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tesday Night June 12th 1906 grand Program will be rened at the hall. Be on hand. HTH YEAR. The BENNIVENE OF THE BAY e Wichita ..... IN F WILL BE O FEDMA 211 West D tesday June grand Prog d at the ha Program AMERICAN LABORER Vagrant Class Large and didly Increasing. Afro-Americans Readily Employment. two weeks ago a crusade by the authorities o just vagrants, and many of our common citizens in the net. They were for Afro-Americans, but a ug of them was of the During the trial of some the local police court and and told of the many for some reason or an- in the doctrine of fath- around all day." "Why should the policeman, "it is to get these negroes to is a man in this court who wants to employ as common labors at day and he can't get one and dives are full of them at you when you talk at work. But there is no turn them over to these and it does seem that they and the chain gang to work. was busy sentencing them rockade, which is in some more than a chain gang. er, young and old, health- d fat, who would not do unless they were in the The officer ha dno over- In this connection it might be interesting to note that there are many Afro-American contractors for all sorts of work, on a large scale, in many of the cities of the south. Some of the largest and most costly buildings have been erected by them and their work is all right. They build house, excavate sewers, trenches and the like bull;d bridges and do anything else in the construction line. Starting as ordinary workmen, they have saved their earnings and invested in tools, implements and all other necessaries to carry on their business. They are making money right along and best of all, most of them are saving it. They are given their share of the trade by the white man. As an example, it might be stated that there is one Afro-American building contractor in this city, nine-tenths of whose work is for white people, and that too, in the construction of modern and costly residences. This man's word in the business orld is as good as his bond, as the saying goes, and he, and the scores of Afro-Americans who work for him are always well provided with work, even in the dull season. As a matter of fact it is shameful to observe how many able-bodied Afro-Americans shun work. They seemed to have learned the lesson of father who "sat around all day," and it sticks to them. Of whatever else the South deprives the Afro-American it certainly gives him work. In many cities of the South there may be counted many buildings of stone and wood that are being constructed entirely by Afro-Americans. On many structures there white and black bricklayers work side by side for the same wages. Afro-American contractors say they find a tendency on the part of the men to loose time, one day; and that day, generally Monday, must be given to loafing. The contractor may plead and threaten, but he is very fortunate if all his men show up on what is termed "blue Monday." Naturally this sort of thing is going to have its effect, even though it be long delayed. It is, in fact, one of the reasons why demands are being made for foreigners. The Southern Afro-American mechanic and laborer may imagine himself indispensable, possibly so but it will not be so always, owever futile may have been the efforts made in the past to displace him he is not yet safe. But it is mostly the ordinary laborers that were referred to as being averse to regular jobs; and then, too, by no means all or a majority of them. It was the constantly growing class that spend their days in the saloons and dives that reference was made and principally directed to, the men who just will not work and who are filling the prisons and work houses, thereby bringing the entire race into disgrace. LYNCH LAW. Blow Below the Belt. .Charles Battell Loomis Declares American Manhood By Each Case. .South Understands the Blacks. Chattanooga, Tenn. .Charles Battell Loomis, in a letter to the Chattanooga Times, denounces lynching in unqualified terms, declaring that every time a man is lynched, south or north, American manhood receives a blow beneath the belt, and our European enemies sneer and shrug their shoulders. Mr. Loomis writes: "As an American citizen who has traveled the last winter through nearly every state in the Union and who is more glad then ever that he is an American, I desire to say a few words concerning the thoughts that arise in me. "In the first place let me say that several trips to the South have brought me to the point where I firmly believe that the Southerner understands the Negro better than the average Northern man. Secondly, he possesses in the better element of So-therner a true, kind and patient friend. Thirdly, the only enemies the negro as North and South are the cheap people of both climes—and both races. If one could eliminate the cheap people there would be no negro problem. But that is only another way of statethe coming of the millennium. The cheap, like the poor, ye have with you always. "Noblesse oblige" is the motto of the Southern, gentlemen and he feels that it is his bounden duty to do all he can for a much to be pitied race, whose ancestors here the unwilling guests of Northerners. "But there is one question, oftimes a burning one, that always calls for discussion North and South and East and West—wherever good Americans come together, because we are all very proud of our fair name among the nations and are anxious to maintain that fair name. I refer to the crime f lynching. "Now it is just as wrong to lynch a white man as it is to lynch a negro, although there are sentimentalists in the north who would pass over the former and denounce the latter. As lynching or burning for any cause of any man, white or black, is barbarous and altogether bestial and unAmerican. "Every time a man is lynched, in South or North (and they have lynched men in the North) American manhood receives a blow below the belt and our European friends sneer and shrug their shoulders, while our European friends wonder whether we are civilized as we look and think we are. "No true Southern man ever upholds the burning of negroes—that is in private conversation. No editor worthy of belonging to the guild of editors ever defends the crime in private conversation. "Why not then denounce it in print where it will be seen of men? "I, not as unit, but as an Amreican cowardly, loathsome crime of lynching. "Let Southerners and all other good American citizens denounce it in public and in private and the blot on our fair name will be removed. "We have had several examples of late of the force of public opinion. Let us get together and by our sincere protests against detestable acts of miserable, cheap poltroonery rid the country of the curse. In the Days of Dandies. It was a common thing in the early part of the eighteenth century for a man of fashion to spend several hours daily in the hands of his valet. Among the many operations which took up his time was "the starching of the beard and the proper perfuming of the garments, the painting of the face and anointing with oils, tinctures, essences and pematims." It is even said that some of the dandies of that day bathed in milk and wine "for the rejuvenation of their complexions and the rejuvenation of their energies." IN THIS PAPER. WILL BE ELECTED TO GROSV Albert Douglas, of Chillicothe, O., for renomination to congress. WILL BE ELECTED TO GROSVENOR'S SEAT IN CONGRESS. M. Albert Douglas, of Chillicothe, O., who defeated Representative Grosveno for renomination to congress. Albert Douglas, of Chillicothe, O., who defeated Representative Grosveno for renomination to congress. DESSERTS FOR THE SICK. Very Good Ones Made of Irish Moss —1 pipes for Four Kinds of Custards. Irish Moss Blanc Mange—Pour one and one-half cupfuls of cold water over one-quarter cupful of Irish moss and let stand 20 minutes; drain from water; pick over moss, discarding discolored pieces; add to one and three-quarters cupfuls of milk and cook in double boiler 15 to 20 minutes. Milk should be but very slightly thickened; the tendency is to have it over-cooked, and when chilled the dessert is unpalatable because too stiff. Strain and add a few grains of salt and one-third teaspoonful of vanilla. Strain a second time into molds or egg cups previously dipped in cold water. Serve with sugar and cream. Sliced fruit makes an agreeable accompaniment, or garnish with a candied cherry and anglica. Chocolate Irish Moss Blanc Mange—One-quarter cupful Irish moss, one and a half cupfuls of cold water, two cupfuls of milk, one-half teaspoonful of vanilla, a few grains of salt, three-quarters of a square of Baker's chocolate, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Made same as Irish blanc mange. Melt chocolate over hot water, add sugar and gradually boiling water; then pour on slowly the strained mixture. Mold, thill and serve with sugar and cream. Steamed Custard—Yolks of two eggs sugar and a few grains of salt; stir constantly while adding gradually one cupful of hot milk. Cook in double boiler, stirring until mixture thickens and a coating is formed on the spoon; strain at once. Chill and add a quarter teaspoonful of vanilla. Steamed Caramel Custard—One cupful of scalded milk, the yolks of two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar, a few grains of salt, one quarter teaspoonful of vanilla. Put sugar in a smooth saucepan, stir constantly over a hot fire until melted and discolored, add milk to it and as soon as sugar is dissolved add gradually to yolks of eggs slightly beaten, and salt. Cook the same as steamed custard. Steamed Coffee Custard—One cupful of milk scalded with one tablespoonful of ground coffee. Strain. Beat the yolks of two eggs slightly, add one and a half tablespoonful of sugar, a few grains of salt. Stir constantly while adding gradually the hot coffee-milk. Cook in double boiler, stirring until mixture coats the spoon; A Stammering Child. In training the stammering child make him repeat slowly from a spelling book a number of words of one syllable. When he blunders make him go over the word again, insisting that he does not hurry, and that he takes before each utterance a full breath. Then go on to words of two and so to those of three syllables. Make him attack each syllable as a separate word and in the course of a few weeks you will find him able to say many-syllabied words without a break. VENOR'S SEAT IN CONGRESS. who defeated Representative Grosvenor strain at once, add a quarter teaspoonful of vanilla and chill. On Tuesday night, June 12th, the Searchlight will celebrate the eighth year of the launching of the Searchlight in Kansas. This most noteworthy event will be held at Redman hall, 211 West Douglas, and the public will be given a rare literary, musical and intellectual, treat. During the several years that the Searchlight has been before the people it has tried hard to serve the people faithfully as a journal and the people we believe, appreciate our effort and once each year we invite the people to come with us and help celebrate each mile-stone in the progress of our march. We trust to meet all our friends and patrons at Redman hall, Tuesday night, June 12th, 1906. We think it time that the colored men of Kansas should wake up and see the need of prevailing on the coming Kansas legislature to pass an anti-lynch law at their next session. The increase of lynching and attempts at lynchings in northern states make it entirely necessary that every precaution should be taken in all northern states to put a ban on this lynching bee. It is a bad state of affairs—but it is a fact that lynchings of human beings is growing fast in the northern states and Kansas has her share. We must get some relief and we must take time by the forelock and take such steps as will put a stop to this mania of lynching. Mrs. Lizzie Madison left Thursday night for Perryville, Kansas, in answer to a telegram stating that her mother, Mrs. Austin, was seriously ill. All hope that she will find her mother greatly improved. The rain Thursday night was one of the most severe in the history of Wichita. Visit the Jones Ice Cream Parlor, 601 N. Main on Sunday. Call at our new office, upstairs over 601 N. Main, and pay what you owe. German firms are unable to fill all foreign orders for automobiles. Vice Consul Schemmer, of Mannheim, writes that the German motor production for 1905 was $10,000,000, the export to England and France increasing 400 per cent. Linen from Ireland. The Irish linen industry is booming as it has not flourished in years, largely on the expanding exports to the United States. NO.10 OUR EIGHTH YEAR. SHOULD WAKE UP. Autos in Germany THE SEARCHLIGHT. 