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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. Color Distinction Is Doomed To Lose Prestige TH YEAR. COLOR DISTINCTION DOOMED. and Virtue Cannot Forever Be Nullified by Black Skin. at the criticism of Dr. Booker Washington for accepting the in- of the Hon. John Wanamaker with him and his married strange thought must to the mind of every thinking Goethe once said: "It is hell ear. Kesfner, not to be received split one brings." Is it neces- with yuu," lest the unthinking man should forget? "I am uncle; don't invite me for a colored man every time he in contact with a white man to colored man would meet the man with friendship. His maggy would blot out the past, but lead him to intrude. He goes then he is invited. Has he no The Negro has never forced upon the the white man. It is the man who has ever forced upon the Negro, into his counto his cabin. The Negro is would be black if the white would recognize the laws of God the latter claims, ordained the to be black), but he has the titles, will and intellect whichitate him from the beasts of and render him amenable to of God and man. With such under the laws of a dem-republic, vouchsafed with free-american citizen, how must specting intelligent Negro feeled at and pilloried in the is simply because he accepts served courtesies of a white yellow citizen? that peculiar force of civilians which makes him crave liberation and respect of other things, the Negro desires to and to aspire to the level of He necessarily possesses an dissatisfaction with any things than the highest which is attained in intellect, morals, wealth and politics by others. Is this reasonable? Why should eschew social consideration dered by those who claim they in these respects? Slavery is its worst, but it apparently led to crush out this laudable which alone raises him above of the brute. Would it not do think that every intelligent man of Negro blood shall be so feel that he is to be held down to a mill-stone of color about his neck? Why should he permitted to look in the face of American of Caucasian with the feeling that skins may real worth and manhood are used and honored by all men? Best of Southern citizenship," William Arnold Lambeth, a student, at the last Harvard argument, in his address entitled, "The Present South," is not color, not aristocracy, sense and ability, the standard of present." This is akin to the disciple, who said, "I repulse as the privileges of birth; there is the mobility and that comes from talents and virtue." Airs of superiority may be assumed by one race and apparently admitted by the other because the course of the latter is dictated by fear or self-interest, but there is no deep-seated depreciation in the hearts of the less advantaged. They feel that the more advantaged have no moral right to look down upon another people who think as they do, study the same books, worship the same God and obey the same legal statutes, merely because Jehovah gave one a different color from the other. In the struggle for existence the time must come when color will play a diminishing part in the advancement of men and nations. Unles Christianity is to prove a dead letter, ethics powerless, civilization a delusion, military skill and battleships ineffective, wes hall witness the 'absolute reversal of the present attitude of the white toward the colored races, the frank abandonment of color domination and the recognition of "a square deal," or reap the hravest of the terrible Nemesis which attends the breach of the Golden Rule. The success of the Japanese has already raised the inquiries: Can the white race permanently isolate itself from the rest of mankind? Can it continue to force itself into China and exclude Chinamen from its own shores? force itself into India and dominate the Indian; into Africa and make beasts of burden of the African? No race can forever corner God and all the opportunities for the pursuit of happiness in its own way. The spread of intelligence and thrift, the very spirit of greed for trade and territory, must before long shatter into shreds that baser spirit of pride which Lord Roseberry calls imperialism--the rule of one race of people over another, involving any sort of subjection of one to the other. The burglary of territory is not to be compared in its baseness with the burglary of human rights and the crushing of God-given spirit and ambition for betterment and happiness. Herbert Spencer declared that no nation could engage in this sort of political burglary without suffering moral degradation. It is pleasing to add that the redeeming quality in the white race is that it contains the spirit of reform and great reformers, that it possesses the magnificent virtue of fair play; that this better element will in the long run prevail. In fact, the conflict against pressing the Negro to the wall seems to be largely between these two elements of the white race. The Negro is not aggressive, he is not united. He has not contended successfully for a single right, not even the right to personal liberty. Every right and privilege which he enjoys has been won by white men and granted him almost without the asking. He may one day wake up. Meanwhile he will not reserve the right to help him. Little by little he is finding himself and some day he may have something to say, but not now. At present, his only contention, if contention at all, is whether he shall be permitted to accept courses from white men.—Age, N. Y. WICHITA, KANSAS SEPT 23 1905 Against South Among the white Baptist divines who attended the Baptist World's Congress at London last mouth, was Dr. W. W. Landrum one of the leading white ministers of Atlanta, Ga. He was chosen by his associates to report to the Atlanta Baptist Association his observations, and what took place. He did so in a very complete manner. "I saw occasionally a Negro accompany one of the white ladies to the convention or on the streets of London, but we must remember that we have the whole world against us on the Negro question. There is no such feeling against him anywhere as we have—we might as well face and admit the fact. But I think this matter is a big bugaboo about nothing. I believe that the Negro must have equal spiritual rights with any one—and the Baptist church has always contended for this—they received this at the convention—nothing less and nothing more. "The only difference in the treatment at the Convention Hall was probably in the applause received—the applause was quite more frequent and hearty when one of the colored delegates had the floor. "But this matter of social equality is not one for church or civil legislation, but one for individual taste. I have no more right to go to London and tel them who they should receive in their homes than they have to come to us here and say who we should receive." Powell to Resign Philadelphia, Sept. 18.