State Ledger

We have no trouble in getads. No tron- tle with subscribers We have the exper- ence, and you the money----pass the hash this way. By F. L. JELTZ. FOR PRESIDENT. W. M. McKINLEY, OF OHIO. VICE PRESIDENT THEO. ROOSEVELT. OF NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Governor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, For Lieutenant Governor- H, E. RICHTER. Morris Eounty, For Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County, For Secretary of State- GEO, A. CLARK, Geary County. For Treasurer- FRANK GRIMES. Wichita County For Auditor- GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County. For Attorney General— A. A.GODDARD, Shawnee County. For Superintendent of Public Instruction- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County. For Insurance Commissionel- W, V. CHURCH. Marion County. For Congress men. Third District- G. 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, At Large— CHAS F. SCOTT, Iola FOR CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST. HON. CHAS. CURTIS. FOR CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST HON.J.D.BOWERSOCK There is going to be as great a time in Topkea next year as there is in China. What kind of man is it that has the last word(?) woe man of course. Some of the supporters of a certain number of can lidates are going to drop out one by one if the signs are correct. We told some parties at one time we were won an haters and since then it has had its effect and we are proud of it. Those deceitful fellows who wil laugh and tell another man the same as they have told you mind what we say they are dangerous to say the least. A Negro at Ottawa will go to the pen this year for forging a check on his hard working uncle to the extent of $250, to marry a beautiful girl not far away. The money gone, his girl skipped and he's in jail. There is a class of people continually doing devilment in the different ranks against their fellow man. If they don't cheese their actions we are going to engage in the skinning business much to their sorrow. The State Ledger. The war in China as far a we are concerned will follow as an appetite before breakfast, We don't find any more Abraham Lincoln Republicans and no more howling mobs. A certain candidate for Associate Justice quite successful, may yet rememember this paper and make a showing once in four years at least, business is business. Its nice for a man to be independent and yet he can be a good mixer hence there are several kind of independent men in the world. We can be lead but no driving goes if you will not treat us right in this campaign it is not too late to find it out: At a cheap John circus the other night at Peasanton. the same old gags were gotten off that we heard when we were a country youth. Some fools will have to be knocked down before they can take a hint. Every man knows his business the best. This is no syndicate business this is our own maclinery talking. Look the Republican ticket over its in 'here.' But you are not going to out-talk us; many good Republicans have helped us as well. Down at Fulton the other night we drove up to a livery and a bull dog and his master were sleeping side by side. Although the dog was awake he was so scared till he dared not stir, on any ordinary occasion we might have been chewn. Judge Foote the sagacious leader the of Breidenthall forces stepped upon a nest of snakes he and Taylor Riddle did at Ft. Scott. Taylor is one of those wise men who could do great good as a missionary in China at this time. If you want to be done up brown just promise some of the church solicitors something on their appeal books and you'll not get away neither time. We have had some experience. Many people believe that Nick Chiles interviews purporting to be coming from Bryan and Pitchfork Tullman is a hoax or a joke. Few believe this story to be genuine. They say Nick woven the same out of whole cloth. Nothing makes a bystander more horrified than see some nice dude take his newly bride into a smoking car. A woman is not responsible however if alone awaiting for her train she will jump into the first coach and seize the first empty seat. We have been out of the city for a several days and during that time the Pops and Democrats have held their corn dance, and everything indicates that Gov Stanley will lead the Kansas forces this fall and we must add for the good of the cause that McKinley will be a winner. McKinley's reply to the imperial kingdom and to the Li's was a touching instrument we can assure you. Shame be to those people who were rebels and who reside so close to the line of Missouri till they have to be shown the colour of a man's skin. The time is at hand that principle has taken its place in this country to stay and hence nothing can check its onward course. Stand up for principle and with pride cast all prejudice aside. Republicans will win. A tortoise is an excellent weather prophet. Tortoise farmers on the African coasts notice that, even 24 hours before rainfalls these curious animals prepare for it by seeking the convenient shelter of overhanging rocks. ex. "It is 'o bad," says Grant Shaw "that loafers were not hatched as chickens instead of being born as humans. As old hens they would make good setters. As they are no good on earth." Ex. The hostess mildly Suggested to a little boy invited out to dinner that he must wipe his fingers on the napkin instead of on the tablecloth. "I beg your pardon," said the young hopeful, "but I thought it was a pity to make a clean napkin in a muss when there was such a dirty cloth on the table.-Ex. A Wilson hen the other day, finding that she had more material than she would need to complete a shell for the egg she was about to lay, used the suplus to emboss upon the egg a beautiful letter "G," about three-fourth of an inch long. The letter is perfectly symmetrical in all its parts and is certainly a masterpiece. "A highland Station Irshman," says the Highland Vidette, "boast of the wonderful fact that he has two brothers who 'niver voted the Dummycra' is ticket in their lives." One of them died coming over and the other never left Ireland." "A lady in our town," says the Lindsburg News, "subscribed for the Globe Democrat, thinking she would give her husband glad surprise as he takes great pleasures in reading a good Democrat, paper. But she isn't "on it" with the Missouri man who subscribed for the Ram's Horn and, who, when the first copy arrived, went out in back yard and kicked himself because it wasn't a paper deyoted to the sheep in lustry. Ex. A country postmaster, near Philadelphia, has got into trouble not understanding his business. A young lady emplied in the city, who had a great many letters to mail, bought all the stamps at the small office, thus swelling its receipts, and in return he gave her a small commission on the stamps. The sudden increase of receipts attracted attention and a post office inspector soon discovered the cause. Both the postmaster and the speculative young lady claimed that they did not know that they were doing wrong. --Ex. The well diggers who recently sank acess pool in the rear of the Bonham clum that at the depth of nearly twenty feet a live frog was unearthed It was fullgrown and to all appearances differed in nowise from the croakers that inhal it the ponds and other bodies of water hereabouts. The workmen,neither of whom hau a drink since the spring election,do not pretend to understand how it was possible for the creature to live under the circumstances. "I can give you a stunner if you want it,' said Ward Kinney to the reporter this morning. 