State Ledger

get ads. No tron- me with subscribers We have the exper- nce, and you the money----pass the ask this way. By F. L. JELTZ. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Goevenor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, Lieutenant Governor- H, E, RICATER. Morris County, Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County. Secretary of State- EO, A. CLARK, Geary County. Treasurer- FRANK G. IVES. Wichita County Auditor- GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County. Attorney General— A. A.GODDARD, Shawnee County. Superintendent of Public Justification- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County. Insurance Commissionel- W, V, CHURCE. Marion County. For Congressmen. Third District- J. W. WHEATLEY. Galena Fourth District- J, M. MILLFR, Council Grove, Fifth District- W. A. CBLDERHEAD, Marysville Sixth District- W. A. REEDER, Logan, Seventh District- CHESTER I. LONG, Medicine Lodge, CHAS F. SCOTT, Iola R CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST. HON. CHAS. CURTIS. R CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST. ON. J. D. BOWERSOCK. Support the nominees of your city. Population is farcial—there is not restige to hang upon. Those persons who lie on us will tire their reward in heaven or hull. We are under no obligations to be opposition, if you don't wnt r paper you don't have to have John Briedenthal will find that will stir up a nest of snakes be- he is elected governor this To do right—but contrary to the curse of others does not lessen our majority. Every one of sound mind deeds to read the STATE LEDGER, it never titt fists. There a few of usas and small-pox in the suburbs from whence it come. J. 1. Mitchell is the next private judge of Douglass county, is a lawrencie and is made of the right kind of stuff he is a friend every one. Those fellows who night us must just remember they have an elephant on their hands. Do not hurry through life take our stand and have time to explain matters. Hon. Geo. J. Barker, will have easy sailing for representative from Douglas county, he is a great speaker and if elected this fall which he will be, he is likely to be speaker of the next house of representatives. --- The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL Hon. W. L. Huggins nominee for State Senator from Lyon County of the firm of Lambert and Huggins stands at the top of the ladder with the colored people in his county, he will be easily elected this fall. Judge C. J. Durham who is justice of Peace at Douglas Kansas is an old soldier, and fifer in the 11th Ind., is past 60 years and he is as lively as if he was only in his teens he says he does not feel his age at this date Mr. C. T. Harrison of Cedar Point Kansas has been engaged in business with Mr; Shaw at Baldwin Kas. and will remain through summer. He is a clever young man and will succeed wherever he werds his way. If other people will attend to their own affairs there will be no difficulty at this end of the road. We know our business, but its a mighty broad saying when we aver that many don't know theirs. Nick Chiles, the business and publisher of the "only colored Journal worth reading," is in Philadelphia spreading his news-papers to the four wings of the earth. This is the year that we owe the opposition nothing, our crops are good and are debts are being paid. We give the same credit to McKinley and prosperity. Whenever the friends of this paper read in the other papers an interview purported to be coming from us, just tell them that you saw it but you did not hear us say it. We have nothing to boast of yet we can say that we are about as honest as many of our pretended friends who profess to be overly on that side of the fence themselves and amounts to nothing. We have no appologies to make to any one, we are doing our duty and if they do theirs all will be well as far as our business and, theirs is concerned. Hon. E. N, Evans who is spoken of to assist in breaking the deadlock in the 5th judicial fight between Judge Buck, Graves, Hutchinson and Redmon of Burlington is on gaining ground and his nomination would be no surprise to his friends. A big storm at Leon, Kansas the other night made us hid out. We kept vigilant watch of the occasion. The citizens like-wise fled for their lives in the underbrush. We was rescued about thirty-five miles away the next day having been landed by the wind. Special attention is called to the cut of Corus Field Adams, then wly elected clerk of South Town Chicago. Mr. Adams is a colored man of years experience in wspapers and politics, hence he was elected over a large white and popular vote in that city recently. It will be seen that Germans Swedes. Irish and Russians all voted for him along with the Americans. Things we aver are coming our way. State Auditor Cole has held up $71,000 due Dr. Swan for a medical visit to the east. Not long ago the state medical board ordered the Dr. Swan to go but at this writing the state refuses to pay him. J. L. Brady of the WORLD is a candidate in Douglas county for State Senator whether he appreciates it or not he will have to defeat a powerful strong candidate in the person of Mr. A. Henley, of Lawrence. Brady however is in the campaign up to his neck. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE. 20, 1900. A SHORT SKETCH OF C.F. ADAMS, The Colored Hero of Chicago. OYBUS FIELD ADAMS. Cyrus Field Adams who was recently elected South Town clerk of Chicago made a novel campaign. Mr. Adams is conversant with several languages, so he reached the many foreigners in Chicago by making speeches and having his literature printed in various foreign languages. To the German he said: "Der einzige Deutschsprechend Kandidat fuer South Town Clerk bitet um ibre gefaolige Unterstützung." The Frenchman was confonrted by the words: "Le seul candidat parlant française se presentant comme South Town Clerk vous demande votre aimable apput." The Italian, the Swede, the Bohemian were addressed in their mother tongues. When the votes were counted it was found that in a district normally Democratic, Mr. Adams had overcome the large Democratic vote and was elected by a good round majority. The South Town of Chicago is the richest town in the world. It comprises that portion of the city from the river on the north to thirty-ninth street on the south and from Lake Michigan on the east to the river on the west and includes within its limits the intense business district with its skyscrapers and vest mercantile emporiums. The tax levy which amounts to about $12,500,000 annually, is collected by the South Town Office, and represents one-third of all the taxes paid in Cook County. We are here to stay, we are not selfish about it, attend to your own affairs and we guarrantee-- you can stay also. Dr. Thos. Morse of the Quaker state takes charge of the capital Pharmacy. A Bright appearing young phamacist is in our city in the person of Dr. Thos Morse of Phil adelphia he is a graduate of that college and will hereafter be found at 929 Kans. ave capital pharmacy he has a record of 8-years experience and the LEDGER kindly insist that you patronize him. TURNED HIM LOOSE Henry Cooprider, aged 18 years presented himself for a marriage license in Harper county. The probate judge informed the young man that the consent of his father would be required, whereupon the boy presented the following note "Judge, Sir: I turn the boy loose If he makes a burn he can sit on the blister. Let him have his papers. Yours truly, Albert Cooprider." Ex. READING KANSAS Reading Lyon Country Kans. Is a thriving little town of 400 people and located not many miles from Emporia on the Santafe, the people in this busy little city are all Industrious and the town is on the boom, not many years ago Reading was not on the move for business but now things have changed and there is many marks to it crebit. Good Hotels and Restanrants several Physicians and many fine Stores makes the farmers delight to come to Reading. It is a fine town. The Republicans of Coffey County most of them are for re-election this fall in fair ness to them we can say they are all gentlemanly and honest, County Attorney Weaver is one among the youngest prosecutors in the state but is worthy of the office he holds, also there are many others who are equally deserving, the colored people of Coffey county will do right to cast their lot with them again this fall and see that the republican ticket is re-elected. HON·CHAS.F.SCOTT BROOKLYN The above is the likeness of Charley Scott, the brilliant editor of the IOLA REGISTER, which is one among the most torrible newspapers in Kansas. Mr. Scott is editor and owner of the daily and weekly Register he has one among the most thoroughly equipped newspaper offices in Kansas. Few people who know Mr. Scott but who revere his name. He is a deep thinker, a peerless orator and able writer. At our last State convention he was nominated congressman at large to succeed W. J. Bailey, who went wild with Leelandism and was defeated on that memorable day, May 16th. In fairness to Mr. Scott we predict an easy election for him this fall. He is a man who knows none by their