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have no trouble metals. No tron- with subscribers have the caper- t, and you the way — pass the this way. By F. L. JELTZ, PRESIDENT. M. McKINLEY, OF OHIO. ICE PRESIDENT GEO. ROOSEVELT. OF NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Governor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, Steutenant Governor- H, E. RICHTER. Morris County, Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County, Secretary of State- GEO, A. CLARK, Geary County. Pressurer- FRANK GAMES. Wichita County. Auditor GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County. Attorney General— A. A. GODDARD, Shawnee County. Superintendent of Public Instruction- FRKAN NELSON, McPherson County. Insurance Commissioner- W, V. CHURCH. Marion County. For Congressmen, District- G. W. WHEATLEY. Galena District- J, M. MILLFR, Council Grove. District- W. A. CALDERHEAD, Marysville District- W. A. REEDER, Logan. th District-- CHESTER I LONG, Medicine Lodge. George-- CHAS F. SCOTT, Iola CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST. ON, CHAS, CURTIS. CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST. N.J.D. BOWERSOCK. now is the time to square all old bills before beginning of her. tell some men they are great them angry, while others let go their purse to you. story reheats it elf quite offe- of late in the way of rebreakers. you do not use your time if you will be coming around winter to see the poor com- mender. speak the truth a person has me that inscribed on his mind and on his heart minutely. day of the colored Bryan tes are falling a lover each getting back into the right- d to which they properly be one knew the conversations ed on by people whom they suspect all the hair on every cica's head in K. S. would straight up and swear. men of culture are funny indeed, they are always for suffering humanity, but do they lose a moment in up all the scandals and ditions in a newspaper. are some of the colored of this city continually in a K. They knew that fighting detriment to their eyes they desist from this kind of no- --- The State Ledger. When a women leaves her husband and has not legal excuse to do so she is like a farmer without a farm. The weary warblers are the names of a swell club in this state yet it might apply to all most any old thing after all. Some girls who play the bashful part are those who are most likely to fall into dispointment. Some men leave home for a good time and their better halves remain at home and have the best kind of time. Where did people get the idea that their children were kids any way(?) one half the mothers and fathers in this state especially call their young one kids and still this is a sunflower state were education is in the reach of every one. The flood and storm in Texas was the worst ever known in the history of this country. The list of casualities were far much greater than the Johnston flood. The hope of the Republican party in this state depends on the amount of good it has been to the common people in the last four years and that is all that is required to show it. Bryan's policy is not American like it as from the time he began talking, taken the form of an anarchist and so it is today, whoever follows his lead will naturally go wrong there is no other way out of it. Hence you see the result of Bryanism outlined. It is about time now that we quit pinicking, it is too near the fail election, and you know if Bryan does accidently slip in the people will be mighty hard up for the next four years, but for heaven sake dn't hi happen. It looks strange to see how some men of the decentful ranks will fight against whiskey like a Kentucky Col., and then they are among the first to take sides with all temperance unions in the state. Oom Paul isn't railing at fate He has simply taken the rail to avoid it. ex. Man thinks he is some pumpkin, but Nature can push more little grains of wheat out of the ground than man with great big box cars can move. ex. Professor Boelsche of Leipsic has a new theory that all life started from a bundle of cells whose only function was digestion. But we are not all stomach. Where did we get mentality? ex. The empress dowger, as was suspected from the first, declared war on the world. The poor emperor, instead of taking a club and bossing things around a little, got down behind the throne and wept on the carpet. ex The negro who votes a democratic ticket in the south or any where else, is a traitor to his race, has but little or no respect for prosperity and good government and exhibits himself as being a first class demagogue. Ex. The anti-Goebel Democrats of Kentucky will support the Republican nominee for governor and many of them, remember Mr. Bryan's unqualified indorsement of Goebelism, have declared their intention of voti for McKinley and Roosevelt. The prospect for a general political housecleaning in Kentucky this year is excellent. When McKinley was in St. Paul, Minn., during the campaign of 1892, he spoke at the Auditorium there. There were many prominent Afro-Americans on the stage, which he noted. After the meeting a sort of reception was held at the residence of a leading citizen and several hundred white men were present, but no Afro-Americans. When the bulk of the crowd had gone a select few gathered around the dining table and had a general good time. Suddenly McKinley turned to his host and said: 'At the meeting tonight I noticed a number of bright intelligent Afro-Americans both on the stage and in the audience, why is it I do not see any of them here? The host and others offered some sort of flimsy excuse, but as a matter of course they were not invited. This story, which is told by agentleman who was present, shows that McKinley believed that the Afro-Americans who were prominent enough in politics to be given seats on the stage should have been invited to the reception which followed. The records show that more Afro-Americans have employment in the service of the government today than at any time since the Republican party has been in power. Afro-Americans in the service of the United States Government draw more than $5,000,000 in salaries every year. The majority of of these were appointed by McKinley. Pitchfork Tillman in a speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 24, 1900, said: "I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT OTHER STATES, BUT I ACKNOWLEDGE OPENLY AND BOLDLY IN THE SIGHT OF GOD THAT WE DID OUR LEVEL BEST TO KEEP EVERY NEGROIN OUR STATE FROM VOTING." It is generally conceded that Tillman will be a member of Bryan's cabinet in case of Democratic success. Work, work, work night and day until election and McKinley will be re-elected. Remember that battles are won by massing forces and outnumbering the enemy. During the Spanish-American war Afro-Americans were called upon to assist in maintaining national honor and defending the country's flag. For the first time in the history of the country a regiment composed of Afro-Americans, and officered by men of the race from colonial down to corporal, was sent to Cuba. This event occurred under the McKinley administration. The charge has been made that the Republican party is trying to get rid of the Afro-American voter. This is refuted by the fact that the race has been given more recognition under the McKinley regime than at any time since the party has been in power. At every national convention the Republican party has pledged itself in favor of universal liberty. A curious and grotesque feature of this campaign is the fact that the whites of North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana and their sympathizers in the disfranchisement of the Afro Americans of the South are the defenders of the political rights of the Filipinos. Think of the nerv of Tillman, who boasts that his partisans have killed Afro-Americans who dared to vote in South Carolina, advocating the Kansas City platform in favor of justice to Filipinos! If the brown people 8,000 miles away are entitled to just treatment, why should not colored American citizens be given their constitutional rights? Take off your coat and work for McKinley until the evening of November 6. Then we can shout and yell until we are horse. It was Barnum who said that the American people like to be humbugged. That is what inspires Bryan. There's about 18,267 Afro-Americans in the public service of the United