Wichita Searchlight

YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER Seventh Anniversary Exercises Of The Wichia Searchlight odd F11ow Hall Tuesday Night THE GLORIOUS 4th = JULY - 4th Electric Fans 3 Will Be Operated In The HALL A Fine Literary and Musical Program FlashLight a considerable ents have been be A Flash I erior of the h prompt. Eve E NAME S lively the Swell And Most Up-to Ever Witness At the close of each Searchlight has asked patrons to meet with brating the Anniver Searchlight has suce year of constant, reg publication; we ask to join with us in cel TH JU the Hall Will Be Ampl To Plea OUR AIM. Regardles And We'll Plea DB WORK IS ShLight Picture considerable cost arran- s have been perfected A Flash Light Picture ior of the hall taken at prompt. Every Face Sh C NAME Of Every Person Atten- Grand Affair will be R ely the Swellest and Most Up-to-Date Affair Ever Witnessed In This Ci At the close of each year's publication The searchlight has asked its many friends and patrons to meet with them in properly cele- rating the Anniversary Event. As The searchlight has successfully closed another year of constant, regular and uninterrupted publication; we ask our friends and patrons to join with us in celebrating the event on H JULY 4 Hall Will Be Amply and Well Ventilat To Please YOU OUR AIM. Regardless to the CO and We'll Please You T B WORK IS OUR HOB lashLight Picture a considerable cost arrangements have been perfected to eye A Flash Light Picture of interior of the hall taken at 10: prompt. Every Face Shown HE NAME Of Every Person Attends this Grand Affair will be Recorded. lively the Swellest And Most Up-to-Date Affair Ever Witnessed In This City!! At the close of each year's publication The Searchlight has asked its many friends and patrons to meet with them in properly celebrating the Anniversary Event. As The Searchlight has successfully closed another year of constant, regular and uninterrupted publication; we ask our friends and patrons to join with us in celebrating the event on The Hall Will Be Amply and Well Ventilated B WORK IS OUR HOBBY. **Test Your Own Ideas.** An foundation of solid rel- legibility must erect a struc- ture end you must respect ideas as fully as those of you must accept the ideas your own mind with as many as you do those of a Rockefeller. Do not be the achievements of others. knowledge merely to push Int Picture able cost arrange- en perfected to Light Picture of all taken at 10: Every Face Shown Of Every Person Attends this Grand Affair will be Recorded. best -Date Affair passed In This City!! year's publication The and its many friends and them in properly cele- cary Event. As The successfully closed another regular and uninterrupted our friends and patrons celebrating the event on JULY 4TH y and Well Ventilated use YOU pass to the COST lease You Too OUR HOBBY. Dentist Uses His Brains. A dentist of Bordeaux did not feel that he could leave his business long enough to go to Paris and have the new spectacles that he needed fitted to his nose, which was of a peculiar shape. But he hit upon the ingenious scheme of having a mask of his face made, and, sending it to the optician, together with the numbers of the lenses that he used. WICHITA, KANSAS JUNE 24 1905 Wonderful Growth THE NEGROES HAVE RISEN SINCE EMANCIPATION. The Negroes have risen since forty years emancipation. They are daily rising, and their progress during every year of the fry years f their liberation shows an increased advancement on all lines. Without any financial standing whatever forty years ago, the Negroes who were emancipated went out to battle as a people for some part of their country's standing, which has to this day given them an accumulation of nearly a half billion dollars or$500,000,000 in wealth, and the larger part of this amount is situated in the south where they were once held in slavery. Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University, who is our acknowledged leading professor of American History, not long ago contributed some articles to the Boston Transcript in which he has taken up these important questions: "Is the Southern Negro Degenerating?" and "Shall the Southern Negro be Educated?" Prof. Hart arrives at the conclusion that notwithstanding the assertions of the Southern white men, "there is a strong and increasing body of evidence that the Negroes have on the average risen and are rising today." Prof. Hart further says that most of the studies of the mass of the Negro race have been by Southern Negroes, and then he mentions some books of Negro authorship on the Negro as a farmer, a business man, an artisan, a churchman, etc. Prof. Hart has any number of others seeing the situation as he, but they do not care to write or even speak of the real situation. But right, justice, work and the truth will tell, so we occasionally find people who will speak for the good of others and who are entitled to such. The Negroes of this country who by faithful toil since freedom are proud to know of such men as Professor Hart and only wish that the time was at hand that the whole mass of Southern whites would see as Pro. Hart sees the situation. The emancipation of the Negroes of this country was a God's blessing, and the progress as shown by the Negroes of the South, particularly since their liberation, is proof sufficient to kill the tale of those whose advocacy is that slavery was a blessing to the Negroes. How can such hold when in Virginia today there are in operation four banks of strong standing, conducted by Negroes, besides any number of large wholesale and retail business establishments. In this same state today the Negroes are of a high moral, religious standing, which is continually leading forth a new life of the righteous spirit that will enable the young generation to strive for a higher character of the country's citizenship. Such are the telling works of the emancipated Negroes of Virginia today, but ask your- selves the question: What was the condition of this same race in the state of Virginia when the slave yoke was on? The progress of the Negroes don't only shine in Virginia, but in every one of the other Southern states. During slavery was the Negro a banker? Was he an artist, a statesman, a scholar, or a merchant, etc. But isn't he today represented in all of the above callings of this country's progress and even in more than are named? But think for a moment. This is all gained by the Negroes since their emancipation of forty years only. Nearly fifteen banking institutions are being conducted by Negroes in various Southern states today, and they represent a capital of nearly one million dollars and deposits of nearly $3,000,000. Besides, the Negro has risen to be a builder in every other direction that his brother in white is engaged in. Forty years ago the Negroes didn't own or control a church in this Southland; today there are over 20,000 churches alone under their control and ownership together in the Southern states. The emancipation of the Negroes have elevated the nation along with the Negroes. From days of terrible darkness and shame in states of the Union that held slaves, the Negroes have risen to a loftier plane of American citizenship, and which no nation cannot help from admiring if the consideration of right and justice is the power to view any race of people upon their worth. The Negroes must go on getting their share as a people by their good work, for there is more for them than in the rise of today. But the rise of this nation to a higher position of human rights, liberty and protection of its own people will sooner or later take up the qualities of the people and not their color.—Times, Galveston. THE COLORED GIRL. The Voice of the Negro in the June number contains a very good article on the colored girl, which is from the pen of Fannie Barrier Williams. Among some of the very interesting patrs the writer says: "We cannot comprehend the term American womanhood without including the colored girl. Thanks to the All-Wise Creator of men and things, the law of life is infinitely deeper than the law of society. The ties of kinship and love continually cross and re-cross the color line of man-made prejudices. The woman beautiful, the woman corageous, the woman capable is neither white nor colored. She is bound to be loved and admired in spite of all the meanness that are of human origin. For, after all, "color is the heart, spirit and subtle tenderness of womanhood. Such a question would be impertinent in an age where human life meant something too sacred to be loved or scorned, according to color. She is a daughter of misfortune, but she contributes her full share to the joys of the life about her. She is the very heart of the race problem. She is be- glimning to realize that the very character of our social fabric depends upon the quality of her womanliness. Colored women can never be all they would be until colored men shall begin to exault their character and beauty and to throw about them the chivalry of love and protection which shall command the recognition and respect of all the world. The colored man, as well as the white, is more apt to be attracted by womanly appearance than by womanly merits. For example, there are at this hour thousands of superior young colored women in the country who are compelled to fill occupations far below their accomplishments and deservings. Are they respected and admired because of the courage of their determinatin not to be idle? Scarcely. Those who make up and are responsible for what is called the higher life amongst us are apt to scorn the colored girl who works with her hands. Only the parlor girl finds social favor. This sort of borrowed snobbishness is responsible for the going wrong of many of our girls. The way to exalt the colored girl is to place a higher premium on character than we do upon the quality of her occupation. A fine girl is the supreme thing. Let her be loved, admired, encouraged, and, above all things, heroically protected against the scorn and contempt of men, black as well as white.