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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. TH YEAR. Rights of Tabors Buy South Side Park Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor Buy A Beautiful Park In Leavenworth, Kan. night As An Investment. Transfer It Into A Pic- Nicounds For The Celor- People Of This Section Knights and Daughters of of Leavenworth, Kan be the owners of block 19, in Side Park addition to that last week. This block is with e and one-half squares of th street and on the Kansas- Northwestern. It is the big of trees on Santa Fe st., on the west side of the hill south of the Pittsburg Pav- and Building Co's plant: The is the most beautiful in portion of the country. w. Frank Wilson, of Kansas Kansas' Chief Grand Men of the Kansas-Nebraska union of the International of Twelve, engineered the rough, and the price paid property was $950. Rev. Wilson has aided several acquire property. Nichols, one of the officers leavenworth lodges said to the purchase: park privileges in Leav are too high and the col ople have no place where hold their pic-nics. The will be fenced in, a pavil- looths erected, and we make one of the finest for colored people in the The lodges in this city are the few colored lodges who their own hall and the Or- twelve Knights and Daugh Tabor, now have the disa- nion of being the only Order of the colored people who park, and this fleets credit on Rev. Frank Wil- lief Grand Mentor: Rich- alker, at the head of Mt. N Temple, Laura Bright, ing officer of Victoria Tab- No. 30, and Henrietta presiding officer Crystal No. 29. ARCHLIGHT only $1.00 Year. Are You A Subscriber. --- JOB PRINTING Make your JOB PRINTING to when a member of your own will do the work as cheap and as bring your job work to the right office. Second and Main and we will do the work right. Business and Quality" is our Do Not Practice What They Preach That Is What Some Of The Colored Preachers Do — They Make Grand Stand Profession Of Their Race Loyalty Yet They Use Every Kind of An Excuse That Will Enable terprises - Looking For A Big Name By Spending Money Raised In Color- ed Church With Others And Ignoring Negro Enterprises ONE OF the greatest obstaeles which now confront the Negro of this country is the bold insincerity and attitude of some of the colored preachers toward Negro enterprises. In the pulpit in many places we find preachers of our own race who depends upon the race for support and are supported with the hard-earned money of the race; yet when they have received the cash from the hands of the race, they spend it with others for things which the race enterprises could supply — and after this is spent they come before their people—raise more money which is like-wise spent. This is not right and does not show that sincerity which oharacterizes one interested in race enterprises or in the race. It has the appearance of a selfish man whose only interest in the Colored people is to get them to "give liberally" on the collection table. In our section of the country we have known colored preachers who have gone out of their way and passed by colored printing offices and taken their work and the work for their church to the white printer, not with-stand ag the colored printer was just as competent to have turued out a neat job as the white man was We overheard one of our colored divines say the reason he had his work done at "a white shop" was because he was "very particular" and that the "white shop had a greater variety of type" Isn't this a very, very flimsy excuse? And none of the many excuses which are made are any better than this. These "very particular" ministerial gentlemen never stop to consider that if the white preachers would ignore the white printers as this class of colored preachers ignore the colored printers: then the white printers could not the "variety" of which our 'particular' colored preacher boast. Then, again, suppose the colored people WICHITA, KANSAS AUG 19 1905 would give to his support as he does to the support of colored enterprises—how long would these high toned, stylish and 'particular' colored preachers have the money with which to rare-back, and strut by colored places of businesses to spent it with the 'whi' fo'ks'. If the colored preachers who thus seeks to find some excuse to justify them in evading giving their moral and financial support to colored enterprises would stop hunting for excuses and would be equally as earnest in helping to build up colored enterprises and in urging others to do the same—they would soon find that their lot would be better financially and otherwise. Although this class of colored preachers take all their job printing to white offices—yet they are nervy enough and do expect the Negro press in each issue to have long, costly articles of high sounding praise about them and their work and to keep the public posted about their numerous rallies and other "to do's" by which the preacher raises his money. And in the case of every colored preacher of the type here mentioned, if the Negro press does not keep long articles of praise concerning "him and his works (?)” the he lay all his big "flooence" (?) against the paper This is not as it should be. For there are no two agencies for the advancement of the colored race that ought to work more in harmony and for the mutual welfare of themselves and the race, more than the Negro pulpit and the Negro press. Both have a mission in the accomplishment of which they should work hand in hand. With the Negro press and the Negro pulpit working in unison and in harmony the race will make strides of progress as never before. --EXCHANGE KILLED BY AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. Harry K. Stewart, eldest son of State Senator James H. Stewart was accidentally killed by an electric shock by coming in contact with one of the powerful switches at the power house of the street car company Saturday afternoon. Harry, with others, were making some electric repairs when in raising his arm his elbow came in contact with the switch which caused his death. Young Stewart was a student in electrical engineering and attended an eastern college and was only working at the plant to gain some practical experience. The many friends and acquaintances of the family extend their most profound sympathies. PROMOTED TO AGENT. Mr. Jas. Moriarity, the pleasant chief clerk at the Santa Fe depot has been promoted to the position of City Ticket Agent. Mr. Moriarity has been chief clerk at the Santa Fe in this city for the past six years and by his generous treatment of the general public has become very popular with those who travel. All are highly pleased with his promotion. GOOD BASE BALL GAME The Salina colored base ball team under the management of W. W. Shobe played ball with the Wichita Arcades under the management of Bud Hickerson. Two games were played on the Association grounds; the first game was played Thursday afternoon and the second game Friday afternoon. Salina won the first game on Thursday by a score of 11 to 4. On Friday however, the tray turmed and the Arcades won by a score of 3 to 2. Some of the features of the game were the speedy pitching of young Irwin Lyde who pitched as smooth and easy a game as has been witnessed on that field this year. Lyde was well supported by catcher Ben Ross. The field work of John Edgerton, Will Coulter, Sam Collins and Buster Buford were exceptionally fine. Both teams played a good even game. Patronize our advertisers—it will pay you to do so. RED LIGHTS .. The Street Car Company should place red lights on the 12 cars that leave Main and Doglas at night. It will prove satisfactory. Every colored person in Wichita ought to feel highly pleased over the fact that at last the race has a grocery store opened which is owned and controlled by colored men; and not only should they feel proud and well pleased with this but every colored person should show their color by trading at this store. Messrs. Thos. Glover, Jas. L. Hraper, Sandy E. Patton and Edward Landrum have moved the store to The Odd Fellow building, 517 N. Main street and have a line of goods that will satisfy any. Now let the colored people do their duty and go to this store at 517 N. Main and buy your groceries. If you have only 5c to spend go there and spend it. Colored people have been talking for a long time about a colored grocery store, now you have one—do your duty and spend your money with them. This store is open for business only and the colored people owe it to themselves to go there to do their trading. Let us be men and women and show that we appreciate race enterprises by giving our trade to the colored grocery store, 517 N. Main street. ATTENTION! SIR KNIGHTS!!! ATTENTION! SIR KNIGHTS!!! The Sir Knights of Taborian Temple N. 11 will meet at 335 West 15th St., Monday evening, Aug. 21st at 8 o'clock for the purpose of drilling. All Knights will take notice and be present, W. N. Miller, C. M. COLORED NEWSPAPERS It is frequently neard from members of the race that colored newspapers do not contain as much news as may be had by any of large dailies. And this is true. But to all who offer this criticism we desire to state that they fail to understand the purpose the colored newspapers are trying to serve. We are not in competition with the great dailies as a purveyor of general news. We wish to make note of the most important happenings contained in newspapers generally, and in addition to this to publish such doings of the race as will be of interest to those who care anything about their race. In this line we have no competition, except among ourselves, for it is apparent that any who takes the time to think about it, will find that the poorest race paper published will tell you more in one month about what the race is doing than can be best metropolitan daily in three times that time. So after all, it is but a question with you whether or not you care to know about what is going on among your kind. If you do care to know, you cannot find it out by reading your morning and evening papers. = Freeman. It seems so as silly for any member of the race to attempt to compare a Negro Weekly Newspaper with that of a metropolitan daily, yet, as thh Freeman says, many of the race criticise the Negro week lies for not having the news as that of the dailies, yet these same people will pick up a Negro newspaper in preference of a daily. The fact of the matter is, they prefer, the kind of news that is found in a Negro paper to that found in a white one. The average Negro who makes such assertions are paid up subscribers to the white dailies and either borrow or steal a Negro paper in order that he may learn what is going on among his race. Such arguments as above stated put up by any individual are quite flimsy and have no substantial weight whatever. —Colorada Statesman HAY-BACK PARTY. The young people had a hay-rack party to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Fine's Thursday evening in honor of the Royal Orchestra of Texas. Those in the party were: Misses Mabel King, Marie Stevenson, Albertha Bradford, Cornelia E. Wilson, Carrie Bell, Viola Bradford, Lula Parks, Ida Wilson, Messrs. Tom Anderson, Ora Taylor, Chas, Price, Frank Bynum, Stewart Waters, Ollie Madison, Robert Floyd. They had a fine time in every way. BIG BANQUET. Sam C. Collins, one of Wichita's upto-date young men, gave a swell banquet at the Lewis, & Hickerson Cafe Tuesday night, August 15th, in honor of the Royal Orchestra. This was one of the swellest affairs ever witnessed in Wichita and reflects much credit on Messrs. Collins, Lewis and Hickerson. The following was the MENU. Soup, Chicken a la Creole Dill Pickles Celery Roast Chicken, with Dressing Pome