—Weary of dodging bulets and participating in numberless resolutions, William F. Powell, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the United States to Hayti, will probably tender his resignation to the State department at Washington. Mr. Powell, who is a Negro, has been on a two months' vacation to this country, spending some time with his friends in Camden. He said that during his eight years' service in the Negro republic he has on several occasions nearly been shot during the revolutions. He has gone through about fifteen revolutions of these uprisings, and it is becoming wearisome. When he will resign he has not decided. Before his appointment as Minister to Hayti Mr. Powell was a teacher in the public schools of Camden. Made in Washita HOWARD'S PEERLESS PRINCESS FLOUR It's the best there is. Sold Everywhere. GRAND INSTALLATION RALLY New Hope Baptist Chuch Will Install Their New Pas- tor In Grand Style SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th SEARCHLIGHT only $1.00 Per Year. Are You A Subscriber. Court Etiquette in Addressing Royalty Some Ancient Inventions of Interest African Races Have No Love for Pets Queen Alexandra's Intimates Address Her as Ma'ma—Finger Glasses for Royalty Only—Fresh Money for Bridge. The divinity that doth hedge a king expresses itself in some curious ways, and to people who are not accustomed to associating with these exalted personages royal etiquette is in many points very puzzling. To those who meet Queen Alexandra constantly it probably does not seem strange to address her as "ma'am," but to unaccustomed ears this monosyllable does not sound quite respectful. Yet, according to the Ladies' Field, the queen is addressed as "ma'am" by all the members of the upper classes, the term "your majesty" being rarely used except on formal occasions, while the Prince of Wales and all the princes of the royal blood of England are addressed as "sir." Yet foreign princes and princesses bearing the title of serene highness must not be addressed as sir or ma'am, but as prince and princess. A letter to the sovereign must begin thus: "His majesty the king," and below the single word, "sir." The conclusion of the letter would be worded as follows: "I have the honor to submit myself, your majesty's most humble and devoted servant." etc. Another curious bit of royal etiquette provides that when members of the royal family are present at a din- Baths and Water Mills of Rome—Alfalfa Another Antiquity—Wheat Will Keep for Fifty Years or More. Alexander Del Mar tells how the ancients had many inventions strikingly like some of the newest and most important of modern times: "The city of Rome was supplied with no fewer than fourteen aqueducts, not necessarily for drinking purposes, because it always had the river, which afforded a copious flood of fresh water, but for the sake of convenience and especially to supply the baths and drive the water mills, most of which were located under Mount Janiculum. It was these water mills which made Rome a great manufacturing city. They were employed in innumerable arts, and gave rise to endless mechanical inventions and improvements. When, in the sixth century, the Goths laid siege to Rome and cut off the aqueduct water, Bellisarius established a series of floating boat-mills on the Tiber, which, being driven by the current, enabled the accustomed industries to be resumed. Grist mills driven by streams, or the wind, were common in the rural districts; the more ancient ones pounding the corn in gigantic mortars, the improved ones grinding it between revolving stones. "Not only was flour produced in these mills, but also various cereal preparations, like our breakfast foods Think of Domestic Animals Only as Something to Eat-Superstitious About Birds and Do Not Molest Them. At a recent meeting of the Royal Geographical society Alexander Whyte gave this account of his experiences in the interior of Liberia: "For weeks and weeks I have traveled through districts where no white man has been seen before and naturally enough met with considerable difficulty in getting from tribe to tribe. They are very jealous and envious of one another and their chief purpose when they get a white man among them is to keep him there, and the difficulty is to get from village to village. Their great object is to do away with roads and everything in the shape of a road or a bridge. So that it is necessary to overcome that jealousy and to allow a freedom of passage from village to village. Although mosquitoes are not met with, there are clouds of midges, or gnats. But in one particular village down in the middle of the street, which was a greensward, there was a row of posts about fifteen feet high and on the top of each post there was a hood made of palm leaves and these hung down in a sort of conical shape with an opening below, very much like a beehive, and I saw thousands and thousands of little birds flying in and out of these little cages, and they were engaged the whole day long devour- ner finger glasses must be supplied for their use at dessert, but not for the other guests. When the king and queen play bridge or any other round game money fresh from the mint must be provided. Invitations from the sovereign are commands, and must be treated as such. Only the death of a near relative, serious illness or compulsory absence from England can be given as reasons for non-acceptance. A previous engagement can never be pleaded as an excuse. Answers to royal invitations should be written in the third person. Communications with royalty are usually made through the controller of the household; it is entirely incorrect to write to the royal personage himself—that is to say, in ordinary circumstances, for the rights of friendship and affection override even the observances of a court. Introductions to royal personages are made only at their request. When the presentation is made, the lady presented should make a low but quick curtesy—a sort of "bob"—and a man gives a deep, respectful how. The royal personages usually shake hands and begin a conversation at once; the person presented must on no account speak first, nor offer to shake hands. The initiative is always taken by royalty. The actual introduction is made thus: "Lady Blank, your majesty." "Mrs. West, sir;" "Miss John West, ma'am." of the present day. Among these was one that yet remains to be reinvented. This was 'alica,' a preparation of spelt which the Roman writers allude to as a great delicacy. It is not many years since the yeast cake was introduced into America as a novelty; yet it is an invention at least 2,000 years old. Here are the words of the Roman encyclopedist on the subject: 'Millet is more especially employed to make yeast. If kneaded with must (grape juice) it will keep a whole year. The same is done, too, with fine wheat bran of the best quality. It is kneaded with white must, three days old, and then dried in the sun, after which it is made into small cakes.' "Alfalfa is another 'antiquity.' It was brought from Media into Persia in the time of Dartus, and afterward into Greece and Italy. 