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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER EVENTH YEAR. Negro will never consent to be than a citizen in this Republic, himself, to his country and to live in which he lives, demands should never cry "Down" as single black man stands the pale of the law. But as intelligent men, let us look is squarely in the face, and means to the end in view. The will never again make a camaraderie of the Negro so she holds the balance of power. Union. She will always hold balance of power, so long as the feelings to the fetish, and says country, "Give us a nigger plank we may have all the rest." Game of American politics will again be played with the Negro foot-ball. Other issues—trusts, rates, public ownership—will be place. We are face to face fact that we must work out salvation. We desire equal in all public laces, hotels, public cars, parks, schools, the libraries.—Wm. H. Lewis Searchlight. the President McKinley disdid his administration by using the Negro" in politics and trying to develop a white man's party in the South. This almost been forgotten durest four years of Roosevelt nation, on account of the subreversal by Mr. Roosevelt of successor's program. A sensa-ident at the White House and in connection with some Ne-putments to office completely Mr. McKinley's work, and forth the president as the most and courageous champion of ideal rights of the colored race have had for years. The position, as then understood, candidly defined in that strikage in Secretary Bonapart's Republican party has ever held office that a good citizen needs old fathers; like Abraham Lin- believes not in castes or olives or privileged classes; like a man, whatever his ancestry. Roosevelt, it demands a deal at the pools as elsewhere citizen be shown by experience the vote let him be denied the because of his individual not because of his race or tongue or birthplace nor because his grandfather was this or was not that. —Springfield Republican. AN UNPURCHASED BALLOT. There are scores and hundreds of honest colored voters in this city the sincerity of whose purposes and the honor of whose lives places them above and beyond the reach of the corruption of bribery. We feel that an admonition to such men would be as gross a piece of impropriety on our part as it would be a damnable insult on the part of others to attempt to purchase their votes. We rejoice in the integrity of such men, who not only command the respect of their political allies but also merit and receive the admiration of their political opponents. Honesty and principle are bound to be recognized it matters not what the color of a man's skin or the kinks to his hair. "A man's a man for a' that," and he will receive the plaudits of his fellowment if he plays a manly part. As a race organ we are proud of the colored men in this city whom no offer, it matters not how tempting, could deter from the stern path of duty. They have convictions and the courage to express and exercise them. There are however some colored men in the city—and we blush to confess it—who like some of the white race, offer themselves for sale at every election. We would admonish such men of the folly of their course. They can ill afford to offer themselves for sale. They have neither the respect of those they vote against or those with whom they vote. Even the men who purchase them have no respect for them. They not only dishonor themselves but they disgrace their families. They are a curse to their race and a discredit to the community. Such men can see no higher duty before them than to either sell themselves not to register or not to vote. In these lines it is not our purpose to dictate to such men as to how they shall vote. We simply advise that they go to the polls and vote as other men, without being beguiled by the "Almighty Dollar." We suggest to such men that they resurrect their consciences and follow their dictates. No colored voter should so far forget his sense of honor or stultify his principle as to sell himself to the phite politician, who, while he may "pat him on the shoulder," yet, down deep in his heart loathes and despises him for his perfidy. The worries of baking day turn to de light when you use HOWARD'S PEERLESS PRINCESS FLOUR No other as good SEARCHLIGHT only $1. Per Year. Are You A Subscriber? WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1905. WITTE HAS CHARGE ```markdown ``` St. Petersburg, Oct. 30.—6:05 p. m.—The autocracy of the Romanoffs and the old order of things cease to exist in Russia. Emperor Nicholas has surrendered and Count Witte comes into power as minister-president with an imperial mandate which will enable him to convert the farcical national assembly into a real legislative body elected by greatly extended suffrage and to confer upon the people fundamental civil liberities, including free speech. These welcome tidings reached St. Petersburg shortly before 6 o'clock this evening. Count Witte had spent the day with the emperor at Peterhof, going over the final draft of the manifesto to which he insisted that certain minor modifications be made, and before taking the train for St. Petersburg he telephoned to a friend that the emperor had affixed his signature and that the imperial mandate comprising the conditions upon which he had agreed to accept office was in his pocket. These include freedom of the press, the right of assembly and the immunity of the person, including the right of habeas corpus. An official announcement will be issued this evening appointing Count Witte prime minister with special authority to coordinate and unify the powers of the different branches of the army. Civil liberties are granted to the Russian people and to the national assembly is given legislative power, while the suffrage is enlarged. Telegraphic communication with St. Petersburg appears to be improving. A dispatch received by the Wolff Bureau was only an hour and a half in transmission. The German mails are being sent to Russia by way of Stockholm. Travelers from Berlin are able to reach St. Petersburg in sixty hours going by way of Stettin, Sassinz, Stockholm and Hangoe, and thence to Viborg and St. Petersburg. Count Witte insisted on a cabinet on the British model with a selected premier responsible to the imperial douma, or parliament, while the emperor clung to the appointment of the members of the cabinet on the American plan by the emperor as chief of state. The state department has instructed Charge d'Affaires Eddy in case of emergency to give American citizens asylum at the embassy and if necessary to charter a steamer. Foreign Minister Lamsdorff is reassuring the ambassadors by formally guaranteeing the safety of foreign residents. He announces that the government is prepared to afford them military protection in St. Petersburg and elsewhere in the event of disorders. ```markdown ``` Kansas City, Nov. 1.—Thirteen persons were killed and thirty injured in the wreck of the Santa Fe passenger train No. 1, known as the California Limited, which, while running at the rate of 35 miles an hour, struck a loose rail, ditching five cars, one mile east of Blue river, which is the eastern limits of this city. The train is a through train running between Chicago and San Francisco. It was running at a higher speed than usual, being ten or fifteen minutes behind its schedule. The wreck occurred at what railroad men call Rock Creek cut, where jagged rocked walls on each side of the track form a bluff, almost 100 feet high. The engine was going so rapidly that it passed the loose rail in safety. The mail car immediately behind jumped the track and struck the side of the bluff to the right and the four cars following plowed through it. The sides of the coaches were torn off by scraping against the rough stone surface and passengers and trainmen ground against the wall were either killed outright or severely hurt. Cossacks Fire Into Mob. Warsaw, Oct. 31.-Cossacks arrested 120 Polish socialists at a Jewish bund meeting in a forest near Pabianice in the government of Petrokoff. When the news reached Pabianice workmen attempted to rescue their comrades. The troops fired and one workman was killed and 28 were wounded. MANY COSSACKS KILLED. Military Train Derailed at Tiflis—Strike on Railroads. Tiflis, Oct. 31. — Complete disorder reigns here. There is rifle firing against the patrols in many quarters of the city. A bomb was thrown at a policeman. A military train has been derailed outside the city, and a number of Cossacks killed. The strike is complete on all railroads in the Caucasus. All the stores and offices are closed. Even the employees of the state institutions and the headquarters of the viceroyalty have struck. CLERGYMEN OF THE UNITED STATES URGED TO START SECOND GARRISON MOVEMENT TO ABOLISH NEGRO - AMERICAN SERFDOM. (From Boston Journal.) The following letter of the Boston Suffrage League, in which the clergymen of the country are asked to fittingly recognize the Garrison centenary has just been issued. "To the clergymen of New England and the United States:—The undersigner, a sub-committee of the Garrison Centenary committee of the Suffrage League of Boston and vicinity, under whose auspices a celebration is to be held in Boston on December 10 and 11, believing William Lloyd Garrison to be one of the noblest characters in our country's history and one of its greatest benefactors, as well as one of the world's greatest moral agitators, earnestly petition you to take cognizance of the 100th birthday of this great American on Sunday, Dec. 10. "As representatives of that element, for whose freedom Garrison gave the best efforts of his life with such success, we appeal to you to utilize this occasion to arouse the American people to a sense of the enormity of the present evil of Negro-American serfdom through the nullification of those amendments to the constitution which are the dearly bought fruits of the war for freedom, and to start a second Garrisonian movement to abolish Negro-American serfdom in this land as the first Garrison movement abolished Negro-American chattel slavery in the past, that it may be in very truth the 'land of the free.' " EMORY T. MORRIS, Cambridge. REV. WM. H. SCOTT, Woburn. CHAS. H. HALL, Cambridge Committee. Is The Negro Inferior? Questions of superiority or inferiority do not properly apply to the conditions of life, the intellectual equipment of society or the crystalized institutions or evolution in the science of thought. It is an illogical process, and consequently the conclusions must be grossly at fault to argue that one race or generation is superior to another because the so-called superior race is surrounded by higher forms of life than the so-called superior to another because race is surrounded by higher forms of life than the so-called inferior race. Twere a gross violation of truth and a hathen method of reasoning for the Slav of fifty years ago to brand the Japanese inferiors because the islanders were not acquainted with the brutal acts ment to make in such a case is that and accumulated products of civilized life. Kidd bring out this truth when he says, referring to Mr. Galton's flimsy argument to prove the superiority of the present civilized Anglo-Saxon over the unwashed Damara: "The fallacy which underlies the reasoning based upon facts of this kind, by which the mental inferiority of uncivilized races is supposed to be proved is not immediately apparent; but an undoubted and extraordinary fallacy exists nevertheless. It is one of the commonest examples of equipment which we receive from the civilization to which we belong with the mental capacity with which nature has endowed us." The present results in Japanese development simply declare that they were tardier than the Slav in receiving and appropriating advanced civilization. Neither is delay in developing a mark of dullness and certainly it is no badge of inferiority. The case cited may be easily explained upon historical grounds and not upon psychological grounds. It is historically correct that the Japs were far behind the Slavs in surrounding themselves with the fruits and equipments of a highly social state; it is also psychologically correct that when they did appropriate the machinery of advanced thought they surpassed their supposed superiors in the deft and accurate handling of this machinery to the chagrin and the humiliating of the boastful Russ. There is but one thing to which the words "superiority and inferiority" may logically apply; it is to personality. The human and divine endowments of personality are the same the world over. The environment, the sphere of operation, the mental and civilized equipment and also the source of inspiration may be to a less or greater degree supplied or wanting, and perforce of argument, the development of that personality and its outcome in the forms of social life will be small or great. This contention is not made for the individual units of a generation, but for the sum total. It can be proved taht human nature centralizes her powers in certain individuals. But that to the contrary, because of the difficulty in measuring personality, it is premature to hold that this individual personality is superior to that one because that one has not yet developed itself. It is therefore illogical for any man to affirm that the white man is superior to the Negro because the white man has adopted the forms of civilized life sooner than the pagan African. Priority of development is no argument for superiority of endowment. Furthermore, it can be shown from numerous cases, ancient and present, that where the Negro came into contact with the higher forms of life and the accumulated power of generations, he adopted these forms of life, became educated, had not only equaled some of the best of the earlier developed of the white races, but surpassed many others. Even at this present time, we can show men and women who in their ORCHITA W. N. MILLER, Editor. 