—Times, Galveston. Before marriage every man has a theory about managing a wife; but after marriage its a condition and not a theory that confronts him. When a policeman marries he soon begins to wonder where he can hide his club so that his wife can't find it If a woman only knew her husband as well before marriage as she does afterward, she would marry some other fellow. The bird on a woman's bonnet can't sing—but it makes her husband whistle when he gets the bill for it. Some young men would get along better if they had less point to their shoes and more to their conversation When a young man is sowing his wild oats, he hopes that something will happen to destroy the crops. Most youngsters of this age learn so rapidly that it is almost impossible for the average high school to keep up with them. Money talks—but it doesn't always speak when spoken to. PICTURE TORN UP Some unknown person entered the Second Baptist church 521 N. Wichita street sometime between Thursday night and Saturday morning and took the picture of the Rev. S. M. Hall pastor of the church, from the wall where it was hanging, took it out of the frame and tore the picture into threads and left in a little scattered pile on the floor. Nothing else in the church was molested and the glass nor frame in which the picture hap b'en was not injured in the leaet which shows that all the party desired was to destroy the pastor's picture-- which was done. The only reason any one is able to assign for this act is the unpopularity of the pastor among some. This is one of the most out-landish insults ever shown to the pastor of any church- white or black in Whichita and though the act was little it carries with it a monstorous story of an intendedsinult- which it was. A NOTEWORTHY EVENT The Annual Sermon of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor at the A.- M. C. church was a most noteworthy event. The Sermon was held under the auspices of Taberian Temple No. 11, Wichita Tabernacle No34 and Golden Rod Tent No. 20 and the Sermon was very learnedly and frequently preached by Rev. H. W. King pastor of that church This was the fifth Annual Sermon of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 but was the first Annual Sermon of Taberian Temple No 11 which was organized less than one month ago. The Knights, the Daughters and the Tent mrde a very creditable showiug. Jealousy is the greatest draw back to our race—if one Negro sees another trying to establish business in a community—this big selfish jealously makes him try to run the same kind of business. If ever we are to be a people we must learn to help each other along—with the many fields open to the Negro there is no need of one pushing and crowding the other. Hunt and unoccupied field and grow up a business—that is the true system Don't you think so? When in need of new or 2nd hand furniture go to the Meyer Furniture Co. 332 N, Main st Good bargains on good goods. Barnum said "The bigger the humbug= the quicker the people bite." But Lincoln said "You can fool all the people sometime some of the people all the time-- but you can't fool all the people all the time. The Chicago Journal devotes about a column to a communication seeking to prove that "love is a magician which reveals hidden beauties." Any man who has been in love knows all about that trick. Tell us something new. The New York Sun says: "A poet comes to us now and then. We mean a real poet who has the 'stuff.'" But even real poets have become so used to hearing their productions referred to as "stuff" that this will not discourage them. It having been discovered that Oku and Oyama are Irishmen, and that Kuropatkin is really Pat Corrigan, there will be no objection to letting in the Russian minister of the interior, Mr. Bouligan. He evidently stole in from the exterior—somewhere about Galway. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION- STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M.ONTH ..... 15c. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appli cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed THE SEARCHLIGHT for publication must be signed by the part parties writing. 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The Searchlight wishes to publicly thank the pastor, officers and members of the Tabernacle Baptist church for the donation of 57 cents which they raised last Sunday and turned over to us Monday as a mark of appreciation of our constancy and faithfulness in keeping their church work before our many readers. We accept the sum and appreciate it highly—not in particular on account of the intrinsic value—but of the spirit in which it was done. We are frank to confess that it came as a surprise to us, which makes it the more appreciated by us, and we most sincerely trust that our future labor for humanity and the church may prove as satisfactory as we infer from the spirit of the Tabernacle Baptist church our past work has been. And we may say here that we, at this time, wish to extend our thanks also to the other churches for the marked respect and support which they have given us during the past seven years and which they are so generously still giving to us, and that as we grow older and learn more of their needs that we may become more valuable to them one and all. We thank you. The Searchlight has never yet found it necessary in order to publish our paper to go among the white people of any community and villify, brow, beat and say all manner of mean things about the memqers of our race. We think that enough hard things are being said daily by our opposers in the other races without us joining with them in painting the picture darker aud darker. If the race sappot find defenders in their own ranks where shall we ever hope to find them? Any black man who does this does so only to work on the prejudices of the unfriendl element of the other races- and does so at a great detriment to his own race—and with the avowed intent to extract money from this element of the whites. We have oftimes said that no Negro can conduct any kind of business without—in some way being dependent on his own race and any Negro who villifies his own people to the whites for money is unfit to bear the proud title of a Negro. Every once in a while these simpleron's bob up—but like the chaff before the wind—they soon vanquish. Any man who deuies his own race ls doomed to everlasting oblivion. THE SEARCHLIGHT Another year of successful publication of the WIchita Search light has come and gone and the paper is now working for success in the New Year as it did every day during the old one. Pursuant to the custom of the Searchlight it has set aside July 4th as the night on which it will ask its friends and patrons to meet with it and all have a jovial good evening in commorating the event. During the years that have passed and gone, it has always been a pleasant duty of this paper to publish each week the doings and happenings among the colored people of Wichita and in the performance of this pleasant task we have used our columns nndiscriminately—giving note to the good works of all regardless to personal feelings. It has been our aim to give the people of this community a good live paper—impartial and unbiased. We feel that the people appreciate our efforts in thir pirection--and we have asked them to meet us Tuesday night July 4th and help us celebrate in a most auspicious manner. We are arraing ing everything from a very fine literary and musical program to minutest detail all looking to the full comfort of those who attend Plenty seats will be on hand to seat everbody and the hall will be so ventilated that it will be as pleasant as a summer garden. We secure this hall because it is rented and controlled by colored men—and we feel it very appropriate—that a race organ—sucp as the Searchlight has always been—should hold their Anniversary in a hall under the control of members of its race. The programme is being arraing ed looking forward to those issue and subjects which most vitally concean the race---and we feel that all who come will feel highly pleased with the eveuing spent with the great Wichita Searchlight on Tuesday night July 4th. Tell your friends about it and urge them to come out to Odd Fellow Hall Tuesday night July 4th. DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop, Paris City Cleaning Works Kid Gloves and Fine Fabrics Cleaned and Repaired. —All Work Guaranteed— 332 North Main st. J. A. Jackson, Prop. B. J. Topp hae his barn almost completed The Race's standard Bearer Pay for the Searchlight ' UNITED WE STAND, RIVIDED WE FALL. ' DO YOU BATHE? If you do and want a nice, clean proeelain tub, hot and cold water, clean fresh towels to use come to The Arcade Barber Shop 339 North Main Street. Baths 25c—Six for $1.00 John E. Lewis, Prop. Edward Landrum has returned from the Creek Nation where he has been for the past few weeks in connection with his head right in that country. Ed reports crops good and times prosperous. It's a big bunch of nerve for a black man to blow in a town and go among the white people and run his own coloi down and coll them "ignorant fools" and such like. That might be alright in some places—but it ought not work here Do not forget about the Seventh Anniversary of the great Wichita Searchlight Odd Fellow Hall Tues day night July 4th. A bbg lit rary and musical program will be rendered. Bring your whole family out. Few people are aware that Geo Daniels one of our prominent colored men owns a fine and well cultivated farm in the Creek Nation. This is a fact just the same. He has been recently offered a fancy price for it. But does not care to sell it at present. Mrs. G. H. Young has