'Medica' was its Persian, 'hucerne' its Italian, and 'alfalfa' its Arabian name. Amphilocus, an agricultural writer of Athens, devoted almost an entire work to the culture of this valuable grass, and the Roman writers were scarcely less enthusiastic on the subject. The silo, for preserving grain in the earth, is evidently an oriental invention, which, before the Augustan age, made its way westward through Bactria, Pontus and Trace to Egypt, Greece, Italy and Spain. The Pontic name was 'sirl'. Varro says that wheat, properly stored in dry soil, will keep for fifty years and millet a hundred." ing the gnats. I knew the bird at once. It was the little tiny martin or swift, and they had almost ceared the village of these pests. "If there is one feature connected with the black races in Africa more extraordinary than another it is that they have no affection for domestic animals as pets. Their idea of domesticated animals, such as pigeons, fowls, goats, sheep and all the rest, is very much the idea of what they call generally in the Bantu tongue 'yama'—something to eat. But they have no real affection whatever for pets. I thought I had made a great discovery and I was very proud of it, and I went up and down that village and made inquiries while our tents were being up. I asked the headman, a very fine fellow: 'What do these little birds live there for?' "Oh," he said, 'Master Jungle man put up these houses and dem little birds come and make plenty pickaninies, which they eat.' "However, I got hold of the chief and asked him about it, and he told me plainly and distinctly that they didn't breed these birds for eating, but they were kept there as a charm and looked upon as birds of good omen and that no one, not even a child, would be allowed to touch them. So that in this one particular at least the natives had evidently acquired a taste for keeping these swifts in a semi-domesticated state." NO 21 No More Negro Soldiers Will Be Admitted To The United States Army-Orders Issued To Recruiting Office Shows That Colored Men Are Barred. THE COLOR LINE has cropped out in full in the United States Army according to recent orders issued to the recruiting of fice in Austin, Texas. Uncle Sam does not want any more Negro soldiers and has so advised the country. No reasons are assigned; and the only way that a colored man can get into the army is in case of war, and that is a very remote probability. It appears that for a number of years colored men have been enlisted in the army and now all the regiments of calvary and infantry are filled and there is room for no more, according to the official notification received by the local office in Austin, Tex. The order received is from Capt. Geo. R. Speecer, who has charge of this district, and is direct to him from Washington, D. C. the War Department. The following is the order: "Through notification this date you are informed that the colored calvary is full and no more applicants will be received. For colored infantry only exceptionally good men with former service are desired. No colored applicant without former service will be received at all." The "BIG" Negro who talks of his race pride and who al w a y e buys his groseries from white merchants who will not advertise in a Negro paper, the big Negro who sends his prescription to the white druggist who does not advertise in a Negro paper, tha big Negro who goes around berateing his race to the white man, the big Negro who thinks himself all and all and strives to represent his race. This is the class of mushroom leaders who menance our racial welfare and retards our racial progress, and are continually putting their race in an ill light. The big Nigro isn't worth in real value twenty cents to his race He doesn't patronize race institutions or contribute to the elevation of his people, though he secures his living by virtue of the fact that he is a Negro, he is ever and eternally trying to get away from the very persons who promote his existence. He is forever indulging in dreams of cls and THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wishita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. -RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 150. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appl cation. NOTICE!! - All matters addressed TO THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the par- tier 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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The gentleman owns his own home, his cows, horses, chickens and other comforts of a home and is a good provider. A lady of the following description and habits may answer this notice, if she desires to marry: Description of Woman Wanted: She must be from a coffee color to light mulatto, from 30 to 48 years old, if a widow, with not more than one child; must not use tobacco in any form; must be a good cook and a neat housekeeper, of a mild temper and be willing to help care for the stock chickens, etc. at home. Any lady who desires to marry and can supply this description may write and send photo to W. N. MILLER, Editor The Wichita Searchlight. Wichita, Kansas. tf. (First Publication in The Wichita Searchlight. Sept. 16. 