State Ledger

We have no trouble to getads. No tron- tle with subscribers We have the caper- ance, and you the money—pass the cash this way. By F. L. JELTZ. PRESIDENT. W. M. McKINLEY, OF OHIO. VICE PRESIDENT THEC. ROOSEVELT. OF NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. for veneror- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, for Lieutenant Governor- H, E, RICATER, Morris County, 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 Justruction- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County. r Insurance Commissionel- W, V, CHURCI. Marion County. For Congressmen, Third District- G. W. WHEATLEY. Galena Fourth District- J, M. MILLER, Council Grove, Fifth District- W. A. CALDERHEAD, Marysville Sixth District- W. A. REEDER, Logan, Seventh District- CHESTER I LONG, Medicine Lodge, Lodge— CHAS F. SCOTT, Iola R CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST. HON. CHAS. CURTIS. OR CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST ON.J-D.BOWERSOCK Don't kick but stick. Down with those things that effect us most—Bryanism. Has D. W. Malvane been audicapped or side racted( ?) Don't lose sight of your honor or keep everthing in place. Stay with your party don't leave them when your are needed most. Be a vigilant watch on all felons who promise to live by the principles of the Republican party. The Journal says Mr. Albaugh turned home the other day to make hands. There is a clause in the moments of every man's life wherein he is a burden. What is called contentness seems to be suicide with some of our best men. The things that we hate to see those things that confront us must on every turn of the way. Remember if it was not for the republican party your schools could not open Sept. 18th in this city. We love those well who love us most those colored men who resume is nice to support Bry- night to emmig ate to North and south Carolina. The State Ledger. Some Negroes in selling their vote to the Democratic party will pay more for it in return. The Santa Fe railroad under the direction of Passenger agent W. J. Black is the busiest road in the west. So many to satisfy. The people who frequent St. John A. M. E. church as so called members should pay Dr. Shaffer his salary which is long past due. Dr. C S Sunday and the editor of this paper has recently returned from an extended trip throughout Kansas making speeches for the Republican party. Earnest Hawkins, the dude "domni black," of Ft. Scott, Kas, has returned to his home and takes up the gavel on the 17th of this month. Our public schools are open to the public on the 18th inst. We will leave it to you is this not a blessing? Well if you appreciate it why not support McKinley, Stanley, Curtis and the whole Republican ticket this fail? Do it, is our motto. We stand before you as a living monument. What's the matter with us any way don't think we are going to jump the track, help or no help from the State Central Committee, we intend to do all we can for the success of the Republican ticket from now till after the Nov. election this fall. Every colored man should do the same! A Mull to women is supposed to have been killed at Huron a few days ago. She was a beggar it is time for women to quit begging and remain satisfied at their homes or some one else home and quit bumming and loating and begging. Mr. A. Fleck, who used to operate the elevator company in Lebanon, Smith County, has made a fine deal and has charge of the Palmer Elevator Co. He is a stirring young business man and it is safe to predict that he is sure to succeed. Mr. C. Frohm, has purchased the Waterville Elevator Company which cost the neat sum of $15000 Mr. Frohm formerly operated the Linn Elevator Company, but recently made the above purchase his business is improving and the capacity of his elevator exceeds any in that part of the state. Peck, the supposed Negro rapist sentence to prison for life, and while it is saying a good deal to hang horse thieves and rapists who take the advantage of 6 year old children. However such kind of punishment meted out to such villian if they are guilty white or colored it will soon be eliminated from the calendar of crimes. No fair minded colored man can take any interest in such criminal. --- This fight on Roosevelt is nothing. No sane colored man can afford to vote for Stevenson. If colored people are so fond of loving rebels that belong to Senator Harris party, they should take a ride down below the line of Dixie, and we will be hanged if they will, if they don't get killed support any more rebels. It is told of a farmer living near Guthrie that he was given an invitation while in town the other day to listen to phonograph. He was shown how to adjust the ear piece and the maceine started. Suddenly he dropped the whole thing and started for the street exclaiming: "There comes a brass band up the street and I left the mules untied!" ex. A few men in this country have adopted the shit waist, but man will have to practise for years before he can hold eighteen pins between his lips and talk eighty words a minute. ex. The agent at the depot was disturbed Thursday morning by the cries of some infant chickens in egg cases en route to Fredonia from Elk City. Five hearty, robust chickens was the result of an investigation, and Eunice, the agent's little daughter, now has two in her charge. The question is what was paid for, the eggs or the chicks? ex. The other day a Clay Center traveling man took a pair of pants to a tailor to be mended. When he went after them he was informed the job was worth fifty cents. The traveling man thought the price to high and said he mights as well give the tailor the trousers as to pay that price for them, whereupon he left the shop quite angry. The next day he went after the trousers and found that the tailor had sold to a colored man who was wearing them. The traveling man has applied to the city attorney for permission to trash the tailor, and as it has been granted him we may see lively fun in the near future. Ex LOOKAT THIS The Health food store at 118 East 5th street, has a good line of Santtarium Health foods which are just what you need, if you are sick, and they will be a luxury for you if you are well. Go and get some of their Cereal Coffee. It is much more healthy drink than the coffee that you have used all your life. If you are in need of a good Bible or some religious books that will sh w you the truths of the Bible more pliably than you have known them before, call and examine the fine line at Mrs Francis Thompson died at her residence 926 Clay St. this city on the 25 uft. Mrs Thompson was a sufferer from dropsy she was 52 years of age. She was the beloved wife of Frank Thompson who has lived in this city for twenty years. She was buried from st. Jhon's A. M. E. Church. Rev. Shaffer officiated. She died in the faith of the A. M. E' Church. School opens Sept. 18th. Boys and girls are beginning to put their books together, put away bills and bats and getting ready for work. Be fair, this is no timeto trade horses stand by the party that has created thousand's of colored Schools, North and South, and made it possible for colored children to enter therein. The republican state central committee may be doing a gracious act if they will remember the colored editors in the distribution of the peoples money we have not complained as yet but do something. We have to tell you the same old story no Democracy for us, especially this year. No colored man should have any sympathy for the same old coon with a ring around his tail. Some dictators who hang around the state committee headquarters have made it their duty to approve this paper by saving it has no influence but this kind of practice has been kept up before and the result was we lost the state. The Republican party needs all votes they can get. We don't need any boss krokers around the Copeland this year, knocking against this fellow and that tellow, but every tub should stand on its own bottom, and each man who does this dictating should be rebuked at the hands of those who are in charge of the peoples funds and let that money be expended in places where it will do the most good, and the newspapers are the proper sources. Mayor Drew's action in hewing to the line, letting the chips fall where they may tend to show that he is a man hard to be convinced or sati fied. The mayor did not mean for Mr. Ramsey to kill Mr. Hilton whom the statement has been made against. If thy heart filled thee climb not at all. It colored men who do not travel only knew how / little Democrats think of them when they wish to stop at a restaurant or hotel operated by them every one of them would vote straight this fall. The rotten action of the southern and eastern Negro Democrats coming out for Bryan is damnable. They will find that they will cut little or no figure when Nov. election dawns. For instance, we have always had Negro Democrats and we have always had h-1. Down south the deception of good things to come if Negroes support Bryan on the part of Democrats is folly. Mrs W. D. Woodall has gone to Kentucky to visit friends and relatives and Mr. Woodall is a train porter on the Rock Island. A Polish couple came before a justice of the peace to be married. The justice looked at the document which authorized him to unite in matrimony Zachareewiez Perczynski and Leokawarda Jeu liaseika, "Ahem!" he said. "Zacha h'm--h'm--ski, do you take this woman---? and so forth. Yesir," responded the young man. Yeo-h'm-th-ska, do you you take this man to be---?" and so forth. 