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Sth Address all communications to "The Witcha Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. Tth Any erroreous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any per son which may appear in this paper, will be rigidly corrected if bought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. WANTED—A colored lady typesetter. State terms.—W. N. Miller, editor. The Wichita Searchlight, Wichita, Kas —Pay for the Searchlight. mental capacity and intellectual ability in the higher forms of social life are equal to the best that the white race has produced. Already our school boys and girls have laughed to scorn the ante-bellum dictum of the wise-acres that the Negro cannot learn. They made the childish mistake by supposing that because he did not learn he could not learn. Three minutes of reasoning along the basis of two and two make four, would have dispelled the gauzy film that blinded their prejudiced minds. They know nothing of the "a preori" method in acquiring the truth of the value and power of the human mind, and even the "a posteriori" method of modern times seems to have no meaning for their stupid minds, but truth is marching on. The Negro of today will never consent to the statement that he is inferior to the white man. He admits that his race is tardy in coming to the light and that, not for psychological reasons but for historical reasons; he will grant that in the possession of the elements of strength that increase civilization he is wanting, but not in the essentials of power; he will agree that in the products of mind and hand he does not equal his white brother, but not because of a lack of capacity on his part, or of superiority on the part of the white man. But as to the inferior in the endowments of brain and heart, the Negro gentleman will never brand himself with the black badge of He is a late comer. That's all.—of war. The simple and truthful state-the Japanese were lacking in the forms inferiority. Voice of the Negro. A Chicago man paid insurance premiums for years and then discovered that he had never been insured at all. What a good joke it would have been on him if he had died! Courtship, with many men, is showing the girl how little he thinks of a dollar, and matrimony is showing his wife how much he thinks of a dollar. New York bankers are especially warned not to have anything to do with plausible persons who come around offering to sell gold bricks. Locals and Personals ```markdown ``` Mrs. J. A. Martin was among those who went to Chicago to attend the National Baptist convention. She went via the Rock Island and was joined at Topeka by a large delegation of Baptists. On the same train was a special coach of colored people from the south on their way to Chicago. She had a very delightful time. Mrs. Malvina Lane went to Chicago to attend the National Baptist convention. Rev. J. H. Van Len, the able state missionary for Kansas, was among the Kansans who went to Chicago. Mrs. John E. Lewis has been confined to her home this week on the sick list. She is reported somewhat better. If you are sick and want to cure get the LOPEZ REMEDY, 313 E. Douglas. (Barnes Block.) Miss Beatrice Miller who has been quite ill. is out again. The colored grocery store is doing good business. Do you trade there? Mrs. W. M. Dent left this week for Dover, Oklahoma, where she will conduct a series of meetings. She will be absent about two weeks. G. H. Young is suffering with a slight attack of rheumatism. Sunday was a very bad misty day, most all day and Monday witnessed a snowy, sloppy day. Winter has set in for true—and real early at that. The wild gees have been going south fast for several days. Sure sign of cold weather. J. A. BRUBACHER THE LUCKY MAN. Judge Thomas C. Wilson has appointed Hon. Joseph A. Brubacher as county attorney to fill the unexpired term of the late brilliant Otto G. Eckstein, deceased. Mr. Brubacher is one of the most able lawyers at the Sedgwick county bar and is well qualified to fill the vacancy. Mr. Brubacher has appointed Jas. A. Conly as his assistant. J. H. Rutter, custodian at th court hous is on th sick list. HAS BOUGHT PROPERTY. Arkansas aVilly lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M., through their board of trustees, headed by the chairman of the board. G. H. Young, has bought the property at 615 N. Main street, now occupied by Jas. J. Olden's drug store. The lodge bought the property with the view of erecting a hall during the next year. This is a very valuable piece of property right on Main street, in the business section of the city. Much credit is due to Chairman G. H. Young, who engineered the deal. The Searchlight will thank you for your JOB PRINTING. Help your race printer and he will help you. The members of the A. M. E church are making extensive preparations for the quarterly meeting which will be on the 3rd Sunday in November. I. H. Vance has returned to Kansas City where he will remain this winter. Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21 A. F. & A. M. have rented a lodge hall on the third floor of the Oldham building. First and Maln. They will meet on Thursday, night November 9th. THE WICHITASEARCHLIGHT Colored folks cannot get Garfield hall any more—so 'tis said. Rev. W. H. Tillman is doing good work at the Tabernacle Baptist church. He is an able minister. Rev. W. H. Burrill is making great preparation for his corner stone laying on the third Sunday in November —which will be a notable event in Wichita. SAD DEATH. The three months old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Marshall died at the family home 226 N. Water last Sunday. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. H. Burrill, assisted by Rev. W. H. Tillman. Many thanks are extended to Mr. Jno. E. Lewis and family for their assistance. Mrs. Lew Wilson and family have moved from 318 N. Mead to 326 N. Water, where they will be pleased to meet their friends. TRUSTEE MEETING. The board of trustees of Arkansas Valley lodge will meet at the residence of G. H. Young. 539 N. Water, Monday night. Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M., will meetin regular session next Thursday night. November 9th, third floor Oldham building. First and Main streets. THE LOPEZ SPECIFIC. The Lopez Specific, although a new remedy to the general public, has been in use as a contagious blood remedy for a great many years in South America, and used by two of the most successful specialists in this country. In offering it to the public as a certain cure for this class of disease, it is with perfect confidence, as the remedy was compounded and given away free for the period of one year and notes taken of each case, and more than 800 cases since January 1, 1901, have been permanently cured without a single failure, makes it certain at least a positive, safe and permanent cure has been found. Try it and be cured. NEWTON (KANS.) NEWS. Mr. Wayman Anderson and daughter Zola, left the city Sunday for St. Joe, Mo. they are expected to return in a few days. Mrs. Lena Patterson left the city Wednesday for Las Vegas, N. M., where she will remain for awhile. Mrs. Aquilla Coleman was out of the city last week visiting in Great Bend, Kansas. Little Miss Mattie and Leon Jordan daughters of Mrs. F. Jordan, of this city, left the city last week for a few days visit with their grandma in Guthrie, Okla. Miss Lulu Slaughter who is in Chicago, is reported very ill in that city. Wm. Johnson one of Wichita's prominent colored men who is at present employed at the State House in Topeka, came down to Wichita Thursday on a short business and pleasure trip. Mr. Johnson is in politic much and is wrapped up in the candidacy of Prof. Dyer for State Superintendent of Instruction. John W. Floyd spent Friday in the city enroute to Kingman from Excelsior Springs. It is reported that Mrs. Russell Sage "systematically feeds the squirrels in Central park." Uncle Russell may have noticed recently that there was a financial leak somewhere. A New York man has been compelled to pay $1 for hitting Mrs. Shakespeare. He must have bired a Porta to present his case to the jury. Mrs. Eugene Kelly of La Moure, N. D., became the mother of three girls and a boy a few nights ago. Well, they need more girls out there. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Translate a Specialty Mr. R. Heck, Prop. 242 North Water St. CASTING OUT THE EVIL ON! Farmer Paid Much Money for Pea that Didn't Come. From a town near Erfurt in C many comes this rule of a "wise woman," an ignorant farmer and an imitation Beelzebub. The "wise woman" lives at Langenhaa and claims to have the power to cast out evil spirits. A farmer and his family who had for some time been troubled by evil dreams and harassed by various minor misfortunes came to the conclusion that Satan had his hand in their affairs, so they consulted the "wise woman." She prescribed that the family should go to certain spot among the neighboring hills, where they were to bury a new earthen pot containing several gold coins. The devil, attracted by the money, would empty the pot and leave the family in peace. A novelly was introduced by the "wise woman" into the program. This was the letting off of fireworks from the spot where the money was buried as soon as the duped family had retired on their way home. These satanic pyrotechnics were managed by an accomplice, but the "wise woman" explained to the farmer that they were caused by Beelzebub's departure with mammon. But these offerings to the evil one brought no relief, although the suns in the carthen pot went on increasing Light at last dawned on the farmer. He put the matter in the hands of the police. His payments to procure a release from Satan's attentions amounted to 70,000 marks ($16,800). Where Children Are Sold. On the same steamer by which I reached Benguela there were five little native boys, conspicuous in striped jerseys, and running about the ship like rats. I suppose they were about 10 to 12 years old, perhaps less. I do not know where they came from, but it must have been from some fairly distant part of the interior, for like all natives who see stairs for the first time they went up and down on their hands and knaces. They were traveling with a Portuguese, and within a week of landing at Benguela he had told them all to other white owners. Their price was 50 milreis apicee (near £10). Their owner did rather well, for the boys were small and thin —hadly bigger than another native slave boy who was at the same time given away by one Portuguese friend to another as a New Year's present. But all through this part of the country I have found the price of human beings ranging rather higher than I expected, and the man who told me the price of the boys had himself been offered one of them at that figure, and was simply passing on the offer on to myself—Henry W. Nivinson in Harper's Magazine. He Canceled the Date The famous orator starts for his home, revolving in his mind the groundwork of the oration he is to prepare. The title shall be "The Land of the Free," and his talk shall be one in which special stress is laid upon the great blessing of liberty, which one and all enjoy. As he hastens down the street he is stopped by a policeman, who makes him go back and pick up a crumpled envelope he has thrown upon the sidewalk; farther along another policeman orders him to move on, when he is merely standing in front of a show window trying to decide upon a white vest; near his home he is ordered to go around the block by a third policeman who is guarding the fire lines—a born in an alley is burning; at his gate he is met by the tax assessor, and when he enters the houses he is given a notice from the health department to cease throwing rubbish in the alley. Several revolutions have broken out in Colombia. Evidently the rainy season is ended down there. George Gould declares that the fire looks bright. George probably has his coal in the cellar paid for. A banker-poet says that there is no money in poetry. 