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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER Must Fight Japan If War Does Come Uncle Sam May Be Glad To Use The Brave NEGRO SOLDIERS Whom He Now Humiliates Grave Problem EIGTHTH YEAR. Must Fig If War Does Co May Be Glad To NEGRO S Whom He N Grave F It is freely predicted in high government circles that it is not at all improbable that there will soon be a clash of arms between the United States and Japan over the color line. The South has once before plunged America into a heartless and relentless bloody war on account of theiraint and obsolete ideas on "racial"imes and "states rights" and now after forty years of partial peace the South gain takes the fore rank to plunge the country in another more deadly andinseless war. Should war with Japan one the United States may findsemselves very much in need of Negrooldiers whom they now ostracize, discriminate against, and dishonorablydischarge in battalions for no provenoffense whatever. Following we give some Washington ideas on the war situation. Washington.—Following consultation between the president and acific coast congressmen, at which the Japanese situation was discussed, the prediction was freely made that war between Japan and the United States is bound to come, and will probably be precipitated by some action prejudicial to Japanese labor or the desire of Japan to hold the supremacy of the Pacific. Representatives Hayes and Knowlson, of San Francisco, spent half an hour with the president. Hayes has a joint resolution ready to introduce in the house calling on the president to enter into negotiations with Japan for treaty to exclude Japanese laborers from the United States. After leaving the White House Mr. Hayes startled a group of newspaper men on the steps of the house by predicting that Japan and the United States would engage in war. War with Japan is sure to come," said Mr. Hayes. "But I do not believe will be provoked by the school question. The struggles may be deyaled twenty-five years, but sooner or later the two countries will test each other's fighting strength. In my opinion the war will be brought on by the best for the supremacy of the Pa- United States senator who is a member of the committee on foreign affairs, also called on the president this morning and talked about the delicate Japanese question. He stated afterward that he was convinced that the United States and Japan would ultimately go to war. "Japan has every confidence that President Roosevelt will adjust the Japanese-California school controversy entirely to the satisfaction of both nations. Feeling this confidence, Japan has ceased to be agitated over the situation. The Japanese newspapers are emphatically moderate in all their notices of the affair, and so far as the Japanese nation is concerned there is absolutely no reason for the revival of the newspaper notoriety in this country." The Associated Press was today authorized to quote the Japanese embassy as above. It was further said that there were no new developments in the situation of any character; that the matter was in the hands of President Roosevelt and his willingness and ability to act was entirely relied upon. Henry B. Miller, United States consul general at Yokohama, will be given an opportunity by the state department to affirm or deny a published interview in which he is quoted as saying that the Japanese are organizing their army and navy to fight the United States. A clipping of the alleged interview has been forwarded to Mr. Miller and the statement is made that if he denies it his answer will be accepted by the state department as conclusive. England and Franice Stirred by Rumors London.—President Roosevelt's solution of the difficulty arising from the anti-Japanese rule of the San Francisco schools is awaited with the greatest interest. The London papers contain sensational statements made by recent arrivals from the far East, suggesting the possibilities of war. Paris.-Great interest is manifested here in the situation growing out of the exclusion of Japanese children from the public schools of San Francisco. Some of the French newspapers take an alarming view of the affair, owing to sensational statements cabled, representing the far East as saying that a clash between Japan and the United States is inevitable. WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1906. Professor Roosevelt gives an example of the new spelling of Cuba. —F. C. Gould in Westminster Gazette. POINTS OUT NEEDS OF MARINE CORPS Brig. Gen. G. F. Elliott, commandant of the marine corps, in his annual report urges an increase in the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the corps and says the demands for both officers and men are daily on the increase. He states that unless prompt action is taken in this matter by congress he will be unable to carry out the directions of the secretary of the navy and that the efficiency of the corps will suffer materially. Yardmaster Had Had Three Chances to Shut the Door. Not long ago I overheard a conversation at a station outside of Chicago that to me was very amusing. Our train had pulled in, and our engineer had left his engine to the care of a round house attendant. An old man came along whose business it was to polish the iron horse. "Can you run an engine?" asked Pat of the yardmaster. "No," he answered, "I can't run an engine. Can you? "Can Oi run an engine!" sniffed Pat in derision. "If there's anything Oi'd rather do all day long, it is to run an engine. Huh, can Oi run an engine!" "Suppose," suggested the yardmaster, "you get up and run that engine into the house." "All right, Oi'll do that same," Pat bluffed, and he climbed into the cab, looked the ground over pretty well, spat on his hands, grabbed the biggest handle and pulled it wide open. Zip! the went into the round house. Pat saw the bumper ahead and guessing what would happen, reversed the lever clear back. Out she went—in again—out again. Then the yardmaster yelled: "I thought you said you could run an engine!" But Pat had his answer ready. "Ol had her in there three times. Why didn't you shut the door?"—The Sunday Magazine. Needless Formality. "Are you a witness in this case?" "Go 'long, jedge—you knows I is." "Did you see the prisoner steal the hog?" POINTS OUT NEEDS Brig. Gen. G. F. Elliott, command report urges an increase in the comm corps and says the demands for both crease. He states that unless prompt gress he will be unable to carry out navy and that the efficiency of the cor "My, my, jedge—don't you know I see him?" "Well, what time was it?" "Jedge, you knows ez well ez I does, dat hit wuz watermillion time!" "But—what time was it by the clock?" TAKE CARE OF CLOTHES. Proper Treatment Will Add Much to Their Usefulness. I know many men who would be quite well dressed if they would only refrain from lumbering their pockets; in fact, I wonder that some tailors do not send home a printed warning with each suit: "This suit is not constructed to carry heavy weights." Take those bundles of papers out of your inside pockets and button your coat up and you will find that you look much better than you do now. You have stretched the coat a bit out of shape, but it may recover itself. Remember to take everything out of the suit and fold it up. That is the only fair treatment for a good suit. Clothes are warmed by the body while they are being worn, and while they are warm they get molded into shape. If you always keep one pocket loaded with a handful of loose change and another pocket weighted with a huge bundle of keys, those pockets will become permanently damaged. Possibly you may have noticed that a new suit never looks quite so well as a suit that has been worn half a dozen times; that is because the new suit has not been warmed by being worn, and therefore the cloth is not molded to the shape of the figure. A new coat should always be worn buttoned up for the first few days.—Chicago Tribune. Clogs in the North of England. At least 4,000,000 pairs of clogs are sold in the northern counties of England every year. The "clog" is a sort of shoe with a wooden sole (made in one piece) and a leather top. The sole of the clog is finished with a set of "corkers" or "irons," one OF MARINE CORPS ant of the marine corps, in his annual missioned and enlisted personnel of the officers and men are daily on the inaction is taken in this matter by conthe directions of the secretary of the os will suffer materially. for the heel and another for the front of the sole. These irons are about a quarter of an inch wide, one-eighth of an inch thick, and are made to fit the shape of the sole somewhat as a shoe is fitted to a horse's hoof. With the first opening of Congress steps are begun to inquire into the drastic order of President Roosevelt in dishonorably discharging three companies of colored soldiers without trial or court martial of any sort. Two resolutions were introduced into the Senate Monday, one by Senator Foraker, the other by Senator Penrose. Senator Foraker is disposed to question the constitutionality of the president convicting any man "of felony by order" and in the same manner imposing sentence and inflicting punishment. Two sets of resolutions, addressed to the president and the secretary of war, respectively, were introduced in the Senate today by Senators Penrose and Foraker. The Penrose resolution calls on the president for all information regarding the dismissal of a battalion of Negro troops at Fort Reno, O. T., on account of the affray at Brownville Texas. The Foraker resolution, addressed to the secretary of war, directs that official to furnish the Senate copies of all official letters, telegrams, reports and orders filed with the war department in connection with the recent discharge of the troops in question, together with a complete list of the men discharged, showing the record of each, and the amount of retired pay each was entitled to. The ruling of the department is asked on this or any other similar case regarding the right of the men to such retired pay; also the ruling of the department as to the right of such discharged men to retire on three-fourths pay, with allowance, subsistence and clothing; their rights to enter the National Soldiers' homes; to be buried in a national cemetery; to receive subsistence and transportation from the place of discharge to their homes; also the complete official record of the Twenty-fifth regiment of infantry from the time of its muster-in to the date of the discharge of the companies mentioned. Senator Foraker tonight explained the purposes of his resolution as follows: "I will say, however, I have no purpose of raising the race question. It is a question of constitutional power on the one hand and constitutional WE WILL QUIRE INTO ent Discharging Was It Lawful? and statutory rights on the other. Until we have a complete record, I do not know just what questions will arise, but we may have to consider whether a man can be convicted of felony by order and whether, following such conviction, sentence may be imposed and punishment inflicted by order. "Discharges without honor may be granted where they are not based on an offense against the law of the land, the commission of which is denied and where no punishment follows. But where there is conviction, sentence and punishment, I have always supposed there would have to be also trial either in a civil court or in a court-martial or before some other tribunal thereunto duly appointed by law. But it is idle to discuss any of these questions until we know whether they are raised by the record." President Roosevelt may find yet that even the president of the United States has not the power of complaint, judge and jury. Maybe there is justice yet in store for the Negro. Let us all hope. JAPANESE SPUNKY; RIOT ACT TO ROOT. The Japanese Minister Reads the Riot Act to Americans. Japan Will Not Stand for Color Line. WHERE IS TILLMAN? It is generally agreed in Washington that Viscount Siuzu Aoki, ambassador from Japan to the United States, is the spunkiest diplomat ever seen there. When the viscount made his first call at the state department to protest against the separation of Japanese from white children in the San Francisco public schools there is said to have ensued the most heated colloquy Secretary Root has ever had with a foreign diplomat. The ambassador of his imperial majesty is wroth all through and he let the calm-tempered Mr. Root know it without mincing words a bit. Mr. Root forthwith communicated with the president and the result was the immediate dispatch of Secretary Metcalf to San Francisco to look into the situation carefully and make a full report to the president. Viscount Ooki's wife is a German of high birth and he seemed to feel that the treatment accorded the children of Japanese at San Francisco was a personal insult constituting an international incident of grave portent. WANTED—Gentleman or lady with good reference to travel by rail or with 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, Kan. ROOSEVELT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS President Deals with Some New and Important Subjects and He Also Recommends Much Legislation ASKS FOR INCOME AND INHERITANCE TAX Believes Such Legislation Is Constitutional and That It Would Curb the Growth of Fortunes to Dangerous Proportions—Asks for Legislation That Will Enable Government to Appeal Criminal Cases in Prosecutions of the Trusts—Would Minimize Injunctions in Labor Troubles—His Views on the Negro Question—Promises a Special Message on Panama Canal—Cuban Intervention, Currency Reform and Many Other Subjects Reviewed. Washington, Dec. 3.—The following is the full text of President Roosevelt's message to the second session of the Fifty-sixth congress. To the Senate and House of Representatives: As a nation we still continue to enjoy a literally unprecedented prosperity; and it is probable that only reckless speculation and disregard of legitimate business methods on the part of the business world can materially mar this prosperity. that basis—that is, if this discrimination is far from this particular shipment was made with an 18 instead of a 25 rate and the tariff rate was maintained as against their competitors—the result might be and not improbably would be that their competitors would be driven out of business. This crime is one which in its nature is deliberate and premeditated. In that case the link over night would between the date of Palmer's letter requesting the reduced rate and the answer of the railroad company deciding to transfer the property to the other subject. No congress in our time has done more good work of importance than the present congress. There were several matters left unfinished at your last session, however, which I most earnestly hope will complete before your adjournment. I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contributing to the campaign expenses of any party. Such a bill has already past one house of congress. Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective forms contributions from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly. Another bill which has just past one house of the congress and which is urging the government to pass a law is that conferring upon the government the right of appeal in criminal cases on questions of law. This right is not limited to the District of Columbia by act of the congress. It is of course not proposed that in any case a verdict for the defendant be made against the defendant in aside. Recently in one district where the government had indicted certain persons for conspiracy in connection with the defendant's demurrier; while in another jurisdiction an indictment for conspiracy to obtain rebates has been sustained by the defendant and two defendants sentenced to imprisonment. The two cases referred to may not be in real conflict with each other, but the two defendants even be an apparent conflict. At present there is no way by which the government can cause such a conflict, when the defendant is a higher court; and the wheels of justice are blocked without any real decision of the question. I can not too strongly believe that the law will result in a failure to pass mass will result in serious President Roosevelt. hampering the government in its effort to obtain justice, especially against those who do wrong; and may also prevent the government from obtaining justice for wageworkers who are not themselves guilty of the judgment of an inferior court has been against them. I have specifically asked the court to issue a judge leaving railway employees without remedy for violation of a certain so-called labor statute. It seems an absurd demand, and it is against what may be the judgment of the immense majority of his colleagues on the bench, to declare a law solemnly unjustifiable, and to impose stitutional," and then to deny to the government the right to have the supreme court definitely decide the ques- Criminal Prosecutions. It is well to recollect that the real efficiency of the law often depends not upon the presence of public excitement, but upon the passage of acts of this nature as to which there is not much public excitement, because there is a little public excitement in the court, while the interested parties are keenly alive to the desirability of defeating them. The importance of enacting into law these laws is further increased by the fact that the government has now definitely begun a policy of resorting to the criminal law in those trust and interstate commerce proceedings, because the government has become increasing chance of success. At first, as was proper, every effort was made to enforce these laws, and the proceedings had become increasing that the action of the government in finally deciding, in certain cases, to undertake criminal proceedings, had been some conspicuous failures in these cases, we have had many successes, which have undoubtedly had a deterrence effect upon those who either fail or imprisoned in the shape of fine or imprisonment—and penalties of both kinds have already been inflicted by the courts. Of course, the way to inflict the penalty of imprisonment the deterrent effect of the punishment on other offenders is increased; but such an effect has not been achieved. Judge Holt of the New York district court, in a recent decision admirably stated the need for treating with just severity offenders and His "The government's evidence to establish the defendant's guilt was clear, because the court ordered that a dargent one. The transactions which took place under this plea contract were not returned were considerable; and the amount of the rebate itself was large, and the entire tariff charge for the transportation of merchandise from this city to Detroit, opinion, that if this business was carried on for a considerable time on that basis—that is if this discrimination is in favor of this particular shipper was made with an 18 instead of a 23 cent rate and the tariff rate was maintained by the board of the company, which would result might be and not improbably would be that their competitors would be driven out of business. This crime is one which is the most likely to be判刑. But there is a great rate, but there is a lot of the date of Palmer's letter requesting the reduced rate and the answer to the head company would be a significant grant it, and then for months after the words this business was carried on and these claims for rebates submitted month-long in the same year, which were to be rained on them drawn month after month. Such a violation of the law, in my opinion, in its essential nature, is a very much more common, vulgar crimes which come to the end of the criminal courts constantly for punishment or intention to be from sudden or even to the end of this case was committed by men of education and of large business experience, whose business standing in the community of the country has been expected to get a expected of obedience to law, upon the maintenance of which alone in this country the court's their property depends. It was committed to the small of the great railroad corporations, which, like other country-employees, has received grassroots privileges for the public and, in the same way, which performs quasi public functions and which is charged with the highest obligation in the transaction of its business. The local of this country also, and not to carry on its business with unjust discriminations between different citizens or different people, are the same nature is one usually done with secrecy, and proof of which it is very difficult to obtain. The interstate commerce acts as a result of the action of the law. Even since that time complaints of the granting of rebates by railroads has been common, urgent, insistent, and although so well, repeatedly and legal legislation favoring to the state, even the difficulties of obtaining proof upon which to bring prosecution in these cases is so agreed that this is the first case that was ever been bought. The court, and as I am informed, has one recently brought in Philadelphia, and the only cases that have ever been brought in the state of the country. In fact, but few cases of this kind have ever been brought in this country, east or west. Now, under these circumstances, the law is not a case in which the proof is so clear and the facts are so flagrant, it is the duty of the court to fix a penalty which is the right of the court to do so. It is with the gravity of the offense. As between the two defendants, in my opinion, the principal penalty should be imposed on this corporation. The traffic manager has always been soளуяж (not in any any advantage to himself and without any interest in the transaction, either by the direct author, or in accordance with which the understood to be the policy "The sentence of this court in this case is that the defendant Pomeroy, for each of the six sines, has been convicted, be fined the sum of $1,000, making six fines, amounting in all to the sum of $5,000; and the defendant. The sum of $5,000 is the road company, for each of the six crimes of which it has been convicted, be fined the sum of $1,600, making six fines amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $2,600, that effect will be entered in this case." Evasion by Technicalities. In connection with this matter, I would like to call attention to the very unsatisfactory state of our criminal law, re-working the setting aside the judgments of inferior courts on technicalities absolutely uncommon, and where there is no attempt to see that there has been any failure of substantial justice. It would be well to enact a law providing something to the court. No judgment shall be set aside or new trial granted in any cause, civil or criminal, in the improper admission or rejection of evidence, or for error as to any matter of pleading or procedure unless, the application is made, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall affirmatively appear that the error complained was resulted in a miscarriage of justice. Injunctions. In my last message I suggested the enactment of a law in connection with the death of a worker, and I believed been sharply drawn to the matter by the demand that the right of applying injunctions in labor cases should be made available to workers, whether a law abolishing altogether the use of injunctions in such cases would stand the test of the courts; in which case it would be ineffective. Moreover, I believe it would be wrong altogether to prohibit the use of injunctions. It is criminal to permit violence there should be no impairment of the work of the workers in upholding the law; and if men seek to destroy life or property by mob violence there should be no impairment of the work of the workers in the most summary and effective way possible. But so far as possible the abuse of the power should be provided against by some such law as I advocated earlier. In this matter of injunctions there is lodged in the hands of the judiciary a subject to the possibility of grave abuse. It is a power that should be exercised with extreme care and should be subjected to the possibility of condemnation and condemnation should be meted out as much to the judge who fails to use it boldly when necessary as to the judge who uses it wantonly or oppressively. It should be used with strong will for his office will enjoin any resort to violence or intimidation, especially by conspiracy, no matter what his opinion is, and there must be no hesitation in dealing with disorder. But there must likewise be no such abuse of the injunction to laboring men to strive for their own betterment in peaceful and lawful ways; nor must the injunction be used merely for the enforcement of out schemes for its own aggrandizement. It must be remembered that a preliminary injunction in a labor case, if found, may often settle the dispute improperly granted may do irreparable wrong. Yet there are many judges who assume a matter-of-fact course granting of a preliminary injunction to be the ordinary and proper judicial disposition and thereby be flagrant wrongs committed by judges in connection with labor disputes even within the last few years, atho I think much less often than in the past, and I think more wise action immensely strengthen the hands of those who are striving entirely to do away with the power of injunction; and therefore such careless use of the law is not only a very existent, very existence, for if the American people ever become convinced that this process is habitually abused, whether in matters affecting labor or in matters affairing high-nigh impossible to present its abolition. Criticism of the Judiciary. It may be the highest duty of a judge at any given moment to disregard, not only the wishes of individuals of great political influence but of the overwhelming tide of public sentiment, and the judge who does thus disregard public sentiment when it is wrong. Such a disregard of public sentiment is special interest when the pleading is not founded on righteousness, performs the highest service to the country. Such a disregard of public sentiment is honor cannot be paid to this wise and fearless judge if we permit the growth of an absurd convention which would prevent the gravest injustice, or who in his capacity to judge and therefore in part a maker of the law, in flagrant fashion thwarts the cause of doent government. The judge has a branch of the government. The judge is cised; he himself sits in review upon the acts of both the executive and legislative branches of the government; save in the case of an amenable only at the bar of public opinion; and it is unwise to maintain that opinion in reference to a man with such power shall neither be express nor led. The best judges have ever been foremost to disclaim any immunity from criticism. This has Seen true since the first case of the liberty to judge Parker, who said: "Let all people be at liberty to know what I found my judgment upon; that, so when I have been judged, I will be at liberty to judge of me." The proprieties of the case were set forth with singular clearness and good temper by Judge W. L. Heyes of the United States circuit judge. Itvenes ago. The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more importance to the body politic than to the public. The public must be unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in the case of an anxious public, but to do exact justice to the consciousness that every act of their is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and judgment of the public. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The public must be learned text writers and the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly important. The public must be less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and be more than 100%合格. The law-informed uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as may be, by the use of judicial judgment. The judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the proper use of the衡量标准. The检举人, a defect in a judicial conclusion, tho- based on the n谢谢 legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In sofar as fear of public comment does not, however, be required, the public must espurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart, such comment may be made to the public, or to the men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer earn and hold the respect of all, and who do not care for the public, and to the public, and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure indeed, their very independence makes them more of a public. The public, on decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people, may be more likely to be responsible for those they serve. "On the other hand, the danger of destroying the proper influence of judicial decisions by creating unfounded prejudices against the courts justifies and redefines our attacks shall be met and answered. For our defense rests their defense upon the inherent strength of the opinions they deliver as the ground for their conclusions and must trust to the calm and deliberate judgments of all the people as their best vindication." Sound Judgment of the People. There is one consideration which would be taken into account by the good people who carry a sound proposition to an excess in objecting to any criticism of a judge's decision. The instinct on the justice system as a whole is this matter. They will not subscribe to the doctrine that any public servant is to be above criticism. If the best citizen of the state is to judge their judgment in such matters, and above all those belonging to the great and honorable profession of the bar, life, take the position that there shall be no criticism of a judge under any circumstances, their view will not be accepted. In such a case, the whole. In such event the people will turn to, and tend to accept as justifiable, the temperate and improper criticism. Surely it is a mistrustome to accept such a function, right in itself, which they are certain to abuse. Just and temperate criticism, when necessary, is a safeguard against the judge, which if it is a whole of that intemperate antagonism towards the judiciary which must be combated by every right-thinking man among the people at large, would constitute a dire menace to the republic. THE NEGRO PROBLEM In connection with the delays of the law, I call your attention and the attention of the nation to the prevalence of crime among us, and above all to the epidemic of lyneling and mob violence that springs up, now in one part of our country, now in another. Each section, north, south, east or west, has its own faults; no section can with wisdom spend its time feering at the faults of another section; it should be busy trying to amend its own shortcomings. To deal with the crime of corruption it is necessary to have an awakened public conscience, and to supplement this by whatever legislation will add speed and certainty in the execution of the law. When we deal with lyneling even more is necessary, but great many white men are lynched. A crime is peculiarly frequent in respect to black men. The greatest existing cause of lyneling is the perpetration, especially by black men, of the hideous crime of rape—the most abominable in all the category of crimes, even worse than murder. Mobs frequently avenge the commission of this crime by themselves torturing to death the man committing it; thus avenging in bestial fashion a bestial deed, and reducing themselves to a level with the criminal. Lawlessness grows by what it feeds upon; and when mobs begin to lynch for rape they speedily extend the sphere of their operations and lynch for many other kinds of crimes, so that two-thirds of the lynchings are not for rape at all; while a considerable proportion of the individuals lynched are innocent of all crime. Gov. Candler, of Georgia, stated on one occasion some years ago: "I can say of a verity that I have, within the last month, saved the lives of half a dozen innocent negroes who were pursued by the mob, and brought them to trial in a court of law in which they were acquitted." As Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, has finely said: "When the rule of a mob obtains, that which distinguishes a high civilization is surrendered. The mob which lynchs a negro charged with rape will in a little while lynch a white man suspected of crime. Every Christian pa trlot in America needs to lift up his voice in loud and eternal protest against the mob spirit that is threatening the integrity of this republic." Gov. Jelks, of Alabama, has recently spoken as follows: "The lynching of any person for whatever crime is inexcusable anywhere—it is a defiance of orderly government; but the killing of innocent people under any provocation is infinitely more horrible; and yet innocent people are likely to die when a mob's terrible lust is once aroused. The lesson is this: No good citizen can effect a justice of a confidence of the statutes, no matter what the provocation. The innocent frequently suffer, and, it is my observation, more usually suffer than the guilty. The white people of the south indict the whole colored race on the ground that even the better elements lend no assistance whatever in ferreting out criminals of their own color. The respectable colored people must learn not to harbor their criminals, but to assist the officers in bringing them to justice. This is the larger crime, and it provokes satisfaction of offense as it prevails at Atlanta. The crimes can never get on until there is an understanding on the part of both to make common cause with the law-abiding criminals of any color." Danger of Face Hatred. Moreover, where any crime committed by a member of one race against a member of another race is avenged in such fashion that it seems as if not the individual criminal, but the whole race, is attacked, the result is to exasperate the sin of the race. There is but one safe rule in dealing with black men as with white men: it is the same rule that must be applied in dealing with rich men and poor men; that is, to treat each man, whatever his color, his creed, or his social position with even-handed race. His own rule is so much on the whole one it quite as much on themselves as to the colored race to treat well the colored man who shows by his life that he deserves such treatment; for it is surely the highest wisdom to encourage in the colored race all the individual in the color and the industrious, law-abiding, and who therefore make good and safe neighbors and citizens. Reward or punish the individual on his merits as an individual. Evil will surely come in the end to both races if we substitute for this just rule the habit of treating the black men as the race and the white and the bad alike. There is no question of "social equality" or "negro domination" involved; only the question of relentlessly punishing bad men, and of securing to the good man the right to his life, his liberty, and the pursuit of the happiness as his own qualities of heart, head and hand enable him to achieve it. Every colored man should realize that the worst enemy of his race is the grotish criminal who accounts for the direful crime of rape; and it should be felt as in the highest degree an offense against the whole country, and against all possible earnestness and zeal every colored man to fail to help the officers of the law in hunting down with all possible earnestness and zeal every judge, my judgment, the crime of rape should always be punished with death, as is the case with murder; assault with inhumanity; capital crime, at least in the discretion of the court; and provision should be followed immediately the punishment may follow immediately the offense; while the trial should be so conducted that the victim need not be wantonly shamed while giving testimony; much a loosening of the bands of civilization; that the spirit of lynching inevitably throws into prominence in the publicity shall be given to the details. The members of the white race on the other hand should understand that the victim must much a loosening of the bands of civilization; that the spirit of lynching inevitably throws into prominence in the publicity shall be given to the details. No man can take part in the torture of a human being without having his own creature to dwell therein. Every lynching means just so much moral deterioration in all the children who have any knowledge of it, and just so much additional trouble for the next generation of Americans. Let justice be both sure and swift, but let it be justice under the law, and not the wild and crooked savagery of a mob. Need for Negro Education. Exciting Mob Vengeance. Be it remembered, further, that the individuals who, whether from folly, from evil temper, from greed for office, from malice for malangage, in indulge in the inflammatory and diary speeches and writings which tend to arouse mobs and to bring about lynching, not only thus excite the mob, but also to intimidate the criminologists call "suggestion," greatly the likelihood of a repetition of the very crime against which they are injured, of the people of one race, of the man lynched of another race, the who in their speeches and writings either to usurly the action tend, to course to excite the feeling and to cause the people of the opposite race to lose sight of the abominable act of the criminal himself; and to course to excite the menace they give to the hideous deed, to doubtedly tend to excite in other brutal and depraved natures thoughts of the criminal, to contemptless and orderly punishment under the only way by which criminality is this type can permanently be supprest. CAPITAL AND LABOR. The Preaching of Class Distinction Is Severely Condemned. Duty of the People. The plain people who think—the mechanics, farmers, merchants, workers with head or hand. The men to the men of the country, the country who love their country and try to act decently by their neighbors, owe it to themselves to remember that the most important thing is that they can give up us a government to elect an unworthy and sinister agitator on a platform of violence and hypocrisy. There is such a issue as is used this country nothing can be gained by flinching from it, for in such case democracy is itself on trial, popular self-recommendation to the public itself, in the more of them. The triumph of the mob is just as evil a thing as the triumph of the plutocracy, and to have escaped one danger vails nothing. The power of the plumb the other. In the end the honest man, whether rich or poor, who earns his own living and tries, does vastly his fellow, has much to fear from the people who are not unworthy demarcog, promising much and performing nothing, or else performing nothing. The people who are on the mob to plunder rich, as from the crafty corruptionist, who, for his own ends, would permit the common people to be exploited by the ever-wealthy. If we even do the government fall into the hands of men of either of these two classes, we shall show ourselves false to America's past. The people who are on the mob are not the only ones at this moment. There are at this moment wealthy reactionaries of such obtuse morality that they are so much as they are as much as they are. The rules of the country when they violate the law, or who seeks to make them bear their proper share of the public burdens as they are to the public and shall change the violent agitator who sounds on the mob to plunder the rich. There is nothing to choose between such a recently-renowned government, and the selfish disregard of the rights of others; and it is natural that they should join in opposition to any movement of which they are so well, especially to do exact and even justice to all. Railroad Employees' Hours. I call your attention to the need of passing the bill limiting the number of hours of employment of railroad employees. The measure is a very moderate one and I can conceive of no one having to pay for the time it is in our power, it should be our aim steadily to reduce the number of hours of labor, with a goal the same as the time it is in our power. The time of the day. There are industries in which it is not possible that the hours of labor should be reduced; just as there are many jobs in which it is not possible for such a movement to be for their good, or, if in the tropics, so situated that here is no analogy between the time of the day and the time of the matter. On the last hymn of Psalm 19, in every way, a condition that is in every way so different from what they are here that an eight-hour day would be abated by the time of the day. The time of the day is concerned, where the hymn cannot be employed, to bother as to whether the necessary work is done by alien black men or by alien yellow men. The time of the day is not a question of United States are of so high a grade that alike from the merely industrial standpoint and from the civic stand-ing point, the time of the day is not a question of what we can in the direction of securing the general observance of an eight-hour day. Until recently the eight-hour day has been very scantily observed, however, largely thru the instrumentality of the bureau of labor, it is be-l候 right to enforce and I shall speedily, if possible, to say that the time there is need of further legislation in reference thereto; for our purpose is to see it obeyed in spirit no less than in accordance with the law of the state, and the summer should be established for ever-summer employees; it is as desirable for wage-workers who toll with their hands as for the publics whose labor is mental that their health is be- lousable at this end. Labor of Women and Children The congress at its last session wished for a truant court for the District of Columbia to advance on the path of properly caring for the children. Let me again urge that we assume at a thorny investigation of the conditions of labor and of the labor of women in labor and of the labor of women in people are growing. More and more our people are growing. We fact that the questions which are not industrial but of social importance of the industrial but of social importance of these two questions most emphatically THE FARMER IN WESTERN CANADA. The Quality of No. 1 Hard Wear Cannot Be Beaten. The Canadian West in the past five or ten years has given a set back to the theory that large cities are the backbone of a country and a national best asset. Here we have a country where no city exceeds 100,000, where only one comes within a distance of that figure according to the census just taken and where other city reaches a population exceeding 15,000. The places with population over 5,000 can be upon the fingers of one hand, and the prosperity that prevails is something unprecedented in the history all countries past or present. CO com The reason for this marvelous prosperity is not hard to seek. The large majority of the $10,000 people who inhabit Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, have gone on to the front and have betaken themselves to the task of not only feeding and clothing themselves, but of raising food for others less happily circumstanted. The crop of 1906, although not normal, is an eye-opener to many who previously had given little thought to the subject. Ninety million bushels wheat at 70 cents per bushel-$18,000; 76,000,000 bushels of oats at cents per bushel-$22,800,000; 100,000 bushels of barley at 40 cents per bushel-$6,800,000; makes a total $92,600,000. This is altogether the root products; dairy products, the returns from the cattle trade; beet sugar industry and the variety other by-products of mixed farming. When such returns are obtained from the soil it is not to be wondered at that many are leaving the congested districts of the easyt, to take up themselves the life of the prairie far and the labor of the housband. With the construction of additional railroads new avenues, for agricultural enterprise are opening up, and proved opportunities are offered to settler who understands prairie ting, and is willing to do his part building up the new country. This is the theme that Mr. J. J. H. the veteran railroad builder in West, has laid before the people a series of addresses which he given at various points during past few months, and, having for so long identified with the department of the West, there are men better qualified than he to press an opinion upon it. Take of the country, says he, and the child will take care of themselves. The farmers of the Western Sui and the Canadian West, are prosperous than ever before, when it comes to measuring sults, the Canadian appears to be somewhat the better of it. His is cheaper in fact, the government continues to give free homestead settlers, and the returns per acre heavier when the crop is harvested. Farming land in the Western Sui runs from $60 to $150 an acre and whereas equally good soil may be chased in Canada for $5 to $15 acre, within easy reach of a ship point, and much of this is available for free homesteading. The quality the Canadian No. 1 hard wheat not be beaten, and the returns to acre are several bushels better on this side of the line; the soil climate of that country being peculiarly adapted to wheat growing. The fact is evidently approved by the large number of American farmers who have in the past two three years settled in the Canadian West. The agents of the Canadian Government, whose address was found elsewhere, advise us that the fiscal year 1904-5, the show that 43,543 Americans settled Canada, and in 1905-6 the reached 57,796. From all of which appears that at present, there is good thing in farming in West Canada, and that the American farmer is not slow to avail himself of Wife. Desertion. Alarms. Wife Desertion Alarms. So many Cincinnati wives have deserted by their husbands of late the city council has taken steps ward putting a check on such aways. It has been found that mage loan sharks are contributing tors in a great many cases. A ability to mortgage his furniture we out the knowledge of his wife strong temptation to husbands of will. An ordinance has been induced making such mortgage of avail unless they bear the signature both husband and wife. Keep in Good Health. Brandreth's Pills have been in for over a century and are for everywhere, plain or sugar-coated King Edward's Confidant. By following the directions, we are plainly printed on each page. Defiance Starch, Men's Collars. Cuffs can be made just as stiff as sired, with either gloss or dominish. Try it, 16 oz. for 10c, sold all good grocers. It's often difficult to get even people who owe you money. in the category of those which in the most far-reaching way home life of the nation. The horrors incident of employment of young men in factories where are a blot on our civilization. It is true that each state mustimately be informed of the thorou official institutions of the matter, with the results published broadcast, would greatly toward arousing the public concern in the matter. There is, however, one law on the subject which would be enacted immediately, because in the case of an act in reference thereafter, and the sure to enact it is discreditable to national government. A drastic law should be enacted for the District of Columbus and the territories. Employers' Liability. among the excellent laws which the employer's liability law. It was a quick step in advance to get the recourse of employers' liability on the occasion past at the last session was employer's liability law. It was a precautionary exercise by employers there are avoidable accidents and even deaths involved in nearly every line of business. The inevitable sacrifice of life may be caused to a minimum, but it cannot completely eliminated. It is a great injustice to compel the employee, the victim, to bear the entire burden of an inevitable sacrifice. In other societies, society shirks is duty by laying a whole cone on the victim, whereas the legitimate risks of trade, compensation for accidents or deaths in any line of industry to the actual conditions under which that