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Write plain and on one side of the paper only. 5th No Name will be placed on our books without the money. So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if bought to the Editor. " To Live and Let Live. " is OUR Motte. CENTRALIA, KAN. Editor Searchlight—I take this opportunity to say a few words in the columns of your paper, if permissible, concerning our people—Afro-Americans. I note with sadness the rapid increase of the growth of prejudice and illegal discrimination against the descendants of Ham in this country. It is at only found in hamlets and villages, but in cities, states, school and church, and as a climax, in the United States senate. On the seventh, while the Foraker amendment to the railroad rate bill was under discussion, the unstinted hatred against the Afro-Americans was brought out by senators from Southern states. The Foraker amendment prohibits the granting of rebates, passes, drawbacks, or special rates to passengers on railways, and also prohibits discrimination in the way of accommodation where equal rates are paid. This, of course, aroused the Southern gentlemen, because they saw this would put an end to the jim-crow-car business which is so much idolized by them. Mr. Morrey, of Mississippi, declared he would not support the rate bill with a provision which raises the race issue. Mr. Culberson, of Texas, also contended for the elimination of that question, and offered a substitute accomplishing that result. The Culberson substitute was adopted. In the course of Mr. Foraker's remarks he asked the Southern senator did he object to equal accommodations for the same pay. Mr. Bacon replied: "No, but I do object to giving the Interstate Commerce Commission supervision over the matter." Now, Mr. Editor, it's very clear why he objects to giving the Interstate Commerce Commission supervision over the matter; because he sees the handwriting—the Interstate Commerce Commission would settle this question of passenger travel according to the law of right and not according to the law of Southern hate for the Negro. Those Southern senators prefer state-rights, which gives them the opportunity to discriminate against Afro-Americans. Mr. Money, senator from Mississippi, said that the Southern people were prejudiced against the Negroes and were willing that such should be understood to be the fact. Now, Mr. Editor, the Afro-Ameri- cans must and will live higher and nobler lives than to be hating any race, whether that race be black or white. Trust God. Be industrious. Live economically. Acquire land and build homes. Our people in Africa are now being slaughtered and chased as beasts. We must build wisely that we may be able to stand against the assaults that come, whener they come from east, west, north, or south. When the vote was taken upon Senator Foraker's amendment to the rate bill Senator Foraker's amendment was lost and Mr. Culberson's substitute was adopted. The vote stood 38 to 35. Twelve Republicans voted with the Democrats for the Culberson substitute. The senate is almost two-thirds Republican and yet that large Republican majority allows a Democratic minority to pass a substitute which discriminates against Afro-Americans on railroad cars. Some of those twelve Republicans who voted with the Demrocats will be around when election time comes, seeking the Afro-American vote. The rate bill has been passed by the senate and on its final passage Senator Foraker voted against it on account of some of its bad features. I pose not as a leader, but I suggest that Senator Foraker be nominated and elected in nrneteen hundred and eight for president of the United States. He is in every way qualified, fair and impartial. M. L. COPELAND. Arcade Restaurant 339 North Main Street Meals -- Short Order -- Lunch Good Meals → Quick Service A. D. Turner, Prop. 'KENTUCKY HOME COMING I am organizing a Kansas-Kentucky Club with the object of getting a special train to carry all visitors to the " Old Kentutky Home " in June. All Ex-Kentuckians and othtrs interested in the trip are invited to join the club. Please signify your wishes by call or a letter. Dr. C. L. Brown 213 EastDouglas, Wichita, Kan. Sometimes it looks as if every man woman and child is trying to lead hate colored race. It is not of necessity the man who preaches to the largest congregation or pastors the finest church that is a true leader. We can be governed, in a large measure, by the dictations of our own conscience.—Louisania Searchlight. Every white man brought into the south, with the hope of displacing the Negro, will some day turn upon the hand that brought him there. The negro's road is getting more difficult to travel over the country and we say again "What can we do?" The white men who have a great interest at stake in this country from an agricultural standpoint will certainly have to speak along these lines. The negro is becoming restless by the papers continually speaking of supplanting him with other labor. The South can bring all the white labor it pleases, but it will never get labor who will take what the Negroes do, which is not said as a flashing credit to the negro. Olden's Drug Store, 615 N. Main, is still at the old stand where you can get fresh juicy soda. Try one of "Olden's Favorites." Drop in at the Court House grocery, 517 N. Main and buy your goods when in need of groceries. Subscribe and pay for the Searchlight. She is wide-awake. THE WICH TASEARCHLIGHT DON'T FORGET TO STOP AT THE Grand Op JONE'S Ice Cream 601 N. Main Opening Saturday You Are Cordi Grand Opening JONE'S Ice Cream Parlor 601 N. Main Street Opening Saturday Night You Are Cordially Invited --- Send your news notes and local happenings to 428 North Main Street. WANTED—Gentleman or lady with good reference, to travel by rail or with a rig, for a firm of $250,000.00 capital. Salary $1,072.00 per year and expenses; salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. Address, with stamp Jos. A. Alexander, Wichita, Kansas. COLORADO PYTHIANS We are in receipt of a copy of the proclamation issued by Grand Chancellor W. R. Hardy, of Pueblo, Colo., convening the Colorado Pythians in Grand Session in Colorado Springs, July 24, 25, 26. This promises to be a noteworthy session for the Knights in Colorado. NOTICE.—Send your news in the early part of the week, which will insure its publication. The earlier the better.—Editor. OUR ANNIVERSARY. The Eighth anniversary of the beginning of the Searchlight in Kansas will be celebrated in the near future Watch for the place, date and program. It will eclipse any previous effort. REMOVED! REMOVED! REMOVED! Beginning with Monday, May 21, the Searchlight office will be in the new Young building, 601 N. Main. Wille, the 4-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Dixson, was poisoned by drinking from a bottle which had been thrown out in the alley. Two boys were playing in the alley and playfully drank from the bottle. People should be careful about throwing such bottles in alleys. Mrs. Grant Ewing was taken suddenly ill at the home of her mother, Tuesday. She is somewhat improved at this writing. On account of an unavoidable circumstance Bishop Abram Grant has postponed his lecture in Wichita scheduled for Friday night. The date will be re-set in the future. Dr. A. B. Wright returned Tuesday from Pueblo, Colo., where he was called on account of the serious illness The W. T. Vernon club met with Mrs. Bluet Monday afternoon. The club was called to order by the president and prayer was offered by the chaplain. The roll was called and each member responded with a quotation. After an hour of fancy needlework a delicious luncheon was served and the meeting was closed by singing "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Adjourned to meet with Mrs. L. E. Simpson, 1520 North Mosley, Monday afternoon. Mrs. Sallie Hall left Tuesday for Great Bend, Kansas, where she attended the district conference and district Tuesday school convention of the A. M. E. church. Watch for the date of our Eighth Anniversary program. It will be swell. SEARCHLIGHTonly $. Per Year. Are You A Subscriber? C. A. Jones has rented the south room at 601 North Main, ground floor, and will open a first-class ice cream parlor for the accommodation of the people. He will have a GRAND OPENING Saturday, May 26th, at which he very cordially invites the public. Call up at 601 N. Main, when in need of anything in his line. Rev. J. H. Van Lew is in the city this week. DRINK..... Cox's Pop TRY OUR Dr. Pepper The many friends of Dr. M. L. Copeland will read with pleasure his letter from Centralia, Kansas. The Searchlight's Eighth Anniversary will be held at Red Men's Hall Tuesday night, June 12th. Everyone invited. Jno. T. Chinmeth will move his barber shop from 2nd and Main where he has been for a number of years, to 117 West Douglas avenue. Watch for the date and program for the Searchlight's Eighth Anniversary celebration. It will be a master piece of intellectual exposition. The colored Masons of Wichita will observe St. John's Day, June 24th, with grand Masonic services at New Hope Baptist church. The Eastern Star chapter and the Court will participate. The Masons look forward to a grand time. Mrs. S. E. Patton is reported doing nicely at St. Francis Hospital, where an operation was performed on her neck. The Minister's and Deacon's Union will convene in Wichita June 14-15, '06, at the New Hope Baptist church. The Presiding Elder committee of the A. M. E. church will have an entertainment at the church in the near future. Watch the Searchlight for date and program. AT THE Opening m Parlor Cain Street Day Night cordially Invited OPEN FOR BUSINESS SATURDAY, MAY 26th Altho the weather was extremely inclement the Toler Auditorium was crowded Thursday night at the Commencement exercises of the Grammar Schools. There were five colored graduates, all girls as follows Hazel Parish, Washington school. Anna Buckner, Emmerson school. Elliza Brandon, Emmerson school. Carrie Foster, Park School. Francis Williams, English school. There were no colored boys in the graduating class and no colored graduates from the High School. Alex Jones was on the sick list this week. The searchlight is now better prepared than ever to turn out neat, tidy job printing. 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Look at the new Organs 2nd hand organs new Sewing Machi re Pianos hand Pianos Pianos $167. me and see them Look at these prices new Organs $40.00 to $60.00 2nd hand organs $10.00 to $25.00 new Sewing Machines $12.00 to $25.00 re Pianos $15.00 to $25.00 hand Pianos $100.00 to $150.00 Pianos $167.00, $178.00, $185.00, $198.00 me and see them Look at these prices Good new Organs $40.00 to $60.00 Goon 2nd hand organs $10.00 to $25.00 Good new Sewing Machines $12.00 to $25.00 Square Pianos $15.00 to $25.00 2nd hand Pianos $100.00 to $150.00 New Pianos $167.00, $178.00, $185.00, $198.00 Come and see them THOS. SHAW 132 North Main Street ning Mon The Search 001 N. M ning Monday morning, The Searchlight office wi 601 N. Main St Begining Monday morning, 21st, The Searchlight office wi At 601 N. Main St Hot Chil Wichita, Kane THE SEARCHLIGHT Wichita, Kansas, Saturday May 26, 00 Wonders in Business. For the average man success frequently depends more upon his manner and appearance than upon his knowledge of his trade or business, or, as one might say, of his profession. A Chicago newspaper has lately been meeting some failures and their causes. It cites the case of one man who was a successful salesman in a business house in Chicago, but was unable to get any custom when sent on the road. The general manager of the business went to lunch with him one day, to talk over the matter. The man crumbled crackers into his soup until it was thick, and then ate the mixture from the end of his spoon in great mouthful. When the meat was served, he shoveled it in with his knife, and finished eating and was noisily speaking his teeth almost before the manager had begun his meal. In reply to a question, he told the manager that he always took his customers out to lunch, and "used every method to win their confidence and friendship." The manager then said: "You couldn't sell me a stick of gum. No man whose personal habits are so aggressively vulgar as yours could have the slightest influence with me. Had I launched with you before sending you on the road, I would never have disregarded our house by giving it such a representative." These words hurt, says Youth's Companion, but the man profiled by them, and to-day is one of the most gentlemanly as well as one of the most successful salesmen on the road. Another case cited is that of a minister whose unrefined manners annoyed his women relatives. They tried to help him, but he neglected their suggestions, and men less able intellectually, but with more of the graces of refinement in their manners, were called to the opportunities for service in the pulpits of the large and influential churches. They used to teach manners in the old days. Now there is little formal instruction. If a youth does not learn good manners at home, he has to pick them up when he gets out into the world, or else be handicapped. Great geniuses have commanded respect in spite of boorishness, but it is never safe for a young man to assume that he is a real man. Political Geography. A new study has been added to the curriculum of certain American colleges. It is known as political geography and is defined as the study of geography in relation to political and social institutions. To teach economic subjects, as well as other university branches a knowledge of elementary geography is required. It was found that many students, though primed with Greek and Latin, lacked anything approaching familiarity with this old-fashioned study. Hence the invention of political geography. The elementary side is taken up and, in connection with this, emphasis is laid upon an explanation of how each country studied came to be a separate, distinct country; upon its political institutions and the geographic influences that have affected them, and upon the present political problems of paramount interest in connection with each of the countries studied. The world events of the past two years have greatly assisted in making the course interesting. This year, while the class was studying Great Britain, the Irish question was agitating British politics; in the study of France, the great question of separation of church and state came up for discussion; the interest of the class in Norway and Sweden was enhanced by the events that have led to the separation of Norway from Sweden; the Balkan question has been at the forefront for a few months past and for two years the great Russo-Japanese war has made the study of Russia and Japan of especial interest. The man "who knows it all" and seems himself all-sufficient for all occasions, and especially for emergencies, is a familiar figure in all employments, public and private. More men achieve failure by knowing too much and trying to do too many things to which they are not called than by the opposite course. The overbear, more frequently than the man who keeps below a high standard, falls to realize his aims. Dominated by a deep and abiding sense of his capacity for usefulness and by an equally robust doubt of other men's qualifications, this inflated personage is a nuisance at all times and in any avocation. Miss Grake M. Varcoe, who is now in New York, has crossed the Atlantic 21 times as the agent of an English diamond concern and on each trip she has carried with her gems valued at from $150,000 to $300,000. Miss Varcoe is said to be an expert lapidarist. She has traveled in all the principal cities in this country, Canada and Europe as the representative of her firm. 