'Fire away it is stunn rs we are after,' was the reply. Mr. Kinney continued. "I have just thrashed seventy-five acres of wheat that tested sixty-two pounds and brought $1,211 and 95 cents." Who can beat this? ex. Don't wait for g eat opportunities. A long, continuous walk will get you over more ground than a short run. If at the age of 40 a man meets a woman he thought he loved at 20 he is apt to believe that luck is with him after all. An old bachelor says the only difference between o wedding and a hanging is that with the former a man's troubles begin and with the latter they end. Ex. The white ants of Manila are fond of wood. They bore holes from the outside, enter in thousands eat articles of furniture until little is left but mere shells. Sometimes they devour the legs of of a chair, so that when a person sits down, the chair crumbles under him, and he suddenly and ungracefully lands on the floorEx. STARTED THE WRONG SONG. A little incident has now leaked out that is extremely laughable. Some fifteen or eighteen years ago, when the Rev. Jackson Brown was breaking off and throwing out great chunks of salvation to the people here, he went over to the Snipe Creek school house one Sunday to hold service. At the conclusion of the service a short class meeting was held. First one then another stood up and gave their experience. Some went away back to the little red school in Vermont, where the light first dawned upon them, and followed their checkered career clear down to the present time. Finally one old brother, who had been jogging along the highway of life for many years, and who had always held down a seat in the amen corner, stood up, shifted his quid of tobbacco to the other side of his face, wiped his nose on his coat, sleeve and said; "Dear brothers and sisters; Knowing as I do that concession is good for the soul, I want to tell you that, spiritually speaking, I have no more life than a wooden Indian that stands as an advertisement in front of a cigar store. We don't have any more prayers in our house and we never ask the blessings on what we eat. In short, I am lost, and if I were to die right now I'd go right straight to hell." Rev. Brown, who had not been listening to what the man had been saying, then started up that ever-popular tune, "If You Get There Before I Do." This incident has never leaked out from that day to this but it is too good to keep any longer. Ex. Councilman Roundtree and honest John seem to have trod upon a few snakes themselves-no one could expect any thing more of a few others, but Mr. Roundtree seems to be pitied for the numerous mistakes it is charged he has made and above all he is still a candidate unlike Hill who is still a Democrat. The COLORED CITIZEN, Free-silver paper published by Col. Beck, and editor P. C. Thomas are making themselves felt it so much that others seeth them editorially by this means a solid south is broken, men are willing to accept whatever they chooseth best, hence there is a field for the Free-Silver organ, and ere long they will find a way out. LACYNGE'S FINE PHOTO ARTIST Mr. Green Stapp who is above the average photographer has done some very fine artistic work on all kinds of pictures he is highly recommended and preferred. any one wanting their ugly looks changed should give Mr. Stapp a call. COMPLIMENTARY. Complimentary to the good citizens of Harveyville and Richmond: This paper feels safe in saying their hearts are in the right place. Not withstanding other opposition papers these people always remember to assist a colored journal which list recently sent to this office shows what people will do for those who deserve it. REMEMBER We don't care to be personal like some big-mouth fool papers; but some certain officials of state are going to get their heads snumped by this paper if they continue to insinuate the fact that they have done something for this paper when they have done nothing. Those who have done something need not allow this to effect them; but there are some fellows who claim to be Republicans will show it better than they have before very long. The majority have done something -but there are others. WHERE REV. SHELDON GOT HIS IDEA. This story may be a little late but it is good enough to be true and true enough to be good and is both. A Neodesha young woman was on her way home from St. Louis one day last Spring just about the time Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon was endeavoring to run the Topeka Capital as General Joe Hudson wouldn't. Behind her sat a young woman and a young man who were evidently trying to display to one another their literary knowledge. They were well dressed and smart looking, though, in spite of that. Finally they landed on the then all epidemic subject of the Sheldon experiment. course you know he stole his ideas. "Yes," said the young man, not caring to get on the wrong side. "Why sure," went on the girl her literary taste cropping out in her language. "It wasn't original with him. He got it out of a book that had just such a case in it. It was called 'In His Step.' I read and it is just the same." — Neoddesa Register. R ics of By-Gone Timcs. Charley Brown will lose his farm to the cur'o seeker some of these days. In the past year or two Ed Cottrell has gathered up a bushel of Indian arrow heads, stone and flint axes, cannon balls, bullets and war implements. The other day he turned up the tooth of a mastodon. The principle food of the mastodon was swamp oak and from the appearance of the too' the animal had no trouble in grinding the wood to puly. ex. We guarantee the people who advertise,quick returns most reliable newspaper a mong all classes. VOL. 8, NO. 52. New Uncle Sam is again in distress. Wars and rumors; it is believed will be afloat from this time till the close of the century. We never heard of the great number of hard names until lately as we never called anyone as hard names as the Chinese does in China. The way of the traveler and transgressor is hard. He who forgets his friends will have the satanic majesty to pay. Remember while we are Republicans there are men in high station who will have to lay down their prejudice also and go into their pockets. THE TROUBLES OF A CANDIDATE. Electioneering item from the Horton Leader: "Madam, may I kiss these beatiiful children?" inquired a candidate of the coming primary election in Everest the other Jay, who was on a tour round the county, as he learned over the front gate. Certainly, sir: there is no possible objection." "They are lovely darlings." said the would-be C. S., as he had finished the eleventh. "I have seldom seen more beautiful babies. Are they yours ma'am?" "Of course they are, the sweet little treasures. From who else ma'am, could they inherited those those limpid eyes, those rosy cheeks, those profuse curls, those comely figures and and those musical voices?" The lady continued blushing. "By the way, ma'am," said he, "may I bother you to tell your esti mable husband that W. J. Brainardd, Republican candidate for county superintendent, called upon him this evening?" "Excuse me, sir," said the the lady. "I have no husband." "But these children, ma'am—you surely are not a widow?" "I feared you were mistaken, sir when you first came. These are not my children. The belong to my brother. ex AN IMPERTURBABLE WITNESS. A horse from a livery stable drie ed scon after it was returned, and the man who hired it was sued for damages, says Collier's weekly question turned largely upon the defeddant as a hard rider. The stable boy was called as the first witness. "How does the defendant usually ride?" "Astraddle sir." "No, no" said the lawyer. "I mean does he usually walk, trot or gallop." 'Well,' said the witnes, apparently searching in the depth of his memory for facts, 'when he rides a walking horse he walks; when he rides a trotin' horse trots and when he rides a galloping one he gallops: and when—' The lawyer interposed. 'I want to know at what pace the defendant usually goes...fast or slow.' 'Well, said the witness, 'when his company rides slow he rides slow, when his company rides fast he rides fast." 'Now I want to know sir,' the lawyer said drawing a long breath 'how the defendant rides when alone?' "Well," said the *witness* very slowly, "when he is alone I warn't there, so I don't know. Ex A. T. WAGGONER DRUGS AND MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave. YOUR-TRADE SOLICIFIED THESTATELEDGER KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Assessors' returns give Topeka a population of 36,782 Kinsley is to have a new elevator with a capacity of 10,000 bushels. One Abilene dealer has sold this season nearly $150,000 worth of threshing outfits. Henry Bell, a farmer of Coffey county, was accidentally killed while handling a target rifle. Mrs. Maria Hopkins, of Solomon, is dead at the age of 93. She had lived in Dickinson county 30 years. There is a boom in church building in central and western Kansas. Parsonages are being fixed up also. Wm. Birch, near Scottsville, lost wheat stacks by fire which were estimated to contain 2,000 bushels. Harper Zerfofs has been held for trial for the murder of D. A. Coats, the operator who was killed at Winfield. 