1905.) Searchlight, Sept. 10, 1909. In the District Court of Sedgwick County, State of Kansas. Agnes Scaggs, Plaintiff, vs. John A. Scaggs, Defendant. PUBLICATION NOTICE. State of Kansas to John A. Scaggs, Greeting: Defendant John A. Scaggs is hereby notified that he has been sued by Agnes Scaggs in the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas, in the above entitled action and that he must answer therein, or on before the 11th day of November, or allegations in the plaintiff's petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered as prayed therein, viz. A decree divorcing plaintiff from defendant and dissolving the bond of matrimony heretofore existing between you and her and give to plaintiff the care and custody of the minor child, Florine Scaggs, nd for costs of the action. AGNES SCAGGS, By BLAKE & AYRES, Her Attorneys, Attest: GEO. A. CLARK, Clerk. (Seal) By S. N. Bridgman, Deputy. WINFIELD, KAN., NEWS. Sterling Simpson has gone to Witchita. Mrs Jno .W. Wood and Mrs. G.A. chols have returned from their trip to Denver. They had a fine time. Locals and Personals Read the great Searchlight, ```markdown ``` The Foot Bali Season is now open and we have the most complete line on the market; also anything you need in SPORTING GOODS LINE. Wichita Bicycle & Sporting Goods COMPANY 230 N. Main - Wichita, KE If you are sick and want to 1 cured get the LOPEZ REMEDY, 313 E. Douglas. (Barnes Block.) Rev. H. W. King, pastor of the A.M. Echurch, left Tuesday night for Kansas City, Kansas, where he will attend the Annual Conference of that church which is in session there this week. The Installation and Rally at New Hope Baptist church is post pened tell next (Sunday-) to morrow(Sept 24. All are very cordi illy in vited to attend the services there that day. The Silver Moon Club Minstrel at Garfield hall Tuesday night was a grand success. It was well worth the price of admission and every one present highly enjoyed the show Porter Perry left Monbay night for Lynanville. Teenjin response to a telegram stating the serious illness of his mother Mrs. Mary Perry. The host of friends of Porter. hope he may find his mother improving and that he may soon be able to return too our city. 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. Big. rally at New Hope tomorrow Godown. The heavy rains of the past two weeks are almost without a precedent. Mr and Mrs Joseph Fine have mooved to 10 21 Cherry street where they will make their future home. We wish to keep fresh in the minds of our Kansas readers to look out for the coming political stir. We propose to set a few cold facts before them for consideration at the proper time. Miss Alice Thompson left Mon- day night for Mexico with her sister. Miss Amelia Thompson, whom She takes to Mexico on account of Miss Amelias bad health. All hope that young lady may soon recover and be restored to good health again- Pay what you owe to the Search- Light That is right. Mrs J S Quarles is preparing to move to St Louis where she will make her future home. Wesly S Hawk, deputy Marshall City Court returned Tuesday from the west whese he had a fine time. Theodore Coleman has returned to his home in Newton to have his eyes treated. Theodore is an exceptionally fine young and it is quite unfortunate that he is afflicted with weak eyes, THE WICHITASEARCHLIGHT John Hill and family of Slater. Mo have moved to Wichita and will make this city their future home. Frank Hill has moved to 1103 N Wichita street. Mrs G H Young is on the sick list All hope for her speedy recovery. The entertainment given at the A. M. E. church Monday evening was a decided success. $23.75 was turned over. A number of other solicitors are yet to report. Mrs J L Harper made a trip to Newton Tuesday and set up a Household Ruth. Jas Searce of Eldorado was in the city last week visiting friends. DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 75c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L. Kiner Prop The ladies of the Eastern Star Chapter tendered a reception at the residence of Mrs W E Whitted, 509 N Water, Tuesday night, in hoon or of Mrs J S Quarles, who will eave for St Louis to re-ide and Miss Alice Thompson who will go to Roswell, New Mexico. Mrs G H Young has been quite indisposed during the week. New Hope Baptist church will he'd their Big Rally and Installation on to-morrow = Sunday, Sept. 24th. Everyone is invited. We are informed that the attendance of colored pupils at the public schools this year is fairly good—so far—yet there are many children who should be in school, but who who are not—we are also glad to learn that the authorities intend to strictly enforce the compulsory education law. Taborian Temple No 11 held an initiation Thursday night. This is the first initiation of this Temple since they were organized last May. They are doing nicely and are accumulating money and pushing to the front. NOTICE Sir Knights and Daughters: There will be a joint session of Wichita Tabernacle, No. 34, and Taborian Temple No. 11, next Thursday night at 9:30. Very important business. Mrs. S. E. Patton and Mrs. Ed Landrum returned Thursday from Denver, Colo., where they sojourned a few weeks ago. They had a royal time. Geo. Wilbur and William Frazier were initiated into the mysteries of the Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, Thursday night. They had a fine time—them and the Taborian goat. There are several more to be given the degrees later. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor are preparing to have a big time soon. The Taborian door is open—come in while you can. Knights and Daughters, if you have changed High Priestess or Chief Mentors since this list was published kindly notify me at once, that I may make the correction. KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. Tabernacles. Number. 1 Mrs. Eliza Nichols, 938 Everett St., Kansas City, Kan. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St., Iola, Kansas. 3 Mrs. Flora Thompson, 36 North Main, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 5 Mrs. Sarah Skinner, 725 Park St., Atchison, Kan. 6 Mrs. Mary Curry, 804 Cherry St., Ottawa, Kan. 7 Mrs. N. E. Wigely, 506 N. 5th, Salina, Kan. 8 Mrs. Anna Fallings, Cherryvale, Kan. 9 Mrs. Sarah H. Harrison, 1421 Van Buren St., Topeka, Kan. 10 Mrs. Maggie Fishback, 1795 Mass, Leavenworth, Kan. 11 Mrs. Perlina Woodfork, 823 Sherman Ave., Kansas City, Kan. 12 Miss Cora Sango, 2058 North Front St., Kansas City, Kan. 13 Mrs. Nannie Dunlap, Junction City, Kan. 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 315, Wier City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Perlor T. Ballinger, Parsons, Kan. 17 Mrs. A. Masie, 615 Barbee, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. Emma Maxie, 411 Ransom, Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. C. E. Kirby, Bx. 332, Coffeyville, Kan. 28 Mrs. Susie Willis, 21 St., T. Parsons, Kan. 29 Mrs. Henrietta Davis, 4071 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio, Leavenworth, Kan. 32 Mrs. Ida B. Willis, 1036 Iowa Ave., Butte, Mont. 33 Mrs. Phannie Corneal, Box 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 West 15th, Wichita, Kans. 35 Mrs. Rachel Dudly, 521 N. 21st South Omaha, Neb. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 523 Main, Atchison, Kan. 38 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City, Kan. 52 Mrs. Cora Yeager, Lawrence, Kan. 63 Mrs. Lizzie Stone, 1042 Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 77 Mrs. A. Pickens, 250 E. 15th, Topeka, Kan. 85 Mrs. Ella Cornish, N. Topeka, Kans. 89 Mrs. Marie Boyd, 1204 Dodge St., Omaha, Neb. 