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Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. FROTH OF FUN. She—"I think Mrs. Newcombe is so sweet, don't you? You can read her character in her face." He—"Yes, if you read between the lines." "Yes, I'm going in for teaching." "Going in for teaching? Why, I would rather marry a widower with half a dozen children!" "So would I—but where's the widower? "Well, Emily, did you have a good time at the masked ball?" "Oh, I had a splendid time. I made my husband dress up as a knight in heavy armor, and he wasn't able to budge from one spot all night." Mr. Tubbs—"Well, Bobbie, how does your sister like the engagement ring I gave her?" Bobbie—"Well, it's a bit too small. She has a hard job to get it off in a hurry when the other fellows call." She—"Oh, that's the great prima donna, is it? Is she famous because of her voice or her acting?" He—"Neither, but she has a motor accident regularly every week, and that keeps her name before the public." He Wasn't Certain. At Fortress Monroe, Va., one day about a year ago, a man, accompanied by two ladies, approached a soldier who, with a gun on his shoulder, was pacing to and far near the entrance. The warrior's appearance indicated that he was new to the service. "Can you tell us," asked one of the visitors, addressing the recruit, "where Jeff Davis was imprisoned here?" "Yonder's the gaa-a-r-d house," he replied, jerking a thumb over his shoulder, "but I dunno whether they've still got him shut up or not."—Chicago Record-Herald. So Homelike. Some one said to Erother Williams: "They have a balloon fad now, and you can go up and cool off in the clouds." "Yes, suh," he replied. "En dar's so much thunder en lightin' up dar, I reckon lots er 'um will feel k'dey wuz right at home—specially de married folks!"—Atlanta Constitution. At the Dinner Party. Mrs. Henpeck (to herself)—Look at my husband, over there, disgusting us with his frightful manners! If I had that book on table etiquette here now I'd throw it in his face!—Family Journal. Needed Study "De man who really gits de worst of a curbstone argument," said Uncle Eben, "is de one dat might have been doin' somethin' better wif his time."—Washington Star. BREAD DYSPEPSIA. Bread digesting Element Left Out. Bread dyspepsia is common. It affects the bowels because white bread is nearly all starch, and starch is digested in the intestines, not in the stomach proper. Up under the shell of the wheat berry nature has provided a curious deposit which is turned into diastase when it is subjected to the saliva and to the pancreatic juices in the human intestines. This diastase is absolutely necessary to digest starch and turn it into grapeseugar, which is the next form; but that part of the wheat berry makes dark flour, and the modern miller cannot readily seel dark flour, so nature's valuable digester is thrown out and the human system must handle the starch as best it can, without the help that nature intended. Small wonder that appendicitis, peritonitis, constipation and all sorts of trouble exist when we go so contrary to nature's law. The food experts that perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing these facts, made use in their experiments of the entire wheat and barley, including all the parts, and subjected them to moisture and long continued warmth, which allows time and the proper conditions for developing the flashtate outside of the human body. In this way the starchy part is transformed into grape-sugar in a perfectly natural manner, without the use of chemicals or any outside ingredients. The little sparkling crystals of grape-sugar can be seen on the pieces of Grape-Nuts. This food therefore is naturally pre-digested and its use in place of bread will quickly correct the troubles that have been brought about by the too free use of starch in the food, and that is very common in the human race to-day. The effect of eating Grape-Nuts ten days or two weeks and the discontinuance of ordinary white bread is very marked. The user will gain rapidly in strength and physical and mental health. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND Sunday School Lesson for May27,1906 Specially Prepared for This Paper. LESSON TEXT—Mark 6:30-44. Memory verse, 41. GOLDEN TEXT—"My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven."—John 6:32. TIME—April, A. D. 29, just before the Passover. PLACE—"Bethsaida, Fisher-Home, was the name of a village on the east bank of Jordan, which the tetrarch Philip rebuilt and named Julias, in honor of the daughter of Augustus."—George Adam Smith, who believes there was but one Bethsaida. Others, however (Robinson, Stanley, Reland, Tristram), believe that there was a second Bethsaida, in Gallice, west of the Jordan (John 12:21). The miracle took place in the rich plain of Butalia, southeast SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. — Other accounts of the miracle: Matt. 14:13-23; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15. Compare the feeding of the 4,900, Matt. 15:32-28; Mark 8:1-9. Compare this with other miracles of feeding: The manna, Ex. 16:14-25; Elijah, 1 Kings 17:6; the widow, 1 Kings 17:9-16; Elisha, 2 Kings 4:42-44. Other instances of helpful children: Samuel, 1 Sam. 2:18; 3:5, 15; Josiah, 2 Chron. 44:1-3; the captive maid, 2 Kings 5:2-3. Christ's sermon on the bread of life, John 6:22-71. Compare it with Deut. 8:3. Neh. 9:15; Psa. 78:24; Matt. 5:6; 11:1. Corr. 11:23-36. Comment and Suggestive Thought. V. 30. "The apostles . . . together." Some weeks earlier Jesus had sent the twelve forth, two by two, to preach, teach and heal in the villages of Galilee, while He Himself went to its cities. "What they had done." Without doubt they had faithfully executed the commission given them. (See Matt. 10.5-8.) V. 31. "Come ye yourselves apart." The original emphasizes the thought that privacy was greatly desired. "into a desert place." Any unpopulated district is termed, by Oriental, a desert, or wilderness. "Were many coming and going," and Jesus and the twelve found no opportunity for conversation, nor "leisure so much as to eat." V. 32. "Departed . . . by ship privately." Embarked in a boat upon the Sea of Galilee, and by rowing, or sailing, reached the place Jesus had chosen. They tried to set out without attracting attention. V. 33. Saw . . . knew Him," or them." Saw them set out, and knew, from the direction the boat took, where they were going. "Ran afoot." Walked quickly along the coast to the north shore of the lake. V. 34. "When He came out." When he landed and saw the eager crowd. "Moved with compassion." He pitted them because they seemed like sheep having no shepherd. "To teach them." Luke says, He "spake unto them of the Kingdom of God." He also healed the sick whom they had brought. V. 35. "Day was now far spent." It was toward the close of what the Jews called the first evening, which lasted from three to six o'clock. All began to think about something to eat. "This is a desert place." It was uninhabited, hence "desert," and unable to supply food for the people. "The time is far passed." The greater part of the day had been spent, or the time for the evening meal was already past. V. 36. "Send them away." If they delayed longer, they might faint from exhaustion before they could reach a place where they could find food. V. 37. "Give ye them to eat." This astonishing command came from the lips of Jesus. Yet He well knew they had not enough for even their own needs. "Shall we go and buy?" Was it the duty of these already tired men to make the long journey to the distant villages and return? "Two hundred pennyworth." This amount, about $34 in our money, Philip had estimated would be needed for their great company. V. 38. "When they knew." When Andrew found in the company a little boy who had brought his supper with him V. 39. "Commanded them to make," etc. Like an able general, Jesus directed the twelve, who directed the movements of the multitude. "Sit down by companies." The word translated companies refers to banqueting companies. "Green grass." It was springtime, and the grass was plentiful and fresh. V. 40. "Sat down in ranks." Literally, "like garden beds." M. R. Vincent says: "The former adverb, by companies, describes the arrangement. V. 41. "When He had taken." The bread and fish were given into Jesus' hands. This was the most important thing. "Looked up to Heaven." The whole company was thus directed by Jesus to recognize the supply as coming from the Heavenly Father. "Briessed," or "gave thanks." V. 42. "Did all eat." None refused. "Were filled." Each one had as much as he wanted. Christ always satisfies. V. 43. "Took up . . . fragments." Jesus directed them to do so. He would teach them not to be wasteful. The baskets mentioned were the common wicker baskets used by the Jews when traveling, to carry food, so that they might not be forced to eat food which was polluted in any way. Practical Points. V. 33. God often tries our faith by permitting our cherished plans to be overthrown. —Jas. 1:3. V. 36. Jesus never sends a seeking soul away empty. —Matt. 5:6. V. 37. God gives no command but he gives power to obey it. —2 Cor. 9:8. V. 40. It is well to use systematic business methods in Christian work. —1 Cor. 14:40. V. 41. God honors His Children in permitting them to pass on His bounty to the world. —1 Pet. 4:10. V. 42. Christ fully satisfied. —John 8:15. THE POINT OF THE PROVERB An old proverb advises the shoe-maker to stick to his last. It means that a man always succeeds best at the business he knows. To the farmer it means, stick to your plow; to the blacksmith, stick to your forge; to the painter, stick to your brush. When we make experiments out of our line they are likely to prove expensive failures. It is amusing, however, to remark how every one of us secretly thinks he could do some other fellow's work better than the other fellow himself. The painter imagines he can make paint better than the paint manufacturer; the farmer thinks he can do a job of painting better, or at least cheaper than the painter, and so on. A farm hand in one of Octave Thanet's stories tells the Walking Delegate of the Painters' Union, "Anybody can slather paint;" and the old line painter tells the paint salesman, "None of your ready made mixtures for me; I reckon I ought, to know how to mix paint." The farm hand is wrong and the painter is wrong: "Shoemaker, stick to your last." The "fancy farmer" can farm, of course, but it is an expensive amusement. If it strikes him as pleasant to grow strawberries at fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs that cost him five dollars a dozen, it is a form of amusement, to be sure, if he can afford it, but it's not farming. If the farmer likes to slosh around with a paint brush and can afford the time and the expense of having a practical painter do the job right pretty soon afterward, it's a harmless form of amusement. If the painter's customers can afford to stand for paint that comes off in half the time it should, they have a perfect right to indulge his harmless vanity about his skill in paint making. But in none of these cases does the shoe-maker stick to his last. There is just one class of men in the world that knows how to make paint properly and have the facilities for doing it right; and that is the paint manufacturers—the makers of the standard brands of ready-prepared paints. The painter mixes paints; the paint manufacturer grinds them together. In a good ready-prepared paint every particle of one kind of pigment is forced to join hands with a particle of another kind and every bit of solid matter is forced, as it were, to open its mouth and drink in its share of linseed oil. That is the only way good paint can be made, and if the painter knew how to do it he has nothing at hand to do it with. A paint pot and a paddle are a poor substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills and roller-mills. The man who owns a building and neglects to paint it as often as it needs paint is only a doxie more short-sighted than the one who tries to do his own painting or allows the painter to mix his paint for him. P. G. CLOTHES AND CONDUCT. Addison could not write his best unless he was well dressed. Every man and every woman feels the influence of clothes and appearance upon conduct. Indeed, in a millennium of free clothes of the latest fashion we shall all be archangels. You have heard of the lonely man in the Australian oush who always put on evening dress for dinner, so that he might remember he was a gentleman. Put a naughty girl into her best Sunday clothes, and she will behave quite nicely. Put a blackguard into khaki and he will be a hero. Put an omnibus conductor into uniform and he will live up to his clothes. LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF. Suffered for Three Years with Itching Humor—Cruiser Newark U. S. N. Man Cured by Cuticura. "I suffered with humor for about three years off and on. I finally saw a doctor and he gave me remedies that did me no good, so I tried Cuticura when my limb below the knee to the ankle was as raw as a piece of beef. All I used was the Cuticura Soap and the Ointment. I bathed with Cuticura Soap every day, and used about six or seven boxes of Cuticura Ointment. I was thoroughly cured of the humor in three weeks, and haven't been affected with it since. I use no other Soap than Cuticura now. H. J. Myers, U. S. N., U. S. Newark, New York, July 8, 1905." His One Hope. "You'll find, my boy," said the wise old man, "that this world is full of quicksands." "Yes," replied the bright youth, "as I expect to go into the sugar refining business I hope I'll find it reasonably full of get-rich-quick sands."