3The imported harvest hands are now leaving the state in droves, in some cases taking command of freight trains. Rudolph Hatfield and Colonel Hoisington were the speakers at the laying of the corner stone of the $25,000 high school at El Dorado. A train stopped between Kinsley and Offerle and the train crew and passengers fought fire in a field of shocked wheat, saving it. Miss Morrison, of El Dorado, is held for murder in the first degree, without bail, for the killing of Mrs. Olin Castle. She was taken to the Wichita jail. The public generally, at El Dorado, holds the opinion that the motif of the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle by Miss Jessie Morrison, was infatuated jealousy. Dr. Thomas Cooper, of Kansas City, a traveling salesman for a publishing house, was found dead in his bed in a Wellington hotel. Death was caused by morphine. Wheat is pressing hard on the power of the railroads to move it. Indications are that the high prices being paid for wheat will cause earlier sale of a large part of the crop than usual. All Hallows academy in Wichita, in charge of Catholic sisters, has become so crowded with young lady pupils that those interested have decided to build an addition to cost at least $15,000. Charles Wheeler, of McPherson county, is said to be one of four heirs of his brother, Francis Turner Wheeler, of Chicago, who made his fortune of $2,000,000 in the manufacture of paper bags. Wheeler is dead. A strike occurred at the Lanyonville smelter. All the yard men stopped work. About 200 men quit because they did not like a change that had been made of their boss. This may cause a closing of the works. Work on the new cell block at the Hutchinson reformatory is going on rapidly. The board of managers have let contracts for new cell doors, for an iron roof, banisters, individual water closets in cells and for material for clothing. M. F. Angel came from Chicago to Wichita, where he lived 43 years ago, for the sole purpose of paying a debt to a dentist which he contracted when he lived there. Ten dollars settled the debt and Angel's railroad fare was $20.60. A woman of Severance, whose husband used beer, took a baby carriage full of stones and broke all the windows in Turner hall. Wichita and the Orient railroad officials have closed a bargain which is to make Wichita a division point and locate there the general shops of the line. Miss Jean Creighton, of Wichita will go to Paris, expenses paid. She won it as a prize for securing the largest list of subscribers in a given time to The Endeavor World. Mr. Oebel, of Andale, Sedgwick county, is feeling good over two fine crops already made, alfalfa and wheat, and good prospects for a like fine crop of corn. He is confident that the corn crop when husked out will surprise those who have been crying drouth. The returns this year show that Kansas has 2,111 more pianos, 724 more silver watches, 2,792 more gold watches, 12,832 more carriages, 14,994 more wagons, 16,445 more mules, 1,203,453 more cattle and 146,053 more horses than last year. Adam Bickle, near the south line of Saline county, lost 20 stacks of wheat by fire. Fire started from a passing engine. No insurance. The Kansas Midland station at Loraine was assaulted by burglar. The agent drove them away with his pistol. It is thought one burglar was hit. The legislature appropriated $5,000 for Governor Stanley's contingent fund for the fiscal year, ending June 30. He used only $3,000 turning back into the general revenue fund $2,000. Governor Barnes, of Oklahoma, visits Geuda Springs. The premium list for the street fair at Salina foots up over $1,800. Kingman voted against the purchase of the mill race by a vote of 100 to 87. The Kansas Wesleyan university will build a $10,000 girl's dormitory this year. Another large gas well near Iola is expected to run ten million cubic feet a day. Many cattle are being shipped from Solomon on account of the failure of pastures. Galena has lost two large frame stores by fire; loss more than covered by insurance. English army officers are inspecting horses at the horse yards, in Bismark Grove, Lawrence. 3Miss Lillian E. Hall has been appointed by the governor, coroner of Cowley county. Fifty-five tourists' tickets to Colorado were sold at the Wichita ticket offices in one day last week. An Iola baker and confectioner is in jail for selling liquor and his creditors have closed in on him. Pottawatomie and Wabaunsee counties Woodmen will unite in a log rolling at Alma August 30. It develops that there was another man of the same name as Rev. James, who will get the millions. The 16th annual reunion of the Sixth Kansas cavalry association will be held at Galena, August 23-35. John P. St. John, it is said, has purchased a home in Independence, Mo., and will move his family to it. The penitentiary twine plant makes an output of 1,000,000 pounds of twine of which 900,000 has been sold. Henry Grother, near Paola, had a sixteen acre piece of wheat which threshed out 39 bushels to the acre. Isaac G. Reed, the Wellington judge who was pardoned out of the penitentiary, died recently in Pennsylvania. The Rock Island is replacing the wooden bridges at Willard, Elmont, Paxico and Valencia with steel structures. Ward Kinney, of McPherson county, threshed 75 acres of wheat which tested 60 to 62 pounds and which sold for $1,211.95. Esther Lapham, aged 2 years, was run over by a street car in Wichita and one arm was cut off. She was otherwise injured. The building erected for a cob pipe factory in Ottawa and now used for storage and a cider plant, is burned. It cost $5,000. Postoffices in eastern Kansas cashed many money orders sent to families by men who were working in harvest fields further west. Henry Hegwer, of Chase county, has reached home from the Philippines. He was wounded in the neck and the surgeons pieced out his windpipe with grizzle from the neck of a chicken. In 1887, at the height of the boom there were 545,485 town lots in Kansas and they were valued at $56,46,873. According to the returns this year, there are 1,028,692 town lots valued at $61,377,091. Sixteen additions to Fort Scott, in which there are only about 50 voters, have been vacated, the object of the action being to shift the maintenance of streets and bridges from the city to the county. Bishop Fink, of the diocese of Leavenworth, has sent out to all the deans of the diocese a letter enclosing his recent order relative to members of the Catholic church joining the Modern Woodmen and Maccabee secret orders. During a thunder storm Mrs. Herschel Garr, of Montgomery county, was thrown from a horse and run over by a harvester and seriously injured. C. V. Eskridge's life insurance amounted to about $35,000. A sale of the Emporia Republican, Governor Eskridge's paper, is desired by his children. Vol Webber, of Clay county had wheat which tested 64 pounds. He had hauled and sold 5,500 bushels of old wheat just before commencing to haul his new crop. The old settlers of Reno county will hold a reunion on August 2. The total assessed value of taxable property together with the amount of state taxes to come from each county is published. Shawnee leads with $14,535,084 in valuation and $79,941 in taxes; Wyandotte stands $14,510,413 valuation and $79,806 taxes. Leavenworth and Sedgwick each have over $9,000,000 taxable property, the first slightly in excess of the latter; Cowley, Sumner and Reno next with over $6,000,000 each. E. L. Shaffer, steward of the Topeka insane asylum, had his leg broken in two places while making a slide in a ball game. Judge Herrick has decided that the bond election for the purpose of the purchase of the Wellington electric light plant was faulty, which invalidates the entire issue. The Santa Fe is endeavoring to have all its freight cars equipped with safety couplers by August 1, the date fixed by regulations of the interstate commerce commission. LI HUNG CHANG AN ENIGMA. Mr. Wu Expects to Hear that Conger is in Tien Tsin. REPLY TO THE PRESIDENT. Washington. July 27.—Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister, said that he hoped that the reply of Minister Conger at Pekin to the second message sent to him by Mr. Hay, would be received with more expedition than the first. That message and response took nine days. The second message wrs sent by Mr. Wu July 23, and he believes that as a result of the improved conditions and the possibility of restored communications between Shanghai and the northern cities of the empire an answer ought to come to hand within a more reasonable time than the first. Evidently Mr. Wu places some hope on the talk of the removal of the foreign ministers to Tien Tsin, and he suggested that possibly one of the important messages received from China in the near future would be "Conger is in Tien Tsin." The reply of the Chinese government to president McKinley's conditional consent to act as mediator in the pending difficulties is not expected here for some days, as the tsung-li-yamen will want time in which to consider the conditions laid down by the president. Some of the officials here have noticed with considerable interest Li Hung Chang's reported statement that the approach of allied forces near Pekin would result in the immediate death of the foreigners there, and in this connection they point out that apparently the real object of Li's visit to the north is for the purpose of preventing, if possible, the advance of the relief column. Commissioner Rockhill's Duties. Washington. July 26.—W. W. Rockhill who has been selected as special minister by the president to go to China is to act as the eyes and ears of the administration in China, to make careful inquiries into the existing conditions, to learn the exact cause of the present uprising, and report the facts directly to the president for his guidance in the ultimate settlement and in framing his policy for the future. It is expressly stated that Mr. Rockhill is going to China simply as an observer for the president. This is technically true, but it also may be stated that he would be entrusted with full diplomatic powers later on if it seems expedient and in the interest of an early settlement of the Chinese problem to have directly on the field on authorized agent of the United States government. Miss Morrison Case Reopened. El Dorado, Ks., July 25.—The case of Jessie Morrison assumed another phase when Probate Judge Randall gave his decision, overruling the motion of the county attorney to quash the habeas corpus proceedings brought by Miss Morrison's attorney, and set August 10 as the date for a rehearing of the case before him. The judge also directed the sheriff to hold the prisoner here instead of taking her to Wichita. A German News Expedition. Berlin, July 26. - The German fleet society will send on August 5 a news expedition to China, for the purpose of reporting events entirely independent of Chinese or other newsgathering concerns. The expedition will consist of from fifteen to twenty men, equipped with field telegraphic apparatus, autowireless telegraphs and heliographs. Germany Gets Better Weather Berlin, July 26.—The hot wave has been broken and there has been terrific rain and thunder storms in many parts of Germany. The temperature is again moderate, but an enormous amount of damage has been done in the district west of Berlin, especially to fruit. Storm at LaCrosse, Wls. La Crosse, Wis., July 25.—A wind storm swept over here and the German Methodist church was struck by lightning and damaged $10,000. Much damage was done to the crops by the wind. Berlin's Answer on Mediation. Berlin, July 26.—Count von Buelow, minister of foreign affairs, made reply to the appeal of the emperor of China for German mediation between the powers and the Chinese government. Count von Buelow said he would not submit the telegram from the Pekin government to the emperor so long as the fate of the legations and other foreigners in Pekin were not ascertained and as long as the Chinese government had not atoned for the murder of the German minister to Pekin. Comes From Several Sources. London, July 25.—Sir Halliday Macartney, counselor and English secretary to the Chinese legation in London, asserts that the Pekin legations are safe and about to proceed to Tien Tsin. Paris, July 25.—M. Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs, received a telegram from the French consul at The Foo, dated July 21, saying: "The governor informs me that, according to reliable news from Pekin, all the foreign ministers are safe, and all necessary steps taken to protect them. FIRST DAY AT FORT SCOTT. All Three Conventions Organize as Committees Agreed. Thomas W. Morgan, of Eureka, temporary chairman of the Democratic convention, called that gathering to order. In the Populist convention, C. B. Hoffman, of Enterprise, was elected temporary chairman over State Senator L. P. King, by a vote of 312 to 221. Webb McNall was selected temporary as well as permanent chairman of the Silver Republician convention. Each convention, after disposing of the usual preliminaries, appointed conference committees and took a recess till afternoon. The afternoon sessions of the conventions were taken up with routine affairs and speech-making. Among the speakers before the several conventions were "Cyclone" Davis of Texas, Congressman De Armond of Missouri, and General J. B. Weaver, of Iowa. Rev. James Will Fight the Case. Kansas City, July 24.—Rev. Mr. T. H. James, the Methodist minister at Oakley, Kas., lately returned from London, England, where he had gone to claim a large fortune which he found involved in a legal tangle, will vigorously fight the case as soon as he recovers from his present illness. Two wealthy men in Kansas City, whose names are not given, have offered to furnish the money and $10,000 is at his command with which to proceed. Rev. Mr. James is now at McPherson, Kas., in a critical condition of nervous prostration and until he recovers it is not known just what will be done. Allies Jealously Watching. Tien Tsin. July 11.—The Russians announce their intention to keep control of the entire railway line between Takn and Pekin until the conclusion of hostilities, when they propose, they say, to restore it to the Chinese. Admiral Seymour strongly disapproves allowing them to repair the line beyond Tien Tsin. He considers that the British should insure the undertaking and conduct the repairs. Meanwhile the French are endeavoring to obtain control of all the river tugs. It is believed that they intend to share the control with Russia. Czar Nicholas Speake. Brussels, July 25.—Emperor Nicholas wishes the operations limited to the defense and pacification of the frontier districts. Let two strong armies, one of the allies in the south and the other of the Russians in the north, confront the Chinese, and the rising—so the czar is said to argue—would be bound to collapse. "We want no conquests," he is reported to have declared at the conclusion of the sitting of the council. "What we desire is to protect our frontiers and to steer into smooth waters the Chinese ship of state, now buffeted by the waves of civil war." It Was Imperial Troops. Berlin, July 27.—A writer in The Berliner Post says that both at Taku and Tien Tshi it was almost exclusively a force of Chinese troops that fought the allies, that the leadership of these troops was in the hands of the imperial generals, and that the troops which compelled Admiral Seymour to retreat were imperial soldiers commanded by an imperial general. The writer predicts that lack of harmony in military armies will prove bad for the allies. Terrific Storm at Irontown, Ohio. Ironont, Ohio, July 25.—A terrific wind, rain and hall storm swept over here demolishing a large planing mill, unroofed several houses and uprooted trees. Several houses were struck by Lightning. Changes in Administration Washington, July. 27.—It is reported with some degree of probability that the vacancy in the position of first assistant postmaster general, caused by the resignation of Perry S. Heath is to be filled by the appointment of Henry Clay Evans, pension commissioner, to that place. This is said to have been decided upon in accordance with the President's wish to gratify the soldier element and the G. A. R. especially. A popular ex-soldier is said to be slated for the pension office. A Hundred Carolus Dumped. Nashville, Tenn.. July 26.—Following telegraphic instructions from the American banana trust, twenty-nine cars, an entire train load, of extra fancy bananas were dumped along the right of way of the Louisville & Nashville railroad. The fruit was dumped because continued heavy shipments from Mobile would glut the northern markets and cause a drop in the price of the fruit. Since May 1 more than 100 cars of fine bananas have been dumped in the vicinity of this city. Germans Still Doubtful. Berlin, July 25.