returned from Chicago where she has been for the past year. Her husband presented her with a fine house which he had had moved on their lot on N. Main. This house was much a sur prise to Mrs. Young. She is enjoy- ing excellent health. Her many friends were proud to meet her. HAS FINE HOUSE The home of Mr. and Mrs Al Covington 708 N Water st has a fine appearance since they have se modeled it. They have now as can be found on Water st. When fully completed it will be an ideal and comfortable home. Mr. Covington believes in keeping pace with progress. The Masous held their Annual Sermon at the A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Rev. D. H. Mickleburry preachep a fine Mason ic Sermon and all were pleased. The Sermon was held under the auspices of Arkansas Valley lodge No. 31 and Princess chapter No. 12 No. 21 and Princeton School No. 12 After the Sermon short address wry made by Past Master Jno. T. Chieneth and Associate Royal Mat ron Mrs. Jno. T. Chinneth. The W T P S club met Monday with Mrs. T. Fine and elected the following officeeis Pres. Amelia Thompson Vice Pres. Luna Fauver Sec. Lizzie Whitted Assist. See Irma Clark Treas. Pearl Hackly Reporter Myrtle Fleming Assist. Reportor Eliza Brandon Librarian Beatrice Miller Assist. L. Viola Rutu and Minnie Morris Correponding S.c. After business was transacted the club adjourned to meet next Friday Mrs. Robt Davis left Monday evening for her home in Kingman after spending a few days in our city the guest of Mrs. W. N. Miller A SAD DEATH It is with much sorrow that we announce to our many readerr the death of Master Allester Hallu the 10 year old sun of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hallum 113 Tremont. Allester Hallum was born in Kan City Kans. and was 10 years 8mes. old at the time of his death Thursday morning June 22nd 1605. Funeral services were held at the hame. Rev. King officiated, interment at Elmwood Cemetery. MASS MEETING There will be a mass meeting of colored people of Wichita at the A. M. E. church Monday night June 26 to discuss certain matters pretaining to the interest of the race. Men and women are both invited. Come out. Imperial Compang No 1, Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias will give a grand ball at Odd Fellow Thursday night June 29th. Miss Zella Ratley celebrated her 15th birthday at her home 302 W. Murdock Tuesday afternoon June 23th. A nice party of her young friends were present and an enjoyable time was had. Miss Lizzie Underwood left Friday for Pretty Prairie where she spent a week visiting the Misses Banks of that city. She reports having had a fine time on her trip. Be present at the Seventh Anniversary Exercises at Odd Feilow Hall Tuesday night July 4th. A grand program will be rendered Call on Messerve at 152 N. Main when you want your party ice cream and cakes. NOTICE SIR KNIGHTS Taborian Temple No. 11 will meet in regular Session Thursday night June 29th at 8 30 p m All Sir Knights are requested to be present. W N Miller C. M. H. W. Marshall is very much pleased with a visit by his two daughters Mrs. Jesse Davis and Mrs. Hattie Marshall both of Arkansas City and Mrs. Mvrtle Delano of the same city. The ladies spent Sunday in our city. Altho the weather Monday night was very dissagresable the play "A Trip to New York was successfully played to a gord house Monday night Everyo e present pronounced the play fine. Geo Mc. Donold came up from Winfield Saturday to spend a few days visiting his family. He is cooking at that city. Remember the big Pastors rally at the A. M. E. church June 25th. Come out and give your aid in the Rally. Rev. King is a worthy minister and deserves youa full support. Let's make this a g and rally indeed Leonard Biggers has moved his family here and has located with hem at 634 N. Wichita. The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... MENTS: Theoiological, College, Normal, Sub- state Industrial. Classical, College, Preparatory, Norma- tive, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], in- spagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Art Medical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-B ines Course, Stenography and Typewriting, lessmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, L erning and Gardening. 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DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST OLDEN'S D Prescriptions ... Drugs of all kinds Your patronage solicited. customer. Our store is Hea 615 North OLDEN'S DRUG STORE Prescriptions Filled with Cars . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco patronage solicited. + Once a customer, a mer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored 615 North Main st. Prescriptions Filled with Care . . . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. Stebbins & Rafferty Vehicles, Farm Implements Light Harness, Robes, Etc. 211-213 West Douglas New Phone 1787 Nice Furnished ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. OFFICE. We call attention of people who may have news items for SEARCHLIGHT to have the copy of your office not later than Thursday evening in order to reach publication in our current issue. This ap- plication only to Wichita items other things must be in our office not later on Wednesday evening. Please do notice. EERLESS TEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 RELOVER & SOHS, Propa. 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- date job work. Give us a call. --- G. Stebbins Block) Wichita, Kansas OTTO WEISS. Agent. A. DEAN its, Vegetables Feed. 101-Both Phones - 101 RUE STORE Filled with Care , Cigars and Tobacco . . . - Once a customer, always a lquaaters for Colored people. h Main st. Wichita Kan. 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. 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 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 every 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. W. M. Dunson Painter and Paper Hanger Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Office 517 N. Main St Phone 936 New Sleeping Car Line On Mo. Pac. Ry Commencing May 1st., the Mo. Pac. will put in operation a new sleeping car line between Denver, Colo., and Little Rock. Ark. The 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 convalesences who desire to go either to Colorado or Arkansas 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 ood workmanship. Give us a how at your work. Rev. Vanleu left Saturday on his mission work. Miss Etta Pitts will spend a few days in Kingman this week. Bissautz celebrated ice cream is a household word in Wichita. It's an awful thing to be a fool and not be a fool enough to know it Ned Starns was id e Monday and Tuesday on account of the death of his employer. Get wealth, Get soil, get education, but in all thy getting-- get understanding. Everyone bragged of the spendid ventilation ot Odd Fellow hall Thursday night. Have You Seen Those Wonderful BARGAINS IN WE ARE OFFERING? Pianos from $15.00 and upward And terme Come With C. W. Hayni Successor to Mc 135 North 'To The C This phrase has come to m day performance—people tr east and California as unconce Rock Island transcontinental fortable, economical and grat the East and West on their int a day. In fact, they are oper the Rock Island rails via both 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 Excursion tickets to Portland on sale ev Our folder "Aerosol the Continent in tion about rates, sent promptly upon re And terms to suit all Come Without Delay H. Haynie Music Co., successor to McKinney Music Co., 135 North Market Street The Coast' There has come to mean a very common, every- ance—people travel to and fro between the Gorria as unconceruedly as you please. And transcontinental Tourist Sleepers (so com- monical and gratifying to the traveler) serve West on their interesting trips several times they are operated over two routes and on rails via both routes for a good share of the o, through New Mexico—the Southern route; and Salt Lake City—the Scenic route. Each points of advantage: a good plan to go one way other. Rates in effect on numerous dates during summer months. Portland on sale every day. Cross the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," with full informa- tion promptly upon request. C. W. Haynie Music Co., Successor to McKinney Music Co., 135 North Market Street '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. C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. WICHITA, KANSAS. J. A. STEWART; GEN'L AGENT. KANSAS CITY For that Sad blood get a bottle of Lopex Remedy—see their ad. The Fulton Store is to by that nobby suit or furnishing goods that that you need. Chas H Floyd Geo Floyd Misses Etta and Minnie Floyd left Tuesday for their home in Kingman. C E Floyd and son of Kingman spent a few days in the city Carnival week. Who do you think is going to get married soon? Think hard and fast and see if you can ferret it out. Pete Clemens who has been quite ill in Winfield is at home in Wichita and is improving nicely. Mrs. Williams of Newton Kans. is in the city the guest of her brother Thos H. Yancy and family 630 N. Main. Mrs. B. Morris is much improved and is now able to be up and about after quite a seige of sickness. All hope her speedy recover. Grand Chancellor Jno. E. Lew is has been over the state on official lodge business. Mrs. Julius Gaines and daughter Miss Winnie Ray will leave in the near future on 2 visit to their former home in New York state. Frank Bynum is home on his vacation from Manhattan college where he is taking a course in electricity. He says that he likes Manhatten. --- Rock Island System Miss Etta Pitts was the guest of Mrs W. N Muller and Mrs. Robt Davis Saturday night and Sunday forenoon. All ladies of Princess Chapter No. 12 O. E. S. ars request to be present Wednesday June 28th '05. Mrs. Mary Massey. Royal