—Philadelphia Ledger. Many Smokers Prefer Them to 10c Cigars. Annual Sales Eight Million (8,000,000.) The popularity of Lewis' Single Binder straight beig cicar is largely due to the fact that this factory always uses thoroughly ripe and perfectly cured tobacco, thus giving the smoker a rich, mellow tasting cicar. The tobacco is from crops showing the best quality and is graded fancy selected. Smokers have found that they can always depend on the same high standard of quality in the Lewis' Single Binder. The Lewis' Single Binder Factory is one of the largest holders of fancy graded tobacco in the United States. Lewis' Single Binder cicar gives the smoker what he wants and at the right price. - Small Wonder. "You say she has now been married four times?" "Yes, poor woman. And she says she's growing tired of funerals."—Milwaukee Sentinel. WANTS IMMIGRANTS GALVESTON SEEKS TO BECOME SECOND CASTLE GARDEN. Through Efforts of Government, Railroads and Steamship Company Gulf Port Becomes New Gateway to Europe's Hordes. Galveston is a rival of Castle Garden, New York. The gulf port of Texas is a new gateway for the army of immigrants constantly flocking to this country. Through the efforts of the government, of the railroads and the steamship companies the new empire of the great southwest is to be made more accessible to these home-seekers from the old country, and Galveston has been selected as the most available landing point. It is estimated that during the present year between 15,000 and 20,000 from Europe will come through this gateway to their new homes in a new country in the far West and Southwest. It is difficult to estimate what the establishment of Galveston as an active port of immigration means to the future of the country beyond the Missouri river, but that it means much is certain. This fact becomes more apparent when it is known that the railroads of the Southwest and the steamship line are endeavoring to direct immigration with intelligence and with a keen un- IMMIGRANTS AT GALVESTON. (Busy Scene After Arrival of European Steamer.) derstanding of the country's needs. Immigration through the port of Galveston, if present plans are carried out, means not so much an immigration for the dollars and cents there may be in it for the transportation companies as it does the rapid development of the fertile and unoccupied lands tributary to the gulf ports. To the home colonization is now to be added the foreign colonization. In this undertaking the government is lending a willing hand, and the three agencies combined should result in accomplishment worthy of a good cause. It was the government, in fact, that first directed the attention of the railroads and of the steamship company to the possibilities that lie in the port of Galveston in the way of home building in the Southwest. Yearly the hordes which seek entry to the United States through the port of New York are increasing, so that the problem of hauling them becomes continually more difficult of solution. Furthermore thousands of those who come in by the way of New York never get beyond the confines of that and other large cities, congesting these populations with a class which is undesirable. More than a year ago the government hinted to the railroads and to the steamship people that it would be a good idea to try to divert a large portion of the immigration through one of the southwestern ports. Galveston, as being nearest the source of land supply, was selected, and the railroads and the steamship line joined hands in the undertaking. The first movement of immigrants through Galveston really began in 1904, when but 800 were brought in. Prior to that the North German Lloyd, although having a line between Europe and Galveston, had not made any effort in the immigration line. By the beginning of 1905 the bureau had got to work in earnest and the result was 3,400 immigrants. Immigrants coming through this port are distributed all over the West, but statistics show that fully 50 per cent of them remain in Texas and presumably make that state their permanent home. Many of them go to Colorado and California, and not a few into Missouri, some seeking the big cities like St. Louis. Upon an average, 331.3 per cent are unatticked when they reached these shores and between 30 and 40 per cent are what are termed homeseekers. That is to say, they have come over here without a definite destination, but with the express purpose of finding permanent homes in the agricultural districts. Present facilities for landing immigrants through Galveston are totally inadequate and fully $50,000 will have to be spent in this direction. Although F. S. Sargent, chief of the immigration department, has recommended and is trying to direct immigration through Galveston, the government is not ready to spend all the money necessary to provide adequate facilities. The steamship company is unwilling to make the appropriation, and the railroads do not feel that they should be called upon to do it all. The Man Who Wood. The Young Idea—Dad, what's wedge-wood? The Elder—Why, a kind of wood from which wedges are manufactured, of course. (Falls on his sword and dies). How He Knew They Were Good. The guests have dined, and the host hands round a case of cigars. "I don't smoke myself," he says; "but you will find them good. My man steals more of them than of any brand I ever had!"—Tit-Bits. A recent number of the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press contains an excellent article on the prospects in Western Canada, a portion of which we are pleased to reproduce. The agents of the Canadian Government, located at different centres in the States, will be pleased to give any further information as to rates, and how to reach these lands. "Just now there is a keener interest than ever before on the part of the outside world, in regard to the claims of the Canadian West as a field of settlement. At no previous time has there been such a rush of immigration, and the amount of information distributed broadcast is unprecedentedly great. "In the majority of the States or the Union and in Great Britain the opportunities for home-making and achieving of even a modest competence are at the best limited. Moreover, according to the social and industrial conditions prevalent in those communities, the future holds out no promise of better things. It is not strange, then, that energetic young men should turn their eyes to Canada's great wheat belt, where every man can pursue fortune without the hindrance of any discouraging handicap. "The inducements held out by Western Canada are powerful and made manifest by the great movement now in progress. That the prospects are considerably more than reasonably certain is borne out by the history of the country and its residents. The promise of gain is powerful, but when added to it there is the prospect of a corresponding social and civil elevation, it should prove irresistible to young men of a particularly desirable class for any new country. "The Canadian West is alive with opportunities for the young man who aims at becoming more than a mere atom in the civil and national fabric. Some of the eager young fellows who arrive on the prairies daily are destined to become more than merely prosperous farmers. In the near future great municipal and provincial development will be in the hands of the people. The stepping stone to both financial prosperity and civil prominence is, and will be, the farm. For every professional opening there are hundreds of agricultural openings. The Canadian prairies are teaming with opportunities for the honest and industrious of all classes, but they are specially inviting to the ambitious young man who seeks a field for the energy and ability which he feels inherent within him. The familiar cry of "Back to the soil!" is more than a vain sounding phrase when applied to Western Canada." Stranger (sarcastically)—Are you the boss here? Office Boy—No; there's another office boy above me.—N. Y. Press. 'Frisco for Instance. One shake of nature makes the whole world chip in.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Garfield Tea purifies the blood, regulates the digestive organs, brings good health. Light-weight men always think they are heavy-weight thinkers. KIDNEY TROUBLES Of all the diseases known, with which the female organism is afflicted, kidney disease is the most fatal, and statistics show that this disease is on the increase among women. Mrs. Emma Sawyer Unless early and correct treatment is applied the patient seidom survives when once the disease is fastened upon her. We believe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the most efficient treatment for chronic kidney troubles of women, and is the only medicine especially prepared for this purpose. When a woman is troubled with pain or weight in loins, backache, frequent, painful or scalding urination, swelling of limbs or feet, swelling under the eyes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the region of the kidneys or notices a sediment in the urine, she should lose no time in commencing treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as it may be the means of saving her life. For proof, read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for Mrs. Sawyer. "I cannot express the terrible suffering I had to endure. A derangement of the female organs developed nervous prostration and a serious kidney trouble. The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse, until I was unable to do anything, and I made up my mind to quit and live, finally, decided to leave. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a last resort, and I am to-day a well woman. I cannot praise it too highly, and I tell every suffering woman about my case." —Mrs. Emma Sawyer, Conyers, Ga. MrS. Pinkham gives free advice to women; address in confidence, Lynn, Mass. SYMPTOMATIC OF SPRING. When the Awfully Tired Man Hies Him to the Water for Tussle with the Fish. Yes, my dear; the man is very tired. He has been working Awfully Hard for the Past Year. Now he will proceed to take a Rest. He will rest. I said. To-morrow he will shoulder a Fishingrod, lug a can of Worms in one hand and a basket of Lunch in the other and he himself to the River for a Fishing Stunt. Will that rest him? He thinks it will, and that is Enough. Five days a week for the past year he has sat at a Desk three Hours in the forenoon and three hours in the afternoon, dictating letters and telling Other men what to do. This has been very strenuous, and he is Much Fatigued. So to-morrow he will tramp 'steen miles through mud and sand and brush, stand in the hot sun drink river water, eat a Cold Lunch full of Ants and Bugs, and in the evening he will drag himself home wondering all the way if he will ever Get There. In the morning he will arise as stiff as a poker and as sore as a gumboil, but he will be Rested. It was a day off from the strenuous business life, and that is Sufficient. But it is Funny, isn't it, that a man can get Rest out of that sort of thing? No he will not get any Fish. No, he will not get any Fish. He will get Sunburn, Malaria and Chiggers; but he will get no Fish. Mrs. Mittie Huffaker. M. HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE. CONFINED TO HER BED WITH DYSPEPSIA. "IOwe My Life to Pe-ru-na," Says Mrs. Huffaker. Mrs. Mittie Huffaker, R. R. No. 3, Columbia, Tenn., writes: "I was afflicted with dyspepsia for several years and at last was confined to my bed, unable to sit up. "We tried several different doctors without relief. "I had given up all hope of any relief and was almost dead when my husband bought me a bottle of Peruna. "At first I could not notice any benefit, but after taking several bottles I was cured sound and well. "It is to Peruna I owe my 'life today. "I cheerfully recommend it to all Revised Formula. "For a number of years requests have come to me from a multitude of grateful friends, urging that Peruna be given a slight laxative quality. I have been experimenting with a laxative addition for quite a length of time, and now feel gratified to announce to the friends of Peruna that I have incorporated such a quality in the medicine which, in my opinion, can only enhance its well-known beneficial character. "S. B. HARTMAN, M. D." 