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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER EVENTH YEAR. Letter With A Dark Immoral Story Accompaning Letter Proves that "Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold" ow State Of Human Depravity THE ORIGINAL Letter With A Dark Immoral Story Accompaning Letter Proves that "Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold" ow State Of Human Depravity THE ORIGINAL Bassman, Ala. Jan 9th 1906 Orishita, Mans. I received your Letter Some time ago m Rogers of a Syrup Teacher by Mona Cars, M. Hall, being the Father of a Bastard child. his mother, it is a fact that is the Father of the child, but they want to present him for the crime Orishita, Mass. I received your Letter from Lina m Rogers of a Negro教师 by Maine Clam, M. Hall, being the Father of a Bastard child. his mother whiter it is a fact that in the Father of the child but they must be Prosecuted him for the china stays out of Alabama. would have written you sooner but wanted to get the facts on the case gourns Shiley, M. Jones ship of slave. would have written you sooner but wanted to get the facts on the case from Shilby, 1800. W. Jones chief of Alabama. AM M. HALL DENY THIS LETTER? WILL HE DARE ANSWER IT? WILL HE EXPLAIN IT TO THE PEOPLE? IF NOT—WHY NOT? A TRUE COPY of Bessemer, Ala., Office of Geo. W. Jones, Chief of Police. Bessemer, Ala., Jan. 9th, 1906. H——S——, Wichita, Kansas. Sir—I received your letter some time ago in regards to a pro preacher by the name Sam M. Hall, being the father of a stard child by his wife's sister. It is a fact that he is the her of the child, but they don't want to prosecute him for the time if he stays out of Alabama. I would have written you sooner but I wanted to get the ts in the case first. A TRUE COPY of Bessemer, Ala., Office of Geo. W. Jones, Chief of Police. Bessemer, Ala., Jan. 9th, 1906. H—— S——, Wichita, Kansas. Sir—I received your letter some time ago in regards to a gro preacher by the name Sam M. Hall, being the father of a stard child by his wife's sister. It is a fact that he is the mother of the child, but they don't want to prosecute him for the time if he stays out of Alabama. I would have written you sooner but I wanted to get the gets in the case first. Yours Truly, GEO. W. JONES, Chief of Police. unnatural baseness of one man's passion which for brutishness and an exposition of low brute nature has no parallel in the category of baseness and unnatural criminality. Such a man who has the unnaturalness of natural passion to commit such a crime is so far rescended in low morals as to be capable of committing any crime known to the human mind and is a dangerous man in any community. The letter says that the Negro preacher is named "Sam M. Hall," and the people of Wichita know but one Negro preacher by that name and he is at present in charge of the Second Baptist church, and, because we know of no other we, of course, assume that this is the Sam M. Hall referred to in this letter. which is presented to the public from the Chief of Police of Fort. Alabama, which is self-exert. The word is added to this let-sis any taken from it, but the bit came is handed to the pub-sis believed that the contents letter should be known by the or the public good. Fort is made to say more or on the letter and we base our on the letter and the let-sis. This letter brings to light a human immorality more ravage than that ever heard of the most barbarous barbarians, man, black or white, who are guilty of the degrading act. In this letter is too basely to be permitted to exist in society. This letter coming to light at this time after so much has been heard derogatory to this same man, is truly enough to set the people to thinking. In these days and times MEN protect their families and uphold their family ties and virtue and keep sacred the bonds which make two families one—but here in this letter is outlined one man who took advantage of the a black or white, who would so low in the scale of human life as to debauch his own as this letter narrates is below the beasts of the field or living reptile. There is usually on the base passions of every this letter brings to light the derogatory to this same man, is truly enough to set the people to thinking. In these days and times MEN protect their families and uphold their family ties and virtue and keep sacred the bonds which make two families one—but here in this letter is outlined one man who took advantage of the WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1906. tie he should defend to ease his brutish passion. Men who live where such a man exists should throw about their families the most important safeguard because if a man does not respect and regard his own family ties can you reasonably expect him to respect and regard your family. The colored men of Wichita should read and re-read carefully this letter from the Chief of Police of Bessemer, Alabama, and the more they read it the more outrageous is the act and the more infamous and degraded they can see the man to be who committed the act. Fathers and mothers who have daughters just coming into womanhood, could you consider your daughter safe with such a man? Husbands would you feel proud to have such a man a constant caller at your home? A man will spoil the virtue of his own wife's full sister in the same town, and possibly in the same house where his wife lives, what act is too low for such a man to commit? There is on punishment too severe to be meted out to such an unnatural man. He should be made an example of. Everything which has been brought to light touching upon this same Sam H. Hall there has been a few colored people—and only a very few—who have always tried to "explain away" the matter, but we would like to see the colored man or colored woman in Wichita who would put themselves on record in defense of a man with so dark a record as this letter shows this Negro preacher, Sam M. Hall, to be. There is no question but that the Chief of Police of Bessemer, Alabama, knows what he is writing about and the plain open manner in which he couches his letter leaves us all to believe the things to be true as stated in his letter. It does seem strange that some of the colored people keep their eyes and ears closed and refuse to see or hear anything except those things which suit their fancy, and for the pure sake of such a refusal permit themselves to be imposed on and their interests and their earnings go to naught. Enough has been said in Wichita about this same Sam M. Hall to put the most disinterested to thinking, and yet some refuse to see or hear. This is a good illustration that fine clothes, an arrogant and selfish manner do not make the man. Fine broad-cloth can cover as low a character as rage ever dared to do—people should not dote on the fine clothes a man may wear but should go beyond the clothes and examine the record of the man. Will the colored people of Wichita continue to tolerate such individual in their community? The letter here produced is produced with no ill will toward any church; but it is in their defense, as it is not believed that there is a church in Kansas that desires to have any man of this stripe at the head of their church organization. It is high time that the colored people of Wichita were taking some steps to defend their society circles from the intrusion of such characters. The worries of baking day turn to do light when you use HOWARD'S PEERLESS PRINCESS FLOUR No other as good THE GREAT MAN OF TODAY. (By Gertle Fisher, Parsons, Kan.) Who is the great man of today Who is the leader of the race? Who is the man that can stand And look a thousand in the face? Who is the man that's aspiring; Aspiring each day of his life. To see his race—hold A bright and shining light? Who is the man that has stood; Stood well and played his part? Progression is his aim in life, He works with an earnest heart. Who is the man that said, By his philanthropic deed That he would build the Negro up From every want and need? Who is this man—this noble man— I'll ask you once again, That making his way step by step Until he reaches the zenith of fame. This man is noble and young in years And greater he will be For he is striving day by day To be like Booker T. This man is of the Western University And greater things he has done. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! I say— For William T. Vernon. IS NOW READY. NOTICE TABORS.—The new Taborian Constitution is now ready. It is fine and every Knight and every Daughter should have a copy. Every Temple and Tabernacle should have two copies. Send your order to REV. SIR FRANK WILSON, C. G. M., EV. SIR FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 943 Everett, Kansas City, Kan. THE BEGINNING. It is with many regrets that all classes of citizens of Wichita note the beginning of a most unpleasant state of affairs—the clashing of the races—black and white. For the first time in the whole history of Wichita scraps among the colored and white school children has found its way into the courts, and this is only the beginning. Wichita—the Peerless Princess City—the lily of the prairie towns—the city in Kansas that has for years dating beyond the memory of man, boasted of her superb, peaceable and unexcelled schools, is now to witness a state of affairs in her school circles more terrible than terrible, and more dreaded than fire. The beginning is now at hand, but who can see the end? All this is manifest by the unprovoked, and uncalled for resolution of the Board of Education of our city. Surely the men who compass that Board can see ere now the untimelyness of their act, and are willing to permit peace to continue to reign, as in all time past!!! The beginning of this dark drama is a warrant sworn out Thursday in the Juvenile court by a white parent for the arrest of three little colored children charging the colored children with whipping his child. No one regrets this incident more than does the parents of the col- --- ored children, but when these things are made possible by class resolutions and similar acts, children are quicker to resent any reflection than are older persons with more sober judgement. Thus with the resolutions of the Board attempted to be put into effect, no man can say where these matters will end, and everyone may as well prepare to see a most disgraceful state of affairs before the desires of the Board can be fully carried out. The action of the board is too sweeping, too sudden and without sufficient cause to carry with it a sufficient and peaceful execution. While no man can foresee the ultimate end, let us all hope that the Board of Education may see the untimeliness of their act and the ill results to come therefrom and rescind the action in the name of peace, harmony and good government. We trust. CROWDING THE NEGRO Is it possible that the children of the present generation are unmindful or forgetful of the patriotic sentiment of their forefathers? The question is asked because at Coffeyville recently a large number of white boys refused to work in a factory there because some negro boys were in the same shift in which the white boys worked. If the soul of John Brown is still marching on, as we are so often reminded, it will assuredly receive a jar when the intelligence reaches it as to what has happened in Kansas—"Bleeding Kansas," that flung defiance to the world for the protection of the Negro. Surely the heart of Kansas still beats true to its worthy ideals of an earlier day and the Coffeyville incident must find its solution in some other cause than disregard for the welfare and advancement of the Negro. Can it be that the spirit of antagonism that Coffeyville has been obliged to set up in recent years against the Standard Oil company has aroused a fighting quality in the rising generation? If such is the solution then that district of the state need have little to regret for the action of the boys against the colored brother, for the reason that such actions may be atoned for and forgiveness readily granted because of the impetuosity of youth; but the spirit of antagonism is always needed in Kansas and its development should not be retarded by the frowns of those who look upon the actions of the white boys of Coffeyville as unjust. To the stars through difficulties is still the motto of Kansas.—Dodge City Daily News. NO.44 BEAUTIFUL WOMANHOOD. Paper written by Mary Portia Jordan and read at the Booker T. Washington club, January 16,1906. "As time advances and people become more educated the high moral standard is being lifted. Virtue is the stamp of morality and beautiful womanhood should be an aim for us all. The true lady is a type of beautiful womanhood. For an agreeable, modest and dignified bearing is in the younger period of a woman's existence. Almost like a dower to herself. In beautiful womanhood or true womanhood a woman's address should be polite and gentle and it will soon after her introduction into society become easy to becivil with ease. A well trained woman in true womanhood will never receive her first acquaintance with a hypteric laugh is I have seen. Nor should she look all over the dress of a person as if taking an inventory of it. One of our great discredit of the present day is the loud lady. She is an avowed flirt and you know her by her phrases. She talks of the men of such and such a charmer. She does not mind, but rather prefers sitting with men when they are smoking; she rides furiously and plays billiards. Is this a type of true or beautiful womanhood? No! for true womanhood or beautiful womanhood is made of something more elevating. The true woman is amiable, self-respecting and self-relying and she respects others that are around her and the true woman is always respected and loved by all by whom she is known. TO PAY FIRST CLAIM. The Daughters of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34, have received word from Sir Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor, that the money with which to pay the death claim to the representatives of their beloved Daughter, Sadie Grayson, who departed this life about two weeks ago, is ready for them at any time. As this is the first death which has occurred among the Daughters of the Tabernacle in Wichita they have decided to pay the money in public and have engaged Redman Hall, 211 West Douglas, for Friday night. January 26th, and on that night they will pay the claim in full. They open the doors for every one and in order to raise the hall rent they will make a charge at the door of only 5c. All are invited. A short, but interesting program will be rendered. If you are not right—get right—subscribe and pay for the Searchlight—it pays. THE SEARCHLIGHT. WICHISA, KANS. T. N. MILLER, Editor. Interest at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN ST. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE MONTH ..... 15c Advertising Rates Made Known On Appl cation NOTICE!! - All matters addressed THE SEARCHLIGHT for public tion must be signed by the part or parties writing All matters for publication must reach this office not later than TUESDAY to reach publication to the current issue. RULES OF THE OFFICE. 1st. 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The Searchlight has at all times advocated for higher and the highest ideals among its people, and in its campaign on this issue it has many times fought single-handed and all alone. We are sorry to say that many times we have not received that support which the cause which we have sponsored entitled us to, but, we have never given up and no matter where we have found the imperfection we have gone after it with a vim. At times—and many a time—we have not struct the popular cord, but we went on and many times we have been abused, and cursed, no doubt, for our stand for higher morals, but we have come from under every ordeal stronger in our determination than ever before, and now today some of those who thought us too strong see where we were right. We have turned the Searchlight on idols and ideals in the past that were below the standard and we may have to do so many a time again. In our work for highere morals we ask no favors and fear no man. We say to all, of you are not up to the mark, start to scratching to get there. THE SQUARE DEAL. (From the President's Message.) It is the man's moral quality, his attitude towards the great questions which concern all humanity, his cleanliness of life, his power to do his duty towards himself and toward others, which really count; and if we substitute for the standard of personal judgment which treats each man according to his merits, another standard in accordance with which all men of another class discriminated against, we shall do irreparable damage to the body politic. Jack Robinson, of Emid, Okla., has returned to his home after having visited for several days with his daughter Mrs. E. Milier. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 25, 1905. Persuant to the call of the C. G. M. the Board of Grand Curators met, with the following members present: Sir Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Dtr. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. Sir A. W. Hopkins, C. G. S. Dtr. Sarah Williams, C. G. R. Absent—Sir Wm. Core, C. G. T. The C. G. M. called the meeting to order, after which prayer was offered by Dtr. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. The first business that came before the Board was to consider the condition of the jurisdiction and the endowment department. The investigation of the Board showed that all our death claims numbering twelve had been paid in full and the Jurisdiction in a prosperous and flourishing condition in every way. The Board approved the following amount paid: Twelve (12) death claims paid. $ 960.00 Funeral expenses paid..... 713.20 Paid to sick and disabled..... 534.00 Printing minutes..... 107.50 To Sir Frank Wilson, C. G. M. expenses ..... 23.00 ARE GETTING READY. ARE GETTING READY. The pastor and members of New Hope Baptist church are fast bringing the remodeling of the new church to completion. They have the furnace in place, the plastering done, and the carpenter work completed; and now they are busy papering and painting and hope to be ready for going into the new church not later than the second Sunday in February. They will have an extended program. More details later. SHOT A BOY. A special officer named Gorman shot a colored boy, Jim Harvey, Thursday, in the Missouri Pacific yards for jumping on trains. This is a bad state of affairs when a big man can shoot children for fun. ~Mrs. Harvey will swear out a warrant for Gorman. SEARCHLIGHT only $1. Per Year. Are You A Subscriber? WICHITA TABORS. Wichita Tabernacle No. 34, and Taborian Temple No. 11, wish to let it be known that they are doing nicely and working in the greatest peace and harmony. The Tabernacle and the Temple are starting off the new year with added vigor to make a success. Both have several applications for membership and are going to the front. Taborian Temple No. 11 is working to have a financial membership of 40 when the Grand session meets. The Tabernacle and Temple are looking forward to the Grand session which meets in Wichita this year, 1906, and will use every honorable means to make this session—on their part—surpass any session ever held by the Grand Temple and Tabernacle. We are going to work with a vim, and say to all the Knights and Daughters, Look out for Wichita; she will meet you at the station in July. LOST—A fine breast-pin at the A. M. E. church, Sunday night, Dec. 31st, 1805. A liberal reward to the finder and no questions asked. Return to Mrs. J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mosely. FOX WEDDING. Mrs. Ossa E. Fox, of 734 Garfield avenue, Topeka, Kan., and Mr. Charles Jennings, of 522 N. Warren street, Warrensburg, Mo., were married on Thursday evening at 8:30 by the Rev. Bohannan at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Sims, Warrensburg, Mo. The bride is one of the most popular young widows of Topeka, and has a host of friends to wish her a happy voyage and easy sailing through life. Mr. Jennings is one of Missouri's popular widowers and all wish them much joy and success through life. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings will be at home to their friends at 522 N. Warren St. Written by a friend of the bride Mrs. Harriett Lewis has been on the sick list the past week. THE WICH TASEARCHLIGHT ```markdown ``` Daughters of Tabor Invites the general public to be present at Redman Hall Friday night, Jan. 26th. To witness the payment of a death claim of a deceased member - Short program connected Mrs. Lee Anderson was in the city Thursday and was shaking hands with friends. Her friends were proud to meet her. The funeral of Howard Murdock was preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday by Rev. H. W. King assisted by Rev. S. S. Washington and Rev. D. K. Mickleberry. Tht funeral services were held under the Anspices of home of the west lodge No. 2906. G. U. O. O. F. The young people should be more orderly at the song service at the A. M. E. churon. The loud bisterous way in which they have been conducting themselves is too bad to be consid red. BIRTHDAY PARTY A very pleasant birthday party was tendered Miss Mary McBride at her home 1056 N. Mosely last Saturday afternoon in honor of her ninth birthday. About twenty of her young friends were present and a most enjoyable evening was spen — one that Miss McBride may well remember. Miss McBride received many handsome and valuable presents Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ellis who had been in the city for a few weeks as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Glover, left Friday morning for Topeka where they will speak a few days visining. from Topeka they will go to St. Louis before returning to their home in St. Charles Mo. they had a most enjoyable stay in Wehita and added many to their long list of friends. Daughters Invites the gene prese Redma Friday nig To witness the death claim of a ber - Short prog TO GIVE PRIZE The Mozart Social Club has decided on a series of prize balls to be given at Redman hall every Tuesday night. The club plan is to issue numbered duplicate tickets—and the purchaser retains the stub number—on he last Tuesday night in January he club will give away a fine valuable prize to the person who holds the lucky number. Robt. Davis and son, Brazill, came up from Kingman this week and proved their confidence in Wichita and her future by purchasing two fine building lots each. The property which they purchased is located at 24th and Fairview and is very desirable residence property. Both gentlemen expect to build in the near future. Robt. Davis while in Wichita this week took out two $500 shares of stock in the German-American Building and Loan Association. Mr. and Mrs. Davis mean business. --- NEW CONSTITUTION The New Taborian Constitution is now ready every Tabernacle and every Temple should have a copy. Send your order to Rev. Frank Wilson C. G. M. 943 EveJett Kansas City Kansas. DISPENSATION Taborian Temple No. 11 and Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 have received dispensation and their boors are open for the reception of new members. You can learn the dispensation price by enquiring of any member. Attend to this at once. The ladies of the G. L. A. club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. S. W Jones. BLACKSMITH SHOP. Messrs Robt. Garrett and Joe Garrett will open up a blacksmith shop at 703 East Murdock, on Monday morning, January 22nd. They will be prepared to do horseshoeing, wagon work and all kinds of general repair work. These two energetic young men should have the patronage of the colored people who have work to be done in the blacksmith line. Call and see them at 703 East Murdock. DID WELL. I desire to express my pleasure with the splendid attention given my husband by the members of Taborian Temple No. 11, Knights of Tabor and the Odd Fellows. They have proven their brotherhood in a splendid manner. I am glad also to say that my husband is greatly improved, and, I hope will soon be able to be out again. MRS. WM. BATTE, 946 North 5th St. of Tabor general public to be ent at n Hall ght, an. 26th. payment of a deceased mem gram connected Friday, January 12th, was the ninth birthday of Dale Robinson, son of Mr. G. Walter Robinson, 1220 North Main street, and his mamma invited several of his little friends to his home to help him celebrate the event. The guests began to arrive at 4 p. m., and amused themselves in childish play until 5:30 when a nice luncheon was served. After lunch the guests paid their respects to Mrs. Robinson and departed for their homes freely wishing Master Dale Robinson many happy birthdays. Those invited were: Christine Porter, Chester Porter, Marie Covington, Edith Thomas, Vara Isler, Claude James, Everett James, Lake Anderson, Everett Anderson, Vera Harberger, Carl Harberger, Marguerite Sandford, Arzella Hill, Roy Isler. Bring wi at you owe to the Search light office—428 M. Main street. The Searchlight has the pleasure of pirnting minutes of Household Ruth No. 12. They are completed this week. The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West..... DEPARTMENTS: The and State Industry COURSES: Classical, Normal, Musical, piano, oagan and Mechanical], Carp Business Course, ing, Dressmaking ing, Farming and ADVANTAGES: Splend Influences and Th INFORMATION: For t fered, write to William T. PHONE QUINDARO Phones Bud Hickerson, Pro The L RESTAUR Or Short Order In S 347 North Main St USE PARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub- State Industrial. 