—The Berlin government and press continue to disbelieve the assurances of the Chinese authorities that the Pekin legations are safe. At all events the German foreign office will continue to regard the report that the legations still exist as a myth, until communication, now cut off for nearly a month, shall have been re-established. The question whether there exists a responsible government in Pekin is as much in doubt as ever and likely to remain so. LISTENED TO THE APPEAL. Is Willing To Mediate Between China And The Powers. Washington, July 25.—The president has listened to the appeal of the Chinese government as transmitted through Minister Wu, and has signified his willingness to mediate between the imperial government and the powers, but only upon conditions which first must be met by the Chinese government. It is known that the answer is entirely consistent with the statement of principles laid down by Secretary Hay in his identical note to the powers, and, moreover, it accepts as truthful the Chinese statements relative to the safety of the foreign ministers at Pekin. It would not, of course, be possible to take the initial steps toward mediation were either party to the negotiations to entertain openly distrust of the accuracy of the statements of the other. There must be confidence between them. The United States' answer does not go to the length of the French answer to a similar application in laying down conditions which the Chinese government could not meet, even if so disposed, if it actually is struggling for its own existence. It does, however, look to the immediate relief of the foreign missionaries in Pekin, and, moreover, to the protection of all foreigners, missionaries and traders in China and to the restoration of order. With that much accomplished, the state department feels that it can properly approach the powers with the Chinese propositions for a settlement for what has occurred. Neeley and Rathbone. Washington, July 27.—Mr. Bristow's report on Cuban embezzlements is given out. He finds that Neeley's embezzlements aggregated at least $131, 713, and says he was justified in recommending the removal of Director General Rathbone. Whether or not the latter was guilty with Neeley, he says, there can be no doubt that in the matter of unauthorized per diem allowances, personal expenses and warrants unaccounted for, he unlawfully appropriated to his own use the money of the United States. For this, Mr. Rathbone will be required to answer. Chinese Arsenal Captured. Tien Tsin, Friday, July 13, via Che Foo, July 17 and Shanghai, July 24. After fighting all day, a force of Japanese, supported by British and Russians, captured the Chinese fortified arsenal two miles east of the city, making a night attack. The foreigners charged under a very heavy fire from the arsenal, following the Chinamen and killing 400 of them. The foreign loss was heavy, but is not reported. Chang Remains in Shanghai. Washington, July 27.—The state department has received a cablegram dispatch from Consul General Goodnow, but it is stated that it contains nothing to clear up the situation at Pekin. Mr. Goodnow says that Li Hung Chang will remain at Shanghai for the present and will conduct his negotiations from that city. Snow and Hail in Michigan. Marshall, Mich., July 24.—Snow fell here for a few minutes during a hard wind storm. The wind did much damage, blowing down orchards and barns, unroofing houses and breaking glass. Federal Official Endorses Strike. St. Louis, Mo., July 27.—President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, who has been here investigating the strike of employees on the St. Louis Transit company, has left here for Chicago. W. P. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, said that before leaving here Mr. Gompers endorsed the strike and said the movement would have the support of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers is a U. S. official. Bradstreets' Report on Grain. New York, July 26.—The supply of wheat east of the Rocky mountains. decrease 625,000 bushels; in Europe and afloat on the ocean, decrease 1,300,000 bushels; total decrease, 1,925,000 bushels; against 678,000 bushels, increase a year ago. Corn decreased 1,168,000 bushels and oats decreased 872,000 bushels. There was a decrease of 102,000 bushels at Port Huron and 100,000 at northwestern interior elevators; with increase of 181,000 in Chicago and 75,000 at East St. Louis. Legations May be Sent to Tien Tsin. Paris, July 25.—This comes from Shanghai: "Information from Pekin, dated July 18, says that the tsung li yamen deputed Won Jui. an under sec- retary of the department, to see the foreign ministers and he found every one well, without any one missing, the German minister excepted. "General Yung Lu is going to memorize the throne to send them all under escort to Tien Tsin in the hope that the military operations will then be stopped." It stands to reason that the wom- who has no mind of her own can make her children mind. An Irish student says the posthum- works of an author are those he wri- after he is dead. A man is compelled to keep his wom- when no one will take it. Millions For Baseball A million of dollars are spent every year for baseball, but large as this it cannot equal the amount spent in search of health. We urge those who have spent much and lost hope to the Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, strengthens the stomach, makes digestion easy, and cures dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness and weak kidney. It's never so hot that it can't be hotter. The Bluest Blue makes the white white, that's Red Cross Ball Blue. Marrying an heiress is one kind of safety match. The most important change made at the recent provincial chapter of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana was the transfer of Rev. 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The recent annual report issued by the Insurance Commissioner of Michigan and the veto of the valued policy law passed by the Legislature of Iowa, by Governor Shaw of that state, have called public attention to the fact that there has been a widespread misunderstanding as to the true relations of fire insurance to public interests. Of late property owners, aroused by these statements from two eminent state officials, have been giving some thought to the subject, and the conclusions reached are that owing to a mis conception of the functions and practices of fire insurance companies, as well as to the prejudice fostered by professional politicians who play on the passions of the public, the people have been standing in their own light. As fire insurance premiums are a necessary part of the expense of every sensible business man and householder, it is but natural that the public should desire this item to be as low as possible, and that a fire insurance company should give a fair and equit- Recent investigations and study on the part of several men who pay large sums for indemnity owing to their extensive interests, have shown that the public is taking an entirely erroneous course in attempting to secure lower rates regardless of all other considerations, and that every law intended to compel rate reductions has in effect caused higher rates. The public mind looks upon a fire insurance company as a corporation, isolated entirely from any human interest, whose sole desire is to get as much money as possible with little trouble. The vital relationship between fire insurance companies and every form of business life is unrecognized, as is its capability to credit and commerce. Property to the amount of $150,000,000 is tentially destroyed in the United States every year. If this fell entirely on the losers it would cause business paralysis in hundreds of communities, large plants and small enterprises would be swept away, and the accumulations and work of a lifetime would be reduced to ashes. This calamity without any means of return would affect every person dependent upon or having deals with these various concerns. The business man having all or a large part of his means invested in his daily interests could obtain but little credit without his fire insurance policy, his operations would be hammered, and if his property were destroyed by fire he would in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred be bankrupt and unable to recover his loss. It is to prevent disaster of this kind that the fire