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A few years ago when some one had the boldnes to propon the question: "Will the electric railway motor supplant the steam locomotive?" it excited a smile of amused incredulity among railroad men, and nothing more, but the developments of recent years has clearly demonstrated that electricity is about to give the steam locomotive a fight to a finish, with the odds in favor of the former motive power. It was in 1888 that the first street car was successfully pulled through the streets of Richmond, Va., by an electric motor, and from that humble beginning it has widened its sphere of usefulness until it has not only become the motive power on suburban and interurban lines, but many electric roads have been built to parallel steam lines, and has shown itself a dangerous rival, for whereas the first electric cars were equipped with a 15-horse power motor, cars are now built up to 400 and 500-horse power. Railroad companies are notoriously conservative in their business methods, but as every new electrical triumph meant another inroachment upon the steam locomotive, these advances became so persistent that at last the railroad companies were forced to take notice in self-defense. And now practically every trunk line railroad company has begun the installation of electricity on its lines, or is making preparations to take this step in the immediate future. The New York Central railroad is equipping its main line with an electric system to run trains from the Grand Central station in New York up into the state as far as Albany. At a recent meeting of the directors it was decided to issue $150,000,000 additional stock to be used in extending their lines in New York by electric roads. The Pennsylvania railroad has for some time operated electric trains on its Long Island division, and this work is now being constantly extended. The same company recently made another contract for the electrical equipment of its line from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. These lines, as is well known, have heretofore been operated by some of the finest trains that ever ran on this continent, and at a speed not exceeded anywhere. The New York, New Haven & Hartford recently contracted for 30 electric locomotives to be installed on their line between New York and Stamford, Conn. They have already begun to THE OLD THE NEW TYPE OF NEW MOTOR CAR BEING INSTALLED ON UNION PACIFIC. equip some of their main tracks electrically. The power house, where the electric current is to be generated, is well under way, and before long electric express trains will run on a regular daily schedule. The Erie railroad is the next road which will introduce electricity on part of its main line, and once the start has been made there, the Gould roads will naturally fall into line. The Grand Trunk line recently contracted for electric power to operate its lines under the St. Clair river between Detroit and Windsor. The Illinois Central railroad is making similar preparations for the introduction of electricity; indeed, there is not a steam railroad man in the country who would have pooh-poohed the idea five years ago that will not tell you now that the electric railway era has dawned and that the electric locomotive is the coming propelling agent for railroad trains. The officials of the Union Pacific have been experimenting at Omaha with the road's new motor car, No. 7, which is just out of the shops. The design somewhat resembles an airship on wheels, with a door in the center of the body instead of on the sides, and high, round windows. The car is said to be an improvement over the previous cars, in that special provisions have been made for climbing grades. The system of ventilation is pronounced to be superior, and the car to be dustproof. Won't Own Up. "One great trouble wif human nature," said Uncle Eben, "is dat when a man makes a mistake he's liable to try to bluff it out an' act proud of it.' stid of apologizin' like a gentleman." —Washington Star. Removing the Cause. He—I asked the doctor what I should take to remove the redness of my nose. She—And what did he say? He—He said, "Take nothing for six months."—Tit-Pits. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. Price, $1.00, retail. HE WENT ON CRUTCHES All Medicines Failed Until Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cured His Rheumatism. "Some years ago," says Mr. W. H. Clark, a printer, living at 612 Buchanan street, Topeka, Kans., "I had a bad attack of rheumatism and could not seem to get over it. All sorts of medicines failed to do me any good and my trouble kept getting worse. My feet were so swollen that I could not wear shoes and I had to go on crutches. The pain was terrible. "One day I was setting the type of an article for the paper telling what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had done for a man afflicted as I was and I was so impressed with it that I determined to give the medicine a trial. For a year my rheumatism had been growing worse, but after taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I began to improve. The pain and swelling all disappeared and I can truthfully say that I haven't felt better in the past twenty years than I do right now. I could name, off hand, a half-dozen people who have used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at my suggestion and who have received good results from them." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaranteed to be safe and harmless to the most delicate constitution. They contain no morphine, opiate, narcotic, nor anything to cause a drug habit. They do not act on the bowels but they actually make new blood and strengthen the nerves. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure rheumatism because they make rich, red blood and no man or woman can have healthy blood and rheumatism at the same time. They have also cured many cases of anemia, neuralgia, sciatica, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia and other diseases that have not yielded to ordinary treatment. All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Sconectancy, N. Y. Followed Instructions. A lady going from home for the day, says a writer in the New York World, locked everything up carefully, and for the grocer's benefit left a card on the back door. "All out. Don't leave anything," it read. On her return she found her home ransacked and all her choicest possessions gone. To the card on the door was added: "Thanks. We haven't left much." Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the disceased portion of the ear. There is only one way to treat a disceased ear, called Deafness is caused by an imminent condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is lined with mucosa, the ear is hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be treated, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by the imminent closure of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by surgery. F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Dunges, F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, O. Sale Halls Family Funds for constipation. You're Not It All. You cannot separate society from sin by separating yourself from society.—Chicago Tribune. If a political candidate wants his campaign to be a hummer, he shouldn't start out with a hammer. If you use Ball Blue, get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. It is human nature to wonder how so many incompetent people succeed where we can't—Judge. Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, is better than drugs and strong cathartics; it curcs. It's gasoline that makes the world go round.—Life. An M. D.'s Praise What Has Reason to Do with It? Joe—But, my dear fellow, is your income enough to justify your mar- rying? Fred—I'm afraid not. Miss ful flatter he says him. "Then what reason have you for taking so serious a step?" "I have no reason. I'm in love."—Stray Stories. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. You have to understand human nature mighty well to know that other people aren't any bigger fools than you are.—N. Y. Press. The fact that a man is all puffed up with pride will not mitigate the jar when he takes his fall. Write Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for sample of Garfield Tea. Mild laxative. The sun that shines in the face rises in the heart. I GAVE CARDUI to my wife, with great benefit," writes Dr. O. P. Walker, of Motz, Ark., "and unhesitatingly endorse it as all that its makers claim. I have used it lately in two very obstinate cases of amenorrhea (scanty flow) in young girls, one of habitual miscarriage and one of sterility,—all with the happiest results. I am, as most doctors are, slow to recommend patent medicines, but Cardui ac- ONE UNVIOLATED RULE. Club Servitor Had Seen Them All Broken Into Bits, Save That One A certain club, the name of which need not be mentioned, has strict regulations against gambling, relates the American Spectator. A quartette of club members decided to break the rule by a game of poker for small stakes, so they adjourned to one of the small rooms and told an old servant to bring a pack of cards. When he brought them one of the members asked: "John, I suppose it would be something utterly new in this club if we were to do such a thing as play for money with these cards?" The negro scratched his head and deliberated, finally answering: "Boss, Ise been wiv dis club a long time, and Ise seen many things." "Yes, but what have you seen?" "I've seen ebry rule of dis club vl'lated 'ceptin' one." "What is that one?" "De rule 'gainst gibbln' tips to de servants." "White Disease" in Africa. Sir Harry Johnston, the famous explorer, once escaped from a very tight corner in Africa by a queer stratagem. A score or two of murderous natives had surrounded his tent, into which, before rushing it, they sent an envoy. The envoy was told the small-pox was in camp, and a wretched Albino was sent out as the awful example. In five minutes the scared tribesmen had vanished. As Sir Harry well knew, they feared the "white disease" more than all the inventions of Maxim. Eminent Doctors Praise Its Ingredients. If more or less of the above symptoms are present, no invalid woman can do better than take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, one of the leading ingredients of which is Unicorn root, or Helianas, or other medicinal classes of which it most faithfully represents. Of Golden Seal root, another prominent ingredient of "Favorite Prescription," Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says: "It is an important remedy in disorders of the womb in a cataract conditions * * * and an internal hemorrhage." Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late of Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root; In relation to its general effects on the system, there is no medicine in use about which there is such general unanticipation. It is unresponsible as the tonic useful in all debilitated states. Prof. Bartholow, M. D., of Jefferson Medical College, says of Golden Seal: "Vauable in uterine hemorrhage, menorrhagia (flooding) and congestive dysmenorrhoea (painful menstruation)." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription faithfully represents all the above named ingredients and cures the diseases for which they are recommended. complishes results, and so I use it." Good for periodical pain, and other female trouble. Try it. Sold by all Druggists A Gentle Slam. Miss Jolly—Eddie Blank is an awful flatterer. You can't believe a word he says. But I always like to meet him. Kathleen—Must be a case of mutual admiration. I've heard him say the very same thing about you.—Detroit Free Press. Lost: The other fellow lost it, the Santa Fe Agent at Wichita, Kansas, found it. What? The agency for all Steamer lines, Atlantic, Pacific, all Gulis and Rivers. Write for rates. "Poverty is no disgrace," said Uncle Eben, "but dat fact ain't a good excuse for de man dat 'ud rather be broke dan to go to work."—Washington Star. Yellow clothes are unsightly. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. If men couldn't go into politics they would invest: something else just as bad to do.—N. Y. Press. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, sorties the games, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind cold. See bottle. The man who flirts with trouble is apt to get it where Uncle Bill got the carburet. Look Premose ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CR DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE SEAS DIDDETTE BACKACHE discontinued the use of our drugage. The public may rely on drug of imitations. Sold only in boxes. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIPID, They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS TITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuino Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Brew Good REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. CURE all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh, uterine catarrh caused by feminine ills, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs,checks discharges, stops pain, and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box THE R. PAXTON CO., Boston, Mass. STOP PAYING RENT. You will buy a $1,000 to $5,000 home. You may only pay $1,000 to $5,000. CENT. SIMPLE INTEREST per annum, pay monthly. Address THE STANDARD REAL ESTATE LOAN COMPANY, Washington D. C. STANDARD REAL Washington, D.C. for "Inven- tions Primer" and ants on Pension." and latest MED. INSIGNS Industrial, Detroit. O. 21, 1906. MOT-EASE Hot, Aching Feet. SUBSTITUTE. This signature Allen Olmsted on every box. For FREE High Package, Address, Alen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. MONEY TILL CURED BENTON & MINOR-1021 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRANCH OF FICE AT ST. LOUIS) CARDUI O. P. Walker, of Motz, Ark., "and makers claim. I have used it lately (scanty flow) in young girls, one —all with the happiest results. I send patent medicines, but Cardui ac- PATENTS Send for "Inventor's Primer" and "Prima on Pension." Established 1911. MILO B. STEVENS & CO. Fifth St., Washington, D.C. Branches at Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit. "SOUTHWEST" W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 21, 1906. ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE A Certain Cure for Tired, Hot, Aching Feet. DO NOT ACCEPT A SUBSTITUTE. This signature For FREE Trial Package, Address, Alien S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. on every box. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED. DRS. 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Dr. Price, the famous food expert, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, Delicious Flavoring Extracts, Ice Cream Sugar and Jelly Desserts, has never been compelled notwithstanding strenuous Food laws, to change any of his products. They have always conformed to their requirements. This is an absolute guarantee of their quality and purity. CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. DAISY FERGUS For 20s. HAROLD SOKERS. 149 Dekau WINE OF W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES WALK & PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOESMAN SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1876 CAPITAL $2,500,000 W. L. DOUGLAS MAKES & SELLS MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOES THAN ANY OTHER MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD. $10,000 REWARD to anyone who can take care of your shoes. If it could take you into my three large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you the infinite care with which every pair of shoes is made, you would be amazed. The cost more to make, why they hold their shape fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Douglas Strong Made Shoes for Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.50, $1.75, $1.50 CAUTION... Inside upon having W.L.Dog- sons Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.50, $1.75, $1.50 without his name and price stamped on bottom. Fast Color Fuelset user; they will not wear bra- wet. Write for us. W. L. DOUGAS Brockton, Masa $20. AND LESS From St. Louis and Kansas City to all points Southwest via M. K. & T. R'y, June 15th and 19th. Tickets good 50 days returning with stopovers in both directions. MKT MARKETING TECHNOLOGY we have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Groerie, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Brooms, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Stationary, and, in fact, anything and everything you may want in the Grocery Line. FREE DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY Court House Grocery Store 517 North Main Street 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. Excellence Court THE "U - KNE FLO it excels in every respect, bread per barrel. MAD Watson WICHITA, --- Excellence Counts..... it excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of read per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" SO No Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (One gondine without my signature) Charles Fort Peck 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. -SMOKE- BLUE SEAL CIGARS SOLD EVERYWHERE The Wichita Bi a d Spor Has just what you want, if you are looking for a Bicycle or anything in the Sporting Goods Line such as Fishing Tackles, Lawn Tennis, Golf Ball, Guns and Ammunition . . . Lowest Prices On the Best Quality of Go 23) N. Main St. Lowest Prices On the Best Quality of Goods 23) N. Main St. Phone 545 nts.... I USE.... AD-IT" IUR -color, flavor, and pounds of BY Mill Co. KANSAS Dr.J.E. Farmer Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N. Main St PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 233 L.S. NAFTGER, W.R. TUCKER, President Vice President L.M. MOORE Cooking Fourth National Bank United States Depository Director—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F, Mc Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftzger, E. H. Middlekaff, O. Z. Smith. 1. General Banking Business Tranacted CHITA KANSAS HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue WICHITA TABERNACLE No. 34, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Beatrice Miller Sec. Best Quality of Goods Phone 545 W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. 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 Miss' Fine Shoes, Oxfords a nd Slippers all styles and kinds. AT: WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Main Your Old Friends Back East Ought to move Southwe. 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!!! Santa Fe Address General Colonization Agent, A. T. & S. F. Ry Railway Echange, Chicago, Ill. A FOOL and his money are soon paated. The man 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 BOSTH PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 333 TO 347 WEST DOUGLAS In The Your wants need careful attention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 102 E. Douglas Pone 35' J. W. Owens, J. W. Owens, WORK DONE WHILE YOU WAIT 2nd Shoes Bought and Sold 332 N. Main Street Wichita, Kan 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 SUR FRANK WILSON. C. G. M. REV, SIR FRANK WILSON, C. G. M, 943 Everett, Kansas City, Kan. To the modern-day colored man, Ingalls' phrase, "politics is an irredescentdream," fits smoothly and completely. The big Negro politician (?) is numbered with past history and has no place today. FRISCO SYSTEM Will sell daily until May 31st. Round trip tickets to the above point at greatly reduced rates. Tickets limited to except tickets sold during May to be limited to 30 days. For full particulars see Frisco Agent or write Taborial Temple No. 11, Knights of Tabor and Wichita Tabernacle No. 34, Daughters of the Tabernacle, have received their spring dispensation and for a limited time will receive members at reduced rates. If you desire to join this grand order send your petition in at once. For dispensation rate speak to some Knight or Daughter. Latest Waltz Out 10c Only 100 Copies Left 10c Cheaper Than at Music Store. Stella Vann, Sole Agent NEW LODGE ROOM WILL SOON BE READY. The new lodge room in the new Young building, corner Main and Elm street, will now soon be ready. All of the colored lodges in Wichita, with few exceptions, have engaged meet- ing nights. Mr. G. H. Young, who is avishing the building erected, promises to furnish the colored lodges one of the most cozy and up-to-date lodge rooms in the state. It will be an ideal palace of comport in every way. You Should VisitYou "OLD KENTUCKY HOME" on the occasion of "The Kentucky Home Coming" Louisville, Ky. June 13th to 17te 1906 FRISCO STREET Will operate through cars from many points. Tickets will be sold June 11th, 12th 13th at very low rates. Final return limit June 23rd, but upon payment of 50 cents ex tra limit will be extended to 30 days from date sold. OPEN TO EVERYBODY For rates, routes, maps a nd other information apply to nearest Frisca Agent, or F. E. Clark, Div. Passenger Agent Wichita, Kansas Ed Leverty New and 2nd Hand Furniture 2nd Hand Furniture bought and sold. Repair work a specialty. 406 N. Main Wichita, Kas. SHOULD ATTEND TO THIS. Every Knight and every Daughter who have children should see to it that their children are members of the Tent which is the children's department of the Order of Twelve. Knights and Daughters make a sad mistake by keeping their children out of the Tent or not urging the mto join and stay in after they have joined. It's a glorious great good. Knights and Daughters should see that they look into this matter at once. Do not delay. F. E. CLARK, D. P. A. STRACT CO. CORNER OF THE HOUSE abstractors I. X. L. GROCERY Co. Butter - Eggs Bring them to us we pay the highest prices. We have an entire now stock of everything in groceries. Dean's old stand— 815 N. Main R. L. Collins ARKANSAS CITY NEWS ITEMS. The great basket picnic of Peckham, O. T., is announced. It is to be held one mile north of Pechana on the place of Mr. W. H. West, June 14, 1906. Miss Nola Keller has returned from a visit to Winfield. Rev. Ramey is spending a few days in Hutchinson, Kan. Rev. Guy is to leave to attend the district conference to be held at Great Bend, beginning May 23. N. J. Lofflin, of Enid, preached at the Second Baptist church last Sunday night. Frank Roberts, of Geuda Springs and Miss Zella Martin, of Battle Creek Michigan, were united in marriage last Wednesday. C. Keaton, of Austin, Texas, is in the city for a short time. Henry Young is on the sick list. Miss Delano is reported better. She is recovering from an attack of fever. NEWTON (KAN.) NEWS. Mrs. Ramsy is reported much better. Mrs. Alack and daughter, of Atchison, are visiting friends and relatives in the city. Joe Rickman, who has been very sick for the past week, is reported some better. Guy* Rickman, who has been sick for some time, is somewhat improved. Miss Seattle Bush and Miss Winson, of Peabody, were visitors in the city Sunday. Albert Slater, of Wichita, was seen in the city Sunday with an automobile. The social given at the Masonic hall Thursday evening by the colored band of this city was a grand success. There was a large crowd present and everyone enjoyed themselves and also the music which the band furnished. The Flower of the West Lodge No. 3005 G. U. O., of O. F., and the Lady of the Golden Rod Household of Ruth No. 2277 met in their hall and formed line of march in full regalia to the A. M. E. church, where their annual Thanksgiving sermon was preached Sunday afternoon by Rev. Mace, who is pastor in charge of that church and also a member of the order. Such luminated streets were never seen in the city of Newton before, and the order was pleased to have with them the most distinguished D. G. M., Mr. T. A. Glover, of Wichita. The lodge is doing nicely, and slowly but surely coming to the front. Rev. Mauce left the city this week for Topeka to visit his wife. He will return in a few days. Theodore Coleman is contemplating a trip to Kansas City this week. Mrs. J. S. Anderson is in Los Angeles, California, where she will spend the summer. She is reported to be highly enjoying herself there. Keep your eye on the Searchlight—she's there. --- Miss Clara Baird came over from Sabetha last week to attend commencement. Centralia people are always glad to see Miss Clara return home. Mrs. eBrtha Johnson has been suffering very much recently with an attack of rheumatism. Miss Hattie Rice's health is improving since her return from school. Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Copeland made a flying visit in Fairview. They report a very pleasant time. The friends of Mrs. Alex Johnson will be pleased to know that her health is improving. She can successfully attend to her household duties. On the evening of May 22 a reception was tendered Miss Brownlee Baird by her friends; her friends honored her for having successfully passed through the common and high schools of Centralia. Last Friday night, May 18, she was graduated with high honors. At the reception were many friends who had known the young lady birth. Her beautiful home was tastefully decorated with lilies, roses, peonies and foliage. The dining room table was tastefully arranged and decorated with floral emblems. Some of those who tok part in the program were Misses Linnie Brewer, Sssie Brewer, Dr. M. L. Copeland, Mr. J. C. Rice, Miss Brownlee Baird and Mrs. M. L. Copeland, who conducted the program. All report an enjoyable time. The "Underground Cafe," 347 N. Main, is the place—Bud Hickerson knows what you want to eat—go there Searchlight office is now at 601 N. Main, Young building. International Order of Twelve. Leavenworth, Kan., May 26, 1906. OFFICIAL NOTICE. To All C. M.'s, C. P.'s, Q. M.'s, P. P.'s, Members and Visitors: You are hereby notified that I have made full and complete arrangements for reduced rates over all railroads running into Wichita, Kansas, for the benefit of all delegates who will attend the Fifteenth Annual Grand Ses- sion of the Kansas-Nebraska Grand Temple and Tabernacle, International Order of Twelve, which will be held in Wichita, Kansas, July 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th. All members of our order are hereby notified to buy one-way tickets—not round trip tickets—and be sure and get certificates, and if you travel over more than one road and have purchased more than one ticket be sure and get a certificate with each ticket you buy. You can buy your tickets as early as July 6th, but no ticket will be honored by the railroad for this occasion after July 12th. 1906, and all tickets will be good for three days after the closing day (Sunday not included as a day). You are again cautioned that the Grand Temple and Tabernacle are very interested concerning reduced rates, as it will save our order quite a sum of money if all who attend our session bring their certificates. By order Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. Leavenworth, Kan. The B. T. W. Club met with Mrs. C. A. Glover Thursday afternoon. The meeting was opened with prayer, the roll was called and each member responded with a quotation. Mrs. W. M. Bowers read a Scripture lesson. The first Thursday of each month was set aside as Children's Day. The club then went into the ejection of officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. E. F. Thomas—President. Mrs. Sam C. Collins—Vice-President. Mrs. H. W. James—2nd Vice-President. Mrs. Fred Martin—Secretary. Mrs. C. A. Glover—Asst. Secretary. Mrs. J. H. Phelps—Treasurer. Mrs. J. A. Martin- vor. Secretary. Mrs. W. M. Bowers—Critic. Mrs. Lucy Anderson—Journalist. Mrs. Wm. Clark—Chapain. Mrs. Geo. W. Daniels—Reporter. The club adjourned to meet next Thursday afternoon, May 31st, with Mrs. T. L. Hackley, 1520 Sherwood avenue. OUR SPECIAL NUMBER. We most sincerely acknowledge the many compliments given us on the special issue of the Searchlight, which was produced last Tuesday, May 22d. It is the aim of the Searchlight to continue its improvements until it will be able to reach the highest marks of publication and with the aid of the good people we will accomplish our desire. If the people will give us their undivided support—to which we are justly entitled—we will give them a paper of which they will have ampl resons to be proud. ```markdown ``` PECK'S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS By HON. GEORGE W. PECK Author of "Peck's Bad Boy Abroad." Etc. (Copyright by J. B. Bowles.) The Bad Boy and His Pa Go West—Pa Plans to Be a Dead Ringer for Buffalo Bill—They Visit an Indian Reservation and Pa Has an Encounter with a Grizzly Bear. Well, I never saw such a change in a man as there has been in pa, since the circus managers gave him a commission to go out west and hire an entire outfit for a wild west show, regardless of cost, to be a part of our show next year. He acts like he was a duke, searching for a rich wife. No country politician that never had been out of his own county, appointed minister to England, could put on more style than pa does. The first day after the show left us at St. Louis we felt pretty buan, 'cause we missed the smell of the canvas, and the sawdust, and the animals, and that indescribable odor that goes with Pa Kicked De Vicious the Dog Pa Kicked the Dog. a circus. We missed the performers, the band, the surging crowds around the ticket wagon, and the cheers from the seats. It almost seemed as though there had been a funeral in the family, and we were sitting around in the cold parlor waiting for the lawyers to read the will. But in a couple of days pa got busy, and he hired a young Indian who was a graduate of Carlsle, as an interpreter, and a reformed cowboy, to go with us to the cattle ranges, and an old big game hunter who was to accompany us to the places where we could find buffalo and grizzly bears. Pa chartered a car to take us west, and after the Indian and the cowboy and the hunter got sobered up on the train, and got the St. Louis potmaine poison out of their systems, and we were going through Kansas, pa got us all into the smoking compartment. The Indian gan to loot the Indian, up all the Indian, dian a Indian, dian a Indian, pa ca four ceue and the ceue said that confound of the giver went to be The new station in and start where the came from Indians f. 40 miles as the sun in the dis "Gentlemen," he said, "I want you to know that this expedition is backed by the wealth of the circus world, and that there is nothing cheap about it. We are to hire, regardless of expense, The Grizzly Looked as E The Grizzly Looked as Big as a Brewery Horse. the best riders, the best cattle ropers, and the best everything that goes with a wild west show. We all know that Buffalo Bill must soon, in the nature of things, pass away as a feature for shows, and I have been selected to take the place of Bill in the circus world, when he cashes in. You may have noticed that I have been letting my hair and mustache and chin whiskers grow the last few months, so that next year I will be a dead ringer for Bill. All I want is some experience as a hero of the plains. as a scout, a hunter, a scalper if Indians, a rider of wild horses, and a few things like that, and next year you will see me ride a white horse up in front of the press seats in our show, take off my broad-brimmed hat, and wave it at the crowned heads in the boxes, give the spurs to my horse, and ride away like a cavalier, and the show will go on, to the music of hand-clapping from the assembled thou-saws, see?" The cowboy looked at pa's stomach, and said: "Well, Mr. Man, if you are going to blow yourself for a second Buffalo Bill, I am with you, at the salary agreed upon, till the cows come home, but you have got to show me that you have got no yellow streak, when it comes to cutting out steers that are wild and carry long horns, and you've got to rope 'em, and tie 'em all alone, and hold up your hands for judgment, in ten seconds." Pa said he could learn to do it in a week, but the cowman said: "Not on your life." The hunter said he would be ready to call pa B. Bill when he could stand up straight, with the paws of a full-grown grizzly on each of his shoulders, and its face in front of pa's, if pa had the nerve to pull a knife and disembowel the bear, and skin him without help. Pa said that would be right into his hand, 'cause he use to work in a slaughter house when he was a boy, and he had waded in gore. The Indian said he would be ready to salute pa as Buffalo Bill the Second, when pa had an Indian's left hand tangled in his hair, and a knife in his right hand ready to scalp him, if pa would look the Indian in the eye and hypnotize the red man so he would drop the hair and the knife, turn his back on pa, and invite him to his wigwam as a guest. Pa said all he asked was a chance to look into the very soul of the worst Indian that ever stole a horse, and he would make Mr. Indian penuk, and beg for mercy. And we all agreed that pa was a wonder, and then they got out a pack of cards and played draw poker awhile. Pa had bad luck, and when the Dog. the Indian bet a lot of chips, pa began to look the Indian in the eye, and the Indian began to quail, and pa put up all the chips he had, to bluff the Indian, but pa took his eye off the Indian a minute too quick, and the Indian quit quailing, and bet pa $70, and ra called him, and the Indian had four deuces and pa had a full hand, and the Indian took the money. Pa said that comes of educating these confounded red devils, at the expense of the government, and then we all went to bed. The next morning we were at the station in the far west. We got off and started for the Indian reservation where the Carlisle Indian originally came from, and where we were to hire Indians for our show. We rode about 40 miles in hired buckboards, and just as the sun was setting there appeared in the distance an Indian camp, where smoke ascended from tepees, tents and bark houses. When the civilized Carlisle Indian jumped up on the front seat of the buckboard and gave a series of vells that caused pa's bald head to Big as a Brewery Horse. look ashamed that it had no hair to stand on end, there came a war whoop from the camp, Indians, squaws, dogs, and everything that contained a noise letting out yells that made me sick. The Carlisle Indian began to pull off his citizen clothes of civilization, and the horses ran down to the camp in front of the chief's tent the tribes welcomed the Carlisle prodigal son, who had removed every evidence of civilization, except a pair of football pants, and thus he reinstalled himself with the affections of his race, who hugged him for joy. Pa and the rest of us sat in the buck-board while the Indians began to feast on something cooking in a shack. We looked at each other for awhile, not daring to make a noise for fear it would offend the Indians. Pretty soon an old chief came and called pa the Great Father, and called me a pup, and he invited us to come into camp and partake of the feast. Well, we were hungry, and the meat certainly tasted good, and the Carlisle civilized Indian had no business to say it was dog, 'cause no man likes to smoke his pipe of peace with strong tobacco in a strange pipe, and feel that his stomach is full of dog meat. But we didn't die, and all the evening the Indians talked about the brave great father. It seemed that they were not going to take much stock in pa's bravery until they had tried him out in Indian fashion. We were standing in the moonlight surrounded by Indians, and pa had been questioned as to his bravery, and pa said he was brave like Roosevelt, and he swelled out his chest and looked the part, when the chief said, pointing to a savage, snaring dog that was smelling of pa: "Brave man, kick a dog!" We all told pa that the Indian wanted pa to give an exhibition of his bravery by kicking the dog, and while I could see that pa had rather hire a man to kick the dog, he knew that it was up to him to show his mettle, so he hauled off and gave the dog a kick near the tail which seemed to telescope the dog's spine together, and the dog landed far away. The chief patted pa on the shoulder and said: "Great Father, bully good hero. Tomorrow he kill a grizzly," and then they let us go to bed, after pa had explained that if everything went well he would hire all the chiefs and young braves for his show. After we got to bed pa said he was almost sorry he told the chief that he would take a grizzly bear by one ear, and cuff the other ear with the flat of his hand, as he didn't know but a wild grizzly would look upon such conduct differently from our old bear in the show used to. Any person around the show could slap his face, or cuff him, or kick him in the slats, and he would act as though they were doing him a favor. The big game hunter told pa that there was no danger in hunting a grizzly, as you could scare him away, if you didn't want to have any truck with him, by waving your hat, and yelling: "Git, Ephraim." He said no grizzly would stand around a minute if you yelled at him. Pa made up his mind he would up all right enough, if we came up to a grizzly. Well, we didn't sleep much that night, cause pa kept practicing on his yell to scare a grizzly, for fear he would forget the words, and when they called us in the morning pa was the poorest imitation of a man going out to test his bravery that I ever saw. While the Indians were getting ready to go out to a canyon and turn the dogs loose to round up a bear, pa got a big knife and was sharpening it, so he could rip the bear from Genesis to Revelations. After breakfast the chief and the Carlisle Indian, and the big game hunter, and the cowman and I went out about two miles, to the mouth of the canyon, where it was very narrow, and they stationed pa by a big rock, right where the bear would have to pass; the rest of us got up on a beach of the canyon, where we could see pa be brave, and the young Indians went up about a mile, and started the dogs. Well, pa was a sight, as he stood there waiting for the bear, so he could cuff its ears, and rip it open, right in sight of the chief, and skin it; but he was nervous, and we could see that his legs trembled when he heard the dogs bark up the canyon. I yelled to pa to think of Teddy Roosevelt, and Daniel Boone, and Buffalo Bill, and set his teeth so they would not chatter and scare the bear, but pa yelled back: "Never you mind. I will kill my bear in my own way, but you can make up your mind to nave bear meat for supper." Pretty soon the big game hunter said: "There he comes, sure's you are born," and we looked up the canyon, and there was something coming, as big as a load of hay, with bristles sticking up a foot high on its back, and its mouth was open, and it was looping right towards pa. Gee, but I was proud of pa, to see him sharpening his knife on his boot leg, but when the great animal got within about a block of pa, the great father seemed to have a streak of yellow, for he dropped his knife and yelled: "Git, Ephraim," in a loud voice, but Ephraim came right along, and didn't grit with any great suddenness. When the bear got within about four doors of pa, he saw the great father, and stood up on his hind legs, and looked as big as a brewery horse, and he opened his mouth and said: "Woof," just like that. That was too much for my pa, who began to shuck his clothes, and then started on a run towards the mouth of the canyon. The bear looked around as much as to say: "Well, what do you think of that?" and we watched pa sprinting toward the Indian camp like a scared wolf. The big game hunter put a few bullets in the bear where they would do the most good, and killed it, and we went down in the canyon and skinned it, and took the meat and hide to camp, where we found a under bed in a squaw's tepee, making grand hailing signs of distress, and trying to tell them about his killing a bear by letting it run after him, so it would tire itself out and die of heart failure. When we found pa he had come out from under the bed, and was looking at the hide of the bear to find the place where he hit it with the knife, as he said he could see that the only chance for him to kill the bear was to throw the knife at it from a distance. 