, DIT. The above named defenham 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 apacear in said Court or on before the 24th day of June 1905 and then and there pleud, answer demur to the plaintiff's petition therein filed a decree for divorce pro confesso will be entered against her according to the prayer of said petition. J. C. Milton, Atty for Plaintiff Editor Searchlight. Dear Sir:—Will you permit me to make a short statement 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 decept 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 Jurisdiction 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. Rev. Duval of Topeka was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Vance last week. The Race's standard Bearer Pay for the Searchlight. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. Paris City Cleaning Works Kid Gloves and Fine Fabrics Cleaned and Repaired. —All Work Guaranteed— 332 North Main st. J. A. Jackson, Prop. Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. Mrs. Pauline Johnson left Monday evening for her home in Texas Mrs. Sarah Caldwell of San Antoia, Texas., is visiting in the city. A strawberry feast was the feature of an entertainment given Tuesday evening at the Second Baptist Church. DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop, Rev. George and wife of Lang- ston, Okla. are in the city. Miss M. Campbell of Cherryvale was the guest of Mrs. J. E. Lewis during the week. She tended a reception in her honor Thursday afternoon at her home. The members of the G. L. A. Club were included as the guests. Chief Grand Mentor Frank Wilson arrived in the city Monday from Salina and set up a Temple of the Knights of Tabor Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Wallace gave a dinner Sunday afternoon at their home 529 N. Main to a few of their friends. An excellent six course dinner was served. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. Thos. A. Fine, Mrs. Millie Luvert, Mrs. Wm. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller, Edward Simpson, and Mr. and Mrs. George A. Wallace. Mrs. Glover entertained the G. G. L. A. C. at the residence of Mrs. Clinneth Tuesday May 23rd. Quite a large number of ladies were present to answer to roll call and respond to their quotations. Quite an elaborate lunch was served by the hostess, after an hours work the ladies adjourned to meet with Mrs. W. A. Bettis, 818 N. Water St., Tuesday May 30th. A Challenge. The Colored Base Ball Team of Wichita hereby challenges any colored base ball team in Winfield for a match game of base ball to be played in Winfield during the Chatauqua week in Winfield. For details and acceptance of this challenge write. W. N. Miller, 110 N. Main St. A MISTAKE Many people get Mrs. Millie Luvert formerly Mrs. Millie Kelly 419 N. Wichita St., mixed in their minds with Mrs. Kelly at 409 N. Wichita St. The two names are alike and the address near the same—yet Mrs. Luvert lives at 419 N. Wichita, and Mrs. Kelly at 409 N. Wichita. THANKS ALL Mrs. Thos. W. Fine wishes to thank all her friends who so kindly assisted in the rendition of "Forty years of Freedom" at Garfield Hall on Thursday evening May 18th. Mrs. Thos. W. Fine. A RECEPTION. The ladies of Wichita Tabernaele No. 34, tendered a splendid reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller, 335 W. 15th. St., Wednesday night in honor of Kevin, Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor, of the Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Quite a large number were in attendance and a pleasant time was had. MRS JOHNSON LEAVES. Mrs. Pauline S. M. Johnson, who for the past one year and a half had been clerk in Jas, J. Olden's Drug Store 615 N. Maia St., left Monday evening for her home in Texas, where she will remain. During the time Mrs. Johnson had been in our city she has made many friends among the people our city, all of whom regret very much to know that she has given up her place among them. During her stay here she made her home with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones, 522 N. Water and Mrs. Jones is sorry to see her go. FANCY, neat up-to-date JOB PRINTING is what we are now prepared to do. Patronize your race print shop—the SEARCHLIGHT Job Printry—n w faces of type—and good workmanship. Give us a show at your work. A GRAND TIME The musicale given by the ladies of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 under the management of Mrs. Thos. W. Fine and Mrs. Henry Hall, at Odd Fellow hall, Monday night, May 22nd, was a grand affair. The hall was crowded to its fullest capacity and standing room was at a premium. The program which was rendered was highly enjoyed by all. The following was their program: "My Country 'Tis of Thee"—Chorus of Children. Opening Address—W. N. Miller. Recitation—Amelia Thompson. "Make a Fuss Over Me"—Chorus of Girls. Speaker of Evening—Rev. Frank Wilson, G. C. M. Recitation—Flosa Madison. Piano Solo—Eliza Brandon. Vocal Solo—Myrtle Fleming. Drill—By Twenty Girls. The following young ladies were in the drill: Amelia Thompson, Luna Fauver, Mamie Williams, Mossie Crouch, Eula James, Beatrice Miller, Irma Clark, Lizzie Whitted, Alma Fauver, Vera James, Myrtle Fleming, Minnie Morris, Pearl Hackley, Viola Ruth, Zella Ratley, Fern Phelps, Bette a Me Hall, Pansy Cox. Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. M. Davis served six o'clock dinner at the Davis residence, 1135 North Washington Tuesday in honor of Sir Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor, hTe following guests were present: Rev. Frank Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batts, C. Swan, Mr. and rMs. W. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller, Mrs. Jones. Everyone had a splendid time. The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: Theoiological, C and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Normal, Musical, [ Instrun piano, oagan and harmony, Mechanical], Carpentry, Business Course, Stenogra ing, Dressmaking and Pla ing, Farming and Gardeni ng ADVANTAGES: Splendid Locati Influences and Thorough T INFORMATION: For terms, pri fered, write to William T. Ver ATS: Theoological, College, Normal, Su Industrial. Classical, College, Preparatory, Nor Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], Organ and harmony, Drawing [ Fine al], Carpentry, Printing snd Book Course, Stenography and Typewriti smaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking ing and Gardening. : Splendid Location, Healthful Cllm and Thorough Teachers. N: For terms, prices and all inducer ate to m T. Vernon, A. M DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including piano, oagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Arts and Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. DD PRESIDENT QUINDARO, Phones Office Resi USE IMBODE IMPE FLOUR BREAKFA and you will L AT YOUR GROCERS Gardner DEAL HARD CO Feed and Bu Office and Yards 1 Old Phone 146 Spring and S =Footw -To Suit the POOR o BRAIT 120 East INDAPO, KAITO phones } Office—Bell "White" } Residence—Bell "West" IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL COLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating GROCERS IMBODEN MILLS Gardner Coal Co DEALERS IN..... COALSON and Building Ma- tee and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main ne 146 New Pho ring and Summer -Footwear= to Suit the Purchase POOR or RICH RAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas QUINDARO, - - - - KANS. Phones } Office—Bell “White” 4302 Residence—Bell “West” 15 Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. Spring and Summer =Footwear= -To Suit the Purchaser- POOR or RICH BRAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas New Slee ping 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 Throughcar 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 convalesenets who desire to go either to Colorado or Arkansas --- College, Normal, Sub-Normal Preparatory, Normal, Sub- mental and Vocal ], including Drawing [ Fine Arts and Printing snd Book-Binding, Phy and Typewriting, Tailor- n Sewing, Cooking, Launder- ing. On, Healthful Cllmate, Good Teachers. es and all inducements of- non, A. M. D D KANS. — Bell "White" 4302 ence— Bell "West" 15 N'S RIAL AND AST FOOD love good eating — IMBODEN MILLING CO. Coal Co., ERS IN..... ALSOFT Building Material 01 to 1245 N. Main St.] New Phone 1804 Summer wear= Purchaser- RICH SCH'S Douglas HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue W. M. Dunson Painter and Paper Hanger Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 936 PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 231 SELOVER & SONS, Props. NOTICE To The Public Having purchased the st ing and the O. K. DYE WOR some time ago I have conclud on all Second-Hand Clothing have marked down the goods bought by myself will be sold the regular price for Cleaning My motto is "Live and Let L If your Clothes needs Dye bring them to the O. K. Dye Special Attention Gie C. G. Har 330 North M SECOND T Having purchased the stock of Second-Hand Clothing and the O. K. DYE WORKS from D. D. D. The time ago I have concluded to cut down his Second-Hand Clothing about One - Third marked down the goods accordingly. And all right by myself will be sold at first cost, adding regular price for Cleaning, Pressing and Repotto is "Live and Let Live " If your Clothes needs Dyeing, Cleaning or Pruning them to the O. K. Dye Works and get good 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. Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. TRY IT OTTO WEISS MYRON A. DE Groceries, Fruits, Veget and Feed. MYRON A. DEAN oceries, Fruits, Vegetable and Feed. --- MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 OLDEN'S DRUG STORE LDEN'S DRUG STO Prescriptions Filled with Care ... Drugs of all kinds, C Your patronage solicited. + C customer. Our store is Headqu 615 North Stebbins Stebbins & Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco patronage solicited. + Once a customer, alw mer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored pe 615 North Main st. Bins W. C tebbins & Rafferty ... 