insurance tax is collected. A heavy loss would cripple one man, but if properly apportioned all over the country the loser can regain his set and continue. Each property owner has his share into the fund, and it is distributed where losses occur. This interdependence of human life is nohere so nicely exemplified. Fire insurance companies were created to assess, collect and distribute this fire insurance tax. It is a system indirect taxation, necessary for the successful conduct of business, and because the tax gathering is done by competing institutions, and is not a government work, false ideas as to profits on part of the companies have been widespread. For a period of ten years (1890-1900) e companies have only made an average underwriting profit of thirty-six middles of 1 per cent. During 1898 Even the girl who complains that he has nothing to wear can still put mails. Parcell's Superstition: Farnell had some pet superstitions, according to his biographer, Barry Brien. "He would not pass another person on the stairs. He was horror-ticken to find himself sitting with free lighted candles; the fall of a picture in the room made him dejected for the entire afternoon, and he would have nothing to do with an important ill drawn up by a colleague because it happened to contain thirteen clauses. He also thought green a most unlucky color—a strange and inconvenient feeling for a Nationalist leader—and the right of green banners at the political meetings he addressed often unnerved me." May Come to Pass From Harlem Life: Immigrant Inspector—We have information that we come over here on contract. Lord Armand (indignantly) — Aw-what-er-ely, you wude, impudent fellah! I owe him here to marry Miss Aniina Goldust of New York. Immigrant Inspector (triumphantly) —Well, that's the matter with yer; ain't marrage the hardest kind of contract? we'll have to go back. Is a Lesson in Law. one day, when the late Judge Pinney of Wisconsin was a member of the supreme court of that state, a young lawyer who was arguing his first case began as follows: "Ancient his history teaches us—" The judge, looking up from the printed brief, remarked, "Young man, just pass over the ancient and medieval periods and be with the modern era." The young lawyer was put out for the nonce, but learned a lesson which has stood him in good stead ever since.—Philadelphia Record. they lost $1½ per cent; in 1899, they lost 13 7-10th per cent. Nearly $100,000,000 of cash assets have been year by year kept as a guarantee by the companies for the protection of their policy holders. It might be largely swept away by conflagration. The risk has been great, and yet taking every hazard into consideration, the average earnings from underwriting of American companies on their assets at risk have been less than $3½ per cent. Banks during the same period have earned 8 per cent. It will be seen, therefore, that the fire insurance companies have been earning but a small profit for the risk assumed in the investment. That the risk is great is shown by the fact that during the last quarter of a century over 1,200 American fire insurance companies have failed or retired, and out of the survivors, only 32 organized during the same period are still in business. Recognizing, then, that the companies have not been bleeding the public, policy holders who have been observing the trend of affairs see that anti-compact laws, valued policy laws and all legislation of such a nature, invariably cause higher rates because of the additional hazard, loss and expense to companies which has to be collected from the public. Statistics show that from 1892 rates in the United States steadily declined, while in the anti-compact law states, they continued to increase, and not until 1897 did they reach a lower percentage than in 1893. The average rate from 1893 to 1898 was $1.11 per $100 in the United States, eleven cents lower than in 1893. In states having an anti-compact law the average rate during the same period was $1.27, or one cent lower than in 1893. Laws prohibiting companies to associate together to maintain fair rates have utterly failed to reduce them. After such laws are enacted, no company with business principles will write policies at ruinous rates. The old rates, therefore, prevail. If companies were allowed to associate together and compare their experiences in these states, the figures might show that rates could be decreased. They cannot reduce them because they are forbidden by law to act in concert. Valued policy laws which require companies to pay the face of the policy in case of a total loss, whether the property burned is worth that amount or not, have increased the amount of fire waste and caused higher rates, because the greater loss requires just that much more fire insurance tax. When a fire company issues a policy of $10,000, for example, it does not agree to pay that amount in case of a loss, but it does give the policy holder the privilege of protection up to that amount. If he has that much value and it is destroyed, he is entitled to that amount of insurance. To compel companies, therefore, to pay the face of a policy, regardless of the value of the property destroyed, is an incentive to crime. When a man through misrepresentation secures $10,000 insurance on $5,000 worth of goods, the valued policy law compels the companies to pay, not the value of the property destroyed, but the amount named in their policies as the limit of their liability. The only persons who can possibly be benefited by such laws are those who carry insurance beyond the value of their property. Rates have to be increased where valued policy laws prevail to cover increased fire waste, in fact, it may be stated as an axiom that any law that increases the expense of fire insurance, or tends to increase the fire waste of this country, causes a corresponding increase in the cost of fire indemnity, which must be paid by people who need it. When you can drop a nickel into a phonagraph talk must be cheap indeed. Small Valuation: "Do you regard Silas Woodruff as one of the important people in Canby?" asked a summer visitor, referring to a member of the state legislature whose home was in the little town. "I hear he can talk up to the folks on politics," answered the Canby farmer to whom the question had been addressed, "so I reckon he's some use to the state, mebby; but in Canby we don't count him of any more value than a couple of rods of side hill." Youth's Companion. Hard to Take. "Jim, the loss of that $5 is like a barbed-wire fence." "How's that?" "Hard to get over."—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Church Divorce Laws. The lower house of the convocation of the church of England has passed a resolution declaring that the law of the church does not recognize divorce, and asking the bishops to devote themselves to securing action of parliament to the end that the church shall not marry divorced persons. Asior's Bargain. In 1803 John Jacob Astor bought two pieces of farm land on the side of New York city and paid for them $23,000. They are now worth about $5,000,000, while the Astor family has collected in these 95 years some $10,-000,000 of rents from them. One of Them. "My daughter," said the father, "has always been accustomed to all the luxuries of wealth." "Yees," replied the count, bristling up, "at zat ees what I am."