Matron NOTICE DAUGHTERS Wichito Tabernacle No. 34 will meet in regular session Thurday afternoon at 2.80 June 29th. All daughters are requested to be present. Mrs. Mattie Miller H. P. $500.00 RALLY New.Hope Baptist church members are making great strides to raise $500.00 at their Banner Rally on the 3rd Sunday in July. The money raised on this occasion will be applied on their new church on Rock Island avenue. For the purpose of this rally the church is divided into four departments three clubs and the Sewing Circle working to raise this amount The Clubs are "Roarinh Lion"with Rev. Henry underwood as captain this club has only five members and proposes to raise more money than any of the other Clubs. The other members of the named club are; Phillip Hyde, John Lewis Joe Patterson and Mrs. Richard Heek. The "Silver Moon Club,' has for its Captain Mrs. Beatty Davis the Willing Workers has for its captain Ruben Williams—while Mrs. Abe Alexander leads the Sewing Circle With these hard church workers at the head of clubs the amount of $500 will surely be raised and we think the Roaring Lion Club will have to hustle if they win the day on the 3rd Sunday in July. Be on hand and see how the rally com s off and help along. The Tabernacle Baptist church held a very pleasant series meetings Sunday at their church. At 11 a.m. Rev. Underwood filled the pulpit and delivered a splen did sermon. At 1 p.m. the Sabbath School convened and was conducted by Mrs. J. A Martin Superintendent assisted by Mrs. A McBride and Miss Frances Williams Secretary. At 7 p.m. the B. Y. P. U. met with Mrs Blanche Givens press. Mrs. Josephine Miller Secretary. The Vice President Mrs. Hattie Love was absent. Again at 8 p.m. Rev. Underwood delivered a masterly german After the evening Sermon Rev. Underwood to'd his congregation that as the Wichita Searchlight had been so kind to publish the meetings of the church he thought no more than right that the chure raise something for the Searchlight to show their appreciation. This the church did and raised 57 cent which was turned over to the Search light with the best regards of the church hoping that the Searchlight may continue to grow and prosper. HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 357 Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. ODD FELLOWS HALL BEING REMODELED. The managers of Old Fellows hall 517 North Main street, are having some very much needed and important improvements made at the hall to better meet the accommodations of the patrons of the hall. They are having a vestible placed in the front and an enclosure in the rear so that both front and back doors may be opened during the summer season which will permit fresh air to pass through the entire hall, thus affording ample ventilation. They will have the hall thoroughly cleaned and a larger seating capacity provided which will make this one of the most commodious and pleasant halls in the city. The improvements are only part of a series of improvements which they contemplate making. Big double headed program at Odd Fellows hall Tuesday night, July 4th. Come out. WELLINGTON NEWS Miss Monroe is visiting her grand mother Mrs. Johnson at Winfield Mrs. William Letcher is able to be about after a weeks illness. Mrs. Sherman Teal entertained a few friends last Wednesday in honor of Miss Etta Pitts of Wichita who has been visiting Mr and Mrs. F. M. Roberts. Mrs. T Jordan add daughter Mary plained a veay pleasant forrise for Mr. Johnson it being his birthday, by inviting a few friends to spend the evening on Saturday June 10th. Mrs. L. Strange entertained a few ladies to supper Thursday even in honor of Miss Pitts of W. chita. + This country now exports more rice than it imports. Fewer weddings to waste it on? Perhaps Europeans outlive Ameri- ‘cans, but then the tortoise outlives the horse ten times. “Harmless” toy cannon invented capable of making a loud noise. How then can it be harmless? ‘ King Alfonso will have good caus- hereafter to be thankful to the man Who inverted the wild pitch. Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson is married at last. Now, girls, be good, and go back to your cooking. There {s a report that the Sioux In- dians waxt to work. Haye they so far lost their native dignity as that? At last a lone bandit kas come to srief while holding up an express train. Miracles still come to pass. “A friend in need is a friend in- deed,” but if you are in need you will find he is simply a bowing acquaint- cali Someone notes that girl babies are becoming more popular. More likely to be bread-witiners when grown than the boys. Mrs. Chadwick's art treasures were sold at ridiculously low figures. Mrs. Chadwick is herself considerably de preciated. Patriotic Italians should quiet Vesu- vhis, or some American showman will heave it in full eruption over here in a few weeks. A German scientist has invented a fireless cookstove. Now let him con- tinue the good work of devising a cookless meal. It is said that the devil never takes a vacation, We have observed, how- ever, that he is a regular visitor at the summer resorts. It is instructive to reflect just now that the twentieth century was once looked forward to confidently as the era of universal peace. ‘No great amount of money. so far as can be ascertained from the sport- ing department, changed hands on the result of that sea fight. Editor Whitelaw Reid will pay $27. £00 more for house rent than he col ects as salary, but a newspaper man does not mind trifling discrepancies like that. If the king of Servia has any desire {o live long, it is high time for him to quit being a hero and look around for some other less hazardous, if less pa- triotic, Job. Another Van Dyck has been bought for five francs. This will stimulate the buying of old daubs for several thousand franes that cannot be dis- posed of for five. Booin, Doolin, Donlin, Dahlen and Devlin are playing ball in the Na tional league, And plenty of people who couldn't name the twelve apostles never get them mixed. The dam now being constructed by the government on the Salt river in Arizona is sail to be the biggest in America. And Salt river has heard some pretty big damns before now, too. ‘The closing of the eye, the rest and the opening of it have been measured and are found to consume 395,000ths of a second. How swiftly intelligence can be conveyed to the soda fountain clerk! “What kind of a politician can 1 trust?” writes a correspondent. An: other wants to know, “what kind of a chicken shall I use in salad?” Answer im both cases: A dead one.—Dayton Gazette-News. Statistics kept in Cleveland by the hnmane society show that husbands are more loving and considerate of their wives in warm weather than in cold. Cheer up, ladies! The good time’s almost here. Forty-five thousand love letters were seized by the Chicago police when they raided a matrimonial agency. Some publisher might win a fortune by securing permission to make a book of them. ‘The evangelists who have started New York's revival by holding serv- ices in Wall street apparently realize that the slume of the city are not the localities in which active religious work is most sorely needed. ‘A young woman recently jilted a man because he didn't wear a gold chain with his eyeglasses. It hap- pened in Boston, where men are searce. The true Boston woman con- tinues to be willing to sacrifice much to principle. Ah, the craft of gentle woman! The millinery workers are reported to be quietly organizing, with the inten- tion of going on strike next fall when the styles change. Femininity, per- haps, also explains the fact that the secret is out—Boston Transcript. Los Angeles firmly believes it has a man who can produce rain at will. It knows, at any rate, that when he takes # look at the sky, and decides it is time to go and shoot off nis cannon a few times, the rain comes. | The Baptist 8, 8. will gives social Friday eve in the burch parlors. A number of people are prepasing to vieit the assambly over Sunday to hear Sam Janez. Mrs. G B Robinson ison the siek list. Chas Brower has returned tome from the Manbutton college where he has been attending for the past ‘terms. He reports great success in his studies, *'The A ME Sunday Soboo! revd- ereda fine program last Sunday night, : WINFIELD NE\WVS Brest Campbell and sister Eora ‘attentled the Carnival at Wichitar Louis Sandwich died at aa early hour Wednesday mozning, Funera, services held at late residence, Rev Garnett officiated, The ladies of the A, M, E. church ‘gave a successful social Mridaynight ; | Geo, Smothers ene of Comly > wealthy farmers was a visitor im Manila Chapter No, 22 0. K.S. | st Friday. Gus Tidwell came down from Wiobita Monday to visit S:ionds and attend the assembly. Chas Owens and Leon Lewil! left last weak for Satina to worl. Weely Morris of Chioago arrived in the city last week and accapted a position at the Palmea House. Mr, and Mrs. Pete Clemens left last week for their home in Wichita Mr. Clemens is mach improved, Arthur Nichols has accepted a position at tho ice plant, nW4d cannow bast of good electric lights. CLEARWATER NEWS C, &, Wilfley accepted a position at the Hamiiton Hotel. Barnest Whive was in the city on business I.st week and getting ready for h rveat Mr and Mrs Goo Bartin were iu town baft week, Mrs. C. R. Wilfrep was in Wich ita last week visiting her mother and friends, O. H White was in Clerrwater Sunday. Master Clarence Wilfley who hae been on thesick list is elowly improving Wheat cutting has come ard aow is the time yo make your hay, John Ray of Valley Centre has come to help Geo Barton harvest Btate of Kansas, Sedgwick County, ss In the District Court, 18th Judicial trict. Emma Maxey, Plaintiff. va. Frank Maxey, Defendant. NOTICE, The said defendant is hereby notified that he has been sued in the district court by the sald plaintiff for divorce and unless hejithe