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Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 517 North Main Street 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, anything and everything you may want in the Grocery Line. FREE DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY Your Patronage Solicited Court House Grocery Store 517 North Main Street FALL and WINTER SHOES. Prices to suit Poor or Rich BRAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas Ave ICE CREAM BON TON BAKERY & KANDY ITCHEN Phone 152 146 North Main Excellence Counts.... THEN USE "U-KNEAD-IT" FLOUR It excels in every respect,--color, flavor, and pou read per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. WICHITA, KANSAS Gardner Coal Co., Coal Co., DEALERS IN HARD COAL SOFT Feed and Building Materials Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. Old Phone 146 New Phone 18 ALSOFT ing Materials to 1245 N. Main St. New Phone 1804 Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. lesserve's THE W1CHITASEARCHLIGHT, JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. L. S, NAFTGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President Fourth National Bank Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F, Mc Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftzger, E H. Middlexauff, O. Z. Smith. A General Banking Business Tranacted W CHITA 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 Crescent Hotel Eureka Springs, Ark. 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. Worth the Time The Prizes Offered By Rev. S. S. Washington Is Well Worth Working For Each Of Them Is Valuable Rev. S. S. Washington, pastor of the A. M. E. church in Newton, is preparing to build a church in that city, and solicits the aid of everyone. In order that those who may desire to help him may have something for their work, he has offered the following useful prizes: Read them carefully, call on Rev. Washington, get a blank and go to work. SOMETHING NEW. To the General Public at Large: We are striving with a determined effort to build us a church at Newton, Kan., this year, and we ask you to aid us in this way: We ask all to chance for this GRAND PRIZE: (1) To the lady or gentleman that raises the largest amount of money above thirty dollars, I will give the finest new steel range ever used in this city. For second prize above twenty-five dollars I will give a fine steel cook stove, all new. Third prize, above twenty dollars, I will give a fine cast iron cook stove. Fourth prize, the largest above fifteen dollars, I will give a fine heating stove. If you want to get in the race start now. This rally will close December 1st, 1905. The stove of the first prize can be seen at the Colored Grocery Store, 517 N. Main St. Try and see if you can be the one to get first prize. See S. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington St., Wichita, Kan., and get a blank to fill. New Hope Baptist Sunday school under direction of Mrs. Dora Tipps is doing fine. PHONE 1944 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 In The 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 JOB WORK IS 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 Phone 257 255-257 N Main A FOOL and his money 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. MAKING WONDERFUL STRIDES FORWARD. Under the leadership of Rev. W. H. Burrill, New Hope Baptist church is coming to the front. They have this week finished paying $1,000 for their new church building, sold the old church for $900 and bought another lot adjoining their property on Rock Island avenue and wil soon close a contract with a house mover to move the church which they have bought to its new location—and they still have money on hand. This shows most extraordinary good work. CORNER STONE LAYING. Rev. Burrill is now busily engaged making preparations for the corner stone laying of the new foundation, which he has scheduled to take place on the third (3rd) Sunday in November. At this time Rev. Burrill will be assisted by Rev. E. Arlington Wilson of Kansas City, Kansas, Rev. John P. Richardson of Kansas City and the ministers of the other churches of this city and all the secret societies. This will be a most memorable occasion, long to be remembered in Wichita. Wichita is to raise money to furnish one of the newly-finished rooms at Western University. Let Wichita furnish her room in up-to-date style and keep up her record for doing DELMONICO Restaurant MEALS 15c Lunch at All Hours Cold Drinks Good : Meals : Prompt : Service 346 North Main St. Mrs. Chas. L.. Kiner Prop 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. H W. Dean Meat Market —All Kinds of— Fresh and Salt Meats 813 N. Main St - Wichita Banner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENICOH BROS., PROPS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 580 OUR HOBBY. The university football team will leave this week to play Lincoln Institute November 3d at eJfferson City and eGorge R. Smith Colleg, November 4th, at Sedalia, Mo. The great battle of the year will take place at McCook field, Lawrence, Kansas, November 11th, between the colored teams of aKnsas University and Western University. Everything now points to a most interesting and exciting game. The line-up will be as follows: K. U.—Woodie Jocobs, captain and quarter-back; Munroe Thompkins, center; Robinsan, R. guard; Roy McNutt, R. tackle; Dean Buckner, R. end; Fred Johnson, L. guard; Wm. Elliott, L. tackle; Clarence Cropp, L. end; Fayburn Defrantz, L. half; Harry Escolt, R. half; Wendell Green, full-back. Substitutes, Elgin Woodie, Fred Green, Prince Henderson, Edward Hardiman. Western U.—H. Perry, captain and L. end; Alfred Wilson, R. end; Hinton Fisher, R. tackle; Claude Minor, L. tackle; Chas. Thurman, R. guard; Warren Douglas, L. guard. Guff Vernon, center; Hugh Shelby quarterback; Floyd Fishback, fullback; Irving Kidd, L. half; Clyde Andrews, R. half. Substitutes, Roy Sutton, Albert Bourdette, Floyd Wright, Robert Ransom and George Williams. "Allow me to compliment the institution for the great success of 'The Prodigal Son'"—Prin, G. N. Grisham, Peck, of Allen Chapel. "It was grand, such excellent talent, and so grandly render."—Rev. J. W. Hurse, pastor St. Stephen's Baptist chuch. "The record breaker for Kansas City"—Hon. Nelson Crews. Never before in the history of the two Kansas Citys have the colored people witness such a splendid inspiring entertainment as was seen in "The Prodigal Son" given by the Choral Club of Western University, last Friday evening, October 27th, under the direction of Prof. R. G. Jackson, director of the musical department. For over two hours a high-class intelligent audience of more than three hundred persons were charmed into amazement by the rich melody and beautiful harmony produced by these young students. The quartette work of Misses Katie Guy and Olva Ellison, and Messrs, Clyde Andrews and Charles Thurman, also the duet of Misses Guy and Jessie Jennings was of professional ability, and was rendered with a soft low effect that was captivating in the extreme. The called forth merited encores. The high degree to which these young voices have been trained by Prof. Jackson in executing the different classics is itself a source of wonder and pride. The perfect staccatoes and vivacious modulates of Miss Guy, the high soprano, who is from Sedalia, Mo., was surprisingly good and brought her much applause. This Choral Club easily holds the record of being the best Negro musical organization west of the Mississippi river. In the absence of Bishop Grant, who was suddenly called east to the bedside of Bishop Arnett, Hon Nelson Craws delivered appropriate remarks. President Wm. T. eVronon followed, giving a few facts concerning the three magnificent modern buildings of Western University, the fourteen specialized teachers and the 165 students with more coming in daily. Miss Nettie Penix at the piano and Mr. A. J. Phillips at the pipe organ, were the accompanists for the chorus. The rendered valuable service in making it a success. The ushers were from the young Men Usher's Union of K. C. in the basement by the Donor Club of Allen Chapel. Prof. Albert Ross, manager of the entertainment, reports a neat little sum as realized from the proceeds of the door receipts. The program ended with the Choral Club and the audience standing and singing with much enthusiasm softly and sweetly the University glees cong, "O. Western U." (recently composed by Prof. Albert Ross and set to music by Prof. R. G. Jackson.) This inspiring song scored the "hit" of the evening. It has been dedicated to Educational Day and will be later published in sheet music form fir band and piano and chorus, and sent broadcast over the 5th Episcopal district. It follows thus: O, WESTERN U! Missour's shores and muddy waves In fairest landscape view, And train their hearts and voices right At dear old Western U. On farm, in mine and mountain far, In city homes we grew: Yet all as one, in unison, We honor Western U. Brave hearts, quick minds and ready hands, With teachers kind and true, Hold high the name and growing fame Of dear old Western U. As years roll on in life's keen strife, When friends grow false and few; Sweet mem'ries will recall our days With dear old Western U. And when our stay on earth is done, And past life we review; The days sublime in all our time Were spent at Western U. (CHORUS.) TOPEKA (KAS.) NEWS. The new pastor for St. John A. M. E. church has arrived from California. The new minister for the C. M. E. church will arrive to take charge Sunday. November 5. This preacher comes from Virginia. It is being said that Gov. Hoch owns controlling interest in the Kansas Watchman, a paper that is edited by Paul Jones. We believe the saying to be true for the Watchman comes out for the governor every weeek in full blast. The Court of Calanthe, a branch order for women of the K. of P. are planning a big ball for the near future. The only hitch among the members is whether the admission shall be 5 cents or two for 15 cents. Prof. G. W. Jackson will go to Washington, D. C. about December 1st as a witness in a long standing lawsuit. The state house needs a custodian. Why don't some good man apply for the position? The only reason that Ned O. Banion a janitor at the state house don't get married, is because the girls in Topeka don't like a fellow that is quite as important as Ned. E. S. Love, the druggist who was arrested for hunting on another man's farm, wants to sell his gun and dog. B. Pope, a porter on the Santa Fe road, wants to be promoted to a conductor. Winter is coming. People will begin to get married. Ira Smith of the Plaindealer office is quoted as saying "never will another cold winter like last winter catch him without a wife." The Rock Island announces a very material reduction in homeseeker's rates to its southwestern territory. Heretofore the homeseeker's rate has been fixed on a basis of approximately one fare plus $2 for the round trip. The new rates