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. Stebbins & Rafferty Vehicles, Farm Implements Light Harness, Robes, Etc. 213·West Douglas New Phone 1787 ice Furnished ROOMS- to the night or week Transit a Specialty Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 24th North Water St. Our wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., W. Douglas Pone 357 W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. --- Mrs. Lee And Stebbins OTTO WEISS. Agent. A. DEAN Fits, Vegetables Feed. 101-Both Phones - 101 RUG STORE Cigars and Tobacco . . . Once a customer, always a quaters for Colored people. h Main st. R A FOOL and his mouey are soon parted. The mau who pays out his good money for inferior building material is foolish. Buy the BEST. We sell it. Have you seen the latest building material? It is our Cement Building Stone. The longer it wears, the harder it gets. J. H. TURNER, 537-547 West Douglas Ave. JOB PRINTING of all kinds is done by the Searchlight—Come up and let uss show you our new samples of fency goods in the print line. NOTICE: Any one desiring hair dressing done can find me at 427 N. Water. Mrs. Lee Anderson. W. O. Rafferty Wichita Kan, FRISCO SYSTEM FROM HERE TO THERE 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. Wichita Trunk Factory Manufacturers Of All Kinds of Trunks, Valises and Traveling Bags Repair Work A Specialty 507 East Douglas Ave. Denver Hotel and CAFE Private Dining Rooms Down Stairs and Up Stairs Our Special Service Banquets and Parties On Short Notice. . . Nice Furnished Rooms J. H. SNOWDEN, Manager Wichita — — Kansas 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. NOTICE. We call attention of those who may have news items for the SEARCHLIGHT to have the copy in our office not later than Thursday evening in order to reach publication in our current issue. This applies only to Wichita items other items must be in our office not later than Wednesday evening. Please take notice. Consumptives Death Rate From Consumption Among Negroes. New York.-Statistics that have been gathered by the Charity Organization Society shows that the American Negroes are more subject to consumption than any other race of people of which statistics can be secured. The death rate from consumptionbetween the ages of 15 and 44 are for Negroes in the United 585 per 100,000,and for the narrative born white 163 per 100,000. The reason given for this great disparity is the insanitary conditions under which the Negoes live, improper use of food and alcoholic drinks. Mrs. Ella Kyle served a splendid six o'clock dinner Sunday to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson of Guthrie, Okla., Rev. S. M. Hall Will Frazier and Mrs. W. N. Miller. FOR RENT—Two rooms for young gentleman. Apply, Mrs. W. H. Jones, 522 N. Water. In spite of that astrologer's horrifying prediction about a coming earthquake that is going to destroy New York, we doubt if the Astor real estate will be advertised for sale at panic prices. KINGMAN ITEMS Mrs. Banks of Pretty Prairie was in the city Monday shopping, while here she was the guest of Mrs. Floyd and reports her daughter Miss Florence siek. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Arnold are making preparation to move to Belmont, entending to make it their future home. Cute Miles received an invitation from Wichita to come home, Marshall J. S. Wrenchy advised him to go. Little Miss Mandie Floyd and Master Charlie Porter picniced with the school last Saturday. The Darktown base ball team defeated the High School ball team by a score of 3 to 1 in a match game Tuesday at Riverside Park. There was a stranger in our city Friday. A large crowd of our young colorpeople went fishing Monday evening, they report a fine time and excellent luck. J. J. Maloney of the Baltimore Hotel went to Cunningham with a gang of fishers Saturday and regrued Monday, he says they got nothing only misquito bites. WELLINGTON NEWS. Mrs. J. R. Oldham is on the sick list this week. Rev. Harris, pastor of the A. M. E. Churches of Windfield and Wellington preached Sunday for his Wellington charge. Mrs. Dave Johnson returned to home in Winfield after a visit with relatives and friends. The W. O. M. Club will meet with the Misses Smiths Wednesday. The Progressive Reading Circle met with Mr and Mrs Roberts last Thursday evening, after a study of Civil Government, the club enjoyed a dainty luncheon and departed for their several homes. The circle has just completed the study of Ben Hur which proved a very interesting study. Rev Gambill, pastor of the A M E Church at Topeka filled the pulpit for the Presiding Elder who could not attend this point this Quarter, onew member was taken into the church. The cottage prayer meeting nex Wednesday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs T J Jordan. The Baptist have posponed the social which should have been last Friday night to an unknown date on account of the rain. The A M E Christian Endeavor has changed its hour from 4 to 6:30 p. m. Mrs Daniial Hall returned from the Indian Territory, where she went to attend business. Rev. Hughes is moving back to Wellington he has lived in Caldwell for eight or ten months. He was a resident of Wellington before moving to Caldwell Mr and Mrs Henry Hicks returned to their old home in Newton after a few weeks residence in our city. Mrs Millie Hall is expecting her sister from Mississippi. WINFIELD NOTES. Mrs E N Thomas will leave soon for Kentucky where she expects to reside. The ladies of the A M E Church gave a social Friday evening which was a success. Mr. L W Robinson left Friday evening for K C. Mrs. Robinson will remain in Winfield till Mr. Robinson is located, she is the guest of Mrs J W Woods. Mr John Jackson left Tuesday evening for Oklahoma City to see a sick sister who is reported very low he will be absent about a week. ```markdown ``` Mrs Charley Olvins is visiting her husband near Newkirk. Mr Littlejehn of New York, packer for a traveling man wag in the city Tuesday. Mr McDonald formerly of Wichita is now chef at the Bon Ton Hotel. A colored Knights of Pythias lodge to be known as "Pride of Win field No 20" was instituted Saturday night, and the following officers were installed: Will Wright, C C J W Woods, V C; S S Baudy, P reate; Thomas Rhodes, M of W; J. Singleton, K of R; M of A; E L Themas, I G Harry Nichols, O G, Van Singleton, Will Faust, H Shaver, and Dan F emming were initiated into the order. The Grand officers present who instituted the lodge were J E Lewis, G C C; Dr J E Farmer, A T Glover, H Hale and Jos F Phillips, all of Wichita Will Wright who is a member of the Wichita lodg, was instrumental in getting a lodge here. BIRTHDAY PARTY. Money. After position comes money. If we have money we are better prepared to carry out our plans, carry out our aims. Men. I don't mean men in size. Men in principal, men who are courageous—those are the kind of men I mean. Meh who have high ideas and who have high ideas and who are going forth into the world struggling for the uplift of humanity." After the devotional exercises Professor Martin spent a pleasant day with us. The University choir under the direction of Professor R. G. Jackson, is now at work on the "Predical Son" which is to be rendered during the Commencement week. Professor Jackson is putting forth every effort for the success of the same. the Coast' has come to mean a very common, every- case—people travel to and fro between the America as unconceruedly as you please. Transcontinental Tourist Sleepers (so com- mical and gratifying to the traveler) serve on their interesting trips several times they are operated over two routes and on trails via both routes for a good share of the through New Mexico=the Southern route; I Salt Lake City—The Scenic route. Each of advantage: a good plan to go one way other. Rates in effect on numerous dates during summer months. Portland on sale every day. Is the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," with full informa- promptly upon request. 'To The C This phrase has come to me day performance—people travel east and California as unconcerned. Rock Island transcontinental fortable, economical and gratious the East and West on their intera day. In fact, they are operat the Rock Island rails via both m distance. Via El Paso, through New via Colorado and Salt Lake C way has its points of advantage and return the other. Special excursion rates in effect on m Excursion tickets to Portland on sale ev Our folder "Aeross the Continent in tion about rates, sent promptly upon re 'To The Coast' This phrase has come to mean a very common, everyday performance—people travel to and fro between the east and California as unconceruedly as you please. Rock Island transcontinental Tourist Sleepers (so comfortable, economical and gratifying to the traveler) serve the East and West on their interesting trips several times a day. In fact, they are operated over two routes and on the Rock Island rails via both routes for a good share of the distance. Via El Paso, through New Mexico—the Southern route; via Colorado and Salt Lake City—The Scenic route. Each way has its points of advantage: a good plan to go one way and return the other. Special excursion rates in effect on numerous dates during summer months. Excursion tickets to Portland on sale every day. Our folder "Across the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," with full information about rates, sent promptly upon request. C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. WICHITA, KANSAS. J. A. STEWART, GEN'L AGENT. KANSAS CITY. --- VALLEY CENTER NOTES Miss Cora Steyensen of Valley Center will be one of the 8th. Grade graduates there being eight white, she being the on y colored girl. The Commencement exercises were Tuesday May 23rd. The Eastern Star Social at Mrs Bakers was a grand affair. NOTES OF WESTERN UNIVERSITY The oratorical contestants are being drilled by Professor G. A. Gregg who conducts this part of the commencement each year. The ladies of the Quindaro A. M. E. Church will serve metals in the church during the commencement week, so that one needs to go away hungry. Professor Martin who has been visiting a number of schools, both white and colored made some very interesting remarks to the students. In his remarks he impressed the student-body with three M's which he defined as follows: Manners, money and men! "Culture and refinement are two things which one should carry out in life. Culture carries us further than we think. Rock Island System ```markdown ``` In the Tennis Tournament which was held Saturday afternoon, Mr. Guy Anderson and Mr. George Williams proved to be the most successful players. A party composed of Mrs. W. T. Vernon, Misses Alberta Groves, Bertha Althouse and Cordelia Seymour made a pleasant trip to the farm of Mr. J. G. Groves. They were driven all around the farm in hay frame by Mr. Charles who did not spare any pains in showing them the beautiful Kaw Valley. On Sunday the party attended the baptising which took place in the take at Edwardsville. At 4 o'clock the party missed their train and were driven to Kansas City, Kansas by Mr. Walter and Groves. Mrs. S. L. Gross, the sewing teacher at the University, spent Sunday in Douglass County with friends. A number of the young men have planned to spend the summer on the grounds assisting in the erection of the new buildings. A special interest is taken in the student who has not means with which to school himself. If he is at all industrious he is given an opportunity to get his education and make his way in the world. Many poor students enter school under just such conditions and it is surprising how some of them have made such rapid progress and such excellent records during the time that they spend in the class room. This is the purpose of the industrial school, to train young men and women who are turned our from the institution that they may be a cred it to the institution as well as to the race. BIRTHDAY PARTY. Mr. Alex Clark, Jr., of Valley Center, entertained Tuesday in honor of his