color but simply clings to his good teaching - that all men are equal before the law and in them regardless of color there is hope if they only strive. In 1895 Mr. Scott was a member of the Kansas State Senate. He did good service to his party. When the question of aiding the charitable institutions of this state came up he was one of the senators to insist and it was seen by him that the colored charitable institutions receive the same support as others of like manner. We cannot say too much in praise of Mr. Scott, not because he is a newspaper man but because he is an able exponent of the right kind of principles and one who is worthy of all the honor conferred on him. He is the nominee on the Republican ticket for Congressman at Large. M. B. Within the last few years many schools and medical colleges have turned out some great men, among them there is not more success attending them at this time than Dr. C. D. Hatch of Admire Kansas who began the practice of medicine in that city only a few years ago and today he has a paying business and one of the most beautiful residences in Lyon county. He is a graduate of several medical schools. The House of Commons will lose one of its celebrities when Sir H. M. Stanley retires from it. Sir Henry does not intend to seek reelection. He is one of those men who come into Parliament with a great reputation made in other spheres, and who lose some of their glamour in contact with members whose fame belongs to the House itself. As member for North Lambeth Sir Henry plays an undistinguished part. He votes steadily and speaks rarely. It is only on special subjects on which he is an authority that he addresses the House, and he is heard with respect, his speeches being full of vitality, but the parliamentary association has rather hidden his renown. Even his new name is a disguise. Tell the woman visitor in the lobby that "here is Sir Henry Stanley," and she looks at the knight with languid interest; tell ner that it is 'Stanley, the explorer,' "tne man who found Livingstone," and she is immediately interested and follows with admiring ehes. Although Sir H. M. Stanley has crowded a great deal into his life, he is not ye: 60. ex All London has been laughing over Mark Twain's witty speech at the recent Royal Literary fund benefit. In concluding he remarked: "I am on my way to my own country to run for the Presidency because there are not yet enough candidates in the field, and those who have entered are too much hampered by their own principles which are prejudices. I propose to go there to purify the political atmosphere. I am in favor of everything everybody is in favor of. What you should do is to satisfy the whole nation not halt of it, for then you would be only half a President. There could not be a broader platform than mine. I am in favor of anything and everythng-of temperance and inemperance, morality and qualified immorality, gold standard and free silver. I have tried all sorts of things, and that is why I want to try the great position of ruler of a country. I have been editor, publisher, lawyer author, burglar I have worked my way up, and wish to do so." Ex. We guarrantee the people who advertise, quick returns most reliable newspaper a mong all classes. VOL. 8, NO. 35. Mr. A. P. Roundtree. The Negroes of this city were shocked to learn that Mr. A. P. Roundtree, mail-carrier of rural district No 1, of this county, had been discharged without any knowledge of charges being preferred against him. He says that he has not received a copy of any charges although he has written Mr. Charles Curtis, who reprints this district, asking to forward at once the charges. This he fails to do. We know not all the facts connected with this matter, but we do know that some of the Republican politicians are not playing fair with Mr. Roundtree. Just think of the exposure in the cold and frosty winter Mr. Roundtree had faced, doing his duty in every particular, but just as soon as the snow-flakes and ice disappeared. Mr. Roundtree was "fired" and a white man put in his place. Now, we appeal to every reasonable person in Shawnee county to say whether this is fair treatment or not. This matter must be looked into, and every race-loving man should know all of the facts. We will say more in the near future, as space will not allow further comments on this important subject. COLORED CITIZEN The STATE LEDGER knows nothing about the cause of Mr. Roundtree's dismissal from the rural district force but we are very sorry to note to our readers that we have only one colored face in the department here, which makes thing's look very dark in this part of our Great Nation. Judge J. Jay Buck, has practiced law 43 years, he commanded a company of colored troops during the war of the Rebellion, and was Judge Advocate staff on Gen. Kosseaw's staff; has lived in Emporia over 30 years. In 1860 he carried Lyon county solid for District Judge and would have been nominated but that Lyon county insisted on State Senator and lost everything. In the legislature in 1866 he got the salt land for the State Normal School and put that institution on its feet. No lawyer in the state has a better standing in the Supreme court and none are more successful. Every colored voter in the district should support him in his candidacy. When the High school exercises were about to commence at Augusta a young man, the master of ceremonies stepped to the front of the stage and asked the ladies to remove their hats. The ladies transfixed the young man with their scornful glances and removed him from the stage instead. Ex. The Greenleaf Sentinel says that a 12 year-old girl up there reading of the horrible suffering caused by the famine in India concluded to look up India in the atlas and see what sort of country it was. In the atlas the population of the countries was abbreviated and she concluded that the trouble with India was that it was inhabited by 292,000,000 pops and not a single Republican. This same girl in studying physiology before and after the pops enacted their school book law, discovered that the former school books taught that the stomach held three pints while the latter taught that it held two quarts. Her conclusion was that the pop stomach held a fourth more food than the Republican stomach, ex. A. T. WAGGONER DRUGGIST, Rubber goods a speciality. YOUR TRADE SOLICITED THE STATE LEDGER. The Croton dam strike cost the state of New York $100,000. The walking delegates may sooner or later arouse the latent indignation of the patient taxpayer. Coffee, the drink more highly regarded today than any other, was first used in Abyssinia in 1875. A Greek first introduced it to England and made himself famous by the act. A man was arrested for making a silly speech in the national house of representatives the other day, but that was because he made it from the gallery, instead of the floor of the house. The death of Cross, the Liverpool animal dealer, removes the most extensive procurer of wild animals of modern times. He was the first to introduce rare beasts into European menageries. The shear trust, organized two years ago with good financial backing, has given up the ghost, its stockholders losing almost every dollar. It is evident that in this case at least the shearers were among the shorn. The path in front of a bicycle is cleared of substances which would puncture the tires by a new attachment, comprising clamps for suspending a small circular brush in front of the forward wheel, with driving wheels to revolve the brush rapidly on the ground. The cypress in ancient times was considered a sacred tree and idols were made of cypress wood. The Pacific coast Indians used it as an emblem of purification. The Dakotan Indians had a superstition concerning the cedar tree. They imagined that thunder was a manifestation of the storm god Wa-Kan-Da, thunder birds, as his messengers, producing the noise designated as thunder. These birds lived in cedar trees, and hence the cedar tree became an object of worship and the cedar pole an emblem of the highest value. A great many of the census enumerators have given up their jobs in more or less disgust. When the announcement was made that the population canvassers would be appointed on a certain date there were several thousand more applications at the office next day than there were places for. Politics was considered very little in the selection of the men, and everything looked promising. When the final work of preparation was begun it resembled clear sailing until the canvassers found out something about the task that confronted them. One of them in resigning to Chief Agent Beaston of Philadelphia said: "What do you think I am? I have to ask twenty-two questions for $2\frac{1}{2}$ cents. That's a good job, nit! You can have it." It is predicted in London that unless conditions change American flour will soon compel the closing of the mills of England. In France American flour is able to pay the high tariff duties and profitably compete with French-milled flour. It is claimed that American millers can grind the wheat into flour cheaper than British or French millers. A comparison of the ordinary flour mills