'Yes sir.' "Then I pronounce you n an and wite," said the justice, glad to find something he could pronounce: "and I heartily congratulate you both on having reduce those two names to one.—ex. One Sunday the minister of a small northern country church had the misfortune to forget his sermon, and did not discover his loss till he reached the church, says the Glasglow correspondent Suddenly an idea struck him. He sent for John, the beadle, and instructed him to give out the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm (containing 176 verses) while he hurried home for his sermon. On his journey back to the church he saw his faithful beadle standing at the church door wav ing his arms and urging him to hurry. On reaching the door he exclaimed: "Are they all singing, yet John?" "Aye, sir," replied John; "Thev are at it yet, but they are cheepin like sparries." ex. A weary congressman, who could "snore upon the flint," occupied a room adjoining a German musician's. "You will have to give me another room, I guess," said the congressman to the hotel clerk. "What's the matter? Aren't you comfortable where you are?" "Well, not exact'y. That German musician in the next room and I don't get along well. Last night he tooted away on his clarinet so that I thought I never would go to sleep. After I had caught a few winks I was awakened by a pounding at my door. What's the matter? I asked. If you please,' said the German, 'do you would schnore of der same key. You vas go from B flat to G, and spils der moose, ex. GOT HIS JOB AGAIN. A good story is told of a man called William, who is engaged as a window cleaner at a certain big hotel in London. One morning William, instead of doing his work, was reading the paper, and as bad luck would have it, tha manager looked in. "What's this?' he said. William was dumb. "Pack up your things and go," said the manager. So he went to the office, drew the money which was coming to him, and then went up stairs and put on his Sunday clothes. Coming down stairs to say good bye to the other servants, he happened to run across the manager, who did not recognize him in his best coat. "Do you want a job?" asked the manager. "Yes, sir," said William. "Can you clean windows?" "You look a handy sort of chap. I only gave the last man 22 shillings, but I'll give you 25. "Thank you, sir," sir said William; and in a half an hour he was back in the same room—cleaning the windows this time, and not reading the paper. ex. --- We guarantee the people who advertise,quick returns most reliable newspaper a mong all classes. VOL. 9, NO. 3. Leverson, the traitor, dares the United States to arrest him. The United States is not sticking pins in dead flies. China is no good in war. China does everything b ckward, and until the human feet are hung into the legs different it will not be possible to back into a fight. The worst enemy of labor is a working man who will not work. As a rule hard luck never associates with prudence and industry. Many a man boasts of his ancestors who'd be ashamed to admit he belonged to the family. Life seems to be made up of ardent desires and vain regrets. Theodore Wallart, a farmer living three miles from town, killed his wife and two of his step-children a girl of 16 and a baby, and seriously wounded his 10 year-stepson. He then set fire to the barnes, destroying the stable with nine horses, a corncrib and a full hay barn. Three years ago Wallart married the widow Stanbers and for some little time they have been trouble. The wife had recently been trying to secure a divorce and had token means to prevent Wallart from coming to the farm. After practicing in the woods with a revolver he returned the house and entered by a window. His wife was evidently alarmed by the noise and was killed as she left the bed. The baby was found dead on the lounge, and the girl on the floor in her bedroom. A second boy was seriously wounded and has been brought to town and it is feared he may die. Wallart took to the woods after the crime and has not been located. Ex. One summer when William M. Evarts was at his country home in Windsor, Vt., a farmer who had followed his political career in the newspapers for many years was extremely anxious to see him in the flesh, and drove eighteen miles into town in order to catch a g impse of his idol. Senator Evarts at that time was being entertained constantly, dining out almost every night, and as he drove out of his grounds to an appointment one evening the farmer was lying in wait for him in the road. The latter, seeing the pale, acetic face and meagre form of the famous statesman was disappointed. "Weil, I declare," he exclaimed, "looks as if he'd always boarded!" ex. The New York Telegram releats a story of a little girl, the daughter of a clergyman, who was ailing, and in consequence had been put to bed early. "Mamma," said she, "I want to see my dear papa." "No, dear," said her mother. "Papa is not to be disturb just now." Presently came the pleading voice: "I want to see my papa." "No," was the answer. "I cannot disturb him." Then the four-year-old parishoner rose to a question of privilege. "Mamma," said she' "I am a sick woman, and I want to see my minister!" Ex. A. T. WAGGONER. DRUGS AND MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave. YOUR TRADE SOLICITED THESTATELEDGER KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mrs. Hay, of Arkansas City, has lived in one house 29 years. L. B. Graves, a wealthy man of Parsons, who was the first lumber dealer there, has killed himself with a razor. The new Missouri Pacific depot at Wichita is to be completed November 1 in spite of strikes by stone masons. The brick work is begun. A crowd of 40,000 people is predicted for August 23, at the meeting in Topeka for notifying Mr. Bryan of his nomination at the Sioux Falls convention. Joshua Keene, of Montgomery county, this year with the assistance of two men raised and harvested 3,200 bushels of wheat, 2,500 of oats and expects to have 8,000 bushels of corn. L. D. Thompson of Johnson county, marketed his crop of flax seed from 35 acres and received $012.50 cents for it. He does not claim to have had the best crop in his neighborhood. Up to about 73 a quarter of fresh buffalo hung up anywhere on the prairies of Western Kansas would not taint but dry out. It is not so now, which shows how the climate has changed. Three St. Frances men bunched their cattle and hired a herder. The boy went after rabbits with his dogs and the cattle went into a field of green sorghum and 15 of the cows were killed by being gorged with the sorghum. Florence has six regular passenger trains daily each way on the main line of the Santa Fe; four trains daily leaving there on the McPherson and El Dorado branches, and several freight and accommodation trains. While W. K. Maxwell, general baggage agent of the M. K. & T., stationed at Parsons, was in Boston to attend the convention of general baggage agents, he was taken ill and was operated upon for appendicitis. About 300 people, who had gathered in Wichita from over the Seventh district, took train there for the editorial excursion at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. At Beaumont the Oklahoma special was put into the same train. Many students who desire advanced standing, as they come from other colleges and universities, are corresponding with Kansas university. There is every prospect for the largest enrollment ever made, for the coming year. Lincoln Park, Mitchell county has a grove of most magnificent oak trees that have probably not grown any since Columbus landed; as it takes 300 years for an oak to grow, 300 years to mature and 300 years to die. These trees are still thrifty. During a picnic at a public meeting in Emporia two young men grabbed a baby carriage and held it over their heads until-the crowd was quieted. When they let it down it was found to be empty, but that does not lessen the nobleness of the deed, as they thought they were saving a life. Union Pacific railroad land limits reach north from Wallace county into