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"Does an Irishman ever say 'beard'?" asks the Newburyport Herald. Yes, sometimes, when he has a cold. Paving $40,000 for a carnation beats the Dutch, whose leading tulip enthusiast paid 13,000 florins for a single bulb. Limit your hugs, girls, as the New York sister advises, but remember that the limit can be raised by mutual consent. There is a divorce suit in New York. He wipped her dog and she left him, hence the divorce. All about a dog. Sie transit. The throne of the Caesars has been found in the Roman Forum. But the Caesars continue to stop holes to keep the wind away. A man was taken to an asylum because he wanted the moon. How about the large number of people who want the earth? Admiral Togo never has been celebrated as an orator, but he can make a speech that is a masterpiece when done into English. The divorced wife of a Philadelphia millionaire knocked him down with her fist. And these are the creatures we call our angels! Being a poor young man has its advantages, after all. We are not in any danger of going to jail for violating the banking laws. Champion O'Brien is unable to see any reason why prize fighters should have those superstitious fears concerning the thirteenth round. The vanity of a woman caused her death. She was dyeing her hair. Men would die offender from the same cause if some of them had hair to dye. Of a newspaper man who has just passed away in New York, it is said that he died of the infirmities of old age—which doesn't often happen. A seat on the New York stock exchange was sold the other day for $55,000. Why are the ticket speculators overlooking such a good thing? And no doubt there was, as usual, quite a number of them who, like Sam Weller, didn't bother about the formality of being under the mistletoe. France seems to be bound to have a president with chin whiskers. Perhaps this is France's roundabout way of endeavoring to pattern after Uncle Sam. Morales may solace himself with the reflection that he is the only official on record who ever had troops sent after him when he tried to quit his job. A baseball umpire has been elected mayor of Meriden. Conn. If he has ever umpired in Meriden, the people of that town have beaten the record for charity. Radio-thorium has been discovered, but as its only claim to attention is the fact that it has been discovered, we shalt buy any. Besides, it is rarer than radium. Set a thousand rules for the "final good-night" hug of lovers, if you wish; but they will be shattered straightway by a last final and several more finals. An astronomer says that the inhabitants of Mars are much more highly developed than the people of this planet. Probably they got rid of their verniform appendices ages ago. There is a Kalogeropoulos in the new Greek cabinet. Probably he is a cousin several syllables removed, of the celebrated James J. Pappatheo-Gekummountourgeotopoulos of Chicago. Senator Clark, informed that he is again a grandfather, promptly announces that he will give the new baby $1,000,000 to start life with. That's what every grandfather would like to do. Charles M. Schwab has moved into his new $5,000,000 home, which is said to be the finest private mansion in the world. But he can't sleep in more than one bed or eat more than one meal at a time. The question whether an income of a thousand a year is enough to warrant matrimony is disputed, but most people will agree that when a young man has a $1,000 income it is safe for him to begin to think of getting married. "Nothing," writes a sentimentalist, "is quite as bad as it might be if there are children in the house." No, indeed, the children could figure out a way to make things much worse. If they weren't afraid of being spanked A SHORTAGE IS FOUND Disappeared Mostly Under Grimes Administration — Governor Hoch Unable to Say What Action Will be Taken About Result Topeka, Kan., Jan. 18. — A total shortage in the Kansas state treasury of about $78,000 is shown by the report of Accountant Morris in the treasury examination just closed, according to a summary of the report prepared by Gov. E. W. Hoch. The report covers all transactions made by the state treasurers from January 1, 1898, to June 30, 1905, including the two full terms of former State Treasurer Frank E. Grimes and one term and six months of the administration of Thos. T. Kelly, the present state treasurer. The bulk of the shortage appears in the accounts of the office during the Grimes administration. Of the total of $78,000 $60,000 is due to missing coupons from bonds owned by the state school fund and $18,000 is due to loss of interest on warrants issued by the territory of Oklahoma to the state of Kansas. Gov. Hoch said he was unable to state the action he might take as a result of in the investigation. Former Treasurer Frank Grimes issued a statement. He absolutely denies any responsibility for the shortage in Oklahoma warrant interest and says he is able to account satisfactorily for all the bond coupon shortages except $7,215. Mr. Grimes stated that he was willing to make good any shortages he was responsible for. In his statement Mr. Grimes puts the responsibility for a number of serious discrepancies on C. R. Richey, his chief clerk. Aside from the shortage shown the Morris representative makes sensational disclosures concerning the erasure of the "state property" stamp from the backs of the coupons and the mutilation of records in the offices of the state treasurer and state auditor. Thos. T. Kelly, the present state treasurer, issued a lengthy statement in reply to the Morris report. Mr. Kelly in his statement says he is pleased with the Morris report and considers it a complete vindication of his conduct while in office. Kelly admits that a few small shortages appear to have occurred since he became state treasurer, but charges them to clerical errors. Cullom in Bad Health. Washington, Jan. 18—Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, left Washington for St. Augustine, Fla. He is in bad health, and it is doubtful whether he can resume his senatorial labors in the near future. CAPTAIN FRANTZ SWORN IN. Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 17. — Captain Frank Frantz was inaugurated as the seventh governor of Oklahoma under circumstances which were in every way auspicious. Contrary to expectations, Charles H. Filson, who is to succeed William Grimes as secretary of Oklahoma did not take office, and will probably not do so for about two weeks, as it will take that long to arrange his bond, and other prelinaries. Gov. Ferguson called all of the territorial employees into his office for a brief farewell. He was also kept busy during almost the entire morning receiving delegations from the various Oklahoma cities who were here for the inauguration. WILL NOT INTERFERE. Fort Leavenworth Lieutenant Must go To Prison. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 17. — Advices received at Ft. Leavenworth from Washington say the president has refused to interfere in the sentence of Lieut. Sidney S. Burbank of the Sixth infantry, recently sentenced by court-martial in the Philippines to fifteen months' imprisonment and dismissal from the army. Burbank's mother came all the way from the Philippines to appear before the president and the secretary of war in her son's behalf. Burbank was convicted of deserting his Philippine wife and becoming engaged to a Leavenworth girl while still married, also of embezzling funds of his company. The conviction of Lieutenant Burbank closes the career of the fourth generation of the Burbank family in the service. Three Policemen Killed. Riga, Livonia, Jan. 18.—A band of revolutionaries fell upon three lieutenants of police and killed them with revolvers. The assassins escaped. The lieutenants were returning from a conference at the palace of the governor-general. Russian General Killed. Penza, Russia, Jan. 18.—Major General Lisovik, who was said to be under sentence of death by the fighting section of the social revolutionaries was killed. The assassin escaped. BIRTH RATE FOLLOW TRADE. What a Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Revealed At a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, held recently in London at the society's rooms, a paper was read on "The Changes in the Marriage and Birth Rates in England and Wales During the Last Half Century, With an Inquiry as to Their Causes," by G. Udny Yule. A careful examination of the fluctuations in the birth rate showed, declared Mr. Yule, that it appeared to respond, like the marriage rate, to the cycle of trade and industry, though the movement is curiously irregular as compared with that of the latter rate. The fall of the birth rate, or a marked increase in the rate of fall, commenced in many European countries just about 1875-6—that is, when the effect of the fall of prices from 1873 was just beginning to make itself felt. The turning point was too well marked not to be due to some very definite cause, and too widespread to be ascribed to any cause of at all a local character. The greatest intercensal increase rates in England and Wales occurred, it was pointed out, after periods of high prices. Don't Wait. Hanna, Wyo., Jan. 15th (Special)—Delays are dangerous. Don't wait until all the awful symptoms of Kidney Disease develop in your system, and your physician shakes his head gravely as he diagnoses your case. If you suspect your kidneys, turn at once to the great Kidney Specific—Dodd's Kidney Pills. You can do so with every confidence. A few of Dodd's Kidney Pills taken in time have saved many a life. The early symptoms of Kidney Disorder may be the forerunners of Bright's Disease, Diabetes and Dropsy. Dr. W. H. J. Jeffries, a resident here, tells below how he treated an attack of Kidney Trouble. He says:— "Before I commenced taking Dodd's Kidney Pills, I had always a tired feeling every morning when I got out of my bed, and my Kidneys were in very bad shape. There was always a dull heavy pain across my loins, and I had hard work to stoop. I took two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, the tired feeling and back pains have entirely gone, and I am now cured." The girl who sets her heart on a Reginaid or an Archibald generally ends by marrying a Bill or a Tom. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle. A saucy girl is apt to make a sassy wife. THE CALL OF THE GANADIAN WEST. The Greatest Wheat Crop of the Continent. The year that has just closed has done a great deal toward showing the possibilities of Western Canada from an agricultural standpoint. The wheat crop has run very near to the 100,000,000 bushel limit that was looked upon as too sanguine an estimate only a short time ago, and the area that has been broken to fall wheat for the coming harvest will go a long way towards enabling the farmers of the West to overlap on the 100,000,000 bushel estimate next year. And while the spring and winter wheat have been doing so well during the past few years, the other cereals have been keeping up with the procession. Rye and barley have made immense strides, and peas and flax have been moving steadily along. Dairying, also, has been successfully carried on in the new provinces, and in every stage the farmer has been "stilling it rich." To such an extent has the success of the West taken hold of the outsiders that the rush of our Americans to Saskatchewan and Alberta, which was looked upon as marvelous last year, bids fair to be largely exceeded in 1906, and as there are still millions of acres of free homesteads available, which the building of the new railways will render accessible to the markets, new wheat lands will be opened ere long. Amongst the first to avail himself of the opportunettler. In a large number of American cities Dominion Government Agents are located, who are able and willing to give the latest and best information in regard to the new districts, which the railways will open up, and there will be no abatement of the rush to the Canadian prairies during the coming season. Some time since a poet in the columns of the "Toronto Star" had the following stirring lines, which throb of the Western spirit: There's a stir in the air, there's a thrill through the land. There’s a movement toward the great West; And the eyes of all men for the moment are turned To the country that we love the best. For 'tis Canada's day in the world's calendar. And to this merry toast let us sup: "Here's to the land, the young giant of the North. Where the prairies are opening up!" They come from the East, and they come from the South. They come o'er the deep rolling sca— They come, for they know they will dwell 'neath a flag That makes all men equal and free. Then, once more the toast, and let every man rise And cheer he he sips from the cup: "Here's to the land, the young giant of the North, Where the prairies are opening up!" Treating Wrong Disease. Many times women call on their family physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one from dyspepsia, another from heart disease, another from liver or kidney disease, another from nervous exhaustion disease, another from pain, another there and in this way they all present alike to themselves and their easy-going and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases, for which he, assuming them to be such, prescribes his pills and potions. In reality, they are all only symptoms caused by some uterine disease. The physician, ignorant of the cause of suffering, encourages this practice, forcing patients to be forging patientgets no better, but probably worse, by reason of the delay, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proper medicine like Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, directed to the cause would have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispelling all those distressing symptoms, and instituting comfort in prolonged misery. It has been well said, that "a disease known is half cured." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a scientific medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman's delicate system, and adapted to man's medicinal roots and is perfectly harmless to its effects in any condition of the system. As a powerful invigorating tonic "Favorite Prescription" imparts strength to the whole system and to the organs distinctly feminine in particular. For over 50 years, it has instilled teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop girls," house-keepers, nursing mothers and feeble women generally. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and revered. As a soothing and strengthening nerve "Favorite Prescription" is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, St. John's wounds, nervous pain, common symptoms commonly attend upon functional and organic disease of the uterus. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Peelts invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. One to the Frugal Cabinet Ministers It is thought probable that three members of the present cabinet live within their salaries—Attorney General Moody, Secretary Wilson and Postmaster General Cortelyou. Such men as Taft, Root and Bonaparte, being heads of departments that bring them into contact with representatives of powerful individuals, find it necessary to spend a great deal more than the government pays them, Secretary Taft is credited with the declaration that it costs more than double his salary to live. The Race Question Is a problem that has puzzled the profoundest, minds, for many years. The best thing for, the human race to do is to eat Pillsbury's Vitos for breakfast. A woman is satisfied with a photograph only when it flatters her. Many a mah who attempts to stand on his dignity gets a hard fall. More Flexible and Lasting. More Flexible and Leasing, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re- sults than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. Poor variety shows are responsible for a good many hard frosts. Permanently cured. No as or non-possessive after first day use of Dr. Kline's street. Nurse lessor. Sand. Sound of 2300 real battle end. Pretreat. 