aafd defendant, shai be and appear in said court, on or be- fore the 22nd day of July, A. D. 1905, and then and there plead, answer or demur to plaintiff's petition therein filed, a decree will be entered pro con- fesso against him for a divorce and for the custody of the minor child in ac- cordance with the prayer of said peti- tion, J. C. MILTON, FURNISHED ROOMS Torent at a reasonable price Mrs Sherrils 311 W Murdeck A Chicago physician says that drunkards are diseased and suggests means for curing them. The trouble is that a good. many of them have no desire to be cured. OUR ANNIVERSARY. $17 NN. Main street, We are making great preparations for this event and trust to meet all our friends, patrons and sympathizers there on this date. For 364 days out of each year the Searchlight is devoted in the interest of others—its readers—and for only one day do we come forth as enter. tainers and It is hoped that our pa_ trons will show the same interest in our Anniversary on July 4th as we have always shown in them, and come out and spend one evening with the Searchlight at Oda Fellows Hall. A program is being arranged that Is suitable for the occasion and one which will suit the fancy of all. We have always been loyal to our church—both in publication of matter and also in the contribution of our means—and the church people of Wichita owe it to themselves as an appreciation of our every effort in their behalf to be present at our Anniversary on Tuesday night, July 4th, ‘The churches of Wichita have found since we have been in this city they have no better friend or defender—and on Tuesday night, July 4th it will be seen how much our efforts are appre~ ciated. Our Anniversary comes only once each year while our loyalty to each of our splendid churches is tested in some manner every day. ‘The young people of Wichita know how ‘earnestly we have kept track of their party affairs and other social gatherings during the time of our,pub- lication and how zealously we have guarded their every interest and on ‘Tuesday night, July 4th, we trust to meet them at Odd Fellows Hall. We promise that when the evening has passed every one will go away highly pleased with the evening spent with the Searchlight at Odd Fellows Hall, July 4th, The hall is being specially arranged, and plenty of seats will be procured and placed in the hall, so «Three Electric Fans will be in ope- ration in the hall to insure that the hall will be pleasant, besides a vesti- bule has been built in the front and rear of the hall and both the front and back doors will be thrown wide open which will insure ample venti- lation, and there will be a seat for ev- erybody. Refreshments will be served in the hall in Banquet style—anything to eat you want will be there. Do not miss this because it only comes once a year and no pains or money will be spared to make this the crowning event of Wichita We seek your pleasure on this date and trust you will accept and come out. ‘The following is the program as ar- ranged, which will occupy but a short time: 1, Opening chorus. 2. Address............Rev, C. G. Coles 3. Vocal Solo ....-..Mr. Robt Floyd 4. Paper........ Mr. Chas. W. Price “The Young Colored Man's Opportuni- ties.” 5. Reitation........Mrs, Ida Gordon “The Party”—By Paul Lawrence Dun- bar.” 6 Address........Mr. Jacob MeAfee “Progress of the Negro Race.” 7. Paper.........Mr. Thos, H. Yancy 8. Address.....Rev. S. S. Washington 9. Duett..Miss J. Bell and Miss D. Bradford. 10. Paper.........Mr, Geo. W. White “Ig Not Education Reducing Pre- Judice.” 11, Recitation....Miss Beatrice Miller 12. Stick Drill..........-.By 20 Girls Mrs, H. W. Hale, Mrs. Mattie Miller Hon, M. F. Fowler. .Sergeant-at-Arms For a fuller detail watch our next is- sue and further advertisements. A. List of Names of everyone, big or little, old or young, who passes through the door at Odd Fellows hall Tuesday night, July 4th, will be made for fu- ture souvenir. Flash Light Picture—A flash light picture of the inside of the hall, with its beautiful decorations will be made ‘at 10:30 sharp on Tuesday night, July 4th. ‘The features of every person will show as plain as life. Remember the Flash Light picture is to be taken promptly at 10:30 on ‘Tuesday night, July 4th. + CUSTOM GKINDING + secseeees A Specialty ..-s0ee-+ ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PYOENISOH BROS, TROPA 992 N. Main St. Phone B36 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. L.S.NAFTZGER, W; R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE) Cashier ‘ é Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 “# Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, K. L, Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F, McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nafte- ger, E.H Middlekauf, 0. Z. Smith, A General Banking: Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS SEPP ELS Fp ES Fos ound Buy your Fresh Meat at tty tin House Meat Marky taud Save Money. “e Remember the place--Market at the Gayl Tot Dold’s Packing House, Red Font Racket The People’s Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just roceiveda 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 VV wy YY @Seek RELATE TES PO ET see YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE BEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS OARDS CALLING CARDS @TATEMENTS BILL HEADB a HAND BILLS POSTERS . MINUTES OIRCULARS TRY U8 WIGHITS TABERNACLE No. 34, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursoay Of Each Mosth All Daaghters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. 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In the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas. Eftie Amy, Plaintift, vs. Ira Amy, Defendant. ‘You, the defendant, are hereby noti- fied that you have been sued in the above entitled Court in the above enti- tled action, by Effie Amy, plaintiff in said action, and that said plaintiff has filed her petition in the District Court of the County of Sedgwick in the State of Kansas, against you and that unless you answec said petition on or before the 22nd day of July, A. D. 1905, said petition will be taken as true, and judgment rendered accordingly of the following nature, to-wit: for a divorce absolute, and for the costs of this ac- tion, Dated and first publication, this 10th day of June, A. D. 1905. By J.C: MILTON, Plaintiff's Attorney. Our Prices *°*“is'tar rowssr OUR Work 14°00 pest ARE YOU? A Subscriber to the SEARCHLIGHT IF NOT, WHY NOT? It Is ONLY $100 wate SE EE Delivered eo BUSOSCRHIBETO-DAY petatatatarewaatanentatets cx? A Pennsylvania town of 6,000 inhab- ‘tants has just erected its first church. though it has been in existence for 130 years. Evidently it has had no occa- sion to pray for its mayors and alder- men in public. The esteemed Boston Herald de- ‘clares that “few of us realize what a vast amount of poverty there is in this country,” The Herald must have been lookins over the newspenetr bunch pretty closely. ‘The father of triplets was on a fish- Ing trip when they were born, twelve days ago, and {t fs said that when he reached home the other day and !earn- ed the news he was quite surprised. ‘That: enema aoa Clea, Joshua Heller, of 706 South Street, Urbana, Ill., says: "In jail of 1899 after taking Doan's Pills I told officers of this that they had me of kidnappable, disf of a lame with pain with joins and in the shoul-ides. 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Battles we win ourselves make wanders of others. USE THE FAMOUS Ball Blue, Large 2-oz, package 5 Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. once is a dear teacher and is always paid. and Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, loved my oldulduty trouble! gained Wardell, Burnsville, N. J. Bottles.Bo trends that stand near you are ones that tell you, no more so he man duns himself debt. VALUE O ANTISEPTICS. ery Made Delicate Surgical Operations Possible. use of antiseptics made it pos or the surgeon to undertake op- possions that were before then impos The surgeon of forty years agc must perform an operation that at the penetration of the peri- thein membrane that lines all of the abdomen—without the cissation and foreboding, decline lining always quickly only resented interference by inflamed, and in nine cases on death was certain. Today groom will pierce this wall with puncture, because by the use septheses he is able, except in to keep it free from all in- terference. By the use of gases, too, wounds heal much quickly. In the old days an and limb meant six weeks in remainst changes of dressing; only means confinement for with one change of dress. The surgeon does not need to the bandages "just to see that thing all right. He can ascerta- that he wants to know from suture and pulse of the pa- FOOD IN SERMONS. Dominie Right and the Servants are Brilliant. scientious, hard-working and successful clergyman I am glad to bear testimony I measure and increased measurability and health that have come from adopting Grape-Nuts of my articles of diet. several years I was much disliking the early part of each indigestion. My breakfast, consisting of oatmeal, milk seemed to turn sour and digest. After dinner the cake and other symptoms follow breakfast would wear away, return, however, next morn- board of Grape-Nuts food, it concluded to give it a fair I put the use of oatmeal and and made my breakfasts of Nuts cream, toast and Postum, was surprising in improv- sions and total absence of the that had, for so long a time, the morning meal. My diges- same once more satisfactory, leaches ceased, and the old of energy returned. Since that our years ago, I have always Grape-Nuts food on my breakfast he delighted to find also, that before I began to use Grape-Nuts I was quite nervous and be-ly worried in the work of the sermons and in study, a improvement in this respect