Sherman county with 63,520 acres; south from Wallace county into Greeley county with 55,200 acres; north from Logan county into Thomas county with 171,200 acres; and south from Logan county into Wichita county with 12,480 acres. All of this region has Denver for a market. Emporia owns her own electric light plant. A lineman fell with a rotten pole the other day and now he is suing the city for $10,000 damages. Presiding Elder George W. Howes, of the Southwest Kansas conference of the M. E. church, died recently of congestion of the brain. Death came suddenly. A crowd of St. Joseph, Mo., moneyed men is organizing with a capital of half a million dollars, to buy a large tract of country in western Kansas for the purpose of raising cattle. One robber was killed in the weeds and another burned in a dugout, near Goodland. They are believed to be of the gang which held up a train near Hugo, Colo. Two citizens were shot in the fight, but they will probably recover. J. M. Neville, of Douglas county, took 20 steers to the Kansas City market which averaged 1,473 pounds and brought $5.85 a hundred. They were bought as feeders 80 days before and averaged a gain of 3 pounds a day each. The Wichita Eagle corrects the statement, first made by the Eagle, that the Gould Salt works at Hutchinson are closed; was wrougly informed. Department Commander Martin has designated the Santa Fe as the official route for the Kansas soldiers to the Chicago encampment, Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Mrs. Crumley, of Iola, was paid the other day, $5,406, insurance on the life of her father. The payment was the first she knew that there was insurance on her father's life. Lawrence has commenced the work of street paving. Three wild swans have been sent east from Wichita. A band of cattle thieves, 35 in number, has just been broken up in Meade county. Saline county politicians of all parties are advertising for a candidate for coroner. One day recently there were 65 cars loaded with wheat on the sidings at Ellsworth. Germans for 200 miles around will gather for a picnic day at Marysville, September 10-12. The Katy announces a 40 cents per 100 pounds rate for Kaw Valley potatoes to Texas common points. St. Francis hospital, Wichita, is to have a $20,000 addition. It is already a very large building. Eight hundred Saline and McPherson county people, by special train, picnicked at Fort Riley last week. Rev. Mr. Perry Round, Baptist minister at Elwood, was drowned while bathing in the Missouri river. Work is well under way on a creamery at Palco in which farmers in that vicinity have taken stock to the amount of about $2,000. The 12-year-old daughter of O. E. Carlson, of Assaria, Saline county, lost her life by starting a fire in the kitchen stove with gasoline. Samuel Isaacs, a Rock Island brakeman, was crushed to death between cars, at Valencia. He was single and was from Duquoin, Illinois. It is said that the wheat raised in Ellis county, Kansas, this year will amount to enough to give every voter in the county $1,800 in cash. A citizen of Rosalia township, Butler county, says he has resided there 27 years and that there has not been a fist fight or a lawsuit in the township in all that time. Barton county farmers celebrated the close of their wheat harvest by attending a circus. Everybody was there. Special trains came in from neighboring towns. A young lady of Council Grove has painted the house in which she* and her mother lives and has done as good a job as could have been done by any painter in the town. 'A contract is closed for the erection of a new court house at Clay Center, at a cost of $33,700. No bonds. A 3 mill levy raises $10,000 a year until the court house is paid for. The war department has decided to send another equipment for the Kansas National Guard to replace the $20,000 worth carried from the state by recruits for the Spanish war A neighborhood herb doctor at Greeley concocted some medicine by boiling some jimpson weeds in a kettle which she afterwards cooked roasting ears in for supper. The combination caused a very sick family. A couple aged 60 were married in New York 40 years ago; 30 years ago they were divorced, both marrying again and raising families. Now they have been married again. The bride long resided in Salina where her two sons are living. Way out in Western Kansas, in a town of less than 200 people a wedding is told of and costumes described thus: "The bride's dress was a very handsome rich brocaded white satin, trimmed with jets, white silk lace and white satin ribbon; slippers of heavy white satin. The bridesmaid was dressed in a beautiful pink mull with white stripes trimmed with chiffon, white lace and black velvet ribbon." The application for a writ of habeus corpus in the case of Miss Jessie Morrison, of El Dorado, was refused, and and the sheriff was enjoined from removing her to the Wichita jail. She remains in the Butler county jail without bail. A shipment of supplies received at the Leavenworth Soldiers' home weighed 19,000 pounds, consisting of hats, caps, shirts, drawers, socks, pants coats, blouses, shoes, suspenders and stationery. The total membership of the home is now 3,549. A company has been formed which has bought 80 acres of land in Saline county to establish a plant to burn gumbo ballast and will employ 35 men at the start. One Kansas dealer alone shipped 200,000 bushels of hard winter wheat to Minneapolis and he said that he was one of the dealers who handled a comparatively small amount of wheat. Kansas hard winter wheat is going to the Minneapolis mills to be ground up and sold as Minneapolis spring wheat flour. The $5,000 indebtedness upon the college of Emporia has been paid and and now the $35,000 library, which Mr. Carnegie offered to give the college upon that condition, will come. Governor Stanley has endorsed E. T. Fairchild, president of regents of Kansas Agricultural college, as custodian of the Fort Hays military reservation, the 7,000 acres recently granted by congress to the state for educational purposes, until the legislature next winter takes action in accepting said donation to the state. TRANS-PACIFICTRADE Importance of Manila as a Distributing Market for China and Japan-Hawaii and Australia Now Large Buyers of American Produce. The market which the people of the United States will be able to make in the Philippines, while amounting to many millions of dollars, is, however, a small item compared to that which opens to them through the possession of the Philippines as an entre port for the distribution of American goods in the Orient. Grouped around Manila as a point of distribution lies the most densely populated part of the world. More than 80,000,000 of people form the population of Japan, Asiatic Russia, China, French Cochin China, Slam, British India, Australasia, the Dutch East Indies, etc., all of which are nearer to Manila, as a point of distribution, than any other great commercial center, while such cities as Canton, Shanghai and others are near Manila as Havana is to the city of New York. The commerce of this section, of which Manila may be made a great commercial center, now amounts to more than $2,000,000,000 per annum, and its annual purchases $1,200,000,000 per annum, or an average of $100,000,-000 a month. Practically all this vast sum which it sends to other parts of the world is expended for the class of goods for which the people of the United States are now seeking a market. Cotton and cotton goods, bread-stuffs, provisions, dairy products, manufactures of iron, steel and wood, the products of the farm and factory, are demanded by the people of that part of the world. In most cases the apparent disposition is for these countries to purchase from the people of the United States rather than from any other section or people. China, which in 1880 took only 2.5 per cent of her imports from the United States, in 1898 took 8.2 per cent of her imports from this country. Japan, which in 1893 took only 6.8 per cent of her imports from the United States, took 14.4 per cent of her imports from this country in 1898. Our exports to China, which in the fiscal year 1893 were but $3,900,457, were in 1899 $14,493,440. Our exports to Japan, which in 1893 were $3,195,494, were $17,264,688 in 1899, and in the fiscal year of 1900 reached $25,000,000. To British Australasia our exports, which in 1894 were $8,131,939, were in 1899 $19,777,129, and reached $25,000,-000 in 1900. To the Hawaiian Islands our exports in 1893 were $2,827,663, and in 1899 $3,905,470, while those of the fiscal year 1900 were $14,000,000) To the Philippines our exports in 1897 were less than $100,000, and in the year 1900 exceeded $2,000,000. Taking Asia as a whole, our exports, which in 1893 were but $16,222,354, were in 1899 $48,360,161, and in 1900 amounted to $65,000,000, or four times those of 1893. To Oceania our exports, which in 1893 were $11,199,477, were in 1900 in excess of $40,000,000. Thus our exportations to Asia and Oceania, which in 1893 were $27,000,000, were in 1900 upward of $100,000,000, or four times those of seven years ago. That such fields still remain open to us in the Orient is, however, shown by the following table, prepared by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics from the latest available data, showing the value of the imports and exports of the Orient and the share of the United States therein: British East Indies..... $ 211,532,305 $ 365,217,000 British Australia... 