016. N. H. KLINE, Ln. 313 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Every man has a little scheme of his own for making the world better but it is difficult to induce others to take stock in it. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 222 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. It is no use to try to convince a girl that you love her when she knows it A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Healing, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles, Drugs are authorized to refund money if PAZO ONTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. Everybody abuses the devil, but it is to be noticed that be never thinks of resigning his job. Worth Knowing —that Allcock's are the original and only genuine porous plasters; all other so-called porous plasters are imitations. The enjoyment a woman gets out of having her daughter go to a party is sitting up nights to make the dress for it. When the ladder isn't down in the world it is up against it. sware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury. as mercury will easily destroy the sense of smell and completely destroy the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such action should never be allowed except on proscriptive orders. If you do so, it will do ten to fifteen times to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hint: Hint's Cataclysm Care, manufactured by Hint, is taken internally, directly the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hint's Cataclysm Care you get the continue. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio. You can buy it by taking a free. Take Hint's Family Plus for constipation. A man isn't necessarily deaf because he is unable to hear the voice of conscience. 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 ¼-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. The man who would keep his head above water can't let the grass grow under his feet. DAILY MARKET REPORT Kansas City NATIVE STEERS $ 4 00 @ $ 5 90 HUFFLE $ 5 40 @ $ 5 20 WHEAT-No. 2 Hard. 92 @ 81% No. 2 Red. 92 @ 93 CORN No. 2 Mixed. 93% @ 40 OATS No. 1 Mixed. — @ 110 HAY-Choice Timothy. 10 10 @ 110 PRAIRIE 8 53 @ 875 BUTTER 10% @ 75 EGGS — @ 17 Chicago Live Stock GOOD TO PRIME STEERS $ 5 55 @ 6 25 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 2 40 @ 4 50 HEIFERS 2 15 @ 4 51 HOGS 5 25 @ 5 33 Chicago Cash Grain WHEAT No. 2 Red. $ 83% @ 90 No. 2 Hard. $ 84% @ 43 CORN No. 2. — @ 31% St. Louis Live Stock BEEF STEERS $ 3 00 @ 5 85 COWS & HEIFERS. 2 00 @ 3 50 TEXAS STEERS 2 75 @ 4 23 Chicago Futures Open High Low Td y Yd y WHEAT- May. 83% 88% 87% 87% 88% 83% July. 85% 85% 84% 84% 84% 83% OATS- May. 45% 45% 45% 45% 45% 45% July. 45% 45% 45% 45% 45% 45% OATS- May. 31% 32% 31% 32% 31% 30% July. 30% 30% 30% 30% 30% 20% Wichita Live Stock HOGS $ 5 05 @ $ 5 17% COWS 2 80 @ 3 25 STOCKERS — @ 3 40 HEIFERS — @ 2 50 STEERS 3 00 @ 3 85 CALVES 3 75 @ 4 01 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. Harry Nally met instant death at Webb City, Mo., by falling down the Mercantile Mining Company's shaft, a distance of about 150 feet. A Kansas state baseball league was formed in Chicago and Ed Bero, Jr., of Parsons, Kan., was elected president of the new organization. An elaborate and comprehensive answer to the charges against the Isthmian Canal Commission contained in an article in the Independent has been made by Secretary Taft. Congressman Joseph C. Sibley in an open letter to his constituents, dated Washington, January 10, says all his political ambitions are gratified and he will never again ask for a political office. The general assembly of the members of the British Royal Academy has elected Augustus Saint Gaudens, the American sculptor, and Josef Israels, the Dutch painter, honorary foreign members of the academy. While no official statement could be obtained from the physicians it was rumored that, grave change had taken place in the condition of Marshall Field of Chicago, who is ill at the Holland house in New York. At council Bluff, Ia., Pat Crowe was indicted by the Pottawatomie county grand jury for alleged complicity in a street car hold up January 12, 1903, when about $60 was secured from two conductors and a motorman. The attempt to fire the big zinc smelter at Canon City, Colo., a two million dollar plant, makes the fifteenth attempt at incendiarism in Canon City in the past two weeks and convinces the citizens that an organized gang of firebugs is trying to burn the town. Arthur H. Soden and William H. Conant, owners and directors of the Boston team of the National baseball club, refused an offer of $250,000 for the grounds club and franchise, made by M. J. Reagan, who is well known in local baseball circles. The owners want $275,000. Severe weather has so delayed construction of the Northwestern railway extension across Wyoming toward the Eshonehone reservation that the road may not be completed when the reservation is opened in June. As there are no railroads near the reservation a movement is on foot to postpone the opening until later in the season, when both the Burlington and Northwestern extensions may reach the borders of the reservation at Lander and Thermopolis. Senator Long saw the president and laid before him William T. Vernon's answer to charges filed against the latter for appointment as register of the treasury. Senator Long expects a complete vindication of Vernon. He will see the president again within a few days at which time it will probably be decide³ as to whether Verno will or will not be appointed. John H. Converse, of Philadelphia, has endowed the chair of homiletics and pastoral theology of the Presbyterian Theological seminary of Omaha with $30,000. A. M. Linn, of the Iowa state board of health, giving expert testimony in the Pratt murder case at Rocskwell City, testified that Josiah Pratt, for whose death Mrs. Pratt is on trial, was due to the effects of arsenical poisoning, the poison having been administered prior to the man's death. Druggist Mickles, from Yetter, has already testified that Mrs. Pratt purchased arsenic prior to her husband's death, and also that he sold Persing, the hired man, several sheets of fly paper. The ceremonies of opening Tainanfu, capital of the province of Shang Tung, to foreign trade were attended by many Chinese and foreign officials. The invited American guests present included consular officials and representatives of prominent mercantile companies. Dr. William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago since its inception, one of the foremost educators and one of the most learned Hebrew scholars of his time, died of cancer of the intestines. ```markdown ``` Too Many Women Carry the Heavy Load of Kidney Sickness. Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Main street, Haverhill, Mass., says: "in 1908 I was suffering 1898 I was suffering so with sharp pains in the small of the back and had such frequent dizzy spells that I could scarcely get about the house. The urinary passages were also quite irregular. I was suffering so with sharp pains in the small of the back and had such frequent dizzy spells that I could scarcely get about the house. The urinary passages were also quite irregular. Monthly periods were so distressing I dreaded their approach. This was my condition for four years. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away when I began with them and three boxes cured me permanently." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A man may be able to take care of himself, but he isn't apt to realize it until he acquires a wife. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Tack and Tear Quinele Tablets. Drugs retard money if it falls to cure. E. W. GROVE's signature is on each box. 25c. It's the limited express for the man who stutters. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 18 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Many a woman neglects her children to attend a mothers' meeting. FOUR YEARS OF AGONY. Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh—Had to Use Crutches—"Cuticura Remedies the Best on Earth." "In the year 1899 the side of my right foot was cut off from the little toe down to the heel, and the physician who had charge of me was trying to sew up the side of my foot, but with no success. At last my whole foot and way up above my calf was nothing but proud flesh, I suffered untold agonies for four years, and tried different physicians and all kinds of ointments. I could walk only with crutches. In two weeks afterwards I saw a change in my limb. Then I began using Cuticura Scap and Ointment often during the day, and kept it up for seven months, when my limb was healed up just the same as if I never had trouble. It is eight months now since I stopped using Cuticura Remedies, the best on God's earth. I am working at the present day after five years of suffering. The cost of Cuticura Ointment and Soap was only $6, but the doctors' bills were mere like $600. John M. Lloyd.718 S. Arch Ave., Alliance, Ohio, June 27, 1905." His Strong Argument. A few years ago George F. Haley, of Biddeford, was trying his first criminal case before the supreme judicial court of Maliae, with Chief Justice John A. Peters on the bench. Mr. Haley was in the middle of his plea when a man in the audience fell over in a convulsion. The young lawyer stopped disconcerted. "Go on, sir, goon," said the chief justice; "you're giving them fits!" GOT HIS MONEY'S WORTH. Millionaire Wanted Credit for Every Dollar Spent on Dinner Edward Everett Hale was one of the guests at a millionaire's dinner. The millionaire was a free spender, but he wanted full credit for every dollar put out. And as the dinner progressed he told his guests what the more expensive dishes had cost. "This terrapin," he would say, "was shipped direct from Baltimore. A Baltimore cook came on to prepare it. The dish actually cost a dollar a teacpoonful." So he talked of the other courses. He dwelt especially on the expense of the large and beautiful grapes. He told, down to a penny, what he had figured it out that the grapes had cost him apiece. The guests looked annoyed. They ate the expensive grapes charily. But Dr. Hale, smiling, extended his plate and said: "Would you mind cutting me off about $1.87 worth more, please?" UNCONSCIOUS POISONING. How It Often Happens From Coffee. "I had no idea," writes a Duluth man, "that it was the coffee I had been drinking all my life that was responsible for the headaches which were growing upon me, for the dyspsia that no medicines would relieve, and for the acute nervousness which unfitted me not only for work but also for the most ordinary social functions. "But at last the truth dawned upon me I forthwith bade the harmful beverage a prompt farewell, ordered in some Postum and began to use it. The good effects of the new food drink were apparent within a very few days. My headaches grew less frequent, and decreased in violence, my stomach grew strong and able to digest my food without distress of any kind, my nervousness has gone and I am able to enjoy life with my neighbors and sleep soundly o' nights. My physical strength and nerve power have increased so much that I can do double the work I used to do, and feel no undue fatigue afterwards. "This improvement set in just as soon as the old coffee poison had so worked out of my system as to allow the food elements in the Postum to get a hold to build me up again. I cheerfully testify that it was Postum and Postum alone that did all this, for when I began to drink it I 'threw physic to the dogs.'" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the famous little book "The Road to Wellville" in books. WHO SHE WAS SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of'73" Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. Aged Grand Duke Is III. Grand Duke Frederick of Baden, is reported sick with bronchial catarrh. This is serious in a man of 80. The grand duke has been ailing more or less for a year past. He is the husband of old Emperor William's only daughter and favorite child and hence a grand-uncle of William II. The grand duke is one of the most enlightened and liberal princes of Germany and has been to the fore in all movements for constitutional liberty in times past. His people are perhaps the most liberal of all Germany and have a good cash of French character. The aged prince is much beloved throughout the fatherland. Preaching in Saloons. Rev. William Asher is conducting a series of religious meetings along the Bowery, New York, gathering his hearers in the back rooms of saloons where the proprietors will permit. Sometimes in a dance hall as many as 200 persons of all ages will assemble. Mr. Asher mounts a chair and makes simple appeals for living cleaner lives. His wife, who is his constant companion on such occasions, sings a hymn and generally they manage to bring most of their hearers away with them. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Plattner. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Oldest Woman Writer. Mrs. Frances Alexander of Florence is one of the oldest women, if not the oldest, writing today. Mrs. Alexander is in her 93d year and has just translated from the Italian more than 120 miracle stories and sacred legends. WHO S SKETCH OF THE LIFE And a True Story of How Had Its Birth and How it to be Offered for Pu This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, coming from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert Yours for Health Lydia Porkham and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa- thetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, nature's own remedies—calling in a physician only in specially urgent cases. By tradition and experience many of them gained a wonderful knowledge of the curative properties of the various roots and herbs. Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest in the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics and power over disease. She maintained that just as nature so boundfully provides in the harvest fields and orchards vegetable foods of all kinds; so, if we but take the pains to find them, in the roots and herbs of the field there are remedies expressly designed to cure the various ills and weaknesses of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effective medicines for her own family and friends. Chief of these was a rare combination of the choice medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses peculiar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pinkham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them. All this so far was done freely, without money and without price, as a labor of love. But in 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity were too much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from fearful depression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. Some other source of income had to be found. At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made known to the world. The three sons and the daughter, with their mother, combined forces to Church Made of Seal Skins. Church Made of Seal Skins. From the loneliest mission station in the world, on au island 700 yards broad in the remote Arctic regions north of Labrador, the Rev. E. J. Peck has reached England after a perilous voyage in a fifty-ton schooner. The missionary's first church at Blacklead island, Baffin Land, was made of seal skins, but met with an untimely fate, being completely devoured by Eskimo dogs. Nomad Eskimos pay occasional visits, some of them coming all the way from the Bering sea. In spite of privations Mr. Peck and his colleague, Mr. Billy, gave regular teaching to the neighboring Eskimos, and translated the New Testament and Genesis into Baffin Land dialect. An Immense Mexican Farm. Don Louis Terriazas a great friend of President Diaz, has a farm at Chihuahua of about 8,000,000 acres. Don Louis is thought to own more than 1,000,000 cattle. His stable consists of some 100,000 horses; his sheepfold of 700,000 sheep. From 200,000 to 300,000 calves are branded with his brand every spring. More than 1,000 cowboys keep his cattle. At his slaughter and packing houses near Chihuahua City 250,000 cattle, as many sheep, and hogs innumerable are killed, and away they go to his own refrigerator cars. Some 40,000 persons dwell on his estate. He Tames Fish. After spending a great part of five months standing up to his neck in the water of the Lake of Luzerne, Dr. Fastenrach, a Zurich professor, has succeeded in taming about 200 fish so that they eat out of his hand and let him lift them out of the water. He has also taken some remarkable photographs of his finny friends. You can't acquire money without making sacrifices, even when you marry for it. HE WAS OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM the Vegetable Compound by the "Panic of'73" Caused public Sale in Drug Stores. restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world. The Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York, and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured, until today Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words everywhere, and many tons of roots and herbs are used annually in its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself. During her long and eventful experience she was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice—and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her daughter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pinkham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge, and for years she assisted her in her vast correspondence. To her hands naturally fell the direction of the work when its origina- tory passed away. For nearly twenty-five years she has continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took it up. With woman assistants, some as capable as herself, the present Mrs. Pinkham continues this great work, and probably from the office of no other person have so many women been advised how to regain health. Sick women, this advice is "Yours for Health" freely given if you only write to ask for it. Such is the history of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; made from simple roots and herbs; the one great medicine for women's ailments, and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears. --- THINK MONKEYS HAVE SPEECH. Eminent Men of Science Agree with Prof. Garner. It is generally supposed that Prof. Garner is the first man to study what has come to be called the speech of monkeys. As a matter of fact, the honor belongs to Sir Richard Burton, the famous orientalist who translated the "Thousand and One Nights." Lady Burton tells in her biography of her distinguished husband that Sir Richard believed firmly in monkey speech, that he had forty apes continually with him for several years and that he had written down a monkey vocabulary of sixty words. This vocabulary unfortunately was lost. Prof. Garner can make a strange monkey drink by saying a certain word, and with another word he can make it eat and with another word he can frighten it. But Sir Richard Burton could do all these things, too. His vocabulary, furthermore, was larger than 'Mr. Garner's' Ernst Haeckel, the great German scientist, is in hearty sympathy with the study of the monkey language. He says he believes firmly that such a language exists. MADE FORTUNE ON RACE TRACK. One Man Has Won Where Thousands Have Come to Ruin. Frank England, a Jersey City man, 37 years old, says that he has won a fortune of $150,000 by betting at the race tracks. He started with a capital of 75 cents and has accumulated a sufficient sum to keep him in comfort for the rest of his life. That's one case; for that one we will venture the prediction that there are 100 instances where men have started with a fortune of $150,000 and wound up with 75 cents as a result of gambling on horse races. Every dollar that Mr. England won came out of some other man's pocket. The man who starts with 5 cents capital, who engages in legitimate business and who by good management and thrift succeeds in collecting a sum equal to that which Mr. England possesses benefits the community. He helps to create wealth, while the gambler who wins has merely enriched himself entirely at the expense of others. None There. A Scotch minister entered the churchyard one day while the sexton was busily employed neck-deep in a grave throwing up soil and stones to make room for a dead parishioner. "Well, Saunders," said the minister, "that is a work well calculated to make an old man like you thoughtful. I wonder you do not repent of your evil ways and make new resolves while so seriously occupied about another's grave to live a better life and prepare for your own." The old man, resting himself upon the edge of his spade, calmly replied. "Ah sir, ye ken there is no repentance in the grave."—Weekly Scots man. Democratic King of Greece. King George of Greece likes to stroll about incognito. Declining to answer a challenge from a royal sentry on one occasion he was fired at, but escaped with a rent in his overcoat. Next day he summoned the sentinel to his presence, thanked him for his devotion to instructions and presented him one of the minor military orders. King George is an athlete and more than once, it is said, he has, under the pseudonym of "George Papadopulus," taken part in the struggles of the arena and the racing path. He has been described as the most muscular king in Europe. The Habit of Kindness If you are in the habit of thinking kindly and saying kind words, in a short time you will become mentally related to all kindly natured people in the world, and you will have the force of their kind, loving thoughts pouring in upon you, so that it will be easier for you to say a kind word than the reverse. By indulging in healthy thoughts you attract to yourself everything necessary to your well-being—happiness, health, strength and friends. Madison's Mint Julep Bet. Among the trees at the edge of the lawn, on the right hand side of the house as you face the mountains, James Madison built an icehouse. This was in 1809, and it was the first icehouse in Orange county, Virginia. Ice in summer! His servants were incredulous. And he bet his overseer an ice mint julep on the Fourth of July, against which the latter wagered a wild turkey. Of course, Madison won the turkey.—Country Life. Authority on International Law. Prof. John Bassett Moore, one of the most popular men on the faculty of Columbia university, is known in university circles the world over because of the commanding position he has attained through his lectures and meetings on international law and diplomacy. He has written the only history and digest of international arbitration in existence. Not Too Many of Them. She (sentimentally)—"How beautiful that idea of the poet's the words can medicine most ill." He (cynically)—"That may be, but loving words do not appear to be a drug in the market." United Kingdom Population The population of the United Kingdom, according to census just taken, is 43,219,778. England and Wales had 34,152,977, Scotland 4,676,603 and Ireland 4,970,208. HIGH CLASS DRUGGISTS AND - OTHERS. The better class of druggists, everywhere, are men of scientific attainments and high integrity, who devote their lives to the welfare of their fellow men in supplying the best of remedies and purest medicinal agents of known value, in accordance with physicians' prescriptions and scientific formula. Druggists of the better class manufacture many excellent remedies, but always under original or officinal names and they never sell false brands, or imitation medicines. They are the men to deal with when in need of anything in their line, which usually include all standard remedies and corresponding adjuncts of a first-class pharmacy and the finest and best of toilet articles and preparations and many useful accessories and remedial appliances. The earning of a fair living, with the satisfaction which arises from a knowledge of the benefits conferred upon their patrons and assistance to the medical profession, is usually their greatest reward for long years of study and many hours of daily toil. They all know that Syrup of Figs is an excellent laxative remedy and that it gives universal satisfaction, and therefore they are selling many millions of bottles annually to the well informed purchasers of the choicest remedies, and they always take pleasure in handing out the genuine article bearing the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package. They know that in cases of colds and headaches attended by biliousness and constipation and of weakness or torpidity of the liver and bowels, arising from irregular habits, indigestion, or over-eating, that there is no other remedy so pleasant, prompt and beneficial in its effects as Syrup of Figs, and they are glad to sell it because it gives universal satisfaction. Syrup of Figs, and they are glad to sell it because it gives and the immense demand for it, imitations have been made, tried and condemned, but there are individual druggists to be found, here and there, who do not maintain the dignity and principles of the profession and whose greed gets the better of their judgment, and who do not hesitate to recommend and try to sell the imitations in order to make a larger profit. Such preparations sometimes have the name—"Syrup of Figs"—or "Fig Syrup" and of some piratical concern, or fictitious fig syrup company, printed on the package, but they never have the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of the package. The imitations should be rejected because they are injurious to the system. In order to sell the imitations they find it necessary to resort to misrepresentation or deception, and whenever a dealer passes off on a customer a preparation under the name of "Syrup of Figs" or "Fig Syrup," which does not bear the full name of the California Fig Syrup Co. printed on the front of the package, he is attempting to deceive and mislead the patron who has been so unfortunate as to enter his establishment, whether it be large or small, for if the dealer resorts to misrepresentation and deception in one case he will do so with other medicinal agents, and in the filling of physicians' prescriptions, and should be avoided by every one who values health and happiness. Knowing that the great majority of druggists are reliable, we supply the immense demand for our excellent remedy entirely through the druggists, of whom it may be purchased everywhere, in original packages only, at the regular price of fifty cents per bottle, but as exceptions exist it is necessary to inform the public of the facts, in order that all may decline or return any imitation which may be sold to them. If it does not bear the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package, do not hesitate to return the article and to demand the return of your money, and in future go to one of the better class of druggists who will sell you what you wish and the best of everything in his line at reasonable prices. Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. any garment without ripening apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. When the old man speaks of his oldest girl as the flower of the family he probably means the wali flower. The trouble with our changeable climate is that we can't change it for a better one. PRICE, 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACNE AND NEURALGIA. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Victim of Golphobia. A parallel has been found for the young curate who said: "Here endeth the first innings." An English clergyman on Saturday was beaten in a golf tournament by a put on the last green. This seems to have preyed on his mind, for on the following day he gave out his text as follows: "In the eighth chapter and the thirty-sixth verse of the Gospel, according to St. Mark, you will find these words to be written: 'For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose the last hole?'" DID A WORLD OF GOOD Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cure Heart Pains, Dizzy Spells and Weakness. Easy to get, hard to get rid of; that is what most sufferers think of dyspnea. They are astonished when their stomach begins to trouble them seriously. They had been eating hurriedly and irregularly for a long time, to be sure, but they supposed their stomachs quite used to that. Some people know that the strength which the weak stomach needs, and for the lack of which the whole body is suffering, can be found surely and quickly in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. In hundreds of instances these pills have succeeded where other remedies failed. "My indigestion," said Mr. J. R. Miller, of Dayton, Va., "came in the first place from the fact that a few years ago I worked a great deal at night, and ate at any odd hour whenever the chance came, and always very hurriedly. One day I found myself a victim of terrible dyspepsia. It kept me miserable all the time for several years. "I always had a great deal of distress after eating, and when I got up from my sleep my stomach would be so weak that it would hardly take any food. I had very uncomfortable feelings about my heart, and was dizzy and, whenever I stoope over and then straightened up, my eyes would be badly blurred. "I read the statements of several persons who had got rid of obstinate stomach troubles by using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I bought some and they did me a world of good. They acted promptly and did just what was claimed for them. I have no more distress after meals; the bad feeling has gone from the region of my heart; the alarming dizzy spells have disappeared, and I am strong again." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists and by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Scheuenctdy, N. X. IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, NEADACNE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Glipine to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Dicmer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. GOOD FOR $1.00 ON PURCHASE ceipt of your name ess truggist's Name is Address or to pay postage we will mail you a sample free, Mull's Grape Tonic, and will also mail you a dollar toward the purchase of more Tonic from TONIC CO., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. YOURSELF TO SUFFER Trouble, chances with constipation or stomach troubles when there is a eve within your reach? N AND STOMACH TROUBLE sick headache, bifidousness, typhoid fever, appendicitis, piles as well as many others. Your own physician will tell you that or physio yourself. Use GRAPE TONIC less severely that builds up the tissues of your digestive organ appropriate condition to overcome all attacks. It is very pleasant it does them great good. at all & diggits. The $1.00 bottle contains about six times and about three times as much as the 50 cent bottle. There is a side. TONIC CO., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. THIS COUPON IS GOOD FREE Upon receipt of your Address THIS COUPON IS GOOD FOR $1.00 ON PURCHASE And 10c in stamps or silver to pay post if you have never used Mull's Grape certificate good for one dollar toward your druggist. Address MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., 1 YOU WRONG YOUR from Constipation and Stomach Trouble. Why suffer or take needless chances with a perfect, harmless, natural, positive cure within CONSTIPATION AND cause blood potion, skin diseases, sick head and every kind of female trouble as well as man all this is true. But don't drug or physic yours MULL'S GR the natural, strengthening harmless remedy to and puts your whole system in spicidid condition to take. The children like it and it does them. 35 cent, 20 cent and $1.00 bottles at all dues and put your own bottle and about three great saving in buying the $1.00 also. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO. And 100 in stamps or silver to pay postage we will mail you a sample free, if you have never used Mull's Grape Tonic, and will also mail you a certificate good for one dollar toward the purchase of more Tonic from your druggist. Address MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. YOU WRONG YOURSELF TO SUFFER Why suffer or take needles chances with constipation or stomach troubles when there is a perfect, harmless, natural, positive cure within your reach? CONSTIPATION AND STOMACH TROUBLE cause blood poison, skin diseases, sick headache, biliessness, typhoid fever, appendicitis, and every kind of female trouble as well as many others. Your own physician will tell you that Use the natural, strengthening harmless remedy that builds up the tissues of your digestive organs and puts your whole system in spiadic condition to overcome all attacks. It is very pleasant to take. The children like it and it does then great harm. The $1.00 bottle contains about sixty times as much as the 35 cent bottle and about three times as much as the 50 cent bottle. There is a great saving in buying the $1.00 size. MILLIUS GRAPE TONIC CO. 148 Third Ave. Rock Island, Ill. The egotist may be imbued with his subject, but not to the extent that his subject is imbued with him. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 16 cents. Try it now. SEED BOOK Our new Seed Book for 1000 is ready to be sent out. Beautiful illustrated. Sent free to any address. ESTABLISHED IN 1884. Oldest Seed House in Southern Kansas. Ross Bros. Seed House Dept. C. Wichita, Kansas. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by draggists. CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` --- PRICE. 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE THAS NO EQUAL FOR HEADACHE GOOD FOR ONE DOLLAR PURCHASE We will send FREE SAMPLES of our reliable medicines and a plan whereby you can increase your supply. Please call us for help. Sample Household Box sent to sell from. Many making from $10 to $5 a week. Delivery to your territory is taken. Address Advertising Dept. John Bred Chemical Co., DENSION JOHN W. WORRIS Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecuted in the Bureau of 33rd in the war, is qualified to sit in The Government of Canada FARMS 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 as 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.) W. N. U.—WICHITA—No. 3—1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. 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., 102 E. Douglas Pone 35' Vm. Dunson Robt, Floyd Dunson - Floyd andolin Club an & Co., Pone 35' Robt. Floyd - Floyd Music For Any Occasion Special Arrangements For Pares. Prices Reasonable . . . eave Order at 428 N. Main. St Fourth National Bank United States Depository vectors — W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftzger, H. E. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith. general Banking Business Tranacted W CHITA KANSAS last came the decks of feather white Among the laurel trees over the mountain; through the night, Stirred by the Winter's breeze. the winds a wedding anthem sing, With cold hair all aglow, The Snow Queen knits her Forest King the mistletoe. Kate Masterson. OLDEN'S D Prescriptions ... Drugs of all kinds Your patronage solicited. customer. Our store is Hea 615 North SECOND DENN'S DRUG ST Prescriptions Filled with C drugs of all kinds, Cigars and To tronage solicited. + Once a customer er. Our store is Headquaaters for Colo 615 North Main st SECOND TO NONE Prescriptions Filled with Care ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. PLEASES ALL GOOD BREAD MAKERS ----- It Is White As Snow. ----- TRY IT OTTO WEISS Thos. Glover, Pres. S. E. Patton, S. er, Pres. S. E. Patton, S. Ed Landrum, Treas. Jas. L. H We Caneed You We have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Grocerie, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Brooms, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Stationary, and, in fact, anythingand everything you may want in the Grocery Line. House Grocery Store 517 North Main Street Mistletoe HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price 116 East Douglas Avenue 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. Bearrice Miller. Sec. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Nice Furnished ROOMS By the night or week Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 245 North Water St. J G Hopper, 229 N. Main Everything Cheap For Cash Call and give us a trial. Fresh and Salt Meats of All Kinds. Poultry and Oysters TRUE STORE Filled with Care Cigars and Tobacco ... Once a customer, always a quaaters for Colored people. h Main st. To None OTTO WEISS. Agent. S. E. Patton, Sec. Jas. L. Harper, Mangr Translent a Specialty THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT. Excellence Counts..... It excels in every respect,--color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. Red Front RACKET The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and kinds AT WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N Main A FOOL and his mouey are soon parted. The mau who pays out his good money for inferior building material is foolish. Buy the BEST. We sell it. Have you seen the latest building material? It is our Cement Building Stone. The longer it wears, the harder it gets. J. H. TURNER, 537—47 West Douglas Ave. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" so The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Press 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. "Who is the foremost man in the world?" asks an esteemed contemporary. The foremost man in the newspaper world, as any fair minded person will concede, is the man with the longest nose for news. The country's postoffice business for the year ending June 30, last shows an increase of $10,000,000, over the preceding year. And yet the average man probably did not notice any increase in his correspondence. --- e-way Colonist Rates northwest and California VIA MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Tickets on sale February 15th For rates to other points in Cal for information in regard to rout car rates and literature describ etc. call on or address the undersi E E Bleckley, T P A Mo. Pac. Railway Station, ed Cheap Ratee FRI SYS Will sell daily until May 31st B point at greatly reduced rates- except tickets sold during the 30 days. For full particulars see M. H. RUDOLPH, Agent february 15th to April 7th, 1909, Inclusive points in California and the Northwest and ward to routes, connections, tourist sleeping describing California, Washington, Oregon the undersigned T P A I R Sherwin, P & T A Station, eor Wichita St and Douglas Ave Rates To Denver FRISCO SYSTEM 1 May 31st Round trip tickets to the above reduced rates- Tickets limited to May 31st. during the month of May to be limited particulars see Frisco Agent or write Agent F. E. CLARK, D. P. A. Tickets on sale February 15th to April 7th, 1909, Inclusive For rates to other points in California and the Northwest and for information in regard to routes, connections, tourist sleeping car rates and literature describing California, Washington, Oregon etc. call on or address the undersigned E E Bleckley, T P A I R Sherwin, P & T A Mo. Pac. Railway Station, cor Wichita St and Douglas Ave Cheap Rates To Denver FRISCO SYSTEM Will sell daily until May 31st Round trip tickets to the above point at greatly reduced rates- Tickets limited to May 31st. except tickets sold during the month of May to be limited 30 days. For full particulars see Frisco Agent or write M. H. RUDOLPH. Agent F. E. CLARK, D. P. A. Ought to move Southwest Send us the names and addresses of any person you think would be interested in the Southwest, and we will mail them interesting land booklets and a copy of our immigration journal, "The Earth" You send the list and we will send the descriptive matter. Do it NOW! General Colonization Agent A. T. & S. F. Ry Railway Exchange, Chicago, Ill Mr. W. H. Jones, until recently a guard at the Kansas penitentiary and one of Wichita's most prominent colored men, became very suddenly ill Wednesday on his return from Oklahoma, where he had been on business. He became sick shortly after his arrival at his home, 809 North Water street, and in a short while he was bleeding profusely with a hemorrhage of the lungs and for some time he was in a very critical condition. Medical service was called and up to going to press he has had twelve hemorrhages, but he is much improved, we are glad to say. Ever since Mr. Jones was in a runaway while on duty at Lansing, --- --- Your Old Friends Back East Santa Fe TOOK SUDDENLY SICK. NORTH TOPEKA ITEMS. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 is progressing nicely. The Daughters are working in peace and harmony at present. No. 93 is in a healthful condition. We have had three Daughters on the sick list, but at present all are in splendid heath. We are progressing nicely in paying for our Taborian hall, 508 West First, North Topeka. We as daughters of Macedonia Tabernacle will be able to say in the future to come: "We daughters have liquidated the debt. The Lord is with us in our noble efforts and we as Christian ladies of the Tabernacle feel proud of our great work we have accomplished so far." We as true Daughters intend to press forward with the work until it is accomplished. With our noble leader and supervisor who will lead us to victory. Ida M. Jordan, H. P. G. D. P., Sarah McElroy, C. R. he has been more or less trouble with internal ailments. His many friends hope for his early and speedy recovery. Mrs. M. N. Swan was much pleased when she returned to the city from her home on West 17th street, to find that her son, John J. Smith, had sent her a fine shawl for a New Year's present and that her daughter, Mrs. Sam C. Collins, had set aside $5.00 for her. Both presents were highly acceptable. John Smith is with Mahara Bros. Minstrels. While Mr. and Mrs. Collins have charge of the Country Club. NEWTON NEWS Mrs. S. Dickerson is reported quite ill. Remember the revival meetings at the Second Baptist church. All are cordially invited to attend. J. Hart is reported no better. Mrs. F. Jordan is reported ill. Elmer Kennedy left the city last week for his home in Hutchinson, Kansas. Miss Myrtle Tandy is reported quite ill. Mrs. A. Fox and daughter Madge who are visiting parents and friends, from Colorado Springs, Colo., made a flying trip to Wichita Saturday. DODGE CIT YNEWS. The Sunday School organized here recently met with Jerry Saunders. Miss Eva Bradshaw gave a fine birthday party Saturday night. Twenty-seven were present. Mrs. Reedley was taken very suddenly sick Sunday night. Lost—Large brown boa. Reward to finder. Miss Beattrice Scott, Dodge City, Kansas. Geo. Allen, who visited with his sister, Mrs. Kittie Coleman, during the holidays, has returned to his home in Memphis, Tenn. --- Joseph Dixson visited Wellington friends and attended the Booker T. Washington club Tuesday evening. Master Major Dabney is quite sick Master Major Dabney is quite sick at the home of his parents. Ed Burlington is still very ill. H. B. Roberts is wiring the Sumner county high school building for electric lights. Ruble and Morris Works, of Daaton, visited Wellington friends and also attended the Booker T. Washington club. Master Cecil and little Miss Dorothy Jordan are very sick with whooping cough. The Bible reading that was organized in connection with the Booker T. Washington club and meets every Sunday afternoon at four o'clock, is growing rapidly. Little Miss Marguerite Monroe is ill with whooping cough. The Booker T. Washington club rendered the following program Tuesday, night, January 16, 1905: Solo, Arthur Adams; paper, Francis Roberts; recitation, Pansy Teal; trio, Messrs J. K. Oldham, F. M. Roberts and H. B. Roberts; paper, Mary Jordan. Debate, Resolved that country life is more beneficial than city life. Contestors: H. Everhart, Blackwell, affirmative. H. Everhart and Brown, negative. The affirmatives won, two to one. CLEAN OUT The colored people must get busy and do some renovating among them selves. There is much on this line that is needed to be eone and is it not far better for us to do the renovating ourselves than to have others to do it for us? As has been said from time to time we must stop being so timid to deal with each other. Among the colored people—as among other people—there wolves in sheep clothing—and wherever one of these deceptors is found it is the duty of the colored people themselves to pull the cover off and show the wolf. There is no need of the colored people being so far wrapped and tied that they will shut their eyes to wrong or by their silence encourage anything but right. At the very best the colored people are charged with upholding wrong—rather than expose wrong—and when in any case they do so—how much greater decomes the charge? As a matter of fact—there is no people who believe more sincerely in right than does the color people — the only trouble is their slowness to discernit — one they see the right — they hasten to follow. Like the one rotten apple in the barrell may be shown the effect of one wrong door — and it is the business of the colored man to be the first to make the effort to purge the race of all racial impurities There is no use in one part of the race getting angry with the other because an effort is being or has been made to purify the race—because unless such steps are taken the race will drop lower and lower in the estimation of the other races of the community. This is the one thing now most prominently needful—and the sooner done—the better. The coloredrace must prove by their activity to purify the race where we ded their right to a place among the fore races of our country. Everytree that drings forth corrupt fruit should be hewn down and cast in the fire. Montgomery, Ala. Dec. 21 There is much local filing over the reduction of $100 a year on the salary of Thos. Finley, a Postoffice clerk because he refused to work with a Negro mailinning clerk. The mailing force is made up entirely of Negroes and he would not go back and help He was recommended for discipline by Postmaster Buckler and his pay cut that much. Finely is a nephew of Thos. Reynolds President of the Fourth National Bank. To be honest, to be kind to de industrious, to be frugal: to earn a little and tt spend a little less than I earn; to subscrrede and payr for a race paper; to invest in race inter- prises; to make my family happy and my race better respected; to command theright and renuece the wrong without being embittered. To be worthy of friendship and to keep friends with my superiors only This my resolution for 1906 — Will you sign it? **Way over yonder in de wes'** De sun he say good-night; De clouds dey pile de kivers up So' he he lay de right. He travel far, he travel fas' Across de sky all day; He reckons dut he'll jes' turn in. Too tired foh work or play. **But Mrs. Moon, she come along.** A lookin' mighty fine. An' all the family of stars Is startin' out to shine. De he bobble him Mistah Sun. He've sent him fr'm de sky. While all the kinkelfs gathers 'roun' To laugh an' jolly. The Wayside Spring of Melody Mrs. Wynford had been distinctly out of sorts; so much so that her husband had thought it prudent to slip unostentationally out of doors, and seek the hay-loft in the warm barn, instead of the couch in the sitting room for his brief after-dinned rest. And now, while he drowsed, and rested his aching bones in the dim quiet, broken only by the soft rustle of the hay in the stalls below, the munching of the horses, and the soft rubbing of their velvet noses around and around their feed-boxes in search of the last elusive grain, he ruminated dejectedly on the sharp speeches with which his noon-day meal had been abundantly spiced—speeches about their poverty and the near approach of Christmas. There was no bitterness in his heart, only a perplexed sadness as, in his thoughts, he turned this way and that, like some gentle creature in a trap, seeking some crevice of possible escape. The hard monotony of the life—the grinding commonplace of the daily round— "I can stand it well enough," he said to himself, "I've been used to it—all my life; it's out doors—it's clean—and pretty—I don't mind it; but—it's lonesome for her—she's cooped up in the house most all the time—and no one to run in—like they did in the village—where she was brought up. And she works too hard—I know she does. Oh—what can I do? He groaned, and buried his face in the fragrant hay that filled the barn with its dying breath of sweetness. "Pa," piped an appealing voice, "where are you. Pa?" "Here, Sonny," and immediately the clump of small shoes was followed by a rustic near the long ladder; soon a pair of small, red-mittened hands appeared, clasping the rungs, then a tanned, wistful face, beneath a torn cloth cap. "Say, Pa—I want a watch fer my Christmas; can I, Pa? Lon French is goin' t' git one—an' the other boys, maybe; can't I, Pa?" "I guess so, son; but don't say anything to your Ma about it—not today; wait till to-morrow." "All right!" Johnny climbed a round or two higher, and then, with a wild whoo, launched himself full upon his father's stomach. After the romp that followed, John Wynford, now a good deal more cheered, descended the ladder with his son on his shoulder, harnessed the reluctant old horses and drove them affield, across to "the woods" where the winter fuel lay corded under dry snows, Johnny sitting astride of one deeply curved back, and digging his frosty-tipped shoes between the harness straps and the comfortably padded, warm sides. The father even found heart to entertain his son with that western nursery song—"There was a frog lived in a spring," Johnny adding a shrill treble to the chorus, "Kimo Kero—Delto Kero," etc. But the shadows steadily lengthened, and the keener chill of coming night blighted the warmth of the short December day; Johnny raced away in obedience to a mysterious trilling call from a thicket near the fence, and his father was left alone. Pacing heavily along behind the loaded sled on the return journey, the frowning, unhappy face and gloomy eyes of his wife haunted him; heighed deeply, and forgot to encourage Jim to keep his end of the whiffle-tree at right angles with the tongue; poor, sleepy Jim, however profited nothing by his laxity, for a vicious bite just beneath his hanging underlip, administered by the partner of his toils, brought him into position again with a jump. The farmer trudged heavily in old Jim's track, and looked abroad over the snow-shrouded fields with unseeing eyes. "Poor Henrettle—poor girl" he sighed; "how lively she used to be! Wish I could think of something to kind o' liven her up a little." "Hey—Mry Wynford," piped a shrill voice behind him, "want to buy some tickets?" "Tickets — what tickets?" John turned and looked down on the tow head and freckled face of a small boy who was carefully treading the snow furrups behind him. "Oh, that you Billy? What tickets have you got?" "Concert—town hall—to-night—famous kortet—melodyon player—been to Milwaukee—Waukesha go'in to Cooney (Oconomowoc)—to-night—tickets twenty-five cents." John slowly read the florid encomiums of the country press extolling the performance of the 'Singleton Quartette," and said heartily: "Why, yes, seems to be a pretty good thing—I'll take two—your folks go'in?" "Yep," answered Billy, and sped away, shouting to a confederate on the fence. "I hope it will be good," John sollo- quized, as he gathered up the reins, and admonished old Jim to be lively and gather up his relaxed leg for the short journey home. "Anyway it'll be something new." A goodly audience had gathered in the hall when Mr. and Mrs. Wynford arrived and sought places on the long benches before the high platform that stretched across one end of the room. The mystery of a red curtain, hiding this platform from the eager eyes in front, had subdued some of the older people to mere whispered conjectures as to what was likely to happen next; but the bolder young ones could be heard speculating, and tittering, on the back scats, near the doors. Suddenly, a sequence of smooth, soft chords from behind the curtain hushed every voice; even the restless feet of the children were quieted. Henrietta wondered if these heavenly sounds could possibly come from the wheezy, unhappy old melodone she had often listened to, as Mattie Blake pounded and pumped it with visibly correlated movements of hands and feet. After a prelude the instrument ceased, and four voices—sweet, O, unspeakably sweet to the tired heart of one listener at least—began softly to sing: When the humid showers gather Over all the starry spheres. Like the cool, summer rain upon the roof, the delicious harmonies fell upon the thirsty hearts of men and women who had, for once, turned aside from the beaten track of toil, to drink at so pure a spring of joy. When the voices ceased—there were six long stanzas. Henrietta turned with a sigh; she lifted her dark eyes to her husband's face, and John knew that the concert would be a success. But now the curtain was rolling slowly upward, creaking at every pull; and in smiling response to the applause that greeted them, two pretty young women in awe-inspiring silk gowns—"Low neck and short sleeves" the girls on the back seat whispered to each other—came forward, followed by two incredibly neat young gentlemen in all the glory of swallowtails and white kid gloves. A portly gentleman seated himself before the weary little melodeon, and reaching far over his obtrusive waist-coat, proceeded to manipulate the keys at arm's length, gently rolling from side to side as he did so, and keeping an abstracted eye on the white-washed ceiling. Every sound was instantly hushed as the sweet young voices began softly to breathe: "Backward—turn backward—O Time, in your flight; Make me a child again—just for tonight—" Henrietta felt something warm splash upon her hand, and her heart yearned for her mother, asleep on a sunny little hill-side "burying ground," not far away. But the young ladies were now gracefully retiring to the back of the platform; escorted to seats by the young men with an obsequious grace at which the country boys gulped with a doubtful and suspicious envy. After this ceremony the young men returned, and, facing each other, plunged energetically into an unproarious argument concerning "Three—Black—Crows." At this Henrietta, leaning against her husband's shoulder, was fain to pull his clean, white kerchief from his breast pocket, her own being all too small—and wipe the tears of hysteric laughter from her eyes. When the applause had subsided, the performers seated themselves beside the young ladies, and mopped their perspiring brows, their diamond rings twinkling deliciously as they did so. Again the melodeon sighed a soft prelude, and the player, throwing his head well back and fixing sentimental eyes on the little lamp chandelier, fervidly murmured: "Mrs. Lofty keeps a carriage— So