'cause the bear was four times as big as any bear he had ever killed. Pa took out a handful of gold pieces and distributed them among the Indians, and told the Carlisle Indian to explain to the tribe that the great father had killed the bear by hypnotism, and they all believed it except the chief, who seemed skeptical, for he said: "Great father heap brave man like a sheep. Go play seven-up with squaws." WASHINGTON GOSSIP AFTER PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEAVES OFFICE IN 1909. President and His Associates in Their Fondness for Athletics — The American Soldier in San Francisco. ASHINGTON.—Political prophets in Washington are trying to find a place for President Roosevelt after he goes out of office in 1909. One ingenious writer has predicted the election of Secretary of War Taft ASHINGTON.—Political prophets in Washington are trying to find a place for President Roosevelt after he goes out of office in 1909. One ingenious writer has predicted the election of Secretary of War Taft to the presidency, and declares that Theodore Roosevelt would be Mr. Taft's secretary of state. This arrangement has caused President Roosevelt considerable amusement and has excited the risibilities of men in public life generally. The most frequently expressed opinion in political circles is that Mr. Roosevelt is more likely to come to the senate from New York than he is to fill any other position. Senator Platt's term will expire on March 3, 1909, the date on which Mr. Roosevelt will cease to be president of the United States. Mr. Platt is not a candidate for reelection, and if Mr. Roosevelt enters the field it is admitted that no one will oppose him. The senate would be a congenial field after two terms in the White House. Some of the older members of the senate who have not had the most pleasant relations with Mr. Roosevelt as president are already grinning in anticipation of the fun they will have in hazing the new senator from New York. Those who know the president do not doubt that he will be able to take good care of himself when the hazing begins. After Mr. Roosevelt retires from the presidency even though he is elected a senator from New York it is believed that his plans contemplate a tour of the world. He could start at once and do this tour before the beginning of the regular session of congress following. It is admitted that no one, not even Grant, has received greater honors than would be accorded to Mr. Roosevelt by all the great foreign nations he would visit. His reputation as the great peacemaker of the world would insure him a triumphal tour. HERE was recently restored to its rightful owner one of the most interesting relics of colonial and revolutionary times. The long los' Bible of Martha Washington, which was taken from the home of the Lee T family at Arlington during the civil war was a few days ago restored by G. W. Kendricks, of Philadelphia, to Miss Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the commander of the confederacy. The wanderings of this old volume will never be known. Mr. Kendricks, who is a book collector, bought the Bible many years ago from a man named Stein. It was probably stolen, as were many other treasures from the Lee mansion, by the servants and soldiers, and pawned for a trifling sum by persons ignorant of its value. The book has been kept with great care and is in fine condition. Its black leather cover shows few scratches. A few pages are corn, but the ink is still unfaded, and many leaves and flowers pressed by members of the Lee family are still in it. The Bible was printed in London in 1702 by "Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty." It contains the "Order for Morning Prayer Throughout the Year," including the communion service, the articles of religion, the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha, the metrical version of the Psalms and the table of kindred affinity. The Bible does not contain the record of the marriage of Martha Custis to George Washington. The earliest birth reported is that of Fannie Park Custis, in 1710. The marriage of Daniel Park Custis to Martha Dandridge, afterward Martha Washington, is recorded as having occurred in 1750. Good Athletes. N PRESIDENT Roosevelt there's a cabinet there are several men who can hold him level in certain lines of athletics, although the president has the reputation of being the greatest all-round athlete among pubic N PRESIDENT Roosevelt's cabine there are several men who can hold him level in certain lines of athletics, although the president has the reputation of being the greatest all-round athlete among public men in Washington. He does not boast of particular skill in any sport except wrestling. In that he has quite a record. He is a very good rider, a good boxer, a fairly good shot, and a very fair tennis player. He gets most of his exercise, however, in wrestling and boxing, and if he cannot persuade any of his friends to stand up against him he will have some athletic instructor come to the White House and try a few rounds with him with the gloves. Two of his cabinet have fine athletic records. They are Attorney General Moody and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf. Moody is one of the most enthusiastic baseball cranks in the country. When he was at college he was a crack player himself. He was captain of the Andover baseball team in 1872, and played with the 'Varsity nine at Harvard for four years. If he gets the opportunity he still likes to play the game, but just now he takes most of his exercise in horseback riding. Secretary Metcalf made quite a record as an carman on the Yale crew away back in 1875-6. When he went to California in 1880 he became a member of the Olympic club, of San Francisco. He was one of the crack boxers of the club, and at one time held the middleweight amateur championship of San Francisco for wrestling. He does not indulge in any of this violent exercise now, as he has not been in good health for some time, and he, like Moody, confines himself to riding and walking. First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock is one of the greatest athletes in public life. He has a fine record as a baseball player, but his specialty is boxing. He is more than six feet tall, very quick, and has an unusually long reach. Confidence Restored. HE United States army has won new laurels by the part it has played in San Francisco. The authorities at the war department, however, are of the opinion that it has about completed its work there. Secretary T Taft is opposed to the policy of retaining any number of troops in San Francisco engaged in the work of relief and restoration. He believes that these duties should be taken up by the citizens of San Francisco themselves. The longer the army stays there the more danger there is of conflict of authority between the municipal officials and the officers of the army. It is also felt that the people of San Francisco would be much more self-respecting if they are shouldered with the responsibility of maintaining order and relieving the suffering. The conduct of the army officers and men in the great disaster in San Francisco has done much to restore to the army the confidence and respect of the people, and particularly of members of congress. It had become the habit of some congressmen and senators on all occasions to decry the American soldier. When the news came of the wiping out of the Moros at Mount Dajo in the Philippines there was a renewal of the criticism of the army and an outy against the brutality and cruelty of the soldiers. This has all been hushed. When the same soldier, because those stationed on the Pacific coast are of the same army that has occupied the Philippines, went into the burning city, rescued men, women and children, went hungry that others might eat, and neither slept nor rested night nor day there was nothing heard about the brutal soldiers. The employment of the army in this work was without warrant of law, but no violation of red tapelism ever met with so hearty approval or commanded so much respect in congressional and administration circles where the welfare of the soldier is supposed to be in charge. A New Fertilizer. ECRETARY WILSON's department of agriculture is constantly discovering something that is destined to be of benefit to the farmer. Just now the scientists in that department are somewhat excited over ECRETARY WILSON's department of agriculture is constantly discovering something that is destined to be of benefit to the farmer. Just now the scientists in that department are somewhat excited over the supposed discovery of a new supply of fertilizer which can be furnished cheaper than the same material has ever been before secured. Herefore the whole supply of carbonate of potash fertilizer has come from Germany, but Dr. Cushman, of the roads' office in the agricultural department, believes that he has found something in this country that will completely supplant the German fertilizer. Last summer when Dr. Cushman was experimenting on some granite road material in his laboratory he extracted from some very finely powdered rock a large percentage of potash. He extracted this potash by electricity, but he concluded that as ground rock is very cheap, it might be worth while to try the experiment of letting the plants do their own extracting. He tried it on his own farm, and found that the powdered rock did actually act as a fertilizer. The commercial value of imported fertilizer is about $100 a ton. It is necessary in the tobacco fields and a number of other crops require it. The ground rock, on the other hand, can be produced for about three dollars a ton, and there is so much of it in the country that runs high in potash, and is available for use that the supply could never be cornered. It takes about twice as much of the ground rock to accomplish the same results as the imported fertilizer, but even then the difference in the price of $6 and $100 is evidently a great card in favor of the native material. The scientists at the agricultural department regard this as a very important discovery. Burmese Inch. The pulgat, a Burmese measurement, is the only foreign measure exactly corresponding to our inch. Knights and Daughters. If you changed High Priestess or Chieft tors since this list was published kindly notify me at once, that I make the correction. W. N. Miller, Ed. KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS TABOR. Tapernacies. 1 Mrs. Eliza Nichols, 938 Eur St., Kansas City, Kan. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 S Chestnut St., Iola, Kan. 3 Mrs. Flora Thompson, 112 7th St., Council Bluffs, Kan. 4 Mrs. Madaliene Ward, 225 6th, Cherryvale, Kan. 5 Mrs. Sarah Skinner, 725 S St., Atchison, Kan. 6 Mrs. Mary Curry, 804 C St., Ottawa, Kan. 7 Mrs. N. E. Wigely, 506 N. Salina, Kan. 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 11th Coffeyville, Kan. 9 Mrs. Sarah H. Harrison, Van Buren St., Topeka. 10 Mrs. Maggie Fishback, Lawrence, Kan. 11 Mrs. Perlina Woolfork, Freeman St., Kansas City. 12 Miss Cora Sango, 205 N Front St., Kansas City. 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box Wet City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Perior T. Ballinger, 20th St., Parsons, Kan. 17 Mrs. A. Masie, 615 Barbe Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. Emma Maxie, 411 Ran Ft. Scott, Kan. 24 Mrs. C. E. Kirby, Box 322 feyville, Kan. 28 Mrs. Bell Wright, 1411 ridge Ave., Parsons, Kan. 28 Mrs. S. Montaque, 403 Kiel St., Leavenworth, Kan. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Leavenworth, Kan. 32 Mrs. Ida B. Willis, 1035 A. Ave. Butte, Mont. 33 Mrs. Phannie Corneal, Box Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 I 15th, Wichita, Kan. 35 Mrs. Rachel Dudly, 521 N. South Omaha, Neb. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 523 N. Atchison, Kan. 38 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City. 77 Mrs. A. Pickens, 250 E. Topeka, Kan. 85 Mrs. Ella Cornish, 828 Tyler N. Topeka, Kan. 89 Mrs. Marie Boyd, 1204 D Omaha, Neb. 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 316 N. St., Omaha, Neb. 92 Mrs. J. G. Gillum, 1209 Lincoln, Neb. 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 Wern Ave. N. Topeka, Kan. 777 C. M'S ADDRESSES 333 Number. 1 William M. Watkins, Box 1 Weir City, Kan. 3 Mr. William H. Barnes, Sh St., Atchison, Kan. 4 Andrew Herrold, Sherman Omaha, Neb. 6 M. E. Bird, 3014 Hewett, Kansas City, Kan. 8 R. M. Bingham, 1727 E. Oal Ft. Scott, Kan. 10 Richard Walker, cor. 5th Delaware St., Leavenworth 11 W. N. Miller, 258 N. Main Searchlight office, Wisc. 13 A. H. Morton, Parsons 15 H. Henry Jordan, Salina, Kan. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th S. Omaha, Neo. 17 Allen Jarner, Box 332 Co ville, Kan. 19 C. Parris, 918 Penn, St., Br rence, Kan. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. St., Kansas City, Kan. 59 S. W. Pasker, 1156 Bucha Topeka, Kan. 60 James Scott, 1404 Van B Topeka, Kan. 71 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th Lincoln, Neb. 536 Albert Graves, 90 Charles Deadwood, South Dakota Banner Mill + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FE 703 North Main St. All calls attended promptly, Day or Office Hours - 9 to 12 a. m. 2 to 5 p. m. 6 to 8 30 p. m. Deaf-Mute Conversation. A deaf-mute who is fairly expert finger language can speak about three words a minute. In the space of time a person in possession of his speech will probably speak words. Bird Builds Biggest Nest. The mound bird, found in Australia builds the biggest nest in the world. It makes mounds sometimes as high as 150 feet in circumference, in which it buries its eggs five feet deep. A new exclamation is likely to come into vogue, according to Mr. James Platt, Jr., in "Notes and Querulea" word is "hooshtah," and it is an importation from Australia.