277,879,000 278,798,000 Chile..... 146,977,000 110,849,000 Japan..... 138,751,000 82,877,000 Straits Settlements..... 109,955,000 97,822,000 Dutch East Indies..... 66,458,000 80,901,000 Russia, Asiatic..... 21,579,000 29,456,000 Slam..... 19,384,000 25,280,000 Philippine Islands..... 18,559,000 15,456,000 Hawaiian Islands..... 7,145,000 15,456,000 Mauritius..... 15,010,000 15,652,000 Persia..... 25,476,000 15,054,000 Ceylon..... 20,722,000 14,641,000 Hongkong..... 20,000,000 10,000,000 French East Indies..... 750,695 3,088,000 Korea..... 8,088,000 2,482,000 Total Amount..... Imports. Exports. Total Asia and Oceania ..... $1,114,087,000 $1,163,193,000 BENEFIT OF COLONIES. Their Commercial and Financial Relation to Mother Countries. An official publication of the bureau of statistics, issued some months ago, shows that the colonies, protectorates, and dependencies of the world number 136. They occupy two-fifths of the land surface of the globe, and their population is one-third of the entire people of the earth. Their total imports average $1,500,000,000 worth of goods annually, and of this vast sum more than 40 per cent is purchased from the mother country. Of their exports, which considerably exceed imports, 40 per cent go to the mother country. Large sums are annually expended in the construction of roads, canals, railways, telegraphs, postal service, schools, etc., but in most cases the present annual expenditures are produced by local revenues or are represented by local obligations. The revenues of the British colonies in 1897 were $755,000,000, and their expenditures $745,000,000. While the public debt in the more important and active of these communities aggregates a large sum, it is represented by canals, railways, public highways, harbors, irrigation, and other public improvements intended to stimulate commerce and production, the railroads in operation in the British colonies alone aggregating 55,000 miles, and is in no instance assumed by or a charge upon the mother country. Of the 126 colonies, protectorates, de- pendencies and "spheres of influence," which make up the total list, two-fifths belong to Great Britain, their area (including the native feudatory states of India) being considerably more than one-half the grand total of colonial population. France is next in order in number, area and population of colonies, though the area controlled by France is about one-third that of Great Britain, and the population of her colonies less than one-sixth of those of Great Britain. Commerce between the successful colonies and their mother countries is in nearly all cases placed on practically the same basis as that with other countries, goods from home countries receiving in the vast majority of cases no advantages over those from other countries in import duties, and other exactions of this character. We have given to Porto Rico and Hawaii vastly better treatment than is usual with colonies since we make the ratio of duty on commerce between Porto Rico and the United States but 15 per cent of that with other countries, and even that but temporary; while in the case of Hawaii, which voluntarily asked admission, we have continued and enlarged the freedom of interchange which already existed under reciprocity. THE WAR WITH SPAIN. Its Beginning and Ending from Our Dialectic Standpoint. The instructions given to Minister Woodford for his guidance at Madrid directed him to impress upon the government of Spain the sincere wish of the United States to lend its aid in securing a peace honorable alike to Spain and the people of Cuba. A new administration in the Spanish government encouraged the hope that a change of policy might be adopted which would result in the pacification of Cuba, but this hope was doomed to disappointment. After long and patient negotiation in the interest of peace, to the evils which had so long pressed upon this country in consequence of the insurrection, was added a series of incidents that rendered necessary, on April 21, 1898, an armed intervention to terminate the humiliation imposed by the condition of affairs. The brief and brilliant period of war with Spain was followed by preliminaries of peace, signed on August 12, providing for the relinquishment of sovereignty over Cuba, the cession of Porto Rico and other islands belonging to Spain in the West Indies, together with an island in the Ladrones, to be selected by the United States, and the occupation of territory in the city and vicinity of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which should determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines. When the commissioners of the United States, sent to Paris to negotiate a treaty of peace with the representatives of Spain, confronted the problem of settlement, it became evident that the interests of the population of the Phillipine Islands, the peace of the world, and the consistent completion of the task of the pacification undertaken by the government alike demanded a cession of the entire Phillipine archipelago to the United States. At the same time justice to a foreign foe and the magnanimous spirit of the American people seemed to require a recognition of the actual expenditures of Spain in the internal improvement of the islands, and the sum of $20,000,000 was agreed upon as a suitable compensation for the transfer of this great archipelago, whose extensive public lands, estimated at one-half the whole area of the islands, rich in mineral wealth and forests of valuable timber, will prove abundantly sufficient to justify this expenditure and to provide resources for a future government. Our Mails on the Ocean. One of the favorite claims put forth by American free traders who oppose legislation for the upbuilding of our shipping in the foreign trade is the one which pretends that the subslides paid by Great Britain is merely for the carriage of mails, and they endeavor to create the impression that it is a purely business transaction, having no regard for the interests of the British ships thus subsidized. But the fallacy of this claim is apparent when we find an eminent Briton, a member of Parliament, and famous for his agitation in favor of reduced charges for mall transportation—J. Henniker Heaton—make the following quotation in a letter to the British Postmaster General a few years ago. Said Mr. Heaton: "When, however, I introduced a resolution on the subject on March 30 last, Mr. H. H. Fowler, then Secretary to the Treasury, stated that already, even at the present high charges, there is a loss of £365,000 a year, or £1,000 a day, on the foreign and colonial service of the British postoffice." The difference between the subsidy paying British nation and our own is that the former loses about $2,000,000 on the transaction, while the United States, on the other hand, earns about $2,000,000 a year net, over expenses, for the carriage of its foreign mails. The passage of the ship subsidy bill now pending in Congress, however, will effect a needed reform in the carriage of American malls, and at the same time build up our shipping trade to its old-time pre-eminence. Porto Rico Prosperous The imports and exports of Porto Rico for the month of May, 1900, were each about 100 per cent greater than for the corresponding month of the year 1899. This is the poverty and distress to which the Democratic platform said the Republicans had doomed the island. RURAL FREE DELIVERY. How This Republican Policy Was Extended. Rural free delivery of mail is the offspring of the McKinley administration of the postoffice department. Its development from the insignificant beginning of 44 routes and an appropriation of $40,000 for the fiscal year which closed in 1897 to its present magnificent proportions, with the rural routes numbered by the thousands and an appropriation of $1,750,000 voted for its further extension during the present fiscal year, has all been brought about by the McKinley government. A movement to broaden the free delivery of the mails was started by Postmaster General Wanamaker, under the Republican administration of Gen. Harrison. It took the form of