Juline String Beans Watermelon on Ice Vanila Ice Cream Cake Tea Coffee Milk Cigars NO 16 ON TORPEDO CRAFT LITTLE COMFORT IN SAILING WASPS OF THE SEA. Cramped Quarters and Intense Heat Make Life Almost Intolerable When the Hatches Have to Be Closed on Account of Heavy Seas. Each of the torpedo craft carries a crew of from eight to seventy men, and when one considers the size of the space in which it is necessary for these men to move about in operating the powerful yet intricate machinery and find sleeping space also, one must marvel at the life aboard a vessel of this class. To live in quarters the size of an ordinary dry goods box is not the life that the everyday American cares to essay. To endure such life for hours at a stretch without sleep or food, and to stand exposed in all climates—such is life aboard a torpedo craft for officers and men alike. There is no discrimination; that is why one sees beardless faces and slender figures behind the conning towers when these long, three and four stacked flyers run into port for coal and water at frequent intervals, which is necessary on account of their limited space for carrying these necessities. In the comparatively smooth water of harbor the torpedo boats look very much like the motor racers in disguise, but they are far from being the pleasure craft that the autoboats are, and they go where the helmsman of a motor boat would not dare to venture. The ocean is the place to see the torpedo board under way, and then life on board the craft can be seen in its true light. Sticking their bows into the long, green swells, the spray flying above the signal staffs forward and the solid green water washing the low decks continually, is but one picture of life on the rolling deep in a mere shell of a boat. In the harbor and when as sea in fair weather the torpedo boats run with hatches open, the commanding officer stands on watch clear of the forward conning tower, and the crew lounge on deck, but when the little craft begins to roll and plunge in the seaway the hatches are closed, and, barring the stump smokestacks, the vessels resemble baby whales at play. It is then that the crew suffer most while at sea. All must remain below decks, or place themselves in jeopardy. To venture above waille the vessel is plunging about the sea with decks awash would be extremely hazardous. Sometimes the Japanese steward will essay to climb along the deck from stern to the forward hatch with a smoking dish clasped tightly in his hands. He is in a race with the seas. If he reaches his destination forward he is lucky. If the seas get there first the fishes get the food. In the event the seas overtake him then he has to scramble back to the galley and await another chance. This is an amusing incident of life aboard, to watch the steward essay the trip forward in rough weather. Intense heat prevails below decks when the craft is under way, with hatches closed, and the humidity is one of the inconveniences to which the crew of a torpedo boat is subjected, and is one of the most objectable features of life aboard the torpedo craft, as the heat is oppressive and fearful at times, with all four boilers under full draught and ponderous engines throbbing and pulsating at full speed of perhaps twenty-five or thirty knots—(Chicago News.) Large and Respectable. The deacon of a south side church who is noted alike for his excessive waist line and for his strict attendance at church functions, left home to attend a business meeting of the church directors on a rainy evening recently, but returned home within an hour. "Guess you did not have a very big meeting to-night," suggested his wife, who is not so enthusiastic as her husband over religious matters. "There were but two of us present, the janitor and myself," responded her husband, "but we had a large and respectable gathering. Yes," he added, after noting the inquiring expression on his wife's face, "I am large and the janitor is infinitely respectable."—Chicago Chronicle. Big Cargo of Opium. Part of the cargo of the steamship Korea, which arrived at San Francisco, on July 11, was $344,500 worth of opium. W. N. MILLEB, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wiehite, Kansas, as Second-Class Mall Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15c. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appl cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed TO THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the part or 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. 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Made and Provided The editorial game laws are stated in the Belleville Telecope to be follows: Book agent may killed from October 1 to September 1; spring poets from March 1 to June 1; seandal mongers from April 1 to February 1; umbrella borrowers from August 1 to November 1 and from February 1 to may 1; every man who accept a paper for two years and on being presented with the bill says, "I never ordered it," may be kiled on the spot without reserve or relief. Jewell Mryes' "Brass Bullets" The ability to not say is worth than the gift of gab. The marries to spite her parents will to hate herself. If you mark the price down a woman and a crow get mixed on the real figures. The woman with wit can make a man happy and keep him busy loying him. It would be of no use to set a woman's votable age at 21—single women would never vote at all. Men who say that women have less sense than the kind of brutes are just whistling through the graveyard: Maceo Runs an Elevator. Antonio Macso, son of the cuban general, is running one of the six elevators in the University block, in Syracuse. N. Y., a position provided for him by Syracuses university for he summer. He went there a year go from Cornell university to take in engineering course. Mr. Macso was sent here to be educated by the cuban government. Being unable to secure a position as a draughtsman he accepted one as elevator boy. He will re-enter college in the fall. A woman falls ih love supremely just once - at any other time she walks in, takes off her hat and picks out the softest seat to be had. Nevertheless and notwithstanding the sailor on the battleship Kansas will recieve the usual quality of grog in their daily rations. Something Fine PRICE $1.00 Each For Sale By REV. FRANK WILSON, Grand Chief Mentor 943 Everett Ave, Kan City, Kas --- The battleship Kansas is described as a very fine vessel, and we shall probably have to rest content with that. If there be any by which it could be regarded as an agricultural product and included in Secretary Coburn's reports, the world would soon know that it is the greatest ship the navy ever possessed and that no other country on earth has a vessel approaching it in several nozen different points of beauty and utility. Pay your honest debts remember you will want credit again. Don't cheat or take advantage of your negro newspaper man. Taborian Charts Fully Illustrated, Beautifully, and Artfully Designed. With the Picture of the founder of the Order of Twelve, Father Moses Duckson and wife the center, surrounded by all his co-workers Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Price3 116 East Douglas Avenue DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS:15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop New Sleeping Car Line On Mo. Pac. Ry Commencing May 1st., the MoPac 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 PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. G. M. Smith his company of players upon special request have decided to report their play "Ruined by Drink". This is a fine play and will be reported at Garfield Hall Tuesday night, Aug 29th. Go out and see. Prof. John H. Jackson of Colorado Springs Colo, will lecture in Wichita in September on the History of Education. We will Speak more about it and give the date later. ```markdown ``` Mr. James Hill, who has been visiting relatives for the past four weeks returned Friday to her home in Kansas City. Miss Winnie Pay has returned from Kingman, Mrs. Jas. Hill and Mrs Ida Gordon made a pleasant call on Mrs W. N Miller, Thursday evening. Mysses Dickson Tent No. 5, will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, with Mrs W N Miller, 335 w. 15th. Quite a pleasant party was given Monday night, Aug. 14th at the home of Miss Pearl Hackly. Alarge crowd of young people were present. At a reasonable hour dainty refrshments were served. Everyone had a delightful time. Geo. A. Clark, clerk of the district court, has returned from Colorado. Mrs. Tennie Woods gave a select party in honor of her brother Veotis Shervills Who was visiting in Kansi City last week. G. M. Smith and his company of players will repeat their play "Rained by Drink" at Garfield Hall Aug 22th. The play is well worth the price of admission. See it. W. N. Miller and wife made a business trip to Wellington, Kan. Monday afternoon and returned Tuesday. While there they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs T. J. Jorden, 415 Olive and had a very delightful time. The Anniversary of the order of Tuesday at Garfield hall Thursday night, Aug 10th was fine. The big entertainment of the Pastime Club" which was billed for Wednesday night, Aug 23rd. All expect a grand time. Prepare yourself for the occasion. Mrs. Richard Heck and her sister-in-law, Mrs A. J. Heck of Arizona were pleasant callers with Mrs. W. W. Miller Wednesday afternoon. Lizzie Maison is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Richard Heck will leave Wednesday for Leavenworth where she will visit relatives and friends. KEEP A little change always on hand to pay The, Searchlight collector. He'll be to see you. J. B. Dandridge has had his fishing party out with usual result no fish. James Vann of Strong City is the guest of his cousin Bessie Donald. Charles Walker of Cuncil Grove is visiting in the city. Mrs. Eliza Swan has been very ill at her home 809 E. Gilbert, but is improving. The "Pastime Club" will give their entertainment at Garfield, hall on Aug. 29rd. Wait For It. Mrs James Maurece is visiting relatives in Oktohoma. She will be absent about two weeks. Mrs J. W. Themperson left Sunday for Salt Lake City Utah where will spend one month visiting on her return she will stop at Denver Colo. BEST MARKSMAN IN U. S. ARMY Corporal J. C. Smith Of Twenty-fifth - Infantry Broke All Records. CHICAGO. —All records for marksmanship in the United States army were broken at Fort Shedrian on Aug. 3rd, by Croporal Joseph C. Smith an Afro-American. Smith is member of Company G. Twenty-fifth Infantry. Fort Reno Oklahoma. He made a score of 181 out of a possible 200 in slow-fire sheeting. In rapid-fire shooting he made a score of 97 out of a possible 100. MISS MILLER DEAD. Miss Flossie Miller, eldest daughter of Mr. Alonzo Miller, died at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Watson, 1626 N. Topeka, on Monday evening. Miss Miller had been sick for a long time. The many friends of the family extend their symphthies. Funeral services were held at the Second Baptist church and the funeral was preached by Rev. S. M. Hall. Interment at Maple Grove cemetery. Mrs. Fannie Nelson gave a little party in honor of Voteas Sherrill's, on Tuesday. Those who attended were: Misses Corrine Hackly, Edna Roberts, Laura Wilson, Rosie Williams, Ivan Nelson, Ethel Hunter, Elsie Nix, Edna Nix, Sadie Dale, Messrs, Carl Rice, Theo Nix, Will Bennelly, Roy Rucker, Jas. Rucker, Edgar Irwin, Carl Hunter, Chas. Compton, Chas. Edwards, Jas. Everts, Chas. Davis, Roy Smith. The following is the program to be rendered at the Second Baptist church, Tuesday evening, August 22nd. Praper.....Deacon Walker Piano Solo.....Eula James Recitation.....Mrs. H. W. James Duet..... ...Mrs. Yancey, Miss G. Hutchinson Paper.....Mrs. E. Bowers Solo.....Mrs. M. E. Carr Recitation.....Mrs. L. Collins Paper.....H. Harper Instrumental Solo..Miss B. Alexander Paper.....Miss I. Bowman Miss B. Alexander, Pianist. Rev. Harris preached in Wellington last Sunday. ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. ' The shah engaged a French architect to plan and build a Persian house at the Paris exhibition. The architect bankrupted himself doing it. Secure in the law that exempts him, as a sovereign, from suit at law, this fine old Persian gentleman declines to pay a cent. Persia is becoming too civilized. The young wife of the German crown prince is said to be a fine housekeeper—which is what all June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April. Vay brides ought to be There are many forms of misfortune in this world, but none quite so peculiar as that of the Chicago man who brought suit for an injunction to keep his wife from talking. Mr. Bonaparte of Baltimore says he has no use for the man who tries to live on his grandfather's reputation. Still, it's quite a distinction sometimes to have had a granduncle. The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: Theiological, College, Normal, Sub and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Normal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], piano, oagan and harmony, Drawing [ Fine Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, ing, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllma Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducemen fered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. Normal, Sub-Normal Factory, Normal, Sub- nd Vocal ], including [ Fine Arts and and Book-Binding, Typewriting, Tailor- g, Cooking, Launder. Lthful Cllmate, Good all inducements of- , A. M. D D N T - KANS. "White" 4302 Bell "West' 15 AL FOOD and eating — HODEN MILLING CO. al Co., SOFT g Material 245 N. Main St. ] New Phone 1804 DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, SubNormal, 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, Launering, 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. D. PRESIDENT QUINDARO, KA Phones Office—Bell "White" 4 Residence—Bell "West" USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating AT YOUR GROCERS IMBODEN MILL Gardner Coal Co **Phones** { Office—Bell“ White” 4302 Residence—Bell“ West” 15 DEALERS IN..... HARD COALS Feed and Building Ma Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main Old Phone 146 New Pho FOR Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. CREAM E No 1893 part of the City am Co 11 Ave E AM Call Up OLD PHONE No 3 NEW PHONE No 189 Delivered To Any Part of the Bissantz Ice Cream C 215 South Rock Island Ave ICE CREAM Call Up OLD PHONE No 3 NEW PHONE No 1893 Delivered To Any Part of the City Bissantz Ice Cream Co 215 South Rock Island Ave ICE CREAM BON TON & KANDY BAKERY ITCHEN Phone 152 146 North SEARCHLIGHT ONLY NLY $1.00 SEARCHLIGHT ONLY $1.00 "U-KNEAD-IT FLOUR It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, an bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co FLOUR It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS The Salina baseball team crossed bats with the Arcade team of Wichita, cured get the LOPEZ REMEDY, Thursday and Friday in Wichita. If you are sick and want to E. Douglas. (Barnes Block.) The Salina baseball team crossed If you are sick and want bats with the Arcade team of Wichita, cured get the LOPEZ REMEDY. Thursday and Friday in Wichita. E. Douglas. (Barnes Block.) Bissant MICHIGAN-KANSAS Messerve's Phone 152 Excellence Counts..... at a Bottle of the New Wonder Lopez Specific Special compound. As sure as Hot Springs are the best baths in the world, just as sure is LOPEZ the Best Blood Remedy known MANKIND. It Never Fail To Cure or materially benefit thirty days, any case of Blood Poison, [ Scrofula, Syph—or Running Sores, ] Rheumatism, Liver, Kidney or Stom troubles, Malaria, Catarrah, Gleet, Sexual weakness,ing Memory, or Weak eyes, General Decline, etc. [ Mercury] No matter how bad or where you live DON'T to get it. You know you have got to take a good Blood nicine if you get well, so to make matters doubly sure, Lopez and quit experimenting with your life. Each Bot-will lost 30 to 40 days and retails for only $5 00 per bottle pressed any where. Mail orders a specialty. Call or write to stay from 2 to 4 months or It Costs You Nothing. Lopez Remedy Co., SECOND Douglas (Barnes Block) Wichita, Kansas SECOND TO NONE 13 East Douglas (Barnes Block) Wichita, Kansas Pleases All GOOD BREAD MAKERS Is White As Snow. MYRON Groceries, Fru and I 615 N. OLDEN'S MYRON A. DEAN veeties, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N- MAIN ST 101-Beth Phones • 101 DEN'S DRUG STORE --- MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 615 N- MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 Prescriptions Filled with Care . . . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, alway customer. Our store is Headquaters for Colored pet Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a er. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. ... 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 W. O. Rafferty Stebbins & Rafferty W. O. Rafferty ebbins & Rafferty Stebbins & Rafferty Vehicles, Farm Implements Light Harness, Robes, Etc. 213 West Douglas New Phone 1787 Denver Hotel and CAFE State Dining Rooms Down Stairs and Up Stairs Our Special Service Meets and Parties On Short F. Nice Furnished Rooms H. SNOWDEN, Manager Kansas Furnished ROOMS the night or week Mrs. R. Rock, Prop. 244 North Water St. inner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING → A Specialty ..... KINDS OF COAL & FEED FURMISCH BROS, PROPS. M. Main St. Phone 580 Stebbins Translate a Specialty OTTO WEISS. Agent W. O. Rafferty Wichita Kan. 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. 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. Pone 35 1102 E. Douglas Early Autumn Displays Early Autumn Displays In The Cotton Goods Section of Superfine Flanneletts and Tea Gown Fleeces in Japanese kimona patterns, Persian designs and neat figures. An attractive exhibit of pretty colorings and figures from which to choose. 28 and 36 inches wide, at, per yard 10c, 15c and 18c In The Garment Section is seen the prettiest of New Silk Petticoats, shirred, corded and inverted box pleated flouncing; black, plain shades and rainbow colorings. Prices range from $5.00 up to..... $12.50 In The Millinery Section are shown the new Patent Leather Street Hats, toques, colon als and sailor effects. Some in combination of different colored felts...$1.50 In The Trimming Section are new Peter Thompson Emblems—stars, anchors, eagles and bars. Single pieces 5c, $7 \frac{1}{2} \mathrm{c}$ and 15c; sets 25c, 35c and 50c Hair-Lined Worsteds — A splendid suiting material in brown, blue and green with stripes of white. These two lines are 45 inches wide. Selling at 75c and $1. Bright Plaid Mohairs in clan or scotch plaid colorings: pretty for children's dresses and women's waists. A dozen color combinations. 30 in. wide. Per yard...49c L. R. Delaney, Agt Wichita, Kansas '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 unconcerued as you please. Rock Island transcontinental Tourist Sleepers (so comfortable, economical and gratifying to the traveler) lerve 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 "Aeross the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," with full information about rates, sent promptly upon request. Ruptured Horses can be successfully castrated by the right method. CONSTANT PRACTICE helps very much in any business, therefore I do safe and cheaper work than anyone who does only an occasional job. I use no clamps or medicines, having a $25.00 instrument and draw but little blood. I have never known harm to come from working a Ridgling every day after castration with the ecraseur. SURGICAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED DENTISTRY a specialty. Treatment of Lump Jaw Pollovil and Fistuia. 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 eueery 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 9 3 6 W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. (First Publication in the Wichita Searchlight, August 19, 1905.) State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, ss.: In the District Court, 18th Judicial District. Frank Cline, Plaintiff. vs. Pearl Cline, Defendant. NOTICE. The above named defendant is hereby notified that she has been sued for a divorce by the said plaintiff in the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas, and unless the said defendant shall be and appear in said court on or before the 30th day of September, A. D. 1905 and then and there plead answer or demur to plaintiff's petition therein filed a decree will be entered pro confesso, according to the prayer in said petition. J. C. MILTON, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First Publication in the Wichita Rock Island System Searchlight, August 19th, 1905. State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, ss. In the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas. You, the defendant Charles Weston are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above entitled Court in the above entitled action, by Ada Weston 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 for a divorce and unless you answer said petition on or before the 30th day of September, 1905, said petition will be taken as true, and judgment rendered accordingly of the following nature, to-wit: for an absolute divorce from said defendant. Dated and first publication, this 18th day of August, 1905. J. C. MILTON, Attorney for Plaintiff. Los Angeles firmly believes it has a man who can produce rain at will. It knows, at any rate, that, when he takes a look at the sky, and decides it is time to go and shoot off his cannon a few times, the rain comes. Boston Store 103.105.107 109 E. DOUGLAS AVE WALLENSTEIN & Cohn G.A.R. DENVER Santa Fe now at hand—Sept. 4-7. Plan to go. There's a will satisfy you. 'Tis Santa Fe way. Very low passion—only $10.45. Write me for Colorado for further particulars. Remember the Santa Fe with block signals, rock-ballasted track andament. Passengers via this route obtain excellent while view of Rockies; Elaney, Agt Wichita, Kansas 'The Coast' has come to mean a very common, every place—people travel to and fro between the nation as unconcerely as you please. Transcontinental Tourist Sleepers (so commercial 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 either. Rates in effect on numerous dates during summer months. Portland on sale every day. Pass the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," with full information promptly upon request. The time is now at hand—Sept. 4—7. Plan to go. There's one way that will satisfy you. 