are about 75 per cent of the regular one-way rate for the round trip, and tickets carry the same limit and all the privileges of stop-over, diverse route and side-trips as at the former rate. The dates of sale are the first and third Tuesdays of October, November and December. LOCALS KINGMAN, KANSAS. Miss Etta Floyd who has been on the sick list is improving. Miss Aura Porter visited in Wichita last week. R. Z. Biggs returned Monday evening from quite an extended visit in Caldwell, Wellington and Wichita. Frank Martin came from Kansas City Monday night to make Kingman his home for the winter. Miss Nellie, Florence, Fred and Pearl Banks returned from a week's visit in Pratt. The writer was entertained at an oyster supper last night. The Misses Floyd acting as hostess. A pleasant evening was spent and all went home wishing the Misses Floyd would have another feast soon. PRAT NEWS Mr. Merrion Fleming is reported sick this week but we hope that he will soon rie ver. The Misses Banks and two Brothers of Pretty Prarie are in Pratt the guest of Mrs. E. K. Martin and Mrs. Will Jones. Miss. Ella Green inertained the Misses Florence and Millie Banks at six oek supper Tuesday eav. Quite a suprise party was given on the Misses Clara and May Fleming Monday night after an enjoyable eveing was spent, Miss Florence Banks favored the crowd with an instermate's olo and at the popper time refreshments were served then they all departed for their homes vowing that had a lovely eveing Thursday eveing Mr. and Mrs will Jones gave a swell reception in the honor of the Misses Banks and their Brothers of Pretty Pairie a lovely eveing was spent with music and games at the proper hour an elegant three coarse supper was served. Mr. Frank Fimings shipped twc car loads of fat cattle to K. O Monday. DRAWBACK TO THE ENJOYMENT. Why "Artemus Ward" Preferred Not to Lecture in Churches. In the early sixties of the last century "Artemus Ward" delivered one of his humorous lectures in the church at Bradford, N. H. There was a good-sized audience and he exerted all his powers to entertain them, but neither the humor of diction nor his quaint manner of delivery brought forth more than a sickly smile, where he was used to peals of laughter and round upon round of applause. At the close of the lecture he sat down, utterly exhausted. First among those who came forward to speak with him was an old fellow, who shook him heartily by the hand and said: "That was a fine discourse of yours, Mr. Browne, and in two or three places I almost forgot I was in the meeting house and certainly thought I should snicker." After this incident "Artemus Ward" would not lecture in a church when other arrangements could possibly be made. "GOOD WILL AND GOOD HOPE." Lesson of Life That Most Impressed the Late Senator Hoar. In his autobiography that good old man, Senator Hoar, who went to his rest a few months ago, said: "The lesson which I have learned in life, which is impressed on me daily, and more deeply as I grow old, is the lesson of Good Will and Good Hope. I believe that to-day is better than yesterday, and that to-morrow will be better than to-day. I believe that, in spite of so many errors and wrongs, and even crimes, my countrymen, of all classes, desire what is good and not what is evil." These are golden words and they ought to be preserved by every man and woman who wants to keep on the bright side of life and to get the most out of the work. Pessimism is a drain on vitality. It increases toil, makes harder all effort. Be cheerful! Be an optimist! --Baltimore Herald. Strange Power in Carpets. A tainting of beauty may be a talisman forever, according to the Moors, whose celebrated carpets originated in magic to ward off the evil eye, dreaded along all the coasts of the Mediterranean. The designs, as studied by Dr. Westermarck, consist of hands, crosses, eyes, rosettes, squares, octagons, triangles, and numberless conventional embroidery patterns; and all are grouped around the one central idea, whose purpose is to throw back, by a counter charm, the evil influence emanating from the evil eye. This is usually done by stretching out the five fingers of the right hand. All these designs can be traced to some elaboration of fives, originally representing the five fingers, or of eyes, for if baneful energy can be transfered by the eye, obviously it can be thrown back by the eye. A Celestial Lamp. It was little Edgar's first glimpse of a real full moon. Up to that time his astronomical observations had been confined to furtive peeps at the luminary as he prepared for early sleeping. This particular evening he and his mother had been out visiting and were delayed in getting home. As they left the street car, the little chap caught sight of the moon over the Palisades. It was one of those nights that poets like to write about. There was not a cloud in the sky and the streets were almost as light as day. Edgar took one look and stopped in surprise and admiration. "Oh, see, mamma," he cried, "God has washed His lamp."—New York Press. Tree the First Sun Dial. To keep time with reasonable accuracy must have been one of the earliest necessities of man. Hence the remarkable ingenuity of many primitive inventions for this purpose, the utilization of shadows—an idea which had its final development in the sun dial—being probably the earliest, as it was the most obvious. The first sun dial must have been a tree, which may be said to have stood at one end of the path of evolution in timekeeping apparatus, the modern chronometer representing at the other end the final development of such contrivances. — Washington correspondence in St. Louis Republic. Importance of Proper Rest. Rest is absolutely necessary to every one. There must be periods of relaxation. Moments when the mind and soul and body gather force for continued activity. The thing one should guard against is taking rest at the wrong moment. Herein lies most of the success of life—resting at the right time. Too many make the mistake of undertaking to do more than they can shoulder. They begin a task that does not belong to them. They are overambitions, and "by that sin fell the angels." In trying to do more than they can do they fail utterly. Origin of Appendicitis A new explanation of the origin of appendicitis is given by a writer in the Clinical Journal. He thinks it may be due to the widespread use of boracic acid as a food preservative. He says boracic acid has an irritating effect on the alimentary tract when it is swallowed in small doses for a certain time. The inflamed mucous membrane offers a favorable soil for the growth of the peculiar pus-forming germs and enables them to multiply and enter into the depths of and destroy the underlying tissues. 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Characters of Novels Drawn from Life Original of Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" Still Living- Baroness Burdett-Coutts Pictured by Walter Besant. Few people are aware that the original of "Little Dorrit" is still living, says the Boston Herald. She is now 92 years old, but still active, and of all things in the long life that lies behind her is proudest of the honor conferred upon her by Charles Dickens. Mrs. Mary Ann Cooper is the name, but in her maiden days, when she first became acquainted with Dickens, she was a Miss Mitton. Her father lived at Sunbury, some eighteen miles from London, and Dickens was a frequent visitor there. He bestowed the nickname of "Little Dorrit" on Miss Mitton and in 1855 told her that he was going to write another book which he intended to call "Little Dorrit," and that he should put her in it. The WICRITA SEARCHLIGHT OB ROOM. Now Prepared To Do All Us 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 LIGHT? WHY NOT? ONLY FOR A WHOLE YEAR Delivered. ETO·DAY Is Drawn from Life There are several people still living and more or less prominent who have figured in famous novels of the past. "Angela Marsden Messenger," the heroine of the late Sir Walter Besant's most popular story, "All Sorts and Conditions of Men," was modeled after the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The Duke of Rutland, then Lord George Manners, was the "Lord Henry Sidney" of Disraeli's "Coningsby," and the "Duke of Brecca" was Lord John's father, the then Duke of Rutland. Corporal Farmer, a Victoria Cross hero still living in London, is the hero of James Grant's novel, "Violet Jermyn." The Clare family in Mr. Hardy's "Tess" was drawn from that of the Rev. H. Moule, vicar of Fordington, and the "brilliant brother at Cambridge," who is mentioned, is the present bishop of Durham. It is generally understood that the "Lord Linlithgow" of Morley Roberts is no other than Lord Rosebery. 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. W. N. MILLER, Editor. 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, Lawrence, 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, Kans. 20 Mrs. Emma Maxie, 411 Ransqm, Ft. Scott, Kans. 24 Mrs. C. E. Kirby, Bx. 332, Coffeyville, Kan. 28 Mrs. Susie Willis, 21 St., T. Parsons, Kans. 29 Mrs. Henrietta Davis, 4071 Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kan. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio, Leavenworth, Kans. 32 Mrs. Ida B. Willis, 1036 Iowa Ave., Butte, Neb. 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. Lizzle Stone, 1042 Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 77 Mrs. A. Pickens, 250 E. 15th, Topeka, Kans. 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, Kan. 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. Blingham, 1727 E. Oak St., Ft. Scott, Kans. 10 Richard Walker, Leavenworth, Kans. 11 W. N. Miller, 258 N. Main St., Searchlight office, Wichita, Kan. 12 A. H. Merton, Bersons 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. HOUCK Hardware Store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue W.M. Crouch left Saturday for Seattle, Washington. EVERYDAY FOR $25.00 SANTA FE Cheap, isn't it? Passengers get rate as they do when rates are less man tourist sleepers, free cha coaches. California taains leave p. m. and 10:15 p. m. Libeaal s many other points en route. You Valley and many other points in Santa Fe line with block signal equipment, Harvey meals and always use the SANTA FE. Pa DEAM ABS IN NORTH-WEST COURT Bonded A Cheap, isn't it? Passengers get just as good service at this low rate as they do when rates are higher. Fast trains, modern man tourist sleepers, free chair cars and comfortable coaches. California taains leave WICHITA at 2:10 p.m. 5:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Libeaal stopovers in California and many other points en route. You can buy a ticket to Salt River Valley and many other points in Aoizona for same price. Santa Fe line with block signals, rock ballast track, modern equipment, Harvey meals and fast trains. The very best people always use the SANTA FE. Particulars at request L R DELANEY, Agent J R MORIATY. City Pass Ag DEAM ABSTRACT C IN NORTH-WEST BASEMENT OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors "Fed by Many Streams." The common simile in which the various divisions of science are represented as branches of the tree of knowledge is a grotesque survival of a time when neither trees nor science were understood. No simile is perfect or even approximately correct, but one better than the tree and its branches for the origin and relationships of any inductive science is that of a river, rising from various and often obscure sources, growing in size and importance as it proceeds bo' from the springs within its own bed and by the entrance and contributions of tributary streams, and finally pouring its substance into the mighty ocean of accumulated human knowledge.—Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. Mother Nature's Children. One of the most wonderful thing Mother Nature does is to teach her children how to accomplish things with means and appliances that seem entirely inadequate for the purpose, says St. Nicholas. A bird will build an intricate and beautiful nest with no better tool than her beak (birds do not use their claws for this purpose); a caterpillar can shape a symmetrical cocoon, and bees the sharp-angled cells of their combs. These are familiar instances of this, but by no means as wonderful as those shown in the work of some sea animals that live in shells. Secretary Shaw complains of the non-elasticity of our currency, and yet many a woman has to make a few dollars a week stretch to cover all the expenses of the family. Austria and Hungary may think twice before shattering the alliance when they hear this rumor that two powerful neighbors are already planning to pick up the pieces. The Keene Sentinel speaks of the time "when Mark Twain was a poor boatman on the Mississippi river"—but we had always understood that Mark was a good boatman. Boston has a suitcase mystery. But every man has a mystery of that kind in his own family when his wife starts to travel after packing into one suitcase the entire contents of a seven-room flat. It is not to be wondered at that the aged Emperor Franz Josef is finding it difficult to hold down two thrones. The way things are tending now, it's about all a king can do to hold down one throne. One of the eastern coal magnates says: "The consumer has been getting his coal too cheap." The magnate has probably discovered that the consumer could have paid a little more if his thumbs had been stretched harder. When the shah of Persia goes shopping during his visit to Europe he does not ask prices. "He points with his finger at the article he wants, and by that act buys it, whether the price be $10,000 or 10 cents." That has always been our dream. We got into an elevator the other day with an armless man and he ast us if we wouldn't be kind enough to hold his hat for him while some ladies was in the elevator. 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JOB PRINTING SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday Nov 4, 050 KANSAS COMMENT Another Gas Weil. — Another 6,000, 600 foot gas gusher was "brought in" west of Pleasanton, near the one reported a few days ago on the Carbon lease. More Paving for Coffeyville. — The city council has opened the bids of five contractors for an additional ten blocks of paving on South Walnut street in this city. Salina Butchers Fined. — In the police court here Quinn Bros., butchers, were convicted and fined for violating a city ordinance by keeping their place open on Sunday. The case has been appealed to the district court. The defendants will fight the case and attempt to knock out the ordinance. Over Spool of Thread.—As a result of a quarrel over possession of a spool of thread, Mario Taltarita shot and killed Lorenzo Messino. Both are Italians working on the new Union Pacific sidetracks at Manhattan. After lingering several hours with a bullet hole in his head, Messino died at Parkview hospital. Taltarita escaped. Knights of Columbus.—A gathering of Knights of Columbus will be held here Sunday, November 5, at the establishment of a chapter of the order at Chanute. Visitors from Parsons, Iola, Independence, Cherryvale and other points are expected. A special train will be run from Parsons, alone bringing 300 guests. All the prominent Catholic officials of the state are expected to attend, including Chancellor Tihen, of Wichita, who will be tourmaster of the banquet. May Shut Devlin Out.—It is claimed in Pittsburg, Kan., coal circles that action has been taken by the Southwestern Coal Operators' association to eject C. J. Devlin and his associated companies from membership in the Southwestern association for nonpayment of dues to the association. On account of the tie-up in the Devlin matters the connection with the association has been severed. It is stated that the difficulty can be amicably settled without involving the miners. Laying Off Brakemen. — Fourteen brakemen have been let out at Wichita by the Missouri Pacific by the cutting of the board down to a winter schedule. This happens every year when the summer rush is over and is no way connected with the cutting of the force of the road at other places. Besides the above cut on the board, eleven brakemen have been given thirty days' leave of absence. These men will, with but a few exceptions, all return to work when their time has expired. Big Money for Farm Land. — The Burlington Railroad Company has paid Edward Olvis the sum of $14,000 for a trifle less than fifty acres of land lying between Beverly and East Leavenworth, the highest price ever paid for farm land in this section of the country. The land is in a strip two miles long and the Burlington wants it for the new track which will complete the cutoff between Waldron and Beverly. The rest of the land for the cutoff was secured from other parties for $150 an acre, just half as much as the road paid Olvis for his land. Plan for Peace Tower.—James Weir Greydon, of London, Eng., has written to Gov. Hoch suggesting that a contribution be taken up in the civilized countries of the world for a Roosevelt peace tower. Greydon suggests that it be 1,050 feet high and be erected in the center of the United States. That would bring it at Kanapolis, Kan. Gov. Hoch thinks that Kansas would chip in very liberally on the proposition if the tower came to Kansas for a permanent home. Greydon's idea is to do something to commemorate President Roosevelt's action in bringing Japan and Russia to peace terms. Would Abolish Spanking.—The City Federation of Women's clubs has petitioned the board of education to abolish corporal punishment in the Newton schools. The question has been discussed in nearly every home in the city as the result of punishment administered to five boys by a woman teacher. The boys were whipped with a small rubber hose. The teacher, together with two men teachers, who were in the room when the whipping was done, was arrested and tried for assault and battery. The trial lasted five days and the court room was crowded. The jury was unable to arrive at a verdict, standing nine for acquittal and three for conviction. Charged With Fraud. — R. R. Redman who says he is a traveling salesman for a Louisville, Ky., liquor firm, is under arrest at Arkansas City and is being held for Oklahoma authorities. Redman is wanted in Fairfax and Blackwell, Okla. The charge against him at both places is obtaining money under false pretenses by means of worthless drafts. Big Fair at Harper. — The Harper fair association is having one of the best old-fashioned country fairs ever held in southern Kansas. The railroads have granted reduced rates. Destroyed His Home. — At Leavenworth William Collins literally has destroyed the interior of his home because his wife "crossed his path" a little. He smashed furniture and dishes, tore clothing into shreds and to make matters worse kicked his wife and 3-year-old daughter into the street. Natural Gas at Ottawa.—Ottawa began the use of natural gas. The supply was turned into the city mains from the pipes of the Kansas Natural Gas Company. All the regular customers of the Municipal Gas Company began the use of the new supply, and extensions are making as rapidly as possible. Ottawa gets a 25 cent maximum rate, and receives a bonus of $25,000 in annual payments. The gas company acts as distributor. Violated Fish Law.—Charles Salice, 18 years of age, the youngest game warden in the state of Kansas, who lives at Mapleton, has made the first arrest for violation of the fish laws. He secured a conviction, toc. He discovered William Leslie, Grover Henderson and Noah Henderson fishing unlawfully in the Osage river near Mapleton and placed the men under arrest. They pleaded guilty and paid a fine and costs, amounting to $27.25. Inducements to Join Militia.—General J. W. F. Hughes wants 500 warriors for the Kansas national guard. There is room for that many in order to bring the militia up to its full strength. The general agrees to furnish each man a uniform and gun, give him 25 cents a week for drilling and $10 a year; for attending the encampment providing an encampment is held. He will also give him ten days' rations during the encampment. Iola Jointists Arrested. — C. L. Evans, the newly appointed assistant attorney general for Allen county, has caused the arrest of six men charged with violations of the prohibitory law. Fixtures seized in several places were stored away to await an order from the court for their destruction. So soon as the appointment was made known a number of men who had been engaged in the liquor business prepared to leave and there was an exodus of at least fifteen of them Negro Boy Cracksman. — Judge Hudson, of the juvenile court of Fort Scott has in his charge a negro boy 12 years of age who has been sentenced to the reform school for burglary. The boy, Jerry Green, robbed a safe in an office where he was employed, three different times, and on one occasion he used a steel drill and succeeded in drilling a hole into the door of the safe, but was frightened away before he could use an explosive. He has confessed committing the crime. Dold Will Expand.—There are intensions in financial circles that some important change is to be made in connection with the Wichita Dold Packing Company. One rumor says an interest in the big packing house has been sold. Another rumor is to the effect that the car shops of the company at Kansas City will be moved to Wichita; that the big packing house will be still further enlarged and that the entire packing interests of the Dold company will be centered in Wichita. Worm in Growing Wheat. — A new pest has made its appearance in Eastern Kansas. It is a worm and works in growing wheat. James Benbow, a farmer in Rush county, reports that 175 acres of his fall planted wheat has been completely destroyed. He says the worm resembles the wheat weevil, which sometimes works in the grain bin or granary. The attention of the experts at the agricultural college has been called to the matter, and they will make an investigation at once. Virus Spreads Infection. — At Ottawa Rev. J. A. Smay is suffering with a dangerously infected hand and serious results are threatened. Mr. Smay had been attending his wife, who recently submitted to the amputation of a finger and a portion of one hand because of infection, supposedly from a cancerous growth on the body of a deceased person that she had assisted in caring for. Through a slight cut on one finger he became inoculated with the virus. It is feared that it may be necessary to amputate his hand and possibly his forearm. Hutchinson Does Its Share. — The committee appointed some time ago to secure subscriptions to the promotion fund of the Gulf, Hutchinson & Northwestern, has completed its work. The condition on which the subscriptions were made was that none should be good until an aggregate sum of $5,000 had been raised in Hutchinson. This condition has been complied with. The committee has brought the total up to $5,130 and will at once turn over the checks, which were given by subscribers to George Winans, treasurer of the company. Anybody Can Do It—An old farmer in Dickinson county went to town the other day, hired a lawyer, furnished him evidence, and in less than an hour every saloon which had been running openly for a year was closed up. The officials were not consulted at all. Probably it would be a good thing to discharge the county attorneys and sheeriffs and let the farmers handle the joint question. Rain and Snow. — Wichita has had a combination of rain and snow recently, something unusual for this particular time of the season. Contract Was Let. — The contract for the erection of the hospital building of the Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial Medical school in Rosedale was let November 3, by the 50rd of regents of the Kansas State University. Delivers Mail in Auto. — H. Deeds, carrier on rural route No. 1 at Lincoln, has purchased an automobile and makes his daily delivery with the "devil wagon." Deeds has a route of unusual length. He leaves Lincoln at 7 o'clock each morning and returns at 11 o'clock. Epidemic of Impetigo. — A number ber of the children of the city schools at Iola have been and are now afflicted with a contagious disease known in medical circles as impetigo, a peculiar eruption of the skin. The disease is known outside of medical circles as the "itch." Atchison Oil Refinery. — The Uncle Sam Oil Refinery at Atchison will be completed and in operation by May 1, 1906, according to W. F. Rightmire, of Cherryvale, the company's attorney, who was in Atchison last week. This is conditional upon an open winter that will permit work to continue. Woman Adjudged Insane. — Mrs. Luella White was adjudged insane by a commission appointed by the probate court at Wichita. She imagines that she is a doctor. She is a great talker and keeps talking continually to any one near her, or to herself. She is 42 years of age and has two children. Demands 25 Cent Gas. — It is now said that the city council will refuse to grant the Leavenworth Light and Heating Company any kind of franchise unless there is an ironclad provision making the price of natural gas 25 cents a thousand. The ordinances heretofore introduced placed the price at 35 cents. McBride Leaves Topcka. — Within the next couple of days Edward McBride, receiving teller in the treasurer's office of the Atchison, Topcka & Santa Fe, will leave Topka for Chicago, where he will take the position of assistant cashier in the company's offices there, to which place he was recently appointed. Baby Saved Her. — Mary McCarter, the former wife of a soldier, appeared in police court with a baby in her arms at Leavenworth. She was charged with drunkenness. It was a sad sight, indeed. The police judge was touched and with a voice trembling with emotion, he discharged the woman. The baby saved her. Turkeys Will be Plentiful. — From present indications there will be turkeys on the market in plenty by Thanksgiving day. The price, also, is expected to be considerably lower than a year ago. It is stated that there will be many turkeys on the market by that time, perhaps forty per cent more than last year. Hutchinson Schools Crowded.