village free delivery, and was more an extension of city delivery to smaller communities than a free delivery to farmers. But, limited as was its scope and successful though it was in increasing postal receipts and postal facilities, it encountered Democratic opposition; and when Mr. Cleveland came in, his postmaster general, fearing its effect in popularizing Republican principles and disseminating Republican literature, ordered it dropped. It was a Republican administration that conceived and executed the idea of brightening the home of the farmer, educating his children, increasing the value of his land, compelling the improvement of the roads, and bringing him news of the markets and of the weather, so as to secure him a better price for his crops by delivering his daily mail to him on his farm. Every Democratic house of representatives since the idea was first broached of carrying the mails to the rural districts has declared against it. The Forty-third Congress, with a Democrat from North Carolina as chairman of the committee on postoffices and postroads, proclaimed the plan impossible and turned it down. Postmaster General Bissell, Postmaster General Wilson, and First Assistant Postmaster General Jones, in the Cleveland administration, all took up the cry of extravagance and impossibility of execution. Consequently, little or nothing was done to give the farmers access to the mails till Cleveland went out of office. When First Assistant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath took up the rural service under the direction of the president and the postmaster general, in March, 1897, it was languishing to the point of extinguishment, and in a few months more would have been starved to death, like Mr. Wanamaker's village delivery. The official reports of the postoffice department record that it was almost with surprise that President McKinley and those to whom he intrusted the administration of postal affairs learned that there was such a thing as an experimental rural free-delivery mail service in progress. They at once grasped its possibilities and advocated its immediate development, and a Republican congress generously seconded their efforts. Under their vivifying touch it has grown until there is now not a state in the union that has not felt the civilizing and educational influence of rural free mail delivery, and not one that does not desire a further expansion of the service. On the 1st of June, 1900, there were 1,200 rural services in actual operation and 2,000 applications for an extension of the system in process of establishment by special agents detailed for that purpose. The appropriations for the rural free delivery service have been increased from $50,000, in the fiscal year 1897-98, to $150,000 in 1898-99; then to $450,000 in 1899-1900, and lastly to $1,750,000 for the present fiscal year. 1900-1901. Three years' experience has shown that in well-selected rural districts the mails can be distributed to the domiciles of the addresses or in boxes placed within reasonable distance of the farmer's home, at some cross-road or other convenient spot, at a cost per piece not exceeding that of the free delivery in many of the cities of the United States. In the vast majority of communities where it has been tested the rural free delivery service has obtained so strong a hold that public sentiment would not permit its discontinuance. It has been a revolution, and revolutions do not move backward. It costs very little more than the old colonial style of postal service which it supersedes, and it invariably brings a large and compensating increase in the amount of postal receipts turned into the treasury. But even if it does cost more than the obsolete old plan, are not the farmers entitled to some of the benefits of the government which they help so liberally to support by their taxation? The country can well afford to continue and extend a system which makes better citizens and happier homes and contributes largely to the mental, moral and material advancement of the plain people. Rural free delivery of mail has come to stay, and the Republican administration, which brought it into being, will stay with it. About Nebraska's Horses Nebraska hogs sold in Omaha, May 31st, at $4.50 per head more than on the same date four years ago, yet the World-Herald, Mr. Bryan's personal organ, which is published in Omah, asserted very vigorously during the 1896 campaign that the prices of no farm products could advance without the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Going Republican. The state of South Dakota is making arrangements to un-Pettigrew itself in November. Car-Dumping Machines A novel and interesting sight Lake Erie harbor is the manmade car-dumping machines in operation. With these machines cars of the coal lifted bodily, emptied into the coal a vessel, and replaced on the trunk in four minutes. Building In Gothenburg Building operations undertaken during the first three months of this year in New Yorkamounted to $16,000,000 against $38,000,000 for the corresponding period last year. The principal cause of this large falling off is to be found in the high price of materials. Town Too Valuable to Live In A gold mine has been located on one of the streets of Keswick, Sharp county, Cal., and there are indications of an oil vein in another. The population will soon have to move away. The town is altogether valuable merely to be lived in. Read the Advertisement You will enjoy this publication more better if you will get in the habit of reading the advertisements; they afford a most interesting study of some excellent bargains. Our ad-tisers are reliable and send what it advertise. Some men have wheels and some simply cranks. It's the crazy cornet player who blows his brains out. Best for the Bowels No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get it until your bowels are put up. CASCARETS help nature, cure without a gripe or pain, produce natural movements, cost you cents to start getting your health CASCARETS Candy Catholic, genuine, put up in metal boxes, tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it, ware of imitations. The talkative woman is the one objects because she can't get a speaking likeness. 84th National Encompassment at Chicago Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 1900. Commencing Aug. 25, the Chicago Great Western Railway, the road it has always proved itself the "fir of the old soldier," will sell excursion tickets to Chicago at ONE FARE THE ROUND TRIP, giving a fine portunity to see at its best the western metropolis on the shore Lake Michigan. President McKinley will attend this encampment. I tickets will be on sale Aug. 25 to and good to return to Sept. 1 (privilege of extension to Sept. 1 payment of 50 cents). For further formation inquire of any Great Western agent or address F. H. Lord, H. & T. A., 113 Adams street, Chicago. Many a young lawyer suspects having talent has been tried and quitted. "MY OWN SELF AGAIN." Mrs. Gates Writes to Mrs. Pinkham Follows Her Advice and is Made Wise "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: -For me two and one-half years I have been feeble health. Aftermy little child it is get my stry again. I chills and severest pain my limbs and of head and almost blea at time also have a just to the rip breast bone so severe at that I cannot my right side. Write me what of my case MRS. CLEARA Johns P. O. April 25, 1884 Dear Mrs. Pinkham's table Compound as advised and send you a letter for publication, several years I was in such wretched health that life was almost a bane I could hardly walk across the hall was so feeble. Several of our physicians attended me, but failed help. I concluded to write to you advice. In a few days I received a kind, motherly letter. I followed instructions and am my "old again. Was greatly benefited before had used one bottle. May God be you for what you are doing for nursing women."—MRS. CLARA John P. O., Miss, Oct. 6, 1859. TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEI The Best Saddle Coat. Keeps both rider and saddle perfectly dry in the strenuous conditions will disappoint. Ask for 1897 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker it is entirely new. If not for sale in your town, write catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. LADIES! When doctors and other help you need, try N. P. N. R. Box box free. Mr. B. R. R. Box free. TOE-GUM Cures Corna 150; all flies (If it fails. It is free) PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cure Samp. Tastes good. Easily sold by drugstore. CONSUMPTION: Conditions Requisite for Cessation of Hostilities. Washington, Aug. 15.