of European countries with those of the United States carries out this assertion. Long ago in this country the old-fashioned grist mill gave place to the merchant mill and the roller process took the place of the grinding process. Water power and steam engines of the most efficient and economical character are being used as motive power. In fact, in America the milling industry has been reduced to the most economical methods. The number and variety of knives and forks that now grace a well-equipped and formal dinner table may well dismay one unused to such a variegated display of cutlery and silver. There are forks for the oysters, for the fish and for the roast, and forks as well for anything else that may be served. There are also knives to correspond to the forks that may be needed. These implements that social convention decrees to be necessary to convey food to the mouth are usually laid out in formidable rows on either side of the plate. The other evening a simple western maiden at her first eastern dinner surveyed her supply of knives and forks with growing trepidation. Her common sense told her that they were laid out in the regular order in which it was intended that they should be used, but nothing in her experience had taught her which was the right end of the row to start in with. Finally, in despair, she sought help from her next-door neighbor, a prominent physician. "Say, Doc," she questioned anxiously, as she pointed at the offending objects, "do you eat out or in?" Texas has established a rigid quarantine against San Francisco and vicinity. No persons or goods from that neighborhood will be admitted inside the state. This action is taken because within three months half a dozen Chinamen have died of a disease which may be bubonic plague. There is no epidemic of plague or of any other disease in San Francisco. A German professor is predicting the downfall of the United States. The "made in Germany" predictions never were particularly pleasing to our ears. THECONVENTIONHALL THECONVENTIONHALL WHERE REPUBLICANS WILL SOON ASSEMBLE. Arrangements Made to Seat Fifteen Thousand People—Description of the Interior—Built for the Recent Export Exposition. The plans for the alteration of the Export Exposition auditorium for the purposes of the Republican national convention at Philadelphia, June 19, provide in a most liberal way for delegates, alternates and visitors. Just 14,998 seats have been arranged. This will be the largest number of seats ever provided at a national convention. On the main floor of the hall are the seats for the delegates, and immediately behind them come the alternates. Each one is allowed a floor space of one foot and ten inches by two feet and six inches, which is more room than delegates ever enjoyed before. Then, going toward the stage, comes the space reserved for the press. This is on a vast platform raised four feet above the level of the main floor. There will be seats for 500 reporters. Each reporter will have a floor space of two feet four and one-half inches by four feet one and one-half inches, and this, like the delegates' room, is more than any other convention has allowed. Leading back from the press section will be wide aisles, going under the stage to the telegraph and telephone rooms at the rear of the building. Out there will be scores of operators, clicking out the news to a waiting nation, and between the press section and the telegraphers there will be a steady stream of hustling messenger boys rushing with "copy." The press space will be for working newspaper men only. The Philadelphia papers will have a large staff and the big New 111 CONVENTION HALL, PHILADELPHIA. York and Chicago dailles have three men in the hall all the time and a fresh relay always waiting to take the places of those who get fagged out. Next beyond the reporters comes the stage. This is raised four feet from the press stand, which brings it eight feet above the main floor of the hall. This will be given over to the national committee and distinguished guests from all over the country; back of this again are special guest seats. So much for the main hall. Now we'll go back to the main entrance which is at the opposite end of the building from the stage. Between the doors and the auditorium is a spacious lobby, where hundreds may cluster and chat without disturbing proceedings within. Connected with this are ample rooms and places where the weary sigatseer may snatch a few moments' rest. At the back of the hall, in the rear of the stage, is a space almost as large. Here, as has been mentioned, are the telegraph and telephone offices, and also rooms for the national committee and any special committee which may have occasion to retire and confer. Besides these rooms there will be one large room in each corner for the press, where reporters may get away from the crowds and work out their copy at their leisure. Back of the gallery on the second floor are more rooms and further space for those who do not care to stay within the hall. THE REPUBLICANS IN 1876. A Speech That Vividly Recalls the Issues Then Predominent. In the convention of 1876 that nominated Rutherford B. Hayes for the presidency was delivered the most remarkable nominating speech ever delivered in a national convention. It was that in which Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, speaking for the Illinois delegation, put in nomination the beloved Blaine. He said: "Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow; so am I; but if any man nominated by this convention cannot carry the state of Massachusetts, I am not satisfied with the loyalty of that state. If the nominee of this convention cannot carry the grand old commonwealth of Massachusetts by 75,000 majority, I would advise them to sell out Faneuil hall as a Democratic headquarters. I would advise them to take from Bunker Hill that old monument of glory. "The Republicans of the United States demand as their leader in the great contest of 1876 a man of intelligence, a man of integrity, a man of well-known and approved political opinions. They demand a statesman; they demand a reformer as well as before the election. They demand a politician in the highest, broadest and best sense—a man of superb moral courage. They demand a man accustomed with public affairs—with the wants of the people; with not only the requirements of the hour, but with the demands of the future. They demand a man broad enough to comprehend the relations of this government to the other nations of the earth. They demand a man well versed in the powers, duties and prerogatives of each and every department of this government. "The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this government should protect every citizen, at home and abroad; who knows that any government that will not defend its defenders, and protect its protectors, is a disgrace to the map of the world. They demand a man who believes in the eternal separation and divorcement of church and school. They demand a man whose political reputation is spotless as a star; but they do not demand that their candidate shall have a certificate of moral character signed by a confederate congress. The man who has, in full, heaped and rounded measure, all these splendid qualifications is the present grand and gallant leader of the Republican party—James G. Blaine. Our country, crowned with the vast and marvelous achievements of its first century, asks for a man worthy of the post, and prophetic of her future; asks for a man who has the audacity of genius; asks for a man who is the grandest combination of heart, conscience and brain beneath her flag—such a man is James G. Blaine. For the Republican host, led by this intrepid man, there can be no defeat. This is a grand year—a year filled with the recollections of the revolution; filled with proud and tender memories of the post; with the sacred legends of liberty—a year in which the people call for a man who has preserved in congress what our soldiers won upon the field; a year in which they call for a man who has torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander—for a man who has snatched THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS the mask of Democracy from the hideous face of rebellion; for a man who, like an intellectual athlete, has stood in the arena of debate and challenged all comers, and who is still a total stranger to defeat. Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor. For the Republican party to desert this gallant leader now, is as though an army should desert their general upon the field of battle. James G. Blaine is now and has been for years the bearer of the sacred standard of the Republican party. I call it sacred, because no human being can stand beneath its folds without becoming and without remaining free. "Gentlemen of the convention, in the name of the great republic, the only republic that ever existed upon this earth; in the name of all her defenders and of all her supporters; in the name of all her soldiers living; in the name of all her soldiers dead upon the field of battle, and in the name of those who perished in the skeleton clutch of famine at Andersonville and Libby, whose sufferings he so vividly remembers. Illinois—Illinois nomi- J. B. SENATOR THOMAS H. CARTER nates for the next president of this country, that prince of parliamentarians—that leader of leaders—James G. Blaine." Two Great Municipal Undertakings. Next to New York's $25,000,000 tunnel, the biggest municipal undertaking now on the tapis is Philadelphia's scheme to filtrate its water supply, for which the magnificent sum of $12,000,000 has been appropriated and placed in the hands of the mayor for prompt work. No doubt it will be worth the money if it accomplishes the purpose aimed at, and relieves a great and wealthy metropolis of the perils that always go with impure drinking water—Boston Herald. THE CONVENTION IDEA BIRTH OF REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL COUNCILS. Originated in the Campaign of 1832—The Congressional Caucus and Its Unpopularity—The State Legislative System That Followed It. As regards the selection of candidates for president the theory of the constitution is that the people have free choice in the matter. And according to that theory the electoral college is the only body standing between the people and the object of their choice for the presidency. But in fact the electoral college has never stood in any self-determining way between the people and the presidency. The body that did so stand, or, rather, as- M. SENATOR JOSEPH B. FORAKER, sumed itself to be the people, was the house of representatives of the United States. From the beginning down to 1832 the house intervened and took from the people their prerogative to act freely in the presentation of candidates for the presidency. At first the representatives acted as a caucus for all the people and all parties and named the candidates for whom the people should vote. But soon the parties were in different camps, so to speak, and the members of congress of each party held their own caucus and named candidates to be voted for by their own following. Formerly the congress had a committee of correspondence, whose duty it was to communicate with influential citizens of the several states in order that acquiescence and active co-operation might be had over the country. When parties were formed, as almost immediately was the case, then each party raised a congressional committee, and these committees now continue in the congressional campaign committees. The first revolt from the congressional caucus was in 1808, when seventeen members of the "Republican" caucus at Washington bolted the congressional nomination. The state legislatures then began to make nominations and congress as a rule ratified these. This continued through several administrations but did not conform to popular ideas. In 1827 Niles' Register foresaw the coming change and said "conventions appointed by the people for a specific purpose are not liable to the objections which apply to legislative caucuses," and advocated the national convention. But it did not come all at once, but by slow degrees. The way was pointed out by local conventions and even by local legislatures. In 1832 the Jackson men had fully organized on the convention plan and so had the friends of Henry Clay. Both conventions were held in Baltimore. Neither party adopted a platform, but at a ratification meeting of the supporters of Clay a declaration was made of their political faith. Jackson was a platform in himself, for what his first administration had been everybody knew his second would be likewise. He was triumphantly elected and as his second term was ending he was powerful enough to name his successor in advance of a national convention, though a national convention was finally held. It was convened at Baltimore, and nominated Martin Van Buren for president, but as several of the states had indicated their choice respectively for a candidate for vice president, the convention made no nomination for that office. It adopted no platform. The Whigs held no national convention, but at a convention held at Albany, N. Y., they adopted the following resolutions: "That in support of our cause we invite all citizens opposed to Martin Van Buren" and "that the support we render to William Henry Harrison is not because of his brilliant success in the late war so much as on account of his statesmanship and patriotism, which are of the school of Washington." The Democrats also held a meeting in New York, at which they adopted a series of resolutions which stood through the campaign as a kind of platform. The first resolution recited the declaration of independence, and the succeeding ones declared against bank notes and paper currency as a circulating medium, because gold and silver is the only safe and constitutional currency; hostility to any and all monopolies; hostility to the dangerous and unconstitutional creation of vested rights or prerogatives of legislation; holding that each and every law or act of incorporation passed by preceding legislatures can be rightfully altered and repealed by their successors, and that they should be altered or repealed when necessary for the public good and when required by a majority of the people. COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City. CATTLE—Common to heavy... 3 10 @ 5 40 HOGS—Choice to heavy... 4 95 @ 5 00 WHEAT—No. 2 red... 67 @ 68 CORN—No. 2. 68 @ 38 OATS—No. 2. 24% @ 25 RYE—No. 2. 52 HAY—Choice timothy... 10 00 @ 10 56 Choice prairie... 7 00 @ 7 58 BUTTER... 15 @ 10 56 EGGS... 8% Chicago. WHEAT—No. 2 hard... 73% @ 78% CORN—No. 2. 89% @ 89% OATS—No. 2. 22% @ 22% St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES... 3 70 @ 5 75 STOCKERS & FEEDERS... 3 40 @ 5 00 SOUTHERN STEERS... 3 60 @ 5 00 Cotton. Uplands. Gulf. Liverpool... 9 13-32d New York... 9 13-0o Galveston... 8 9-10e Wichita Grain. Close. Close. Open. High. Low. Today Yday WHEAT— July... 72% 74 72% 73% 71% CORN— June... 39% 39% 38% 88% 39 July... 39% 39% 38% 88% 39 OATS— July... 21% 23% 22 22% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS... 161 head sold... 4 50 @ 4 80 CATTLE... 182 * * * * * @ * * Chicago Live Stock. BEEVES... 84 60 @ 5 83 COWS AND HEIFERS... 87 55 @ 5 00 STOCKERS & FEEDERS... 87 55 @ 5 00 TEXAS FED BEEVES... 4 50 @ 5 35 HOGS... 5 15 @ 5 20 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. The laundry workers' union in St. Joseph, Mo., are on a strike. There is a break in the levee five miles north of New Orleans. The French senate passed the Dreyfus amnesty measure by $28 to 24 votes. A wheel factory and stock at Richmond, Va., is burned ar a loss of $175,000. The posse comitatus in St. Louis has grown to about 1,300 men, and more are being sworn in. Japan's administration in Formosa seems creditable and the island seems assured a prosperous future. The Oregon legislature, just elected, will have 56 republican members, and the combined opposition 34. Three departments of the Illinois steel works in Chicago have been closed and 3,000 men are idle. There is much anxiety in London over the situation of affairs in China. Financial affairs are affected by it. A Spaniard commenced preparations for bull fights at the Paris exposition and the government prohibited it. Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, for many years president of the home missionary society, died June 5, aged 79 years. It seems apparent that Chinese officials will do nothing to stop massacres until the powers take concerted action. The Palisades paper mills at Hoboken are destroyed by fire. Paper mills seem to go that way frequently of late. There has been a fire in the residence of Mr. Choate, the American ambassador in London. It was confined to the roof. Indemnity claims to a very large amount have already been filed by the European ministers at Pekin with the Chinese government. The Belgian claims are for 25,000,000 franks. Rev. L. P. Broad of Kansas told the Congregational Home Missionary Society, in session in Detroit, that the churches in Kansas have reached self-support, and asked for no more help from the society. The railroad out of Manila has been turned over by the Americans to its owners, who are English. The owners will put wages down to former figures, although employees have been receiving American wages under military control. Heavy storms in the central part of France have caused serious damage to crops and livestock. Traffic on railroads has been interrupted. Forty-three local unions of Philadelphia refused to participate in the parade during convention week, because non-union labor was employed in the completion of the national convention hall. The Katy has reduced its car department in the Denison shops, and it is said that the same will be done in the other departments. The Socialist Labor party has nominated Joseph F. Maloney, of Massachusetts, for president of the United States. Lord Roberts entered Pretoria, taking possession on June 5, making the official entry at 2 p.m. The troops fought their way in inch by inch facing hidden artillery. This is considered the closing act of the war. The sheriff at Frankfort, Ky., says he is going to apply to Gov. Mount, of Indiana for the extradition of Gov. W. S. Taylor, when he gets ready Carnegie interests are seeking to obtain title to a section of Utah which has coal under it. The tract is 30 miles one way and eighteen or twenty the other and the purchase price will be nearly one half a billion dollars. Happily the New York brokers were bit by going short on stocks with the expectation that London would sell low enough for them to load up again at a profit. London didn't. The difference in the clocks between New York and London is often taken advantage of but it didn't work this time. Paris possesses 80,000 trees in streets and public places. There are 28,000 plane trees, 17,000 chest trees and 15,000 elms, the remaining consisting of sycamores, maplains, dens, etc.