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 316 N. 12th, Omaha, Neb. 92 Mrs. J. G. Gillum, 1209 Vine, 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. 777 C. M.'S ADDRESSES 333. Number. 1 William M. Watkins, Box 184, Wier City, Kans. 2 J. Jefferson, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan. 3 William H. Barnes, 101 Kearney St., Atchison, Kan. 4 Andrew Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb. 5 J. T. Howard, 120 Kansas Ave., Topeka. 6 M. E. Bird, 3014 Hewett, Everett, Washington. 8 R. M. Bingham, 1727 E. Oak St., Ft. Scott, Kans. 10 Richard Walker, Leavenworth, Kans. 11 W. N. Miller, 258 N. Main St., Searchlight office, Wichita, Kan. 13 A. H. Morton, Parsons. 15 Henry Jordan, Salina, Kan. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St., S. Omaha, Neb. 17 Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th St., Coffeyville, Kans. 18 James Thomas, 385 Lake St., Salt Lake City. 19 C. Parris, 918 Penn, St., Lawrence, Kans. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kans. 59 S. W. Pasker, 1156 Buchanan, Topeka, Kan. 60 James Scott, 1404 Van Buren, Topeka, Kan. 71 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th St., Lincoln, Neb. 72 John L. Wright, Lincoln, Neb. 536 J. W. Barbee, 294 Williams St., Deadwood, S. Dakota. 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TRY IT MYRON Groceries, F and 815 N OLDEN'S Prescription ... Drugs of all K Your patronage solicite customer. Our store is 615 N MYRON A. DEAN veeties, Fruits, Veget and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST. 101-Both P. DEN'S DRUG ST Prescriptions Filled with C Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and To atronage solicited. + Once a customer er. Our store is Headquaaters for Colo 615 North Main st ebbins & Raffe --- MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. OLDEN'S DRUG STORE ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. Stebbins & Rafferty Vehicles, Farm Implements Light Harness, Robes, Etc. 1-213 West Douglas Dr. Ja Dr. Jas. ALLE furcured 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 uses only an occasional job. I use no clamps or medicines, giving a $25.00 instrument and draw but little blood. I have never known harm to come from working a Ridgge every day after castration with the ecraseur. URGICAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED ENTISTRY a specialty. Treatment of Lump Jaw Movil and Fistula. Dr. Jas. Allen, 406-8 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas School Shoes FALL and WINTER SHOES. Prices to suit Poor or Rich BRAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas Ave. Stebbins OTTO WEISS. Agent A. DEAN s, Vegetable ed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 109 TRUE STOR Milled with Care Tigars and Tobacco . Once a customer, always meats for Colored people Main st. --- AN ables T ones - 101 WORE Care bacco ... , always a treated people. W. O. Rafferty erty Wichita Wichita THE W1CHITA SEARCHLIGHT. We have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Groerie, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Brooms, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Stationary, and, in fact, anythingand everything you may want in the Grocery Line. Court House Grocery Store 517 North Main Street Meals 15c Open Day and Night Short Order In Season Hot Chile 341 North Main Street Wichita, Kansas. Thos. Glover, Pres. Edward Landrum, Treas. We Can Feed You AT THE Court House 517 North M We have a full line of fre- cy and Staple Groeerie, i.e. Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegi Brooms, Butter, Eggs, i.e. tionary, and, in fact, a you may want in the Gr FREE DELIVERY TO AN Your Patrona Court House 517 North M J. E. Lewis — Proprietor Lewis and L RESTAURA Meals 15c Oper Short Order In Season 341 North Main Street Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient a Specialty Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. Mrs. Tom Ivy's Restaurant All You Can Eat For 15c 719 North Main Street D. L. STEWART, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. 703 North Main St. All calls attended promptly, Day or Night Office Hours -- 9 to 12 a. m. 2 to 5 p. m. 6 to 8 30 p. m. Rock-Island LUMBER and COAL CO., Wichita, — Kansas W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Banner Mills + CUSTOM GKINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PORNESCH BROS, PROPS. 922 N. Main St. Phone 580 In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas Pone 35 Let us try your next job of print- ing. S. E. Patton, Sec. Jas. L. Harper, Mangr. House Grocery Main Street Fresh and wholesome Fan- Teas, Coffees, Spices, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Sta- anything and everything Grocery Line. NY PART OF THE CITY age Solicited Grocery Store Main Street ers - C. C. Hickerson Hickerson NT & CAFE On Day and Night Hot Chile Wichita, Kansas. FRISCO SYSTEM 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 Eureka Springs, AK. OPERATED BY THE FRISCO SYSTEM Round-trip tickets to Eureka Springs on sale euezy day in the year. Ask C. W. STRAIN, D. P. A. Wichita, Kan. Red Front Racket The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes 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 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. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY BELOVER & SONS, Propa. Pay what you owe to the Searchlight. New "Ultra" "La France"and 'Boston Special' "ULTRA DRESS BOOT" of patent kid, dull top, fancy foxed, perforated tip, new swing last, Cuban heel. A handsome Dress Shoes.....$3.50 OUR STYLE LEADER in Women's Dress Shoes. A plain opera toe patent kid Boot with dull top and butt- ton; French heel, turned sole. Per pair.....$5.00 ANOTHER BUTTON BOOT of black patent kid on a mannish last with welt extension sole; purple kid top with black buttons .....Per pair $5.00 NURSES BAL SHOES, soft vici kid, seamless shoes, flexible welted sole of genuine Elkskin leafhea: low heel with Elkskin tap. A noiseless, comfortable shoe for house wear. Per pair.....$3.00 Boston Store 103.105.107.109 E. DOUGLAS AVE WALLENSTEIN & CO. KANSAS CITY, KAN., NEWS. Miss Lizzie Scott and Miss Inez Link of Topeka were the guests of the Madison sisters last week. Kan City, Kan. Sept. 18, 05 Editor Searchlight, Dear Sir: Affer reading your paper, the Searchlight, I thought I would send in an item on behalf of our society. Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11, Order of Twelve, meets the fiast and third Monday each month at the Knights of Tabor hall near 11th and Washington ave., Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, H. P. Queen of the West Tabernacle No 1 is progressing nicely, both financially and fraternally. We boast proudly of a membership of fifty in good standing. And as far as her part on tde new Taborian hall, she has always been prompt, nearly every member has paid the $1.09 taxation. She meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. The hall is fittee in grand style. The following are her officers Dt Eliza Njichel: H P, Dt Lulu E Johnson, V P, Dt Jennie McClland, Treas, Dt Mag. Sie Robinson, Sect, Dt Mary Sylvester, Ass't Sec, Dt Betha Harris, O S, Dt S丹 Bridges. I S We have been blessed and have been able to pay off every death claim on cime and in the 16 years of its exis tence it has only lost four members. Subscribe for The Searchlight Only $1.00 pr year EUREKA. KAN Mrs. Leonard Harness made a fying trip to Kansas City on business and on her return she stepped over in Eureka and visited Mrs Dan Caldwell and Mr Harness. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 986 Office 517 N: Main St 1. Church Letter To the Editor of the Searchlight. To all God-loving, sober and progressive people, both saints and sinners, we beg a brief hearing and one moment's consideration. Having read the column in your issue of the 16th inst. concerning Rev. S. M. Hall, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church of Wichta, Kansas, we, the members of said church wish to answer the statement in the same column. We know not from whence the statement came but say this: Every word concerning any charges and discord between Rev. Hall and his church is untrue. There is naught at issue between Rev Hall and the church over which he has charge, and we believe him to be a Christian gentleman and God sent pastor, and he has always acted such, not only towards his members, but to those who visit his church. As for the charges which the issue states were made at the Association the Second Baptist church made none whatever, and if anyone, be he whom it may, has made any charge, either direct or indirect, we brand him as a blackmailer and shall see that he is treated as such. We would also call attention to the fact that God and his ministers make churches, God and his ministers and his real churches make associations, and conventions of every rank, associations do not make either churches or preachers. Our "great" church at Wichita elected Rev. S. M. Hall for their pastor July, 1903; we do not regret our action, and are willing to stand by the same in 1905. Rev. Hall is a member of the Second Baptist church, Wichita. His letter accompanied by a worthy recommendation from his church in Alabama, was deposited in our church Sunday, May 15, 1904. If some of those people who are finding as much fault with Rev. Hall would clean out their own house and get the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ in their souls, they would find more time to work for God and less time to find fault. Of a truth, the Second Baptist church has selected one of the best men in the state for our pastor, one who truly knows how to treat his members right. If Rev. S. M. Hall continues in the future as he has in the past, and with the help of God we KNOW he will, we, the members of his church, are satisfied. Done by order of the church, September 17, 1905. R. WATSON. J. L. SANFORD, BLANCHE ALEXANDER, TEMPERANCE TOPICS "The Ribbon White—O type of all that's best. Worn faithfully o'er many a loyal breast, Ey heartaches sanctified, by tears made its telling power forever shall endure— a beacon light to the wanderer's home- sick eyes, As swathed gray of light from Paradise; Hope of the helpless, safeguard of the weak. To many a sin-tossed soul a sure retreat, A thick link that binds with wondrous power, An influence growing stronger every hour, An emblem of the pure and good and God bless us all who wear the Ribbon White!"—Selected. A Novelist's Discovery. Mr. John A. Stuart, the author of that great and practical novel on the drink question, "Wine On the Lees," speaking awhile ago at Glasgow, Scotland, made the following confession: "I have not till recently given drink or temperance any special attention, but it came about that in my studies as a novelist and student of mankind I wandered into the East End of London. Curiosity took me there. Sheer fascination held me. Not the fascination of the beautiful or the picturesque, but the fascination of a suffering medley of humanity with habits of its own. Very early in my investigations I was struck by the fact that there is in their midst one institution which flourishes exceedingly, and one man who is the incarnation of self-assertive pomp and power. I mean the public house and the publican. This great latter-day British worthy holds the slums in the hollow of his hand. He is master, and he means to admit no rival. And one thing amazed me, viz., that the more wretched the neighborhood, more prosperous was his business. With fresh and vivid interest I watched those who filled his coffers. What did I see? I saw old men and women, ragged, shivering, in the final stages of penury and decay, put down their last coppers for the liquor which their palsied hands could scarcely convey to their mouths. I saw youths and girls drinking together, with obscene talk, and hoarse, alcoholic laughter. I saw husbands and wives preparing for the domestic brawls which keep magistrates busy; but sadest and most amazing of all, I think, I saw fathers and mothers cultivating in their children the incipient taste for alcohol, even to the extent of wetting their lips with beer and gin. Hitherto I had never thought seriously of temperance reform. To be perfectly frank, I am not sure that I had not conceived rather a prejudice against it. . . . I was eager to see how the underworld lives and enjoys itself. Going a step farther, I was curious to discover how these amazing fortunes are made, and how the vast capital invested in the liquor trade is employed. I was disenchanted and appalled. Where I expected comedy I found tragedy of the blackest kind. It was incredible that out of ruined homes and outcast, shivering misery rose the glittering palaces of the distiller, the brewer, and the publican. It seemed like a nightmare. I could not believe that this was the source of fortune building which made men millionaires. I probed deeper. The brewers and publicans could not be responsible for the maelstrom which swept thousands to death every year. My purpose was not to be a sensor, but to note and record, and the conviction forced upon me by dispassionate study was—Let this continue, and Britain, despite her standing army, her matchless fleet, her unexampled commerce and colossal wealth, her literature and her science, will go the way of Tyre and Sidon as surely as there is logic." Alcohol and the Death Rate: A few years ago Dr. Matti Helenius, the distinguished Finnish scholar, made an elaborate study of the problem of the relation of alcohol to death, and presented the results in a thesis which he read before the faculty of the University of Copenhagen. His researches showed that during the past thirty years 7,500,000 people had died in Europe as a result of drink. In Denmark every seventh man between the ages of 35 and 55 died on account of alcohol. The annual deaths due from drink in Europe he estimated as follows. Great Britain ..... 