'Tis Santa Fe way. Very low rate for this occasion—only $10.45. Write me for Colorado literature and for further paplicals. Remember the Santa Fe is the line with block signale, rock-ballasted track and very best equipment. Passengers via this route obtain excellent one-hundred-mile view of Rockies; C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. WICHITA, KANSAS. J. A. STEWART; GEN'L AGENT. KANSAS CITY. Jas. ALLEN. Dr. Jas. ALLEN VETERINARY Dr. Jas, Allen, 406-8 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. Miss. Minnie Ray of Wichita is visiting Mrs Etta Floyd and other friends this week. Miss Etta Pitz went over to Wichita last week and returned back Kingman monday evening reports a good time. Mrs R. S. Davis is on the sick list this week. Ernest Porter and Char. Floyd of Kingman were among the friends of Wichita last Sunday and the boys reported a good time. Ernest Porter who cooks at the Baltimore hotel is laying of this on the account of his eyes. Chas. Floyd is repairing and painting his house this week Chas. will have a neat little cottage when it is compleated. The Cattlemen picnic will began the 15th. and last until the 18th. of this month. George Floyd is now cooking at Briggz House of Pratt Co. will be home the of the week to take in the picnic. WINFIELD ITEMS Eugene Nicholas and wife left last week for Indiana where they will make their future home. Mrs. Allie Johnson and sister Grace Roberts, of Bolton spent several days in the city last week. Chas Fletcher, of Lulnepab, I. T. came in last week to take charge of the Palmer house. J. W. Walker, S. S. Bandy, Missers Lu Winnie, and Miss North dreved to Arkansas City last Sunday. Jno. Moore and his wife are visiting in the city. WELLINGTON NEWS Rev. Harris, pastor of the A. M. E. church fill his pulpit Sunday. He preached a very able sermon. Malcolm Frey of Chicago was the guest of Mies Mary Jorden, Thursday and Friday. T. J. Jorden has about completed the repairs on his home it is a neat home place. Mr and Mrs. T. J. Jorden enjoyed very much the visit from Mr. and Mrs. WN. Miller of Wichita. They seemed very much impressed with our city and while here they lectured on the order of Twelve, Knights and | Daughters of Labor. A club has been organized to set up a Temple among the men on Tuesday afternoon the ladies met and organized a club set up a Taber—nacle. At the ladies meeting Miss Mary Jorden was elected, president Miss Ida Hall, secretary and Florence Hoston, Treas. Miss S. Mouroe as Queen mother for the tent club Deputy Grand Preocessress Mrs. W N. Miller spoke, also Mrs L. Strenge made a few very interesting remarks The people of Wellington are much elated over the possibility of s-curing a branch of the grand order of Twelve in our city and all will join hands to make this a banner organization. Miss Cathrine Jones is reported much better. The helping hand Tabernacle No. 4 will meet Thursday Aug. 18 1905 Maggie Robinson H. P. B. Y. P. U. Held their meeting with Mrs. L. C. Smith president Miss Mary Johnson, secretary. Mrs. Anna Parker returned home from Fredonia, Kansas. For up-to-date meals go to S. Landis' restaurant 311 South Main. Fought It Out With Fate "Then he was one of a party of six men and seven women on a yacht. There came up a squail and the women were sent up a staircase and the men stayed on deck to help work the boat. She turned turtle, and inside of half an hour all of the women were drowned, though the men could be rescued at times came near enough to them to touch their hands as they reached out through the cabin windows. Two of the men were drowned, also, trying to rescue the women, and that they had literally to be carried to the hospital when they were picked up. "Stanford was a physical coward for the rest of his life, and not a man. Yet he was the man who showed such magnificent nerve in the poker game I mentioned." "We were playing table stake stud, five of us, in a club I belonged to the club, the club $2,000 on the table, for we started at a hundred apiece, and the play had been tolerably rapid, so that we had all bought again, some of us four or five, and after looking on for a few moments called for chips. "He was a member of the club and there was of course, no possibility of resisting," he said. "He kept coping myself would have thought of doing so, but I knew that he had borrowed $500 that afternoon from a friend, and knew the story he had told when he did." He was almost a hopeless bankrupt though the treachery of his partner, and the $500 was money he had lost. He should be trying to arrange for a new start. For him to sit in at such a game as we were playing was almost like a gambling game. He had no idea of questioning of ethics he had no mind for playing against any man whose money meant so much to him as Stanley. And I did not know what to do for four deals. "At first he fared badly. Winston hit him for $40 the first time he got a hand, and Haverley took thirty more from me in which each man had a pair of queens showing. Stanford had a queen and seven showing and a seven burped, and Haverley had a trey and eight showing and an eight "These two hands together with a number of small losses on other hands brought him down to a single hand at the four other men's chips he called for $400 worth. It was all he had, and I could see his jaw tighten as he prepared to fight it out with faint eyes. "It was a hard fight he had gone into. For the next half hour he sat putting out his chips on prospects when there was nothing showing against him, and without once making a winning, and if there is anything better calculated to shake a man's nerve than that sort of experience prolonged for a full hour, I wish some kind of advice on what it is. "But Stanford set his jaw harder and tighter and played on as cautiously and as steadily as if he had been doing the work he had done in his game either on the side of rashness or timidity, and I said to myself that if he kept on in that fashion he would chance a chance of winning out unless that awful luck continued too "Then came the game I have always remembered, and in gaging the way Stanford played, I was surprised he was in, the fact that he was playing with all he had in the world, and the further fact that he had had a full hall, and the wearing hard luck that uses up most men's nerves, holding barely respectable hands the most of the time and having them properly the deal at. Willis puts up a dollar blind, making it two dollars to take cards. Winston, sitting next and having, as we leapt on the floor, the matter of course. Stanford had the next say with a buried queen, and he also put up his two dollars. Haverly passed and so did Willis made good, leaving three bands in. "On the first round Willis caught a jack, Winston a ten spot and Stanford a duck where being six inches in the threewheeled in five and other two wawed the bet. The next round brought Willis a seven spot, Winston a ten spot and Stanford a ten with a pair of tens in sight was high man and he bet ten dollars. Stanford had no pair, but he had king, queen, nine, giving him two chances of beating the tens aside from the possibility of a straight, and he stayed. Willis, however, concluded, after another look at the odds in the betting were better for him that they had been for Stanford, who got only 31 to his 10, whereas there were twenty-five dollars in the pot. Stanford, of course, could beat tens, and he bet fifty, whereupon Winston made it fifty more. I submit that that made a tolerably hard situation for Stanford in the position he was in. Either Winston was bludging, or he could beat a pair of queens which Stanford, by his play, indicated "It was difficult to decide which of the three to believe. It hardly seemed likely that he would hardly have stayed in the first place on a ten, and if he had done so he would] probably have made a play on the third round, but it was likely that he would have 'Stanford studied for some minutes, but at length he threw in the fifty, and the last cards were dealt. Winston caught another jack, and Stanford caught one when Winston clothed unpleasantly, and said to Stanford, 'How much have you?' 'Stanford counted his chips with a perfectly stead hand. He knew that Winston had probably sized his hand correctly as queens and nines, and there seemed a strong probability that he had a jack full against him, but he showed "When he had finished counting, he said. 'There's $210 here.' "I'll tap you, "said I with perhaps a hapless bluster. It was a gagful shuff, and one that I certainly would not have called had I been in Stanford's place, but he called it and woo the money. The remainder of the game was not particularly interesting, though Stanford seemed to have turned his luck, and made quite a handsome winning on the slitting. My own judgment is, though, that single plate was the best exhibition of poker no one ever saw. "The other kind of nerve-indifference to physical peril when the game is going on, is I fancy, me commonly displayed, that I am exhibited of it once that seemed worth telling. "There was a game of poker going on one night in a gambling house in Denver, the days when that city was growing, growing, growing much everything was run wide open. I was looking on without the faintest desire to join the game, for I knew three of the playful professionals up the other three as probable victims. "I watched the game with interest, though, and as it went on it seemed to me that the professionals were playing together, and that the other, who was a one-armed man, was playing against them, on his own hook. Perhaps it was more a feeling than a feeling, more learning from the play, but I thought so. "Anyhow, the luck ran pretty steadily and I was looking to see him get out of the game when he got a hand that he had been laying down pretty regularly for a long time, for it was a no limit game, big bins, big bins, big bins, withbug cards, as a rule. "This time, however, he saw the bet tre man before him had made and reaching inside his shirt, say, 'I was it. It was no doubt enough that he intended raising and was digging for his roll." He had laid his cards face down on the table in front of him, having only one card in his shirt. His HI shirt inside his shirt when there was a sudden noise at the door, then a furious shout of I've got you at last', and then a rapid succession of pistol shots, which everybody saw were directed at the one armed "He didn't turn his head. What he did was first to reach for his boot and pull a bowie knife. Driving this through his five cards, he pinned them to the table, saying as if, "If a gentlemen will hold on to your cards we'll play this hand out in a couple o' minutes." Then, and not till then, did he pull a pistol from his belt, and facing around he took a part in a shooting game, which he wore a vintage bowie, while the other man was not, he brought his adversary down at the first shot. "They said afterward that he could have killed him if he had chosen, being a man, but not a man, was. All I know was that the man felt, badly hurt, but not dead, and that the one-armed man turned back to the table and was as coolly as if nothing had happened: "I raise that bet $200." "I scattered at the shooting. I had got out of the way myself, but I watched him. You don't see that kind of man every time you see him. He was able to me when I saw the blood trickling down through his hair from a spot just behind his temple where a bullet had grazed him before he turned." -New York One of the American consuls abad, Mr. Haynes of Rouen, France, treats length in a current report of the statistics and public agitation relating to the French revolution. Nothing is so vexatious to the Frenchman, it is said, as the fact that there are 600,000 more births every year in Germany than in France. Motte that "every year by our birth rate we gain a battle over France." One hundred years ago France contained 25 per cent of the population, but it has only 11 per cent. Since 1850 changes in the population of the principal European countries have been as fol- Early in the last century France was the first of European countries in point of view to establish a third, and to-day it is fifth, with Italy threatening soon to make it sixth. The latest French census groups the population in families by numbers of chil- Children. It would appear from this that over two-thirds of the families are providing no net increase to the population, while the government is providing no net increase to the others. The population of France