-Philadelphia North American. Difficult to Stop. Experiments seem to show that a large ocean steamer, going at nineteen knots an hour, will move a distance of two miles after its engines are stopped and reversed, and no authority gives less than a mile to a mile and a half, as the required space to stop its progress. The violent collisions in some cases during fogs may thus be accounted for. Sandwich Men. The walking advertisement known as a "sandwich man" is by no means a modern idea. In 1346 a procession of men dressed to represent straw-covered wine bottles used to parade the streets of Florence, Italy, being hired by the wine merchants there. HEALTHY WOMEN. Mary J. Kennedy, manager of Armour & Co.'s Exhibit, at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, Neb. writes the following, as a Peruan, in Peruana, as a cure for that common phase of summer oatarrh, known as indigestion. Miss Kennedy says: [Illustration of a woman with a dark hair and a light-colored dress, set against an ornate decorative border with intricate patterns.] "I found the conti nual change of diet incidental to eight years' traveling completely upset my digestive system. In consulting several physician they decided I suffered with catarrh of the stomach. "Their prescriptions did not seem to help me any, so reading of the remarkable cures effected by the use of Peruna I decided toot it and soon found my- self well repaid. "I have now used Peruna for about three months and feel completely rejuvenated. I believe I am permanently cured, and do not hesitate to give unstinted praise to your great remedy, Peruna." The causes of summer catarrh are first, chronic catarrh; second, derangements of the stomach and liver; third, impure blood. Such being the case anyone who knows anything whatever about the operations of Peruna can understand why this remedy is a permanent cure for summer catarrh. It eradicates chronic catarrh from the system, invigorates the stomach and liver, cleanses the blood of all impurities, and therefore permanently cures by removing the cause—a host of maladies peculiar to hot weather. The cause being removed the symptoms disappear of themselves. "Summer Catarrh" sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. The flustered bride usually has all sorts of presence except presence of mind. Eat What You Like. When you take Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial, for then, dyspepsia, indigestion heartburn, foul breath, dizziness, and the long train of similar troubles will disappear and your cleaned and awakened system will demand food. Sound digestion and sound appetite go together, and both follow the use of this time-tried remedy. Sold by agent in every town. If there were no fools in the world wisdom would be at a discount. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the great educational institutions of the West, which appears in another column of this paper. Those of our readers who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the president, who will send them a catalogue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, etc. There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the university, in which students of all grades will have every opportunity of preparing themselves for higher studies. The Commercial Course, intended for young men preparing for business, may be finished in one or two years according to the ability of the student. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under thirteen, is an unique department of the institution. The higher courses are thorough in every respect, and students will find every opportunity of perfecting themselves in any line of work they may choose to select. Thoroughness in class work, exactness in the care of students, and devotion to the best interests of all, are the distinguishing characteristics of Notre Dame University. Fifty-six years of active work in the cause of education have made this institution famous all over the country. The more grass a man has on his lawn the mower he wants. SEND 47 cts. New Plances & Common best grade at half price. COMMON SERVICE VIOLIN A new editor having taken charge of the Gallatin North Missouri, the following apologetic notice appears in the first issue published under his management: "Attention has been called to one blemish upon our record, and of a term in the Missouri legislature, but we can offer as an extenating circumstance the fact that when an attempt was made to give us another term we were acquitted by a very large majority." Proof Against Wasp-Stings. Mr. Murray, a Scottish naturalist, in a recent paper on the habits of wasps, tells how a blackbird will stand at the side of a hanging wasps' nest and deliberately tear it in pieces, in order to get at the larvae, apparently undisturbed by the swarm of angry insects, whose vicious stings instantly put to flight the human curiosity seeker who ventures near to watch the demolition. Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Ease Trade-Mark. Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunction, with costs, and a full accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder, and the manufacturer of the foot powder, also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark's Foot Powder, which is declared, in the decision of the Court, an limitation, and infringement of "Foot-Ease" and the right to wear shoes for tired, aching feet, now so largely advertised and sold all over the country. Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N.Y., is the owner of the trade-mark "Foot-Ease, and he is the owner of a foot powder extender over the country. He will send a sample Free to any one who writes him for it. The decision in this case upholds his trade-mark and renders all parties liable for the loss of the foot powder it by the extensive "Foot-Ease" advertising, in placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing preparation, labeled and put up in envelopes and boxes like Foot-Ease. Similar suits are filed against who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trademark and common law rights. 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The chap with the peppery temper is usually the one who is charged with assault. Stung by a Centipede. Mrs. Thos. Saunders, Blufton, Texas, was stung by a centipede. A doctor was sent for, but before he arrived some sensible friend wet a piece of brown paper with Morley's Wonderful Eight and applied to the wound. The doctor said his services were not needed, for the poison was neutralized or killed by the Wonderful Eight. Mrs. S. did not suffer from the wound. Sold by agent in every town. Better make your calls short than pose as a vawn maker. USE THE BEST FAULTLESS STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS, COLLARS, CUFFS, AND FINE LINEN State Ledger. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN SUBSCRIPTION six months 75c One Year 1.50 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS CASH IN AD- ANCE. entered at post office at 10peke, 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 pro. ptly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave, Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 330 Kans Ave. All calls romptly attended. Tel 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, Top: ka Kansas. office hours, 11:00 to 12 m, 2:00 to 4:30 pm Residence 624 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 660 GEORGE DICK, M. D. Homoeopathi8t Residence 626 Filimo 8t. Telephone 360. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S. G. STEWART, M. D. FICE 621 KANSAS AVE. TELPHONE 541 RSIDENCE 511 W. 5TH ST ELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A. M. 1 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M. ELEPHONE 558. OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given. to Diseases Stomach and Lungs and Female Troub- ces. Office Hours: -9 to 12 -2 to 5--7 to 9 Phone DR, R. O, RHODES, OFFICE 500 Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing C..) OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A, M. 2 to 5 P. M. Residence, 500 West Sixth street! Phone 656. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO: 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATIIC REMEDIES. ART MA TERIALS.] Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Regulator: Cures INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and RIHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P. O. Aljoining Capital of Kansas. M r, 27. GO TO E. W. Griggs for photos, fine pictures. Car--901 Kas. ave. W. D. Wrede, J. Mason and Cistern builder also wells. Patrie needing service leave ord is at LEDGER office Go to J, P, Johnsons for any thing you want in the line of fine cigar's tobbacco and confectionery, 409 Kas. ave. The American School of Magnetic Healing. WELTMER METHOD. Every known disease cured without medicine. DOCTOR M. M PENDRCY,-614 Marke Street Emporia, Yarasoy. Miller's Pharma- cy. 6th & TOPEKA AVL. Drug,s Medicines, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. cy. 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: From 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. Henderson paint works. J, A. HENDERSON, PROP. Manufactures of all kinds of PAINTS. Strictly Pure. 609 Mass. Street. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. F. M. Pletcher. CARPENTER & BUILDER FURNITUE AND JOB WORK SOLIC TED. 119 E. 7th St. 