industry is operated, the legitimate risks of the community for the benefit which the industry is carried on—at risk, by those who profit by the industry, upon the employer, upon the employer, he will empty and properly add it to the estimate cost of production and assess it proportionately upon the consequence to my mind that the law would place this entire 'risk of a side upon the employer. Neither the employer, the state laws dealing with question of employers' liability are efficiently thoroguing. The federal law should of course include em- Investigation of Disputes The commission appointed by the presi- tate October 18, 1902, at the request of with the anthracite coal operators and the anthracite coal operators and the question in controversy in con- sition with the strike in the anthracite parks of Pennsylvania the causes of the controversy, the survey report, findings, and award express belief "that the state and federal government for what may be called the com- mary investigation of controversies be- en employers and employees when the question is expressed deserving of the favorable considera- tion of the congress and the enactment has already been introduced to this end. records show that during the 2010 survey, 100,000 there were strikes affecting 117,700 establishments, and 6,105,684 employees are thrown out of employment. During the same period there were 1,065,684 employees, throwing over 1,000,000 people of employment. These strikes and knots involved an estimated loss to employees of $307,000,000 and to employees of $433,000,000, a total of $450,000,000 indirectly as great additional loss. But money loss, great as it was, did not ensure the anguish and suffering employees whose pay stopt when their work stop, or the disastrous effect of a strike or lockout upon the business employers, or the increase in the cost of the inconvenience and to the public. many of these strikes and lockouts did not have occurred had the parties the dispute been resolved, the police representing nation and, face to face, state the reasons for their contention. In most cases, the police and nation and to be due to a misunderstanding each of the other's rights, aggravated an unwillingness of either party to accuse the other of wrongdoing to the justice or injustice of the matters in dispute. The exercise of a justice, representing the federal government, as would be provided by a commission conciliation and arbitration representing the federal government, and concluding parties, and the giving each side equal opportunity to present fully its evidence, to present any evidence, to present many disputes from developing serious strikes or lockouts, and in other cases, would enable the commission to terms. this age of great corporate and law employers and not employers should be left unmercy of the stronger party to a dis- regardless of the righteousness of a prospective employer, proposed to be in the line of action sensation of the fact that in many cases the public has itself an interest that cannot wiser, disregarded, an unwilling, or not willing, for the question of a just and per public policy must also be con- sidered well to advance cautiously, testing step by the actual results; the step forward, then, taken, for decisions of the commission, and the parties in legal fashion, and would give a chance for public opin- oort to its full force for the right. Withdrawal of Coal Lands is not wise that the nation should make its remaining coal lands. It is temporarily withdrawn from settlement, which the geological survey has indicated will increase the probability containing, coal. The situation however, can be properly set up by legislation, which in my opinion would allow the coal of these lands from sale or from save in certain especial circumstances to be owned in the United States which did not, however, attempt to work, but permit them to be worked by the individuals under a royalty system, or by the authorities as to permit it to be made that no necessary price was charged consumers. The course be as necessary to give the common carriers, so that they shall in turn carry the product as charged by those who mine it; the supervision must extend to the common carriers, so that they shall in turn carry the expense of another. The withholding these coal lands would constitute an analogous to that which has followed in the past from ordinary settlement. The use of the forests, should be treated as property of the public and its disposal should be under conditions which imure to the benefit of the public whole. CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS: Commends Some Minor Changues in Laws Recently Enacted. Present congress has taken long in the direction of securing properties and control by the general government and by the government in interstate business—and the majority of corporations of the managed interstate business. The passage of the bill requires only to a less degree the passage of food bill, and the provision and reopening more effective international industry, mark an important the proper direction. In the present case, perhaps be difficult further advance, but the best to wait until the laws in operation for a number of before endeavoring to increase hope, provide with exactness their merits and accomplishments and thus give opportunity to define what further remedial action will in the end be advisable with the packing house in-house, provide for putting a house on the label in inspection to the packers All these laws have already justified their enactment. The interstate commerce law, for instance, has rather amusingly falsified the prediction, both of those who asserted that it would ruin the railroads and of those who asserted that it did not go far enough and would accomplish nothing. During the last five months the railroads have shown increased earnings and profits of them unusual dividends; they are currently in a state of a mere taking effect of the law has produced an unprecedented, a hitherto unheard of, number of voluntary reductions in freights and fares by the railroads. Since the founding of the commission there has never been a time of equal length in which anything like so many reduced tariffs have been put into effect. On August 27, for instance, two days before the first rule was enacted, the commission received notices of over 5,000 separate tariffs which represented reductions from previous rates. It must not be supposed, however, that with the passage of these laws it will be possible to stop progress along the line of increasing the power of the national government over the use of capital in interstate commerce. For example, there will ultimately be need of enlarging the power of the state to control the commission also several different lines, so as to give it a larger and more efficient control over the railroads. Need of Federal Legislation. In enacting and enforcing such legislation as this congress already has to its plan, with the steady endeavor to secure the needed reform by the joint action of the moderate men, the plain men who do not want to be dangerous, but who do intend to deal in resolute commonsense fashion with the real and great evils of the present violent extremists show symptoms of joining hands against us. Both assert, for instance, that if logged in, we will be able to resist the railroads and the like; the reactionaries, because on such an issue they think the people would stand with the bourbon and the like; to preach discontent and agitation than to achieve solid results. As a matter of fact, our position is as remote from the nation of the bourbon as the nation of the railroads or sinister visionary. We hold that the government should not conduct the business of the nation, but insist on such a plan as will insure its being conducted in the interest of the nation. Our aim is, so far as may please, for all deceased and incarcerated men, equality of opportunity and equality of burden. Combinations Are Necessary. The actual working of our laws has shown that the effort to prohibit all combination, good or bad, is noxious where it is not ineffective. Combination of the proposed like-to-like resolution is of no need as necessary element of our present industrial system. It is not possible completely to prevent it, and it is not possible to such a case to the body's intention would be damage to the body's public. What we need is not vainly to prevent all combination, but to secure such rigorous and adequate control and control of the public, to prevent their injuring the public, or existing in such form as inevitably to threaten injury—for the more fact that a combination has been a pre-policy and a control of a necessary form of life would under any circumstances show that such combination was to be presumed to be adverse to the public. The study of the proposed like-to-like resolution that present laws should forbid all combinations, instead of sharply discriminating between those for the same case as those for the pre-policy or no-consensus, are as often due to the pressure of big shippers as was shown in the investigation of the Standard Off company and as has been shown to have been investigation of tobacco and sugar trusts as to the initiative of big railroads. Often railroads would like to combine for the purpose of making the use of the public by the other�ger of public law and the expense of small shippers and of the general public. Such a combination, instead of being forbidden to the public, would be limited to railroads to make agreements, provided these agreements were sanctioned by the interstate union of the states. It is not possible to make the published. With these two conditions complied with it is impossible to see what harm such a combination could do to the public and to the state books as law incapable of full enforcement because both judges and juries realize that its full enforcement would destroy the power to make the control for the result is to make decent railroad men violators of the law against their will, and to put a premium on the behavior of the willful wrongs and the action of the law to the willful wrongs to the decent man and the willful wrongdoer into close association, and in the end to drag down the former to the latter. The law should be made by the law breaker in one way unhappily tends to lose all respect for law and to be willing to break it in many ways. No more seaching the matter could be affected by the law than it is contained in the words of the interstate commerce commission when in commenting upon the fact that the new status of the transactions is technically violate the law they say. The decision of the United States supreme court in the Transmississippi case and the Joint Track association case law preceded the practical effect upon the railway operations, in fact, exist now as they do before these decisions, and with the same general effects of the law. The decision of the right probably to add that it is difficult to see how our interstate railways could be operated with due regard to the inter-state and otherரை without concerted action of the kind air-forced thru these associations. This means that the law as construed by the supreme court is such that the business of the country cannot be conducted without breaking it. I recommend that you give careful and early consideration to this subject, and if you find the opinion of a corporate commerce commission justified, you should law so as to obviate the evil disclosed. INHERITANCE AND INCOME TAX: Both of These Are Recommended by the President. The question of taxation is difficult in any country, but it is especially difficult in ours with its federal system of government, where the ground be levied is a special district or use in that district. Thus the taxation of real estate is peculiarly one for the immediate locality in which the real estate tax may be legitimate tax for any state than a tax on the franchises conferred by that state upon street railroads and similar corporate state boundaries, sometimes in one and sometimes in several municipalities or other minor divisions of the state. But this tax only be levied by the general government as to produce the best results, because among other reasons, the attempt to impose them in one particular state to the state may be impossible, a graduated income tax. The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state, because he derives special government. Not only should he recognize this obligation in the way he leads his daily life and in the way he earns and spends his money, but he derives special government. Not only should he recognize this obligation in the way he gives him. On the one hand, it is desirable that he should assume the proper state tax, as the taxation of other hand, it is quite as necessary that in this kind of taxation, where the man should pay the tax, as the taxation of other hands there should be clear recognition of the danger of inaugurating any such system save in a spirit of entire justice and moderation. Whenever we, as a people, unite to distribute the burden of support among the lines suggested, we must make it clear beyond adventure that our aim is to distribute the burden of support than at present, that we intend to treat rich man and poor man on a basis of absolute equality, and that we regard it as a duty to permit injustice to the one as to do or permit injustice to the other. Subject Needs Careful Study. I am well aware that such a subject as this need not be the same as the general, in order to the most long and careful study in order with what is proposed to be done, may clearly see the necessity of proceeding with wisdom and self-restraint, and may make up their minds just how far they are willing to go in the matter; while only trained legislators can work out the project in necessary detail. But I feel that in the near future our national legislators should enact a law providing for a graduated inheritance tax by which a steadily increasing rate of duty should be put upon all moneys of the value of the property, and of the value of the gift, bequest, or devising a tax on a individual or corporation. It may be well to make the tax heavy in proportion as the individual benefited is remote of kin. In any event, in my judgment the pro rata of the tax should increase very heavily with the increase of the amount left to any one individual after a certain point has been reached. It is most desirable to encourage thrift and ambition, and a potent source of thrift and ambition is the desire on the part of the breadwinner to leave his children well off. This object can be attained by making the tax very small on moderate amounts of property left; because the prime object is to be put on the account of increasing burden on the inheritance of those swollen fortunes which it is certainly of no benefit to this country to herewithate. There can be no question of the ethical propriety of appropriating the conditions upon which any gift or inheritance should be received. Exactly how far the inheritance tax should be imposed, limiting the transmission by devise or gift of the enormous fortunes in question, is it wise that progress in this direction should be gradual. At first a permanent national inheritance must be incremental than any such tax has hitherto been, need not approximate, either in amount or in the extent of the tax, but in what such a tax should ultimately be. Inheritance Tax Constitutional Inheritance Tax Constitutional. This species of tax has again and again been imposed, although only temporarily, by the national government it was when the law was proposed that the tax was held in the markets of the Constitution were alive and at the head of affairs. It was a graduated tax; the small in amount, the rate was increased by a amount of 10% to 10% of the total, except for being made in the case of certain close kin. A similar tax was again imposed by the act of July 1, 1862; a minimum sum of $1,000 in personal property being excepted from taxation. Tax is not a pre-tax process according to the remoteness of kin. The war-revenue act of June 13, 1828, proved for an inheritance tax on any sum exceeding the value of $10,000, the rate of tax increasing; both in accordance with the amount of tax and the place with the ungatee's remoteness of kin. The supreme court has held that the succession tax imposed at the time of the civil war was not a direct tax but an impose of excise which was both constitutional and more frequently required in court in an opinion delivered by Mr. Justice White, which contained an exceedingly able and elaborate discussion of the powers of the congress to impose death duties sustained the constitution of the law of the inheritance tax feature of the war-revenue act of 1898. Is Income Tax Constitutional? In its incidents, and apart from the main purpose, of raising revenue, an income tax stands on an entirely different footing from an inheritance tax, because it involves no question of the per person nature of the income size. The question is in its essence a question of the proper adjustment of burdens to benefits. As the subject of the question, the cult to devise a national income tax which shall be constitutional. But whether it is absolutely impossible is another question; and if possible it must be made possible. The income tax law was past by the congress in 1851, but the most important law dealing with the subject was that of 1854. This the court held to be unconstitu- The question is undoubtedly very intricate, delicate, and troublesome. The question is whether the law is by one majority. It is the law of the land, and, of course, is excepted as such and loyalty obeyed by good citizens. The question is whether the constitution felt by the court as a whole in coming to a conclusion, when considered together, is consistent with the decision of the subject, may perhaps be the possibility of devising a constitutional income-tax law which shall substantiate the constitution. The difficulty of amending the constitution is so great that only real necessity can justify a resort thereto. The constitution must be in accord with this subject, as with the subject of the proper control by the national government over the use of corporate legislation which without such action shall attain the desired end; but if this fails, there will ultimately be no alternative to a constitutional amendment. EDUCATING THE PEOPLE. Technical and Industrial Training In a Need of the Nation. It would be impossible to overstate (the it is of course difficult quantitatively to measure the importance of what may be called organized patriotism, which necessarily includes the substitution of a national feeling for mere individualism, the inability for the whole country. No country can develop its full strength so long as the parts which make up the whole each have the same feeling of loyalty to the whole. This is true of sections and it is just as true of classes. The industrial class, in the same way, work together, capitalists and workers must work together, if In every possible way we should help the wageworker who toils with a constantly increasing measure) also toil with his brain. Under the constitution the national legislature can do the welfare save where he is engaged in work which permits it to act under the current commerce clause of the constitution; and why I so earnestly hope that both the legislative and judicial branches of the constitution in the broadest possible manner. We can, however, in such a matter as industrial training, in such a manner as setting an example to the states by enacting the most advanced legislation that can wisely be enacted for the District of Co- Agricultural Interests. The only other persons whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country as is the welfare of the wage-earners and the farmers. It is a mere truism to say that no growth of cities, no growth of wealth, no industrial development can atone for failing to fulfill the character standing for the farming population. During the last few decades this fact has been recognized with ever-increasing importance, not only in the realization of that farming, at least in certain branches, must become a technical and scientific profession. This means that there must be open to the farmers the training, not theoretical merely, but of the most severely practical type. The most important training, not theoretical merely, but of American citizenship, and he must have the same chance to rise and develop as other American citizens have. More especially, as it is of the business man and the wageworker, that the ultimate success of the nation of which he forms a part is the prosperity but upon high moral, mental, and physical development. This education of the farmer-self-education by preference, but also education from the other sources, is crucially necessary here in the United States, where the frontier conditions of the farmer are now nearly vanished, where there must be substitution of a more intensive system of cultivation for the old wasteful farm management, and where there must be an organization among the farmers themselves. Good of Grange Organizations. Several factors must cooperate in the improvement of the farmer's condition. He must have the chance to be educated with the most possible sense in the sense which best represents his relationship between the theory of education and the facts of life. In all cases, it is a good thing to produce a certain number of trained scholars and students; but the education superintended by the farmer is a good thing to produce a certain number of trained citizens than one scholar, and it must be turned now and then from the class book to the study book. This is especially true of the farmer, as been pointed out again and again by all observers most competent to pass practical judgment on the problems of our country. This is especially true that education must seek to train the executive powers of young people and to confer more real significance upon the students. It is also necessary to pare the pupils so that in addition to each developing in the highest degree his individual capacity for work they can develop, he must be educated in opinion, and show in many ways social and cooperative spirit. Organization has become necessary in the business world, in the education profession, in the world of labor. It is no less necessary for farmers. Such a movement as the grange movement is good in itself because it is a humble, humble extension for good so long as it is kept to its own legitimate business. The benefits to be derived by the association are partly economic and partly sociological. Moreover, while in the long run voluntary effort will prove more efficacious than government assistance, while the government may not have the same benefits to the government, yet the government can also do much. The department of agriculture has broken new ground in many directions, and, as a result, it finds how it can be used to make the most of the fresh usefulness. Its constant effort is to give the governmental assistance in the most effective way; that is, thru associations of farmers rather than to or without the government. The government is working to coordinate its work with the agricultural departments of the several states, and so far as its own work is educational, to coordinate it with the agricultural department. It is necessarily based upon general education, but our agricultural educational institutions are wisely specializing themselves, making the government an important source of the agricultural and kindred sciences to young country people or young city people who wish to live in the country. Great progress has already been made as far as the government of a farmer's institutes, of dairy associations, of breeders' associations, horticultural associations, and the like. A striking example of this is the government of a farmer's机构, which is shown in connection with the men who offered to the cotton growers of the southern states by the advance of the boll weevil. The department is doing all the same, to the extent that the threatened districts, just as it has been doing all it can to organize them in aid of its work to eradicate the cattle fever tick in the south. The department can and will cooperate with all such agencies to make sure they help in its own work is to be done in the most efficient style. Irrigation and Forest Preservation. Much is now being done for the states of the Rocky mountains and Great Plains thru the development of the national policy of irrigation and forest preservation; no government internal conditions has been more fruitful of good than this. The forests of the White mountains and Southern Appalachian regions should also be preserved; can not be unless the people of the state are thru their representatives in the congress, secure vigorous action by the national government. Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington to the congress to the estimate of the secret war for an appropriation to enable him to begin the preliminary work of the war, and to amphitheater at Arlington. The Grand Army of the Republic in its national encumment has urged the erection of such an amphitheater as necessary for the purpose of the war. Day and as a fitting monument to the soldier and sailor dead buried there, the heartily concur and command the matter in a favorable consideration of the congress. Marriage and Divorce. I am well aware of how difficult it is to pass a constitutional amendment. Nevertheless in my judgment the whole question of marriage and divorce is not a matter of the authority of the national congress. At present the wide differences in the laws of the different states on this sub issue result in scandals and abuses; the curse of the law is essential to the welfare of the nation, nothing around which the nation should so bend itself to throw every citizen under the same average citizen. The change would be good because it would confer on the congress the power at once to deal radically and efficiently with polygamy and with marriage and divorce are dealt with. It is neither safe nor proper to leave the question of polygamy to be dealt with by the several states. Power is conferred on the national government. When home ties are loosened; when men and women cease to regard a womely family life, with all its duties and obligations, and with all their bilities lived up to, as the life best worth living; then evil days for the commonwealth are at hand. There are regions in our land, and classes of our people in the land, whose sunk below the death rate. Surely it should need no demonstration to show that wilful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from me to you, of the mind, from sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement; a sin which is dreadful exactly in proportion as the number of persons thereof are in other respects, in character, and bodily and mental powers, those whom for the sake of the state, be many, see the children and mothers of many children well brought up in homes made happy by their presence. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, to ease and pleasure or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect. American Shipping. Let me once again call the attention of the congress to two subjects concerning which I have frequently before communicated with them. One is the question of developing American shipping. I trust that a law embodying in substance the views, or a part of the law, of the part of this subject laid before the house at its last session will be past. I am well aware that in former years objectionable measures have been proposed in reference to the encouragement of American shipping; but it seems to me that the proposed measure is as nearly unobjectionable as actual use of the course of the primary our seaboard state's as Maine, Louisiana and Washington; but what benefits part of our people in the end benefits all; just as government aid to irrigation and forestry in the west is really of benefit, not only to the Rocky mountain states, but to all our country. If it prove impracticable to extend the law to the encouragement of shipping generally, we must provision should be made for better communication with South America, notably for fast mail lines to the chief South American ports. It is creditable to us that our business people, for lack of direct communication in the shape of lines of steamers with South America, should in that great situation be at a disadvantage compared to the business people of Europe. CURRENCY REFORM. Amendments to Existing Laws Are Badly Needed. Need of Automatic System: I do not say that this is the right system. I only advance it to emphasize my belief that there is need for the adoption of some system which includes the use of sound banks, so as to avoid all possibility of discrimination and favoritism. Such a plan would tend to prevent the spasms of high money and interest in New York market; for at present there is too much currency at certain seasons of the year, and its accumulation at New York tempts bankers to invest in the currency purses; whereas at other times when the crops are bing moved there is urgent need for a large but temporary increase in the currency supply in order to meet that this question concerns business men generally quite as much as bankers; es- pecially is this true of stockmen, farmers and business men in the west; for at present at certain seasons of the year the difference in interest rates between the east and the west is from six to ten per cent., whereas in Canada the corresponding difference is but two per cent. Any plan must, of course, guard the interests of western and southern bankers as carefully as it guards the interests of New York or Chicago bankers; and must be drawn from the standpoints of the farmer and the merchant no less than from the standpoints of the city banker and the country banker. The law should be amended so as to specifically to provide that the funds derived from customs duties may be treated by the secretary of the treasury as he treats funds obtained under the internal revenue laws. There should be a considerable increase in bills of small denominations. Permission should be given banks, if necessary under settled restrictions, to retire their circulation to a larger amount than $3,000,000 a month. Philippine Tariff. I most earnestly hope that the bill to provide a lower tariff for or else absolute free trade in Philippine products we become a aaw. No harm will come to us because we will be able to have there will be some small but real material benefit to the Filipinos, the main benefit will come by the showing made as to our purpose to do all in our power to provide a lower tariff to the Philippines, has been abundantly justified, not mainly and indeed not primarily because of the added dignity it will give to our people, we are capable honorably and efficiently to bear the international burdens which a mighty people should bear, but even more because of the immense benefit that we are able to have we are justice. We have provided efficient police force, and have put down ladronism. Only in the islands of Leyte and Mindanao we have been mounted, mounted and mounted resisted and by this wild mountain tribes under the superstitious inspiration of fakirs and pseudo-religious leaders. We are constantly increasing the measure of our government, the first time legislative assembly, and the way in they stand this test will largely determine whether the self-government thus granted will be increased or decreased. We are now in the direction of making Philippines it has been in proceeding too rapidly in the direction of granting a large measure of self-government. We are also to see it that they are given free access to the more imperative duty to itself and mankind than the duty of managing the affairs of the islands under the American flag—the Philippines. Porto Rico is the most important place that it is in every way to their advantage that the flag should fly over them. Porto Rico American citizenship should be conferred on the citizens of Porto Rico. For more information, San Juan in Porto Rico should be dredged and expenses of the federal court of Porto Rico should be met from the federal treasury. The administration of the african port of Porto Rico with respect to the Philippines, Hawaii and our other insular possessions, should all be directed under one executive department; by the executive department of state or the department of war. Hawaii. The needs of Hawai'i are peculiar; every aid should be unceasing to develop the small freeholders, not of great planters with coole-tilled estates. Situated as this territory is, in the middle of the island, this small community which do not fall in like degree or manner upon any other American concern, and which warrants it differently from in which we treat territories continuous to or surrounded by sister territories or states and justifies the setting of boundaries of the extended for educational and internal improvements therein. Hawaii is now fit in an effort to assume the duties and burdens of full American citizenship, and whenever the leaders in the various indigents and heartily join our administration in endeavoring to develop a middle class of substantial citizens, a way will be found to accomplish that goal and industrial problems which now appear to them so jealous. The best Americanism is that which aims for stalwart citizenship, rather than immense returns on large masses of capital. Alaska. Alaska's needs have been partially met, but there must be a complete reorganization of the governmental system, as I have been urged to you. We especially attention to all the. Our fellow-citizens who dwell on the shores of Puget sound with characteristic energy and resources of Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition. Its special aims include the upbuilding of Alaska and the development of American energy resources in Alaska Yukon Pacific position, in its purposes and scope, should appeal not only to the people of the Pacific slope, but to the people of the Pacific coast. The government was bought has yielded to the government $11,000,000 of revenue, and has procured nearly $300,000,000 and fish. When deeply developed it will become in large degree a land of homes. The countries bordering on the Pacific slope are numerous than that of all the countries of Europe; their annual foreign commerce amounts to over three billions of dollars. The United States is some $700,000,000. If this trade were thoroly understood and pushed by our manufacturers and producers, the Pacific slope, but of all our country, and particularly of our cotton growing states would be greatly benefited. Of course, order to get these benefits, we must treat fairly the countries with which we trade. INTERNATIONAL MORALITY. All People Coming to Us Should Be Treated Allike. It is a mistake, and it betrays a spirit of foolish cynicism, to maintain that all international governmental action is, and must ever be, based upon mere sensibleness and the fact that the economic reasons for such action is always a sign of hypocrisy. This is no more necessarily true of the action of governments than of the action of individuals. It is a sure sign of a base nature of action, and has been shown to be a very effective action of others. Unquestionably no nation can afford to disregard proper considerations of self-interest, any more than a private individual can so do. But it is equally true that the average of the two is equally true that really decent community does many actions with reference to other men in which he is guided, not by self-interest, but by public spirit, by regard for the rights of others, by a disinterest-ed政府, or by the right of the people to take the tone of the community as a whole. Similarly, a really great nation must often act, and as a matter of fact often does act, toward other nations in a spirit not the least of mere self-interest but of the public spirit. The best of the persons, and as the centuries go by this disinterestedness in international action, this tendency of the individuals comprising a nation to require that nation to act with the same interests as others should grow and strengthen, it is neither wise nor right for a nation to disregard its own needs, and it is foolish—and may be wicked—to think that other nations will disregard their. But the whole world is not the same as the world its own interest, and foolish to believe that such is the sole motive that actuates any other nation. It should be our steady alm to raise the ethical standard of national action just as we strive to raise the ethical standard of individual action. Not only must we treat all nations fairly, but we must treat with justice and good will all immigrants who are not American. When they are Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile; whether they come from England or Germany, Russia, Japan or France; whether they all have a right to question is the man's conduct. If he is honest and upright PAGE 2 THE SEARCHLIGHT W. N. MILLER.....Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mall Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. One Year (By Mail) ..... $1.00 Six Months (By Mail) ..... 75 Three Months (By Mail) ..... 50 Notice.--All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday to reach publication in the current issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to an- other give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompa- nies the name. Write plain. 5th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N. Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. "To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto LABOR IS HONORABLE. Parents Make a Sad Mistake In Rearing their Children to Shun Work. The Coffeyville Independent wants more young men made useful workers and fewer into worthless "gentlemen." It says: Ther are more young men in the penitentiaries in this country learning trades than there are outside learning trades. The principal cause of this is that we are educating our young men for idle gentlemen, trying to make lawyers, preachers, doctors and clerks out of material that is needed for blacksmiths, carpenters, merchants, and other honest "hewers of wood and drawers of water." It is a mistake and a big one to teach boys and girls to believe that labor is disgraceful, and to do nothing for a living is more becoming to society. Hang such society! It is rotted to the core and is ruining our country today; and there are sons and daughters who are now being educated to play the "leading lady" and "walking gentleman" in the great drama of life, who will light out for the poor house or the penitentiary before the curtain drops on the last sad act of the play to which they have been educated by their too indulgent parents. TILLMAN'S FALSE PRETENSE. This Senatorial Curiosity Must Shift Mightily to Make His False Ar- Mighty to make His False Arguments Hold Water. From the Chicago Chronicle. If there was any point or purport to Senator Tillman's harangue at Orchestra hall the other night it was that the Negro is seeking social and political rights which render him dangerous. This is Mr. Tillman's favorite man of straw. First assume that the "nigger" wants to eat and sleep with the white man besides exercising political domination over him and then point out how necessary it is for every white man to buy a shotgun and go gunning for "blackbirds." The whole thing is, of course, false prtense. Senator Tillman knows as well as anybody else that no Negro, North or South, so much as dreams of social equality with the whites. He knows that in the South, where he lives, the Negro has practically abandoned any idea of insisting upon his political rights. The one thing that Negroes, North and South, hope for is the concession of their legal rights—that though they are inferior to the white man socially and politically, they shall be his equals before the law. Surely this is no extravagant nor offensive aspiration and Mr. Tillman himself recognizes it when he proclaims that he would protect his old Negro servant with his own life if necessary. But it will be observed that Tillman proposes to do the protecting. He would take his trusty shotgun and defend his servant, but he would not concede that the law should defend him, much less that the servant should defend himself. Senator Tillman, in other words, would defend his Negro servant as he would defend his horse—not because the servant has any rights, but because he is Senator Tillman's servant. And this is his attitude toward the whole question. He seeks to raise a false issue by prating about the Negro's prentensions to social and political equality, but in the final analysis it develops that Senator Tillman wants to deny the Negro the rights of a human being when any white man is concerned. That is why he breathes threatenings and slaughter and predicts race wars in the near future. It may be that the Tillman doctrine will find favor in the North as it is accepted pretty generally throughout the South. There is undoubtedly a growing tendency in the Northern states, and especially in the Northern cities, to spell Negro with two g's and to raise the lynch cry whenever a Negro is involved. If it is held, however, that a white man has the right to kill a Negro without process of law the doctrine ought to be openly avowed without any subterfuge and humbug about social and political equality. That is mere evasion LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Sensu news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. Bring your job printing to the Searchlight, 601 N. Main. We will appreciate it. INSTALLATION SERVICE. INSTALLECTION SERVICES The Tabernacle Baptist church (corner Eighth and Water streets) is preparing to install their newly-elected pastor, Rev. Geo. Gear. Murray Hunter, D.D. of Taliadega, Ala., Sunday, December 9, at 1:30 p. m. The following churches are invited to participate: New Hope, Second Baptist and A. M. E. A splendid program has been arranged for the occasion. Do You Want Long Hair? IF SO, SEE Mrs. Geo. McDonald. Sole Agent For MME. C. J. WALKER'S Wonderful Hair Grower Mrs. McDonald is the Sole Agent and uses the same process which Mme. Walker uses in making the hair grow. Office at 634 North Wabash Ave. For Full Particulars QUARTERLY MEETING. Presiding Elder A. H. Brooks was in Wichita Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and held quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church all day Sunday and quarterly conference Monday night. The first quarter in the conference year of Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, pastor, was very successful considering the very inclement and disagreeable weather which has been during that time. Every department of the church made a very creditable showing both spiritually and financially, and the second quarter starts off with many bright prospects. The quarterly conference Monday night was honored with the presence of Presiding Elder H. W. King of the Topeka district and Rev. S. S. Washington pastor of the A. M. E. church of Newton. The pastor, Rev. J. F. C. Taylor submitted the names of the following for stewards for the coming year, all of whom were confirmed by the conference: J. W. Thompson, W. N. Miller, A. Paul, Ed Landrum, B. F. Bell, E. D. Roach, Thos. W. Fine and W. C. Neely. The conference elected Ed Landrum as District Steward. The church is doing nicely with bright prospects for the future. Mrs. R. M. Wilson and her daughter Lois served Thanksgiving dinner to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Jones late of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, but now of this city; and also Miss Sallie Rowles and Miss Anna Dunson. The pleasure of all was mutual and unbounded from 2:30 to 7 o'clock p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Fines have sold their place on South Mosley and Mrs. Fines is visiting relatives in Texas. She will be home in a few weeks and both contemplate going to St. Loujs where they will make their future home. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT BELIEVES IN WICHITA. W M L Robt. Davis of Kingman Buys More Property in Wichita. Robt. Davis came up to Wichita Monday from Kingman and proved his confidence in Wichita real estate by buying 14 lots and a house on 23rd near Armstrong. This is a very valuable piece of property and is a bargain. Only a few months ago Mr. Davis purchased two lots on 24th and Fairview. We are glad to see our friend Davis making so wise an investment with his cash. He returned to Kingman Monday night. He reports Mrs. Davis in good health. BOY—WANTED—BOY. The Searchlight wants a boy who wishes to learn the printer's trade and work around the office. Now is the chance for some good boy to learn a useful trade. Inquire, W. N. MILLER, Searchlight Office, 601 N. Main. Rudolph Edwards the baby child of Mrs. Martha Edwards is very sick with a sore throat at the Edwards home, 154 N. Mead. Jas. Jackson was in Wichita this week from Anthony on business. Jim is doing fine in Anthony. Miss Albertha Fray, daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. B. H. Fray, 518 N. Wichita, is very sick at the home of her parents, with gore throat. About two years ago while playing, this little Miss drank some concentrated lye although healed at the time the present soreness comes as a result. She is in a serious condition. BUY LUMBER FROM METZ We call the attention of our many readers who desire to buy lumber to the Metz Lumber Co., 3rd and Main. They want your trade, will treat you right, give you bargains and serve you like people. Buy your lumber from them. Both phones 196. Mrs. Major Davis who is in Denver, Colo., for her health, is reported as doing nicely. The place to get good meals is at the Furgerson restaurant, 315 N. Main Mrs. Cora Furgerson, Prop. Mrs. M. Works of Oxford, Kansas, spent Thanksgiving and Sunday in Wichita as the guest of Mrs. Chas. Coleman, 247 N. 5th. Geo. W. Harbert has opened a rooming house and restaurant at 513 N Main. Ed Davis has gone to the Old Soldiers Home at Leavenworth where he will make his future home. Mrs. J. S. Quarles of St. Louis, is in the city visiting with her mother Mrs. Geo. Orr, Sr., 808 E. 13th. She reports her husband well. Her many friends were glad to see her. Chief Grand Mentor, Sir Frank Wilson established a new Temple in Topeka last week. Hurrah! for the Order of Twelve. She is coming. Don't worry, SMILE Its Better Nolley's Grand Rapids Furniture PRICES LESS 118-120 North Main Street COLORED STORE NO MORE. The Court House Grocery at 601 N. Main, recently conducted by a company of colored men has changed hands, the colored men having sold out to Mr. Boyd, a white gentleman. We are sorry to see our people lose this representative business. Mr. Boyd has added new stock and solicits the patronage of the people. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? W. M. Dunson, Painter and Paper Hanger, All Work Guaranteed 302 W. Murdock Ave., Wichita IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? NEW DOCTOR IN TOWN. Dr. A. J. Jordan, of Vinita, I. T., has located in Wichita and has engaged rooms at 601 North Main, and will enter into the active practice of medicine. He comes well recommended and solicits the patronage of the people. A DASTARDLY ACT. While on a Santa Fe train between Lawrence and Topeka, Tuesday night, John E. Lewis was attacked by two white cowboys from Texas who made an attempt to hang him for no greater offense than wearing a Knights of Pythias charm. Things are indeed getting to a fine pitch when a colored man must be assaulted and almost hanged, simply because he wears the emblem of the society of which he is a member. Mr. Lewis is not only a Pythian but is also Grand Chancellor of the Kansas Jurisdiction, and the indignities heaped on him so unprovocated should meet with the unsparing condemnation of all men who believe in law, right and justice. CHANGED HANDS. G. M. Smith and Dan Furgerson have leased the Arcade Barber Shop from J. E. Lewis and will in the future conduct it under the firm name of Smith & Furgerson. They solicit a continuation of the patronage of the public. Dr. J. E. Farmer met with the misfortune of accidentally sticking a physician's probe in his left hand about the wrist while working on a patient. Mrs. Lillie Madison, of Oksaloosa, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones for dinner Thursday. Mrs. Price, formerly of Lawrence was a visitor at the meeting of Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 Thursday. Mrs. Jas. J. Olden is able to be out again after quite a serious illness. Moses Dickson Tent No. 5 had a very large and pleasant meeting Thursday evening. The B. T. W. club met with Miss Grace Baker Thursday afternoon. They adjourned to meet with Mrs. W. M. Bowers, 1735 N. Emporia, next Thursday at 2:30 p. m. J. W. Owens, Shoe Repairing WORK DONE WHILE YOU WANT 2nd Shoes Bought and Sold 332 N. Main Street Wichita, Kan. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our sincere thanks to our friends, ad especially to the Daughters of the Tabernacle, who so kindly assisted us during the illness and death of our dear mother; and we also thank the dear ladies who sang so beautifully at the funeral, and for the many beautiful floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Bartlett. Geo. Smith. J. Jeff. Smith. Rev. Wm. Turner will leave Saturday for the Indian Territory, where he will look after his lands in that country. Rev. Turner has $20 acres of good land as the crows ever flew over. Rev. W. H. V. B. Taylor is in the city. R. E. Smith is spending a few days of vacation in the city off his run on the Missouri Pacific. He is visiting among his friends. FOR SALE—A BARGAIN. A 14-room house and two corner lots for sale at a big bargain. Write Mrs Henrietta Simpson, Watonga, Okla. "Second to None" PLEASES ALL GOOD BREAD MAKERS = It Is White As SNOW-TRY IT- OTTO WEISS, Agent I Have Recently Purchased THE Court House Grocery I have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Groceries, 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. Court House Grocery 601 N. Main St. GILDEN'S DRUGS STORE Prescriptions Filled with Carcass . Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco or patronage solicited. + Once a customer, all former. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored 615 North Main st. USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating YOUR GROCERS IMBODEN MILLIN ... 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. 2 Closing Out Sale ABOUT HALF OF ALREADY LOW PRICE. A count of the rapid growth of my Cleaning and business, which I personally superintend, is unnecessary to neglect the store, and have, to decided to close out my entire stock of Seven CLOTHING consisting of Men' Clothing, Hats etc., and Ladies' Suits, Skirts, Waists, Jackets etc. I will sell to dealers in Job Lots, or stock, store and fixtures and give position to one of the room. Our facilities will continually be for first-class Cleaning. Dyeing, Pressing of Ladies' and Gent's Clothing, Hats, Plums, Bleached and Curled. Remember the place. On account of the rapid growth of my Cleaning and Dyeing business, which I personally superintend, I find it necessary to neglect the store, and have, there fore, decided to close out my entire stock of Second Hand CLOTHING consisting of Men' Clothing, Hats, Caps, etc., and Ladies' Suits, Skirts, Waists, Jackets, Coats, etc. I will sell to dealers in Job Lots, or the whole stock, store and fixtures and give position to all or part of the room. Our facilities will continually be enlarged for first-class Cleaning. Dyeing, Pressing and repairing of Ladies' and Gent's Clothing, Hats, Plums, Cleaned, Bleached and Curled. Remember the place O. K. Dye Works 330 North Main Street Called For and Delivered. C. G. Hanson, P. ellence Counts..... THEN USE..... U. KNEAD. IT" Goods Called For and Delivered. C. G. Hanson, Prop. It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds of bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. 3rd & Main When In Coffeyville Stop At White Front Boarding House First Class Accomodations Prices Reasonable BROOKS & WILLIAMS, Props. 24 So. Walnut St. Coffeyville, Kansas Banner Mill's CUSTOM GKINDING A Specialty KINDS OF COAL & FEED FLORENCE BROS., PROPS. B. N. Main St. Phone EERLESS TEAM AUNDRY FLOVER & SONS. Props W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. V M Dunson Music Teacher Mandolin and Guitar lessons At Reasonable Prices 302 West Murdock Ave and the children -- Hours 6 to 9 p. m. G. J. Jones, REAL ESTATE INSURANCE and LOANS CHATTLE : MORTGAGES 429 Kansas Avenue TOPEKA, KANSAS 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Everyone sending a sketch and description may weekly ascertain our opinion free whether an attention is probably patentable. COMMUNICATIONS Free Online, free delivery for securing patents, clients taken through M.C. Co. receive notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. undoubtedly illustrated weekly. Largest cir- tion of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a $1. four months. $L Sold by all newsdealers. INN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Ranch Office, 625 F St., Washington D.C. CURSE OF RACE PREJUDICE. the title of a neat, well written, cal and plain stating book by Prof. F. Morton, Jr., A. M., on the race dem. Out of all the books which have read no book in our estima- deals with the race question in so and far-seeing manner as this of Prof. Morton. Much value is to the book as it is the work well-read and learned white man, made by the author for 25c, at 244 M St., New York City, N. Y. Do not subscribe and pay for the data Searchlight. It is more hon- than "spunging" on your neigh- We will send you a copy to your every week for only $1.00 per Do say and get what the race do. --- (First publication in the Wichita Searchlight Dec. 8, 1906.) State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, ss. In the District Court, 18th Judicial District. The above-named defendant is hereby notified that he has been sued in the District Court of the County of Sedgwick in the State of Kansas, by the above named plaintiff, for divorce, and that unless he shall be and appear in said court on or before the 19th day of January, A. D. 1907, and there and then plead answer or demur to plaintiff's petition therein filed, a decree for divorce will be entered against him pro confessio according to the prayer of said petition. J. C. MILTON, Attorney for Plaintiff. NEWTON NEWS Mrs. H. W. Reevely, who has been sick for a long time is able to be out again. G. A. Fray left this city Sunday morning for Wichita where he spent a few days. Clifford Rickman, of Valley Center, Kan., was visiting in the city last week. Miss Seattle Bush, of Peabody, spent Thanksgiving in the city. She left for her home Sunday evening, reporting Newton's young people royal entertainers. Mrs. James Hall and mother, Mrs. Powell and daughter, Mabel, of Peabody, spent Thanksgiving in this city. They left Sunday night, reporting Newton people royal entertainers. Tommie McWhoter, of Valley Center, spent Thanksgiving in the city. He left Monday for his home reporting a lovely time. Miss Myrtle Tandy spent Thanksgiving in Hutchinson, Kan. She returned home Friday reporting a lovely time. On Wednesday evening a crowd of young people met at the home of Miss Calile Anderson's to spend the evening and entertain the young people who were visiting in the city. They report having a pleasant time. Mrs. Alex Ridley entertained a few friends on Thursday evening in honor of the young people visiting in the city. A delightful time was spent. Lee Frame entertained a few friends Friday evening in honor of the young people visiting in the city. A royal time was spent. On Saturday evening Mrs. L. C. House entertained a few friends for supper in honor of the people visiting in the city. The sacred program given Sunday night at the A. M. E. church was a grand success. NORTH TOPEKA NEWS. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 is progressing nicely and have had one sick Daughter, Dt. L. Cornell, but is able to be out again. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan has been number among the sick for a few days but is improving nicely. Pride of Topeka No. 36 is progressing fine. St. Luke Temple No. 5 were reorganized by Rev. Sir Frank Wilson, P. G. M, of Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction, November 19, 1906. So the temple is getting along fine. Robert Jordan, C. M.; Joe Walker, C. S. PRATT (KAN.) ITEMS. Marlon Fleming made a business trip to Wichita last Friday. James Morris, of Wichita, was in Pratt last week to see his wife who was operated on a few weeks ago. She is getting along nicely and expects to be home soon. Mrs. G. J. Tumbleson have a Thanksgiving dinner in behalf of her son-in-law, Mr. James Morris. The A. M. E. church of Pratt, gave a large entertainment on Thanksgiving day in honor to rHADNaoaoin day in order to raise money enough to send for their pastor's family. Robert Williams has harvested his large crop of corn about 5,000 bushels. E. K. Martin has two children lying very low with scarlet fever. Mrs. Jno. Franklin, who has been in Wichita for several days, is expected home right away. Gold teeth seems to be all the style nowadays. Mrs. Cora Fleming has completed her dental work with two gold teeth. She smiles all the time. Jethro Peoples of Gray county, Kansas, was the guest of his sweetheart, Miss Clara F——. Birdie James has been in mourning for several weeks for his sweetheart who has returned and now he is tickled tickled till he can't tickle no more. Noble Taylor was out hunting Saturday. Game was many but his birds were few. FT. SCOTT NEWS. The Shilo Baptist church was crowded Thanksgiving night to hear Mrs. Smothers sing. The program was as follows: THE WICH TA SEARCHLIGHT 1. Solo.....Miss Estella Bruce 2. Solo.....Mrs. M. L. Smothers 3. Paper.....Miss Eliza Sanders 4. Solo.....Prof. E. J. Hawkins 5. Solo.....Mrs. M. L. Smothers 6. Declamation.....Miss Gillmore 7. Paper.....Miss Mattie Moore 8. Piano Solo.....Miss Elvie Johnson 9. Solo.....Miss Lulu Parks 10. Solo.....Mrs. M. L. Smothers The program was fine and the audience was well pleased. Miss Gillmore and Miss Retta Wells were here from Pittsburg to spend a few days. They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cochron of East Elm. They left Sunday at 3 o'clock and were entertained by a few of their friends before the train hour. They were Mr. Floyd Dodson, Mr. Uba Dodson, Mr. Frank Caldwell, Miss Minnie Loveman and Miss Ethel Copeland. All had a fine time and went to the depot together and bade the two young ladies good-bye, and also saw them safe in the car. Mr. Roscoe Copeland, Miss Ida and Georgia Kinnell were also at the depot to see their young friends off. Miss Wells and Miss Gillmore reported a fine time and would like very much to call again. Mrs. Booker, of Iola, and Mrs. Cook of Pittsburg, sister of Prof. E. J. Hawkins, were here to spend Thanksgiving. Mrs. Callie Anderson spent Thanksgivink here with her sisters, Mrs. John Laue and Mrs. Wright. D. B. Ford and wife were up from Pittsburg, Thanksgiving, and were the guests of Dr. M. G. Brookins. Miss Dora Webb of Fulton were here and spent Thanksgiving with her sister, Mrs. Harry Howard. Mr. Joe Larue was here from Iola on business last week. Miss Alice Ray, sisters of Mr.s Will Knight was reported very low. Miss Nancy Hickman was reported no better. Her life is still hanging on a mere thread. rs. McAdam died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard last Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock. She was here visiting and gave birth to a fine baby girl, but was up and doing nicely until three days before her death. She began to have chills on Saturday and was very sick until Tuesday. She left a husband, three children, mother and father, and host of friends. The funeral was held Thanksgiving at the A. M. E. church. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Wooten. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? ```markdown ``` Grandma Tumbleson gave a Thanksgiving dinner to a host of friends. Those present were: C. P. Tumbleson and family, Robt. Williams, Noble Taylor of Coates, Jas. Morris and family of Wichita, Thos. Russell, Sam Green, Frank Fleming, Roy Green, Miss Rachel Tumbleson, and Miss Burnis Tumbleson. Mrs. James Morris is on the sick list. Misses Clara and May Fleming have returned from Illinois after two months visiting among friends and relatives. The wedding bells are ringing in Springdale. Look out; something doing. Thomas Russell made a flying trip to Kansas City last week with a carload of hegs and received top prices. Robert Williams reports fine corn crop. He has 3,000 bushels husked and 2,000 to husk yet. John Fleming is feeding two carloads of cattle and one of hogs for shipment soon. Mr. Marion Fleming made a flying trip to Wichita Friday with a carload of turkeys. C. P. Tumbleson and wife gave a 6 o'clock dinner to a host of friends Friday. A grand shooting match took place. Roy Green took first prize; Thomas Russell took second prize; and C. P. Tumbleson third prize; Sam Green fourth prize. Wheat is looking fine; lots of rain; good corn. Everybody happy. Will Morris and wife of Caldwell spent Sunday, visiting James Morris. Robert Wilfely of Clearwater is shaking hands with friends in Wichita. Mrs. John Franklin of Pratt, Kan., was a visitor in our city the guest of Mr. Ike Miskell and wife. Ora James is sporting a new buggy. C. P. Tumbleson has gone into the poultry business. NEWS OF GREAT BEND. Miss Edith Nevels spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nevels. She returned to Hutchinson, Kan., last Sunday evening. Rev. Raimey arrived in the city Saturday and preached for his congregation Sunday. Prof. Carter, superintendent of the Topeka Industrial schools, was in the city and lectured Sunday evening at the First Baptist church. He made a very interesting display of his school work. Mr. Ace Sellers, Sr., died at his home on William avenue, Sunday evening at 8:20 o'clock. He leaves two brothers, a sister, a son and quite a number of grandchildren, several nieces and nephews and a host of friends to mourn his loss. r. Sellers came to Great Bend in 1876, an early settler, and was well respected by all who knew him. Funeral services were conducted at the A. M. E. church by Rev. Alexander and Rev. J. H. Raimey, he being a devoted member of the A. M. E. church and will be greatly missed. A loving brother, father, and uncle has been summoned to the great beyond. Our loss is heaven's gain. Mr. Ace Sellers, Jr., is on the sick list. Mr. John Rieley is on the sick list South The entertainment that was given by the Household of Ruth was quite a success. All reported a good time. Mrs. Mary Childs, the lady evangelist, left the city Tuesday. Mr. Benjamin Hampton spent Thanksgiving with his daughter, Mrs. Holly, in Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Nannie Fox and Mrs. Grace Garver made a flying trip to Newton Monday evening. Queen Esther Circle will be entertained by Mrs. Anna Bynmun. Friday afternoon at her home on Eighteenth street. KANSAS CITY, KAN Mrs. Georgia Broadway of Chicago is visiting her sister Mrs. W. L. Jones of 1240 Barnett; also her cousin Mrs. C. D. Dalton of 1228 Barett, both of Kansas City, Kansas. She will visit Mrs. E. W. Matley, 1155 Clay of Topeka, Kansas. She will visit Mrs. H. A. Thomas 135 Ash of Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. Elmer Warders of Argenter Arkansas is visiting his cousin Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jones of 1240 Barnett. He likes it so well that he intended to make his home here. He is expected to buy soon. He also has opened our eyes to the riot in Argenter stating that there were more whites killed than colored people. Miss Ella Tucker of Omaha is visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Dalton, of 1228 Barnett, of Kansas City, Kan., also her mother of Rosedale, Kansas. John Wilson Tent No. 21 meets every 2nd and 4th Saturday. QUINDARO. KAN.. NEWS. Mrs. Hall accompanied by Rev. M. Collins of Kansas City, Kan., was a pleasant visitor this week. Mrs. Hall has been a successful teacher in Hannibal, Mo. Dr. A. J. Carey, pastor of Bethel Chapel, Chicago, accompanied by Hon. Fred A. Wescott, president of a Chicago Trust, called upon us last week. The gentlemen were very much pleased with the work that is being done at the school. Both went away highly complimenting the same. The faculty and student body were highly entertained Friday evening by Mr. Warrick, a young poet, who is making a great record for himself along this line. The University Choral Club with Prof. R. G. Jackkson, their director, gave a musical program at Rev. McNeal's church in Kansas City Sunday evening. A very large and appreciatively audience attended the same. At the University Forum Sunday afternoon Dr. Claudius B. Spencer gave a most scholarly lecture. The speaker was introduced to the Forum by Bishop A. Grant who accompanied Dr. Spencer to the University. Dr. Spencer is a very learned man and his address, "The Intellectual and Spiritual Training" was a most appropriate one. He illustrated to the student body the importance of an intellectual and spiritual training. STRONG CITY NEWS. Among those who went to Emporia on Thanksgiving we noted Miss Bessie Burks, Mesdames E. Burks and C. Levels, Messrs Link, Boyd and Coleman. There was something at the Means residence last Wednesday. Nuff said. We are glad to see Willie McLean out again. Take care Will and don't break it the third time. They tell me that Bro. Rattler kissed all the young ladies at the party Thursday night. Sly one. C. H. Johnson wears a broad smile these days, cause he has rode the Masonic goat. Several of the young people got mud bound Thursday night and could not attend the birthday party, but the old ones were there just the same. Say Bud, the Searchlight is the best colored paper in the state. The editor will mail it to you for one William McKinley the year, so don't borrow mine. Mrs. Gertie Jackson, W. R. of H. H. No. 1697, is on the sick list this week. WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West DEPARTMENTS: Theoiological, C and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Normal, Musical, [ Instrum piano, oagan and harmony, Mechanical], Carpentry, Business Course, Stenograp ing, Dressmaking and Plait ing, Farming and Gardenin ADVANTAGES: Splendid Locati Influences and Thorough T INFORMATION: For terms, pri fered, write to William T. Ver ITS: Theoological, College, Normal, Sew Industrial. 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The Summer team has lost only one game this season that one being lost to Western University. They are scheduled to play in Topeka Kansas Saturday, Nov. 24th. The success of this team is due to the training received under their coach, Prof. J. P. King and G. F. Porter, assistant. The Wyandotte Pride band of Kansas City, Kansas, are arranging a reception to be given in honor of their officers Friday evening November 23, at the Knights of Tabor hall. The A. M. E. church is holding services in the M. and O. Hall while their church is being completed. When --- Preparatory, Normal, Sub- normal and Vocal]. including Drawing [ Fine Arts and Printing and Book-Binding, Boy and Typewriting, Tailor- n Sewing, Cooking, Launder- g. on, Healthful Climate, Good Teachers. es and all inducements of- non, A. M. D D SHOES RICES TSCH'S Boe Store GOOD SHOES CHEAP Dglas Avenue STRACT Co. CORNER OF THE HOUSE abstractors PY BLANK. Day and send it in. It out for some friend of yours. 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Especially he is need to remember our duty to the stream of justice, to the sure mark of a low civilization, a low morality, to abuse or discriminate against or in any way humiliate such person, from here lawfully, and who is conducting himself so formally. To remember this is incumbent on every American citizen, and it is of the peculiarly incumbent on every governmental state of the nation or of the several states. Hostility to Japaneo. I am prompted to say this by the attitude of hostility here and there as sumed toward the Japanese in this country. This hostility is sporadic and is not the same in any places. Not, unless it is most disabidingly with the gravest consequences to the nation, the friendship between the United States and the Chinese people in the continuous since the time, over half a century ago, when Commodore Perry, by the mediation of Japan, first opened the island to weary்டicallers. Since then the growth of Japan has been literally astounding. There is nothing to parallel it, but nothing to parallel it, but history is not only the history of civilized mankind. Japan has plagued one and ancient past. Her civilization is older than that of the nations of the world. From the national from which the people of the United States have chiefly sprung. But 50 years ago Japan's development was still that of the Middle Ages. During that 50 years the progress of the country in every walk of life has been moved to mankind, and she now stands as one of the greatest of civilized nations; great in the world, and in the arts of peace; great in military, in industrial, in artistic development and achievement. Japanese soldiers and sailors have shown themselves equal in number to the world; in his makes note. She has produced great generalis and mighty admirals; her fighting men, afloat and ashore, show all the courage the unquestioning, unfaltering reality, the spooling difference of hardship and death, which marked the Loyal Ronins; and the most important is that they possess the highest ideal of a prior world of artists of every kind see their products eagerly sought for in all lands. The industrial and commercial development of the world have been phenomenal; greater than that of the other country during the same period. Other the same time the advance in science and research is made by the admirable management of Japan. The most recent and most recent and most effective and humanity of the Japanese are which were based on the respectful admiration of all other quainted with the facts. Thru the Red Cross the Japanese people sent over $100,000 to the sufferers of San Francisco and the loss was accepted with gratitude by our people. The courtesy of the Japanese, nationally and individually, has become proverbial. To another country has there been such a more direct effect than visitors from this land as to Japan. In return, Japanese have welcome here in great numbers. They are welcome, so that the world is well-planned, especially in all our colleges and institutions of the world. The Japanese have won in a good way the right to stand abreast of the forest and lightened peoples of Europe and America; they have won on their own merits and by their own exertions the success of the world on basis of the great quality. The overwhelming mass of our people cherish a living regard and respect for the people of Japan. The great event is a quarter of the union the stranger from it is treated as he deserves; that is, he is treated as the stranger from any part of the world. The world and the world are to be created. But here and here most unworthy feeling has manifested itself toward the Japanese—the feeling that has been shown in shutting from the power of the world. The people of the world are the only people who are the only people, and in mutterings against them in one or two other places, because of their efficiency as workers. The school is a wicked absurdity, even where are no first-class colleges in the land, including the universities and colleges of California, which do not 光边. We welcome these cases of dissatisfaction which we have not yet to be created. We have as much to learn from Japan as Japan has to learn from us, and we are not to be unless it is also willing to learn. The