State. Hurrahing for McKinley will not elect him. You must work and when election day comes get out the voters. Re-elect McKinley and the free silver craze will never be resurrected. Free silver, free trade and free whisky form the Democratic shibboleth. The Republican party does not have to assert its devotion to the Declaration of Independence. That immortal instrument of the fathers remained unexecuted until the people under the lead of the Republican party in the awful clash of battle turned its promises into fulfillment. It wrote into the constitution the amendments guaranteeing political equality to American citizenship, and it has never broken them nor counseled others in breaking them." President William McKinley in his letter accepting renomination. "Freedom is the rock upon which the Republican party was built and now rests. Liberty is the great Republican doctrine for which the people went to war and for which a billion of dollars expended to make it a lawful legacy of all without the consent of master or slave"—President McKinley in his letter accepting renomination. The Afro-Americans of the country have shared in the prosperity with which we have been blessed under McKinley administration: As in 1896, the wage earners many of them, are advocating measures, which if carried out would inevitably bring upon themselves and families misery and want. The Cumpacker bill looking to the reduction of representation in congress of those Southern states which have passed discriminating laws against the Afro-American will be passed by the next Congress. It will guarantee to the race political liberty. Stange, isn't it, that the Democratic party has instituted all the heresies and isms and political inconsistencies in the country: greenbackism, fiat moneyism, rag babyism, repudiationism, free tradeism and Bryan free silve ism? In his inaugural address President McKinley condemned lynch law. Under the law the President is powerless to send troops to quell rots until called upon by the governor of a state Bresci, the anarchist who assi- nated King Hubert, of Italy was convicted at Milan and sen- enced to life imprisonment. The mur- leer declared that he acted without advice or accom- plement and seemed utterly indifferent to his fate through the trial. Ex- McKINLEY ENDORSED. The undersigned members of the National Atro-American Press Association unreservedly endorse the foreign and domestic policy of the National Republican Administration and believe that the best interest of the country at large, and Afro-American people in particular, will be served by a consistent support of McKinley and Roosevelt in the coming election. Cyrus Field Adams, The Appeal, Chicago, Ills. T. Thomas Fortune, The Age, New York, City. W. H. Steward, American Baptist, Louisville, Kv. George L. Knox, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. John C Dancy, A.-M. E. Z. Review, Charlotte, N. C. D. R. Wilkins, The Conservator, Chicago, Ill. J- W. Wheeler, The Palladium, St. Louis, Mo. I. B. Scott, S. W. Christian Advocate, New Grleais, La. W. A. Pledgar, Age, Atlanta, Ga. J. H, Deveaux, Tribnne, Savannah, Ga. J. Chavis, Express, Dallas, Tex. C. H. Handy, The Afro-American, St Louis, Mo. T. T. Allen, The Forum, Houston, Tex L. T. Fox, Preacher-Safeguard, Kosciusko, Miss. J. R. Marshall, The Bee, Paducah, Ky. R. R. Wright, Collage Journal, Savannah, Ga. H. T. Kealing, A. M. E. Church Review, Philadelphia, Pa. James Lewis, Republican Courier, New Orleans, La. J. Q. Atams, The Appeal, St. Paul Minn. J. P. Green, The Bee, Wash. D. C... W. V. Penn, The Appeal, Louis ville Ky. Geo. H. White, The True Reformer, Littleton, N. C. S. FLORENCE DE GRAFT NOMINATED FOR County Sup't Mr. S. F. Wright it seems will not be elected this fall without some kind of a fight on his hands. Hence the Populist, Democrats and Independents are pushing her forward this fall as the person of their choice to fill that office. Mrs. De Graft is a well known teacher of Sawnee county, having taught in Oakland for many years. She has been frequently suggested to take the principalship of several of the county schools, but on account of her modest disposition she refused, but now she and her friends think with her experience she will make a good county sup't. Mrs. De Graft is the wife of the well known business man, Mr. J N. De Graft who resides at Oakland, and during all these years he has been a Republican. There is no question about Mrs De Graft's qualifications, and as she is wll known to nearly every one in Shawnee county and especially to the teachers. Her candidacy is looked on as one who will let her opponent know she is in the race at least. Nearly all Mrs. De Graft's life has been in school work and if she is successful this fall she will make a most suitable person for the office, as no one can say anything for Mrs. De Graft only in words of praise. Those papers that do not support her can and will no doubt treat her kindly as she is an able inrtructor worthy of all newspa- We guarantee the people who advertise, quick returns—most reliable newspaper a mong all classes. VOL. 9, NO. 4. per courtesies that can be bestowed upon her. The many friends of Mr. Sam Garard have been misinformed or have misconstraed the facts he is simply a candidate next year for the office of Register of Deeds not for Probate Juqge which will be filled by W.E. Fagan next June. We hope Mr. Garard's friends will bear this in mind. Get up and hustle; see your neighbors and your neighbors neighbors. And induce them to vote for the Republican party. STAND BY GALENNICHOLS FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY Judging from what we can hear from some of the unreliable source of the political enemies of our next County Attorney. Galen Nichols. We find some persons who have always claimed to be all right for the Republicans are opposing him not withstanding the fact they say they are Republicans far above the average; now as this so called class of Republicans are fighting Mr. Nichols for the purpose of electing a Pop county attorney. It is time for every true friend of Mr. Niehols, to ralley to his support. It will never do to permit the Populist in this city and county to go ahead claiming the county attorney because a few Republicans are angry for exaltation. Some of the same persons opposing Mr. Nichols were opposing the appointment of a certain school educator a few years ago, however that official holds the position by appointment to this day, hence it is seen in these few lines how much figure they cut at that time judging in the future they will fail to defeat Mr. Nichols by classing h.s. good reputation with those of bad repute. Never before in the history of Presidential campaigns have the supporters of a candidate been asked to believe that the platform means the reverse of what it says. The Democrats argue that Bryan will not do anything to advance the cause of silver, as he has promised to do. They are also being convinced that he would not retire the army from the Philippines as he has promised. Such anomalous condition should not beget confidence. Ex. What of the Negro? Is he to be a factor? The spirit of commercialism has become so general and the issues so round up in economic questions that the problem of human rights which brought the Negro conspicuously to the front, seems to have been relegated. So, it is a matter of anxiety with the colored voter whether there will be any special effort made to frame an argument that will show him why he should remain "in fine." Or will he be expected to rally to the omnibus cheer for "general prosperity" and "wider makets." He is wondering whether the gold standard, expansion and combination of capital for the control of the necessities of life will restore him his constitutional privileges in certain States in this country or guarantee him the peaceful enjoyment of education, honest industry and ord nary civil rights. Ex. MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave YOUR TRADE SOLICITED THESTATELEDGER KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST A three-year-old boy of John McKaig, of Johnson county, had both feet cut off by a cane cutter. The Epworth League and Home Missionary societies are holding a camp meeting at Larned. Kansas now has 497 state, private and national banks: 336 state, 103 national and 58 private. The First Presbyterian church of Topeka has been re-decorated and carpeted, the carpet alone costing $1,000. Newton shops of the Santa Fe are busy in repairing freight cars, 75 of them having been sent there from the south. Sedgwick county paid off in August $101,061 of mortgages. This is at the rate of a quarter of a million dollars a year. J. P. Stucky, a German farmer near Mound Ridge has threshed 10,000 bushels of wheat and will plant 600 acres this fall. Clyde's watermelon festival brought together 15,000 people for the first day of feasting. Concordia sent out two trainloads. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, will speak in Topeka. October 9, concerning his personal investigations in the Philippines. John W. Hussey, aged 82, a farmer near Madell, Kas., was walking on the track of the Lincoln branch of the U. P. at Shipton, and was killed. The logrolling at Alma drew big crowds. A special on the Rock Island left Topeka with 115 passengers and reached Alma with about 600. A local truss company of Topeka sent 6,000 packages through the Topeka postoffice during the past year, and not one of them was missent or lost. Wm. A. Jones, of Harper county, died of heart disease August 28, while cutting corn. He was missed but his body was not found until the next day. Atchison is to have a new bridge over the Missouri river and during its construction wagon traffic will be handled the old way, by a ferry boat. Among big yields of wheat reported in Rice county are the crops of Wm. Asher, 400 bushels off eight acres: and Thomas Saint, 45 bushels per acre off forty acres. During July and August of this year the marriage licenses issued and the divorce suits filed in Reno county were exactly the same number, there being 11 of each. The Frisco railroad has made arrangements to run a special train to Wichita from Columbus, Kansas, on September 5, the date of the annual logrolling of the Woodmen of the World in that city. The Good Roads congress is to be held in Topeka, September 25-28. The citizens of Shawnee county have raised the funds necessary to build one and one-half miles of macadamized road, a portion of which will be constructed under the supervision of E. J. Harrison, road expert of the national department of agriculture, during the convention, thus affording an object lesson. Mr. Harrison will explain the details of practical road building to the delegates. Kansas railroads have made a rate of one fare for the round trip from all points in Kansas, good for the week ending September 24. Nearly everybody is eligible to become delegates. Burlington claims to have a citizen who is a cousin of Minister Conger and Yates Center is the home of a nephew of the minister to China. Lieutenant Collin Ball, of the Twentieth Kansas, had several uncles who served with his father in the Confederate army. Miss Edna Sippey, of Belle Plaine, was chosen queen of the Summer county jubilee. She received 3,720 votes while her two principal competitors received—Miss Maggie Barndollar, 3,462, and Miss Mabel Klein 2,318. It is said that 8,000 people assembled at Wetmore, from Nemaha, Brown and Jackson counties, at the annual Modern Woodmen logrolling on August 23. The four carloads of hogs which topped the Wichita market the other day, were fed on alfalfa and dry corn. It is now conceded that there is money in alfalfa for hogs. A son of Silas Robinson, of Osage county, while trying to jump from a fence onto his horse, fell and a sunflower stalk pierced his bowels, making a dangerous wound. J. P. Williams; a veteran just returned from the Leavenworth Soldiers' home, died of heart disease near Winfield while seining. His body was found in water only waist deep. The new report of the labor commissioner, of the state contains chapters on the following subjects: Wage earner statistics; labor organizations; the packing industry; the creamy industry; lead and zinc industry; county charities; industrial education; chattel mortgages; factory inspection; strikes and other labor troubles. A tile roofing factory is to be operated at Cherryvale. Surgeon Major John A. Rafter, of Holton, has been sent to Manila. Salina gets special rates of one-half fare for its street fair, September 24-29. Emporia boarding houses furnish meals to Normal students at $1.86 a week. The Hiawatha World joins in the denunciation of the Belgian hare speculation scheme. New corn is being sold at the Wichita stock yards and it is almost as dry as old corn. Mormon elders working in Kansas say they intend to establish a church in Lawrence. The Rock Island hotel at Herington was burned September 3. The loss is about $5,000. A general store at Rose. Woodson county, was destroyed by fire August 28. Half insured. Coroner B. E. Wheeler, of Pawnee county, died from an overdose of morphine taken by mistake. The farmers of Verdi, Ottawa county, have taken a charter for an elevator company with a capital of $5,000. The poultry storage and cleaning house at Argonia, has been burned, with a loss of $1,700; insurance $1,000. The state board of health reports 15 cases of smallpox in the state; eleven of them among miners in the southeast. The Rock Island depot at Alma is burned, with a loss of $3,000 or more. A better building will take its place at once. Hazeltine, the Cawker thresher man has five machines at work this year each of which keeps a dozen men waiting on it. Lightning struck John Strahm's barn near Sabetha and his son, aged 19, was killed. The barn and contents were burned. The railroads have granted a one and one-third fare to the annual meeting of the anti-horse thief convention at Wichita on October 10. The Plaza mine, southeast of Galena, was fired twice by incendiaries, and the last time it burned. It was owned by eastern people. B. P. Wagener gave a party to the children of Atchison, paying car fare and giving a band concert. About 2,500 children attended. A homeseekers' excursion passed through Wichita on the morning of September 5. It was met there by committees from towns of Oklahoma. W. K. Church, superintendent of insurance, issued a warning to all fire insurance companies doing business in Kansas, against the violating of the non-resident agency law. Kansas club women have inaugurated a scheme to raise $40,000 in the western states which furnished troops for the Philippines, to erect a soldiers' and sailors' club house in Manila. Special trains commenced to arrive in Wichita early in the day of September 5, bringing crowds to attend the Woodmen logrolling. Later the parade was an event to be remembered. W. C. Williams won the State challenge cup at Wichita, in a match shoot. The match first resulted in a tie, with 29 birds broken, between W. H. Herr, of Concordia, W. C. Williams and Frank Wernecke, of Wichita. In the shoot off Williams won. In Finney county at a country party violin music was a feature. A young man circulated the story that there was a dance at the house of church people. The young men of the house objected to the story being told, when one of them was shot by the tattler. Miss Estella Searle, of Cawker City, helped her father in his blacksmith shop while her brothers were away from home. Her father says her fingers are just as handy at the forge as at the piano keys. Owen Jones and wife, of Brown county, settled there on a 160 acre claim 45 years ago, first living in a log hut. They now have seven quarter sections in the limits of their farm, with a fine large house and herds of cattle. They started last week to spend a few months in their native place in Wales. There are 1,295 Kansas soldiers now serving in the Philippines; with 34 commissioned officers in the volunteer service. Fire starting from a lamp explosion destroyed $5,000 worth of property in East Galena. Two stores, two empty buildings and a dwelling were burned. The total vote in Alabama in the recent election was 150,000 or less than one-half that of Kansas in a state election. Yet Alabama has nine members of the house of representatives and Kansas only eight. The imbecile asylum at Winfield now has 204 inmates, of whom 125 are male and 79 are females. The state now has $135,000 invested in this charity. It is said that grafters are going through the country with a set of blanks like those used by the census enumerators. Their claim is that they want additional information on certain matters, and after it has been secured the farmer is asked to sign his name to the statement. Later the signature turns up in some bank