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 irom $801 $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 Sohett Your Trade, We will Serve You Right BAKERY, Many years experience. French' home Bakery 316 E. 4th 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, RAHRER, Prop. U.S. CYCLE GO. NATIONAL N.27. Difficult Bicycle Repairing a Specialty Lock 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. CAPITAL PHARMACY DRUGS AND MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES. Medical Advice Free. Ice Cream Soda 5c. Give Them a Trial, 929 KAS. AVE. E. H. PHILLIPS, JEWELER & OPTICIAN Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guaranteed. We Solicit your Patronage. SEE UNCLE SAM AT 512 KAS. AVE., For a new Clock or fine Watch eparing The best up-to-date and most polite jeweler in the city. See Uncle Sam, 512 K.s. ave. JOHN MILLER, Dealer In Flour, Feed, Grath, Hay, And all kinds of Coal. 120 East Eighth St.. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writ- ing material—832 Kansas avenue M. L. GOSHORN. 1014 Quincy Street. Paper Hanging and inside finishing a speciality. 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. 1300 QUINCY ST. L. A. FISHER. Dealer In CLOTHING, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, BCOTS, 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. K. 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, S', PALACE HOTEL E.C. THRALL PROP. Serves first class meals and Lodging Meals and Lodging open day and night 118 W, 6th St. Bowersock- Milling Co. Lawrence Kas. High Grade Hour, ROPT, R, CLARK M.r. 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 Seventh St. UNDEKTAKER. FUNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN KANS. J. C. JUSTICE. 220 West 6th Street. Dealer in staple and fancy groceries, fresh and cured meats, plenty country produce always on hand. Give him a trial. HOLE IN WALL When in LAWRENCE stop at WEYER-MULLER'S RESTAURANT—SHORT ORDER. Open Dive and Night. 720 Mass., Stroet. TURNER BROS., Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Order. BURLINGAME KAS. MRS. ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cuttig, Sewing—Gave her a trial. 826 Com'l street Emporia, Kas. Pure Mea and Spices etc. TOPEKA SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 DR. ADAM RUPIN (HOMCEOPATHISt.) THE NOTED GERMAN PHYSI has a professional record of forty ye ACCUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASE He is especially well prepared and eminently s treatment of Vernal diseases, Nasal and Throat Cate la Cancer, Rheumatism, Granulated Dyspepsia, Female Weakness, Piles, D s. CONSULTATION IN GERMAN Office 106 East Sixth Street, CALL AND SEE CERTIFICATES TOPEKA SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 Passon's dep't store, DEALER IN Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. ADAM RUPIN, SR. (HOMOEOPATHIST.) NOTED GERMAN PHYSICIAN, personal record of forty years treating NOTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES. well prepared and eminently successful in the treatment of ses, Nasal and Throat Catarrh, Scrofa. Rheumatism, Granulated Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, Female Weakness, Piles, Dropy and all Cases. ALTATION IN GERMAN OR ENGLISH Fast Sixth Street, T AND SEE CERTIFICATES OF WONDERFUL DR. ADAM RUPIN, SR. DR. ADAM RUPIN, SR. la Cancer, Rheumatism, Granulated Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, (Fit, ) Dyspepsia, Female Weakness, Piles, Dropy and all Chronic Disease es. CONSULTATION IN GERMAN OR ENGLISH FREE. Office 106 East Sixth Street, Topeka, Kansas CALL AND SEE CERTIFICATES OF WONDERFUL SURES Kansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT I PRO'S, PROP's., 706 E. 2ND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. GO 10 Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Vour Trade. GO 10 LOUIS VANDORP. PCR HARDWARE and STOV ES Screen Doors, Ice-Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas Ave Screen Doors, Ice-Cream Freezers, Ha These are the things you need Give l BAUGHMAN THE LEAD ICE CR Their Flavors GIVE THEM FCR HARDWARE en Doors, Ice-Cream Freezets, Hammockssand Garden- the things you need Give hima call. 82 BUGHMAN BR HE LEADERS ICE CREAM. their Flavors Are Delic VE THEM AN ORI 3. 23rd & Line BAUGHMAN BRO'S. THE LEADERSIN ICE CREAM. Their Flavors Are Deiiclous. GIVE THEM AN ORDER. WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF OUR TRADE. State Ledger Office (UP STAIR State Ledger Office, 431 Kas Ave. (UP STAIRS.) Ledger Office, 431 Ka ( UP STAIRS. ) Tel,253. Notice of final Settlement. THE STATE OF KANSAS, Shawnee County, S. S. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of James Cook Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid Estate are her by notified that I shall apply to the Probate Court, in and for said County, sitting at the Court House, in Topeky county of Shawnee State of Ransas, on the 2nd day of July A. D. 1900, for a tull and final settlement of said Estate. W. I. Jamison, Administrator of the Estate of James Cook deceased. 6-9. A. D. 19 0. Peoples Feed, 537 Kansas Avenue, North Topeks. Full weights. Goods promptly delivered. Passon's dep't store, DEALER IN Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Kan. ed Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, (Fit, ) Dropsy and all Chronic Disease AN OR ENGLISH FREE. Topeka, Kansas ES OF WONDERFUL SURES. live Them Your Trade. 115 O ER HARDWARE and STOVES Hammocks and Garden-Tools. e hima call. 828 Kansas Ave AN BRO'S., DERSIN REAM. Free Delicious. AN ORDER. rd & Lincoln St. ec, 431 Kas. Ave, IRS.) Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence K'an. Passon's dep't store, Your truly Dr. A. Pupin IRISH PKOVERBS AND SV INGS. He is better fed than taught. It's an ill bird that soils its o nest. He is not covetous, but he'd i have all. He that is born to be heng will never be drowned. He was looking 'at somebo drinking. He would swear a hole through a griddle. He'd skin a flea for its hide an tallow. if ifs and ands were pots pans, where would be the use inkers? Irish World. He Didn't Get the Hoy. In one of the towns of Kau that had just put in a telephone there was a livery-man who was not used to talking over a wire and managed general to the talking business off onto clerk, but one day the clerk has been to be out. When the livery man was needing hay. He is the bell the bell and called a feed store without saying who was called out: "Bring down some hay." "Who is it for?" inquired the feed man. "Whats that?" was the nerve and irritable response of the live man. "I said who is the hay for? He can I bring hay unless I know it is for?" That made the livyerman wasn't used to telephones hot for the horses, of course. You didn't suppose I eat hay my did you?" Then the livyerman rung off and a couple hours after he was roaring and decorating speech with strong language cause the feed man didn't but the hay. ex. Remember that the Davis Mercantile Got Topeka Ave is the place to patron. You will get your money's worth by the Davis Mercantile Go. The Diamond Drug Store, 6th and anne街斯. Give them a call. Dr. W. H. Winslow, does a general tice. Special attention given the ear ear. Spectacles fitted, furnished to at wholesale rates; Office 704 Mass., St. Tele. 260-5, Residence, 1901 New pshire Street. Tele. 191-2. HE WAs DIFFERENT Nerve item from the Great Bent Tribune: There is a certain tie traveling man who 'makes Great Bend on whom they story of nerve which is unprotected. He had been out of "the boys" and left that same thing for a station near here. When the conductor came alone for his ticket he handed him card saying that was ticket enough for him. "Well, but look here said the conductor, "this wasn't you've got to give me a ticket, the rest of these people have." "Thats all right for these ot people," in an impressive manner, he continued, "but just let who I am," and he rode, too, course the house for which traveled footed the bill, but nerve this man i all right. The Eskimo children have er things to eat than snow- and icebergs. Things grow in fast in the short arctic som. As soon as the snow melts of many places the ground is coed with a vine which bears a berry something like a huckleberry, porwong it is called. It is and has a pungent taste, and Indians leave off work, porwong hurting, cramthemse ves with the berries. a lucky thing that the summer so short or there would be an demic of cholera. ex.