from the change in my diet, maintained that Grape-Nuts food has this result and helped me surely condition of mental and strength. Here known of several persons were formerly troubled as I was, who have been helped as I have by the use of Grape-Nuts food, recommendation, among whom mentioned the Rev. —, a missionary to China." Name of Fostum Company, Battle Mich. Here's a reason." On the little book, "The Road to life," in each pkg. THEY GET TOGETHER Meeting is Held by French Premier And German Ambassador. Details Are Being Arranged and officials Expect to Announce Plans For a Conference in the Course of Four or Five Days. Paris, June 21. — An international conference for the consideration of affairs of Morocco is now practically assured as the result of the conversation between Premier Rouvier and Prince Radolin, the German ambassador, and attention is now directed to defining the scope of the conference. Details are being rapidly arranged, and the officials expect to be able to announce the plans for the conference in the course of four or five days. This result, after the severe strain which tested the diplomatic resources of both governments, has the effect of relieving the tension, the officials of the foreign office and the diplomats of the German embassy agreeing that an amicable adjustment is near at hand. Although the acceptance of the conference gives a certain measure of success to German diplomacy, yet M. Rouvier emerges from the controversy with the advantage of having brought Germany to exactly define the scope of the conference and so to rid it of the objection of being a menace to French interests. Although the basis of the conference has not been settled, it is understood that the two governments substantially agree on some of the main features involved. Germany has suspected that France had designs on the sovereignty of Morocco, but the negotiations disclosed that France had not questioned this sovereignty. Similarly, it was disclosed that France had not designed to interrupt the present territorial or political status quo of Morocco. This appears to have been one of Germany's chief apprehensions, as any change in Morocco's status quo might involve ultimate French protectorate similar to that over Tunis. With both governments favorable to the sovereignty of Morocco and to her territorial and political status quo it remains for the conference to adjust the equality of commercial rights as Germany desires this assurance from an international agreement. Therefore, the conference is not likely to consider changes in the political status of Morocco, but rather international reforms and commercial privileges. A dispatch to the Temps from Mets says that the Sixteenth German army corps is showing less activity than the Twentieth and Sixth French army corps, as the Sixteenth German army corps has been continually on a war footing and is prepared for immediate mobilization. The dispatch says that the inspection of troops has been active on both sides. However, this activity has been less marked recently as all eyes have been turned toward Paris in the expectation of a favorable result of the diplomatic negotiations. WILL NOT RETURN. Chief Engineer Wallace Coming Home to Resign Position. Colon, June 21.—It was publicly announced that John F. Wallace, chief engineer of the canal zone, who sailed for the United States June 16, was going home by order of Secretary Taft, for the purpose of consultation on important matters, prior to the sailing of the secretary for the Philippines, and that he was not likely to return to the isthmus until his annual report had been written. Since the departure of Mr. Wallace however, it has been said in influential circles that he does not intend to return to the isthmus to resume his position as chief engineer, but that he has gone home to confer with Secretary Taft on the subject of his resignation. Shortly before he sailed Mr. Wallace was the recipient of a memorial from the heads of departments on behalf of the canal employees, expressing deep appreciation of the benefits resulting from the new schedule of hours and wages, and from the betterment in the general welfare of all connected with the work on the canal. The fact that Mr. Wallace went home accompanied by his wife and his two secretaries seems in some quarters to lend credence to the rumor that he does not intend to return. Will Make Address Berlin. June 21.—Prof. Hirschberg of Berlin university, the specialist in ophthalmology, leaves Berlin for Portland, Ore., where he will make an address before the American Medical association. Rumor Is Contradicted Panama, June 21.—The rumor that Governor Magoon is sick with fever is contradicted by Secretary Reed, who informs the Associated Press that the governor merely suffered from a slight attack of malaria. To cure, or money refunded by your merchant; so why not try it? 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The body of the scale is thick and leatherly, while its surfaces, especially the inner, are soft, with a silken nap gorgeously dyed in yellow, orange and red, suggesting the chimney corner and the heat which glows from a hickory log. SAVED CHILD'S LIFE. Remarkable Cure of Dropsy by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Sedgwick, Ark., June 19.—The case of W. S. Taylor's little son is looked upon by those interested in medical matters as one of the most wonderful on record. In this connection his father makes the following statement: "Last September my little boy had dropsy; his feet and limbs were swollen to such an extent that he could not walk or put his shoes on. The treatment that the doctors were giving him seemed to do him no good, and two or three people said his days were short, even the doctors, two of the best in the country told me he would not get better. I stopped their medicine and at once sent for Dodd's kidney Pills. I gave him three Pills a day, one morning, noon and night for eight days; at the end of the eighth day the swelling was all gone, but to give the medicine justice, I gave him eleven more pills. I used thirty-five Pills in all and he was entirely cured. I consider your medicine saved my child's life. When the thirty-five Pills were given him, he could run, dance and sing, whereas before he was an invalid in his mother's arms from morning until night." People who talk much and do little are only pouring lye on their pet plant, and will blast the bud that might have been a bloom. 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 ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. 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At the conference of the managers of the New York Central Lines, held in New York June 6th, all lines being represented by their General Managers and Passenger officials, it was decided, beginning with the regular summer change, Sunday, June 18th, to quicken the speed of the "Twentieth Century Limited" so as to make the time between New York and Chicago eighteen hours instead of twenty hours, the New York Central Lines having made the twenty hour time during the past three years, and having also made the run between New York and Chicago in twenty hours with their "Exposition Flyer" for the one hundred and eighty days of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, twelve years ago. The New York Central Lines make the point that the New York Central has had in service the "Empire State Express," which has been the fastest train in the world for its distance, 440 miles for fourteen years, having held the world's record for that time, and for three years and 180 days having held the world's record for a thousand mile train in twenty hours. The proposed schedule of eighteen hours is simply the extension of the time of the "Empire State Express" through from Buffalo to Chicago, the time having been made for fourteen years between New York and Buffalo. On this new schedule, the train will leave Chicago at 2:30 p. m., arriving Grand Central Station. New York, at 9:30 next morning, and returning, will leave New York 3:30 p. m., reaching Chicago 8:30 a. m. following day. At the same time, the "Lake Shore Limited" will be quickened up an hour, and will make the time from Chicago to New York in 23 hours instead of 24, leaving Chicago 5:30 p. m., by the Lake Shore and arriving New York 5:30 p. m., by the New York Central. The "Southwestern Limited" train, No. 11, which now leaves Grand Central station at 1 p. m., will, beginning June 15th, leave at 2:04 p. m., saving an hour to an hour and a half on the present journey to St. Louis and Cincinnati." The higher plane becomes rugged when not cultivated. AGONY OF SORE HANDS. Cracked and Peeled—Water and Heat Caused Intense Pain—Could Do No Housework—Grateful to Cuticura. "My hands cracked and peeled, and were so sore it was impossible for me to do my housework. If I put them in water I was in agony for hours; and if I tried to cook, the heat caused intense pain. I consulted two doctors, but their prescriptions were utterly useless. And now after using one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment my hands are entirely well, and I am very grateful. (Signed) Mrs. Minnie Drew, 18 Dana St., Roxbury, Mass." Watch nature's song and you get the keynote to character. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. If we could fathom all we know it would be hard to find out anything. DON'T FORGET Large 20oz, package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. People who are continually talking are voluntarily tendering the good of their mind to their formed hatred. Trouble Increasing When your trouble with food-digestion seems to be increasing, and various pains, like stomach-ache, headache, backache, etc., beset you; when your bowels and liver seem continually out of order, what you need is Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It is safe, pleasant and far superior to all pills or cathartic waters. 