on the business end of a promissory note. ANSWER TO "PROPERTY OWNER." From the Standpoint of An Insurance Agent. Mr. Editor: As an insurance man, it is a duty I owe myself and the public to answer "Property Owner" in his Inquiry as to why companies object to the "Valued Policy Law." "The annual destruction of property in this country by fire is appalling. In the last eight years it has exceeded in amount what the national debt was the beginning of this year, to wilt: over one billion dollars. It is attributable in part to improper construction; to inadequate fire extinguishing facilities and to incendiarism, which latter generally goes unpunished by reason of the public not realizing they themselves are the parties who are taxed to pay such losses, it being apparent that the destruction of property by fire is a direct loss to the community and the state. It wipes out of existence so much taxable property; so much accumulated wealth and, if insured, the public pay for it in the end in the shape of an insurance tax of which the companies are simply the collectors This is so clearly set forth by Gov. Shaw of Iowa vetoring this year an Iowa Valued Policy Bill that I quote from it as follows: Laws of this kind are not novel. They are found on the statute books of several states, and fortunately, therefore, we are not confined to theory, but the practical and actual effect of these laws is obtainable. I have availed myself of the statutory period allowed me to make such investigation. Representatives have been sent to several states where similar laws are in force, and a large amount of evidence has been gathered. I have in my possession the sworn record of over 800 policies, collected in the southern tier of counties of Iowa and the northern tier of Missouri, giving the company, the number of the policy, the amount and rate, and the name of the assured. These reports cover insurance written both prior and subsequent to the enactment of the valued policy law in Missouri, and in many instances the property is identical. It is impracticable to set out this evidence in detail, but I submit a synopsis of the same as an appendix hereto, and the affidavits will be subject to examination by any one desiring to investigate the question further. To my mind they are as conclusive as such evidence can be that the rate of insurance has been very materially increased by reason of the valued policy law—in many instances it has been doubled, and in some cases considerably more than doubled. For instance, I have the affidavit of eleven business men of Kahoka, stating under oath that farm rates in Clark county, Missouri, have been doubled since the passage of the valued policy law; and an equal number of business men in Lancaster swear to the same state of facts in Schuyler county of the same state. Similar results are shown to exist in each of the counties comprising the northern tier of the state. I am further credibly informed that there are whole counties, if not blocks of counties, in that state, where farmers are unable to obtain insurance at any rate, or on any terms. The same effect, though not in so marked a degree, is shown by letters and correspondence in my possession, and personal interviews in such portions of Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as I have been able to investigate. I would promptly sign the bill if I were not convinced of its evil effect, and if I were not quite sure if once placed upon our statute books it would remain forever. If rates were to gradually advance, as they surely would, popular opinion would charge the companies with having formed a combination. Few would be ready to admit the element of self defense. The bill is not rejected in behalf of insurance companies, but because such investigation as I have been able to make convinces me that it increases insurance rates far out of proportion to any possible advantage that may be gained thereby. In 1893 Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, vetoed a similar bill, and in the course of a very able argument in support of his action, said: "Over-insurance and over-valuation are conducive to fraud, perjury and arson; they breed crime—the most dangerous and demoralizing. Commonwealth which, in obedience to a false public clamor, have ingrafted a contrary principle upon their insurance laws have reaped the whirlwind, and in the end honest insurers have to pay the penalty, in increased rates. The experience of our sister and neighboring state of Ohio has been that under the valued policy Depew Repeated His Speech. Senator Depew in making a speech in Washington over the telephone to members of the Transportation club, of which he is president, at dinner in New York, appears to have broken the record. The distance is about 225 miles. As there were only sixty receivers and about 120 diners the Senator was obliging enough to make the speech twice. It was full of jokes. Jews That Became Christians. According to the Kirchenbote, a German religious journal, there are 560,000 Jews in Germany, of whom 17,520 have accepted Christianity during the present century. In Great Britain the Jews have lost even more than in Germany. No less than 30,000 have become Christians within the century. Any woman has a perfect right to look in a milliner's window and wish she had a wealthy husband. People who pose as practical jokers are apt to joke once too often. law the amount of risks written increased rapidly, but the losses increased even more strikingly." In the same year, Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, vetoed a similar act, and in the course of his discussion used this language: "Insurance is an indemnity, not a speculation. It is intended to protect a man against loss, not to give him something for nothing. Its object is to make a man whole so that he shall be no worse off after a fire than before. The principal involved in this bill would enable a man in many cases to be twice as well off after a fire as he was before. In all cases where a dishonest man could, by convining with agents or in any other way, secure insurance for more than the real value of his property, a fire would be a blessing. There would be a standing bribe, a perpetual inducement to allow his property to burn—I will not say to have it burn—and when it is remembered that a fire in one building always endangers and frequently destroys property near by, which often is not insured, it would be bad policy for the state to permit a condition of affairs to exist which, to say the least, tends to increase fires. * * * It is true that several of the states have adopted acts similar to this bill, except that they provide against fraud, which this bill does not" (neither does the bill under consideration, except in case of concurrent insurance), "but in these states experience has shown that the proportion of fires has greatly increased; consequently the insurance rates have been raised in all of these states, and the general public, which pays insurance, has in this way been taxed to an extent which it would otherwise not have been, and this largely for the benefit of the very few who were fortunate enough to have a fire which totally destroyed their property." In 1899 Gov. Thomas, of Colorado, vetoed such a bill, and in the course of his discussion of the question, used this language: "The experience of other states under legislation like this is most instructive. In every one of them the proportion of fires has greatly increased, and the ratio of that increase presupposes incendiarism. The natural and necessary result has been an increase in the rates of insurance, which means an additional tax upon the insuring public. The increased burden which these laws impose upon the insurer is shifted by him upon the mass of policyholders, and the community is the ultimate sufferer. From every standpoint the measure is a vicious one. From none of them can its policy be defended. Protection against loss is the only possible basis of sound fire insurance, and any departure from it will pave the way for the perpetration of fraud and wrong." In 1891, bills similar to this were introduced in the legislatures of fifteen different states, and were passed by none. In 1899, similar bills were introduced in fifteen states, and passed in four, three of which were vetoed. Gov. Thomas of Colorado, Gov. Wells of Utah, and Gov. Sadler of Nevada, promptly vetoed. Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia, allowed the bill to become operative without his signature, but filed a memoranda of his objections to the bill, from which I quote a part, as follows: "It is against public policy." "It cannot accomplish the object for which it was intended." "It applies only to real estate, and not to personal property, and is therefore class legislation." (The bill under consideration is also vulnerable to this objection.) "It requires the adjustment of a loss by an insurance company before any loss occurs, which is inconsistent, unreasonable and expensive, both to the insurance companies, and the insured." "It will drive out of the state many solid and safe insurance companies, that are a public necessity." "Valued policy' laws of this character have not proven satisfactory in the states that have tried them, and it seems to me we ought to profit by the experience of older states." Wages in Cuba. The keeper of the pay roll on a large estate in the southern part of Cuba says: "The average payment per man per month for February was $14.01, Spanish gold, and this month it will average from $1.50 to $1.75 higher. Besides the payment in coin, the men are housed and fed at the expense of the estate. The food for each man costs the estate $9, Spanish gold." A Conglomerate College. Eight different nationalities were represented in the graduating class of the American College for Girls in Constantinople this summer. They were Greek, American, Hungarian, German, Austrian, Armenian, Bulgarian, and Italian. A French play given by the graduating class was one of the features of class day. Woman is a conundrum that man can't guess, but he is unwilling to give her up. "The demand for the passage of this law comes in the character of a public clamor, based upon a false idea, and it is never safe to yield to a clamor of any sort. Such measures always react with terrific force." Similar bills have been introduced in the Iowa legislature at nearly every session for years, but a painstaking investigation of the subject has heretofore saved the people of this state from what I believe would prove a calamity, and I doubt not the same result would have followed the bill this year as heretofore had time permitted more deliberation. Nor is this all. The insurance commissioners of every state, I think, where such laws exist, have repeatedly called attention to their unfortunate effects. The insurance commissioner of Ohio, in 1895, in his annual report, uses this language: "I fear that the heavy loss ratio in this state can be traced to some of the obnoxious legislation enacted with reference to insurance companies." In further explanation of his views, he copies into his report a letter which he wrote to an official of another state making inquiry as to the effect of the valued policy law in Ohio. In the course of his letter, he says: "To say that fires have steadily increased since the enactment of this obnoxious law is to put it mildly. In my judgment, no man ought to receive from the insurance company a dollar more than his actual loss. * * * The legislature of Ohio ought to have repealed the law years ago. * * * The rates have steadily increased since the enactment of this law, clearly showing that the honest people in the end are compelled to pay for the dishonest losses. The existence of this law in Ohio has, in my judgment, been the cause of the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property belonging to innocent persons." The insurance commissioner of Wisconsin, criticising this law in his report of 1885, says: "The very foundation principles of fire insurance are opposed to such a law. 'Fire insurance is indemnity; it should never be gain;' it is intended only to make good the actual loss sustained, and to make a company liable in case of total loss for the full face of the policy irrespective of the value of the property, has been the means of increasing the number of fires, and has compelled the payment of thousands of dollars, thus increasing the rates to the honest man." In 1894 the superintendent of insurance in Missouri, after describing the law and its effect, says: "This is simply an incentive to perjury and arson. Neither the insurance company nor the insured should be permitted to enter into such contracts. * * * The law should require that every person should help to insure his own property." The insurance commissioner of Michigan, in 1893, warning the legislature against unhealthy legislation, says: "Among the most obnoxious of these acts, on the statute books of some of the states, the one attempting to 'do up' the business, by what is known as the valued policy law, stands pre-eminent as an example of legislative folly. It should be in all cases entitled 'An act to encourage incendiarism and facilitate the business of selling out to insurance companies at inflated prices.'" Similar quotations might be multiplied almost indefinitely. Insurance commissioners are certainly well qualified to speak, and their utterances should be accepted as made in behalf of policy-holders, rather than in the interest of policy writers. The proposition to amend the constitution so as to provide for biennial instead of annual elections, seems to be conceded on all hands certain of adoption. This will result in the 29th General Assembly, being composed of the same men who constituted the 28th General Assembly, and the present Chief Executive will be continued in office pending that session. If upon further investigation it shall be deemed wise to re-enact this bill, it will not be necessary to pass it over a veto, for it will be promptly signed. I simply avail myself of my prerogative, and re-submit the bill to the same men who originally passed it, that they, pending the delay, may make such individual investigation as may be deemed expedient, and thereafter take such action as shall to them seem wise, and for the best interest of the people of this commonwealth. LESLIE M. SHAW May 5th, 1900, Governor of Iowa." The importance of the subject is my apology for the length of this article, I believe, however, it is worth the space and hope it is now clear to your many readers. INSURANCE AGENT. August 30th, 1900. Rag-Time Aroused Americans. At the first performance of Sousa's band, in the American section of the Paris exposition, the enthusiasm of the great audience of Americans that gathered to hear it did not break all bounds until the "Cake Walk" and other rag-time pieces were played. Then the American colony became dellious. The Frenchmen present couldn't understand it. Shoot at Moving Targets. Movable targets of a new sort have been invented for the use of the German army. These targets are propelled toward the marksmen at full speed to represent a cavalry charge, being run on rollers, the motive power supplied by horses which are started at a gallop after being attached to the target ropes. The soldiers thus learn to gauge distance and its variations with great accuracy. Many of the most troublesome things in life spring from wrong inferences. The late Lady Emily Foley, who was for fifty-four years the tenant for life of the great Foley estates in Herefordshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, has left personal property which was at her own disposal of the net value of $125,000. Some valuable jewelry is bequeathed to the duke and duchess of Montrose. Russia's New Calendar It is said that Russia is about to adopt a new calendar. Each year contains 13 months of twenty-eight days each. The main feature is its apparent stability, and in this it resembles the sovereign remedy, the lettert's Stomach Bitters. Try it for dyspepsia, constipation nervousness or insomnia. Be sure you get the genuine. The fool's weakness may be the wise man's strength. There is always great admiration for a man who understands his business. 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When asked whether if the troops were withdrawn, the empress dowager and emperor would return to Pekin, the foreign office official in question applied that he could not form any union worth stating on that subject. Most of the German papers are of the opinion that it is very doubtful if Germany can adopt Russia's suggestion, and they deplore the evidence of a greatening split in the European conert. One leading Berlin journal asserts that Emperor William, while concurring with a group of officers, said: Under no condition shall we give up skien, even if every army corps has to mobilized." May Delay the Suit. Topeka, Sept. 6.