for years has been practically at a standstill. There exists a national alliance for increasing the population, and the government is providing no net increase to the subject. Among the mentioned causes of population failure to increase, or depopulation, are neglect of religious practices and beliefs; lack of material prosperity; compulsory service and a lack of work; and the presence of冠病 are having a hearing, such as exemption from taxation for large families; special taxation of unmarried adults and childless families, complete and partial exemption from taxation, and restriction of sons of large families, restriction of alcoholism, etc. Statistics are not at hand to make possible a comparison of the situation in New York with that in England, enough is known of this matter to make possible the assertion that among the native New Englanders, the birth rate so small as to keep this element of the population nearly stationary. And the native New Englander resumes his birth rate, and the native very tuff. Lack of material prosperity does not explain depopulation; rather, if it existed, should it be extinct. It is among our well-to-do that the birth rate is small, and among the poor that it is high. And this seems to be true. It is among the low birth rate is most manifest in Burgundy and Normandy, the more prosperous departments of France, the poorest sections have the highest birth rate. After all, we seem to be forced toward the conclusion that France possesses the lowest birth rate and more generally prosperous in a material way, or hopeful of becoming prosperous, than those of any other European country, and there the people are most abject, poor and hopeless in their aspirations for freedom and well-being. It may be contended that the French have a better way, and that the material prosperity arises from a low birth rate, but this is unquestionably a wrong conclusion, for the French have a better way and reclaim the earth knows of no distinctions or race among men. It is apparently not until after material well-being has been obtained, or brought within reach, that the birth rate The great feature of our modern civilization is the struggle for emancipation and the struggle to seem, as that struggle increases in hopefulness, do the tendencies toward 'racial suicide' once attained either comes too late or breeds a self-indulgence which battles to protect itself from the dangers of child-bearing. Such appears to be the explanation of the increasingly low birth rate, wherever found; and if it be a kind of consequence without disastrous physical and moral consequences, that men shall multiply in the order of Nature the more prosperous, the more poverty, for which all civilized communities are working, will present a problem of large moment for the future to upon the earth.—Springfield Reflection. Secret of His Charm. "I am not in the habit of boasting on my conquests," said Gayboy. "but you ought to have seen how I impressed that striking booking woman with that ravenous wing at the swel reception last week. By Jove, she couldn't keep her eyes of me." She noticed it," said the other man. "That was Miss Linksick, the female detective. She was there to watch the jewelry." -Chicago Tribuns 92 Mrs. Mary L. Williams, 717 C. St. Lincoln, Neb. 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 Western Ave. N. Topeka, Kans. 559 Mrs. Christena Bell, 294 N. William St. Deadwood, S. Dakota. 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 11th St. Coffeyville, Kans. 1 William M. Watkins, Box 184, Wier City, Kans. 2 Andrew Smith, 308 East 11th St., Coffeyville, Kans. 3 Geo. W. Taylor, 111 Mound, Atchison. 4 Geo. C. Tucker, 1313 Dodge, Omaha, Neb. 5 J. T. Howard, 120 Kansas Ave., Topeka. 8 R. M. Bingham, 1727 E. Oak St., Pt. Scott, Kans. 10 J. H. McKinnis, 217 Sherman, Leavenworth. 11 W. N. Miller, 258 N. Main St., Searchlight office, Wichita, Kan. 13 A. H. Morton, Parsons. 15 R. H. Hudson, 109 S. Santa Fe., Salina, Kans. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St., S. Omaha, Neb. 17 Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th St., Coffeyville, Kans. 19 C. Parris, 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kans. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kans. 60 Wesly Osten, 1214 Lane St., Topeka, Kans. 536 J. W. Barbee, 294 Williams St., Deadwood, S. Dakota. Jas. Allen has moved his household goods from 724 St. Francis to 406 N. Main where he will make his future home. The change is made so he can be close to his business. To a Centenarian. That you have lived—and still are hale— Beyond life's span so many years, May joy in the gratulating thong, But, ah! it moves me unto tars! Because cannot help but feel Wonderful, and sad, and sad, That if, forsooth, "the good die young." You must have been most all-fired bad! —New York Sun. Wording of Commandment. The commandment didn't say "Thou shalt not lie"; it said, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." That's a mighty different thing from just plain lying.—New York Times. L. S. NAFTZGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE) Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depository Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, K. L, Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. McLean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftzger, E. H. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith, A General Banking Business Transacted WICHITA, KANSAS Red Front 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 Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N Main WICHITA TABERNAGLE No. 34, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Beatrice Miller. Sec. Hall 517 North Main Soet =SMOKE= BLUE SEAL =CIGARS= SOLD EVERYWHERE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE NEWTON KANSAS Mrs. Willson who have been sick for some time is reported some better. There was a suprice party given at the home of Mrs. B. Korch in honor of her and her husband's birthday Tuesday evening all reported a fine time. The social given at the home of M. and Mrs A. Coleman for the benefit of the Second Bay tist church was a grand suce s. Mr. Johnie underwood who have been sick for a few weeks is reported some better. Mrs. Lee Anderson is packing her things to move to Topeka. Mrs. Hart who have been sick for some time is no better. There will be a social given a the home of Mrs. Frames Thursday night all are cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Huter Page have moved back to Newton all are glad to see them return. Mrs. Wiels who have been sick is much better. Their will be a social at the hom of Rev. Denton's Wednesday night for the benefit of the Second Baptist church all are invited. Miss Zola Anderson retutred home Monday afternoon after a short visit at Peabody and Florence K s, she reports a very pleasant time. We Want YOUR JOB PRINTING We Print ANYTHING LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS CALLING CARDS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS HAND BILLS POSTERS MINUTES CIRCULARS TRY US FINE WORK OUR J If Your Work Is DONE BY US We Do It RIGHT We Are Kind Job Work We Guar In Work Us At The Brin The PRINTERS Our Prices ARE OUR Work ARE A Subscr SEARG IF NOT, It Is $1.0 SUBSCRIBE Words That OUR JOB ROOM We Are Now Prepared To Kinds Of Fancy, Up to Job Work. We Invite A Trif We Guarantee To Please You In Work And Price. You Wish Us At The Old Reliable Sta- 110 North Main S Bring Us Your Next Job WE INVITE YOU TO PRINTERS who Can PRINT rices ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST UR Work IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST ARE YOU? Subscriber to ARCHLIG NOT, WHY NOW? It Is Only $1.00. 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Like those who, envious of any moral celitude, carry their urgicity to the height of creating symposically the fecund words which my pollymathic genius uses with uberty to obligate the tongues of the weetless! Sir, you have crassly parodied my own pet words as though they were trangrams. I will not coacervate reproaches—I will oduce a vell over the atramental ingratitude which has chamfered even my indiscertible heart. I am silent on the focillation which my coadjuvancy --- --- OB ROOM. Now Prepared To Do All Of Fancy, Up to Date We Invite A Trial. Guarantee To Please You, Both And Price. You Will Find The Old Reliable Stand At North Main St. Us Your Next Job. INVITE YOU TO CALL who Can PRINT AS LOW AS THE LOWEST IS AS GOOD AS THE BEST YOU? ber to the H L I G H T WHY NOT? 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Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Defiance Cold War Starch has no equal in Quantity -Quality -16 oz. for 10 cents. Other bonds contain only 12 oz. It takes a lot of cold cash to make an impression on a marble heart. --- THE CRISIS IS NEAR THE CRISIS IS NEAR Envoys Agree on Three of The Twelve Conditions. Manchuria to Be Evacuated and returned to China — Japan Retains Controlling Interest in Korea—China to Have Railroad West. Portsmouth, Aug. 16. — Although very rapid progress was made with the peace negotiations, three of the twelve articles which constitute the Japanese conditions of peace having been agreed to by Mr. Witte and Baron Rosen on behalf of Russia, neither of the two articles to which Mr. Witte in his reply returned an absolute negative was reached. The crisis, therefore, is still to come. The cession of Sakhalin comes fifth in the list. The three "articles," as they are officially designated in the brief communications authorized to be given to the press which were disposed of, are in substance as follows: First—Russia's recognition of Japan's "preponderating influence" and special position in Korea which Russia henceforth agrees is outside her sphere of influence. Second—Mutual obligation to evacuate Manchuria, each to surrender all special privileges in that province, mutual obligation to respect the territorial integrity of China and to maintain the principle of equal opportunity (open door). Third—The cession to China of the Chinese Eastern railroad from Harbin southward. There was never any question about the acceptance by Mr. Witte of these articles, the first two covering in more emphatic form the contention of Japan in the diplomatic struggle which preceded the hostilities. The ordinary course of proceedings—the first great stumbling block to a treaty of peace—should be reached, as after Port Arthur and the leases of Liao Tung, which are included in article V, and in which Mr. Witte is undoubtedly prepared with slight modification to accept, comes article VI—the cession of Sakhalin. But it is by means certain that when this obstacle is reached it will not be postponed until all the articles upon which agreement is possible are disposed of. It is significant that M. Sato, while specifically stating that he did not speak officially, gave it as his opinion that each power had now bound itself to the articles agreed to. A Japanese authority said to the Associated Press: "The integrity of China is assured if the treaty of Washington is signed, as Japan has insisted that this point be set forth in language that can neither be evaded nor misunderstood." CURE FOR LEPROSY FOUND. System of X-Ray Will Do the Desired Work Manila, Aug. 15. — American surgeons connected with the board of health of Manila declare that they have discovered a positive cure for leprosy. Of twenty-five cases treated, all have improved, six cases being absolutely cured. Several patients who had portions of their bodies gone have recovered. All of the cases have been under observation for at least six months and it is absolutely impossible to discover a trace of the germs of the disease in the blood of the patients. The method used is a system of X-rays. The surgeons do not desire their names to be mentioned at present. They will not ask for the rewards which have been offered by various governments for a cure for leprosy. Forty-five Seconds to Feed. Washington, Aug. 16. — Secretary Wilson and Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture, left for Chicago to attend a conference with the traffic managers of railroads entering Chicago and representatives of the National Live Stock Association. The conference relates to rules recently made by Dr. Salmon as to "stable cars" in connection with recent legislation to protect cattle in transit. It is said the railway and shipping officials want the rules changed to allow forty-five seconds instead of five minutes for feeding a carload of stock en route. Ten official representatives of the municipality of New Orleans are in western North Carolina for the purpose of locating camp sites for yellow fever refugees. Hawaiian National Guard. San Francisco, Aug. 15. — Colonel Jones and seventeen members of the Hawaiian National Guard, arrived here and will leave for Seagirt, N. J., where they will enter the national shooting contest. 