do I." Henrietta turned to her husband, and laid her small work-worn hand upon his knee. "With my Blue-eyed, laughing baby— Trundling by—" The mother lifted a smile of triumphant sweetness to the rapt face bending above her. But time would fail to describe how the basso descended to unknown depths, falling off the bass end of the little melodeon in no time, in the prolonged cadences of: "Rocked—in—the—cra—dle—of—the—deep—" With what a delightful galley the tenor capered through the measures of "Twickenham Ferry." How impressively the contralto declared: "It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep!" How the man at the melodeon rocked his ponderosity perilously, as he lightly chanted: "Baby bye—here's a fly!" And how the audience rose at last by request, and under that spirited leadership joined in "The Star Spangled Banner," while the little melodeon rolled, and swelled, and thundered like the immense pipe-organ it would probably like to be, and never could. When it was all over, Henrietta, without lingering to speak to her friends, pinched John's arm significantly and led him out through a side door, near at hand. When they had climbed into their sleigh and awakened old Jinnie, who was very cross and contrary in her disapproval of these late hours, a neighbor came running, and jumped in behind; as he dangled his legs over the tailboard, he discussed the evening's performance with John, but Henrietta did not speak. It had been a great treat, that evening of melody, that deep, delightful draught from the wayside spring of music, and she was thankful. Oh she was thankful! Half wonderingly she reviewed her discontent of the days before. How had she fallen into that rut of peevish gloom when there was so much, so much, that was sweet and bright and wholesome in the world? How had she so discolored the peaceful routine of her life, and swathed herself in leaden gray, when there was the crisp green of the pines, the soft blue of the heavenly vault, the golden glow of the sun, the flaming carmines and vermilions and salmons and orange and lemon yellows of the evening skies to brighten and glorify all this white pure mantle of snow? Why, all life was color and music—and love! She had lost all sight of the paltry performers who had wrought all this magic. To her only the spell remained. She lifted her pale young face to the moonlight, and in her star-bright eyes—but who can divine the emotions of the fevered heart over which a breath of heaven has swept for one fugitive moment? Arrived at home, she sprang lightly out, and entered the house alone, while John drove on to the barn. Taking the low-burning lamp from the kitchen table, she stole softly into the bedroom, and sank upon her knees beside the crib where her baby slept. One dimpled leg lay outside the coverlet, and her tears rained on the pearly flesh as she kissed it; she brushed the curls back from the moist forehead, and baby turned and looked up at her with a sleepy sigh of utter contentment; thrusting a thumb into his mouth, and spreading a little brown hand over his face, he reached up and softly patted his mother's cheek with the other hand. The kitchen door opened, and Henrietta rose to meet her husband. "O—John—dear—" she buried her wet face in the breast of his rough coat, and he held her close, while with his large, gentle hand he smoothed her shining black hair. "I will—be—good—" she faltered.—M. W. Law in Men and Women. Daisy had a coid and was a sad mouse of a tiny girl until Dick came home and threw a little paper sack into her lap. And when she felt of it she found it was as warm as toast. Then she cried out, "Oh, Dickie dear, it's goobers." By that she meant peanuts, for Dick had told her that another name for peanut is a goober. And ever since she called them by the new name. "Yes, Daisy," said Dick, "a whole bagful of goobers. Now we'll make Mamma Goober and Papa Goober and Patsy Goober and Betty Goober and a whole lot of little Goobers and the Goober cat, and Goober dog." And then Dick pulled out of his pocket some toothpicks and a fountain pen. With the picks he made funny little wooden legs and arms, which he stuck in the nuts, and then he drew eyes and noses and mouths on them. And the cat and the dog looked so funny with their stiff wooden tails sticking out so straight that Daisy laughed until two bright tears rolled down her cheeks. Then Dick paired them off in couples, Mamma and Papa Goober taking the lead. They made a funny looking procession. "Now," said Dick, "they are all ready to go to Goober Town as soon as you get tired of playing with them." "Where's Goober Town?" asked Daisy. "Oh, it's through a gateway of pearls, down a narrow red lane. Can you guess?" And after a while Daisy guessed that Goober Town meant her own little stomach. And then she sent the Goober family through the gateway of pearls down the red lane, one by one, until not a thing was left but the wooden legs and arms and the two wooden tails. Bamboo Fern Stand. This is an easily-constructed stand that costs but very little. It may be made either of bamboo or rustic branches. The bamboo can be bought at almost any oil and color dealer's and at most furnishing warehouses. Three lengths of suitable height are required, and two circular pieces of wood. Holes must be burnt in the ```markdown ``` CAN BE MADE AT HOME. bamboo, then long brass screws are passed into the holes and screwed into the wood. The wood should be stained or painted, and the edge, if liked, may be finished with fancy gimp, fixed on by tacks. NEGRO'S SECOND CONVICTION Jickers Twice Convicted of Assaulting a White Woman MUSKOGEE: Joe Vickers, the negro who criminally assaulted Mrs Dessie Dunbar, a white woman, near Wagoner last June has again been found guilty. The case was tried in the courts a few months ago, and Vickers was convicted. The verdict was later set aside by the judge. A hard fight was made by the defendant's attorneys to reduce the degree of the crime, if not entirely free him. An entire day was spent in arguing the case, but when the jury got hold of it their deliberations were short. An hour after the case had been turned over to them a verdict was delivered to the court finding the "defendant guilty as charged." When Vickers heard the verdict, which meant death, he uttered not a word and betrayed not the slighest emotion. The fact that the jury made no recommendations whatever when the verdict was returned, means that Vickers will be sentenced to death by hanging. Last June, while the husband of Mrs. Bessie Dunbar was at work in the field on his farm near Wagoner, Vickers went to the house and as saulted her, threatening her life, having a Winchester rifle with him at the time. The woman was dragged into the house and badly beaten, according to the testimony. For several days after Vickers was pursued by posses, both white and negro, heavily armed and finally captured in Kansas. He was later identified by Mrs. Dunbar. Vickers, in the event he is hanged in Muskogee, will be the first man to be hanged in the western district. There were several hanged in this city in the old "bullpen" or stockade before the western district was created. POT HUNTERS MUST QUIT Indian Agent Instructs Subordinates to Enforce Law MUSKOGEE. The Indian police in the Chootaw nation have instructions from Indian Agent Dana H. Kelsey, to make it hot for pot hunters. Special policemen have been sent to the Chootaw country to rigidly entrench the law. For the past few months hunters have been shooting game and shipping it to the larger cities. The Indian agent is now working in conjunction with the railroads in enforcing the law. He received notice from the Frisco to the effect that they had instructed their express agents not to accept game for shipment from Indian Territory. Quail were frequently sold to the Harvee eating houses along the Frisco. The agent received word from Mr. Harvey that no more quail would be bought which came from Indian Territory. A week ago the Indian poice seized three deer which had been killed by hunters, the hunters themselves making good thir escape. The game thus seized is distributed among the needy fullblood Chootaws. TAXES FOR FULL AMOUNT Bank Must Pay Taxes on Capital Stock. Save Judas Gill GUTHRIE. Federal Judge Gill of the Northern Indian Territory district has rendered a decision of interest to every corporation in Indian Territory. The board of equalization levied a tax upon the total capitalization of the International Bank & Trust company, of Vinita, $100,000. The bank refused to pay on but $50,900, the amount of capital stock paid in. The court held that the city council had levied a tax which had been passed upon by a board of equalization, which was legally created, and that the bank would have to pay the tax on the full amount of the capital stock. The tax amounts to $1,000. SANTA FE BUYS ANOTHER Rumor Has the Fort Smith & Western Sold to That Company OKLAHOMA CITY: A very sensational rumor was set afloat on the streets that the Santa Fe has practically completed the deal whereby that system will become the owner of the Ft. Smith & Western railroad and that the employees of the latter railroad for the past two months have received their checks for monthly salaries from the Santa Fe company. The Ft. Smith & Western officials now have under consideration the building of an extension to this city and General Manager Crane is in the east conferring with President Dustin. This road will have nothing whatever to do with any terminals other than their own, if they build into the city, according to Mr. Crane A Frisco townsite company has set the date of the lot sale at Eldorado for February 20. There are 1,300 lots in the sale, included in the 1,300 lots there are 1.3, 1.2 and 1-acre tracts and five 64-acre tracts. Man Whose Game Was Seized Says He Wants $300. LAWTON: Henry Ireton has brought suit against Tom Burk, C. Madison and H. B. Colberg United States deputy marshals, for seizing 611 live quail which were being shipped by express to Wichita, Kas. The ten coops of birds are nebled at Chickasha. Ireton claims to be a Choctaw Indian and that he was shipping the quail for breeding purposes. He asks $200 damage. Robt. Davis and Sam Brazille of Kingman came up Tuesday morning on some business matters. Mrs. H W. King is repoated on the sick list this week. Washington No. 25 met in its regular monthly meeting. There was a good attendance as 40 members were present at roll call. Each member expressed himself as well pleased with the working of the order and its Grand siflcers, Sir Edward Henderson. C. M. of our Temple presided in his station which he has filled with honoa for past eight(8)years and he still holds the full respect of every member of Washington Temple No. 25. Our membership is at the 100 mark—what do you think of that? The C G. M, Sir Frank Wilson met with us and gave us some good whole some advice which was highly appreciated by us all. The Taborian chain in Kansas City Kansas can onlo be broken by death. Out of 350 Knight and Daughters in Kansas City, Kansas, the greatest harmony peace and love prevails amongst us. We have a few on the sick list, but we are thankful that we have had no deaths yet. Sir. Ed Henderson. C. M. In view of the report sent out by the Southern press several weeks ago that the government was ridding itself of Negro soldiers this from New York Sun is not without interest: "The story that the govern nt does not want any more Negro recruits and that there will be no place for a Negra in the army unless the country goes war, is rank nonsense. There are four Negro regiments in the regular service the Twentyfourth and Twentyfifth Infantry and the Ninth and Tenth Calvalry. Terms of enlistment are constantly expiring and recruiting is, therefore going on all the time." WAS GRAND A large orderly crowd attended the Mask Ball of the Mozart Club at Redman Hall Tuesday night. The mask worn were comical and every one had a most enjoyable time and those not present missed a treat. The club continues i-sueing their numbered duplicate ticket and all look farward to the grand prize drawing which will be held the last Tues day night in January. For next Tuesday night Jan. 23rd the Mozart Club offers a Tacky Ball and desires that every person come dressed in the tackiest and most worn out and antique clothes they can find. Hunt in year closets and trunks get out your worst looking clothes and come Tuesday night Jan. 23rd at Bedman Hall 211 W. Douglas. Every one has a fine time there and every thing is a peaceful and friendly as a parlor social = Roudyism is not allowed in any form. Watt Morris, Tacky Man, from Tacky land will lead — the Tacky Grand March. You talk about fun here in the place to have it every Tuesday night. Be on hand Tuesday night, Jan. 23rd, and you will have a fine time, 1stm. TABERNACLE Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11 met in its regular session with Daughter Pauline Woodfoak H. p. presiding. After formal business the Tabernacle had about thirty minutes devotional exercises which was highly enjoyed by all. Sir Rev. Frank Wilson C. G. M. pleased us with his presence as also did Sir W. T. Lower Sir A. Williams and Sir M. Washington The C. G. M. made some very interesting remarks to the Tabernacle which all enjoyed. G. G. J. Sir John Wilson also visited us and made us a very interesting talk along the line of the growth of the order. We always pleased to have the Knights visit us and lend us their advice and we hope that this years work will be greater than ever before Pauline Woodfoak H. P. Knights and Daughters, if you changed High Priestess or Chieffors since this list was putkindly notify me at once, that I make the correction. W. N. MILLER, Ed. 703 North Main St. All calls attended promptly, Day 09 Office Hours — 9 to 19 a. m. 2 to 5 p. m. 6 to 8 30 p. m.