Japan Americans are well treated and any failure of treatment of Americans with a courtesy and consideration of just so much a confession of inferiority in our civilization. Our nation fronts on the Pacific, just as it fronts on the Atlantic. We hope it will be the great ocean of our world. Wish, as we ought to wish, for a great commercial development in our dealings with Asia; and it is out of the great ocean of our world that we have such development unless we freely and gladly extend to other nations the same measure of justice and good treatment which we expect to receive from the people of this country of our citizens that act badly. Where the federal government has power it will deal summarily with any such wrongdoers. It is not that I earnestly ask that they also deal wisely and promptly with such conduct, or else this small body of wrongdoers may bring shame upon the great ocean of our world. I attribute this thinking fellows—that is upon our nation as a whole. Good manners should be an international no less than a moral attribute. I will treat for them as I would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen. Frenchmen, Russians or Italians. I ask it as due to humanity that we should act as due to ourselves because we must act uprightly toward all men. Naturalization of Japs. CUBAN INTERVENTION. Review of the Establishment of the Provisional Government. Last August an insurrection broke out in Cuba which it speedily grew evident that the existing government was the government. Was repeatedly asked by the then Cuban government to intervene, and finally was notified by the president of Cuba that he intended to resign, that his decision was not a result of the construction of its own government, and that he powerless to maintain order. It was evident that the government is implied that there was every probability that if steps were not immediately taken by this government, to try to restore order, the representative of the various national laws would be in the island would apply to their respective governments for armed intervening or over-protect the lives and property of their citizens. The land is to be preparedness of the land, I was able immediately to send enough ships to Cuba to prevent the situation from becoming expected. The country is not at the same time patched to Cuba the secretary of war and the assistant secretary of state, in order that they might grapple with the efforts of the nation on the other side to secure an agreement between the contending factions, by which they should have come to an amicable understanding and a net effect on the land and a more provisional government of their own-failed. Finally the president of the country is designed. The quarantine group has a new target to beிரate purpose of its members, so that there was no power to act on his resignation. The government came out of his account and with the no-called Platt amendment, which was embodied in the constitution of Cuba. I thereupon proposed the island, the secretary of war acting as provisional governor until he could be replaced by Mr. Magoon, the late minister of Canada and governor of the canal zone on its island. The government was to support them and to relieve the navy, the expedition being handled with most of the time to speed and efficiency. The insurgent chief immediately attended the their troops should lay down their arms and disband; and the agreement was carried out by the national government has left the personnel of the old government and the old laws, so far as might be, unchanged, and will thus adjust the island for a few months until tranquillity held. I was restored to election properly held, and a new government inaugurated. Peace has come in island and the harvesting of the sugar, sane and dry, the best crop of the island is about to proceed. Provisional Government to End. When the election has been held and the new government inaugurated the pro-spective, orderly fashion of the pro-state, a orderly fashion of the public, and a orderly fashion of the state, I take this opportunity of expressing upon behalf of the American people with all possible solemnity, our most earnest hope that the people of Cuba will realize the imperative need of precautionary action. The United States wishes nothing of Cuba except that it shall prosper morally and materially, and wishes nothing of the Cubans save that they shall be able to preserve order among themselves and therefore to preserve their independence. If the elections become a question of public interest, it becomes confirmed in the island, it is absolutely out of the question that the island should continue independent; and the United States, which has assumed the sponsorship before the civilized world for Cuba's career as a nation, would again have to intervene and to see the future of a community in such a orderly fashion as to secure the safety of life and property. The path to be trodden by those who exercise self-government is always hard, and we should have every charity and patience with the Cubans as they tread this difficult path, and to the extent possible, we must regard for, them; but I most earnestly adjure them solemnly to weigh their responsibilities and to see that when their new government is started it shall run smoothly, and with freedom from flagrant denial of right on the one hand, and from insurrectionary disturbances on the other. The Bio Conference. The second international conference of American republics, held in Mexico in the years 1901-2, provided for the holding of the conference to the governing board of the American nations and committed the fixing of the time and place and the arrangements for the conference to the governing board of the American nations and committed the fixing of the time and place and the arrangements for the conference to the governing board of the American nations in Washington. That board convened with marked identity and palmstaking care, and upon the courteous invitation of the United States of Brazil, the conference continued from the 23d of July to the 28th of August last. Many subjects of common interest to all the American nations were addressed, and the conclusions reached, enclosed, and proposed conventions, will be laid before you upon the coming conference and promoted to delegates. They contain many matters of importance relating to the extension of trade, the increase of communication, the increase of carriers, to intercourse and promotion of better knowledge and good understanding between the different countries represented, and to work reached with substantial continuity. It is interesting to observe that in the successive conferences which have been held in the United States of America, American nations have been learning to work together effectively, for, while the first conference in Washington in 1880, 1901-2, occupied many months, with much time wasted in an unregulated and fruitless discussion. It is much easier to find the facility in the practical dispatch of business which characterizes the permanent deliberative bodies, and completed its labors within its framework of weeks originally allowed for its sessions. Quite apart from the specific value of the conclusions reached by the conference of all the American nations engaging in harmonious and kindly consideration and discussion of subjective or communal value, a substantial value for the promotion of reasonable and considerate treatment of all international questions. The thanks of this conference to the people of Brazil and to the people of Rio de Janeiro for the generous hospitality with which our delegates, in common with the others were received entertained, and the work of our team. Incidentally to the meeting of the conference the secretary of state visited the city of Rio de Janeiro for a conference, of which he was made an honorary president. The announcement of his intention to make this visit was for the purpose of courteous invitations from all the countries of South America to visit them as the guest of their governments. It was deemed that such invitations we might appropriately express the real respect and friendship in which we hold our sister republics of the southern continent, and the secretary according to Chill, Peru, Panama and Colombia. He refrained from visiting Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador, only to send the onboard made it impracticable with the time at his disposal. He carried with him a message of peace and friendliness and understanding and mutual helpfulness; and he was everywhere received in the spirit of his message. The members of government, the press, the business, the great masses of the people united everywhere in emphatic response to his friendly expressions and in doing homeland country and cause which represented. In many parts of South America there has been much misunderstanding of the attitude of the American toward the other, American republicans. An idea had become prevalent that assertion of the Monroe doctrine implied, or ordered, or required, the priority and of a right to exercise some kind of protectorate over the countries to whose territory that doctrine applies. Yet that impression continued to be a serious barrier to good understanding, to friendly intercourse, to the introduction of American trade. The impression was so widespread that apparently it could not be reached by any ordinary means, and the American intention to dispel this unfounded impression, and there is just cause to believe that he has succeeded. In an address to the conference at Rio on the 1st of July he said: "We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except our own; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves. We deed the sovereignty and equalize the smallest and weaker member of the family of nations to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranties of the weak against the oppressions of the strong, poor, and unrest of the world. For privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to every Experiment of subduing wills to create our prosperity to extend our trade to grow in wealth, in wisdom and in spirit, but our conception of the true way to accomplish the most put down the world and profit by their run to help all friends to a common prosperity and to help a common growth, that we may all become more of our own. With few months for the first time the recognized possessors of every foot of soil upon the American continents can be and will be the most popular of the world. The new knowledge of equal sovereign states in the great World Congress at The Hague. This will be the world's formal and final part of the great world's development. The part of the American continents is to be deemed subject to colonization. Let us pledge ourselves to aid each other in the world, with the power of the country which that accepted declaration implies, so that in time the weakest and most unrestful and most unrestful and most in the world the stronger and more fortunate. Let us help each other to show that for all the races we have to be the most unrestful and most unrestful and most in the world of justice and peace. Let us unite in creating and maintaining and making our own power to support the wholes, who shall influence international conduct and prevent the cause of war and war and the cause of war. For the burden of such armarms as are massed behind the frontiers of Europe, and bring us ever near to the perfection of our own liberty. So should the security and prosperity, production and trade, wealth. Learning the arts and happiness for us Our Efforts Appreciated. These words appear to have been received with acclaim in every part of South America. They have my hearty praise, and I can not be wrong in the conviction that they correctly represent the sentiments of the whole American people. I believe that the United States, in theitude of the United States in its assertion of the Monroe Doctrine than in the words of the distinguished former minister of the United States, is in his speech welcoming Mr. Root at Buenos Ayres. He spoke of—"The traditional policy of the United States in its periority or seeking preponderance, condemned the oppression of the nations of this part of the world and the control of their destinies by the great Powers of Europe." It is gratifying to know that in the great city of Buenos Ayres, upon the twnished with Argentine and American flags for the reception of our representative, there were emblazoned not only the names of Washington and Jefferson and the nation of their services to the cause of South American independence, the names of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Richard Sherman, but also in graceful courtesy of the government of Brazil, which has given to the beautiful and stately building first used for the meeting of the congresso, and in graceful courtesy of our grateful acknowledgments are due to the governments and the people of all the countries visited by the secretary of state for the courtesy, the friendship, and the generous hospitality to him. In my message to you on the 5th of December, 1905, I called your attention to the embarrassment that migrants from foreign nations assert by foreign nations of the right to collect by force of arms contract debts due by American republics to the United States to the danger that the process of compulsory collection might result in the occupation of territory tending to become permanent. I then said: "We must be forced to enforce such contractual obligations on behalf of its citizens by an appeal to arms. It is much to be wistful that all foreign governments would take the same action." This subject was one of the topics of consideration at the conference at Rio and the resolution of the United Nations recommending the respective governments represented "to consider the advisability of asking the second peace conference at The Hague to examine the situation of public debts, and in general, means tending to diminish among nations conflicts of purely pecuniary origin." Resolutions Adopted. This resolution was supported by the representatives of the United States in accordance with the following instructions: "It has long been the established policy of the United States not to use its armed forces for the collection of ordinary criminal matters, and to govern governments. We have not considered the use of force for such a purpose consistent with that respect for the index of the family of nations, which is the most important principle of international law and the chief protection of weak nations against the oppression of weak nations. Our practice is injurious in its general effect upon the relations of nations and upon the welfare of weak nations, and ought to be encouraged in the interests of civilization; that it offers frequent temptation to bullying and oppression and to encourage the abuse of power. We regret that other powers, whose opinions and sense of justice we esteem highly, have at times taken a different view of the circumstances of bombing, with reluctance to collect such debts by force. It is doubtless true that the nonpayment of public debts may be accompanied by some circumstances of bombing, which shall discriminate between such cases and the simple nonperformance of a contract with a private person, and a resolution in favor of peace, which shall discriminate between such cases and the latter of the latter." "It is not felt, however, that the conference at Rio should undertake to make such a discrimination or to resolve upon such a rule. Most of the American countries are still debtor nations, while the countries of Europe are the creditors. If the Rio conference, therefore, were to tape such action it would have the appearance of a meeting of debtors resolving how their creditors should act, and this would not inspire respect. The true course is indicated by the terms of the program, which proposes to request the second Hague conference, where both creditors and debtors will be assembled." Central America. Last June trouble which had existed for some time between the republics of Salvador, Guatemala, and Haiti, which threatened to be ruinous to the countries involved and very destructive to the commercial interests of American farmers, are taking an important part in the development of these countries. The thorny goodness of the United States and Mexico enabled this government and that of Mexico to unite in effective mediation between the warring republics; the long-continued and patient effort, in bringing about a meeting of the representatives of the United States warship as neutral territory, and peace was there concluded; a peace which resulted in the saving of thousands of lives, the calculable amount of misery and the destruction of property and of the means of livelihood. The Rio conference past the following resolution in reference "That the third international American conference shall address to the presidents of the United States and the American and Mexican nations in which the conference which is being held at Rio expresses its satisfaction at the happy results of their mediation for the celebration of peace between the republics of Guatemala, Honduras, and Sal- This affords an excellent example of one way in which the influence of the United States can be the power of the peoples of the western hemisphere; that is, by action taken in concert with other American republics and therefore free from those suspensions and prejudices which are taken by one alone. In this way it is possible to exercise a powerful influence toward the substitution of considerate action in the spirit of justice, the insurrections of the hitherto been so great a blemence to the development of many of our neighbors. Repeated examples of united action by several of many American republics in favor of peace, by urging cool and reasonable, instead of war, and by promoting of international controversies, can not fail to promote the growth of a general public opinion among the American nations which will elevate the standards of international cooperation. In international duty among governments, and tell in favor of the peace of mankind. Panama Trip. I have just returned from a trip to Panama and shall report to you at length later on the whole subject of the Panama canal! The Algeciras Convention. The Algecina convention, which was signed by the United States as well as by most of the powers of Europe, appealed to the United States, which was also signed both by the United States and a majority of the European powers. This treaty confers upon us our common duties and does not entail a single obligation of any kind upon us, and I earnestly desire that we refuse to ratify it would merely mean that we forfeited our commercial rights in Morocco and would not achieve another of any kind. In the event of such an agreement we will be briefed five times in a hundred and twenty years without any commercial treaty with Morocco; and at a time when we are everywhere seeking new markets and outlets for trade. THE FUR SEAL QUESTION: A Revision of the Present Regulations In Need The destruction of the Pribilof islands fur seals by pelagic sealing still continues the museum's commissioned surveys made in 1871 by direction of the congress, numbered 470,000, and which, according to the survey of both American and Canadian commissioners, amounted to 1,000 seals now been reduced to about 180,000. This result has been brought about by Canadian and American commissioners, and female seals while in the water during their annual pilgrimage to and from the south, or in search of food. As a rule the seals in the museum also has an unweaned pup on land, so that, for each skin taken by pelagic sealing, as the rule, three lives are destroyed in the nursing pup, which is left to starve to death. No damage whatever is done to the seals by the carefully regulated killing and the solely responsible for all of the present evil, and is alike indefensible from the standpoint of humanity. In 1896 over 16,000 young seals were found dead from starvation on the Pribilofs, that since pelagic sealing began upward of 400,000 adult female seals had been killed at sea and over 300,000 young seals had been killed at sea. The revolting barbary of such a practise, as well as the wasteful destruction which it involves, needs no demonstration. The Bering sea tribunal, which sat in Paris in 1833, and which decided against the claims of the United States to exclusive ownership of the seals, presided over and to a property right in the fur seals when outside of the three mile limit, determined also upon certain regulations for the proper protection and preservation of the fur seal in, or habitually reporting to the Bering sea. The tribunal to be held in the Pribilofs, from the 1st of May to the 1st of July, and excluded all killing in the war, thirty miles around the Pribilofs, the regulations which they had determined upon, with a view to the protection and management of the seals, fitted every five years to new examination, so as to enable both interested governments to consider whether, in the past experience there was occasion for such a pass experience. The regulations have proved plainly inadequate to accomplish the cee of prohibiting the use of the four seals, and for a long time this government has tried vainly to secure the British such provision, modification of the regulations as were contemplated and provided for by the European Parliament for the Raids by Japanese. The process of destruction has been accelerated during recent years by the appearance of number of Japanese vessels or to the number of Japanese vessels have not been bound even by the inadequate limitations prescribed by the tribunal of Paris, they have paid the amount of 80%-mile limit imposed upon the Canadians, and have prosecuted their work upon the very islands themselves, as well as the several Japanese vessels made raids on the island of St. Paul, and before they were beaten off by the very meager and insufficiently armed guard, they succeeded in carrying off the skins of most of them. Nearly all the seals killed were females and the work was done with the assistance of the appear to have been skinned alive, and many were found half skinned and still alive. The raids were repelled only by the raiders, and the raiders were killed, two were wounded, and 12 captured, including the two wounded. Those captured have since been released and are in the management. An attack of this kind had been wholly unlookt for, but such provision of vessels, arms and ammunition will now be found profitable. Suitable representations regarding the incident have been made to the government and all practical measures will be taken by that country to prevent any recurrence on the island will be increased, and better equipped and organized and a better settlement will be established; next season a United States war vessel will also be sent there. We not relaxed our efforts to secure an agreement with Great Britain for adequate protection of the seal herd, and negotiations with Japan for the same purpose. Laws. Need Revision. The laws for the protection of the seals within the jurisdiction of the United States need revision and amendment. Only the islands of St. Paul and St. George are now, in terms, included in the government reservation, and the other islands are also to be included. The landing of aliens as well as citizens upon the islands, without a permit from the department of commerce and labor, for any purpose except in case of stress of weather or for water, should be prohibited under adequate penalties. The approach of vessels for the excepted purposes should be regulated. The authority of the government agents on the islands should be enlarged, and the chief agent should have the powers of a committing magistrate. The entrance of a vessel into the territorial waters surrounding the islands with intent to take seals should be made a criminal offense and cause of forfeiture. Authority for seizures in such cases should be given and the presence on any such vessel