—Scientific American. Apache Trail No Good. Geronimo himself cannot write, but he insists that the young his race should be instructed after fashion of the whites. His advice his own people is. "Better for good any more." There isn't anything quite so compelling as a big dog in a little house. 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In denying the writ, the court held that counties must pay the full amount regardless of whether they collect it or not; that there was a law which enables counties to reimburse themselves by the levying of a special tax the following year to make up the deficiency. Property was liable for taxes and could be sold for them. If the county bought in the property at tax sale, it should pay the state its tax just as a private individual buying property at tax sale is required to do. One of the remarkable things about the decisions handed down is the fact that in every case appealed from the court of appeals the decision of the court of appeals was reversed. There were five cases appealed from the court of appeals, and all were reversed. To Visit the Dowager Empress. Washington, June 11.—Almost the only subject before the cabinet meeting was the situation in China. Secretary Hay read a cablegram from Minister Conger at Pekin in which he stated that there was no improvement in the situation and asked for instructions. Secretary Hay stated after the meeting that a reply would be sent to Mr. Conger substantially reaffirming the one sent a day or two ago to the effect that he will be expected to do whatever is necessary to protect the lives of Americans and their property and to maintain the dignity of this government. It is understood here that the representatives of the powers in Pekin will call in a body on the dowager empress and present the necessity of her taking immediate and vigorous action to suppress the rioters. It is assumed that Mr. Conger will join the other representatives. The Boers New Stand. London. June 8.—General Botha was not defending Pretoria but only delaying the British advance long enough to get his army and all trains away toward Lydenburg, which he accomplished. Lydenburg, where a cartridge fretory has been erected and where reserve supplies of all sorts are stored, is a volcanic region of fertile valleys, enclosed by great ramparts of precipitous rocks, penetrated by narrow, winding passes. There are herds of cattle in the valleys and there is much native labor available for the fortifying. An Important Ruling. Topeka, June 11.—Assistant Attorney General B. H. Tracy has rendered an opinion holding that a register of deeds may charge only 25 cents for filing, entering and releasing a chattel mortgage. He also held that it was necessary to "double" index a chattel mortgage. Registers have been charging all sorts of fees for handling chattel mortgages. Their Best Leader Captured. Manila, June 12.—General Pio del Pilar, the most persistent of the Filipino leaders, was made a prisoner at Guadalope, six miles east of Manila, by some of the Manila native police. Upon information received that Pio del Pilar was to be at a certain house, Captain Lara and twelve policemen proceeded in a launch to Guadalope, where aided by a detachment of the Twenty-first infantry, they surrounded the house, captured the general, and brought him to Manila, where he was positively identified before the provost marshal. To Improve Stock in Japan. San Francisco, June 8—Japan is seeking American and European cattle to introduce among native herds and improve the general stock of the islands. Four Japanese government officials especially commissioned to select and purchase fine stock have arrived here. They will inspect the herds of this state before going east and to Europe. They propose to get the best grades of breeding stock known. Germany Will Not Act Alone Germany Will Not Act Alone. Berlin, June 12—To set at naught published statements to the effect that Germany is to adopt more heroic methods than the ether powers in the present crisis in China, Baron Von Holleben, the German ambassador, said that Germany would, as heretofore, participate in any joint action of the powers in order to protect the interests of foreigners in the far east, but that she would go no further than the other nations in any action decided upon. TASK OF THE COMMISSION. The Complexity Of Difficulties And Problems Staggers Them. Manila, June 12.—Judge William H. Taft and his colleagues of the Philippines civil commission were beset during their first week in Manila by a multitude of callers of all nationalities, professions and interests, who presented a bewildering assortment of recommendations touching military and civil policies: The commissioners maintained the attitude of unprejudiced listeners. They admit that, while they anticipated an enormous task, the complexity and difficulty of the problems and conditions are well nigh staggering. They are determined, however, with the co-operation of the army in pacifying as well as in fighting, to make the Philippines a peaceful and honestly governed country before departing. A large proportion of the provincial officials already installed have proven treacherous, while the native police and officials here in Manila are living on a scale of luxury suspiciously disproportionate to their salaries. Charges against native judges of failing to account for thousands of dollars received in fines are under investigation. The commissioners also find that the future state of the church in the Philippines is a leading question in the minds of many, although most of those who have talked with Judge Taft and his colleagues draw the inference that the commissioners are opposed to the reinstatement of the friars. Archbishop Chappelle has taken a strong stand in supporting the request of the friars to be established in their old position. A BLOODY SUNDAY. Three Strikers Killed—Others Hit. Deputies Prompt. St. Louis, June 12.—Between 6 and 7 Sunday p. m. a body of strikers were marching home from a pinnie at Wolff's grove. Police protection had been removed during the day, to be resumed on the night runs. This marching crowd mel a car without police. They rushed to the car and trouble commenced which resulted in the death of three men. Members of the sheriff's posse who were within hearing rushed to the scene and did what was done. Aguinaldo's Papers Show Treason. Manila, June 8.—In the chase of Aguinaldo's party, his forces were divided into tents. One of these parties was led by an officer who was shot. It is said by the natives that Aguinaldo was shot in the shoulder. The horse the officer was riding when shot was captured. The horse and saddle were bloody, and the saddle pockets held papers which would show that the officer was either the chief or his adjutant. The papers prove treason on the part of trusted Filipinos, including telegraph operators who had been retained in the service of the Americans. They had sent Aguinaldo copies of important telegrams exchanged between American officers. Captain Watson is Shot Again. Girard, Kansas, June 11.—Information has just been received that Capt. Wm. J. Watson, Co. M., 40th U. S. Vol., had his leg amputated above the knee on account of a wound received in battle with Filipinos. Capt. Watson entered the services as first lieutenant of Co. D, 20th Kansas in April, 1898, was promoted to captain in March, 1899, commanded Co. E in the Malolos campaign and at the battle of Guiguinto was seriously wounded in the breast; the bullet was never removed as it is located so near the heart that physicians consider that an operation would be attended by too much danger. Sheep Camp Robbed. Sterling, Col., June 8.—The sheep camp of King and Southgate was robbed by two men, who bound and gagged the proprietors and their two employees. After the robbers left the sheepmen released themselves and aided by a neighbor overhauled the robbers, killing one and badly wounding and capturing the other. The latter said they were from Tennessee. James Lynch, one of the pursuers, was painfully wounded in the hip. This Country Will Not Get Mixed Up. Washington, June S.