—The suit of Kansas against Colorado to enjoin the latter from diverting the waters of the Arkansas river may not be filed in the United States supreme court this fall Attorney General Godard. Conditions have arisen which will make it extremely difficult to maintain such an action this year. No sooner had the Attorney General prepared the petition until the rains began to descend and they have kept descending along the Arkansas river in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. Withdrawal Scheme Condemned. London, Sept. 6.—The condemnation the proposal to withdraw from Pekin which is voiced from all the foreign biones in the far east is taken as a recast of the opinion which may be expected from the ministers when their ews are obtainable. As already suggested, the Russian proposals are capable of modification and it is thought well informed circles that Lord disbury is striving to conform them ore closely to the terms first formulated by the government at Washington. Working Much Copper. Argentine, Kan., Sept. 6.—The smelter company has begun the erection of eight-story copper refinery. All the copper handled at this plant will have to pass through this building, eight new tanks will replace the old ones and they will reach from the bottom to the top of the structure. Copper has recently become one of the most important outputs of the plant going to the constant rise in its marital value. Li Hung Chang Wants Rupture Washington, Sept. 6.—An official communication received here through diplomatic channels makes the rather surprising statement that Li Hung hang is at present using all his efforts to have one or more of the powers assert from the Russian proposition, believing that a rupture of the allies will be of greater advantage to China an any agreement, even on the favorable basis put forward by Russia. Rockefeller Helps Negro College. Western Wants American Money. New York, Sept. 5. - Albert H. Wigz- vie, vice president of the National bank, said that it was true that the bank had been approached by repre- sentatives of the Swedish govern- ment with inquiries as to the chance placing a $10,000,000 loan in this entry. Chicago-Kansas Grain Rates. Chicago, Sept. 6. — Freight representatives of the Chicago-Kansas City met here and agreed upon a minimum rate on all grains of ten cents. This is two cents less than the normal figure. Austrian Arrests Shung Li. Pekin, Sept. 5. — Chung Li, a member of the tsuang-li-yamen, and prefect of office, visited the Austrian representative who arrested him because of the Chinese official's complicity in the attacks on the legations. An Austrianarial dispatch says Shung Li, who was arrested by the Austrian representative at Pekin, was military governor of Pekin, and adds that the Austro-Hungarian government is quarrelled in Chung Li's palace. Shung Li was turned over to the Japanese. A MILLION FOR EQUIPMENT. The Heaviest Expenditure in So Short a Time. Topeka, Sept. 6.—The Santa Fe company will spend $1,000,000 for equipment between this date and November 15. It will be the heaviest expenditure for such purpose ever made by the road in a similar period of time. The new equipment, which will have been delivered by the middle of November, is the following. Fourteen dining cars, to cost something over $14,000 each; two composite cars, to cost $7,700 each; twenty passenger engines, to cost $14,000 each; five hundred refrigerator cars, to cost $880 each. The dining cars will be the finest ever turned out for any road in the country and will be operated on the California limited trains. The composite cars will also be used as part of the equipment of the limited trains. The twenty passenger engines will be built with particular attention to speed, and will be used in pulling the limited and overland through trains. The refrigerator cars are needed to handle the fruit traffic of the road, which is increasing annually. The dining cars and composite cars will be delivered in September and October. The passenger engines and refrigerator cars will be delivered in October and November, the deliveries to be completed by November 15. Crowded With Wheat. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 4.—The extensive yards of the Santa Fe railway company in Argentine are almost exclusively occupied with cars of wheat it is impossible to move. It was estimated that there were twenty miles of wheat cars there at one time. The trouble is said to be due to the inability of the Chicago division of the road to handle the great inflow of wheat from the various branch lines in Kansas. The difficulty is not so much from a car famine as it is due to the lack of motive power to keep the lines cleared. All the other roads in Kansas are unable to handle the wheat offered. All the elevators are full and farmers are dumping wheat in big piles on the ground near the railroad stations. Woman Injured and Robbed. Goodland, Kans., Sept. 5.—The wife of W. J. Young, station agent of the Rock Island at Kanorado, was held up by three masked men, but as the daily remittance to the general office had been made, the robbers obtained very little money. When the robbery occurred Mr. Young was at the lodge, and his wife, offering resistance by throwing a sealing iron, which floored one of the robbers, was struck on the head with a revolver, knocking her down, when she was bound and gagged. Great Strike Predicted. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 4.—"In my opinion there will be a strike in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, and it will be the biggest that the United States has ever known," said President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America. "We have formulated our demands for an advance of about 20 per cent in wages and the removal of certain conditions. Principal among these is that the operators in dealing with the miners allow 3,300 pounds to a ton and in selling coal sell 2,000 pounds for a ton." Gold Medal Awarded Walter Baker & Co. Paris, Aug. 20.—The judges at the Paris Exposition have just awarded a gold medal to Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., U. S. A., for their preparations of cocoa and chocolate. This famous company, now the largest manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate in the world, have received the highest awards from the great international and other expositions in Europe and America. This is the third award from a Paris Exposition. Not Afraid of Flague New York, Sept. 6.—President Murphy, of the New York city health department, said that he had no fear of infection from the bubonic plague. Every precaution known to science has been taken. Ships from infected ports are subjected' to the most rigid inspection. Any passenger, not within half a degree of the normal temperature, will not be allowed to land without going to the detention hospital. Nineteen Akron Rloters Akron, Ohio, Sept. 6.—Up to the present time nineteen arrests have been made of persons alleged to have taken part in the recent riot in this city. Earl and Charles Frank were taken into custody charged with rioting. A special grand jury will probably be called to take up the cases. Nearly 300 witnesses will be examined. The plague has crossed the Clyde from Glasgow to Govan. The California Arrives. Washington, Sept. 6.—The war department has received the following cablegram: "Manila, Sept. 4.—Adjutant General, Washington: Transports Meade and California arrived. Latter delayed 16 days at Guam broken propeller. "MACARTHUR." The Meade carried a squadron of the Third cavalry, battalion of the Fifteenth infantry and a company of engineers. This force originally was intended for China. We ask no money until you have aggrimed the machine and convinced yourself it Bach a machine as was never before offered at anything like the price. OUR OFFER, and we will write your name plainly and in full, name of postoffice and nearest railroad station, and we will send this drop head drawer CashinTicketRibbon sewing machine to your railroad station. 