40,000 Belgium and Holland ..... 20,000 Russia ..... 100,000 France ..... 40,000 Germany ..... 40,000 Scandinavia and Switzerland ..... 20,000 Total ..... 260,000 Several years ago the British Medical Association appointed a "collective committee" to make some special researches. They found that of 67 cases of cirrhosis of the liver, 60 per cent occurred in "hard drinkers," 30 per cent in "free drinkers," and 10 per cent in "fairly temperate people." The best investigators of Europe have agreed that 10 per cent or upwards of deaths are caused through intoxicating liquor. Thirty years ago Dr. Hitchcock, president of the Michigan State Board of Health, made an investigation of the annual loss of production by reason of the premature deaths from alcohol. He estimated that annually 98,000 persons were constantly ill or disabled on account of alcoholic liquor. The late Dr. Willard Parker, of New York, one of the foremost surgeons that America ever produced, after a thorough study of the subject in New York city, gave it as his mature opinion that 331.3 per cent of all the deaths in New York city were occasioned directly or indirectly by the use of alcoholic drink." It appears that every medical expert outside of his own precinct, who has made an exhaustive study of the problem, has come to the same conclusion, practically—1. e. that a minimum proportion of deaths caused by alcohol is 10 per cent. As there were 1,039,094 deaths in the census year 1900, that would make about 100,000 as alcohol's share. It is not claimed that all these were in "drunkards' graves" in the sense that each died of alcoholism or delirium tremens, but they filled alcohol's graves in the sense that had it not been for alcohol they would not have died—alcohol dug their graves. National Advocate. The Awful Questions: At home in his bed the Drunkard has awakened with a nervous start. It is 5 o'clock—just beginning to lighten. The Drunkard is in a nervous perspiration but broad awake and shaken by tremors. He has no Whisky, and without that he cannot sleep again. Now Whisky puts him on the rack and asks of him the Ordinary and the Extraordinary questions: "Your mother, who loved you—you killed her?" "No, no!" "Your drinking helped kill her?" "I can't admit it." "It is true?" "Perhaps—yes, yes, it's true!" Perhaps—yes, yes, it's true. The friends who would have helped you—those who did help you—how have you used them? "I can't think of it!" Drunkard, you must think. Hear awful questions, make awful answers. Some to be whispered so that none may hear them. All that you have done, Drunkard; all that you have left undone, Drunkard! No escape! No evasion! "Why, last night you met persons who, according to their lights, were kind to you. You sneered at them?" "Whisky did—not I. I liked them all." "You drank it—you're to blame!" "It's true." "Well, what are you going to do now?" "Stop drinking—begin again." "You lie!" "I swear—" "Swear no more. Why bring your self to another fall? Why make friends to strike again behind their backs? You know the future like a book. You know there is no escape!" "I know one." "Ah, yes, but you don't dare, my friend. Among other things I have made of you besides a Drunkard—a Coward. "You're a braggart, Drunkard!" "It's true." "A liar, Drunkard!" "In short, Drunkard, you are a very choice sort of blackguard." "Thanks to Whisky—it's true." So the Drunkard on the rack! By and by he rises and buttons his clothes with fingers that shake. He has a little money and trembles to be gone. A few moments, and he is back in the saloon. "Whisky?" The bartender winks at the Drunkard. "How did you spend the night?" The Drunkard rains off the Whisky. "The first half in a wilderness; the latter half in hell!" he says.—Chicago American. --- An Enemy to the State. Speaking on the evils of the liquor traffic, M. Barbey, an able advocate of Paris, France, recently said: "The state itself is tributary to our enemy. Alcohol has enchained everything in its service. It is a tyrant whose reign is universal, and ignorance and interest are everywhere its courtiers. It reigns an invisible master, but feared in the councils of the city and the lives of the citizens. It is the secret arbiter of parties. It controls the public authorities, decides policy of government and ministers. It empties workshops and factories in order to augment disturbances. It robs labor of its humble wages. It twists the macinonery of justice. It paralyzes learning in destroying life. It effaces from the countenance of man the distinctive signs of his hereditary nobleness; it degrades him to the level of a piece of matter; it makes of him a blind force. And when one seeks on a platform to raise his voice and denounce its misdeeds, he unds that it has established upon all a reign of silence from all censure, and that it has enslaved the press of the tribune—every word and every thought." Drink and Physical Deterioration Drink and Physical Deterioration. In his presidential address at the Conference of Official Temperance Advocates at Manchester, Mr. J. Johnson (London) spoke of the need of a national awakening on the drink question. Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice had stated that on "Mafeking night" he walked from Charing Cross to Cannon street by chance; he went through the whole crowd, and did not see a dozen men he could have enlisted. An inter-departmental committee, the war office, and Parliament were considering the question of physical deterioration, and it was hoped that good would result. What was desired was a mighty upheaval, a national change. He believed the nation was honest at least, but loaded with drinking customs and false impressions as to the use of alcohol exteriously circulated by increased parties. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT aristocray and his heart yearns for that plain above the common In our travels over the city we have notie much improvement in the yards of many of our people and it looks nice It is a good idea to keep ones yards and premises in a clean, wholesom manner as it adds much not only to the general appearance. but also to the general health of all Instead of allow ashes to pile up-scatter them out and in stead of letting rags and old'rubbish accumulate burn them up or sell them to the ragman. We are doing nicely on tihs line so let us continue making improvements. COLORED GROCERY STORE. 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. WHERE AND WHAT TO LEARN. WHERE AND WHAT TO LEARN. The fact remains that man is a learner. He was born to know and to known is the highest end of his existence, but what to know and where to learn it will always be an important factor in his acquisition of knowledge. Good books, good magazines and good newspapers are in abundance these days are so cheap that everybody can possess them and gain the ripest and best knowledge obtainable at the smallest cost. Instead of doing this, many of our people seem to think and act as thought the street corners and curbstones were the only universities in existence and that gossip and street talk the only information worth having. Many of our so-called good people do not take a newspaper in their home but depend upon street lore to guide them in all their conversation and information, forgetting that this kind of knowledge is almost worse than trash and is often nothing more than the merest nonsense. Such knowledge as this is often nothing more than mere opinion and conjecture until it is run through the sieve of broad minded men and the press and there shorn of its excrescences and fiction and reduced to solid facts. People who like lurid, undigested, yellow gossip will be satisfied with this kind of information, but those who want clean, clear solid facts will not care to take it from the street corners and curbstone sociologists. They will take a good reliable paper and read the news, and results of public opinion as set forth in the light of clear and logical reasoning and careful investigation. It will save you time and worry and money to read a good newspaped and you will have more in the end, therefore take a paper and pay for it and be independent of sidewalk and backyard gossip.—Colorado Statesman. Will Dillard left for Arkansas Cit $ ^{3} $ Tuesday. Frank Banks has added his name to the list of Serehlight readers. J. C. Fowler came down from Wichita Mondy. The first official announcement indicating that the delegates of Norway and Sweden were approaching an understanding in their effort to establish a modus vivendi for the countries as separating was given out at the close of the joint session of the delegates. The American Union of Cement Workers at Springfield, Ill., decided that hereafter negro cement workers shall form separate unions. A resolution was unanimously adopted excluding from membership Japanese, Koreans and all Oriental workers. CLEARWATER NEWS. Earnest White is hauling his wheat to the Union Mills of Clearwater. M. E. Ray passed through Clearwater last week going over the Santa Fe to Wichita. George Barton was in Clearwater on business last week. C. K. Willey went down to visit his mother, Mrs. S. Willey, of Oxford Kan., and had a fine time. Mrs. Sarah Wilfley, of Oxford, Kan., went over to Winfield Sunday. JOB PRINTING Why take your JOB PRINTING to others when a member of your own race can do the work as cheap and as good? Bring your job work to the Searchlight office, Second and Main streets, and we will do the work right. "Promptness and Quality" is our motto. YOUR FAULT. Should any news item bout you miss us it is your fault. Send us your news. NOTICE. To whom it may concern: I. S. M. Hall was converted to Christ October 4, 1885, was baptized October 5, 1885. I was ordained to the gospel ministry October 26, 1887. I am now a member of the Second Baptist church, Wichita, Kansas. We are here at work under God, and wish to say we have made improvements on our building at a cost of about $700 and have added to her membership about 40 persons. Still we are at work. We have no time to answer objections. God has called us to work and this we are going to do. My Bible makes the way hardly possible for liars, peace breakers and hypocrites. Beware. I am pleased with the Second Baptist church and the church seems to be pleased with me. We have no time to lose. Please excuse us. Yours truly. S. M. HALL. 1214 N. Main street, Wichita, Kas. NEWTON, KANSAS. Miss Ophelia Brown and mother, Mrs L House, have returned from Emporia where they were visiting. John Underwood is reported better after quite an illness. Mr and Mrs Alex Johnson of Owas so, Michigan, who have been attending the encampment in Denver are the guest of his sister Mrs John Anderson. John Willis who has been sick for some time died at his late home last week of the dropsy. He leaves a wife, stepson, and many friends. Tonnie Butts who has been in Colo. Springs passed through the city to his home in Wichita. Theodora Coleman is in the city to have his eyes treated. John McClain went to Topeka on the excursion Sunday. D Hall has returned from Denver Mrs A Coleman was among the cursionist. Topeka Sunday Tale That Differs From the Old Story Where the Forsaken One Pines Away in Solitude and Dies. He was a Harvard junior, and he knew his Martin and Grace. And she was a little slimpleton who lived there by the creek; And he was handsome and winning, and, though leorned, not otherwise. And she had hair of billowed gold and heaven's blue for eyes. He was spending his last vacation, and he stayed up there at the house. And he seemed to like the girl from the first, though she was shy as a mouse; But the pair went fishing together (she lived you know, by the creek)—and men are sometimes, witching, and women are sometimes weak! And so it happened that never a college vacation passed. Through such delightful byways, nor sped the days so fast; And when September came again and he had to say "Good by." There was a tear on the midden's cheek that would grace an angel's eye. We W YOU JOB PR ANY T LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CAR CALLING CAR STATEM BILL H until, and he knew creek, simplepton who liv- creek; and winning, and, not otherwise, billowed gold and or eyes. last vacation, and he at the house, and he the girl from the he was shy as a ishing together (she creek) by the witching, and times weak! that never a college ful byways, nor fast; came again and he by," the maiden's cheek e an angel's eye. And in the coils of a trusting heart he She waited all through all through the Ages And all through the Ages But still she never was eth not," she said "Alas! I am aweary, I were dead." 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