—The state department still finds itself unable to do more than it has already ordered respecting the protection of American interests in China. Troops are not available and the government here is disinclined to participate in any joint demonstration that would menace the integrity of the Chinese empire. This statement is a sufficient answer to the intimation coming from British newspapers that United States co-operation with British forces in China would be welcomed. London. June 12-Returns just issued by the board of agriculture are dismal reading for the English farmer. Erom these it is learned that the ever increasing deportation of dead meat to the United Kingdom has reached the daily average of over 2,300,000 tons, while wheat, butter, eggs, rabbits and game have al lenormously increased in the extent of their importation. The foreign products being almost invariably cheaper, the farmers lose the home market. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure, or Moner Refunded by Your Merchant, so WhyNot Try It? Price 50c NOT THE PRINCE OF WALES BUT THE OTHER ONE. He Has Shocked the Foreign Nobility by His Latest Indiscretion — Lost to Circus Girl — One of the Scandals That Is Agitating Court Circles. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria and full brother to the Prince of Wales, has given European courts and the foreign nobility generally a severe shock by his latest indiscretion. The duke is abjectly devoted to a pretty Parisienne, who was lately a public performer, and she has welded upon his royal wrist a gold bracelet of heavy links which the son of Victoria swears he will wear to the day of his death. He is in the fetters of love generally and in every other sense. The first time his royal highness saw the girl who has won his heart she was performing. The prince dropped into the Cerque d'Ete, and, unknown to the other people, he stood among them near the passageway. Far up in the air hung a graceful, willowy form, all flashings and silver spangles, light as a bird blown by the wind and delightful in life for life's sake. She was very beautiful to look upon; young, fair, and alive with grace. The young form swayed and then leaped into the net below, and as the applause rose she kissed her two hands at the audience, and smiled beautifully; then she leaped out the net and came directly toward the passageway where stood the royal duke. The audience stormed and stormed, and the young girl stood, hesitating, close to the prince, who suddenly leaned toward her and whispered: "Go back, darling, and do it again." M. THE DUKE AND HIS DARLING. It was all said in French excepting the word darling; that was said in English. It caught the young girl's ear, and she said, archly: "Darling is not my name, Monsieur." "It is my name for you," said the prince, "and when you come down I shall be waiting for you." Since that night the fair trapeze artist has been seen no more in the cerques, but her new name, Darling, is put on all her photographs, and she is known on the boulevards as Darling. She drives one of the most splendid equipages in Paris, and lives like a princess. The golden chain which is on the arm of the prince was welded on by a goldsmith in the presence of Darling, and it has created no little sensation in polite society. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was known when in England as Duke of Edinburgh. A few years ago he succeeded to the dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which made him a reigning sovereign in Germany. He is famed for his love of music and his parsimony. He is a skillful player of the violin. He is an admiral in the British navy, and was for a long time in active service. He is 56 years old, but age has not withered nor custom staled his sentimental nature. The duke married the sister of the late Czar of Russia, and aunt of the present one. She is a very haughty and rather disagreeable princess. She always felt sore in England because she, the sister of the Czar of Russia, had to walk behind the Princess of Wales, whose father is only king of little Denmark. The Small Boy Confessed He Did It. On a recent Sunday the Methodists of Holton, Kan., were holding an experience meeting when a 5-year-old boy pushed excitedly in and gave notice that the church was on fire in the basement. The little fellow was scarcely able to speak, but he said: "I done it, and ought to be spanked." After recounting that the fire was subdued without much damage, the presiding clergyman says that of all the confessions offered at the love feast of that day the little boy's was probably the most honest, frank and sincere one. When Charles Jones resisted two highwaymen in Oak Park, Chicago, he was thrown in front of a fast mail train by the miscreants, but escaped being killed by rolling down an embankment. The pilot of the locomotive as it sped by grazed his body. Some people use apologies, instead of money, in paying debts. There is a growing admiration for the woman who doesn't know the king from a two spot. Some Aged Birds Mr. J. H. Gurney, in an article on the ibis, has collected from various books and papers a number of facts regarding the age to which birds live. He mentions an instance of a raven having lived sixty-nine years; a pair of eagle owls, one of which is 68 and the other 53 years old; a Batereul eagle and a condor in the zoological gardens at Amsterdam, aged 55 and 52; an imperial eagle of the age of 56; a golden eagle of 46, and a sea eagle of 42, and many birds of the age of 40 downward are also recorded. Away Down in the Earth. The deepest hole in the earth is at Schladebach, near Ketschau, Germany. It is 5,735 feet in depth and is for geologic research only. The drilling was begun in 1880 and stopped six years later because the engineers were unable with their instruments to go deeper. Revolution In Water Travel. Experiments have proven that vessels, fitted with propellers which imitate the fish's fin, develop remarkable power. It will cause a revolution in water travel. Men gradually learn that Nature's ways are best. One cause of the remarkable success of Hostetler's Stomach Bitters is the fact that it is a sure cure for constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia and biliolness. It takes a very interesting woman to make a talk about her servant girls worth hearing. Lock Jaw. Ed H. Hardin, China Springs, Tex., says: "One large does of Morley's Wonderful Eight cured my mare of lock-jaw. It was a wonderful cure and saved me a $65.00 animal." Sold by agent in every town. A bride is a good deal like a carnival queen, and her occupancy of a throne is just about as long. S. R. Baldwin, Columbus, Ga., writes: I occasionally give a TRETHINA Powder to keep my teething his gums softened. Every young man should learn to paddle his own canoe—but he should learn to swim first. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in flamination, allays pain, cures wind colle. 25c a bottle. When a man refuses to kick on boarding house fare the knockers say he never had anything better. 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Unless you have one fault you can never have two. One crime makes another necessary. Good Housekeepers Good Housekeepers use "Faultless Starch" because it gives the best results—at all grocers, 10c. A good boy may not become a hand, some man, but a handsome bonnet always becomes a good woman. The Best Prescription for Chills The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 50c. With the waning of the honeymoon the misguided man discovers that the coming woman has arrived. To be always happy, use Red Cross Ball Blue. 5c. Refuse imitations. Possibly a man may be better off after he is dead, but it isn't policy to tell his widow that such is the case. Binder Twine at Low Prices. If you want a special inside price on binder twine, either Sisal, Standard or Manila, cut this notice out and mail to SEARS, RoEuck & Co. (Binder Twine Department), Chicago, stitch one how much twine you will require and how soon you will want it, and they save you money by quoting you a price that will either secure your order or compel the party who supplies you to sell to you at a lower price than he otherwise would. If it wasn't for some people's vivid imagination lots of physicians would never be able to make both ends meet. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swolien, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Some girls seem willing to marry a man for fear that some other girl will. Husband. If you have a weak, nervous, debilitated wife, do not scold or become impatient with her. Give her kind treatment, loving words and Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial to renovate, regulate and strengthen her system, and our word for it she will soon be your healthy, happy best half. Price $1. Sold by agent in every town. It is true that money tallks. Even hush money is apt to give a man away. On Lake Baikal, in Siberia, on February 10, a new ice-breaking steamer, which was built on the lake, was given a trial trip. The journey was made from Listvennitsehnoye to Pereyemnaya and back through ice 2 feet 7 inches in thickness, the distance of eighty miles being traversed in twelve hours. The trip was considered most successful, and the engines of the steamer developed sufficient power to keep the lake open for traffic during the winter. Clera Kopp Wrote for Mrs. Pinkham's Advice and Tells what it did for Her. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I have seen so many letters from ladies who were cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's remedies that I thought I would ask your advice DR. 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At less cost, you can now view Niagara to better advantage than ever before. Round trips from Detroit $12.00, Chicago $21.00, St. Louis $31.30, Kansas City $39.75. Let us quote right rate from your home city. Our booklet suggests illustrates them with beautiful engravings and gives valuable information to the contemplating summer vacationist. Bound in cloth—you will want to preserve it. It is free. Give us some idea of how long you can take for your summer outing, how much you want it to cost you, what part of the summer you would like to see, eat. We will give you our booklet and, other information based on the experience of others, which will save you money and enhance the pleasure of your summer outing. Address: Wabash Railroad SUMMER TOUR DEPARTMENT 1901 Lincoln Trust Bldg., ST. LOUIS ure is Guarant merchant, so WhyNot TryIt? Price 50 c. Wolf Bounties A number of farmers in Sumner county, Kansas, have filed with the county commissisoners a protest against the continuance of the bounty on wolf scalps. They claim that the wolves are of great benefit to the country as rabbit exterminators, and that they do little if any harm. A Land of Thunder- Java is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, having thunderstorms ninety-seven days in the year. Out in Kansas. "Had a putty bad cyclone over in your county last week, didn't you?" "Should say we had! Worst I ever seen! It left things mixed up almost as bad as the stuff in a bureau drawer after a woman's tried to find something there."—Chicago News. Keep Your Hair On by using Coke Dandruff Cure. Money re- funded if it fails. $1.00 a bottle. What has become of the old fashioned man who used to predict that we were going to have falling weather. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get in the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable and send what they advertise. Many a man's shattered fortune is due to his negligence in mending his ways. When cycling, take a bar of White's Yucatan. You can ride further and easier. A little bird on a hat is worth two that tell tales. Send for "Choice Recipes," by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., mailed free. Mention this paper. Lower rents—those in the knees of the small boy's trousers. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, Price, 75c. Some men are born with black eyes and some have to fight for them. Carter's Ink Is Used Exclusively by the schools of New York, Boston and many other places, and they won't use any other. If you have a grudge against your neighbor, buy his small boy a drum. Ladles Can Wear Shoes. One size small after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. 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I would say to all suffering women, 'Take Mrs. Pinkham's advice, for a woman best understands a woman's sufferings, and Mrs. Pinkham, from her vast experience in treating female ills, can give you advice that you can get from no other source.'" - CLARA KOPP, Rockport, Ind., April 13, 1899. KIDDER'S PASTILLES. A Sure relief for Asthma. Sold by all Druggists. Charlestown, Mass. USE THE BEST FAULTLESS STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS, COLLARS, CUFFS, AND FINE LINEN State Ledger. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN .. BY . F. L. JELTZ. SUBSCRIPTION six months 50c One Year 1.00 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS CASH IN AD- ANCE. entered at post office at Topeka, Kansas, at sec ndclass-rates. Published every Saturday at 431 Kan. ave 1.00 in advance PHYSICIANS. I. A. SHIELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 VanBuren St all promptly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave, Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBGOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 30 Kans Ave. All calls promptly attended 1el 14. DR; C. A. TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a. m.] From 2 to 5 p. m. OFFICE 226½ KAS, AVE. (Cver Kohl's Drug Store,) Wm. B, Swan, M. D. 725 Kansas Avenue, Topcka, Kansas. office hours, 11:00 to 12 m, 2:00 to 4:30 pm. Residence 624 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 66c GEORGE DICK, M, D, HomocopathiSt Residence 626 Filimo St. [Telephone 360.] Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S, G. STEWART, M. D. OFFICE 621 KANSASAVE. TELEPHONE 541. RSIDENCE 511 W. 5TH ST TELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A. M. 9 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M TELEPHONE 558. OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Diseases Stomach and Lungs and Female Trou es, Office Hours: 9 to 12-2 to 5-7 to 9 Phone e DR, R. O, RHODES, OFFICE 600 Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing C,) OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A, M, 2 to 5 P M. Residence, 900 West Sixth street Phone 656. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO: 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas! HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES. AKT MA TERIALS.] Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Regulator Cures INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and RHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P O., Adjoining Capital of Kansas. Mur, 27. GO TO E. W. Griggs for photos, fine pictures. Car-901 Kas. ave. W. D. Woodall Mason and Cistern builder also wells. Parties needing service leave orders at LEDGER office Go to J, P, Johnsons for anything you want in the line of fine zigar's tobacco and confectionery, 400 Kas. ave. The American School of Magnetic Healing. WELTMER METHOD. Every known disease cured without medicine. DOCTOR M. M PENDROY, 614 Maike Steet Emporia, Kansas. Miller's Pharma- cy. 6th & TOPEKA AVL. Drug,s Medicines, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. Henderson paint works. J, A. HENDERSON, PROP. Manufacturers of all kinds of PAINTS. Strictly Pure. 609 Mass. Street. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. F. A. BECKSTROM. DEALER IN FINE WALL PAPER, and VARNISHES, Paints and Painters' Supplies. 518 Jackson St. Topeka, Kansas JOHN SHEAHAN & SON. CONTRACTOR FOR Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating' 123 East SeventhSt. E. M. Pletcher. CARPENTER & BUILDER FURNITUE AND JOB WORK SOLIC TED. 119 E, 7th, St. M. Hogan. Undertaker And Reliable in His Dealings--Open day and Night.--314 Kan. Avenue. For Sale--By John L. Howard 415 Kansas 'Avenue. 'Houses' o. W. 5th St. ranging from $80 $1200 centrally located at reasonable prices on easy payments. Give him a call. Home Bakery L. C. BOYCE, Prop. 810 N Kas. Ave. (Successor to Geo. Mayer.) Wholesale and Retail Bakery goods, We Sohcit Your Trade, We will Serve You Right, THE LANDIS HOME BAKERY, Many years experience. French home Bakery 316 E. 4tn St. PALACE RESTAURANT. Eskridge, Kans., The Best Place to get a good "Clean, Square Meal" for 25c. From Maine to California. The Proof of the Pudding is the Eating it. Try us and see. M. F. LAWLOR, Prop. Open day and night. Quick service. Rahrer's Restaurant 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot, C, A, RAHREK, Prop. U.S. C1CLE GC. NATIONAL 9227. 118 East 8th Street Difficult Bicycle Reparing a Specialty Hook and Key Work; Umbrellas Repaired ; Valcanizing. Good WHEELS to rent-and for Sale Second Hand, We Are Experts CALL AND SEE OUR '99 NEW MODELS U. S. CYCLE CO, 118 East 8th Street --- C. F. MENNINGER, M, D. Office 727 Kansas Ave. Telephone 19. Office Hours: 11--12 A. M. 2-5 P. M. Residence 1251 Topeka Ave. Telephone 85. J. M JAMISON, M. D., Office 506 East 4th Street. Office Hours: F:om 8 to 10 A. M. "12 M to 3 P. M. "7 P. M, to 9 P. Mf Special attention to dieases of woman and private diseases. E. H. PHILLIPS, JEWELER & OPTICIAN Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guaranteed. We Solicit your Patronage. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue 1014 Quincy Street. Paper Hanging and inside finishing a speciaity. 32 years Experience. HARRIS BROS DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Smoked Meats, A Specialty Cigars Tobacco, and confectionery, Give Them an order goods delivered. L A. FISHER. Dealer In CLOTHING, GFNTS' FURNIS'TING GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS ETC. 118 EastSixth Street, Topeka Kan. FOR SALE— Will you buy Will you sell Will you rent Real Estate Try us. Barnes Real Estate Co. Tel 62. 113 West 5th st. G. F. Rodiges, Dye and Cleaning Works. 820 Kans. Ave. Misfit and Tailor Work a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. Dyeing Cleaning and repairing on Short Notice Carter & Johnson RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER, When in Lawrence stop at their place, 611½ Mass. St. PALACE HO E. C. THRALL PROF. Serves first class meals and Lodging Meals and Lodging open day and night 11S W 6th St. Bowersock Mi- ling Co. Lawrence Kas. High Grade Flour, ROBT, R, CLARK Mgr. UNDERTAKER. FUNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN KANS. 