of seals, or seals within, or the parachute, a precaution for taking them should be made, for a single face evidence of such intent. I recommend what legislation is needed to accomplish these ends; and I commend to your attention the report of Mr. Sims, of the department of commerce and labor, on this subject. In case we are compelled to abandon the hope of making arrangements with other governments to put an end to the idleous and wasteful question to pelagic fish it will be necessary for you serious consideration how far we should continue to protect and maintain the seal herd on land with the result of continuing such a practise, and whether it is possible to use by externalizing the herd ourselves in the most human way possible. Second Hague Conference. In my last message I advised you that the emperor of Russia had taken the initiative in bringing about a second peace conference in Hague. Under the emperor of Russia arranged the preliminaries for such a conference has been progressing during the past year. Progress has necessarily been slow, owing to the number of countries that have consulted upon that has arisen. It is a matter of satisfaction that all of the American republics have now, for the first time, been invited to join in the proposed conference. The close connection between the subjects to be taken up by the Red Cross conference held at Geneva last summer, and the subjects which naturally would come before the Hague conference, it apparent that an agreement of the Red Cross conference completed and considered by the different powers before the meeting at the Hague. The Red Cross conference ended on 14 July, and the revised and amended convention, which was signed by the American delegates, will be promptly presented at the conference a special and highly appreciated courtesy of the governments of Russia and the Netherlands, a proposal that the Hague conference contract with a time the conference with the conference of the American republics at Rio de Janeiro in August was laid aside. No other date has yet been set for the conference has been proposed by the government of Russia, and the subjects which it enumerates are undergoing careful examination and consideration in preparation for the conference. It must ever be kept in mind that war is not merely justifiable, but imperative, upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare. Peace is normally a great good, and it coincides with righteousness; but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the bond of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. Neither can a nation, which is an entity, and which does not die as individuals die, refrain from taking thought for the interest of the generations that are to come, no less than for the interest of the generation of to-day; and no public men have a right, whether from short-sightedness, from selfish indifference, or from sentimentality, to similar things. A nation is not a person in character. A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice. Moreover, tho it is criminal for a nation not to prepare for war, so that it may escape the dreadful consequences of being defeated in war, yet it must always be remembered that even to be defeated in war may be far better than not to have fought at all. As has been well and finely sale, the nation is not an American, but the nation or man is disgraced if the obligation to defend right is shirked. We should as a nation do everything in our power for the cause of honorable peace. It is morally as indefensible for a nation to commit a wrong upon another nation. We must not be so unethical as to call this to wrong his fellows. We should do all in our power to hasten the day when there shall be peace among the nations—a peace based upon justice and not unguarded by the power of the nation—we cannot accomplish a good deal in this direction, but we can not accomplish everything, and the penalty of attempting to do too much would almost inevitably be to the death of the nation. We must remember that fantastic extremists are not in reality leaders of the causes which they espouse, but are ordinarily those who do most to hamper the real leaders of the cause and to damage the cause it is not for the benefit of the nation. It is establishing any kind of international power, of whatever sort, which can effectively check wrongdoing, and in these circumstances it would be both a foolish and an undeserving act. We must not deprive itself of the power to protect its own rights and even in exceptional cases to stand up for the rights of others. Nothing would more promote injustice, nothing would further defer the power of the nation, and the cause of the and righteousness, than for the free and enlightened peoples which, to the much stumbling and many shortcomings, nevertheless strive toward justice. Deliberately to render the law untaught, we must not be despotism and barbarism armed and able to work their wicked will. The chance for the settlement of disputes peacefully, by arbitration, now depends mainly upon the will of the people. We must not be able to do right of sufficient armed strength to make their purpose effective. THE ARMY AND NAVY. Asks for Maintenance of Our Present Sea Strength. The United States navy is the greatest guarantor of peace which this country possesses. It is earnestly to be wish that the war is a positive, and the end of the story in this matter. A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to do with the same study of the world of the mistake as well as of the success. For this purpose nothing could be more instructive than a rational study of the war. It is as good as the world of the world. Main. There was only one way in which that war could have been avoided. If during the preceding 12 years a navy relatively unrestless and unrestless, they could only show how has been built up, and any provided relatively as good as that which the country now has, there never would have been the slightest necessity of the right of the war. The first necessary had arisen the war would under such circumstances have ended with our speedy and overwhelming triumph. But our peonies and the power of the战场 to refuse to carry any preparations whatever regarding either the army or the navy. They saved a million or two of dollars by so doing and made the money to the卒 of the war. For each million they thus saved during the three years of war which followed—war which brought untold suffering from the people of the great times—threatened the gravest national disaster, and which, in spite of the necessity of waging it, resulted merely in what was in effect, and the whole of the war is the most effective of defeat and triumph was almost even. I do not ask that we continue to increase our navy. I ask merely that it be continued at its time of treatment this time can be done only if we replace the obsolete and outworn ships by new and good ones, the equals of any afloat in any navy. To stop building ships for one year, it would be the same as the one for the war. The old battleship Texas, for instance, would now be the most popular, and the last up to the 19th century was the powerful adversary. The old doubt is that the war would not be unfurter monitors have outworn their usefulness, while it was a waste of money to build the modern single-turret monitors. The other was the same as the one for the war. It was replaced others; and this can be done by a well-settled program of providing for the building each year of at least one first-class and one-time service. The same as that any nation is at the same time building; the armament presumably consists of as large a number as possible and the most large and most likely to be together with smaller guns to repel torpedo attack; while there should be heavy armor, turbine engines, and in short, every time the airmen are in the course of the time, cruisers, colliers, torpedo-boat de-stroyers or torpedo boats, will have to be built also. All this, be remembered, is the most important, but more likely to be at its present strength. Equally of course, the ships will be absolutely useless if the men aboard them do not train the men they can get the best possible service that they can be used to, and they are not to be able to be on the other side of their care. The marksmanship of our men has so improved during the war as they are in the course of the war. It is more than a bound to say that the navy is more than twice as efficient, ship for ship, as half a decade as the one of the many. The other is the power efficiency of the enough office of men are provided, and if these officers are given the chance (and required) to take advantage of it to stay in the area, and to effect the efforts of the others and above all in the quadroon the exercise to be of every kind and to be the following. The war is conducted under conditions at the guns, marksmanship in time of war. In both the army and the navy there is urgent need that everything possible be urgent for the maintain the highest standard for the personnel the gards the officers and the enlisted men. I do not believe that in any service there is a finer body of enlisted men and of uniformed officers than the army and the navy, including the marine corps. All possible encouragement to the enlisted men should be given, the otherwise and, everything practicable does include the tractive to men of the right type. They should be held to the strictest discharge of their duty, and in them a spirit should be held to the demands not the mere performance of duty, the formance of far more than duty. if it conduces to the honor and the interest of the American nation; and in return the simplest consideration should be theirs. Need New Promotional System. Mayor Stov of Atlantic City describing the cosmopolitan throne that visit his famous and seas "I was talking the other day to the physicians of the Pasteur institute—the hospital, you know, the prevention and cure of hydration. The Pasteur Institute resided me of Atlantic City, its visitors are to be of such a diversified character. "The physician told me about a dian chief who had come to him treatment last year. "My name," said the chief, "Eagle. Please take me in hand fear I am getting hydrophobia." "Have you been bitten," the physician asked, "by a mad dog?" "Not exactly bitten. War I answered, 'but I have the gravespicions about a black pooch that served to me in a ragout last afternoon.'" BOY'S HEAD ONE SOLID SON Hair All Came Out—Under Three Months and No Bettie Cucurcua Works Wonders. Mr. A. C. Barnett, proprietor, general store in Avard, Oklahoma tells in the following grateful how Cuticura cured his son of rible eczema. "My little boy had eczema. His head was one solid all over his scalp; his hair all out, and he suffered very much had a physician treat him, but a end of three months he was mer. I remembered that the Cuticura Remedies had cured me, and giving him two bottles of Cutic Resolvent, according to diar and using Cuticura Soap and ment on him daily, his eczema him, his hair grew again, and never had any eczema since use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and they keep our skin soft healthy. I cheerfully recommend Cuticura Remedies for all eczema. A. C. Barnett, Mr. 1905." To Represent Italy and Spain The two great Catholic countries Europe, Italy and Spain, are new ambassadors to the court of James. The marquis di San Giulio who will represent Italy, is conspicuously a young man. He comes old Sicilian family of Norman descent and is highly cultured, having been extensively with good results as an enthusiastic student of Dante is president of the Italian Georgian society. Senior Villa Uratia, the Spanish ambassador, accounts King Alfonso to London on the mentious occasion that ended in a gagement to Princess Ena, and golden opinions for his tact and tsey during that visit. Wrong Method of Teaching Consul Paul Nash, of Venice "Hundreds of well-educated American annually pass through Venice though probably nine-tenths of have had several years of浸学 in a European language, not tenth are capable of speaking a connected words of anything bish. Even college graduates from prize-winning in French man, are generally unable to either language, although can writing an excellent thesis in history, philology, syntax and texture. This is the result of the French and German in much the way that Latin and Greek are Autos in German Army The German Volunteer Army is provided with 37 automatic charge of uniformed drivers, carry staff officers and to free maneuvers last month the spice convenience of the machines highly praised by the tactician watched the developments mimic campaign. Twenty-five years ago the cak making, New Year's calls was lightful one for all concern some of the boys got more or "apple-jack" than they carefully carry. Then the ladies tried to be able and the gentlemen tried as chivalrous as ever and start the same time. If anyone thinks there has no considerable improvement made last quarter of a century in alcoholic beverages, let him to consider, among other this fact that the old custom of New calls and the genteel tippling of obsolete. The custom of calling on friends, however, at the begin the new year, is a good habit, other good habit to start at the is the use of well-made Post stead of coffee or spirits. A Staten Island doctor has sible daughter who has set, before her guests as a good drink at Yule Tide, and a go to begin the New Year. Her writes: "My daughter and I have Postum for some time past, feel sure it contains wholesome material. "I shall not only recombine my patients, but my daughter most pleased to give a demo of Postum to our Christmas Year's callers." in pgs. "The Wailley" in pgs. "There's a to Do Even Housework Because of Kidney Troubles. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton Nauleon, O., says: "For fif- Mimmerich, of Clinton O., says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared he- teen years I was a great sufferer of kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared because and I had dizzy spells. For years I could not do housework, for two years did not get out of house. The kidney secretions irregular, and doctors were not for me. Doan's Kidney Pills met me quick relief, and finally met me. They saved my life." By all dealers. 50 cents a box. Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. new Writes Reminiscences. deep Writes Reminiscences. he Senator Chancey M. Depew enjoying his long rest at Ardsley- Hudson he did a good deal of on his reminiscences. He is not that they will ever be published, being that they might be of at to his son. In his fifty years life Mr. Depew has known at many prominent personages reminiscences can hardly fail exceedingly readable. Important to Mothers. carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, and sure remedy for infants and children, that it of Charl H. Mitchel. For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. unity of your enemies is less un- than the friendship of your AINED 34 POUNDS sent Anaemia Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills After Other Remedies Had Failed. When I began taking Dr. Williams' Pills, says Mrs. Nathaniel Field, Albans, Somerset county, Maine, to the palest, most bloodless person told imagine. My tongue and were colorless and my fingers and are like wax. I had two doctors pronounced my trouble anaemia. I vomited, could not eat, did not dare to, I had such disater eating. My stomach was filled as which caused my awful agony. I cache I suffered was at times unbearable and the least exertion my heart beat so fast that I could breathe. But the worst of all was getting neuralgia headache which time for seven weeks. About this had had several numb spells. My would be cold and without any and the most deathly sensations come over me. thing had helped me until I began Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, in fact, crown worse every day. After I ate the pills a short time I could at them were benefiting me and I woke I entirely free from The distress after eating disapap and in three weeks I could eat I wanted and suffer no inconvenience. I also slept soundly. I have several boxes of the pills and have an weight from 120 to 154 pounds perfectly well now." Williams' Pink Pills cure anemia and they actually make new blood, anatism, indigestion, nervousness and many forms of weakness recommended even if ordinary cases have failed. They are sold by bists, or will be sent postpaid, on of price, 50 cents per box, six or $2.50, by the Dr. Williams's company, Schenectadet, N. Y. Don't Be cervous but get rid of the dis- which is the cause of of woman's nervousness, female trouble. "I was nervous," writes Mrs. L. Jones, of Gallatin, in, "and suffered six years every disease peculiar to sex. I had headache, cache, and acute female emmation. I took three sizes of Cardui and it cured I gained 35 pounds in right. I tell my husband CARDUI WOMAN'S RELIEF worth its weight in gold and I recommend it to women." At all Druggists E28 ENTS THERE'S MONEY IN SMALL INVENTIONS S. W. WILSON & CO., 900 14th Street, Boston, D. C. Branches at Chicago, and Detroit. Established 1864. NO FEE FOR SERVICES --- shall be above everything else a fighting man. In the army in particular it is required that the cavalry or infantry officer should have the thematical ability. Probably in both the best part of the education is the high school officer and of professional morale which it But in both services there is urgent need for the establishment of a principle of selection which will eliminate men after a certain age if they cannot be promoted from the subordinate ranks, and which will bring into the higher ranks fewer men, and these at an earlier age. This principle of selection will be objected to by good men of mediocre capacity who are fitted to do well while young in the lower positions, but who are not fitted to do well when at an advanced age they come into positions of command and of great responsibility. But the desire of these men to be promoted to positions which they are not competent to fill should not weigh against the interests of the navy and the country. At present our men, especially in the navy, are kept far too long in the junior grades, and then, at much too advanced an age, are put quickly thru the senior grades, often not attaining to these senior grades until they are too old to be of real use in them; and if they are of real use, being put thru them so quickly that little benefit to the navy comes from their having been in them at all. The navy has one great advantage over the army in the fact that the officers of high rank are actually trained in the performance of their duties; that is, in the mainारी أرز يحيح بساتك و تدلاتك، and the armed cruisers gathered into fleets. This is not true of the army who are far above the limit of standing, having, in accordance with the provisions of the xerox conditions over troops under service conditions. The conduct of the Spanish war showed the lamentable loss of life, the useless loss of the service of the army, and the loss of the train to result. If during peace the officials of the war and navy depart from the service of the army, they save money at no doubt what cost to the efficiency of the service, and if the higher officers are given no chance whatever to exercise and practise commissions, they are not in the service of war. The secretaries of war wereustred for the mildest, the chiefly if they practised economy; which economy, especially in connection with the war, is not the common practice. The most important department, was distinctly responsible for most of the mismanagement that occurred in the war itself—and particularly in the war of the war—and in the in-combat of the war—because of the people who clamored for the mildested economy in the first place were foremost to denounce the mismanagement, and the war was not so well as in the most nearly due to this same misdirected economy and to the lack of preparation it involved. There should soon be an in-combat of the war—because of the most of the coast defenses; these men should be of the right type and properly trained; and there should therefore be an increase of pay for certain qualified males. Money should be appropriated to permit troops to be massed in body and exercised in maneuvers, particularly in marching. Sustained by the summonsing of the past has been of incalculable benefit to the army and should under no circumstances be discontinued. If on these grounds the army should be in the hands of the war, they should be more than 100 feet longer, they should be retired at once, for the fact is conclusive as to their unfitness for war; that is, for the only purpose of the war, the war must be allowed to stay in the service. It is a real misfortune to have scores of small company or regimental posts scattered around the army, and the number of士s gathered in a few brigade or division posts; and the generals should be practised in handling the men in masses. No one should be able to say that the mean of in-combat is to incur the risk of future mass and disgrace. Value to the Nation. The readiness and efficiency of both the army and navy in dealing with the recent sudden crisis in Cuba illustrates the readiness and efficiency would have been very much less had it not been for the existence of the general staff in the army and the readiness and efficiency are essential to the proper development and use of our military forces afloat and ashore. The troops that were sent to oversee the readiness and readiness mobilization and dispatch of troops over sea ever accomplished by our government. The expedition landed completely equipped and ready for imitations hardly remaining in Havana over night before splitting up into detachments and going to their several posts. The readiness and efficiency of the general staff. Similarly, it was owing in large part to the general board that the navy was able to attack the enemy with such instant efficiency: ship after ship appearing on the shortest notice at any threatened point, while the marine was able service. The army and navy war colleges are of incalculable value to the two services, and they cooperate with constantly increasing efficiency and immanence. The congress has most wisely provided for a national board for the promotion of the military, and it already come from this law, but it does not go far enough. Our regular army is so small that in any great war we should have to trust to train our soldiers with event these volunteers should already know how to shoot; for if a soldier has the fighting edge, he will be able to open his efficiency on the line of battle is almost directly proportionate to excellence in marksmanship. We should establish shooting galleries in an area where we should maintain national target ranges in different parts of the country, and should in every way encourage the formation of a national army. The little republic of Switzerland offers us an excellent example in all matters connected with building up an efficient citizen soldier. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. THE White House, December 3, 1906. Was Headed For Heaven. Some years ago the Hon. Elijah Morse and Abner Upham witnessed the hanging of a man at Dedham. While they were driving home the subject of sin and its punishment came up. "Brother Upham," remarked Mr. Morse, who was a rigid orthodox in belief, "I suppose, according to your belief, that this man who has been found guilty of murder by his fellowmen, and hanged because he is not a fit person to be at large among his kind, has now gone straight to heaven." It is necessary to explain that the incident took place before gallows were equipped with trap doors, and it was the duty of the executioner to give the rope, fastened about the victim's neck, a tug that actually jerked the doomed man into the air. "It is not for me to judge a fellow man, Brother Morse," replied Deacon Upham, who was an ardent Universalist, gravely, although there was a twinkle in his eye, "but I must say that the last I saw of the unfortunate fellow he was headed that way."