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Your Washday Outfit is incomplete as long as you are not using Red Cross Ball Blue Try it and satisfy yourself that nothing makes the clothes so white. At grocers. Large 2-ounce package for 5 cents. Remember the name. ure is Gua merchant; so why not try For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hutchens. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE OENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. Chicken, Mulligatawney, or Oxtail will please the most delicious to eat—always satisfactory. Natural Food Products Boneless Chicken Soups Vienna Sausage Ham Loaf our Grocerias them McNeill & Libby, Chicago Shirt.Bosoms Collars and Cuffs laundered with Defiance Starch never crack nor become brittle. They last twice as long as those laundered with other starches and give the wearer much better satisfaction. If you want your husband, brother or son to look dressy, to feel comfortable and to be thoroughly happy use DEFIANCE STARCH in the laundry. 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Addressed on the gummed side, a postage stamp, says the Dundee Advertiser, has been delivered at Fife, Scotland, as a letter. Overlook Vast Wealth. While the Chinese are held to be the most economical people in the world, it has apparently never occurred to them to use the vast areas of their verdant hill and mountain regions as pasturage for cattle, sheep or horses. MADE NEW STRENGTH MADE NEW STRENGTH QUIKER THAN DOCTOR'S TONIOS, SAYS TYPHOID PATIENT. Young Lady Left by Fever in Very Weak State Uses Dr. Williams' Pink Pills with Graftifying Results. After a fever, such as typhoid or scarlet, has run its full course there remains the recovery of strength. The tonic that will most rapidly increase the red corpuscles in the blood is the one that will most quickly restore color to the pale cheeks, strength to the weak muscles, and elasticity to the sluggish nerves. So far nothing has ever been produced superior to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for this purpose. Miss Midendorf had been ill with typhoid fever for fourteen weeks. She had a good physician who carrid her safely through the critical stages. When he left, nothing remained to be done except to build up her strength, which was very feeble, and he gave her some prescriptions for that purpose. Here, however, she met with disappointment. "I took the doctor's tonics," she says, "for two months after I had recovered from the fever, but they did not do me the good I looked for. My strength came back so slowly that I scarcely seemed to be making any progress at all. Just then I read in a book thrown in our yard some striking testimonials showing what wonderful blood-builders and strength-givers Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are. I got a box of them soon after this and after I had taken only about half of them I could see a very great improvement in my condition. When I had used up two boxes, I felt that I did not need any more medicine. I have remained strong ever since." Miss E. B. 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The business you voluntarily attend to is wasted time without royalty. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5 CIGAR You Pay 10c. for Cigars Not so Good. F.P. LEWIS Peoria, III A Rock Cement in white and bea- tiful tints. Does not rub or scale. Destroys disease germs and vermil. No washing of walls after once con- tained with vermil. No washing of walls after once contained with cold water. Plain tinting and whitening, and the most elaborate relief, stencil work and frescoing may be done with it. Other finishes with which Alabastine is made and mixed with wet do not have the cementing property of Alabastine. They are stuck on with glue or other animal matter, which rets, feeding disease germs, rubbing, scaling wet, and body washing. Their finishes must be washed off every year—costly fifth work. Buy Alabastine only in dive-pound packages, properly labeled. Body washing. Body washing design. Hints on Bounting, and our artists' services in making color plans, free. ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich., or 105 Water St., N. Y. PISOS'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION CONSUMPTION Wichita, Kansas, Saturday June 24,05 KANSAS COMMENT Verdict in Porter Case.—Florence Akers was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for having killed Herbert Porter, at Chanute. The jury was out eight hours. Operated a Joint. — Chod Thomas was found guilty at Winfield in police court of operating a joint contrary to the prohibitory law and sentenced to pay $1,000 fine and to spend 300 days in the county jail. He appealed. Must go to Prison.—A jury in the case of Homer Lamotte, charged with committing larceny from Santa Fe freight cars in the yards at Arkansas City, returned a verdict of guilty. The conviction carries with it a penalty of from one to seven years. $35,000 Hospital. — In the quartermaster's office at Fort Riley the proposals for the construction for the first section of the new hospital were opened. Ziegler & Dalton, of Junction City, were the lowest bidders, at $35,000. Work will begin before July 1st. Small Fire Near Florence.—A large tent belonging to H. Wolfenberger who is doing some grading for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, two miles west of Florence caught fire from sparks from an engine late Tuesday and was completely destroyed. Five horses were burned to death. The loss is more than $1,500. Railroad Shops at Parsons.—Mayor Gabriel has received a telegram from President Finney of the Missouri Kansas & Texas railway, saying that the company accepts the proposition made by the city of Parsons for the construction of new railway shops. The new shops are to cost $1,650,000 and the site selected by the company contains thirty acres and is in the residence part of the city. Charged With Robbery. — James Lewis, a negro about 25 years old, was arrested charged with the burglary of four Wichita homes. The robberies have taken place within the past week. Lewis was arrested in an East Douglass avenue pawnshop while trying to dispose of a gold watch which had been stolen from the home of Dr. Fabrique, a prominent Wichita physician. Great Alfalfa Crop. — Albert Robidoux was in Goodland recently. He said: "I sowed 40 acres of alfalfa the 6th day of March, and that same field is ready to cut and stands from a foot to 18 inches high. In a few years I will have one of the finest alfalfa meadows in the state of Kansas." It is a remarkable thing to cut alfalfa three months after sowing. Men Teachers Scarce. — Though their salaries run from $60 to $70 a month, men teachers for principals of the smaller town schools in Brown county are almost impossible to get. There are more than enough women teachers, but the young men seem to prefer to work for less money every month in the year than to take a teacher's place for from seven to nine months at a good salary. Damage to Cornfields.—During the past week the web worm has been very destructive in a number of corn fields in this county. South of Junction City about five miles is a field of about five acres where the corn has been completely killed. Every stalk of corn in the field is wilted and is lying on the ground covered with the white web left by this worm. The worm has already made its appearance in many other fields in that vicinity. Appalling Waste of Gas. — County Gas Inspector Laney has just completed his inspection in Montgomery county and reports that only one gas using plant in the county, the Caney glass factory, is complying with the law respecting waste of natural gas. He says the waste of gas in this county is appalling. Those guilty are belligerent and refuse to obey the orders of the inspectors. The law is stringent and the inspectors say they will resort to the courts. Ransacks County Offices. — While the county officers of Douglas county were at dinner the offices of the county treasurer and the county clerk were entered by a stranger and generally ransacked. The cash was not reached in the treasurer's office, but in the county clerk's office the gold watch and $75 belonging to Mrs. Julia Kerns, the deputy, were taken from a private desk. It is thought the theft was committed by several white men who were seen about the court house when the officials were away. For Commander-in-Chief. — Captain P. H. Coney, department commander of the Kansas G. A. R., is in receipt of letters from comrades in various states urging him to run for commander-in-chief of the order. The captain says he is not a candidate, but his friends declare that if the honor should be thrust upon him he would feel it his duty to accept. By November 1.—Workmen at Topeka broke ground for the new state printing building, which is to cost $28,000. The building will be ready for occupancy November 1. WHY EYESIGHT FAILS WHY EYESIGHT FAILS INFERIOR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FRE QUENTLY THE CAUSE. Illuminants of the Past, One and All, Have Serious Defects—Acetylene Gas, with Its Clear, Unwavering, Yet Soft Flame Cannot Hurt the Eyes. Chicago, June 20.