birthday. About 1 o'clock the guests assembled on the bank of the beautiful Arkansas and partook of a bountiful dinner, which consisted of all the good things that would satisfy the appetite of such a crowd. The dinner was spread at 1:30 and the rest of the afternoon was spent in boating and fishing. Those present were: Miss Callie Anderson and Miss Marguerite Anderson of Newton, Mrs. Nettie Fox and daughter Neva, Mrs. Adaine Huckley, Mrs. Ida Gordon, Mrs. Jennette Hill, Mrs. Hattie Hurst, Mrs. Ida B. Clark, Miss Sara Rowles, Mabel King, Viola, RuRth and Mossie Couch of IWchita; Mr. J. P. Rickman, Mrs. Sara McWhorter, Mrs. Hiley Clark, Mrs. Lucy Clark of Valley Center; Misses Eliza Clark, Susie Clark, Marie Steveson, Clara Steveson; Messrs. Frank Hill, Godfrey Jones, Leonard King, Bernie Crouch, Yaney Groves of Wichita; Messrs. Tom McWhoter, Fred Clark and Alex Clark, Jr., of Valley Center. About 3:30 o'clock the guests departed, wishing Mr. Clark many happy birthdays. Rev. George of Langsten, Okla., filled the pulpit at the A. M. B. Chnch qoth Sunday morning and Sunday evening. He delivered a fine sermon to a good congregation. OUT OF THE ORDINARY Noiseless Warfare. There came a noiseless earthquake shock That shook the hills in twain; A deafening hell of noiseless sound Wagging through plain As troopers raised their noiseless shout And dashed into the fight With polysyllable noiseless oaths In purest Muscovite. In silence turned the Russian flank And stood in noiseless fear. They threw their noiseless rifles down And ran out of sight. Then in a thankless, hopeless mood They grabbed their hats and beat A noiseless, smokeless, wireless, and breakless quick retreat. Numbering the Hairs. The number of individual hairs that cover the human scalp is greatly a matter of speculation; but it is supposed to vary according to the thickness and color of the hair. A well-known authority estimates that red-haired people possess the fewest, and places the average number at thirty thousand. Black-haired persons, on the other hand, are said to run into one hundred thousand; while the fair-haired have the largest number of all—namely, one hundred and fifty-thousand. These figures should form a valuable index to those people whose hair is on the down grade. An excessive falling off could be reckoned at from 100 upwards, and by counting the number of hairs they lose each day some idea might be formed as to how long they are likely to be before they are overtaken with total baldness. Hairs which fall out, however, are not always a "total loss." They often grow again from the root.—Montreal Herald. Youthful Financiers. Two budding Rockefellers have been unearthed by the police in the north of Europe. These worthies, aged 12 and 14, have in a single day made 9,000 per cent on the capital of a penny. Obtaining entrance with this sum to a lavatory. Number One removed his nether garments. These were pawned by Number Two for a florin (50 cents). With the capital thus brought into the business he bought a watch on the installment system. A loan of 10 shillings ($2.50) was now floated with the aid of the watch at a second pawnbroker's. He returned to pawnbroker A and took "out" the trousers which were then resumed by Financier One—and the two divided between them the 8 shillings ($2) minus the working expenses, friction on boot leathers, etc. Allowing for Sundays and short holidays for the directors on the Riveria, the company's annual profits at this rate would be nearly 3,000,000 per cent. The Rats and the Polecats. The remarkable case of a ferret and wild rabbit living together in peace recorded in the Manchester Guardian reminds a naturalist correspondent of another queer happy family. "I had a wild polecat (obtained young) reared for the purpose of crossing with one of my ferrets. One day I put two young rats into the polecat's run, thinking she would devour them. She did nothing of the kind. One the contrary, she allowed them to suckle her and carefully reared them. One of the rats died; the other is now a constant companion of the polecat, and they often have a run together in the fields around my house, and always come home to together and sleep in the same "bunk." Youngster Had Much Fun. Cyrus Knight caused a great deal of disturbance among the people of Great Barrington, Vt. one night last week by imitating the fire whistle. He accomplished the trick by his own lung power aided by a phonograph horn, and the imitation was so perfect that people left stores and residences to find out where the fire was. He sounds no particular number, which added greatly to the perplexity of the situation. Cyrus is, of course, a 10-year-old. Burned Clock Still Ticked. When the disastrous fire which broke out at Messrs. W. & C. Pantin's premises in Upper Thames street on Monday night was extinguished the firemen found a clock hanging on the wall and still ticking. The woodwork of the ceiling and the wall on which it was hanging was burned to cinder. Even the case of the clock had been burned away. The smoke begrimed works, however, never stopped.-London Express. Egg Service. The members of a place of worship at Overton, near Wrexham, England, have hit upon a novel idea for raising a sum of money to carry out certain structural improvements. It was decided to have an egg service, and the congregation was invited to bring as many as possible. Over 1,000, which were placed in and around the pulpit, were brought, and readily sold, realizing a substantial sum. Caught Diamond While Fishing. William Reese of West Scarpton was fishing along Broadhead creek yesterday when he saw something sparkling at the bottom. It proved to be a diamond ring, and it was to-day valued by an expert at $150. Reese supposes that some fisherman lost it. Willcohee Pa. dispatch. No Race Has Ever Succeeded Without Unity Of Purpose And Action. Dear Friends:— This is to inform you that a meeting under the auspices of the Kansas Equal Rights Association, the League will take place at Topeka Kansas. Tuesday, May 30th. Decoration Day. This Association was organized at St. John A. M. E. Chureh, Dec. 7th. 1904, and did much to help any general Black Laws from passing at the last Legislature. The objects of this great gathering of race men are: To confide in each other the important and grave problems which row confront us in the state, to reorganize, rename, adopt and have printed a system which will put every hamlet, city and county in the state in active and harmonious touch with each other, to arrange it so that the real WILL of the colored people of the state of Kangas, can at all times be expressed and safe guarded; to inaugurate a feasible plan to better protect our boys from the hands of the tough and vicious and inspire in them their duties to themselves and their race; to place colored men in such a position they will command better respect from the political party which should or may expect their suffrage; to eliminate from Executive Trust, Known Grafters; to prevent further enactment of any Black Laws regardless of whatever political party should attempt it. Now it behoves every liberty loving woman and man of the race to be present at this meeting on the above named date. Never in the history of Kansas was there a greater necessity for the Negroes to come together and understand each other and look the truth in the race, that we could better face the crisis, that we may the better preserve the liberty and rights for which our fathers fought, bled and died. Shall we sit idly by in stupidity and invite the criticism of all other races of the world? Shall we not offer any resistance while politicians apply their cunning craftiness to reb us of all that is dear and sacred? We have a mighty weapon left, let us use it wisely. Write to Nick Chiles, Chairman, of Reception Committee how large a delegation to expect from your city. Arrangements will be made for 500. The place of meeting at Topeka will be at the Shiloh Baptist Church Rev. Fishback Pastor. The morning session will open at 11:00 o'clock and there will likely be a night session to properly transact the serious business before us. Reduced rates on all railroads. All race loving Pastors are hereby requested to give this call a reading and encouragement, in their churches. Yours in interest of an oppressed and persecuted vace. Dr. W. H. Hudson, President Atchison, Kansas. Rev. E Alington Wilson, Sec'y. Kansas City, Kansas. See how much you can put into it, instead of how much you can take out of it. Remember that it is only through your work that you can grow to your full hight. Remember that work well done is the highest testimonial of character you can receive. Train the eye, the ear, the hands, the mind—all the faculties—in the faithful doing of it.—Success. ALTERNATING CURRENTS. No man has enough of this world's goods till he has more than he needs. In reading one merely delevops a sixth sense; it is hearing through sight. Few husbands care whether or not they are tied to apron strings—unless the apron strings show. The habitual procrastinator is one who bows down to the dictates of present-moment convenience. If schoolmasters cannot all be said to start with defects, it yet is usually true that they develop them later. Dear Sir—I notice that you have now completed your sixth year of publication of The Wichita Searchlight and are now far into your seventh year. This is a record never before attained by any colored man who has ever published a paper in our city—and one which the colored people of our city may justly feel proud. It is with pleasure that I voice my congratulations to you on your earnest and faithful work in these six years in your effort to keep alive a paper in this city in the interest of our race. You have done nobly, you have done well, and it is a very mean colored man or woman who would not give you credit for your work. There is no people on earth who have had a more bitter experience with colored papers than has the people of Wichita, both colored and white. There have been many papers started in our city, but the Searchlight is the only one which has ever amounted to anything or remained any length of time—and now that the colored people have found you to be worthy and capable of giving them a paper regularly each week they owe it to themselves and to you to stand by you and your paper and help you to make it a grander success. Ever since you began your paper over six years ago I have been one of your readers and I can say that I have always received by paper every Saturday during the whole time, and today I consider the Searchlight as a part of my household. There are hundreds of other people in our city who can and do say the same thing. I have done much to push your valuable paper and a I pledge myself to do moreinthef a a taoiRDLUtaRDLUta more in the future than ever before and I think every colored person in our city ought to do the same. We do not have to guess who you are—you have been tried most severely and today you stand as firm as a rock. Coming here as you did six years ago a gound man you have grown up with us and have given your time, your labor and your every effort in the interest of our people—all without a murmur—and now it is time that we, as a people, show that we highly appreciate your worth by doing everything in our power to push the Wichita Searchlight to a grander success. By your steadiness and evenness of temper, honestness and soberness you have gained the confidence of the people of our community, both colored and white—and we feel a deep interest in your efforts. It seems to me that the people of Wichita—both colored and white—have had sufficient experience with "new" negro papers to be now willing to stand by the one which has remained with them through all seasons and all times for the past six years. As I have said on former occasions the people of Wichita can only maintain one colored paper and the Searchlight has for six years very ably filled that place and is very creditably filling it today and every colored person in our city owe it their moral and financial support. It is high time that the colored people of our city cease jumping at everything that comes along and place their united efforts to help keep in operation the good race enterprises which we have. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, permit me to say that you have my hearty support in your effort to keep a good negro paper alive in our city and I believe I am right when I say you have the support of nearly every colored man and woman in our city. May you continue the work so well begun by you and keep floating in the breeze the banner of the WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, our valuable race paper. Yours Truly. MILES PARKER. 922 North Wichita Street. PLEASANT PARTY. A pleasant party was given by the young people at Odd Fellow hall, Wednesday afternoon, May 24th, from 2 to 8 p. m. Those present were: Misses Pearl Hackly, Viola Ruth, Fern Phelps, Ia Webster, Dela Gains, Mary Bewford, Rosa Norwood, Lucile Helem, Isis Brooks, Golde Crouch, Mossy Crouch, Myrtle Flemings, Pansy Cox, Myrtle Chapman, Irene Bettis, Cella Chapman, Corinne Bettis, and Messrs. Leonard King, Irwin Lyde, Fay Anderson, James Hanson, George Lyde, Art Estell, Ford Clark, Fred Ratley, Hobart Cox, Emmons Massey, J. D. Jones, Mainan Griggs. The afternoon was passed in conversation and dancing, after which a fine lunch was served, completed with ice Red Font Racket We have just received a large invoice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES Tpp Bros. & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N Main WIGHIT TABERNACLE No. 34, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Bearrice Miller, Sec. Hall 517 North Main Soet =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL =CIGARS= SOLD EVERYWHERE Banner Mills + CUSTOM GKINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PWORNISCH BROS, PROPS. 623 N. Main St. Phone 580 WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation for the hair that makes kinky or early hair straight as shown above. It nourishes and out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over and in a package that is suitable for harmless. It was the first preparation ever made for the hair. Remember that Ford's Original Ozonized Ox Marrow is put up in only one package. It is printed on the package. Do not be impatient and just as good-b-t's always upon getting the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance. Gentlemen and children. Elegantly portured. Ozonized Ox Marrow is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a pomade and dealers, or sellers, to receive it every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druglists and dealers, or sold for 40 for three bottles, express paid. We pay all postage and express charges. Send post or express mail when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., Charles Ford Place 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. HOW TO WORK. Do it cheerfully, even if it is not congenial. Do it in the spirit of an artist, not an artisan. Make it a stepping stone to something higher. Endeavor to do it better than it has ever been done before. Do not try to do it with a part of yourself—the weaker part. Keep yourself in condition to do it as well as it can be done. Make perfection your aim and be satisfied with nothing less. Accept the disagreeable part of it as cheerfully as the agreeable. Choose, if it is possible, the vocation for which nature has fitted you. --- HAMS 7c Per pound Buy your Fresh Meat at the Packing House Meat Market and Save Money. Remember the place--Market at the G of Dold's Packing House. FINE WORK OUR JOB ROOM. If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Now Prepared To Do All Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Date Job Work. We Invite A Trial. We Guarantee To Please You, Both In Work And Price. You Will Find Us At The Old Beliable Stand At 110 North Main St. Bring Us Your Next Job. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL OUR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST IF NOT, WHY NOT? BRAIN WORK AND BEAUTY. High Specialist Thinks They Can Go Together according to an English specialist has made a careful study of the best, the reason why women are looking than men is because they are more indolent and are not up to use their brains as men are men. Hard intellectual and assiduous attention to business says are harmful so far as beauty is concerned. As that his theory is correct, he into the Zaros, whose home is in India. Among them women place which in other councilled by men. The Zaros manages the affairs of state, business on her own acce- and does not wait for a proof of marriage, but proposes her whereas the Zaro man has not done but cook the meals and look his children. The natural reays the scientist, is that the of this singular tribe are very and the women are unusually ING TOO HASTILY ING TOO HASTILY ERICANWOMENBREAKDOWN Polarities and Female Derangements Result - Cured by Lydia E. Harris Vegetable Compound. going to our mode and manner of the and the nervous haste of every day to accomplish just so much day, it is said that there is not Mrs Chester Curry woman in twenty-five but what is with some derangement of the life organism, and this is the secret of happy homes. woman can be amiable, lighted and happy, a joy to her husband and children, and perform the incumbent upon her, when she is ring with backache, headache, ousness, sleeplessness, bearing-pains, displacement of the womb, weakness or ovarian troubles, stability or weakness, restore power of pleasantness, and all sun's driven out of the home, and are wrecked by woman's great womb trouble. M. Pinkham was troubled for eight years with irrigations which broke down my health and lately extreme nervousness and despondency. E.L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was invented in Day by day I improved in health making it until I was entirely cured. I tried to my social and household duties brought enjoy life once more, as Lydia Adams's Vegetable Compound has made a woman, without an ache or a pain. "Ierry," 42 Saratoga Street, Boston, Mass. The first indication of ill health, or irregular menstruation, on the side, headache, backache, down pains, nervousness or illness," secure at once a bottle of E.L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound be its use. GRAPHITE BEARINGS NEED NO OILING Must the material, plant and work. Run in heat and quiet. Oil is made from materials will not be used for works. Special description NOT THE CHEAPEST BUT The Best Steel Mill MASTER MFG. CO. Des Moines, Iowa. L. DOUGLAS W. Douglas makes and sells more shoes than any other brand of shoes, and is one of the only one who can disprove this statement. W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the best sellers in the world because of their excellent style, easy fitting and comfortable design. They are good as those that cost from $2.00. The only difference is price. Douglas $3.50 shoes are more to thin than any other shoe, longer and, are of greater quality than any other $3.50 shoe on the market. Their value by comparing his look to the bottom of each Look. Douglas take no substitute. W. L. Douglas takes known retail stores in the print industry and by shoe dealers everywhere. New shoes are within your reach. EQUAL $5.00 SHOES. W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes for under them equal to any $5.00 shoe. W. H. Anderson, Real Estate Man, Ho. Douglas $2.50 and $2.00 because they are the best sellers in the world and wear longer than other shoes. Douglas are Corona Coltkin in his shoes. Douglas Coltkin is collected by Scott This will not wear Brassay. It would be the most lightweight shoe mail order in the world. It also props delivery for the furrier's use and props delivery for the curler's use. **Spring Style.** NOT OF HIS FLOCK. Parishoner Had Wandered From Pastor's Jurisdiction. Back half a century ago the Rev, Dr. Moore of the Congregational church at Milford, N. H., was known far and wide for his ready wit, expressed in his quaint, lisping way. One of his parishioners, taking offense at something, left the congregation and attended another church. Every Sunday morning the man met Dr. Moore on the way to his pulpit, and was always greeted with a cheery "good morning," instead of a rebuke as he expected. At last, when he could stand it no longer, he stopped, and, in reply to the doctor's salutation, asked: "Doctor, don't you think as a pastor it is your duty to look after the wandering sheep of your flock?" "Oh, yeth thir, yeth thir," promptly replied the doctor, "I always look after the sheep, but I've nothing to do with the goats." CHARACTER TOLD BY SHOES. Wearers' Defects and Virtues Plainly Manifested. A certain shoemaker is a firm be liever in "‘shoeology.’" He says: "Worn shoes go ahead of the art of fortune-telling from the lines of the hand. In one shoe, for instance, I see irresolution, changeableness inclination to sloveniness and occasional fits of ill humor. ‘Show me any person's footgear after two months' wear and I will describe the character of the person. ‘If the soles and heels are worn evenly, then the wearer is a resolute, able business man, with a clear head, a trustworthy official or an excellent wife and mother. If the sole is worn on the outside, the wearer is inclined to adventurous, uncertain, fitful deeds, or, if a woman, to bold, self-willed, capricious tricks. ‘The sole being worn on the inner side shows hesitation and weakness in a man and modesty in a woman.’ Preferences as to Wreaths. Men and women spend their little lives struggling for wreaths. A man would have his woven of laurel leaves; a woman dreams only of orange blossoms in hers.—New Orleans Picayune. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy is excellent for the liver. Cured me after eight years of suffering." S. Pepron, Alahany, Y. Y. World famous. 41. Japs Cleaner Than British. The average Japanese is better bathed than the average Britisher. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. If we could understand everything that comes into our minds we wouldn't have to work. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind. Feb. 15, 1900. Form your own ideas and change your opinion according to your lessons. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. Noted Eton Man. Mr. Austen Leigh, an authority on all matters pertaining to Eton, has discovered that Thomas Lynch, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was an Etonian. MISS. MILDRED KELLER. Miss Mildred Keller, 718 13th street, N. W., Washington, D. C., writes: "I can safely recommend Peruna for catarrh. I had it for years and it would respond to no kind of treatment, or if it did it was only temporary, and on the slightest provocation the trouble would come back. "I was in such a state that my friends were alarmed about me, and I was advised to leave this climate. Then I tried Peruna, and to my great joy found it helped me from the first dose it took, and a few bottles cured me. "It built up my constitution, I regained my appetite, and I feel that I am perfectly well and strong."—Mildred Keller. We have on file many thousand testimonials like the above. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited endorsements Dr. Hartman is receiving. STRIKE IS SPREADING After Much Wrangling Between Labor Leaders and Employers' Association all Negotiations Were Called Off. Chicago, May 23. — The strike of teamsters instead of being declared off, will be spread to greater proportions. This was decided by the members of the Teamsters' Joint Council, which was in session. The council met to hear the report of negotiations that had been in progress with the employers throughout the day. They agreed to all the stipulations of the employers with the exception of that which declared that the drivers of the express companies should not be taken back. This was the rock upon which the peace program was wrecked, and after several hours of debate it was decided that the Teamsters' Union could not leave the express drivers to make a lone fight, but must stand by them. It was decided to call off all negotiations and prepare for a further fight. It was a day of conference and consultations; there were propositions and counter propositions and at nightfall the situation was practically as in the morning. The teamsters accepted all of the terms of the employers with the exception of that relating to the reinstatement of the drivers for the seven express companies. On this came the final split in the arrangements. These men were informed when they went out on a sympathetic strike that they were violating their contracts with the company in so doing, and that none of them would ever be re-employed again in any capacity. The unions made a desperate effort to save the positions of these men or at least a part of them, but were not successful. For this reason the committee of the teamsters declared tonight it is in favor of continuing the strike. To protect themselves against such a contingency, however, the members of the Employers' Association insisted if the strike is called off in all places except the express companies the drivers of the other business houses shall not refuse to deliver goods to the express companies. The terms announced by the' employers and refused by the strikers are as follows: That the teamsters shall recognize the Employers' Association Teaming Company as a permanent institution, employing non-union drivers and the 'open shop' to prevail. All the strikers are to be reinstated wherever vacancies exist, except that the employers will not consider the application of men who have been guilty of lawless conduct during the strike. The settlement of the strike with other concerns is not to include the express companies. Union drivers must deliver goods to express companies irrespective of strike conditions. Working conditions to be the same as before the strike. These, in fact, were never an issue in the strike. Prosecutions already started in the federal court under the injunctions and in the criminal court are to be continued. EMBITTERED OLD MAN. Power of The Holy Synod is Shaken Last. St. Petersburg, May 23.—The power of M. Pobedonosteff, procurator general of the Holy Synod, who for the 25 years since he induced Emperor Alexander II to overthrow Loris Melikoff and abandon his whole reform policy, has denominated the reactionary influence of the Russian state, seems shattered at last. He is over 80 years of age, is confined to bed practically continuously, believes he sees everything for which he fought slipping away, and is dying an embittered old man. Yet with the threads of life snapping, he still fights with all the fire of his mentality. He has been denominated a fanatic by the west. The secret of his wonderful sway over the minds of two emperors has been his unshaken belief in and devotion to the principles of autocracy and orthodoxy as the twin corner stones of Russia's future greatness. Holy Russia, he believed with all the intensity of his soul, was destined to dominate the globe; and he has ever fond of asserting, as he did to Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, "Russia; Russia is not a state; Russia is a world." RECEIVER IS DEMANDED. One of the Companies in Which Bigelow Was an Officer. Milwaukee, May 18.—A petition was filed in the United States district court today asking for the appointment of a receiver for the National Electric Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country. Frank C. Bigelow, prior to his downfall, was prominently connected with the company. The movement for a receiver is preliminary, it is said, to an investigation. SIMPLE WALL DECORATIONS. New Material and New Ideas for the Decoration of Homes. The styles of home decorations have completely changed in the last few years, and it is pleasant to say that they have changed for the better. Time was when we hung monstrous patterns printed on paper against our walls, and considered them more or less pleasantly. It would hardly be fair to say that we considered them beautiful or artistic. But they were the vogue and were put on. The time has come when, with our better methods for interior decoration, better effects can be secured. In wall coverings, whether they be of paint, or of kalsome, or of Alabastine—whatever the material used to cover the wall—the thing desired is that which has the greatest covering power, as well as permanency and beauty of color. Alabastine, a wall covering ground from Alabaster rock—which means a hard white rock—is the ideal covering for a wall. The most beautiful wall decorations in the world are those which are laid on with the brush. The mural designs in our large public buildings, and the frescoed designs in the large cathedrals and churches, have a permanency and an art of which wall paper is but a cheap imitation. These mural schemes and frescoed designs can be brought within the reach of the every day home. They can be done with Alabastine, which is permanent in its coloring. It does not rub off, and it has the soft effect of pastelle. A great many people defer the redecorating of their rooms not only because of the expense but because of the discomfort of it. With Alabastine there need be no discomfort and there can be no muss, for all that is needed is to lay a sheet or canvas on the floor, have your man come in with a pail, make the solution and simply brush it on the wall. That is all there is to it, and the room is perfectly clean and thoroughly renovated. Reason for Extra Royal Tomb. Because certain nobles of ancient Egypt were jealous of a queen of that land on account of her bourgeois extraction the twentieth century has been enriched with increased knowledge of that ancient time. Queen Tele was the wife of King Amenhotep III of the tenth dynasty. The parents of Queen Teie were Yua and Thua, common people. Queen Teie was unable to establish her parents as nobles in the face of the opposition of the Egyptian aristocrats, so she gave them a more than noble funeral when they died. She provided for them a royal tomb and royal furnishings to the same. This tomb was hidden so effectually that it was never discovered until Theodore Davis discovered it and all its undisturbed treasures. Napoleon's Designs on Morocco. Napoleon's Designs on Morocco. Before Napoleon III, emperor of France, became interested in the Mexican empire project he had a plan in mind for certain mysterious military operations in Morocco. A writer says: "The German agent of a firm of Liege gunsmiths used to go at dead of night to a private door in the Rue St. Honore, press a button and be received in secret by Louis Napoleon himself. The German was to secure arms to the order of Napoleon, but all was to be secret. Payment was to be made through a Swiss banking house, as part of the capital of a railway in the Grisons. But it all came to nothing. Mexico claimed the horizon and the German and his guns were forgotten and the secret of it all is still to seek." GREAT CHANGE From Change in Food. The brain depends much more on the stomach than we are apt to suppose until we take thought in the matter. Feed the stomach on proper food easy to digest and containing the proper amount of phosphates and the healthy brain will respond to all demands. A notable housewife in Buffalo writes: "The doctor diagnosed my trouble as a 'nervous affection of the stomach.' I was actually so nervous that I could not sit still for five minutes to read the newspaper, and to attend to my household duties was simply impossible. I doctored all the time with remedies, but medicine did no good "My physician put me on all sorts of diet, and I tried many kinds of cereal foods, but none of them agreed with me. I was almost discouraged, and when I tried Grape-Nuts I did so with many misgivings—I had no faith that it would succeed where everything else had failed. "But it did succeed, and you don't know how glad I am that I tried it. I feel like a new person, I have gained in weight and I don't have that terrible burning sensation in my stomach any more. I feel so strong again that I am surprised at myself. The street noises that used to irritate me so. I never notice now, and my mind is so clear that my household duties are a real pleasure." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason Now why was this great change made in this woman? The stomach and the brain had not been supplied with the right kind of food to rebuild and strengthen the nerve centers in these organs. It is absolute folly to try to do this with medicine. There is but one sure way and that is to quit the old food that has failed and take on Grape-Nuts food which is more than half digested in the process of manufacture and is rich in the phosphate of potash contained in the natural grain, which unites with albumen and water—the only three substances that will make up the soft gray filling in the thousands of delicate nerve centres in the brain and body. Grape-Nuts food is a sure road back to health in all such cases. Ignore the irritations in life and eventually they will be omnipotent. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorative Fits for NRS 88.00 total bottle and treatment Dr. K. KLINE, Ltd., 891 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Take life slowly and figure out your enjoyment. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Avoid contact with anything that leaves a cloud. Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. Rees's bottle. The brain only develops where the mentality is not depressed. 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, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. There are many problems in life that cannot be solved by a mathematician. FEDERAL The Young Physician. WHAT HIS EXPERIENCE PROVED. In the early sixties it was usually the duty of a practicing physician to ride many miles every day on his regular round of visits upon his patients. In those days a young man who had received a splendid medical training in one of the best medical colleges of that day was accustomed to visit patients more visiting the sick and afflicted. His success was soon phenomenal. Doctors and families called him for consultation to towns at considerable distances by rail. One of his specialties was the cure of those distressing diseases of women. He had early discovered that by combining the vegetable extract of thyme with the extract of the right proportion without the use of alcohol—his prescription invariably cured such cases. Later, in order to place this remedy before the public in a shape easily to be procured, he established a laboratory at Buffalo, N. Y., where regularly qualified chemists were put in charge to accurately prepare his prescription put into practice in parts of the United States. This remedy, which he named Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, is not a "patent medicine" in the common acceptance of the term, but a tonic for women, and a regular physi- Conviction Folk When buying loose coffee or anything to have in his bin, how do you getting? Some queer stories about could be told, if the people who have speak out. Could any amount of mere talk housekeepers to use Conviction Follows Trial When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, how do you know what you are getting? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out. Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? This popular success of LION COFFEE can be due only to inherent merit. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. If the verdict of MILLIONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince you of the merits of LION COFFEE, it costs you but a trifle to buy a package. It is the easiest way to convince yourself, and to make you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEE is sold only in 1 lb. sealed packages, and reaches you as pure and clean as when it left our factory. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. MEN'S PATRIOT $3.25 SHOE $2 These Shoes were Awa Grand Prize at St. Louis W The PATRIOT SHOE for Men is over stylist yet comfortable laces, so Oversize wells, which means flexible sole to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWE is made with and hand curved. In script. Ask your dealer for them. If he does write us direct. They will please you and cents to $1.50 per pair in prices usually this character. STAR BRAND SHOES A ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAN ST. LOUIS W. N. U.—Wichita—No. 21—1905 The PATRIOT SHOE for Men is made from all leathers, over stylish yet comfortable shoes. It is of leather. They are made in which means flexible soles with no war or tacks to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWER SHOE for Women is made in wools and hand turns. It is stylish, durable and comfortable. They are made in which means flexible soles with no war or tacks to irritate the foot. They will please you and you will save from 50 cents to $1.50 per pair in prices usually charged for shoes of this character. 2 STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. $10.00 Sweep Food | $14.00 Galvanized Grinder. We manufacture all sizes and sizes. We will pay you to in-vestigate. Write for catalog and price list. CURRIE WIND MILL CO., Tiepeka, Kansas. "HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOES" Should be on every girls' feet. No other school shoe has ever given the satisfaction or has such a reputation for fit, style and wearing qualities. "Hoosier School Shoes" look well at all times, feel comfortable on the feet and take a long time to wear out. This is the kind of shoe parents want for their children. The price is low but the material and workmanship in them is of the best. The name "Tappan" is stamped on the lining of every shoe. Ask your dealer to show you the "Hoosier School Shoe" and insist on getting it. These shoes are also made in women's sizes. TAPPAN SHOE MFG. CO. COLDWATER, MICH. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. clain's prescription, and contains the following non-alcoholic ingredients : Lady's Slipper (Cyripedium Pubescens). Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium Pubescens). Black Cohosh (Cimicifera Rosemose). Blue Cohosh (Cimicifera Lutea). Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum Thalictroides). Golden Seal (Hydrastis Canadensis). Scientifically prepared by experienced chemists at the Laboratory of the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce does not claim for his "Favorite Prescription" that it is a "cure-all." It is recommended as a most perfect remedy for most ailments. So uniform are the results which follow the use of this remarkable remedy, that it can be truly affirmed of "Favorite Prescription" that it always helps and almost always cures. Ninety-eight per cent of the women who give this medicine a fair faithful trial are cured and remain cured. It is a powerful invigorating tonic, imparting health and strength in particular to the womb and its appendages. The local, womanly health is so intimately related to the general health that when diseases are treated and the whole body gains in health and strength. For weak and sickly women who are "worn-out," "run-down" or debilitated, especially for women who work in store, office or schoolroom, who sit at the typewriter or sewing machine, or bear heavy household burdens, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will prove a priceless benefit because of its health-restoring and strength-giving power. THE PROOF. "I want to tell you of the great improvement in my health since taking your 'Favorite Prescription,'" says Mrs H. H. Jones, of Forest, WI. "A woman is the first wreck and had despaired of ever having good health again. Could not sit up all day. I noted a great improvement before the first bottle was all used. Was suffering from a severe illness, a woman is subject to" had inflammation of the ovaries, painful and suppressed periods, and other symptoms of female disease. After taking six bottles of the womanly person. Can ride horseback and take all kinds of exercise and not feel tired." FEEL CRANKY? - Case of constipation. A man or woman who neglects constipation suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. One little "Pellet" is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. Follows Trial or anything your grocer happens you know what you are about coffee that is sold in bulk, who handle it (grocers), cared to the talk have persuaded millions of LION LION FIRST FRANK COFFEE WOODSORPHELL COFFEE WOMEN'S MAYFLOWER $2.25 SHOE Here Awarded Louis World's Fair Men is made from all leather, hats, to fit any foot. They are thin and durable. Women's FLOWER SHOE for Women stylish, durable and comfortable. He does not handle these shoes, you and you will save from 60 usually charged for shoes of DES ARE BETTER RAND SHOE CO. U.S.A. 25 CTS PISO'S CURE FOR CORES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Be careful when using in time. Sold by druggist. CONSUMPTION --- THE PROOF. WORTH REMEMBERING. There are three entirely different kinds of ingredients used in making the three different varieties of baking powders on the market, yiz:—(1) Min eral-Aeid or Alure, (2) Bone-Acid or Phosphate, and (3) Cream of Tartar made from grapes. It is important, from the standpoint of health, to know something about these ingredi. ents, and which kind is used in your baking powder. (1) Mineral-Acid, or Alum, is made from a kind of clay. This is mixed with diluted ofl of vitriol and from this solution a product is obtained which is alum. Alum is cheap; costs about two cents a pound, and baking powder made with this Mineral-Acig sells from 10 to 25c. a pound. (2) Bone-Acid, or Phosphate, is the basis of phosphate baking powders and the process is fully described in the patents issued to a large manufac turer of a phosphate powder. The U. S. Patent Office Report gives a full and exact description, but the follow- ing extract is enough: “Burned bones, after being ground, ‘are put into freshly diluted oil of vit- riol and with continual stirring and in the following proportion,” etc. From this Bone-Acid phosphate bak- ing powders are made; such powders ‘sell from 20 to 30 cents a pound. (8) Cream of Tartar exists in all ripe grapes, and flows with the juice from the press in the manufacture of wine. After the wine is drawn off the tartar is scraped from the cask, boil- ed with water, and crystals of Cream of Tartar, white and very pure, sepa- rate and are collected. It differs in no respect from the form in which it originally existed in the grape. Cream of Tartar, then, while the most expen- give, is the only ingredient that should be used in a baking powder to act upon the soda, as its wholesome ness is beyond question. Cream of ‘Tartar baking powders sell at about 40 to 50 cents a pound. Such are the facts, and every one, careful of the health of the family, should remember this rule:—Baking powders selling from 10 to 25 cents a pound are made of Mineral-Acids; those selling from 20 to 30 cents of Bone-Acid; and those from 40 to 50 cents of Cream of Tartar made from grapes, ¥ To Keep Cake Fresh. I bave found that fresh bread in slices about one inch thick (renewed when it gets dry), of bulk about half the cake to be kept ‘‘fresh,’’ put in the tin with the cake causes the cake to remain ‘‘fresh.’’—C. D. Field in Scientific American. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re- sults than ‘possible with any other Brand and one-third more for same money. f Wanted Half a Spool. A small boy asked the clerk for a spool of cotton. The boy had only 1 cent and the clerk informed him that 2 cents was the price for the cheap- est cotton. ‘‘ Can't you sell me halfa spool? ’’ asked the boy. Bre Raat reer er aL ee Dangerous, Anyway. "” It’s dangerous not to notice a new aress your wife has, because she thinks you are not interested and it’s dangerous to notice because it may be a new one you forgot to notice be- fore—New York Press, GRIP'S UGLY SEQUEL EWEES STIFF, HANDS HELPLESS, RHEUMATISM NEAR HEART. Mrs. Van Scoy Experiences Dangerous “After-Eftects from Grip and Learne ‘Value of a Blood Itemedy. The grip leaves behind it weakened vital powers, thin blood, impaired di- gestion and over-sensitive nerves—a condition that makes the system an easy prey to pneumonia, bronchitis, rheuma- tism, nervous prostration, and even con- sumption. ‘Phe story told by scores of victims of the grip is substantially the same. One was tortured by terrible pains at the base of the skull; another was left tired, faint and in every way wretched from anemia or scantiness of blood; another had horrible headaches, was nervous and couldn’t sleep; another was left with weak lungs, difficulty in breathing and cute neuralgia. In every case relief was sought in vain until the great blood- builder and nerve-tonic, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, wasused. For quickness and thoroughness of action uothing is known that will approach it. ‘Mrs. ‘Van Scoy makes a statement that supports this claim. She says: “J had a severe attack of gzip and, be- fore I had fully recovered, rheumatism set in and tormented me for three months. I was in a badly run-down state. Soon after it began I was so lame for a week that I could hardly walk. It cept growing steadily worse and at last I had to give up completely and for three weeks I was obliged to keep my ed. My knees were 80 stiff I couldn't bend them, and my hands were perfectly helpless. ‘Then the paius began to threaten my heart and thoronghly elarmed me. = “« While I was suffering in this way I chanced to run across a little book that told about the merits of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The statements in it im- pressed meand led me to buy a box. These pills proved the very thing I needed. Improvement set in as soon as I began to take them, and it was very marked by the timo I had finished the first box, Four boxes made me a well woman.” ‘Mrs. Laura M. Van Scoy lives at No. 20 Thorpe street, Danbury, Coun. Dr. ‘Williams’ Pink Pills are equally well adapted for any other of the diseases that follow in the train of grip. They are gold by all druggists. SUPPLEMENT TO Wichita, Kansas, Satusilay May 27, 05 M. Santos-Dumont is not superstk tious. He is at work now on airship No. 13. Water is 4 cents a gallon in Pana- ma. The Americans there will soon have it cornered. A marked decrease in the consump- tion of beer is noted in Great Britain. Merely changing their tipple? ‘The boarder who blew up a board- Ing house at Luzerne, Pa., meant to try the dynamite on the beefsteak, Ice cream is said to be a cure for hiccoughs. Don’t have _hiceoushs when you're walking with your best “girl.” The puzzle is why we work when 100 to 1 shots win, and bookmakers are willing to have their money taken ees A California woman committed sul- cide because she wus fat, She has discovered the only certain cure for obesity, The inventor of the rubber collar must have reasoned that a great many necks were waiting for something of that kind. A statistician figures that artists “present” $1,500,000 worth of work to the world annually, We should have said “inflict.” A New York woman complains be- cause her husband offered to sell her for five cents. He might at least have made it thirty. Scientists say the human being fs losing the sense of smell. Luther Bur- bank wastes effort in giving scents to seentless flowers. Georgia is said to have planted the largest peanut crop in her history. This ought to be a good year for the circus and baseball. London statistics show that wealth prolongs life. “The good die young,” the poet assures us. Would you rath- er be rich or die young? Charles M. Schwab has paid $150, 000 for a silver and gold dinner set. He must have unloaded some of ‘his steel stock at the top notch. Dr. Gladden declares that Adam could not have become a millionaire. We must’ therefore conclude that Adam lacked executive ability. = Another Pittsburg heiress is to mar- ry an English “nobleman.” Life would be a rather tough proposition for the nobility if Pittsburg were not on the map. ‘ ‘The fat man who tried to commit sut- cide by drowning and found that his fat kept him afloat probably hoped that water would cause his too solid flesh to melt. Kingdon Gould was badly injured in a polo game a few days ago. One of the nicest things about polo is the fact that only people who play are ever hurt by it, Women’s trailing skirts spread tu- berculosis germs. New York physt- cians say so, and that settles it Blame bound to get around to Eve in the end. Consul Uchida says that there are no old maids in Japan. The formula, whatever it is, ought to be added to Japan's exports. New England would place a large order. ‘When Mme. Modjeska bade farewell to New York the box office receipts for the performance aggregated $10,- 000. There are times when parting is Indeed sweet sorrow. Dr. Osler has come out in favor ot taxing bachelors. The bachelors ought to get together now and give the doc- tor a vote of thanks. He might have advocated chloroform for them. Sclence has made gigantic strides of late years, but the return of sum- mer reminds us that as yet it has been able to find no way to insert any fruit into the restaurant strawberry shortcake. ‘A Pittsburg policeman recently ar rested a man whose name is Dam- skieselhabet Kjoebenhaven. The re- corder refused to enter his name on the minutes of the court, and turned ‘tim Toose. To the suggestion from Portsmonth that the body of John Taul Jones ought finally to be buried there by the side of an old sweetheart it seems nec: ezsary only to reply that John Paul was a sailor. For the neyer-vacant post of “cham: pion mean man” the Chicago husband who shot at his wife because the train she was on was fifteen minutes Iste is an easy Wintier, And ke blames it on dyspepsia. A dynamite tablet shoud be preseribed. ‘The Portland Telegram is of opin ion that !f It cost a tol!ar an tour for the privilege of hoeing potatoes, and there were a special costume to be worn, goif would soon be forgotten, Tickling a potato patch with a bee is eertainly great exercies. - ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury, Ma. wife of G. W. Fooks, Sheriff of Wico mico ‘ounty, says: “I suf- fered with kid- ney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradu- ally. I felt tired and weak, was short of breath and was trou- bled with bloating after Re | See =a says: “I suf- | YS ant >; fered with “< he is ney complain Ss BOAR for eight BE SRL! years. 1 came ee on me gradu- 7 Je aly. 1 felt PRA tired and wi EE) weak, was I/| short of breath a and was trou- © Py bled with bloating after eating, and my limbs were badly swollen. One doctor told me it would finally turn to Bright's disease. I was laid up at one time for three weeks. I had not taken Doan’s Kidney Pills more than three days when the dis tressing aching across my back disap peared, and I was soon entirely cured,” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ¥ Wears purple Robe. ‘The lientenantgovernor. of South Carolina wears a purple robe of office when presiding over the senate. ‘Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Deflance Cold War ter Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. Racine It is modesty that places in the fee- ble hand of beauty the scepter that commands power—Helvetius. RAILROADS AND PROGRESS. In his testimony before the senate committee on interstate commerce at ‘Washington on May 4, Prof. Hugo R. Meyer of the Chicago university, an expert on railroad management, made this statement: “Let us look at what might have happened if we had heeded the pro tests of the farmers of New York and Ohio and Pennsylvania (in the 70's, when grain from the west began pour- ing to the Atlantic seaboard), and acted upon the doctrine which the in- terstate commerce commission has enunciated time and again, that no man may be deprived of the ad- vantages accruing to him by virtue of his geographical position. We could not have west of the Mississippi a population of millions of people who are prosperous and arc great con- sumers. We never should have seen the years when we built 10,000 and 12,000 miles of railway, for there would have been no farmers west of the Mississippi river who could have used the land that would have been opened up by the building of those railways. And if we had not seen the years when we could build 10,000 and 12,000 miles of railway a year, we should not have to-day east of the Mississippi a steel and iron produc: ing center, which is at once the mar- jrand-the despair of Europe, because we could not have built up a steel and fron industry if there had been no market for its product. We could not have in New England a great boot and shoe industry; we could not haye in New England a great cotton milling industry; we could not have spread throughout New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio man- ufacturing industries of the most di- versified kinds, because those indus- tries would have no market among the farmers west of the Mississippi river. And while the progress of this country, while the development of the agricultural west of this country, did mean the impairment of the ag- ricultural value east of the Mississippi river, that ran up into hundreds of millions of dollars, it meant incident- ally the building up of great manu- facturing industries that added to the value of this land by thousands of millions of dollars. And, gentlemen, those things were not foreseen in the '70's. The statesmen and the public men of this country did not see what part the agricultural development of the west was going to play in the in- dustrial development of the east. And you may read the decisions of the interstate commerce commission from the first to the last, and what is one of the greatest characteristics of these decisions? The continued istability to see the question in this large way. ‘The interstate commerce commis- sion never can see anything more than that the farm land of some farm- er is decreasing in value, or that some man who has a flour mill with a pro- duction of fifty barrels a day is be ing crowded out. It never can see that the destruction or impairment of farm values in this place means the building up’ of farm values’ in that place, and that that shifting of values is a necessary incident to the indus- trial and manufacturing development of this country. And {f we shall give to the interstate commerce commis- sion power to regulate rates, we shall no longer have our rates regulated on the statesmanlike basis on which they have been regulated in the past by the railway men, who really have been great statesmen, who really have been great builders of empires, who have had an imagination that rivals the imagination of the greatest poet and of the greatest inventor, and who have operated with a courage and dar- ing that rivals the courage and dar- ing of the greatest military general. But we shall have our rates regulated by a body of civil servants, bureau- crats, whose besetting sin the world over is that they never can grasp a situation in a large way and with the grasp of the statesman; that they never can see the fact that they are confronted with a small evil; that that evil is relatively small, and that it cannot be corrected except by the creation of evils and abuses which are infinitely greater than the one that is to be corrected.” LATE MARKET REPORT. Kanane City. NATIVESTEERS..........542) @ $615 Bante e Tha WERT rid dee Tar Meg eee cs: ioe iu cony No. Stina TS in 8 SUR ge ee BAY Stolen Hmotiyy..”