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Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. Some folks are so reserved in their manners that they don't appear to have any at all. Cleanliness in the Dairy. To have healthful milk and butter, absolute cleanliness in caring for it is necessary, as nothing will absorb impurities so quickly as milk. Many housekeepers who are otherwise careful, overlook this when they wash milk utensils with cheap soap, and when they wash dishes with thoroughly scald and air all pans and buckets. ELEANOR R. PARKER. Mrs. William Waldorf Astor. London newspaper readers hear much of William Waldorf Astor, but little of his wife, a very charming woman with a touch of silver in her hair that seems really to enhance her good looks. Mrs. Astor is a very handsome woman and can boast of a fine complexion. Rather above middle height, she carries her diamonds bravely and she has a magnificent collection. On great occasions she wears a massive diamond crescent which is much admired and her marquise ring is so unusually large that even phlegmatic people have been caught stealing surreptitious, if not envious, glances at it. Roosevelt's College Degrees. Even before receiving the two doctorates conferred upon him recently Theodore Roosevelt had a larger collection of college degrees than any of his predecessors in the office of president of the United States. Including his B. A., taken in course at Harvard twenty-five years ago, he has now had bestowed upon him ten titles to distinction of this kind and is privileged to write after his name eight LL. D.s and one L. H. D. The total is just twice the highest number of honorary degrees given by the college of the country to any of his predecessors. Washington, Jefferson and McKinley each received five degrees. John Adams and Hayes each received four. Grant received three. Broke Wedding Trust. Mayor Ingledue, of Marshalltown, Ia., has won local fame and popularity by announcing his readiness to marry any Marshalltown couple that might apply to him free of charge. One Sunday morning not long ago he was talking to some men on a street corner, when the subject of weddings came up. A friend suggested that it was his duty to break the trust and do the work free. The mayor has since his term began abolished the fee system, and receives a salary in lieu of the fees once appertaining to his office. Every one wants to always be able to work, but not to always have to. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. Women are easily enough managed when they are willing to be. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Imagine how you would feel if you were obliged to follow the advice you give others. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. A man's idea of an evil communication is a written statement from his wife's dressmaker. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Rape of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alc. Stone - Robbella Salte - Amine Seed - Piperine - Bicarbital Soda - Worm Seed - Clarified Sugar Whittygum Flavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Cha. H. Flatcher NEW YORK. 46 months old 35 Doses - 35 CINIS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. 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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MUBRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. used every washday will make your clothes white as snow and as beautiful as when new. The most competent housekeepers in the country use Red_Cross Ball Blue and no other. Just try it once and you will see the difference. All grocers sell it. Large package Sc. SIGNALS UNDER THE SEA. Many Boats Are Now Being Equipped with the Apparatus. References have been made heretofore to the new system of submarine signaling through the water and the announcement is now made that a very considerable interest in the company has been secured by J. P. Morgan & Co., says the Philadelphia Record. Vessels equipped with the company's receivers can detect and announce the tolling of bells at a distance of five miles and occasionally ten miles, and also determine the exact direction from which the sound comes, the transmitter carrying the wave sounds direct to the pilot house. Mr. Morgan has found the patents successful on his yacht Corsair. The signals consist of submerged bells to be used in connection with light houses and lightships at dangerous points of navigation. The company's receivers can hear and locate the sound of these bells at a distance of from five to ten miles and thus guard from or warn a vessel of impending peril. The bells are now being used at various points along the Atlantic coast. The North German Lloyd, Hamburg-American transatlantic lines and the Metropolitan line to Boston are equipped with the receivers. It is expected that the Lucania will be equipped with the receivers on her arrival at this port. Buins of Old Roman Town. Rooting up the foundations of an old building in the hamlet of Gourgom, near Mude, has brought to light the buried ruins of a great city of Roman Gaul, of which all vestiges had perished. This was the city of Veyrune, known to have been in existence in the third century of our era, and believed to have been overwhelmed by some great catastrophe. The very site was unknown. A detail of some interest connected with the discovery is that the buried ruins are almost under the spot where Du Guesclin died. There has been found among them a fine silver coin containing a large number of Roman coins, almost fresh from the mint and beautifully preserved. They bear the effigies of the Empress Julia, Maximian, Alexander, Severus and other emperors.—London Globe. Thinking of nothing is a marked advancement over the formation of misery. 900 DROPS CASTORA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SARUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alice Stump Rockell Solee - Annie Seed Pepperpine - Ricardiana Soda + Worry Seed Clarified Sugar Wintergreen Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles Pitcher NEW YORK. At a monthly and 35 Doses = 35 CINIS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. Japs Are Good Sailors. A Japanese marine officer has explained why Japan has such good sailors. Most of her coast vessels are small, but there are a great many of them, and almost any man taken from a fishing village has had enough experience to enable him to become an efficient sailor in a short time. Defeated a Vanderbilt. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., ran for the office of chief of the Great Neck fire department a couple of days ago, but Egbert L. Cluse, the village groceryman, beat him. 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. 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. Peaceful on Mars. Having carried out their vast irrigation works on Mars, its inhabitants, said Professor Ray Lankester at Oxford, England, recently, must be far in advance of the inhabitants of the earth, and in a condition of universal peace. "I Went Home to Die from Gravel Trouble. Doctor failed. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cured me." Mrs. C. W. Brown, Petersburg, N. Y. Sillicus—"It's a good scheme, when you lose your temper, to count 100 before you speak." Cynicus—"If the other fellow is bigger than you are it's a good scheme to count 10,000." Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. A youth always wishes he was older and a woman always wishes she was younger. USE THE FAMOUS USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz, package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. It's difficult for a millionaire to stand on his dignity while sitting on a jury. Over one million acres of land in the Untah Indian reservation will be thrown open for settlement August 28th. Registration begins August 1st, a grand reception from Write C. H. Shores, August 15. From Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo, the Colorado Midland is the shortest route to Grand Junction or reservations. From Denver, G. P. A. Denver, for booklet, giving information regarding land, rates, etc. Attended Garfield. Dr. Robert Reybern is the sole survivor of the physicians and surgeons who attended President Garfield when he was shot, twenty-four years ago this month. Doctor Brigham Says The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not because it is a stimulant, not because it is a palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and reconstructor ever discovered to act directly upon the generative organs, positively curing disease and restoring health and vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cures and physicians who have recognized the virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowledge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be relied upon to effect a cure. The following letter proves it. Dr. S. C. Brigham, of 4 Brigham Park, Fitchburg, Mass., writes: "It gives me great pleasure to say that I have found Lydia E. 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She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and well. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Aug. 19 05 It's an unusual week nowadays when a bomb isn't thrown somewhere at somebody in Russia. The prediction of a shortage of 10,000,000 pounds in the California prune crop will be comforting to some. About twenty-seven cabmen were killed by the bomb intended for the sultan, so the energy wasn't entirely wanted. Pittsburg has decided to annex the village of Bon Air. That certainly is what Pittsburg needs more than anything else. That "famous football player" who has started business on the New York stock exchange is in a fair way to get shorn at last. European sovereigns that have entertained the shah of Persia are quite willing he should do all his visiting in the United States. A New York woman wants a divorce because her husband plays poker. She must find it hard to discover any change in his pockets. The assertion that Newport is on the decline was contradicted immediately by the announcement of a big jewel robbery down there. Even if it does cost anywhere from $1,500 to $40,000 a month to run an up-to-date steam yacht, only think what a lot of fun you have! One of Holland's islands in the East Indies is in rebellion. There must be some fighting germ that has attacked the world's islands. The Shah of Persia is reported to be suffering from melancholia. He's a foolish man. We understand that he has his coal all in and paid for. New York's society swells now have their giant minds centered upon the important task of pulling off a race between a coach dog and a bull pup. Considering the result of efforts to "dash" to the pole there may be something in the idea of a Philadelphia explorer who proposes to "drift" thither. The Sultan of Morocco has ordered the building of a stone pier at Tangier, probably with a hope that his next royal visitor will run into it and founder. Cassie Chadwick's main trouble just now is said to be a rat who gives matinee races round her cell. She will either get a trap or move out of the prison. The Atlantic ocean contains an area of about 40,000,000 square miles, and yet some people act as if they felt big enough to make the tide rise when they go in bathing. The editor of an Atlanta paper whipped a member of the Georgia legislature the other day. The editor must have felt that his fist was mightier than his pen. The spooners are grieved because the man in the moon has left town, says one of our bright young men. Don't you believe it, sonny. On the contrary. Quite the reverse. Rojestvensky ascribes his defeat to bad shells, incompetent gunners, and mutinous crews. A combination like that was clearly no match for the virtues of the mikado's ancestors. There is much argument just now on the question of who was the father of the American navy. Why bother over the father when we have the child, and such a fine, healthy child, too! Writing in an eastern paper, a grouchy citizen says that patients who fall in love with their nurses usually do so merely because of "peripheral propinquity." Those dreadful germs again. If the recording angel has kept a careful account of the remarks made by the 80,000,000 of the American people about the weather recently, he must have a busy set of shorthand clerks. Of course we all know what ought to have happened to the alling small boy whose mother gave him ten cents to go to the drug store to get a dose of castor oil and who spent it for an ice cream soda. For the first time in 200 years the governor of St. Pierre-Miquelon is visiting the governor of Newfoundland for a couple of days. Of course it has not been the same governor all the time, on either side. Annie Besant's assertion that she knows what becomes of us when we are asleep reminds us of the widow who said there was some consolation in the fact that, now she had buried her husband, she knew where he was nights. Massachusetts requires some work from tramps if they are to receive food, and it reduced the number in the state last year from 800 to 300. Work seems to be one of the best remedies for the tramp disease that has yet been discovered. GOOD MAN WAS ASHAMED. Cause of Demise Sufficient to Make Even the Bishop Wince. The late Bishop Peck of the Methodist Episcopal church enjoyed good living, as his massive frame and 300 pounds indicated. While presiding at a session of the New Hampshire conference he was entertained by a Mrs. Brown, who had a reputation as a cook. She prided herself especially upon her mince pies. It was at the supper table, and the bishop had done ample justice to a generous slice of the tempting pastry. He was urged to have a second piece, but refused, as he was to make the chief address of the week that evening. Mrs. Brown insisted with feminine persuasiveness, contending that whatever other mice pie might be, hers, at least, were harmless. The distinguished guest yielded at last, till not only a second, but a third equally large portion of the pie had disappeared. Evening came, and with it a congregation which packed the large church to the doors, to listen to the able divine. The hour for service arrived, but the bishop had not appeared. The elders looked anxious. The choir sang, and the preliminary services were well started, when two or three of the brethren went out to look for the absent speaker. They found him at Mrs. Brown's writhing in the agonies of a severe illness, resulting from his indiscretion at the table. As the faithful ministers saw their beloved bishop lying on his bed and grooming with pain, one of them said: "Why, bishop you are not afraid to die, are you?" "No," replied the sufferer. "I am not afraid to die, but I am ashamed to." FOR MONUMENT TO ADAM. Pet Project of Mark Twain that came to Naught. Mark Twain and the late Rev. Thomas K. Beecher of Elmira, New York, were great chums. For years Mark made his summer home at Elmira, and when the two were together they were like a pair of boys just out of school. One day Mark said: "Tom, I've just been reading this interesting book Genesis, and I'm impressed with the thought that we moderns are not giving Adam, one of the greatest men in history, a square deal. Here we go erecting statues and monuments to generals and poets and statesmen, and actually forget all about our first ancestor. It's not right. Why shouldn't there be a statue of Adam somewhere, erected by his grateful descendants?" "There certainly ought to be, Mark," replied Mr. Beecher, "but nobody knows what Adam looked like." "Well," drawled Mark, "he'd probably look as much like his statue as the average victim does. I vote we see to it that Adam gets his rights." The two set to work raising a fund for a statue to Adam. A citizen of Elmira still living subscribed five thousand dollars; but that was as far as the project got, for other interests pushed it aside and it is now only an amusing recollection.—The Sunday Magazine. Fire-water is full of fool fights.—Mexican Herald. What to Do if Constipated. What to Do if Constipated. Summer Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of sickness? A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary canal it decays and poisons the entire system. Eventually it causes the death of some other disease. Note the deaths from typhoid fever and appendicitis, stomach and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. A neglect of the call of nature promptly to work of exercise. Excessive brain work. Mental emotion and improper diet. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes rheumatism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel, kidney, lung and heart all diseases. One the disease that starts all others. Indication is the loss of sleep and strength are its symptoms—piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused by Constipation. Its consequences are known to all physicians and nurses, so realize their condition until it is too late. Women become confirmed invalids as a result of Constipation. Q. Do physicians recognize this? A. Yes. The first question your doctor asks you is "are you constipated?" That is the secret. Q. Can it be cured? A. Yes, with proper treatment. The common error is to resort to physies, such as pills, salts, mineral water, castor oil, injections, etc. every one of which is injurious. They weaken and misadult. You know this by your own experience. Q What then should be done to cure it? Q. What then should be done to cure it? A. *Use the free coupon below atonice. Mine's coupon is for constipation and in the shortest space of time. No other remedy has before been known to cure Constipation positively and permanently. Q. What is Mull's Grape Tonic? A. It exerts a peculiar healing influence upon the intestines, strengthening the muscles of the alimentary canal so that they can do their work unadied. B. It is another physiase. It is unlike anything else you have ever used, but it cures Constipation. Dysentery and Bowel trouble. Having a rich, fruity grape tonic, which is not only tonic it is unequalled, insuring the system against diseases so fatal in hot weather. Q. Where can Mull's Grape Tonic be had? A. You drugstist sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50-cent size, but if you write to-day you will receive the first bottle free with instructions. This test will confirm. WRITE FOR THIS FREE BOTTLE TODAY Good for Alling Children and Nursing Mothers FREE BOTTLE COUPON. Send this coupon with your name and address and your drugstress's name, for a free bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic for Stomach and Bowels, to MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., 148 Third Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois Give Full Address and Write Plainly The $1.00 bottle contains nearly three times the 500 size. At drug stores. The genuine has a date and number starped on the label—take no other from your drugstress. LATE MARKET REPORT. Kansas City. NATIVE STEERS..... $ 3 75 @ $ 1 50 HOGS—Heavy..... $ 5 90 @ 6 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Hard..... $ 78 @ 82 No. 2 Red..... $ 79 @ 82 CORN No. 2 Mixed..... @ 48% OATS No. 2 Mixed..... @ 26 HAY—Choice Timothy..... @ 9 00 PRAIRIE..... @ 6 50 BUTTER..... 16 @ 10 EGGS..... @ 17% Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEERS $ 5 40 @ 6 00 STOCKERS & FEEDERS $ 2 35 @ 4 25 HEIFERS..... $ 2 00 @ 8 00 HOGS..... $ 5 85 @ 6 20 Chicago Cash Grain. WHEAT—No. 2 Red..... $ @ 84% No. 2 Hard..... $ 80 @ 84% CORN—No. 2..... $ 54% @ 54% OATS—No. 2..... @ 25 St. Louis Live Stock. BEEF STEERS..... $ 3 75 @ 5 50 COWS & HEIFERS $ 2 25 @ 4 70 TEXAS STEERS $ 2 45 @ 3 95 Cotton. LIVERPOOL..... 5 631 NEW YORK..... 10 535 GALVESTON..... 10% Chicago Futures. WHEAT. Open High Low Close T'd y Close Y'd y Sept. 81% %21 81% %21 81% %21 Dec. 82% %23 82% %23 82% %23 cc. 83% %24 83% %24 83% %24 Mav. 85% %24 85% %24 85% %24 CORN. Sept. 52% %24 52% %24 52% %24 cc. 44% %24 44% %24 44% %24 Mav. 44% %24 44% %24 44% %24 CORN. Sept. 55% %26 56% %25 56% %25 Dec. 26% %27 27% 26% %27 May. 24% %29 29% 23% 23% %23 Wichita Live Stock. HOGS..... $ 5 45 @ $ 5 50 COWS..... 2 80 @ 3 25 STOCKERS..... @ 3 40 HEIFERS..... @ 2 50 STEERS..... 3 00 @ 3 85 CALVES..... 3 75 @ 4 00 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. Captain Jerome B. Osier, believed to be the oldest resident of Illinois, is dead, aged 105. He was born in Erie, Pa. Joe Jokerst, the Collinsville, Ill., lad who scored his third shutout in as many games, may receive a chance with one of the local clubs in the near future. Wink Kellum, who was secured by Toledo from the St. Louis National league team two months ago, has been sold to the Minneapolis team of the American association. A negro was publicly burned in the court house square at Sulphur Springs, Hopkins county, Texas, by a mob. The negro was accused of criminal assault upon a white woman. The change in time of issuing crop reports by the Department of Agriculture at Washington formed an interesting topic of discussion among board of trade operators in Chicago. Governor Folk handled the throttle on an engine while returning from the G. A. R. encampment at Humansville. Colonel McDaniel of the governor's staff tried to fire but he only lasted two miles. The chief of police of Radoma, Poland, was injured seriously by a bomb thrown as he rode through the town in a carriage. Several houses in the vicinity were damaged. The assaulter escaped. Mrs. Mary Cenders, a widow 21 years old, has lost $3,000 from her safety deposit box in the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, and she swore to a warrant charging Charles C. Hammit with the theft. The public examination of Mrs. James Brown Potter, the actress, in involuntary bankruptcy proceedings, was held in court in London. Mrs. Potter's liabilities amount to about $125,000, with assets valued at a sum which will leave her about $30,000 after her debts are paid. A debate over the regulation of freight by the government takes place this week before the Chautauqua assembly at Clarinda, Ia., between Governor Cummings and Daniel Davenport. Cummings will support the affirmative, while