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The Public Escape from Heat Into the Cool Resorts of the Mountains of Colorado. The hot spell has come late this summer, but it has arrived, and thousands of persons have taken advantage of the proximity of the Colorado mountains to escape from the enervating and prostrating surfeit of high temperature. The mountain resorts are more popular than ever and the railroads are doing a heavy passenger traffic, largely of tourists. The Missouri Pacific System, with its Short Line from Kansas City to Pueblo, has been one of the most favored routes, because of its luxurious car service and its rapid time and the desirable route. As the late summer and early fall days are among the most delightful in the mountains, the public still has its face to the West, enjoying release from business and home duties and reveling in the beauties with which nature has so bountifully endowed the popular Rocky Mountain resorts. Pure air and cool breezes work wonders in the way of restoring health, and change of air and diet, with rest, always repay the investment by storing new energy and revivifying force in wearied brain and body. The expense is comparatively small, as special tourist rates are made low at this season. Twenty-four hours places the most eastern dweller of the state right in the heart of the great divide, and he has enjoyed such scenery as wealthy tourists cross the ocean to find. The Denver & Rio Grande road, the Great Scenic Route of the world, takes you at Pueblo or Denver and whirls you through canons where there must have been enchantment, and where giant arms have dashed the boulders into their present resting places. The ride through the Royal Gorge displays the great ingenuity of its engineers and the obstinate determination of its builders. The rails are laid in almost inaccessible places, along the edge of the stream or torrent, which with wonderful skill has been forced out of the way to make room for the rock roadbed and the iron rails. At certain points the torrent maintains its supremacy, but the difficulty is met and surmounted, a set of hangers being made into the cliffs overhead to support the bridge work and track. The stream is still jubilant of its power over man, and laughs, booms and dashes by as the train passes, not caring for the queer shadows that fall into it, if it can only be supreme at this critical point. The canon is one of the grandest in the world, barely wide enough, in certain places, to admit of the stream and the tracks, the granite walls of giant mountains towering above and over all, and giving a still more impressive object lesson of the great force of nature. 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If wishes were horses beggars would growl because they were not automobiles. Many a poor man has died for love—of drink. Hall's Catarrh Cure The boy who can thump a watermelon, and tell whether it is ripe or not, is in great demand now. FITS Permanently Cured. Notifies or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLIRE, Ltd. 931 Arch St. Philadelphia, Pa. Drink is no more fascinating than politics, and scarcely more dangerous. If a man has a dollar put away for a future trouble, a joy comes along and gets it. There is always room at the top but the careless youth never reaches it. No man can have too much good breeding and no woman can have too much affection. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. Zsc a bottle. Your foolish days are not over until you feel sorry for people who are going away on the cars instead of envying them. Husband. If you have a weak, nervous, debilitated wife, do not scold or become impatient with her. Give her kind treatment, loving words and Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial to renovate, regulate and strengthen her system, and our word for it she will soon be your healthy, happy best, half. Price $1. Sold by agent in every town. When it comes to making love two heads are better than one. A lamp may not drink, but it frequently smokes and goes out o' nights. THE DEWEY HOMESTEAD. THE HOME OF THE MAYOR Roberts' Best Patient Flour. Fully guaranteed; none better at any price. G 2125 TB. Roberts' Best Minnesota Patent, guaranteed equal to any flour made; bask 185, bask 85, bask 125. Try a sack with your next order and you will use Roberts' Flour. CARPETS—Over fifteen carpets of carpets at half the price your dealer pays for them. Carpets for 10 cents each. FINE OLD RIO COFFEE. 10 lbs. 97 cents. Include some in your next order. Send for Drug Catalogs and save money. We are offering FINE TOP BUGGIES, PHAETONS, FINE SPECIAL SERVICE and Harness Catalogs contains the latest and best goods for 199. Send your name at once and we will send it free. Note Our Price on Flour. We are selling Minnesota Flour at $1.85 per sack. Order now all you will need for several months. T. M. ROBERTS SUPPLY HOUSE, Minneapolis, Minn. Kiowa and Comanche Opening. A Warning. Best for the Bowels. A Sure relief for Asthma, to help relieve congestion. STOWELL & CO. Charleston, Mass. KIDDER'S PASTILLES. Sawyer's Pommel Slickers Warranted Waterproof. Sawyer's Excelior Brand Pommel Slickers afford easy use on a saddle. Made extra long and wide in the skirt insuring a dry seat for rider. Easily converted into a walking coat. Every garment war- pranted waterproof. Look for leadmark. If your dealer does not have Excelior Brand, write for catalogue. H. M. SAWYER & SON. Sole Mirs., East Cambridge, Mass. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Austin Good See Fec-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sgn. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIM. FOR THE COMPLEXION $ Price 25 Cents GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Purely Vegetable CURE SICK HEADACHE. W. N. U. WICHITA—NO.--36—1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Fully guaranteed; none better at any price. G. 2425 T.B. Roberts' Best Minnesota Patent, guaranteed equal to any 98-half ack. 16 patent. same as good many for best. $1.75. you will allow us to use your Patent. You will pay if the price your dealer pays for them. Darpets for 10 cents Caprats for 6es per yd. that otherask from 50 to 60 es. for 10 bag 97 capts. as 40 cents less than they pay. For our WAGONS, etc., as 40 cents less than they pay. For our free. Note Our Price on Fear. We are selling ced Minnesota all you will need for several months. SUPPLY HOUSE, Minneapolis, Minn. FROM RHEUMATISM ASTHMA HAY FEVER Isa. Teen, says: "My wife has no suffering from asthma re. I gave some to an old family necro woman, who had suffered Trial Bottle by Express, prepaid 23 cents. ACAL CO., Dept. M., KANSAS CITY, MO. was first used by Dr. Charles J. Moffett, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., in his extensive and successful treatment of children in Goorident to teaching and the hot summers. Itacts the effect of hot weather and keeps the digestive lives of thousands of children in the doctor's and all mothers give it, and it is criminal in mothers of little children to suffer TEETHINA ly obtained by giving to C. J. MOFFETT, M. D., St. Louis, Mo. CHESTER SHOTGUNS and HAILED SHOTGUN SHELLS combination in the field or at dealers sell them. ER REPEATING ARMS CO. AVER. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Winchester Factory loaded shotgun shells, "NEWRIVAL," "LEADER," and "REPEATER." A trial will prove their superiority. aranteed Price 50c 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 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. call promptly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave, Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 330 Kans Ave. romptly attended: All calls 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. 1725 Kansas Avenue, Topcka, Kansas. office hours, 71:00 to 12 m., 2:00 to 4:30 pm. Residence 024 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 660 GEORGE DICK, M. D. Homoeopathi1st Residence 626 Fillmo St. Telephone 360. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S. G. STEWART, M. D. OFICE 621 KANSAS, AVK. TELEPHONE 541 RSIDENCE 511 W. 5TH ST. TELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SUKGEON. FRIE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A. M. TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M TELEPHONE 558. 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 Troul es. Office Hours: -9 to 12-2 to 5-7 to 9 Phon e 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 Phonc 656. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES. A.K.T MA. TERIALS. Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Regulator: Cures INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and RHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P O., Adjoining Capital of Kansas. Mnr. 27, GO TO E. W. Griggs for pnotos, fine pictures. Car--901 Kas. ave. W. D. Woodall Mason and Cistern builder also wells. Parties needing service leave ord. rs at 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. UNDERTAKER. UNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN KANS Henderson paint works. Henderson paint works. J, A. HENDERSON, PROP. Manufacturers 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 from $801 $1200 centrally located at reasonable prie es on easy payments. Give him a call. Home Bakery L. C. BOYCE, Prop. 810 N Kas. Ave. (Successor to Geo. Mayer,) Wholesale and Retail Bakery goods, We Sohcit Your Trade, We will Serve You Right, 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.2,RAHRER, Prop. U. S. CYCLE GO. NATIONAL NO. 27. 118 East 8th Street. Difficult Bicycle Reparing 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 MODEL U. S. CYCLE CO. 118 East 8th Street. 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. Jobbe s of Brooms. Shippers of Apples. Solicit orders from Jobbers 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 Flour, Feed, Graath, Hay, And all kinds of Coal. 120 East Eighth St. J. W KELLEY, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries. Give Him a Call. 119 N. Main Street. Ottawa, Kasa HAYS & SNYDER. 921 Kas, Ave., DEALER IN Feed, Hay and Grain and all kinde of Coal. A share of your patronage is de sired. Tele. 349. M. L. GOSHORN. 1014 Quincy Street. Paper Hanging and inside finishing a speci alty. 32 years Experience. HARRIS BROS DEALERS IN SIAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Smoked Meats, A Specialty Cigars Tobacco, and confectionery, Give Them an order goods delivered. 1300 QUNCY ST. 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. RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER. When in Lawrence stop at their place, 611 1/4 Mase, St, PALACE HOTEL E. C, THRALL PROP Serves first class meals and Lodging Meals and Lodging open day and night 118 W, 6th St. L A. FISHER. Dealer In CLOTHING, GFNTS' FURNIS'TING GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS ETC. 118 EastSixth Street, Topeka Kan Bowersock- Lawrence Kas. High Grade Flour, ROBT, R,3 CLARK M&r. 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 therein, 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. JUSTICE, 220 West 6th Street. Dealer in staple and fancy groceries, fresh and cured meats, plenty country produce al- ways on hand. Give him a trial. Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEKA SPICE MILLS. 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 MRS. ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cutting, Sewing—Give her a trial. 826 Com'l stre et Emporia, Kas. WOOLEY'S BAKEKY, The place to trade. The best Bakery goods kept on hand daily. 915 Kas. Ave.. W. T. WILEY. TOPEK A 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. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Kan. E. H. PHILLIPS. WOOLEY'S BAKEKY, The place to trade. The best Bakery goods kept on hand daily. 915 Kas. 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. 291. TURNER BKOS., Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Order. BURLINGAME KAS 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 Kas. ave The Diamond Drug Store, 6th and Buclanan Streets Give them a call. Remember that the Davis Mercantil Co. 601 Topeka Ave is the place to patronize You will get your money's worth by trying the Davis Mercantile Co. GO TO ARMSTRONGS RESTAURANT When in Ottawa for anything you want Short Orders and Meals -222 N, Maln St ansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT I RO'S, PROP's., 706 E. AND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. GO TO Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. 115 GO TO LOUIS VANDORP. Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Ha These are the things you need Give b BAUGHMAN THE LEAF ICE CR Their Flavors A GIVE THEM A Tel, 253. 23rd CR HARDWARE and STOVES en Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. e things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas Ave BUGHMAN BRO'S., THE LEADERSIN ICE CREAM. Irir Flavors Are Delicious. E THEM AN ORDER. 3. 23rd & Lincoln St. Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks* and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need 828 Kansas BAUGHMAN BRO'S. THE LEADERSIN ICE CREAM. Their Flavors Are Deiiclous. GIVE THEM AN ORDER. WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE. State Ledger Office (UP STAIR Hedger Office, 431 Has Ave, (UP STAIRS.) State Ledger Office, 431 Has Ave. (UP STAIRS.) GO TO 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 Topeka County of Shawnee State of Kansas, on the 2nd day of July A. D. 1900, for a full 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 Topeka. Full weights. Goods' promptly delivered. Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Ka. Passon's dep't store, JEWELER & OPTICIAN Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guaranteed. We Solicit your Patronage. Remember that the Davis Mercantil Co 601 Toppea Ave is the place to patronize. You will get your money's worth by trying the Davis Mercantile Go. ARMSTRONGSRESTAURANT When in Ottawa for anything you want Short Orders and Meals-222 N, Main St & Lincoln St Little Myra Harris, has a cute little doggie and we have named him Snapping-turtle. There were many of the most prominent of Topeka's best society attended the Leavenworth excursion on the 9th inst. Li Hung Chang has appealed to the press dowager to disarm the Boxers. This course is demanded by the powers before entering into negotiations for peace. Gen. Chaffee, commander of the American forces in China, is to be appointed brigadier-general in the regular army upon the retirement of Gen. Joe Wheeler. A report comes from Cheyenne Wyo., that a Union Pacific express car was robbed by five men of $500,000 in gold. The money is said to have been for shipment to the Philippines to pay off the soldiers. In reply to Russia's proposal to withdraw all foreign troops from Pekin, the United States expresses a willingness to do so, but wants assurances of the open door policy and concerted action in the part of he powers. The cities of the United States so far as the census office has yet given out the figures, show a very healthy and satisfactory rate or increase of population during the past ten years. The increase in rural population has not been so great. James J Corbett beat Kid McCoy in the fifth round at Madison Square Garden, New York, August 30th. The winner's share of the gate receipts amounted to $18,000 while the lose got $6,000 —Ex. The Samson Cement Company—Burns. Kas. New discoveries and new enterprises are being founded every day. Among the many these we met the representatives of the Samon Cement Company, with Mr. Hellar as its president and its general routine of officers, Mr. Bonesteel, its efficient chief clerk looks after everything in good shape for the company and is regarded as an able young man in that capacity. Burns is a nice little burg of less than 500 inhabitants yet it is a business little town user the terminis of Marion county, about eleven miles west of Florence. There we found the busy people all more or less engaged in business, but the greatest of all is the Stucco Mills, from which is made the Samson Cement. This mill is second to none in the state. Its capacity is great each day, and such an enterprise at Burns has added greatly to the town of Burns, LOOK AT THIS The Health food store at 118 East 5th street, has a good line of Sanitarium 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 show you the truths of the Bible more pliably than you have known them before, call and examine the fine line at HUKE KANG TRACE COUNTY HE KANS TRACT SOIETY. 118 East 51st Street. DR.WINSLOW Dr. W. H. Winslow, does a general practice. Special attention given the eye and ear. Spectacles fitted, urnishes to patient it wholesale rates; Office 704 Mass., Street Tele. 260-5, Residence, 1901 New Hamshire Street. Tele. 191-2. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue When in LAWRENCE stop at WEYER MULLER'S RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER. Open D v and Night 720 Mass., Stroet.