. 93 | 106 PRATT Ee 'Sa8 BUTE ee BOGS. .5.. cic eeeeeeeee b * Chicage Live Stock. G0OD TO PRIME STEERS $36) @ 65 ROCKERS R HEEDERS 2) BE Tine Sie 28 oie mere nes 33 3 38 Chicago Cash Gratn. WHEATYo2Ret.t..s10 @ 1D Sedded oe Biot CORN-NO Res BO | Se ORR LIT ak eat St. Louls Live Stock. BRERATEERS 527) @ 8S Cowen aR Bok WERASWHERI OL 2) Sc Cotten, LIVERPOOD...s.cne sensed BI NEW YORK 2.0.0... c002... 8059 88k GALVESTON 0.0006 os eeee 8 l-lte Gisen eae: : open High tow Tay MS ee Th eB. BE Bee wae eee ORE dais Bia Hk Ba wy RM ee WES 8% HUN Hi AH Yn MEK MK 93 IR DAN Mtns OME BREE BS Se wwicuis Live Pests ee os = 8B CALVES. TI 8 8 8 Gerald A. Lowther, the British minister, and the British diplomatic mission started for Fez. ; The condition of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, who is suffering from bronchitis, is much improved. Several persons were killed by lightning and ten were injured in various places in Silesia during a storm, In an official denial of the report: ed seizure by the Germans of the is- land of Yu Chow and the bay of Hat- chou the Chinese government has fur- nished an explanation of the origit of the report. In Paris the debate in the cham ber of deputies on the bill providing for the separation of church and state is proceeding daily with less attention that was bestowed on the less important debate over the bud: get. ‘The committees of the St. Peters burg zemstvo under the presidency of Baron Koraff adhering to the pro- gram of the Moscow congress, has pronounced in favor of a representa- tive assembly with legislative pow: ers. Spike Sullivan, the Irish boxer, was knocked out in the fourth round by Tim Callahan of New York. Two thousand persons saw the bout, which was scheduled to go fifteen rounds. The ring was pitched in the open air, Over one thousand Japanese on the Pioneer plantation on the Island of Mauri have gone on a strike for in- creased wages. There are indica- tions that the strike will spread. The militia, consisting of one company, has been called out, Dispatches from Harbin report a carnival of drunkenness and dissi- pation among the hangers on of the rear army. Champagne at $10 a bot- tle is said to be flowing like rivers, dives are abundant and a multitude of sharpers and gamblers are reap- ing a rich harvest. ‘The streams of Wyoming are carry- ing a larger volume of water down into the Missouri through the Platte, Lara- mie. Big Horn, Shoshone and other waterways than at any time in the re- collection of the earliest pioneer. Ev- ery stream is out of its banks, while ary creeks and canyons that have not contained running water for many years are torrents. Chris, Christianson, who a few days ago was released on parole from an insane asylwn, at Sacramento, Calif., murdered his aged mother by cutting her throat. Later Christian son shot himself and cut his own throat. His dead body was found in his barricaded home. ‘The Mongolia Prince Dzhakstuon- dai, who is visiting Harbin, to mani- fest the friendly feeling of himself and his subjects for Russia, is hishly delighted by the trick riding of the Cossacks. Exhibition drills, parades and other military features have been arranged for him. ‘The president of the federal court of the first cassation, sitting as a tri- bunal of the first instance, in the case of the government of Venezucia against the New York and Bermudez Company in the Hamilton contract dissolved the contract to pay dam- ages. King Emmanuel received James Stokes of New York, vice president of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, in private audience. It is now understood that Captain lado, who was Admiral Rojestven- sky's chief tactician and testi‘ied be fore the North sea commission in Paris, has been dismissed from the navy by imperial order for repeated and persistent disobedience cf the order to refrain fox the publicatioa of his views on naval reform, ‘The third anniversary of the inan- guration of the Cuban republic was celebrated. The heliday, which was universally observed, was simile: to a Fourth of ““ty celebration in the ‘United Stay > THE MODERN FARMER. How He Lives, as Compared With Fifty Years Ago. i ee he farming life of Ke s today, as con Bey} trasted with that Lwiee TaMGty| of fifty years ago, i Ri EN | is a paradise of RY” | comfort and con- L. venience. The ie. lonely —_ loghouse, remote from mar- r ket and devoid of advantages that a Fad haif cycle of time Ae, has made possible, a would scarcely ap peal to the pres ent day farmer. The twentieth © i Mg > century soil tiller has practically al the modern comforts. His mail is de livered daily. He has telephonic con- nection withthe buying and selling world, affording the best opportunities for marketing to advantage. His home is of recent architecture, con: structed of wood, brick or stone, and well furnished. He has modern plumb- ing and modern heating, and with the advent of acetylene gas, he bas mod: ern lighting. At night his home is as attractively illuminated as that of his city brother, for it is a suggestive fact that “acetylene for country homes” has so appealed to the farmer, that of the 80,000 users of acetylene gas !n the United States, the farmer is one ot the largest of all classes, Ever seeking the best, hé has not hesitated in availing himself of this new light ‘The continued growth and progress of this great country, ever a cause of wonderment, has no greater exempl- fication than evolution on the farm. Already the farmer is becoming the most envied of men—the freest. the healthiest, the happiest! ‘Torture of the ‘‘Beot.’*” As late as in the seventeenth cen- tury and in such civilized and ad- vanced countries as Scotland, Spain, Germany and France, the barbarous instrument known as the ‘*boot’’ was commonly used to extract infor mation from reluctant witnesses, o1 to extort confessions from accused persons. Sometimes the boot wat made of iron and heated to an um bearable degree on the foot of the helpless victim. In his novel, ‘* Old Morality,’’ Sir Walter Scott alludes to it as made of this metal. But in those rough times four stout planks hastily nailed together often sufficed for the purpose. Between the side of the case and the leg of the per- son it was desired to torture wedges were inserted and hammered in. The result was excruciating agony. Experts Not Fooled. Dr. Wiley has printed an article on **Deception in Beverages.’ You sould never fool an old mountaineer om one of ‘em. If the drink doesn’t smoke and sizz as it goes down, he knows it has been adulterated with water or some other miserable truck. —Denyer Post. Sask: at Week Anais. Buffalo, N. Y., May 22nd.—(Spe- cial)—Crippled by Kidney Disease till he could not stand on his feet for the hours required at his trade, F. R. McLean, 90 East Ferry St., this city, had to quit work entirely. Now he's back at work again and he does not hesitate to give the credit to Dodd's Kidney Pills. “Yes,” Mr. McLean says “I was too bad, I had to quit. I could not stand on my feet for the necessary hours. It was Kidney Disease I had. and a friend advised me to try Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. I did so and after using six boxes am completely cvred and am working as steadily as before T was sick. I recommend Dodd's Pills to any one afflicted with Kidney trou- vie.” ‘There is no form of Kidney Disease Mod's Kidney Pills will not cure. ‘They always cure Bright's Disease. the most most advanced and deadly stage of Kidney Disease. Vegetable Life in the Sea. Vegetable life does riot exist in the sea below a depth of 1,500 feet. BABY CAME NEAR DYING. From an Awful Skin Humor~ Scratched Till Blood Ran— Wasted to a Skeleten— Speedily Cured by Cuticura. “When three months old my boy broke out with an itching, watery rash all over his body, and he would seratch till the blood ran. We tried nearly everything, but he grew worse, wasting to a skeleton, and we feared he would die. He slept only when in our arms. The first application of Cuticura soothed him so that he slept in his cradle for the first time in many weeks. One set of Cuticura made a complete and permanent cure. (Signed) Mrs. M. C. Maitland, Jasper, Ontario.” ‘We are often the shadow of our own light. Frase J CHENEY males oath that be ts senict end the arm of Fa J. cumxey & CO. Gang Pane fat the City of Toledo. Couniy, and State cea aC TatS Bran wil pay them. ct SOE AME ED bot Lana dor cacy and every eRe BOLL AnD (tose by to eo HE A ac CU scr to before me and ruiacHed tt sss, em eRe SuEROS. Timer ‘Norany Pestsc. Haifa Catoreh, Cure ts taken teterauly aod act attaiy GEtrO™ Se ala vortaces of ArMer. Fen ior er MCUEREY & CO,, Teiedo. 0 SERIE PUSHY Hil tor eanetoaton. Fears to Give Him Chance. The woman who is afraid her hus- band wil! marry a second time always lives to a ripe old age.—Exchange. Baki Heaith— Economy Our endearments are our ima tion's perfections. “ a Scone “he Russ Company, Soote Sy Confidence and righteousness jg ture’s only help. Insist on Getting it Some grocers say they don't ty Deflance Starch because they taf stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, wi they know cannot be sold tos a mer who has once used the “1p Dig. Defiance Starch for same tos Cheerfuiness is the gem of cans by all, IMMENSE TOBACCO PURCHas: Forty-Eight Thousand Dollars pay for a Fancy Lot of Tobaccs, The biggest purqhase of high my tobacco ever made in the wer a cigar manufacturer was mai ja, Wednesday by Frank P. Lewis, ty ria, IIL, for his celebrated Single joi er cigar. A written guarantee va given that the entire amount was 5 be fancy selected tobacco. This, n doubt, makes the Lewis factory i largest holder in the United Stat: of-tobacco of so high a gradine~ Herala-Transcript, Peoria. You don’t have to cash conte ment to get enjoyment. er | Don't wait till to-morrow, but cle; house to-day, with Dr. Caldwell’ ( ative) Syrup Pepsin. Of course mean your house of flesh and bors your body. This is the best house jx own, and should get the most cax Yet’ most people neglect it in i dreadful manper. As a result, stcx ach, liver and bowels soon get out ¢ order, and cause great pain, distres and dangerous internal diseases. Te only safe, sure cure is Dr. Caldwel\ Syrup Pepsin. It clears out all ca of sickness, cures constipation and © digestion, cleans house, and mab: you well. Try it. Sold by all crs gists at 50c and $1.00. Money te: if it fails. ‘The good things in life are 1 thoughts that are consoling. Alabastine == i Your i : i Walls : ‘ { Alabastine produces exquisitely | © eautiful effects on walls and ceil: | ings. Easy to apply, simply mix : with cold water. Better than kalso- | ¥ mine, paint or wall paper. 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