—The school board is facing some serious problems. It is a question of room that confronts it now. They have found from past experience that every increase in population of 2,500 that a new building is needed. The growth of the city the past two years has been so steady that the board is now compelled to look about for more room. Apples Are Scarce. — Apples were never known to be as scarce as they are this fall, and the commission men will reap fortunes on them. Apples that are now selling at the commission houses at $2 a barrel will be bringing $5 a barrel by Christmas and by February the price will be beyond the reach of all except the rich. Jonathan apples are already worth $4 a barrel. Shooting Follows Hilarity.—Charles Scott, of Bennington, and C. W. Armagast, of Niles, quarreled and Armagast fired two shots at Scott, both shots taking effect, one in the leg and the other in the groin. The men were friends and had spent the day in Salina, where they purchased a quantity of whiskey and had started home. They reached New Cambria, where they quarreled. Scott was taken to his home. Armagas was arrested and is now in the county jail at Salina. Citadel for Wichita.—The Salvation Army has completed the final arrangements for the purchase of a lot, where they will erect a citadel next spring. The lot was purchased for $3,000, the first payment of $1,500 being made. The Army within the past few weeks has raised $2,700 to pay for the lot and they expect to raise more than $6,000 more during the winter, so that when they move into their new rooms the building will be paid for. Every cent of the money has been secured from the business men of Wichita, who have been very liberal in aiding the Army in securing suitable quarters for their work. New Light Plant.—The electric light plant was started at Cottonwood Falls. The main streets are equipped with improved are lights and the side streets with incandescent globes. Nearly every business house and a majority of the residences are lighted. Hurt in Glass Plant.—A swivel used to shovel fuel into the furnace in the Coffeville window glass plant broke. R. H. Vermillion, a workman, was caught beneath it and his leg crushed. There was a load of 300 pounds in the shovel when it broke. PARALYSIS CURED PARALYSIS CURED Case Seemed Hopeless but Yielded to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Kenney has actually escaped from the paralytic's fate to which he seemed a short time ago hoplessly doomed. The surprising report has been fully verified and some important details secured in a personal interview with the recent sufferer. "The doctor," said Mr. Kenney, "told me that if I wanted to live any length of time I would have to give up work altogether, and he told my friends that the paralysis which had begun would in time involve my whole body." "Just how were you afflicted at this time?" Mr. Kenney was asked. "Well, I had first hot, and then cold and clammy feelings, and at times my body felt as if needles were being stuck into it. These sensations were followed by terrible pains, and again I would have no feeling at all, and a numbness would come over me, and I would not be able to move. The most agonizing tortures came from headaches and a pain in the spine. "Night after night I could not get my natural sleep and my system was wrecked by the strain of torturing pains and the effect of the opiates I was forced to take to induce sleep. As I look back on the terrible suffering I endured during this period I often wonder how I retained my reason through it all. "But relief came quickly when I was induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The very first box seemed to help me, and seven boxes made me entirely well. There can be no doubt about the thoroughness of my cure, for I have worked steadily ever since and that is nearly four years." Mr. Kenney is at present employed by the Merrimack Hat Company and resides at 101 Aubin street, Amesbury, Mass. The remedy which he used with such satisfactory results, is sold by all drugists, or direct by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Look before you, leap, especially when you jump at conclusions. Investigate a ghost, and it soon disappears. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarina that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarina Care F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney of 13 years of experience in honegling in all疼痛 transaction and finan- able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. 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You Have No Right to Suffer From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of slickness? A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary canal where it decays and poisons the entire system. Excessive the results are dehydration and severe seasion. Note the deaths from typhoid fever and appendicitis, stomach and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. Neglect to respond to the call of nature promptly. Lack 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 troubles, etc. It is the one disease that starts with constipation and arethritis. Its symptoms—piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused by Constipation. Its consequences are known to all physiological factors. Women become confirmed invalids as a result of Constipation. 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 physics, such as pills, salts, mineral water, easter oil, injections, etc., every one of which is injurious. They weaken and impair your experience. You know this by your own experience. Q. What then should be done to cure it? A. Get a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic at once. Mull's Grape Tonic will positively cure Constipation and Stomach Trouble in the shortest space of time. No other remedy has been before known to cure Constipation positively and per- Q. What is Mull's Grape Tonic? A. It is a Compound with 40 per cent of the juice of Concord Grapes. It exerts a peculiar strengthening, healing influence upon the intestines, so that they can do their work unmatched. The process is gradual but sure. It is not a physic, but it cures Constipation. Dysentery. Stomach and Bowel Trouble. Having a rich, fruity grape Tonic is pleasurable, a toast is unequivocal in ensuring the system against disease. It strengthens and builds up waste tissue. Q. Where can Mull's Grape Tonic be had? A. Your druggrant sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50-cent size. Good for Ailing Children and Nursing Mothers. A free bottle to all who have never used it because we know it will cure you. 124 I445 Send this coupon with your name and address and your druggrant's name, for a free bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic for Stomach and Bowels, to The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label:- take no other from your druggist. LATE MARKET REPORT. NATIVE STEERS $ 3 75 @ $ 6 00 HOGS—Heavy 4 90 @ $ 5 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Hard 82 @ $ 85 BRED—Bred 88 @ $ 85 CORN—No. 2 Mice — @ 45% OATS No. 2 Mice 20% @ 33% HAY—Choice Timothy 10 50 @ 10 00 PRAIRIE 8 75 @ 9 00 BUTTER 15% @ 21 EGGS — @ 20 Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME STEERS $ 4 4 @ 6 35 STOCKERS & FEEDERS 2 10 @ 4 21 HEIFERS 1 25 @ 4 50 HOGS 4 87 @ 5 15 Chicago Cash Grain. WHEAT—No. 2 Rel $ 90 @ 90% No. 2 Hard 83 @ 90% CORN—No. 2 — @ 48% OATS—No. 2 25% @ 30 St. Louis Live Stock. BEEF STEERS $ 2 75 @ 5 90 COWS & HEIFERS 2 00 @ 4 91 TEXAS STEERS 2 50 @ 3 70 Open High Low Close T'd'y Closed Y'd'y WHEAT-- Dec 89½) 91½ 83½ 88½ 80% July 91½) 91½ 83½ 83½ 90½ 80% July 86½ 86½ 85½ 85½ 81½ CORN-- Dec 46½) 46½ 45½ 45½ 46½ 46½ May 46½) 41½ 46½ 46½) 46½ OATS-- Dec 31½ 30½ 29½ 21½ 30½ May 32½ 33 31½ 31½ 32½ Wichita Live Stock. ROGS 4 50 $ 4 60 STOCKERS 2 80 $ 3 20 HELFERS — — $ 2 50 STEERS 3 00 $ 3 80 CALVES 3 75 $ 4 00 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF: Colonel Charles A. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Ia., has been appointed judge advocate general of the G. A. R. William J. Bryan will visit Kagoshima, the birthplace of Vice Admiral Togo and of Field Marshal Oyama, before he leaves Japan. At Connersvills, Ind., fire destroyed the Central Manufacturing company's plant with a loss of $75,000. Two hundred men are thrown out of work. The crew of a Japanese torpedo boat attempted to kill the Japanese peace commissioners as they were landing at Yokohama, according to a letter received at Seattle. A dispatch to a news agency from Corunna, Spain, says that the Spanish armored cruiser Cardinal Cisneros founded off Villanova after striking a rock. All on board were saved. The Cuban government accepted the invitation of Emperor Nicholas, conveyed through Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador at Washington, to send delegates to the second peace conference at The Hague. Telegrams from the Chicago police led to the arraignment of Henry T. Bangs, a mining expert, in New York, on a charge of embezzling $2,500. He was remanded to prison to await the arrival of Chicago detectives. The Duchess of Arcos, formerly Virginia Lowery, of Washington, wife of the new Spanish minister to Italy, arrived in Rome from St. Peetersburg, the former post of her husband. On opening her trunk it was discovered that it had been robbed in transit of jewels valued at about $4,000. It is announced that the powers have decided to make a demonstration against Turkey's Asiatic, but not her European ports, in order to avoid the appearance of giving encouragement to the Macedonian insurgents, and that simultaneously a collective note will be presented to Turkey. A dispatch from the governor of Portuguese, West Africa, tells of a sanguinary encounter between troops and natives on October 25. Three thousand natives ambushed a column of Portuguese troops who fortified themselves in two Kraals. The natives surrounded the Kraals with earthworks but after eight hours fight the Portuguese captured the earthworks, killing 200 natives. The Portuguese lost fifteen men. Governor Pennypacker commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of Mrs. Catherine Danz, the Philadelphia woman who is alleged to have poisoned her husband with powders procured from George P. Hossey, a "vodoo" doctor, Hossey is under sentence of death for a similar offense. Seventeen girls, whose ages ran from 2 to 6 years, at the St. Joseph Orphans' asylum in Burlington, Vt., were taken suddenly ill. Three of them died within three hours and at an autopsy held under the auspices of the state board of health it was determined that death was due to poisoning. The cause has not appeared. The lsthmian canal commission has issued an official statement of the expenditures for canal construction. To this appropriation is added $92,959 coming from former appropriations. The statement is a summary of expenses from June 28, 1902, to June 20, 1905. It shows a balance on that date of $6,083,416, making a total expenditure of $4,009,573. President Loubet arrived from Spain and met with an enthusiastic reception at Libson, Portugal. King Charles and the Prince met the president at the railway station and an imposing military cortege traversed the city escorting M. Loubet to the Ajuda palace. The negotiations for the new Russian loan advanced. The amount is practically fixed at $250,000,000. The internation bankers are apparently relieved by the knowledge that Count Witte will be the head of the government. SUFFERINGS UNTOLD. A Kansas City Woman's Terrible Experience with Kidney Sickness. Mrs. Mary Cogin, 20th st. and Cleveland ave., Kansas City, Mo., says: "For years I was run down, weak, lax and sore. The kidney secretions were too frequent. Then dropsy puffed up my ankles until they were a sight to behold. Doctors gave me up, but I began using was run down, weak, la me and sore. The kidney secretions were too frequent. Then dropsy puffed up my ankles until they were a sight to behold. Doctors gave me up, but I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and the remedy cured me so that I have been well ever since, and have had a fine baby, the first in five that was not prematurely born." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Half a loaf is better than loafing all the time. DUST CORGRE A large 20-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only beats. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Never judge a woman's love for house-cleaning by her dislike for dirt. Here is Relief for Women Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discovered a pleasant herb remedy for women'sills, called AUSTRALIAN LEAF. It is the only certain monthly regulator. Cures female weaknesses, Backache, Kidney and Urinary troubles, Allergies or by making the maildressed FREELY Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. Many a Thanksgiving poem has been declined, with thanks. HEALTHY CHILDREN. Without good health life is not worth living. Sickly, peevish children are a source of endless trouble and anxiety to their parents, yet the children's condition is frequently due to their parents' ignorance or thoughtlessness, or both. To make children healthy and to keep them in that condition it is necessary to feed them proper food and to see that they get plenty of exercise and fresh air. Meat is very bad for children. It should be avoided and food rich in phosphates, such as Pillsbury's Vitos, should be given in its place. This food is truly the "meat of the wheat." It is made by the world's greatest millers and it is free from artificial coloring or adulteration. It is not especially a child's food. Your whole family will enjoy this common sense cereal. It makes a wholesome, substantial breakfast or an appetizing dessert and can be prepared in one hundred different ways. Every good grocer will supply you with Pillsbury's Vitos. Large package—enough to make twelve pounds of strength-building food 15c. Ask your grocer about it to-day. Disappointed Scientists. There is good authority for the statement that at various times Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Thomas H. Huxley and Louis Pasteur were convinced that they had discovered the secret of life, but repeated tests, in which antecedent life was more carefully included, showed in every instance that they had been mistaken. SHREWDNESS OF A CABMAN. Was Left a Fortune by an Eccentric Old Lady. English exchanges tell of a young cabman in Birmingham who attracted the notice of an eccentric old lady because of his resemblance to her dead son. She bequeathed to him the bulk of her fortune on condition that he went to college and did all he could to become a gentleman. Being quick and clever, he had no difficulty in acquiring a sufficiency of Greek and other learning, but he shrewdly suspected that if he went to either Oxford or Cambridge at once he would not feel at home among his new companions. So, putting pride in his pocket, he obtained a place as "scout," or servant, at one of those seats of learning and profited so much by what he saw and observed in this humble position that when he eventually proceeded to the other university as a student he was able to pass creditably. People Will Drink Coffee When It "Does Such Things." "I began to use Postum because the old kind of coffee had so poisoned my whole system that I was on the point of breaking down, and the doctor warned me that I must quit it. "My chief allment was nervousness and heart trouble. Any unexpected noise would cause me the most painful palpitation, make me faint and weak. "I had heard of Postm and began to drink it when I left off the old coffee. It began to help me just as soon as the old effects of the other kind of coffee passed away. It did not stimulate me for a while, and then leave me weak and nervous as coffee used to do. Instead of that it built up my strength and supplied a constant vigor to my system which I can always rely on. It enables me to do the biggest kind of a day's work without getting tired. All the heart trouble, etc., has passed away. "I give it freely to all my children, from the youngest to the oldest, and it keeps them all healthy and hearty." Name given by Postm Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Welville," in pkgs. Send postal for Book of Presents" Do you know the secret of the Wave Circle? Wonderful! Don't delay another day! Send for KC right a- way. It's purer and more efficient than any Bak- ing Powder that costs three times as much. 25 oz. for 25c. All grocers Jaques Mfg. Co. Chicago THE COMFORTER A congested vein pressing on a nerve accounts for the swelling, throbbing ache of Neuralgia St. Jacobs Oil frees the circulation, allays the pressure and soothes away the pain. Price, 25c. and 50c. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED. SEND FOR FREE ILLUS. TREATISE OR BECAL DISSEASE. WITH NAMES OF PROPRIETN MEN CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR-1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRANCH OF FACE AT ST. LOUIS) DEFIANCE STARCH never sticks to the iron. WE WILL SEND complete information about our Medicine Business and show how you can easily earn $30 to $80 a week, getting as our special representative and appoint agents in your locality. WRITE QUICK, as only one man or woman will be selected from each County. No fake or scheme. Adv't Dept. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggist. CONSUMPTION JOHN BROD CHEMICAL CO., 349-351 W. North Ave., Chicago, Ill. 105 The Genuine TOWER'S POMMEL SLICKER HAS BEEN ADVERTISED AND SOLD FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY. LIKE ALL TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF CLOTHING. It is made of the best materials, in black or yellow, fully guaranteed, and sold by reliable dealers everywhere STICK TO THE SIGN OF THE FISH. TOWER, CANADIAN CO. Limited. A.J. TOWER CO. TORONTO, CAN. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. The Government of Canada 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Gives absolutely FREE to every settler one hundred and sixty acres of land in Western Canada. Land adjoining this can be purchased from railway and land companies at from 66 to 810 per acre. On this land this year has been produced upwards of twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre. It is also the best of grazing land and for mixed farming it has no superior on the continent. Splendid climate, low taxes, railways convenient, schools and churches close at hand. Write for "Twentieth Century Canada" and low railway rates to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada; or to authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) If afflicted with{ gore eyes, use Thecmpson's Eye Water Everything may not be for the best, but we should try to make the best of everything. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs — W.M. E. ENDLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900 Occasionally a man makes light of his troubles by lighting cigars with his unrecepted bills. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Fect and Ingrowning Nails. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, St. coins. Accept no substitution. Sample mailed FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y We don't know what you are, but we admit we are a cull. 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 $ \frac{3}{4} $ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Many a business man keeps his conscience in cold storage. Any woman who is a heroine in the eyes of her husband ought to be satisfied to let it go at that. $66.00 per M. Lewis' 'Single Binder,' straight 8c cigar, costs the dealer some more than other 8c cigars, but the higher price enables this factory to use higher grade tobacco. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. A woman, can't keep a secret any more than a hen can keep from cackling over an egg she has laid. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 3oz, package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. It is never too early to begin looking on the bright side of life. Do it now. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because we package contains 16 ozs, while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other." Quality and quantity must win. School for Aeronauts. Paris has a school for aeronauts and contemplates a second. In the one already in existence beginners in the navigation of the air can get instruction in the latest theory and practice of airship management. Anchored balloons with cables as high as 400 meters (about 440 yards) in length are at the disposal of the pupils. The English papers tell a new story of Nelson, one which is not particularly appropriate to these days of friendliness between England and France. Nelson was talking one day with Mrs. Swinburne, of Hamsterly, and the conversation turned upon Frenchmen. "I never see a Frenchman, Mrs. Swinburne," said Nelson, "without shivering from head to foot." As the relator of the anecdote says, any one who has seen a dog quivering when restrained from falling upon a familiar enemy will appreciate the feeling that made Nelson shiver. Fighting was not a mere profession with Nelson. He felt as he fought. A Teacher's Testimony. Hinton, Ky., Oct. 30th.—(Special.)—It has long been claimed that Diabetes is incurable, but Mr. E. J. Thompson, teacher in the Hinton school, has pleasing evidence to the contrary. Mr. Thompson had Diabetes. He took Dodd's Kidney Pills and is cured. In a statement he makes regarding the cure Mr. Thompson says: "I was troubled with my kidneys for more than two years and was treated by two of the best doctors in this part of the state. They claimed I had Diabetes and there was little to be done for me. Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and what they did for me was wonderful. It is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney Pills that I am now enjoying good health." Many doctors still maintain that Diabetes is incurable. But Diabetes is a kidney disease and the kidney disease that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure has yet to be discovered. The discretion that is known as the better part of valor may merely be cowardice in disguise. RULE OF AUTOCRACY RULE OF AUTOCRACY Ceasos to Exist Any Longer in Russian Territory. COUNT WITTE NAMES CABINET. The American People, Who Know What Freedom Is, Rejoice With the Russian Nation in the Result of the Final End of Struggle. St. Petersburg, Nov. 1.—The municipal council at its sitting this evening, after reading the imperial manifesto, decided to send the following telegram to the emperor: "The council welcomes with delight the long desired tidings of freedom, firmly relying on a bright future for our dear fatherland. Hurrah for the emperor of a free people!" Warsaw.