—The reply of the United States to China's overtures for peace has been made public. It is as follows: *Memorandum; Touching the imperial edict of August 8, appointing Li dang Chang envoy plenipotentiary to conduct negotiations on the part of China, with the powers and with the request for a cessation of hostilities, pending negotiations, communicated to Mr. Adee by Mr. Wu, on the 12th of August 1800. *The government of the United States learned with satisfaction of the appointment of Earl Li Hung Chang as envoy plenipotentiary to conduct negotiations with the powers, and will, upon its part, enter upon such negotiations with a desire to continue the friendly relations so long existing between the two countries. It is evident that there can be no general negotiations between China and the powers so long as the ministers of the powers and the persons under their protection remain in their present position of restraint and danger, and that the powers cannot cease their efforts for the delivery of these representatives to which they are restrained by the highest consideration of national honor except under an arrangement adequate to accomplish a peaceable deliverance. "We are ready to enter into an agreement between the powers and the Chinese government for a cessation of hostilities demonstration on condition that a sufficient body of the forces composing the relief expedition shall be permitted to enter Pekin unmoleted and to escort the foreign ministers and residents back to Tien Tsin, this government being provided for and secured by such arrangements and disposition of troops as shall be considered satisfactory by the generals commanding the forces composing the relief expedition." The Cape Nome Folly. Kansas City, Aug. 16.—F. G. Munns, Jr. has returned from Cape Nome. He tells of hardships there. There is little work being done there. The exploited sands furnish employment for about 5,000 and there are 25,000 people there to live off the 5,000. So much whisky and stuff of that nature was shipped up there on speculation that it is being shipped back to San Francisco. Millions, actually millions of dollars worth of mining machinery lies strewn along the beach, taken there by prospectors and fore-agents of mining syndicates, who on their arrival found nowhere to begin operations. There was then nothing left to do but pile the machinery up, bought at great cost and having paid tremendous freight charges. Now it is almost all for sale at any price; it is not worth the price of scrap iron in Kansas City. American Exhibitors Get Medals New York, Aug. 16.—Alvin H. Sanders, secretary of the American board of commissioners at Paris, says that American exhibitors are winning a large share of the gold medals and grand prizes of honor at the exposition and, in his judgment, will reap a satisfactory reward for the participation in the affair. While the attendance is not up to expectations, he added, those whom it is really desired to reach with American machinery, manufactured goods and food products, are evincing a deep interest in the American sections, and the foundation for considerable new business is being laid. Last Grand Army Parade. Chicago, Aug. 14.—Complete arrangements have been made here for the annual parade of the Grand Army of the Republic, which will occur on Tuesday morning, August 28. This will probably be the last great review of the veterans of the civil war, and it will be made a memorable event in the history of the organization. Fifty thousand veterans will march through the Avenue of Fame, thence through the beautiful arches and Court of Honor, passing the reviewing stand, where they will be greeted by President McKinley and other distinguished guests. More Careful About Passports Berlin, Aug. 15.—The United States embassy in Berlin points out that since the assassination of King Humbert the Berlin police have been enforcing the passport requirements very rigidly and that Americans now coming here should bring passports. That Poor Mother. Columbus, O., Aug. 16.—Tobias Ferrell, of Steubenville, came to Columbus and visited his son at the city prison. There was an effective scene. "Why did you do it?" Did you never think of me or mother?" asked the father, with tears in his eyes. "Yes, that is it," eried the boy. "If I had thought of mother I would never have done it." Mr. Ferrell, Sr., stated that he was the only one of the family able to leave home. Mrs. Ferrell is under the care of a physician COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City. CATTLE—Heavy. 4 00 @ 5 75 HOGS—Chose to heavy. 5 12% @ 5 15 WHEAT—No. 2 hard. 66 @ 6 76 CORN—No. 2. 66 @ 6 76 OATS—No. 2. 66 @ 6 76 KEY—No. 2. 47 @ 9 00 HAY—Choice timothy. @ 6 65 Choice prairie. @ 6 65 BUTTER. 15 @ 18 EGGS. 12 @ 18 Chicago. WHEAT—No. 2 hard. 70% @ 73 CORN—No. 2. @ 40% OATS—No. 2. @ 22% St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES. 4 30 @ 5 65 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 3 20 @ 4 00 SOUTHERN STEERS. 3 40 @ 4 65 Cotton. Uplands. Gulf. Liverpool. 5 17% @ 10% c New York. 10c @ 10% c Galveston. 9% c Wichita Grain. Close. Close. WHEAT— August. 74% 74% 74% Sept. 74% 74% 74% CORN— August. 37% 37% 37% Sept. 37% 37% 37% OATS— August. 21% 22% 21% 22% Sept. 21% 22% 21% 21% Calls. Puts. Wheat: September. 75% 74% Corn: September. 30% 38 Wichita Live Stock. HOGS. 52 head sold. 4 55 @ 4 80 CATTLE. @ Chicago Live Stock. BEEVES. $4 50 @ 5 05 COWS AND HEIFERS. 2 85 @ 4 90 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 3 15 @ 4 70 TEXAS FED BEEVES. 4 20 @ 5 00 HOGS. 5 00 @ 5 20 ON FIRE INSURANCE. Mr. Editor: I read in a recent issue an article headed "Business Men's Ideas of Fire Insurance," and owning considerable property that I always keep insured I am naturally interested in the subject. Much of this article I know to be correct, but some of it I question and part of it I do not understand, for instance: Why, if the profit is so limited and the hazard so great in fire insurance does capital continue in it, and why is it, if the business is so unprofitable, I find that most of the companies I do my insurance with annually increase their assets until some of them today are nearly double what they were a few years ago, and I can not reconcile this with the business being conducted on so small a profit? Now as to the valued policy law. Why do companies object to it? Why should they not pay in the event of a total loss the amount they have insured and collected premium for? Why do they, to commence with, grant more insurance than the property is worth? When men in other business make a bad bargain they have to stand it, and why not an insurance company? What is the meaning of the anti-compact law? What are its purposes? And if a bad law, why do different states enact it? It is a poor question that has not two sides to it. I should like some light on the other side of this important one. Awaiting which, I am, respectfully, A PROPERTY OWNER. August 9th, 1900 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF Ex-street car men of St. Louis are asking for a franchise for an opposition street car line. Smokers of cigarettes will no longer be employed in Swift & Co's packing houses in Chicago. Mrs. Lucy Parsons was one of the five anarchists arrested in Chicago where a riot occurred. Baron Russell, lord justice of England, is dead from an operation upon his stomach, for gastric catarrh. An Austrian general, with a yard long name, has been arrested for insulting the new queen of Servia. Sickness in the army in the Philip pines is above 8 per cent, which is considered a remarkably good showing. A tornado visited New Rochelle, N. Y. Its path was about 40 feet wide and four miles long. Much property was destroyed. English investors knock hard on the placing in America one-half of the new ten million pound loan. The department of justice has given a decision that Puerto Ricans are aliens within the meaning of the naturalization laws. It says that the treaty with Spain left all questions of their civil and political rights for congress to determine, the president having no authority in the matter until congress acts. At the funeral of Mrs. Jane Donnol at Palmer, Illinois, the casket was carried from the farm where she had lived since she was married 77 years ago. Six of her sons carried the casket and and the aged husband walked at the head of the coffin. There were at the funeral 150 grandchildren and great grandchildren. Judge Henry, in his decision of the trade quotation case declared that if the bucket shops were deprived of the use of the wires the result would be the conversion of the Chicago board of trade into the most gigantic monopoly in the world. Clear water in the Chicago river is lessening the-city revenue from water, factory owners drawing their supply from the river. Hans Kramer, an American tourist, slipped from the Rax Mountain in Austria. He was found after 30 hours with both legs broken. The Farmers' Federation was fully organized at the Topeka meeting last week. The officers chosen are already at work placing $100,000 of bonds with which to establish commission houses in Kansas City and Chicago. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest, Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alb. Serral - Rockella Salts - Active Sulfur - Poppermint - Bitternut Sugar - Worm Seed - Oligodendron Whitegreen Powder. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Flitchner. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. "La Creole" Will Restore those Gray Hairs "La Creole Hair Restorer is a Perfect Dressing and Restorer Price $1.00 Savannah in West Virginia A liberally attended entertainment in West Virginia the other day was a fight between a wild cat and a bull dog. The animals were confined in a wire cage fifteen feet square. At the end of thirty minutes the dog was dead, but the cat was uninjured. It is pleasant to know that cockfighting has been stopped in the Phillippines in the interests of civilization.—Boston Transcript. Passing of the Horse. So soon as nature sees an improvement there is a change. The candle gave way to electricity and the horse to the automobile. The fact that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been sold for over a half a century, proves its value. There is nothing to equal it for stomach or liver trouble. Be sure to give it a trial. But few people ever get so full of emotion that they have no room for dinner. Kiowa and Comanche Opening Congress has authorized the famous Kwowa 'omac the reservation in OKLAHOMA, 20,000 people), opened, under the U. S. Homestead, Townsite and Mining Land Management (Situ), to land pages, describes land pages, tells how to initiate and perfect claim to valuable FARMs, TOWN lands, and perfect claim to valuable TOWN lands. The national map, $1.00. THE KIWO AUCHF (devoted to news and information about these lands) sent one year for $1.00. It will contain Proclamation, Xing of opening land, paper (one yr.), Manual and Map all for $1.75. With the above will be mailed FREE. 100 page illustrated book on Oklahoma. Agents want to Address, Dick T. Morgan, Land Attorney, Ferry, Okla. A money order is a genuine order of merit. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Burions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. 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Don't think a joke is old because you never heard it before. Red Cross is the best Ball Blue the world knows. Large package 5c. It takes a pretty good mental digs tion to swallow flattery. e' Will Resto Cole Hair Restorer is a Perfe Lawyers would undoubtedly make good soldiers. Their charges would discourage the enemy. O-I-C When a preparation has an advertised reputation that is world-wide, it means that preparation is meritorious. If you go into a store to buy an article that has achieved universal popularity like Cascarets Candy Cathartic for example, you feel it has the endorsement of the world. The judgment of the people is infallible because it is impersonal. The retailer who wants to sell you "something else" in place of the article you ask for, has an ax to grind. Don't it stand to reason? He's trying to sell something that is not what he represents it to be. Why? Because he expects to derive an extra profit out of your credulity. Are you easy? Don't you see through his little game? The man who will try and sell you a substitute for CASCARETS is a fraud. Beware of him! He is trying to steal the honestly earned benefits of a reputation which another business man has paid for, and if his conscience will allow him to go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats his customer in one way, he will in another and it is not safe to do business with him. Beware of the CASCARET substitutor. Remember CASCARET are never sold in bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed "C" on every box and each tablet stamped C. C. C. Appearances. Brooks—"Why are you wearing an overcoat such a warm day as this?" Rivers—"Because every fellow I have seen without an overcoat today looked as if he didn't own one." The New Photography A young man in New York city has invented a process whereby photographs can be developed in broad daylight. This revolutionizes the picture-taking art. No more dark room and red light, no chemistry. The greenest amateur, with only brains enough to snap his camera at a barn, may now develop his own plates. Cabinet Without Official Existence. The authority attached in England to simple custom or usage cannot be better illustrated than in the fact that, although the cabinet has existed as the real executive power in the government for more than a century and a half it is an institution entirely unknown to the law, never having been recognized by any act of parliament. There is no official announcement of the names of its members and no official record of its meetings. Andre House a Soap Factory. The 1776 stone house at Tappan, N. Y., where Major Andre was imprisoned until his execution, is to be turned into a soap factory. For a couple of years past the 1776 house has been used as a hotel, and thousands of people have visited it, but recently the proprietor, Charles A. Pike, had his license revoked. Now he has leased the property to New Yorkers, who intend to make soap by a new process on the grounds east of the house, and the building will be used for their offices. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO. BROOKLYN, N.Y. Est. 1870 MASS. WE ARE THE LARGEST MAKERS Motion's $2 and $3.50 shoes in the world. We sell more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the U.S. The reason more We do plays $3.00 and $3.50 shoes are sold than any other make is because they are the best in the world. A $4.00 Shoe for $3.00. A $5 Shoe for $3.50. Over 1,000,000 Wearers. W.L. DOUGLAS UNION MADE $3.00 AND $3.50 SHOES FOR MEN. The Real Worth of Our $3 and $3.50 Shoes compared with other makes is $4 to $6. Having the largest $2 and $3.50 shoe business in the world, and perfect system of manufacturing makes us to produce higher grade $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than can be kept there. We keep them, we give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. Inlet on having W.L. Douglas shoes with manufacturing makes us to produce higher grade $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than can be kept there. We keep them, we give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. Inlet on having W.L. Douglas shoes with manufacturing makes us to produce higher grade $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than can be kept there. We keep them, we give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. Catalogue free. PANAMA CITY THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDANA Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Architecture. Preparatory and Commercial Courses. Ecclesiastical students at special rates Rooms Free. Junior or Senior Year, College Courses. Rooms to Rent, moderate charges. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under 13. 19th September 4th, 1900 Catalogues Free. Address REV. A. MORRISSEY. C. S. C. President. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY ST. MARY'S ACADEMY NOTRE DAME, INDIANA Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Chartered 1855. Thorough English and Classical education. Regular Collegiate Degrees. In Preparatory Department students carefully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical and Chemical Laboratories well equipped. Conservatory of Music and Art. Undergraduate education of graduate of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 40th year opens Sept. 4. 1960. Address. DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY 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 ADVANCE entered at post office Topeka, Kansas, at see adclass-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 calls promptly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAI. LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave, Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 330 Kans Ave. All calls promptly attended. Tel 14. DR; O. 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. Homoeopath1st Residence 626 Fillmo St. Telephone 360. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S. G. STEWART, M. D. FICE 621 KANSAS;AVE.; TELPHONE 541. RSIDeNCE 511 W. 5TH ST. TELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. FEE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A.M. TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P.M. TELEPHONE 552. OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. DR. J. C. ISERMAN, Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Diseases Stomach and Lungs and Female Treu- ces. Office Hours: 9 to 12, 2 to 5, 7 to 9 Phone 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 REMELIES. AKT MA. TERIALS. Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Cures INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and RHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P. O. Adjoining Capital of Kansas. M.r, 27. G O T O E. W. Griggs for photos, fine pictures. Car-901 Kas. ave. W. D. Woodall Macon and Cistern builder also sells. Pattie needing service leave ord rs t Ledger office. Go to J, P, Johnsons for anything you want in the line of fine cigar's tobacco and confectionery. 400 Kas Ave. R. E. KNOX. UNDEKTAKER. FUNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN KANS. Henderson paint works. J, A. HENDERSON, PROP. Manufacturer res of all kinds of PAINTS. Strictly Pure. 699 Mass, Street. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. F. M. Fletcher. 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. *Imuses o W. 5th St. ranging from $8cf* *$1200 cently 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 Solicit Your Trade. We will Serve You Right. THE LANDIS HOME BAKERY, Many years experience. French home Ba- kery 316 E. 410 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. 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot, C, A, RAIRKE, Prop. CYCLE GO. NATIONAL NO.27. Difficult Bicycle Repairing a Specialty Stock 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. THE CAPITAL PHARMACY CO. I have on hand a Complete Stock of Drugs. Medicines and Toilet Articles. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. And our Ice-Cream Soda cannot be beat. Give us a Trial, Sati faction Guaranteed. THOS. MORSE. Medical Advice Free. BELGIAN HARES STOCK FOR SALE SIRED BY CHAMPION DOSH. BANBURY STAR. BANBURY RED, and others. Write for Prices. A. F. HAYNES. Pomona, Kansas G. ELLINGER & Co. General Merchandise. Jobbes of Brooms. Shippers of Apples. Solicit orders from Joblers and Retilers Handling Brooms in quantities. We can save you 25 to 40 per cent. Send US Your ORDERS. G. ELLINGER & CO. Corning, Kansas KANKE & STUIVE. FARM MACHINERY. : WIND MILLS, PUMPS and Also Handle the JACK OF ALL TRADES ENGINE. Useful to All Farmers. LINN, KANS. JOHN MILLER, Dealer In Fiour, Feed, Graith, Hay, And all kinds of Coal. 120 East Eighth St., BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue M. L. GOSHORN. 1014 Quincy Street. Paper Hanging and inside finishing a specialty. 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. FOR SALE Will you buy Will you sell Will you rent Iry us. Barnes Real Estate Co.Tel 62. 113 West 5th st. Carter & Johnson RESTAUR AND SHORT ORDER. When in Lawrence stop at their place, 611½ Mass, St. 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 Flour, ROBT, R, CLARK Mgr. office of final Settlement. THE STATE OF KANSAS, Shawnee County, S. S. In the Prot bate Cour 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 Kansas, 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 o. 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 Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEX A SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 Passon's dep't store, DEALER IN Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notion and all kinds of household goods. DR. ADAM RUPIN, SR. (HOMCEOPATHIST.) THE NOTED GERMAN PHYSICIAN. has a professional record of forty years treating ACCUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES. He is especially well prepared and eminently successful in the treatment of Vernal diseases, Nasal and Throat Catarrh, Scrofa- la Cancer, Rheumatism, Granulated Sore Eyes, Epi- Dyspepsia, Female Weakness, Piles, Dropsy and ail C es. CONSULTATION IN GERMAN OR ENGLISH Office 106 East Sixth Street, CALL AND SEE CERTIFICATES OF WONDERFUL THE NOTED GERMAN PHYSICIAN, has a professional record of forty years treating ACCUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES. Lated Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, (Fit, ) Us, Dropsy and all Chronic Diseases. MAN OR ENGLISH FREE. Topeka, Kansas TIES OF WONDERFUL CURES. la Cancer, Rheumatism, Granulated Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, (Fit, ) Dyspepsia, Female Weakness, Piles, Dropsy and all Chronic Disease es. CONSULTATION IN GERMAN OR ENGLISH FREE. Office 106 East Sixth Street, Topeka, Kansas CALL AND SEE CERTIFICATES OF WONDERFUL CURES. Akansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT PRO'S, PROP's. 306 E. 2ND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. GO TO LOUIS VANDORP, PCR HARDWARE & Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden- These are the things you need Give hima call. 82 BAUGHMAN BR THE LEADERS ICE CREAM. Their Flavors Are Deiic GIVE THEM AN ORI Tel,253. 23rd & Linc Give Them Your Trade. j16 110 CR HARDWARE and STOVES s, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. live hima call. 828 Kansas p 2c AN BRO'S., ADERSIN REAM. Are Deiiclous. AN ORDER. Brd & Lincoln St. PCR HARDWARE and STOVES Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas 70 BAUGHMAN BRO'S. THE LEADERSIN ICE CREAM. Their Flavors Are Deiclous. GIVE THEM AN ORDER. 渔民 State Ledger Office, 431 Ka (UP STAIRS.) ec, 431 Kas Ave. AIRS. ) State Ledger Office, 431 Kao Ave. (UP STAIRS.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the district Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Nephi Owen, Plaintiff, vs. Case No. 20751. Amy R. Owen, Defendant. To Amy R. Owen; You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff, Nephi Owen in an action for a divorce in the above named court and that unless you answer his petition filed there on or before the 6th day of October, 1900, judgement will be taken against you divorcing the plaintiff from you as prayed for in said petition. Nephi Owen, Plaintiff. Attest, A. M. Cailaham. (Seal) Clerk Dst. Court. Aug 20, J. C. JUS TICE, 220 West 6th Street. Dealer in staple and fancy groceries, fresh and cared meats, plenty country produce always on hand. Give him a trial. Pure Tea and Spices etc. WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Kan Your Toug Dr. A. Popson Quite a number of visitors was in the city last week, all seemingly had a good time. Mrs. Phelps of Iola was the guest of Miss Luvenia Brown last week. Mr. Earnest Hawkins of Ft. Scott was in the city last week visiting relatives and friends. Messrs Ed. Stone and Gratton Gregg, were the guest of Miss Myrtle and Maude Radley last week. Miss Mary Jordan and Miss Lizzie Cooper left for Chicago last week where they will visit relatives and friends. The Sunday School of the C. M. E. church picnicked at Vinewood last Thursday. Last Sunday was Quarterly meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church being the last quarter of this conference year. Mrs. A. Williams has returned from a visit in Pleasant Hill Mo. where she visited her son Ren Chas. Williams and family. Miss Ethel Stafford and Mr Percy Lewis, was in the city last week the guest of Miss Hster and Eva Hawkins. Mrs. John E. Jeltz and children have returned from an extended visit in Wabunsee county, with her sister, Mrs. Weslev Page. Mrs. Dr. O. A Taylor entertained the Golden Rod club last Thursday afternoon from three until six. Quite a number was present and expressed themselves as having a delightful time. The Ladies Swing Circle of St John's church met at the residence of Mrs. James Huddleson last Wednesday, quite a number was present and an elegant lunch was served. E. H. PHILLIPS. JEWELER & OPTICI Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guar- teed. We Solicit your Patronage. SEE UNCLE SAM AT 51 KAS. AVE., For a new Clock or fine Watch epair- ing. The best up-to-date and most polite jewel in the city. See Uncle Sam, 512 Kas. a The Diamond Frug Store, 6th and Buc- nan Streets Give them a call. Remember that the Davis Mercantil Co. 601 Topeka Ave is the place to putur- You will get your money's worth by type the Davis Mercantile Go. ARMSTRONGS RESTAURAN When in Ottawa for anything you want Short Orders and Meals -222 N, Male J. W KELLEY, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries. Give Him Call. 119 N. Main Street Ottawa, KI 921 Kis. Ave., DEALER IN Feed, Hay and Grain and all kinds of Coal. A share of your patronage is desired. Telec. 349. WOULEY'S BAKEKY, The place to trade. The best Bakery goods kept on hand daily. 915 Kis. Ave. W. T. WILEY. DEALER IN. Staple and Fancy Groceries Fresh and Cured Meats, Fish Poultry...and Country Produce. Give him a call. 931 Kas Ave. Tele. 294 MRS ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cutting, Sewing-Give her a trial. 826 Com'l street Emporia, Kas. TURNER BROS., Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Order. BURLINGAME KAS ---