—No one can go into our schools or meet a group of children on the street without noticing how large a number of them wear spectacles. The proportion seems to increase yearly, and there are many more who ought to wear glasses. The experience of one teacher might be duplicated by the score. She knew Alice was inattentive and she thought she was unusually stupid. She said so to the principal and sent a note to the mother, requesting that the child be helped at home if she wished her to keep up with her class. One day after a blackboard explanation, the teacher called upon the child and found that she had not seen what had been written. She was kept after school and by dint of much sympathetic questioning Miss C. found that Alice had never been able to see what was put on the board and that her head had ached so often and so hard that she frequently failed to hear what was said. Such a condition may be caused by lack of proper food, but in our American homes it is usually due to the poor quality of the artificial light. The yellow, insufficient light of the ordinary kerosene lamp, with its smoky chimney, is about as bad for the eyes as can be imagined. The flickering light from a coal gas jet is but little better, and even the electric light, brilliant as it usually is, has an unsteadiness due to variations in power, and a glare peculiarly trying to the delicate nerves of sight. The comparatively new illuminant acetylene gas produces as nearly perfect an artificial light as has yet been found. It gives a clear white, unwavering light, very brilliant yet perfectly soft, and so nearly like the rays of the sun that even colors appear as in daylight. Fortunately, acetylene is very easily and cheaply produced, and the simple . . . auratus necessary can be purchased and installed in any home at a very moderate cost, and the acetylene can be piped to convenient points in the house where a light is needed. It is then lighted and extinguished and used exactly like common city gas. Acetylene is rapidly coming into common use in homes, churches, schools and institutions of all kinds, and it is reasonable to expect that as its use in the home increases, there will be fewer defective eyes, particularly among children. Poor eyesight and the many ills resulting therefrom will undoubtedly be much reduced by the use of this new illuminant. The hardest battles we have to fight are from the effect of some one's uncontrollable thought. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. No guarantee goes with the silver-tongued orator. RAILWAY RATE LEGISLATION. At the biennial convention of the Order of Railway Conductors recently held at Portland, Oregon, resolutions unanimously adopted voicing their sentiments as to the effect of proposed railway rate legislation on the 1,300,000 railroad employees, whom they in part represented. These resolutions "indorse the attitude of President Roosevelt in condemning secret rebates and other illegalities, and commend the attitude of the heads of American Railways, who, with practical unanimity, have joined with the president on this question." They then respectfully point out to Congress the "inadvisability of legislation vesting in the hands of a commission power over railway rates, now lower by far in the United States than in any other country." because such regulation would "result in litigation and confusion and inevitably tend to an enforced reduction in rates, irrespective of the question of the ability of the railroads to stand the reduction, especially in view of the increased cost of their supplies and materials." They further protested against such power being given to the present Inter-State Commission because "the proposed legislation is not in harmony with our idea of American jurisprudence, inasmuch as it contemplates that a single body shall have the right to investigate, indict, try, condemn and then enforce its decisions at the cost of the carriers, pending appeal, which is manifestly inequitable." The conductors base their demand for only such legislation if any, as would "secure and insure justice and equity and preserve equal rights to all parties concerned," on the ground that the low cost of transportation "is the result of the efficiency of American railway management and operation which have built up the country through constant improvement and development of territory, while at the same time recognition has been given to the value of intelligence among employees in contrast to foreign methods, where high freight rates and lowest wages to employees obtain." In pressing their claim against legislation adverse to their interests, they point out the fact that "the freight rates of this country average only two per cent of the cost of articles to the consumer, thus making the freight rate so insignificant a factor in the selling price that numerous standard articles are sold at the same price in all parts of the country." LATE MARKET REPORT. Kansas City. NATIVE STEEERS..... $ 4 25 @ $ 5 70 HOGS - Heavy..... 5 25 @ $ 5 35 WHEAT - No. 2 Hard..... 97 @ 1 02 WHEAT - No. 2 Red..... 97 @ 1 02 CORN No. 2 Mixed..... 50 @ 51 OATS No. 2 Mixed..... 29 @ 30 HAY - Choice Timothy..... 9 50 @ 10 00 RAIRIE..... 7 71 @ 8 00 BUTTER..... 11% @ 18% EGGS..... — @ 12% Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEEERS $ 5 51 @ 6 00 STOCKERS & FEEDERS 2 75 @ 4 70 HEIFERS 2 30 @ 4 75 HOGS 5 22% @ 5 32% Chicago Cash Grain. WHEAT - No. 2 Red..... $ — @ 1 08 WHEAT - No. 2 Hard..... $ — @ 1 02% CORN - No. 2 No. 2..... 55% @ 31% OATS - No. 2 No. 2..... 31% @ 31% St. Louis Live Stock. BEEF STEEERS $ 4 51 @ 5 85 COWS & HEIFERS 2 00 @ 4 00 TEXAS STEEERS 2 75 @ 5 00 Cotton. LIVERPOOL. 4.51d NEW YORK. 9.15e GALVESTON. 9 3-15e Chicago Futures. Open High Low Close T'd y Close T'd y WHEAT- May 88% @ 90 88% @ 89% @ 89% July 84 84% @ 84% @ 84% @ 84% Scrap 84% @ 84% @ 84% @ 84% CORN- May 74% 51% 54 54 54% @ 54% July 62% 53% 53% 52% 52% Scrap 49 49% 41% 48% 48% @ 49% CORN- July 31% 31% 31% 31% 31% Sept 29% 30 29% 29% 29% Dec 33% 33% 33% 33% 3% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS $ 4 81 @ $ 4 90 HOGS 2 80 @ $ 3 20 STOCKERS — — @ 3 21 HEIFERS — — @ 2 51 STEERS 3 00 @ 3 85 CALVES 3 75 @ 4 00 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. Prince Robert of Bourbon, Sovereign Duke of Parma, gave a great banquet to celebrate the birth of his twenty-first child. An explosion has occurred in the Ivan colliery at Khartisik, belonging to the Russian Donetz company. It was reported that 300 persons perished. Max Ploehn, who assaulted and killed Miss Alma Goose, near plattsmouth, Neb., has been captured near that place. A mob is gathering and a lynching is likely. The colonial office has no information tending to confirm the Cape Town report that Warmbad, German Southwest Africa, was recently captured by Hottenots. Colonel Von Wassman, former governor of German East Africa, accidentally shot himself in the head while deer stalking at Fischern. His death was instantaneous. Frank Barker, under sentence of death for the murder of his brother's wife near Red Cloud, Neb., will not hang, the supreme court of the state having granted him an insanity hearing. There was a sudden turn for the worse in the case of Graeme Stewart, former Republican national committeeman from Illinois. Mr. Stewart was stricken with apoplexy two weeks ago. Ambassador Paul Cambon left London for Paris to confer with Premier Rouvier on the Moroccan situation, after calling on Lord Lansdowne. He will return to his post the early part of next week. Rear Admiral John C. Watson, U. S. N., retired, who has been investigating for the Navy department the physical culture methods of European navies, has arrived in London, having concluded his mission. In a cablegram to the Isthmian Canal commission, Gov. Magoon at Panama reports three new cases of yellow fever and that the three reported by him on June 12 as suffering from the disease, have died. The German steamer Tecartos was sunk by the Russian auxiliary cruiser Don May 30 according to information received at Lloyds. The Tecartos was on her way from Otaru, Japan, to Tlentsin with a cargo of railroad ties. Susan Alwater-Gillette, widow of Judge Gurdin Gillette, and an original Daughter of the Revolution, is dead at her home at Renosha, Wis., aged 95 years, due to old age. She was a daughter of John Akwater, an aide of General Washington, who did service as a bearer of dispatches between Washington and Lafayette. She recently was given a medal of honor by the state and national chapters. In Paris the Journal prints the official announcement of Premier Rouvier's nomination as minister of foreign affairs, and that of M. Merlon as minister of finance. A Populist convention, to nominate a candidate for congress in the northern district, was to meet in Lincoln, Neb., but when the hour for the convention arrived not a delegate could be found. The democrats held their convention. The Bank of California of San Francisco, has sold to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of California three thousand shares of its increased capital stock at $375 a share, the sum involved in the transaction being $1,175,000. A meeting of independent sheet and tin plate manufacturers of the country and the committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers has been arranged for Pittsburg, Pa., on June 21. The workers' scale provides for an increase of 18 per cent for sheet workers and 22 per cent for the tin plate men. Clubs are forming throughout the state for the purpose of buying cigarettes directly from the trust, and the malls and express companies are bringing thousands of packages into the state of Illinois every day. The Secret of Good Coffee Even the best housekeepers cannot make a good cup of coffee without good material. Dirty, adulterated and queen blended coffee such as unscrupulous dealers shovel over the counters won't do. But take the pure, clean, natural flavored LION COFFEE, the leader of all package coffees, the coffee that for over a quarter of a century has been dainfully welcomed in millions of homes—and you will make a drink for a king in this way: "STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER "OUR FAMILY SHOES "OUR FAMILY" SHOES Will fit every foot in your family, and the price will please you as well. They are made best leather for long wear; have style and an appeal. Ask your dealer to show you the line. 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