—The streets are dark and patrolled by infantry. Nevertheless the news that the emperor had signed a constitution spread like wildfire and created a tremendous sensation, causing a feeling of joy mingled with the fear that the news might be premature. St. Petersburg. — "I am sure the American people who understand what freedom is and the American press, which voices the wishes of the people, will rejoice with the friendly Russian nation at this moment, when the Russian people have received from his majesty the promises and the guarantees of freedom, and will join in the hope that the Russian people will wisely aid in the consolation of those liberties by co-operating with the government for their peaceful introduction. Only thus will it be possible to secure the freedom conferred upon the people." Count Witte, Russia's first premier, sent the above message to the American people through the Associated Press. He has just arrived at his residence from Peterhof, where, in the Alexander Palace, the emperor two hours before had given his final approval which forever will end the rule of absolute aristocracy. A simple perusal of the manifesto shows how complete is the emperor's addication of his autocratic power. The very style of the document is clear and direct and devoid of the verbose, vague and bombastic phraseology which heretofore has characterized his majesty's manifestos. It not only betrays the real authorship, but shows that the emperor at last has irrevocably bowed to the inevitable. He does not even conceal the fact that the discontent and agitation of his subjects has driven him to take the step, and practically yields everything—civil liberty, the enviolability of person and liberty of conscience, speech and assembly. He not only converts the douma into an absolute executive assembly, but promises eventually universal suffrage. The title, "Autocrat of All the Russias," with which the manifesto begins, now takes its place with "King of Jerusalem," borne by the king of Spain, and the "Emperor of Austria," and with other obsolete titles of sovereigns. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., and George W. Perkins were with Finance Minister Kokovsoff when the latter received the news. It was a dramatic moment. The minister was called to the telephone, and when he returned he was greatly agitated and said: "Gentlemen, the old order of things has changed. Russia has a constitution." The news spread like wildfire throughout the city. The revolutionists and active agitators generally declared loudly that the government's promises would no longer suffice, and that the strike must be continued. The count has already selected the members of his cabinet. He will himself hold no portfolio. All the present ministers except those of war, navy and foreign affairs will be retired. Prince Alexis Obolensky, one of the count's former assistants in the ministry of finance, will become minister of the interior. M. Romanoff, another assistant to the minister, will take the finance portfolio; M. Konl, at present a senator and Russia's ablest jurist, will be minister of justice; M. Krovosovsky, president of the St. Petersburg municipal council, will take the ministry of education, and M. Zeigler Von Schaffhausen, chief of the railroad department of the ministry of finance, will become minister of ways and means. Respecting Fisheries Situation. London, Nov. 2. — Ambassador Whitelaw Reid had several interviews with Foreign Secretary Lansdowne during the past week, respecting, it is understood, the Newfoundland fisheries situation. Church War to End. Paris, Nov. 1. — The reopening of Parliament will mark the renewal and undoubtedly the conclusion of the long and bitter struggle for the separation of church and state. The senate will take up the separation bill as it is to pass the Chamber of Deputies. Crowds Attend Opening. Paris, Nov. 1.—Crowds attended the opening of the senate and chamber of deputies. The senate received the report of the committee on separation of church and state. 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. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alk. Starch + Rockellia Salta - Lavie Seed + Lipoprintine Bicarbonate Salta + Worm Seed - Cinnamon Sugar Watergreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Hitchner NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hitchner In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. PRICE, 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE HAS NO EQUAL FOR HEADACHE ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diemer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. PUTNAM FADELE LAW URGED BY SELF-SEEKERS. Real Animus of Movement Against Remedies Deservedly Popular. An adroit but plausible scheme by which it is hoped to prejudice the sale of proprietary medicines is the proposition to prohibit the sale of any remedy which "contains poison" unless each package or bottle is expressly labeled "Poison." Such bills are also well designed to impose upon men who have no familiarity with the subject matter. The pretense of protecting the public health put forth in support of such bills is generally the merest subterfuge; and whenever you hear a demand for a law of this kind it originates with those who have a direct pecuniary interest to serve by destroying the sale of proprietary remedies Some of the best and most widely used remedies in the world contain some one ingredient which, if taken in sufficient quantities, might be poisonous, and yet the preparation as a whole is not poisonous at all. Opium, for instance, is used in small quantities in many of the best cures for coughs, colic, diarrhea, etc., in toothache drops and in almost all limbines. To require such medicines to be falsely labeled "poison" would be merely a cunning device to alarm the public and thus bring about the destruction of the sale of those remedies, and indirectly to compel people to procure the medicine they want by the more expensive method of consulting a physician and getting his prescription. In other words, it is an effort to prevent them from getting cheaply the remedies which they and their fathers before them have used for many years.—Medical exchange. It is hard for a fellow to be a bear who is bow-legged. Omaha, Nebr., Oct. 26—It is reported from Casper, Wyo., that sales of town lots for the new town of Shoshone, located at the edge of the Wind River Reservation on the new line of The Chicago & North-Western Railway across the state from Casper, have been unprecedented. Bidding for town lots runs high and a large number have been disposed of within a short time. Buyers evidently figure on the growth of the city here when the Indian Reservation is thrown open to settlement next June. Beggars are not only choosers, but they are impudent about it. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. A good borrower is a cheerful spender. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teaching, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, ailys pain, cures wind colloe. 2oz a bottle. No man should be willing to take things as they come unless he is sure they belong to him. When Your Grocer Says he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 12 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. Don't put up a bluff with a girl unless you are prepared to have her throw you over. OPERATIONS AVOIDED Two Grateful Letters from Women Who Avoided Serious Operations.—Many Women Suffering from Like Conditions Will Be Interested. Margrite Ryan Margret Merkley Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice-A Woman Best Understands a Woman's Idea When a physician tells a woman, suffering from ovarian or womb trouble, that an operation is necessary it, of course, frightens her. The very thought of the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. As one woman expressed it, when told by her physician that she must undergo an operation, she felt that her death knell had sounded. Our hospitals are full of women who are there for ovarian or womb operations! It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but such cases are much rarer than is generally supposed, because a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after the doctors had said an operation must be performed. In fact, up to the point where the knife must be used to secure instant relief, this medicine is certain to help. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who, by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, have escaped serious operations. Margaret Traverer of St. Andrew's Society, Hotel English, Indianapolis, Ind., writes of her cureus follows: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "I cannot find words to express my thanks for the good Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound did me. The doctor said I could not get well unless I had an operation for ovarian and female troubles. I knew I could not stand the strain of an operation and made up my mind I would be an invalid for life. Ack. How Blinkham adduces A. Warn As we ship it Ready for use Write for CIRCULAR describing the simple, but reliable, inexpensive invention, also our Sleigh Catalog (30) styles The Tony Pony Line Catalog of Ponies and Pony Rigs for boys and girls (We buy, sell and use them) and Ponies for new feature. Illustrated, 1906 vehicle catalog, showing 150 Modern Styles, Popular Price, High Grade Vehicles, now ready. All Free. MICHIGAN BUGGY CO., Manufacturers No. 100 Office Bldg. KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Hearing how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had saved her other women from serious operations I decided to try it, and in less than four months I was entirely cared and words fail to express my thankfulness. Miss Margret Merkel of 253 Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham— "Loss of strength, extreme nervousness, severe shooting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps, bearing down pains and a medical advice, a medical advice. The doctor, after making an examination, said that I had ovarian trouble and ulceration, and advised an operation as my only hope. To this I strongly obeyed—and I decided as a last resort to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. To my surprise, all the women disappeared, and I am more strong, vigorous and well, and I cannot express my thanks for what it has done for me." Ovarian and umbilical troubles are steadily on the increase among women—and before submitting to an operation every woman should try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and write Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Niss. for advice. For thirty years Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound has been caring the worst forms of female complaints, all ovarian troubles, inflammation, eration, falling and displacement of the womb, lencorrhea, irregularities, indigestion and nervous prostration. Any woman who could read the many grateful letters on file in Mrs. Pinkham's office would be convinced of the efficiency of her advice and Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound. an Best Understands a Woman's Life DEFIANCE STARCH 16 ounces to the package other starches only 12 ounces—commercial pack "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. Coney Island Souvenir Post Cards Six beautifully colored scopes for 25c. Coney Island Postal Card Co., Coney Island, N. T. W. L. DOUCLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES W. L. Douglas $4.00 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOESMaker SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1876 W.L. DOUGLAS MAKES AND SELLS W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes have by their excellent style, easy fitting, and superior wearing qualities, achieved the largest sale of any $3.50 shoe in the world. They are just as good as your own shoes, so you should buy them if difference in factory is Brockton, Mass., the largest in the world under one roof making men's like shoes, and show you the care with which pair of douglas shoes is made, you would buy them. If douglas shoes are the best shoes produced in the world. If you could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those made in another factory, you would buy $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe on the market to-day. W.L. Douglas Straight Made Shoes for Men, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, $0.75, $0.50 Dress shoes, $2.00, $2.00, $2.00, $1.75, $1.60 CAUTION. Insist upon having W.L. 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