Davenport will take the opposition from the standpoint of the small investor in railroad stocks. In spite of the large number of fever cases reporting during the last few days, hope continues to run high at New Orleans. It is due to the fact that there are practical evidences that the crusade against the mosquito is telling. More than two weeks have now elapsed since the death or curing of cases at a number of points above Canal street and there has been no reappearance of the fever where those cases existed, nor in the immediate neighborhood. The General Supply and Construction Company of New York gets the contract for the erection of the new Capitol building at Frankfort, Ky., on competitive bids at $880,000, the work to be completed within two years. Parliament was prologued in London after one of the most uneventful sessions in recent years. The only bills of importance which the government succeeded in getting through were the aliens bill preventing undesirable immigration, a bill for settlement of Scotch church disputes a bill granting state assistance to unemployed workmen. Admiral Goodrich, commander-in-chief of the Pacific station, in a dispatch to the navy department from San Diego, officially announced that the court of inquiry on the Bennington disaster was concluded, the proceedings of which will follow at once. The dreaded cattle plague, known as blackleg, a form of murrain, has broken out in Brookfield. Buackieg is said to be a disease much more to be dreaded than the hoof and mouth disease, which created such havoc in Massachusetts three years ago. Lake Mora, in Switzerland, has the curious property, every tenth year, of turning red, owing to the presence of certain water plants which are not found in any other lake in the world. London's Beef Supply. London's health officers last year destroyed 1,556 tons of meat as unfit for food. This, however, was only a small part of the meat consumed, which reached 410,500 tons. The tables show that 23 per cent of the total was "country killed," 3.6 per cent town killed and 73.4 per cent either American or colonial meat frozen. Hypnotism in Court. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, who has acquired a national reputation through his services in the juvenile court in that city, is about to adopt hypnotism. He does not mean to resign from the bench, but to use the occult method in dealing with boys regarded as incorrigible. He is under-the impression that he will be able to do more good that will be lasting good by this means of treatment than he has ever done before. While the children are in a hypnotic state the cessation of objectionable behavior will be suggested to them, and then they will be released. A boy addicted to cigarettes is to be his first subject. Gratitude Well Expressed. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Aug. 14th. Mr. C. L. Smith, painter and decorator, whose home is at 309 Anne street, this city, makes the following statement: "I was laid up with some kind of pains. Some said it was Lumbago, other Sciatica and others again Rheumatism. A few of my friends suggested that it was lead poison, but whatever it was it gave me a great deal of pain; in fact, almost completely crippled me. I had to use two canes to walk about, and even then it was a very painful task. "A friend advised me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills and I began the treatment. After I had used the first box I was able to throw away one of the canes and was considerably improved. The second box straightened me up so that I could go about free from pain without any assistance, and very soon after I was completely cured, well and happy, without a pain or an ache. Dodd's Kidney Pills seemed to go right to the spot in my case and they will always have my greatest praise." Naming of Portland. The Lewis and Clark exposition has naturally brought out many interesting facts in regard to Portland and the Pacific Coast. Not least interesting among these is the story of the naming of Portland, and it also, fortunately, is in a way on exhibition in the Oregon hotel in the shape of a big, oldtime copper cent, dated 1835, the flipping of which resulted in the name Portland being chosen as the name of what is now a great city. The story goes that a man from Maine, Mr. Pettygrove, father of the present owner of the historic penny, and a Mr. Lovejoy, of Massachusetts, who were the leaders of a party of settlers who sailed up the Columbia river in the bark Trenton, in which they had rounded Cape Horn, came in in 1842 to the present site of the city of Portland, where they determined to start a city. Mr. Lovejoy wanted to name the new city Boston, but the man from Maine preferred Portland, and to decide the matter they flipped a penny, the same now on exhibition. Naturally, the Bostonian chose heads, but tails won, and hence it is the Maine, not the Massachusetts, city which gave its name to the "City of Roses," in which the big exposition is now being held. The patience of one's creditors ought to serve as a lesson to us, as that is the only thing I can see it is good for. HEART RIGHT When He Quit Coffee. Life Insurance Companies will not insure a man suffering from heart trouble. The reason is obvious. This is a serious matter to the husband or father who is solicited for the future of his dear ones. Often the heart trouble is caused by an unexpected thing and can be corrected if taken in time and properly treated. A man in Colorado writes: "I was a great coffee drinker for many years, and was not aware of the injurious effects of the habit till I became a practical invalid, suffering from heart trouble, indigestion and nervousness to an extent that made me wretchedly miserable myself and a nuisance to those who witnessed my sufferings. "I continued to drink Coffee, however, not suspecting that it was the cause of my ill-health, till, on applying for life insurance I was rejected on account of the trouble with my heart Then I became alarmed. I found that leaving off coffee helped me quickly, so I quit it altogether and having been attracted by the advertisements of Postum Food Coffee I began its use. "The change in my condition was remarkable, and it was not long till I was completely cured. All my actions vanished. My digestion was completely restored, my nervousness disappeared, and, most important of all, my heart steadied down and became normal, and on a second examination I was accepted by the life insurance Co. Quitting Coffee and using Postum worked the cure." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich There's a reason, and it is explained in the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in each pkg. Reminders of the Devil. "The unfortunate disaster by which a life has been lost on the Welsh mountain known as the Devil's Kitchen, has drawn attention," says the Dundee Advertiser, "to the curious but seemingly universal practice of past times in naming peculiar natural formations after his satanic majesty. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that hardly a county in the British Isles is without some place or thing with the designation Devil. All of which prompts the thought that his satanic majesty must be a holder of a considerable amount of property on this terrestrial globe. The Devil's Punch Bowl, the Devil's Bellows, the Devil's Beef Tub, the Devil's Frying Pan, the Devil's Lake, the Devil's Dike, the Devil's Cauldron, are a few instances which occur at random, scattered about in various parts of the country." There are no signs of race suicide in the British royal family. Victoria had four sons and five daughters, King Edward is the father of six and the baby boy born to the Prince and Princess of Wales the other day makes an even half dozen for them, five being sons. The other stems have done as well — the Empress Frederick eight and her son, Emperor William, seven; Princess Alice, six, and one of her daughters, the Empress of Russia, five; Prince Alfred and Princess Helena, five each; Princess Beatrice, four; Prince Arthur, three, and Prince Leopold, two. The Cumberland and Cambridge branches are equally prolific. King Oscar of Sweden is a poet of no mean order, and his sonnets have been translated into most of the languages of Europe. He is an accomplished musician, too, his nautical songs, set to his own music, being very popular in the Swedish navy. He has written histories and dramas, translated classics, and is the author of some hymns which enjoy the highest popularity. Finally, as a tenor singer, he is always welcome at concerts. Regarding Assuan Dam. The Egyptian government has decided upon postponing—and this may mean abandoning — the scheme for raising the Assuan dam, and thereby increasing the supply of water for the irrigation of the country in the summer, and has taken this decision mainly because two mathematicians in London have developed a new theory regarding the stresses upon masonry dams. The arrival of many Hindoos from India to enter as students at the Imperial university and schools of technology at Tokyo has been noted lately. It was intended to celebrate the festival of the great Indian national hero, Sivaji, at Tokyo this year for the first time with great eclat. A Blushing Lake. Lake Mora, in Switzerland, has the curious property, every tenth year, of turning red, owing to the presence of certain water plants which are not found in any other lake in the world. USE FAULT STAR THE BEST FOR SHIRTS COLLARS CUF Conviction Foll When buying loose coffee or anyt to have in his bin, how do you getting? Some queer stories about could be told, if the people who ha speak out. Could any amount of mere talk housekeepers to use USE FAULTLESS THE BEST FOR LAUNDRY STARCH WORK FOR SHIRTS COLLARS CUFFS AND FINE LINEN 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. Lion-head on eye message Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION No Royal Suicide. King Oscar a Poet. Indian National Hero. A Blushing Lake COMMODORE NICHOLSON COMMODORE Somerville Nicholas of the United States Navy, in letter from 1837 R. Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C., says. "Your Peruna has been and is now used by so many of my friends and acquaintances as a sure cure for certainth that I am convinced of its curative qualities and I unhesitatingly recommend it to all persons suffering from that complaint." Our army and our navy are the natural protection of our country. Peruna is the natural protection of the army and navy in the vicissitudes of climate and exposure. We have on file thousands of test monials from prominent people in the army and navy. We can give our readers only a slightly glimpse of the vast array of unclesited endorsements Dr. Hartman is most stantly receiving for his widely known and efficient remedy. Peruna. If you do not derive prompt and effective results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. S. B. Hartman President of The Hartman Sanitary Columbus. Ohio. Count Tolstoi's sense of humor still continues to exist. One day he was discussing Ibsen with a friend. 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TLESS ARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK CUFFS AND FINE LINEN Follows Trial or anything your grocer happens you know what you are about coffee that is sold in bulk; no handle it (grocers), cared to talk have persuaded millions of ge coffees for over a quarter and it superior to all other brands in favor and Uniformity? COFFEE There in con- S OF avince COFFEE, buy a way to make ER. packages, leftr our LION LION PACY ROASTED COFFEE Weather Guard When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Tolstoi's Little Joke. An Odd Collection.