渔民 FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE State Ledger Office, 431 Kansas Ave. (UP STAIRS.) we think he will soon start ut giving exhibitions. They are very peculiar looking bird, to say the least. ex. In the congregation there was at one time a woman who was a thorn in the flesh. She had a harsh voice and a stiff manner of speaking. Her long-drawn-out, dull discourse weared the congregation. But Mr. Beecher was patient. At last he, too, reached the limit of endurance, and one evening when sat down, after nearly half an hour, he arose and in his deep tones said slowly: Never the. es! I still believe in women speaking in meeting. She spoke no more. Ex. Once upon a time when Judge Gary, of Chicago, was tying a case, he was disturbed by a young man who kept moving about in the rear of the room, lifting chairs and looking under things. "Young man, Judge Gary called out, you are making a great deal of unnecessary noise. What are you about?" "Your honor," replied the oftender, "I have lost my overcoat, and am trying to find it. 'Well,' said the venerable jurist, "people often lose whole suits in here without making all that disturbance. Ex 'Mamma, said a little boy, 'why did not Jesus arrange it so that He could look right down on us, and we could look up to Him once and a while and say 'Hello; to Him? ex When in LAWRENCE step at WEYER- MULLER'S RESTAURANT— SHORT ORDER. Open Day and Night, 720 Mass., Street. TURNER BROS., Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Order. BURLINGAME KAS.. MRS. ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cuttiug, Sewing—Give her a trial. 826 Com'l street Emporia, Kas. Passons de DEAKEN Crockery, china, glassware and all kinds of h 739 Mass. St. Pure Tea a Passons dep't store, DEAKER IN Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Kan. Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEKA SPICE MILLS. 109 E. Sixth Street. GO TO LOUIS VANDORP, Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers These are the things you need Gi PCR HARDWARE and STOVES Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas P kansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT PRO'S, Prop's., 306 E. AND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade THE WEAR AND TEAR OF MEN'S NERVES THE WEAR AND TEAR OF MEN'S NERVES Results in debility—exhaustion, not only exhaustion of the body, but exhaustion of the mental faculties as well. The nerve cells of the body have been robbed of their vital forces. The nerves have no life in them; therefore all the organs of the body suffer from lack of nerve control, and the blood vessels that supply these organs are not in proper tone. "HUDYAN corrects the evil. HUDYAN provides this vitality and nerve force that is wanting." Are you approaching this condition of Nervous Debility? Are you growing prematurely old? Do you suffer with headaches (Fig. 1); hollow eyes or dark rings under eyes (Fig. 2); pale, thin face and sunken cheeks (Fig. 3); weakness of limbs (Fig. 4); a poor appetite and impaired indigestion (Fig. 5); torpid liver (Fig. 6), and costimity, a coated tongue (Fig. 7)? Or have you dizzy spells? Do you suffer sleepless nights? Do you have horrid dreams? Do you swake in the morning hollow-eyed and tired out? Are you despondent, melancholy? Do you shun society? Are your knees shaky? Have you pain in the small of the back? These symptoms all tell you that your nerves are failing you; that you will grow old long before your time. HUDYAN will save you; HUDYAN will make a robust, strong, manly man of you. HUDYAN revives, restores, rejuvenates. Go to your druggist at once and get HUDYAN. No other remedy; just HUDYAN, for HUDYAN is what you need. Other symptoms of this terrible affliction that visits so many men are cold hands and feet, palpitation of the heart, hot flashes, cloaked memory, nausea after eating, twitching of muscles, spots before the eyes, shooting pains, weariness, tremblings, sediment in urine, bleary eyes, swimming in ears, a shaky, all-gone feeling. Remember HUDYAN. Be a vigorous, robust man, a man with nerves of steel, a man with muscles of iron. HUDYAN is wonderful. HUDYAN is acknowledged by our leading medical men to be the greatest nerve and tissue builder known to medical science. HUDYAN will lift you from that life of despondency and discouragement that you are now in, and will make of you a happy man. Try HUDYAN, you will soon be convinced, Hudyan Cures Woman's Kerves. Thousands of women use HUDYAN. acknowledged by our leading medical tissue builder known to medical science that life of despondency and discount will make of you a happy man. Try HUDYAN Cures Women's Kerves. The GET·HUDYAN from your druggist If your druggist HUDYAN REMEDY CO., Cor. GET HUDYAN from your druggist, 500 a package, six packages $3.50. If your druggist does not keep it, direct to ○ HUDYAN REMEDY CO., Cor. Stockton, Ellis and Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Men and Women use Hudyan. Notice of final Settlement. THE STATE OF KANSAS, Shawnee County, S. S In the Probate Court in dnd for said County. In the matter of the Estate of James Cook Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the alforesaid Estate are hereby notified that I shall apply to the Probate Court, in nd for said County, sitting at the Court House, in Topeky County of Shawnee State of Ransas, on the 2nd day of July A. D. Igoe for a tull and final settlement of said Estate. QUEER PLACE TO BUILD A NEST. .... "Last Thursday," says the Haven Journal, "one of the corn sprouts in the elevator at the mill became clogged and would not work, an Shorty, (you all know him) was at once called upon to go skyward and investigate and see if he could out the cause of the stoppage. As he was clawing sticks, hay and straw from the sprout something took him by the hand, and the thought struck him it was no friendly politicians hard shake, nor the W. O. W. grip, but it clutched his hand in a way that brought tears to his eyes, which by the way have not been wet for many winters—summers. He called for help and soon they found that it was a full grown screech owl that was giving Shorty such a hearty hand-shake in its own friendly way. Afterwards they dug out 8 small ones, each of a different size, shape and color. Shorty caged them and took them home, and GO TO The Diamond Drug Store, 6th and Buck anan Streets Give them a call. E.H. UPSHAW. Peoples Feed, 537 Kansas Avenue, North Tepeka. Full weights. Goods promptly delivered. MR. CLARENCE YOUNG Mr. Clarence Young who for a long time has been with Edd Sims has open a neat Drug Store 6th Buchana st, and want his many friends to call. A doctor never cares to know his patients well. A fool praises himself but a wise man turns the job over to a friend. Every young man should learn to paddle his own canoe - but he should learn to swim first. A bride is a good deal like a carnival queen, and her occupancy of a throne is just about as long. It takes a very interesting women to make a talk about her servant girls worth hearing. Unless you have one fault you can never have two. One crime makes another neccessary. Possibly a man may be better off after he is dead, but it is no policy to tell his w'dow that such is the case. A good boy may not become handsome man, out a handsome bonnet always becomes a good woman. After your friends marry, your visits will consist chiefly in hearing of their children's smart savings. With the waning of the honey moon the misguided man discovers that the coming women has arrived. ex. How Items Grow. Expansion item from the Waco mego Agriculturist: A chuckswallowed a Clay county farmercuff button a few days ago. He is the wav the New York paper bulletin the sensation: "Kansas City clothing dealer had $2,000 in jewelry swallowed by an educated estrich." Ex. "I am going to get married said a man to a reporter on the Wellington Journal, "and I was you to give me a good send on. The reporter assured him he would gladly do. "I want you say in your write-up that the groove is a young man of enviable reputation," he went on, "and that he has by honest upright dealing with his associates won the confidence of the business men of Wellington, and the esteem of the community in which he lived seven years." The reporter broke in assent and locked puzzle. The prospective groom went on "And don't forget to say that I am a young man sterling worth, and that the bride is one of the most beautiful and beautiful young ladies in Wellington, a society favorite, and that she is gifted with those rare womanly accomplishments which particularly fit for presiding with queenly grand over the newly made household. And also insert in its proper place that the union of these two hearts that now beat as one was a culmination of a pretty long affair which had its beginning, etc., and that the bride no doubt will prove a valuable helpman and that her presence at the groom's side in his walk through life will be an inspiration and incentive in his struggles with the world." The reporter is onto the he has memorized a wedding paragraph that is kept standing in the office. Ex.