—Boston Herald. Bores Pitted Against Each Other. Wigg—The last I saw of you, Young-pup was talking to you to death about his baby. How did you get rid of him? Wagg—Oh, some fellow came along who had just bought an automobile, so I introduced them and made my escape. Circumscribed. A man's power is hooped by a neces- sity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.—Emerson. You Look Prematurely Old LIKE A FAIRY TALE. The Story of Postum Cereal in Words and Pictures. The growth of the Postum Cereal Co. is like a fairy tale, but it is true, every word of it. "The Door Unbolted" is the title of a charming little booklet just issued by the Company which tells, and illustrates, the story of this remarkable growth. It takes the reader from the little white barn in which the business was started Jan. 1, 1895, through the palatial offices and great factory buildings of the "White City" that comprise Postumville, Battle Creek, Mich. The little white barn, so carefully preserved, is a most interesting building, for it represents the humble beginning of one of the country's greatest manufacturing enterprises of today, an enterprise that has grown from this little barn to a whole city of factory buildings within but little more than ten years. No less interesting is the quaint official home of the Postum Cereal Co. The general office building of Mr. Post and his associates is a reproduction of the Shakespeare house at Stratford-on-Avon, and upon the house and its furnishings has been expended vast sums of money, until the rooms are more like the drawing rooms of the mansions of our multi-millionaires than like offices. That Mr. Post has believed thoroughly in the idea of giving to his employees attractive and healthful work rooms is proven not only by the general office building of the Company and its furnishings, but by his factories as well, and of all of these things this beautiful little booklet tells the interesting story. It will be sent to anyone on request. Checked Attempt at Monopoly. Checked Attempt at Monopoly. Trusts were sometimes dealt with summarily in old England. For instance, the records of the Brewers' company show that "on Monday, July 30, 1422, Robert Chichele, the mayor of London, sent for the masters and 12 of the most worthy of our company to appear at the Guildhall for selling dear ale. After much dispute about the price and quantity of malt, wherein Whityngton, the late mayor, declared that the brewers had ridden into the country and forestalled the malt, to raise its price, they were convicted in the penalty of £20 ($100), which objecting to, the masters were ordered to be kept in prison in the chamberlain's custody until they should pay it, or find security for the payment thereof." Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, new much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Uses of Masks. "Among the North American Indians the origin of the use of masks lay," says a writer, "in the desire to conceal the emotions. Thus should two warriors meet in combat, the mask conceals any expression, whether of sympathy, fear or other emotion. For instance, the knowledge that fear was depicted on one's face and that his antagonist knew it would very possibly insure the defeat of the one whose feelings were betrayed to the other." Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to deafness, and deafness is intracutural remedies. The ear is damaged by an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or if the ear is inflamed you have a painful feeling is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition this tube is restored forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by the inflamed mucous but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of ear inflammation caused by Hall's Cataract Cure. For clinic information, free F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Solid by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Mix Soap With Dough From a communication read to the Association of Belgian Chemists it seems that continental bakers are in the habit of mixing soap with their dough to make their bread and pastry nice and light. The quantity of soap varies greatly. In fancy articles like waffles and fritters it is much larger than in bread. 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SINGLE BINDER HT 5¢ MANY SMOKERS PREFER THEM TO 10¢ CIGARS Enameline NO DUST DIRT SLOP SPILL NO SMOKE SMELL MUSS OR SPATTER STOVE POLISH MURDER WILL OUT By EDITH AUSTIN (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowies.) I was a youth of 17 when my grand- father died, hence my recollections of him are quite distinct and mature. I was orphaned in my infancy and from my earliest recollection my grandfather had made me his constant companion. He was an itinerant preacher of western England—his circuit calling him from walled Chester on the west to the hovels of the charcoal burners in mid-England; and during the years of his itinerancy I followed him in the pursuance of his duties through sun and rain and winter gale. I repeat this in order to explain just how I regarded my grandfather in the light of a certain hereditament he left to me, his diary, but which he expressly forbade me opening until I had passed my twenty-fifth birthday. There were many things I witnessed and heard in my boyhood for which I could find no explanation until I broke the seal of this book wherein the magnitude of my grandfather's very soul stands revealed. The first entry in the diary is as follows: My beloved grandson, in this diary are recorded events writ down for thy especial edification. Without comment I leave it with thee to judge whether I have been the victim of a terrible mind disorder, or whether I am gifted with perceptions beyond the usual ken of man. It was in the first years of my study of the occult, long before thou hadst come to gladden thy grand-sire's heart, that I was journeying to Blore Health. When night came down fate led me to the door of a desolate inn slowly dropping to ruin in the perpetual shadow of a grove of oak. The aged host greeted me most cordially, for at his inn guests were not frequent and therefore the more welcome. In the parlor back of the donuded bar I found his old wife and his daughter, the only other persons about the place, moving silently here and there preparing the evening meal. The daughter was young and tall and straight and strong and her hands were coarsened with outdoor work for, it appeared, she was now the burden-bearer of the family. After the supper was cleared away, the aged parents entertained me with reminiscences of a past glory, of when the inn was new and the great tide of travel used to pass its door. Then in saddened tones they told of how the opening of a new thoroughfare had diverted custom to other hostelries. So when the daughter was married to a well-to-do young farmer they closed the inn, perforce, and went and made their home with her. But one ill-fated day the newly-wedded husband rode away to a neighboring market town and never returned. After due time the farm and tenements passed into the possession of the next heir-at-law, a cousin of the husband; and the old couple with their dowerless daughter returned to the deserted inn, now racked and wrecked with storm and long neglect. "Thou canst see the gables of the farm over yon above the trees," said the mother, "and we might be living there now 'mid comfort and plenty if Lisbeth would only hearken to us and wed with Garver Hallard, the cousin who succeeded to the estate. He is a right honorable yeoman, and hath favored Lisbeth since they were children in pinafore. But Lisbeth hath a base disturb of him, and treats him coldly when he would come to woo—and he that willing to do for her own parents." Then Lisbeth, lifting her sorrow-laden eyes to a portrait of her husband on the wall, said: "Mother, thou need'st not grieve for the rich living at the farm beyond Whitsuntide. That day I promise to give my hand to Garver Hallard an' he still desires it." "I would not coerce thee, daughter, against thy own good," quavered the mother in almost childish glee. Then a gloomy silence fell like a funeral pall over us, and we sat about the fire absorbed in our own thoughts until there came the sound of a quick step up the pathway and an imperative knock at the door, and Garver Hallard entered. He was a dark, hard-featured, harsh-spoken man whom any tender young woman might well have shunned. I could not understand it then but I intuitively felt that he was a man with a guilty conscience. And in the light of the recent narration, I fell to comparing his features with those of the picture hanging above his head. As my gaze wandered from one to the other there came to me a sense of a presence in the room, a conviction I could neither define nor evade; and while I strove to analyze critically this impression a strange metamorphosis seemed to come over my senses and I felt myself drifting, as it were, into a state of double consciousness. Still with that sense of a divided ego, with the voices about me echoing vaguely through my brain, I thought myself riding along a country road, sunken and scarred deep with old cart ruts, a road I had never traveled before. Under the influence of this unseen force, I appeared to come to where the crumbling shell of an ancient oak spanned the path. I reached into the hollow trunk and drew forth a spade corroded with rust, and rolling the log away I began to dig into the damp, soft earth. In my trance I continued to throw the dirt to the right and to the left until from out the brown loam appeared the face in the picture. Then the feverish vision broke, and I emerged as from an hypnotic spell to find the old couple discussing eagerly with Garver Hallard concerning the wedding settlement, the while Lisbeth gazed hopelessly into the expiring embers on the hearth. This synthesis of psychic suggestions—I dared not call them more—so deeply impressed my mind and so harassed me that I thought of scarcity aught else when the next morning I started out to follow my itineracy, preaching the peace on earth of which this world knows little until the time was come for me to return to read the marriage service over Lisbeth and Garver Hallard. I had stopped the night at the market town of Oswestry, a day's journey from the inn, and when I rode away in the morning I galloped over a goodly number of miles before I gave small heed to my surroundings. Gradually I became aware of something familiar in the landscape though to my ken I had never passed that way before, and I began to think that for me memory and madness must be moving hand in hand for here was the deeply rutted cart-road I had traveled in my vision of the inn, and before me lay the steep ascent. Again, as in my vision, I felt my volition chained by some higher power, and in obedience to an overwhelming impulse I turned aside from the highway. When I came upon the fallen oak, in a tremor of mingled awe and expectancy, I reached into the hollow trunk and searched among the dead VAN GOGH I Reached Into the Hollow Trunk. leaves and woody fragments for the spade which I did not doubt but I should find concealed therein; and after I drew it forth I paused to verify each stamp which time and the elements had set upon blade and handle, as I had remarked them erstwhile in my vision. As I rolled the log back from its hollow bed I espied among the crumbling bits of bark the remnant of a glove, with the initial H embroidered upon the wrist. I hastened back to Oswestry and raised a hue and cry that murder had been committed. Accompanied by a sheriff and posse and a motley crowd of excited citizens, I returned to the spot—my absence of explanation unnoticed in the frenzy of the hour. With the exhuming of the body an unusual phenomenon was discovered to have taken place. The waters of the little brook close by had permeated through the soil to the corpse of the murdered man and, acting upon the tissues, had preserved it with life-like features. Both I, and those with me who had known him in life, recognized in him Lisbeth's husband who had so mysteriously disappeared four years before. A stab in the back that penetrated to the heart told how he had met his death. When I went on to the inn to prepare the widow and her parents for the bringing home of the husband so long dead, I found Garver Hallard, and a few guests who had been invited to the wedding, impatiently awaiting me. Lisbeth had been tricked into in bridal white, but her expression was that of deepest despair. "In view of the news I bring, the marriage would better be postponed awhile," I said low yet so that all might understand. "Lisbeth, I bring the sad tidings of the last husband." Then I said that the body was found and Hallard staggered back against the bar as though I had dealt him a blow. There came a great fear into his narrow eyes, his swarthy features grew livid; and after I had told my tale he asked with quivering lips and voice if any clue to the assassin had been discovered; and I, bearing the glove in mind, did look him level in the eye and answer him shortly "yes." In the confusion of the laying out of the dead man and the impanelling of a corner's jury, Garver Hallard escaped from the house and from the vengeance of man. But his account is with God! He keeps it, and He will settle it when the dial points the hour! With the disappearance of Hallard, Lisbeth, as the only heir-at-law again came into the estate that her husband haunted the earth to restore to her; and now that his body was laid in a consecrated grave, his restless wrath seemed to find peace beyond the portcullis of the Borderland, in that Heaven, that Nirvana of our hopes, we pray. Here ended the first entry in my grandfather's diary. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. -S MO REV, FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 943 Everett, Kansas City, Kas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M. 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas 1 Mrs. S. Williams, 1309 N 10th St. Kansas City, Kansas. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St., Iola, Kan. 3 Mrs. Carrie Douglass, 1722 Sixth avenue, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 4 Mrs. Laura Williams, 625 4th St., Cherryvale, Kansas. 5. Mrs. Mary Burdett, 819 N. 1st. street, Atchison, Kansas. 6. Mrs. Addle Glaspie, 128 Mulberry street, Ottowa, Kansas. 7. Mrs. Lillian Shobe, 336 Santa Fe street, Salina, Kansas. 8. Mrs. Nancy Fax, 505 N. Santa Fe St., Foffeville, Kansas. 11 Mrs. Paulina Woodfork, 823 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 12 Mrs. C. March, 515 Nebraska Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 14 Mrs. May R. Freeman, 105 S. Locust St., Pittsburg, Kansas. 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, box 405, Weir City, Kansas. 16 Mrs. Hattie Collins, 1001 S. Forest, avenue, Parsons, Kansas. 17 Mrs. A. Masle, 615 Barbee, Ft Scott, Kan. 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft Scott, Kansas. 20 Mrs. S. Montaque, 403 Kickapoo St., Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Mrs. Cherry Briley, E. 12th St., Coffeyville, Kansas. 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 716 S. 15th St., Parsons, Kansas. 29 Mrs. Percilla Lee, 720 Cheyenne St. Leavenworth, Kansas. 30 Mrs. Eliza Scott, 3rd ave. south, Leavenworth, Kansas. 32 Mrs. Adda Birthright, 114 West Broadway, Tutte, Montana. 33 Mrs. Phannie Corneal, Box 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattle Miller, 335 West 15th, Wichita, Kan. 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 104 South and street, Aitchison, Kansas. 38 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City, Kan. 52 Mrs. Cora Yeager, 928 Main, Lawrence, Kansas. 63. Mrs. Lizzie Stone, 1147 Ann ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 77 Mrs. A. Pickeng, 259 E. 15th, Topeka, Kan. 85. Mrs. Francis Hardeman, 1801 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kans. 89. Mrs. Blanche E. Alston, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb. 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 310 North 12th St., Omaha, Nebraska. 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 West ern Ave. , N. Topeka. Kan. 777 C. M'S ADDRESSES 333. 1 William M. Watkins, box 2062, Weir City, Kansas. 2 Thomas Henry, Coffeyville, Kans. 3 Mr. William H. Barnes, 819 L. St., Atchison, Kan. 4 Andrew Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb. 5 M. E. Bird, 3014 Hewett, Everett. 6 M. E. Bird, 2014 Hewett, Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 8. Rev. M. Wooten, 416 W. Third st., Ft. Scott, Kansas. 10 Frank Smith, 420 3rd Ave., Leavenworth, Kansas. 11. W. N. Miller, 601 N. Main street, Searchlight office, Wichita. 13 Lee Holiday, 728 S. 20th St., Parsons, Kansas. 15. E. W. Garvice, North 1st street, Salina, Kansas. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St. S. Ounahk, Neo, Coffeyville, Kansas. 17. Rev. Allen Gavir, 704 E. 12th st. 18 James Thomas, 218 W 1st, South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 19. C. Parls, 948 Penn. street, Lawrence, Kansas. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. 3rd St., Kansas City Kan. 59 S. W. Pasker, 1156; Buchanan Torkea, Kan. 60 James Scott, 1404 Van Buren Tcpela, Kan. 71 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th St. Lincoln, Neb. 536 Albert Graves, 90 Charles St. Deadwood, South Dakota. L. S. NAFTGER, W. R. TUCKEP, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depository Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L Holmes, S. B. Amidon, B. F. Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S Naltager, E H. Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith. General Banking Business Tranacted CHITA NSAS Let the colored people get together and stay together for their own material good. -SMOKE- BLUE SEAL CIGARS SOLD EVERYWHERE FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "QZONIZED OX MARROW" 80 STRAIGHTENS KINEY or CURLY HAIR that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with its The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. "None genuine without my signature" Charlie Ford Press 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. QUEEN MOTHERS OF TENTS IN KANSAS. Miss Jannie Alexander, G. Q. M., 948 Penn., Lawrence, Kansas. Lillie Hardin, 006 South Fifth avenue, N. Topeka, Kansas. Hester Cornish, 911 Western avenue, N. Topeka, Kansas. Jennie Sellers, 1438 N. Elighteenth street, Omaha, Neb. Eliza Robinson, 1801 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Mollie Spencer, 502 V street, Atchison, Kansas. Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Louise Verder, 813 Jersey, Lawrence, Kansas. Mary Bison, 325 Miss., Lawrence, Kansas. Charlotte Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kansas. A. O. Murrell, 451 S. Fourth street, Salina, Kansas. Mary Hopkins, 903 West B, North Topeka, Kansas. H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Kansas. Lettie Hill, 429 N. Wichita street, Wichita, Kansas. Annie Edwards, 944 Everett, Kansas City, Kansas. Laura Smith, 308 E. Eleventh, Coffeyville, Kansas. enworth, Kansas. Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Cof- Ella McKinnie, 217 Sherman, Leav- Dr. J. E. 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HE IS A MEDIUM He tells everything you ever did in your life, who you favor, mother or father, or ever did do. On September 5th, 1905, he brought Ira Burrell, of Green-Texas, back to life. Try Me and Be Blessed. --- 12:30 to 5 p. m. 1613 Cottage St. Kansas City, Mo. LESSON TEXT.-Luke 22:32-46. Mary verses 42, 43. GOLDEN TEXT.-"Father for them they know not what they do"-Luke 23:44. TIME.-Friday, April 7, from nine to three p. m. PLACE.-Calvary (Golgotha), just south the city of Jerusalem, probably the north, 200 yards from the Damascus gate. PARALLEL ACCOUNTS-Matt. 26; Mark 15:21-47; John 15:16-12. Comment and Suggestive Thought V. 33. "They," the Roman soldiers and their victim. "They crucified the Roman soldiers performed the act; they were only instruments for crying out the decree of Pilate, to appease the bitter hatred of Jewish rulers. It was more truly Jews who crucified Jesus. "Macaulors." Evil-doers. Another calls them thieves. V. 34. "Father, forgive them." He was the first of Jesus' seven sacks from the cross. "Know not what you do." The soldiers were executing ders, and did not know the charges of the one they crucified. Pilate on the Jews knew that they were witing to death an innocent man. V. 35. "The people stood being." Jerusalem was thronged with visitors at this the Passover sacks "Rulers . . . derided him." Jew rulers, probably members of the Shedrin, were anxious that all should know that they repudiated the who was being crucified as "King of the Jews." "He saved others." Sastically implying a disbelief his miracles of healing. "Let save himself." Or, as recorded by the thew: "Himself he cannot save. Thus was uttered in jest an end and universal truth. Jesus could save himself, and yet saved man V. 36. "Mocked him . . . off him vinegar." They took, probes some of the sour wine they brought to refresh themselves, pretended to offer it as a favor to the kingly victim. V. 37. "If thou be king." The Gentile soldiers Christ's claim that was a king seemed most absurd, so they jested about this. V. 38. "Superscription." On a tablet made of wood coated with sum, was written in black letters accusation for which he suffered late had this superscription written in three languages—in Hebrew the Jews,' in Latin for the Rom and in Greek, that strangers and eigners might read. V. 39. "Malefactors which hanged." Perhaps these men tied to their crosses by a "Railed on him." This one joined mocking Jesus. V. 40. "The other rebuked the Perhaps it was the meekness He showed, or his prayer for his mum ers, or his confidence in calling "Father," or his whole bearing, convinced the one malfactor of Jesus was not only innocent, but he was what he claimed to be—of men. V. 41. "We indeed justly." He knowledged that his own sons was just. We believe that he truly penitent for his sins. "I done nothing amiss! We do not in how much he had known about before this time, but at any time was convinced that Jesus was a nocent man. V. 42. "Lord, remember me' believes in Jesus' love and feels able to save. V. 43. "To-day shalt thou be me in paradise." The man had put a blessing in a far distant day. Jesus grants him what shall be lized to-day. V. 44. "Sixth hour . . . ninth hour. From noon until three p. m. a mious darkness enveloped Judas, the sun hid his face from behind the wickedness of men. V. 45. "Sun was darkened." the explanation endorses the testimony astronomy that an eclipse of the at the time of full moon was imple ble (the Passover was celebrated full moon), hence the darkness and have been supernatural. "The rea temple was rent." This rea signified that the way of access the very presence of God was open by Christ. V. 46. "When." At the moment sus felt that he was about to lose sloulsiness, after having promo the words "It is finished." he c "with a loud voice," showing that physical powers were not exhus "Father, into thy hands I comm my spirit." He committed his as he had committed all else, to care of the Father. "Gave up ghost." Breathed out his life, word used indicates the voluntary render of life. Practical Points. V. 33. The spotless Lamb of died in the midst of sinners, by for man's sin.—1 Pet. 3:18. V. 34. As we think how much G forgive us, surely we should for all who sin against us.—Eph. 4:33. V. 36. The Christian need not vel if, like his Master, he is up to endure the reproach of—1 Cor. 4:13. V. 37. By living for self, one all that makes life worth liv Mark 8:35. V. 42. He whom we so often for ever remembers us.—Isa. 49:15. V. 45. Through Jesus we have mediate access to the very hea God.—Heb. 10:19, 20. V. 46. Let us freely give out to him who gave his life for u Cor. 5:15.